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Happiness is a Practice: Inspirational Quote of the Week

on October 12, 2011 in Inspirational Quote of the Week

“Remember: No Matter how much you are accustomed to being unhappy, you must adopt the antidote of happiness. Each act of being happy will help you cultivate the habit of always being happy.” ~ Paramhansa Yogananda

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Inspirational Quote of the Week

on May 5, 2011 in Inspirational Quote of the Week

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.” – Henry Miller

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Honoring Our Loved Ones that Have Died

on March 2, 2011 in Happiness Tools

Although it is nearing ten months since my canine son Bergen passed away, his passing still inserts itself into my life every day. Tears. Heartache. Lack of energy. The grief all came to a head last month…my body, mind, and soul told me in debilitating back pain and a flu-like sickness that it was time [...]

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Inspirational Quote of the Week

on November 18, 2010 in Inspirational Quote of the Week

“Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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Moving Away From Bulimia and the Evil Dance of Binge and Purge

on November 10, 2010 in Our Stories of Inspiration

It is a dark moment that will never be forgotten. I awoke to the cool, slick feeling of tile under my squished cheek. I was flat on the floor, passed out cold. As I emerged from my lethargic cocoon I saw blood and vomit splattered around me. The stomach-turning stench of my binge of chocolate [...]

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“How Could You?” Written by Jim Willis

on October 27, 2010 in Our Stories of Inspiration

The following was written by Jim Willis. A local to Grand Rapids, Michigan, he took out a $7000 full page ad in the community paper to share the following thought-provoking essay: When I was a puppy, I entertained you with my antics and made you laugh. You called me your child, and despite a number [...]

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Courage to Be? True, Real, Reality. Written by Meg Kiihne

on October 20, 2010 in Our Stories of Inspiration

Written by Meg Kiihne, International Event Producer & Host, Outdoor & Action Sports Marketing Consultant, Writer, Athlete, “Nature Cookie”, & Giggling Globetrotting Free Spirit…Living and Loving the Surf to the Snowy Steeps and everywhere in between…check out her blog, C2Snow. Some times only snippets shoot through My mind reminds Sees in 3D concepts, understandings, expanding [...]

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Living Abroad in Argentina Teaches Lessons of Better Living

on October 6, 2010 in Our Stories of Inspiration

My next chapter in life is starting today. As this is posted I am high in the sky…flying back to the United States. Not for a vacation at home, but to be back home for good (whatever that means). I am leaving my adopted home of Argentina. The joys, lessons and frustrations of living in [...]

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Nic Marks Studying the Measure of Life With Happiness in Mind Not Money

on September 29, 2010 in People of Inspiration

How should we measure the quality of life? Is measuring it through GDP and income levels truly the best way? Or maybe it should be ranked on another level entirely…the amount of true happiness we have in life, perhaps? Well, the The Happy Planet Index is a statistical look at how a person’s well-being is [...]

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