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In Search of Simplicity

  ‘Most people work hard and spend their health trying to achieve wealth.  Then they retire and spend their wealth trying to get back their  health.’   If you are like so many people today, you’re...

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Do What You Love

The other day I interviewed members of an immensely talented local band, a sort of reggae/funk ensemble. I asked the drummer what he did when he wasn’t playing music. He gave me a perplexed looked and...

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The Secret Science of Smiling

This Voices from the North interview with Elan Sun Star is guaranteed to put a smile on your face. In addition to dialogue packed with anecdotes and scientific evidence supporting the value of smiling,...

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On Gratitude and Making Others Happy

Here’s a story that arrived in my inbox a while back. I have no idea of the original source. Do enjoy. It’s a wonderful story.  Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the same hospital room. One man was...

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Gross National Happiness

Bhutan's New King I reprint the following article in full. Isn’t it interesting how some of the best ideas come from the smallest coutries. Bhutan demonstrates a concept, Gross National Happiness, we...

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The Roots of Happiness

It isn’t in what we receive outwardly that we find happiness. It is in knowing we are doing the right thing.  Let’s examine the roots of happiness. The big house, the nice car and the successful...

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The Most Valuable Things in Life

After a sojourn in the wilderness, Peace Pilgrim walked again in the streets of a city that had been her home for awhile. It was 1:00 p.m. She saw hundreds of neatly-dressed people with pale or...

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What I’ve Learned

I was cleaning out some old and redundant word documents when I came upon the following words I received in an email a few years ago. I have no idea who the author is but I am indebted to him or her....

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Strangers Are Friends I Haven’t Yet Met

 Love is the real glue that holds this world together.  One of the reasons I love living in New Zealand’s lightly populated Far North is because I can pass a stranger on the beach or in the street and...

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The Game of Life

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.  A Course in Miracles The first rule of politics: The only time you get hurt is when you forget it’s all a game. I...

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