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Discipline of Prayer: Always Connected
A daily train ride supplies insight into the nature of prayer: the power is always present if we are willing to stay connected. This awareness of God's omnipresence is the grand thing David celebrates. Jesus reminds us of it as His parting gift before ascending to the Father.
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Strangers In This World
Christians all over the world will all be tempted in different ways. One problem we all will face is being tempted to conform to the world. Daily demands will distract us and only the ones who focus entirely on God will succeed in being different in this world.
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Inner-Tubing With God: Understanding God's Ways
A question I ask myself is, ”Why do I even think I need to understand God’s ways?” Do we think our ways are better? Sure we do at times. Do we need to think about how we are going to get down that river the most effective way on that tube?
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Creating With Words
The words you use, to yourself and others, can make a tremendous difference in both your experience of life and results you generate. Kabbalah explains that G-d creates physical reality with words, and so do we.
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From Superstition to Clashing Rocks
Myths are dramatizations of our inner journeys. While on the hero's path, we will confront good and evil, right and wrong, wonderments and dangers--and most of all, ourselves.
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Payday Someday
God has written into divine providence a kind of payday-someday theology.
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Insulting Spirit or Exposing the 'Me'
A brief exploration of the differences between 'belief based' spirituality and 'authentic' spirituality, the article starts by making bold claims which may offend, then suggests that 'that which can be offended is not spirit but rather ego'.
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A Crash Course In Tarot For Newbies #1 - All About the Cards
The Tarot is not just a divinatory tool, but it can also be utilized in the appropriately trained hands as a tool for providing counsel and advice with which we can navigate life. It is an antique form of divination that predates popular psychology, but has been shown to have archetypal energies that work well from a Jungian perspective. Tarot becomes a book of wisdom offering you a living parable or myth that reflects your life journey in the hands of the right Diviner. It describes a journey that mirrors your path in life. Usually the story is a direct description of what is going to happen in a particular window of time although talented readers can tell you much more than that from looking at the symbols in the cards!
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Acknowledging the Existence of Your Soul
Talking about your “soul” and the deeper things in life is so frequently considered as spun out or weird in modern, take-away-eating, order-it-on-the-internet life, but if you are one of these people, you'll find that letting go of socialistic trends like these will free you in a way that you simply cannot be freed in a materialists world.
The end result is inner peace that no material possession could ever come close to.
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Moving On Gracefully: Leaving Your Spiritual Group
Although usually unexpected and emotionally painful one day you may be faced with leaving your spiritual family. This can be one of the most challenging times of your life as well as one of the least understood. Facing this issue with courage and compassion can be one of the toughest, and most rewarding, things you can do.
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How It's Always Now
When we can adopt an appreciation of the present moment our minds slow down enough for us to enjoy the experience of being alive. Within this experience of staying centered in the present, you'll find internal peace and mental and emotional clarity.
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What Is The Spiritual Path?
We confuse ourselves about the meaning of the spiritual path. And because of this confusion, we never embark on it. Yet the end of confusion comes from looking at the essence of true spirituality. Once we capture that essence, we can act in a way that sets our feet on that path.
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Neither White-washed Nor Unmarked
Like a white-washed tomb, the beautiful externals of a hypocrite's life conceal a horrible inner corruption. But some hypocrites are so good at their art that they are more like unmarked graves--you get defiled being around them, and you don't even realize what's happening. The challenge is to avoid being either kind of grave by working a being transparently honest in all of your relationships.
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God Drives a Harley, a Bus and a Taxi
If you are looking for God (the creator) you will not be able to see him. He is in the nothingness that holds it all together. He is nothing and everything at the same time. To see God you must look for nothing, for nothing is everything. If you have see nothing, then you have see God.
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What Does Unconditional Love Really Mean?
Humanity's interpretation of Unconditional Love is based on personal bias. In a world of contradictions and opposites, one decides how conditional he/she will experience love by applying unconditional love to conditional love.
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Using Psalm 23 as Spiritual Affirmation
Spiritual affirmations are positive, statements of intention, that facilitate manifestation. This particular Biblical Psalm used as spiritual affirmation both protects us and connects us with our Higher Faith, and therefore our Higher Destiny. It has been traditionally recited for thousands of years when one desires attaining a calm certainty during life's challenging transitions.
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Faerie Wisdom
Spirit Dancer
The spirit dancer is the card of creative expression. Of exploring our inner truths and desires. Now is the time to open your heart and mind. Listen to your inner self and determine to bring forth and express all that is you.
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Businesses And Coping With Stress
With all of today’s technology, the business world is in competition, the hours you need to work are getting longer and the work is more exhausting. If there is travel involved, it is sure to add more work time and less time to relax.
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Controlling Stress For The Student
Do you feel discouraged because you are not reaching the milestones that you have given yourself in school? Are they not going through the way you thought they would? Do you feel that you are letting your parents down with the grades you are bringing home? The thing to do is to take a look inside and what is making these things happen.
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Stress Management Techniques That Work
Now I am sure that we would all admit to becoming a little stressed from time to time. It is knowing what to do about it which is the problem for most of us. I am the type of person who used to stress about the smallest of things, this stress affected my sleep, my skin and my work life. I now, after studying the subject of stress for the past two years, have come up with ways to help me to cope with and to reduce the amount that I stress. I am going to write about these ways in this article.
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