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BOOK GIVEAWAY!
Hey everyone! In the next 24 hours, I'm going to be offering a contest to give away an early copy of my new book "The Signature of All Things".
I'll be running the contest, as always, through my email subscription newsletter, LizNews. So sign up for the newsletter if you haven't done so yet…and you can join the contest!
You can sign up for LizNews on the app at the top of this page, or on the opening page of my website, right here:
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One lucky reader will win the book! 🙂
Thanks, everyone! And big love…
LIZ
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THOUGHT OF THE DAY: MAKE ROOM.
Good morning, dear ones.
I went to bed last night — after a long visit with extended family this week — pondering this thought: The happiest people I have ever met seem to be the ones who are capable of holding two (or more) completely contradictory ideas in their heads at the same time.
They are able to look at a loved one and see how he is both marvelous and impossible (neither one nor the other, but absolutely both).
They are able to see their neighbors and friends as both generous and selfish, in equal measure.
They are able to look at a difficult situation and see that it is both painful and transformative, both a disaster and a terrific chance for a breakthrough.
They are able to regard their own lives as both noble and ridiculous.
They are able to see the world as both astonishingly benevolent and incredibly unjust.
The happiest people I know do not cling to one side of any duality, or draw firm lines in the sand.
They don't render hard decisions about anything or anyone, and then try to cram reality into the small, unrealistic boxes they have built for it.
They don't invent storylines and then stick with that storyline, no matter what may shift or change.
The unhappy people, on the other hand, cannot seem to bend. While the happy ones are open to all sorts of messy contradictions and inconsistencies, the unhappy ones live in a grid of their own design — a black and white grid of insistent opinion that quickly becomes a prison.
The happiest people of all seem able to embody a notion my guru once said during a speech, when she'd been assaulted all day by increasingly anxious questions from seekers demanding all sorts of certainties: "People, let's be honest with each other. We are all adults here. It's time to face the truth: THERE ARE PARADOXES."
If you cannot make space in your mind and heart for all the wild paradoxes that surround you, then you will probably have trouble finding happiness in this messy, gorgeous world.
I walked away from my family time this week with these words in my head, this reminder: MAKE ROOM. (And when in doubt, make EVEN MORE room.)
How do we do it?
How do you make space for the paradoxes?
Curious to hear your thoughts…
Peace out,
Liz
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A wonderful HAPPINESS JAR all the way from Kurdistan!
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My new happiness jar ♥
i made it and everyday i write at least one thing that made me happy…. thank you Elizabeth… your amazing idea reached all the world, i come from Kurdistan and when i heard this idea from a friend of mine i directly wanted to apply it in my life… it keeps me more positive ♥ God bless you ♥
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Beautiful Mother's Day HAPPINESS JARS made my industrious Girl Scouts! Love it…
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Good morning Elizabeth. I've been meaning to post this for a while. My older girls from my Girl Scout troop made these happiness jars for their moms for Mother's Day. They all loved this idea and earned an arts and crafts badge for making them. Thank you for this wonderful idea.
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A SENSITIVE QUESTION…
Dear ones —
A friend to this page asked if I would open up this question for discussion/help/suggestions. This woman has a dear friend who has just found out that her teenage daughter has been routinely sexually abused for years by her father. Both the mother and daughter are suffering terribly. The friend wants advice for how she can be support to the both of them during this awful, dark time.
I know that many of you out there have been through valleys of all manner of darkness — both on your own, and walking alongside loved ones. If you have thoughts and advice from your own experiences on this subject , could you be kind enough share your experience with a good soul who wants only to be of service?
Thank you for your hearts,
Liz
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