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Excerpt from I Will Not Be Broken by Jerry White There is much at stake. Embracing the patterns of victimhood has cost the human race a great deal. Headlines of terrorism, violence, and disaster assault us with increasing frequency. And the mass of victims grows daily. Individuals blame one another. Communities put up walls. Nations blame nations. How can we turn the victim tide, reaching out to the growing number of hurting individuals, providing the hope and support they need to transform into survivors who seek to fulfill their potential, who aspire to thrive? Click HERE to continue reading. |
| Excerpt from the book Mindful Woman: Gentle Practices for Restoring Calm, Finding Balance, and Opening Your Heart by Sue Patton Patton Thoele Busy Women Can Be Mindful Too Because women possess an innate ability to perceive an expanded range of feelings, thoughts, and experiences, we are adept at consciously handling several things at once. That doesn't mean you don't get frazzled and frustrated. It does mean you can feel even better and more productive by attentively, purposely, and nonjudgmentally staying in the present moment. Click HERE to keep reading. |
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Excerpt from the book A Church of Her Own by Sarah Sentilles I once heard the rector of my church in Pasadena quote Frederick Buechner's definition of vocation in a sermon. Vocation, Buechner says, is the place where the world's greatest need and a person's greatest joy meet. Although selfless struggle is seductive, doing the work the world needs -- fighting poverty, racism, sexism, imperialism, environmental destruction -- is only half of the equation. The work that is yours must also bring you joy. Click HERE to keep reading. |
| The Miracle Club by
Lee Woodruff Excerpted from In An Instant There is a huge part of me that is really, truly, uneasy with writing about the subject of miracles. It’s not that I’m uncomfortable discussing religion, prayers, or the subject of God. But for a child raised in a quietly Presbyterian household, miracles were the stuff of the Easter sermon or old time religious revival tents with a laying on of hands. Click HERE to keep reading. |
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Excerpt from the book the five secrets you must discover before you die by John Izzo, Ph.D. Is your life missing the mark? As a young man, I attended a Protestant seminary and studied ancient Greek and Hebrew. In the Bible, the word "sin" comes from an ancient Greek word taken from the sport of archery. The word literally means "to miss the mark," as in your arrow missing the target. The greatest sin is to miss the mark of what you intended your life to be. Click HERE to continue reading. |
Bonus Excerpt regrets are best let go Many people told me that it was important not to focus on regrets or to be too hard on one's self. John, who was almost 94 when I interviewed him, made some wise observations on the subject of regret. He had spent the first 35 years of his adult life working as a journalist with the communist party in Canada . As a very idealistic young man, having from his early teen years been deeply disturbed by the injustice he saw in the world, he decided to devote his life to working for "the Party," which he, like many others at that time, saw as a vehicle to social justice. Over the years, he saw many reasons to doubt the Party's goals and its methods, but he continued to work in it with the hope that it would change. Click HERE to continue reading. |
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| An excerpt from the book Speaking of Faith by Krista Tippett In a small, captivating essay about Genesis, Creation and Fall, Dietrich Bonhoeffer described biblical stories as "ancient, magical pictures that we need alongside modern technical, conceptual pictures if we are to become wise." In England , I began to see in these ancient, magical pictures a response to the deepest real-world confusions of my years in Berlin . I was aching with spiritual and moral questions I could scarcely articulate. I was reading mystical texts and Buddhist texts and they thrilled me. But this Bible on the bookshelf, long unopened, was the foundational text of my spiritual homeland and mother tongue. Click HERE to continue reading. |
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Do You React or Respond
to Life? by Paul Cotinho, SJ, Author of How Big is Your God? Emotions are not caused by situations. Emotions are caused by our beliefs about situations, beliefs that color our perception and our understanding of events. Beliefs cause emotions that trigger behavior. If we feel angry about a situation and react in anger, it is because we have angry beliefs about it. So how do we handle stressful situations? How do we choose to respond under pressure? Fr. Cotinho discusses how to Pause, Question and then Respond, allowing us to live more freely and in greater harmony with our true identity in every situation. |
| Please Forgive Me by Joe Vitale Excerpted from his book, The Key If you feel stuck in any area of your life, if you're not attracting the car, house, job, mate, or anything else you really want, it could very well be due to a lack of forgiveness. Maybe you didn't forgive the other person. Maybe you didn't forgive yourself. It doesn't matter. Holding on to past emotions, memories, or stories is guaranteed to tie up your energy and block your ability to attract what you want. What you have to do now is forgive. I had read so many books about robber barons in history, and about survival of the fittest, that I felt unless I became greedy and cutthroat in business, I'd always fail. However, I refused to become something I didn't like. I refused to become one of "them." So I lived with my pain and resentment. Of course, the only person this hurt was me. |
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The Key to Real Choices,
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Bud Harris Excerpted from his book, The Fire and the Rose Honestly knowing ourselves is no simple task. To begin with, it means accepting who we are, including what we don't like about ourselves. However, this kind of acceptance isn't real until we've constructed a good idea of who can be at our best and at our worst. Getting to know ourselves also brings the startling realization that while we may think we are adults living a unique life, we are really living scripts written jointly by our society, families, churches, traditions and friends. Experience teaches us that building self-knowledge leads to authentic living, self-love and the awareness that something within us -- whether we prefer to call it our true self, the Self or the Divine -- cares about us and wants to guide our lives toward their highest potentials. |
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Path of Unconditional Happiness By Michael A. Singer Author of The Untethered Soul The highest spiritual path is life itself. If you know how to live daily life, it all becomes a liberating experience. But first you have to approach life properly, or it can be very confusing. To begin with, you have to realize that you really only have one choice in this life, and it's not about your career, whom you want to marry, or whether you want to seek God. People tend to burden themselves with so many choices. But, in the end, you can throw it all away and just make one basic, underlying decision: Do you want to be happy, or do you not want to be happy? It's really that simple. Once you make that choice, your path through life becomes totally clear. |
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What Was All That
About? By Alan Alda Actor and author of Things I Overheard While Talking To Myself [At the end of life], "shouldn’t I have some sense that my life had really counted? I wanted that feeling of satisfaction. What would give it to me? ... I tried to figure out if I could have that feeling of satisfaction in a lasting way. By now, I had lived through most of the things that are supposed to give our lives meaning: love, art, family, money, fame, political activism, faith, skepticism, curiosity, mindless play, even pure motion -- just keeping busy. And the list goes on. I wondered if any of these things had given me a sense of meaning that was lasting. All of them have, for a time; but no single one of them has been the solid peg to hang my hope for meaning on. It keeps eluding me." |
Ten Tips for Better Sex and Deeper Intimacy by Mark A. Michaels & Patricia Johnson Authors of The Essence of Tantric Sexuality Tantra is an ancient Indian tradition that recognizes sexual energy as a source of personal and spiritual empowerment. Sexual energy does not necessarily mean sexual activity but rather, the life force that exists in everything. Indeed, Tantric practices can enrich your relationship and all aspects of your life. Here are ten simple ways to begin. |
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A Meditation on
Love By J. Ruth Gendler Author of Notes on the Need for Beauty When people talk about where they find beauty, what is beautiful to them, they reveal whom they love and how they love, and what they love to do. In our own stories we mark the distinction between looking beautiful and feeling beautiful -- the part of us trapped by our culture and the part of us that knows our own value. |
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Excerpt from The Voice for Love by DavidPaul & Candace Doyle God’s Voice offers that which you truly seek, contentedness, peace, love, and the constant reminder of who you really are. |
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How We Mourn:
Themes, Phases, and a Myth by Charlotte M. Mathes, LCSW, Ph.D. Author of And a Sword Shall Pierce Your Heart Most
mothers have never been close to someone who has suffered such a
life changing event, and even when they have, they could not have then
understood its magnitude. Consequently, women now feel an urgency to
find out everything they can about other mothers' reactions. They
search relentlessly for information that will help with their immediate
pain. Hungry for facts and statistics, they look for books to guide
them through grief and find solace in hearing another stricken mother
speak of a reaction similar to their own. Because they fear their grief
will not abate or that things will only get worse, they search for help
that will give hope or enable them to fend off further disaster. They
want some predictability restored to their lives. Though nothing takes
away their pain, many mothers later point to a bit of useful
information or wisdom that made a positive difference.
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| The Magic of
Appreciation By Lynn Grabhorn Author of Excuse Me, Your Life is Waiting There are only three states of being we run around in all day long. If we could be even a little more aware of which one we're wearing during each moment of the day, we'd have a big leg up to changing our vibrations Victim Mode -- Flat-Lining Mode -- Turned On Mode Victim Mode, Flat-Lining, or Turned On, we will always find ourselves in one of the three. Our goal, of course, is to make it the Turned On Mode as often and as long as we can, which is why we look to the high, high energy of appreciation. |
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Excerpt from Dancing in the Streets by Barbara Ehrenreich From the beginning, the rock rebellion manifested itself as a simple refusal to sit still or to respect anyone who insisted that one do so. |
| This Year I Will ... by M. J. Ryan Why do people find it so hard to change? The secret is that everyone has their own formula for making changes that stick, but most people don’t know what theirs is. They think there is one way to lose five pounds, and another way to stay on top of their email, but they don’t realize that for all changes, there is one system that works best for each individual. This Year I Will helps you lock on to your unique formula for planning, implementing, and seeing a life change through, so you can use it again and again to tackle anything else you’d like to do. Click HERE to read M.J. Ryan's "Making Resolutions That Stick." |
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Excerpt from Museum of Lost Wonder by Jeff Hoke |
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"I was alone in the dark, and I felt frightened and vulnerable. This was the darkest moment, the moment it really hit me. I had cancer. As the weight of it sank in, I slowed my step and the tears pushed against my eyes. I pushed back. Not now. " |
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Observations of the late medium's abilities as demonstrated before Ms. Stokes became famous. |
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By
Charlene M.
Proctor, Ph.D.
Author of Let Your Goddess Grow! 7 Spiritual Lessons on Female Power and Positive Thinking |
| On A Rainswept Road In South
Dakota-2003 What can a Savannah-born Anglo-Saxon
redhead living and working on the Sicangu Brule
Lakota Indian Reservation in South Dakota learn from a 70-something
Lakota chief -- besides how to drive a car?
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Insights from an Uncle A Mother's Wish |
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by Vincent Cole Inspiring with it's unique insight into the origins of mankind as well as a practical guide, "The Next Step in Evolution" guides beginner and dedicated seeker alike upon a challenging journey of self-discovery and transformation. |
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A
Sabbath Life by Kathleen Hirsch I began to suspect that achievement could take a form uniquely as a woman . . . and that it might contribute something of singular and irreplaceable value to the culture in which I live. How can busy women's lives be more spiritually alive and whole? How,in our most productive years, can we reclaim what we sacrificed in the earlier struggle for success? Kathleen Hirsch's search search gradually impels her to seek out a range of remarkable spiritually and socially attuned women who are consciously trying to live more balanced and integrated lives. They lead her to conclusions that will inspire many women who at midlife are seeking a deeper and more abiding wholeness. Click HERE
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Healing Meditation Exercises to Enlighten the Mind and Heal the Body by Tulku Thondup Boundless Healing offers:
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After
The Darkest Hour How Suffering Begins The Journey To Wisdom By Kathleen A. Brehony, Ph.D. What
are the differences between people who become bitter and those who grow
stronger through difficult or painful experiences? What can each of us
learn that will guide us through our own dark nights of the soul to see
the dawn with vision cleared? Kathleen Brehony asks these
universal
questions and offers answers that fit our lives.
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| Phases
of Life After Death by Irma Slage  Learn more about Irma: Linking to the Beyond |
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by Michael Levy |
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You want a richer, more fulfilling life. But where do you start? |
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On Coming to Terms with Death |
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Message of the Wolves Dream wolves leadan abused womanto freedom. |
The
Birdies
An inspiring true story.
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By Doug Berry We are spiritual beings (powerful spiritual beings) having a physical experience |
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By Paula Farmer A true story of healing the spirit and the body. |
| "Head Songs" |
| It happens to everybody. You're just going about living, minding your own business, when a song starts running through your head. It's so subtle initially that when you become aware of it, you may wonder how long it has been playing there inside your head. You may wonder where it came from, especially if it's a song you haven't heard since you can't remember when, and even more so if it's a tune you don't particularly care for. Could there be something more to these "head songs" -- psychic messages, perhaps? |
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(Shane Roberts) Seth, who described himself as "an intelligence residing outside time and space," was channeled by Jane Roberts for over twenty-one years. The Seth material joins mysticism and physics and opens the consciousness to both its source and its destination. Shane Roberts follows the ultimate logic of Seth's teachings, that "there are no limits to the self" and "there are no real separations in the self," leading finally to identification with All That Is, to an understanding of Enlightenment and its meaning in individual experience. |
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(S. M. Berry) Why do some psyches stay intact in the face of terrible traumas while others shatter in a benign environment into divergent, individualized personalities? Is it possible that some people are simply "born that way?" Could it be the result of spirit attachment or the expression of unintegrated past life personalities? Sheila Berry explores these questions and poses possible answers based on her experiences while sharing her home with a young woman who, in turn, shared her body with 45 other personalities. |
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(S. M. Berry) How thin is the veil between the third dimension of the material world and the fourth dimension of spirits who have passed to the "interbetween?" Vivid dream visitations from departed loved ones, a song with special meaning to the two of you, the scent of flowers and the feeling that he or she is there, with you - are these imagination, wishful thinking, coincidence, or real? How can you tell the difference? And what do you say to a spirit you don't know who asks you to pass along a message for him? Perhaps Sheila Berry's experiences will help you discern the answers. |
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