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What role has forgiveness played in your life?

Posted on Sep 11th, 2009 by rudyan : quasar rudyan

img Forgiveness? It has turned my life around, literally stood my life on its ear. But I have to tell you this: it was me forgiving me that started the process. As I forgive myself,... More »

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Where do your beliefs come from?

Posted on Nov 13th, 2008 by rudyan : quasar rudyan

For me, I am a bit of a black sheep in my family, having turned away from the fundamentalist Christianity of my upbringing. Many years ago I had a conversation with my mother in which... More »

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What have you learned about healing?

Posted on Sep 15th, 2008 by rudyan : quasar rudyan

That it comes in its own time, that the years of struggle and frustration and longing to be whole were not empty or in vain. They were filled, literally packed, with lessons designed for me... More »

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What is the greatest gift you have given yourself?

Posted on Sep 8th, 2008 by rudyan : quasar rudyan

Loving myself unconditionally means loving myself when I show compassion for my noisy neighbour and when I react in anger to his actions/noise, with no difference in feeling between the two , with no judgment... More »

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What's on your mind?

Posted on Aug 18th, 2008 by rudyan : quasar rudyan

Oneness. I’ve been receiving lessons in the meaning of oneness, having been woken up in the middle of the night with the questions: One? and: Li? in quick succession. Li is the surname of a... More »

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What are you learning?

Posted on May 22nd, 2008 by rudyan : quasar rudyan

To forgive myself for thinking I (or anyone else) ever did anything wrong. In other words, to stop with the judgment. In other words, to give up the notions of right/wrong that feed the judgment.... More »

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What's the most difficult thing you've forgiven?

Posted on Sep 18th, 2007 by rudyan : quasar rudyan

What I saw as my mother's lifelong emotional abandonment. A couple of years ago I had a dream in which my mother and I were living together again, and one morning I woke up and... More »

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What is one book that has changed your life? How?

Posted on Sep 6th, 2007 by rudyan : quasar rudyan

There have been many books, but one stands way above the crowd for me: Iyanla Vanzant's "In the Meantime." It posed the to me novel and very, very powerful idea: I forgive myself for thinking... More »

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When was the last time you visited the place you grew up?

Posted on Aug 2nd, 2007 by rudyan : quasar rudyan

The town? Twenty years ago, on a break from a university some distance away, I visited my mother there and felt on the first night the silent screams coming from walls saturated with words that were... More »

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