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Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and how it can Transform your Life by Dacher Kelter

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The word “awe” resonates and vibrates with the mystery of touching the transcendent. Awe has the power to penetrate any moment or situation. Kelter asks: “What is the end of awe, its unifying purpose?……….The epiphany of awe is that its experience connects our individual selves with the vast forces of life…..” It enables us to […]

Medicine and Creativity

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In her book, Big Magic, the author, Elizabeth Gilbert, dismisses the idea that there are those that are creative and there are those who aren’t. She describes how her own creativity often stems from and is sustained by her profound curiosity, particularly on those days when passion seems in short supply. “Curiosity is the truth […]

Knowledge/Wisdom

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“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and the privilege of wisdom to listen” -19th century author and physician, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. “Knowledge Speaks, Wisdom Listens” -Widely attributed to Jimi Hendrix In an ideal world we are well served when these two protagonists both show up. The first quote reminds us that it is […]

“Automatic Rules”

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How often do we make resolutions for behavior change, yet immediately reduce our chances for success by making them completely dependent on willpower. For example, we decide to exercise on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, yet we quickly allow negotiation to enter the picture. We’re tired, have too much work, don’t feel motivated and before we know it […]

Powerful Ways to Address Loneliness and Mental Health

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The Friendship Bench https://www.centreforglobalmentalhealth.org/the-friendship-bench “Men don’t talk face to face, they stand shoulder to shoulder” https://mensshed.org

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year – Margaret Renkl

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“To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.” – Mary Oliver I know that I am fortunate to have five senses- smell, touch, hearing, taste and sight- yet I sometimes feel like a car that isn’t firing on all cylinders. I have these marvelous gifts that are just there, wallowing in a kind […]

Parker J. Palmer – Writer, Speaker, Educator and Activist

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“I’m using the word heart as they did in ancient times, when it didn’t merely mean the emotions, as it tends to mean today. It meant that center in the human self where everything comes together—where will and intellect and values and feeling and intuition and vision all converge. It meant the source of one’s […]

Musing on Music

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“Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstractand profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anythingparticular or external, but it has a unique power to express innerstates or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly;it needs no mediation.”  -Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and Brain Som Sabadell flashmob – Banco Sabadellhttps://youtu.be/GBaHPND2QJg?si=eFBNp_VSZovKs-4m

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Courageous Conversations

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“….my understanding is that the first step to take in having a real conversation is simply to stop having the one that you are having now.By definition the courageous conversation is the conversation that you’re not having nowand also, by definition the courageous conversation is the one that you don’t want to haveand the courageous […]

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