Consciousness and Awareness Articles

Take Time To Embrace The Sunset Beyond what anyone can imagine, the image of a sunset is simply profound! Wouldn’t you agree? Upon viewing a sunset, you may feel that you are suddenly changed by the pure light vibrations that cast their magical virtues into the atmosphere. It's not unusual for a sunset to capture your breath away! It will pique your curiosity as you try to identify with unknown forces that originate well beyond the scope of human intelligence. Clearly there

In Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad presents us with two men who are, more or less, polar opposites. Charlie Marlow is a compassionate, humane man with a stockpile of integrity, and he is a lover and pursuer of truth and justice. Mr. Kurtz, on the other hand, is a bit of a &$%!@#. Both men are compared to gods within the text, and each is viewed as one - Marlow by the men on his boat and - Conrad hopes - by his readers as well, and Kurtz by the native Africans, who look at hi

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.

THE BEAUTY OF ACCEPTANCE To speak the truth rather than speak an others truth is one of the most powerful energies that can move old ideas and ideologies to establish sureness and confidence in new ideas. Reform has been put forward, but a change mind is not a changed heart. Zeal creates zest for living a zealous person incites enthusiasm to glorious achievement. I remember when I was very young and I heard President J.F. Kennedy speaking and I was moved by his words. At that

There are not enough hours in a day. There are not enough minutes in an hour. There are not enough seconds in a minute. We are always struggling in whatever work we do and always complain that we are late on our work. There is not enough time, we miss the deadlines again. It would have been better if there are 25 hours in a day, 65 minutes in an hour and 70 seconds in a minute. Or is it?

War. The economy. Politics. What are the issues that get under your skin? These, and many other issues, can distract us from living the way we'd really prefer to live. Fear, doubt, confusion, worry are all nagging concerns that seduce us from how most of us really want to show up in the world. When you're stressed, upset, confused, it's just plain harder to make good choices. Being aware of who you want to be - how you want to show up in your life - is like having your own in

Each day is a new beginning, a new dawn, a new opportunity to become that which you truly want to be. When you rise each day it is a fresh start. Think, the night before, what you want in life, what you want to be, how you want to be in the world. You have every opportunity every day to create that manifestation of your being which you want in this world.

The recent calamities have caused many to wonder if they are signs of the world's end. Mother Nature has been on a rampage lately. The 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean was estimated to kill 170 to 275 thousand. Hurricanes destroyed New Orleans and other cities on the gulf coast and there was record number of hurricanes in 2005. Tornadoes and heavy snow storms seem to be getting worse. Is it really End of the world is on 21 December 2012. IF end of the world is near then why s

What awaits us on 21/12/2012? Is the life we are living in this moment everything that exists or is there something more? On 21/12/2012, one of the most important turning points in history of humanity awaits us. The energy of the New Age is bringing new realizations of the essence of life itself, presenting the path of impersonal transformation of God’s energy into every individual on the basis of God’s principle of reciprocity. When we surrender to God’s power within o

Well first of all, fact being fact, it does not matter what an individual believes. Whether a person believes UFOs exist or not is relatively immaterial. This is simply because today, there are so many hundreds of people who have seen things, crafts, and objects of the sorts in the sky. Some of these people are amongst the very capable groups of people like government and military personnel, doctors etc. Things have been seen that appear to defy gravity itself and whatever we

According to the ancient alien theorists, aliens are as old as mankind and these ancient aliens had come to Earth wherein they were considered as gods by humans. Not only did they live here but also shaped human civilization in more ways than one. But is there any evidence to this theory? What is the proof that extraterrestrial species had actually come flying in their mysterious space ships to earth and changed our lives forever? The answer is yes. There is evidence of ancie

By Kalki Ratna I was looking at the image of the mystic I was going to meet with disbelief! The same divine person I have seen in my dream the night before. I was at the ashram of Yogi Buddhadeva whom I had never met before but God has given me an indication that I had found a living embodiment of Shiva-consciousness. rnYogi BuddhaDevarnThe curtains made way for a persona as powerful as the sun but as gentle as the moon, clad in a simple kurta and jeans— The Urban Yogi, Yog

There was a time in our lives when we all believed in the existence of guardian angels. Did your parents tell you that if you are a good child you will have a beautiful guardian angel looking after you and keeping you out of any danger? This method is a popular way for parents to tell their children to behave and listen to your elders. The question concerning guardian angels is do they exist and what are they? We all have a preconceived idea on what they are. Their people who

Unbeknown to him, I watched through the hospital nursery glass as my son-in-law gave his newbo son his first bath. Gently and with awe he touched the tender new skin and lifted the tiny child with the palm of his hand. It nearly brought me to tears. How essential is touch to a newbo infant who as yet has no thoughts or impressions of life? It cannot yet see but it can feel. How essential are the first words it hears, the tastes and smells and sights it later meets as it firs

THE FUN LOVING LORD’S COURT OF ENTERTAINMENT ‘NA JADAM KWACHIT SARVA CHINMAATRA MEVA HEE’ MEANING: NOTHING IS INERT IN THIS COSMOS BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS NOTHING BUT CONSCIOUSNESS. These wise words of great scriptural scholars will not be accepted or understood by laymen of the world. Maharshi Ramkrishna Paramhans after attaining the highest trance state expounded in the Yoga scriptures would embrace Goddess Kali’s idol at Dakshineshwar (Kolkatta, India) and say “O b

In our stressful lives, it’s easy to feel directionless. Between the pressures of work and family life, we all occasionally start to feel like we’re just going through the motions. Ideally, we all want to be working towards goals or finding fulfillment and meaning in our everyday activities. Unfortunately, this isn’t always the case. This is why more and more people are turning towards psychic readings to help them to reexamine their current situations and discover thei

THE ART OF CONSCIOUS LIVING

Long ago, we created verbal language, as a way to communicate more efficiently, to verbalize our thoughts, identify objects, phenomenons, and share knowledge throughout Time and even space. I believe the intention was pure although nowadays language is not error free nor objective enough to clear misinterpretations. In fact, we added double meanings, emotional charges to a simple and functional enough vocabulary. “Let’s keep it simple.”

Edge – a line or border at which something stops and something else begins; a jumping-off point; a place of discomfort, challenge, and invitation These days it seems that many people I talk with, including myself, are “living on the edge.” I don’t mean that they are on the edge of falling apart, or of losing everything they have, or are on the verge of insanity. I’m talking about people who, because of their choices and commitments to making a difference or accompli

Your youngest daughter makes an effort to buss the table, but leaves out a small spot. Your teenager mows the lawn, but misses a patch. You request your husband to get you your favorite make-up on the way home, and he gives you the wrong brand. How do you respond? Is your first instinct to criticize or correct them? Or do you praise the effort? Do you recognize the positive? I'm sure most of you have already heard this statement at one time or another. "You always see the neg

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?

The concept of the power of now has been gaining wider acceptance as the pillars of what make up the movement are simple yet profound in your personal transformation and your personal power. The now is, what we have, all we have is the now. The past is gone and the future is an unrealized dream we've yet to experience. In the strongest of senses, the now is the doorway to higher consciousness and higher awareness. Humanity (the vast majority of us) has become utterly swamped

Self Differentiation Is Good For Your Family Too When the student is ready, the teacher appears! Would you agree that this is so very true? I certainly hope so. When I first learned of this proverb it crystallized as fascinating, intuitive and perfectly good sense to me. We’ve all heard it at some time or another; nevertheless, these words are to be spoken to the wise. They are meant for you to take the time to deeply reflect and learn how this is true for you, on behalf of

Knowledge is something truly extraordinary. We know because we feel, but until we find the correct words, we cannot explain it. The Universe communicates through sensations, through extra physical senses, or is it not its essence, the true meaning of Life, to Feel. The universe cannot communicate with words, because words limit a potential in a universe infinitely creative, changing and evolving at every moment.

Spiritual literature is riddled with talk about self. No wonder. “Who am I?” is the most perplexing question arising from self-awareness. Even more perplexing are the many levels and degrees of self put forward in spiritual literature. We hear about everything from the true self to the false self to no self. Granted, a self-aware human being is a complex structure, but this tendency to posit so many selves only leads to further complication. So let’s see if we can simpl

After naming that part of reality we are considering, the next step in its representation is to describe its characteristics. This is done using the linguistic form subject plus predicate, which, on the one hand, is necessary to build our representation of reality and then communicate it, but its effect is ultimately to reinforce the belief that existence always consists of something with a specific defining quality or property, taken from arbitrary categories created by us f

All mankind have a potential to manifest as sons and daughters of God, just as Jesus did. It is my knowledge now that Jesus was the first to complete this knowing within His consciousness. We all have opportunity especially now to manifest as sons and daughters of God and create heaven on earth. The words I am using have no intention of subtracting from the great work that Jesus did. We are all unique spiritual beings. We all have been created with divine purpose. When we loo

There is a gift which is always available to everyone at any time for the taking. A gift so amazing that it will completely transform you in ways you never dreamed of. A gift that is so wonderful and awe-inspiring that you will want to share it with everyone on your list. The priceless gift to which I refer is forgiveness. The power of forgiveness cannot be underestimated. For this gift, which you can give to yourself and give to others, can help you break through self-imposed barriers.

If your work takes you to places where air quality can be compromised, or if you undertake a home project that exposes you to potential air pollutants, safety should be your number one priority. Humans take more than 20,000 breaths per day on average, and air is something without which we cannot spend more than a few minutes. Since avoiding harmful air can be impossible if you have to be in certain environments, steps should be taken to make breathing as safe as possible. A g

India is subject to outbreak of various endemic, diarrheal and viral diseases. We are also a nation invested in unprecedented chronic diseases and mental illness. Although in the present times, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, depression, Alzheimer's and almost every major disease plaguing the society is curable, but they are putting majority of our people on prescription drugs. These drugs take away the mental clarity and quality of life and are killing people at a rate that

Cycle of Growthrn rnAllowing it to GrowrnIt starts with a spark of inspiration - an idea or thought. If deemed appropriate, we firmly plant this thoughtform into our psyche. While part of us would like instantaneous, ever expansive results, we know this thoughtform needs time to grow and develop. We allow this thoughtform to germinate - no pressure or timeline applied. As it sprouts, we watch it pass through its many stages. We guide it and let it unfold on its own course. We

The Shadows are gonern rnOnce upon a time there lived a tree. In fact,it was a very large tree that looked strong and appeared to stand firmly within the ground. It boasted it’s tree trunk with several connected branches, some of which seemed to be reaching out toward the sky. These branches responded to their environment, as they naturally would… and humbly yielded to the natural cycles of nature, going through the seasons of Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall…. always le

The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone is likely to find themselves in places no one has ever been before. - Albert Einstein. All the people in the world want to succeed in their life. Everybody wants to be at the top and get the glory and earn respect from all. But there are only a selected few who end up achieving their goals. There are a lot of reasons for it and I will give you the exact ways about HOW WE CAN BECOME BEST.

rn rnAll events, all experiences have their purpose of creating an opportunity. Events and experiences are opportunities, things that happen. It is what we think of them, do about them, respond to them that gives meaning. These opportunities drawn to you may be created by you individually or collectively through consciousness. Consciousness creates experiencing. In your attempt to raise consciousness, you have drawn these opportunities to you in order that you may use them as

The Flow of life here is related to the concept that when one is in touch with the energy of one’s self or origin, one’s creative intelligence, character and personality flows out. You radiate outward what you feel deeply within yourself. Further, as science explains, this flow has no beginning or end; we originated from something which has no form, no beginning, and no material substance. We are all essentially pure formless energy. So what is formless cannot be destroye

This article was originally published at rochizalani.com The world is a loud place. There are hardly any times when you and I are not listening to man-made sounds. I don’t know how you rebel, but I unconsciously get irritable and cranky in too much noise. As a hideaway, I go for a solitary walk in the park 3-4 times a week at the odd hour of 3:30 in the afternoon. For the half-hour I am there, the only sounds I hear are the chirping of the birds, the rustling of the leaves,

Meditation of Manifestation

Compassion is absolutely brilliant. Compassion is walking in someone else’s shoes and becoming aware of what is happening with another person. It is absolutely necessary to develop compassion, but compassion without detachment is useless. Compassion with attachment is suffering. This is why it is very hard to understand God’s plan. You buy into the illusion that suffering is real. This is especially true when you see young children appearing to suffer. In war-torn countri

One of the great challenges facing many people who want to do transformational work in the world is that they can get stuck in situations where they feel like they are trying to push a boulder up the mountain. They experience so much resistance, or perhaps even harder, an organizational or societal culture that doesn’t want to hear anything they say. They yearn to make a difference and to use their gifts and talents, or even just for someone to acknowledge that they might h

The human race has been poised with the idea of digging its evolutionary roots. Every generation is keen and eager to know how and where we came from, but under the hood, reality is that the more we dig deep down to know where we came from, the more beaming facts we come across. New facts sometimes unlock mysteries and lead to a new mystery. If we back track on the evolutionary genesis of the civilization we would be surprised to know that ancient civilizations had a magnific

Lord Krishna had sixteen thousand queens and He lived a royal and luxurious worldly life. Yet, He is worshipped as God. Why do people around the world worship Him so devoutly? God (i.e. the Pure Soul) had manifested in Krishna!!!rnRevealing His state, Lord Krishna has said, “Where the world is awake, I sleep; and I am awake where the world sleeps.” The world is awake in materialistic worldly matters; that is where Krishna (the Soul) sleeps, and where the world is asleep (

By CLaire Dellar (copyright 2010) It's the end of this year 2010, in few hours.... Like the song, "what have I done?" is my question. And where am I going? Is the other question. We want to feel that our life has a meaning, left a trace, helped others, made a difference etc. all this and more, in whatever words you choose to say it! rnTo me one very important thing in life, is compassion. Compassion means a lot, and can be seen in different ways. The way I like to see it, is

Affirmations have helped thousands of people make significant changes in their lives. But they don’t always work for everyone. Why can one person have great success using this tool while another sees no results at all? An affirmation works because it has the ability to program your mind to believe the stated concept. The unconscious mind doesn’t differentiate between what is real and what is fantasy. When you watch a movie and you laugh or cry, your mind is empathizing wi

I have just returned from Florida from a 3 day workshop on Marketing and had a big A-ha I wanted to share with you. What is the biggest block to making money? Some will say it's not getting enough clients, not having the resources, lack of support or lack of money to get the support you need, right? What if your issues around money wasn't with money at all?

Every living being loves their life. Everyone wants to be happy. The deer in the field wants to be happy. The wolf, the coyote wants to be happy. The plants, the trees want to be happy. And human beings want to be happy, want to feel that life is sweet. And it is a burden that even the wise carry to have an attachment to life and fear of death. Because it is the physical form that fears death, for the form will pass, will die. Earth returns to earth. From dust to dust. Forms return to the physical world from which they came and become the elements of new forms.

When asked how to hold a sword correctly, the actor Errol Flynn replied, “in the same way you would hold a bird, not too tightly and not too loosely. If you hold too tightly you will kill it and if you hold it too loosely it will fly away.” Swashbuckling skills aside, there’s a great deal to be gained from Flynn’s reply if we understand how to apply it in other areas of our lives. Whether we choose it or not, it’s a mandatory condition in our contract with life that

The world today faces a crisis. That crisis is a spiritual crisis. A crisis of the soul, of the heart, expressed in the physical world in the variety of collective circumstances that face the planet today. There is one point about all of these circumstances—the pandemic, the racial problems of discrimination and injustice in various forms around the world, the meaning of conservatism and reaction to the world situation wanting to return to the past and past glories—all of these struggles face humanity, not one country or one continent.

rnAll states of mind reproduce itself in physicality. To have does not produce a state of being. When we start doing things from a place of being, then what we do, brings us things we always wanted to have. This is creation at its best form. In reality, we do not have to do anything, all we need is what are we being. If you want to be happy, start with being happy. Deciding ahead of time what you choose to be can help produce that in your experience. If we need our mind to he

When you move on the path of dharma, you move in harmony with your own nature and with the essential nature of all beings. Can you feel those moments when your thoughts, words, and deeds are in harmony with life? When you sense such harmony, such alignment, then you are truly following dharma.

I’ve been told that one of the most googled questions in China is ‘Who am I?’ (‘Who are you?’) And no doubt, it is probably highly googled throughout the world. So here’s my take on answering this very pertinent question. Look at this article with the intention to see how you can apply it effectively in your life. First, I’ll start by saying who you are NOT (not really). Who you are not is your superficial ego self: the masks you wear. Who you are not (not reall