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The Pure of Heart
Pureness of heart is the ability to see that all that exists is Spirit, Brahman, Consciousness, Krishna, God, Allah and nothing but this Beginning given different names by the wise of all ages. The pure heart sees that all of existence, all of life in its different forms, is This and nothing else. There is no notion of a separate deity in some other place, there is no notion of a separate and personal identity on some circular search. Nothing exists outside of this Beginning.
March 19, 2007
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The Perfection through Perceived Imperfection
Love is blind they constantly try and tell us. I disagree. I think Love, in all its ways, sees the essence of our inner truth. It sees past the distorted perceptions of our ego. Truly it is the ego that miserably fails see the exquisite beauty of all that we hold within us. And it is this that Love recognizes in an instant before the ego takes over and the light becomes distorted just like the rays of the sun get fragmented when dark clouds pass over it. Truly it is the ego t
March 19, 2007
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Stop Counting Your Failures
Each day is a new day to make a commitment to your goals. Whatever change you’re looking to make, whatever behavior you’re looking to modify, is a choice you make daily. You cannot make future commitments any more than you can alter past moments. The past is now just a memory and the future is mental activity also. The only moment you can choose your behavior is this one. There is only this moment. If you’ve made mistakes, if you’ve geared off your cho
March 19, 2007
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The Truth About Guilt
Guilt is a useless emotion. It interferes with learning and is based on something completely false. I'm not talking about the process where you recognize a mistake and learn from it, this benefits you. But the thought-forms of guilt do more to interfere with your learning from mistakes, because what youâre actually doing is ruminating over what was said or done rather than deciding that you will not do or say that thing again. Learning from a mistake is a decision you make.
February 27, 2007
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Being True to the Inner You
We each operate within belief systems that are in no way exactly the same, even if there exist some similarities between them. In a way, we each walk around within our own bubble colored by our past experiences and the understandings and conclusions weâve made about ourselves and the world at large from these experiences. We co-exist within multiple realities, yours, mine, hers, his, and so on. The beauty of this is that reality becomes about whatâs true for you at this m
November 24, 2006
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Advocating forâ¦You!
Most people would assume that self-esteem can be a measure of how much you love yourself, but the truth is, even the most secure and confident person can be found uttering the most absurd things to his/her-self that upon closer examination would clearly show that confidence does not mean self-love. nnWe say so many things to ourselves that we would never verbally utter to the ones we love. We are generally tender, compassionate, and loving to those that are close to us, or at
November 9, 2006