Documents tagged with the real life

Achieving Your Dreams

While most people spend most of their lives struggling to earn a living, a much smaller number seem to have everything going their way. Instead of just earning a living, the smaller group is busily...
  • greensmokee276 published this 07 / 08 / 2009
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About Life and Happiness

This is a selection of ideas about increasing happiness by dealing with the problems we encounter in life. Problems like worry, anger, poor self-esteem, and stress. Sometimes it may only take a sin...
  • greensmokee276 published this 07 / 08 / 2009
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A Splendid Torch

This is the true joy in life: the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one. The being a force of nature, instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances...
  • greensmokee276 published this 07 / 08 / 2009
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A Short History of Medicine

"Doctor, I have an earache." 2000 B.C.: "Here, eat this root." 1000 B.C.: "That root is heathen, say this prayer." 1850 A.D.: "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion." ..............
  • greensmokee276 published this 07 / 08 / 2009
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A Sea of Rings

While vacationing in California, we were able to visit the sequoia trees near Yosemite National Park. One of the things that impressed me most was a cross section of a tree that had lived for hundr...
  • greensmokee276 published this 07 / 08 / 2009
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A Radiant Life

The supreme prayer of my heart is not to be learned, rich, famous, powerful, or "good", but simply to be radiant. I desire to radiate health, cheerfulness, calm courage, and good will. I wish to li...
  • greensmokee276 published this 07 / 08 / 2009
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A Part of the Whole Life

A human being is part of the whole called by us a universe - a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and his feelings, as something separate from the rest, a kind of ...
  • greensmokee276 published this 07 / 07 / 2009
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3 Steps to Building Your Confidence

I just learned how to drive a stick shift! I have put it off forever, but finally did it. I realized a few things after this experience. Many people want to try new things, but hold back. Below are...
  • greensmokee276 published this 07 / 03 / 2009
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