Validation. You gotta watch this video.
“For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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“The little things? The little moments? They aren’t little.”
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Wednesday, Sep. 2
“I wonder if gratefulness is the bridge from sorrow to joy, spanning the chasm of our anxious striving. Freed from the burden of unbridled desires, we can enjoy what we have, celebrate what we’ve attained, and appreciate the familiar. For if we can’t be happy now, we’ll likely not be happy when.”
Philip Gulley
Porch Talk
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I’m looking in to studying Scrupulosity for my graduate work. Here’s an interesting article from the NYTimes that talks more about it (text below) — published by a BYU professor and undergrad, no less!!!!
If you know anything about this topic, or are interesting in collaboration, please let me know.
John Dehlin
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December 14, 2008
Scrupulosity Disorder
By JASCHA HOFFMAN
In a paper published in the August issue of The Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Chris Miller and Dawson Hedges of Brigham Young University estimate that as many as one million Americans may suffer from a moral-anxiety-cum-mental-illness known as “scrupulosity disorder.” They define it as obsessive doubt about moral behavior often resulting in compulsive religious observance — and they warn that it can lead to depression, apathy, isolation and even suicide. read more…
“A thankful person is thankful under all circumstances. A complaining soul complains even in paradise.”
Baha’u'llah
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WORD FOR THE DAY
Friday, Jul. 24
“To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion….In a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common. This is to be my symphony.”
William Ellery Channing
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Tuesday, Jul. 21
“The future is not some place we are going, but one we are creating. The paths are not to be found, but made. And the activity of making them changes both the maker and their destination.”
John Schaar
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Sunday, Jul. 26
“I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks.”
Mahatma Gandhi
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Tuesday, Aug. 11
“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
George Bernard Shaw
From a speech given at the Municipal Technical College and School of Art in Brighton
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Wednesday, Aug. 19