By Emily Filmore In conscious living, people work to move away from society’s penchant for competition and towards a more collaborative paradigm. One envisions the world as a place with enough necessities for all and all people being equal…in...
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The best way out is always through. ~Robert Frost Being out of balance emotionally usually involves either not allowing yourself to experience your feelings as they evolve by avoiding or suppressing them, or being so attached to and identified...
Read moreAddiction and Petroglyphs, Recovery and Basketball
One of active addiction’s cruel realities is that gradually and progressively, alcohol and other drugs work less and less well. The inexorable truth the phenomenon of tolerance teaches all addicts is that the longer they use substances—whether...
Read moreIf You Meet the Buddha, Say Hello
Once in a while you can get shown the light In the strangest of places if you look at it right. ~ Robert Hunter, Scarlet Begonias, Grateful Dead Often, things are more (sometimes much more) than they seem at first glance. Embedded in ordinary...
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