When you awaken the Truth in someone, you’ll feel the joy that they feel within them. You’ll feel it in their smile, in the way their face lights up, in the way they speak, in the way they move. Sometimes, however, some people will not give themselves permission to hear the Truth and delight in […]
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We are so conditioned by fear, failure and the fear of failure that something as mundane as making a ‘To Do’ list can be a traumatic experience. Rattling away in your woeful subconscious is the belief that you’re ‘setting yourself up for failure’. Again. So, why subject yourself to more evidence that you are a
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My spiritual journey has not been a smooth ride. There are times when I feel strong, confident, loving, loved, enriched, peaceful, joyous and in an effortless flow. This is increasingly true. But there are also times (less often these days), when I have felt fear, despair, helplessness and rage. My ongoing spiritual practices of meditation
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There is another reality besides the one that mostly fills your head and troubles your mind and body. It is always present and you can only ever experience it when you are present. This reality is the reality of peace, of contentment, of bliss, of spaciousness and nothingness, of openness, of being-ness. It is limitless,
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If a baby thought about how hard it would be to crawl or to stand or walk, it would probably never attempt to do any of these. But babies don’t ‘think’ like we do. And that is why they accomplish what the adult mind would consider staggering feats if that mind actually stopped to think
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Photo by Danu 1. You are amazing 2. You can be anything you want, do anything you want, have anything you want. But focus mainly on BEING – in your heart and in your mind Photo by Masae at Wikimedia 3. You are meant to enjoy life 4. Life is entirely for you 5. Life
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The story of Christmas is an enthralling one especially when you hear it for the first time and especially if that first time was when you were a child. Most of us would have heard the Christmas story when we were very little children, perhaps even infants. And so, for years since, that story, while
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The Human condition, Our Two Realities, Suffering, Struggle and our Hidden Wholeness Buddha said: Life is suffering. Yes, human life, the human condition, is characterized by suffering. But, the Buddha did not just leave us with this first Nobel Truth. He went on to espouse three other Noble Truths: 2. That suffering has its causes
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Some of our thoughts have such a strong impact on us because we have either SUPPRESSED or REINFORCED them. Think about it. It is estimated that we have between thirty to sixty thousand thoughts a day, (mostly repetitive). Why is it that most of them don’t bother us? Why is it that just some, perhaps one
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It really boils down to this: We are not happy because life is not the way we want it to be. But why is that? Why is it that we are not happy with the way life is? There are two reasons for this. Firstly, we have forgotten that WE ARE LIFE. That, LIFE IS
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