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What Is The Moral of Your Story?
By
Bill Cottringer
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson.
The answer to this intriguing title question ... Views: 1823
It has become a Hallmark kind of world. Take for example Valentine's Day. What started out as a day of expressing your love to another person has become an overblown and very commercialized occasion. I am sure you could not go anywhere without seeing red or pink hearts, roses, teddy bears and ... Views: 866
In today’s noisy and hi-tech world we have lost a sense of intimacy with the natural world and with ourselves. We have lost the ability to live in mutually enhancing ways with Earth. And the problem of addiction to technology is growing, especially among the young. By reconnecting with ... Views: 1395
Feeling inspired to start 2014 out right? You should be! The La Familia Nuestra Energy calendar indicates that January 1-4th of 2014 is Direction energy. In Direction, it’s all about setting your goals and intentions for the future. It’s a fantastic time to make plans.
There is something very ... Views: 1162
As the year comes to a close, and we have a little downtime during the Holiday Season and New Years, it’s a great time to reflect, regroup and then set your energy for the coming year.
For the past 5 years ago I have had a practice of reviewing my year and setting goals for the year to come. ... Views: 1279
Choose What You Create and Create What You Choose
Just about everyone you speak with would undoubtedly agree that Life is all about choice.
We make choices constantly, each moment by moment and from day to day. Sometimes we make great choices and other times maybe not. Our ability to ... Views: 1150
It is often said that sometimes you must create that which you desire. A desire to bring an experience of love, understanding, hope and peace to the social media world is possible.
The ripples of our own words and actions will always intersect with another's. If we wish to have the maximum ... Views: 988
The Life of A Vision: Bring Your Images To Life
Do you have a Life Vision that brings your images to life? What ideas do you have that will take your ‘soul purpose’ and let it flourish? A Vision lives outside of artificially imposed boundaries that are laid out by societal norms. If you ... Views: 1362
I have been interested in learning about lines of palm since my adolescence. Psychology ays has also been my favorite subject right from day one. While studying both the subjects I detected a close and deep relationship between palmistry and psychology .
Discerning my so deep interest in ... Views: 2021
Embrace Self Empowerment To Consciously Co-Create
To Embrace a Self Empowerment Model means To Embrace your Inner Brilliance. My hope is that this one sentence captures the essence of this article. The reason I say this is because in order to truly become a self-empowered individual, you ... Views: 1215
Much Larger than Ourselves
Did you know that you are an important part of the big picture? Well, know that you are.
Wouldn’t you agree that our lives have many themes that simply show up as necessary? In fact, sometimes they seem to just tap us on the shoulder when we least expect it. ... Views: 1097
Read 2013 again then read 2014. It blends in together.
2014
In 2012 I wrote an article about connecting to your higher self. Last year was about following your path and spirituality to be in a peaceful, joyful place. This year 2013 is about choices we make. Many people ... Views: 836
How do you get to heaven? Will you be turned away? Take this short quiz and find out.
Answer "yes" or "no" if you've ever done any of the following: cursed; eaten meat; enjoyed any of the finer things in life, such as designer clothing or expensive meals; used numerology, astrology, tarot ... Views: 978
Karma is one of the most popular spiritual topics, and for a good reason; people want to know how to improve their karma, thus make their lives better. People also want to avoid the nasty surprise of bad karma.
However, there seems to be a lot of confusion about karma, what goes around (what ... Views: 767
Birth: July 18, 1918 at 2:54pm (not documented but best time available) in Umtata, South Africa
~~~~Background~~~~
South Africa The Good News / www.sagoodnews.co.za [CC-BY-2.0], via Wikimedia Commons
Mandela was a lifetime activist for the establishment of a fair and non-racial ... Views: 3447
Too often we get caught up in the judgments of others. We put too much emphasis or importance on what other people think of us, and we become focused on tending to their perceptions in order to control a given situation. In the worst cases we engage in a constant battle to control what people ... Views: 1633
Are you Diving down in life, simply Surviving, or striving for THRIVING? Each are all great questions to ask ourselves about the life we are living. The topic that I wanted to talk about was surviving vs. thriving. What are you living? Surviving is living a day-to-day ‘OK’ existence. Thriving = ... Views: 1862
Self love; this is a powerful practice we explored last month. We have heard often how crucial it is to our authentic success and joy. There is one very insidious trap that sabotages self love; something many of us may be all too familiar with… Comparing…
Have you ever found that you compare ... Views: 1042
What is your life goal? Do you even have one, or are you still trying to figure out who you are and why you’re here? Ultimately, it doesn’t really matter because you’re here now, so make something great out of the life you’ve been given. So many people keep asking the wrong questions which is ... Views: 1288
ALWAYS BE YOUR BEST!
When you think it doesn’t matter
if you fail or pass the test.
Keep in mind this simple reason
you should always be your best.
While the whole world may not notice
if you try to give your all,
there is a special person
to whom it matters if you fall.
That ... Views: 821
Are you in a constant struggle trying to manifest your goals and wishes? If so but having trouble in doing so then this article is for you. When you have finished reading this article in full you will be able to begin your manifesting journey knowing what action steps to take. Lets begin so you ... Views: 1475
My little boy Liam is now four months old. While I was pregnant, I received a message from my guidance suggesting that I take 4 months of maternity leave. Now that time is coming to an end and I am transitioning back to working more again, it seemed a good time to reflect and share with you what ... Views: 1060
I’m very excited about a new app coming out that is completely ahead of its time. It’s called GoogleFuture and it’s amazing. Applying the process of quantum computing, the app enables you to Google search anything, from any time period—including the future. And not just the future of your ... Views: 1501
Have you ever had questions which no one could answer? Well, that was me before I found the School of Natural Health Sciences (SNHS). This school opened the real world of answers for me, as I thought that my life was lacking in transpersonal meaning and existential purpose.
I was first ... Views: 1475
According to the Theory of Relativity, the speed of a moving object is relative to one’s reference point, evidence of which we see in every-day events. A 747, for one example, is clearly moving at immense velocity to anyone watching from the ground, while people inside the plane read and eat and ... Views: 1087
School buses, cooler mornings, the bugle of an elk, glimpses of yellow leaves painted amongst the trees – all signs of Fall approaching at a time when I want summer to last a wee-bit longer! I’m not certain where time flies, especially when it comes to beautiful Colorado summer days that I love ... Views: 970
Is anything bothering you today?
- A job?
- A significant other?
- Finances?
- Car trouble?
- Not having enough time?
Any or all of these things could be bothering you at a given time. When the problems linger what do you do?
Perhaps:
- Abuse a substance?
- Turn ... Views: 1146
While the title is a bit facetious the subject was first addresses on national TV by Fox anchor Bill O’Reilly and his guest commentator John Stossel.
Who would believe that a visit to Fox news would find O’Reilley and Stossel actively debating a recent study by psychologist Miron Zuckerman of ... Views: 1243
Collecting is a worldwide popular hobby which from an early age strikes with the desire to have every stamp of your favorite children magazine or every Barbie doll ever made in history. Some individuals save their collecting hobbies throughout the years to even make them bigger, others either ... Views: 3275
Learning how to relieve stress can remove several obstacles to your performance, whatever you’re working with.
Stress can be a big monster to anyone and would like to avoid it as much as possible. However, this is a part of life and living your purposes. Without it your personal development ... Views: 1356
As a parent, we always want to teach and guide our children to do the right thing. We use our own life experiences, the challenges we’ve faced, and the lessons we’ve learned along the way to influence our son or daughter’s growth. This guidance helps form our child’s values, and will help build ... Views: 1071
One man says it really happened. At the conclusion of his medical exam, the doctor asked him if he would please call in the next patient. So, he opened the waiting room door and called, “Mrs. Colchester, please.” Then he left the doctor’s office.
He had walked some distance along the street ... Views: 974
Your role has changed… no longer are you the care giver. Your loved one has died and things are now different. You may be feeling a whole host of emotions ranging from relief, to anger, to disbelief and sadness. You may be responding by questioning who you are now, and how you go on. Welcome to ... Views: 1273
Good morning everyone….
I’m not sure if my week is going fast or slow…I thought it was Thursday today. Then Sarah, my oldest daughter, reminded me that it is Wednesday. So do I slow down or speed up? I’m feeling a whirlwind here.
Speaking of whirlwinds…..George and I were discussing our ... Views: 1070
American style capitalism has been criticized for its lack of “heart” or “soul.” Many critics have also pointed to the excessive focus on greed, with little regard for the well-being of employees customers or the environment.
Other than the typical insights of business school gurus or ... Views: 1371
Today’s busy lifestyles make it very hard for people to find a moment to disengage from daily frantic activity and find some meditation or reconnection time, a time to regroup or reintegrate one’s energies.
However, Spirit has found the perfect solution to this problem: if it is efficiency ... Views: 1286
One of the very first calls made when a major accident occurs is usually to emergency services or 911, where an ambulance can be dispatched. At that point, a vehicle will be dispatched within seconds to transport the injured person to the local medical facility. Each year, ambulance services ... Views: 661
The technique of delegating tasks to others when needed is one of the solutions for time management problems that some people do not think of doing.
This is one way of increasing your personal productivity while developing your time management skills.
How to delegate tasks can be practiced ... Views: 1249
Fifteen years ago, I developed a genetic form of cancer that claimed the lives of my grandmothers, mother, and eldest sister. I attribute my survival thus far to correcting a deep and mistaken perception about “disease.” Accordingly, today, I view disease, in all of its many manifestations, as ... Views: 1587
Are you where you want to be in life?
This is kind of a hard question to answer, isn't it? People ask this question occasionally in life, though, so it is worth thinking about.
It seems like a pertinent question for anyone to think about. However, answering it implies you know the ... Views: 1030
At one point life might question you, what is the purpose of life? "Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to ... Views: 1248
Many people get the feeling that everything in life is just an empty waste of time, totally futile. So much of our time spent on empty interactions, work to make money just to pay taxes and survive, etc. is just a waste of time an effort, given the inevitable end.
This is a very depressing ... Views: 1158
Supposedly, nobody ever said life was fair. Well, I’m saying it right now. Maybe I’m a nobody so the adage still works but I’ve come to believe that life is absolutely fair. Yes, there are selfish jerks who seem to be rewarded while truly good, hardworking, selfless people seem to be punished. ... Views: 1236
"The purpose of our lives is to be happy." -- Dalai Lama
I have a number of friends that have been in the workforce for many years. They are pushing the top of their pay scale and have mastered what they do. When I got to that place in my banking career, the bank sold to a larger one then ... Views: 813
This article aims to look at what motivates athletes or sportsmen and women. Apart from my chosen sports of ultra-running and surfing, I am not a daredevil, I am not into jumping out of planes or off cliffs or doing anything too death defying but…whatever lifts you up, I say go for ... Views: 1210
The Eisenhower method is a time management principle you can use to improve the way you prioritize your tasks.
This time management technique evaluates each of your given tasks accordingly. All of your tasks are analyzed and grouped together by using quadrants of four sections:
1. Urgent ... Views: 2513
As these articles pertain to spirituality and the meaning of life there are some questions that come up repeatedly. It does not mean there are definitive answers, but one can try to respond to them.
A logical question would be to ask where the author gets his information. Here is a ... Views: 1105
Share Your Vision from Your Sparkling Soul!
Your vision is a gift! So go ahead, unwrap it.
What is it that you really see? Can you describe it? What does it mean to you? I hope you know that what you see is like no one else can see. It is yours for all the good reason you can imagine! ... Views: 1058
Beyond The Physical World
(Vinod Anand)
We are part of manifest creation that has the inherent tendency of movement. The movement is either upward or downward, whether in the spiritual, commercial or emotional worlds.
Relationships play a significant role in all of this. Nothing is ever ... Views: 1431
Your child's first communion is one of the most sacred religious events that will happen in their life. This is also a milestone in a Catholic's life that calls for celebration. The average child is ready to take part in holy communion by the time they are in second or third grade, and they are ... Views: 937