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Most of us won’t become a Rosa Parks or Frederick Douglass, but we may face an opportunity at some point in our lives to be the unknown origin of a noble resistance, the first to show the courage that will blossom into a synergy that may well change the world.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://deb-moore.com/2021/12/10/the-synergy-of-courage/

I would always say, “I’m the hundred-year cactus.  It’s going to take me a while to bloom, but, baby, when I do, it will be worth it.”

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://deb-moore.com/2021/12/03/the-hundred-year-cactus/

On my journey to self-guided spirituality, I've learned to hold loosely to those I revere.  

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://deb-moore.com/2021/11/26/be-your-own-guru/

From an overwhelmed brain we receive stress and frustration. This stress and frustration can lead to depression or anger or even illness. The antidote for an overwhelmed brain is an overflowing heart.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://deb-moore.com/2021/11/19/maybe-i-know-too-much/

What we seek from others is often an indication of what we withhold from ourselves. 

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://deb-moore.com/2021/11/12/i-see-you/

We most often talk about acceptance as the reluctant agreement to acknowledge aspects of our life we don’t consider desirable. What if we treated the acceptance of life-as-it-is in a way similar to how we might accept an Oscar?

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://deb-moore.com/2021/11/05/id-like-to-thank/

Problems spoken into a night sky transform into a magic that brings purpose to our challenges and healing to our wounds. They are met with answers, and if not answers, then a form of acceptance so deep and primal it feels like its own kind of answer.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://deb-moore.com/2021/10/29/do-you-believe/

A spiritual practice can be almost anything as long as it occurs with some regularity and is meaningful to you. You give symbols their meaning, and whatever you decide is significant . . . is. 

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://deb-moore.com/2021/10/22/practice-makes/

I’ve had a few times of tragedy in my life, and I know that doesn’t make me special. It doesn’t make me different from you, and perhaps it even offers ground where we can meet. I may not know your pain or your story, but here are nine things I do know, and I can only hope they provide comfort, if not insight.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://deb-moore.com/2021/10/15/why-does-god/

We tell ourselves that everything happens for a reason because we’re trying to make sense out of things that make no sense.  Sometimes life is a mystery. Sometimes it’s even a tragedy.

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://deb-moore.com/2021/10/08/everything-happens-for-a-reason/

Eddies of spiritual energy are swirling around us at all times just waiting for the slight sign of our willingness and our readiness to be pulled into the vortex of what really matters. 

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://deb-moore.com/2021/09/30/what-really-matters/

Beginnings are possible at any time. Each morning can be a new beginning. Each moment, even.   

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://deb-moore.com/2021/09/24/life-starts-all-over-again/

If you want to be fully awake and fully free, forgive everything. 

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://deb-moore.com/2021/09/17/to-forgive/

Denial is refusing to see.  Reframing is choosing to see differently, and it has the power to free us from the hold of past experience.  This episode is also available as a blog post: http://deb-moore.com/2021/09/10/if-a-picture-paints-a-thousand-words/

Spiritual transformation can be explosive or erosive or maybe even both. It can be eruptive, emotive, elegant, electric, . . . it all depends on the weather.  And the good news is, if you don’t like your interior weather or the type of spiritual evolution it’s bringing, you can change it. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://deb-moore.com/2021/09/03/if-you-dont-like-the-weather/

According to many great spiritual teachers, who you are is none of the things that you might use to uniquely define yourself. Those specific parts of your personality, your talents, your intelligence, your sense of humor, might be how you express yourself in the world, but they are not the essence of you. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://deb-moore.com/2021/08/27/who-are-you/

The rightness or wrongness, goodness or badness of our choices is often determined by the way we move through the results of our choice rather than the choice itself. This episode is also available as a blog post: http://deb-moore.com/2021/08/20/to-be/

The part of India that will always live in my heart is the streets and people and beauty of Jaipur.   This episode is also available as a blog post: http://deb-moore.com/2021/08/13/ill-be-seeing-you/

Or how Lisa Fischer settled a 200-year-old debate about poetry interpretation.  This episode is also available as a blog post: http://deb-moore.com/2021/08/06/beauty-is-truth/

I don’t have any ground-breaking answers regarding the intersection of intentions and results. But I do think that if we want to understand the connection between them, we need to first explore the system.  And in this instance, the system is us. 

This episode is also available as a blog post: http://deb-moore.com/2021/07/30/all-systems-go/

The ongoing challenge of checking the judgmental nature and the threat of New Thought hell.  This episode is also available as a blog post: http://deb-moore.com/2021/07/23/judging-from-the-looks-of-things/