Archive for the ‘Positive Thinking’ Category
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May
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Change, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Opinions, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Relationships, Spirituality. Tagged: Change, Conflict, Depression, Family, Forgiveness, Friendships, Gay relationships, Honesty, Life's Lessons, Love, Love Yourself, Loving, Mental Health, Opinions, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Relationships, Releasing the Past, Spirituality, Truth. Leave a Comment
FORGIVE THE PAST! LIVE THE DAY! LOOK FORWARD TO TOMORROW! Lessons shared to reach forgiveness and love.
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Apr
Posted by Mark Schmitz in About Me, Adversity, Afraid, Challenge, Inner Self, Life, Life's Lessons, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Purpose of Life, Relationships, Self-improvement, Tough Times. Tagged: Adversity, Challenge, Economic Downturn, family problems, Financial worries, Gift of Life, Grandchildren, Grandmother, Illness, Insecurity, Life, Personal Growth, problems, Recession, Relationship problems, Smile, Survival, Tough Times. Leave a Comment
“Mere survival is an affliction. What is of interest is life, and the direction of that life.” — Guy Fregault
I know people who, when you ask them how they are, will say automatically, “I’m surviving.” They say it with a bright, brave smile, as though they’ve battled tremendous odds and come through, bloody but unbowed. [...]
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Apr
Posted by Mark Schmitz in About Me, Addiction, Afraid, Boundaries, Change, Conflict, Courage, Decision, Decision Making, Depression, Dificulty, Dishonest, Dispute, End of Relationship, Fear, Gay, Gay Relationship, Gay, Lesbian Bi-sexual, Transgendered, Queer [GLBTQ], Healing, Honesty, Hurt emotions, Inner Self, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, Love Letters, Mental Health, Personal Growth, Personality, Positive Thinking, Recovery, Relationships, Self Discovery, Self-forgiveness, Shame, Spirituality, Tough Times, course of right action, deceit, feelings, forgiveness, inspiration. Tagged: Divorce, End of Relationship, Good bye, Grief, Loss of relationship, Love, relationship, Separation, Sunday in the Park with George. 3 Comments
“I left because there was no room for me. But you could tell me not to go. Say it to me. Tell me not to go.” — Stephen Sondheim. Dot in Sunday in the Park with George.
To leave someone we love is to knowingly break a vital connection. Even if we chose to leave, we [...]
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Apr
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Awareness, Environment, Life, Mental Health, Natural Resources, Personal Growth, Phoenix, Positive Thinking, Purpose of Life, Relationships, Seasons, Self Discovery, Self-improvement, Spirituality, inspiration. Tagged: Beauty, child laughter, Enriched life, Exotic places, Joy, Sedona, Twilight desert, World around us. Leave a Comment
“Beauty is the promise of happiness.” — Stendhal
Often we are too busy or self-absorbed to notice what is beautiful in people and in the world around us. We hurry along, focused on ourselves, inattentive to what really makes life worth living.
The world is filled with beauty – winter twilight over the desert, a child’s laughter, [...]
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4
Mar
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Addiction, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Relationships, Spirituality. Tagged: Good Life, Intimacy, Life, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Present moment, Recovery, Relationships, Rich life, Spirituality, Wonderful Life. Leave a Comment
“What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.” – Colette
Colette was a French author whose books give a sense of a life fully lived. Yet, even she regretted that she hadn’t appreciated her good fortune earlier on. It was only while writing that she learned to see how lucky and [...]
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Feb
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Change, Life, Life's Lessons, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Spirituality. Tagged: Adversity, Bankruptcy, Economic Downturn, Extended Illness, Financial Setback, foreclosure, Frustration, Getting sick, Life challenge, Life Change, Life is Out of Control, Out of Control, Serious Illness. Leave a Comment
“God delays, but doesn’t forget.” — Spanish Proverb
I recently spent nearly six weeks in the hospital. From that experience I know it’s frustrating to get sick. In today’s economic downturn, it’s frustrating for anyone who has lost a job or encountered financial setbacks. We suddenly feel curtailed, with the rhythm of our lives changed in [...]
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20
Feb
Posted by Mark Schmitz in 12 Step Program, About Me, Addiction, Adversity, Change, Chemical Dependency, Drug Addiction, Fear, Life, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Purpose of Life, Recovery, Self Discovery, Self-improvement, Spirituality. Tagged: Addiction, Anxiety, Anxious, Awareness, Change, Consequences, despair, Disgrace, Fear, Isolation, Lonely, New, Personal Growth, Recovery, Ruin Life, Unhealthy Behavior. Leave a Comment
“An old error is always more popular than a new truth.” — German Proverb
I find that I often feel uncomfortable with the new because it causes me to reach out and expand my vision. This may be painful and I don’t like the pain that comes with change.
My life at times is cozy and gives [...]
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10
Feb
Posted by Mark Schmitz in 12 Step Program, About Me, Addiction, Adversity, Afraid, Awareness, Blogging, Challenge, Changling, Chemical Dependency, Childhood Memories, Consciousness, Courage, Defects, Delusion, Depression, Dishonest, Drug Addiction, Dysfunction, Inner Self, Intimacy, Life, Love, Mental Health, New Age, Opinions, Past Transgressions, People in your life, Personal Growth, Personality, Positive Thinking, Recovery, Relationships, Self Discovery, Self concept, Self-improvement, Shortcomings, Spirituality, Truth, connection, course of right action, feelings, sobriety. Tagged: Anger, Blogging, despair, Expression of feelings, feelings, Having a Good Cry, Higher Power, Inner Feelings, Inner Life, Journaling, Letting go, Life, Moving On, Outer Life, Outer Self, Past, Past Pain, Rage, sorrow, Spiritual Nourishment, Spirituality, Suppress Feelings, Suppressed, Work Through Difficult Feelings. 2 Comments
I’ve realized that there’s a difference between my ability to feel, my ability to express my feelings, and my ability to let go. I know there are many painful emotions I learned to suppress when I was young, particularly anger or sadness. Other emotions might be difficult to feel because they are connected to past pain.
Yet [...]
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4
Feb
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Boundaries, Change, Childhood, Conflict, Family, Fear, Friends, Friendship, Friendships, Humanity, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, New Age, Opinions, People in your life, Personal Growth, Personality, Positive Thinking, Recovery, Relationships, Self Discovery, Self-improvement, Shortcomings, Spirituality, Trust Personal Growth. Tagged: Addiction, Boundaries, Conflict, Decision Making, Family, Family of Choice, Fear, Friends, Friendship, Friendships, Honesty, Intimacy, Life's Lessons, Love, Mental Health, New Age, Opinions, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Recovery, Relationships, Spirituality, Wisdom. 4 Comments
“It is an old an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.” — Rollo May
Our boundaries are both inside and outside ourselves. No one can set them for us; we can only set them. For many of us, boundaries are often unfamiliar. We may wonder, What are they? [...]
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