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12 Steps for the Recovering New Ager…
“Humanity grant me the serenity to accept life without astrology The Courage to change my name back to what it was And the wisdom to know that aliens can’t save me” ——Blake More Everyone is on a journey, a path, a course, an El Camino. These divine road trips lead through an infinite number of experiences and interpretations. Often it seems that every...
Read More17 things
In a world full of lists – here is one that definitely is worth the read, take your time with it – read one a day! : 1. Allow yourself the uncomfortable luxury of changing your mind. Cultivate that capacity for “negative capability.” We live in a culture where one of the greatest social disgraces is not having an opinion, so we often form our “opinions” based on superficial...
Read MoreSimply to be seen
Here’s the deal. The human soul doesn’t want to be advised or fixed or saved. It simply wants to be witnessed — to be seen, heard and companion-ed exactly as it is. When we make that kind of deep bow to the soul of a suffering person, our respect reinforces the soul’s healing resources, the only resources that can help the sufferer make it through. — Parker Palmer (Thanks to Linda...
Read MoreRemember who dug the well
A Chinese proverb says that; “Those who drink the water must remember those who dug the well.” Everything we do, every accomplishment we have, every milestone we pass has come in part because of the efforts of others. There are no self-made men or women. If we can remember that, we can be grateful. And if we are grateful, we are more likely to develop good character than if we...
Read MoreThe miracle is…
It is the aim of science to coordinate all observable phenomena within a single natural order and it is its faith that such is possible. Hence the basic objection to acceptance of the supernatural. If the scientific stand is justified, then everything, whether of matter, energy, mind or spirit, belongs to one vast scheme — it is all one and every part has meaning in relation to the whole. This...
Read MoreThe Continuum of Connection: Why Connection is the Most Essential Human Trait
In 1939, at his ashram in central India, Mahatma Gandhi was growing increasingly concerned about events in Europe. When news reached him that Hitler had invaded Czechoslovakia, he wrote to the German dictator, imploring him to stop. Gandhi wrote, “It is quite clear that you are today the one person in the world who can prevent a war which may reduce humanity to a savage state. Must you pay that...
Read MoreChanging ones life
Changing one’s life is easy, and there are lots of ways to go about it, though all exact some sort of price: Pinpointing invisible, limiting, self-sabotaging beliefs — Extremely demanding on brain cells and much easier to do if you have a friend who channels the dead, but either way, it’ll keep you busy for the rest of your life. Discovering what occurrences in the past have...
Read MoreOut of almost nothing…..
In every second of time the visible beings, large and not so large, vegetable and animal, are growing out of the invisible with a force so subtle yet so irresistible they can break a rock or split an atom. Out of almost nothing came the leviathans of trees and beasts, inexorably expanding to a destined size. Out of a almost nothing, almost but not quite — for there is the fact we tend to...
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Three things….
Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. Between these two, my life flows. —Nisargadata There are three things that are real: God, human folly, and laughter. The first two are beyond our comprehension, so we must do what we can with the third. —John Fitzgerald Kennedy, quoting from the Ramayana I am not a Christian, not Jew, not Hindu, not Buddhist. I...
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Focused Life force Energy
A beautiful way to “tend your energetic garden”
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