spirituality
November 21, 2009
- My apprentices and I were having an interesting chat recently about repentance and some interesting issues came to light that I thought I’d share with you. I was concerned with the amount of suffering they were experiencing as they were recapitulating their lives and rewriting old painful stories. The ultimate goal behind recapitulating these stories is truth, forgiveness and the freedom to ...
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November 18, 2009
- Emmy Award-winning actress, Leigh Taylor-Young, and I will present “Gathering of the Spirit of Peace in All” at the Parliament of the World’s Religions 2009 in Melbourne, Australia. The Parliament was first held in Chicago in 1893 and brings together the world’s religious and spiritual communities, their leaders and their followers. Leigh and I will be attending and ...
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November 15, 2009
- Passion! How many situations, now or in the past, have you found unsatisfying? Which ones did you force yourself to get used to even though you did not like them? Was it something you immediately rejected and then found that you had to satisfy the needs of someone else? If something you are doing does not make sense, there is obviously something wrong with it, or with you. Sometimes you get an ...
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November 12, 2009
- As a member of the online community of Shelfari.com, I receive regular inquiries that ask, "Should I read The Shack?" From now on, I'd like to point the inquirers to a brief review here...The Shack creatively tackles complicated spiritual challenges, such as how to forgive when unthinkable things happen. It is thrilling to me that so many people are reading this book and being presented ...
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October 31, 2009
- An abundance of good is a wonderful thing when acknowledged and accepted as a normal aspect of your life. The Universe gives freely of Itself and does not consider abundance as a factor in Its giving. The Universe is constantly expanding and there will always be more of it to give, which is dependent upon the size of the receiving receptacle's desire to accept, which is you. Space is unlimited ...
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October 15, 2009
- Book Notes: (1) How to Believe in God and (2) Sinners Welcome (1) How to Believe in God is a book that sees the word God as only a word—a word, nonetheless that expresses universal presence and love extended to all people, believers and non-believers alike. A presence, too, the only presence that knows why things are the way they are. This is a book for the devout of any faith who may ...
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October 11, 2009
- Another blog post about the eastern concept of "Surrender."There seems to be two extremes in human cultures, especially western culture. On the one hand we have people who are so completely self obsessed that -- even without knowing they are doing it -- they simply use others to get what they want or what they think they need. On the other hand are the people who give until it hurts, ...
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October 7, 2009
- Life is based on personal choices, for better or worse, and the desire to see them through to completion. Sometimes it is easy to bring about change, perhaps, but a clear idea of what you desire to experience is essential. Limitations that have been in place for as long as you care to remember must be negated, their authority disavowed, and replaced with conditions you feel are right for you as ...
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September 24, 2009
- On the same day that Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson died, my Uncle Lendward Griffin, Sr., also left this world for greener spiritual pastures. Once the news of his death sunk all the way in, I thought to myself, Wow, he left this world in some really fantastic company. Uncle Len was not a public megastar like Fawcett and Jackson but in his own way he was as unique and worthy of ...
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September 17, 2009
- I have watched a number of friends, family members, and public officials over the past few years argue with themselves about how much they do or do not believe in love because they, in some terrified hour, had reached the conclusion that without forgiveness there can be no love and forgiveness is not always an easy thing to give. What, after all, does one do with the pain as yet lingering ...
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