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"Once we awaken to see that each of our lives is an integral part of an Eternal Turning Point, and that nothing changes in this Great Life without changing everything within it, then we can let go of trying to change ourselves and simply take our natural place participating in the power of the Life Awakened."
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Meditation Talk: 1/31/2020 - All things... be they character or creature -- animate or not -- speak to you from within yourself. The wildflower, the wind, the tumbling leaf and the dead branch that catches it: all have voices, and all may be heard. Learn to listen and you'll hear the Eternal as the sound of yourself.
I have been a "student" of self-help and other personal development genres for over 30 years. I have always had a conflict between using unconscious processes (hypnosis, NLP, meditation, etc) to facilitate change and using conscious awareness processes to facilitate change. What is the proper avenue? I have never felt comfortable using/trying to control the unconscious processes through exter...
There are many villages in India where people believe in "dark magic." In our country, when a person has some ill thoughts about another person, then the former goes to a dark magician and tells him to destroy his/her life by some of his magic. This has ruined my family. Can meditation be helpful in protecting ourselves from ghosts and dark powers created by such dark people? My relatives are...
Here are two proven ways you can learn to work in the Now to ensure that you reach ever-higher levels of personal freedom. Our honest examination of these spiritual assertions -- based upon our own life experience -- proves our need to realize their promise. For best results, first meditate on what each statement means in and of itself. Let the freedom it illustrates awaken in you the remembra...
What if whatever we see in the world that makes us feel confined or sorrowful, that has us angry, anxious, or rushing around is because of what we are? When we look at the world around us, it's easy to see there is beauty in nature, love among family, compassion in times of disaster; in truth, there are wonderful things all around us. But, when we look at the world that we've made, what do we see there?
No matter how long I sit to meditate... when resignation, surrender, and peace do arrive, they always bring with them a sort of energy that wants to manifest in something. The compulsion is to take that energy and go back and "do a better job, more awakened" with the same insanity I was doing before I meditated ... checking e-mails, cleaning house, calling people, doing chores, etc. When is it...
For the majority of us, what we call being renewed has nothing to do with what is real renewal. Mostly what we feel as renewal is when some idea or a hope that we have gets fulfilled, filling us in turn with a sense of excitement; and then, in that feeling of being full of ourselves, comes a certain kind of pleasure that we take as being the same as self-renewal in this life.
For some years I have had problems with sleep. I fall asleep but awaken after a couple of hours and have difficulty going back to sleep. I have had all the sleep tests to eliminate physical problems. It seems that since I began my attempts at self-awareness and meditation, the situation has worsened. I can lie there even with what seems like a quiet mind, or at other times asking for understan...
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Meditation Talk: 3/8/2019 - Here's the last thing we want to see, but that should be first on our list of things to realize: we create the experience of any unwanted moment in our life. How can that be true? Because our experience of life is inseparable from the level of (our) consciousness defining it moment-to-moment. And, if true, which it is, it goes to...
Try to catch the part of yourself that can't wait to pick up negativity and then learn how to set it down before you get caught up in its momentum. You will find that to set it down requires that you first set yourself down.