Category: Life Lessons
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Dowsing Society of Victoria – Newsletter No.122
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Heart Centred
With the COVID-19 outbreak most are at home waiting for the virus to burn out. It has been a time of stress but also a time when people can relax. Just turn off the news. Dowsing I get that the news is about 65% accurate. Dowsing I get that we will be at home a…
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Talking about Truth and Willingness
Today’s challenge for me is to meditate on the words “truth” and “willingness”. These are really tough words to put together to come up with an “aha” moment. Truth, of course, is always the way that the different parties understand a situation. Truth can be altered by the emphasis put on different words in…
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What is Happiness? See the Story.
One of the best teaching stories about happiness that I have read comes from Buddhist teachings. Here is a story about happiness. Each person reading this story will have a different take away, and that is a good thing. What I hope that everybody understands from this story is that our happiness stems from how…
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A Morning Prayer for All
The following prayer comes from writer Deng Ming-Dao. From Wikipedia – About Author – Deng Ming-Dao (born 1954, San Francisco) is a Chinese American author, artist, philosopher, teacher and martial artist. Deng is his family name; Ming-Dao is his given name. From a young age, he studied Taoist internal arts such as Qigong and Kung-Fu. …
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Should You Ever Give Up?
Picture from: https://weatherfarm.com/community-photos/tornado-season-touches-down-in-alberta/ I was listening to some people talking in the shopping mall. They were talking about a friend who had suffered some extreme bad luck. They marveled at the friend’s ability to see the brightness in every disaster – even when part of their farm was ripped up by a tornado. One of…
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A Life Based On Conditions
A while ago, one of my friends sent me the following story in an email. The story moved me so much, and made me also think about all the clients that I have worked with over the years who live their life based on “when” and ‘if”. These folks miss so much because they are…
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About Sweetgrass
Hierochloe odorata – Sweet grass at Chief Whitecap Park, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada by SriMesh, used with permission under GNU Free Documentation License Sweetgrass is a very aromatic grass – some call it herb – that grows in Europe and parts of North America. Our Ancestors believed that the Sweetgrass plant was the first plant to…
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To Be Filled With Joy!
How do you become filled with joy when you feel like the bottom has dropped out of your life? The answer is simple and complicated at the same time. It is about finding a place to start… a place to take a simple step. For me, that simple step is usually to go through the…
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Our Expectations Cause Problems
I have four friends tell me that I expect too much of them. This makes me laugh because I expect them to be exactly as they are… imperfect humans. I realize that they have an expectation that they must be at their best when they are around me. I am not sure where that expectation…
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Why Do We Hurry?
“Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.” – Saint Francis de Sales Picture from https://wildlifepreservation.ca/western-painted-turtle/ Do you remember the story of the tortoise and the hare? They had a race, and even though…
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Aloneness
Dear Readers, This is a collection of sayings about being lonely and aloneness. Psychiatrists and psychologists are talking about the number of people experiencing loneliness. Perhaps the doctors are missing some aspects of aloneness because many millennials are choosing to live alone. They like their own company. They like the independence. They like the freedom…
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Dowsing to Detect Water
The Canadian Society of Questers shares knowledge. One of the key teachings is how to dowse – for water, for health, and for harmony in living. Check out the article below. -Judith In defence of dowsing to detect water -an article from The Guardian Newspaper, November 27, 2017. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/27/in-defence-of-dowsing-to-detect-water The passage below is an excerpt…
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April 1, 2019–Happy April Fool’s Day!
The Spring conference is a month away. Check out the line up of speakers at https://questers.ca/conferences/spring-conference/. Come and join the fun! April 1, 2019–Happy April Fool’s Day! Today, April 1, is called April Fools’ Day. This is a day that was meant to be filled with laughter and foolish, harmless pranks. Some of the foolish…
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Laughing
Have you noticed that you do not laugh as much as you used to? Is it because you have forgotten how? Or, is it because nothing is funny? I think that when we do not laugh, we age more quickly and we pick up viruses more easily. If you think that I am wrong, ask…
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Spring Equinox 2019
The Spring Equinox 2019 is on Wednesday, March 20, 2019. An equinox is the moment in time (not a day-long event) when the Sun stands directly above the equator and day and night are of approximately equal length. In the twenty-first century, people are not in harmony with the earth, the seasons, and the shifting…
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Circle of Life – Nature Style!
Circle of Life – Nature Style! The movie and stage show, “The Lion King” popularized the concept of the circle of life through the wonderful song with the words by Tim Rice put to music by Elton John. Our ancestors understood that the events in their lives were cyclical – much like the seasons…
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No Limitations
It’s coming closer – The 2019 Quester Spring Conference – The Canadian Society of Questers Spring Conference Drawing the Future Towards Us May 3, 4, and 5th 2019 Red Deer Baymont Hotel – Conference Center 4311 49th Avenue, Red Deer, Alberta, Canada T4N 5Y7 Hotel 1-800-661-1657 ************* No Limitations Sometimes, one needs inspiration, just to…
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A Line In The Sand or Co-creation?
Hello Questers! If you have a story to share or an idea for a blog or a series of blog posts, I would love to hear it. Please send your ideas to me at [email protected]. Or, send your idea to [email protected]. A Line In The Sand or Co-creation? This picture is from an email that…
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Silhouette
Silhouette “Silhouette of an oak tree in early spring 2008” Copyright March 2008 by Judith Hirst I was flipping through some pictures and I found this picture that I’d taken in the early spring. The silhouette of the tree against the sky and the bleakness around it makes the tree seem dead. Yet, it is…