Archive for the ‘New Age’ Category
7
May
Posted by Mark Schmitz in About Me, Addiction, Faith, Life, New Age, Opinions, Personal Growth, Purpose of Life, Recovery, Relationships, Self Discovery, Self-forgiveness, Shortcomings, Spirituality, Tough Times. Tagged: Addiction, Amends, Defects, guilt, judgment, Life, Life's Lessons, Personal Growth, Punishment, Recovery, remorse, Self-judgment, Self-reproach, Shame. Leave a Comment
“There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.” — Oscar Wilde
Just as we don’t have the right to judge someone else, we don’t have the right to judge
ourselves. Our unhealthy script in the past was that when we did something we felt [...]
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7
Apr
Posted by Mark Schmitz in 12 Step Program, About Me, Addiction, Chemical Dependency, Drug Addiction, Friends, Friendship, Friendships, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, New Age, People in your life, Personal Growth, Purpose of Life, Recovery, Relationships, Spirituality. Tagged: A Little Help from Our Friends, Addiction, Best friend, Bond of love between friends, Friends, Friendships, Gift of friendship, Good friends, Honesty, Personal Growth, Recovery, Relationships, Rewards of friendship, Skills to be a good friend, Unconditional acceptance. Leave a Comment
“And when I see you happy, well, it sets my heart free. I’d like to be as good a friend to you as you are to me.” — Joni Mitchell
Friends are one of the greatest gifts and they come as a result of a life that’s sane and manageable. It takes time and energy to [...]
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7
Apr
Posted by Mark Schmitz in 12 Step Program, AIDS, Addiction, Chemical Dependency, Drug Addiction, HIV, Health, Life, Mental Health, New Age, Opinions, Personal Growth, Purpose of Life, Recovery, Spirituality. Tagged: Addiction, Afraid to die, death, Death in the abstract, dying, Eternity, Falling in Love, Fear of dying, Life, Near death experience, Personal Growth, Recovery, Relationships, renewal, Transition. 1 Comment
“It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” — Woody Allen
Even after a recent near death experience, I tend to think of death in the abstract, as a fact rather than a reality. I know that everything passes and that we are bound to die, but [...]
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7
Apr
Posted by Mark Schmitz in About Me, Addiction, Chemical Dependency, Drug Addiction, End of Relationship, Intimacy, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, New Age, Personal Growth, Recovery, Relationships, Self Discovery, Self-improvement, Spirituality. Tagged: Close relationship, commitment, Committed, Devotion, end of a relationship, Falling in Love, Intimacy, Intimate relationship, Love, Love is a bed of roses, Loving, Non-attachment, Relationships, Romance, Sexual, The Joy and Pain of Loving. Leave a Comment
“The main motive for ‘non-attachment’ is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual is hard work.” — George Orwell
In popular romances, love is often presented as a bed of roses – without the thorns. We may also have the idea that loving is always [...]
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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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27
Jan
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Humanity, Life, Life's Lessons, New Age, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Spirituality, Truth. Tagged: Ace of Swords, Daily Tarot Reading, Humanity, Knowledge, Life, Life's Lessons, New Age, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, Spirituality, Tarot, Tarot, Truth, Wisdom. Leave a Comment
Giving me some direction for my day, I enjoy sharing my more poignant tarot readings that I do that I do on a daily basis.
The Ace of Swords card suggests that my power today lies in cause and effect. With great power comes great responsibility. Do the right thing or state the obvious and the [...]
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18
Jan
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Astrological Sign Gemini, Astrology, Life, New Age, Personal Growth, Relationships, Spirituality. Tagged: Animagus, Astrological Sign Gemini, Astrology, Horoscope, I Ching, I ching, Life, Mental Health, New Age, Opinions, Personal Growth, Relationships, Spirituality, Strength Card, Tarot, Tarot. Leave a Comment
The Strength card affirms that my alter ego today is the seductive beast of my Animagus, whose superpower is to master self-control to tame fears or impulses to prove of what stuff I’m made. I boldly go… but a willful heart is part of my secret identity. My infinite fortitude is seen by what I [...]
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25
Dec
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Addiction, Decision Making, Life, Life's Lessons, New Age, Opinions, Personal Growth, Recovery, Relationships, Spirituality. Tagged: Relationships, Mental Health, Spirituality, Recovery, Life, Addiction, Personal Growth, Positive Thinking, meditation, course of right action, Decision Making Tools, Opinions, I Ching, Decision Making Tool, Decision Making, Indecision, Decision making process, New Age, Life's Lessons, Wisdom, Knowledge, Horoscope, Mental Health, Tarot, I ching, Fortune Telling. 2 Comments
The Five of Pentacles card suggests that my power today lies in defiance. I am willing to reject the sure thing or accept excommunication to try to make it on my own, rather than endure the status quo or submit to conditions that assume I am invisible — in this, I have nothing to lose. I accept responsibility [...]
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22
Sep
Posted by Mark Schmitz in Humanity, Life, Life's Lessons, New Age, Opinions, Personal Growth, Spirituality. Tagged: Art, Competition, Freedom, History of Romanticism, Humanity, Ideals of the Community, Individual freedom, Individual will, Life, Life's Lessons, Love, Love not competition, Male independence, New Age, Opinions, Opposition between artist and society, Personal Growth, Romantic Era, Romantic era politics, Romantic influence ballet, Romantic influence drama, Romantic influence music, Romantic influence novel, Romantic influence opera, Romantic influence painting, Romantic influence sculpture, Romanticism, Romanticism and peoples fears hopes aspiration, Self-reliance, Self-reliant, Social order, Spirituality, The Establishment, Values of the Individual. 1 Comment
“The problem of the individual is not clarified by stressing the antagonism between the individual and society, but by stressing their mutual reinforcement.” -Ruth Benedict
Romanticism was a widespread movement in both its origins and influence which began in Germany and England in the 1770s. Romanticism had swept through Europe By the 1820’s. It traveled quickly [...]
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