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by Sonia Choquette. The most direct way to encourage your children to ask for help is to teach them to pray. Most kids like to pray once they learn how and will do it naturally in some form or another anyway. Whatever approach you take, the
truth is that you can choose how you pray. After all, prayer is really having a
private chat with God. Any way is valid if you are sincere. Whether you pray
spontaneously or with a more ritualized approach depends upon your temperament,
the situation, and what feels right for you at that moment.
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by Mel Ash. Who are we really? What is really the meaning of Life? How
can we attain lasting happiness in the face of our seemingly endless troubles?
These questions are basic to our lives, and it is from these questions that the
practice of Zen has its birth. Zen can be the compassionate scalpel that removes the
layers of accrued opinions, beliefs, and frozen expectations that stand between
us and true experience. Zen shows us that what we mistakenly call ourselves, our personal identity, is
really no more than a mask over our true selves and natures.
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by James F. Twyman. In mountains of Bosnia, a community of mystics who call themselves the Emissaries of Light, said to me: "Our role is not to bring peace to where it is not, but to reveal peace where it is hidden." Peace, the Emissaries said, is not something that can be understood with the mind, but must be experienced with the heart.
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by John Randolph Price. The phrase "thy will be done" in the Lord's Prayer is a statement of resignation for many, the calling down of a power to do something that may not be what we had in mind. It's as though we're saying, "Since I can't have what I want in life, I guess I'll have to settle for what God wants." And in some cases, there's a little tinge of fear there. After all, we were
brought up to believe that God punishes us for our sins, and that the will of
God must contain some form of suffering and sacrifice for us.
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by James Dillehay, The Sufi experience can be described as an evolutionary process happening within the person. It is said that when the student is ready, the teacher may physically appear and guide them in their transformation until the time when the teacher is seen everywhere. As a result of
working with a Sufi teacher, enhanced perceptions and awareness bring about deep
understanding, inner contentment, healing and physical improvements, and
intuitive knowing.
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by Carol Bowman. Jenny was eager to talk to me about her five-year-old nephew, who she was beginning to believe was the reincarnation of her grandfather. She hadn't known that it was possible for a child to be the reincarnation of a family member. Now Dylan's strange behaviors were beginning to make sense to her.
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by Deborah Morris Coryell. As Peter Pan could tell us, the shadow is vague, elusive, and hard to pin down. It not only contains parts of us critical to our wholeness, (and therefore to our healing), it also contains immense energy. Hidden in the shadow of loss is the power of the love we continue to carry for the person, place, or moment in time we fear is lost to us. When my dear father died, an event I had been preparing for all my life, an
amazing quiet descended. In the emptiness of loss...
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 by Heather Anne Harder. There is much you can do to prepare yourself for the great adventure of death. But it is well to remember that you are alive, and as such, you are meant to live. Avoid the tendency to become preoccupied or obsessed with death. The natural process of life provides time for all things. Keep death in perspective with other major life events.
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 by Omni, a spirit guide channeled by
John Payne. The time has come for you to realize that you are always in
safety. There is safety in physical form, and safety in non-physical form. The
reason why you fear such things is that you do not yet believe that you are the
creator of your own experience. As we have said many, many times before, that which you turn your attention to
is that which you draw unto yourself...
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 by Patricia Diane Cota-Robles For eons of time, prophets, seers, religions and Holy Books have foretold the coming of an Age when Heaven would manifest on Earth, an Age in which Humanity would develop the latent powers within and reunite with our own Divinity.
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by Sandy Goodman. We have not done well with dying. We have denied its reality and considered it an end to life that should be avoided at all costs. We tell our children that Grandma died and went to a beautiful place called Heaven, and then we quit saying her name. Instead of seeing death as the next stage of life and exploring the possibilities of such a belief, we choose to let fear keep us ignorant. |
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A Body Of Thought by Marijoyce Porcelli. I was very close to my father, and very upset when he died. A few days after his death, I turned over in my bed, supposedly still in mid-dream, when a shadowy form appeared. It was a dark-robed, hooded figure with no visible face. He, for I assumed the figure to be such, was similar to those dark depictions of the spirit "death" that we see illustrated in old fiction and shows. However, I felt no fear at the sight of the figure. He stood silently by my bed, seeming to wait patiently until my "dream eyes" could focus securely on him. In his hands he held a large, silver chain with links as large as a man's hand. When I was finally and obviously aware of his existence, he spoke telepathically. He told me, "Even the strongest human is the weakest link in the chain of human bondage." Thoughts are energy that does not dissipate, but only seeks other homes in which to shelter. INNERSELF MAGAZINE - Creating new attitudes for the new millennium. |
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