Inner peace

How to live with no regrets

This is a guest post by Daniel Offer. Daniel manages an interesting Facebook application called Emoinstaller. Emoinstaller allows you to add extra Facebook emoticons as well as Facebook smileys to your Facebook chat experience in just a couple of clicks. Do you tend to beat yourself up by bringing past personal mistakes or shortfalls [...]

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It’s never too late to breathe like a child

One of the blessings life has brought to me in recent years is something called abdominal breathing. I’m not an expert in this by any means, and it’s quite possible that you know more about it than I do. But the physical and mental calm and relaxation that abdominal breathing can bring is remarkable. [...]

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What is your deepest longing?

What is your deepest longing? One of the reasons I’m so grateful for the privilege of aging is that it has given — and continues to give — more space and time to let my own deepest longing be fulfilled, and enjoyed. And made new. I’m a slow learner, I guess. “Better late than never,” [...]

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Are we really alone?

I was alone, eating supper on a cold winter’s evening 300 miles north of Vancouver, British Columbia. It was cold and cheerless outside, and it was cold and cheerless inside — in my heart, and in my home. My wife, Joy, to whom I had been married 25 years, had died suddenly a month or [...]

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Power of patience critical to lasting happiness

The power of patience is all too easily overlooked in our fast paced culture. But it’s absolutely critical to lasting happiness and inner peace. True, with more and more people demanding immediate gratification it might seem patience has become obsolete. But whatever your age, and whatever your life situation, nurturing this calm and noble quality [...]

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Trust God: 5 things we can learn from a blue spruce tree

Trust God – the one true being back of all things — because it is the very base of all true power, happiness and well-being. I’m reminded of this simple truth each morning when I step outside to admire the magnificent blue spruce tree that grows just outside our front door. There are at least five ways in which this noble tree teaches [...]

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How to find inner peace

A long time ago, before we got married — while we were still chewing over the whole extraordinary concept – JoAnn and I made an important discovery. We discovered that while we are very different in a lot of ways, we both value inner peace, finding inner peace. We were visiting an old friend who happens [...]

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Making peace with loss and death

“Eternity is not the hereafter…this is it. If you don’t get it here, you won’t get it anywhere.” – Joseph Campbell Finding inner peace in the midst of death and loss is a theme that runs through all our lives. So I noted with interest the other day that suddenly death isn’t the big gray [...]

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