Marc Gilbert-Widmann

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  • 21 Habits of Happy People – Day 2~ Choose Your Friends Wisely

    First word: April 19, 2014 at 7:50pm Day two of 21 habits of happy people has taken almost a full month to complete. How do I remain mindful, living in the present day, not focusing on the past or the future? How can you write around a single quote and remain mindful? We have four words […]

  • Poetry of the Day 04May 2014 – Living With Integrity

      “Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships. Asking for what you want and need from others. Speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension. Behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values. Making choices based on what you […]

  • Quote of the Day 24APR 2014 – Violent

      “When you call yourself an Indian or a Muslim or a Christian or a European, or anything else, you are being violent. Do you see why it is violent? Because you are separating yourself from the rest of mankind. When you separate yourself by belief, by nationality, by tradition, it breeds violence. So a […]

  • Carl Jung Quote for 16APR 2014 ~ Catastrophes

    “The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then […]

  • Poetry For Monday 14 April 2014 ~ I Have No Name

                            I have no name, I am as the fresh breeze of the mountains. I have no shelter; I am as the wandering waters. I have no sanctuary, like the dark gods; Nor am I in the shadow of deep temples. I have no […]

  • Mindful Quote(s) of the Day 07APR 2014 – Suffering

    “People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.” “When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he […]

  • Hemingway Quote of the Day 06APR 2014 ~ Trust

    “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them” Ernest Hemingway Related articles Printable: Ernest Hemingway Quote Quote of the Day Ernest Hemingway’s book of Death Getting the words right, quote by Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway and the “Like” button. Heroes: Ernest Hemingway

  • Quote of the Day 03APR 2014 ~ Invention of Solitude

      “He finds it extraordinary that on some mornings, just after he has woken up, as he bends down to tie his shoes, he is flooded with a happiness so intense, a happiness so naturally and harmoniously at one with the world, that he can feel himself alive in the present, a present that surrounds […]

  • Rumi Poetry of the Day 02APR 2014 ~ Guest House

    This being human is a guest-house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, Who violently sweep your house empty of its furniture. Still, treat each guest honorably. He may be clearing […]

  • Mindful Quote of the Day 27MAR 2014 ~ Groundlessness

    Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there’s a fundamental groundlessness. It’s there bubbling along all the time. We experience it as restlessness and edginess. We experience it as fear. It motivates passion, aggression, ignorance, jealousy, and pride, but we never […]