What was it that you had in mind?

WHAT WAS IT THAT YOU HAD IN MIND?

Presumably, given that you are reading this, you are living a life of some sort.

Right?

Tell me this: Is it the life you had in mind? The one you dreamed of when you were, say, 16, or maybe 21, or maybe the one you were sure you'd have by the time you reached 40?

Maybe the one you never told a single living soul that you wanted, the one you gave up on ages ago because other stuff got in the way, you got practical and serious-minded and told yourself to put all the silliness behind you?
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Me, Lynn Ingram

About Me

It's a journey, this life, and mine has been full and varied. I've loved a lot and been loved, I've wept a good bit and I suspect I was the reason for a few tears shed by others. I've been enchanted by the power of words and the incredible resilience of the human spirit forever. I love sorting out what makes us human beings tick and trying to find out how to make us tick better, starting with me. So now I'm a psychologist and a writer. On the way here, I was a teacher, an editor, a striker on a shrimp boat, an unsuccessful advertising sales rep, a little theatre actress, a student pilot, and a handful of other things. And I'm not done yet.

Treasures for your heart and soul

Doubt everything. Find your OWN light.
--- Siddhartha Guatama Buddha
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Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves...
The point is to live everything.
Live the questions now.
Perhaps then, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
--Rainer Maria Rilke (poet & novelist born 1875 in Prague, died 1926 in Switzerland at age 51)
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

-- Edith Wharton (1862-1937), New York born American novelist and short story writer, first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for literature (in 1921, for The Age of Innocence), also wrote Ethan Frome and The House of Mirth. She was good friends with novelist Henry James, brother of William James. Truly fun fact: It is said that the phrase "keeping up with the Jones" referred to the family of Wharton's father, George Frederic Jones.
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You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing, there will be no result.
------ Mahatma Gandhi
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Selected quotations from HENRY DAVID THOREAU (1817-1862)

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music that he hears, however measured or far away.

If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so, a man.

Our life is frittered away by detail....Simplify, simplify.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

My life is like a stroll upon the beach - as near the ocean’s edge as I can go.

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend.

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