Leave Mediocrity Behind and Rise to a New Level

Many times we find ourselves falling victim to stagnation. I’ll be the first to admit that I get caught lying dormant in my comfort zone. It’s easy to become comfortable and settled because it relieves us of the responsibility of thinking outside of the box.

The Symbolism and Meaning Behind the Laughing Buddha Statue

The Jolly Laughing Buddha is also known as Hotei or Pu-Tai. He is extremely popular in China where he is also known as the Loving or Friendly One.

Humility – The Master Perceives the Universal Harmony Because She Has Found Peace in Her Heart

The ego mind wants and needs attention constantly. Searching for meaning and wanting more experiences, the ego mind compares and judges all things. Ego causes suffering when you start negatively judging one thing or person to be better than the other.

Inquiry – Awareness Never Does Anything – Yet Through it All Things Are Done

As your thoughts appear, your experience of the world is created. Because your senses operate at a slower frequency than the energy flow of creation, your recognition of the present is actually in the past. Just as the light from a distant star only shows us where the star was, your senses only tell you what happened. When you see or hear anything it is only light and sound reflected.

Identification – When You Look For It There Is Nothing To See – When You Use It, It Is Inexhaustible

For centuries society has developed identification within tribes and then nations. Identification with race, religion and national identity has been the basis for collective beliefs. This identification first begun as survival and then was adopted by tribal leaders as a way to control the behavior of larger numbers of people.

Love Yourself – Always Remember You Are Unique, Just Like Everyone Else

The thoughts that are your story, your past, these are thoughts created by the ego for personal identification. Your true identity is in the unity of all things beyond the ego personality. The essential being of each individual is always there in the ever present now. Consciousness of the individual is part of the vast energy field that supports all life. However your personal understanding of the world is the way your consciousness expresses itself.

Love – Teaching Without Words, Performing Without Actions – That is the Way

Loving someone else is often thought of as giving love. Expressing love for another person is the process of receiving love into your life. Love is the name for the emotion you feel when you connect to the universal energy of all creation. When you express loving feelings toward another you become a conduit for that creative energy. You can feel the joy and the sweet bliss of unrestricted, non-judgmental flow of energy that you call love.

What’s Worth Living For As Christians?

We begin by fronting the question: “What’s worth living for?” To Christians, people who have saddled themselves with the not-easy-to-match seriousness in their confessed faith, this question is more than just rhetorical. It demands answers and provide them we must.

There is Now No Condemnation For Those in Christ Jesus!

With God the former life is gone and forgotten. It is irrelevant in his eyes even though we might still bear the scars and worldly consequences of it. God is solely focussing us on our future–that one with a bright shining hope attached to it; the wondrous light that beckons for us a path of sanctity and of grace. Set aside now, protected, anointed for good works!

Life and Death – Let the Dead Bury the Dead

Spirit is eternal but the body changes constantly. The essence of spirit within the physical body lives forever. It is pure energy that is brought into form at birth. When this form decays and dies you transition back to spirit. Your thoughts form the structure of life.

Levels of Understanding – All Things Are Born of Being and Being is Born of Non-Being

At what level of understanding do your thoughts reside? Notice what your thoughts are as you observe the world. Do you think about how you compare to everyone else? Do you judge yourself and others in regards to beauty, clothing and possessions? You are one soul seeing another soul in body experience; the essence of you is the same essence in all others.

Judgments and Conflicts – The World is Ruled by Letting Things Take Their Course

What you experience comes filtered through your senses and creates your understanding of the world. As you experience the world, you start to make value judgments about your experience. What is valuable only has value within you.