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How much Joy can you stand

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The purpose of life is to be HAPPY. Do you agree? Perhaps intellectually – but I have found consistently that many of us seem to be thwarting our own happiness – maybe we secretly still have lingering beliefs that we are supposed to suffer in life or that we grow most by delays –

Or maybe we are afraid to be happy because we won’t fit in and have anything to talk about with everyone who is unhappy
or maybe we think we don’t deserve happiness or we don’t really believe it is possible, and what I have found to be most true is that — we don’t even know what would really make us happy.… Read the rest

Recommended Movies for Midlife Transition and Spirituality

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The Game (Michael Douglas)
The Matrix Movie 1 (Keanu Reeves)
What The Bleep Do We Know?
The Thirteenth Floor (Craig Bierko, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gretchen Mol)
The Legend Of Bagger Vance (Will Smith)
Purple Rose Of Cairo (Mia Farrow and Jeff Daniels)
Field Of Dreams (Kevin Costner)
National Treasure (Nicholas Cage)
City Of Angels (Nicholas Cage and Meg Ryan)
The Truman Show (Jim Carrey)
Pleasantville (Tobey Maguire)
Touching The Void (Joe Simpson and Simon Yates)
Starman (Jeff Bridges)
August Rush (Keri Russell, Jonathan Rhys Meyers)
Groundhog Day (Bill Murray)
Noble House (Pierce Brosnan, TV Mini-Series on DVD)
Sliding Doors (Gwyneth Paltrow)
Illusion (Kirk Douglas)
Wag The Dog (Dustin Hoffman and Robert De Niro)
Capricorn One (James Brolin and Elliott Gould)
Last Action Hero (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
The Lathe Of Heaven (2 versions: 1 with Bruce Davison, 2000; 2nd with James Caan,
2002 — both are interesting and supportive)
Noble House (Pierce Brosnan, TV mini-series on DVD — book by same name by James
Clavell is also supportive)
Vanilla Sky (Tom Cruise)
Powder (Mary Steenburgen and Sean Patrick Flattery)
The Nines (Hope Davis, Ryan Reynolds)… Read the rest

Midlife Transition:From Ambition to Meaning – Living in the Now

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“Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life; worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the program of life’s morning – for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie.”… Read the rest

From an interview with Ram Dass: Be Love Now

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Ram Dass:

Beyond Awakening, November 28, 2010
Internet interview regarding his new book: Be Love Now

the soul is filled with love
it doesn’t feel the fear

I register the situation
the world situation
and I feel
that I’m going inside
to manifest my peace

I don’t get scared
I’m not frightened
I’m not frightened by things like terrorism
but I don’t fly
Ha ha
I’m just an island boy

a week ago we had a earthquake here
and I didn’t get scared.… Read the rest