Tag Archives: contentment
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Moving On
21May 22, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Bless me Father, for I have sinned. It has been a month since my last blog post. Actually, a few …
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19 Quotations from Authors on Contentment and Place
17April 17, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
As I mentioned last week, I am getting ready for a big move. It seems a good time to focus …
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Atlantis Rising
19April 10, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
A couple of posts ago, when discussing Plato’s notion of contentment, I brought up the Lost Continent of Atlantis. Actually …
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Contentment: You’re Doing It Wrong
16March 20, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Diogenes the Cynic (412 BCE – 323 BCE) was a piece of work. You have to think the man knew …
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3 Badass Greek Philosophers on What Contentment Means
14March 13, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I was complaining last week about the shallow approach to soul-building often found on the self-help shelves. Complaining is not …
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Birthday Boy
28February 21, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Today my son Aidan is twenty-seven. I have experienced contentment in solitude, and I have experienced it in the company …
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Lost in Transfiguration
11February 14, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
I went to church last week. I call myself a Buddhist by practice and a Christian by culture, but I …
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13 Synonyms for Contentment That Don’t Mean the Same Thing at All
22February 7, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
Last week we went to the dictionary – more precisely, to Google’s summary of all things dictionary-ish – to get …
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Searching for Contentment
23January 31, 2016 by Paula Reed Nancarrow
These days you don’t need a dictionary to get a definition for contentment. You just need a search engine. A …
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