Posted on June 12, 2020
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When Life Hurts the Most We are all broken, none of us are lucky enough to get through life unscathed. What sets some apart from the rest is that they learn and grow and become stronger in the broken places. Who are you? Who… Continue Reading “When Life Hurts the Most”
Category: All, Behavioral Health, Human ConditionTags: *See All Posts, Anxiety, Awareness, Behavioral Health, Broken, Choice, Courage, Depression, Emptiness, Fear, Fitness, Gratitude, Happiness, Hope, Hopelessness, Insight, Introspective, Lessons on Living, Life, Meaning, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Mindfulness, Peace, Peace is Every Step, Power of Belief, Purpose, Recovery, Sadness, Self, Suffering, Suicide Awareness, Suicide Prevention, Teen, Thrive, Tragedy
Posted on June 12, 2020
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Start a Conversation that Matters I can’t begin to tell you how much it astounds me when I ask someone to talk to me about how they feel, to share with me the pain they are afraid of that they harbor within, and their… Continue Reading “Start a Conversation that Matters”
Category: All, Behavioral Health, Human ConditionTags: Addiction, Alone, Anxiety, Awareness, Behavioral Health, Broken, Compassion, Depression, Emotional Connection, Emptiness, Healing, Hope, Hopelessness, Human Connection, Loneliness, Loving Kindness, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Mindfulness, Sadness, Suicide Awareness, Suicide Prevention, Thrive
Posted on April 6, 2018
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Choose To Live Do something that scares you. Go places you’ve never been before. Become the person you wish other people would be. Ever since my mom died almost two years ago, I have constantly faced the mortality of my own existence. Too many… Continue Reading “Choose To Live”
Category: All, Behavioral Health, Human Condition, MiscellaneousTags: *See All Posts, Awareness, Death, Life, Live, Mindfulness, Mortality, Thrive
Posted on March 19, 2018
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The Inexplicable Have you ever stopped to think for a moment how incredibly rare your existence actually is? The odds that you would ever come into being are literally on average a million to one. That’s literally a 0.000001% chance that you would be… Continue Reading “The Inexplicable”
Category: All, Human Condition, In Loving Memory, Kephen's Commentary, MiscellaneousTags: *See All Posts, Existence, Inspiration, Mindfulness, Rarity of Life, Truth, Value of Life
Posted on August 22, 2017
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The Thousand Year Journey Jedidiah Jenkins offers up some inspiring wisdom for those of us seeking deeper meaning in life: Follow Jedidiah on Instagram
Category: All, Atheism, Religion and Spirituality, Human Condition, MiscellaneousTags: *See All Posts, Awareness, Courage, Explore, Fun, Happiness, Healing, Health, Inspiration, Introspective, Joy, Learn, Lessons on Living, Meaning, Mindfulness, Nature, Travel, Wander, Wisdom
Posted on July 4, 2017
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No Arrival, No Destination, Just Being From Thich Nhat Hanh, the venerable Vietnamese monk who strives to live and spread the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, I’ve learned this simple lesson: There should be no coming, no going, just being. More than anything else, these… Continue Reading “No Arrival, No Destination, Just Being”
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Posted on November 7, 2016
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Photo credit: Kelvin Cheuk Lotus in a Lake of Fire: Honoring Thich Nhat Hanh Thich Nhat Hanh, pronounced Tik-N’yat-Hawn, is a Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk. I stumbled across him when studying Buddhism about ten or so years ago. Over time I collected 15 of… Continue Reading “Lotus in a Lake of Fire”
Category: All, Atheism, Religion and Spirituality, Human Condition, MiscellaneousTags: Buddhism, Humanism, Meditation, Mindfulness, Peace is Every Step, Spiritual Leader, Thich Nhat Hanh, Zen, Zen Buddhist Monk, Zen Master
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The Inexplicable
Posted on March 19, 2018 by Kēphen
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The Inexplicable Have you ever stopped to think for a moment how incredibly rare your existence actually is? The odds that you would ever come into being are literally on average a million to one. That’s literally a 0.000001% chance that you would be… Continue Reading “The Inexplicable”
Category: All, Human Condition, In Loving Memory, Kephen's Commentary, MiscellaneousTags: *See All Posts, Existence, Inspiration, Mindfulness, Rarity of Life, Truth, Value of Life