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How to Never Run Out of Love
I want YOU to want ME. That’s a great song by the band Cheap Trick. It’s also the source of so much misery I can hardly believe it. Those words may be the source of anything that’s wrong with us…
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Some Advice from Job about your Suffering
This week’s message is just for you if you’ve ever wondered why bad things happen to good people. It’s inspired by the Arabic Ya-Adl, meaning something like just mercy, but in a meta sense that also is about balance, and…
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The Antidote to Your Inner Critic
This episode of 99 is bright and happy. Are you ready? You’re not smart enough. If you’d only try harder you’d get ahead. Why did you do such a stupid thing? I told you that being a teacher was a…
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The One Person You Must Meet
I want to share one of my favorite stories. I know it from the Taoist tradition, though maybe it has other roots as well. There was an old farmer who had worked his crops for many years. One day his…
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Aspire to Kindness like Dumbledore
I’m speaking to the part of you that is lonely. The part you don’t let anyone see because it’s just too painful. I’m talking to the part of you that was unkind, or dishonest, or hateful. I’m talking to that…
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Can you forgive yourself?
"Never forget that to forgive yourself is to release trapped energy that could be doing good work in the world."
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The Secret of Our Suffering
What is your purpose in this life? Why have you had to suffer so much? How is it that some people have opportunities fall in their lap while you’re over here working twice as hard for half as much? It’s…
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Are You a Prisoner of Your Shame?
You are more than the worst thing you have ever done.
