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Be Someone Worth Finding
A short video excerpt from John Bruna’s TEDx Talk, Free Will is a Skill, hosted by California State University Long Beach.
We And Ours
“There is no inner peace found in taking care of me and mine. It is present in attending to the needs of we and ours.” – John Bruna On this New Year’s Day, I send all of you my our heartfelt appreciation and gratitude. You are all making the world a better place, one compassionate action at…
Don’t fear mistakes
“It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.” – Abraham Maslow One of the most common obstacles preventing us from fully engaging in our lives and developing our highest potentials is…
Moving beyond fear
“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.” Abraham Maslow It is extremely difficult to grow while in our comfort zone. As we know, the greatest opportunities to grow and develop ourselves lie in our willingness to…
Start with who you are, where you are
“Without giving up hope—that there’s somewhere better to be, that there’s someone better to be—we will never relax with where we are or who we are.” – Pema Chödrön How much of the time is our attention focused on somewhere we’d rather be or how someone else’s life seems better than ours? Today’s inspiration reminds us…
A better world begins with a better self
“It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives.” – Thomas Merton We’ve all spent time in deep and meaningful discussions about difficulties in the world and possible solutions to them. We’ve…
Five tools for living mindfully
“Our habitual patterns are, of course, well established, seductive, and comforting. Just wishing for them to be ventilated isn’t enough. Mindfulness and awareness are key. Do we see the stories that we’re telling ourselves and question their validity? When we are distracted by a strong emotion, do we remember that it is part of our…
Choosing one thought over another
“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” – William James In our busy lives we often forget that the real source of our stress is not the things on our to do list. It is how we think about and relate to the things we have to do, as…