tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20950599949325473182024-03-05T05:23:17.857-08:00A Year on the Wisdom Wheel, Living by Universal Lawscynthia (fetterolf barnum) davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15538490318339463690noreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2095059994932547318.post-11414378990663179852013-03-28T19:33:00.000-07:002013-03-28T19:33:09.720-07:00Great Mystery Law # 36<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #d9d2e9;">How much do we really know? All our scientific and economic achievements
cannot equal the wisdom contained in the DNA of a single cell. The wise ones are full of awe and appreciation
for good reason.</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How much can you or anyone else know? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">What do you feel and think w</span><span style="color: #444444;">hen facing your ignorance? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">A</span><span style="color: #444444;">re you inhibited or inspired by your experiences with the Unknown? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">During the next ten days, as you explore <b>Mystery, Great</b> and small, </span><span style="color: #444444;">you'll also be discovering more</span><span style="color: #444444;"> about yourself. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">This Universal Law represents everything unknowable, and the Great Unknown can fill you with </span><span style="color: #444444;">fear and apprehension, or </span><span style="color: #444444;">awe and enthusiasm depending on how you tolerate ambiguity. T</span><span style="color: #444444;">ake stock of your conditioning; the ideas, emotions and defenses you have formed, about every Unknown person, place and thing. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">And when you bring up the subject of <b>Great Mystery</b> with others in the coming days, note which attitudes and instincts are most common, and uncommon. </span><span style="color: #444444;"> </span><span style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">While in our human form, much of the Universe remains unfathomable because its function is to inspire and humble us. As ‘</span><i style="color: #444444;">spiritual
beings having a human experience</i><span style="color: #444444;">’ we should not accept an
unfulfilling relationship with </span><b style="color: #444444;">Great
Mystery</b><span style="color: #444444;">. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Our participation is required in
the Grand Scheme of things. </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are meant to go beyond our known worlds and comfort zones to become involved with the Universe at large. The results of w</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ur individual quests, for
knowledge and wisdom, will add to the collective consciousness. In some mysterious way this helps all of us evolve in our
understanding of the Divine Mind. </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <b>Great Mystery</b> will remain unsolved. At
best, we live with it, in a way that better prepares us to accept the amazing intricacy
of <b>Ultimate Reality</b>. The multi-dimensional Nature of the Universe is symbolized by the Wisdom Wheel, which does not reduce the <b>Great Mystery,</b> but can help you orient your <b>Self</b> to it with <b>Love</b>, <b>Balance</b>, <b>Awareness</b> and <b>Right Relationship</b>. </span><br />
<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are some words of wisdom from others about this Law.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The
acknowledged legislators of the world take the world as given. They dislike
mysteries, for mysteries cannot be coded, or legislated, and wonder cannot be
made into law. And so these legislators police the accepted frontiers of
things.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I realized it for the first time in my
life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric
of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sue
Monk Kidd, <i>The Secret Life of Bees<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
sacred itself is plainly a mystery of conscious, using the word mystery to
signify not a problem that can be intellectually solved, but a process of
awakening and transformation that must be acted out in order to be experienced,
if one is to make it one’s own.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Francis Huxley, in <i>The Sacred<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Full understanding
can come to you only through an inexpressible mystery. The approach to it is
called the Gateway of the Stillness beyond all Activity. If you wish to
understand, know that a sudden comprehension comes when the mind has been
purged of all the clutter of conceptual and discriminatory thought-activity.
Those who seek the truth by means of intellect and learning only get further
and further away from it. Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here
and there, not till you abandon all thoughts of seeking for something, not till
your mind is motionless as wood or stone, will you be on the right road to the
Gate. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Knowledge is a finite
island in a sea of inexhaustible mystery… on the shoreline is where we
encounter the mystery. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Chet
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would rather live
in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small
that my mind could comprehend it.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Harry
Emerson Fosdick<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The
workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One
moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the
reflection of the divine image.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The face of a lover
is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is
a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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A. Baldwin<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sell your cleverness
and buy bewilderment. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mystery creates
wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why not
let people differ about their answers to the great mysteries of the Universe?
Let each seek one's own way to the highest, to one's own sense of supreme
loyalty in life, one's ideal of life. Let each philosophy, each world-view
bring forth its truth and beauty to a larger perspective, so that people may
grow in vision, stature and dedication. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It began in mystery,
and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in
between…<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If a mind is just a
few pounds of blood, urea, and electricity, how does it manage to contemplate
itself, worry about its soul, do time-and-motion studies, admire the shy hooves
of a goat, know that it will die, enjoy all the grand and lesser mayhems of the
heart? <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Diane
Ackerman (1948- ) American writer, poet and social worker, known for stretching
the limits of poetry subjects <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Man
is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do
not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery,
because I want to be a man.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The
great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random
between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very
prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our
nothingness.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>There
is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be
explained but admired.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Time
is still the great mystery to us. It is no more than a concept; we don't know
if it even exists.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Clifford
D. Simak<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Wisdom
and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Ancient people followed their instinctive yearning by giving
over to the mysterious energy that attracted them. They call this energy
"The Great Mystery". They responded to this attraction intuitively,
emotionally, mentally and physically… The Higher Consciousness, or the Great
Mystery, the ultimate authority, governs our group conscience. To connect with
God, we need to open our conscious and subconscious mind to a Higher
Consciousness, one that is available to each of us. This, in turn, produces
consensus to work hand in hand with you, as a separate spiritual entity.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Great Mystery</b> is the final one in the sequence of 36 Universal Laws. You can go back to the first post to see them all. Please visit our website www.thewisdomwheel.com and our Facebook pages to learn more. Email your questions to wisdomwheelwoman@gmail.com. And thank you for joining us.</span></span></div>
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<br />cynthia (fetterolf barnum) davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15538490318339463690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2095059994932547318.post-37027867044549900882013-03-15T17:15:00.001-07:002013-03-15T17:15:52.499-07:00Sacred Oneness Law # 35<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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unity is obvious, but many fear it nonetheless. The very air we breathe has
passed through 1,000 sets of lungs before it comes our way.</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is my favorite Law. There are more quotations about it in my collection than any other one on the Wheel. As you spend the next ten days studying it and experiencing its wisdom, remember that </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Scared Oneness</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> appears in many guises, especially in our era of globalization.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Scared Oneness</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">reminds us there is no separation, except in our mental and cultural conditioning. D</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">espite all human attempts to separate ourselves physically, emotionally, intellectually </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and spiritually, we are all parts of one Great Whole, on this beautiful blue and green planet within the Universe at large. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Sacred
Oneness</b> starts with the <b>Integrity</b> of <b>Self</b>, and the acceptance of each others sacredness, according to the <b>Law of Right Relationship</b>.
<b>Sacred Oneness</b> encourages our personal efforts to integrate, and make congruent our thoughts, feelings, bodies and
spirits with the <b>Law of Ultimate Reality</b>. The additional integration work, in our
communities and the world at large, is only possible with the energies of
this Law. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you bring up this Law, in conversation with friends and family members during the next ten days, find out what they believe about this ideal of <b>Sacred</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <b style="color: #333333;">Oneness</b><span style="color: #333333;">. What prevents us from truly living by this Law? Why are we so distracted by our differences? How do we build common ground with each other instead of making war?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;">Here follow some words of wisdom others have gathered about this Law. </span><span style="color: #444444;"><b> </b></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I pledge allegiance to the Earth<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>and to the planet for which it stands<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>one world, under law, indivisible, with liberty<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>and justice for all.
</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Attributed to Martin Hayes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The hero is the man or woman who
has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations…the
hero as eternal man – universal man – has been reborn. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Joseph Campbell </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The
first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human
beings. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Albert
Schweitzer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is not much difference between identifying oneself with the
Universe and identifying the Universe with oneself.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">T.S. Eliot British poet<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I am a citizen, not of <st1:city w:st="on">Athens</st1:city> or <st1:place w:st="on">Greece</st1:place>,
but of the world. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Socrates </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I am part of all that I have
met. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lord Alfred Tennyson </span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Man had to free himself from earth
to perceive both its diminutive place in a solar system and its inestimable
value as a life -fostering planet. As earthmen, we may have taken another step
into adulthood. We can see our planet earth with detachment, with tenderness,
with some shame and pity, but at last also with love.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 'Earth Shine,' 1969<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The
heart in pursuit of oneness will find the most inexplicable beauty....</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unknown<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i>Human
evolution – even human existence – depends upon this expanded vision of
humanity as One. Just as our different
organs cooperate for the good of the entire body, our world is on the cusp of a
shift from competitive self-interest to open-hearted cooperation in the
interest of the Whole Body of Humanity.</i>
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Dan Millman in his book<i> Laws of the Spirit</i><u><o:p></o:p></u></div>
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<i>To discover joy is to return to a state of oneness with the universe.</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Peggy Jenkins</div>
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<i>Self-actualizing
people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human
beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were
members of a single family. </i><o:p></o:p></div>
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Abraham
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<i>What is needed is to learn afresh,
to observe, and to discover for ourselves, the meaning of wholeness. </i></div>
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David Bohm in his book <i>Wholeness and the
Implicate Order</i> </div>
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<i>When one sits in the Hoop Of The
People,</i></div>
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<i>one must be responsible because</i></div>
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<i>All of Creation is related.</i></div>
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<i>And the hurt of one is the hurt
of all.</i></div>
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<i>And the honor of one is the honor
of all.</i></div>
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<i>And whatever we do effects
everything in the universe.</i></div>
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<o:p><i> </i></o:p><i>If you do it that way - that is,</i></div>
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<i>if you truly join your heart and
mind</i></div>
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<i>as One - whatever you ask for,</i></div>
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<i>that's the Way It's Going To Be.</i></div>
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<o:p> </o:p>passed down from White Buffalo
Calf Woman</div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Value life in whatever house it
dwells. For when it comes time that we are all stripped to bare bones before
the divine and facing eternity, we will understand that the only law we were
meant to follow, was to love ourselves and each other. Nothing more...nothing
less</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Carla Jo Masterson</span><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span" style="background-color: #d0e0e3;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In ten days, we'll take up the <b>Law of Great Mystery</b>, the final one on the Wisdom Wheel. Till then, enjoy the thoughts, feelings & dreams of <b>Sacred Oneness</b>.</span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">Not one person can make the sun rise
or set any sooner. Wise ones work with natural rhythms, and that begins with a
heightened Awareness of them.</span><span style="background-color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cynthia Davidson, excerpt from <b style="background-color: transparent; text-align: start;">Cycles </b>card</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Like
wheels within Wheels, we are embedded within countless </span><b style="line-height: 20px;">Cycles, </b><span style="line-height: 20px;"> simultaneously </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">interacting </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">every moment of our lives. Not just our personal mental, emotional, physical and spiritual </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Cycles</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> but the earthly <b>Cycles</b> of the seasons, the tides, and the cosmic <b>Cycles, </b>in the Universe at large too. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i style="line-height: 20px;">Thinking </i><span style="line-height: 20px;">about </span><b style="line-height: 20px;">Cycles</b><span style="line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">is not the same as </span><i style="line-height: 20px;">living </i><span style="line-height: 20px;">through them,</span><i style="line-height: 20px;"> </i><span style="line-height: 20px;">and </span><i style="line-height: 20px;">feeling </i><span style="line-height: 20px;">them</span><b style="line-height: 20px;"> </b><span style="line-height: 20px;">working</span><b style="line-height: 20px;"> </b><span style="line-height: 20px;">their changes, inside your body, heart and mind so as </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">you devote the next ten days to studying this Law, pay attention to everything from your </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">bio-rhythms to </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">sleep </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Cycles</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">,</span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> </b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">solar and lunar <b>Cycles</b> and share what you discover, with others, in discussions about this Law</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where we are in our personal <b>Cycles</b> will affect how we experience this Law. When passing through your adolescence, for example, you saw life's
challenges differently than you do in your 40’s. By the time you are in your 70’s, your appreciation of <b>Cycles</b> will be much deeper and wider. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While the Earth revolves each day, we are evolving, going through the highs and lows over a life time. Everything around us rises and falls, grows, peaks and declines too. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Make a list of all the <b>Cycles</b> you are aware of. Which ones are your favorites? </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the<b> Cycles</b> of war and peace, to economic and seasonal ones, try seeing yourself as one more cog within all these meshing cyclical spheres of energy and activity and resolve to enjoy the ride. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's some more wisdom about this Law from others. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Different forms of energy vibrate at different rates
like a river, energy flows from higher to lower levels, moving through repeating
cycles, expanding then contracting, like our breathing.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since everything in the universe is a form of
energy, everything falls within the domain of the Law of Cycles: Sunrise and
sunset, the waxing and waning moon, the ebb and flow of tides, and the seasons
of the year all reflect this law. It reminds us there is a time for everything
under the sun. All things rise and fall.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A thought or action initiated while this pulsing
energy is rising gaining momentum travels along easily toward its success, but
a thought or action initiated in a descending cycle has reduced impact. When a
cycle is not favorable we wait until it is rising again…<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Appreciating the energy cycles of our lives helps us
apply good timing..<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each of us has our rhythms. As we find our own
rhythm, we take advantage of whatever point of the cycle we find ourselves; we
learn to flow in harmony and rhythm with the Law of Cycles.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dan Millman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts
whirling around a center of fear. </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Life is a cycle, always in motion, if good times have moved on so will
times of trouble!</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Indian Proverb<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The cycle of violence needs extreme love to
break it</i>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
Sarah Macdonald</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">,<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Holy Cow: </i>An Indian
Adventure</span><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; font-style: italic;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">... Our ideas, in short, on duration and time are
all derived from our sensations according to the laws of Association.
Inextricably bound up with the relativity of human knowledge, they nevertheless
can have no existence except in the experience of the individual ego, and
perish when its evolutionary march dispels the Maya of phenomenal existence.
What is Time, for instance, but the panoramic succession of our states of
consciousness? </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the words of a Master, "I feel irritated at having to
use these three clumsy words -- Past, Present, and Future -- miserable concepts
of the objective phases of the subjective whole, they are about as ill-adapted
for the purpose as an ax for fine carving.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Our earth as a planet of this solar
system has three movements -- it rotates on its own axis, completing it in 24
hours; it revolves around the sun, completing it in 365 days; it participates
in the movement of the whole solar system as it goes through the sidereal cycle
of a little over 25,800 years.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Madame Blavatsky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nowadays, we tend to lose sight of this basic law of
nature. In this century we have grown to rely on our national government and
our technology. We have begun to believe that our standard of living, our
income, our health and our well-being should always improve. And many of us are
surprised and angry when the government cannot reverse economic downturns, or
improve the health of the people or prevent the average person's income from
falling from what it was 10 years ago. Our technology has been able to reduce
or delay the effects of the law of cycles, but the law is still operating.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Michael McGinnis</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The Law of Rhythm:<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>This Universal Law states that
everything vibrates and moves to certain rhythms. These rhythms establish
seasons, cycles, stages of development, and patterns. Each cycle reflects the regularity
of God’s universe. Masters know how to rise above negative parts of a cycle by
never getting too excited or allowing negative things to penetrate their
consciousness.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home.
You get kicked out when you’re too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work.
You work forty years until you’re young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do
drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade
school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a
little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months
floating …and you finish off as an orgasm.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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tides of the Earth, Sun, Moon and Stars are but repetitions of the Great Cycle,
the very nature of the energetic workings of the Universe. Coming to understand
this Cycle, and learning to harness its energy by working within its parameters
is one of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves... one of the greatest tools
in our quest for inner growth and understanding. We are a part of the Universe,
not apart from it, and becoming conscious of the mechanics of the Universe
gives us great insight into our inner Universe as well. As above, so below. As
within, so without.</i> </span></div>
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is no death. How can there be death if everything is part of the Godhead? The
soul never dies and the body is never really alive.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships… become
newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is
transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn,
continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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we live through thousands of dreams in out present life, so is our present life
only one of many thousands of such lives which we enter from the other more
real life… and then return after death. Our life is but one of the dreams of
that more real life, and so it is endlessly, until the very last one, the very
real life of God.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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who are deeply grateful… We must know
what it is to love and be loved.</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">How much do we <i>know</i> about</span><b style="line-height: 20px;"> Compassion</b><span style="line-height: 20px;">? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Who practices <b>Compassion</b>, and demonstrates how best to do it? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">One expert on this Law is the Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, the Dali Lama, "</span><em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My message is the practice of compassion, love and kindness...These practices are very important... T</span></em><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;"><i>he first step in cultivating compassion is to develop empathy for your fellow human beings."</i></span><span style="line-height: 20px;"> Read some of his writings on the topic. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you explore empathy and<b> Compassion</b> over the</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> next ten days, </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">bring up this subject in your conversations and mention its measurable physical benefits; </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">scientific studies suggest that compassionate people produce 100 percent more DHEA, the hormone which counteracts the aging process, and 23 percent less cortisol, the “stress hormone.” Skeptics may be surprised to find out who stands to </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">benefit the most from compassionate activities.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 18px;">In </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2008, </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Karen Armstrong, a former British nun, and author of several bestselling books on religious topics, joined with others to create the Charter for Compassion </span><span style="color: #444444; cursor: pointer; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 15px;"><a href="http://www.charterforcompassion.org/" rel="nofollow" style="cursor: pointer; line-height: 15px;" target="_blank">http://www.charterforcompassion.org</a> where you can find more information, from people of all backgrounds, who have vowed to be more compassionate. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Being on both the giving and the receiving ends of </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Compassion </b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">seems </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to deepen our understanding of this Law. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Compassion</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> remains just an</span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> idea, </i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in our minds, nothing changes in the world around us. When
we genuinely </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">feel </i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">empathy, rather than pity or sympathy, </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">then our hearts open and our hands
move, more skillfully. Hardening ourselves against suffering in others, and ourselves, is not the ideal way to </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">respond. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Compassion is the
ultimate and most meaningful embodiment of emotional maturity. It is through
compassion that a person achieves the highest peak and deepest reach in his or
her search for self-fulfillment</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Failure to show
compassion is a violation of the universal law of Love, and sets into motion the
universal law of Karma. One has to feel compassion before one can feel the
energy of love. Judgment, which excludes compassion, is without merit.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Margo Kirtikar, PhD. in her book <i>Cosmic and Universal Laws</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><i>In the western mind, there are two notions of Compassion. One is,
I'm going to be a good Samaritan and help this guy. But that is the Compassion
of the weak. The Compassion of the strong is in waking people up to their
blindness. For that, you need to be a Warrior</i></span><span class="apple-style-span">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To show
compassion for an individual, without showing concern for the structures of
society that make him (or her) an object of compassion, is to be sentimental
rather than loving.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">William Sloane Coffin
Jr. (1924 - 2006), American clergyman, one time CIA agent, long-time civil
rights leader and peace activist, books include <i>Credo</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people is that they
trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal
with. To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we
feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Having compassion
does not mean feeling pity for someone. It is rather feeling someone’s pain and
suffering as if it was our own. It is empathy rather than sympathy. Compassion is the wish for another being to
be free of suffering, just as love is wanting them to have happiness. It is a
genuine wish for the wellbeing of others and is the most meaningful embodiment
of emotional maturity.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Margo Kirtikar, PhD. in her book <i>Cosmic and Universal Laws</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Self-compassion is not about losing your inner critic; it's about
transforming it from a bitter; self-destructive voice to one tempered with
humor and forgiveness.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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really to listen to someone in affliction, it is just as difficult for him to
know that compassion is listening to him.</span></i></div>
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<i><span lang="EN"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Compassion is a
spontaneous movement of wholeness. It is not a studied decision to help the
poor, to be kind to the unfortunate. Compassion has a tremendous momentum that
naturally, choicelessly moves us to worthy action. It cannot be cultivated. It
is simply there when the wholeness of life becomes a fact that is truly
lived...Compassion requires a plunge to the depths of life where oneness is a
reality and division is merely an illusion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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is not about sentiment but is about making justice and doing works of mercy.
Compassion is not a moral commandment but a flow and overflow of the fullest
human and divine energies.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Compassion is often
misunderstood. Genuine compassion is based not on our own projections and
expectations, but rather on the rights of the other: irrespective of whether
another person is a close friend or an enemy, as long as that person wishes for
peace and happiness and wishes to overcome suffering, then on that basis we
develop genuine concern for his or her problem. This is genuine compassion.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Dalai Lama in his book, <i>An Open Heart.</i> The Dalai Lama is considered to be an incarnation or manifestation of <i>Chenrezi</i>, the divinity of Compassion,
the deity or awareness-being of the heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Chenrezig, Avalokitesvara), is the bodhisattva of compassion. Kwan Yin is comforter,
healer, and female exemplar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How many kinds of <b>Power</b> <i>are</i> there in the world? As you discuss this Law with others for the next ten days, you are going to have some interesting conversations! Most of the <b>Power</b> around us everyday is generated by the Elements; </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">solar <b>Power</b>, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">wind <b>Power</b>, wave <b>Power</b>, but people tend to think immediately of human <b>Power </b>when this subject is brought up. And yet, how puny our <b>Power</b> is, up against the Elements! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I write this, the human controlled <b>Power </b>has gone out, because of a blizzard here in New England. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And yet in the <i>absence</i> of electricity, I am feeling strangely <i>empowered</i>. My (forced) cooperation with the Elements has altered all priorities. Hauling wood for the stove, heating my food and water on it, reading by candlelight - my 'world' has been completely altered, but I am able to function, to take care of my basic needs. Perhaps this is why it's so enjoyable. By hooking up the generator for a little while, I can send this post out into the world, and then return to the quiet.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If <i>you</i> had to live off the grid - how would you react? Are you prepared for it? </span></div>
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you contemplate the human <b>Powers</b> of mind, heart, body and spirit for the next ten days, ask yourself, which of those <b>Powers</b> is <i>most</i> appealing to you. Why? </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Our relationships with who and what we think wields </span><b style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Power </b><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">(especially over us) </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">are often </span><span style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">so ingrained we are not be aware of how it needs to change. Powerlessness is difficult to deal with but so is the 'drug' of <b>Power</b> that comes with money, position or privilege.</span></span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Ultimately, if we learn to use <b>Power</b> wisely, what will actual happen is that spiritual <b>Power</b> will able to work <i>through</i> us. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Our
chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose.
Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is
utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919)
26<sup>th</sup> American President<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <span class="quoteclass1"><i>The
headlong plunge into the mental and intellectual – into technology and
heartless problem-solving…The power of the mind becomes authoritarian and
punishing when we lose the Balance with the female side, of Nature… The
ego-driven, vertical power structure has brought us to the brink of extinction.
But real power isn’t vertical, it’s horizontal…unless you’ve forgotten the
power within… We have to reestablish our connection to the original JOY... We
have to look in the right place. We all know this on some deeper level but
don’t pay attention to it. The state we’re in now: sex is death, food is
poison, the water’s no good, the air is ruined. We must all do something or
continue to suffer the consequences.</i></span><i>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="quoterefclass1">Janine
Pommy Vega (1942- ) American poet, books include </span><span class="quoterefclass1"><i>Tracking the
Serpent</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alice Walker American
author, books include <i>The Color Purple</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To have
great faith is to have great power, because your intent, your will is
undivided. When your word isn't dissipated by doubt, the power of your word
becomes even stronger.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a
person’s real power grows and knowledge widens, ever the way s/he can follow
grows narrower, until at last s/he choose nothing, but does only and wholly
what s/he must do.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ursula LeGuin American
author in her book <i>Earthsea Quartet<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You
cannot know the meaning of your life until you feel connected to the power that
created you. You must feel the existence of the spirit. Freedom is when you
really get your own powers. They are within you, in your central nervous system
and in your conscious mind.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shri Mataji Nirmala
Devi (1923 - ) Indian founder of <a href="http://www.sahajayoga.org/">www.sahajayoga.org</a>,
raised in ashram of Mahatma Gandhi, books include <i>Meta Modern Era</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I cured
with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured, it was
the power from the Outer World, the visions and the ceremonies had only made me
like a hole through which the power could come to the two leggeds. If I thought
that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come
through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Black Elk, Frank
Fools Crow’s uncle, describing to him how spiritual power works<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Power
is the ability to transform any energy. When we are whole, and in our power,
our possibilities are endless. Power is the effective use of energy. We work
with the energy of the universe…</i> <i>We never use the
energy we were born with.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Holger Kalweit, <i>Shamans, Healers & Medicine Men</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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shall have joy, or you shall have power</i>, said God, <i>you shall not have both</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(1803-1882) American author and philosopher, from a 1842 Journal entry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Without
the addition of spiritual power, man tends to use his natural power for
himself. And while he accomplishes outstanding things on the earthly plane,
this tendency causes him to subordinate and misuse the rest of creation, until
he sees he has created a monster that will devour him. The Higher Powers teach
the person with appended spiritual power not to do this. If they abuse it, the
Higher Powers refuse to work through them.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Frank Fools Crow
(1890-1989), Native American Lakota Sioux spiritual leader, holy man and Sun
Dance Chief, see <i>Fools Crow</i>: Wisdom
and Power by Thomas E. Mails<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Power
arises from meaning. It has to do with motive and principle. Power is always
associated with that which supports the significance of life itself. It appeals
to that part of human nature we call </i>noble<i> –
in contrast to force, which appeals to the part we call </i>crass<i>. Power appeals to what uplifts, dignifies
and ennobles. Force must always be justified, but power needs no justification.
Force is associated with the partial, power with the whole….Power is total and
complete…it is still, it makes no demands, it has no needs…it energizes, gives
forth, supplies and supports, whereas force always moves against something… has
an insatiable appetite and is constantly consuming.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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PhD from his book <i>Power vs. Force </i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In ten days we will take up the <b>Law of Compassion</b>. Until then enjoy playing with <b>Power</b>.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3; color: #444444;">Chaos is… all possibilities existing
simultaneously. Are you ready to let go, and descend into chaos, and ’not
knowing’ long enough for new possibilities to emerge?</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After the reality check of the last </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Law of Ultimate Reality</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you can see where this is going. </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pure Potential</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> has everything to do with how much of that <b>Reality</b> yo</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">u are living in. What prevents us from reaching our </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pure Potential</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">? The same things which hinder our access to <b>Ultimate Reality</b>:</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">perception limitations, personality </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">flaws, ego, fears, all those aspects of spirits being in human form.</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As most of us realize, our senses are constantly distracting us, and we are barely using 10% of our
brainpower, but our spiritual natures transcend all that. </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pure Potential</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> is pure spirit. No agendas, no ethnicity, no defensiveness, no attachments... Imagine living in that state! As Jacquelyn Small
says, ‘W</span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">e are not human beings trying to
be spiritual. We are spiritual beings trying to be human.'</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the next ten days, instead of asking your mind for decisions, or even your emotional heart center, ask what does spirit want. See what kind of responses come. When we are spirit led, rather than self propelled, no mission is impossible. But then, the missions also become completely different. They aren't about competition, domination, winning or taking someone else out. They're about gestures, goals and <b>Choices</b> that are often at odds with ego and society's expectations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you bring this concept up in conversation this week, notice who shakes their heads as if you're losing touch with reality, and who 'gets it'. <b>Pure</b> is the operative word. <b>Potential</b> becomes possible when the intentions are purified.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Self interest, personal gain, manipulation - all that must fall away - for <b>Pure Potential</b> to reveal itself.</span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's more like asking to be used, by the Universe, than trying to use it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>This law is based on the fact that we are, in our
essential state, pure consciousness. Pure consciousness is pure potentiality;
it is the field of all possibilities and infinite creativity. Pure
consciousness is our spiritual essence. Being infinite and unbounded, it is
also pure joy. Other attributes of consciousness are pure knowledge, infinite
silence, perfect balance, invincibility, simplicity, and bliss…Our essential
nature is pure potentiality</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><i>In this
infinite sea of potentials that exist around us, how come we keep creating the
same realities?</i></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span">Dr. Joseph Dispenza<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All we are given is possibilities -- to make ourselves
one thing or another.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jose Ortega y Gasset,
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is the greatest
potential wanting to unfold? How do you go beyond your personal wants and
desires to tap into a bigger picture-a picture of 'what wants to happen,' a
picture of your greatest potential and the greatest potential of a moment,
situation, project, or vision?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alan Seale in <i>The Manifestation Wheel</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The
finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement. Yet, almost no one gets the
encouragement they need to grow to their full potential. If everyone received
the encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most everyone would blossom
and the world would produce abundance beyond the wildest dreams. We would have
more than one Einstein, Edison, Schweitzer, Mother Theresa, Dr. Salk and other
great minds in a century</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sidney Madwed<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> </b><i style="text-align: center;">I don’t
think any of our dreams begin to come close to the dreams Spirit has waiting
with our names on them. I also believe
we will only find out once we start investing our emotions in authentic
expression and not in specific outcomes.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sarah B. Breathnach, <i>Simple Abundance</i><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When we
feel passion for something, it is because we are remembering what it was that
we came here to do. The more passion we feel, the more in alignment with Source
we are, allowing this energy to pour through us with no hesitation. This is the
way it was meant to be.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Karen Bishop<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are
light going through a prism. The light is always there, but only we can act as
its’ prism, concentrating and filtering it. We make of the light of the cosmos,
a rainbow, with a mouth and arms.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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hours are those in which we are most pregnant with our own potential… True North…the soulcraft of devoutly caring
for our authentic selves…<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><i>Be
bold in your decisions and creative and imaginative in your thoughts. Think and
live with the soul of a mystic, seeing the world as a field of grace in which
you walk as a channel of light. Live these truths. Become these truths. This is
your true highest potential</i></span><span class="apple-style-span">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Caroline
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>As old
as humanity itself is the divine gift of human potential: to connect, tap into
and realize the perfect harmony within mind, body and spirit. This holistic
philosophy is “the space between the notes,” that bridges the gaps between
tangible facts, ethical analysis, and intuitive wisdom of the laws of life. It
also forms a continuum between here and now and the hereafter</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the American
Institute of Holistic Theology, <a href="http://www.aiht.edu/">www.aiht.edu</a> <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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cynthia (fetterolf barnum) davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15538490318339463690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2095059994932547318.post-8040660872611078492013-01-21T17:52:00.003-08:002013-01-21T17:52:45.723-08:00Ultimate Reality Law # 30<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #ead1dc;">We are Spiritual Beings having a
Human Experience. If we concede to human
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So, how about doing a big </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">reality check</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> with me over the next ten days? Your reality, my reality, our reality, the Big Picture, the macro and the micro, how much </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">reality</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> are we dealing with? If you want your reality to improve, you need to change your perception of it and your relationship with it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Ultimate Reality</b> includes everything, what some call the <i>All That Is, </i></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Absolute or Infinite Reality. I like to imagine it as </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a vast <i>playing field, </i>far grander than our physical senses can appreciate. By realizing we are s</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">piritual beings having a human experience, we can free ourselves from the ego tyranny of merely ‘human nature’ and enter that <i>playing field</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>U</b></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>ltimate Reality</b> is not limited by time or space. It is spiritual and energetic. It is the souls realm, where we can comprehend the <b>Sacred Oneness</b> it All. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are so many levels of human and universal consciousness to explore within <b>Ultimate Reality</b>. To do this we have to expand and evolve; mentally, emotionally and spiritually. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Together, with all our combined thoughts, feelings and intentions, we are constantly reshaping and recreating this </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ultimate Reality</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. Fear is counterproductive and contracting when facing such vast wholeness, but responsibility and <b>Compassion</b> are welcome. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is your part to play </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">during this lifetime? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Bring up the subject of </span></span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ultimate Reality </b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with friends and family this week, and talk about what happens when people <i>refuse to face </i>reality. Why is denial so popular? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whether it's conspiracy theories, propaganda, the lack of facts, education or the easily swayed emotions that get in the way, why don't you volunteer to speak up on behalf of <b>Ultimate Reality </b>for the next ten days at least?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the swirl of stars and planets, in
faraway galaxies, to the whorls at the end of our fingertips, the Circle repeats
itself, endlessly right down to the atomic and genetic levels. These </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">wheels within Wheels, these concentric, interlocking spirals of energy hint at the style and substance of </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Ultimate Reality</b>. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's some wisdom to get your conversations started with others.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Australian aborigines describe Ultimate
Reality as the Dream Time. This is where the Laws that govern their lives come
from, a Time beyond any individual lifetime. The Rainbow Serpent guards the
Dream Time.</i> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">KUN-MAN-GUR THE RAINBOW SERPENT : An
Aboriginal Myth. <i>Rainbow Serpent</i> by
Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Kabul Oodgeroo Noonuccal<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>To a large degree
‘reality’ is whatever the people who are around at the time agree to.</i> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Milton Miller<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To deny
the reality of things is to miss their reality;<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to assert
the emptiness of things is to miss their reality.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The more
you talk and think about it, the further astray you wander from the truth.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stop
talking and thinking and there is nothing you will not be able to know.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The emotional virus lives and thrives
in the gap between expectations and perceived reality.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, <i>From Chaos to Coherence<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One can never really give a proof of
the reality of anything; reality is not something open to proof, it is
something established. It is established just because proof is not enough. It
is this characteristic of language, at once indispensable and inadequate, which
shows the reality of the external world. Most people hardly ever realize this,
because it is rare that the very same man thinks and puts his thought into
action...<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><i>Art is
our opportunity to get things right. To tell the truth. To find the ultimate
reality</i></span><span class="apple-style-span">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><i>Man keeps
searching for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the Truth
doesn't fit.</i></span><span class="apple-style-span"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
supreme experience is staggering, enrapturing, blissful, and inspiring, but at
the same time inexplicable and ungraspable by the intellect. The experience is
supremely illuminating because it reveals the grandeur, sublimity and the
eternal nature of the soul, but beyond that -- what? All that is beyond lies
out of the reach of the intellect, and hence cannot be translated into any
language devised by the mind.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To
surrender to God’s will is to surrender to the truth that nothing other than
the Ultimate Reality is permanent… The pathway to Enlightenment via radical
truth is demanding and requires the surrendering of all belief systems. Only
then does the Ultimate Reality reveal itself as the sought-after “I” of the
Supreme<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i> </i>Dr. David Hawkins, American psychiatrist,
physician, researcher, mystic and pioneer in the fields of consciousness
research and spirituality <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When light is visible and organized
into concrete objects, reality is material.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When light contains feeling, thought
and intelligence, reality is quantum.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When light is completely unmanifest,
with no qualities anyone can measure, reality is virtual.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each
religion has its own method of realization whereby the ultimate reality, the
final self, the integrating principle is reached.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">D. T. Suzuki in his
book </span><i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What Is Shin Buddhism?</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><i>When you know you have forever, you
can afford to be patient, to be kind, to be loving and forgiving.</i></span></span><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: #444444;"><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What might be different if you knew your
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What else beside our souls or spirits <i>could</i> last forever? Surely not our egos, our bodies, or our minds, which are all designed to perish. As you consider <b>Immortality</b> for the next 10 days, review your beliefs in concepts like reincarnation. Although it exists in many religious traditions and cultures, you may not put much stock in reincarnation unless you've experienced a past life review of some kind. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the 2012 film, <i>Cloud Atlas</i>, based upon David Mitchell's book of the same title, you can see what one man imagines <b>Immortality</b> to be like, at least for his main character, who reincarnates over and over, going from lives in colonial times through to a post-apocalyptic era, with lessons in every lifetime. </span></div>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Since our beliefs have such powerful effects upon our behaviors, and death can make us so fearful, the belief in </span><b style="line-height: 20px;">Immortality</b><span style="line-height: 20px;"> can be a two edged sword. On the one hand, believing in the idea of reincarnation can free you, somewhat, from the physical fears of death and the
tyranny of the ego personality, but it can also cause other anxieties. Because we can get so attached, to particular people, places, and ethnicities, our fears about losing those identities can be as great as the terrors of dying itself, unless we learn to embrace such radical change. </span><b style="line-height: 20px;"> </b><span style="line-height: 20px;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you bring up the subject of <b>Immortality</b> with friends and family in the coming ten days, mention <b>mortality</b> too, its opposite. Then ask if anyone has had an 'out of the body' experience. Unless we have have seen ourselves from outside of our bodies, we may find it hard to believe that our spirits do indeed transcend the limitations of our vulnerable, perishable bodies. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ask yourself, and others, what deserves <b>Immortality</b>? And why some ideas, archetypes, and stories seem immortal? As the
centuries pass, why do some remain alive in the hearts and minds of
people, while others are forgotten?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Forever</i>
is not a frame of reference we work with, on a daily basis, so we don’t know much
about it. What would you do with <b>eternity</b>? Many people can’t figure out
what to do on a rainy weekend. How would they spend forever?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The next time you feel stressed out, trying
to do too much in a single day, t</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hink about the vast endlessness of eternity, and relax, you do have a lot more time ahead. </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You who
long for life, learn that immortality is hidden in transiency.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Buddha<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Immortality
is accomplished by a "proper Mind," or "mental correctness"
based upon the "understanding" of the Seven Hermetic Principles of
Universal Cosmic Law that enables the human Mind to manipulate the atomic
particles of their own bodies and the surrounding environment. When a person can do these things, he or she
has accomplished the mastery of Life of which a few individuals are already
living in this aspect of Mental reality.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">J. R. Seydel, author http://www.pymander.com/AETHEREAL/IMMOR~1.htm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those who know,
not only that the Everlasting lives in them, but that what they, and all
things, really are is the Everlasting, dwell in the groves of the
wish-fulfilling trees, drink the brew of immortality, and listen everywhere to
the unheard music of eternal concord. These are the immortals.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Joseph Campbell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you
were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every
living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would
dry up at once.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fyodor Dostoevsky<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Death
and immortality are an indissoluble pair of lovers, and the person whose face
merges in our mind with the faces of the dead, is already immortal while still
alive.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Milan Kundera<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are living and we
are dying. Not either/or but both/and. That’s mortality turning into
Immortality…<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Deborah Cumming in her book <i>Recovering From Mortality</i>: Essays From A
Cancer Limbo Time<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We do
not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it
because we cannot help believing it.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Harriet Martineau<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In our
desire for eternal life we pray for an eternity of our habit and comfort,
forgetting that immortality is in repeatedly transcending the definite forms of
life in order to pursue the infinite truth of life… Let the dead have the
immortality of fame, but the living the immortality of love.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rabindranath
Tagore (1861-1941)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Immortality
is a word which stands for the stability or permanence of that unique and
precious quality we discern in the soul.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">W. Macneile Dixon, <i>The Human Situation<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Immortality – who
ever has grasped it,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Is delivered from
all burdens of the soul</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Frithjof Schuon in <i>World Wheel</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off;
perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all
men will do and know all things.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jorge Luis Borges<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each of
us is immortal.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dr. Brian Weiss,
well-known psychiatrist & author, books include <i>Same Soul, Many Bodies</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">In ten days we'll take up the </span><b style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">Law of Ultimate Reality</b><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">, until then make <b>Immortality </b>your focus</span><span style="background-color: #f4cccc; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;">.</span></div>
cynthia (fetterolf barnum) davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15538490318339463690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2095059994932547318.post-74699567852998577652013-01-02T19:15:00.003-08:002013-01-03T10:52:48.954-08:00Giving & Receiving Law # 28<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;">If we realized it was
equally sacred to Give as to Receive, would we practice being more generous
with each other? The Earth gives us everything, so abundantly… How grateful are we? </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">As you <i>receive</i> this Law, <i>give</i> yourself as much time as you need, </span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">for the next ten days (at least), </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">to generate as many questions as you can about all aspects of <b>Giving & Receiving</b>. What happens when you give your heart, for instance? And by what mysterious <b>Process</b> do we receive someone's <b>Love</b>?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #333333;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Get intimate as you dig into your psyche. Consider your internal system of weights and measures. Do </span></span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">you believe you have </span></span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">given</i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> more than you've </span></span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">received</i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">?</span><i style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> </i><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">H</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">ow did you come to this conclusion? By what method of accounting? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Unfortunately, if our <i>giving</i> has strings, and is not done in a free will way, r</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">esentments tend to come back to haunt us, and can poison our relationships as well as our offerings of money, time, and goodwill. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">And when the shoe is on the other foot, and we are feeling entitled, and more deserving, where do those ideas and feelings come from? Some of us have difficulty even <i>receiving</i> a sincere compliment. What causes that? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you explore this Law more deeply, you'll find we have some strange ideas about <b>Giving & Receiving</b>. Obligations, gratitude, favors, we have so many unwritten, unspoken, and unacknowledged beliefs about these transactions. What we assume and what we expect in return, are rarely discussed, only implied. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In these individualistic United States, we don't like feeling obligated. Even when it comes to being generous, most find it easier to donate money to a cause, than to give directly to a person in need. Why do we have organized charities acting as our 'middlemen' when it comes to giving? What makes us feel so uncomfortable when facing poverty, fears and the needs of others? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The universe operates
through dynamic exchange . . . giving and receiving are different aspects of
the flow of energy in the universe. And in our willingness to give that which
we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Deepak Chopra<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Give
with pleasure without expecting anything in return… you will be activating the
Law of Giving, which will in turn activate the Law of Circle and the Law of
Receiving. This means that your good deeds will be making the circle and will
be coming back to you tenfold stronger… But for this you need to be in a mode
of receiving as well. Be prepared with wide open arms to the abundance that the
universe will shower on you. The return might not be immediate and not from the
same source that you gave to, but return it will. The energy will return to you
because according to the law, the circle must close.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Margo Kirtikar, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>A
generous man forgets what he gives and remembers what he receives</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Proverb<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If
nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart.
And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always
full, and you can give things out of that.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Frances Hodgson
Burnett<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>He has
the right to criticize who has the heart to help</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abraham Lincoln<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the
wrist. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Laurence Leamer, <i>King of the Night</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whatever
you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the
world.… Whatever you think people are withholding from you--praise,
appreciation, assistance, loving care, and so on--give it to them.…You cannot
receive what you don't give. Outflow determines inflow.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eckhart Tolle German
author books include <i>The Power of Now</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You
cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting.
You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot
hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Robert Collier<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Water
is the life-giver and the death-bringer.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Life is
ever giving of Itself. We must receive, utilize and extend the gift. Success
and prosperity are spiritual attributes belonging to all people.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ernest Holmes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Condemnation
does not liberate, it oppresses. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There
are two kinds of generosity - the real and the shadow; the former is prompted
by love, the latter by vanity.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">True
generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish
false charity. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">All we
have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to
love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be
pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vernon Howard from <i>The Power of Your Supermind</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There
is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in
life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving
them to someone else.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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is giving up something good for something better.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You may
give away your time, for example, and it comes back to you much later from an
unexpected source in an unexpected form in a way that benefits you greatly. You
cannot insist on a particular way and time it will come back to you, but you
can be assured it will come back in the best way for you…. Learn also to receive
graciously and happily. Do not feel uncomfortable receiving. You deserve it and
by receiving, you are in harmony with the law of giving and receiving.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Cameron Gikandi
in his book <i>A Happy Pocket Full of Money<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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cynthia (fetterolf barnum) davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15538490318339463690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2095059994932547318.post-28572905929057731162012-12-23T19:16:00.003-08:002012-12-23T19:17:44.561-08:00Commitment Law # 27<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><i>Commitment is best understood by
realizing the first commitment, when you were given life. Have you truly accepted it? Re-evaluate what is involved in any act of
Commitment</i>.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Cynthia F. Davidson, from the Wisdom Wheel <b>Commitment </b>card</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Can you </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">commit</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> to spending the next 10 days studying the </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Law
of </b><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Commitment</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">? What rating would you give yourself in the </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Commitment</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> department? Do you keep your word 100% of the time? 50% of the time?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Consider a time when someone failed to honor a </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Commitment</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> made to you. Then review another instance, when it was <i>your</i> failure, to keep a </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Commitment</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What were the underlying reasons each time? </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Were they the same both times? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What makes it difficult to keep our promises to ourselves, much less to others? And when we do keep them, what was different?</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How much do we actually understand, about the <b>Process</b>, of making <b>Commitments</b>?<b> </b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why do we even want them, in the first place? And what makes us break them so often? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Being born with the ingrained </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">fight or flight</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> instinct may have something to do with our abilities to stay the course, especially in relationships where our obligations make us feel threatened, resentful or fearful. </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While emotions can certainly inspire our </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Commitments</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, as when couples get married, if there is no 'chemistry' to enhance the physical <b>Commitment</b>, and no shared spirituality to strengthen the <b>Commitment</b> over time, what will keep any two individuals together? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In your real life, what is the most impressive </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Commitment</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> you can think of? If it's about a relationship between two people, make a list of qualities each person has, or had, which enhanced and preserved their <b>Commitment</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now think about a person, place or thing you are very devoted to. Why have you stayed? Why did you stray, in the past?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As with each of these Laws, it is well worth bringing them up as conversation starters, with family and friends. You may learn quite a lot about how they see the world, and other people, as well as these values, like <b>Commitment</b>.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The definition of
the word commit is to “devote oneself unreservedly.” This means holding
absolutely nothing back; giving 100 percent of everything…</i> <i>It
means being willing to do whatever it takes, for as long as it takes. This is
the warrior’s way. No excuses, no ifs, no butts, no maybes—and failure isn’t an
option.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">T. Harv Eker from<i> Secrets of the Millionaire Mind<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It
isn't until you begin to fight in your own cause that you<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(a)
become really committed to winning, and<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(b)
become a genuine ally of other people struggling for their freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Robin Morgan (1941 -
) activist and author books include <i>Sisterhood Is Powerful</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We
promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="FR"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French classical author<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Commitment
is never an act of moderation!<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To act
is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">James A. Baldwin<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The uncommitted
life isn't worth living.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A decision
is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a
commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nido Qubein (1948 - )
Arab American, world renowned motivational speaker and president of High Point
University<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We only
regard those unions as real examples of love and real marriages in which a
fixed and unalterable decision has been taken. If men or women contemplate an
escape, they do not collect all their powers for the task. In none of the
serious and important tasks of life do we arrange such a "getaway."
We cannot love and be limited.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alfred Adler<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Marriage
means commitment. Of course, so does
insanity</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Being
of service is not enough. You must become a servant of the people. When you do,
you can demand their commitment in return.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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is a line you must cross....it is the difference between dreaming and doing.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There
have been more persecution and atrocities committed in the name of religion and
religious freedom than anything else.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Walter Koenig<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I made
a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me
from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have
opened upon me-spirituality and financially.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Visions
are messages from the Great Spirit, each for a different purpose in life.
Consequently, one person's vision may not be that of another. To have a vision,
one must be prepared to receive it, and when it comes, to accept it. Thus when
these inner urges become reality, only then can visions be fulfilled. How could
a vision ever be given to someone if that person could not be trusted to carry
it out. The message is simple: commitment precedes vision.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Commitment
means that it is possible for a man to yield the nerve center of his consent to
a purpose or cause, a movement or an ideal, which may be more important to him
than whether he lives or dies.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Howard Thurman</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In another 10 days, we'll take up the <b>Law of Giving & Receiving</b>, until then, re-examine the whys and wherefores of your <b>Commitments</b>.</span></div>
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cynthia (fetterolf barnum) davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15538490318339463690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2095059994932547318.post-8062579047327375822012-12-12T20:44:00.000-08:002012-12-12T20:44:07.374-08:00Courage Law # 26<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: #ffe599;">The Courage it takes to look one’s
fears in the face can transform both the fear and the one who is afraid. Take back the Power you have given to your
fears.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What do you think takes the <i>most</i> <b>Courage</b>? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Admitting you are wrong? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Facing a terminal illness? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Standing up to an enemy? Or to someone close to you?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Being honest, about your beliefs, when others disagree and you will be alone? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">O</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ver a lifetime, w</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">e'll need all kinds of <b>Courage</b>,<b> </b>and during the next ten days, make it a point to experiment with as many types of this Law as you can. Think about your <b>Courage </b>and how it <i>encourages</i> others. And explore the opposite of <b>Courage</b>. What affects do your <i>fears</i> have, upon you, your friends and family. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Sometimes we need <i>mental </i><b>Courage</b>. Other times it's <i>bodily</i> <b>Courage</b> or <i>spiritual</i> <b>Courage</b> we must draw upon. And then there is the <b>Courage</b> of the <i>heart</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When our hearts are not <i>in</i> something, we lack <b>Courage</b> and <i>lose heart </i>too e</span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">asily.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;"> The word <b>Courage</b> comes from </span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">coeur</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">, the French term for the <i>heart</i>. This implies that true <b>Courage</b> is an <i>inner</i> strength, not dependent upon big muscles, or well developed intellects.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take the time to make a list of <i>courageous acts</i> you admire, and ones you have taken part in. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Who do you know, in your personal life, who has exhibited the most <b>Courage</b>? What made them so courageous? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you look ahead to your future years, what (do you believe) will require the most <b>Courage</b> from you? From others?</span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Courage</b> <span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">can also makes us foolhardy, if it is the boastful sort of bravado that incites others and causes trouble. We know about quiet Courage, but it also requires considerable Courage to get out there, or to get up on the stage (or TV) in front of people, knowing you'll be criticized, behind your back. </span></span></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The most salient
mark of a creative person... is not physical courage... it is a personal
courage, a courage of the mind and spirit, psychological or spiritual courage
that is the radius of a creative person: the courage to question what is
generally accepted; the courage to be destructive in order that something
better can be constructed; the courage to be open to experience both from within
and without; the courage to imagine the impossible and try to achieve it; the
courage to stand aside from collectivity and in conflict with it, if necessary;
the courage to become and to be oneself. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">D.W. MacKinnon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whatever you do,
you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to
tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt
you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow
it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has
its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ralph Waldo Emerson<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Courage in an
untrained mind leads to cruelty, and in a trained mind it leads to hope and
compassion.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">P.J. Saher in <i>Zen-Yoga</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have the courage
to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly
want to become. Everything else is secondary. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Steve Jobs, founder of Apple <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The man with
outward courage dares to die; the man with inward courage dares to live.</i> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lao Tzu<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Courage: the most
important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any
other virtue consistently.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maya Angelou<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is curious that
physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whereas moral
courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the
discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can
be built. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the
courage to commit.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral</i></span><span class="apple-style-span">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mahatma Gandhi<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I wanted you to
see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man
with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but
you begin anyway and see it through no matter what</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Atticus Finch, character in Harper Lee’s
novel <i>To Kill a Mockingbird</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>It takes courage
for a person to listen to their own goodness and act on it. Do we dare to be ourselves? This is the question that counts.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwkoKKxFBPqj8As7Ui47I0SBPoFxGAibhDiCcjvb_s4g-rGJlYSCZ_b9ahGAm9VDUoHuWCBa4z2AtbY3EK63-Wlm_iaNjxuVOkaS8aNqmira8D1z_q-vPDLUJdKatAKcNJSgOwZeujUaY/s1600/Courage+stone.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwkoKKxFBPqj8As7Ui47I0SBPoFxGAibhDiCcjvb_s4g-rGJlYSCZ_b9ahGAm9VDUoHuWCBa4z2AtbY3EK63-Wlm_iaNjxuVOkaS8aNqmira8D1z_q-vPDLUJdKatAKcNJSgOwZeujUaY/s320/Courage+stone.JPG" width="320" /></a><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The law of Courage
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ability to not only face a danger but to risk an action to defuse
that danger. When action is taken, fear departs. …Courage is a quality of an evolved
soul in manifestation…its deficiency being cowardice and its vice, excess
recklessness. …Courage is one of the four cardinal virtues, along with
prudence, justice and temperance.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In ten days, we'll take up the 27th <b>Law of Commitment</b>, until then, be of good <b>Courage</b>. </span></div>
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Great Creator bestows all gifts of insight, genius, artistic ability and truly
elegant solutions. Problems can be
solved and ideas can flow through inexhaustibly if we honor our Creativity… Share
your creation stories.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (cards, stones, posters & more available via www.thewisdomwheel.com)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">How <i>creative</i> are your ideas about 'Creator'? If you still have the same image you were given as a child, you might want to jump start your <b>Creativity</b> by getting more imaginative about 'God', the Great Spirit, the Great Mystery to begin with. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">After the </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Law of Enlightenment </b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">last week, it is time for </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Creativity, Courage</b> and <b>Commitment </b>this month. These three line up beside the <b>Law of Right Action</b>. This implies that <b>Right
Action</b> is unlikely without <b>Creativity</b>. Likewise, creative ideas never come to fruition unless we have the <b>Courage</b> and <b>Commitment</b> to see them through.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">When have you felt the most creative? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Who around you has kept their creative spark alive? How? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">What has inhibited your <b>Creativity</b>? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">What are you afraid of?</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During the coming ten days, have some <i>fun</i> with this Law. Loosen up. Laugh with others and at yourself. Have creative toys, tools and games around to involve others. Wear a red clown nose, put on a funny hat, make people smile. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Creativity</b> includes giving yourself permission to <i>play</i> when it's called for, and many studies have proven it </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">enhances our productivity.</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Make a list of the most creative people you can think of and why you've chosen them as examples of this Law in action. In our capitalist society, the individuals 'rewarded' with the most pay per day are actually the people who do <i>make believe</i> for a living, such as actors, like Tom Hanks, who customarily get $20 million per movie, for about 6 weeks worth of work. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><b>Creativity</b> is contagious. It inspires the rest of us, so be as creative as you dare, for the next ten days. Maybe you'll like it and never go backwards. Here are some insights to feed your <b>Creativity</b>. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Some people think of creativity as something that artists
possess. It might be more helpful to think of it as Jung did, as an instinct.
We can bring creativity to almost every life activity. Moreover, we can use
certain imaginative forms of creative expression through the arts to explore
personal, spiritual, and psychological development</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Marion Woodman and
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it
at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and
elaborating and shaping the image into the finished work. By giving it shape,
the artist translates it into the language of the present and so makes it
possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Carl Jung<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is intelligence having fun.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Albert Einstein<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't
think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything
self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply
"must" do things." <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Life
isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">George Bernard Shaw
(Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for
Literature, 1856-1950)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Creative
minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anna Freud<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No
amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Edward Hopper<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">True
creativity quite simply starts with balancing your emotions and activating the
power of the heart. Through practicing emotional management from the heart, you
tap into the highest form of creativity possible--recreating your perceptions of
reality.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Everybody
dreams, wishes and imagines but one needs to understand how this works in order
to be creative. The imagination can be described as a screen that lies between
the visible and the invisible worlds, and images and entities are projected on
this screen that we are normally unaware of in our field of consciousness.
Those who have a developed imagination are able to use this faculty of
imagination, to receive and to record these impressions, which they then try to
express or describe or realize on the physical plane</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Margo Kirtikar, PhD.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If I
create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost
nothing.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Marc Chagall<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Man is
creative only when he is neither apologetic nor propagandistic.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rabbi Abraham Joshua
Heschel (1907-72)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Creativity
is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Scott Adams<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Without
continuous creation, the Universe must evolve toward a dead state in which all
the matter is condensed into a vast number of dead stars.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Fred Hoyle in <i>The Nature of the Universe</i> (1950)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>By
believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it.
The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nikos Kazantzakis<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Creativity
is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peter Koestenbaum<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Creation does not take place where
there is a scattering and a dissipation of energies. Creation requires a gathering together and a
focusing of your power within a circle of commitment – like a seed, an egg, in
a womb, or a marriage. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ken Carey in <i>Return of
the Bird Tribes</i> from White Buffalo Calf Woman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Losing
touch with spirit does nothing to the field of creativity, which is beyond
harm; but it can do much to damage a person's chance in life.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Deepak Chopra<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>For a
cultural transformation to occur, it must be imagined first. All reform movements are fed by those who are
good at writing songs and telling us a new kind of story and teaching us to
believe in ourselves.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Carol Lee Flinders
books include <i>Rebalancing the World<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Creativity,
when all is said and done, may be the best thing our species has going for it.
It is also the most dangerous….When we consider creativity we are considering
the most elemental and innermost and deeply spiritual aspect of our beings. Imagination
brings about not just intimacy but a big intimacy, a sense of union with the
cosmos, a sense of belonging and being at home, of our knowing we have not only
a right to be here but a task to do as well while we are here.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Matthew Fox former
Catholic priest dismissed by the Dominican Order for being too radical, is now
an Episcopal priest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
more creative you are, the more creative you are. This law is simple - creativity
breeds creativity. Being creative is all about flow, and as soon as you hit
your stride in creating, it becomes so effortless you forget you're even doing
it. But, like rolling a giant snowball, it seems incredibly difficult to get
that momentum started, especially if you haven't created regularly for a while.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dan Goodwin</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In ten days we'll take up the <b>Law of Courage</b>. Till then enjoy your <b>Creativity</b>.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">...It is our most sacred
task, to be Light and to bring Light. Could this be so hard? What
allows it and what prevents it? </span> </span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Cynthia F. Davidson, excerpt from the Wisdom Wheel <b>Enlightenment </b></span><span style="color: #444444;">card </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> (cards, stones, posters & more available via www.thewisdomwheel.com)</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">What makes us believe we are </span></span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">enlightened</i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">, or not? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">How do you evaluate someone else's degree of </span></span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Enlightenment</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Who radiates <i>light</i> among the people in your life?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">As you experiment with this Law for the next ten days, be playful. Solemness is no substitute for genuine <b>Enlightenment</b>. Being able to laugh at yourself, and the human condition, seems to be a prerequisite for those on the <b>Enlightenment</b> quest. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Have you heard the Zen saying?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><i>Before Enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. </i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><i>After Enlightenment, chop wood, carry water.</i> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">What is meant by this?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: start;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">When you broach the subject of </span><b style="line-height: 20px;">Enlightenment</b><span style="line-height: 20px;"> with family and friends in the coming days, co-create a list of enlightened qualities. Then list who has them, especially the capability to <i>enlighten others</i>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Review your beliefs, assumptions and expectations about <b>Enlightenment</b>. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Is it possible to become enlightened without meditation and isolation? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Does the </span></span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Process</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> require a guru or teacher? Many teachers? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">How long does it take to become an enlightened being? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Is any single practice </span></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: start;">guaranteed to produce <b>Enlightenment</b>?</span><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> </span></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: left;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Decide how important <b>Enlightenment</b> is to you, during these next ten days and what, if anything, you plan to do about it, in the time you have left. Here's some enlightening advice </span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from the wise ones.</span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is
there a fear of enlightenment in some societies? For example in societies which
focus their energies on materialism, possession, consumerism, and time-based
activities? I think there is, and it might be called phobosophy, the fear of
wisdom. In short, what is the opposite of enlightenment and where did it come
from?<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thomas Clough
Daffern (1956 - ) Welsh educator, author and peace advocate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Enlightenment
is…one part physical study of Awareness, one part mental application of truth,
one part Cosmic Kiss.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Meredith
Young-Sowers, in her <i>Spirit Heals</i>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In
general, all the steps toward enlightenment are mind reforms. This mind of ours
must be cultivated and transformed. There are methods of doing so…. our real
enemy is our own inner habit of self-preoccupation... A blade wheel is a very
fierce image for mind reform… exposing the self-preoccupation and self-addiction
habits, underlying all my other bad habits… It causes damage—serious, blessed
damage to narcissism, vanity, the self-habit.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Robert Thurman in <i>Circling the Sacred Mountain</i>: A
Spiritual Adventure Through the Himalayas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>One
does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the
darkness conscious... This is disagreeable and therefore unpopular</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">C. G. Jung<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had
hoped to get instructions in Yoga…but what the teacher did was mainly to force
me to face the darkness within myself; and it almost killed me.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Irina Tweedie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To be
awake, to be enlightened, is to be fully and completely embodied. To be fully
embodied means to be at one with who we are, in every respect, including our
physical being, our emotions, and the totality of our karmic situation.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Reginald A. Ray in <i>Touching Enlightenment</i>: Finding
Realization in the Body<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The
supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws
from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical
path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of
experience, can reach them.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Albert Einstein<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gaining
enlightenment is like the moon reflected on the water. The moon doesn't get
wet; the water isn't broken... The whole moon and the sky are reflected in one
dewdrop on the grass.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dogen<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since ‘there
is really no duality, separation is unreal.
Until duality is transcended and at-one-ment can be realized,
enlightenment will not be attained.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not
two. In this ‘not two’ nothing is
separate, nothing is excluded. No matter when or where. Enlightenment means
entering this truth… in a single thought is ten thousand years.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I spent years trying to be a holy, solemn monk. It was so
artificial, unnecessary, and, in retrospect, goofy. I was trying to glow in the
dark while in truth everything was naturally radiant</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Liberation is… another name for enlightenment…
Enlightenment is not morally neural; the will to enlightenment is the most
profound commitment a spiritual seeker can make. The experience of
enlightenment is the end game, so to speak, if there is one, of the spiritual
journey… We need to begin talking about Enlightenments, rather than spending
futile energy disputing whether Eastern or Western enlightenment is better,
whether Sufism, or Christianity or Buddhist, or Mahayana or Theravada or Zen –
is the quickest way to enlightenment. … We need a methodology that enables us
to remain true to all our separate and diverse enlightenments…</i> <i>It may be that all of
us are tapping into a substratum of collective transpersonal consciousness,
which is one, yet appears as many. …this perception of unity is one of the tell
tale signs of genuine enlightenment.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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Daffern (1956 - ) Welsh educator, author and peace advocate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>As more
and more enlightened people take over powerful positions in all areas and
fields of governments, businesses, economics, education and communities the
nearer we will be to the coming Golden Age. The Golden Age will come about only
when many people are enlightened and live in harmony with universal laws.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Margo Kirtikar, Ph.D,
<i>Flowing with Universal </i>Laws<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">In ten days, we'll take up the 25th <b>Law of Creativity</b>, which is more enjoyable when we've done our <b>Enlightenment</b> work. </span> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">Not to give up, but to give over, is the essence of
this Law. Who here is wise enough to understand Surrender? To live humbly for a cause, rather than to
die nobly for one. This begins to tell us what Power real Surrender holds. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Some might call this </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the <i>Law of Radical Acceptance</i> because </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Surrender </b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">implies being undefended, being vulnerable, and able to accept what happens. The difference is in whether you can accept 'being' in this state, or whether it is 'forced' upon you/your ego personality self. It means being able to tolerate not being in control...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">For the next ten days try experimenting with <b>Surrender</b>. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">You can start with the <i>mental</i> defenses, like being judgmental and critical of others, and yourself. What if you surrendered your need to be 'right'?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><i>Emotional</i> <b>Surrender</b> could involve allowing yourself to feel <b>Love</b> instead of some habitual condemnation of a particular person or group of people.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"><i>Physical</i> <b>Surrender</b> could be as simple as going to bed when your body is tired. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Spiritual</i> <b>Surrender</b> might be something like saying a different prayer before drifting off to sleep. For instance, '</span><i style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;">Send me, use me and protect me.' </i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;">These words express the spiritual <b>Surrender</b> I have yet to achieve during my waking hours. </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;">What sort of <b>Surrender</b> do you aspire to? </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;">All of us ought to have some practice to help us prepare for the ultimate <b>Surrender</b> when our bodies die.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Talk to family and friends about <b>Surrender</b>. Reconsider examples of masters and sages who surrendered their needs for worldly wealth, human acclaim, and were able to live humbly and quietly as monks, nuns, hermits. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What happens to us, and to others, when we <i>cannot let go</i>? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Which attachments do you cling to, too tightly? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have you noticed that the word '<i>end</i>' is inside <b>Surrender</b>? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each ending is another beginning. You may be preventing a new start by not having enough <b>Trust</b> to be able to <b>Surrender</b> what needs to go. </span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Surrender
means accepting this moment, this body, and this life with open arms. Surrender involves getting out of our own way
and living in accord with a higher will, expressed as the wisdom of the
heart. Far more than passive acceptance,
surrender uses every challenge as a means of spiritual growth and extended
awareness.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Although
The Law of Surrender means accepting whatever happens in your life, it does not
mean passive toleration for what you don’t like, or ignoring injustice, or
allowing yourself to be victimized or controlled. True surrender is active,
positive, assertive — a creative commitment to make use of your situation, in a
spirit of appreciation.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dan Millman, author of the <i>Laws of Spirit</i><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The last laps of all paths are the same – surrender of the ego</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I don't
know Who—or what—put the question, I don't know when it was put. I don't even
remember answering. But at some moment I did answer Yes to Someone—or
Something—and from that hour I was certain that existence is meaningful and that,
therefore, my life, in self-surrender, had a goal.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dag Hammarskjöld
(1905-1961), Swedish statesman, Secretary-General of U.N.. <i>Markings </i>(1964)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No matter how busy you may think you are, you must find time for reading, or else surrender to self-chosen ignorance.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>In detachment lies
the wisdom of uncertainty... in the wisdom of uncertainty lies the freedom from
our past, from the known, which is the prison of past conditioning. And in our
willingness to step into the unknown, the field of all possibilities, we
surrender ourselves to the creative mind that orchestrates the dance of the
universe.</em><em><span style="font-style: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><span style="font-style: normal;">Deepak Chopra (1946- ), Indian medical doctor,
books include </span></em><em>Power,
Freedom, and Grace</em><em><span style="font-style: normal;">: Living
from the Source of Lasting Happiness<o:p></o:p></span></em></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To be one's self,
and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice
of surrender to conformity.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
sacrifice or surrender of the heart of man and his emotions is the first of the
rules; it involves the attaining of an equilibrium which cannot be shaken by
personal emotion.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Bhagavad-Gita</i>: The Song of God,
translated by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Justice that love
gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mahatma Gandhi<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One act
of surrender, one change of heart, one leap of faith, can change your life
forever.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Robert Holden from <i>Shift Happens</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sometimes what
seems like surrender isn't surrender at all. It's about what's going on in our
hearts. About seeing clearly the way life is and accepting it and being true to
it, whatever the pain, because the pain of not being true to it is far, far
greater.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Nicholas Evans, <i>The Horse Whisperer</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Growth
demands a temporary surrender of security.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gail Sheehy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Surrender
in spite of Freedom is the way of wise men</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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world you must be able to do three things:<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To love what is
mortal;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To hold it against
your bones knowing your own life depends upon it;<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And, when the time
comes to let it go,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To let it go.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mary Oliver (1935–
), American poet, books include <i>Why I
Wake Early</i> (quote from poem 'In Blackwater Woods')<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Surrender has
never been my favorite word. I always thought it had only one meaning, which
was to lose and be defeated. There is also a spiritual meaning... To surrender
is to accept that there is a waxing and a waning rhythm to events... Trust that
good things can happen without our needing to control them.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peter Block, American management
consultant and author, books include <i>Stewardship:</i>
Choosing Service over Self-Interest<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A wise
unselfishness is not a surrender of yourself to the wishes of anyone, but only
to the best discoverable course of action. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">David Seabury<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We need
a set of rough principles to guide us, lest we surrender to something too
small, to false gods, gurus and groups... The followers of Jim Jones took the
full dose of poison. Over belief can be deadly.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sam Keen, from his
book <i>Hymns to an Unknown God<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>I belong to no
nation, no civilization, no society, no race, but to the Divine. I obey no
master, no rules, no law, no social convention, but the Divine. To Him I have surrendered
all, will, life and self; for Him I am ready to give all my blood, drop by
drop, if such is His will, with complete joy, and nothing in his service can be
sacrifice, for all is perfect delight</em><em><span style="font-style: normal;">.<o:p></o:p></span></em></span></div>
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<em><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-style: normal;">Mirra Alfassa, ‘the Mother’ (1878- 1973)<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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people so cherish the Self, surrendering is a very frightening experience. A
person may experience surrender as a leap into an abyss or as death. This may
be perceived by one who has not yet attained a complete Trust and Faith in God
or a Higher Power…Once Self is abandoned, the ‘being’ automatically merges with
a higher stage of existence which is ready and waiting to accept it.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif";"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3;">There is no denying that adults
adulterate us, despite their best intentions. We can decide to undo this. Who
here has not been blessed by the steaming grace of a good shower or the wonder
of a hot bath? What is the equivalent
for our hearts and minds? </span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Unadulterated and pure, that is the </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Purification</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> state of mind, heart, body and spirit. Spend these next ten days doing whatever you can to dissolve any accumulated layers of </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">disappointment, indifference or</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> expectation so you can reconnect with the genuine purity at your core.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Give priority to the <b>Process</b> of <b>Purification </b>for ten days and see what happens. <b><o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Do a thorough review</span><span style="color: #444444;"> your <b>Purification</b> practices since childhood. </span><span style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What has worked before to clear your feelings, thoughts & energy? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do some research and try some new methods; sauna, sweat lodge, meditation, a fruit juice cleanse, for example. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Decide how best to purify thoughts, feelings, your physical self and your surroundings. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Revisit your spiritual life and consider the role <b>Purification</b> has in it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Ask friends and family members what they do concerning this Law. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Bring up the subject of <b>Purification</b> at work and in a social setting. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During the past ten days, you did some <b>Renewal</b> work. This made room for <b>Purification</b>. <b>Surrender</b> is the next Law. You can see how these operate in tandem. These three come before <b>Enlightenment</b>, the 24th Law.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are some wise words about the practice of</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Purification</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from others.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Be in
your own aura…Whatever it is we must do, to reach the knower of truth in
ourselves, is our particular purification. Intention and preparation, the
removal of barriers and contaminants, until we can respond authentically to what
we encounter…as we did when we were children, before we were shamed or punished
for doing so</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jean
Shinoda Bolen, M.D.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Purification
is the gate of knowledge… minds cleared of prejudice and convention break our
habit of taking the visible world for granted, our lazy assumptions that
somehow science is real and metaphysics is not</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Evelyn
Underhill, <i>Mysticism</i><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> </b><i style="text-align: center;">Omniscience is achieved only through the process of purifying the
disturbing emotions within your mind. It cannot be achieved merely through
wishes and prayers. We have to train in eliminating all the specific disturbing
emotions by relying on specific antidotes. All the activities of a Bodhisattva
can be included in two major categories: the practice of skillful means and the
practice of wisdom. If the practices of giving, ethics, and so forth are to be
perfected, they should be supported and influenced by the practice of wisdom.
Without the practice of wisdom, the first five of the six perfections cannot
actually become practices of perfection.</i></span></div>
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Lama<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>All
emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure
which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Maria Rilke<b>, </b>German poet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <i>Purity of the
heart is the will to one thing</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Soren
Kierkegaard (1813 – 1855) Danish philosopher and religious writer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>There are
no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed,
in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers,
and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet
these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish,
angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first
give up our illusions about it.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Abraham
Maslow, 20th century humanistic psychologist, books include <i>Motivation & Personality</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Purification
is included in the three Pure Precepts of Buddha's teachings: Do no evil; do
good; purify the mind.</i><a href="http://www.prairiewindzen.org/purifying.html"><i>
</i></a><i>In its most important sense "purify" means to rid
ourselves of delusion, a synonym for ignorance, sometimes translated as
non-knowledge or non-<b>Clarity.</b> Ignorance is the root of human suffering.
By ridding ourselves of ignorance (delusion), we "cleanse within" and
return to our original state, enlightenment.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult
sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to
the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Thomas Merton (1915-1968)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and Trappist Monk at Our Lady of Gethsemane Abbey <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Violent
fundamentalism is motivated by the need to eliminate badness through fighting
the bad outside (of oneself). What is required now is to eliminate the
heretical, impure, inimical elements, that is, killing the infidels who do not
believe in (my/our) God. A destructive counterpart is created by the killing of
"God’s enemies": it is the killing of oneself. Obviously the killing
of oneself in the effort to kill the impure part of oneself, amounts to the
total failure – or total grim success – of the process of purification.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dr. Ruth
Stein, Fundamentalism, Father and Son, and Vertical Desire <a href="http://ideologiesofwar.com/papers/fundamentalism_stein.htm">http://ideologiesofwar.com/papers/fundamentalism_stein.htm</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>On any
vision quest the seeker must first achieve a purification, an altered state…
(T)he Oglala fast for many days, as did the Jew Jesus during forty days in the
wilderness; in other cultures sacrifices must be prepared, pilgrimages made.
Only after such ritual purification is the seeker prepared to see what ordinary
people cannot normally see… Purification can be achieved by loneliness,
despair, deprivation and waiting… they are all forms of sacrifice. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Montgomery, author, naturalist, from her essay in <i>Face to Face</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Why not face heroically the furnace of inner purification so that
it does not become necessary to pass once more through one of those terrible,
gigantic destructions which plunge entire civilizations into darkness?</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Way ceremony (of the Navajo) has a lot to do with purification of the patient.
The chanters say, If you haven’t been purified – cleanliness inside and out –
they (the Holy People) won’t come near you. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Step by
step, piece by piece, hour by hour, the wise man should purify his soul of all
impurity as a silver-worker purifies silver.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #d9ead3; color: #444444;">In ten days I'll post the <b>Law of Surrender</b>, until then focus on your <b>Purification </b>efforts.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #d9ead3;"><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...Think of Spring and the great lessons
of each new season. Renewal is at hand
in every moment…there are those who can catalyze newness and growth for us all</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Let's give ourselves the next ten days for some <b>Renewal</b>.</span><span style="color: #444444;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Will that be long enough? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">How do you renew yourself? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">When has </span></span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Renewal</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> happened before?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">What catalyzes your new feelings and new thinking? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Some times we must seek <b>Renewal</b> out </span></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">deliberately</span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">, when life gets dull and stale and we know we're in a rut. Taking a 'mental health day' or a vacation can restart your engines when you just need a rest, but genuine <b>Renewal</b> might require big changes. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">When we take too much for granted, tragedy strikes, death or disaster arrives and <b>Renewal</b> is forced upon us. The <b>Law of </b></span></span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Choices</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> comes before <b>Renewal</b> on the Wisdom Wheel for a reason. Be wise enough to seize the initiative and make the<b> Choices</b> you are sensing the need for, before <b>Renewal</b> is thrust upon you. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">New projects, places and possibilities can always be explored, as can new ideas, people and different kinds of relationships. Seek out </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">newness in all its forms during these ten days. </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Renewal</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> can come from simplifying your life. Make time for what truly matters to you this week. Say no to whatever needs releasing. Renew your promises to yourself and your vows to others. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #444444;">For these ten days, bring up the subject of <b>Renewal</b> in your conversations with family members and friends. Consider what physical <b>Renewal</b> might entail. A make over? More exercise? Better eating? A haircut? Up dating your wardrobe? What would emotional <b>Renewal</b> <i>feel</i> like? And intellectual and spiritual <b>Renewal</b>? </span><span style="color: #333333;">Start something today in at least two of these categories.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #444444;"><br /></span></span></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Renewal
is the key to survival and passion in all realms of life.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Shmuley
Boteach, author of <i>Renewal:</i> A Guide to the Values-Filled Life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>So as
long as a person is capable of self-renewal, they are a living being.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Henri
Frederic Amiel (1821-1881) Swiss writer known for his Journals<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If
you've lost focus, just sit down and be still. Take the idea and rock it to and
fro. Keep some of it and throw some away, and it will renew itself. You need do
no more.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Clarissa Pinkola
Estes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I don’t
know what you learned from books, but the most important thing I learned from
my grandfathers was that there is a part of the mind which we really don’t know
about, and that’s the part that is most important in whether we become sick or
remain well. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thomas
Largewhiskers, Navaho medicine man<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Personal
transformation can and does have global effects. As we go, so goes the world,
for the world is us. The revolution that will save the world is ultimately a
personal one. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Marianne
Williamson, American author and spiritual leader<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The only
real hope of people today is probably a renewal of our certainty that we are
rooted in the earth and at the same time we are part of the cosmos. This
awareness endows us with the capacity for self-transcendence… (this) is the
truly reliable path to co-existence in today’s multi-cultural world…(we) must
start from what’s at the root of all cultures and what lies infinitely deeper
in human hearts and mind than political opinions.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vaclav
Havel, past President of Czech Republic, remarks taken from 1995 speech<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Becoming
honest is an act of self-renewal.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Angeles
Arrien<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The way
to be new is to be yourself. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Steve
Tourre<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Deep,
unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the
initiation into a new state. Suffering can be likened to a baptism - the
passing over the threshold of pain and grief and anguish to claim a new state
of being.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">George
Elliot (aka Mary Anne Evans) (1819-1880), English author, works include <i>Middlemarch
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Retreat:
a place and time for you to get reacquainted with you; the ebb in ebb and flow;
a solitary sanctuary for renewal; a safe haven; a snug den, a refuge.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Corrie
Woods<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>If you
watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you cannot
help but learn. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bernie S.
Siegel, American psychologist and bestselling author<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-weight: normal;">Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a
kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of
caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.</span></i><o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal;">Leo Buscaglia<o:p></o:p></span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>When
tears come, I breathe deeply and rest. I know I am swimming in a hallowed
stream where many have gone before. I am not alone, crazy, or having a
nervous breakdown…. My heart is at work, my soul is awake. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mary
Margaret Funk, author of <i>Thoughts Matter</i>: the Practice of a Spiritual
Life<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The
phoenix was the mythical bird that was consumed by fire, so a new being could
be resurrected from the ashes. In true spiritual growth, transformation at core
level is necessary to gain access to truth and wisdom. The phoenix represents
that capacity. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Delyne
Marie<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Teach
this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service
and compassion are the things which renew humanity.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Buddha (563-483 B.C.)
Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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cynthia (fetterolf barnum) davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15538490318339463690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2095059994932547318.post-26270680832774717702012-10-13T00:00:00.000-07:002012-10-17T20:50:58.812-07:00Choices Law # 20<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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of us make Choices from a range that’s far too small, that diminishes us. We let fear, confusion and other people’s
opinions limit us. How do we discover
and consider our Choices before we make them?</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #444444; text-align: center;">Cynthia F. Davidson, excerpt from the Wisdom Wheel <b>Choices</b> </span><span style="color: #444444; text-align: center;">card</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;"><span style="color: #444444;">Time for <b>Choices</b>, t</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px;">he 20th Law. D</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">uring the next ten days, t</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">ake the time to seriously review all your options. Brain storm and generate some new<b> Choices</b> to consider. Make some lists of alternatives in many areas of your life. Think up new job possibilities, creative projects, different places you could live in the future and what you could do with your 'retirement' years.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Review how you source your ideas, energy and expectations. Do you feel the freedom of 'free will' or do you feel trapped and limited in terms of your <b>Choices</b>?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next consider how you make your <b>Choices </b>from among these <i>conscious</i> options. Then make room for your unconscious motivations. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Are you aware of what's involved when you try to make up your mind? </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To what degree is your spirit consulted when considering your options? </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do you pray for guidance before making your <b>Choices</b>? </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you were consciously 'spirit led' rather than 'self propelled' (from your fear/mind/ego level), what changes could be possible? </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When it's time for change, do you tend to act in a pro-active or reactive way? </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How has this attitude affected your range of<b> Choices</b>?</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px;">For these ten days, ask others about their </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px;">Choices</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px;">. What were their best and worst ones? Why?</span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px;"> </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px;"><i>Emotional</i> <b>Choices</b>,<i> i</i></span><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 20px;"><i style="color: #444444;">ntellectual </i><b style="color: #444444;">Choices</b><span style="color: #333333;">, <i>p</i></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px;"><i>hysical</i> <b>Choices</b>, and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px;"><i>spiritual</i> <b>Choices </b>are all worth considering, so remember include these categories. You can choose to feel well, have healthy thoughts, make <b>Choices</b> that honor Nature and your body, your loved ones. If all we ever choose to do is what someone will pay us to do, then our <b>Choices</b> are severely constrained. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20px;" /><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">In the end, we will be defined by the </span></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px;">Choices </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px;">we made and failed to make. So w</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px;">rite down all past <b>Choices </b>you can recall, and the ones you know need to be made in the near and long term. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During these next ten days allow different <b>Choices </b>to present themselves without rejecting them at first glance. Reconsider the <b>Choices </b>others have made, and how things have turned out for them. There are always consequences, even when you try to avoid choosing. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the Wisdom Wheel the <b>Choices Law</b> is<b> </b>balanced by the <b>Eternal Present</b>. This means we need to stay in the 'now' and not bring forward the baggage of bad<b> Choices</b> when considering current options.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are some wise words from others on the subject of <b>Choices</b>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Law of Free Will aka
the Law of Choices<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We...have
the right...to bring our creative and expressive energies out into the world in
positive or negative ways... No matter what our circumstances, we have the
power to choose our direction. We also choose to be under the influence of
others or choose to be an example for others. We do it with a hundred actions
which lead to the circumstances we find ourselves in today. Thoughts are things
and the mind is the builder. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Margo
Kirtikar Ph.D, <i>Flowing with Universal Laws</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Everything
you do is a choice based on your dominant values at the moment. Even taking no
action is a choice. You are where you are and what you are because of your
choices and decisions in life to this moment. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brian
Tracy<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>If you
limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect
yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Robert
Fritz<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I do not
know why it is we remember so much about some of the small decisions of our
lives and so little about most of the great ones, but for me at least that has
always tended to be the case. Maybe it is because the great decisions are not
made at some particular moment in time but deep within us have been so long in
the making that we find ourselves acting on them before we are altogether
conscious of having decided to.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Frederick
Buechner’s memoir, <i>The Sacred Journey</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>It took
me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate
and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I
was chained to a wall and being tortured. I realized, somehow, through the
screaming in my mind, that even in that shackled, bloody helplessness, I was
still free: free to hate the men who were torturing me, or to forgive them. It
doesn’t sound like much, I know. But in the flinch and bite of the chain, when
it’s all you’ve got, that freedom is a universe of possibility. And the choice
you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gregory
David Roberts<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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every man believes that his decisions and resolutions involve the most
multifarious factors, in reality they are mere oscillation between flight and
longing.</span></i></div>
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Broch<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The
choice to experience life as a genuinely powerful person librates a huge amount
of creative energy, and most people are unwilling to enjoy that amount of
energy.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Gay &
Katie Hendricks<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Freedom
is a terrible gift, and the theory behind all dictatorships is that ‘the
people’ do not want freedom. They want bread and circuses. They want workman’s
compensation and fringe benefits and TV. Give up your free will, give up your
freedom to make choices, listen to the expert and you will have three cars in
your garage, steak on the table and you will no longer have to suffer the agony
of choice.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maldeleine
L’Engle, <i>Walking on Water<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Spirituality
is neither the privilege of the poor nor the luxury of the rich. It is the
choice of the wise man.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Ethical
existence [is] the highest manifestation of spirituality… A man is ethical only
when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his
fellow men, and when he devotes himself to all life ...which he is able to
assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Albert
Schweitzer <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Transformation
is happening, the only choice you have is what it will look like: war, pestilence,
frogs, blood. It can be plagues but it can be pleasure. Love each other into
newness…</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pat B.
Allen, art therapist, books include <i>Art Is a Way of Knowing<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">At every instant,
one is really making a choice between heaven or hell. The cumulative effect of
all these choices determines the calibrated level of consciousness and one’s
karmic and spiritual fate.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dr. David Hawkins in <i>I<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We are both
burdened and blessed by the great responsibility of free will- the power of
choice. Our future is determined, in large part, by the choices we make now. We
cannot always control our circumstances, but we can and do choose our response
to whatever arises. Reclaiming the power of choice, we find the courage to live
fully in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dan Millman, in<i> The Laws of Spirit<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ead1dc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In ten days, we'll take up the 21st <b>Law of Renewal,</b> so do your <b>Choices </b>work in the meantime.</span></div>
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cynthia (fetterolf barnum) davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15538490318339463690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2095059994932547318.post-43169023749802823972012-10-04T12:05:00.000-07:002012-10-04T12:05:22.717-07:00Clarity Law # 19<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i style="background-color: #d9d2e9;">...We recognize <b>Clarity</b> the instant we see it. The
great seers and sages could see clearly because they had insight. Their secret was their focus, inward, not
outward...</i></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"> </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">Cynthia F. Davidson, excerpt from the Wisdom Wheel <b>Clarity</b> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">card</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">Time to take up the 19th Law, <b>Clarity</b>. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">Have </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px;">you noticed how this follows the 18th <b>Law of Forgiveness</b>? <b>Clarity</b> comes <i>after</i> we've done our </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px;">Forgiveness </b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px;">work. Until then resentments, hurts and attachments will tend to distort our lenses. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During the next ten days, <i>play</i> with this idea of <b>Clarity</b>.<i> </i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Emotional</i> <b>Clarity</b>, of an open heart. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Intellectual </i><b>Clarity,</b> of an open mind. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Physical</i> <b>Clarity</b>, of the body, not tormented by need for sleep, health or loving. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Spiritual</i> <b>Clarity</b>, when we see ourselves as the <i>spirits</i> we actually are, beyond personality, ego and fears. </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ask for <b>Clarity</b>; during your morning walk or meditation, on your ride to work, during your shower or bath, during love-making, cooking, laundry or as you lay down to fall asleep. Astounding <b>Clarity</b> can often be gifted to you in your dreams... </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Mention <b>Clarity</b> when speaking with friends and family this week. See what it means to them. Offer any thing you can, by way of clarification which has to do with what you know, did or believe. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">What sort of <b>Clarity</b> do you still seek? Write it down in your journal, blog or in a letter to God or whomever you seek answers from, and see what happens. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">During these next ten days allow <b>Clarity</b> to come from all kinds of people, places, images and thoughts. On the Wisdom Wheel <b>Beauty</b> balances the <b>Clarity Law</b>.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are some wise words about <b>Clarity</b> from those with experiences to share. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Clarity
moves much more efficiently than violence or stress… The world is as you
perceive it to be. For me, clarity is a word for beauty. It’s what I am. And
when I’m clear, I see only beauty. Nothing else is possible</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Byron
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> <i>More
important than the quest for certainty is the quest for clarity.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Francois
Gautier<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Perfect
clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will. …Clarity of mind means
clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and
sees distinctly what he loves.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Blaise
Pascal (1623-1662) French writer, mathematician and philosopher<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Traveling
through the world produces a marvelous clarity… We are all confined and
enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our noses. This
great world is a mirror where we must see ourselves in order to know ourselves.
There are so many different tempers, so many different points of view, judgments,
opinions, laws and customs to teach us to judge wisely on our own, and to teach
our judgment to recognize its imperfection and natural weakness.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Michel de
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ultimately, you must decide in your own hearts and these alone.
Base your decisions on your perception. To inhabit the new awareness, you are
required to be yourself, for when you are, you are a beautiful being, in touch
with your eternal dimension, conscious of the generations that came before,
immersed in the love that lights and unities the leaves of all generations upon
life’s singular tree.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ken Carey
in <i>The Third Millennium</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Discernment, or the process by which we evaluate situations and
make decisions, is a critical aspect of our growth, our spiritual development
and our ability to create communities that contribute to our collective
well-being. Discernment is also the art of asking sensitive questions of
ourselves and others in order to see deeper meaning and implications…this
involves four interrelated processes; perception, intuition, decision-making
and action.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dr. Norma
Milanovich and Dr. Shirley McCune in <i>The
Light Shall Set You Free</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>When you plant
lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for
reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less
sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or
family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them,
they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all,
nor does trying to persuade using reason and arguments. That is my experience.
No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thich Nhat Hahn<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Different
sets of facts are real at different vibration levels. The truth is<br />
the same for everyone: the facts are always a little different for everyone</i>.<br />
Thaddeus Golas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>To get
to the simplicity of a thing, you have to go through the complexity<br />
and only then, after you've gone into and through the complexity can you<br />
state the simplicity. What never rings true is the person who states the<br />
simplicity without understanding the complexity.</i><br />
Susan Slater Blythe<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is
because we don’t know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of
Heaven is within us, that we behave in the generally silly, the often insane,
the sometimes criminal ways that are so characteristically human. We are saved,
we are liberated and enlightened, by perceiving the hitherto unperceived good that
is already within us, by returning to our eternal ground and remaining where,
without knowing it, we have always been.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Aldous Huxley in <i>The Perennial Philosophy</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I
experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful.
I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Vincent
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Simplicity,
clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and
vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the
purpose of God for his whole creation.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Richard
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We need
to be perfectly clear what we want, and not give out mixed messages. When we
are clear, our messages are picked up accurately and everyone, including the
universe responds to clear messages. Activating the law of clarity is done by…
making a decision and acting on it. This is one of the quickest ways to move
along your spiritual path. When you have the qualities of clarity (truthfulness,
honesty, genuineness, integrity) people respond to you and want to trust you.
Clear thoughts and intentions help you to draw from the universe that which you
request in your life.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Diana Cooper in <i>A Little Light on the Spiritual Laws</i><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #d9d2e9; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In ten days we will take up the 20th <b>Law of Choices</b>, until then, enjoy the gifts of <b>Clarity</b>.</span></div>
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cynthia (fetterolf barnum) davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15538490318339463690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2095059994932547318.post-11391779773833154712012-09-22T14:03:00.000-07:002012-09-22T19:06:10.054-07:00Forgiveness Law # 18<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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is often the hardest thing we’ll ever do, and sometimes it is the only choice
we have. Forgive with your whole
heart…this <b>Power</b> does not come from your head.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cynthia F. Davidson, excerpt from the Wisdom Wheel <b>Forgiveness</b> card</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Are you ready to receive a little <b>Forgiveness</b>? Over the next ten days, offer some, and see what happens. Be courageous and take the first step.</span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whatever has caused your heart to harden in the past, open up now, allow new growth and move on towards the light. </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Refusing to forgive keeps us locked into what cannot be changed about the past. </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Be generous to yourself when it comes to this Law. Forgiving others is only half of the story. If you can't forgive <i>you</i>, what example do you set for others? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Bring up the subject of </span></span><b style="color: #444444; line-height: 20px;">Forgiveness</b><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> with family and friends this week. Ask them who they've </span></span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">been able to forgive and why it was hard. What made it possible? A change of heart? How long did it take? How did they feel afterwards? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, arrives while you are studying this Law. Explore Jewish </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Forgiveness</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> concepts, and those of other religious traditions too. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Whose </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Forgiveness</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> do you most need to receive? Ask for it during the next ten days. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Sometimes our </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Forgiveness</b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;"> work is with those who have passed on. You can still offer <b>Forgiveness</b>, or request it, via your dreams. Everyone has some </span><b style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">Forgiveness </b><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">needs. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>By
forgiveness the universe is held together. Forgiveness is the might of the
mighty; forgiveness is quiet of mind. Forgiveness and gentleness are the
qualities of the self-possessed, and represent eternal virtue</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Margo
Kirtikar Ph.D. author of <i>Flowing with Universal Laws</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Four
Stages of Forgiveness </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. <i>To
forgo - to leave it alone</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2. <i>To
forbear - to abstain from punishing</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3. <i>To
forget - to aver from memory, to refuse to dwell</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4. <i>To
forgive - to abandon the debt</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Clarissa
Pinkola Estes from her book <i>Women Who Run
With the Wolves </i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>On one
level: forgiveness means you shouldn’t develop feelings of revenge. Because
revenge harms the other person, therefore it is a form of violence. With
violence, there is usually counter-violence. This generates even more
violence—the problem never goes away. ...on another level: forgiveness means
you should try not to develop feelings of anger toward your enemy. Anger doesn’t
solve the problem. Anger only brings uncomfortable feelings to yourself. Anger
destroys your own peace of mind. Your happy mood never comes, not while anger
remains. I think that’s the main reason why we should forgive. With calm mind,
more peaceful mind, more healthy body. An agitated mind spoils our health, very
harmful for body. This is my feeling.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Dalai
Lama<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Offending
can lead to a real burst of understanding. You know more about how the other
person sees you; you know something more about yourself. And if that
something is somewhat unpalatable, all the better. You have a chance then to
transform what you are doing. Or drop it. There is vitality in that, and power
in its most attractive forms. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Michael
Leunig<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>If you
don’t transform your pain, you will always transmit your pain. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Richard
Rohr<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Most of
us can forgive and forget; we just don't want the other person to forget that
we forgave</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ivern
Ball<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>When you
hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an
emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to
dissolve that link and get free... Release is a form of forgiveness that we all
need to practice often. Emotional release is one of the highest forms of
love... </i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Catherine
Ponder <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(also a
cure for low self-esteem, low self worth and feelings of helplessness)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>There is
a hard law... that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we
forgive. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alan
Paton<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>When you
forgive, some deeper, divine generosity takes you over… When you cannot
forgive, you are a prisoner of the hurt done to you.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">John
O’Donohue in <i>Eternal Echoes</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>God may
forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alfred
Korzyybski<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The old
energy of ‘an eye for an eye’ keeps the vibrations of a person very low. To
forgive, to release old anger, allows the law of grace to intercede...
Non-violence is the natural outgrowth of the law of forgiveness and love. All
good comes from forgiveness....the continuation of the human species is due to
man’s being able to forgive. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Margo
Kirtikar Ph.D, <i>Flowing with Universal Laws</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We must
be quite clear that forgiveness is no easy matter. If the ego has been wronged,
the ego cannot forgive just because it ‘should’ not withstanding all the wider
context of love and destiny. The ego is kept vital by its amour-proper,
its pride and honor. Even where one wants to forgive, one finds one simply
cannot, because forgiveness does not come from the ego. I cannot directly
forgive. I can only ask, or pray, that these sins be forgiven. Wanting
forgiveness to come and waiting for it may be all that one can do.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">James
Hillman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Forgiveness
deeply offends the rational mind…it declares ’I will attempt to go on loving
the life in you, the divine in you or the soul in you, even when I totally
abhor what you have done or what you stand for. What’s more I will
attempt to see you as my equal, and your life as having equal value to my own,
even when I despise what you do and everything you stand for.</i>’ <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stephanie
Dowrick, <i>Forgiveness and Other Acts of
Love<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Forgiveness
means acceptance of those who are unacceptable. It is unconditional or it is
not forgiveness at all.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paul
Tillich, American theologian, in a famous sermon <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>To walk
as round beings, on a round planet, cognizant of being interwoven in a circular
web of connection with all beings, is to understand forgiveness.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>From the
vantage point of circular relating, forgiveness is simply returning energy:
returning and receiving energy until any warp in the circle is healed, balance
restored.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Colin
Berg, quoted in Parabola magazine, XII no. 3,<a href="http://www.parabola.org/"> www.parabola.org</a> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f3f3f3;">In ten days, we'll take up the <b>Law of Clarity</b>. Until then, enjoy <b>Forgiveness</b> in all its forms.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>...Your Journey has brought you to this place and these
people, your fellow sojourners. Think of
their Journeys as well as your own. Don’t miss the opportunities for learning and growth represented by this
assembly of fellow souls</i><b>. </b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cynthia F. Davidson, from Wisdom Wheel<b> Law</b> <b>of the Journey </b>card<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px;">(see www.thewisdomwheel.com to order cards, posters or stones)</span>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now comes the <b>Journey Law</b>, just as we reach the halfway point, on this 'tour' round the Wheel with its </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">36 Laws. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What has your <b>Journey</b> meant to you so far? </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the next ten days,</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> consider the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>inner</i> <b>Journey</b>s you've made, as well your outer ones, into the larger world. Emotional and spiritual <b>Journey</b>s are every bit as significant as intellectual and physical ones. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Take the time to describe your life <b>Journey</b> (thus far). Write about in your journal. The word </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;"><b>Journey</b> comes from the French word </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;">jour </i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;">for day. It refers to the distance traveled in a single day. <i>E</i></span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">valuate</i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> your <b>Journey</b> as a whole by deciding its </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">value </i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as you add up your years and how they've gone.</span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">W</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hat makes life w</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">orth living, in your opinion? How are you spending your precious </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">allotment of</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> days on this Earth? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have you chosen the 'safe route'? Or are you <i>taking the road less traveled,</i> as immortalized in Robert Frost's poem? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just be sure it's <i>your</i> <b>Journey</b> you are making, not someone else's idea of what's expected. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ask others to share what they've learned, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">at home and at work, about the </span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Journey</b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and their sense of it, so far. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Where do you want to go next? By the time you are an Elder, where would you like to be? Destinations are important but not as much as our movements towards them. We don't know <i>when</i> our <b>Journey</b>s will end, but we can aim in a general Direction. Some say, if you take the road toward wholeness, your <b>Journey</b> will always be worth it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's some advice from those who've thought about their <b>Journey</b>s. </span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To journey without being changed is to be a nomad.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To change without journeying is to be a chameleon. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To journey and to be transformed by the journey is to be
a pilgrim.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mark Nepo in<i> The Book of Awakening<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Every day
is a journey, and the journey itself is home.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Matsuo
Basho<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> A <i>journey
is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it</i>…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>A journey
is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing,
and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not
take a trip; a trip takes us.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">John
Steinbeck, American author, books include <i>The Grapes of Wrath</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The best
day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No
apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours -
it is an amazing journey - and you alone are responsible for the quality of it.
This is the day your life really begins</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bob Moawad, American author, <i>Whatever It Takes</i>:
A Journey Into the Heart of Human Achievement <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Come
dress yourself in love and let the journey begin.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Francesca
da Rimini<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Life is
short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who
are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be
kind.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Henri Frederic Amiel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>It
requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward
journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often
easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Rollo May<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I had
become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time -
those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lawrence
Durrell<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Real
adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have
firsthand</i><i> </i><i>encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way
you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear
witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless
kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you
yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be
black-and-white. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mark
Jenkins<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Tourists
don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Paul
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>He who
does not travel knows not the value of men.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Moorish
proverb<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>There are
no foreign lands. It is only the traveler who is foreign.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Robert
Louis Stevenson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>There
comes a time in the spiritual journey when you start making choices from a very
different place.... And if a choice lines up so that it supports truth, health,
happiness, wisdom and love, it’s the right choice.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Angeles
Arrien<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The spiritual journey does not consist in
arriving at a new destination where a person gains what he did not have, or
becomes what he is not. It consists in the dissipation of one’s own ignorance
concerning one’s self and life, and the gradual growth of that understanding
which begins the spiritual awakening. The finding of God is a coming to one’s
self.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Aldous
Huxley<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After
one arrives at the summit, after going through the total transformation of being,
there is yet one more step to the completion of the journey; the return to the
valley below, to the everyday world. Who
it is that returns is not the one who began the climb in the first place. The being who comes back is quietness itself,
is compassion and wisdom, is the truth of the ages. Whatever humble or elevated position that
being holds within the community, he or she becomes a light for others on the
way, a statement of freedom that comes from having touched the tip of the
mountain.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ram Dass in the <i>Journey
of Awakening</i><u><o:p></o:p></u></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #eeeeee; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In ten days we’ll move on to the 18th <b>Law of Forgiveness</b>. Until
then, enjoy all your <b>Journey </b>has to offer.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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cynthia (fetterolf barnum) davidsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15538490318339463690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2095059994932547318.post-45466687613885812862012-09-03T06:56:00.001-07:002012-09-03T06:56:09.471-07:00Shadow Law # 16<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="background-color: #cccccc;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...All the shame, guilt and repressed
parts we hide, even from ourselves. These unconscious aspects will sabotage our best efforts in life unless
we learn to accept them.</span></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Cynthia F. Davidson, from the Wisdom Wheel <b>Shadow </b>card </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(see www.thewisdomwheel.com to order cards, posters or stones)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">'<i>Only the Shadow knows...</i>' intoned the popular American radio program during the 1930s and '40's. What our <b>Shadow</b> sides 'know' is often more obvious to others, than ourselves, unless we do our psychological <b>Shadow</b> work. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">During your next ten days with this 16th Law, make notes or journal about the things that are difficult for you to own, or admit aloud to others. These include secrets, shameful or ugly thoughts, 'unhealthy' motives; everything you are able to see, and judge harshly about others, will be reflected in such a list. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">The </span></span><b style="color: #444444; line-height: 20px;">Shadow </b><span style="color: #444444; line-height: 20px;">also contains a lot of our <b>Power </b>(Law # 32). It often </span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">reveals itself in dreams and nightmares. Everything left out, which we refuse to integrate into our waking minds, tends to show up whenever we are alone, or gone to sleep. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Reexamine your fears and phobias now. Look for evidence of how you respond to what is Unknown about yourself, and about life in general. Reconsider what is behind your decision-making and your <b>Choices</b> (Law #20).</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The <b>Law of the Shadow</b> sits next to <b>Trust </b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">(Law #10) </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">on the Wisdom Wheel. Take a moment to reflect upon this. These two </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">have a deep and abiding relationship throughout our lives. Whenever we give our </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Trust</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> we risk having it broken. It hurts so much when someone betrays the <b>Trust</b> we have put in them, or when we betray someone else's. More often than not, the </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Shadow</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> side (of one or both of you) is responsible when <b>Trust</b> is not honored. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Unless we examine our
</span><b style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Shadow</b><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> sides, we will hurt others, and be hurt by them, and fail to comprehend why. Before we can wisely place our </span><b style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Trust </b><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">in </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">others, we have to fully </span><b style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Trust</b><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> ourselves. And </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">we won’t know ourselves, well enough, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">unless we've probed our own </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Shadow</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">s. And we won't be prepared to handle the truth about the
</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Shadow</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">'s</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> workings in other people either.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">This is not an easy Law to take on, so be kind to yourself during the next 10 days. As you explore the </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Shadow</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">, and discuss it with others, be prepared for push back and denials. People are quite sensitive about this subject and there is a great tendency to project ones' <b>Shadow</b>s upon Other(s). </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;">As the great psychologist, who popularized the <b>Shadow</b>, Carl Jung said, '<i>Would you rather be whole or be good?</i>' </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Here's some wisdom from others about the </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Law of the Shadow</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">.</span></div>
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<i style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The shadow is simply the whole unconscious… The individual who wishes to have an answer to the problem of evil has need, first and foremost, of self-knowledge, that is, the utmost knowledge of his own wholeness. He must know relentlessly how much good he can do, and what crimes he is capable of, and must beware of regarding the one as real and the other as illusion. Both are elements within his nature, and both are bound to come to light in him, should he wish – as he ought to – to live without self-deception or self-delusion.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Carl Jung, the Swiss psychologist, discovered most people deal with the challenges of the <b>Shadow</b> in four ways: <i>denial</i>, <i>projection</i>, <i>integration </i>and/or <i>transmutation</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The
person we choose to be automatically creates a dark double--the person we
choose not to be.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thomas
Moore in<i> Owning Your Owning Your Own
Shadow</i>: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche by Robert A. Johnson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>A good
way of learning to detect one’s shadow is to notice what qualities in others
make us angry or irritated. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Irene
Clarmont de Castillejo author of <i>Knowing Woman</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>…each
person must take responsibility for the dark side of humankind…</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lauren
Artress in <i>Walking a Sacred Path</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The shadow
consists of the unexplored, feared and unwanted aspects of our personalities –
whatever doesn’t fit into the ego ideal of the good self.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Christina
Baldwin American author, books include <i>Calling the Circle</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Whereas
the ego weaves together the worlds, the shadow unravels the world. Whereas the
ego acts as a catalyst of creation in the world, the shadow acts as a catalyst
of destruction. Whereas the ego supports the status quo, the shadow is an agent
of transformation.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Connie
Zweig & Steve Wolf, psychologists and authors of <i>Romancing the</i> <i>Shadow</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Between the emotion</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>And the act</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Falls the Shadow</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">T. S. Eliot, English poet, works include<b> </b><i>The Hollow Men</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>What has
no shadow has no strength in life. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Czeslaw
Milosz, Nobel prize-winning poet<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>If any
help was going to arrive, to lift me out of my misery, it would come from the
dark side of my personality.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Robert
Bly, who calls the Shadow, '<i>that long bag we drag behind us</i>,' heavy with the
parts of ourselves our parents or community didn’t approve of.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The Shadow, of course
never dies; we always cast a shadow. But how we relate to it, and it to us,
depends on whether it is known. Once known, we have inevitably lost an
innocence that can never be recovered. What replaces it is knowledge about the
complexity of our nature. Sometimes we are fortunate, and this knowledge
elicits a kindness and tolerance in us for others — even, perhaps for
ourselves. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Deena Metzger,
American author, books include <i>Looking for the Faces of God</i> and <i>Writing For
Your Life</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>To honor
and accept one's own shadow is a profound spiritual discipline.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Robert A.
Johnson in <i>Owning Your Own Shadow<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Furthermore,
it is important to point out that every Divine Quality has its shadow side. It
is precisely because of our fear of falling into the shadow that we have
difficulty developing a particular quality. The shadow side of mastery, for
instance, would be ruthlessness or selfish manipulation.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Pir
Vilayat Inayat Khan in<i> Awakening: A Sufi Experience</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>…No
matter how fast you run, your shadow</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>keeps up.
Sometimes it's in front!</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Only full
overhead sun diminishes your shadow.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>But that
shadow has been serving you.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>What
hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>your
candle. Your boundaries are your quest.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>I could
explain this, but it will break the</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>glass
cover on your heart, and there's no</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>fixing
that.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>You must
have shadow and light source both.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Listen,
and lay your head under the tree of awe.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>When from
that tree feathers and wings sprout on you,</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>be
quieter than a dove. Don't even open your mouth to coo.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Mevlana
Rumi (1207 – 1273)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>To battle
a demon is to embrace it, to face it with clarity of vision and humility of the
heart. To run from a demon is as effective as running from a rabid dog, for
surely this only beckons the chase. Whatever we resist — persists. These
demons, these parts of us that haunt us, torture us and reduce us, are the
agents of change.... Without our demons we would grow spiritually flabby.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stephanie
Ericsson in<i> Companion Through the Darkness</i><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #cccccc; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: left;"> Ten days from now, we'll take up the 17th <b>Law of the Journey</b>. Until then, have some fun getting to know your demons.</span></div>
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We can all learn to honor this Law…by including knowledge gleaned from
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">As you spend the next ten days with this 15th Law, reflect upon <b>Initiation </b>rites and rituals you have participated in. Baptisms, weddings, coming of age ceremonies, first day of school, first day on a new job, boot camp... Many of us have been initiated in cross-cultural activities, like sweat lodges and vision quests, which come from aboriginal traditions but are meaningful to us all because of their universal significance, as they return us to Nature which we all share. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Today vision quests are included in Outward Bound programs for executives and wilderness camping sojourns are used to initiate troubled teens into more adult attitudes and capabilities. </span></span></div>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Take time to initiate something this week. It could be physical - like starting an exercise regime - or emotional - like seizing the </span><span style="line-height: 20px;">initiative to improve a relationship - intellectual like beginning to explore a new language or culture - or undergoing a spiritual</span><span style="line-height: 20px;"> <b>Initiation</b> of some kind, perhaps even visiting a house of worship from a Faith tradition you are totally unfamiliar with. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; line-height: 20px; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What prevents us from enjoying more <b>Initiations </b>all our lives? And from offering them to others? Over a lifetime, we have many passages worth marking with special forms of appreciation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br /></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the next 10 days seize the initiative to explore all kinds of <b>Initiations</b>. See a movie or television show or documentary about other cultures Initiations like the Australian 'walk about.' </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bring up the subject of <b>Initiation</b> as often as you can. Seek out someone of the opposite sex who has an <b>Initiation</b> story to share. Tell them about one of yours too.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Initiation
is a process of excessive hard work, a graded series of liberation allowing the
initiate greater freedom to proceed further on the Way, learning to work behind
the scenes, unrecognized, unknown, unclaimed and receiving no rewards and
sacrificing the individual identity ...<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Margo
Kirtikir, Ph.D. author of <i>Cosmic & Universal Laws</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The mark
of an initiate is his lack of interest in himself and his personal fate… The
path of Initiation includes long periods of search, detachment, pain and of
revelations producing tension, fusion and energy projection. The initiated
enters into the light, which penetrates his nature according to his development
at any one point.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Margo
Kirtikir, Ph.D. author of <i>Cosmic & Universal Laws<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>...we are truly initiated by what we cannot control....</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Albert Einstein<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Initiation is learning mastery… In the first initiation you prove
you're a master over physical things. The second initiation shows can master
your emotions and glamour. In the third you master the world of the mind and
illusion. There are seven altogether...</i><span class="apple-style-span"><i>The true glory of accomplishment is in
initiation, not imitation</i></span><span class="apple-style-span">. </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>The Law
of Initiative</i></b><i>; All action occurs as a direct result and in direct proportion to
the initiative of each soul. Initiation cannot be given nor forced on anyone.
The energy initiative brings about evolution, it is through the initiative of
the particular soul that the soul evolves.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Margo
Kirtikir, Ph.D. author of <i>Cosmic & Universal Laws</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human
life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Dean Inge<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(1860-1954) Dean
of St Paul's, London <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I began to sense how the subtle inner processes of these esoteric ‘Initiations’
were affecting a person's psyche…much of what we experience as an emotional
crisis, is in actuality an evolutionary challenge to awaken. And this challenge
of awakening requires us to make new choices for our psychological and
spiritual evolution… most people feel very relieved when they realize that
their personal emotional challenges are, in reality, linked to a larger, more
impersonal challenge of awakening. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Neil Cohen, www.integrativeawakening.com<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Because we had no tools for reprogramming our egos, and healing
our emotional wounds (culturally approved grieving, training and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>initiation<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>rites,
healthy role models, etc.), we keep reacting to the damaging programming of our
childhoods, and cannot get our adult needs met... the emotional, mental, spiritual,
or physical needs. Codependence allows us to survive physically, but causes us
to feel empty and dead inside...codependence...causes us to wound ourselves</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Robert Burney, author of <i>Codependence</i>: The Dance of
Wounded Souls<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>When<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: #FFFFCC;">Initiation</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is in place, the old men help the boys
move from the mother's world to the father's world...<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background: #FFFFCC;">Initiation</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>asks the son to move his love energy
away from the attractive mother to the relatively unattractive serpent
father... he learns to look at the death side of things. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="apple-style-span">Robert Bly, American author, and
men's movement leader, books include </span><i>Iron John<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...her dying society had
no tradition by which to teach her the one lesson she did not know by instinct.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">R.P. Blackmur, writing about Emily Dickinson, over 100 years after
her birth<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Initiates have no desire to be rich because their aim is not to
settle down in the world nor to rule over it. An Initiate wants, above all, to
become a luminous beacon, a shining light and, consequently, he has no wish to
encumber himself with things that would prevent him from devoting himself to
this divine task. An Initiate wants to be free and detached in order to work on
himself and others; it is because he refuses to burden himself that he is able
to make continual progress and go from strength to strength until he becomes
truly formidable. He doesn't need to worry about protecting his money from
thieves, or from falling prices on the stock exchange</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t45065.html">http://www.commongroundcommonsense.org/forums/lofiversion/index.php/t45065.html</a> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Entering
the spiritual path is just like shooting an arrow at a point one cannot see, so
that one does not know what the arrow is going to hit; one only knows one's own
action, and one does not see the point aimed at. This is why the path of
initiation is difficult for a worldly man….</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a great Sufi writer of ancient Persia<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>All
initiations actually fall back upon the greatest symbol of all; spiritually
dying and coming back to life. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Ellwood, <i>The Cross & the Grail<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Certain forms, such as the labyrinth,
represent explicitly the experience of initiation; entry into the abyss of the
mysteries, and the pilgrimage of the spirit. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The path of initiation is not a path of study. I have seen people
who have not only read fifty volumes, but have written fifty volumes and
published them, and are not yet fit for initiation. It is not an act of the brain,
it is a process of spiritual melting, going from that hard, metal aspect to the
form of liquid; the ice turning into water.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>...(the initiate) begins to think differently, feel differently,
see and act differently; his whole condition begins to change. One might say of
him that from that moment he begins to live. It may come as a vision, as a
dream, as a phenomenon -- in any of these forms; one cannot determine the
manner in which it will manifest. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><a href="http://www.sufiorder.toronto.on.ca/">www.sufiorder.toronto.on.ca</a></i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>What is
it that the initiator teaches the initiated one? He tells the initiated one the
truth of his own being. He does not tell him something new or something
different. He tells him something which his soul already knows but which his
mind has forgotten.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>There are
different kinds of initiation… One is natural initiation..an unfoldment…without
cause or reason…Sometimes initiation comes after great illness, pain, or
suffering. It comes as an opening up of the horizon, as a flash of light, and
in a moment the world seems transformed. It is not that the world has changed;
it is that that person has become tuned to a different pitch. He begins to
think differently, feel differently, see and act differently; his whole
condition begins to change. One might say that from that moment he begins to
live. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Being...in...this day is a privilege that will only come once... Be fully Present. Be, with. First practice being, and then you can do anything with greater Purpose... </i> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Why is it hard to just be <i><b>Present</b></i>? To pay attention, to focus, to concentrate...</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">even people </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">paid to pay attention</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"> fail to prevent accidents from happening. How much does not being present </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">cost us; financially, physically, emotionally</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">? </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What is distracting us, putting us off, putting us outside the zone of <i>being</i>? (Have you read this page without a single interruption, so far? While writing it, I've answered the phone, fed the dog, checked my email, consulted my calendar....) </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When we're not able to <i>be here now</i>, as Ram Das wrote, where <i>are</i> we exactly? If I am not </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;"><i>in the moment</i>, am I outside of what's <b>Eternal</b> as well? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">For the next 10 days choose to be <b>Present</b>, in a radical way. </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you are <i>not</i> paying attention, admit it, redirect yourself, and gain some practice at correcting this habit of wandering mentally and otherwise. </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Don't allow interruptions and stop interrupting others too. </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Talk about <i>presence</i> and see who's retained this quality. How have they done it? </span><br />
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Try some m</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">indfulness </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">meditation; whether sitting, walking or washing the dishes. See what you're missing. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: -webkit-auto;">Refuse to be rushed! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>There is
... a connection between the words ‘present’ and ‘presence’ as the two are very
much connected in sense and meaning. In our practice of inquiry, when we talk
about being where we are, we mean being in the moment. Our experience is always
in the present, even though our mind might be flitting about in the past and
future. The actual manifestation—what is arising in our experience—is always
arising right now. This is also true of light. For light there is only now;
there is nothing else. This fact is a reality described by Einstein’s
relativity equations</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hameed
Ali, writing under the pen name of A.H. Almaas<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Time does
not exist. What we refer to as past and future, have no reality except in our
own mental constructs. The idea of time is a convention of thought and
language, a social agreement. In truth, we only have this moment. When we hold
regret for an occurrence in the past, we keep the regret alive, with pictures
and feelings we conjure up. When we feel anxiety about the future, we keep the
anxiety alive with the pictures we imagine. Time is the abstract concept. When
we practice remembering that the here and now is all we have, our present
moments improve. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Margo
Kirtikar Ph.D. in <i>Flowing with Universal Laws</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Yesterday
is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That's why we
call it The Present. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Babatunde
Olatunji<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So break
the old pattern of present-moment denial and present-moment resistance… Start
by observing the habitual tendency of your mind wanting to escape…don’t seek to
grasp this with your mind… You can only know it when the mind is still, when
you are present, fully and intensely in the Now… To regain awareness of
Being, and to abide in that state of ‘feeling-realization,’ is enlightenment. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Eckhart
Tolle, German author of <i>The Power of Now</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The only
time you ever have in which to learn anything or see anything or feel anything,
or express any feeling or emotion, or respond to an event, or grow, or heal, is
in this moment, because this is the only moment any of us ever gets.
You're only here now; you're only alive in this moment. </i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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You Are</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Eternity
has nothing to do with the hereafter... This is it... If you don't get it here,
you won't get it anywhere. The experience of eternity right here and now is the
function of life. Heaven is not the place to have the experience; here's the
place to have the experience.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Joseph
Campbell (1904 - 1987) American mythology expert books include <i>The Hero
with A Thousand Faces</i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>People
with presence have an ineffable quality about them; they are ‘present,’
surprisingly attentive, and undistracted. A fullness, a centeredness, a
wholeness radiates from them. We enjoy being ‘in their presence.’ You can build
presence. It is the natural radiance of heart security.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Childre and Bruce Cryer, <i>From Chaos to Coherence</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>As you
embrace the present</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>and
become one with it, and merge with it,</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>you will
experience a fire, a glow,</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>a sparkle
of ecstasy throbbing in every sentient being.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>As you
begin to experience this exultation of spirit</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>in
everything that is alive, as you become intimate with it,</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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be born within you,</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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will drop the terrible burdens of defensiveness,</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and hurtfulness...</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>then you
will become lighthearted, carefree, joyous, and free.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Deepak
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Success</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>It is
when you are really living in the present – working,<b> </b>thinking, lost, absorbed in
something you care about very much, then you are living spiritually.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Brenda
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In the
spiritual life, I am always at the beginning. Remembering this helps us
overcome our addiction to 'getting ahead.' When we experience a true present-
the 'now'- that's when everything happens. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>We are so
rarely in the present. Within a period of five minutes we are remembering one
thing, anticipating something else, unable to focus on the only time that is
ours to affect. In moments of intense exertion, physical or emotional, we are
forced into the present. …why…can't our mind simply rest in the present? The
present is not boring or routine. It is basically unknown and recovered only
with a haze of nostalgia. When we stop skimming the surface, and allow
ourselves to be fully submerged in the present, we discover depths of beauty
and meaning. The present is the only place where we can find God.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">When you
surrender to what is and become so fully present, the past ceases to have any
power. The realm of Being, which had been obscured by the mind, then opens up.
Suddenly, a great stillness arises within you, an unfathomable sense of peace.
And within that peace there is great joy. And within that joy there is love.
And at the innermost core there is the sacred, the immeasurable, That which
cannot be named.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What if<b> Beauty </b><i>was</i> a Law? Could it reduce the amount of ugliness, sickness and violence in our world</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">? It is not the glossy made-up magazine type </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Beauty</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> I mean, but the kind that needs no airbrushing or faking. The </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Beauty</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> which radiates from within, no matter what the age of the person, place or thing. Not just visual </span><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Beauty</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">, but a quality you can sense and feel, emanating as you approach, a sacredness and holiness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">Since ancient times the <b>Navajo</b> people, aka </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><i><span xml:lang="nv">Diné</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"> or<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><i>Naabeehó</i> from the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Southwestern USA, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #444444;">have based their way of life upon this Law. They call it the <i>Beauty Way</i> and seek to maintain h<span style="background-color: white;">armony, goodness, normality, success, well-being,
blessedness, and happiness via this philosophy, which includes the ideals of prettiness, pleasantness and worthiness. The </span></span></span><b style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 115%;">Navajo</span></b><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">are </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">the largest<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">federally recognized tribe</span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 115%;"> </span></span><span class="apple-converted-space" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 115%;">with over 300,000 enrolled members. Even today, w</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 115%;">hen one is ill, they seek the help of a medicine person, to conduct a healing ceremony, to re-establish <b>Balance </b>and <b>Beauty</b> in their life so they can return to wellness. Here is an English adaptation of one of the prayers. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>It is finished in beauty.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">Repeat this at least once a day, for the next ten days, and see what happens. Listen to the Navajo musician R. Carlos Nakai's transporting flute music. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Bring up the subject of <b>Beauty </b>often. A</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">sk others <i>what</i> they believe about it. Many are cynical about <b>Beauty</b> because it has been commercialized, and exploited, to sell everything from lingerie to cars. Let go of any sarcasm you might have, about your own capacity for <b>Beauty</b>, and try to appreciate it instead for the coming days. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Beauty is the ideal of perfect harmony which is in the universal
being; truth the perfect comprehension of the universal mind. We individuals
approach it through our own mistakes and blunders, through our accumulated
experience, through our illumined consciousness - how, otherwise, can we know
truth?</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <i>Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in
a perfect mirror…</i><span class="apple-style-span"> </span><i>By plucking
her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower. </i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) sobriquet <b>Gurudev,</b> a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengali_people" title="Bengali people"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Bengali</span></a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath" title="Polymath"><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">polymath</span></a>; poet, novelist,
musician, and playwright, won 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first
Asian Nobel laureate<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which
exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean
of many extremes…<b> </b>Things may be
pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the
imagination, not yet beautiful….<span class="body"> </span><span class="apple-style-span">Though we travel the world
over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.</span></span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Ralph Waldo Emerson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">When I
am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to
solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful,
I know it is wrong.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt;">Beauty
is indeed the sphere of unfettered contemplation and reflection; beauty conducts
us into the world of ideas, without taking us from the world of sense…By beauty
the sensuous man is brought back to matter and restored to the world of sense.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> Science will never be able to reduce the value
of a sunset to arithmetic. Nor can it reduce friendship to formula. Laughter
and love, pain and loneliness, the challenge of beauty and truth: these will
always surpass the scientific mastery of nature.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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speech to the American Medical Association<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Beauty is
an experience, nothing else. It is not a fixed pattern or an arrangement of
features. It is something felt, a glow or a communicated sense of fineness.
What ails us is that our sense of beauty is so bruised and blunted, we miss all
the best.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">D. H. Lawrence, English novelist<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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beauty is harder to see than the beauty of the body</span></i></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-size: 11pt;">. </span></span><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">The beauty that addresses
itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not
always that of the soul.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">George Sand aka Amantine Aurore Lucile Dupin, (1804 – 1876), became Baroness Dudevant,<b> </b>first
female French novelist to gain a major reputation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">All that one loves becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the
expression of the fact that something is being loved.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Robert Musil (1880 - 1942) Austrian novelist, books include<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The
Man Without Qualities.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">…beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) English theologian and mystic </span><b><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">When we
meet a person who’s beautiful, we say they ‘lit up the room’… transcendent beauty
is an inner beacon, brilliantly lit and brimming with bliss. Learn how to
attract light while calming the ego— when the mind abides by the soul, the
body, in turn, is connected to this knowingness, and transcendent beauty
follows. Such people live in harmony—their health is abundant, their bodies are
agile and fit, and their minds are vibrant and inspired. People talk about
attractiveness but that is merely physical, while true beauty comes from the
soul.</span></i><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">For beauty is the cause of
harmony, of sympathy, of community. Beauty unites all things and is the source
of all things. It is the great creating cause which bestirs the world and holds
al things in existence by the longing inside them to have beauty. And there it
is ahead of all as…the Beloved…toward which all things move, since it is the
longing for beauty which actually brings them into being</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Pseudo-Dionysius in <i>The
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manifest the Beauty of My thinking in the orderliness of Universal Law(s)…are
already in My house. The doors of My kingdom are opened to them…</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">Walter Russell (1871–1963),
controversial American artist and author, books include <i>The Universal One</i>
and <i>The Book of Beauty</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Beauty is how the gods attract us into life</span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">Our hearts yearn for beauty. In the Kabbalah, beauty, called<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><span style="font-size: 11pt;">tiferet,<span class="apple-converted-space"><i> </i></span><i>is where spirit and form
meet and the human and divine are in balance. Linked to compassion and harmony,
beauty is at the very center of the Tree of Life.<span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">J. Ruth Gendler in her book<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Notes on the Need for Beauty</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Beautiful, we find ourselves in such terrible crisis…In the experience of
beauty we awaken and surrender in the same act. Beauty brings a sense of
completion and sureness. Without any of the usual calculation, we can slip into
the Beautiful with the same ease as we slip into the seamless embrace of water;
something ancient within us already trusts that this embrace will hold us.</span></i></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">John
O’Donohue in <i>The Invisible Embrace of
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act powerfully in the world, all parts must synchronize. No one can take on the
whole world, or live a whole life, until they become a whole person. Discuss
the relationship between ‘integrate’ and <b>Integrity</b></i>… </span><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">(excerpt
from the <b>Integrity</b> card, available at www.thewisdomwheel.com)</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time to
consider the <b>Law of Integrity </b>and why the laws of our land have failed to instill <b>Integrity</b> in our culture. Based on the daily news, about everything from crime statistics to cheating scandals at schools, banks and in politics, I think we need a lot of <i>ethical rehab</i>, not just drug and alcohol rehab. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Is <b>Integrity </b>a head, heart or a gut issue in your life? Do you believe you can be a person of <b>Integrity </b>without first being whole? Notice that the <b>Law of Trust</b> balances this Law on the Wheel. Without one, you won't have the other.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">For the next ten days,</span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"> make <b>Integrity</b> </span><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">your watch word.</span><b style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"> </b><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">Bring it up in conversation often enough to be considered a bit of a pest. Find out <i>what</i> people believe about <b>Integrity</b>. How important <i>is</i> it to you? Have you left any job(s) for the sake of <b>Integrity</b>? People who 'sell their souls' have usually sold their <b>Integrity</b>. This causes the psychic pain of conscience which can drive many to abuse drugs & alcohol...there's always a link.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;">Identify <i>one thing</i> <i>you</i> can do this week about your <b>Integrity</b>. Help someone else maintain theirs. Be honest, keep your word, be a person of Integrity. All the money in the world can't buy it back. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Integrity
requires that I discern what is integral to my selfhood, what fits and what
does not - and that I choose live-giving ways of relating to the forces that
converge within me... By choosing integrity, I become more whole, but wholeness
does not mean perfection. It means becoming more real by acknowledging the
whole of who I am. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Parker J.
Palmer, American teacher and author, books include <i>Hidden Wholeness<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Knowing what we value deeply-what we hold most dear, when
in alignment with being of service to the greater will of all, allows us to
take right action in our personal and professional lives. When the will and
action are conscious, and in alignment<b>,
integrity </b>follows…There is a voice within us that tells us when we are
acting right.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Maureen Simon<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>If
we want more brotherhood and goodwill, more intelligence, more clear thinking,
more honesty and sincerity, more tolerance and human understanding we must
concentrate upon cultivating these qualities within ourselves... There is no
substitute for personal integrity</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Howard
W. Hintz, DD<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>…instead of dividing into
mirror-image opposites…people need to achieve a healthier balance of
integration. But such integration is difficult. It represents that high human
achievement:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>wisdom</b>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>In the absence of wisdom, people are
compelled to struggle in their folly. Each side, wedded to its half-truth, sees
the other as the problem</i>.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>But</i><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>the problem is a property of the system:
the polarization and conflict are symptoms of the failure to find a way to
bring together those values that are in tension</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.wisdompage.com/abs-bio.html"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">Andrew Bard
Schmookler</span></a><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>books include<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Beyond Dispute</i>: Working Through
America's Moral Polarization and<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Fool's Gold</i>: The Fate of Values in a
World of Goods<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></b><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;">The
saying, “to thine own self be true,” means to act in accord with one’s deepest
feelings and values, no matter what the social consequences. Such emotional integrity could well lead to
deliberately provoking a confrontation, for instance, in order to cut through
duplicity or denial – this clearing of the air is something a social chameleon
would never attempt</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; text-align: center;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Daniel Goleman, <i>Emotional Intelligence</i>: Why It Can
Matter More Than IQ<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the
truth to other people.</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Spencer Johnson<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is
no longer enough to be smart -- all the technological tools in the world add
meaning and value only if they enhance our core values, the deepest part of our
heart. Acquiring knowledge is no guarantee of practical, useful application.
Wisdom implies a mature integration of appropriate knowledge, a seasoned
ability to filter the inessential from the essential.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>..it is not what we profess but what we practice that gives us
integrity</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) English lawyer and
philosopher<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">What
is not integrated repeats itself until it is integrated. I look at the personal
story and the societal story as being one and the same, only in larger or
smaller scale. In our families and in our nations, what we see is our
disintegration being played out. The journey needed now is the integration of ancestor
wisdom into the living community—personally in each of our families, and
globally in the human family.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Angeles Arrien in <i>The
Four Fold Way</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Principles
are like a compass. A compass has a true north that is objective and external,
that reflects natural laws or principles, as opposed to values which are
subjective and internal. Because the compass represents the eternal verities of
life, we must develop our value system with deep respect for "true
north" principles…</i> <i>Consider the
absurdity of trying to live a life or run a business based on the opposites…unfairness,
deceit, baseness, uselessness, mediocrity, or degradation<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>When you are fully integrated you can be either/or/both/all that
you are. You are androgynous in spirit. Your physical nature is just something
you take on, play with. No matter how you look, you are not as you seem, you
are a soul. </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>The great spiritual leaders of humankind, Buddha, Jesus, Mahatma
Gandhi, St. Francis or the Dali Lama, possessed integrated values that seem to
put tension into a form that was not just a compromise on the lowest common
denominators. At their level of integration, one might be at once freer than
the libertines, and more disciplined than the straight-laced. One could be both
a better warrior than the hawks and a better peacemaker than the doves.</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Andrew Bard Schmookler in <i>The
Dance of Polarization</i> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>It is in the integration of the inner and outer worlds that true
spirituality can be distinguished from false. But this integration is greatly
influenced by an internal struggle in the psyche for balance. From this
struggle self-knowledge is attained</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Katherine Tyler Scott in ‘Leadership & Spirituality’ chapter
of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Spirit at Work</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Integrity
means living and acting in alignment with spiritual law and with our highest
vision, despite impulses to the contrary. From the heart of integrity we
recognize, accept and express our authentic interior reality, inspiring others
now with words, but by our example.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Dan Millman in <i>The Laws of Spirit</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The
personality is the integration of the physical, emotional and mental worlds in
one…Integration of the soul with the personality connects to the plane of
intuition and the spiritual world… The goal of all development is integration –
of the individual as a personality; integration of the personality with the
individual soul: integration of the human with the whole, until complete unity
has been achieved.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Margo Kirtikar, Ph.D.
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;">In ten days, we'll look at the 13th <b>Law of Beauty</b>. Until then, enjoy integrating your thoughts, feelings, intuitions and sense of spirit.</span><span style="background-color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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