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Scorpio Blogs for iprotect news:

How Does Your Garden Flow?  

Published March 28, 2012  http://soulgarden.me/profiles/blogs/how-does-your-garden-flow

Join the Adventure Club!

Published April 3, 2012 http://soulgarden.me/profiles/blogs/join-the-adventure-club

The House of Me, Myself and I

Published April 11, 2012  http://soulgarden.me/profiles/blogs/the-house-of-me-myself-and-i

7th House Lightcast:  Pack Your Bags, Officer Scorpio!

Published April 21, 2012  http://soulgarden.me/profiles/blogs/lightcast-pack-your-bags-officer-scorpio

Me-rriage Mashup

Published April 29, 2012  http://soulgarden.me/profiles/blogs/me-rriage-mashup

8th House Lightcast: Shadow of Valley of Death

Published June 20, 2012  http://soulgarden.me/profiles/blogs/lightcast-valley-of-the-shadow-of-death

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony." 

-Mahatma Gandhi

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"I've learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life.

I've learned that making a "living" is not the same thing as making a "life." I've learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone.

People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."

— Maya Angelou

 

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"One of the most poisonous of all Satan’s whispers is simply, “Things will never change.”

That lie kills expectation, trapping our heart forever in the present. To keep desire alive and flourishing, we must renew our vision for what lies ahead.

Things will not always be like this.

Jesus has promised to “make all things new.” Eye has not seen, ear has not heard all that God has in store for his lovers, which does not mean “we have no clue so don’t even try to imagine,” but rather, you cannot outdream God.

Desire is kept alive by imagination, the antidote to resignation. We will need imagination, which is to say, we will need hope. "

— John Eldredge

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"I've come to believe that there exists in the universe something I call "The Physics of The Quest"- a force of nature governed by laws as real as the laws gravity or momentum.

And the rule of Quest Physics maybe goes like this:

"If you are brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting (which can be anything from your house to your bitter old resentments) and set out on a truth-seeking journey (either externally or internally),and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue, and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher, and if you are prepared - most of all -to face (and forgive) some very difficult realities about yourself....then truth will not be withheld from you."

Or so I've come to believe."
— Elizabeth Gilbert

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"In desperate love, we always invent the characters of our partners, demanding they be what we need of them, and then feeling devastated when they refuse to perform the role we created in the first place....

I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men.  I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks.

I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume that everyone is emotionally capable of reaching his highest potential. 

I have fallen in love more times than I care to count with the highest potential of a man, rather than with the man himself, and I have hung on to the relationship for a long time (sometimes far too long) waiting for the man to ascend to his own greatness.

Many times in romance I have been a victim of my own optimism." 

— Elizabeth Gilbert 

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"We search for happiness everywhere, but we are like Tolstoy's fabled beggar who spent his life sitting on a pot of gold, under him the whole time.

Your treasure--your perfection--is within you already.

But to claim it, you must leave the buy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart."
— Elizabeth Gilbert

 

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“To offer no resistance to life is to be in a state of grace, ease, and lightness. This state is then no longer dependent upon things being in a certain way, good or bad.

It seems almost paradoxical, yet when your inner dependency on form is gone, the general conditions of your life, the outer forms, tend to improve greatly.

Things, people, or conditions that you thought you needed for your happiness now come to you with no struggle or effort on your part, and you are free to enjoy and appreciate them - while they last.

All those things, of course, will still pass away, cycles will come and go, but with dependency gone there is no fear of loss anymore.

Life flows with ease.”
― Eckhart Tolle