Author: Anne

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REAL FRIENDS

Only your real friends will tell you when your face is dirty.

Sicilian Proverb

REFLECTION:

  • Do you have a real friend who will tell you the truth?
  • Or, do you have people who flatter you and tell you what you want to hear?
  • Are you open to hearing what a “real” friend tells you?
  • Do you speak truth to your friend or do you flatter?
  • Courage required… and a kind heart!

CHANGE YOUR MIND?

“If you never change your mind, why have one?”

Quote by Edward de Bono, author of Lateral Thinking and Six Thinking Hats

REFLECTION:

  • We live in a time, especially in politics that changing your mind is considered a bad thing… “a flip-flopper.”
  • But as Maya Angelou said “when you know better, you do better” so why is changing your mind a bad thing? 
  • Are you open to new possibilities?  New thinking? Can you change your mind?
  • If you can’t, why have one????

LOOK WITH THE HEART

BEAUTY FOR ASHES by Jason Demeo

The fox said (to the little prince) “Here is my secret.  It’s quite simple:  One sees clearly only with the heart.  Anything essential is invisible to the eyes.”

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“People where you live,” the little prince said, “grow five thousand roses in one garden… yet they don’t find what they’re looking for…”

“They don’t find it,” I answered.

“And yet what they’re looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water…”

“Of course,” I answered.

And the little prince added, “But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.”

THE LITTLE PRINCE by Antoine De Saint-Exupery

REFLECTION:

  • What are you looking for?
  • Do you see with your eyes or your heart?
  • What does looking with the heart look like for you?
  • Is there a situation you are blind to that requires you to look through the lens of the heart?
  • Open your heart eyes!