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- Changing Perfection - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2011 from Nanette IrwinI keep hearing that we are not perfect and I must disagree. Each of us is being the best person we know how to be, at the present moment, with the information we have, and I believe that makes us perfect. We don’t always like everything about ourselves or our lives, which is a catalyst for ...
Views: 975(1 vote) - Changing Words To Change Events Does Not Work - by Submitted on Nov 04, 2010 from David SamuelThe past years have taken a trend in the concept that by changing the words, we can actually change the situation. This is clearly impossible, but yet it does work. I would like to explore how the impossible works. If there is a problem, no matter what you call it, or even if you ignore it, ...
Views: 1274(1 vote) - Channeled Message for May 2012 - by Submitted on May 04, 2012 from Maureen Brennan MercierI received a Channeled Message for May 2012 and I would like to share it with you here: "Be. Be who you already are: perfectly human and perfectly divine. There is no separation between you and God. You are ONE. Celebrate your oneness with God the Father and Mother Goddess. You are loved and ...
Views: 1619(1 vote) - Channeled Message for September 2011 - by Submitted on Oct 28, 2011 from Maureen Brennan MercierA Channeled Message for September 2011 was given to me. I would like to share it with you here. "Be in the moment and breathe. Let go of fear, doubt, worry for they deplete your energy and set you up for more of the same - fear, doubt, worry. Hand all your concerns over to God daily. Allow ...
Views: 900(1 vote) - Channeling Adama: Following Your Stream and Trusting God - by Submitted on Sep 03, 2010 from Erin MackleyBeloveds, this is ADAMA. We are going to speak about Love now. This is not your average love. This is Deep Love. This is the type of Love that flows smoothly, without a hitch. The kind of love that takes time to develop. The intimate kind, that causes you to grow as an individual. This ...
Views: 1082(1 vote) - Channeling Your Internal Metal Detector - by Submitted on Sep 28, 2009 from Ann Marie O'DellWhen all is quiet, can you hear the sound of your heart beat and nervous system? Did you know that many light workers tune in to this like a metal detector as they heal or give readings? It's a gift we are all given. One must train themselves to hear their "Internal Metal Detector." Have you ...
Views: 1755(1 vote) - CHARACTER, SPIRITUALITY & CONSCIOUSNESS - Life Quotes to Inspire You from the Inside Out - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2011 from Chelle Thompson"YOU CAN ACTUALLY LEARN TO 'SPEAK FROM THE HEART' BY IMAGINING A SMALL MOUTH INSTALLED IN YOUR VERY OWN HEART. WHEN A CHALLENGING SITUATION ARISES, CONSCIOUSLY FOCUS YOUR MIND DOWN TO THAT LITTLE MOUTH. THEN, PUT YOUR TRUST IN THE GREAT SPIRIT, RELEASE YOUR PERSONAL FEARS AND COURAGEOUSLY SPEAK ...
Views: 1842(1 vote) - Choose Ananda as a way of life - by Submitted on Aug 14, 2020 from Nataša PantovićConsciousness and Spiritual Growth The purpose of life is the evolution of consciousness. Spiritual awakening offers life in the state of joy (Bliss / Ananda). If we learn to listen to our souls we can consciously choose to be joyful or sad, peaceful or loving, alert or relaxed. There is a ...
Views: 1601(1 vote) - Choosing Your Path - by Submitted on Aug 07, 2011 from David SamuelThere are many paths to spiritual and worldly freedom. Every person can choose a path that suits them, and many work equally well. We can choose Zen, Kabbalah or Sufi for example which are very different paths but all lead to the same end. Some paths take a person further and quicker than ...
Views: 1139(1 vote) - Christ and Antichrist - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2012 from Tracing ABC Tracing ABCThe Spirit of Christ means that mentality which recognizes the Law and uses It for constructive purposes only. The spirit of Antichrist is the spirit of the individual, or class of individuals who, understanding the Law, use It destructively. The meaning of the Flood or Deluge (which is ...
Views: 1177(1 vote) - Cinderella - What a Story! - by Submitted on Aug 11, 2010 from Todd PuntolilloCinderella - What a Story! I used to be a rescuer. I would find a damsel in distress and save her. That made me a hero, didn’t it? You’d think so. But, after a little counseling for a broken heart and lost marriage, I could see clearer and got the picture. It seems that the rescue mission is ...
Views: 2322(1 vote) - CLEARING THE CHANNEL FOR YOUR PERSONAL GPS - by Submitted on Jan 21, 2011 from Cari MurphyClearing the Channel for Your Personal GPS There really is only ONE question you need ask yourself today, or any day: “Which way and which choice brings me closer to my own Sacred Purpose?” The answer reveals the pathway. You have your very own personal GPS built right inside of you that is ...
Views: 1531(1 vote) - Cold Empathy and Warm Empathy - by Submitted on Jun 14, 2012 from Sam VakninEmpathy is comprised of two components: I. Cold Empathy: an intersubjective agreement as to the mental content (especially emotions) of two or more human subjects; II. Warm Empathy: the emotional response to Cold Empathy. Cold Empathy is an act of taxonomy and an attempt to overcome the ...
Views: 4719(1 vote) - Come out of the cocoon of your limited self - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2011 from Swami AaronHave you ever thought - what is the difference between you and me, or you and him/her? Of course, you can point out numerous differences. But, basically there is no difference at all. There is no difference at all among all manifested realities of this existence. All these so pin-pointed ...
Views: 836(1 vote) - Coming Out of the Psychic Closet - by Submitted on Jun 08, 2010 from Charlene MurphyIt’s official! I’m psychic. There, I said it. You know, the word “psychic” is so emotionally charged and has taken on quite a few unsavory meanings. We can thank both Hollywood and opportunistic shysters for that. However, the word “psychic” really means “pertaining to the soul or spirit”. I ...
Views: 3050(2 votes) - Communicating with the Divine Ones Part Two (Your Spiritual Lesson) - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2019 from Tanisha Snipes-DixonOne question that is always asked of me is how do I communicate with Divine Ones and how do I hear their response? This is a great question and sometimes hard to answer because not everyone is able to communicate with deities, angles and ancestors on the same level. There are many forms of ...
Views: 798(1 vote) - COMPASSION: THE TRUE ELIXIR - by Submitted on Jan 21, 2011 from Cari MurphyCOMPASSION: THE TRUE ELIXIR Learning to live with compassion and becoming aware of it’s powerful potential can be the ultimate and most meaningful element in the process of spiritual awakening. The choice to live with compassion for ourselves and others reflects the deepest kind of emotional ...
Views: 1553(1 vote) - Connecting with the Divine Feminine Energy Within - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2010 from Michael HoareSo what does Divine Feminine Energy mean? What is it? What does it look like? How does it feel? The answers will be different for each of us, of course. But there are also similar characteristics that we will all experience. In a general sense, I want to share with you the answers to ...
Views: 10087(2 votes) - CONSCIOUS AWAKENING - by Submitted on Jan 21, 2011 from Cari MurphyConscious Awakening The evolution of consciousness cannot be avoided. It’s the purpose of living! Yet, if we want to experience a powerful and beautiful transformation of consciousness, we have to commit to going through a deep inner search to find a clear understanding of the mind, and an ...
Views: 1482(1 vote) - CONSCIOUSNESS MUST BE SEARCHED FOR IN THE DEEP CAVE OF THE PSYCHE-Part 2 - by Submitted on Nov 26, 2012 from Yuga Rishi Shriram SharmaIn order to augment bodily might one goes to the gym and exercises. In order that ulcers are removed surgery is performed. Radiation therapy is given to cancer patients to destroy malignant cells. Dancers and actors do not acquire their skills ‘by chance’. They undergo rigorous training under ...
Views: 1106(1 vote) - Consciousness Shift - by Submitted on Sep 11, 2012 from Dorothy NeddermeyerMany people are asking the same questions. The questions are not only, “What am I doing here on this Earth?”—the usual question when someone is experiencing a paradigm shift in their consciousness and awareness—there are many levels and layers to their questions. From a physical perspective, ...
Views: 2400(1 vote) - Consciousness | Five Elements |Soul |Healing - by Submitted on Sep 24, 2020 from Yogasth Vidya RishikeshNurturing is natural in Consciousness-Energy. The five elements –Ether, Air, Fire, Earth, and Water have been nurturing the Universe since the formation of the cosmos. Ours, Mother Earth has been nurturing life in so many forms that we can never pay the debt of her unconditional love. The five ...
Views: 953(1 vote) - Consciousness, Awareness & The Nature of The Mind - by Submitted on May 28, 2011 from Kip Mazuy"The mind is always looking to get caught up in something. Awareness is always free. It is simply a matter of where you place your attention. In meditation, if you let go of the need to latch on to something or take a position and feel this moment existing on its own without ...
Views: 1027(1 vote) - Conversations with V! - Connecting & Cultivating a Woman's Intrinsic Value - by Submitted on May 18, 2010 from Val McLeodWhether we call it a woman’s intuition, mother wit or simply common sense, women definitely have an internal wellspring of wisdom. We have an amazing capacity for insight and awareness. This wisdom is not that which we receive through academic matriculation, but it is intelligence that emits ...
Views: 1511(1 vote) - Cookie's Doves; On Birthing The Feminine in Dream Image Work - by Submitted on Mar 24, 2010 from Deborah DeNicolaCOOKIE’S DOVES; ON BIRTHING THE FEMININE What your unconscious wants you to know is not often discovered from the perspective of the personal ego. The entire dream is our creation but often we don’t relate to the “bad guy” or the “monster” or the “beautiful tree” from deep inside these ...
Views: 1434(1 vote) - Coping with Betrayal - by Submitted on Jan 12, 2012 from Linney ElderBy Linney Elder The subject of betrayal seems to pop up all around me with people in various relationships. I got to thinking about the nature of betrayal. What is it really? In fact, is it real at all? What is real? I think it’s a choice of which doors to open and a choice of which doors ...
Views: 2533(1 vote) - Coping with Grief - by Submitted on Jan 12, 2012 from Linney ElderDark Days and Lonely Nights……. The dark pit of grief that yawned below my feet threatening to swallow me whole for weeks after my loved one’s death from cancer is finally fading and the overwhelming grief is subsiding to a dull ache in the middle of my chest. People kept telling me that ...
Views: 2107(1 vote) - Counting Wild Pigs - by Submitted on Mar 14, 2012 from Todd HayenThere is an ancient Celtic tale that speaks of a crack in the earth from which evil creatures and spirits ascend upon the upper regions from the dark and dank recesses of Hell. The Cave of Cruachan was its name, and many a story of elfin lore was spoken from the lips of this vile split between ...
Views: 771(1 vote) - Create your life with intention - by Submitted on Oct 24, 2010 from Jim Phillips“The way we view life, our perspective, determines how we respond to life. And how we respond to life determines how we experience life” What if there was a way to change your experience of life? To see life not as it appears, but as the potential it promises. What if you could fully ...
Views: 1519(2 votes) - Creating solitude for your spiritual bliss - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2014 from Frosty WooldridgeBy Frosty Wooldridge Americans living in big cities race through their days with gridlocked traffic, honking horns, cheeky taxi drivers, police sirens and jostling pedestrians racing toward their destinations. At work, they juggle temperamental co-employees, deadlines and ashes-in-the-mouth ...
Views: 777(1 vote) - CREATIVITY IN A TIME OF CRISIS - by Submitted on Feb 28, 2010 from Nancy DetweilerEssayist Ann Taylor Fleming once shared her means of coping with the present planetary crisis. Instead of focusing on the turmoil, she visits museums of art. She feasts upon the beauty humankind has created. Surrounded by the extraordinary, Ann finds hope. Humanity is capable of creating a ...
Views: 933(2 votes) - Dealing with our dark side - by Submitted on Jul 10, 2011 from Sandra DawesBetween watching Star Wars for the millionth time and finishing the book The Shadow Effect, I have been in heavy contemplation about the dark side, more specifically, in terms of The Shadow Effect, my dark side. There was a time when I would have denied the existence of a dark side in me, the ...
Views: 1380(1 vote) - Dealing with the rough patches - by Submitted on Jun 26, 2011 from Sandra DawesYou’ve been doing your spiritual work; affirmations, visualization, meditations, and life is going pretty well. All of a sudden, something you perceive as negative pops up in your life and you are completely blown away! How did this happen? Negative experiences aren’t supposed to happen to ...
Views: 1426(1 vote) - Decision Making Utilizing a New Perspective - by Submitted on Sep 16, 2010 from Bambi CorsoMany years ago, I attended a seminar given by Caroline Myss in Los Angeles, CA. During the course of the seminar, one young man raised his hand and asked a question. It seems he was confused, not yet knowing what to do with his life and facing a variety of job offers and opportunities. But he ...
Views: 1408(1 vote) - Defining Moments, Insights and Affirmations that Help Us Survive Abuse - by Submitted on Nov 09, 2010 from Stephanie AltFor those who have grown up in less than ideal families subjected to one or more forms of abuse, some describe a defining moment that lifts them up and out of what feels like living hell. An intuitive insight or an amazing event creates a breakthrough clearing an emotional escape route towards ...
Views: 2231(1 vote) - Developing Psychic Skills - by Submitted on Oct 07, 2011 from rachel annBeing a psychic reader is not the easiest of things that a person can be. Whether the psychic ability is a gift or a burden is something that is particular to each psychic and has a lot to do with his/her mental makeup. While it is true that both severe mental and physical trauma can unleash ...
Views: 1628(1 vote) - Discover and Trust Your Inner Compass - by Submitted on Aug 16, 2013 from Yol SwanWe have all been equipped with an internal compass to navigate the complexities of our physical reality. It is by far the most sophisticated and valuable tool you could have possibly asked for. From making difficult decisions regarding a moral dilemma to knowing how to treat others, your inner ...
Views: 3460(1 vote) - Discover the “I Am”: Embrace the infinite possibility of the real you - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2011 from Dr. Robert PuffKnowledge is one of the things that prevent us from awakening. Why? We think we know many things and knowing these things keeps us from being awake. To gain awareness we need to unlearn what we know, or think we know. We need to let go of every piece of knowledge and just be. In the East they ...
Views: 1364(2 votes) - Discovery Who We Are: We Aren’t Who We Think We Are - by Submitted on Aug 27, 2011 from Dr. Robert PuffIronically, one of the main things that keeps us from awakening to our true nature is knowledge. We think we know things, and knowing these things keeps us from being awake. Our belief that we have true knowledge keeps us caught up in our perceptions, labels, and opinions, making them appear as ...
Views: 1113(2 votes) - Divine Intervention? - by Submitted on Feb 18, 2011 from Laura Bonetzky-JosephI have had some life challenges the past couple years. Who hasn't right? Well I won't go into my life's story yet - that may have to wait for 20/20 or Oprah. Have you ever questioned yourself or doubt. Let fear control your every thought and move? I have. Recently, I have a quantum shift ...
Views: 1497(2 votes) - Divine Nature on all three planes - by Submitted on Jun 11, 2012 from Tracing ABC Tracing ABCMan reenacts the Divine Nature on all three planes; he is self- knowing in his conscious mind, creative through his subconscious mind, and has a body. He reenacts the Trinity of Being. Man is in perfect unity with the Whole. His conscious mind is his understanding of God; his subjective mind ...
Views: 1218(1 vote) - DO DESTINY AND FREE WILL CO-EXIST? - by Submitted on Jan 21, 2011 from Cari MurphyYour Destiny: An Unfolding Spiritual Chronicle Do Destiny and Free Will Co-Exist? I am often asked whether I believe that everything in our lives is predestined or whether I believe in free will. So, I thought this was good timing to delve into this fascinating topic! My answer is that I ...
Views: 1449(1 vote) - Do External Situations Like Job, Relationships or Health Cause Depression? - by Submitted on Feb 09, 2010 from Marc LernerWhen we face difficult times, how we perceive the situation we are in may cause depression. It is not what happens in the world around us, what other people say or the promise of a dismal future, but by our own mind. When we focus on our thoughts, our own brains create our experience. If you ...
Views: 1584(1 vote) - Do You Experience Mixed Feelings About Being Patient and Tolerant? - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2011 from Joyce Shafer, Book DoctorPatience and tolerance are behaviors and states of mind to practice, right? How well do you do with them? Questions about Patience and Tolerance came to me after I spent extended time with someone who couldn’t seem to talk about anything that wasn’t unpleasant. All of us need a dose of ...
Views: 1625(1 vote) - Do YOU Have Personal Strength? - by Submitted on Feb 22, 2010 from Keith BrayHave YOU Got Personal Strength?(God Thing) I ask this question for a reason. I am very interested in hearing honest and open answers from other. I am particularly interested in hearing from those who can respond without giving away a particular religious bias. For many years I have known ...
Views: 1512(1 vote) - Do You Know the Purpose of Your Relationships? - by Submitted on Dec 29, 2013 from Yol SwanDid you know that relationships are eternal? They reflect the energetic ties and karma to be played out incarnation after incarnation, as we carry them along on our soul journey. In truth, we’ve been meeting pretty much the same souls over and over, trying to heal our wounds and learning to ...
Views: 1070(2 votes) - Do You Know What Makes You Happy? - by Submitted on Dec 30, 2013 from Yol SwanWe all want to be happy. Yet my idea of happiness may be different from yours, and yours is probably unlike someone else’s. Although it is supposed to be the state of mind that we all desire, if you asked a politician, a scientist, a psychologist, a young kid, and an enlightened saint what ...
Views: 1111(2 votes) - Do You Struggle With Feeling Authentic? - by Submitted on Nov 04, 2011 from Joyce Shafer, Book DoctorDo you carry the feeling of not being your authentic self or living authentically, and a fear of doing so? If your answer is yes, here are two significant causes for this you need to be aware of. What I consider the first cause—a genuinely significant one—is that we, for the most part have ...
Views: 1613(2 votes) - Do You Talk More Than You Listen? - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2010 from Sharon WilsonEven if you often let others carry on the conversation, there's likely another conversation simultaneously going on inside your head. As the other person speaks, your mind may be racing on with its own thoughts, drowning out all words but its own. Often the loudest, most notable sensation in ...
Views: 2690(2 votes) - Do you wear Ego Armor? - by Submitted on May 03, 2013 from Samantha G MartinRecently a friend of mine gave me reason to think by going on and on regarding how wonderful they are, how hard they work and how nice they are to others but why do bad things happen to them? I wasn’t pondering their struggles; I was confused that they felt the need to declare how great they ...
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