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Do You Own What You Discover, Create or Invent? Uncovering the Purpose of Creativity

Spiritual Insight from the Story of The Little Prince If you make a discovery or invent something, is it yours by right? Certainly the law bequeaths the right to profit from our creative endeavors. Copyright, patents, trade marks, and so on have long been a part of how business is done. But there’s a deeper issue that isn’t addressed by the legal aspect—a moral side of the question of ownership. It comes out in the Little Prince’s conversation with the businessman about who owns the stars.

Primary topic: Consciousness and Awareness

Consciousness and Awareness

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When People Are Seen as Workers, Not People, the Workplace Becomes an Unproductive Treadmill

Daily Spiritual Insight from the Story of The Little Prince The businessman on the fourth planet the Little Prince visits on his journey to Earth is completely self-absorbed, to the point he doesn’t even notice the Little Prince’s arrival. To be self-absorbed is to be unaware of everyone and everything—paradoxically, including unaware of ourselves. This man is so unaware that the Little Prince has to point out to him that his cigarette, which he uses to calm his anxiety, has gone out. The man is so unaware that he can’t even take care of his pacifier!

Primary topic: Consciousness and Awareness

Consciousness and Awareness

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Society's Conditioning: Why Do We Develop an Ego in the First Place? - The Little Prince Series

Daily Insight from the Story of The Little Prince Have you ever considered just how much energy, whether mental, emotional, or physical, you put into trying to impress other people? I grew up with my entire self-concept oriented to what others wanted me to be. I so wanted the approval of my parents, my teachers, and my friends that I really had little idea of what I wanted for myself.

Primary topic: Consciousness and Awareness

Consciousness and Awareness

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To Be Awake Is to Accept Ourselves

A great many people are seeking to be enlightened, or what is often spoken of as "awakening" or becoming "conscious." Some have been searching for years, but any kind of sustained enlightenment continues to elude them. When we search for enlightenment, or struggle to awaken or become conscious, we are really saying that we are not happy with ourselves as we are now. We feel somehow inadequate as we are now—even perhaps apologetic for who we find ourselves to be.

Primary topic: Consciousness and Awareness

Consciousness and Awareness

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Discover Your Original Self

“I just hate myself,” I heard someone say the other day. They were bemoaning the fact they couldn’t get some simple things in their life right. How do you feel inside yourself? When you look at yourself in a mirror, what do you see? As you look at yourself, what don’t you like about yourself? I’m not just talking physical appearance, though that’s part of it.

Primary topic: Consciousness and Awareness

Consciousness and Awareness

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Why God Can't Be Understood

We are part of an evolving reality grounded in a divine harmony that pervades reality and draws everything into patterns of increasing complexity and centeredness. You and I are bathed in the original mystery of order coming out of chaos. Our minds, as we try to understand this order, are part of the very process of the emerging order. Consciousness is the world order at its cutting edge. Our lives, as we grow toward wholeness and harmony, are a reflection of the harmony of the mystery that is what much of the East speaks of as the Void.

Primary topic: Consciousness and Awareness

Consciousness and Awareness

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A Life Free of Trying to Change Things

Suppose you are a person who either prays or meditates—or both. Why do you do these things? What’s your objective in praying or meditating? For many of us it’s a way of seeking to change something. We want to alter some aspect of ourselves, some feature of our life, some experience we are having. What if we stopped trying to change things and simply began to embrace what is? Would we still pray, and if so what would we say? Would we still meditate, and what would that meditation look like if we weren’t trying to make things different from the way we presently experience them?

Primary topic: Consciousness and Awareness

Consciousness and Awareness

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