17 Saturday Jan 2015
Posted in Consciousness, Happiness, Spirituality
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God, I Want More of You, Jesus Culture, secretangelps911, Set A Fire by Jesus Culture, Set A Fire with lyrics
I want more of You, God.
Verbal and emotional abuse…
is more than just words said.
It’s the attitude with it…
with underlying anger we dread.
For though no bruises are seen…
and no cuts are evident…
it’s underlying damage to souls…
is why it’s so relevant.
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25 Tuesday Nov 2014
Posted in Entertainment, Happiness, Lessons, Peace, Spirituality
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B4Peace, Christianity, Churches of God, God, Grateful, Gratitude, happiness, holiday, Jesus, joy, Lord, Religion and Spirituality, thankful heart, Thanksgiving
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How did Thanksgiving come about?
Here’s a politically correct version:
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Why is Thanksgiving the fourth Thursday of November?
The first Thanksgiving Day celebration was a three-day feast held during the fall in 1621. It happened between September 21 and November 11. As you may know Pilgrims were joined by the local Wampanoag tribe, including their leader, Chief Massasoit.
Various communities celebrated a day of thanksgiving afterwards as they deemed fit. However, in October of 1777 all 13 colonies celebrated a day of Thanksgiving.
The first national day of Thanksgiving was in 1789. 
President George Washington proclaimed Thursday, November 26, 1789 to be “a day of public thanksgiving and prayer.”
In wasn’t until October 3, 1863, that President Abraham Lincoln called for and issued a Thanksgiving Proclamation. It declared the last Thursday in November was to be a national day of “thanksgiving and praise.”
Afterwards, presidents honored the tradition and annually issued their own Thanksgiving Proclamation until in 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt did not.
Since the day would fall on November 30th that month, retailers strongly complained to President Roosevelt that 24 shopping days before Christmas would be too short for profits that they counted upon.
[see: What is Black Friday?]
Since most people did Christmas shopping after Thanksgiving, the extra week of shopping seemed essential for the economy.
So the Thanksgiving Proclamation of August 31, 1939 declared the date of Thanksgiving to be Thursday, November 23, the second-to-last Thursday of the month.
The change caused unforeseen confusion — dates had previously been established for school schedules, football games, special events, entertainment, and family vacations.
During the following year, many governors could not agree with the decision to change the date and refused to follow it. The country became split on which Thanksgiving to observe. The nation went into a bit of a panic and there was great debate.
In 1940, 32 states and the District of Columbia observed the Thanksgiving on November 21. 16 states chose November 28th. The conflict finally came to the Congress. On December 26, 1941, Congress passed into law that Thanksgiving would be henceforth the fourth Thursday of November.
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Eric
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22 Monday Sep 2014
Posted in B4Peace, Book, Consciousness, Culture, Faith, Happiness, Inner peace, Inspiration, Lessons, Mindful, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Self-assessments, Self-improvement, Spirituality
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awareness, B4Peace, Global Consciousness, God, Humanity Healing, Living Consciously, Living Purposefully, Love your neighbor as yourself, Nathaniel Branden, Personal Integrity, Ripples of Loving-Kindness, Ripples of Peace, Self-acceptance, Self-Assertiveness, Self-Responsibility, Spiritual Laws of Success, The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
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The practice of living consciously is the first pillar of self-esteem.
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Look at the area where your life is working least satisfactorily. Self-esteem may increase in direct correlation to professionalism. That is, your ability to represent yourself appropriately, perform on the job and be a person with whom others can relate, is an indication of success in whatever you choose to do.
Upon honest self-examination, notice that you tend to be more conscious in some areas of our life than in others. According to Nathaniel Brandon, author of The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem, “What determines the level of self-esteem is what the individual does.”
Branden continues by saying: “A ‘practice’ implies a discipline of acting in a certain way over and over again—consistently. It is not action by fits and starts, or even an appropriate response to a crisis. Rather, it is a way of operating day by day, in big issues and small, a way of behaving that is also a way of being.”
For improving self, try using a sentence stem like “Living consciously to me means…” and create 6-10 completions of that sentence.
The most widely accepted definition is that of Nathaniel Branden, who defines healthy self-esteem as “the disposition to experience oneself as competent to cope with life’s challenges and being worthy of happiness.” (1994) This definition implies not only being worthy of respect, but also as having the basic skills and competencies required to be successful in life. Studies show that people with low self-esteem have more poorly defined self-concepts (Baumeister, 1993). Also, we must like, respect, and love ourselves before we can maintain loving kindness for others or respect for property.
Related PDF articles available: http://www.psy.fsu.edu/~baumeisterticelab/pdfmail.php
see also:
The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
by Nathaniel Branden
1. The Practice of Living Consciously
2. The Practice of Self-Acceptance
3. The Practice of Self-Responsibility
4. The Practice of Self-Assertiveness
5. The Practice of Living Purposefully
6. The Practice of Personal Integrity
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Eric
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12 Friday Sep 2014
Posted in B4Peace, Book, Consciousness, Culture, Faith, Happiness, Health, I can improve today, Inner peace, Inspiration, Mindful, Peace, Psychology, Self-assessments, Self-improvement, Spirituality
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awareness, B4Peace, Global Consciousness, God, Humanity Healing, life is beautiful, Living Consciously, Living Purposefully, Love your neighbor as yourself, Nathaniel Branden, Personal Integrity, Ripples of Loving-Kindness, Ripples of Peace, Self-acceptance, Self-Assertiveness, Self-Responsibility, Spiritual Laws of Success, The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
by Nathaniel Branden
1. The Practice of Living Consciously
2. The Practice of Self-Acceptance
3. The Practice of Self-Responsibility
4. The Practice of Self-Assertiveness
5. The Practice of Living Purposefully
6. The Practice of Personal Integrity
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No one may be successful if bypassing their basic needs for self-esteem. The ego is not a thing to fight against. It is not even available for debate. The ego is a sense of needs that we may mistakenly believe is the self. However, by opening to greater self-awareness, we come to understand that the ego is just a function of temporary needs messages. I hope that this program and the related links are helpful. I know I attain growth by reviewing of these basic life skills.
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Eric
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02 Tuesday Sep 2014
Posted in Book, Book review, Culture, Health, Inner peace, Spirituality
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ANCHORROCK, Book Excerpt, depression, fatigue, God, guilt, helplessness, insomnia, Reigh Simuzoshya, The Perfect Prescription, theperfectprescription2014, Your Faith is Your Perfect Prescription
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Scientists have been searching for more evidence with regard to pathogenesis and pathophysiology of depression and the resultant neurobiological effects thereof. But the elucidation of the underlying pathophysiology of this condition continues to be elusive. Some theories claim that depression is linked to a dysfunction of the dopaminergic and GABA-ergic system. Others assert that it is associated with a deficit of norepinephrine and serotonin exacerbated by an alteration in the expression of neuropeptides. Yet another theory claims that the overdrive of the hypothalamic-pituitary adrenal system is another risk factor for depression.
Chances are that a combination of all these factors can certainly intensify the onset of depression.
Depression can be draining. It can take away your energy, dampen your hopes for the future and your drive. It even cripples the desire to do what is needed to feel better. Scientists tell us that some of the symptoms of depression include agitation, significant low sex drive, being irritable, having digestive disorders, experiencing headaches, being fatigued, having feelings of guilty and helplessness as well as insomnia. But there are also times when depressed people might want to sleep all the time.
Although the word ‘depression’ does not appear in the Bible except in the New Living Translation, there are many people who manifested depressive symptoms in the Bible such as Elijah, Hannah, King Saul, John the Baptist, Jeremiah, Job and many others. God does not get upset, nor does He punish us just because we experience discouragement and depression. These disorders are often triggered by events beyond our control such as the death of a loved one, divorce or loss of job.
Living in a fallen, sinful world means that we will experience the tragic dimensions of life from time to time until the Lord comes to take us home.
The joy of our salvation is in the confident assurance of God’s manward abundant mercies and in the realization that He responds to our hurts as a loving Father. The Bible says in Psalm 34:18 that the LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. It also says “And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever,” (John 14:16). Furthermore, knowing that Jesus was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief (Isaiah 53: 3) means that He is not a stranger to our suffering, and because He has already been there and has overcome, we also can overcome through Him. This is our hope and our strength through it all.
Discover time-tested guidelines for disease prevention that will change your life for good at: The Perfect Prescription by Reigh Simuzoshya.
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The Perfect Prescription
Godly Wisdom on Public Health
by Reigh Simuzoshya
This book is also available for purchase as an eBook download.
Do you know that God is more interested in your health than you could ever be?
The Bible is full of holistic principles and guidelines, which, if applied consistently, can prevent disease and promote optimum health. Preventive measures are often less costly than curative therapies, and these principles can be applied at individual, family, and community levels.
The human body is a fearful and wonderful machine, capable of performing incredible functions. God has stamped his own image on it. How absurd it is then to look elsewhere other than to the omnipotent and omniscient Manufacturer of the human body for guidelines regarding its well-being and health?
Far from being an obsolete and archaic document saturated with myths and superstition, the Bible is a rich repository, an inexhaustible mine, of counsel for all facets of life, including health and longevity.
Explore the time-tested, efficacious principles that are foundational for disease prevention, health enhancement, and long life straight from the creator of our bodies himself with “The Perfect Prescription.”
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Just e-mail me at thehunt4truth@yahoo.com
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30 Saturday Aug 2014
Posted in Inspiration, Prayer, Religion, Spirituality, Universe
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Christianity, Devotional, Encouragment, God, humble, humility, Humulity, Inspirational, Jesus, Joshua, Karina – Living by faith, Korah
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, (Philippians 2:3)
Some time ago when I was walking around in the shopping mall accidentally I met an old friend when was in college. I am so excited met her because been many years I have not hear news about her. Afterwards we were deep in exciting conversation. We were talk about many things. But after a while, I felt there was something different from her. I heard sound of arrogance in every of her words. There was her sayings that really show her arrogance when we talked about business, “If you have a problem in business, you can come to me for help. Now with the position and authority that I have, I can do anything. I can change everything from impossible become possible!”
Honestly I really sad to saw her changed drastically. I knew her very well before. A meek young college girl even there was an impression of inferiority…
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10 Sunday Aug 2014
Posted in Culture, Entertainment, Faith, Happiness, Inner peace, Music
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2 Timothy 1:7, God, God's love, Let my heart be changed, Music Videos, Olso Gospel Choir, Power Of Your Love, Stormie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Woman
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Power Of Your LoveFor the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid,
but gives us power,
love and self-discipline.
2 Timothy 1:7
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Lord I come to You
Let my heart be changed, renewed
Flowing from the grace
That I have found in You
And Lord I have come to know
The weaknesses I see in me
Will be stripped away
By the power of Your love
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Hold me close
Let Your love surround me
Bring me near
Draw me to Your side
And as I wait
I will rise up like the eagle
And I will soar with You
Your Spirit leads me on
In the power of Your love
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Lord unveil my eyes
Let me see You face to face
The knowledge of Your love
As You live in me
And Lord renew my mind
As Your will unfolds in my life
In living every day
By the power of Your love
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[chorus]
Hold me close
Let Your love surround me
Bring me near
Draw me to Your side
And as I wait
I will rise up like the eagle
And I will soar with You
Your Spirit leads me on
In the power of Your love
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And I will soar with You
Your Spirit leads me on
In the power of Your love
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“It’s not about finding ways to avoid God’s judgment and feeling like a failure if you don’t do everything perfectly. It’s about fully experiencing God’s love and letting it perfect you. It’s not about being somebody you are not. It’s about becoming who you really are.”
~ Stormie Omartian, The Power of a Praying Woman
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Eric
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08 Friday Aug 2014
Posted in Consciousness, Happiness, Health, Inner peace, Lecture, Lessons, Mindful, Philosophy, Spirituality
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Anger, Anger management, awareness, consciousness, coping, Deepak, Deepak Chopra, God, happiness, Health, love, Mental health, relationship
I want a happy, normal life… you?
Take a look with me at how to reduce anger… anger that would interfere with enjoying life. I believe we can eliminate much of it. One problem with anger is it builds up. It can hide out and hit you when least convenient… and most dangerous. Sometimes, anger is left over from past lessons in life; from lessons that we’ve not completed. Until we can let that anger go — letting go of that futile regret from the past — dropping it like it is too hot or too heavy along with it’s troubles that you don’t need or want… it is too dangerous to react.
STOP … pause… let this lesson sink in.
We mustn’t fail to realize when we’re making life out as though it is in service to our misery. Who will be accountable for the havoc and harmful attitudes, for the burn-out and self-delusion game of blame and shame, guilt, bitterness and resentment?
Let’s put this into perspective real quick.
For simplicity sake… let it go whenever possible… view the signs and the symptoms of anger as stimulating your foresight that there are some hurdles ahead… challenges and hurdles yet just ahead that you’ll want to overcome with patience and your good character.
Sensation, emotion, feeling, and thoughts are reactions to perception, to belief and to conditioning associated with fear, insecurity, worry, sadness, frustration, etc… any of which may trigger, by way of failing to accept circumstance, situation or conditions, contracted agreements, commitments, and so forth. The pressures of carrying on with anger may generally dim the light of higher awareness.
Accept what is. Find or return to a simple relaxed comfortable presence if possible, as soon as possible. Living in the now is the wisdom way. Peace and serenity is necessary if you want to fully resolve stressing and trying urgency… those trying problems that just can’t wait can usually wait for you to collect yourself together so you can give it your best.
Meantime, in between, mightn’t you consider this: work on unloading some stored up anger… we all have some… try it — it works for anyone that can read and follow directions.
First, its important to acknowledge that we all need to delve into problems like unresolved anger — already knowing that identifying and working on solutions is going to be our best bet. Here’s how to do it:
The solution always will involve making a change; and in the case of unresolved anger that change is going to come about with knowing how the story is infecting us with living in the past — how the past is being perceived — revisiting the anger story.
I always say a prayer first — asking God to unblock me from my frustrations and from my negative emotions (being specific if I can). I next focus on something or someone that I absolutely love like my son or my dog. After I have a feeling of positive energy, I begin to state my problem and work out a comprehensive solution. A solution is unlikely until finding a peaceful presence in self.
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The remainder of this particular post is helpful mainly for delving into unresolved anger — when able and ready to move on. This isn’t the last word on dealing with anger. I do want to start off to focus on anger that we can purge and that is from whatever can be finished with; getting it out of the way will make room for positive emotions. If you use the techniques from this post, you can probably resolve a lot of resentment problems and thus free up more energy for happier living. I’ll post another time to cover the daily trials of living with toxic spiritually sick persons. That is a bit more involved but this material helps there too.
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Unresolved Anger
Read the question, the answer, and also watch the videos.
source: Ask Deepak (Deepak Chopra) and Deepak Youtube videos
Question:
I’m curious about what advice you could share with me about dealing with anger. I recently turned 30, I am single, no babies and live in Arizona.
I live a little life, but I am overcome with huge anger. It started after a devastating break up about 5 years ago. For an entire year after that break up I COMPLETELY shut down. I was not the same person anymore. I became very depressed, suicidal and isolated.
Although I somehow got through that period and I now have a new love, a wonderful love in my life, why am I still so angry?
There are many triggers that set me off; from someone cutting me off while driving to something non-significant like not finding a pen when I need one. I punch the wall, throw a tantrum; scream. I never was this type of person. Never. Not even as a child.
Now as I am getting a little older, I DO NOT want to spend the rest of my days this way. So many others around the world are suffering from starvation, disease, abuse; so many are in far worse circumstances than myself. So what’s my problem?
Why is it so hard for me to deal with my anger? I get plenty of sleep, I exercise, I eat right. Unfortunately, with no health insurance, I cannot speak with a mental health professional.
Answer:
You need to address the underlying belief holding your old anger in place. You are holding on to the belief that you were wronged by the break-up, that you were victimized by his unfair behavior and that you did not deserve to be treated that way.
So now even though the ending of that relationship has allowed you to find a loving relationship, you are still held in the old anger because you insist on the story of the old relationship in terms of injustice, instead of seeing it as a positive step toward a lasting love.
It is your self-image as a victim that feels justified in holding on to this anger. Unfortunately, you are only hurting yourself.
Make a long list of all the positive things that have happened to you since the break-up that would not have occurred if you two were still together. List all the ways you have become stronger and have grown inside since then. You certainly deserve all these good things that have happened to you and the ways you have matured.
Perhaps your story that the break-up was a bad thing is not completely true. If it was what needed to happen for both of you to move ahead in your lives, then it’s pointless to blame anyone or hold onto anger and resentment. Admit to yourself that you really don’t know whether the break-up was right and wrong in the context of your whole life. So, maybe you’ll discover that the story of him being the bad guy and you as the good guy who was wrongly victimized isn’t really helping you.
Create a new story based on the actual positive events that have happened lately to replace the old story. You don’t have to pretend that everything that happened was for the best, you only need to allow that your ego doesn’t really know what is right or justice in this case.
From there you can recognize that your higher self or cosmic intelligence has still led you forward in life.
Learning to trust this loving force of evolution can be your new story.
When you start to see your life this way, your belief in the old you as a weak victim lashing out at injustice will fade away. You will let go of the anger and start to appreciate the love and beauty around you.
~ Love, Deepak
Program Description
Above, video one is what you need to learn about in order to be able to work on anger. Video two is the solution. No matter how big the challenge, spiritual teacher Deepak Chopra says, a four-step process can help you solve the problem at hand. Learn how the STOP method can help you overcome any obstacle. In summary: Any time you have a problem you are in contracted awareness (habitual anxieties — instinctual — egoism — fearful) and that influences 1) perceptions, 2) expectations, 3) assumptions, 4) beliefs, 5) moods and feelings. Contracted awareness brings about problems.
Any time you have a problem, question and evaluate all of those five areas.
How do you shift away from the anger or hurt and to a healthy level of awareness?
Go to your feelings and remember to STOP!
S T O P. Stop to evaluate, Transform your mood, Observe the sensations in your body and images in your mind and Proceed with kindness and compassion.
As you move into a higher level of awareness, solutions will start to emerge.
Here is a much longer lesson given by Deepak shortly after his new book “Spiritual Solutions” hit the marketplace — if you have time.
Program Description
The most fundamental fact of existence is not the universe nor even space, time or gravity, but that we are aware of the universe, Deepak Chopra, author (Spiritual Solutions, 2012 and The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, 1994 and others) and co-author of over 60 books on spirituality and mind-body connections, told a National Press Club luncheon audience April 4, 2012.
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Letting go of resentments — grudges and painful bitterness felt as a result of a real or imagined wrong — means making self available to a higher expanded awareness of compassion, kindness and peace. Even if not a believer in God, the spiritual essence of these benefits is available.
Thanks for learning with me. There is lots more to discover — so, come back often.
Eric
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07 Monday Jul 2014
Posted in Consciousness, Faith, Inspiration
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“Be still, and know that I am God!” Psalm 46:10
Holding onto God in the midst of all of our problems is the Key to overcoming them…
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10 Tuesday Jun 2014
Posted in Lessons, Spirituality
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Abuse, Adultery, Brokenness, Deception, Domestic Violence, emotional abuse, Faith, Fear, Future, God, healing, Hope, Inspirational, Inspirational and tagged Abuse, love, sexual abuse
This is for those who have been broken by abuse and adultery. Many people don’t understand unless they have walked that path. The brokenness is real. The wounds are deep. But God sees all of our wounds and He heals and restores. Hold onto Him and allow Him to guide you through the pain and darkness into your future.
“Yo-Yo Love”…
was a term that came to me.
As I thought of relationships…
and how some seem to be.
For the word “love”…
draws many victims in…
then they get pushed away…
as the “love” comes to an end.
And many manipulate others…
like a “yo-yo” on a string…
Repeatedly pulling victims to them…
then throwing them away again.
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08 Sunday Jun 2014
Posted in Consciousness, Happiness, Health, I can improve today, Inner peace, Meditation, Mindful, Self-improvement, Spirituality
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awareness, Christian, consciousness, coping, Dalai Lama, God, happiness, Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill, Health, Jesus, life is beautiful, Matthieu Ricard, open mind, Peace, Prosocial behavior, serenity
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Change your Mind; Change your Brain
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The Inner Conditions:
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Program Description
If happiness is an inner state, influenced by external conditions but not dependent on them, how can we achieve it? Matthieu Ricard presents factors that generally may increase or decrease well-being, happiness, authenticity, compassion, peace, and joy.
Happiness and joy may stimulate compassion and compassion may stimulate happiness and joy. This is ideal. This may then be noticed to be increasing positive energy, empathy, pro-social behavior, and the change within may serve as the kernel of an evolving moral-ethical framework.
Matthieu Ricard is a scientist turned Buddhist monk and a best selling author, translator, and photographer. He has lived and studied in the Himalayas for more than 35 years.
This recording is from Google Tech Talks in March of 2007
60 minutes Youtube watch?v=L_30JzRGDHI
A wellness approach in learning: act as though we don’t yet know anything more important — eliminate the inner ego voice from learning.
I pray to be released from any responsibility for making judgments and to learn as though this is all new to me. Later, I’ll review the important lesson again. Always when material is important in my life, I review the material many times.
Starting off into a new day, there is something to learn and something to share — what that is comes to me with my morning meditation — I don’t really even think about it until it comes — I remind myself, “This is my wonderful journey of self discovery. Love envelopes me and the gentle waves of peaceful waters and the light shine from my mind into the world around me.” As I face myself in honesty, open to guiding spirit, I turn my life over to God and I ask Him to allow me to do whatever I may to do His will — Thy Will, not mine be done.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama says “in today’s secular world, religion alone is no longer adequate as a basis for ethics… any religion-based answer to the problem of our neglect of inner values can never be universal, and so will be inadequate.” My religion practice is rooted in utmost fondness and enthusiasm in me. I love Jesus and being Christian. I also love all others as best I am able and this is certainly a growing condition in me, prompted by my love of Jesus’s words that make clear that we are to love God with all of our being and also love others as we would be loved. I realize that my world around me is a secular world where my religion is separate from societal norms and therefore that I must involve myself with others in ways that make me attractive; not by promoting my religion. I am to be a channel for love.
I hope that this lesson is helpful for you in your life of spiritual enlightenment — awakening the skill to foster well-being and for freedom, mastery of living in moments of serenity, inner peacefulness, joyfulness, and of course for sharing happiness.
Thanks for learning with me.
Eric
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07 Saturday Jun 2014
Posted in Afterlife, Consciousness, Culture, Entertainment, Heaven, Inner peace, Inspiration, News update, Prodigy studies, Spirituality
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Akiane Kramarik, art prodigy, child prodigy, God, Jesus, music prodigy, Prince Of Peace, prodigy, Shroud of Turin
While I was researching consciousness / studies, I came upon the story of Akiane Kramarik. I read quite a few articles and I watched a couple of interviews. I posted a summary, and a few yars later I saved that at my WordPress (Young ‘n artful Akiane Kramarik, after relocating at WordPress.
I was in the midst of inspirations related to my consciousness studies when one day it dawned on me to look closely at the works and lives of living child prodigies. . . a hugely rewarding experience that was / is.
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Akiane is so far as is known, according to my research, one of very few visual art child prodigies to master realism. Realism is, according to the experts, the most difficult form of art to master. She’s created a few hundred paintings as she’s seen her visions. Some are awe-inspiring of Heaven, which Akiane says she has seen, through revelations.
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“I cannot believe this, you were only 8 years old
when you painted this [Prince Of Peace]…”
Katie Couric NBC, Katie Couric Show.
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“I cannot believe this, you were only 8 years old
when you painted this [Prince Of Peace]…”
Katie Couric NBC, Katie Couric Show.
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Here is a short video clip that overlays her Prince of Peace
painting onto the Shroud of Turin image.
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Here then is the story of another young person that is able to connect into the consciousness (unknown) for inspiration to bring forth incredible talents. I’ve featured just a few now. I’ve looked into dozens more. Personally, I am of the belief that these young people are inspired from within but that their connections within links strongly to an eternal source that most of the world suspects may not exist. I have a few more and some stunning remarks to make in the near future… stay tuned.
Update 2018
Since this post I moved my center of operations to Facebook where I manage several consciousness related groups, from here: https://www.facebook.com/Cellular.Eric.
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Eric
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06 Friday Jun 2014
Posted in Culture, Lessons, Science, Spirituality, Universe
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God, Higgs boson, quantum energy, quantum physics, quantum states, Quantum Theology, Teilhard de Chardin, teilhard.com, The Big Bang, wordpress blog
Ok.. I had missed this article… Thanks to Heather, I found it. Here is a summary and link to the emerging understanding of quantum physics and Quantum Theology..
Much Thanks to William!
One of the great contributions that Teilhard de Chardin made to Christian theology is his reconciliation of traditional Christian theology with evolutionary biology. Science has continued to advance. Discoveries in the past 100 years, from the Big Bang to particle physics provide additional evidence in support of the monotheistic belief that there is an intelligent Creator of the Universe. Moreover, the strange world physics of quantum mechanics also supports the notion that this Creator is relational, similar to the Christian belief in the Trinity.
I am not a scientist and do not pretend to understand anything more than the basics of quantum physics. However, George Farahat of the blog Today’s Questions does have background in quantum physics and did a great job of synthesizing quantum physics and the triune God in a recent blogpost. I encourage you to read the entire post here, but set forth below is…
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25 Sunday May 2014
Posted in Consciousness, Faith, Religion, Spirituality
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This is something to reflect upon…
This theological view gets almost zero notice usually;
let’s see if it generates any new interest today…
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17 Saturday May 2014
Posted in Consciousness, Faith, Happiness, Inner peace, Lecture, Lessons, Meditation, Mindful, Philosophy, Poetry, Self-assessments, Spirituality
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Christianity, God, If you correct your mind, Pierre Teilhard, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Religion & Spirituality, Wayne Dyer
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When you allow Him to correct your mind,
the rest of your life will fall into place.
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People I know really need this message. I’ll invest time as Dr. Dyer’s suggesting to practice staying obscure. I see the wisdom of letting God direct this universe without me pushing my nose up front as though it has mostly to do with me. Do you see the wisdom of letting God direct the universe? Hmm… would it be possibly as beautiful a universe if we followed my or your directions? Humility… letting what we know is coming come to us.
The sea stays low, and because the sea
stays low, all of the rivers and all of the
streams empty into it.
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I want to share with you this inspiring poem. As you may reflect and resolve for yourself improvement for your life, I hope that this will be a help. I pray that you may be filled with joy, peace, and love.
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The Slow work of God…
Above all, trust in the slow work of God.
We are quite naturally impatient
in everything to reach the end
without delay.
We should like to skip the intermediate stages.
We are impatient of being on the
way to something unknown,
something new.
And yet it is the law of all progress
that it is made by passing through
some stages of instability — and
that it may take a very long time.
And so I think it is with you;
your ideas mature gradually
— let them grow,
— let them shape themselves,
without undue haste.
Don’t try to force them on,
as though you could be today
what time (that is to say,
grace and circumstances
acting on your own good will)
will make of you tomorrow.
Only God could say what this
new spirit gradually forming
within you will be.
Give Our Lord the benefit of believing
that his hand is leading you,
and accept the anxiety of
feeling yourself
in suspense and incomplete.
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Come back often — there is more to be discovered.
Thanks for learning with me.
Eric
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Pondering…
Do I live a life of faith that shows that I know that God has a plan for us?
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05 Monday May 2014
Posted in Consciousness, Faith, Lessons, Philosophy, Religion, Science, Spirituality, Universe
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Alister McGrath, beleifs, Big Bang, Cycles of Time, fine-tuned universe, God, Justin Brierley, M theory, Multi-verse, Physics, Quantum mechanics, quantum physics, Roger Penrose, scientific inquiry, single subatomic particle, Stephen Hawking, String theory, The Grand Design
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Famed mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose, who worked alongside Stephen Hawking for many years on furthering the developing Big Bang theory, has debunked Hawking’s ‘no-God-needed’ theory of the universe as “hardly science” and “not even a theory” on Premier Christian Radio.
Speaking on the station’s weekly faith debate program Unbelievable? on Saturday 25 September, Penrose described Hawking’s new book The Grand Design as “misleading” adding that M-theory, which Hawking claims has made God redundant as a cause of the universe, was “not even a theory” and “hardly science” but instead “a collection of hopes, ideas and aspirations.”
Penrose was in dialogue on the program with Alister McGrath, professor of theology at Kings College London. The two men joined host Justin Brierley to respond to the question of whether Hawking’s new theory had made God redundant as a potential explanation of the origin of the universe.
Criticizing M-theory, Penrose said: “It’s a collection of ideas, hopes, aspirations. The book is a bit misleading. It gives you this impression of a theory that is going to explain everything; it’s nothing of the sort. It’s not even a theory.”
Our Universe has not been shown to “create itself from nothing.”
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Asked whether science shows that the universe could “create itself from nothing” as claimed in the book, Penrose was strong in his condemnation of the ‘string’ theory that lies behind Hawking’s statement: “It’s certainly not doing it yet. I think the book suffers rather more strongly than many. It’s not an uncommon thing in popular descriptions of science to latch onto an idea, particularly things to do with string theory, which have absolutely no support from observation. They are just nice ideas.” He added that such ideas are “very far from any testability. They are hardly science.”
As a former colleague who worked closely alongside Hawking in developing gravitational singularity theorems, Penrose is perhaps the most high profile scientist yet to dismiss Hawking’s views.
“Multi-verse” has not superseded God
He also responded to the so-called “multi-verse” hypothesis that Hawking’s theory also posits. Christians, including Professor McGrath, have pointed towards the fact that our universe is incredibly “fine-tuned” for life to come into existence, thus providing evidence of a transcendent designer. Hawking’s “multi-verse” hypothesis is a form of the ‘anthropic principle’: since ours is one in an array of universes, we inevitably only observe a universe with the correct ‘settings’ that support conscious life.
Responding to the ‘multi-verse’ hypothesis, Penrose, a Distinguished Supporter of the British Humanist Association who describes himself as having “no religious beliefs,” said: “Its overused, and this is a place where its overused. It’s an excuse for not having a good theory.” [These ideas are not supportive of ‘no God is needed’ ideas either — although sometimes put forth in such a manner as to shed doubt on the God idea.]
Premier presenter Justin Brierley said: “What’s interesting is that Penrose’s criticisms of Hawking are not driven by any faith position. Instead he simply recognizes that the science does not justify making statements about God’s non-existence, which is a much more honest position than other well-known scientists, such as Dawkins, who want to equate science with atheism.”
Penrose’s own alternative view of the universe is detailed in his new book “Cycles of Time” published by The Bodley Head. As for myself, I am convinced that matter is connected together — every single subatomic particle of it — with its source — by a directedness energy that the source is — some call it love; I do.
source: http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=16815
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27 Sunday Apr 2014
Posted in B4Peace, Consciousness, Culture, Faith, Happiness, Inner peace, Religion, Spirituality, Uncategorized
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B4Peace, Christian, Christianity, consciousness, God, happiness, Jesus, Jesus Culture, Kim Walker, Kim Walker-Smith, prayer, Religion and Spirituality
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Jesus — we will not forget
who you are
and what you’ve done for us.
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“Where You Go I Go”
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Thanks for visiting.
ERIC
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19 Saturday Apr 2014
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God, Holy, How He Loves Us, Jesus, Jesus Culture, Kim Walker, Kim Walker-Smith, Show Me Your Glory
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Each of us may embody a personal holiness. Kim’s story may seem quite strikingly bizarre to you. It is certainly not common even for religious. I am happy to have found it and I greatly appreciate her openness and willingness to share her story. She is one of my favorite entertainers and I accidentally found the testimony a few months ago during a search for her music. I’ve shared other personal accounts of visions before — a couple on this blog that are NDE stories. I’ve read or seen video testimony of many others. There are various differences. I am beginning to understand that each individual seems to have a different experience; perhaps different people will experience holiness differently.
Today, being a day of the holy week, I wanted to point out that there are 42 bible verses (at least) that address the fact of a relationship with God. I’ll go the easy way and refer to what I found in a topic at OpenBible.info. Readers may be noticing that I haven’t been writing much — right you are — most of my blog for these past few weeks is from news and video. I’m busy on some important research and development and the posts I am sharing are related to my development. So, meantime, here is a beautiful song that I love:
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Eric
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16 Wednesday Apr 2014
Posted in Consciousness, Culture, Faith, Happiness, Health, Inner peace, Lessons, Philosophy, Spirituality
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apologist, C. S. Lewis, Christian, Christian apologetics, Christianity, Clive Staples Lewis, CS Lewis, Evolution, God, Holy Spirit, John G. West, Lewis, Mere Christianity, Religion and Spirituality, scientism, scientocracy, The Discovery Institute, The Magician's Twin, Theism to Christianity
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“C.S. Lewis and Evolution” is the second of three short documentaries inspired by the book The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis on Science, Scientism, and Society. It examines the evolution of Lewis’s views on orthodox Darwinian theory from his time as a college undergraduate to his death in 1963.
Lewis’s first exception to human evolution was his insistence on an actual Fall of Man from an original state of innocence. The creation story (or cosmogonical myths) is similar in ancient cultures. In these, it is suggested that there was a finished creation from which we were fallen into sin, and therefore, we needed a divine presence to restore us to what God had originally created us to be. Lewis emphasized that man prior to the Fall had unimpeded fellowship with God.
At his time, archaeological discoveries could not tell us whether prehistoric peoples were kind, or courageous, or noble, or just. Nor do they tell us about their capacity for poetry or song. We know today that there was a great deal of evidence of advances that are impossible to explain if evolution of mankind were to have originated from lower animals. I may delve more into the ancient evidence; probably not though since it is a huge mystery.
Lewis foresaw that science could be twisted by greed and self-aggrandizement in order to attack religion, undermine ethics, and limit human freedom. The description of Transhumanism (the human enhancement movement) is written in Lewis’s predictions in The Abolition of Man and is seemingly frighteningly accurate as today, technology advances rapidly while moral knowledge declines.
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C.S. Lewis and Evolution examines Lewis’s growing doubts about parts of Darwinian evolution, beginning with his views while still an atheist. NOTE: Lewis believed in the common descent of all human beings from one non-human ancestor, although he was skeptical of unguided natural selection.
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More than a half century ago, famed writer C.S. Lewis warned about how science (a good thing) could be twisted in order to attack religion, undermine ethics, and limit human freedom. Throughout his life, C.S. Lewis struggled with what he called the “argument from undesign,” the reality that nature exhibits cruelty and imperfection as well as purpose and beauty. In this documentary “The Magician’s Twin: C.S. Lewis and the Case Against Scientism,” leading scholars explore Lewis’s prophetic warnings about the abuse of science and how Lewis’s concerns are increasingly relevant for us today.
The Discovery Institute released the book The Magician’s Twin, edited by John G. West in 2012. West was a senior Fellow of the Institute and one of the editors of the highly C. S. Lewis Readers’ Encyclopedia. The Magician’s Twin is actually a collection of essays written by contemporary writers about Lewis’s warnings of how dehumanizing scientism would take us in ethics, politics, education, faith, reason, and even in science itself.
The book explores Lewis’s views on bioethics, eugenics, evolution, intelligent design, and what he called “scientocracy.” The book is divided into four sections: Science and Scientism, Origins, Reason, and Society. I previously posted about the first section here.
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C. S. Lewis and Intelligent Design explores Lewis’s personal struggle to find evidence of intelligent design in a world filled with cruelty, imperfection, and injustice.
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In That Hideous Strength, Lewis observes, “The physical sciences, good and innocent in themselves, had already… begun to be warped, had been subtly maneuvered in a certain direction. Despair of objective truth had been increasingly insinuated into the scientists; indifference to it, and a concentration upon mere power, had been the result… The very experiences of the dissecting room and the pathological laboratory were breeding a conviction that the stifling of all deep-set repugnances was the first essential for progress.”
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For more information visit http://www.cslewisweb.com.
There is a main page for “The Magician’s Twin” video series.
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I hope you’ll come back often — there is more to be discovered.
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09 Wednesday Apr 2014
Posted in B4Peace, Consciousness, Culture, Faith, Happiness, Health, Inner peace, Meditation, Mindful, Peace, Philosophy, Self-assessments, Self-improvement, Spirituality
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contemplative, Global Consciousness, God, Ken Wilber, Religion and Spirituality, Spiritual awakening
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The re-discovery
of the contemplative roots
of Christianity
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Ken Wilber – I Am Big Mind
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Is this the best description of awakening you have ever heard?
Contemplation, the purpose of human life, is to see by the Vision of God a process of theosis (being of the divine nature).
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Thanks for reading.
Eric
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