what it means series: What It Means to Live Life in RE-Cognition... - 06/26/09 12:06 PM
Yesterday, the world learned of the passing of two legends...Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. Although their lives were very different, they both lived in the glare of the spotlight and endured the best and worst elements of what that entails.
While superstars live center stage in a larger than life … (1 comments)
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what it means series: What It Means to Live in Full Bloom... - 03/07/09 01:19 PM
One thing is certain about thorns, they're not hard to find! I love roses and have tended them in my garden for many years. Although I've used all sorts of gloves of varying degrees of thickness, more often than not, the thorns win. They just seem to have a way of … (20 comments)
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what it means series: Survival Strategies Summit Highlights a Unique Path to Real Estate Success! - 02/28/09 01:48 PM
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.
Quote by C.S. Lewis
Yesterday, real estate professionals in Grand … (5 comments)
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what it means series: Breaking the Shackles...Let's Dance! - 02/10/09 10:07 PM
This song has been going through my mind all day! It's a Mary Mary song which has a captivating beat but even more importantly, a powerful message...
"Take these Shackles off my feet so I can Dance!"
It's part invocation, part command and all praise. Life's Shackles have a way of … (20 comments)
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what it means series: A Tale of The Wise and Foolish Builder... - 01/03/09 06:20 AM
It was one of those nights you never forget.
Earlier, the wind had played gently with my trusses; nipping in between the shingles as it whistled upwards towards the towering timbers overhead.
The rain had started too. Falling in lazy, large droplets, spattering across the window panes before making fat little puddles … (44 comments)
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what it means series: Values Based Thinking in A Social Media Crazed World... - 11/29/08 05:36 PM
Dinner parties are one of my guilty pleasures. I enoy them for all sorts of reasons. For starters, they engage my creativity in planning a menu, figuring out who to invite and making a meal.
They also stimulate great conversation. I recall one dinner during which one of the guests at the table made … (18 comments)
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what it means series: What it Means to...Holla' for REcognition - 07/21/08 07:29 PM
Most of us emerge on planet earth with all the stridency that our 8 to 9 pounds of flesh can muster. So much so that the infant who emerges without a lusty yell is promptly spanked on the rump to produce one. After all...one has arrived. Say so!
Sideline living is … (17 comments)
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what it means series: What It Means to Live in Congruity - 07/08/08 07:06 PM
"I am not bound to win
but I am bound to be true.
I am not bound to succeed
but I am bound to live up to
what light I have"
By Abraham Lincoln.
In his deeply insightful allegorical tale, 'The Laws of Spirit' author Dan Millman initiates the chapter on … (16 comments)
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what it means series: Forgiveness is not human...it's Divine - 06/18/08 11:24 AM
This video arrested my attention today. The courage of the people of Rawanda continues to inspire the world. The image of the acid eating through the container is one which is unforgettable. It puts the work of forgiveness into an entirely different light. We forgive for ourselves as much as … (12 comments)
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what it means series: Simplicity... - 06/05/08 10:01 PM
Sometimes the profound emerges from the most unlikely places in ordinary life. Like a phrase distilled from the shroud of a mist...Simplicity is what happens when the details are stripped down to their bare essence.
The photo of the wedding scene above is taken at the Cobblestone Manor. The … (15 comments)
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what it means series: What I Know To Be True... - 06/03/08 04:51 PM
It's almost 3 years since Audu Real Estate set out an independent shingle. As I was going through an old notebook, I came upon a letter which I had written to people in my circle of friends celebrating the one year company anniversary that had just been completed a few months earlier.
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what it means series: What It Means to Avoid Placing Pearls on Pigs... - 05/03/08 10:12 PM
One day, several years ago, I arrived early for a meeting. Now, this is not typical. I think I thrive on the adrenaline rush of being where I'm supposed to be 'just in time.' Anyway, on this particular day I was so early that I had about a half an hour to … (31 comments)
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what it means series: Addictions... - 04/12/08 09:29 PM
Addiction (n) defined as: The condition of being habitually or compulsively occupied with or or involved in something.
The book "A Beautiful Boy" was just featured on the Oprah show and selected for sale by Starbucks . It's a story about the trauma of addiction in the life of family...primarily the painful relationship between … (36 comments)
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what it means series: Mastery... - 03/25/08 09:49 PM
"Mastery requires the Need to be Present. The Need to Win Drains You of All Power." by Eckhart Tolle
I hear these words while listening to a conversation between Oprah Winfrey & Eckhart Tolle on the web about his new book "A New Earth." I think that the tension between those two statements is … (30 comments)
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what it means series: What It Means to Live With Passion. - 03/20/08 10:43 PM
Passion!
Is the inspiration behind genius.
Passion!
Is purity which Loves for it's own sake
Passion harbors gritty endurance
That withstands the gale of withering opposition
Passion is a nectar...
Which provides sustaining grace in the face of extreme odds.
Passion is the gift of insight which perceives a reality obscured to the casual observer.
Passion plays center stage in it's own drama
And … (25 comments)
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what it means series: What It Means to Walk Through the Fire. - 03/07/08 04:12 PM
It's taken me a long time to be able to appreciate the value of Resistance. I can't say that I like it. But I've learned to understand it's role as a marker pointing towards a course of progress. Among the many definitions of resistance, one refers to the act of opposition; being resisted by … (19 comments)
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what it means series: What It Means to Truly Listen... - 02/14/08 10:02 PM
There's a reason why we have two ears and just one mouth.
A single mouth can easily over-power two perfectly good ears.
It's always easier to talk than to listen.
To listen we must be quiet...with our mouth
And dull the roar from within the heart.
Listening is hard work...
Voices in the mind shout and jostle for attention.
Listening means … (41 comments)
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what it means series: What It Means to Live Within Peace... - 02/09/08 10:59 PM
You don't know you've lost Peace until you can't find it. Sometimes you don't know you've lost Peace because you've never had it.
Peace is not an absence of challenge or trial. It is not a promise or guarantee of the avoidance of hardship. Rather it is the stillness which draws … (16 comments)
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what it means series: What It Means to Close Our Doors...And Open Our Hearts in Celebration of Life! - 01/21/08 08:25 PM
In yesterday's sermon, my pastor juxtaposed two 24 hour periods which coincidentally occur next to each other at the beginning of this week. This past Sunday was the Sanctity of Life Sunday and today is the Celebration of Martin Luther King Day which commemorates the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. who was born … (31 comments)
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what it means series: What It Means to Walk On Water... - 01/16/08 07:51 PM
I've always been fascinated by the Apostle Peter. Perhaps, because I find it so easy to relate to his impulsive, talkative nature and his propensity for speaking from his heart. My favorite story about Peter is related in several different gospels. But only the Gospel of Mathew actually tells us about Peter's water walking … (33 comments)
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