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The Power of Love
This is not just a title for a good song. This is the key to living a miraculous life! Love is a heartfelt state of being. When you are: excited inspired enthusiastic passionate happy joyful grateful compassionate ……………..you are expressing love. When we excentuate the positive and fill our lives with love we can expect
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Just Quoting
“Awareness is about noticing the moment. It is about stopping, looking, listening, feeling, experiencing fully what is happening. It is a meditation. Awareness turns everything into a meditation.” Dr Wayne Dyer
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Being among equals – the anatomy of fear
“The first shall be last and the last shall be first” – Biblical saying. Lets talk about equality. The idea of winners and losers is just an illusion created by a self-perpetuating global society that feeds on economic power which is nourished by competition. Yet notions of “better than” and “not good enough” not only
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More about life and death
We are born free and uninhibited. As young children we express our spontaneous and authentic selves in everything we do. As we mature however we learn to experience and interpret life through the lenses of other people and organisations- society, our parents, our friends, our religions, our schools . We start to loose our authenticity. We dress
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A matter of life or death?
In most discussion/debate about life and death these terms are usually treated as separate events. While in a practical sense this may seem true given the passage of time generally between these two events the real truth about life and death is that they are intrinsically connected and part of the same eternal process. One
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Let it rain!
“The art of living is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging on the other. It consists in being sensitive to each moment, in regarding it as utterly new and unique, in having the mind open and wholly receptive”. Alan Watts. Buddhists use the practice of sitting mindfully as a fearless presence
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Seven Powerful Lessons
My eldest son was recently chosen to travel to New York with a group of young people to attend the UN Conference on the Millenium Development Goals. One of the speakers at the conference (Adam Braun founder of “Pencil of Promise”) in delivering an inspiring address outlined the following seven lessons: 1. Get out of your
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Feeling deluded?
As most of us live our lives on automatic piliot we delude ourselves that we are in touch with reality. We get up in the morning and travel to work and after completing a full days work we return home by the same route. We do this without registering where we are and what is happening.
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Water you talking about?
Did you know that at least 70% of your body is made up of water and that 80% of that is in your head? This could be just another useless statistic if it were not for the research that has been done into how human emotions can change the structure of water! When water is
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Resist and be attached at your peril!
It never fails to surprise me just how much of our unhappiness, stress and suffering is caused by our persistently recurring ability to want to resist what is happening to us and/or to become attached to the way things have been, are now or should be. I was reminded of this on my way to