I have a part that is always telling me what I “should” do.  Especially after I’ve already done something else. I am trying today to notice the messages I give myself around “should” and try to reframe it, to skip the “shoulds”.

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The spiritual teacher Matt Kahn said “Whatever arises, love that”. Four simple words, “whatever happens, love that”.  So very simple, but oh, so very hard.

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As I walk through a botanical garden today, I am reminded of all the ways there are to grow. As Jim Rohn says, “Lifestyle is the art of discovering ways to live uniquely.”

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I have really identified with the words of Abraham (Esther Hicks) “The key to regaining your wonderful feeling of personal empowerment and control is to decide, right now, no matter how good or how bad you are feeling, that you are going to do your best to make the best of it.”

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Lucretius said, “The old must always make way for the new, and one thing must be built out of the ruins of another”.

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Cheryl Strayed said, “Compassion isn’t about solutions. It’s about giving all the love that you’ve got.

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Today on my birthday, I want to be like the loquat tree in my yard . . . bursting with energy, fulfilling my purpose, and full of the fruits of my labor and my legacy.

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On this Mother’s Day, I remind my recovering perfectionistic self that, as Jill Churchill said, “There’s no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.”

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One of my favorite quotes from Ralph Waldo Emerson goes “Live in the sunshine, swim in the sea, drink the wild air.”

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Mike Dooley said, “It’s always easier to try something new than to wonder what might have been.”  I want to hold onto that thought.  I want to squeeze every last drop of juice from the fruit that is life before I go.

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