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We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.  - Martin Luther King Jr

resentments weigh us down
They occupy real-estate in our mind. We dwell on negativity. We lose precious time and fail to notice new opportunity. We go backwards.
forgive [...]

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Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. – attributed to Helen Keller

avoiding negativity
It’s well known that focusing on the positive is supposed to be good for us. If you agree then putting our attention on the silver lining and the sunshine ought to do the trick. However does that mean [...]

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There is a magnet in your heart that will attract true friends. That magnet is unselfishness, thinking of others first… – Yogananda

form a habit
Most of us think of us first. What if we formed a habit of thinking about others first? It needs to be a new habit; we’ll need new neural pathways that allow [...]

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Breathe a prayer of gratitude. And give those you love an extra measure of affection. Life is fleeting and love is precious. Cherish both. – Galen Guengerich

life is fleeting
Benjamin Zander relates a touching story in this video (must watch!). An elder sister in a train escaping Nazi Germany gets really mad at her brother when [...]

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Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can’t murder hate. Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that … let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe … the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice. - Martin Luther King Jr

don’t be [...]

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