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Ten Tips for Tough Times

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

serenityNoah benShea, noted philosopher offers inspirational ideas for moving through difficulties.

1. Being broke is not the same as being broken, losing money is not the same as being lost, and finding your balance is not something you can do on a balance sheet.

2. Don’t confuse having less with being less, having more with being more, or what you have with who you are.
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Noah’s Notes: Lightening the Load

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

CucumbersNoted philosopher Noah benShea shares a personal story about how caring for others impacts the burdens we carry.

Doctors say there is enough salt in one pickle to give us all the sodium we need for a year. I’d like more years, and so I consume fewer pickles. But this is a story I still gnaw on over the years. It is a story my father’s mother told over and over. And over and over. When I was younger I thought this was just the malaise of her advancing age. But it wasn’t. She was simply hoping we were listening.

The story goes that two or three times every year in the midsummer, my grandmother, and other ladies in the neighborhood, would gather at one of their homes to pack pickles. They each brought a bushel of cucumbers, dill, salt, bay leaves, jars, and their troubles.
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Noah’s Notes: Strength and Weakness

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

Rock ClimberEmotional pain is part of emotional health, and every one of us has found our own path to our own pain. If that’s tough news, tough. It’s also reality therapy. So however you think you got here in your life, or who you think got you here, and whether you’re suffering from the need to please, the blame game, or simply sitting there wearing a feeling-sorry-for-yourself party hat at your own pity party, it’s time you knew the party is over.

Character isn’t how we live the life we intend but how we live the life destiny intends. We’re all hurting. What’s hurting you is where your work begins. You’re not expected to finish the work, but neither are you excused from it. It’s time to get busy.
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Noah’s Notes: Our Spirit

Friday, February 20th, 2009

CandlePhysicists can call it the Big Bang theory, but a long time ago God rubbed two sticks together, got a spark and made the world. That first spark still burns in each of us. This Divine spark is our secret force. It is our cosmic nightlight against the darkness and the cold. It is our spirit.

Our spirit is the catalyst of our spiritual beliefs, our passions and our creativity. And when that spark is threatened, all of these are threatened.

Our spirit is less often taken from us than given away. This usually happens when we don’t know or forget the value of what we have, which is the value of who we are.

Evil will try to rob others of their spirit, but in the end evil will fail because, by its actions, they will be robbed of their own spirit and their fire will go out. They will be left in the dark.
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