Net Miles Of Smiles

by: Rachel Naomi Remen, Kitchen Table Wisdom

I suspect that the most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention. And especially if it’s given from the heart. When people are talking, there’s no need to do anything but receive them. Just take them in. Listen to what they’re saying. Care about it. Most times caring about it is even more important than understanding it. Most of us don’t value ourselves or our love enough to know this. It has taken me a long time to believe in the power of simple saying, “I’m so sorry,” when someone is in pain. And meaning it. Read More

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Have you ever noticed that you do not remember days, you remember
moments?

A strange story about immortalizing moments comes from the book
SPIRITUAL LITERACY (Touchstone Books) by authors Frederic and Mary
Ann Brussat. It is about a Brooklyn cigar store manager named Oggie
Rand. Oggie has an unusual habit — at precisely eight o’clock each
morning, he photographs the front of the store. Always at exactly the
same time and from exactly the same spot. Every morning. Oggie
collects his daily snapshots in photograph albums, each labeled by
date. He calls his project his “life’s work.” Read More

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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if he or she were going
to be

dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and
understanding

you can muster, and do so with no thought of any reward. Your life
will

never be the same again. - Og Mandino

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