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Karma, Free Will, and Destiny

2008-09-21T01:24:59Z

http://www.beliefnet.com/story/101/story_10170_1.html

The question of karma, destiny and free will has baffled the scholars and philosophers from time immemorial. It is the most misunderstood and misinterpreted subject in the philosophy of life. However, the ancient sages were very clear in understanding this subject and have tried to elucidate us through their teachings. Here, Vedic astrology plays an important role in trying to explain the role of karma, destiny and free will. This is a very complicated and difficult subject to deal with. However, I am trying to throw some light as I understand it.

The quest for knowledge, truth and happiness is as old as life itself and all the choices we make are aimed at attaining this happiness and avoiding unhappiness. Astrology seeks to guide one in this natural urge towards greater fulfillment by revealing one’s past karma and the resultant samskaras, which determine the way one perceives the world.

Karma is the activity of doing and being, and it is action born of desire, which holds the self in bondage. The sages have understood that the problem of life is how to live with acceptance of one’s limitations yet at the same time maximize the opportunities for growth.

What is karma? The cardinal doctrine of karma is the law of cause and effect in accordance with the maxim "as you sow so shall you reap." Karma is due to our actions and our actions are due to our thoughts. Karma is what we have already created by our actions in the past that will bear result in the future.

Therefore, the future is based on the past. There is no favoritism in the determination of the law of karma as everyone is treated equally, and equal opportunity for growth is given to everyone as well. We have to experience our karma of the past. The astrologer only reads the planetary influences that simply indicate the results of the previous karmas. Therefore there is nothing like fate in the absolute sense, controlling our lives. It is only the law of karma, therefore, which impels human beings to live a right kind of living, for failure to do so may create bad karma which will make us suffer. Having this knowledge helps regulate our actions, thus making the individual wiser and better.

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Destiny is Variable

2008-09-20T17:22:25Z

by Owen Waters

In the Old Reality, things were seen as opposites - black or white, hot or cold, good or bad, this way or that way. In the expanded view of New Reality consciousness, life is seen in a unified way. Opposite sides of the coin are viewed, not as polar opposites, but rather as just being different aspects of the one coin.

In the New Reality view of the world, the opposite extremes of black and white become, instead, endless shades of gray. Hot and cold become variable degrees of warmth. Good and bad become different shades of human nature; free of the judgment, hate and fear that comes with Old Reality, polarized thinking.

In the Old Reality, destiny and free will were seen as mutually exclusive. The reasoning was that, if destiny exists, then it controls everything and, therefore, free will does not exist. On the other hand, you can prove that free will does exist by making a choice. So, as the thinking goes, if free will does exist, then there can be no destiny.

But, wait. Perhaps that choice of "free will" was really a pre-destined one. Perhaps the person was destined to make that choice all long, so the experience of choice was just an illusion. At this point, people usually give up on the whole question because it has turned into one of those brain teasers, like asking which came first - the chicken or the egg.

Brain teasers keep your mind in an endless loop until you try stepping back from the situation and seeing it in a wider perspective. The new, wider perspective allows for the inclusion of non-materialistic factors. In deciding whether the chicken or the egg came first, for example, you just have to step back and see that the Creator designed the chicken to be self-perpetuating.

When you step back and see destiny and free will from a wider perspective, you realize that nothing has to be absolute. If every event in your life were pre-ordained, there would be no such thing as free will or self-determination. As we do have free will, destiny cannot be fixed.

Destiny is therefore variable, not fixed. Destiny and free will both exist as interwoven facets of your life. Like threads in a tapestry, they interact with each other and blend to form the outcomes that are the events in your life.

Your destiny is created by plans that you made at a soul level of consciousness. Before you were born, you made your main plan for this life. Then, the minute you were born, the rules of the game demanded that you also get a case of amnesia about the whole arrangement. Such is the game of life in the physical realm.

However, at night when you go to sleep, you have the chance to visit the deepest levels of human consciousness and review how the original plan is unfolding and make changes to your plan if desired. When you return to your physical body and awake in the morning, amnesia strikes again. Within seconds of your conscious mind returning into your physical brain, you forget both the surface dreams and the deep experiences of the night.

Amnesia may be a part of the game we are playing in this life, but inner guidance is always is always available to anyone who pays attention to it. Your intuition is your link to your soul, or inner being, which is also linked to the rest of the universe and all levels of Creation.

You are never left alone to fumble in the darkness of a purely physical life. Your inner being is always there with you, expressing itself through the quiet whisperings of intuitive information. Thanks to this inner compass of knowing, you can always sense which choice feels right. You can always tell when your life is running on plan, and you can tell equally well if you've become temporarily distracted from your plan. You always have the means to be right on course, or get back on course, and explore the fascinating themes that make up your life plan.

The most productive use of free will is to explore your true potential within the themes of your life, thus gaining the greatest possible experience from your life plan.

Destiny is an influence that comes from your inner plan. There is nothing absolute about your destiny. It's a pressure which constantly seeks the best route to unfold into manifestation.

Free will provides the means to manifest that destiny in a way that provides the learning that you came here to acquire in this life.

Destiny is variable. It adapts to the circumstances of your life every second of the day. As destiny unfolds, you feel it within as a sense of being a part of the flow of life, of manifesting your potential in the way that you planned for this day and that you planned for this life.

Destiny is the plan. Free will is the action. Experience is the result.

That's what being human is all about.

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Jan's Spiller goddess Oracle

2008-09-20T17:17:03Z

Hi,
I was just on Jan's Spiller's website doing the free goddess oracle insight. I asked a personal question about a relationship/friendship about a guy I know and love. The question was something like How do I know if such and such is heading in the right direction.

The oracle responded 'consider the influence of THE DESTINED PATH. Your destiny was chosen before birth for the benefit of the planet. Ther are a thousand roads leading to your destiny and you can choose the route you feel will bring you happiness. if your current route is blocked, it is probably contrary to your destiny. Try alternate path until you feel guidance and support. This answre signifies that you are learning a life lesson.

Now, can anyone tell what she is talking about? I am confused.

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The Law of Intention

2008-09-01T18:49:31Z

http://www.7thunders.com/Articles/lawofintention.html

Its not what we do, its why we do it.
Its not what we want, but why we want it.

The law of intention states that what happens to us in life is created not by what we do, but why we are doing it. If there is one truth about life that makes all the difference in our success and failure, and in our happiness and unhappiness, it is the understanding of this one principle. One could say that the Ace of Spades, the card that is the symbol of the Order of the Magi and of all the ancient mystic traditions, is also the symbol for the understanding of this truth. This is because the Ace of Spades represents the truth that lies behind the Maya (illusion) that we see in life. Intention is very much like this. It is the truth that lies behind our actions, thought, and words. It is the motivator and if we examine the process of creation carefully, we see that intention is the determining factor in the results we achieve, not the acts themselves which is what is commonly held to be true.

Recently I read a book that described a process where each day a person is to review their goals in life. But instead of just having us make a list of our goals, this author took the process a step further. He said to make a list of goals and then review each goal on the list and ask myself, 'what is it that I really want from the achieving of that goal?' 'What is it that I am seeking that this goal will serve to fulfill in me? This is a powerful and challenging thing to do. It is challenging because it causes me to look within myself for the deeper meanings to my actions, etc.

This is something that most people have never done and if you haven't done it before, you will find that it requires more concentration and self-awareness than you might expect. Also, looking at our goals in this way reveals very intimate details of our life, some of which we may have been wanting to avoid or keep secret. However, once it has been done, it is also much more powerful than just making a to-do list. What I found out was that many of the things on my list of goals had common intentions. Without getting too personal here, I will say that I discovered that many of my goals had the ultimate intention of fulfilling parts of myself that I felt unfulfilled about. And these unfulfilled parts were old friends of mine, things that I have been working with, off and on, for my whole life. What a revelation that was!

We really don't want to talk about what we are really up to, what our real intentions are. We want everyone to believe that we are doing things for such and such a reason and leave it at that. However, for each person the real intention behind their work, actions, etc. is usually something much more personal and self-oriented. Sure, others may benefit by their achieving their goals. But ultimately it was done for their own, personal reasons.

In the past few months I have learned how to fly an airplane. It is something that I always wanted to do and something that I was afraid I would never learn how to do. So, I went out and found an instructor and began taking lessons. A person usually does their first 'solo' flight about ten hours into their instruction. And I was approaching that point but for some reason I couldn't master landing the aircraft. I would just get real afraid and over control the plane during the landing. At that point I thought I would never get beyond that point. My instructor was wise enough to know what to do and he helped me get over my fears and just 'fly the airplane' as he would say. From then on, I have had no fear of flying whatsoever. This gave me such a feeling of accomplishment that I was high for two or three weeks. Even now, months later, I get quite a rush out of going flying.

What I realize about this is that my true intention in learning to fly was to feel that sense of accomplishment. It helped me to take some pride in myself and to give myself credit for something that I valued. Therein lies my hidden motivation. What I was seeking was more self-respect and self-confidence. That was my true intention. And having these two, self-respect and self-confidence, has been one of the long-term themes of my life. Here is was again, now in a different form, but still the same thing occurring on an inner level. Wouldn't it be nice if I could just give myself all the respect and confidence that I desire without having to achieve anything to deserve it? Sure it would! And that is the kind of realization that comes from taking a closer look at our inner intentions.

I don't know exactly how it happened or why I do it, but I have developed a habit of always asking myself what others' true intentions are, and of not looking at what they are doing on the external level. Things that people do rarely impress me anymore. When I see some great sports figure or really any person of fame I am not impressed until I discover what their true intentions were. I know too well that most people who achieve great things are doing it because of a huge inner lack that they feel. Sure, I may tell myself that I wouldn't mind having all the perks that they have, the things that came with accomplishing what they have. But even those things would not interest me if I had to also feel the great sense of inner poverty that some of these folks experience on a daily basis. The people that really do impress me are the one who just love what they are doing. Those are the ones that I search for when I need a service done. Wouldn't it be nice, for example, to have someone care for your lawn who truly loves lawn care, landscaping, etc.?

It isn't that hard to see if someone's intentions are love-based or fear-based. People whose primary motivation is some perceived lack are unhappy. They strain at what they do, they struggle. They are interested in the reward found at the end of what they are doing and not in the doing itself. They don't enjoy the process of getting to their goals, only the goals themselves. Because of this, they generally make more mistakes and do a sloppy job. They are often angry and they may bitch and complain a lot about their working conditions. They whine. And their condition generally gets worse as time passes.

Some people devote an entire lifetime of work and effort to prove that they are something. For example, many people perceive themselves as having been rejected by their father. From then on, all their actions, all their striving to be perfect or successful, are all motivated by their wanting their father to accept them. There are people who have attained the heights of fame and fortune who were motivated by this one basic thing. But what happens to someone in this frame of mind? Usually the result of such a life is that after all their struggles they still feel empty inside and unfulfilled. The lucky ones realize at some point along the way that they cannot keep waiting for their father's approval, but instead must give it to themselves.

But this brings us to a very important point about intention. If you get this clearly in your mind you may never need exhaust yourself trying to be anything again. And here it is: All the time we spend doing things to try and prove that we are something or someone simply reinforces that which we are trying NOT to be. Let's say that I think that I am unattractive.

So, I go out and buy nice clothes, get makeup, maybe some plastic surgery, workout and lose weight, etc. All these actions, on the surface seem to be remedies for my condition (unattractiveness). But all the while I am doing these things, inside I am reinforcing my belief in my unattractiveness. It actually has the opposite effect of what I think I am doing. Action is a powerful thing. It tends to create and recreate things in our life.

If any action is based in the belief of lack in some area, it's powerful energy goes towards making more of that very lack we perceive. Even if I were successful in making myself attractive, my inner state would have actually increased more into the belief that I am unattractive since my intentions were based in that lack. This is why we find rich people who never have enough money, beautiful people who have low self esteem and choose abusive relationships, and others who drive themselves nearly to death to prove that they are okay.

Finding out our own intention and those of others around us puts us in touch with a higher level of truth. When we do this we have less surprises. For ourselves, personally, this can save us decades of effort and struggle. It's never the thing or person that we are really interested in, its what having that thing or person makes us feel about ourselves. Why not go directly to the source and just give ourselves what we really want? In dealing with others, knowing their true intentions tells us what to expect of them and how to deal with them effectively. It may help us create a circle of acquaintances that are better for us - ones that support the good things we want for ourselves. All in all, being aware of everyone at this deeper level can make us walking mystics.

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lLife Purpose Exercise

2008-07-26T05:06:39Z

Exercise

This is a life purpose exercise that I use for helping others find out what they came here to do …this may be something you want to keep to yourself or please share, …give 3 descriptive words (Adj) and when you are done i'll come back with the final instructions and what they mean.

Life Purpose Statement

Life Purpose Statement list at least 3 words that describe you again this may be private and personal …later I will share with you what to do with the results.

Ex: I am insightful, mystical, sensual, loving...

I am …

When I was a child I always love to …

When I was a child I always wanted to be

The qualities I like about myself are …

I shine when …

Activities I love to do now are …

I excel at …

I am most myself when …would like to have more …

What I do effortlessly is …

I keep being drawn to …

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Affirmations to Change Negative Thoughts

2008-04-13T16:30:57Z

Using Affirmations to Change Negative Thoughts and Habit Patterns To Create A Better Life

http://www.aquariuspapers.com/astrology/2008/04/using-affirmati.html

Many people have asked over the years about "creating reality using affirmations to replace any negative tapes that may be playing in our heads.” While we know we have this power, why then do so many negative thoughts and feelings persist regardless of our affirmations?

It's important to note here that the recurrence, at least for a while, of seemingly negative patterns and mental tapes may be perfectly natural as they die out due to our affirmations and mental self-control. It's like they must reassert their reality so that we can consciously antidote them in the moment, thus redirecting the energies while processing the thought form. It's also good to see them as having no substantial reality in and of themselves, since that helps us detach from giving them any emotional magnetic substance at all.

Of course, finding the right affirmations to replace negative mental tapes, whether about people, things, experiences, or anything else, is a great idea. We know that “matter follows thought” and “thoughts are things,” so it's important to take time to train our minds to bring forth positive and useful thoughts rather than repeat the same old unhelpful images that are making us feel negative. Being mindful of our speech helps us become more precise in expressing the best thought form we can in the moment.

The five senses and the mind like to refer to that which is known and familiar. We are programmed to take in sensory information, and then we seek to interpret it using the experiences we’ve had. That of course can lead to very erroneous assumptions, since what’s going on may have no relationship to what has been. Illusions and delusions http://www.aquariuspapers.com/astrology/2006/05/illusions_delus.html are something we must all endure and learn to recognize in our path to becoming wise in our experience.

All our experiences, feelings, and ideas are impressed on our “holographic” subtle bodies, composed of who we are ethereally. All we do, feel, and think impresses vibratory thought-forms on our “auric egg,” as well as our astral and mental shells. Experiences leading to Self-realization create productive patterns in our subtle body that express as helpful actions, feelings, and thoughts, while experiences that create suffering for ourselves or others lead to distorted plates of images stored in our subconsciousness. This article from The Magic of Space http://www.aquariuspapers.com/astrology/2006/07/visible_and_inv.html will help explain our subtle bodies.

We begin the process of dealing with our negative tapes by our willingness to confront the negative images in our subconscious and enter into the dance of destroying those that are creating negative tapes in our life. We can track these subconscious patterns by examining the negative tapes themselves, and understanding what gave rise to those tapes within us. Even if they seem to be justified by our experience, that doesn't matter. Regardless of the cause, we must antidote the subconscious factors if we are to achieve the goal of erasing negative tapes.

It is one thing to target the tapes of negative feelings, thoughts, and responses; it is another thing to be able to antidote them. The tapes grow stronger through repetition, despite the fact that we know they are not making us feel better or resolve our problems. It is important to be consistently mindful so that even if you catch yourself instinctively playing a negative tape, stop in that moment and re-direct your mind to a more altruistic view. Uncontrolled emotions and thoughts are often the cause of the negative tapes we play.

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Trouble Me

2008-03-30T16:49:50Z

Effective immediately, please be aware these are changes we can make in OUR life.
These will grant you peace, joy and happiness. I apologize for any inconvenience

this message is from the divine spiritual intelligence

Please follow... My Blog http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog/fa5a6c1e-bcaa-42e6-bfd6-edcfce06d4ac

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10000 Maniacs Lyrics

Trouble me, disturb me with all your cares and your worries.
Trouble me on the days when you feel spent.
Why let your shoulders bend underneath this burden
when my back is sturdy and strong?
Trouble me.

Speak to me, don't mislead me, the calm I feel means a storm is swelling;
there's no telling where it starts or how it ends.
Speak to me, why are you building this thick brick wall to defend me
when your lonely separation is my greatest fear?
Why let your shoulders bend underneath this burden
when my back is sturdy and strong?
Speak to me.

Let me have a look inside these eyes while I'm learning.
Please don't hide them just because of tears.
Let me send you off to sleep with a
"There, there, now stop your turning and tossing."
Let me know where the hurt is and how to heal.

Spare me? Don't spare me anything troubling.
Trouble me, disturb me with all your cares and you worries.
Speak to me and let our words build a shelter from the storm.

Lastly, let me know what I can mend.
There's more, honestly, than my sweet friend, you can see.
Trust is what I'm offering if you trouble me

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Follow this link to keep the path to bliss available-

2007-12-17T21:44:13Z

Well, my dear loved ones and star being family,

As eye hold space for ascension and the evolution of the soul, other dark forces are vying for their lot - what's to do? eye keep posting invitations and calls for action on the Ambassadors of Love Consciousness tribe, though, in the past, eye have gotten little response. how long do we think we can sit here... caught up in our apathy or exhaustion from 9-5 entanglements? what resources can we give, you give, eye give to this global transformation- eye don't know about you, but eye think feudalism is long outdated and way over-rated. freedom is a relative term, though it's complete truth lies in us each through our own manifestations of internal reflection. which is one way that eye know so many of your loving, creative, beautiful, passionate, liberated beings. and, with this in mind, it is very much time for the Jedi council to be held on a global scale with gr8 magnitude. we must assemble- the truth of our souls is praying that we move now, and gather together. of course, consider the likely result of our apathy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJoIbPkRvig

if it does not work to click on this link, then simply paste it in your address window- i ask thee all watch part 1 and 2 at least- the rest is also very good, though only if you are interested at this point. note: part 3 and 4 are repeats, though 5 picks up and continues to 7...

please spread the awareness of the activities of these dark souls- we must join together if we are to have the liberated loving evolution of being we so long for-

praises and gratitude to the all high spirit and home of our loving bliss-

In'Lakesh,

Tasi

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can dreams really help the intuition??

2007-11-30T16:56:14Z

Hi,

Lately, I've been unlocking a few strange dreams I had within the last couple of months. Did a little reasearch and realized that my intuition is becoming better with the help of my dreams.

Has dreaming helped you use your intuition?

thanks!

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Feeling vs intuiton

2007-08-25T06:52:46Z

hi,

I'm at a stage in my life where I;m trying to figure out is the difference between feeling vs intution. I think I'm using my feelings when something is wrong but after discussing the situation my feeling is wrong (actually my feelings are always wrong). How can use my intuition with out jepordizing my feelings. How can I get that inner voice to become valid?

Does this make sense? Should I just "drop" the subject matter and let god handle it?

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3rd dimension to the 4th (manifest from the heart)

2007-08-13T20:00:49Z

"If you could clearly see the signposts Spirit/God keeps sending to guide your journey, would you chart a different course If you could heal the parts of your life that aren't working, what might that mean? I ask because that is my work in this world. Having been given the gift of "reading" Light and hearing its messages, I share those images and words with others to help them make better choices, remove illusions, and achieve their goals."

Prosperity

There has been so much in the media over the past year around The Law of Attraction. And so many of us are baffled because we can't seem to manifest the way we used to. Why is that you wonder? The answer is simple. As we raise our vibration and move from the 3rd dimension to the 4th, we need to learn to manifest in a different manner. It's not about manifesting from the solar plexus and the place of will, but rather learning to manifest from the heart with gratitude and joy.

The Zero Point Effect tells us that there are unlimited opportunities and possibilities, and where you place your attention is what you will manifest, but we now need the heart and the soul to be congruent with those choices. But it goes both ways- you can manifest poverty or wealth, depending upon which end of the spectrum in which you resonate. As so many of us are unconscious to our values, beliefs and fears that we often do not know where we reside on the pendulum.

Many my clients believe that they are "unworthy" of the riches that they seek. As an intuitive, that's where I come in and help the client release the "junk" that prevents them from being all that they can be. And sometimes, it's not their stuff, sometimes it can be passed down from the family orothers! But we tend to hold on to values, beliefs and fears that aren't ours because we feel that we should. And then we go and make choices based off of those values, beliefs and fears which are incongruent with the real us. We continually punish ourselves with guilt for our poor decisions in life.

So to manifest with the heart is to come from a place of allowing, knowing that you deserve whatever you desire but to act as if it is already done. Ask anyone who understands the Law of Attraction and you know that we attract whatever that resides in us. That's why if we feel that we are less than, we attract partners who remind us that we are. Or if we don't feel love for ourselves, we attract partners who act like they don't love us.

We always attract our incompleteness. Or you can say that there is nothing outside of you that isn't already inside. So that is why it is so important that you act like it is already a done deal. And it needs to come from a place of gratitude or joy. These emotions put the "energy in motion" and says to the universe, I AM complete as I AM or in other words, that you are not coming from a place of lack.

I remember years back when I left my high income job to pursue my gifts as an intuitive and healer. Money was not flowing to me as it had been. This was scary! I had put myself into a place of lack. But the Universe reminded me that this wasn't so. I was told to look inside of my jewelry box- did I not see gemstones? People in lack do not have gemstones. And of course, I had many gemstones in my box. And once I put everything into perspective, I realized how rich I was compared to a person living a shelter. It's about the Law of Relativity.

And we are all entitled to wealth, or the original meaning of that word "well-being". It is divinely ours. As God says, I AM the Creator. If God made us in his image, then aren't we all an aspect of God? And therefore we are ALL creators!

So now is the time is to have the mind set to allow, to know that all things are abundant, and to have the awareness that there are doors opening before you. The challenge is to realize that you are deserving to walk through these doors, and then to decide which opportunities make your heart sing with joy! Allow your prosperity flow to you!

-Mary

Get a reading from Mary

http://www.12listen.com/advisors.cfm?full_name=Mary+Powers

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10 Ways to Receive Gracefully

2007-07-25T14:47:28Z

Dawn established herself as a gifted psychic and entrepreneur extraordinaire.

http://www.12listen.com/advisors.cfm?full_name=Dawn+McIntyre

Most of us are very good at giving of our time, efforts, money and possessions to other people and yet we tend to experience many difficulties in receiving even half as much for ourselves. The key to life is to live in balance; this includes balancing giving with receiving. I would like to share with you ten ways to develop your "receiving muscle" and to reclaim your power to manifest the life you desire.

1. Make a daily list of everything that you desire to accomplish that day. This process will release your intentions to the Universe and will also allow you to feel in control of your day. Be as specific as possible and be sure to include things you have to do but perhaps don't want to do. Also include things that you desire to be accomplished by others. At the end of your list thank God for the "divine fulfillment" and the "divine success" that you will experience that day. Let it go and trust. Be prepared to be pleasantly surprised by the items on your list that are 'magically' taken care of by the Universe.

2. Digging for gold is a technique taught to me by Sonia Choquette and it really works. First make a list of at least 200 things that you would do if you weren't afraid. Then, for 30 days straight, tell someone in your family or a friend what you would do that day 'if you weren't afraid'. Name two or three different things each day and then choose one that you will bravely walk through the fear of doing and actually, just do it; liberating and empowering yourself completely in the process. Start with something small and work up to more challenging desires. You will gain the confidence that you need to accomplish almost anything and you will learn that there is nothing to fear except fear itself. Once you walk through fear, it's gone.

3. Ask a loved one to compliment you either in person or by words of affirmation sent in an email. This will serve to help you practice the art of receiving gracefully. I recommend that you do this daily for at least six weeks as this length of time will establish what you have learned to accept for yourself as a habit. And what a great habit to have!

4. Give to yourself often, and especially when you feel resistant to doing so. Ask your soul to guide you in what you can give to yourself and feel completely nurtured and full at the same time. You can call this 'filling your own love tank'. Be sure to listen to your heart for the responses from your soul; therein lies your divine guidance.

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Dreamtime Festival!

2007-07-24T17:53:57Z

Yo Dreamers, Lovers, Be-livers:

Here's the latest on spreadin' the Good Word. Let's rise-up- So, check out this in-house mix, and feel free to send it out everywhere; muah- you're all so beautiful: www.youtube.com/watch

Love and Gratitude,

Tasi

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Free online course from the Secret ....

2007-02-19T22:45:44Z

A friend of mine shared this with me .... I am sharing it with you....:)

I'm sending you this link to an online course offered by the teachers of "The Secret" That is going to go on weekly for the next 7 weeks. Normally they charge for this, but Are offering free registration for a limited time to celebrate their being on Oprah. Thought you might be interested in signing up. I did to increase the ability to attract my vision in my life. It's not something you have to physically be online for at a certain time... you can download the 'lesson' in video or print to your computer or listen from a link. Today is the first day / week & the first lesson. If you're interested join ASAP as it is limited for free. To join click on the link below or copy & paste it into your browser address bar.

www.themastersofthesecret.com/

Peace and blessings,
Sunshine

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The Hero's Journey (On Living in the World)

2007-02-14T22:59:23Z

This is one of my favorites, sent to me by SunRon

The Hero's Journey
(On Living in the World)

by Joseph Campbell

The privilege of a lifetime
Is being who you are.

What you have to do,
You do with play.

Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.

The meaning of life is
Whatever you ascribe it to be.

Being alive is the meaning.

The warrior’s approach
Is to say “yes” to life: “Yea” to it all.

Participate joyfully
In the sorrows of the world.

We cannot cure the world of sorrows,
But we can choose to live in joy.

When we talk about
Settling the world’s problems,
We’re barking up the wrong tree.

The world is perfect. It’s a mess.
It has always been a mess.

We are not going to change it.

Our job is to straighten out
Our own lives.

We must be willing to get rid of
The life we’ve planned, so as to have
The life that is waiting for us.

The old skin has to be shed
Before the new one can come.

If we fix on the old, we get stuck.
When we hang onto any form,
We are in danger of putrefaction.

Hell is life drying up.

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Love download From Divine!

2007-01-15T21:26:57Z

thanks Heather,

downloaded from heaven...which is in the heart

Movie Presentation ... http://www.deeptrancenow.com/heavenletters.html

Enjoy!!!

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Love,

Dog Star ;-)

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A Course in Life ~ Faith and 12 Spiritual Laws

2007-01-14T16:42:29Z

Twelve Spiritual Laws... i would like to share these laws and particularly the first one, Faith...belief and trust

from the book "A Course in Life"

Faith - If life isn't working well, choose to create it in another way.

Divine Purpose - We have all been created for a mighty purpose.

Consciousness - Clear your consciousness.

Vision - Set things right in your world through spiritual vision.

Joy - Make joy a constant in your life.

Power - Untap the awesome power within you.

Love - You are love, experience it.

Wisdom - Hear your inner direction, put it to use in your life.

Non-Attachment - Ask and accept the help that is always at hand.

Abundance - Become the master of giving and receiving.

Forgiveness - Eliminate what doesn't work in your life by forgiving it and clear the way for the good that will fill the vacuum.

Divine Life - Live a life that reflects the divinity you are uncovering within yourself.

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Reality and Faith

2006-12-28T15:31:10Z

http://www.7thunders.com/Articles/realityandfaith.html

Those acts and events that we perceive as unfortunate are in fact divinely guided and orchestrated. It is only our inability to perceive the underlying cause of things that prevents us from understanding that life is always and ultimately an experience of love. Because we cannot always understand the love behind the events in our lives, we take a diminished view of life and begin to believe that life is a terrible thing or that we have been singled out for some sort of malicious punishment. This can further expand into a sense of self-rejection, thinking there must be something essentially 'wrong' with us for having such bad things occur for no apparent reason.

However, as our perception expands we see more and more that life is, and has always been, guided by a loving hand. Ultimately we find ourselves completely surrounded by a loving God and His creation. We live in a world where there is nothing that is not Godself. And God is love.

Perception expands. Though it may take many lives, its expansion is inevitable. Pain and suffering are the main causes of increased consciousness. They show us when we are out of sync with the truth, which is can also be called reality. By the gradual realization of pain's message to us, we can search for the truth when we have lost it. The act of searching for the truth attracts that to us, thus relieving our suffering. Ultimately, our suffering will be a thing long past and our lives will reach higher and higher levels of joy, fulfillment, peace and happiness.

One powerful way to attain higher consciousness is the use of faith. If, whenever we are experiencing unpleasant or otherwise unfortunate events or acts, we make the leap of faith to know that even these acts have a loving source and reason, we will be shown this same truth much quicker. In other words, when we look for love, we find it. Faith is the bridge that crosses the rivers of pain, suffering and ignorance. But faith is not the only way, nor is it one that all will choose. There are many paths to the truth and each will choose their own. None are better than others in the eyes of God. However, faith is the fastest. Faith can transcend time and end the wait.

If, during a period of supposed misfortune, one chooses to look for the loving reasons for such events, they will be found and that one's faith will be strengthened. Faith involves the surrender of the mind and it is for this reason that it will be most difficult for some. The act of bowing down to a religious figure, placing one's head upon the feet of a spiritual master, these are symbols of surrender of the mind to a higher force. Surrender of the mind and its eternal rantings, attempts to find solutions and fearful imagery is not something that comes naturally for those brought up in this mentally dominated culture. It goes against tradition and our cultural conditioning. However, it can be achieved by anyone and will offer immediate relief since most of our pain resides in the mind in the first place.

To walk the spiritual path means to constantly create and re-create your world as a loving, magical and wonderful place where there are increasing numbers of desirable possibilities. Connect with your God within, whatever you choose to call Him, and your ignorance will be replaced by an increasing understanding of your ability to live a life full of love beyond measure. That path begins here and now.

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The Law of Attraction

2006-12-28T15:28:07Z

http://www.7thunders.com/Articles/lawofattraction.html

In this world there are myriads of possible realities that we can live in. Our world is all the more interesting because of the many choices of lifestyle, location, prosperity level, occupation, and relationships. Some of these choices may be commonly regarded as highly desirable while others would be those that most of us would choose to avoid at all costs. But to God and our soul, as well as to the enlightened man or woman, all possible experiences have the same value - they are only experiences and nothing more. As they say in India, "to the enlightened man, a lump of clay has the same value as a piece of gold". But in our minds we have an entire host of experiences that we would rather avoid and an entire list of others that we would love to have in our lives. Regardless of what we may think, it is the law of attraction that is responsible for the experiences that we do have, day in and day out. And if we observe this phenomena closely we can see the act of creation at work. This law of attraction of which I speak is none other than "Like attracts like".

I was driving down the interstate the other day, going about ten miles an hour over the speed limit, when I saw a state trooper in the median strip just after I came around the curve. His car was moving slowly and as soon as I passed by him, I saw him get on the freeway and turn his flashing lights on. My immediate thought was, 'Well, here I go getting a speeding ticket again'. But instead of getting upset about it, I just hung out with myself as I watched him in my rear view mirror, getting closer and closer. I began to slow down as as he got near I pulled over into the right lane, preparing to be escorted off of the roadway as I have been before. However, this time he just sped past me, apparently having clocked someone else before me that was going much faster. I was very relieved to discover that I wasn't going to get a ticket but it caused me to reflect on what I am attracting into my life. I asked myself, 'Is there some reason that I need a ticket? Some reason, perhaps subconsciously, that I am wanting one?'

That experience caused me to reflect on what thought and feeling forms I was projecting about driving and about my relationship to the posted speed limits. In the past I have attracted speeding tickets. But this time I was sure that I didn't want or need them. Throughout that day, which ended up being a 650 mile road trip, I had many close encounters with the police as I was consistently speeding. But in each case I was never pulled over. I realized that I had stumbled upon something important here.

Imagine you are sitting on a bus in a big city and then some real rowdy and potentially violent teenagers get on the bus and start making a lot of noise. Imagine they looked like the type that might rob or otherwise hurt someone. What would you be thinking in that situation? Your internal response to situations like that will tell you a lot about what you are programmed internally to attract to you. Would you get off the bus immediately and wait for another? Or would you feel anger towards those youths, perhaps even communicating your disapproval with a facial gesture or look?

If I felt guilty about speeding I would have surely gotten a ticket, as I have in the past. If I was on that bus and chose to somehow communicate my disapproval of those youths and their actions, I would have, in effect, invited them into my life to play out some scene with me. The results could have been fatal.

I recently had a client who was seemingly surrounded by people who had been murdered. Her father had been murdered, her best friend's brother and an ex boyfriend had been murdered. Now it is very rare for me to meet anyone who even knows of someone who has been murdered. So when I meet someone like this I immediately become very suspicious about why they would need such experiences in their life. It is like they are playing with fire. And it is only a matter of time until they get burnt, or in this case, hurt or killed. Her current boyfriend, who was the reason she wanted a reading, was apparently carrying a gun and perhaps dealing drugs. I immediately sensed that this woman had some internal death wish or otherwise thought that she deserved to die or come close to it.

These extreme examples illustrate how the law of attraction works. Most of us are unaware of this process going on but it is there just the same, silently working behind the scenes to make sure that we get the things that we really need on a soul level. The things that we say yes to in life are those that we in some way think or feel we need. You may tell me that you really don't want to live a life of poverty but I say that if you are, your actions speak louder than your words.

You may say that you don't enjoy being in a nowhere relationship with no intimacy or affection but if you are in one, then your words are meaningless. What we do attract reveals what we feel and think at a deep soul level. You cannot separate the external from the internal. We can only attract exactly what we are inside, no more or no less.

This can be a very hard concept to grasp. Many would look at the things in their life and say, 'No way did I create all of this!'. And yet, when you do begin looking at the things and experiences in your life as reflections of what is going on inside, everything begins to make perfect sense. Along with that comes a feeling of renewed power as you connect what is inside you with your life.

So, bearing all of this in mind, does it make sense to keep pounding away at external circumstances in order to effect a change in your life? Certainly not. If you want to see some real changes, get to the true source of the manifestations. Get down with yourself, do what the Bible says, 'Seek ye the Kingdom of heaven within". It is much harder to do this than anything else you will ever do. And that is why the rewards are so great too.

There is a saying that holds very true in this area of life. It goes, "You don't get what you deserve in life (or love for that matter), you get what you settle for." If you are unclear of what you have settled for, just take a quick look at your life and you will find it there in living color. And this applies to every single area of your life, not just your job, money or relationships. Using our external life as a mirror shows us exactly what we think we deserve, not what we imagine we deserve or even that which we have proclaimed to others that we deserve.

We take reality as truth and always work it backwards to find out what is inside. This is a very powerful technique that I use in the readings that I do. I find the external areas of conflict first. These are easy to find because they are always the parts of a person's life that are not working. Whenever I hear someone say, 'I just don't have as much _____ as I want', I know we are talking about some internal conflict. Life is really a very magical place. The very moment we get clear about what we want, it will appear. The lack of anything is always an indication of a conflict inside. Part of us wants it while another part doesn't. We can only attract a conflicting external manifestation because of our internal conflict.

So, how you begin to eliminate the things in your life that you don't really want anymore? Just say no. You don't have to shout it out but you do have to be absolutely resolute about it. I have a second sense about people who have violent potential, for example. I can tell within minutes if a person has that kind of personality that could explode in anger and violence. Whenever I detect that in someone I immediately put distance between myself and them. I really don't need that in my life. I don't talk to them, I don't do or say anything that would attract them to me.

And they immediately begin to fade out of my life. Its really about the power of choice, used with awareness. The fact that my client, which I mentioned earlier who had all the murders around her, hadn't picked up and left that scene tells me that she had some internal need to be face to face with her own death. There could be many reasons for this but the result is that she is attracting murderous people in her life, 'dangerous people' to use her words. Maybe she just wanted some entertainment or something to scare her out of her complacency. Whatever it is, I know for certain that she is doing it by some design. It isn't just 'happening' to her as many people will try to get you to believe.

For this same reason I have little pity for those who end up in tragic situations. If one would take the time to investigate their history and tendencies, you would usually see a pattern. This person attracted that tragedy just as you and I attract the things in our life. We all operate under the same God-given power. There is no one on this planet that God said "Sorry, I am not giving you the power to create." No, he gave each and every one of us that power. We are made in His image and likeness. The esoteric meaning of this statement is that like Him, we are given the power to alter our destinies by making choices. No one is a victim here so lets get with the program and begin harnessing this power and using it for fun, love, peace, happiness and prosperity.

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The Secrets...the movie

2006-12-17T17:21:09Z

http://thesecret.tv/home.html

http://www.whatisthesecret.tv/

http://www.thesecret.tv/

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are we all one?

2006-12-01T21:29:27Z

Hi All,

This is profound documentary. From a debut filmmaker too.

http://onetheproject.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=47

Basically, they went around the world, asking folks from every walk of life and religion the same 20 questions about humanity and the nature of reality….from Thich Nhat Hanh, Ram Dass, Deepak Chopra, a street kid in Colorado, Father Thomas Keating, Barbara Marx-Hubbard, random people on the streets all over the world, Riane Eisler, Robert Thurman, Sadhguru Jaggi Vadsudev, Atheists, etc.

It shows the diversity of us all and in a simplistic way, shows that we although we may look different, have different cultures, different beliefs and different lifestyles, we are still all one humanity.

I got my DVD here: onetheproject.com/dvd.html

Beautiful!

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Check out the Follow Your Bliss Compass!

2006-11-15T18:42:47Z

This is great -- take it for a spin!

http://www.oneletterwords.com/bliss/

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Let Us B The Light

2006-11-12T19:46:36Z

http://www.btinternet.com/~seamaid/Esotericbethelight.htm

Let us become the Love and Light, that each may see it as a beacon and follow it with trust and so link with the Divine Source

Let us remember to laugh and have fun. Life is not a burden, it is pure joy. It is entirely up to you.

Let us recognise that we are but channels for the Divine Light that it is not our ego incarnated identity that originates the help we give, but the God/All that is {however we perceive that to be} and that we simply add our humble self to carry it in our own special and unique ways.

Let us make the journey from the head to the heart knowing that, whereas the mind may lead us in circles, the heart will lead us home. Let us steer clear of "should" and "must" that stem from the mind and instead stay in the "now" and experience the intuitive response of the heart with its right feeling, trusting that this is our connection to ~God~ and it will lead us to where we are most able to help.

Let us be grateful to each person that we have interacted with in our lives, thanking them within our hearts for being willing to act as a mirror, reflecting to us what we need to learn. Let us know that we magnetise these situations and people toward us to show us clearly those areas of life where we need to be more unconditionally loving, or to reflect positive qualities within ourselves that we may not have recognised yet.

Let us spread only positive thoughts and discipline ourselves in this, realising that as we become more our true Selves, greater care in this is needed.

Let us make no judgment of self or others, for each is seeking to learn and experience in his/her own unique way, to take that wisdom back to the whole. To realise that if there were only one way to do something there would need be only one person.

Let us channel and spread light across the Earth, such as never before. Let us stand fully in our truth, willing and without fears, to speak that which comes intuitively from the heart. Let us be the self that we truly are.

Let us encourage all to take back their power, to be the master and seek the truth within themselves.

Let us be discerning and align with Light. There are many ways to learn and you may prefer to align your energies with those whose goals are similar to yours. Make no judgments of anyone and maintain Unconditional Love to all.

Let us trust the higher God aspect of ourselves and have faith that all is well and in Divine Order. To know that we truly do create our own reality and our own experiences, to serve only our highest good.

Let us take full responsibility for our actions and thoughts but let us also know that responsibility is not a heavy burden, but a joy that comes naturally and with ease, as we become more fully ourselves.

Let us not allow our healing to become mechanical, but allow for fluidity and intuition to guide us through each moment, permitting the flow of Divine energy to move through us.

Let us be willing to release all that is not truly us. Let us permit the releasing of all buried emotions and thought and allow the mental and emotional bodies to integrate and blend into Spirit.

Let us be aware of the other kingdoms with whom we share this Earth, the lovely crystal and mineral world, the wonderful plants, trees and flowers and great oceans, all bringing to us a myriad healing qualities through the exquisite vibration that can reach us all. Let us also remember the world of the elementals that maintains the Earth for us.

Let us seek to assist others to further awareness of a need for love and care of our precious animal and insect world on land and sea. Let us share our world in love with all God’s creatures.

Let us, with integrity, speak only that which we know within as true, whilst making it clear to others, that it is only our truth as we perceive it. Each should accept only that which resonates within the heart, and sits comfortably in that place of the three fold flame; the Love, Power and Wisdom that resides within us all.

Let us always look higher to see the greater picture and the Divine Order of all things and not limit ourselves to a third dimensional reality.

Let us understand the right use of Power and Truth, gifted to all, as full service to the light is taken up. Say what you mean and mean what you say.

Let us also be grateful to the Ascended Realms of Light, angels and guides, mostly unrecognised and unacknowledged, never failing to extend to us the gifts of their energy, presence and love. Let us release our fixed patterns about when, from whom and in what manner we will be presented with Universal Truth. Know that each receives in his own way and that there is no set or right way.

May your inner Lantern Light the way Home

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The Meaning of Life

2006-10-13T14:44:19Z

My definition of the meaning of life is..."The meaning of Life is the meaning you give (bring) to Life"- Chaz

http://www.themeaningoflife.org/0Introduction.htm

The Talmud teaches:

Just before a baby is born,
an angel shows it everything there is to know
and learn on Earth.
Then at the moment of birth,
the angel touches the infant’s upper lip,
and the child forgets everything.
We spend the rest of our lives
remembering
what the angel showed us.
This is a generic guide
to the meaning of life.
It does not describe one view
of the meaning of life
and recommend you adopt it.
It helps you remember
what the angel showed you.
The angel showed you
the meaning of life.
In case you have not remembered yet,
here is what the angel showed you.

The Meaning of Life
http://www.themeaningoflife.org/0Introduction.htm

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LIFEPATHS

2006-09-13T03:51:32Z

Follow your bliss to this kindred tribe: http://lifepaths.tribe.net

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MONEY AS A SPIRITUAL ASSET

2006-07-04T13:32:16Z

http://www.yarzheit.com/heavensregister/nomoney.htm

Understanding the concept of "Lack of Money"

On this page we shall discuss the negative aspect of blockages connected with "lack of money", especially "fears" regarding money.

Whereas the chapter on "Money" teaches the positive aspects and spiritual laws of making "Money", and as a spiritual tool to provide ones life with the lessons and opportunities to learn and evolve, and most importantly act as a "key" to open doors of life, supporting loved ones and providing financial support for those less able.
The Chapter "Talmud Kidushin 82 - Job, Career & Occupation" explains how to find the most suitable job, career and profession that will make ones soul feel fulfilled.

Each person has characteristics that are unique, many people find themselves in a job that brings inner frustration as this conflicts with ones soul. The chapter "Talmud Kidushin 82" gives guidance to help one find the best job to make a person feel fulfilled both physically on a creative level and spiritually with an inner peace and harmony.

There are only 2 fundamental reasons why a person has "no money" :-

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The Science of Getting Rich/Preface

2006-07-03T16:55:41Z

"The Secrets" were taken from this book

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Science_of_Getting_Rich/Preface

"And on that spring day in 2004, when a small, old book called The Science of Getting Rich was put into her hands, and Rhonda's whole life suddenly pulled into spectacular focus, she knew exactly what her mission was to become. She was going to take this knowledge to the world. She was going to make a movie to carry joy to every corner of theEarth. And so the great journey that was The Secret began."

http://thesecret.tv/behind-the-secret-making-of.html

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Daily Dalai Lama

2006-06-04T00:21:19Z

http://www.belief.net/index/index_39850.html

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Zen Proverb

2006-05-17T14:38:51Z

The instant you speak about a thing, you miss the mark.
If you're attached to anything, you surely will go far astray.

Only the crystal-clear question yields a transparent answer.
All of the significant battles are waged within the self.

Life is the only thing worth living for.

Better to sit all night than to go to bed with a dragon.

Live every day like your hair was on fire.
If you understand, things are just as they are; if you do not understand, things are just as they are.
When you get to the top of the mountain, keep climbing.

The mind should be as a mirror.
There is nothing infinite apart from finite things.
Everyday life is the way.

Great Faith. Great Doubt. Great Effort. - The three qualities necessary for training.
If you do not get it from yourself, Where will you go for it?

Do not permit the events of your daily life to bind you, but never withdraw yourself from them.
Where there is great doubt, there will be great awakening; small doubt, small awakening, no doubt, no awakening.
Sitting peacefully doing nothing Spring comes and the grass grows all by itself.

Everything the same; everything distinct.
Lovely snowflakes, they fall nowhere else!

Chop wood, carry water.
Possessing much knowledge is like having a thousand foot fishing line with a hook, but the fish is always an inch beyond the hook.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

An autumn night... don't think your life didn't matter.

At any given moment, I open my eyes and exist. And before that, during all eternity, what was there? Nothing.

The torch of doubt and chaos, this is what the sage steers by.

It is everywhere.

To a mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

The whole moon and the entire sky are reflected in one dewdrop on the grass.

There is no beginning to practice nor end to enlightenment; There is no beginning to enlightenment nor end to practice.

And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

When you are deluded and full of doubt, even a thousand books of scripture are not enough. When you have realized understanding, even one word is too much.

Should you desire great tranquility, prepare to sweat white beads.

Zen: Seeing into one's own nature.

It is better to practice a little than talk a lot.

We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want.

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires.

The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there.

The quieter you become, the more you can hear.

Natural and super-natural, temporal and eternal - continuums, not absolutes.

We have two eyes to see two sides of things, but there must be a third eye which will see everything at the same time and yet not see anything. That is to understand Zen.

As long as you seek for something, you will get the shadow of reality and not reality itself.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but merely concentration on our usual everyday routine.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few.

The most important point is to accept yourself and stand on your two feet.

Don't seek reality, just put an end to opinions.

When you get there, there isn't any there there.

Water which is too pure has no fish.

Let the dead bury the dead.

What does mysticism mean? It means the way to attain knowledge. It's close to philosophy, except in philosophy you go horizontally while in mysticism you go vertically.

Since it is all too clear
It takes time to grasp it.
When you understand that it's foolish to look for fire with fire,
The meal is already cooked.

Wu-men

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Affirmation Tips

2006-05-15T20:06:18Z

A positive affirmation can lift your life and help you achieve your goal. Such an affirmation sends your message to the Universe, and the Universe listens and responds in positive manifestation of your desires.

The affirmation must be a dedicated belief, not just an adhoc approach to "trying it out". You must be prepared to free yourself from your limiting insecurities and judgements and replace them with beliefs that you have unlimited potential.

There are many variations possible: they can be spoken, they can be recorded in your private diary repetitively, or written on individual sticky notes and hung around your daily environment.

Let's learn some more:

Getting Started

1. Decide on a goal... Spend a few minutes (or as long as you need) in a relaxing environment. What is your real desire? Is it do with relationships? Or career, self-love, direction, improved health, or energy (to name a few)?
If you can't think of a goal, do you have a negative nagging thought that you could turn around? For example, instead of thinking "I am fat" every morning, you could change this around to "I am healthy and energised".

2. Believe without fear that your desire will come true. Know that you truly deserve what you are asking for, without guilt.

3. Let your affirmation go with love and trust. To focus intensely on the affirmation after establishing it will stifle it. Simply return to the affirmation gently once a day to boost your power. Gentle, successive sessions will have a compound effect.

Some Rules

* Always create your affirmation in present tense. Place yourself in the situation as you want it - to talk about it in future tense will mean your desire is always waiting to happen.

* Use only positive words. The Universe does not acknowledge words such as "not" or "don't". So, instead of saying "I am not poor" (the Universe will only hear "I am poor"), say "I have enough money for all that I need".

* Indulge yourself in the moment as your affirmation sinks in. Then, let it go. By not dwelling on how the change might show up, you let the Universe work her magic naturally.

* Keep your affirmation short and specific. Focus on one key element at a time, without the clutter of many desires all at once.

* Repetition of your affirmation means your desire can sink into every fibre of your being, settling naturally into your way of life.

Some Tips

* Write the affirmation by hand. Write it hundreds of times, until the affirmation has imprinted itself into your subconscious mind.

* First thing in the morning or last thing at night when you are your most relaxed are good times to use affirmations. Our minds are more open to absorbing behaviour-changing patterns then.

* Generally, work with any single affirmation a maximum of two weeks. This isn't too long for staleness to set in, but long enough for the message to sink to every corner of your self-perception.

* Dedicate your energy to every time you repeat your affirmation.

http://www.goddess.com.au/affirmations.htm

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Intersection -- A New Tribe

2006-05-11T20:22:55Z

There are many parallels and intersections between Hinduism and Buddhism. This tribe has started of the acknowledgement of similarities, as well as differences between these two traditions. In a society and historical time where so many cultures are all coming to meet one another at the dinner table, many practioners may feel drawn to different aspects of Hinduism and Buddhism. This tribe has been created in honor of both traditions as a space where discussion can occur respectfully and freely about these spiritual philosophies, as well as what its like to draw one's practice from these two different paths. Feel free to bring up teachers and sources of inspiration to you in Buddhism (all its forms....Tibetan, Zen...), Yoga, Martial Arts, Ayurveda, Rumi, Hafiz, Kabir, Shamanic practices, modern day teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and David Deida, science of Siegal and Goleman, Zen Therapy, Transpersonal Psychology, Somatic Psychology, Carl Jung. Where do we all draw from and how does it all fit together???? Let's meet at the intersection....

http://tribes.tribe.net/theintersection

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Celestine Prophecy (The Movie)

2006-05-02T06:55:40Z

Probably no other one book has such an impact on me, i now live it
it's what brought me to KMT (which i think are our next insights ;)

the movie will be out soon

What are your thoughts?

http://www.thecelestineprophecymovie.com/ (movie trailers)

http://www.celestinevision.com/

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Relax, You Genius!

2006-04-26T03:06:18Z

Relax. Place yourself in a comfortable position and begin to relax. Breathe sweetly and deeply. Let all tension drain out of your head and neck and shoulders. Feel the constricted energy leaving your chest and belly and pelvis. All the psychic gunk in your beautiful body is now pouring out your feet and into the good earth.

Concentrate on relaxing even more profoundly. Breathe even more sweetly. And as you do, please visualize in your mind's eye that you are gathered with the people you love and trust most. Visualize that you are all together in the place where you feel most at home in the world. Imagine that you are being flooded with a robust sense of well-being that allows you to feel utterly at peace and alertly excited at the same time.

And now imagine that all blockages to your divine charisma have begun to be removed. An abundant flow of creative ideas is moving through you easily and effortlessly. Your special genius is about to be unleashed, allowing you to express your true potential in the days and weeks to come.

And please repeat the following affirmation after me: "I am a Genius."

Now say it again with uproarious, delirious conviction: "I AM A GENIUS."

You are finally beginning to realize that you have always been a genius. There is no reason to pretend otherwise any longer. And yet there are still a few silly doubts lingering in your subconscious mind. Those doubts must be extinguished. And so I invite you now to join me in repeating several ancient and sacred affirmations that will burn away all remaining barriers to you becoming the genius you were born to be.

Please repeat after me:

"I know the difference between wise suffering and stupid suffering."

And please repeat after me:

"I am so in tune with my own destiny that I can be myself even when I am beside myself."

And please repeat after me:

"YAYALALAGAGAHAHAHAHAHA!
YAYALALAGAGAHAHAHAHAHA!
YAYALALAGAGAHAHAHAHAHA!"

And please repeat after me:

"I can have anything I want if I will just ask for it in an unselfish way."

And now as we bask here in this state of grace and poise I invite you to join me in chanting the ultimate mantra, the motto that supersedes all other rules to live by, and that is:

"Lust globally and make love locally!"

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I am God's unique project.

2006-04-01T13:21:01Z

I am God's unique project.

I am the bursting forth of goodness, of strength, of beauty, of humor, of cussedness, of ordinariness, of almost angelic balance, of splendid uniqueness. I am an opportunity for God to accomplish something marvelous as me. I let God do it!

I join wholeheartedly in the divine adventure of making something splendid that never has been before in the whole history of humanity. I hardly can wait to see what God and I shall make! I'm ready, God; let's go! You lead the way and I'll do my best to embody you in the fullness of beautiful accomplishment. I'll not waste time regretting that I didn't join in the fun more fully long ago. I let that past be past, as I relish the present, in which we happily co-create.

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Science of the Mind: New Thought

2006-03-29T02:44:10Z

Agape
http://www.agapelive.com/home.html

United Church of Religious Science
http://www.religiousscience.org/

Religious Science International
http://www.rsintl.org/

Religious Science
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_of_mind

New Thought Movement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Thought_Movement

Ernest Holmes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Holmes

Inspirational Metaphysical Affirmations
http://www.gis.net/~caa/inspir.html

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Lobbyist For the Imagination

2006-03-27T15:52:14Z

*PRONOIA: the sneaking suspicion that the whole world is conspiring to shower you with blessings; the opposite of paranoia.

One of my favorite ways to spread pronoia is to be a lobbyist for the imagination. Think of it: We've got lobbyists for every imaginable group and issue except the imagination.

As a lobbyist for the imagination, I have a duty to point out that the word "imagination" doesn't get much respect. For many people, it connotes "make-believe," and is the province of children and artists. But in fact, imagination is the most important asset you possess. It is, among other things, the power to form mental pictures of things that don't exist yet. As such, it's what you use to shape your future.

That's why it's so disturbing to realize that the imagination is increasingly becoming a vestigial organ. It's being pummeled into dysfunction by the numbing onslaught of generic and nihilistic images that endlessly flood from the mass media. How can you generate your own images or ask your own questions if your mind's eye is swarming with dazzling yet inane creations crafted by news and entertainment companies that possess what amounts to sleek multibillion-dollar propaganda machines?

To get a sense of the growing devastation, just wander around a grade school at recess. Kids' conversations will overflow with the regurgitation of stories that have been blast-furnaced into their sensitive psyches by movies, TV shows, music, and video games.

I call this ongoing tragedy the genocide of the imagination. Because of it, many people are lazy or even paralyzed about using their greatest magical power. They allow their imaginations to fill up with trashy images that are at odds with their deepest desires, and their incoherent lives reflect that.

My goal, as a lobbyist for the imagination, is to help inspire people to become very disciplined about what images they entertain in their imaginations. To seek out the images that inspire them to exercise their willpower for their own highest good.

So what about you, beauty and truth fans? How will you use your treasure in the months and years to come?

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No Pain, Yes Gain

2006-03-27T15:40:55Z

Dear Beauty and Truth Fan:

Please take a moment right now to describe your signature pain. What is the exact nature of the torment that chronically upsets you the most?

This is the crucial first step in finding a way to graduate from the No Pain, No Gain School of Tortured Progress. You can't be healed unless you name the tweaked and twisted karma that needs to be healed.

Step #2: Figure out just what it is about your excruciating problem that's so damn appealing. I mean this seriously. Consider the possibility that you have the affliction that you do at least in part because it perversely entertains you or keeps you from being bored.

Consider the possibility that you don't want to give up your precious, torturous dilemma because it prevents you from reaching goals you're too afraid or timid to strive for.

Consider the possibility that you're secretly proud of your dramatic distress -- that it has become so intricately interwoven with your identity that you wouldn't feel like yourself if you had to live without it.

Consider the possibility that you use your nagging agony as an attention-getting device, or even as a way to gather love. Isn't it true that some people are more likely to shower you with tender sympathy when you're miserable than when you're blandly well-adjusted?

Muse a while, please, on the seductiveness of your hurt, on all the unconscious reasons that maybe you're attracted to it and hesitate to give it up.

Step #3: Simply feel your suffering. Don't judge it or repress it. Don't come up with reasons about how it's beneath you to feel it or you should be over it by now or you can't believe you still let it have so much power over you. Let the pain surge and flow. Allow it to break your heart apart. Give yourself the luxury of feeling it all the way to the bottom of the feeling.

Step #4: Leaving all your preconceptions behind, meditate on what lessons your pain is asking you to master. This is a heroic task -- almost the most difficult thing a human being can do. The impossible truth about suffering is that it's the Goddess's last-resort method for inspiring you to grow in directions you've been unable to accomplish by any other means.

Step #5: Try to put yourself in a state of mind wherein you can feel gratitude for your pain. Be deeply thankful for its teachings, for its intriguing mystery, for its breathtaking command that you build a soul strong enough to do the work the Goddess sent you to Earth to carry out.

MMFA (message me for Author)

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Tap the Infinite Source of Energy

2006-03-22T18:42:55Z

By Sri Swami Chidananda

Human birth, higher aspirations and the inspiration to contact great ones and to imbibe their stirring spiritual messages—all these constitute your wealth. All these constitute your good fortune. All these constitute your special unique blessings when compared to those who do not have these things.

Having been born as human beings, countless millions of people lead a life where their human potential is never fully recognised, never fully tapped and utilised. It is frittered and wasted away in miscellaneous petty pursuits and occupations. Thus, even though rich, they are poor. Even though most fortunate, they are the most unfortunate of beings. For they fail to recognise their good fortune and fail to put this great good fortune to proper use, wisely.

However, recognising our good fortune, let us try to see what we can do upon the constructive, positive side in order to build up a source of energy that will constitute an asset to ourselves and a fort out of which we can trap the living waters of a dynamic, progressive life, and what we can do in order to build up such a reserve of energy. It will not be possible to dwell upon all the things that we can do, but even dwelling upon a few of them will be, as it were, a finger pointing in the direction to follow.

A great deal of good will accrue to that human individual who makes up one’s mind that henceforward I will always look upon the brighter side of things and never for a moment continue the habit of looking on the darker side of things. In short, be optimistic. Never say, I cannot do it. Never say, this is not possible. Never say, this is never meant to happen to a wretched person like me.

Who are you to say what is meant to happen to you, what is not meant to happen to you, when there is some higher Power that looks after and governs the life of all beings? Who are you to jump to conclusions as though you have made a window into His omniscience? You are trying to take a higher position: "He knows everything. I know what He knows."

This is a sort of mentality by which we become our own enemy. Instead of that, why not be positive? Why not say, "Everything is happening for my evolution. I am sure that only good can come out of it. Why? Because I know that the Supreme Being is all-goodness. How do I know? All the saints have said so. All the wise people have said it. All the scriptures of the world say that. He is all-auspicious, all-blessed, the Supreme One, the great and glorious One. There is nothing negative in Him."

In that way, hundreds and thousands of saints that have come and blessed the earth by their life and teachings through millennia have sung His praises, sung His glories. These great ones have lauded the Supreme Being in unmistakable terms, and this not merely through sentiment or emotion. They have lauded the Supreme Being out of their own personal experience of that Being. Therefore, we can be absolutely sure that that Being is the most blessed one, all-auspicious, all-good. "Therefore, I would be perfectly right and safe if I base my life upon that assumption and proceed with living my life on that assumption."

The wise person gets rid of the past. They do not allow the past to be iron shackles and chains connected to a great ball of iron: "So what hope is there for me to move forward even one inch? I am cursed to be where I am and to languish and die." This is the view of the self-defeating, negative-thinking pessimist, who sees only problems everywhere, not knowing that the problem is here. We have transformed ourselves into one great big problem, the problem of the self.

Therefore, shatter this self-created dungeon of darkness and soar high into the brilliant, bright light of the sun of optimism. Hope is one of the things prized by the Christian faith—faith, hope and love. Hope springs from faith also. And you will be abundantly benefited by this alchemy of transferring your base from pessimism to optimism, transforming yourself from a negative-thinking, despairing pessimist to a positive-thinking, hopeful optimist, by which you throw the doors wide open for your ascent, success, progress and highest attainment.

Pranayama also gives abundant energy. Deep breathing and pranayama give abundant energy to the physical system. Go out into the sun and let the breeze play upon your face. Every day, without fail, breathe deeply and let the sun and breeze play upon you. You can thus draw great energy and benefit yourself physically and mentally. When you go out into the bright sun, into the open, your mood no longer can be negative. Your mood changes. The mind becomes converted from a narrow limited state into an unlimited, vast, expanded state when you go out into the expanded open with nothing to obstruct your view in all four directions. Lift up and look up into the lofty imperium. You will be abundantly rewarded.

Likewise, with unfailing regularity, practise pranayama every day. Pranayama fills the body cells and nerve currents with abundant energy by drawing from the endless, immeasurable, infinite, infallible cosmic prana surrounding you. There is boundless cosmic energy all around us.

We are living in a field of great cosmic energy for it is all the manifestation of Mother Sakti. Prakriti or nature is a manifestation of sakti, so everywhere there is a plentiful, perennial, inexhaustible supply of sakti in which we live, move and have our being. Recognising this, through pranayama, create positive suggestions and feel that from the top of your head to the tip of your toenails every cell is being renewed, rejuvenated, transformed, energised and vitalised.

In this way, day by day you will be a new being filled with that radiant life force, the sakti that is not of the created phenomenon, but the uncreated noumenon. Sakti is uncreated, eternal, inexhaustible. It can renew you physically, mentally, psychically, nervously. In every way it can rejuvenate you—lungs, heart, circulation, respiration, the whole of the metabolism. We are rolling in an abundant, inexhaustible wealth that you do not have to lift your little finger to touch. It is so close—an inexhaustible wealth of energy, of light, of life.

Therefore, let us not be rich and be beggars. Let us not be most blessed and fortunate and imagine misfortune. We are heirs to all this abundance, all this great storehouse and treasure of abundance and energy. We are heirs; we have a claim; it is our birthright. This is a fact. This is the reality of your situation at this moment. Realise this and become blessed. May the Supreme Being and Holy Master enable us to do it and never stop doing it. So help me God. Be it so!

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who is chaz?

2006-03-21T21:42:42Z

chaz, who are you? i mean...can you tell us more about you and what just is behind this enigma that we call--you?

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Inspiration - Your Ultimate Calling

2006-03-21T21:33:05Z

if any of you get a chance check out Wayne Dyers specal on PBS its called Inspiration

Dr. Wayne Dyer: Inspiration - Your Ultimate Calling :-)

http://www.wlrn.org/television/pages/feb06/waynedyer_ulimatecalling.htm

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How To Listen To Your Intuition - basic tips

2006-03-15T15:07:12Z

thanks Ro,

I found this material and though it might be helpful to some..

Maybe you feel listening to your intuition is easier said than done. But the truth is that most of us make listening to our inner guidance out to be harder than it actually is. Here are some simples ways you can tune into your inner dialogs.

Here's How:
1. Turn off that car radio. Giving your physical hearing a rest can expand your inner ear.

2. At home, turn off the computer, the television, and the stereo. Spend a half hour or so in quiet meditation or solace.

3. Spend some quiet time alone in nature.

4. Pay attention to energy shifts in your physical body. Pain is telling you something is wrong.

5. Keep a dream journal.

6. Take moments in each day to clear your mind of distractions. Visualizing a chalkboard being erased often helps with this exercise.

7. On your way home tune in to see if you can "guess" how many pieces of mail are waiting for you in your mailbox. You will be amazed how accurate you will become at this over time.

8. Keep a synchronicity notebook to write down all your so called "coincidences."

9. Follow your hunches. Prepare to be amazed where they lead you.

10. Notice scents around you. What emotions or memories do they stir up?

11. Start noticing "markers" or "signs" that bring about particular sensations in your gut.

Tips:

Try not to get bogged down with any nagging NEED TO KNOW when you are given a particular message. Explanations come along with intuitive messages on a "need to know basis."

Using your sixth sense is just like working a muscle. It will get stronger the more you use it.
Take cues from your pets. Animals can be especially sensitive to psychic energies.

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I think I can...I knew I could

2006-03-07T23:59:34Z

"Then a little blue engine came up to the track, and she was asked to pull the cars over the mountain to the children on the other side. The little engine responded, "I'm not very big. . . . They use me only for switching in the yard. I have never been over the mountain." But she was concerned about disappointing the children on the other side of the mountain if they didn't get all of the goodies in the cars. So she said, "I think I can. I think I can. I think I can."

And she hooked herself to the little train. "Puff, puff, chug, chug, went the Little Blue Engine. 'I think I can—I think I can—I think I can—I think I can—I think I can—I think can—I think I can.' " With this attitude, the little engine reached the top of the mountain and went down the other side sweating, laughing and crying I knew i could -I knew I could -I knew I could

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THE INVITATION

2006-02-24T23:43:54Z

It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon. I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain! I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own, without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own, if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic, to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true. I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself; if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul; if you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day, and if you can source your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, "Yes!"

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have. I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair, weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here. I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.
I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

by Oriah Mountain Dreamer

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Time to blow some life into our bliss

2006-02-06T07:59:01Z

whhhhhhoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Bliss is such a great word. So ulitimate. Such a high end emotion.

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What is Spirituality?

2006-01-25T14:16:49Z

The word inspired comes from being in spirit, accessing a force out there from within the heart (Leo).

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project,
all your thoughts break their bonds. Your mind transcends limitations.
Your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, wonderful world.”

Love is the greatest value in life. It is not possession, but it can be possessed.
Every kind of love stems from the love of God and so, when you love,
do not say, “God is in my heart,” but rather say, “I am in the heart of God.”

This being one with God which is accessed though our higher mind
intuitive mind heart thinking
“of what could be”; “Faith” not so much in “Something”
but a positive mind set (science of the mind) of imagination.

Spirituality is spiriting… inspiring as a light …no religion (to re-link)
to spirit you’re already there… shining you open up yourself and let god come through

“Let go and let God.” beyond the scope of our rational mind, it’s our analytical mind
and Ego’s get in the way. Our ultimate human lesson is to reconnect with the Divine in our physical form.
Spirit is a not only our deep passion of fire it’s mind as well Spirit is mental.

“there are two basic ways to open the heart. The mind opens up to Spirit in the upper chakras
and pulls in universal energy. The body opens up to the Earth in the lower chakras and pulls in prana.
Spirit is mental. By itself, Spirit Light can only go down as far as the heart chakra and then it bounces back up.”

“We have to navigate the physical/emotional terrain to get to the heart center
and be able to stay there. Most of us have been trained to live in denial of
our emotions and feelings. However, our attempts to suppress, control or ignore
our emotions simply cause these primal energies to manifest as physical problems,
major life challenges, on-going issues and inconveniences.”

“Working with the body through our sensations and emotions,
Spirit can be integrated into the physical dimension and pulled down
through all the chakras, infusing the whole body with Light.”

“Mental/Spiritual energies meet physical/emotional energies in the heart.
The meeting opens the heart center. The heart center is the dimension of
reality that we experience when kundalini awakens and we align mentally, emotionally and physically
with both universal and earth energies.”

So, when you are saying you want to feel good, what you really are saying is
you want to feel God: I want my thoughts to be the same as the source from
which I emanated. I want to have thoughts that exclude no one. I want to have
thoughts of abundance. I want to have thoughts of love, of kindness, of beauty.
I want to be on a rampage of appreciation every single day.
We should enjoy being in this moment and in this day and *serving the people who come in.

Q: What are the ways we can enroll others in that approach and
motivate and inspire them to serve?

A : It is very hard to enroll people in anything. And there is a very big difference
between the words motivate and inspire. Motivation means we have an idea and
we are going to carry through on that idea. We work hard at it, and we are disciplined.
A highly motivated person takes an idea, goes out there, and won't let anybody interfere with them.
Inspiration is exactly the opposite. If motivation is when you get hold of an
idea and carry it through to its conclusion, inspiration is the reverse. An idea
gets hold of you and carries you where you are intended to go.

dormant forces, faculties, and talents - things you thought were inaccessible
and unavailable to you - come alive when you are inspired. You discover
yourself to be a far greater person than you ever dreamed yourself to be.

Q: Can you encourage inspiration in others?

A: When you are connected in that way, everyone around you is inspired.
What it takes to reach this place I'm speaking about is to be in spirit.
You shift who you are away from what you have, what you do, what your
reputation is, what people think of you, and all of that ego-based thinking.

You shift into the *understanding* (Faith, BELIEVE) that who you are is a piece of God -
who you are is a piece of the source - and when you stay connected to that
in your thoughts you inspire others to do the same. So, it's really about modeling it
and letting people know you are an inspired person, a person who is in spirit,
and then those forces that Carl Jung called synchronicity [inspire unlocks doors
where there were no doors it brings invisible hands…LUCK begins to show up and,
lo and behold, the universe provides for you.

-Dyer

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making love... sharing god

2006-01-15T18:47:57Z

making love... sharing god

Love is not love
Which alters when it finds alteration
Or bends with the remover to remove
O! No! It is an ever-fixed mark
That looks on tempests and is never shaken
– Sonnets: W. Shakespeare

Love Is A Verb has become such a cliché, but what does this really mean?

Good (healthy) mental Intention and speech? AIR? Passions of the heart? (FIRE) Nurturing and taking care of our physical needs? (EARTH) Yet is love too is an emotion? Which fluctuates (WATER) and illusive and evasive as well.

Mention the word "Love" and it immediately conjures up a whole gamut of emotions and electric impulses. Hearken your ears to the passionate utterances. Heads bow gently, the heart drops its pride, eyes close and arms open a little. Love is the fire everyone loves to get burnt with. Love is the eternal sun that dispels the mist of sadness and despair in us. Love is the quivering spring in every winter's heart.

Yet, is there any emotion more complex and abstract than love? Can you buy truck load of it when you need it? Can I bribe, demand or coerce it. You don't get it when you need it most but you often try to pay heavily for it. Still, we hunger for more love every moment of our life. Mother Theresa once said "The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than hunger for bread".

How can we dig into this enigma called love? Experience teaches that love is the most burning and perishable of all human passions. But, certainly it is also the most human of all feelings with all the limitations and exaltations the word evokes. Yet, it is the very same love that sometimes inflicts the most festering wound within us when its labor is lost. It can sting like a hornet or stab like a knife. Love has the least amount of pity. In love, even the tiniest things count and nothing is forgotten and forgiven.

Have you really pondered what exactly this word 'love' means to you?

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I say "bliss"...

2006-01-07T20:50:24Z

and the first thing that comes to mind for you is????????????????

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Some Quotes That Hit the Spot(s)

2005-12-31T08:40:26Z

I found these and am compelled to share. I saw them on these beautiful candles by Zena Moon. Certainly aiding in Following One's Bliss!

On...

...Courage - Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. --Anais Nin

...Claiming Your Power - Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. --Marva Collins

...Best Friends -- The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order. --Toni Morrison

...Be Bodacious -- Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. --Rumi

...Love -- All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. --Helen Keller

...Magic - Magic has often been thought of as the art of making dreams come true. Yet before we can birth to the vision, we have to see it. --Starhawk

...Trust - You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment unless you trust enough. --Frank Crane

...Take A Risk - And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. --Anais Nin

...Speak My Truth - If you don't tell the truth, the right thing can't happen. -- Lori Weisman

in beauty,
gB!

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Happy Holidays all

2005-12-25T16:38:00Z

Enjoy
Celebrate
Relax
Indulge
Share
Give
Receive
Be merry

Take a walk outside at night, feel the good energy, the people and families laughing, enjoy the twinkling lights, be a part of it

:)

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Focus on abundance

2005-12-24T07:47:32Z

Abundance is a state of mind. See the world through eyes of abundance, and you bring that abundance surely to life.

If you live in fear of scarcity, your very actions will serve to create that scarcity. Instead, let abundance color your thoughts and your moments.
There are positive possibilities in every direction. Choose the ones that best fulfill who you are.

Bring life to the highest of your possibilities, with richness and passion. Dive into the abundance that is waiting to be lived.

The problems and challenges may seem big, until you compare them to the positive possibilities. Lack and limitation may seem real, until you experience the reality of true abundance.

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The Optimist Creed

2005-11-25T23:52:39Z

Promise Yourself

To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind.

To talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet.

To make all your friends feel that there is something worthwhile in them.

To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true.

To think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best.

To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

To wear a cheerful expression at all times and give a smile to every living creature you meet.

To give so much time to improving yourself that you have no time to criticize others.

To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.

To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world, not in loud word, but in great deeds.

To live in the faith that the whole world is on your side, so long as you are true to the best that is in you.

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Beyond disappointment

2005-11-24T15:38:34Z

Disappointment can be a gift that tells you much about yourself. Choose to benefit from it.

Disappointment is definitely painful, and yet that pain is there to get your attention and to make you aware of certain truths. Take the opportunity to understand those truths.

Disappointment stirs up feelings deep within you. You can use the energy of those feelings to push you forward, to motivate you, to recharge your spirit.

Disappointment is able to occur only because there are positive possibilities in your life. Use the occasion to explore, connect to and express the best of those possibilities.

There is a reason why certain events and certain outcomes cause you to be disappointed. Seek to understand that reason, and you will discover a valuable and abiding truth about yourself.

For every disappointment, there is a positive energy within you that makes the disappointment meaningful. Connect with that positive energy and you will move successfully beyond any temporary setback.

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Simple bliss from a newbie

2005-11-24T05:28:11Z

Sometimes bliss is hidden in the simplest of pleasures!

What simple pleasure is yours today?

Smiles and Squeezes

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What does it take?

2005-11-20T16:19:09Z

*This article are not mine if you would like to know the author please message me

When you're feeling down and would like to feel better, what does it take? It takes nothing more than a choice.

When there is something you know you must do and yet you can't bring yourself to do it, what does it take to get you moving? It takes nothing more than your decision to get off your butt and make it happen.

When your world is dull and gray, and happiness seems like an unreachable, distant dream, what does it take to make you happy? It takes nothing more than understanding that the happiness you experience comes not to you, but from you.

What does it take to live the life of your dreams? It takes nothing more than your moment-by-moment commitment to do so.

What does it take to bring achievement and fulfillment into your life? It takes nothing more than letting go of the limitations you have imposed on yourself.

When life is here and now, ready to be lived in all its richness and value, what else does it take? It takes you, and your choice to let the best of who you are come fully to life.

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IAM

2005-11-11T06:52:56Z

I was regretting the past and fearing the future.
Suddenly my Intuitive Spiritual intelligence was speaking,
"My name is I AM"

voice paused, I waited. it continued,
"When you live in the past
with its mistakes and regrets, it's hard.
I AM not there.
My name is not I WAS".

"When you live in the future
with it's problems and fears, it's hard.
I AM not there.
My name is not I WILL BE."

"When you live in this moment,
it is not hard.
I AM here.
My name is I AM."

_________________________________

by Helen Mallicoat

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I seek my bliss...

2005-11-08T09:45:32Z

I am open and eyes/ears/senses scanning for my bliss.

What about you?

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Joseph Campbell's Tribute (Thou art That)

2005-10-30T04:40:36Z

Blog: http://people.tribe.net/chaz/blog?r=10535&topicId=10cdaf5f-21cb-486b-871b-9446561f942b

"Don't listen to anyone except your inner self, let your conscious be your guide..." -Dog Star

I just wanted to revisit Joseph Campbell's interpretation of myth…'

Cosmology into Astrology is the map of the Hero’s Journey

”I do not live my life by the stars, I'm guided by my inner ones”

-Chaz

Joseph Campbell

http://www.context.org/ICLIB/IC12/Campbell.htm

Tom: What does myth do for us? Why is it so important?

Joseph: It puts you in touch with a plane of reference that goes past your mind and into your very being, into your very gut. The ultimate mystery of being and nonbeing transcends all categories of knowledge and thought. Yet that which transcends all talk is the very essence of your own being, so you're resting on it and you know it. The function of mythological symbols is to give you a sense of "Aha! Yes. I know what it is, it's myself." This is what it's all about, and then you feel a kind of centering, centering, centering all the time. And whatever you do can be discussed in relationship to this ground of truth. Though to talk about it as truth is a little bit deceptive because when we think of truth we think of something that can be conceptualized. It goes past that.

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In search of the Bull (our inner buddha) The Hero's Journey

2005-10-30T02:34:17Z

In Search of the Bull (our inner buddha)

this is the Hero's Journey (whatever that might be for you)

The enlightenment for which Zen aims, for which Zen exists, comes of itself. As consciousness, one moment it does not exist, the next it does.

The bull is the eternal principle of life, truth in action. The ten bulls represent sequent steps in the realization of one's true nature.

An understanding of the creative principle transcends any time or place.

The 10 Bulls is more than poetry, more than pictures. It is a revelation of spiritual unfoldment paralleled in every bible of human experience. May the reader, like the Chinese patriarch, discover the footprints of his potential self and, carrying the staff of his purpose and the wine jug of his true desire, frequent the market place and there enlighten others.

1. The Search for the Bull

http://www.cs.sfu.ca/people/ResearchStaff/jamie/personal/10_Bulls/1.html

Comment: The bull never has been lost. What need is there to search? Only because of separation from my true nature, I fail to find him. In the confusion of the senses I lose even his tracks. Far from home, I see many crossroads, but which way is the right one I know not. Greed and fear, good and bad, entangle me.

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Water Bearer~

2005-10-26T05:11:42Z

Thanks aphrodite ;)

A water bearer in India had two large pots, each hung on the ends of a pole which he carried across his neck. One of the pots had a crack in it, while the other pot was perfect and always delivered a full portion of water.

At the end of the long walk from the stream to the house, the cracked pot arrived only half full. For a full two years this went on daily, with the bearer delivering only one and a half pots full of water to his house.

Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, perfect for which it was made. But the poor cracked pot was ashamed of its own imperfection, and miserable that it was able to accomplish only half of what had been made to do.

After 2 years of what it perceived to be a bitter failure, it spoke to the water bearer one day by the stream. I am ashamed of myself, and I want to apologize to you. I have been able to deliver only half my load because this crack in my side causes water to leak out all the way back to your house. Because of my flaws, you have to do all of this work, and you don't get full value from your efforts, " the pot said.

The bearer said to the pot, "Did you notice that there were flowers only on your side of the path, but not on the other pot's side? That's because I have always known about your flaw, and I planted flower seeds on your side of the path, and every day while we walk back, you've watered them. For two years I have been able to pick these beautiful flowers to decorate the table. Without you being just the way you are, there would not be this beauty to grace the house.

But it's the cracks and flaws we each have that make our lives together so very interesting and rewarding. You've just got to take each person for what they are, and look for the good in them.

Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape.

Remember to appreciate all the different people in your life

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Any bliss going down lately?

2005-10-25T14:10:23Z

I have an inner bliss that wants to blossom... :)

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Shakti Gawain's Living in the Light

2005-10-18T02:03:03Z

Hey, Talia, and everyone,

I re-read the first chapter. Interesting her thoughts on a new way of living, like the end of an era. I heard on the news the other day that scientists studying ADD kids have found an actual difference in the structure of the brain, like a mutation. (I know you're into the Rainbow Kids thing Chaz ;) In reading a Doreen Virtue book, I could be a Dabbler Elemental, but if so, been coming back a long (lots of past life memories or impressions) so maybe it's the evolution of the human spirit as well at this time. I'm going off on a tangent there........ I noticed when I did the meditation at the end of the chapter, it was easier for me to imagine/ feel the new energy coming in/ in breath, than the release of old negative patterns/ out breath. I got lots of old blocks I'm working on. In the Deepak book, he talks about letting feelings come up and have their say, good or bad, and listen to them, then relaese without judgement (the observer) and that seems to be helpful. I don't have to censor or think what should be done/ felt, just let it surface..............

What were your impressions?

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Perspective

2005-10-06T03:27:08Z

This morning, in front of my computer, I sit here full of thoughts and memories of challenges, triumphs, and failures (which so often lead to more triumphs).

Perspective. All these thoughts have come down to that one word. Perspective.

I typically have a certain perspective on life and a way of embracing each day, each moment, which does not give in to anything negative and does not embrace that which is bad for me. I reach out for beauty, kindness, compassion, and love without letting trivial little steps along the way trip me up.

I have been getting lost in the little things, possibly even at times feeling overwhelmed by things that should be allowed little or no impact on my life.

Stirred in me are thoughts and emotions which, right this very minute, are helping me to remember what perspective I have chosen to have on the world, to have on my life.

It isn't a proud feeling to realize my head has been briefly up my, well, you know. So I'll be getting that out now.

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May your bliss seek you out this week

2005-10-03T06:31:34Z

Keep your eyes open for your bliss this week.
May it come to you easily, happily.

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Motivational Pages

2005-09-14T16:10:40Z

Where you need to be

You are, this moment, where you need to be. Take the opportunity to live it with passion and purpose.

There is no reason to keep pushing the best of life out of your reach, saving it for another time, another place, or another set of circumstances. Now is the time, this is the place to fill with goodness and richness, with beauty and love.

There is no need to wait or to hope for things to get better. For you can be your very best no matter what else may be happening around you.

There is nothing to be gained by wishing that the past had been different. Instead, put your energy into living and fulfilling the best of the countless possibilities that are now in front of you.

The value, the goodness, the love and effort you give to this moment will come back to you many times over. Now is the time to invest yourself in positive, productive thoughts and actions.

Stop making excuses and start being the best you can imagine. Stop waiting and start to truly and fully live.

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Weekend retreats in CA area?

2005-09-06T01:39:15Z

Does anyone know of any spiritual retreats in the CA area?

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Quotes

2005-09-03T07:11:12Z

"The only real valuable thing is intuition." -Albert Einstein

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.. but by the moment that take our breath away

2005-09-01T22:49:43Z

the parodox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgement, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.

We've learned to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but we have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We've conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things.

We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less.

These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are the days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway mortality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can chooses either to share this insight, or to just hit delete.

Remember, spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever. Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.

Remember, to give a warm hug to hte one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.

Remember, to say "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.

Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.

Give time to love, give time to speak, and give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

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your day to day experiences with FYB in the midst of work, bills, chores...

2005-08-27T15:03:59Z

when i was enrolled in a school of the martial arts, enrolled at UNCC in post-bach psych classes, a member of a (somewhat too yuppified for my taste) social activities organization, more active at the local Unitarian church, i was getting some Needs met that are not now being met. for one thing, just that neurochemicalemotionalcognitivespiritual high of doing things that i didn't feel totally confident in doing... i do miss that. everything is so routine right now. so predictible. i'm not really being challenged. except the challenge of slogging through the grey mundanity of an uncomfortably large proportion of each day.

i think i'm just starting to realize that for me, the Act of facing the Unknown and meeting difficult Challenges generates for me experiences of passion, inspiration, Awareness, Magick, hightened Reality, and Meaningfulness.

i've cut out almost all of that out of my life for budgetary reasons and also just because of being tired from work, chores, obligations, and daily living responsibilities. that is definitely going down the WRONG Path. WRONG WRONG WRONG!!! that is, in fact, a failure to meet my True Responsibilities. the Responsibilites of Cultivating a vibrant, passionate, inspired, and Authentic Self, so that i have vibrant, passionate, inspiring, and Authentic Energy to offer to the people in my life and to the World, the One Interdependent Universal System.

so, here's to the Bliss of meeting my True Responsibilities (Cultivating vitality, passion, inspiration, etc,) which will be of great benefit to me, my wife, relationships, the world, the universe, my self, my wife, my relationships, the world, the universe, my self, (and around, and round, and round.)

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Being a light of love in the world

2005-08-27T03:00:46Z

Here's a beautiful message on Being a Light - goto www.lightmovie.com - turn
up your speakers and enjoy the words and music.

Here are the words - to the message:

You are the Light of the World

.and as such you are here to use your light to heal, transform and
transfigure anything unlike peace, love, harmony and goodwill.

That we all may have moments of peace
.and more peace.

Rather than impose your will upon conditions of lack, disease, or suffering
choose instead to think, feel and emote from an outcome in which anything
unlike what is preferred simply does not exist.

It cannot exist in your experience if you decide not to entertain it.

In doing so, you create a Quantum overlay of preferred possibilities and
probable futures.
You are the Light of the World.

You do not need the world's permission to shine your light upon the dark.

The light releases you from joining others in seductive, lower energy
vibrations. Use your light to simply transform lower energies.

This is how you heal yourself and the world. This is how you create moments
of peace.And more peace still.

Light cannot injure light
Light is injured by nothing.

Light heals all.

In the midst of shining your light
you are immune to lower energies.

You don't heal people by getting them to "get it."
You don't heal unwanted situations with people by "teaching them a lesson."

Just stand in the midst of all that you resist and instead of letting
judgement take over, put your entire focus upon the light.The light will
prevail.

You don't have to do anything more than this.

Bringing peace to the world is what your are here to do. Just shine your
light.

You know where your inner light switch is .Turn it on!

You heal and transform the entire world around you by turning ON your light.

You don't have to warn the darkness that you are coming with the light.

Just shine your light.

You are the light of the world.

And so it is.

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Substance of your dreams

2005-08-24T16:06:45Z

What is the most beautiful thing you can imagine? You have the ability to make that beauty real.

How would life be if it were everything you could ever hope for? You are in a position to bring those hopes to life.

Look beyond the superficial tokens and trinkets of the world, to the underlying hopes, dreams and possibilities that give them value. Those hopes, those dreams, those beautiful possibilities are yours the moment you choose to accept them.

A successful life is not a matter of acquiring power and possessions. A successful life comes from giving meaning and purpose to the abilities and resources with which you are blessed.

Approach success from that perspective, and there is no limit to what you can achieve. Seek the real substance of your dreams instead of their mere outward appearance, and you will not seek in vain.

What is the most beautiful, wonderful life you can imagine? Commit yourself to it, and the best of it is already yours.

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live!

2005-08-24T03:07:56Z

take chances. tell the truth. date someone completely wrong for you. say no. spend all of your cash. fall in love. get to know someone random. say i love you. scream out loud. sing in the shower. laugh at a stupid joke. cry. get revenge. apologize. be spontaneous. get in your car and just drive. tell someone how much they mean to you. stay up all night. hold on. let go. tell htat jerk he's a jerk. try something new. let someone know what they're missing. laugh until your stomach hurts. LIVE!!!!

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Name your Bliss...

2005-08-23T06:53:07Z

What do you love more than anything in the world?

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quotes

2005-08-06T13:48:32Z

“Bliss is but a moment with a cupcake.”

-a quote from the NPR web site

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Pleasure versus happiness in following your bliss:

2005-07-30T05:05:25Z

Tenzin Gyato (aka HHDL) reckons you start to follow your bliss by distinguishing between what brings you pleasure and what creates the conditions happiness.

I find it really simple and powerful to ask "Will this bring me happiness or pleasure?" And I find I can share what makes me happy, whereas what brings me pleasure leaves me numb, fat or empty.

When I asked this question for an afternoon I discovered that most of what I do is to bring pleasure or to just make pain and discomfit a little less. That is normal and part of the human condition, and in fact it's funny because you can be happy and not necessarily comfortable or pleasured.

So pleasure and happiness don't automatically go together.

The more obvious cognitive approach to finding your bliss is to begin listing the stuff which you delight to do, love to think about or get close to, and just innocently compile a huge long list without thinking or judging for a few weeks. Then you can look at it as a big bliss resource to use in making changes.

But change is not for pleasure-seekers because it takes courage which takes energy. Change must be inspired by and for happiness, even if it means sacrificing pleasure and comfort to be happy.

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come follow me...

2005-07-19T16:53:00Z

*NOTE: I have used "god" "I" "MY" only because "god" is nether he, nor she, nor it. It is a feeling of infinite intelligence, class and the source of all information, energy, matter and space that structure the universe. it's our inner power, universal mind.

this was sent to me i edit it some ;)

Effective immediately, please be aware these are changes
YOU can make in OUR life.

These will grant you peace,
joy and happiness. I apologize for
any inconvenience :)

Please follow...

1. QUIT WORRYING:

Life has dealt you a blow please don't is sit
and worry. Have you forgotten that there's a higher power of faith
things are not always what they seem love is here to take all your burdens and carry them for you. there's method to this madness Or
do you just enjoy fretting over every little
thing that comes your way?

2. PUT IT ON THE LIST:

Something needs done or taken care of. Put it on
the list. No, not YOUR list. Put it on MY
to-do-list. Let ME be the one to take care of the
problem. I can't help you until you turn it over
to Me. And although My to-do-list is long, I am all over it.
I can take care of anything you
put into My hands. In fact, if the truth were
ever really known, I take care of a lot of things
for you that you never even realize.

3. TRUST ME:

Once you've given your burdens to Me, quit trying
to take them back. Trust in Me. Have the faith
that I will take care of all your needs, your
problems and your trials. Problems with the kids?
Put them on My list. Problem with finances? Put
it on My list. Problems with your emotional
roller coaster? For My sake, put it on My list. I
want to help you. All you have to do is ask.

4. LEAVE IT ALONE:

Don't wake up one morning and say, "Well, I'm
feeling much stronger now, I think I can handle
it from here." Why do you think you are feeling
stronger now? It's simple. You gave Me your
burdens and I'm taking care of them. I also renew
your strength and cover you in my peace. Don't
you know that if I give you these problems back,
you will be right back where you started? Leave
them with Me and forget about them. Just let Me
do my job.

5. TALK TO ME:

I want you to forget a lot of things. Forget what
was making you crazy. Forget the worry and the
fretting because you know I'm in control. But
there's one thing I pray you never forget.

Please, don't forget to talk to Me - OFTEN! I
love YOU! I want to hear your voice. I want you
to include Me in on the things going on in your
life. I want to hear you talk about your friends
and family. Prayer is simply you having a
conversation with Me your inner you. I want to be your dearest
friend.

6. HAVE FAITH:

I see a lot of things that you can't
see from where you are. Have faith in Me that I
know what I'm doing. Trust Me. I will continue to care
for you, watch over you, and meet your needs. You
only have to trust Me.

7. SHARE:

You were taught to share when you were only two
years old. When did you forget? That rule still
applies. Share with those who are less fortunate
than you. Share your joy with those who need
encouragement. Share your laughter with those who
haven't heard any in such along time. Share your
tears with those who have forgotten how to cry.
Share your faith with those who have none.

8. BE PATIENT:

I managed to fix it so in just one lifetime you
could have so many diverse experiences. You grow
from a child to an adult, have children, change
jobs many times, learn many trades, travel to so
many places, meet thousands of people, and
experience so much.

How can you be so impatient then when it takes Me a
little longer than you expect to handle something
on My to-do-list? Trust in My timing, for my
timing is perfect. Just because I created the
entire universe in only six days, everyone thinks
I should always rush, rush, rush.

9. BE KIND:

Be kind to others, for I love them just as much
as I love you. They may not dress like you, or
talk like you, or live the same way you do, but
still love them. Please try to get along, for
my sake. I created each of you different in some
way. It would be too boring if you were all
identical. Please, know I love each of your
differences.

10. LOVE YOURSELF:

As much as I love you, how can you not love
yourself? You were created from me for one reason
only -- to be loved, and to love in return. I am
a God of Love. Love Me. Love your neighbors. But
also love yourself. It makes My heart ache when I
see you hurt or when things go wrong and you do not understand that this was only to bring you closer to me. You are very precious to me. Don't ever
forget......

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how?

2005-07-18T20:38:43Z

how does one begin to follow the bliss?

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Need advice on career path

2005-06-29T20:53:51Z

Sorry if this isn't the right place, but I am in need of advice and thought I'd give you guys a try.

I'm struggling to find my direction. What I do know is that I'm increasingly drawn to the healing arts, but am having a hard time weeding through all of the different realms and finding the right schooling. I am leaning towards holistic health practitioning and counseling - on health/diet, as well as spiritual/psychological. I'm currently perusing catalogs for expressive arts therapy, women's spirituality, and holistic counseling programs. Do any of you out there who are doing this for a living have suggestions as to education (I'm in San Francisco) and getting yourself started? Or would anyone be available to talk with me, so that I can pick your brain?

I just know that I've been searching for a long time now. I'm also having a total meltdown with working in the restaurant industry and dealing with the harsher energies that come with it. I long to put more meaning into my life by doing fulfilling and rewarding work, and to live at a gentler pace by working in a healthy setting, either by myself or in a collective with others. I feel the sense of urgency to figure things out, as well as to find a happier way to pay my rent in the meantime. So I'm reaching out here in hopes of finding the spark of a guiding light.

Thank you!!
-Vanessa

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Today's purpose

2005-06-28T06:20:37Z

Today has a purpose. Pay attention to that purpose, and you'll uncover this day's many treasures.
There is a reason why you have arrived at this point. On this day there is much to be learned, to be accomplished, to be experienced and to be lived.

When your thoughts, your actions and your efforts consistently follow a clear and positive purpose, achievement is inevitable. Look deeply at the things you treasure most, and you will see that purpose.

Purpose brings together all the seemingly unconnected parts of life. Purpose creates positive value out of the triumphs and the setbacks alike.

With a clear sense of purpose, your vast and magnificent resources are put to use in the service of an even greater good. With a clear sense of purpose, even the tragedies and disappointments cannot stop you.

There is always some part of you that knows what your purpose is right now. The more of your life you connect to that purpose, the more magnificent life will be.

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The Pain Release Pages

2005-06-26T09:14:02Z

Each of us is the result of a mixture of influences, parental and childhood conditioning, work, relationship and social experiences, economic situation and peer group influences to name just a few. Some of these influences have pleasant memories and associations while some are less pleasant. The less pleasant ones are what this post is about.

Many of the less pleasant experiences have a strong tendency to cause deep and lasting changes in how we see oursleves and to the way in which we relate to the world around us and to other people. These experiences can range from early childhood abuse - physical, mental and emotional - through school and adolescent problems to those we have as adults.

They may involve actual physical events such as rape, molestation or assault, emotional aspects such as being constantly put down by others or told that you are 'different' in some way. They may also be medical in nature such as breast cancer, hysterectomy, prostate or testicular cancer, infertility, impotence or many other possibilities. Any of these things can leave any of us with adverse ideas of how we relate to the world around us.

Most of these changes are due to a lowering of self-esteem, a feeling that somehow we are less worthy, less lovable or less of a person as a result of these experiences. This usually causes a withdrawal, a reluctance to become involved and/or a fear of being hurt or rejected which, in turn, affects how we relate to others and can become a self-fulling prophecy, a vicious circle or both.

The most common place that these effects seem to manifest themselves is in our most intimate relationships with those closest to us or in our ability to form, particpate in and enjoy such relationships.

Each and every one of us is, first and foremost, a valueable, worthwhile and useful Spiritual Being. Also at this time, each of you who read these pages are engaged in a learning experience in a physical body. (Me too.) This learning may take many and varied forms, even for one individual spirit in any one lifetime. Some of these forms will be enjoyable, others less so, but each has its lessons for the spirit concerned.

All of these lessons involve our emotions because it is through our emotions that we learn our spiritual lessons. Our emotions are inextricably intertwined with the way in which we see ourselves and the world around us. A very large part of this has to do with our sexuality, how we view ourselves as sexual beings and how we think others view us. Some of us have very good feelings about these aspects of ourselves, some deservedly so, others perhaps less deservedly so, while others have less favourable feelings about these aspects.

Many people who have less-than-favourable feelings about themselves and the way they are seen by the rest of the world are worried or even afraid that others will find them unattractive or unworthy for whatever reason. For others, there are feelings of rage, hatred, betrayal, disappointment, distrust or insecurity among many others.

Unfortuneately, it almost never occurrs to these people that there is something that they can do about this. If they become more comfortable, confident and at ease with ALL aspects of themselves and see themselves as valueable, worthwhile and desirable people, then others are more likely to feel comfortable around them and want to be in their presence.

This applies especially to those who have survived some form of experience that may have left them feeling that they are 'dirty', damaged or incomplete.

PRP was written to help all people who have had unpleasant experiences in their lives to come to terms with those experiences and to restore their own feelings of well-being and worthiness. It requires only that each person approach it with an open mind and a desire to improve themselves, the way they relate to others and their enjoyment of life.

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past lives? Share your experience, ideas

2005-06-24T00:07:59Z

Hey what do you think?

One past life – a recognition by Ms. Smart

Reality:
I attended a high-end private art school in Detroit, MI, CCS. They had an awesome library. One day I was perusing the books and find one about photographs of women and cigarettes from 1920’s in Paris. I took it home. The book was really talking to me. I thought, I was there, I lived that life. I was amongst the pages. I felt it. This was the first time I had ever felt a past live.

After that, from time to time I could relate to that time period, the fashion, culture, and mood of 1920’s Paris.

The Regression Prologue:
I am in the advertising/marketing/writing field. I had a client once who owned a hypnotherapy business along with other "unique" businesses...?!?!!? My wages were part $$ and part trade of services. We did a past lives session once. Wow. A neat experience. I found the hypnotizing was soooooo relaxing, and I was always totally conscious. I would just go with what came up in my mind first thing when under her spells. ;)

Past Lives Regression Experience:
One of my past lives was in Paris - 1920's
I was there
I was a fashion illustrator doing sketches of the latest styles in a fashion house
I had an artsy life
I attended salons with artsy people, words, art, music, culture, parties
I worked in a house/building where the roof consisted of all glass skylights
I smoked
I traveled by train
I was married
I had a good life
I was smothered to death in a semi private train car by a man with a pillow

Say 10 –12 Years Later:
I am still in the art-advertising field. One day, one of my more distance vendors stopped by and says, “You know I was reading this book and it reminded me of you. You looked like one of the women in the book. Here’s a copy of the image.”

You got it, it was a photocopy of a woman from that same 1920’s women smoking in trains art book that I saw over a decade ago.

I was blown away. So a virtual stranger had picked up on my past life as well, ad she was trying to reconnect me to it. It was a cool expedience and provided me with even more feedback on that past life.

In my future, I will go to Paris and see how it feels in this life to be there.

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pure haiku

2005-06-12T00:24:02Z

I am floating love
Close your eyes, breathe me inward
energy flow, smile

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Two haiku journey.

2005-06-11T16:13:29Z

Every day I choose between the train or the bus for public transport. The days I take the bus, I get to sit by a noisy freeway waiting while the noise, fumes, hot sun and dust gradually wear down my resistance to stress. By the time the bus arrives, any sense of peace I have has usually vanished.

Unrelated to this, a few days ago, fellow triber John K suggested a haiku competition as follows:

"Simple rules:

1. Find a haiku, or write one of your own, that is so present and beautiful that your heart breaks open.

2. Post it here, all in one thread, without comments.

3. All participants agree to hold the heart frequency, and the living presence.

4. Allow yourself to heal on all levels."

Waiting there at the bus stop, witnessing myself getting stressed out as usual, I read in the book I had with me the following:

"Turn every problem into a nonrecurring event... What if you could unlearn the operating styles that keep you stuck? What if, by risking a little overreacting, you could become someone who picks up on all possible environmental cues?"

So I decided, then and there, whenever I felt stressed I would write a haiku about it. And to prove my point, I wrote one then and there. Sure enough, I was in bliss by the time the bus came. Here it is:

breakthrough! from
bus stop chaos traffic pain
to rain and haiku.

And, on my return journey:

universe of sound
clouds and plane role over
winter streetscape.

I encourage others to try this out when they are stressing, and also to post their haiku as per John K's instructions too!

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From "problem solving" to "bliss manifesting"

2005-06-06T21:50:45Z

I intend this thread to explore the matrices of problem solving from the context of FINDING and FOLLOWING your bliss. I'm not interested in wrong or right, nor in problems or soutions, but I feel that problems can be not just a spur to challenge, but also a springboard to spiritual growth.

To this end, I feel that problems and solutions are boring and mundane. A real solution would be blissful and attractive! A real problem would be exciting and evolutionary. So the problems we experience are very simply gifts.

Bliss manifesting is a nonlinear process so I will present a series of filters which, to varying degrees, seem to me to purify problems and solutions into progressively more blissful "wholes".

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Astral Travel and Dreams, Meditation, Alchemy, etc.

2005-06-05T19:04:07Z

Free courses and books -- http://gnosticweb.com.

Peace,
Denny

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Manifesting....interesting! (but long winded)

2005-06-04T18:03:59Z

I've made big decisions lately, to change my life for the better, and have been very CONSCIOUS and PRESENT. I'm up at Harbin Hot Springs for 2 weeks, taking an intensive massage therapy class, to start a new career.

Strange things have been happening. Hiking up a huge hill in the road on my way back to school from the hot springs, I thought "I wish a vehicle would come along and offer me a ride back!" (as I was running late and it was HOT)...and sure enough, a vehicle comes around the bend, SCREECHES to a stop after passing me-- the guy inside thought I was someone else, but offered me a ride up to where I was going. Neato!

Then the next morning, I awoke and thought immediately "I would LOVE french toast this morning. Maybe i'll go to the real restaurant (rather than the school dining hall) to have breakfast- they have good french toast!"...and I pass the dining hall, and there's fabulous french toast there.

Just little things, but it's feeling more and more like I am MANIFESTING. Has anyone ever had a run of this?

I was telling the folks in my massage class about this, and I fake-pouted "And the only thing I DON'T have yet is a PONY." A few days later, we were sifting through back issues of massage magazines, and a woman pulled out an issue from 1997 with a photo of a horse on it, and an article about equine massage....something just CLICKED, that I'd love to specialize in equine massage as a career, as I love massage, and I love horses.

I'm kinda freaked out, and not really wanting to ASK for anything else..."Be careful what you wish for"..... at the moment anyway!!!

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Afterlife

2005-06-03T23:47:50Z

Is there one? Do you think so? Why?

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Bliss, calling, destiny, fate, karma... (a blessing)

2005-06-01T04:25:06Z

...whatever you call it,
it seems to alight
like a gift from the Divine.

whoever is reading this
may you find your calling
and live on Bliss Island

where at two o clock
the toucans do a loud dance
and people siesta in hammocks

where the buzz of felt ideas
and the warm heart feeling
sussurates with the sunset sea.

may the tingle of your unique voice
set that world on fire with sunset;
may wealth chase you, and you chase wisdom.

may the dream of your destiny arise
unforgettable, unasked,
like a perfect day appears.

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FOUR AGREEMENTS...again and again

2005-05-26T16:46:59Z

i think it's time for this again ;)

The book is called "The Four Agreements, by Don Miguel Ruiz".

Everything we do is based on agreements we have made. In these agreements we tell ourselves who we are, what everyone else is, how to act, what is possible, and what is impossible. What we have agreed to believe creates what we experience. When these agreements come from fear, blocks and obstacles develop keeping us from realizing our greatest potential.

Based on ancient Toltec wisdom , the Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives and our work into a new experience of effectiveness , balance and self supporting behavior.

BE IMPECCABLE WITH YOUR WORD

Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

DON'T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY

Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering.

DON'T MAKE ASSUMPTIONS

Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness, and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

ALWAYS DO YOUR BEST

Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed

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Roll Call :)

2005-05-19T06:25:39Z

Hello All,

i'm just checking to see who's still with us...perhaps we can share our dream, passion, life purpose, or maybe just why you're here.

My dream is to create a new social economics’
An alternative to contemporary capitalism.

Participatory Economics

To create new values; people over money
waking up to a new world of brotherhood and sisterhood and participatory trade.

*Abundance for everyone*…health, wealth, spirituality, education, arts, and culture

Information Broker: to provide resources and contacts for any question or problem...A networking Dashboard

To be a Venture Angel; To provide the resources and contacts to help others produce their dreams and follow their bliss

Passionate about research, love, music, reading, film, the Internet, art, and spirituality

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Bliss = ???

2005-05-18T23:23:10Z

What does bliss mean to you at this very moment?

Bliss = Not having to do anything today, I can do what I want, in any order, for as long as I want. No rules or deadlines today. A simple, easy, free-flowing bliss for me today.

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The Invitation

2005-04-30T18:54:47Z

I came across this in a newsgroup and don't know who it is by.

A woman came out of her house and saw 3 old men with long white beards sitting in her front yard. She did not recognize them. She said "I don't think I know you, but you must be hungry. Please come in and have something to eat."

"We do not go into a house together," they replied. "Why is that?" she asked.

One of the old men explained: "His name is Wealth," he said pointing to one of his friends, and said pointing to another one, "He is Success, and I am Love." Then he added, "Now which one of us you want in your home."

She first thought, "Since that is the case, let me invite in Wealth. Let him come and fill my home with wealth!" Then she thought Success, might be better. Then she thought, "Wouldn't it be better to invite Love as then my home would be filled with Love!"

So she chose Love to be her guest.

The woman asked the 3 old men, "Which one of you is Love? Please come in and be my guest."

Love got up and started walking toward the house. The other 2 also got up and followed him. Surprised, the lady asked Wealth and Success: "I only invited Love, Why are you coming in?"

The old men replied together: "If you had invited Wealth or Success, the other two of us would've stayed out, but since you invited Love, wherever he goes, we go with him. Wherever there is Love, there is also Wealth and Success!"

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ONE SACRED MOMENT IN TIME AND SPACE

2005-04-29T18:36:48Z

We have entered this human body for a short, sacred moment on Planet Earth.

Each moment is precious

At each moment we make choices on how to navigate our soul through time and space.

Our soul seeks to experience love in the human form, in physical
reality.

Each choice determines our past, present and future.
What we experience is what we create.

Our gift and our challenge is to use our free will to choose love.

For just one moment, unleash your grip, relax
And let the unknown work for you.

For just one thought, release control of how you think things ought to be And take a glimpse at the way things really are.

For just one glimpse, step back, jump out of your box
And observe a perspective so much vaster than your mind's view.

For one complete minute, look to the horizon, allow your breath to be automatic And feel the infinite feed your being.

For one heartbeat stop holding on. Let go.
And feel the universal energy that is always available for you.

Give yourself one precious experience in time and space. With all your heart, body and soul

Surrender into the arms of the unknown.
Indulge in the panorama of the cosmic perspective.
Breathe in the wine of cosmic vitality.
Cuddle in the embrace of the infinite.
Soak in the nurturing presence of Divine Love.
Trust that you are taken care of. Know that you are loved.
For one precious moment, choose Love.

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EFFORTLESS ACTION

2005-04-20T23:42:52Z

• Get clear about what you really want--that is, what kind of environment are you looking to exist in? Friendly people? Good clientele? Loving relationships? Opportunities for leadership? More freedom and flexibility? Focus on the feeling tone of what you are after, even if you can’t imagine how to get it.

Let the universe organize the specific details for accomplishing it. That’s why affirmations work--you co-create with the universe.

• Listen to your intuition. Intuition is the still, small voice that hangs out in the back of your mind. It’s persistent. It may come quickly, or it may keep nagging you a little bit. In hindsight, it’s what makes you say, "I knew that." If you have the hunch to call someone or go somewhere, do it.

• Take action. If you are thinking of buying a house, finding a new doctor, volunteering for a worthy cause, or improving your garden and haven’t yet taken any action, open up more. Keep your question in mind, and notice who you run into or who calls you. If your question crosses your mind, ask that person for a lead that might pertain to the information you need.

• Interpret the results of your action and be aware of coincidences. Don’t dismiss coincidences as random. If something happens that seems even a little out of the ordinary, your energy will go up. This is a confirmation that something is happening in your favor. When you have no energy for something, really look hard at why you want to proceed with something that has no energy to it.

• Stop doing what isn’t working. Give it a rest. Go with the flow. Some things need time to germinate and surface again in a completely new guise. Ask for clarity from the universe.

• More pleasure and gratitude. Taking pleasure in what you receive raises the frequency of all your situations, and allows you to attract people and opportunities more in tune with that vibration. Like attracts like. Who was it that said, "Life is painful, but suffering is optional?"

by Carol Adrienne

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Don't Die with Your Music Still in You

2005-04-13T21:36:02Z

The world you live in is an intelligent system in which every moving part is coordinated by every other moving part. There's a universal life force that supports and orchestrates everything. It all works together in perfect harmony. You are one of those moving parts. You showed up here in the body you inhabit, precisely on time. Your body will leave here with the same precision. You're an essential piece of this complex system. Here you are in this intelligent system that has no beginnings and no end, in which all of the galaxies move in harmony with each other. You must have shown up here for a reason! Kahlil Gibran said, "When you are born, your work is placed in your heart." So, what is your work? Your purpose? Are you living it out the way your heart urges you to?

Listening to Your Heart
Take a moment right now and point to yourself. Your finger is very likely pointing right at your heart. Not at your brain, but your heart. This is who you are. The constant beating of your heart in and out, out and in, is a symbol of your infinite connection to the always-present heartbeat of God, or the Universal Intelligence. Your left brain calculates, figures things out, analyzes, and comes up with the most logical choices for you. It thinks, thinks, thinks! Your right brain represents your intuitive side. This is the part of you that goes beyond reason and analysis. It's the part of you that feels things, that's sensitive to love, that's emotional about what's important to you. Your right brain allows you to tear up as you hold your babies, or bask in the beauty of a glorious day. Your left brain can analyze it, while your right brain lets you feel it.

Pick a situation and ask yourself if what you know or what you feel is most important to you. Generally, what you'll take care of first depends on the situation and circumstances you're in. Your intellect can be figuring out exactly how you're supposed to act in a relationship when things are collapsing (or when they're rapturous), and then there are times when what you feel will supersede what you know. If you are feeling fearful, scared, lonely; or on the other hand, thrilled, loving, and ecstatic, these will be the dominant forces you'll act upon. These are the times when your right brain is right. Your right brain will always lead you passionately to your purpose.

Listening to Your Right Brain
There's an intuitive invisible presence that's always with you. I picture this presence as a nagging little creature who sits on your right shoulder and reminds you when you've lost your sense of purpose. This little fellow is your own death, urging you to get on with what you showed up here for because you have only so many days to get it done, and then your body will be departing from this visit. Your invisible companion will prod you when you're spending another day doing what somebody else has dictated if it's not a part of your passion in life.

You'll always know when you're off purpose because of your thoughts of frustration. You might not always act on this knowledge, though, because your left brain has not mustered up the courage to do the bidding that your right brain knows is your destiny. Your intuitive inner voice keeps urging you to play the music that you hear so that you won't die with it inside you. But your left brain says, "Wait a minute. Be careful, don't take risks, you might fail, you might disappoint all of those who have a different view of what you should be doing." Then your right-brain invisible companion (your death) speaks even louder. The volume gets turned up and up, trying to get you to follow your dream.

Listening exclusively to your left brain will turn you ultimately into a pretender, or even worse, a commuter, getting up every morning going with the crowd, doing that job that brings in the money and pays the bills and then goes home; and getting up the next morning and doing it all over again, as a well-known song implies. Meanwhile, the music inside of you fades almost to a point of being inaudible. But your constant invisible companion always hears the music and continues tapping you on your shoulder.

The attempts to get your attention may take the form of an ulcer, or a fire to burn up your resistance, or being fired from a stifling job, or being brought to your knees with an accident. Usually these accidents, illnesses, and forms of bad luck finally get your attention. But not always. Some people end up like Tolstoy's character Ivan Ilyich, who anguished on his deathbed, "What if my whole life has been wrong?" A fearsome scene, I must say.

You don't have to choose that fate. Listen to your invisible companion, express the music that you hear, and ignore what everyone else around you thinks you should be doing. As Thoreau put it, "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away."

Be willing to accept that others may even see you as having betrayed them, but you haven't betrayed your music, your purpose. Listen to your music, and do what you know you have to do to feel whole, to feel complete, and to feel as if you're fulfilling your destiny. You'll never be at peace if you don't get that music out and let it play. Let the world know why you're here, and do it with passion.

Being Passionate Means Taking Risks
You may indeed find yourself living a comfortable life when you don't follow your instincts. You pay your bills, fill out all of the right forms, and live a life of fitting in and doing it by the book. But it's a book that was written by somebody else. You're aware of that nagging companion saying to you, "This may look right, but does it feel right? Are you doing what you came here to do?" For many people, the answer is, "How do I know what my heroic mission is?"

You'll find your passion in what inspires you the most. And what does the word inspire mean? It derives from the words "in spirit." When you're inspired, you never have to ask about your purpose. You're living it. For one of my children, it's about riding horses and being at the stables. She's in heaven when on horseback or even cleaning out a stall filled with horse manure. Another daughter is only inspired when she's singing, writing music, or performing. She's felt that way since she was two. For another, it's her artwork and design that make her feel purposeful. For yet another, it's designing Websites and creating computer programs for others. For me, it's writing and speaking and creating products to help people become self-reliant. This has always been my passion, even as a young boy.

What is your passion? What stirs your soul and makes you feel like you're totally in harmony with why you showed up here in the first place? Know this for certain: Whatever it may be, you can make a living doing it and simultaneously provide a service for others. I guarantee it.

The only thing that will keep you from playing the music you hear and marching to the unique drumbeat you experience within, is fear. According to A Course in Miracles, there are only two basic emotions: one is fear, the other is love. You may fear the disapproval of others. Take that risk and you'll discover that you receive more approval when you don't seek it than when you do. You may fear the unknown. Take that risk as well. Wander in there, asking yourself, "What is the worst thing that can happen if this doesn't work out?" The truth is that you will just move beyond it. You're not going to starve to death or be tortured if it doesn't work out. You might fear being successful. You may have been conditioned to believe you're inadequate or limited. The only way to challenge these absurdities is to go toward what you know you're here for and let success chase after you, as it most assuredly will. Or, you may fear the biggest one of all: You may fear failure.

The Myth of Failure
This may come as a surprise to you, but failure is an illusion. No one ever fails at anything. Everything you do produces a result. If you're trying to learn how to catch a football and someone throws it to you and you drop it, you haven't failed. You simply produced a result. The real question is what you do with the results that you produce. Do you leave and moan about being a football failure, or do you say, "Throw it again," until ultimately you're catching footballs? Failure is a judgment. It's just an opinion. It comes from your fears, which can be eliminated by love. Love for yourself. Love for what you do. Love for others. Love for your planet. When you have love within you, fear cannot survive.

Think of the message in this ancient wisdom: "Fear knocked at the door. Love answered and no one was there."
That music that you hear inside of you urging you to take risks and follow your dreams is your intuitive connection to the purpose in your heart since birth. Be enthusiastic about all that you do. Have that passion with the awareness that the word enthusiasm literally means "the God (enthos) within (iasm)." The passion that you feel is God inside of you beckoning you to take the risk and be your own person.

I've found that perceived risks are not risky at all once you transcend your fears and let love and self-respect in. When you produce a result that others laugh at, you're also stirred to laughter. When you respect yourself, stumbling allows you to laugh at yourself as an occasional stumbler. When you love and respect yourself, someone's disapproval is not something you fear and avoid. The poet Rudyard Kipling declared, "If you can meet triumph and disaster, and treat those two imposters just the same . . . yours is the earth and everything that's in it."

The key word here is imposters. They're not real. They exist only in the minds of people.

Follow your right brain, listening to how you feel, and play your own unique brand of music. You won't have to fear anything or anyone, and you'll never experience that terror of lying on your deathbed someday, saying, "What if my whole life has been wrong?" Your invisible companion on your right shoulder will prod you each and every time you're moving away from your purpose. It makes you aware of your music. So listen-and don't die with that music still in you.

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

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God's Cake

2005-04-10T17:44:13Z

"Every adversity contains the seed of an equivalent benefit."

"A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears"

God's Cake

I read this at a newsgroup and don't know who the author is. I just found it to be very enlightening.

Sometimes we wonder, "What did I do to deserve this?" or "Why did God have to do this to me?" Here is a wonderful explanation!

A daughter is telling her Mother how everything is going wrong, she's failing algebra, her boyfriend broke up with her and her best friend is moving away.

Meanwhile, her Mother is baking a cake and asks her daughter if she would like a snack, and the daughter says,

"Absolutely Mom, I love your cake."

“Here, have some cooking oil," her Mother offers.

"Yuck" says her daughter.

"How about a couple raw eggs?"

"Gross, Mom!

"Would you like some flour then? Or maybe baking soda?"

"Mom, those are all yucky!"

To which the mother replies: "Yes, all those things seem bad all by themselves. But when they are put together in the right way, they make a wonderfully delicious cake!

God works the same way. Many times we wonder why He would let us go through such bad and difficult times. But God knows that when He puts these things all in His order, they always work for good! We just have to trust Him and, eventually, they will all make something wonderful!

God is crazy about you. He sends you flowers every spring and a sunrise every morning.

Whenever you want to talk, he'll listen. He can live anywhere in the universe, and He chose your heart.”

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Installing Love

2005-04-10T17:01:10Z

Author Unkown

Customer Service Rep: Can you install LOVE?

Customer: I can do that. I'm not very technical, but I think I am ready to install now. What do I do first?

CS Rep: The first step is to open your HEART. Have you located your HEART, ma'am?

Customer: Yes I have, but there are several programs running right now. Is it okay to install while they are running?

CS Rep: What programs are running, ma'am?

Customer: Let me see… I have PASTHURT.EXE, LOWESTEEM.EXE, GRUDGE.EXE, and RESENTMENT.COM running right now.

CS Rep: No problem. LOVE will automatically erase PASTHURT.EXE from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent memory, but it will no longer disrupt other programs. LOVE will eventually overwrite LOWESTEEM.EXE with a module of its own called HIGHESTEEM.EXE. However, you have to completely turn off GRUDGE.EXE and RESENTMENT.COM. Those programs prevent LOVE from being properly installed. Can you turn those off, ma'am?

Customer: I don't know how to turn them off. Can you tell me how?

CoupleCS Rep: My pleasure. Go to your Start menu and invoke FORGIVENESS.EXE. Do this as many times as necessary until GRUDGE.EXE and RESENTMENT.COM have been completely erased.

Customer: Okay, I'm done. LOVE has started installing itself automatically. Is that normal?

CS Rep: Yes it is. You should receive a message that says it will reinstall for the life of your HEART. Do you see that message?

Customer: Yes I do. Is it completely installed?

CS Rep: Yes, but remember that you have only the base program. You need to begin connecting to other HEARTS in order to get the upgrades.

Customer: Oops...I have an error message already. What should I do?

CS Rep: What does the message say?

Customer: It says "ERROR 412 - PROGRAM NOT RUN ON INTERNAL COMPONENTS." What does that mean?

CS Rep: Don't worry ma'am, that's a common problem. it means that the LOVE program is set up to run on external HEARTS but has not yet been run on your HEART. It is one of those complicated programming things, but in nontechnical terms it means you have to "LOVE" your own machine before it can "LOVE" others.

Customer: So what should I do? Heart

CS Rep: Can you find the directory called "SELFACCEPTANCE?"

Customer: Yes, I have it.

CS Rep: Excellent, you are getting good at this.

Customer: Thank you.

CS Rep: You're welcome. Click on the fol-lowing files and then copy them to the "MYHEART" directory: FORGIVESELF. DOC, SELFESTEEM.TXT, REALIZEWORTH.TXT, and GOODNESS. DOC. The system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching any faulty programming. Also, you need to delete SELFCRITICIZE.EXE from all directories, and then empty your recycle bin afterwards to make sure it is completely gone and never comes back.

Customer: Got it. Wow! My HEART is filling up with really neat files. SMILE.MPG is playing on my monitor right now, and it shows that WARMTH.COM, PEACE.EXE, and CONTENTMENT.COM are copying themselves all over my HEART!

CS Rep: Then LOVE is installed and running. You should be able to handle it from here. One more thing before I go...

Customer: Yes?

CS Rep: LOVE is freeware. Be sure to give it and its various modules to everybody you meet. They will in turn share it with other people, and they will return some really neat modules back to you.

Customer: I will. Thank you for your help.

CS Rep: You're very welcome.

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Self confidence tips

2005-04-09T21:51:11Z

Hello all,

following your bliss is more about following the bliss of a higher mind and thoughts than any particular goal or destination...looking for the highest out-come...about ourselves and the world

nothing in your past has to define you, look at it as just a dream, and then move on...

yes, lie to yourself if you have too..."fake til you make it" ;)

here's mine;

"I’m the wealthiest man alive; not only do i create abundance for myself but, for others as well" inside and out"

over and over i'll say this and pretty soon i will be (haha)

Learn how to build self confidence through positive affirmations and how we talk to ourselves

we're basically programed from long ago (by parents, friends, early beginings)...break free and download a new software;

it's all in our thinking... change our thoughts we change our life

it's that simple ;)

-Chaz

Everybody needs a confidence boost sometimes, so here are a few tips.
..
- Roger Elliott

1) Feel Good when you Want

When you need to boost your self confidence or self esteem, find 3 things that make you feel good. These could be memories of good times, a piece of music, a holiday souvenir, or a person's face - Practice thinking about them and bringing them to mind.

Developing self confidence that lasts - because of the way emotions 'attach' themselves to memories, you will quickly train yourself to feel good when you want - a great help.

2) Beat Self Consciousness

Self consciousness is the No.1 enemy of self confidence. Learn how to keep your attention off yourself. You can do this easily by following these steps...

a) If you notice you have become self-conscious, (you can usually tell because you start to feel anxious), choose something 'everyday' you can see and study it in detail. For example: examine a door, look at the different textures and shades of color, wonder about who made it and how and so on. The important thing is that you're learning how to keep your attention off yourself.

b) If you feel self-conscious in a social situation, it's usually because you don't have enough to do! Focus on what your purpose in the situation is. Whether you're there to:

• find out if you like the other people in the situation
• make others feel comfortable
• find out some information
• make business contacts
• and so on...

It's easy to feel self-conscious if you have nothing to do, and much more difficult if your attention is occupied by a task.

Think how comfortable you have been with others when you're all working toward a common goal. The common goal of socializing could be making friends, it could be the exchange of mutually beneficial information, it could be whatever you want it to be!

3) Don't Take Undue Criticism - Even From Yourself !

Challenge your own assumptions. Here's a few to get you started:

a) Confident-looking people have bad moments too.
b) Just because you feel under-confident, doesn't mean other people can tell.

c) If you're saying things to yourself like "You're no good at anything" then rest assured, you're wrong. Everyone can compose a sentence, get successfully to the store, eat without choking. Don't let yourself make sweeping statements about yourself - in the long run it is this sort of thing that can really damage your self image.

Building self esteem is not just about thinking good of yourself, it's about not thinking bad for any reason!

d) Just because you have felt bad about yourself in the past doesn't mean you're always going to feel that way.

I have seen hundreds of people surprise themselves once they have learned how to build self confidence through positive affirmations; it's all in are thinking change our thinging we change our life ;)

in a way that it stays built!

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13 Principals to help you stay on track

2005-04-08T01:16:05Z

1. You were born with a purpose
2. You are a magnetic field
3. Anything is possible
4. Stay in gratitude
5. Look for the meaning or purpose in what you are doing
6. Participate more and plan less
7. Start anywhere; purpose is not linear-it’s surprising.
8. You don’t have to become a different person
9. Focus on what you want, not what you don’t want
10. Love what you do. Do what you love
11. Pay attention.
12. Listen carefully to you intuition.
13. Take action on intuitions

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Connectors

2005-04-07T19:06:43Z

Chapter Fifteen:
A Portrait of a Person Connected to the Field of Intention

"Self-actualizing people must be what they can be."
- Abraham Maslow

Wayne Dyer
http://www.drwaynedyer.com/products/f_book.cfm

A person who lives in a state of unity with the Source of all life doesn't look any different from ordinary folks. These people don't wear a halo or dress in special garments that announce their godlike qualities. But when you notice that they go through life as the lucky ones who seem to get all the breaks, and when you begin to talk to them, you realize how distinctive they are compared to people living at ordinary levels of awareness.

Spend a few moments in conversation with these people who are connected to the power of intention and you see how unique they are.

These people, whom I call connectors to signify their harmonious connection with the field of intention, are individuals who have made themselves available for success. It's impossible to get them to be pessimistic about achieving what they desire in their lives. Rather than using language that indicates that their desires may not materialize, they speak from an inner conviction that communicates their profound and simple knowing that the universal Source supplies everything.

They don't say, With my luck things won't work out. Instead, you're much more likely to hear something like, I intend to create this and I know it will work out. No matter how you might attempt to dissuade them by pointing out all the reasons why their optimism ought to be curtailed, they seem blissfully blind to reality-check repercussions. It's almost as if they're in a different world, a world in which they can't hear the reasons why things won't work out.

If you engage them in conversation about this idea, they simply say something like, I refuse to think about what can't happen, because I'll attract exactly what I think about, so I only think about what I know will happen. It doesn't matter to them what's happened before. They don't relate to the concepts of failure or it's impossible.

They simply, without fanfare, are unaffected by reasons for being pessimistic. They've made themselves available for success, and they know and trust in an invisible force that's all-providing. They're so well connected to the all-providing Source that it's as if they have a natural aura preventing anything from getting through that might weaken their connection to the creative energy of the power of intention.

Connectors don't place their thoughts on what they don't want, because, as they'll tell you, The Source of all can only respond with what it is, and what it is, is infinite supply. It can't relate to scarcity, or things not working out, because it's none of these things. If I say to the Source of all things, "It probably won't work out," I'll receive back from it precisely what I sent to it, so I know better than to think anything other than what my Source is.

To the average person who has fears about the future, this all sounds like mumbo jumbo. They'll tell their connector friend to do a reality check and look realistically at the world they live in. But connectors aren't distracted from their inner knowing.

They'll tell you, if you choose to listen, that this is a universe of energy and attraction, and that the reason so many people live lives of fear and scarcity is because they rely on their ego to fulfill their desires. It's simple, they'll tell you. Just reconnect to your Source, and be like your Source, and your intentions will match up perfectly with the all-providing Source.

To connectors, it all seems so simple. Keep your thoughts on what you intend to create. Stay consistently matched up with the field of intention, and then watch for the clues that what you're summoning from the all-creative Source is arriving in your life. To a connector, there are simply no accidents. They perceive seemingly insignificant events as being orchestrated in perfect harmony.

They believe in synchronicity and aren't surprised when the perfect person for a situation appears, or when someone they've been thinking about calls out of the blue, or when a book arrives unexpectedly in the mail giving them the information they needed, or when the money to finance a project they've been intending mysteriously shows up.

Connectors won't attempt to win you over to their point of view with debates. They know better than to place a lot of energy on arguing or being frustrated, because that attracts argumentation and frustration into their lives. They know what they know, and they aren't seduced into constructing a counterforce of resistance to people who live otherwise.

They accept the idea that there are no accidents in a universe that has an invisible force of energy as its Source that continuously creates and provides an infinite supply to all who wish to partake of it. They'll tell you plain and simple if you inquire, All you have to do to tap in to the power of intention is to be in a perfect match with the Source of everything, and I'm choosing to be as closely aligned to that Source as I can.

To connectors, everything that shows up in their life is there because the power of intention intended it there. So they're always in a state of gratitude. They feel thankful for everything, even things that might seem to be obstacles. They have the ability and desire to see a temporary illness as a blessing, and they know in their heart that somewhere an opportunity exists in the setback, and that is what they look for in everything that shows up in their life.

Through their thanks, they honor all possibilities, rather than asking their Source for something, because that seems to give power to what's missing. They commune with the Source in a state of reverent gratitude for all that's present in their lives, knowing that this empowers their intention to manifest precisely what they need.

Connectors describe themselves as living in a state of appreciation and bewilderment. You're unlikely to hear them complain about anything. They aren't fault-finders. If it rains, they enjoy it, knowing that they won't get where they want to go if they only travel on sunny days.

This is how they react to all of nature, with appreciative harmony. The snow, the wind, the sun, and the sounds of nature are all reminders to connectors that they're a part of the natural world. The air - regardless of its temperature or wind velocity - is the revered air that is the breath of life.

Connectors appreciate the world and everything in it. The same connection that they experience with nature they feel toward all beings, including those who lived before and those who have yet to arrive. They have a consciousness of the oneness, and therefore they make no distinctions such as them or those other people. To a connector, it is all we. If you could observe their inner world, you'd discover that they're hurt by pain inflicted on others.

They don't have the concept of enemies, since they know that all of us emanate from the same divine Source. They enjoy the differences in the appearance and customs of others rather than disliking, criticizing, or feeling threatened by them. Their connection to others is of a spiritual nature, but they don't separate themselves spiritually from anyone regardless of where they might live or how different their appearances or customs may be from their own. In their heart, connectors feel an affinity to all of life, as well as to the Source of all of life.

It's because of this connecting link that connectors are so adept at attracting into their lives the cooperation and assistance of others in fulfilling their own intentions. The very fact of feeling connected means that in the connectors' minds, there's no one on this planet who they're not joined up with in a spiritual sense.

Consequently, living in the field of intention, the entire system of life in the universe is available to access anything their attention is on, because they're already connected to this life-giving energy system and all of its creations. They appreciate this spiritual connection, and expend no energy on depreciating or criticizing it. They never feel separated from the assistance that this entire life-giving system offers.

Therefore, connectors aren't surprised when synchronicity or coincidence brings them the fruits of their intentions. They know in their hearts that those seemingly miraculous happenings were brought into their immediate life space because they were already connected to them. Ask connectors about it and they'll tell you, Of course, it's the law of attraction at work.

Stay tuned vibrationally to the Source of all life that intended you, and everyone else here and all of the powers of that field of intention will cooperate with you to bring into your life what you desire. They know that this is how the universe works. Others may insist that connectors are just plain lucky, but the people who enjoy the power of intention know otherwise. They know that they can negotiate the presence of anything they place their attention on as long as they stay consistent with the seven faces of intention.

Connectors don't brag about their good fortune, but are in a perpetual state of gratitude and radical humility. They understand how the universe works, and they stay blissfully in tune with it, rather than challenging or finding fault with it.

Ask them about this and they'll tell you that we're part of a dynamic energy system. Energy that moves faster, they explain, dissolves and nullifies slower-moving energy. These people choose to be in harmony with the invisible spiritual energy. They've trained their thoughts to move at the levels of the higher vibrations, and consequently they're able to deflect lower/slower vibrations.

Connectors have an uplifting effect when they come into contact with people who are living in lower energy levels. Their peacefulness causes others to feel calm and assured, and they radiate an energy of serenity and peace. They're not interested in winning arguments or accumulating allies. Rather than trying to persuade you to think like they do, they're convincing through the energy they exude. People feel loved by connectors, because they're merged with the Source of all life, which is love.

Connectors tell you without hesitation that they choose to feel good regardless of what's going on around them or how others might judge them. They know that feeling bad is a choice, and that it isn't useful for correcting unpleasant situations in the world. So they use their emotions as a guidance system to determine how attuned they are to the power of intention.

If they feel bad in any way, they use this as an indicator that it's time to change their energy level so that it matches up with the peaceful, loving energy of the Source. They'll repeat to themselves, I want to feel good, and they'll bring their thoughts into harmony with this desire.

If the world is at war, they still opt to feel good. If the economy takes a nosedive, they still want to feel good. If crime rates go up or hurricanes rage somewhere on the planet, they still choose to feel good.

If you ask them why they don't feel bad when so many bad things are happening in the world, they'll smile and remind you that the world of spirit from which all is intended works in peace, love, harmony, kindness, and abundance, and that is where I choose to reside within myself. My feeling bad will only ensure that I attract more of feeling bad into my life.

Connectors simply don't allow their well-being to be contingent on anything external to themselves - not the weather, not the wars someplace on the globe, not the political landscape, not the economy, and certainly not anyone else's decision to be low energy. They work with the field of intention, emulating what they know is the creative Source of all.

Connectors are always in touch with their infinite nature. Death is not something that they fear, and they'll tell you, if you ask, that they were never truly born nor will they ever die. They see death as taking off a garment or moving from one room into another - merely a transition.

They point to the invisible energy that intends everything into existence and see this as their true self. Because connectors always feel aligned to everyone and everything in the universe, they don't experience the feeling of being separate from anyone else or from what they'd like to attract into their lives.

Their connection is invisible and nonmaterial, but it's never doubted. Consequently, they rely on this inner, invisible spiritual energy that permeates all things. They live in harmony with Spirit, never seeing themselves as separate. This awareness is key to their seeing the power of intention at work on a daily basis.

You simply can't convince connectors that what they're intending won't materialize, because they trust in their connection to Source energy so strongly. They'll invite you to choose which possibility you're going to identify with, and then encourage you to live as if it had already occurred.

If you can't do it, and are stuck in worry, doubt, and fear, they'll wish you well, but they'll continue what they call thinking from the end. They can see what it is they intend to manifest into their lives as if it already had materialized, and for them, because it's so real in their thoughts, it's their reality.

They'll tell you forthrightly, My thoughts, when harmonized with the field of intention, are God's thoughts, and this is how I choose to think. You'll see if you follow them closely enough that they're exceptional at realizing the fruits of their intentions.

Connector people are exceptionally generous. It's as if what they want for themselves is dwarfed only by wanting it even more for other people. They take great pleasure in giving. Others may wonder how they ever accumulate anything for themselves, yet their lives are filled with abundance, and they seem to lack nothing that they desire.

The secret to the power of intention, they'll tell you, is in thinking and acting the same as the all-providing Source from which all originates. It's always providing, and I choose to be a provider, too. The more I give of myself and all that flows to me, the more I see flowing back to me.

Connectors are highly inspired people. They live more in spirit than in form. Consequently, they're inspired and inspiring, as opposed to informed and filled with information. These are people who have a strong sense of their own destiny. They know why they're here, and they know that they're more than an encapsulated collection of bones, blood, and organs in a skin- and hair-covered body.

They're all about living this purpose and choosing to avoid being distracted by the demands of the ego. They have great reverence for the world of Spirit, and by communing with this Source, they stay inspired.

Their level of energy is exceptionally high. It's an energy that defines them as connectors. It's the energy of the Source, a fast vibrational frequency that brings love to the presence of hatred and converts that hatred to love. They bring a peaceful countenance to the presence of chaos and disharmony, and convert the lower energies to the higher energy of peace.

When you're around those who dwell in the field of intention, you'll feel energized, cleansed, healthier, and inspired. They have a noticeable absence of judgment toward others, and they aren't immobilized by the thoughts or actions of others. They often get labeled as aloof and distant because they don't gravitate toward small talk and gossip. They'll tell you that it is the Spirit that gives life, and that everyone on this planet has this Spirit within them as an all-powerful force for good. They believe it, they live it, and they inspire others.

They'll even go so far as to tell you that imbalances in the earth such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and extreme weather patterns are the result of a collective imbalance in human consciousness. They'll remind you that our bodies are made up of the same materials as the earth, that the fluid that comprises 98 percent of our blood was once ocean water, and that the minerals in our bones were components of the finite supply of minerals in the earth.

They view themselves as one with the planet, and feel a responsibility to stay in balanced harmony with the field of intention to help to stabilize and harmonize the forces of the universe that can get out of balance when we live from excessive ego. They'll tell you that all thoughts, feelings, and emotions are vibrations, and that the frequency of these vibrations can create disturbances - not only in ourselves, but in everything that's made of the same materials.

Connectors will encourage you to stay in vibrational harmony with Source out of a sense of responsibility to the entire planet, and they regard this as a vital function to emulate. This isn't something they think about and discuss from a purely intellectual perspective; it's what they feel deeply within themselves and live passionately every day.

As you observe these connectors, you'll note that they don't dwell on illness and disease. They move through their life as if their body is in perfect health. They actually think and feel that any current disease pattern has never been present, and they believe that they're already healed. They believe that they attract the new outcome, because they know that there are many possible outcomes for any given condition, even for a condition that may seem to others to be impossible to overcome.

They'll tell you that the possibilities for healing outcomes are here and now, and the course that an illness will take is a matter of their own perspective. Just as they believe that external turbulent systems become peaceful in the presence of our peace, they see this as a possibility for internal turbulence. Ask them about their healing capabilities and they'll say, I'm already healed, and I think and feel from only this perspective.

You'll often see your illnesses and physical complaints disappear when you're in the presence of exceptionally high-energy connectors. Why? Because their high spiritual energy nullifies and eradicates the lower energies of illness. Just as being in the presence of connectors makes you feel better because they exude and radiate joyful appreciative energy, so too will your body heal by being in this kind of energy field.

Connectors are aware of the need to avoid low energy. They'll quietly retreat from loud, bellicose, opinionated people, sending them a silent blessing and unobtrusively moving along. They don't spend time watching violent TV shows or reading accounts of atrocities and war statistics.

They might appear docile or uninteresting to people who wallow in the horrors being discussed and broadcast. Since connectors have no need to win, to be right, or to dominate others, their power is the fact that they uplift others with their presence. They communicate their views by being in harmony with the creative energy of the Source. They're never offended, because their ego isn't involved in their opinions.

Connectors live their lives matched up vibrationally to the field of intention. To them, everything is energy. They know that being hostile, hateful, or even angry toward people who believe in and support low-energy activities, which involve violence in any form, will only contribute to that kind of debilitating activity in the world.

The connectors live through higher/faster energy that allows them to access their intuitive powers readily. They have an inner knowing about what's coming. If you ask them about it, they'll tell you, I can't explain it, but I just know it because I feel it inside. Consequently, they're seldom confounded when the events they anticipate and intend to create . . . manifest.

Rather than being surprised, they actually expect things to work out. By staying so connected to Source energy, they're able to activate their intuition and have insight into what is possible and how to go about achieving it. Their inner knowing allows them to be infinitely patient, and they're never dissatisfied with the speed or the manner in which their intentions are manifesting.

Connectors frequently mirror the seven faces of intention written about throughout the pages of this book. You'll see people who are extraordinarily creative, who have no need to fit in or to do things the way others expect them to. They apply their unique individuality to tasks, and they'll tell you that they can create anything that they place their attention and imagination on.

Connectors are exceptionally kind and loving people. They know that harmonizing with Source energy is replicating the kindness from which they originated. Yet it's not an effort for connectors to be kind. They're always grateful for what comes to them, and they know that kindness toward all of life and our planet is how to display gratitude. By being kind, others want to return the favor and become allies in helping them to achieve their intentions. They associate with an unlimited number of people, all of whom are full of love, kindness, and generosity - assisting each other in fulfilling their desires.

You'll also notice how connectors see the beauty in our world. They always find something to appreciate. They can get lost in the beauty of a starry night or a frog on a lily pad. They see beauty in children, and they find a natural radiance and splendor in the aged. They have no desire to judge anyone in low-energy negative terms, and they know that the all-creating Source brings only beauty into material form and so it is always available.

Connectors never know enough! They're inquisitive about life, and they're attracted to every manner of activity. They find something to enjoy in all fields of human and creative endeavors, and are always expanding their own horizons. This openness to everything and all possibilities and this quality of always expanding, characterizes their proficiency at manifesting their desires.

They never say no to the universe. Whatever life sends them, they say, Thank you. What can I learn, and how can I grow from what I'm receiving? They refuse to judge anyone or anything that the Source offers them, and this always-expanding attitude is what ultimately matches them up with Source energy and opens up their life to receiving all that the Source is willing to provide. They're an open door that's never closed to possibilities. This makes them totally receptive to the abundance that's always ceaselessly flowing.

These attitudes that you see in connector people are precisely the reason that these folks seem so lucky in life. When you're around them, you feel energized, purposeful, inspired, and unified. You're seeing people whom you want to hang around with because they energize you, and this brings you a feeling of empowerment.

When you feel empowered and energized, you step into the flow of abundant Source energy yourself, and you inadvertently invite others to do the same. The connection isn't just to Source energy, it's to everyone else and everything in the universe. Connectors are aligned with the entire cosmos and every particle within the cosmos. This connection makes the infinite power of intention possible and available.

These highly realized people think from the end, experiencing what they wish to intend before it shows up in material form. They use their feelings as a gauge to determine if they're synchronized with the power of intention. If they feel good, they know that they're in vibrational harmony with Source.

If they feel bad, they use this indicator to adjust to higher energy levels. And finally, they act on these thoughts of intention and good feelings as if all that they desired were already here. If you ask them what you can do to make your desires come true, they'll unhesitatingly advise you to change the way you look at things, and the things you look at will change.

I urge you to replicate their inner world, and rejoice in the infinitely magnificent power of intention.

It works - I guarantee it!

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The Quest for Invisibles:

2005-03-19T17:52:19Z

Love, Soul, and Freedom
Dancing with Rumi on the Mystic Path

by Denise Breton
&Christopher Largent

Featuring translations of Rumi
by Coleman Barks

Love, soul, and freedom: these three weave the stories of our lives. The who, what, when, and where fill in the details and give variation to the plots, but the themes don't get more basic.

Love is what we all want in life and what we look for first. It's our passion for living, forming the sea in which our souls swim. Like the sea, love nurtures and sustains us, but it also offers us somewhere to go with our lives. Love creates the worlds that our souls explore. Who and what we love channel our energies, drawing us to this person or that, down one path or another.

Led by our loves, we connect with the worlds around us. We create places where we belong, where our souls are nourished with meaning and purpose, as well as where we relax, play, and have fun. Through the intimacy of relationships, we come to know both others and ourselves in love's mirror. Love brings our souls into focus.

Soul is our guiding center, our touchstone for what feels right in life and what's ours to do. Soul is our reason for coming here as well as our reason for staying. Soul tells us about us —not as others want, expect, or imagine us to be, but as we are in our innermost being.

When we go to the depths of sorrow, confusion, or despair, it's our souls that take us there and see us through. Or if we experience exhilarating joy, it's our souls that lift us up with a bigger-than-life knowing: "So that's what it all means!" Soul is our core, our essence, the ground of who we are, even if we're not at all sure who this soul of ours is or what he or she has in mind for us.

Freedom gives our souls and loves air to breathe. Like the air, freedom is a given, at least as far as our souls are concerned. It's not granted by people, institutions, or governments, or else it'd be theirs to withhold. Freedom is air to us, because it gives us the space we need to follow our souls and pursue our loves.

Without freedom, our souls suffocate. With it, they take off; we create, experiment, fumble, and learn. Freedom says that anything is possible and that it's our birthright to explore possibilities wherever our souls and loves take us. Sometimes our souls take us down the path of losing everything —a terminal disease, divorce, bankruptcy, or scandal —to show us how free we are beyond externals. With "nothing left to lose," we abandon shoulds and oughts and go for our dreams.

Love, soul, and freedom are natural companions, together creating the fire in the mind, heart, chest, belly, or wherever that makes us happy to get up in the morning. United, love, soul, and freedom are the Force incarnate, guiding us and permeating our lives with meaning and purpose, even if their presence isn't evident until hindsight.

Love, soul, and freedom are inseparable, and on the deepest levels of our being, that's how we experience them. When we're on vacation, for instance, we get a taste of these three living happily together: we surround ourselves with who and what we love, let down our hair, and do as we choose.

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