The tree of humanity has one seed, God, the Supreme Soul, who stays eternally full of all divine qualities that are originally ours.
As children of the one Seed, all souls are spiritually related. By making a subtle shift from an outer, material consciousness to an inner, spiritual consciousness, we once again realise our true selves and God, and move towards our nature of peace, respect and love.
The process begins at the personal level and will eventually lead to a shift from a world torn apart by anger, dependency, arrogance, greed and lust to a kinder, gentler world with only the finest in human virtues – happiness, love, peace and purity.
~Brahma Kumuris
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"The
path of all religions beats with the same heart
of love and oneness when the dogma is removed."
The
Path of Heart takes us into the present
where we enter the world of miracles.
1.
Recognition of Universal Law & Principle (Natural
order based upon Original Source) and the
2. Realization of Cause and Effect in our lives asks us
to
3. Surrender to Creator which takes us to the
4. Path of Least Resistance or Non-interference in our. |
5.
Aspiration towards a Higher Power that requires...
6. Response-ability and
7. Authentic Expression of our Truth and
8. Cultivation of Patience and
9. Forgiveness (Giving up resentment) & Non-Judgmentalism
that lifts us to
10. Compassion & Unconditional Love and
11. Comm-Unity Consciousness in the desire to
12. Serve Humanity whose energy requires
13. Detachment from the Outcome of our Choices or Actions.
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"The
fullness of love cannot be love unless its is action. Contemplated
love or the mere repitition of words may occupy one's fancy,
but love in action is the measure of a heart united with mind
and soul."
~ St.Paul theVenetian
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It
is only with the heart that one can see rightly; What is
essential
is invisible to the eye."
~Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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Practice
Living the Path of Heart:
1.
Love
is a state of being, not an activity of thought. Recognize
and accept Love as your true nature. Actively hold the space
of Love. Anything else is a neglect of your Essential Self.
2. Focus on living in the present
moment that brings you to awareness. Direct Experience teaches you.
3.
Open your spontaneous gateway.
4. Live your awareness by withholding
judgment, fear, expectation and the need to fix. Instead release
others, reconcile and accept, hold compassion and cooperate
by taking responsibility for your life.
5. Act lovingly, gently and
respectfully to your self and others, and all sentient creatures in thought, speech and
action.
6. Open to authenticity. Keep communications open and
honest.
7. Surrender your egoic will
to your Higher Will.
8. Ground, center and expand
yourself to connect with your inner dimension and follow its
guiding wisdom.
9. Keep healthy boundaries in
tact so your heart can lead you to right process.
10. Serve and support others in
their personal and spiritual growth.
11. Open your heart to new experiences.
12. Hold your relationships
with others more important than any issue.
13. Align your self with the Spirit in Nature.
14. Create a bridge to connect all things and to amplify your sense faculties to communication. |
The Path of Heart is an Excerpt from, "The Essential
Self, Cultivating the Sacred Feminine" by Alisa Battaglia©2015
Published in Sybil Magazine 2008 & 2009.
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SPIRITUAL
IDEALS
Cultivating Your Inner Diamond
The world, as a world...has lost its ideal. Man may not have the same
idea. Man-all men-may have the same ideal!...that can only come with
all having the one ideal; not the one idea, but "Thou shalt love
the Lord thy God with all thine heart, thy neighbor as thyself!"
This [is] the whole law, this [is] the whole answer to the world, to
each and every soul. That is the answer to the world conditions as they
exist today.
~Edgar Cayce, Reading 3976-8
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Spirituality
and religion are not
the same. Spirituality is a personal experience and process
of increasing inner knowing and expanding. It is an innate
aspect of being human. While spirituality is our core essence
that gives us a personal sense of meaning, values and
identity,
not everyone’s attention is focused on reality
even though all humans are endowed with divine
faculties and intelligence. When we are more actively
engaged with our inner evolution, we
open ourselves to gifts of the Soul whose life comes from
attentive connection with the Spirit in Nature and in the aspiration for a Higher Power. Grace Bestowed!
When the Soul leads, spiritual ideals enter the mind
and we guided to cultivate a personal masterpiece. Spiritual
ideals shape our very lives, our experiences,
and even inspires who we are becoming. In-spiriting is
a motivating pattern that guides our lives and can provide
an approach
to answering
our inner call. When we are in its motivating influence
the intention of the ideal activates every cell in the
body
creating shifts on multiple levels. Since mind is the builder
through focused attention, we are led by the spirit we
are entertaining. We either live by the luminous light
of Love, Wisdom and Intelligence of the Spirit in Nature
or we fall sway to the
default pattern of the Archontic dark
forces
of fear and ignorance. Connecting
with the Spirit in Nature is the fastest and only true path
to Beauty, as She is our most immediate and immanent Source.
Working
with ideals as building blocks to reach our highest potential
necessitates frequent activity
in our lives - one in which we are challenged, encouraged,
and
even prodded to cultivate our "inner diamond." Everyone
works with ideals, even if it is unconscious. This makes
it ever important to be conscious of what we are building
within ourselves because ultimately we'll
have the chance to meet it. We might choose a quality or
attribute that is currently missing or lacking in our own
life in our relationships with others.
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Ordinary
life and Buddhahood have no distinction. Great knowledge
is not different from ignorance.
Why should one seek outwardly for a treasure, when the
field of the body has its own bright jewel?
~Pao-chih, "The Nonduality of Buddhahood
and Ordinary Life"
Out
of the Selfish Heart, What will YOU Cultivate?
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The
world is not to be put in order, the world is order.
It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
~ Henry Miller
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"I
remember that my first conscious attribute to cultivate
was my lost virtue of patience
and endurance. I have a quick pace, think and move fast
that without temperance that often burned me out producing inertia.
After numerous speeding tickets that threatened my license,
I thought
I should
re-evaluate
my capacity
for
self control and redefine what was really important.
As I began to work with feelings of irritation over
people
being too slow, toiled with impatience and pushed through inertia
I began to learn how to find balance between. I created a
new pattern by changing my perception and thus, my reationship to those themes. The
realization came that nothing is indeed that important
that I have to manically rush putting myself and others
in jeaopardy by speeding to save five or ten minutes
that would solve my being late.
Late
is
late. Eventually focused attention on my actions resulted
in greater patience and endurance becoming
my
usual
state of mind."
As
we work with a conscious ideal, unlike a goal that is fleeting
once accomplished, not only is our direction made more clear,
but the ideal becomes a living, breathing portion of who
we are at a Soul level. The measure of progress is when
the ideal becomes an automatic and natural response of our
personality.
Since ideals grow and change as we do, it becomes important
to generate new ideals once we make the intended ones part
of who we are. The first most important thing is to determine
what our spiritual ideal is, as we each have the opportunity
to consciously decide what actions require correction.
In the end, our ideals become a part of who we are - a
steadfast
code
of
ethics we live by.
See Papers:
Seven Hearts of Consciousness |
The
Four Agreements
Spirituality
vs. Religion = Knowing vs. Faith
The
term religion is quite inadequate to describe the reciprocal
bond and accessible intimacy between mankind and the Creator.
The term religion is a term of falsehood and exile produced
by
our disconnect, and the expelling of the Divine feminine
(Sheckina) as a byproduct of our building collective
and individualistic
egos. In place of this bond we build "foreign God"
paradigms that serve our cultural collective and individual
egos, fetishes of control and power. These virtual/ synthetic
gods are projections of mankinds deficiencies and serve the
ego's dysfunction. Instead humanity should focus on the
fact
that they are gifted with the spiritual technology for correcting
themselves to draw intimately closer to all. |
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Cultivating
Compassion
That
efflux of the heart is life and
light and love which the sentient mind comprehends as
different substances, although they are just different attributes
of the same cosmic substance.
It is love that quickens the heart or self of another and love
is life; therefore adding love is adding life.
It is the same process and comes with the expansion of heart.
~Hazrat Samuel L. Lewis (Sufi Ahmed Murad Chisti)
From
passion comes compassion,
an exquisite expression of the heart. Compassion is the highest
frequency of love that allows us to tolerate and move towards any
difficult situation and align with it without withdrawing.
From
this point we can operate from a place of equanimity and acceptance.
Compassion greatly enhances access and effectiveness. From
there
we can invite friendship and build upon it in an attempt to change
difficult circumstances. The wisdom in Nature is our best
teacher in cultivating compassion.
Compassion
is the basis of all morality.
~Arnold Schopenhauer
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Spiritual
compassion
can also be inspired through an appreciation of our
own
situation. We hold gratitude for the benefits we have received
when we confront, up close, the enormous pain others
are
forced to endure. Perhaps ones heart does not automatically
leap forth to respond because it is trapped in the
external
life of conditional love operating in assumptions. There
is more trust with the head, rather than trust of
the heart, which is solely a defense mechansism for
lack of spiritual discrimination. However, I believe
that
since humanity has been resonating
on the lowest vibrational scale entranced in the
game of
fear and terror that compassion must be cultivated and
practiced, if not lost forever in a deviated, virtual,
and Nature disconnected world.
Non-judgment
+ Live & Let Live = Compassion
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There are
many techniques and methods for developing spiritual compassion,
all of which can be useful under different circumstances and for
different purposes. The simplest one is to pause and reflect
on
how it would be to be in the other person's mind and body: what
would it feel like to be him/her? Another arises from nurturing
a personal relationship with a person you care for. We can cultivate
compassion for different people and circumstances. We can generate
compassion for ourselves. We can generate compassion for Nature.
Humans are part of Nature. We can generate compassion for those we oppose. This does
not mean that we are to compromise integrity or our position on
certain matters. There is no compassion for those who are a
threat to our sovereign conscience and connection with Nature,
instead
the problem is approached with dispassionate action.
Tonglen
Buddhist meditation can be used for all these
purposes.
Cultivating
Compassion Meditation
Sometimes
when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can
change
someone else's life forever. ~Margaret
Cho, American comedian
Feeling
or developing compassion for our own heart is an essential
preparation for holding a
sense of universal empathy
that embraces the world and everyone in it. We cannot love
or revere outwardly, if we cannot love and revere within.
It's an inverse relationship. The following are some tips
to expand your heart.
Start
with the intention of feeling compassion for your own
heart
first. Imagine compassion as a flash light blanketing
your heart in a luminous glow.
Breathe
that luminous glow in and send a loving thought to yourself. “I
am well and free from suffering.”
Using
your breath, send the luminous light emanating from your
heart out
into the world on the exhale.
As
you do this intend, “I appreciate the kindness
and love of all living creatures. May all others be well.”
Intend
this light to first reach the inner round of those you
love.
Then feel and see the light expanding outwardly to your good
friends, then towards acquaintances, and finally to the
people you dislike or actually hate. As the light reaches
each new
band of people, say: “May they be well and free from
suffering.”
Concentrate
on the kindness and compassion of all living things, and how
they make your life possible, and good.
Imagine
what it is like to be somebody else. What is it like to
be
your parent, your husband, your wife, an animal, the Earth?
How
is life for them, with their own fears and dreams, their hopes?
Every
day is a call to empathy. You see homeless people in the
streets and people dying on the television news and psychopathic
leaders and their minions are prematurely killing us all
through their terrorism. However, "Psychopaths" are excluded
from this practice as no level of compassion can change
them.
When
you feel compassion or empathy for others, don’t
brush it aside. Become open and vulnerable, enhance and
deepen
the feeling.
Also
see Tonglen Buddhist Meditation
Download Insight Meditation Manual
The
Charter of Compassion
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Forgiveness
Letting Go With the Flow
Forgiveness
is unlocking the door to set someone free and realizing you
were the prisoner.
~ Max Lucado |
Forgiveness
is the key to transformation that occurs through the Spiritual
Heart. A forgiving state of mind is the gateway to beauty
and a new world of interrelatedness. When we
have surrendered our expectations, softened our hearts and
found the gift in our wounding experiences we are ready
to activate
the heart through forgiveness. Forgiveness may not be easy,
but it does make us feel better in freeing the
disconnected ego self from pain and suffering. Pain can
be purifactory in that it reveals that something is out of
alignment
with
the
Higher Stream of wellbeing. The ego
pain body structure is a veneer that
shields awareness of the ensouled Self. It works to
rule the perceived kingdom of which it seeks control over
- the ego is the kingdom, albeit false.
Once this is understood, we must ask: With whom do we align?
Godhead or the psychopathic Archontic machinations of humanity? Whom can
we trust: The Spirit in Nature or the Bankers?
We
cannot serve the false and the true. We must inevitably choose. There is only one absolute Truth!
Forgive
as in a
Flowing Stream of Release
Alisa Battaglia©
Fairchild Botanical
Garden, FL
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Purifying
our emotional body and letting go is how we reset to align
and flow in tandem with Nature's rhythm and the streaming of the greater Kosmic
circuit. Letting go allows the Kosmos to flow through us - to keep the dream flowing.
The
role of forgiveness is essential in our healing passage
because it disconnects us from the
gripping of the past and fuels confidence to plow through
tough situations without harboring resentment, panicking
or losing control. We act with dispassion or non-attachment.
This does not mean we
suddenly
befriend
or
approve
of someone who has trespassed against us. It does mean that
we release our aggressors of any lingering resentments and
are able to forgive ourselves from mis-takes so that we may
finally move forward to be present in our lives.
The atttiude of forgiveness however, does not embrace those
who oppress us, enslave us and who ultimately wish to kill
us. Instead, those actions require a Warrior heart to
defend the good, the beautiful and the True in life.
As we evolve and develop a greater depth of understanding,
there is a natural willingness to engage in forgiveness.
The
very act of forgiveness heals, constructs bridges and breaks
down barriers in building right relationships in families,
groups, communities, nations and humanity—the World
of the Soul. Understand that without forgiveness
there
can be no authentic relationship unless separative and narrow
thinking are relinquished. The only thing that keeps us
in
separation is living in the ego mind that builds defenses
fortifying a loveless life. The mindset of the machinated
ego does not support the Soul that is connected through Nature. This
separation between self and Nature is a state of unconsciousness
that causes pain and delays the harmony and peace we long
for.
Resistance usurps our vital stream of energy and we suffer
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Forgiveness
is the key to purifying the Soul. To authenticate,
we must each choose "unbinding" from the illusion for the process
to begin. For example, faulty habits, patterns of mind and
emotions
such
as hate,
envy, jealousy,
anger, self doubt, suspicion, regret, frustration, and even
mild
dislikes vibrate at a low frequency. Lower frequencies consumes
our energy and negative energy contributes to a loss in peace,
and happiness. When we love ourselves, our first priority is
Soul evolution. We do what we need to do to liberate self
from the bondage of feeling separate, to question and move
beyond
the traps of ignorance that impede our spiritual progress. True
forgiveness helps to bind the spiritual realms ever closer
to
humanity. It is the recognition of our commonality and the remembrance
of our authentic Self as immortal Spirit. This very state
of mind rests
at the heart of transformation - that eventually undergo the
Tests of Initiation.
The four
stages of forgiveness found in Clarissa Pinkola-Estes’s
book, “Women who Run with the Wolves” is a simple
alchemical recipe that catharts us through the forgiveness process.
It provides an actual capacity to disconnect from the object of
our attention imbuing universal wisdom.
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The
Four Stages of Forgiveness
Disconnecting
from the Past
It
does not matter whether you are a theist or atheist, what
matters is sincerity, forgiveness, and compassion.
~His
Holiness the Dalai Lama
1.
Forego-leave it alone
2. Forbear-abstain from punishing
3. Forget-avert from memory, refuse to dwell
4. Forgive-abandon the debt
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The
four stages of forgiveness is a practice in retention.
When we forego something, we refuse through choice not
out of denial to eliminate the mind from wrapping around
the object of our attention or obsession. We leave it
alone. When we forbear we take no part in punishing
or blaming self or others, and we no longer need to
defend our hearts or be overly suspicious of people,
because we have learned to take self-responsibility.
When we forget or use retentive memory in our refusal
to dwell on things that offers no solution for change
or that self-limits, we choose to avert our memory to
more constructive ends. When we forgive, we let go of
the resentment of injury done to us and we forgive ourselves
and others. We literally abandon retribution and the
weight of debt. We free ourselves from the grievance
story of the past as we discharge the emotional binding,
although we can recall our memories when needed. Moving
on allows our awareness to be present and our grievance
story to reflect our honorable choice to forgive. |
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Alisa Battaglia©2015, Excerpted from the book, "The
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Gratitude
Thank You Divine Wisdom
Consciously
cultivating thankfulness is a journey of the soul, one that begins
when we look around us
and see the positive effects that gratitude creates. ~MJ
Ryan
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Consciousness
operates on many different levels. Technology has provided
many conveniences that are so often taken for granted. A flip
of a switch provides illumination. A turn of a knob provides
heat for cooking. A turn of a handle provides fresh water
from a faucet. A flush of a toilet provides sanitation and
convenience. We used to light candles for illumination. We
used to build fires for cooking. We used to transport water
from outside to sources to our abodes. We used to use chamber
pots and outhouses. So much for technology.
What about our physical
gifts? The gift of ambulating without assistance. The gift
of thinking clearly. The gift of being continent of feces
and urine. The gift of having food to nourish oneself.
Buddhism teaches us
non attachment. We are taught not to compare. However, have
you ever given any thought to what it would be like to be
without the afore said physical gifts or live in a civilization
that did not have the afore said conveniences? Have you
ever given any thought to what it would be like to be confined
to a wheelchair, dependent on others to change an incontinent
brief on others due to incontinence? Have you ever given
any thought to what it would be like to lose your memory
and be confused?
As a Light Worker
who is dedicated to personal and global evolution I suggest
you do the following. Close your eyes and picture all the
wonderful things you possess; spiritual, physical, and material
that are simple in nature, but that which make you whole.
Then picture yourself without them..
Gratitude is the conscious
recognition of those basic things we are blessed with yet
take for granted. One way we thank our Higher Power for
these gifts is to treat our body as the temple it is so
we can continue our journey to ascension.
In
closing, I leave you with the following. A Nursing Home Resident
who I knew who was a quadriplegic had an interesting viewpoint.
Each day I would see him and ask how he was. His response
was so simple and defined the ultimate sense of gratitude
for me. His response was “Thank God for life.”
SidneyL.Schiff©2011
Conscious seed make a flute from a reed
Play
a beautiful note for the cosmos to hear
Reverberate to all human care and remember
To keep plants, animals and minerals dear
As
we play a tune on the flute from the reed
May
God Bless us for all we need.
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The Gentle Art of Blessing
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REVERENCE
Amazing
Grace
Receiving Nature's Grace
comes from Living in the Flow
The
journey to Divine Grace is entirely personal. It emanates from
a
deep desire, often as a need for help, as life no longer seems
to be working with us. We feel trapped and whatever we do through
the ego creates painful outcomes.
The conflict in our lives tells us that we are not in alignment
with our Essential Self...that we have side stepped the Spirit in Nature and thus,
are out of flow with Divine rhythm. Yet, our invocation is heard and our indwelling higher force that fills us with a special strength of Grace guides us to right process. Grace asks us to surrender our egoic will to the higher
forces
of Spiritual alignment so that we may attune to Singularity - the undivided
stream of Source. Such surrendering in Trust of
Divine
guidance
rather than the ego-will-to-be-done, uplifts the personality into
reorientation towards material Soul awareness. Our inner strength surfaces
into conviction and correction towards right process. From a different
vector of perception, we
see with renewed awareness how struggles are
guideposts that point where we are out of alignment and to make the necessary adjustments for a better life.
The
Grace or direct impulse received from Spirit acts mystically
in our Soul.
This gift of blessed influence transforms our whole being at the
most radical level. While Grace is always available to us, we
do
not always appropriate it. We must invoke it and accept to receive
it in the instant of our asking. In the winds of change we find our true direction. I tell
my
story of Grace below.
One late
afternoon, I took a jog to clear my head and rethink my life
direction. My
spirit was at low ebb and I was vividly aware of how I had been
misusing my divine endowments and wanted to change my life, but
needed a jump-start to move forward by
a power
much larger than myself. I cried from sheer determination and
willingness
while invoking Spirits help from the core of my being. I surrendered
my personal will and the response I received was felt as a strong
stream of directed loving force that suddenly filled me while
quickening my consciousness, heightening
my self awareness and sense of participation with the Universe—I
experienced a direct communion with a Higher Power. The sluice
gates of my Soul
opened and Grace amazingly poured in overwhelming me with beneficent
power. I was made whole from my conflict and inner resistances,
as
the humble Grace of Higher Power flowed into me and directed me
towards right action.
Years
later, as I struggled on the path of aligned focus towards
gnosis of spiritual matters and feeling an anxious quickening
of participation in Earth's correction, I questioned my
worthiness
of receiving
Godheads
sanctifying
energy. Was I courageous enough to carry out the inner
message of my Soul in defending the good, the beautiful,
and the True?
Would anyone hear me? What was I to do and how was I to
achieve this fiery inner calling? I felt wholly
unmerited
of such an abundant and divine favor that had taken possession
of me. I began to struggle with how and why I was chosen
to
become a recipient for Spirit's work. I wondered how I was
to honor this unknown, yet always desired Path of Reverence
for Nature and did not yet see that I was being prepared
to partake in a momentous
correction
in the very near future.
My efforts
felt
so puny in the grandeur and
magnanimity
lavished upon me.
Once I consciously accepted my own divine endowments channeled
through the living stream that flowed into me that day,
my life began
to transform in ways I only imagined. I am very rich indeed!
Grace, I learned is the divine energy at work in the human
Soul.
Therein, began the tenuous, if not disconcerting alignment
process of my bifurcated personality; the
eventual and ongoing integration
of my personality with Soul; and
followed by a series
of initiations for participation in planetary revivalism. Communion
with the Spirit in Nature and letting Earth teach is the
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I
must say that receiving the blessings of Divine
Grace is a most profound
and moving experience - that of being pursued and captured by
a relentless
and irresistible love. Throughout the years, it has been this Divine
energy that has driven me tirelessly in body and spirit to participate behind the scenes
in our planetary
Mother's Correction.
It is this consciousness of communion, of the grounding of
Spirit in
Matter through my physical body — conjoining
hands, heart, and Nature with the co-creative
force at the Heart of Godhead—that
has enlarged my capacity to liberate my Soul urge into greater expression. No doubt, I am a happy recipient
of Spiritual Grace and with sovereign conscience
to express this eternal moral law that lies at the core of all
things - I
pass
my direct experience on through these words.
“Grace is available to everyone, but you must be willing to
surrender to change at the very moment of your asking and
apprehend to
Divine strength. And in the freedom to choose, it is the surrendering of all things small that allows Spirit to
bring harmony and balance into your life enabling you to live those principles,
as
the impetus toward your spiritual evolution in the greater kosmic-planetary
scheme.”
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The
Secret of Happiness
“What
keeps us unhappy is our tendency to seek pleasure and avoid
pain.”
~Buddhist Nun Pema Chodron
"Everyone
has love inside themselves. The secret of happiness is taking
the love that is inside and letting it out by making the world
a better place. Taking action to make the world a better place
changes you, your world and builds bonds and community which
we all need to be happy. By taking action at the level of
civil society, we become part of it in a way that allows us
to be happy and help to make others happy. Governments respond
to grass roots pressure so the leadership is really bottom
up if we are taking our responsibility seriously and making
ourselves happy at the same time! When we act for the good
of others, we act for the good of ourselves and we know that
we are a part of the whole in a way that is essential to our
happiness." ~Eduardo
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