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- The Truth about Spiritual Teachers and Enlightened Beings - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2012 from Kip MazuyIf you are seeking enlightenment, it is important to understand that there is a huge difference between the new age spiritual teachers that are popular today and the enlightened beings who have actually attained full enlightenment. In the past, the majority of enlightened beings came from the ...
Views: 2375(1 vote) - Look Beyond The Boundaries of Your Personal Life to Find More Happiness - by Submitted on Jun 19, 2012 from Jim FargianoIn an effort to keep you on track, we remind you of the need for you to look beyond the boundaries of your personal life. It will inspire you to receive messages from the other side if you stay open to the idea of "inter-dimensional" communication. From the perspective of Spirit, there is no ...
Views: 1430 - ***BLOCKS - by Submitted on Jun 15, 2012 from James RobinsonMany times I hear people state that they are “blocked”. They often apply this term to the fact that they are not getting what they want. They are “blocked” from financial abundance. They are “blocked” from true love. They are “blocked” from healing a physical, emotional, mental or spiritual ...
Views: 1663 - The Direct Path to Enlightenment - by Submitted on Jun 14, 2012 from Terry ChenThe underlying motivation for everything that we do as human beings is the ongoing search for happiness or completeness. This being said, people have innumerable ideas of what it might be that could make them happy or make them complete. Even seemingly terrible deeds done and crimes commited are ...
Views: 2462(1 vote) - Shir HaShirim-Public Love-Besht - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2012 from Rabbi Simcha WeinbergThe Baal Shem Tov taught, “Our love of God should be like the love between brother and sister, or between a mother and her child, rather then like the love between man and wife were between lovers. The first may show their love of both in private and in public; whereas the latter do so ...
Views: 1007 - Turning Within - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2012 from Tracing ABC Tracing ABCWe should turn within, then, as have all of those great souls who have blessed the world with their presence; we should turn within and FIND GOD. It should seem natural to turn to the Great Power back of everything; it should seem normal to believe in this Power; and we should have a sense of a ...
Views: 1588(1 vote) - As the Paradigm Shifts: W is for Will - by Submitted on Jun 10, 2012 from Rosie KuhnI’ve been thinking about this blog for awhile, specifically the intention I had in mind – what I wanted to convey regarding our will. The third step of the Twelve Step Program came to mind: We turn our will over to the care of a higher power as we understand it. (The original version is: ...
Views: 1293 - The Decision of Your Life - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2012 from Donna GershmanMany years ago, as I was studying to be a Practitioner/Healer, I had an accident. I was getting an oil change at a service station that had just opened near my home. When the mechanic called me over to show me my air filter, I wandered unwittingly behind the back of my car and proceeded to fall ...
Views: 1739(2 votes) - What is Yoga? - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2012 from Karen PierceWhat is Yoga? After years of "searching" and thousands of yoga classes with many well known and not so well known but nonetheless fabulous teachers, I came to realize that Yoga is a living, breathing art that grows constantly through experience and one's experimentation; it is as diverse as ...
Views: 1204 - Embracing Powerlessness - by Submitted on Jun 14, 2012 from Mike RobbinsIn a recent session I had with my new counselor Eleanor, she said to me, "Mike, it sounds like embracing powerlessness is something that would benefit you right now." When she said this, a chill went down my spine and my body tightened up. "What do you mean, 'embrace powerlessness'?'" I ...
Views: 2702 - The Beauty Way - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2012 from Devaa Haley MitchellWhen we experience something truly beautiful, it can open-up the universe and allow grace to bathe us in Her sweet embrace. Whether it be an incredibly gorgeous landscape, the smell of a rose in full bloom, an exquisite piece of music, or a delicious mouth-watering bite, when the senses are ...
Views: 1142 - Know The Essential Tools of Photoshop Through Photoshop Tutorials - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2012 from Kelvin KohAre you trying to learn Photoshop? It is very easy if you follow every step of Photoshop tutorials carefully. Two most important things are your patience as well as time. If you can provide these two, learning Photoshop is as simple as water. First of all, you need to understand the basic tools ...
Views: 1134(1 vote) - Training in NLP Changed My Life - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2012 from James RegoriskyTraining in NLP Changed My Life Before I took training in NLP my entire life was a mess. That was mainly because I couldn't make a single move in my life without “taking a poll” or asking a close friend what they thought I should do. I had absolutely no belief in myself to make a good choice ...
Views: 1704 - Life Coaching Has Led Me To Become A Rich Investor - by Submitted on Jun 05, 2012 from James RegoriskyBy the age of 45, I was divorced and depressed with two children to support by myself. I was working in a job as an office temp in Melbourne and was barely managing to survive. I felt I couldn’t have been more in debt or less successful. I understood I needed to move forward somehow yet I’d ...
Views: 1586(1 vote) - About Life Coaching - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2012 from James RegoriskyI'm Judy and a few years ago I resigned from my customer service job to become an entrepreneur. I needed to become my own boss. I was motivated to do so because I was given this astounding MLM opportunity to sell organic skin cream. Promoting this skin lotion ought to have been a no-brainer. ...
Views: 1565 - Cougar Dreams and The Power of Choosing - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2012 from Dan StoneBelieve it or not, even personal development coaches can sometimes feel themselves struggling with inertia, seemingly unable to figure out much less take the next step, feeling stuck. Recently, in the throes of a particularly impotent (figuratively speaking) period where I felt both my personal ...
Views: 8722 - Suggestions become Law - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2012 from Tracing ABC Tracing ABCIt has been observed that suggestions, planted in the subconscious, become memories, and eventually tend to externalize in the body. From this, it has been deduced that the sub-conscious mind is the builder of the body and is the creative factor in man. It has also been proven that certain types ...
Views: 1871(1 vote) - What Can Be Done With Photoshop and Photoshop Tutorials? - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2012 from Kelvin KohDo you like to take photos? Have you thought of making money by selling your photos? Yes! It is possible if you know Photoshop. With the help of this innovative as well as unique graphic software, you can create beautiful artworks; make attractive website and different graphics, if you have the ...
Views: 1334 - Your Super Powers - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2012 from Pam GuthrieAs human beings, we are blessed with some amazing super powers. These are the abilities we have that can, when used properly, transform our lives from places of misery and suffering into lives filled with joy and blessings. Wanna guess what they are? Love, gratitude, decision, and ...
Views: 1237(1 vote) - A Shamanic Birthday Walk - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2012 from Lisa TunneyToday is the start of my forty-sixth year on this Earth and I wanted to celebrate this morning by enjoying what the Earth has to offer. I have been house-sitting near Airport Trail for a month and even though I walk it nearly every day, I never grow tired of it. Waking up at the crack of dawn, ...
Views: 1308(1 vote) - Individuality - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2012 from Tracing ABC Tracing ABCWhile man must be, and is, a Divine Image or a Perfect Idea, yet he suffers and is sick. The answer to this is the same answer which can be given, philosophically, to the whole problem of evil—that man is an individual and does with himself what he wills. The Scriptures say, “God hath made man ...
Views: 2032(1 vote) - When We Look Outside For Heroes - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2012 from Marelon BjorkaesWHEN WE LOOK OUTSIDE FOR HEROES When we look outside for heroes, the real impulse that is coming from Self is a reaching inside ourselves for mastery. But mastery takes work and concentration and practice, practice, ...
Views: 1927 - Everything is perfect - just as it is - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2012 from Michael KewleyWe all have a perception of perfection. We carry with us an idea of how everything should be and because of this spend huge amounts of time and energy trying to arrange conditions to match this idea. Our family, friends, partners and colleagues, our work and social engagements. Nothing falls ...
Views: 2933(1 vote) - Your Purposeful Passion Brings You Abundance - by Submitted on Jun 01, 2012 from Shamala TanI always tell people to follow their purposeful passion and the money will follow. But interestingly, whenever I say this, some people will automatically think that I am saying one cannot be financially abundant if one does not follow one's purposeful passion. Well, this is not what I am saying ...
Views: 1921(1 vote) - Just because he is your soul mate, it does not mean that you should be a doormat - by Submitted on May 31, 2012 from Donna LeeI hear it all the time from women. Yes it is a girl thing. They just know that the man that they are with is their soul mate. Just about every society is based on marriage and having someone special spend our lives with. We make people feel bad when they are single. It causes so many women to ...
Views: 1463 - The Forgotten Art of Foot Washing - by Submitted on May 31, 2012 from Manfred PaierThe Forgotten Art of Foot Washing www.kiwani.net Master Libre has baptized this alchemical method “the noble and forgotten art of washing the feet” and defines it in his books as “a magic-stick for personal transformation.” The forgotten art of washing feet reaches far back into ancient & ...
Views: 2003 - Learn Mindfulness Meditation to Attain Self Realization - by Submitted on May 29, 2012 from Kip MazuyMindfulness meditation is really the essence of meditation and yoga. And if you practice this Zen technique given below not only in your sitting meditation but in your day-to-day life, it will help lead you into deep states of meditation and even self realization. Your natural experience of ...
Views: 2324(1 vote) - Acquiring Torah 25: Humility to Remember - by Submitted on May 29, 2012 from Rabbi Simcha WeinbergRabbi Mattena expounded: What is the deeper meaning of the Scriptural text: “And from the wilderness to Mattanah?” If a man allows himself to be treated as a wilderness on which everybody treads, his study will be retained by him, otherwise it will not. (Eiruvin 54a) Rabbi Mattena does ...
Views: 1108 - THE GRACE OF AGE - by Submitted on May 22, 2012 from Christine MikalsonI took an elderly friend downtown, for groceries. She's a sweet lady. This started me thinking of how life has a way of softening some people, while others remain, or become, mean and nasty. Years ago, I worked at an irrigation company, as a bookkeeper. A well-to-do farmer came in, on a ...
Views: 770 - Acquiring Torah 26: Having One Rebbi - by Submitted on May 22, 2012 from Rabbi Simcha WeinbergRaba expounded in the name of Rabbi Sehora who had it from Rabbi Huna: What is the purport of the text: “Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished, but he that gathers little by little shall increase?” If a man studies much at a time his learning decreases, and if he does not do so but ...
Views: 953 - The Elusive ‘I’ - by Submitted on Dec 31, 1969 from Harold HodgettsSo you want to become Self realized, you want to come to know yourself, and although you have studied much and have given much thought to what you have read, you still feel that you are somehow blocked from taking that final step back into the Self, to experience the reality of the elusive ...
Views: 1540 - What's Running You? - by Submitted on May 17, 2012 from Valerie SheppardAre you pushing to make things happen in your life right now? Are you feeling backed up against the wall? And what’s the wall for you? Time, money, a relationship? It can be difficult to find your peaceful center when you feel you have to try so hard to make things happen. The question is what ...
Views: 730 - Love Beyond Paradigms - by Submitted on May 17, 2012 from Mark KellyWe often look to traditional paradigms of Wholeness for insights into the nature of Love, but seldom look to Love for insights into the nature of traditional paradigms of Wholeness, i.e. look at Wholeness through the eyes of Love. Yet Love offers us a clear understanding of what it is to be ...
Views: 1296 - Holistic Awakening - Self-inquiry via the Shadow - by Submitted on May 17, 2012 from Mark KellyThe truly holistic understanding of awakening is not at odds with humanness. It is not even at odds with the ego. If anything, it approaches spiritual self-inquiry via the ego – particularly the psychological shadow – because it is this that blocks out the light of infinite being. In fact, ...
Views: 1985 - Holistic Non-duality - The Heart Of Modern Awakening - by Submitted on May 17, 2012 from Mark KellyThe essence of holistic non-duality is the recognition that non-duality is never separate from duality. Simply put, they are “not two” because non-duality devoid of duality is itself dualistic. Holistic non-duality does not transcend the world; it transcends the division within us. It is what ...
Views: 1836(1 vote) - The Growth of the Soul - by Submitted on May 16, 2012 from Alan MesherForms of Service A spiritual path that aims for soul growth can be compared to a snowflake. Like snowflakes, all paths are similar, but none are the same. There are as many ways to achieve soul growth and serve, as there are people on the planet. The Divine is an equal opportunity employer ...
Views: 1209 - Acquiring Torah 29: Inside Outside - by Submitted on May 16, 2012 from Rabbi Simcha WeinbergOn one occasion, Rabbi issued an order that they should not teach disciples in the open public market place. What was his exposition? “How beautiful are your steps in sandals, O prince's daughter! The roundings of your thighs are like the links of a chain, the work of the hands of a skilled ...
Views: 1048 - How to Attain Nonduality and Oneness - by Submitted on May 14, 2012 from Kip MazuyIf you are looking to attain nonduality and oneness, you first have to come face to face with your experience of duality, your experience of conflict. If you are lucky enough in meditation, you will come to the point where you cannot take it anymore. You will come right up against your ...
Views: 2078(1 vote) - The Most Powerful Mantra: Learn to Lose the Ego and Awaken to Who We Are - by Submitted on May 13, 2012 from Dr. Robert PuffWho we are is very simple. We are the Supreme Reality. Everything comes from that and is a reflection of that. We are really like the sun and our lives that we’re experiencing right now are like the dewdrops that are reflecting the sun. Another way to look at it is to see life as a dream. We are ...
Views: 1900 - How to Be Yourself: A Primer - by Submitted on May 12, 2012 from Taylor BaumanEvery body wishes to feel more in tune with who they truly are at center. Basically this means taking actions, using words, and being centered from a place in ourselves that is not skewed by the fear-based mental programs and doctrines of other people, or constructs that do not help us. No one ...
Views: 928 - Living Life Against The Odds - by Submitted on May 12, 2012 from Sharmilla McCarthyEach one of us is fortunate enough to have had the opportunity to experience life as a human being. One thing that we can’t predict is how that life is going to turn out to be. It can’t always be smooth sailing and at the same time, when we go through rough patches, it is important to realize ...
Views: 1280 - How To Find Yourself: Introduction - by Submitted on May 11, 2012 from Kris BenettoHow To Find Yourself? That's a broad and fascinating query. It's certainly also one of the most well-known and fundamental concerns of the growing spiritual and personal development movements. This may possibly sound like a very fuzzy, nebulous proposition. However, you will discover a real ...
Views: 2251(1 vote) - Is your Spouse Making you Happy? - by Submitted on May 10, 2012 from Rosemary PriceIs your spouse making you happy? Whether you are married to yours, living with them or contemplating spending a lot of time with them in the future it is a good idea to know if you are truly compatible with them first. Remember that sometimes your partner shows a certain side of their ...
Views: 1596 - Finding Your True Life Purpose - by Submitted on May 10, 2012 from Alan MesherThe Five Common Features of a True Life Purpose All manifestations of a true life purpose have five common features. A true life purpose is the result of Self-realization, of becoming who we were always meant to be. The foundation of Self-realization is the merger of the conscious, ...
Views: 1220 - Acquiring Torah 32: Rashbi: Illuminating Others With Our Eyes - by Submitted on May 09, 2012 from Rabbi Simcha WeinbergRabbi Yehudah taught: The generation of whom Rabbi Shimon is one are all righteous, saintly and fearful of sin, and the Divine Presence abides among them as among no other generation. Therefore these things are stated openly and not concealed, whereas in former generations supernal mysteries ...
Views: 1289 - Seven ways to find joy. - by Submitted on May 06, 2012 from Janet Perez EcklesIt was our favorite Mexican restaurant and hubby and I sat across the table from friends with whom we re-connected after decades. And in the lively conversation a comment was made that jolted my senses. I positioned the wheelchair beside the table (I still can’t put weight on the foot with ...
Views: 1326 - Judgment Day - by Submitted on May 05, 2012 from Lisa TunneyAs an unpublished writer, I have to take work whenever I can get it to help supplement my income. So, it was an easy decision when I was asked to participate in a five-day trade show. There was only one issue. I would be working and living along side some mean-spirited people—and that didn’t ...
Views: 1168(1 vote) - The Essence of all Wisdom - Short Version! - by Submitted on May 04, 2012 from Frans LangenkampVersion 1: The infinite variety of creation is the expression of one common essence. Version 2: The essence of all and everything is ‘being’; pure existence, pure intelligence. Version 3: Being is conscious of itself. It is awareness, the state of pure consciousness. Version 4: Being, ...
Views: 1036 - What Is God? - by Submitted on May 04, 2012 from Frans LangenkampCan we define God or can we describe him accurately? To answer this question, I would like to start with a counter question: can we define and adequately describe a pebble? The answer to this question is ‘Yes’ for those of us who have seen a pebble and held it in their hand. The answer is ‘No’ ...
Views: 1358 - Everybody Is The Best - by Submitted on May 04, 2012 from Frans LangenkampOpen letter to everybody: Did you ever notice that every single individual on earth feels himself or herself in a way superior to everyone else? What about you? Do you also have a subtle, deep, but convincing feeling that in a way, you are better, nicer, smarter, deeper or more intelligent ...
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