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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Anam cara - making sense of life
- We make sense of our world via the senses. The senses are gateways. They keep us locked into a certain reality but they can be the medium of freedom from the limitation we call "our life." For too long religion has labelled the senses as something "not quite nice." For too long we have separated our senses as being something "not spiritual." Many of our religions have...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Equal in the eyes of god
- There was a time in my life when I seriously wondered whether there was intelligent life on other planets.As a child, I believed that we human beings here on the planet Earth were God's only children. I learned early on how special we were: we were made in God's image, to look after His planet. There was no other force in the universe (which I envisioned as a big, black void with our planet...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Actualizing personal truth
- Self-actualization comes down to three basic premises: this is who I am, this is what I believe and the foundation on which my life is built, and this is the way I manifest that belief system on a daily basis.If you say that you live by the Golden Rule, but treat other people with a lack of respect, then you are dishonest, and others will perceive you as hypocritical.If you say that ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Accepting non-acceptance
- It's not always easy to stand in the midst of a group of people (particularly if those people are people that we have known and are attached to emotionally) and be different. To think differently, to believe differently, to respond differently, to live a different life than our friends and our family are living is, in a sense, the "toughest challenge" of manifesting our spiritual self. The threat ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Livin on a prayer
- When I was a child, I thought as a child, and I prayed as a child. Every night I closed my eyes tightly and said the words my mother taught me:"Now I lay me down to sleep,I pray the Lord my soul to keep.If I should die before I wake,I pray the Lord my soul to take."I didn't have the faintest idea what it meant, or why I was supposed to say it every night before I...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Connecting to spirit
- Every soul that is currently experiencing life on any level begins and ends as a whole. Our essence ? the very core of our spiritual being ? remains One with God. We always have been, and always will be, a part of 'the whole' that is the God-consciousness level.Our soul essence, which began as whole, remains whole throughout the soul growth process, and will still be whole when the growth p...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Creating our own emotional chaos
- It's amazing how - even when we're working from a "higher vision" - we still see the people, the events and the circumstances in our lives with the same perspective: our own! It's "only human" to always be able to see how right we are in any given situation, and it's always difficult - and sometimes impossible! - to look at ourselves and our actions through the other person's eyes. But if we reall...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Going where youve never gone before
- One of the first issues people on the spiritual path have to address is a doctrinal one: Is it wrong to ask questions that I've never asked before? Is asking questions about the truth we've been taught "sinful?" Your answer can have a dramatic effect on your ability to explore who you are and what you believe in without guilt!If anyone has ever told you that the path to spiritual self-aware...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Bone box of the rich and famous
- The contrast between the two men could not have been more striking. Caiaphas, the high priest, was among the rich and famous, arguably the most powerful Jew alive in A.D. 30. He had married into the high priest's family and now was himself high priest for a year by Roman appointment. With a PhD-level rabbinic education, Caiaphas was urbane and sophisticated.His counterpart was said to be a ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What is wrong with being common?
- The Emmaus Journal What is Wrong With Being Common? This questioning title has tenaciously lingered in my mind for the past few months. Precociously tethered within a shallow stigma and pushed to the cliff of distasteful obsolescence; it seemingly mustered one final effort within my mind to be heard. It's voice almost now a muted whisper bends my mind into a straining listenin...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Carelessness
- "For lack of guidance a nation falls, but many advisors make a victory sure." --Proverbs 11:14, NIVLove, that is the one thing that is above the law. Every single thing we do always affects someone else. This past summer my family was at the First Holy Communion of my little nephew. I am not a Catholic although I grew up as one. I have chosen a non-denominational Christian Bible-based churc...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - A bellyful of mindfulness
- Taco Bell, the Mexican fast-food franchise, has a new ad campaign focusing on the slogan, "Get full." The commercials show people ecstatically announcing that they are full--thanks, of course, to the huge value meals now available at Taco Bell.We know that feeling full isn't simply a matter of building a bigger, better burrito. There's a whole lotta emptiness going on, and it's not always f...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Becoming enlightened
- Enlightenment, which is as varied as each individual's fingerprint, is an experience of regaining our perfection in God or Christ consciousness, and words alone cannot express the joyfulness and peace in that discovery. God energy is perfect energy, and because we are God's offspring, so are we perfect. Standard religious beliefs try to convince us that this perfection is achieved somewhere in the...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - How its always now
- How do we feel the fullness of life itself?We have to go underneath the busy mind. And go into that deep sense of being itself. Here we find love, inspiration, and our own free spirit.In your field of consciousness, there is a deep sense of eternal, timeless awareness. It is an inner silence. The psychology of well being originates here.Yet the silence is full. It has an ampli...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Can you live the christ life?
- Were you lied to as newborn Christian? I was...let me explain.You are a Christian, right? So, Can you live the Christ life? Well I guess I want to get a little more involved than that. I want to ask you if you can live the Christ life by your own effort!If you're like me, you were probably brought up in a Church where the pastor told you every Sunday how you were supposed to act. He ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - What is the spiritual path?
- For many years of my life, I thought the spiritual path had something to do with following one of the major world religions or pursuing an Eastern practice. I even thought it had something to do with morality and ethics.Today my comprehension of the spiritual path has changed completely. Instead of the complexity of any of the disciplines to becoming a good person, I have found that the pat...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Homeless, rejected, and poor
- Fanny J. Crosby's famous hymn, "Tell Me the Story of Jesus," describes the Savior in terms of Isaiah 53: "He was despised and afflicted," and then adds, "homeless, rejected, and poor." Last week, as we sang this beautiful song, I focused on that word, "homeless," and thought about all of the connotations we give to it these days.It's hard to imagine Jesus ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Spiritual growth: measures for how youre doing
- In my yard are quarter-circles of grass growing taller than the rest. There 's also a 12-foot circle with no grass. What explains these phenomena? Alien laser blasts? A Martian landing site? No. The arcs are where we threw lawn fertilizer, and the circle is where the above-ground pool stood. Whether growth is fast, slow, or non-existent, the difference is easy to discern.Paul tells his oppo...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - The world revolves around me
- Lately I have become aware of a new truth that is formulating in my life.After years of study in New Age and New Thought a new awareness of self is emerging. I created this site to pass on any new wisdom I may have gained to those that may receive benefit from it. Many times over the last year that wisdom has been reflected back to me by others that I have brought into my life either physic...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Penthouse or basement? the spiritual realm is topsy-turvy
- Am I dreaming? The sign outside the skyscraper reads: "Spiritual Realm." I hurry straight to the elevator. "Up, please," I tell the operator.She looks confused? "Up? You want to go up?""Certainly!" I swallow my annoyance. "To the top." The elevator starts ascending rapidly. I fidget."Isn't it getting stuffy in here?" ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - No other gods before me
- The passenger had to be carried onto the plane and carefully strapped into a first-class seat. She said nothing. As the airliner achieved cruising altitude, perhaps the flight attendants came around. "Would you like a beverage?" one may have asked. No reply. "What about a meal?" The question was ignored. Undoubtedly, the passenger said nothing. She didn't move, didn't look out ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - People fail in life because they do not plan
- Life is growth. For many people life is like a merry go round. They feel life is going to work, paying bills, spend time with family that is it. You must always ask this question. Is this all I want in my life? Are you utilizing your God given potential? You must make a choice of how you want to live your life.The human mind is so powerful that it can achieve whatever it wants. Past Conditi...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Anam cara - life as a box of paints
- Lonely Song"a box of paints - lament for my da"It has been a wonderful morning full of feelings. Feelings arise and feelings go. First there is delight. Then there is sorrow. Then again there is delight. I sit playing guitar in the early morning sunshine and the mail arrives. In the mail is a gift from a friend. On opening this mail I find new delight. I have been sent a ma...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Anam cara - watching the river flow
- I love rivers. I have for many years lived away from rivers. Yet, when I ever felt unhappy or uninspired I would seek out a pathway along the nearest river to my home.I have returned home to Ireland following many happy years in England. I am blessed now to live close to the River Shannon near to the first village on the Shannon. This is the village called "Dowra." In Irish the name is an D...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - You can influence your fortunes in life
- Natural laws exist that serve to maintain order in the universe. These laws are usually manifested as regularity in nature (as in the seasons) or as a relationship between cause and effect. In the physical realm natural laws exist which govern the behaviour of matter. Examples of such laws are Newton’s Laws of Motion. In the social aspect of life, natural laws also exist that regulate human ...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Discover who you are and why you are here
- You are a Creative Worker:God carries on creative work through human beings. Human beings serve as instrument of transformation of thoughts and ideas from the spiritual state to the physical state. Our mind which is an aspect of the brain mechanism is a creative device which enables us to relate to spiritual as well as physical existence.Our role in the creative process involves rece...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Humility, not pride: keeping ice off your bow
- Tony was a professinoal salt-water fisherman. He explained how he cruised out to sea each morning, coming back each evening with his catch. "Is there a part of the year you can 't go out?" I asked. "The winter--too risky. Below freezing, the spray starts forming ice on the bow. The added weight makes the bow of the boat lie lower in the water. Inexperienced guys fishing in winter...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - To witness the life that is god
- My wife, our friend and I went to listen to a concert in one of the well known Halls in Melbourne. After parking our car two elderly ladies showed us where the entrance was and we began walking toward it. Coming down from a small asphalt slope on the way we suddenly heard an alarming sound behind us, turned around and saw that one of these ladies had fallen heavily. She sustained a deep wound on h...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Getting your feelings down on paper
- Journal ExpressionsIf you haven't already done so, please start keeping a journal today. It is one of the most effective ways to hear your own voice. You should not share the information in your journal with anyone. These are your private and innermost sacred thoughts. You should not hold back in any way when expressing yourself within your journal. Let it flow freely, using any language th...
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- 2007-11-13 22:16:19 - It seems we have all taken a pow
- Just for a moment think of what is stopping you from living your dream. Is it fear? Is it change? Most people in today's world have thought that at some point in their spirits evolution that money is the root of all evil. The correct way to look at that is that the love of money is the root of all evil. Money itself is a means to an end.In order to achieve anything in this world we need res...