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- Spirituality Information - Look What He Did , Just Look ! - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2007 from Vish WriterYesterday was a fine day, a really great day, at least, the start of it. As is my usual routine, I started the morning writing, then making phone calls. Next, I checked email. There were many-- several from readers of my books. Some took the time to express thanks and wanted to know what other ...
Views: 485 - HEALTH, BODY & MIND - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2007 from G V S KUMARHEALTH, BODY & MIND Health according to World Health Organization “ A state of complete Physical, Mental and Social well-being.” Health is the most exllent source for religious Merit, Material prosperity, Personal desires and The final liberation. Our Life os full of reverses, ...
Views: 1687 - The Dung Beetle - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2007 from Martin JordanI was reminded by my teachers that we, as a race, are really not as smart as we like to think we are. (And it isn't a race...) That's cool though, because we are here on this planet to learn. While most of us realize that, and move into that energy, I was also asked to understand ...
Views: 675 - Everyone Comes Into Life WIth A Purpose - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2007 from Suzanne GoldLife on earth is an miraculous blend of spirit and matter, an expression of the universal force at the heart of creation. Whatever you call that force-- God, All-That-Is, the Eternal, Prime Mover, Ground of Being, Allah, Yahweh, Shiva, Zeus, or Life itself-- you and I and every living thing is ...
Views: 1485 - The Problem With Biogenics - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2007 from norman cottrellTHE PROBLEM WITH BIOGENICS BIOGENICS; Definition; the production of life from living matter. So! Define the word living. If one follows the chronology of the construction of human life from the atom through the simple sugars to DNA to the living body, one quickly sees the fallacy of ...
Views: 633 - Gratitute - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2007 from Ellen BessoGratitude is about living in the present moment. When we’re not noticing all the good that’s in our lives, we often keep striving to achieve more, be more, get more. Or sometimes we’re locked into the past, into what didn’t work for us then. Holding onto wounds and ...
Views: 946 - Calm the Qualms - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2007 from Gloria WendroffHEAVENLETTER #2399 Calm the Qualms God said: Today I would like you to laugh at yourself a little. Have you not fussed and fumed over nothing? Have you not worried about everything? Have you not feared the worst scenarios and enacted them in your mind? Now I tell you to calm the qualms. ...
Views: 1187 - Do you have Excuses? - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2007 from Michelle MorovatyDear Loved Ones, Welcome to Spirituality Inside and Out and the Daily Universal Insights. We love to honor you Soul to Soul. A Free day to you all. I love you. I love you. I love you. FOR WE ARE ALL ONE. Being in the present is like taking a drink of water. You know that you are thirsty and ...
Views: 666 - The Signs of Life - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2007 from Michelle MorovatyDear Loved Ones, Welcome to Spirituality Inside and Out and the Daily Universal Insights. We honor your presence. Great day to you all. I love you. I love you. I love you. FOR WE ARE ALL ONE. Open up to receive the love and light of the Universe. As you open up your heart to the flow, Please ...
Views: 513 - Am I worthy? - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2007 from Michelle MorovatyDear Loved Ones, Welcome to Spirituality Inside and Out and the Daily Universal Insights. We love to love to honor you. A loving day to you all. I love you. I love you. I love you. FOR WE ARE ALL ONE. "To be worthy of oneself is to be worthy of receiving a hug from oneself and others". Go ...
Views: 806 - Spirituality Information - He Definitely Should Have Been committed - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2007 from Vish WriterYes, commitment is what is called for. He never cared whether a Monday fell on a Friday nor did it matter to him if it was raining or dry. His motto was, "I am exactly where I need to be at this time. Just take it easy, it'll all work out just fine." I met him many years ago. Let's just call ...
Views: 477 - Your Trusted Higher Self - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2007 from Rebecca SheldonHow is it that so many of us have been denied our power for so long? Many of you do not even know what I am referring to as it has been so long since we were fully connected. Many more of you know something is missing or so says the whisper of the little voice inside your head. We started out ...
Views: 822 - How Can We Find Joy in the Midst of Our Suffering? - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2007 from Karin Nemri"All happiness is born of love; Love gains meaning from adversity, so to suffer is to call upon the heart’s desire to conquer sadness." How can we find Joy in the midst of our suffering? Don’t jump to conclusions that your suffering is to punish you. Suffering is always about change and ...
Views: 725 - Living an Unreasonable Life vs. the Reasonable Life - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2007 from David SmithLiving an Unreasonable Life vs. the Reasonable Life Swami Muktananda could not have described the mystical path better when he wrote in his spiritual autobiography Play of Consciousness, “The mystical path is best not taken. But once begun, there is no turning back.” Like discovering a truth ...
Views: 614 - The Seven Simple Principles of Prosperity - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2007 from Oreste DAversa,THE SEVEN SIMPLE PRINCIPLES OF PROSPERITY Practical Exercises to Achieve a Rich, Happy and Joyous Life! By Oreste J. D'Aversa What would it mean to you to find unlimited financial abundance happiness and joy, beyond your imagination? What if I told you that you have the ability to make ...
Views: 1294 - Taking the Plunge - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2007 from Diana BourelTaking the plunge By Diana Bourel, transpersonal therapist and yoga instructor “Relationship”, a shiatsu therapist once told me, “is the last great human frontier.” He was working on a pressure point somewhere between my shoulders as he spoke. Moments later, I was crying. A memory had ...
Views: 541 - The Gimme Spirituality of 'The Secret' - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2007 from Joseph DispenzaThe “Gimme” Spirituality of The Secret 'Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.' Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) Leave it to our consumer capitalist culture to turn even high spiritual principles into cash. The creed of spiritual materialism has been inching up on us for some time from ...
Views: 984 - How to Live Under Higher Laws - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2007 from Kristopher RaphaelLiving Under Higher Laws A wonderful phenomenon occurs as you evolve self. You begin to live under a new set of laws. This new set of laws is called the laws of the Divine, or the laws of the Higher Self. As Divine laws vibrate at a high frequency, when living under the laws of the Divine your ...
Views: 1139 - Spirituality Information - A Matter Of Knowing That Already - by Submitted on Jun 19, 2007 from Vish WriterWhen my son, Jonathan, was much younger,I would try to help him with some of his tasks, whether it was his homework, chores or even just plain, simple advice. Many a time he would look at me in exasperation and say, "I know that, dad." Even when he did solicit my help directly, he would listen, ...
Views: 493 - The Pool of Life - by Submitted on Jun 19, 2007 from Michelle MorovatyDear Loved Ones, Welcome to Spirituality Inside and Out and the Daily Universal Insights. We honor your presence. Life to you all. I Love you. I love you. I love you. FOR WE ARE ALL ONE. As you live this day as a lively day, I encourage you to drink plenty of water, take deep cleansing ...
Views: 520 - Heaven and Earth - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2007 from Michelle MorovatyDear Loved Ones, Welcome to Spirituality Inside and Out. Welcome to the Daily Universal Insights. A heavenly day to you all. I love you. I love you. I love you. FOR WE ARE ALL ONE. Please take this time to give yourself a Heavenly Hug Now. Thank you. Heaven and Earth Where is the Heavens ...
Views: 647 - Spirituality Information - A Matter Of Olympian Proportions - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2007 from Vish WriterI always watch the Olympics on television. I don't mean that I don't want to be at the real goings-on, but generally, that's not possible. Now, mind you, I am not obsessed by it. I just like to watch. I just like to see the champions, the aspiring gold, silver and bronze medal winners. I like ...
Views: 499 - Imagine the Sun - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2007 from Gloria WendroffHEAVENLETTER #2397 Imagine the Sun God said: Consider troubles like a spring frost. Spring always surmounts the frosts, and peonies do bloom. Spring is never daunted. There can only be mere interruptions to it. Spring always is confident of its triumph over winter. For spring, survival is not ...
Views: 836 - The Approachable - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2007 from Michelle MorovatyDear Loved Ones, Welcome to Spirituality Inside and Out. Welcome to the Daily Universal Insights. An Outstanding day to you all. I love you. I love you. I love you. FOR WE ARE ALL ONE. Right where you are is the time for you to take a deep cleansing breath and exhale with an "Ahhh". When you ...
Views: 622 - A Four Step Healing Process - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2007 from Antoinette MoltzanThe Four Steps of A Healing Process. The first step is awareness and acceptance. You become aware of what is out of balance. You become aware of what is in pain or discomfort, mentally, spiritually, physically or psychically. You become aware of what needs to be changed. This brings you the ...
Views: 2082 - Mindfulness and Love In Your Role As A Caregiver - by Mother Teresa said, "It is not how much we do, but how much love we put into doing it. It is not how much we give, but how much love we put into the giving."
Your intentions in caring for your loved one are very important. If you have been thrown into this role, there most likely wasn't enough ...
Views: 791 - Bridging the Worlds of Flesh and Spirit - by Notice how our awareness resides, moment to moment, in either the conventional or transcendental realities. Each of these realities, or states of awareness, has its own truths. It is certainly true from a conventional view that illness is a misfortune and that death is final. Yet from a ...
Views: 732 - A Path by the River - by As a journalist and reviewer in the field of contemporary spirituality I receive an almost daily deluge of books and other media that promise me accelerated enlightenment, total wellness, and sure-fire, karmically sanitized methods to achieve personal wealth and power. If even a fraction of ...
Views: 1218 - News & Commentary on the Modern Spiritual Search - by On a sunny Saturday in Santa Cruz, California twenty years years ago I experienced one of the most instructive disappointments of my life. It began with signing up for a workshop with a mystical teacher whom I knew only through his books and the glowing reports of a friend who had spent a few ...
Views: 1054 - Mythological Messages from the Body-Mind - by Narratives and Neural Winds
Ó 1996 by Sharon G. Mijares, Ph.D.
(Originally published in Somatics: Journal of the Mind/Body Arts and Sciences)
The inner being of a human being is a jungle.
Sometimes wolves dominate,
sometimes wild hogs.
Be wary when you breathe!
At one moment vicious qualities ...
Views: 1937(1 vote) - How to Be Grateful During a Spiritual Famine - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2007 from Aluna MichaelsMost of us have set out on the spiritual path in search of a better and happier life. We turn to God, affirmations and metaphysical concepts in order to soothe our minds and find answers to questions that plague our hearts. We are taught that the Universe is abundant and that it is our divine ...
Views: 1168 - Traverse the Universe - by Submitted on Jun 16, 2007 from Gloria WendroffHEAVENLETTER #2385 Traverse the Universe God Said: We are going to traverse the Universe together, you and I. We are pulling up stakes, and entering a new dimension. To go somewhere, you have to leave somewhere. We are leaving the past now. It’s easy to do. We just leave it. You leave ...
Views: 959 - What I Learned From A Parakeet - by I want to tell you about the lesson that I learned from my parakeet. Yes, I did say that I learned something from a parakeet. I suppose that it is possible that I have too much time on my hands. Moving on...
My parakeet is named Yazzie. Yazzie is Navajo for small or little. Yazzie is just your ...
Views: 715 - Connecting To Your Personal Power - by When you see the words “personal power? I wonder what you think. The word “power?has such strange connotations these days: power lunches, power ties, power bars?the word has become virtually meaningless in today’s society. Unless, of course, you feel power-less, or you are the one with all the ...
Views: 791 - Our Five Bodies - by Submitted on Jun 15, 2007 from Robert NajemyFrom the book "Contemporary Parables" Most of us believe that we have only one body. Most esoteric philosophies, however, teach that we have five bodies. Some claim even more, but usually these extra bodies are sublevels of the five basic ones mentioned below and represented by the five ...
Views: 2078 - A Spiritual Approach to Holiday Blues - by For most American adults, the period from Thanksgiving though New Years is a difficult time. We seem to be plunged into a virtual reality somewhere between a carnival and a nightmare. The streets and the malls are filled with lights, holiday melodies, and glittery ornaments. We are deluged by ...
Views: 765 - The Revelations Within - by Submitted on Jun 14, 2007 from Michelle MorovatyDear Loved Ones, Welcome to Spirituality Inside and Out. Welcome to the Daily Universal Insights. Much Beauty to you all today. I love you. I love you. I love you. FOR WE ARE ALL ONE. In this moment it's just you and I and the Universe. Are you willing to be present with this Insight? Good, ...
Views: 596 - Spiritual Initiatives in the Workplace in The Netherlands - by Submitted on Jun 14, 2007 from Barbara Rogoski,Until recently, the words "spirituality" and "business" were not used in the same sentence, nor were they compatible in the workplace. People were forced to keep their spiritual convictions strictly to themselves for fear of criticism, or even so far as to act kindly and ethical outside of work ...
Views: 1600 - Have You Noticed the Sun? - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2007 from Gloria WendroffHEAVENLETTER #2392 Have you noticed the sun? God said: What is it that you think is missing from your life? Perhaps it is your appreciation of it. Perhaps you have overlooked the beauty of your life. Perhaps you underestimate your life. No perhaps about it. If you do not love your life, ...
Views: 860 - Trust - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2007 from Gloria WendroffHEAVENLETTER #2389 Trust God said: Bewilderment is a good thing. It lets you know you are alive, and it lets you know that life holds more for you than you presently know. It's fine to be bewildered. You don't know where all your steps may lead. You don't know the full meaning of the steps ...
Views: 861 - Time and Consciousness - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2007 from amrit sreckoTIME AND CONSCIOUSNESS Scientific Research Centre BISTRA Ptuj, Slovenija sorli.bistra@gmail.com Abstract Einstein and Gödel speculated that time does not run into the universe as humans experience it. Their preposition seems to be right. Time as a physical entity into which material change ...
Views: 565 - Perseverance is a Passion - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2007 from GP StoneThe only thing standing between you-as-amateur and you-as-expert is dedication. All that talk about prodigies? We could all be prodigies (or nearly so) if we just put in the time and focused. At least that's what the brain guys are saying. Best of all--it's almost never too late. I know I'd ...
Views: 938 - How We Sometimes Become Lost - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2007 from Robyn SpeedAs soon as a child learns how to please his or her parents, he or she also learns how to modify his or her behavior to gain that parental approval. Thus commences the art of 'trying to be what other people want you to be.' It can evolve into a troublesome problem. Some people reach adulthood ...
Views: 1225(1 vote) - How to Be Peaceful - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2007 from Gini GreyWhen your heart is full and your mind is empty you find peace. That place of inner stillness where the flow of your life meets the flow of the universe. Where you move through your day in effortless ease. Have you enjoyed any of those days recently? What stops us from living peaceful lives? ...
Views: 4812 - Marry Good Fortune - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2007 from Gloria WendroffMarry Good Fortune God said: Good fortune is yours. Good fortune is racing on its way to you. Good fortune has your name on it. This is the premise for you to go by. Don't you feel wonderful when you think of all the good fortune that is rushing to you? Why not then, beloveds, come from that ...
Views: 781 - What is 6th Sense? - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2007 from Sean ClarkeSixth sense or extrasensory perception (ESP) is an ability to perceive the subtle dimension or the unseen world of angels, ghosts, heaven, etc. Sixth sense (ESP) includes the ability to understand the subtle cause and effect relationship behind many events beyond the understanding of the ...
Views: 923 - Spiritual Secrets of Immortality - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2007 from Sandy ParisDream Reality Publishing Spiritual Secrets of Immortality Discovering Your Personal Roadmap to Immortality By Sandy Paris author, keynote speaker, and CEO and founder of Dream Reality Publishing. Down through the millennia, the secrets of immortality have been hidden from mankind because, if ...
Views: 1246 - What To Do In Hell - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2007 from Suzanne GoldA friend wrote to me: I'm in the mountains right now, and having a terrible time with my muscles and with the altitude. I don't know if I'll ever want to come back here. But this trip did give me a chance to tell my brother about some things he said that upset me. It was hard to do because he's ...
Views: 1130 - The Magic of Five Seconds of Silence - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2007 from Linda MillerYou have heard that "silence is golden," right? There are many teachers of the power of silence and you can buy books about the benefits of silence. Mother Teresa of Calcutta said, "See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in ...
Views: 1022 - The Power of Gratitude - by Submitted on Jun 12, 2007 from Laura De GiorgioGratitude is not some mushy feeling. It is a powerful way of conditioning your subconscious mind for success. So many people focus on what they do not have and in this way further program their subconscious minds with the idea and feeling of lack and loss. And guess what? That is exactly what ...
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