Patience on Shine

Magical effects of perseverance and patience

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John Quincy Adams once said that “Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish, and a little knowledge that acts, is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.” This is with out a doubt one of my favorite…

Lady at the Jewelry Store

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Dainty

There was once a guy who suffered from cancer... a cancer that can't be treated. He was in his 30’s and he could die anytime. All his life, he was stuck in his house being taken cared by his mother. He never went outside but he…

A REAL HEART

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Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, and is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act…

4 ways to be a better listener

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Everyone loves a good listener. But there are more reasons to develop the skill of listening than just to win hearts or popularity contests.

Listening heals hurts and builds bridges. It gives us the ability to understand and empathize, to view the world from more than just our own…

How to be patient when on the job hunt

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Hey Shine Community, Anyone have any tips for someone like me who is in the "waiting" part of the interviewing process for jobs? I am pretty sure I have one job locked up, but until their HR department decides they want to move the process along all I am is a sitting duck. I have…

ALONE

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Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing -- resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings.

It had been raining for…

Delayed Fulfillment

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Where are we now? I have been mulling over some of the irrelevant questions in life. Those things that the average person may not take into consideration like how is it, at an elevation of over 10,000 ft above sea level that fish are found in lakes and streams that were made by…

MOTHER AND SON

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She looked at the photograph of her son. He would always be seven years old, tow haired and missing two front teeth. Grasping the framed photo tighter in her quivering hands, so tight that the corners of the brass colored left impressions in her flesh, she looked at the American flag covered…

There was a Man Who Wanted To Achieve Everything in Life

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Once upon a time, there lived a man who wanted to achieve everything he was capable of achieving. He was obsessed with this desire. He ate, slept, and walked with one and only dream: to die, having accomplished every single thing he was able to accomplish.

There were so many things he could…