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Awakening

Going Inside: Direct Experience Is Like a True Kiss

Gangaji | Posted 01.24.2012 | Healthy Living

Read More: Direct Inquiry, Consciousness, Discovery, Inquiry, Kiss, Direct Experience, Awakening, Spirituality, Stop Thinking, Thinking About Thinking, Thinking, What Is Thinking, Healthy Living News
Gangaji

To consciously choose to be without thought is the gateway to direct experience. If we are bound to our thinking process for our reference points of reality, we will ask only those questions guaranteed to keep attention on analysis, cause and effect and conceptual evaluation.

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Are You Open to Receiving?

Karen Talavera | Posted 01.23.2012 | Mindful Living

Read More: Abundance, Lessons, Enlightenment, Personal Growth, Love, Awakening, Wds, Joy, Conscious Relationships, Mindful Living News
Karen Talavera

She couldn't help but wonder what it could be -- wonder or dread, she wasn't sure which was the more accurate feeling. He hadn't been much of a gift giver in the past, at least not the recent past.

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Embrace the Feminine

Mijanou Montealegre | Posted 12.30.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Creativity, Heart, The Mystery, Transformation, Intuition, Reality, Healing, Divine Feminine, The Sacred, Love, Awakening, Compassion, Creative Expression, Receptivity, Mindfulness, Healthy Living News
Mijanou Montealegre

Reason can no longer stand alone as the sole basis for our reality. It is time to integrate our gifts of reason and the intellect with our gifts of intuition and the path of the heart.

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A Meditation On Learning To Be Satisfied

Mark Nepo | Posted 02.02.2012 | Healthy Living

Read More: Acceptance, Book of Awakening, Meditation, The Book of Awakening, Being Demanding, Mark Nepo Book of Awakening, Mark Nepo, Awakening, Healthy Living News
Mark Nepo

The devastating truth is that excellence can't hold you in the night, and, as I learned when ill, being demanding or sophisticated won't help you survive. A person dying of thirst doesn't ask if the water has chlorine or if it was gathered in the foothills of France.

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A Meditation For Simple Joys

Mark Nepo | Posted 01.30.2012 | Healthy Living

Read More: Consciousness, Book of Awakening, Awakening, The Book of Awakening, Awakening and Consciousness, Healthy Living News
Mark Nepo

No matter how close we come, no matter how much we get from staying close with a sensitive heart, nothing will open us to joy but entering the stream.

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The Longing for Home

Karen Talavera | Posted 01.15.2012 | Healthy Living

Read More: Spiritual Journey, Consciousness, Bliss, Growth, Loss, Awakening, Love, Human Experience, Mindfulness, Healthy Living News
Karen Talavera

After your perspective of reality, who you are and what life is broadens there is no going back to illusions.

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10 Meditations From My Daybook

Mark Nepo | Posted 01.09.2012 | Healthy Living

Read More: Healthy Living Health News, Book of Awakening, Healthy Living Spirit, Daybooks, Mindfulness, Awakened, Awakening, Spirituality and Awakening, Spirituality, Healthy Living News
Mark Nepo

From many traditions, from many experiences, from many beautiful and honest voices, the songs herein all sing of pain and wonder and the mystery of love.

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A Longing To Evolve

Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 01.07.2012 | Healthy Living

Read More: Evolution, Inspiration, Purpose, Awakening, Meaning, Spirituality, Evolutionary Enlightenment, Spiritual Evolution, Spiritual Impulse, Enlightenment, Spirit, Conscious Evolution, Healthy Living News
Andrew Z. Cohen

I believe the spiritual impulse today is calling us toward that big next step we need to take in our world. That next step will not emerge by itself -- it must be consciously created by human beings.

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Are You Sleepwalking Through Your Life?

Russell Bishop | Posted 12.31.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Self-Talk, Spiritual Awakening, Negative-Self-Talk, Awakening, Emotional Intelligence, Soul-Talk, Healthy Living News
Russell Bishop

The choice is always yours -- you can keep listening to the Self-Talk cautioning you against pursuing what matters most or you can listen to your Soul-Talk reminding that you already possess that which you seek.

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Do You Discriminate? 4 Ways To Find Out

Isha Judd | Posted 11.26.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Awareness, Meditation, Enlightenment, Consciousness, Awakening, Spirituality, Emotional Intelligence, Healthy Living News
Isha Judd

When we become the love, we embody everything. When we limit ourselves to our personalities and belief systems, there is no room in our boxes for anything else.

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Palestine at the United Nations: Sidestepped by both Friends and the World's Major Players

Raghida Dergham | Posted 11.16.2011 | World

Read More: Raghida, Spring, Israel, Palestine, Arab, Un, Awakening, Dergham, World News
Raghida Dergham

New York - No party is in an enviable position in the current battle over the Palestinian state at the United Nations. Everyone is embarrassed, and so...

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Consciously Recognizing Ourselves Before We Die

Duane Elgin | Posted 07.23.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Awareness, Dying, Consciousness, Light, Knowing, Soul, Awakening, Love, Death, Preparing Ourselves for Death, Healthy Living, Recognizing the Soul Before Death, Death & Dying, Understanding Death, Death and Spirituality, Healthy Living Spirit, Healthy Living News
Duane Elgin

The afterlife is unknown; however, our invisible body of music, light and love that lives in eternity is knowable.

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Why One Man Is Walking From Canada To Mexico

Toan Lam | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact

Read More: Ipod, Inspire, Apple, Inspiration, Toanlam, Toan Lam, Lovewallah, Shift, Goinspirego, Go Inspire Go, Technology, Awakening, Jordan Bower, Connect, Cell Phone, Impact News
Toan Lam

Jordan is a business graduate-turned-vagabond who hopes his wanderlust inspires you to change by putting down your gizmos, gear and gadgets to engage with one another.

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Right Now Is 2012, The Year We've Been Waiting For

John Selby | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Krishnamurti, Rebirth, Awakening, Solstice, John Selby, 2012, Mayan Calendar, Psychological Revolution, Video, Healthy Living News
John Selby

I'm hitting 65 and feeling like this is the second, more mature round of awakening that hit us in 1968 or thereabouts -- it's a whole new world opening up, for all of us. And why?

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Christmas in Brooklyn

Jack Schimmelman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Pogo, Manhattan, Jesus, Snow, Christ, Brooklyn, War, Christmas, Walt Kelly, Bay Ridge, Awakening, New York, Illuminated, Healthy Living News
Jack Schimmelman

BAY RIDGE By Brian Merlis /Brooklynpix.com Used by Permission I lived in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn for close to 15 years. During that time I worked at j...

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How To Thrive Authentically In The New Economy

Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Yes, Eckharte Tolle, Opportunity, Rebirth, Awakening, New, Anat Baniel, Ivan Misner, Change, Enough, Goddess, Steven Josephs, Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks, Intuition, Excel, Investor, Gift, Mind, Finances, Energy, Marc Gafni, Depression, Business Netwok International, Transformational Leadership Council, Money, Thrive, Growth, Marianne Williamson, Recession, Deeper Nature, Jack Canfield, Hale Dwoskin, The Sedona Method, Sonia Choquette, Be Yourself, Stewart Emery, Economy, Spirituality, Healthy Living News
Arjuna Ardagh

Here's a shocking question for you now. What if we never, ever go back to where we were? What if the old game is coming to an end, and a different way of relating with each other is emerging?

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How To Achieve Ultimate Intimacy

Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Hate, Meditate, Relationship, Deeper Love, Multiple Personalities, Oneness, Chameli, Love, Awakening, Attraction, Separation, Intimacy, Healthy Living News
Arjuna Ardagh

In our experience, surfing the waves of the deeper love requires a kind of practice, a discipline.

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Coronation of the New Queen of Thrillers: S.J. Bolton

Nina Sankovitch | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books

Read More: British History, Thrillers, British Folklore, Sacrifice, Blood Harvest, S.J. Bolton, Awakening, Books News
Nina Sankovitch

I'd like to dub a new queen in the realm of thrillers: S.J. Bolton. All of Bolton's novels feature strong and smart female characters, and you could call Bolton's books thrillers for intelligent women.

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Sacrifice: Choosing The Sacred Over the Profane

Scott Schwenk | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles

Read More: Freedom, Breath, Choiceless Awareness, Sacred, Liberation, Morals, Spiritual Path, Awakening, Healing, Inner Compass, Awareness, Profane, Los Angeles News
Scott Schwenk

What if there are no such absolutes as 'right' and 'wrong'?

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Humility; Why Don't I have Much?

Megan McFeely | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Religion, Humility, Spiritual Journey, Personality, Consciousness, The Inner Life, Surrender, Awakening, Spirituality, Healthy Living News
Megan McFeely

Humility is not something I come by naturally. It is a damn struggle for me to be humble. I feel a bit embarrassed by my lack of humility because I k...

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Gradual Versus Sudden Enlightenment

David Nichtern | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Living News, Meditation, Enlightenment, Shambhala, Self-Care, Compassion, Awakening, The Inner Life, Awareness, Stress, Sudden Enlightenment, David Nichtern, Cyndi Lee, Gradual Enlightenment, Mindfulness, Om Yoga, Buddhism, Relaxation, Healthy Living News
David Nichtern

In training ourselves through meditation, it is very practical to start with mindfulness practice to pull the mind in from a habitual state of distraction into a focused and clear state.

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A Buddhist Sleep Lesson: Awakening From The Day Dream

David Nichtern | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Stress, Living News, David Nichtern, Dreams, Cyndi Lee, Daydream, Meditation, Ethan Nichtern, Buddhism, Awakening, The Inner Life, Compassion, Self-Care, Sleep, Relaxation, Healthy Living News
David Nichtern

I wanted to jump in and participate in the ongoing discussion of sleep, but what I came up with, after contemplating the whole topic for some time, was to look further into what it means to actually be awake.

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Art Of Attention: Awakening

Elena Brower | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Yoga, Attention, Anusara, Awaken, The Art of Attention, Elena Brower, Anusara Yoga, The Inner Life, Awakening, Virayoga, Hugo Cory, Self Mastery, Healthy Living News
Elena Brower

The process of placing our attention on the doubt and fear - and learning what we need to see in order to bring balance to this life - is the process of awakening that brings us toward that evolution again and again.

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Could Sleep Aid Your Contact With The Divine?

Russell Bishop | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Religion, Dreams, Consciousness, Spirit, Dreaming, Spiritual Awakening, Divine, Sleeping, Awakening, Religious, Sleep, The Inner Life, Healthy Living News
Russell Bishop

My experience, which is entirely personal to be sure, suggests to me, that sometimes when I sleep, I can contact deeper parts of me, aspects of my consciousness that might be called "of a higher nature."

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Healing the Spirit/Matter Split

Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living

Read More: Negotiation, John Gray, Awakening, Balance of Life, Buddha, State of Consciousness, Contribution, Iphone, Success Built to Last, Jack Canfield, The Secret, Est, Werner Erhart, Giving, Starbucks, Stewart Emery, Greatness, Poonjaji, Healthy Living News
Arjuna Ardagh

The greatest area of split and misunderstanding, which I discover among my friends and other writers and teachers, is the split between the longing of the spirit and material desire.

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