Weekly Wisdom From Karen

ILLUMINATION Edition #irritation #relationships #life lessons #common sense #meditation

Welcome lovely ILLUMINATION fans! A little tranquillity for us this week. We first make our way past irritation, making money, and one-way relationships, into guilt, kindness, and career truths.

The star reads will make perfect sense and even help us physically alter our brains.

I downloaded a meditation app to get my Zen on. As you might have guessed, I have not used it yet! Do you meditate?

The best-laid plans of mice and (wo)men often go awry. Robert Burns

Let’s hope you get more than inspiration from this week’s pearls.

Have you ever wondered why you get bent out of shape in a crowd? I have. Elle How can tell us why.

Ever notice how short tempered you get after you’ve been out for the day? You promise yourself day after day, you’ll take it easier. You won’t get all bent out of shape. The next day it happens again. And the next. So what can you do to change your propensity to go to the “dark side”?

I don’t choose stories about writing for this regular review, usually. I’m pretty bored with them, aren’t you? Unless they are mine, of course! Lol.

I make an exception today for Terry L. Cooper. She makes fun of all the posts about how much money some writers make on Medium.

Okay. Imma break it down nice and easy. Nice and slow. That’s how you like it, right? Nice and easy and slow. Well, here it is.

After reading Elle How’s riveting read, I clicked on the number beside the hands to find out who had enjoyed her article.

My first choice was Yana Bostongirl. An ILLUMINATOR and her profile say an avid follower of the Buddhist monk Thích Nhất Hạnh.

Like most people, I’m pretty interested in relationships. But one-sided ones are no fun.

This morning I broke up with a friend. It was one of those things that was stuck at an impasse, neither here nor there. So I just went ahead and put it out of its misery.

Donnette Anglin plies us with a short and sweet article about guilt. A pearl of wisdom, if I ever heard one. I gave up guilt decades ago after leaving my guilt-inducing husband.

Your conscience is a powerful thing. It plays on your mind all the time.

When your actions toward another are unkind, your conscience cannot bear the guilt when that person is kind toward you.

I’m a stickler at being kind to others who knowingly judge, criticize, or done me wrong.

Raza Hussain, MD blesses us with his pearls of wisdom from lessons learned through the school of hard knocks. He learned a lot quicker than I did. I hope the younger generations get to realize this quote is 100% true. I know because I’ve been doing it for six years.

You have to do something you can do for a long time even if you earn less money.

When I first finished medical school and residency training I thought I was done. I thought I just needed to find a job and plug away for 40 years until retirement. I watched other peers and clueless classmates do the same thing I was doing.

Star reads

Christyl Rivers, PhD. is a defender of reality. What she writes makes sense to me and offers wisdom in spadefuls. Plus, how could anyone ignore a title like this one?

First off so there is no confusion, I am going to refer to human nature as natural tendencies. This is because as an Ecopsychologist, I do not separate nature — the network to which we belong — from our instincts. Separation from those instincts is what creates domination hierarchy. DH, (as a shorthand) arose on our planet just about 12,000 years ago with agriculture and city states.

David Gerken’s articles appeared at the bottom of Terry L. Cooper’s post. Three of them! I picked this one, just to see what all the fuss was about. I thoroughly enjoyed David’s reasoning and wisdom.

Remember in the movie The Graduate when that boring corporate tool dad tries to dispense career advice to recent Harvard graduate Benjamin Braddock (played by Dustin Hoffman)?

Thank you for reading.

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