I spend a great deal of time speaking and writing about the value of a positive attitude. Here is a story about a very old man, his positive attitude and a doctor who should have kept quiet.
Frank, a 90 year old, was being examined by his doctor. When the physical was over they had a little ... Views: 1110
One evening at a church I was attending the pastor had us all get involved in some congregational participation. We were asked to share verses that showed the blessings of obedience. Had I not known anyone there it would have been a fine sampling of the vastness of blessings that the Scriptures ... Views: 1040
Have you put God in a box? You would probably be surprised to know that many people, quite unknowing, do. The results not only affect the individual's walk with God but can have a devastating affect on how they relate with other believers as well. My husband and I worked at a Christian Bookstore ... Views: 959
One of the major TV networks recently did a special report on TV evangelists featuring two well known ministries. I watched in fascination and in horror as actual footage and quotes from their programs revealed numerous accounts of deceit and fraud. The first evangelist, a "faith healer" ... Views: 1082
SEWING MACHINE MAINTENANCE
If your sewing machine isn't taken care of, your frustrations will lead to quitting. There is nothing worse than sitting down to sew and your machine won't work properly!
Here are two things you need to do to keep your machine in shape and ready.
1. All threads ... Views: 1029
"Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution." - Ansel Adams
The word powerful not only describes photography but Ansel’s quote as well. In essence, what he is saying is photography is (and should ... Views: 724
My logic and faith in the wisdom and justice of the Divine is that all religions have equal access to the one and only Divine Being.
I believe that after leaving the physical body the virtuous Christian and the virtuous Jew will keep company with the virtuous Moslem, Buddhist and Hindu as well ... Views: 1266
We may not able to choose all the events and situations that occur in our lives, but we choose how we feel, react or respond to them.
We can choose to accept. flow and benefit from them.
We can resist, reject and become bitter.
We can choose to forgive or not to forgive.
We can choose to ... Views: 2046
Crystals are a unique part of our life. They are used for many
things, both spiritual and physical.
For example, quartz crystals are commonly used in battery
operated watches to keep time, silicon crystals are grown to
make computer chips.
In this article, I am going to explain how ... Views: 2397
Yesterday 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: 527
HEALTH, 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: 1780
I 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: 714
Life 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: 1562
THE 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: 665
Gratitude 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: 1020
HEAVENLETTER #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: 1255
What do I mean by the art of thinking? It may seem that powerful thinking should simply be logical, and nothing more. The ideal thinker then, might be Spock, the "Vulcan" in the "Star Trek" television show and movies. Of course, if you watch the program, you may recall that the humans aboard the ... Views: 774
We are conditioned to believe something that has very little truth to it, so little truth that it’s more accurate to call it a myth: We believe that things could be better. We deeply believe that we can have a better experience or a better life or become a better person. And, of course, the flip ... Views: 1179
Dear 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: 719
Dear 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: 553
Dear 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: 851
The Spiritual Teacher must not become a crutch, a tranquilizer, or a dependency which undermines our inner strength.
He or she should be like the battery charger, which we connect to our batteries in order to get our car started when its batteries are low.
Once the car is running we do not ... Views: 1431
There is no doubt that bride is the main attraction on her wedding day, so, what her bridesmaid wear is very important as well. From my experience, it is a tough task to choose a perfect bridesmaid dress. There are so many factors that need to be considered before deciding on the perfect dresses ... Views: 1567
Yes, 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: 499
The past six weeks have been instrumental in teaching me patience. Normally, I'm a very patient person, but every once in a while an event raises its head and says, "Hold still, son, you have a lot to learn about patience and the wonderful things that could happen when you learn the secret of ... Views: 656
How 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: 899
"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: 759
We’ve all heard the old saying that goes, "When life hands you lemons, make lemonade." Now there’s a thought. We surely have to do something with the lemons as they come along.
Sucking on lemons takes the enamel right off your teeth, so we don’t want to do that. Letting ... Views: 1308
Interview with Barbara Marx Hubbard
by Cate Montana
CM - You are in a unique position after dedicating 40 years of intense work and focus to understanding and assisting human evolution. From your perspective, how are we doing?
Barbara - My basic metaphor of our crisis is birth. I saw that ... Views: 944
Living 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: 651
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: 1393
Taking 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: 578
The key to a good sewing experience is Organization!
When you sit down to sew you don't want to have to spend time searching for the stuff you need to complete a project. It can also be frustrating to have some spare time and be out of what you need.
There are some great ways to organize ... Views: 1259
The “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: 1052
Living 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: 1218
Imagine for a moment that it’s Monday. The alarm clock rings at six. It’s like a thunderclap cutting through the haze of yesterday’s white whine and three hours worth of Friend’s rerun.
So you get up… and accidentally bang your knee on the bedpost. Dark murderous ... Views: 1034
THE MIND IS LIKE A PLASTIC BAG
As in the previous example, the mind has no reality of its own. Its reality is formed by its contents. It is like a plastic bag or cellophane that takes the shape of whatever you put into it. If you wrap up something long and slim then it takes that shape. If you ... Views: 1162
When 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: 527
In the United States, we just celebrated the "Thanksgiving" holiday. Many other countries have their own versions of "Thanksgiving." But thanksgiving is not something that should be celebrated on one particular day of the year. It is good that a day has been chosen for this, but it is up to each ... Views: 598
Dear 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: 568
Forgiveness
Is the mightiest sword
Forgiveness of those
When they bruise you with words
When they make you feel small
When it's hardest to take
You must do nothing at all...
But FORGIVE
As this is the highest award…..
Forgive is our trait to give others an opportunity to cleanse the mistakes. ... Views: 1645
Have you ever stopped to think about what your life purpose is?
Whether you want to call it a ‘life purpose’ or not, we all have a set of values or things that we are passionate about, that when followed, bring us increased joy and happiness. These values are the fundamental ... Views: 4102
Dear 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: 697
I 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: 537
It was many years ago. The boy was not more than ten years old as he stood beside the man that early morning. They were both standing on the shore of the Atlantic looking east toward the rising sun. The chill morning air caused a slight shiver to run through the boy. The man, seeming to know ... Views: 633
I remember as a child hearing that "Order is heaven's first law." I think it was when my mother wanted me to clean my room. In addition, I know that my friend Judy used to say, “Order is about finding a place for everything and then it is about remembering where it is.” Therefore, order is ... Views: 967
~ Things that go Bump in the Night ~
How many times as a child have we awoke in the middle of the night
from a scary dream and been frightened by "monsters under the bed"
or in the cupboard. How many times have we begged to have a light
left on, the door left open, and curled up under the ... Views: 1391
Meditation is not just good for you. It can also brighten your outlook on life. Two separate scientific studies, one done in Australia and one done in the United States, have shown that certain meditation techniques stimulate the left side of the brain, resulting in decreased anxiety and a happy ... Views: 1580
As remarkable as it is, even the human brain has its limitations. When we examine the types of beliefs that typically cause us trouble, we find they fall into three categories. We will briefly explore each of
these now.
Hopelessness
In this case, the desired change is not possible, there is no ... Views: 663
HEAVENLETTER #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: 900