It is looking around the world, at what is happening with starving people and violence, which makes me feel small and helpless sometimes. I can remember thinking about it ever since I was 15 years old, like Atlas, carrying the weight of the world on his shoulders. I wrote poetry, listened to Joan Baez and wrote John Lennon’s words of “Imagine” on my notebooks.

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The simple strategy to convert that confusing pile of notes from sermons and conversations into a treasury that will serve you for years to come.

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Find out how to get back into the land of the living by allowing the spirit of life to pull you out of your rut and away from all your gadgets and gizmos.

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Change: To alter; to make or become different; to replace with another. When we want a change its often for someone else. We want to change our spouse, our children, our co-workers, etc. Actually we can only change ourselves, and thats the hardest change to make.

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I, like many of you reading this, have loved ones that are suffering from the disease of alcohol and drug addiction. We, who have recovered, would love nothing more than to see them discover and live the truth of recovery as we have. The reality for them is the same as it was for us. The reality is “it takes what it takes”. Just as it did for those who came before us it is true for those who will come after us. It takes what it takes.

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In Average Joe Liberal’s Bleeding Heart Dilemna, author Aaron Taylor makes an unusual comparison between bleeding heart liberals and the Apostle Paul.

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As I stand there in my fat body, looking at my broken car, with the words of my angry boss ringing in my ear, I wonder what became of the young enthusiastic man with the dreams, the plans and the talent.I wonder where the years have gone.I walk back to the mirror.I stare some more.Humiliated. Devastated. Broken.This wasn’t my plan.

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Feng-Shui means wind/water and is pronounced fung-shway. It is the name for a Taoist belief that the energy of the land can be used to encourage good health and fortune.

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Maybe its time to start asking ourselves, what is influencing me? I think most of us have accepted everything that makes of everyday living and life as normal. By that I mean TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines. I am primarily focusing on the news and talk shows, and the tabloids.

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Only 16% of the world has an alternative view from religion - they are the free thinkers who have chosen to think outside the box. It is this 16% who do not live in fear within religion that will move humanity out of the box it now finds itself in.

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