What makes you choose problem over peace?

#517 – What makes you choose problem over peace?What if, where I see a problem, it's just life unfolding? In other words, am I "problemizing" life?Earlier in my Milwaukee house and job hunting, I'd noticed that whenever things got too easy, I gr...

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Jan 05, 2026
What part of aloneness scares you the most?

#516 – What part of aloneness scares you the most?The reason we avoid engaging in what really matters is that, to do it, we need to be alone with our own mind, and to be okay with what we might find in there.For the past few days, I've been frantical...

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Jan 04, 2026
What do you need to know in order to feel safe?

#515 – What do you need to know in order to feel safe?We believe that knowing will save us from disaster. It won't. What happens is that the illusion of knowing saves us from the anxiety of uncertainty.I'm tired of that. Of thinking I know when...

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Jan 02, 2026
What do you bring into the new year?

#514 – What do you bring into the new year?People say that what you do New Year's Day sets the tone for the entire year. Of course, being me, I thought it was all about "doing." So yesterday, the last day of the last year, I thought about when,...

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Jan 01, 2026
What do you wish for the new year?

#513 — What do you wish for the new year?How do you want to enter the new year?This morning, at the end of the first Yoga With Adriene session I’ve done since April, as my shoulders were trembling in an impossible pose, the thought “I feel empty” cam...

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Dec 31, 2025
What promises to yourself are worth keeping?

#512 – What promises to yourself are worth keeping?As the clock hits 00:01 on January 1st, all those New Year's resolutions you might have felt strongly about in November will start to feel distant, like a dream you had long ago.The Ghosts of Not Fol...

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Dec 30, 2025
What virtues or flaws are you presupposing in others?

#510 – What virtues or flaws are you presupposing in others?"If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming." ― GoetheA few years back, research d...

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Dec 28, 2025
What can you do when doors you thought open close?

#509 – What can you do when doors you thought open close?"All things are lessons God would have me learn."A Course In Miracles, Lesson 193.Everything seemed in place for our relocation: my husband's job in hand, a perfectly-located apartment, my son’...

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Dec 27, 2025
What parts of you seek retaliation?

#508 – What parts of you seek retaliation?A Course In Miracles says that whenever you feel something other than love (fear, anger, retaliation), you're "in Ego." Because, the course says, the True Self knows only love.I feel fear often these days. My...

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Dec 26, 2025