Week One Podcast and Reflective Guide – Ripples of Love – Aldea Sunday Series
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Begin Again – Week Three – Stay Put: Living in the Present is the Way to Fresh Starts
“The only time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything, or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event or grow, or heal, is this moment., because this moment is the only moment any of us ever gets. You’re only here now; you’re only alive in […]
What Does It Mean To Love?
Do you agree that loving everything is what makes humans the happiest? Let’s assume for a moment this quote is sound and accurate – that loving everything makes humans the happiest. Then, of course, the next question is this: What does is it mean to love everything? Or even more simply: What does it mean […]
Ripples of Love: Week One – The Two Sides of Love
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living […]
More on A Beginner’s Mind – Thoughts on On Our Current Series
This coming Sunday, January 17, 2021, we’ll continue our look at fresh starts. Our current series, Begin Again explores what it means to start anew. How can we bring renewal to our lives – in big moments of change and in small moments throughout the day? In this second part of the series, we’ll explore […]
Aldea Explores Series: Ripples of Love – An Overview of the Series
“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.” Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist If there was ever a time we need that contagion to ripple, it’s now. During the month of February (2021) we’ll discover why the […]
Our Current Sunday Series: Begin Again – Week Two – A Beginner’s Mind
Buddhists calle it a beginner’s mind. Jesus said, “be like a child.” Jiddu Krishnamurti wrote, ‘It is only the innocent mind that can see clearly, that can see something new.” Stoics remind us to end each day by reflecting on how we should be better tomorrow – how we should begin again. In religious and […]
Begin Again – Week Two – A Beginner’s Mind (Video of Talk)
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Begin Again Week Two: A Beginner’s Mind
The Stoics of old would not be all that interested in “New Year’s resolutions.” However, I do think they’d be all over “New Day resolutions.” That is, reconnecting to what matters everyday. They did this by suggesting a time each night to replay the day and learn what was and was not worth repeating (behaviors, […]
Begin Again Sunday Series – Week One – Obstacles to Fresh Starts (Video of Talk)
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