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We often look to traditional paradigms of Wholeness for insights into the nature of Love, but seldom look to Love for insights into the nature of traditional paradigms of Wholeness, i.e. look at Wholeness through the eyes of Love. Yet Love offers us a clear understanding of what it is to be ... Views: 1408
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Love in a Cup - by Gordana Stankovic - Humanistic Counsellor and Lif-Coach
Lessons in love are hiding in almost every moment and situation of our life. The question is whether we are ready to take an opportunity to live that moment fully and whether we are going to stay open to receiving a lesson in love that this moment and situation have the potential to teach ... Views: 1174
“Love is patient, love is kind.” But love, the kind we share with another, requires courage. Courage to stand in the world of unknowns and harness the intimacy that comes with the practice of being authentic with one another. It requires something akin to standing in a room completely naked, ... Views: 1433
Loving yourself is essential because it is by loving your own self that you become able to love others. When you learn to view your own faults and failings with understanding and compassion, you become able to accept and love others, even when you know their imperfections.
When you see ... Views: 2075
The world described in the TV- series "Game of Thrones" is on a dense planet with a very low collective consciousness. The lifestyle and mindset are close to the Dark Ages in European history on our Earth.
These are several clear signs of low consciousness:
1. The system of values
a. ... Views: 1354
MultiBank was founded in California in 2005 and has since become a major global financial institution that offers its clients direct access to banks and exchanges through advanced trading platforms. MultiBank Group is currently headquartered in Hong Kong.
The MultiBank Group service is ... Views: 691
The more one examines the play of awareness and activity internally, the more one begins to recognise the subtle interactions that take place between the various parts of the being. There are not clear borderlines but rather influences and actions that are based primarily in one part of the ... Views: 529
How often do you tell someone ‘Have a great day’, or receive the sentiment yourself? It is a nice sentiment to offer, but it could be better.
‘Have a great day’ implies that you only hope the day goes well. You don’t anticipate having a bad day, but one never knows… You are only hoping the ... Views: 923
Are you a renowned photographer? Are your images are extremely popular all over the world? Do you still crave for making better images? Then, why are you waiting for? Just go and get yourself the latest Photoshop CS6. Though with the release of every new version of Photoshop, everyone expects ... Views: 1160
Branding a product is pretty much the key towards running a successful business. In this rapidly advancing IT world, there are umpteen options to advertise / market a product. Electronic media such as Radio Channels, Television Channels and not to mention the World Wide Web that has shrunk our ... Views: 741
When we reflect on the time we have in our lifetime and how we utilize it, we find that after we calculate time spent in sleeping, eating, bathing, growth in childhood, earning a living, exercising, we have a very limited amount of what may be called “free time” available to us. In a culture and ... Views: 500
Sri Aurobindo describes in The Synthesis of Yoga, the long, slow process of evolution that occurs in nature, long before human beings become conscious of this process. He indicates that through the conscious participation of the spiritual aspirant, this process can be made conscious and speeded ... Views: 349
The idea of changing the basic way that human beings respond to circumstances is one that has been considered to be a virtually hopeless task. Long human experience has provided the impression that our vital nature is fixed and, while we can perhaps soften it around the edges, it is basically ... Views: 522
After all the attempts to bring the vital being under some kind of control, it may seem like it is an impossible task! The vital has its fixed habits of fulfillment and satisfaction and tends generally to want to continue its normal modes of action. It is, however, not a thankless task and there ... Views: 368
Criminal law and spiritual law sometimes coincide, but oftentimes not. In a spiritual sense, you’re free to do what you want; the ultimate test of whether or not a given act or behavior violates spiritual law is if it hurts you or another person.
“The only power any government has is the ... Views: 1055
In many religious traditions it is customary to expect the dedicated aspirant to forego not only sexual relations, but also worldly entanglements. In the Catholic religious tradition, nuns are considered to be ‘brides of Christ’ and as such, do not enter into the state of marriage. In the Hindu ... Views: 530
Hero worship makes me uncomfortable. I am an extremely minor public figure, except among certain family members and friends who inflate my fame as author of Marriage Meetings for Lasting Love. As a marriage expert, I sense that many people who have heard of me think I must be a perfect marriage ... Views: 1654
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken, quipped Oscar Wilde. You've probably heard it's best to be yourself. Sounds easy, doesn't it?
Yet many of us, wanting to please someone with whom we are in a close relationship--or with whom we may hope to be--forget to follow this advice and end ... Views: 1428
There are any number of ways to develop concentration. Concentration is also developed progressively, such that the power to concentrate increases with practice and continued use. In their writings, both Sri Aurobindo and the Mother describe a number of ways to develop the power of ... Views: 266
Human beings have a tendency to move from one extreme to the other, like a pendulum swing. When we are faced with a particular concern we want to resolve, we apply this tendency. When it comes therefore to the force of desire and the attraction of material objects, we either become attached to ... Views: 63
It is obvious. If a system is set up to carry out vital demands, desires and wants, and it is provided more energy, it will simply expand its ability to achieve those desires. That is the reason that undertaking practices that increase the vital force, without first ensuring that the focus and ... Views: 51
Matter, Subtle Matter, the Causative Level and the Ability of Mind-Power or Vital Power to Create, Modify, Influence and Dissolve Material Forms
Posted on May 30, 2024
We tend to look at things from the standpoint of the material formation it has taken. If we look deeper however, we see that ... Views: 318
I am sharing my story, about how I discovered my own meaning and began to unfold my life purpose. I give an overview of how this began to unfold in my life, which has brought me to the possibility of fulfilling my meaning, through reaching out to others. I have come to this late in life, after ... Views: 1419
The late Terence McKenna, the American ethnobotanist and mystic, once exclaimed, “We have to create culture, don't watch TV, don't read magazines, don't even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe, and ... Views: 2717
There are a number of examples that lead to the conclusion that it is not medicine alone that cures the patient. A young man reported his own experience. He was visiting India in the early 1970’s and was afflicted by a severe case of amoebic dysentery while there, to the point that he was in ... Views: 279
Question:
I have been exploring way to "inner knowing the self"... I have done significant recovery around childhood trauma and am still recovering from a Dissociative Disorder. The greatest challenge for me is to truly know my self, as this is often clouded. I am considering meditation. ... Views: 945
Meditation is a dependable way in developing
Psychic abilities. Many practicing
Psychics meditate. Meditation creates a state of mind that easily detects
Psychic imagery and messages by using the right side of the brain where our
Psychic abilities are housed. To open ... Views: 1052
Mind–the source
“Mind precedes its objects. They are mind-governed and mind-made” (Dhammpapada 1).
First there is the mind. It is possible to view “mind” as both the machinery of perception we have been talking about and the consciousness which perceives the perception, the consciousness ... Views: 1549
It’s safe to say that most us wrestle with some kind of frustration on a daily basis. This kind of dissatisfaction can be with ourselves, over what we can or can’t get done—or with others, who may deny us our wish or otherwise disappoint our expectations. Accordingly, we can feel as though we ... Views: 701
For most people, the trauma associated with the death of the body and the corresponding dissolution of the vital and mental being that formed within the life of that individual, means that there is no realistic way for any memory of past lives to remain intact and carry forward. The psychic ... Views: 358
In order to know something, we need to utilize the tools and methods appropriate to whatever form or energetic action we are trying to know. Those things which rely on emotion, for instance, cannot be fully understood by the logical intellect. Similarly, the strict step by step process of ... Views: 302
There is an occult tradition that a practitioner of certain arts can create a formation, send it out to act upon another individual, and thereby succeed in achieving his objective with that other person. The stories mostly revolve around sending forces to harm another individual, and they point ... Views: 271
An individual in the business of wholesaling products to stores reported the following phenomenon he had experienced with one of his wholesale customers who ran a metaphysical bookshop in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for a number of years. He would get a feeling that the buyer was reaching out to ... Views: 282
For those who can see vital energies and auras, the driving forces of any individual are quite easy to observe. One can observe this frequently in nightclubs where sexual energies are high and those with particularly powerful formations in this direction can be seen virtually radiating or oozing ... Views: 277
The gross physical forms result from the subtler levels that are either the immediate, effective means, or the causal level that has formulated the result. If we look at the construction of a bridge, or a building, we see that first there is an idea that develops. The idea turns into a ... Views: 334
An incident was observed and reported by several people which illustrates how mental formations can create entities on the vital plane which become visible to those who have eyes to see. The incident occurred in 1981 in California. An individual had come to the West and took the role of a guru ... Views: 334
Each plane of consciousness has its own way of ‘knowing’. Mental knowledge comes through a process of observation, classification, comparison, categorization, analysis and a decision based on this process through a comparison to past circumstances, events or experiences. Mental knowledge is ... Views: 0
With an increase in mesothelioma cases across the US, it's important for individuals to learn the essential steps in tackling this deadly cancer. One of the foremost items is the selection of a competent mesothelioma lawyer. Today there is no dearth of mesothelioma lawyers in the US. With the ... Views: 809
Bring the mind to a state of quiescence is essential for the practice of meditation. Once an individual is able to achieve this state during meditation, it is a next step to carry that silent mind into the external life. People frequently ask how it is possible to have a silent nind at any time ... Views: 101
The mind seems always to be busy, and we seem to have a constant inner commentary about sensations, perceptions, memories, anticipated activities, hopes and dreams, and worries about situations we need to address. Then there are the drives and cravings such as hunger, thirst, or sensations of ... Views: 696
Many individuals want to know if they can migrate to Australia. Among the most typical approaches of migration to Australia is under the General Skilled migration program. This program aims to choose the extremely skilled people in certain lines of work worldwide to migrate to Australia as well ... Views: 835
Or, we may describe this as the parable of the caterpillar and the butterfly. The mind is like the caterpillar, slowly grinding its way along, eating and focusing on its physical being and its circumstances for gaining sustenance. It does not dream that one day it will be transformed into a ... Views: 680
Twenty or thirty years ago, classic cognitive behavioral therapy didn't have much to say about the eastern concept of mindfulness. Over time it kind of snuck in by the stress reduction back door. Now it's all over current approaches such as acceptance and commitment therapy or dialectical ... Views: 1094
There is a discipline that asks an individual to focus on conscious attention to each thought, each emotion and each movement he makes, through a process called ‘mindfulness’. This is intended primarily to center the individual’s mind and attention and focus the person on the present moment ... Views: 239
A popular proverb in recent years is ‘you are what you eat’. There is certainly an element of deeper truth in this expression. All material substance holds vibratory patterns. Rocks absorb heat and radiate it back afterwards for hours. Water absorbs thought vibrations as shown by Masaru Emoto in ... Views: 113
For most people, there is a tremendous barrier of skepticism about things that they cannot see or experience for themselves, There is also a good deal of ignorance about how things actually work in the world, which can lead to misconceptions and a tendency toward gullibility when someone appears ... Views: 378
In the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna becomes conscious of the sin of fighting against and killing his relatives, revered teachers and elders, and declares that the moral code supports the idea that he should not fight. Sri Krishna responds that the divine intention is not limited by human-made moral ... Views: 347
At some time or another, every human being has the experience of having an opinion, thought or idea contradicted. The usual reaction is to defend one’s position, whether or not it is well-founded, and arguments tend to ensure. It is rare that one side of the argument is entirely right, and the ... Views: 501
Friedrich Nietzsche held that the superior man could not be bound by ordinary morality or ethical concerns about abiding by what is considered 'good' versus what is considered 'evil' by society. His view was that the customary definitions were developed to control the mass of humanity, but that ... Views: 9
Your subconscious mind, sometimes called the unconscious brain or the body-mind, holds and is continuously recording your existence. It’s in a state of “record on” day and night, recording every bit of information in your environment and every thought and emotion.
Your conscious mind can ... Views: 1261