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I believe in the importance of being true to myself in every moment by doing what I love.
How is it possible to continuously do what you love when there are things you sometimes have to do that you don’t particularly enjoy?
Easy, just think about what you love.
For instance, I recently attended my nephew’s confirmation at [...]

I have observed life provides limitless opportunities for fun and laughter, sometimes in the most unlikely places.
The other day I accompanied my mother to the hospital. At the waiting room, my mother chose where she wanted to sit and I sat next to her. There was an elderly lady sitting to my right. After a [...]

I believe the Universe is rather like an insurance policy.
Insurance companies agree to cover policy holders in times of crisis. However, it’s up to the policy holders to not only claim what they are entitled to but to prove their entitlement. Don’t expect the insurance company to do it for you. In the same respect, [...]

When a friend and I got on the bus she looked at her watch and muttered a few times, “I’m going to be late!” As we were chatting she relaxed and stopped fretting.
At one stop I noticed the driver was taking longer than usual to leave. I realised a passenger had tried to open the [...]

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How does being a Christian affect the minute details of your daily life? Do we put in “pew time” on Sundays but live pretty much the same way everyone else does the rest of the week? Or do we live lives of excellence at all times?
Aristotle said, [...]

Mystics have shared their visions of a world where humans and animals live together in perfect harmony, but methinks there is a huge price to pay for this reality.
As I was walking through a park I noticed this pigeon taking his evening constitutional ahead of me. As the pigeon was taking his time, I tried [...]

A year ago my mother was given a potted Bologie vegetable plant which she put on the kitchen window sill. While she was on holidays, she asked me to look after the plant. I decided to name the plant Agnes after the British supermodel Agyness (same pronunciation but different spelling).
Agnes and I developed a strong [...]

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I have an acquaintance who won big on the slot machines in Las Vegas. I wouldn’t mind having money spill out of a machine into my pockets, but that’s not likely to happen since I don’t gamble. However, I am rich because I possess a treasure greater than money. [...]

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Due to complications of an illness, without warning I’d been struck blind. As I lay awake in the lonely darkness, I prayed harder than I’d ever prayed before. I was living a nightmare. I felt alone and afraid.
The searing pain stabbed at my eyes as if fire were consuming [...]

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My sister, Mrs. Clean, bleaches her ceiling, vacuums the driveway, and irons socks. Her house looks like a magazine cover. Mine looks like the county dump. Her floors are so clean you could eat off them. You can eat off mine too . . . if you’re a dog.
I [...]

As I was walking home the other night, a man approached me and asked me the way to a particular area. I pointed the way. He thanked me and walked briskly away.
Previous to that, during another walk, a young lady stopped me and asked me how to get to a particular street. I told her [...]

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Realizing the imminence of his death a patient started pleading with the doctor to save him at any cost. He told the doctor that money would be no bar in organizing the best treatment available in the hope of gaining an extra lease of life. The doctor was perplexed [...]

I believe there’s nothing like music.
While I was raised as a Christian, there was a lot that didn’t ring true for me. As soon as I was old enough to make my own decisions, I rejected Christianity and the beliefs associated with it to explore what the meaning of life means for me. While I [...]

Before I went to bed last night I had a stomach cramp. I figured I’d just go to sleep and it will sort itself out. In the middle of the night I woke up and was doubled up in pain. It was time to resolve the situation. I thought to myself “I’m feeling good; I [...]

While I was chatting to a friend he asked me if I wanted to see a trick.
“Go on then,” I said, “I love tricks!”
He took an elastic band from the desk and then hid his hands under the desk to hide the elastic in one hand. I knew he was expecting me to guess which [...]

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One of my friends has been asking: How to surrender to God?
Analyzing my friend’s background, I find that he is quite comfortable economically, running a business to his satisfaction and maintaining a reasonable health at the age of 65 years. I don’t see a situation that needs his surrendering [...]

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Fortunately, I have a natural tendency not to develop any hatred, anguish, or enmity in case someone breaks up a relationship or friendship with me on any account. Besides, I always pray to God to create the situation for the re-establishment of goodwill, because I could not tolerate that [...]

I noticed an advert on television for a product. The advert talks about how we need to protect ourselves from those invisible germs that lurk after you’ve washed your hands. The advert stresses how important it is to use this particular product to get rid of those buggers. In the advert, a mother is disinfecting [...]

When I went home last night my mother told me she’d been burgled. I asked her whether this had happened while we were out. She said it happened while she was at home.
While my mother was watching television, someone rang the bell and said he was some kind of drainage inspector. Mum went to open [...]

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I tried my level best to prove my sovereignty on the basis of wealth and power. I wished to be a master commanding others. I seemed successful to some extent. But reality proved otherwise.
In reality, I found that I was becoming a most dependant person and this often made [...]

“Open thou mine eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law.” Psalm 119: 18
“For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” Philippians 2: 13
I know colours are everywhere, yet sometimes it feels like there are no colours at all. I find one [...]

Is there such a reality as evil or does evil exist if one believes in evil?
I believe in the allness of God/Love i.e. because God/Love exists in all time, all space, and all realities, there is no room for anything unlike God. However, I’ve also experienced that there are realities that oppose God’s allness and [...]

While I was travelling on the bus I noticed a boy getting on with his mother. It’s difficult to tell how old he was, as he was taller than his mother, but I guessed he was around ten or eleven. There was something very serene about him. He didn’t seem to have a care in [...]

It’s a funny thing traffic lights. I’ve observed that when I’m waiting to cross the road, sometimes the lights change very quickly and sometimes they seem to take forever. What’s going on there?
Hold that thought!
The other day I came out of the supermarket with two heavy bags of shopping. I intended to cross over the [...]

Infinite Love has always been and will always be. This Love is my real self and true nature. To activate love all I need to do is live with the awareness that Love is all and in all. Another way Love’s presence can be activated is having an object of affection.
When I got on the [...]

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For about 7-8 months in 1989 I was all alone at a place 2000 kilometers away from my family. The first 2-3 months I practiced the repetition of the sweet names of my beloved personal God then I indulged in writing letters to my wife and posting an envelope [...]

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I have no claim of doing any kind of practice for spiritual gains – self-realization or devotion to God, at least in this very life. The situation was created unknowingly and I had no option other than to surrender to God (Please see my article: Death – a great [...]

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After enjoying three relationships with the Lord (the Lord as master, friend and child, with myself as servant, friend and a parent to Him respectively) to whom I had surrendered in 1977, I came across my spiritual teacher and surrendered to Him in August 2002 for still another kind [...]

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Our passion in “I and my” represents the ego and possessiveness, and these two attitudes cause temporary mental satisfaction but result in extreme agonies. Walls of differences are caused due to such consideration. A self-realized person is aware of this fact and leaves it forever. Thus, he remains always [...]

This short story is shared by Brian Joseph
Strange how a word or phrase used in a certain way can evoke a memory. That is how it was for Marissa as she sat on the beach. It was early Fall and late in the day so there weren’t many people around. She sat close to the [...]