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My daughter did a science report on potassium, and we were discussing what to put in the closing paragraph. I asked, “What do you think is the most interesting thing about potassium?” She thought for a moment and said, “Well, we’re never going to run out of it!”
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Have you ever been homesick? Maybe you were away at camp, or maybe your family moved to a new place that didn’t feel like home. Maybe you were at someone else’s house, where all the food tasted different, and the smells were different, and you couldn’t quite make sense of the rules for behavior. Whatever was going on, you wanted only to go home!
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The more I sit with it, the more I think gratitude is the very epicenter of the life of the spirit. Pretty much every religious tradition tells us this, even if they put their own spin on it. Every person I respect as a spiritual teacher embodies it. And my own life has taught me that gratitude can open windows where I thought I saw walls.
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I wanted to see Harriet Tubman’s grave.
I wanted to see it enough that I drove from Boston, Massachusetts, to Rochester, New York, about 400 miles, for a speaking gig I ordinarily would have flown to. Tubman is buried in Auburn, New York, close to Rochester. Read more →
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As I have held the idea of courage in my mind, preparing to write this column, I have seen and heard it all around me.From Your Minister
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Recently I ran into someone who said, “You changed my life! After you told me that you liked pedicures, I had one myself, and I liked it so much I began having them weekly. They’re now my favorite luxurious treat for myself. But if you hadn’t said you liked them, I never would have started.” Read more →
