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- How Can I Bring Myself to Be Grateful? - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerHave you ever shared this sentiment? Even when I know I should be grateful, many times I still find it difficult to bring myself to actually feel this way. Why is this? I should be grateful for life, I should be grateful for family, I should be grateful for every healthy breath I take... I know ...
Views: 884 - Reality is in the Eye of the Beholder - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerI don’t like my job. It’s a struggle to pay my bills. I’ve been having health issues. Concern for my child keeps me up at night. I’m at the center of some really malicious gossip. We all, at times, find ourselves living in situations which test our faith in the goodness of life. We don’t ...
Views: 3377(7 votes) - Fear of Maybe - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerHaving a fear of maybe will get in the way of your living the certainty of Now. You may have heard this sentiment expressed before – All that Is, is Now. The past is nothing more than a fleeting memory; the future but a vision of possibilities. The only moment which is truly real is Now. So ...
Views: 990(7 votes) - Live Life Like You Know Who You Are - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerWe all do it at one time or another. When you’re feeling bored, when you’re feeling insecure and need to experience a little assurance, when you’re looking for an escape, or want to try out what it would feel like to make a wish come true – you daydream. You’ll place yourself in and through all ...
Views: 988(5 votes) - Stress Awareness - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerIt’s well worth the effort to raise your level of stress awareness. There are physical health benefits; there are emotional health benefits; there are improvements of life experience benefits to having constant honest stress awareness. As with all things in life, balance is essential to ...
Views: 1302(1 vote) - Moving From Spiritual Awareness to Spiritual Enlightenment to Spiritual Awakening - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerWe come across these terms all the time in spiritual study: spiritual awareness, spiritual enlightenment and spiritual awakening. Is there any difference to their meanings or are they simply variations of a theme? They are often used interchangeably so any difference in meaning would have to be ...
Views: 1208(5 votes) - In Answer to Your Prayers - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerIn prayer we open ourselves up to an exchange between our personality in life and the divine within us that is the source of All life. We achieve this opening by being emotionally raw. That is to say whatever we’re going through in life, whatever is on our hearts, we turn within and lay it all ...
Views: 990(3 votes) - You Have To Be Present To Change Your Life Experience - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerIt’s difficult to be present in the space of feeling stressed or unfulfilled. Yet the only way to realize fulfillment in your experience is to be present. What may, upon first thought, seem like a paradox is really nothing more than a challenge. And the good news about challenges is that they ...
Views: 1677(2 votes) - Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerI had a dream once. I had just finished up some business in the town square and was beginning to feel restless and ready to leave so I started walking to my car so I could go home. There was a hill at the edge of the square, if I walked up its street and around the corner it should have been an ...
Views: 1032 - Evidence of Spirit 4 - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerIt is not a coincidence that the same people who doubt or fail to recognize the existence of their Spirit, are also the same people who dismiss intuition as being nothing more than superstition or the byproduct of an overactive imagination. For intuition is the language of the Spirit. Intuition ...
Views: 1122 - Evidence of Spirit, Part 3 - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerOnly when you feel (to some degree) your Spirit’s closeness to you, your Spirit’s nearness to you, Its inseparability from you, may you then be guided by It. It’s an indescribable feeling which is actually more than just a feeling; it may more aptly be defined as a knowing-feeling. And learning ...
Views: 1191 - Spiritual Enlightenment and the Use of Affirmations - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerAffirmations form the basis of our perceptions. They are defined as the things we state to be true. But notice how there’s nothing in this definition which claims that an affirmation must, in reality, be true. Affirmations are merely declarations of truth, but these declarations can be any ...
Views: 1255(1 vote) - The Power of Visualization - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerI’m what psychologists would classify as an introvert. I live in my head talking to myself, contemplating curiosities, asking questions, going over my things gone wrong trying to understand how I could have made them right, imagining better and more fulfilling possibilities for my life ...
Views: 1841(1 vote) - A Test of Faith - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerThe philosophy of a skeptic: show me the proof and then I’ll believe. People who call themselves realists are given to following logic and will trust only where reason leads them. But here’s the rub when it comes to logic and reason, it’s all open to interpretation. Have you ever heard the ...
Views: 988 - Spiritual Awareness - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerIt does not take a great effort (or any effort at all actually) to grow in spiritual awareness. Just be aware, that’s all. Spiritual awareness is simply about being mindful of spiritual Truths. You don’t have to go around obsessing about these Truths to be aware of them. Nor is there really any ...
Views: 2390 - Evidence of Spirit (Part 2): The Inner World - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerYou may have often heard it said that your Spirit is “within you.” This is an absolute truth, but what does it mean exactly? By within you, does it mean that your Spirit is somewhere inside your body? Well, yes and no. If the mental image which comes to mind when you think of your Spirit being ...
Views: 958(1 vote) - Don’t Be Discouraged: The Story is Not Over Yet - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerWhat is the purpose of Life? There is no answer to this question when it is intended in the great cosmic sense - as in why does Life exist? Or where does Life come from? Life has no reason for being. It is beyond all justifications. Life simply Is and that is all. There can be no arguing this ...
Views: 1251(1 vote) - Evidence of Spirit (Part 1) - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerContemplate and complete the following statement, “I am…” If you didn’t come up with an answer, try to give the matter some more thought before moving on. So what’s the verdict? What did you come up with? Were you able to narrow your assessment down to just one attribute, or did you come ...
Views: 1164(2 votes) - Wasted Opportunity - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerToo often we tend to associate the thought of “wasted opportunities” with the big decisions we make in life. I should have taken that job. I should have told that man (or woman) how I felt about him. I should have followed my heart instead of yielding to my sense of pragmatism and pursued my ...
Views: 975 - What is Meditation? - by Submitted on Aug 05, 2009 from S. Evette GardnerHow can I become more spiritually aware? Is there anything that I can do to facilitate my spiritual growth? The time-honored advice in answer to these questions is meditate. But what exactly does this mean, I used to wonder. What is meditation? I was bothered by this question for a long time ...
Views: 908 - Faith and Intuition - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerTwo years ago actress Gabrielle Union, in an interview with Oprah, spoke about the day she had been raped. She was 19 years old at the time and was working at a shoe store. One evening, around closing time, a man came into the store. “Within seconds, Gabrielle says she knew something was ...
Views: 4006 - The Freedom of Understanding - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerEach must be free to choose his own understanding. This is the origin of freewill. It is the freedom to perceive reality, the freedom to interpret Truth in any manner you please. This is what makes Truth both constant and limitless; both Absolute and relative. If a thousand people were to look ...
Views: 962 - The Best Teacher - by Submitted on Jul 16, 2009 from S. Evette GardnerThe best teacher is also the student. And you are your own best teacher. We are, every one of us, teachers. We teach everyone we touch. Not by our instruction, however, but by our presence and by our example. We are all, every one of us, also the student for we all have experiences. And these ...
Views: 1143 - It Must Come From Within - by Submitted on Jul 16, 2009 from S. Evette GardnerReflect on this and see if whether or not you think it’s true: The thing that has the biggest effect on you and your life experience is you. I say this because no matter what situation is presented to you, you have the power to look at said situation in any manner you please. This is ...
Views: 1197(1 vote) - We're All in Different Places, And That's Okay - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerSometimes it can be difficult to resist the impulse not to put people in a box. For most of us, sizing people up and then applying the labels we feel best characterizes them is such an ingrain habit that parting from this tendency requires an extraordinary amount of diligence and attention from ...
Views: 1276 - Pain and Suffering, Fear and Opportunity - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerWHERE DOES FEAR COME FROM? All forms of fear arise out of an expectation of pain and suffering; which is a concise way of saying that fear comes from our feeling overwhelmingly intimidated by the prospect of being hurt or distressingly unsettled by the possible disruption that a change in our ...
Views: 1156 - The Magnificence Of “I Am” - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerSAMPLE CHAPTER FROM THE EBOOK "DIVINE HERITAGE" If you reflect on yourself, within yourself, with committed devotion long enough, you will eventually come upon an indwelling-something whom you will promptly recognize simply as the witnesser of your life. Throughout all time, All who, having ...
Views: 920 - Where Is God In All This Suffering? - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerNot to long ago I noticed something about myself which, after I relented and submitted to honoring it, I actually found kind of amusing. It occurred to me that whenever I start to feel stressed about anything in my life, in those moments, in the midst of my anxiety (always when I’m not looking), ...
Views: 1260(1 vote) - Learning the Lesson: Getting Passed Painful and Difficult Experiences - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerThere are moments in our lives when we’ve all asked it of ourselves, why does this keep happening to me? I know I’ve had my fair share of breaking point moments. And it took a good while, along with a string of difficult and painful experiences, for me to realize that a better ...
Views: 1026 - The Demonstration Of Spiritual Enlightenment In Your Life Experience - by Submitted on Nov 03, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerWhat is spiritual enlightenment? From a literal standpoint spiritual means having to do with the essence of Being (the essence of Life); and enlightenment refers to a growth in one’s ability to see the light of Truth more clearly. Spiritual enlightenment, therefore, could be described as ...
Views: 952(1 vote) - The Secret Of Meditation - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerDo you want to become more spiritually enlightened; feel more connected to the people and things around you; or even relieve yourself of mental and physical stress? One of the top recommendations for all of the above aspirations is meditate. But what does this mean exactly? What is meditation? ...
Views: 852 - Spiritual Enlightenment And The Use Of Affirmations - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2011 from S. Evette GardnerAffirmations form the basis of our perceptions. They are defined as the things we state to be true. But notice how there’s nothing in this definition which claims that an affirmation must, in reality, be true. Affirmations are merely declarations of truth, but these declarations can be any ...
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