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Power of Thoughts – for Better or Worse
After years of tranquility in my apartment, I thought I knew something about the power of thoughts to create the environment we want. But just then, I began to experience the insidious intrusion of fear and insecurity. Someone seemed intent on making trouble for me and the accusations were making my life miserable. The trouble…
Read MoreThe Sun Rises on a New World
“…from crude beginnings, there grew and prospered a civilization whose people enjoyed a serenity and peace of mind undreamed of today, a splendor and beauty of surroundings without equal.” – Epilogue, The Sun Rises There’s a book most Lemurians have read countless times and many of us return to each year. It’s The Sun Rises,…
Read MoreLearning How to Improve
Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. – Franklin During our two years as Peace Corps teachers, the only Americans on a small island, Bob and I spent many evenings comparing notes and ideas, seeking refuge from the strangeness of our surroundings in each other’s companionship. I thought I could listen, but finding…
Read MoreSearch for Happiness (Robert D. Stelle)
Cease to worry. Worry is but a circle of inefficient thoughts whirling about a pivot of fear. – A Master So universal is the search for happiness that those who wrote the Constitution of the United States of America wanted to guarantee us the right to pursue it. Ever since we humans first grew conscious of…
Read MoreThe Mental Virtue Discrimination
Lemurians develop the mental virtue Discrimination to judge between what’s good and what’s better. My daughter wanted to check out some colleges in California over spring break. She doesn’t like to fly, so driving was her preference. My husband couldn’t join us and I was nervous about the two of us traveling alone on a…
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