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The Star of Bethlehem
Every Christmas the Yuletide card portrays a silver star in a navy blue sky and every year the same heavenly object sparkles from the top of the decorated evergreen. At season's end the three wise men and their fellow shepherds gather at a hastily set up manger for the familiar nativity scene. Though it shimmers on the greeting card and its brilliance lights up the tannebaum, it wasn't a star that erupted into a supernova on that dark Judean night. The star that shone so brightly two thousand years ago was wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.
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Loving Kindness - A Meditation
Want to try a centuries-old practice to evoke a generosity of the heart towards others? Use this meditation on loving-kindness.
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The Gnostics and Essenes
This person and I agreed on many things and he checked with the Patriarch to discover that I was ‘bang on’ with my history. The matter of our disagreement centers around his Essene Templar status and the abuses made by these designers of what I call CONstructs. Here is a little from my book on the occult.
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No Star-Studded Career
Let us grasp from the outset that success as understood in the usual secular sense of the word is not promised in the kingdom of God. God never promised anybody a star-studded career. He never promised achievement in the worldly understanding of the word. In fact, He seem to promise the exact opposite.
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Do You Really Want to Know the Truth?
Conflict arises solely from the refusal to shift the point from which one views: What you see depends on where your looking from. An interesting exploration of why people perceive so many different versions of truth.
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Coming to Jesus
I believe that we all can live forever if we believe in Gods word and apply it to our daily existence. We can no longer as Christians live our lives next to the life stile of the un-believers.
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Selfishness is a True Declaration of Life's Purpose
From the moment we are born, we are talk to be selfless, to think about others first and deny ourselves at our own expense. How can one give if we have nothing to give, if we are not allowed to collect abundance, whether it is love or money? It is our nature to be selfish and to...
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De-Materialization #2
Don't be afraid of what is possible and please don't hurt those who try and learn - they are usually more interested in helping you than hurting you.
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Contentment in Gratitude
Being content whether have plenty or little as long as we rest in the arms of the One who provides it all for us.
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Dimensional Shifts
The universe is much more than the ego can contain but the ego does try to limit what it does not comprehend.
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When Bad Things Happen (Part 1)
Rabbi Kushner could not comprehend how a loving, supposedly merciful and compassionate and just God, could allow such a tragedy to befall him and his loved ones. After all, he considered himself a God-fearing, obedient man who was living a more religiously committed life than most people. So how could a God of justice permit so great an injustice?
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Chicken Soup with Chopsticks: A Jew's Struggle for Truth in an Interfaith Relationship (excerpts)
Even as I started dating a Chinese girl, I knew I was embarking on a remarkable adventure. I just had no idea where and how far the adventure would take me. The more events unfolded, the more I realized that my view of the world and how I lived in it were being profoundly and permanently altered...
If the problem with marrying a gentile was that my religion prohibited intermarriage, why should that bother me? Perhaps not everything in Judaism made sense, and as an intelligent and thinking individual I could take from my heritage what I felt was meaningful and disregard the rest...
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What Is The Secret of Life?
Do you believe there is a secret of life? You might just be surprised at how close that secret really is...
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Payday Someday
God has written into divine providence a kind of payday-someday theology.
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Higher Self: Growing Inside of Us
Maybe once in a lifetime, we find ourselves seeking spiritual growth mostly when everything we try to do is hard to achieve. Among the many questions that consequently come out are: Who am I? Why am I here? Is there a Higher Power?
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There is Power in Believing
I once read a story about a Catholic priest who was a godly person. He was so godly that when he died people believed that his bones had healing powers. Yeah, right...
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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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Discovery of the Soul
Imagine that from the time of your birth your parents had your eyes covered. You grew up believing that this cover was a part of you and you couldn't remove it. You grew up in a world of darkness with images that you created, but not from experience. Imagine someone removing that blindfold. Imagine...
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Don't Forget to Breathe
What is the one thing you can do in three minutes to take control when there seems to be none? How can you possibly make decisions when there are so many competing choices? Take a moment in the busy day of a parent. The baby is crying uncontrollably, the phone is ringing, someone is at the door and needs your attention and you have to leave for the pediatrician appointment you NEED to keep. Just the day–to-day challenges of parenting offer stresses that must be juggled. Choices have to be made. How about choosing to take the next moment and take some deep breaths. Just take three deep breaths and you can begin to change your whole perspective.
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Stress Relieving - The Rat Race... it's Your Choice
Stress is a major contributing factor to many illnesses such as high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes. Increasing your blood pressure through stress can cause your heart to work harder, possibly leading to a potential heart attack or stroke. With today's corporate culture it is no wonder that stress levels are at an all time high and that the stress management industry is growing day by day.
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