A Journal of Personal Exploration, Reflection and Discovery

By Eric Moon

As high tech as the world of personal communication is, it still relies on the written word to transfer thoughts and ideas. Writing a sentence solidifies a thought as well as records it so to be available for review in the future. Significant Sentences provides exercises facilitating the combination of your personal spirit, quiet reflection and your past experiences to come together and produce sentence that is recorded or `saved'. Using paper and pencil, keystroke and screen or even your smart phone, use Significant Sentences as a personal journal or a way to reach out using social media tools like Facebook. Blog or tweet your moments of discovery. How we write and transmit ideas is vastly changing but it still comes down to words conveying thoughts and emotions. These exercises can serve as a connection between teacher and student, speaker and audience, cyber audience or soul to soul. By sharing stories and ideas about your interpersonal life electronically or on paper, the individual may discover hidden writing talents, a gift for poetry, blogging or tweeting. Your reflections may become a poem, song or school essay. The variety and quantity of questions in each exercise are designed to spur the writer on by providing some starting point and giving some direction. Significant Sentences can be the catalyst for internal retrospection. Writing can reveal the negative as well as the positive. That is the cathartic joy and challenge. Facing those negatives or seeing them more clearly can be exactly what you need to conquer them. Trust yourself that good can be derived from recording your thoughts and reflections, and the connection with the self is the key to personal enlightenment. May you find hidden treasures and truth within?

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jun 17, 2010
• ISBN: 9781449096069

Eric Moon

I have always been very introspective. I have taken a great deal of time to ponder the significance of my existence, evaluating the cause and effect of previous life experiences. Wondering is it nature or nurture that has made me how I am. From early childhood, school and sports friendships, family, love, marriage, fatherhood and faith all vital in creating who I am today. The classic questions of self reflection, who am I and am I who I am supposed to be? But I wasn't really getting anywhere. Those questions were just too grand and daunting. As a Catholic high school teacher my classroom was a laboratory for development of the mind. As a coach, the sports field was the lab for the body. The third element to the Catholic educational formula is of course the ever illusive spirit. As a firm believer in the Socratic Method and the importance of knowing thyself I began each class period with quotations and questions that provoked thought and emotion. The positive impact and reception from the teenagers in my care urged me to continue to generate lessons of that type. Each time I spoke to my class, I found myself revealing and confessing more my life experiences. Each time the connection to the students grew more powerful. My spirit and the answers to my questions were emerging. From this came the concept of Significant Sentences. Producing a book of Significant Sentences is a fulfillment of a promise I made to my classes as well as myself. My message is simple, my passion is great, my words I hope significant.

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© 2010 Eric Moon M.A.. All rights reserved.

No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

First published by AuthorHouse 6/15/2010

ISBN: 9781449096069 (ebk)

ISBN: 978-1-4490-9607-6 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4490-9608-3 (hc)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2010903191

Printed in the United States of America

Bloomington, Indiana

Contents

Dedication

The Mission and Vision of Significant Sentences

What is a Significant Sentence?

The Golden Rule

The Rolling Stones

Fill in the Blank

Simile

Metaphor

Irony

Your Name

Your Style

Your Learning Style

You

Your Personality

Strengths And Weaknesses

Guidance

Friendship

Joy And Sorrow

Service

Career

Mission

Time Management

Courage

Laughter

Curiosity

Action

Challenges

Influence Of The Media

A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

Past, Present, Future

Character

Change

Choices

Society

Priorities

Truth

Rules

Perseverance And Determination

Judging Others

Listening

Recreation

Excuses

The Process Of Thinking

Risk

Commitment

Rumors Or Gossip

Daily Life

Fullfillment

Conservation Of The Planet

Education

Today

BALANCE

Love And Hate

Success And Failure

Money And Possessions

Criticism

Uniqueness Individuality

Normalcy

Faith

Learning And Experience

The Value Of Existence

Virtue -

A quality that is good or admirable

Silence

Humility

Prudence

Wisdom

Patience

Reserve Or Restraint

Gentleness

Zeal

Vigilance Or Watchfullness

Piety

Generosity

History

Final Reflection

My Final Reflection

Dedication

With love and thanks to my wife, Cassie.

To my daughters, Ava and Vivian for the joy and revelation that parenthood brings.

To all friends, peers, mentors and students who have allowed me into their lives, they have taught me more than I could ever teach them.

To Joe, Ellen and Jeana for their skills and wisdom.

The Mission and Vision of Significant Sentences

This series of exercises is not complicated or dazzling. Each is a written attempt to come in contact with another being using paper and pencil, keystroke and screen.

I humbly admit and accept that many more things could be said and a greater depth could be achieved. I challenge all to do so. My intent is to provide a five minute exercise to allow the combination of your personal spirit, quiet reflection and your past experiences to come together and produce a thought that is recorded. Speak internally or use the vastly expanding world of social media to reach out or even tweet your moments of discovery. As high tech as the world of personal communication is, it still relies on the written word to transfer thoughts and ideas. Some of you may even write a significant sentence or two using emoticons. When engaged on the internet, users spend an average of seven seconds reading never before seen material. This can be great practice for those seven seconds of contact to impact and entice the reader to give you more of their time.

By sharing stories and ideas about our interpersonal lives on paper, the individual may come to see him/herself in a new light after reading reflections. The individual may discover hidden writing talents, even a gift for poetry. The reflection may form the basis of a song, essay, or speaking engagement.

Writing a significant sentence will solidify the thought and be available for review or posting on line. The variety and quantity of questions in each exercise are designed to give many several contact points or references to spur the more reluctant or uninterested. Free response is also a possibility. These exercises are intended to be a catalyst. Writing has a way of revealing the negative as well as the positive. Trust yourself that good can be derived from all things, and the connection with the self is paramount. May you find hidden treasures and truth within?

What is a Significant Sentence?

What is a Significant Sentence? It is a sentence that is meaningful or has impact on the reader. For example, sentence: I love you! Something as historically powerful as: "Ask not what your country can do for you,