Author: Dr. Thomas Maples
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A Guiding Light 4 Inner Peace: Engaging the Shadow
In today’s podcast, Dr. Tom explores the archetypes of the sun and shadow, using an inspirational quote by Walt Whitman, who reminds us always to keep our face to the life-giving sun so that shadows will fall behind. Inspirational Vlog A Guiding Light Podcast
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A Guiding Light 2 Inner Peace
Inspiration Vlog Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. Walt Whitman Our Guiding Light Do you have a guiding light? Does an inner voice call upon you to engage some yet-to-be-realized passion? We all have these inner yearnings, would you agree? Psychological angst seems prevalent these days. When…
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Philosophical Inspiration: Statistics & A Necessity 4 Fact
Inspirational Quotes There are lies, damned lies and statistics. Mark Twain Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. Mark Twain Making Sense of the Numbers to Derive Inspiration Ever wonder why statistics bombard us? Having learned this field of study while in my doctoral program, I was generally unaware of…
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Perseverance: Slow and Steady Wins the Race
Perseverance and the Need for Inner Courage I have always loved the story of The Hare and Tortoise. It is one of my favorite of Aesop’s fables. But what lessons does it teach, other than the age-old idiom slow and steady wins the race? When I read this story, I cannot help but think of…
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Responsibility & Psyche: Dream 4 Tomorrow
In today’s article, Dr. Tom explores the tenets of responsibility through a beautiful quote from Abraham Lincoln.
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Faith is… 2 Step into the Unknown
Lacking Myth… When I started my journey in the tenets of clinical psychology some two decades ago, I, like many of my cohorts, was pulled by the excitement of the science I loved and its methods of excavating the hidden depths of the unknown. However, in recent years, I cannot help but recognize that the…
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Choose 2 Dream Now
Dream or Wisdom?Inspiration for the Soul If you can dream it, you can do it. ~ Walt Disney A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. ~ Colin Powell To Act, or to Dream? I have always been fascinated by dreams. The enantiodromia that plays out in the mind’s…
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An Inkling of Faith
Words of Wisdom To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. Alan Watts A Philosophy of Faith Hello everyone. I wanted to start with an exercise here. Where does…
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Awakening 2 Consciousness: Find Your Inner Peace Now
Inspirational Tithings To realize that you are not your thoughts is when you begin to awaken spiritually. Eckhart Tolle Awakening to Consciousness Hello. I am Dr. Maples. Welcome to our guided meditation and affirmation that encourages an awakening to consciousness. I am grateful that you joined me here today. I hope this meditation helps you…
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The Discipline of Excellence: 2 Be Your Best
Inspirational Words of Wisdom We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. Jim Rohn The Discipline of Excellence v. Regret Have you ever questioned the excellence and grandeur of nature? Of course not! But why? That would be an error of egotistically magnificent proportions…
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Engage Happiness Habits: 2 Live is to…
Our Inspiration To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,To gain all while you give,To roam the roads of lands remote,To travel is to live. Hans Christian Andersen Happiness Habits are… A prescription for happiness, Peculiar won’t you say? Who has that secret formula, to bring a smile to your day? The priest, the shrink,…
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Universe: 1 Verse for the Beauty of Soul
Weekly Inspiration Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby. Langston Hughes The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep. Robert Frost The Beauty of the Universe (One…