Author: Dr. Thomas Maples
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A Sacred Journey Podcast: Faith… An Oasis 4 Heart
From the VLOG A Sacred Journey Podcast Are you being your best possible self? Dr. Thomas Maples explores our personal and collective journey to realize our ultimate potential through the lens of psychology, personal development, and the myths that drive our journey forward. In today’s episode, Dr. Tom explores hope and faith as an antithesis…
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Believe: Choose 2 See Light in the Face of Depression
From the VLOG Historical Words of Inspiration The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. Eleanor Roosevelt If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. Anatole France Believe: What Pulls at the Foundation of Your Soul? I am often posed with questions regarding the need to…
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Faith: An Oasis 4 the Heart
What can I do, when I don’t have hope for the future? Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking. Khalil Gibran Hope in Faith Have you got faith? Although many in the psychology profession will not agree with this statement, to me, a cornerstone of…
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Faith: A Guiding Light 4 Inner Solitude
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas Faith, Psychology, & Inner Peace I am often perplexed by the lack of faith I see these days. Do I imagine this, or do you see it too? Everywhere I look, I see disbelief.…
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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…