Monthly Archives: November 2009

Detachment and College Life

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

When we go away to college, we necessarily become less attached to our families.  Since we are away from home, we are not able to interact with our families in the same way we did in high school.  In high school, we could ask our parents if we had questions, but at college, we no [...]

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Changing Our Reactions

Thursday, November 19, 2009

“When there is no enemy within, there can be no enemy without”
~African Proverb~
How do we change our reaction to the way things transpire in our lives? How do we change habitual, unconscious responses to the things that irk us in our experiences? How can we learn to remain in a place and space that [...]

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Lessons from a Cherokee Legend

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Earlier today, I was forwarded an email that I found to be very inspiring. I couldn’t help but smile as I read it. It was about an old Cherokee legend – the boy’s rite of passage:
The boy’s father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is told to sit on [...]

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