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- Are You The Preserver Of Life Or The Condemner Of Death - by Submitted on May 21, 2012 from David SamuelPeople who fight for preservation of a species, often neglect what preservation of life requires, which is in many cases, the end of another life. Humans are the only creature who can choose an alternate food source. Lions cannot become vegetarians as much as elephants can become ...
Views: 23 - Deadlines Are Natural, Resistance Is Futile - by Submitted on May 10, 2012 from David SamuelDeadlines are a natural part of the universe. There is no need to get stressed and resist them. In the Kybalion, one of the Hermetic laws is; As above, so below. This is to say that within the larger, there is a smaller version of the larger. The microcosm is in the macrocosm, etc. If ...
Views: 80(1 vote) - Perfect Intuition, What Prevents It And How To Get It - by Submitted on May 06, 2012 from David SamuelIntuition is basically information about what is going to happen, which has nothing to do with what you want to happen in your life or at the moment. What blocks you from hearing the voice of perfect intuition is your ego and your desires. If you are trying to hear your intuition, but you have a ...
Views: 77(2 votes) - My Thoughts On Boundaries And Being Spiritual - by Submitted on Apr 22, 2012 from David SamuelHaving boundaries is tantamount to not truly being open. Basically, anyone who ever says they want to set boundaries is a selfish person because those boundaries are the rules you set up on how other people have to treat and interact with you. That is the point of a boundary. You may justify ...
Views: 49 - The Seeds Of Our Moods - by Submitted on Apr 17, 2012 from David SamuelAll things come from seeds, all plants and living beings, eggs are seeds. If every thing originates from a seed, and thoughts and emotions are things, then thoughts too, come from seeds. The proof that thoughts and emotions are real things is in their effect on our physical body. Don't ...
Views: 51 - An Exercise To Attain Objective Detachment - by Submitted on Mar 22, 2012 from David SamuelThis is an excellent exercise to attain an objective detachment to events and retain a freedom from being negatively emotionally effected. The exercise is; Do not say anything that will not serve a useful purpose. Most often, when someone says something that is wrong, we jump at the ...
Views: 93 - Energetic Attacks And How To End Them By Building Compassion - by Submitted on Mar 19, 2012 from David SamuelIt is not true, in my experience, that a person’s thoughts or energy can effect another person. The way they APPEAR to effect you is by your sharing the thought. You can find happiness in ending negative emotions by seeing their true source. If I hate you and you sense it somehow, you know I ...
Views: 114 - All You Need Is Love - by Submitted on Mar 15, 2012 from David SamuelIf this were my last day alive and I was asked what I discovered in a lifetime of searching for Truth, I would have to say that the Beatles were correct, all you need is love. But life is not that simple, and in fact, if all we need is love, then why is love so elusive? Why do we live in a ...
Views: 184(1 vote) - A Daily Accounting, Five Questions in Five Minutes To Totally Transform Your Life - by Submitted on Mar 11, 2012 from David SamuelAll religious and spiritual practices ultimately serve one purpose; to reflect on who you are as a human being by discovering the true nature of your personality. The method I present to you here allows us to discover who we truly are rather than who we think we are. With the discovery of the ...
Views: 83 - Is Reincarnation Real - by Submitted on Mar 08, 2012 from David SamuelThis article questions of validity of reincarnation and explores a deeper meaning to the concept. Here, I shall show how the concept is true and false at the same time by exploring another level of its implications in ones pursuit of personal growth and finding happiness. The concept of ...
Views: 131 - Weakness Perpetuates Itself But, You Can Stop It - by Submitted on Mar 02, 2012 from David SamuelFeeling inferior prevents you from finding happiness and can make anyone overdo proving that they are adequate or superior rather than accept the reality that they simply are not perfect or perhaps even capable of doing the particular task. We are all less than someone else, and more than ...
Views: 118 - How To Remove Pain And Find Happiness, Part 2 - by Submitted on Feb 12, 2012 from David SamuelContinuing on from Part 1 of this article, the removal of pain brings pleasure and happiness. When you can see that mental pain is 100% in your mind due to your resistance of the state of things as they are, you cease to believe the illusion. At that moment, pain is gone and pleasure, or rather ...
Views: 105 - The Pendulum Of Your Life - by Submitted on Feb 08, 2012 from David SamuelHere is a principle from the Kybalion that will help you change the direction of your life and find happiness. When the momentum of the swing of the pendulum in one direction runs out, it eventually swings the other way. The concept is like tossing a ball in the air, at one point, it ...
Views: 71 - How To End Pain And Find Happiness, Part 1 - by Submitted on Feb 02, 2012 from David SamuelWhy must we feel pain and suffering? That is a very good question and the answer is found in being able to see its usefulness. This article will show the reason that pain and suffering exists and how to end it by understanding its purpose for self-improvement to find inner peace and ...
Views: 63 - Happiness Is Found When Selfishness Turns To Sincere Giving - by Submitted on Feb 08, 2012 from David SamuelOne thing that you may have found through my articles is that you cannot ‘do’ anything. Everything just happens and you react by instinct or by one of the minds of the ego part of your being. Rarely if ever do you act out of the wisdom mind of your ‘Essence’ or ‘Being’. We call this being ...
Views: 124 - All Things Have A Cost - by Submitted on Jan 22, 2012 from David SamuelThe fact is that you pay for everything, every breath has a cost. When you receive something, anything, you pay for it in some way. If you don’t pay now, you will pay later, or you may have paid in advance. Self development cannot happen if you deny or ignore the reality that everything has a ...
Views: 121(1 vote) - How To Take Passive Action - by Submitted on Jan 09, 2012 from David SamuelI can tell you your block of finding happiness, but you will not understand. This is normal, and why it is the greatest stumbling block for a seeker of truth. Truth of the Universe and truth of oneself. It is that you do not understand what there is to learn, and yet you think you do. But you ...
Views: 135(1 vote) - Does Fear Of Love Prevent Finding Happiness - by Submitted on Jan 03, 2012 from David SamuelAs your eyes focus on one point, but your peripheral vision takes in and registers so much more in your subconscious, so do all your senses, of smell, sounds, touch, and taste. Self-improvement as well as inner peace and happiness can only be found when the fear of love is eliminated. The fear ...
Views: 155 - Did You Choose To Believe It? - by Submitted on Jan 03, 2012 from David SamuelThe question of having a choice is an interesting one about personal power, it is one we choose to believe. If you truly had a choice in your life and actions, would you do the many things you do that are detrimental to your self or others? How many times a month, a week, a day, do you say to ...
Views: 140 - Finding Happiness With The Creative Aspect - by Submitted on Dec 30, 2011 from David SamuelActivity without fulfilment is just passing time while your body decays. It does not fulfil the emotional needs. Only by creating according to your own personal nature can fulfil that. If there is no channel for you to be creative, then the energy that is available for that must be used ...
Views: 212 - Spiritual View Of Passion, Its Safety Or Danger - by Submitted on Dec 29, 2011 from David SamuelFrom a spiritual point of view, in order to achieve personal growth, you must have a passionate desire for enlightenment that is completely selfless. If your passion has anything to do with you, then certainly you can succeed in your goals, but there will be negative effects from having desires. ...
Views: 90 - Harmonizing The Minds - by Submitted on Dec 18, 2011 from David SamuelThere are several steps in the process of self-improvement and finding Inner peace and happiness described in this article. These steps may take some time to complete, and I intended to give you an idea of the path of personal growth that will work towards eliminating ignorance. When you can ...
Views: 80 - Time And The Search For Knowledge - by Submitted on Dec 14, 2011 from David SamuelThe search for knowledge and self-improvement drives many people in the path of personal growth. Knowledge and information are not the same although our educated minds have confused the two and made them one from the intellectual point of view. Information is like any other item, it can be ...
Views: 65 - Finding Happiness And The Point Of Life - by Submitted on Dec 09, 2011 from David SamuelMany people tell me they cannot find any point to life. That is very sad of course, to continue to live just because it is the only alternative to death. Maybe they are right, or maybe not. Even if you have a purpose and see a point, this article may help you increase joy and pleasure in your ...
Views: 169 - What Is The Real Pain Behind Lies, Deceit And Broken Trust - by Submitted on Dec 06, 2011 from David SamuelWe have all been lied to, cheated, tricked and hurt. Sometimes it is just the common result of business, other times it is incompetence or a lack of accepting responsibility, but most of the time it is someone who is either a stranger or at least not very close to you, and this can upset you but ...
Views: 373 - The Difference Between Your Character And Your Self - by Submitted on Dec 01, 2011 from David SamuelThere is a difference between ones character and abilities and ones self. The skills are temporary, they die with the body, ones self continues. When we compare our skills and personal growth to each other in the process of our self-improvement, we have superiority and inferiority. That is ...
Views: 138(1 vote) - Make Nothing of Yourself To Become Everything You Want - by Submitted on Nov 27, 2011 from David SamuelYour whole life is most likely spent trying to make something of yourself, that is what we are taught from youth. Make something of yourself! It is all about Self-improvement. So we spend our life doing everything we can looking at whatever we can find to make something of ourselves and find ...
Views: 172 - How To Feel Love And Remove All Emotional Obstacles - by Submitted on Nov 27, 2011 from David SamuelThe Law of Opposites is unavoidable in our world. It simply states that for everything, its opposite must also exist. This applies to temperature; hot and cold, weight; heavy and light, and emotions; love and hate. This article is about Love. Unfortunately, being a human on earth, that means ...
Views: 132 - Invisible Nature; From Valentinian Branch Of Gnostic Teachings - by Submitted on Nov 21, 2011 from David SamuelOne must not perform the mystery of the ineffable and invisible power through visible and corruptible things of creation, nor that of the unthinkable and immaterial beings through sensible and corporeal things. Perfect salvation is the cognition itself of the ineffable greatness: for since ...
Views: 134 - How To Know Which Emotions Are Real - by Submitted on Nov 15, 2011 from David SamuelIf you tell someone they are stupid and insult them, different people will react differently. Some will take it personally and feel bad, others will get aggressive and reply in kind. However, if you give anyone love and positive emotions, everyone will react the same. There are always ...
Views: 97 - How To Know The Truth Is The Real Question - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2011 from David SamuelAsking for the truth is the ultimate question but first we have to know how to know it. The way is through direct experience by our objective observation of our self. Can you see how subjective you are in your view of everything you encounter. How everything you hear about you fit into ...
Views: 219(1 vote) - Why Spirituality Cannot Help You Overcome Your Issues - by Submitted on Nov 04, 2011 from David SamuelMany people complain that their parents did things to them as a child which have negatively effected them emotionally as an adult. These emotional issues are based on the memories. The memories are real, but the reality today is that the problem is in fact just memories. The problem is not ...
Views: 216(1 vote) - Find The Demon Inside Your Mind - by Submitted on Oct 28, 2011 from David SamuelIn order to fix something, you must first know that it is broken. Now you can target the part that is broken, and then fix it. The problem is that although most people are aware there is something wrong, they do not know what the real problem is, and so cannot fix it. This is commonly expressed ...
Views: 178 - How To Know When To Let Go, And How - by Submitted on Oct 30, 2011 from David SamuelHow do you know when to let go, in business or personal situations in life. This is a very difficult question, but one that is vital to living a life that continuously moves forward. Afterall this planet is moving through space at 1,350,000 miles an hour, so we may as well keep moving also, it ...
Views: 305 - Is Humanity Safe To Be Self-Governed - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2011 from David SamuelLao Tzu wrote in the Tao Te Ching; ‘...To have harmony in the kingdom, keep the people’s belly full and bed warm.’ He was speaking of how to keep the country running peacefully through accepting the reality that if people are in want, they will react violently, even if that is ...
Views: 135 - Call Me A Male Chauvinist - by Submitted on Oct 16, 2011 from David SamuelI was reading an article about Kobe, Japan and came across a very telling report which gives an incite in to the dangerous territory we are going as a species. I do not think this attitude is limited to Kobe or Japan, but rather is global. The point of this article is to ask; are you helping the ...
Views: 199 - The Law Of Nature Is The Law Of God - by Submitted on Oct 08, 2011 from David SamuelOctober 3, 2011 The Law Of Nature Is The Law Of God We can speak of God and Spirit and all the religions and teachings attributed to God on how we should live. The problem is that all the religious teachings have to be interpreted and there are so many interpretations that the ...
Views: 221(1 vote) - Getting Your Business And Life Going - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2011 from David SamuelIf you find yourself going in circles and not getting anywhere with your life, personal or business, this article will help give you the power to break the endless loop. Look at every part of whatever you want to do and find the part or parts that are being done wrong. For example, if it is ...
Views: 61 - Is It Depression Or Boredom - by Submitted on Sep 26, 2011 from David SamuelThere is a big difference between being bored or depressed, however they appear the same in an adult, and so boredom becomes confused with depression. The longer you are bored, the more you will think and appear to others to be depressed, If it lasts too long, you may eventually become ...
Views: 184(2 votes) - Do Our Thoughts Create Events Or, Do Events Create Our Thoughts - by Submitted on Sep 19, 2011 from David SamuelThis is a question of action and reaction. Do we create events or do the events form our way of thinking, and then once formed, do we influence events. Certainly one thing is clear, if there are negative events, our thoughts will normally become negative. If this continues long enough, it will ...
Views: 274 - Pressure Causes Stress, Resistance Causes Pressure - by Submitted on Sep 18, 2011 from David SamuelThis article will explain the cause of stress related to the pressures of life and how to eliminate the negative effects. Not only will that be explained, but you will also find how to use the pressure in a positive way. If you push on something, it resists being pushed. This applies to any ...
Views: 281 - The Simplicity of Life - by Submitted on Sep 11, 2011 from David SamuelSearching for the meaning of life, ultimate reality? Thinking of going into a monastery because life is too tough? What do you think the right path to truth may be? There must be some special, mystical, hidden secret teaching or school out there that will bring you to liberation of the ...
Views: 171 - Aim and Your Essential Nature - by Submitted on Sep 11, 2011 from David SamuelMuch has been said about the importance of having an aim to give direction to your life for you to progress with your work. If you do not have an aim, nothing in your life can progress. Your aim is the engine which drives the entire vehicle. It is not only having any aim, it is having a ...
Views: 128 - Stress and the Flow of Nature - by Submitted on Aug 25, 2011 from David SamuelEvery machine has natural limitations, its individual capacity. When it is stretched beyond its capacity, it will be stressed. Please bear in mind for this talk that the word Stress is meant like stretched to its maximum. No machine exists that is a whole unit. All machines are a sum of ...
Views: 134(1 vote) - Why Not Trust Your Own Decisions - by Submitted on Aug 22, 2011 from David SamuelI was asked a question; “I’m trying to find a way to balance having a relationship and achieve my goal. But I see I’ve failed to realise I cannot have both. Because my goal is also to be balanced my thinking is that I needed to have a relationship in order achieve this.” Why can’t you have ...
Views: 171 - The Essence Of The Mind Is Like Air - by Submitted on Aug 21, 2011 from David SamuelThis subject is very tricky to understand, it is simple, yet difficult to grasp because it is so simple. For this reason, there will be many discussions about it in different ways for you to have the variety of concepts that one may reach your understanding. Although there will be many lessons ...
Views: 94(1 vote) - Choosing Your Path - by Submitted on Aug 07, 2011 from David SamuelThere are many paths to spiritual and worldly freedom. Every person can choose a path that suits them, and many work equally well. We can choose Zen, Kabbalah or Sufi for example which are very different paths but all lead to the same end. Some paths take a person further and quicker than ...
Views: 124(1 vote) - A Prince On The Garbage Dump - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2011 from David SamuelIn many mystical teachings there is a common thought which, if you think about, may help you get a better grip on your life. Here are a few different lines, read each one on its own, and then see how they all come together like pieces of a jigsaw: God created all creatures equal, except ...
Views: 98 - Improving Memory Through Logical Reasoning - by Submitted on Jul 15, 2011 from David SamuelMany people think they have a bad memory or simply cannot think straight. There are too many events which turn out that we forget something or neglect to prepare for the obvious, and this is allotted to a bad memory. What if it has nothing to do with memory at all but rather is the way thought ...
Views: 201 - Suffering, The Cause Of Suffering, And The End Of Suffering - by Submitted on Jul 12, 2011 from David SamuelBuddha said that life is suffering and that the cause of suffering is desire. That is a very clear and obvious truth. If I desire something, that means I do not have it, and if I want or need something that I do not have, that craving for it does imply suffering to some degree. Maybe it is a ...
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