Love to Spare

Who Are You?

Posted on 18. Apr, 2009 by Michael Scott.

How do you define you? When someone asks you “to introduce yourself” what do you typically say? Do you talk about:

your profession, job title, or financial status?
your political or religious affiliations?
your level of education or expertise?
your skin color or ethnicity?
your regional or national origins?
your age, gender or sexual preference?
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The Physics of Love

Posted on 22. Mar, 2009 by Michael Scott.

There are two types of love in the world:

love we reserve for our own purposes; and
love to spare.

Most of us think of love in the same way we think of material wealth and money: we believe it is something we can possess individually. As a result, we try to control the flow of “our” [...]

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The Quiet Days

Posted on 13. Mar, 2009 by Michael Scott.

I recently came across two very interesting posts by Amanda Linehan: Become Yourself and Look Far. In Become Yourself, Amanda invites us to explore what “being yourself” really means. In Look Far, she asks if we’ve “stopped to look lately” and how we go about “looking far” in our life?
Thank you, Amanda; these are powerful [...]

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The Next Big Thing

Posted on 01. Mar, 2009 by Michael Scott.

Have you ever noticed how smaller things are the building blocks of bigger things? Music is made up of vibrations and rhythms, galaxies are made up of stars and planets, oceans are made up of countless drops of water, and the human body is made up of an estimated 50 trillion cells.
When smaller things fit [...]

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Five Steps to Gain an Unfair Advantage in the Game of Love

Posted on 23. Jan, 2009 by Michael Scott.

It’s often said that all is fair in love and war. Well, I’m not so sure about the rules of war, but when it comes to love, nothing is out of bounds. Love is as unfair as it gets; it’s certainly not a game for the faint of heart. But if you’re going to play [...]

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Achieve Peace of Mind in Only 30 Minutes a Day

Posted on 20. Jan, 2009 by Michael Scott.

Meditation is a simple process you can use to achieve deep states of relaxation, peace, joy and love. You may already be familiar with some styles of meditation which require difficult poses and postures, breathing exercises, chanting, or various paraphernalia like candles, incense, bells, etc. My advice is to do away with these. Since meditation [...]

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