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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The power of one
- Yes, we are living in a world where we are constantly shown, by the media, man's inhumanity toward each other through violence, terrorism, and war. Never has there been a time that our light is more needed than now. During this powerful time in history we, as a group of conscious beings, actually can shift the awareness of the planet. The soul work we are doing has prepared us perfectly for this p...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Getting to spiritual enlightenment
- The expression "Spiritual Enlightenment" has been used often in reference to personal spiritual development. What exactly is meant by this term however has been vaguely defined. My research on the topic has found it linked to some of the following experiences:1. A connection to a higher self2. A connection to an inner knowing3. A connection to spiritual energies or beings beyo...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The universal connection
- I believe in a phenomenon I have been known to call a 'Universal connection'. Yesterday one of these destined occurrences deeply affected the mood I was in and took me from feeling pretty low and depressed to feeling a joyous epiphany. Let me tell you about what happened. You see, I don't believe in random, arbitrary coincidences. My understanding is that life is a combined relationship between hu...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Accept life on its own terms
- Those living on the highest levels of life have learned to accept life on its own terms. There are some realities about life that we must accept. This is the key to living joyfully in communion with the heavenly while abiding here on earth.Life, no matter how we choose to look at it, is a challenge. It is the beginning of a struggle that continues until we breathe our last breath. Life is s...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What to expect from the next transformation
- â??Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party.â?? This line is a typing exercise, but it holds a bundle of truth for mankind.Now is the time for all good people who are aware to come to the aid of humanity. Humanity has moved about as far away from its source as it can. The energy that has moved man away from his creator has reached it...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - We are not our personalities
- As a Psychiatrist I spent most of my life training and researching effective therapies that would help my clients make changes in their personalities. The premise was that by making such a change the client would feel capable of doing or feeling things that they could not access before. Such change is regularly sought by individuals who find themselves the prisoners of personality characteristics ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The truth about lifes challenges (living by zen)
- The great gate is open, but travelers seek everywhereâ?? - EshinIn the midst of our lives, hungry, thirsty and often weary, there comes a moment when we stop and wonder, â??Is this all there is? Is there another way to live my life that will bring the joy and contentment that eludes me?â??Why Zen? Why Now?Caught in the pattern...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Reflections on eckhart tolles concept of the pain-body
- First, there is the field of complete consciousness.This then expresses itself in an organic form.From here it loses itself in organizing the physical environment around it.It begins to split into mind, and mind then splits into ego, and ego then believes itself the origin of consciousness.As ego, arising from thoughts of limitations, fractures itself against obstacles,...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Acknowledging emotions and feelings
- We'll begin with a question:What is a moral?I'd say it's something you have an intense feeling or emotion about, generally so intense you would never cross its boundary.Agree?Have you ever crossed a moral boundary? It doesn't feel good does it. But why? Morals are not a physical thing - i.e. They can't be touched, purchased or photographed. They are an emotion manifeste...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Acknowledging the existence of your soul
- Talking about your "soul" and the deeper things in life is so frequently considered as spun out or weird in modern, take-away-eating, order-it-on-the-internet life, but if you are one of these people, you'll find that letting go of socialistic trends like these will free you in a way that you simply cannot be freed in a materialists world.The end result is inner peace that no material posse...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Alone in a world filled with only me
- We come into this world alone, we experience physical life alone and we die alone.As I gain more experienced and become even more aware of my physical and spiritual lives; I realize that I am here alone. In New Age Thought we understand that we do not exist dualistically but are all individualized pieces of the whole; entities separated by the illusion of time and space. At a level of subco...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why do bad things happen to good people?
- Did you ever see something go wrong around you and suddenly burst out, "How on Earth did I create that?"Really, how can bad things happen, even to the sweetest, kindest, most spiritual people on the planet? Where's the fairness in that?The root of the question lies partly in the fact that we live in a state of polarity consciousness. This is a point of view where life is se...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Lectio divina -- reading the bible for spiritual growth
- Lectio divina is a very useful and practical discipline for spiritual growth. Rooted in ancient monasticism, the practice is a fourfold cycle: Reading, Meditation, Prayer, and Contemplation. In fact, the term itself means "sacred reading."Reading. Lectio divina begins with a "text," whether that is the Bible, a spiritual classic, something in nature, or even another pers...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - You are not your stuff
- We humans are a funny, funny breed. We spend our entire lives working and working and working to acquire 'stuff'. We buy and surround ourselves with the biggest, fanciest this or that when all the while what we really need and want is something you can't buy anywhere. The thing we all spend our time doing is looking to experience a feeling of significance. It seems most of our actions are rooted i...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A meaningful relationship that is not yukky
- Good morning Roy, good morning JosethWhat about me, were do I fit into your life? Am I just some abstract notion of a superior being or am I a companion, always there always available, always your friend?What do you do with someone that is important in your life? How do you include them in your day to day affairs?That is what I want; I want to be included in your life. I want ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Some evidence of how we are spiritually connected
- It has long been surmised that emotional trauma can lead to physical illness. It is also conceptualized that such toxic trauma fragments may exist at the level of our energy fields. Treatments such as EFT ( Emotional Freedom Technique?), TFT (Thought Field Therapy?), TT (Therapeutic Touch?) and others seek to restore the individual's energy field.What, if any, effect might this have on othe...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Moving on gracefully: leaving your spiritual group
- While there are alot of warnings and admonishments regarding what to look for in a spiritual community there is very little to rely on when you are contemplating moving on.Most folk consider leaving after some kind of personal blow up. They feel misunderstood or mistrust the leadership of the group. In a heated discussion they decide to quit. There usually isn't alot of thinking about it, m...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 5 ways to learn more about the orisha
- The Orisha are the Messengers of Oludumare, the God/dess of the Yoruba Traditional Spiritual Tradition known as Ifa. The Yoruba Spiritual Tradition is centered in West Africa in what is now called Nigeria. During the time of the enslavement of African people in the New World, known as the Maafa ( Kiswahilli for Great Disaster), Ifa came to the Americas and the Caribbean. Anyone caught practicing t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Heaven bound: win the race!
- Billy Graham once said, "Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ."Nothing is out of reach when you put your heart into it. Think about it. Who sets the boundaries and limits in your life? We tend to define ourselves; establish our own boundaries. With God, there are no boundaries, ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Spirituality: enlightening cinema
- "Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know, you can't explain. But you feel it. You felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there. Like a splinter in your mind - driving you mad." -Morpheus, The MatrixThis isn't a movie review list and it's not comprehensive. It's just some notes ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Spirituality: impersonating jed mckenna
- "No man is a prophet in his own country."That line keeps running through my mind as I sit over lunch with my sister who I haven't seen in several years. These days I'm the enlightened guy, but to her I'm just the bratty kid who couldn't make eye contact when she wore a bikini.It's summer '01 and we're having lunch in lower Manhattan. She read a preview copy of Damnedest and has had a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Spirituality: the bottom line
- Whadda ya know?Seriously. With absolute certainty, what do you know? Put aside all opinions, beliefs and theories for a moment and address this one straight question: What do you know for sure? Or, as Thoreau put it:"Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that allu...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Spirituality: blues for buddha
- Being critical of Buddhism isn't easy.Buddhism is the most likable of the major religions, and Buddhists are the perennial good guys of modern spirituality. Beautiful traditions, lovely architecture, inspiring statuary, ancient history, the Dalai Lama - what's not to like?Everything about Buddhsim is just so... nice. No fatwahs or jihads, no inquisitions or crusades, no terrorists or...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Smoke
- I always thought Ecclesiastes was like Proverbs. That's probably because of the "to every time there is a season. . ." passage. So when a friend of mine read Ecclesiastes from "The Message," I wasn't prepared for her reaction.Her first comment was, "It made no sense." I tried to get her to explain that. She couldn't. She just kept saying things like "It's ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What animal communicators do
- Many people are awakening today to the idea that the animals who live with us are more than child substitutes, more than "pets". The term "pet" means an animal who lives with us for our amusement or as our companion. All animals are, in fact, sentience beings - conscious, intelligent, with life purposes and life goals. They are aware of themselves and of their situations. They make life choices. T...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How i met my angel
- Today I was in rather a whimsical mood, and so instead of my usual "how to" article, I thought I'd create a fairy tale for the child within you to enjoy.When I was just a young soul, on my first incarnation to be a human being, I wasn't sure that I wanted to go to Earth School.I felt so happy here, in Paradise. I did what I liked and I never ran out of time. I played with m...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The healing power of forgiveness
- Forgiveness breaks all bounds of repression and depression. It liberates the psyche from bondage to the past.In fact, I would rank forgiveness as the essence of psychotherapy.As human beings all our limitations arise from our psychic wounding. This wound has been either intentional or accidental, but it drains our vitality. In fact, if it has been grievous enough, it runs our whole l...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Sunday dinner
- No one appreciates mothers enough. In this life, that's a given. The only one who comes closest to a real appreciation is a woman who has become a mother herself, and even she probably doesn't fully appreciate the woman a generation above her.Where did I come to this conclusion? Sitting in a church pew as the priest extolled the virtues of "Keeping Holy the Sabbath." In the sermon...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Drop the negations
- What really binds us to any negative emotional state in which we find ourselves suffering is this: choice.Freedom from negative behavior and thoughts must begin with your recognition that you are voluntarily serving that which puts your own emotional and spiritual peace at risk. Notice the use of the word voluntarily. You voluntarily choose to serve that which diminishes your ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to find your center of power
- The still place is the beginning. Settle in there, ask for order, and an inner force will prioritize all that you need.Action can be inner or outer, depending on how Spirit wants you to move.It's never about doing something or resolving something. It's always about being.When you settle into your beingness, you also release want and scarcity. The way will then be made plain to...