Falling in Love with My Imperfect Self + MORE

By Steven Edward Weisberg –
Why Meditate?
Meditation as a practice to enhance personal serenity first came to my attention as a result of a conversation between my younger sister and myself in 1968. “The stress you lose when you meditate is gone forever,” she said. Later that very week, I found myself in the Modern Meditation Center on Bleeker Street in New York’s Greenwich Village…

It all started with a comment that I posted on a poll on oplife.org, about positive people. The poll set me thinking about all those extremely positive people that I‘ve come across. The end result – Yup, I found myself writing this article.
Positive people have categories. They can be one or a combination of the following:
Types of Positive People
The Cool, Smiling Ones

They are happy-go-lucky kind of people who have either been blessed with plenty of positive energy to last a lifetime, have been brought up by sensible and loving elders, or have learnt the art of overcoming or managing their fears and pain…

“Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood.” ~William Shakespeare
I sometimes wonder if conversation is a dying art.
It saddens me that people would rather converse by text or email rather than pick up the phone or talk in person…

My Wage

I bargained with Life for a penny,

  And Life would pay no more,

However I begged at evening

  When I counted my scanty store.

For Life is a just employer,

  He gives you what you ask,

But once you have set the wages,

  Why, you must bear the task.

I worked for a menial’s hire,

  Only to learn, dismayed,

That any wage I had asked of Life,

  Life would have willingly paid…

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By Betsy Talbot
Don’t settle for a relationship that won’t let you be yourself. – Oprah Winfrey
When it comes to change, people are more apt to do it for others than for themselves. It was no different for me when I morphed myself to be the “right” kind of friend, the “cool” girlfriend, or the “most dependable” employee…