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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Enough warm-ups, already!
- Among those arriving to the stadium early were two old timers: a husband and wife who always attended these events, and who were former runners themselves. In fact, they were world-class champions whose races were the stuff of legends. They could recount, if they chose to do so, tales of close races, humiliating defeats, and former glory.Their conversation, however, centered around the newe...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Where is your focus?
- I have a long-term goal--a life-long goal really--to develop the mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16). I want to think His thoughts, to share His attitudes, and to see the world and its people as He saw them, as He sees them.Jesus found spiritual truths in every-day incidents, like straining milk into a pitcher or setting aside a lump of dough to rise. I want to find such insights in the world raci...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Do you make these 3 mistakes in your christian life?
- You're probably sabotaging your successful Christian life right now if you're making one or more of these mistakes. Do you know what they are?I'm going to share with you quickly three of the most common mistakes that Christians make and how they can be corrected.Mistake #1: "Being a Christian means I am a sinner that was saved by God's mercy and I'm still a sinner..."This is a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Getting comfortable in your own skin
- What does it mean to be comfortable in your own skin? It's about expressing yourself in a way they feels the most appropriate.When we think about expressing ourselves, we automatically think of the superficial ways. How we dress. The way we wear our hair. The car we drive. If you wear jeans and a T-shirt one day and a business suit the next, what is it expressing about you? Is it that you a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Anamchara - living the real life
- "Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide No escape from reality."This song goes on to advise, "Open your eyes and see."There is much to see that is beautiful in this life. I am blessed. I get to share words of beauty with others. I get to share the seeing of the real life. This is the wonder of this life beyond the fantasy of...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Anamchara - the value of ritual
- Let me explain my approach to the practice of ritual. For me ritual is an act of presence. It is presenting myself fully in this moment. It is bringing focused attention to what is now. This is assisted by symbols and representations that I imbue with meaning. This is a feeling engagement with what is of real value in this life.In my home I have an altar.On this altar I place various...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Anamchara - meeting with the master
- His name sounds as Finn. He has beautiful blue eyes and the blondest of blond hair. He shares his name with Fionn Mac Cumhail. This is frequently anglicised as Finn Mac Cool. Finn Mac Cool is one of the most celebrated heroes in Irish myth.Little Finn will be tall and beautiful. Now he is small and beautiful. He is learning to talk. He is learning to put distance between his immediacy. Ther...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Anam cara - discovering your being
- The more that "little me" allows surrender the more is done. What is done is "good." This, I know, seems a value judgement. It might be better to say that "what is done is joy." No resistance. No getting in the way. No concern for results. Simply trusting what will be will be. This free flow of feeling energy is the experience of joy.One of the greatest teacher...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Anam chara - telling your story
- We as human beings travelled in small bands for hundreds of thousands of years.Some of our group during the day went hunting for food. In the shelter of the cave, sitting or lying around the fire we told our stories. Maybe before speech we enacted our stories. The stories we told were of courage, endeavour and of feeling afraid. We bands of humans were brought together in these acts of stor...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Anam chara - the flow of life
- I am deeply drawn to the above Irish Blessing.This blessing works for me on very many levels. It includes many words I love. These are the words "listen, "river" and "trout." Two of these words, "listen" and "river" bring me into the present. The other evokes memories of the past. This blessing helps me become a presence and an evoker. I am able ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The dark side of spirituality
- On reading Susan Cato's Time Magazine Canada piece titled, "In Search of the Spiritual," I became increasingly annoyed at the realization that many people keep making the erroneous split between religion and spirituality, when they are one and the same. For example, in the Time Canada piece, Rabbi Leigh Lerner, who leads the Temple Emanu-El?Beth Sholom, a Reform congregation in Montreal,...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Living your noble purpose
- "A common jar of clay can never become a noble masterpiece, unless it is broken by its master, refined in fire, and renewed." ? Sharif KhanThere is a passage in scriptures that I have always found troubling. It reads: "Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?' Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some po...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - You are spirit powered (moving to transformation)
- A spiritual event is what happens in every moment of every day of our lives. It is not only about the extraordinary things that happen in our lives that we cannot explain, but everyday things, like working watching TV, making love or going to the bathroom. It is not something that is veiled in mystery, ritual or mystic ceremonies. Being spiritual is being ordinary. Everything is spiritual we are s...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The emptiness that binds the universe
- What is the opportunity here? What is the benefit of this difficulty? What is the gift? ~ Marc AllenIt's strange--behind the terror and confusion of the world, behind the frustration of things not working out for us or anyone else, and behind the unending battles of struggle--there is an inner joy, a radiance that shines in the heart, an awareness that exists forever. One day, when w...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The five essential secrets of managing your energy successfully
- Inspirational author Vernon Howard wrote, "Would you be worried over a $300 house payment if you had $3,000,000 in the bank? Spiritually, that is the way it can be for you."We can use our energy in one of two ways. We can use it to battle stress and anxiety, or we can use it to awaken MORE energy.Here's proof this is so: When you're having a good day, things don't bother you like the...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Working with the light
- I do not want curiosity seekers, who come for a novel experience. There is a phrase that has been used down through the ages for such people. "Do not cast the Pearl before the swine". The swine comes across a precious jewel on the trail and does not recognize it value. It is unfortunate for humans that most fall into the swine category! Please do not be offended by my remark! Every soul is at a di...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - God drives a harley, a bus and a taxi
- God rides a Harley, God drives truck, God is a dictator in a small country, God is a doctor and a patient, God is the Saint and the sinner, and yes God is even a lawyer. There is nothing that God is not. God is in and around everything because God is who you truly are, you have simply forgotten.For those that have remembered, they may be afraid to accept the truth, they may deny their herit...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What does unconditional love really mean?
- Unconditional love means unconditional freedom. Love and freedom are two of those words that are interchangeable. Freedom of choice is unconditional love, unconditional freedom. Choice is another of those words that are interchangeable with Love and freedom.For the most part humanity understands little of what the word 'unconditional,' means. Unconditional means? "NO CONDITIONS." This lack ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Neither white-washed nor unmarked
- When I was 10 years old my father decided to dig a full basement out from under our house. In one corner he pointed out to me a change in the pattern of the packed earth that formed the wall. "Notice how this part is all layered," he said, "while the earth right next to it is not? This may be an old Indian grave." I was filled with amazement. Our house might have been built on ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Am i w.y.s.i.w.y.g.? are you?
- If you spend a hundred bucks and buy the right software, you can create web pages the easy way, or you can save the money and struggle writing it all in HyperText Mark-up Language (HTML). With HTML, you have to imagine what each finished page will look like. With web-design software, nothing is left for you to figure out: "What You See Is What You Get" (WYSIWYG). The same is true of a number of...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Serenity
- Listen to the sound of silence. Enjoy the peace and quiet.Listen to the wind, minimize the clutter in your mind. Feel the deafening sound of silence.You and I need moments of serenity.It is the only way to hear the inner stirrings of the soul. The spirit gets stronger when allowed moments of serenity.Is your energy low, sluggish?Try hard to stay away from hurtful memories.We all have...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why keep a journal
- What purpose does keeping a journal serve?Do you write down your thoughts, your innermost feelings, the joys and the pains embedded deep in your heart ? Does it help for you to "verbalize" in words your plans, your promises and don't forget those forgotten events?Anne Frank kept a diary. To this day and for many more generations to come, she shares a world , a life at an er...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Choosing peace, one shift at a time
- It doesn't matter what magazine or newspaper you pick up these days, there it is! the evidence of violence; the killing of innocent people, the terror of aggression and destruction. How do we, as caring, compassionate, conscious people maintain our inner peace in the face of war? Is it responsible to turn from the glaring headlines, close our eyes, go within to connect with that place of inner pea...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Spiritual prosperity
- You will become as great as your dominant aspiration...If you cherish a vision, a lofty ideal in your heart, you will realize it.~James Allen, As You ThinkTrue wealth is spiritual wealth.While it is fine to pursue material wealth to create positive living conditions for self and others, we should not neglect the true meaning of life: spiritual ascension.We come into the world ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Bringing heaven to earth: becoming a spiritual scientist
- Would you like an exciting and wonder-full resolution for the new year? Become a spiritual scientist. Choose to learn the skills of self-mastery, so you can shift out of story-based reality and cocreate your personal heaven on earth.As the world's of science and spirituality merge our quantum brothers and sisters are saying what mystics for centuries have proposed ? life is not what it seem...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Two types of spirituality ... faith and knowledge
- The term spirituality is a confusing term. Usually, when one mentions spirituality, the first thought in many people's minds is that of religion. While religion is an aspect of spirituality, spirituality is not an aspect of religion. Spirituality covers other areas of belief as well. Put simply, spirituality is the all-encompassing arena of belief in something greater. This can be a god, oneself a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Two simple ways to get anything you want
- "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again." ~ Luke 6:38All of us have needs and wants. The funny thing is that they arise no matter how hard you try to be self-sufficient. Life has a way of throwing you a curve ball wh...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Why the universe is user-friendly after all!
- "Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty." -Rumi, 13th Century Sufi Poet and Mystic Is the universe friendly?On the surface this seems an absurd statement.Looking deeper, your response might be to say no after reviewing all the calamities of your own life, the often-vicious response of governments around the world to perceived threat...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Wear the message of grace: a work weeks devotions
- As the artist and designer for Ashbach Designs, I want more than for you to just wear a piece of pretty jewelry, I want you to wear each piece as a symbol of your faith. In keeping with this idea, I have created a work week's devotions to go with your jewelry, or another special faith symbol in your life. Each day, meditate on how you can use your jewelry to connect with others, share the message,...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Discovery of the soul
- Imagine yourself marooned on a vast deserted island. You have been there for years, struggling just to survive, living within the most basic surroundings, gathering food, using only your hands and makeshift tools to scratch out an existence. Most of your days are fully taken up with satisfying the basic needs of life. You find some comfort in talking to some of the local creatures and birds that y...