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Wise Guide: on learning what matters

DearSugar — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:45:00 -0700

When the well's dry, we know the worth of water. ~ Ben Franklin

Is there something you learned to value more fully only after it wasn't available?

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Wise Guide: on helping

DearSugar — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:31:00 -0700

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves. ~ Pema Chodron

Can you think of a way you've helped someone that also helped you understand or get past your own personal issue?

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Wise Guide: on sexiness

DearSugar — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 10:31:00 -0700

I think the quality of sexiness comes from within. It is something that is in you or it isn't and it really doesn't have much to do with breasts or thighs or the pout of your lips. ~ Sophia Loren

Agree or disagree, ladies?

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Wise Guide: one size does not fit all

DearSugar — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 14:30:00 -0800

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. ~ Carl Jung

Are you able to allow others their own recipe for living? Do you feel free enough to live by your own?

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Wise Guide: on masks

DearSugar — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 10:31:00 -0800

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. --James A. Baldwin

How have you become more yourself or more revealed through love?

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Wise Guide: on having more fun

DearSugar — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 08:01:00 -0800

Indulge, but refine. -- Lawrence Durrell

We talk a lot here about all kinds of personal refinement, but how about indulgence? Where in your life could you be doing a bit more indulging?! In what ways could you be having more fun?!

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Wise Guide: on friendship

DearSugar — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:00:00 -0800

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
-- Alice Walker

If you'd like, pay tribute here to the friend(s) with whom you can speak your mind, who support the ways you change and grow, and who are kind about the places where you're stuck.

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Wise Guide: on love

DearSugar — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:30:00 -0800

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
--Friedrich Nietzsche

Thinking back, was it a lack of friendship or a lack of love that was missing in your past intimate relationships?

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Wise Guide: on change

DearSugar — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:30:00 -0800

Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. – Anais Nin

How comfortable are you with being in a process of becoming? Do you wish there were more solid ground?

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Wise Guide: on love

DearSugar — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:30:00 -0800

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Thinking back, do you think a lack of friendship or a lack of love caused other intimate relationships to fail?

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