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- Why It's Difficult to Stay Present in Difficult Times - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2010 from David Robert OrdWhen we most need the ability to stay present is when we are are going through a difficult time. Yet this is precisely when many of us find it the hardest to stay present! Lots of people who have been on a spiritual path for years are even struggling right now. The economic downturn has ...
Views: 1504 - A Universe on a Journey - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2010 from David Robert OrdFrom the minute to the mammoth, order emerges spontaneously in the Universe. The natural state of things is to pull everything toward patterns. It works a lot like a magnetic field. If you put a magnet under a glass table and move it around, iron filings scattered on top of the glass line up ...
Views: 1158(2 votes) - How on Earth Did We Get Here? - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2010 from David Robert OrdIf there’s a God, why doesn’t this God just appear on television and spell out how we came into being and why we’re here? It would seem a simple enough miracle for the kind of being most imagine God to be. Are we the product of seven days of creation, as millions believe? Or, as Richard ...
Views: 1374(1 vote) - Why God Can't Be Understood - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2010 from David Robert OrdWe are part of an evolving reality grounded in a divine harmony that pervades reality and draws everything into patterns of increasing complexity and centeredness. You and I are bathed in the original mystery of order coming out of chaos. Our minds, as we try to understand this order, ...
Views: 711 - To Be Awake Is to Accept Ourselves - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2010 from David Robert OrdA great many people are seeking to be enlightened, or what is often spoken of as "awakening" or becoming "conscious." Some have been searching for years, but any kind of sustained enlightenment continues to elude them. When we search for enlightenment, or struggle to awaken or become ...
Views: 1042 - Discover Your Original Self - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2010 from David Robert Ord“I just hate myself,” I heard someone say the other day. They were bemoaning the fact they couldn’t get some simple things in their life right. How do you feel inside yourself? When you look at yourself in a mirror, what do you see? As you look at yourself, what don’t you like about ...
Views: 882 - A Life Free of Trying to Change Things - by Submitted on Aug 31, 2010 from David Robert OrdSuppose you are a person who either prays or meditates—or both. Why do you do these things? What’s your objective in praying or meditating? For many of us it’s a way of seeking to change something. We want to alter some aspect of ourselves, some feature of our life, some experience we are ...
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