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2012
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How To Listen To God
Jesus taught his followers that, when they had made their prayers to the Father, they should remain for a time in silent receptivity to afford the indwelling spirit the better…
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The Fragility Of The Life That We Live…
How can one meditate on life without meditating too on its brevity, its precariousness, its fragility? – André Comte-Sponville life is fragile Extremely fragile. Just this morning…
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What Is Real Integrity?
Do not want others to know what you have done? Better not have done it anyways. – Chinese Sayings hard! It’s almost impossible to have integrity 24 x 7! It’s hard to be who we…
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Why Desire A Quiet Mind?
The memory of God comes to the quiet mind. – A Course in Miracles (ACIM) FYI: Hosted site is acting up lately, so you’re not receiving blogs via subscriptions fix promised soon! a…
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What If…
If we simply decided to believe and act as if first, we’re all one, and second, life is eternal, it would render virtually everything we’ve done all our lives pointless. – Neale…
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What Matters Most?
What will matter to us most when we are old? – Questions time is passing With every breath and with each passing day, time is passing. It’s passing much faster than we realize.…
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Who’s More Important?
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated. – William James who? Whenever we’re chatting with another person it behooves us to listen and to pay proper…
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Why *WE* Must Choose!
Our attitude in the face of life’s challenges determines our suffering or our freedom. – Tara Brach up to us We create and therefore choose our thoughts. Our thoughts determine…
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Why Listening Is So Powerful!
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. – Shel Silverstein the gift The ultimate gift we…
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Why We Are Never Alone…
I have come to show you that, while you are seeking to find God, God is likewise seeking to find you. – The Urantia Papers a search We are all on a search. It may not be for God…
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What Are We Sowing?
What a person plants, he will harvest. – Galatians 6:7 consequences We all seem to have an inherent sense of the laws that pervade our universe. We know for example that the…
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Life’s Little Secret!
The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you – Buddha secret? So is there a secret to life or not? Here’s what a consultant would say, ‘it…
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How To Get Anywhere…
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. – Albert Einstein which mind? Many of us live in our reasoning minds. It’s the mind that’s run by our brains.…
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Life’s Big Secret!
The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work. – Oprah Winfrey ain’t no secret There is no big secret. And…
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How Can We Be More Real?
Do you think crying is a sign of weakness? – Questions cry? Why do so many of us hesitate to cry? Why can’t we fully express ourselves? What are we afraid of? What’ll happen if…
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How To Be Safe!
Life carries you where it will because you are a part of itself; then there is no problem of security, of what people say or don’t say, and that is the beauty of life. …
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How To Interest People…
The really great man is the man who makes every man feel great. – G. K. Chesterton interesting others Most people love to talk! We should let them! Not only that, ideally…
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What To Handle Boredom?
Dream different dreams while on the same bed. – Chinese Proverb bored? What should we do when we feel bored? Here’s a suggestion, ask some questions: What would we rather do? What…
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Why We Must Reach For Big Goals!
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries. – Ralph Waldo Emerson worry There’s no one amongst us who doesn’t lose precious time and energy worrying…
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How Can We Be Trusting And Why?
When is it time to stop calculating risk and rewards, and just do what you know is right? – Questions who’s responsible? Given the state of our world and the apparent lack of…
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What Is Life About?
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. – George Bernard Shaw find what? Often we say and we hear others say ‘I wish to find myself’. What does that…
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What’s In A Name?
We should be aware of the magic contained in a name and realize that this single item is wholly and completely owned by the person with who we are dealing – Dale Carnegie what’s…
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How To Handle Debilitating Fear…
the big things and the real things of this world and the universe are on your side. The sun rises every morning to salute you just as it does the most powerful and prosperous man…
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What Must We Do Now?
A human being is a deciding being. – Viktor Frankl decide We must decide. We feel lost and a lack of control when we can’t make the necessary decisions. We feel blue. To be happy…
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How To Guarantee Growth…
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. – Viktor Frankl awareness The…
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How To Quench The Eternal Thirst?
Distant water won’t quench your immediate thirst. – Chinese Proverb that and when We’re always looking for that something else which will do the trick. We tell ourselves that when…
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How To Make A Great First Impression!
A man without a smiling face must not open a shop. – Chinese Sayings no go! We shouldn’t set foot outside our house if we’re not smiling! We shouldn’t be talking to another soul…
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What Is True Responsibility?
With great responsibility, comes great power. The more you accept of the first – for your happiness, unhappiness, and all else – the more you are given of the latter. – The…
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What To Expect?
If you do not expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail. – Heraclitus getting surprised The call of adventure, the mystery of the…
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What Are We Doing About Love?
Who do you love? What are you doing about it? – Questions who do we love? Let’s be very clear about this. Who do we love? Why? To what end? Why is this love important? When we…
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What Do We Most Want To Feel?
If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich. – Charles Wagner seeking wealth? We all…
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How To Move To Now!
Move away from the mental how to the spiritual now. – Guy Finley mental how We live constantly in our minds. We manufacture about 70,000 thoughts a day! When we’re thinking, we…
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How The Self Flowers…
As surely as the beauty and fragrance of summer’s first rose waits in the silence of her still dormant seed, within me sleeps the eternal flowering of (what) I am. – Guy Finley…
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What’s The Ego?
The ego lives by comparisons. It cannot survive without judgment. – A Course in Miracles (ACIM) ego It’s that part of us that makes life possible. It’s the practical aspect of…
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Are You Religious?
The religious man is he who does not belong to any religion, to any nation, to any race, who is inwardly completely alone, in a state of not-knowing, and for him the blessing of…
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What’s Real In Our Lives?
Have we done anything lately that’s worth remembering? – Questions mostly stuff While all we see around us is real and beautiful, it’s only just stuff. The house is stuff, the car…
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What Questions Must I Ask?
What do I intend to do about that? – Neale Donald Walsch questions! Neale calls them the 3 persistent questions and the 4 fundamental questions of life, reproduced below! We…
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How To Make Contact With Reality
Only when the mind is wholly silent, completely inactive, not projecting, when it is not seeking and is utterly still – only then that which is eternal and timeless comes into…
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How To Be Anger Free!
Anger always comes from frustrated expectations. – Elliott Larson expectations If there was one thing we could fix that would guarantee our happiness it would have to be our…
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How Can Silence Help?
Language can only deal meaningfully with a special, restricted segment of reality. The rest, and it is presumably the much larger part, is silence. – George Steiner when words…