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MARCH 5, 2008
Love, Compassion, and Tolerance
by His Holiness the Dalai Lama
“Love, compassion, and tolerance are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
The essence of all religions is love, compassion, and tolerance. Kindness is my true religion. No matter whether you are learned or not, whether you believe in the next life or not, whether you believe in God or Buddha or some other religion or not, in day-to-day life you must be a kind person. When you are motivated by kindness, it doesn’t matter whether you are a practitioner, a lawyer, a politician, an administrator, a worker, or an engineer: whatever your profession or field, deep down you are a kind
person. Love, compassion, and tolerance are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive. If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it if you have love, compassion, and tolerance. The clear proof of a person’s love of God is if that person genuinely shows love to fellow human beings.
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The Evolution of a Soul Mate Relationship
by Kimmie Rose Zapf
Purpose of Your Life
The whole purpose to be on this earth plane is for your soul to evolve and go back to the light from which it came. In order to do this you must experience “Love” and let go of any fears. We are joined in from lifetime to lifetime by “helpers” with whom we refer to as “Soul mates”. There are two types of Soul mates: Companions and Karmic. I will explain those later. First we need to explain your soul’s purpose.
Imagine in your mind: God, The Creator as energy of LOVE… whatever you believe in. Imagine this as a huge Ball of energy/light. We begin our journey as being part of this energy/light. While we are part of this light we are joined by other energies or souls who have the same purpose as we do. That is to come back to the light and to learn about this Divine energy. Our purpose is to remember who we
are... we are Love, we have God within us, and we are all one. We make agreements with these other souls before we separate from this light that we will go through certain lessons and learn from them and return to the light ONCE WE HAVE LEARNED. The agreements we make with other souls is that they will help us to achieve this goal. We all have the same goal. The difference is that different souls have different purposes! Twin Flames and Soul mates are very different from one another.
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The Voice of Fate vs. the Voice of Destiny
by Robert Ohotto
It’s human instinct to reach for the familiar, but the soul is here for experience, not security. A life without risk, loss, death, and pain is hardly vitalized. The more we resist the call to adventure, the more we fate ourselves to suffering of the worst kind. In such cases, the Universe will often deliver increasingly drastic events until we finally give up the ego’s hold on our soul’s schedule and allow the next chapter of our purpose—our Destiny—to unfold.
It’s at this juncture of resisting our Divine timeline that many of us reach a threshold, often catalyzed by an outer fated event. We’ve come to know it as the dark night of the soul. Yet I always felt that this phrase was a bit of a misnomer because it’s the ego, our self-concept, which is actually being set adrift into the unknown. It’s here that a part of it must die so that something new from the soul can enter in. And it’s the ego that experiences the inherent fear of this change, not the soul. Thus I call this process of entering a transitional space where some new creative aspect of the soul is beginning to birth into your ego
structure —which demands that your old self-concept reshape—the dark night of the ego!
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FEBRUARY 7, 2008 A Valentine’s Day Meditation on Love and Relationships
by Mark A. Michaels (Swami Umeshanand Saraswati) and Patricia Johnson (Devi
Veenanand)
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2008 – The Year of Inspired Living
by Kari Samuels
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Thai Yoga Bodywork
by Sonia Osorio
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JANUARY 22, 2008
Intuitive Painting As A Spiritual
Practice
by Chris Zydel
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Our Seven Spiritual Gene Sets
by Meredith L. Young-Sowers
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Boundaries Protect Who We Are
by Tim Murphy
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JANUARY 3 , 2008
You Can Do What You
Love
by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer
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My Wife’s Triumph Over
Uterine Fibroids
by Steven Hefferon, CMT, PTA, CPRS
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Why Do We Feel Sick All the Time:
Metaphysical ‘Cures’ For What Ails Us
by Steven E. Hodes, M.D.
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DECEMBER 1, 2007
The
Healing Touch
by Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew
Blakeslee
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While I'm Away: When You Travel
And Your Animal Companions Stay Home
by Nedda Wittels
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The Path of Unconditional Happiness
by Michael A. Singer
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NOVEMBER 17, 2007
Opening To Abundance: Opening Your Heart
by Dr. Trish Whynot
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Sweet
Dreams: No Sugar Added
by Erik Fisher, Ph.D.
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The Enslaving
Illusion of Love
by Fr. Paul Coutinho, SJ
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In Handbook for the Spirit, an extraordinary group of thinkers and
teachers, including Andrew Harvey, Sue Bender, Rev. Michael Beckwith,
Barbara De Angelis, and Marianne Williamson, celebrate their personal
experiences of the divine. The book features the Dalai Lama on the central
importance of kindness; Sue Bender on the small miracles of everyday life;
Brooke Medicine Eagle on the Great Spirit; and Joseph Goldstein on the
Dharma. Included are Rabbi Harold Kushner on how God appears in
relationships, Brother David Steindl-Rast on perceiving the divine through
the senses, and 19 other contributors.
Each author shares what it is like to have a personal relationship with a higher spirit, how this relationship developed, and how it manifests in his or her life, relationships, and career. Most significantly, the authors offer insight into how readers can enhance their connections with a higher source.
Handbook for the Spirit offers both hope and purpose in a world deeply in need of both.
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"You are not saintly (a good person) because an organization
says so, but rather because you stay connected to the divinity of
your origination. You are not intelligent because of a transcript;
you are intelligence itself, which needs no external confirmation.
You are not moral because you obey the laws; you are mortality
itself because you are the same as what you came from."
~ Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
Change Thoughts, Change Your Life
"If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The
recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on
your mistaking it for reality."
~ Eckhart Tolle
A New Earth: Awakening To Your Life's Purpose
"The change we are looking for is always a change within
ourselves. And the change will come. I've noticed that as long as
I'm willing to be different, something or someone arrives to
show me how."
~ Marianne Williamson
The Age Of Miracles: Embracing The New Midlife
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April 5-12, 2008: The Writer's
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September 5-7: Soul Survival: A
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Medium John Holland, Brian Weiss, MD, Raymond A. Moody, Jr., MD,
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