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The other day I was surprised to see an article in the Guardian (a liberal mainstream newspaper in the UK) saying that Richard Dawkins was named the ‘world’s top thinker’ in a poll from Prospect magazine. Apparently Prospect listed whom they consider to be the 65 most influential scientists ... Views: 1470
If you are always looking for something better to reach for, someone else to be and somewhere to run... if you are looking everywhere else, and all the grass seems to be so beautiful and so green, except on your own side... if for your whole life you are rushing from one place to another that ... Views: 1470
Only a few years ago, most people would have scoffed at the notion that human beings are endowed with divine potential—and that by developing this potential we can play a part in bringing forth a new age of enlightenment. Students of esoteric wisdom know these things to be true, as do knowers ... Views: 1470
It is easier to “manipulate” words than thoughts, feelings or emotions. Start to change your words and you'll change your life.
The other day I was talking with my best friend (a very handsome man) about how we feel when somebody says that we are an "ugly" person or something unpleasant ... Views: 1470
Each morning I blow out the candle I lit the night before. A large glass globe sits inside of a metal stand and the candle, either a short or tall pillar, rests inside the base of the globe.
4:30 a.m.
The dogs woke me up.
I reach for my candle, carefully grabbing the metal base with both ... Views: 1468
The communication with the spirits is known as Mediumship. In the religious beliefs like the Louisiana, Spiritualism, Voodoo this practice of mediumship is commonly used.
The Psychic Medium can be defined as the duplication of energy system and energies by the means of spirits. Perceptible ... Views: 1468
It's time to enjoy the Summer. What are you waiting for? Life is here and now. This is not a dress rehearsal. Get out and have some fun.
In my life I have had so many challenges and I have lost so many loved ones. In seeking some kind of answer or guideline to deal with all of these tragedies ... Views: 1467
Do you or a loved one struggle with physical illness or emotional difficulties?
Are unhealthy behaviors or addiction causing you problems?
Do you want to reclaim your self, your health and your life?
Learning to work with the natural healing power of your subconscious mind is the ... Views: 1467
Extreme makeovers are all the rage these days, with botox injection parties, and reality shows. Plastic surgery is on the rise. Many people are trying to match the extraordinary measures actors and actresses go through to look perfect on the screen. These are shortcuts taken to try to ... Views: 1467
That is what my spiritual teacher, Yogi Bhajan forcefully yelled out! Needless to say, with my spiritual/Christian background, I nearly fell over. Of course I could feel Yogi Bhajan laughing about the profound effect his words had on me!
Here I had been letting go of my “ego”, or so I ... Views: 1466
We are all born innately free spirited and living in the moment,then something happens;
we are taught that we have to wait until after dinner for the cookies, we can't go to the play ground until after homework and we must even wait for Christmas or another special occasion to receive all that ... Views: 1466
Why Have A Psychic Reading?
In this world there are many mysteries that surround us and one day science will make the link to psychism and reveal the true nature of our essence including who and what we are. It is utterly frustrating to me as a writer and marketer that so little is both ... Views: 1466
Your Destiny: An Unfolding Spiritual Chronicle
Do Destiny and Free Will Co-Exist? I am often asked whether I believe that everything in our lives is predestined or whether I believe in free will. So, I thought this was good timing to delve into this fascinating topic! My answer is that I ... Views: 1464
Article Title: Sharing some Spiritual Thoughts and Principles from Neale Donald Walsh's 'Conversations with God' (Part Two)
Submitted by Craig Lock
Web Sites: http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B005GGMAW4 and my good friend and associate Bill’s humorous books are at ... Views: 1464
Those of us who are care-takers often find ourselves giving way more to others than what we are receiving for ourselves. Somehow we have a concept in our minds that the more we give to others is the more we will receive. The bulk of that concept originated in our childhood. We may not have ... Views: 1463
I 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
I am on a spiritual sabbatical in the Gulf of Mexico and today the sun has decided to hide behind the shady clouds above. I know it is still there even though I can't see it or feel its warm rays. The same goes with our Spirits. Like the sun, it is hidden, unseen, but that does not mean it is ... Views: 1462
10 Ways to Deal with Difficult People
By Mike Martin
We may always have difficult people in our lives but we don't need to let their negative energy dominate our lives at home or at work. We can try and change them but that would truly be difficult. The easier and softer way is to change ... Views: 1461
Being in our brilliance means loving and embracing ourselves as the perfectly human and perfectly Divine beings that we are. It is about self love and self acceptance in each now moment.
When we are being in our brilliance we are not holding back in any way that would dim our light. We are ... Views: 1461
This morning I received a message from my spiritual guides and the masters of the light who guide my path.
They ask me to share it with you I hope you will enjoy it.
With much love to you
Dear one,
We are here to remind you of who you really are and the main reason you chose to ... Views: 1461
What if today was the day when your life changed for the better?
If you look back, I'll bet my last dollar that you all can remember one day that completely changed your path forever. That one day when your world tilted and it caused you to walk in a new direction.
I can remember ... Views: 1460
Life is change. Our lives ceaselessly change every second we live within it. When a species that walks this planet encounters a significant change species-wide, we call that change evolution. As human beings, we have gone through several such evolutions. Some of those changes were physical ... Views: 1459
Do you have a person in your life now (or did) who frequently tells you what’s flawed about you or broken? Do you believe him or her? What might be going on with them, and you?
"Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs." - Pearl Strachan Hurd
I want to share a ... Views: 1458
Have you ever pushed yourself way beyond your comfort zone and taken yourself to a place you never thought you could go?
Have you ever felt so strongly about a path you were meant to be on that you took a huge leap of faith knowing that it would all work out?
Have you ever listened to ... Views: 1458
If you believe that God encompasses everything, is it not true that His spirit also resides within you? It has to be somewhere in us, but where does the spirit reside within?
Charles Crooks is a shaman and healer/teacher. In his teaching he asks, "What is the component of breath that we find ... Views: 1458
It’s so easy for us humans to get bogged down in the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, which are mostly not good stories.
Our mental chatter goes round and round about how inadequate we are, how much we mess up, how we aren’t as good as someone else is, how we ought to be better, ... Views: 1457
YOUR SOUL IS CALLING: WILL YOU ACCEPT THE CALL?
I wrote and published a book years ago (available on amazon.com - http://tiny.cc/YOURSOULISCALLING) that was titled YOUR SOUL IS CALLING: WILL YOU ACCEPT THE CALL? It was written during a time that followed my near death experience and all of ... Views: 1457
Intense energies are upon us again as the Autumn Equinox is beginning tonight. The Equinox brings with it the start of another powerful eclipse season. Our planet Pluto is playing an usually big part of this intensity this round and we will be experiencing its influence, no doubt.
So, what ... Views: 1456
INSIDE RELATIONSHIPS
BY JAN DENISE
RELEASE: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2009
Naked, the Only Way to Be In Love
I launched this column 10 years ago as "Naked Relationships" to help you experience the ultimate in authentic, loving relationships -- something I had yet to get my arms ... Views: 1454
We are now presenting Part IV of our five part series – how are you all doing with turning your life around? Hopefully all that entered this series by the articles published on SelfGrowth, by the videos on “adamariestube” on YouTube, or by the radio show “the True Golden Oracle” on Dreamvisions ... Views: 1454
Dependent Origination, the direct transcendent knowledge and understanding of which the Buddha proclaimed to be the lynchpin of enlightenment, is an area far removed from physical reality in many ways
In many other ways, Dependent Origination is the best intellectual explanation of the ... Views: 1453
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Always Being Nice - by Kimberly Mitchell at http://lovingwithpurpose.org
Women tend to always do things they don’t want to do because they don’t want to seem unkind. They want to be labeled as being nice. They take comments from others, food orders that are less than satisfactory, to treatment from their partners that is below their standards. How do we stop reacting ... Views: 1453
The human mind is an amazing piece of equipment. It processes an astounding 400 billion bits of information every second. It is at the same time trying to regulate healing, breathing, moving, thinking, repairing, protection, prevention, temperature, food absorption, hormones, chemical reactions, ... Views: 1453
Recently Charles Blow of the New York Times cited some studies suggesting that people between the ages of 18 and 29 are “moving away from organized religion while simultaneously trying desperately to connect with their spirituality.” I believe this is true for vast numbers of people of all ages. ... Views: 1453
Keep a library of your work, digitally and on paper. It's sound operation management in e-business. Because my mind thinks fast, I write articles on paper first. It allows me to jot down ideas as I think and make then correct mistakes really quickly. My word count per minute is good and I can ... Views: 1452
Definition of virtue: a. Moral excellence and righteousness; goodness. b. An example or kind of moral excellence: the virtue of patience
Ahhh! To have such virtue! So much uprising and chaos in the world lately seems to have smothered the idea of the virtuous. One of the most valuable ... Views: 1451
Directions From Our Deep Desires
We Are All In This Life Together.
We are inter-connected in such an infinite number of ways! Sometimes this may seem somewhat subtle yet at other times it is certainly quite clear. Of course I am aware that this is nothing that you didn’t know! ... Views: 1451
When we think of the word addiction we usually think of the obvious ones like food, alcohol, drugs, gambling, TV, spending, work, sex, etc., but many people are not aware of the more subtle addictions. These addictions are often so covert and pervasive that they are invisible to us. Yet these ... Views: 1451
Einstein said that "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it"
We are often the last people to be able to see our own issues because we are living them. Einstein was saying that is not possible to change ourselves unless we look at the issue from a ... Views: 1450
Gratitude is not a one-serving meal relegated to Thanksgiving and plates full of yummy traditions and comfort. Gratitude is an all-round accompaniment, perfect for gatherings, holidays, and quiet solitude. Gratitude travels well. It works in all kinds of weather and is never out of season, too ... Views: 1450
What if your friend took you aside and, in hushed tones, shared with you that they know where to find a hidden treasure. Not only that, they also know, on sound authority, that this treasure is so vast and of such significance, it could change life as we know it on this planet in a very short ... Views: 1450
You have the freedom and power to create with your heart-based feelings and thoughts. New scientific discoveries reveal what timeless wisdom has told us. You are the architect of your own reality. You play a powerful role in the universe. The key to creating your dreams into reality is ... Views: 1450
Our belief systems define our experiences, so as the Law of Attraction states. Who we are, the way we act, the things that we say, our thoughts, and most of all our encounters are based on what we believe in. It is the key reason why why whenever we have limiting morals, the matters that him and ... Views: 1449
“...From very young, we are taught to ask questions,
so we keep asking until we find answers…”
This is a quote from Nobel prize winner, Dan Shechtman, in response to being asked why there are such a high percentage of Jewish nobel prize winners compared to any other race. This is not an ... Views: 1449
One of the saddest aspects of our ever-changing world is the percentage of people who genuinely dislike who they are. The way that they behave and talk about themselves demonstrates clearly to the world around them that they are not happy being them.
Self –loathing can take many forms; being ... Views: 1448
Past Lives - we have all had them - some more than others, yet the fact remains we all have some experience of lives before this one.
All of us have at least some Karmic Debt that is still playing out in our lives today, sometimes it is also useful to understand what that debt is and why you ... Views: 1448
Article Title: The Politics of Love (from a book 'The Passing Summer' by Michael Cassidy 1989)
updated from http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/the-politics-of-love-from-a-book-the-passing-summer-by-michael-cassidy-0
Submitted by: Craig Lock
Key words (tags): Books, 'The Passing Summer' , ... Views: 1448
I remember many years back a counselor I was seeing asked me what I was doing for my birthday? In those days, my life was so busy, I scheduled almost every waking hour. I listed the activities that I had scheduled feeling in a celebratory mood. He asked me a question that stopped me in my ... Views: 1448
Charisma is a four dimensional-phenomenon of the manifestation of individual’s potential energy or life force. And the power of charisma depends on the inner potential of the energy that every person has. The more energy the individual has, the more charismatic he may become. I call this energy ... Views: 1447