Something for heart, mind and charity - http://empyricaltales.blogspot.com/2013/02/one-once-again.html

Excerpt from Discover What You Are Here To Do: Find The Clues, Follow Your Path by best selling author Nicola Grace.

"When I’m on the road speaking, I often joke about the story of my life as if I’ve stuffed up, done everything wrong and made wrong decisions that lead me up the garden path of nowhere. Part of my introductory speech often goes something like this – “I wanted to be a dancer so I studied history. I wanted to live in a tropical country so I moved to Wisconsin. I wanted to…

You are not who you think you are. You are not that face you see in the mirror every morning. You are not someone’s child, or someone’s parent, or partner or friend. You are not the physical body you admire or criticize when you take a shower, or when you get dressed.

Neither are you the profile description on your social networking page, or your high school diploma, your driver’s license, or your title at work. You are not defined by your career, or the things you own, or the family…

When was the last time you had a VC? Yeah, that’s right - a voice check. I had one today, yesterday and the day before that. And I’ll have one tomorrow, the next day, and the day after that, and the day after those, too. Until I become master of self, I’ll live the rest of my days engaging in VC’s. Actually, I have several VC’s throughout the day.

“Why is conducting a voice check so important”, you might ask?…

At the heart of the story is recently orphaned, eleven year old, Skyla McFee. She awakens to the hauntingly beautiful, inner world of the imagination and gains wisdom far beyond her years. Though bullied, she is not defeated; though locked in a cold, dark cellar, she retreats to an inner room where the hearth-fire's…

“Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers have nothing in common except for their terminal illnesses. While sharing a hospital room together, they decide to leave it and do all the things they have ever wanted to do before they die according to their bucket list. In the process, both of them heal each other, become unlikely friends, and ultimately find joy in life.”

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Addiction: The Manifestation of Unnatural Habits by T.F. Hodge

You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit. ~David Ryan

When most people think about addiction, they usually associate it with drug abuse. Obviously, there is good…

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Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

– Berthold Auerbach

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“True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.” –William

Penn

"A determined soul will do more with a rusty monkey wrench than a loafer will accomplish with all the tools in a machine shop." -Robert Hughes

I love this quote! In spite of typing my blogs, messages, notes and quotes with an injured and bandaged finger, a slower than…