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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Moving on gracefully: leaving your spiritual group
- While there are alot of warnings and admonishments regarding what to look for in a spiritual community there is very little to rely on when you are contemplating moving on.Most folk consider leaving after some kind of personal blow up. They feel misunderstood or mistrust the leadership of the group. In a heated discussion they decide to quit. There usually isn't alot of thinking about it, m...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - 5 ways to learn more about the orisha
- The Orisha are the Messengers of Oludumare, the God/dess of the Yoruba Traditional Spiritual Tradition known as Ifa. The Yoruba Spiritual Tradition is centered in West Africa in what is now called Nigeria. During the time of the enslavement of African people in the New World, known as the Maafa ( Kiswahilli for Great Disaster), Ifa came to the Americas and the Caribbean. Anyone caught practicing t...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Heaven bound: win the race!
- Billy Graham once said, "Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ."Nothing is out of reach when you put your heart into it. Think about it. Who sets the boundaries and limits in your life? We tend to define ourselves; establish our own boundaries. With God, there are no boundaries, ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Spirituality: enlightening cinema
- "Let me tell you why you're here. You're here because you know something. What you know, you can't explain. But you feel it. You felt it your entire life. That there's something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there. Like a splinter in your mind - driving you mad." -Morpheus, The MatrixThis isn't a movie review list and it's not comprehensive. It's just some notes ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Spirituality: impersonating jed mckenna
- "No man is a prophet in his own country."That line keeps running through my mind as I sit over lunch with my sister who I haven't seen in several years. These days I'm the enlightened guy, but to her I'm just the bratty kid who couldn't make eye contact when she wore a bikini.It's summer '01 and we're having lunch in lower Manhattan. She read a preview copy of Damnedest and has had a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Spirituality: the bottom line
- Whadda ya know?Seriously. With absolute certainty, what do you know? Put aside all opinions, beliefs and theories for a moment and address this one straight question: What do you know for sure? Or, as Thoreau put it:"Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion, and appearance, that allu...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Spirituality: blues for buddha
- Being critical of Buddhism isn't easy.Buddhism is the most likable of the major religions, and Buddhists are the perennial good guys of modern spirituality. Beautiful traditions, lovely architecture, inspiring statuary, ancient history, the Dalai Lama - what's not to like?Everything about Buddhsim is just so... nice. No fatwahs or jihads, no inquisitions or crusades, no terrorists or...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Smoke
- I always thought Ecclesiastes was like Proverbs. That's probably because of the "to every time there is a season. . ." passage. So when a friend of mine read Ecclesiastes from "The Message," I wasn't prepared for her reaction.Her first comment was, "It made no sense." I tried to get her to explain that. She couldn't. She just kept saying things like "It's ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What animal communicators do
- Many people are awakening today to the idea that the animals who live with us are more than child substitutes, more than "pets". The term "pet" means an animal who lives with us for our amusement or as our companion. All animals are, in fact, sentience beings - conscious, intelligent, with life purposes and life goals. They are aware of themselves and of their situations. They make life choices. T...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How i met my angel
- Today I was in rather a whimsical mood, and so instead of my usual "how to" article, I thought I'd create a fairy tale for the child within you to enjoy.When I was just a young soul, on my first incarnation to be a human being, I wasn't sure that I wanted to go to Earth School.I felt so happy here, in Paradise. I did what I liked and I never ran out of time. I played with m...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The healing power of forgiveness
- Forgiveness breaks all bounds of repression and depression. It liberates the psyche from bondage to the past.In fact, I would rank forgiveness as the essence of psychotherapy.As human beings all our limitations arise from our psychic wounding. This wound has been either intentional or accidental, but it drains our vitality. In fact, if it has been grievous enough, it runs our whole l...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Sunday dinner
- No one appreciates mothers enough. In this life, that's a given. The only one who comes closest to a real appreciation is a woman who has become a mother herself, and even she probably doesn't fully appreciate the woman a generation above her.Where did I come to this conclusion? Sitting in a church pew as the priest extolled the virtues of "Keeping Holy the Sabbath." In the sermon...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Drop the negations
- What really binds us to any negative emotional state in which we find ourselves suffering is this: choice.Freedom from negative behavior and thoughts must begin with your recognition that you are voluntarily serving that which puts your own emotional and spiritual peace at risk. Notice the use of the word voluntarily. You voluntarily choose to serve that which diminishes your ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How to find your center of power
- The still place is the beginning. Settle in there, ask for order, and an inner force will prioritize all that you need.Action can be inner or outer, depending on how Spirit wants you to move.It's never about doing something or resolving something. It's always about being.When you settle into your beingness, you also release want and scarcity. The way will then be made plain to...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Enough warm-ups, already!
- Among those arriving to the stadium early were two old timers: a husband and wife who always attended these events, and who were former runners themselves. In fact, they were world-class champions whose races were the stuff of legends. They could recount, if they chose to do so, tales of close races, humiliating defeats, and former glory.Their conversation, however, centered around the newe...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Where is your focus?
- I have a long-term goal--a life-long goal really--to develop the mind of Christ (1 Cor. 2:16). I want to think His thoughts, to share His attitudes, and to see the world and its people as He saw them, as He sees them.Jesus found spiritual truths in every-day incidents, like straining milk into a pitcher or setting aside a lump of dough to rise. I want to find such insights in the world raci...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Do you make these 3 mistakes in your christian life?
- You're probably sabotaging your successful Christian life right now if you're making one or more of these mistakes. Do you know what they are?I'm going to share with you quickly three of the most common mistakes that Christians make and how they can be corrected.Mistake #1: "Being a Christian means I am a sinner that was saved by God's mercy and I'm still a sinner..."This is a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Getting comfortable in your own skin
- What does it mean to be comfortable in your own skin? It's about expressing yourself in a way they feels the most appropriate.When we think about expressing ourselves, we automatically think of the superficial ways. How we dress. The way we wear our hair. The car we drive. If you wear jeans and a T-shirt one day and a business suit the next, what is it expressing about you? Is it that you a...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Anamchara - living the real life
- "Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide No escape from reality."This song goes on to advise, "Open your eyes and see."There is much to see that is beautiful in this life. I am blessed. I get to share words of beauty with others. I get to share the seeing of the real life. This is the wonder of this life beyond the fantasy of...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Anamchara - the value of ritual
- Let me explain my approach to the practice of ritual. For me ritual is an act of presence. It is presenting myself fully in this moment. It is bringing focused attention to what is now. This is assisted by symbols and representations that I imbue with meaning. This is a feeling engagement with what is of real value in this life.In my home I have an altar.On this altar I place various...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Anamchara - meeting with the master
- His name sounds as Finn. He has beautiful blue eyes and the blondest of blond hair. He shares his name with Fionn Mac Cumhail. This is frequently anglicised as Finn Mac Cool. Finn Mac Cool is one of the most celebrated heroes in Irish myth.Little Finn will be tall and beautiful. Now he is small and beautiful. He is learning to talk. He is learning to put distance between his immediacy. Ther...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Anam cara - discovering your being
- The more that "little me" allows surrender the more is done. What is done is "good." This, I know, seems a value judgement. It might be better to say that "what is done is joy." No resistance. No getting in the way. No concern for results. Simply trusting what will be will be. This free flow of feeling energy is the experience of joy.One of the greatest teacher...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Anam chara - telling your story
- We as human beings travelled in small bands for hundreds of thousands of years.Some of our group during the day went hunting for food. In the shelter of the cave, sitting or lying around the fire we told our stories. Maybe before speech we enacted our stories. The stories we told were of courage, endeavour and of feeling afraid. We bands of humans were brought together in these acts of stor...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Anam chara - the flow of life
- I am deeply drawn to the above Irish Blessing.This blessing works for me on very many levels. It includes many words I love. These are the words "listen, "river" and "trout." Two of these words, "listen" and "river" bring me into the present. The other evokes memories of the past. This blessing helps me become a presence and an evoker. I am able ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The dark side of spirituality
- On reading Susan Cato's Time Magazine Canada piece titled, "In Search of the Spiritual," I became increasingly annoyed at the realization that many people keep making the erroneous split between religion and spirituality, when they are one and the same. For example, in the Time Canada piece, Rabbi Leigh Lerner, who leads the Temple Emanu-El?Beth Sholom, a Reform congregation in Montreal,...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Living your noble purpose
- "A common jar of clay can never become a noble masterpiece, unless it is broken by its master, refined in fire, and renewed." ? Sharif KhanThere is a passage in scriptures that I have always found troubling. It reads: "Shall what is formed say to Him who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?' Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some po...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - You are spirit powered (moving to transformation)
- A spiritual event is what happens in every moment of every day of our lives. It is not only about the extraordinary things that happen in our lives that we cannot explain, but everyday things, like working watching TV, making love or going to the bathroom. It is not something that is veiled in mystery, ritual or mystic ceremonies. Being spiritual is being ordinary. Everything is spiritual we are s...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The emptiness that binds the universe
- What is the opportunity here? What is the benefit of this difficulty? What is the gift? ~ Marc AllenIt's strange--behind the terror and confusion of the world, behind the frustration of things not working out for us or anyone else, and behind the unending battles of struggle--there is an inner joy, a radiance that shines in the heart, an awareness that exists forever. One day, when w...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The five essential secrets of managing your energy successfully
- Inspirational author Vernon Howard wrote, "Would you be worried over a $300 house payment if you had $3,000,000 in the bank? Spiritually, that is the way it can be for you."We can use our energy in one of two ways. We can use it to battle stress and anxiety, or we can use it to awaken MORE energy.Here's proof this is so: When you're having a good day, things don't bother you like the...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Working with the light
- I do not want curiosity seekers, who come for a novel experience. There is a phrase that has been used down through the ages for such people. "Do not cast the Pearl before the swine". The swine comes across a precious jewel on the trail and does not recognize it value. It is unfortunate for humans that most fall into the swine category! Please do not be offended by my remark! Every soul is at a di...