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30 Life-Changing Lessons Adventure Has Taught Me.

You can get all the knowledge you want from books, but there is no better way to learn than by doing. Has someone ever given you advice about love? Odds are, you didn't listen. You had to go through that experience yourself to truly learn the lesson. By adventuring, you are setting yourself on ...

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The Goal Is Not the Point: Choose a Path and then Walk It.

The goal is your direction, not your destination. The goal is a mission that you are on, a path that you follow. Whatever comes from that path -- whatever treasure you happen to find along this journey -- well, that’s just fine. It is the commitment to walking the path that matters.

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Just Another Day.

“I did see that Full Moon,” my stepmother responded. She continued that it reminded her of a dream she had a few months ago of two lost fish, both out of water. In the dream, she wasn’t sure if the fish would survive. But the minute they found their way back into the water, they swam just fine. ...

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Don’t Limit Yourself, Discover Your Truth Where Your Opposites Merge.

Just like the sun and the moon, we go through countless phases within phases -- they spiral through our days, our years, and our many lifetimes. We move from being consumed with thought to following the whisper of intuition, from being grounded in the physical world to focusing on the spiritual ...

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Your First Choice Is Rarely the Optimal Choice: 5 Lessons on Being Wrong.

Think of the first person you dated. Would this person have been the best choice for your life partner? Go even further back, and imagine the first person you had a crush on. Finding a great partner is complicated, and expecting yourself to get it right on the first try is unreasonable. It’s ...

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When You Meet That Mean Girl, Don’t Disregard Her Humanness.

It’s time to throw yourself a pity party. Your eyes get steely, distant and defeated. You say, with definitive cynicism, that Mean Girl is responsible for all your problems and your pain. You predict, with devastated finality, how Mean Girl will never leave you alone. She will continue to fuck ...

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Primal Resurrection: The Upside of Mercury Retrograde. {Cosmic Connection}

One point of Mercury Retrograde is definitely to slow down, reevaluate and redo, but another beautiful bonus it can deliver is that of receiving -- allowing things to come to you without pushing so hard. Taking a step back allows us to take stock, which also allows us to pursue avenues that may ...

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The Lie of Perfection in a Shattered Society.

I completely fell apart watching that sweet boy Omran being pulled from the rubble of an airstrike in Syria. The way he sat and silently stared, god, my chest hurts just thinking about him. I was useless for hours. I fell apart again recently learning what the TPP is. Seeing the viciousness of ...

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Run, Find Solace in the Enchanted Woodland of Shadowed Arts.

Your good nature opened the front door with the naïve hope that the sun shining through would brighten the veiled windows of their heart. Instead, their ego ushered you beyond the threshold of their attention and awareness. Evoked experience from a false guardian seeking to damage the core ...

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4 am and Other Reluctant Friendships.

Instead of willing sleep to return, I've stopped fighting the shifting light. There's something oddly soothing about its reassuring progress. It is symbolic of impermanence. Nothing can remain the same, everything must change. It is these early morning meetings of truth that have led me to ...

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