The first step in any change is releasing the idea that no change is necessary. Put another way, change can only take place when our beliefs in our old limitations end. Our ingrained beliefs are very powerful things. They can actually set up protective barriers to prevent them being released. They are self-protecting and […]
We depend upon consistency in our lives. We crave being able to be confident that people around us will be consistent in what they are telling us, how they will react to situations as well as their viewpoints. We build our world around these “Knowns.” Problem is; people change their minds, people change their views,
Today we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr day here in the U.S. which is a problem for some of us. MLK was no saint in his personal life, there is no doubt about that, but his, sometimes, less than perfect actions should not interfere with his message of harmony and oneness. Few of the
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For many years I was the guy who scoffed at ritual. I had no use for those practices which required participants to dress a certain way or assemble in a certain manner. Fortunately I have lived long enough to outgrow this resistance. What about you? Through my travels I have witnessed the power which comes from
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Most of us want to change our lives in one way or another; some are huge changes, some are just “tweeking,” but very few of us have everything in our lives exactly the way we have visioned. Too often we grow frustrated that said changes have not occurred, or not occurred so we can see
Simply put; our Exulted Task is to develop ourselves into people worthy of the gifts we have been given; to shape our lives into lives lived consciously and in the love which is our basic make-up. How we choose to take up this task is totally up to us as individuals; no one else can
I recently heard some very interesting words; “The actuality of our being changes, our reality of being remains the same.” This is an concept to put into your mind and let it percolate for a while, but in the meantime let’s look at it. As we go about our daily lives what we are doing,
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Increase your inner world and your outer world cannot help but also increase. Increase only your outer world and nothing much about you will change. We have discussed in many blogs how accumulating stuff will not increase your feelings of self worth and joy. This is another way to approach the same topic with perhaps a
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As we look back upon our lives we often think that if we had done this, or done that, our lives would be richer today. Sometimes we kick ourselves because we did not accept an offer or opportunity, or remain in a relationship. This is part of the human experience, we like to say, yet
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Want to really run a relationship into the ground? Say “I told you so.” It really doesn’t matter if you were completely right, saying “I told you so” is a relationship being killed slowly. No one likes being reminded they made an error, so the response, be it spoken or unspoken, is uniformly negative. The question you get to ask
