Religion & Spirituality | dimitri seneca snowden

to sacrifice is not to lose something.

the true meaning of sacrifice is give up something of a lower nature for something of higher nature.

~bob proctor

April 11, 2013

By 9:30 a.m. at Paul Ecke Central Elementary School, tiny feet were shifting from downward dog pose to chair pose to warrior pose in surprisingly swift, accurate movements. A circle of 6- and 7-year-olds contorted their frames, making monkey noises and repeating confidence-boosting mantras. Jackie…

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yoga class draws a religious protest

December 19, 2012

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Ask yourself questions. In anything in life, inquiry can be helpful. Just start asking yourself questions any time about any thing that comes to mind. Don’t worry about the answers. They tend to surface through life. But if the questions are asked, you’ll be sure…

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ask yourself…

December 13, 2012

Five is a sacred number for Shiva. One of his most important mantras has five syllables (na-mah shi-vaa-ya). Shiva’s body is said to consist of five mantras, called the pañcabrahmans: As forms of god, each of these have their own names and distinct iconography: *…

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five sacred mantras

December 12, 2012

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One cannot find truth by mere thinking. Thinking is not the process that leads you to the truth. It leads only to inference. And inferences are just inferences, they are hypothetical. They may be true, they may not be true. They are just conjecture, not…

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truth vs thinking

December 10, 2012

1. i understand. 2. i see. 3. i speak. 4. i love. 5. i do. 6. i feel. 7. iam.

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read the signs

November 19, 2012

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“Remember YOU are here to CREATE the person you want to be for life. Follow what drives YOU, popularity is nothing. Be the person YOU want to be now because now is as close to the future as YOU will ever get. Find someone that…

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you create you!

November 12, 2012

“If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you’re here to touch, those who believe in you.” ~ Allison DuBois

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stay true to you…

November 9, 2012

The Misconception: If you are in a bad situation, you will do whatever you can do to escape it. The Truth: If you feel like you aren’t in control of your destiny, you will give up and accept whatever situation you are in. In 1965,…

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learned helplessness

September 16, 2012

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Mother Earth, you are my life support system. As a sentient being, I must drink your blue water, live inside your red clay, and eat your green skin. Help me to balance myself as you hold in balance the earth, the seas and the space…

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dear mother earth

September 12, 2012

I always walk three steps behind him to his left. Anything that comes toward him from behind, I encounter first. I can clearly see what advances to his right and his left. I also have my sights on what approaches ahead. If I stand…

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a game of chess

September 3, 2012

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With such a small life, with such a small energy source, it is simply stupid to waste it in sadness, in anger, in hatred, in jealousy. Use it in love, use it in some creative act, use it in friendship, use it in meditation: Do…

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rise above the smallness

September 2, 2012

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if you make friends with yourself and you’ll never be alone!

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i am my friend.

September 1, 2012

This is a guest post by Dan Ariely, James B Duke Professor of Psychology and Behavioral Economics at Duke University. I’ve always suspected that we start each day with a limited number of decision-making points that, once depleted, leave us cognitively impaired. This is part of…

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the dangers of “ego-depletion”

August 15, 2012

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be…

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the storm…

August 13, 2012

Fear of Failure … that recurring event that most frequently is far worse than the actual event you feared. For many, myself included, fear of failure has proven to be a crippling and suffocating force with anaconda-like strength … crushing our wills while making our…

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fear of failure

August 12, 2012

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Humanity is at a fork in the road and it is time to make a choice. Are we going to awaken to our true genius and potential as Infinite Consciousness? Or are we going to remain entrapped in body/mind and the manufactured illusions of the…

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human race – get off your knees

August 4, 2012

much of the social history of the western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.

~thomas sowell

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much of the social histor…

July 26, 2012

For all of the rhetoric about Christianity being under attack in this country, oftentimes it feels no one does a better job of hurting Christianity than the people who call themselves Christians. Especially after a national tragedy. For example, after the September 11 terror attacks,…

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when christians are their own worst enemies

July 24, 2012

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By choosing your thoughts and by selecting which emotional currents you will release and which you will release and which you will reinforce, you determine the quality of your Light. You determine the effects that you will have upon others and the nature of the experiences of your…

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choose your thoughts…

July 21, 2012

A court in Germany has ruled that male circumcision that is not medically necessary is an assault and conflicts with a child’s right to decide its own religion, and so is illegal. Unfortunately, the case has quickly developed into a “Germany versus Jews” spat. Whereas…

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circumcision

July 20, 2012

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your beliefs don’t make you a better person – your behavior does!

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your beliefs don’t make …

July 19, 2012

Take nothing personally. When we hear something, we self reflect then react. Our reactions are a response to how we view ourselves or how we have been treated in the past. Therefore, understand that a person’s reactions have nothing to do with you, but are…

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it’s not about you!

July 13, 2012

It is possible for water to function as the computer RAM memory storing in its “brain” every interaction that occurs in its immediate environment? Leonardo Da Vinci said: “Water is the driving force of nature“. Indeed, there can be no life without water. But what…

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does water really have memory and consciousness?

July 10, 2012

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In any kind of negotiation, your ability to walk away is your strongest tool. Those who can walk away from the negotiation — legitimately walk away, not just make a show of it — are in the strongest position. Those who are convinced they need…

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walk away…

May 23, 2012

There are many comparative studies of the lives of the masters Gautama Buddhaand Jesus, as there are many revisions about the lives of Krishna and others historically relevant spiritual masters. There are in many of them thematic parallels among the lives of these Saviors of…

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christ, buddha and the saviors of mankind

May 17, 2012

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By virtue of my “nerdness”, I’m often asked, where do I think we come from. My answer: I find the explanation that we were made in stars to be deep, elegant, and beautiful. This explanation says that every atom in each of our bodies was…

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we are star dust….

May 16, 2012

When you turn on your computer, do you have specific programs that automatically start along with the operating system? Both the Windows and Mac Operating Systems let you select programs that will turn on immediately each time you boot up. In daily life, most of…

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uninstalling your programs

May 13, 2012

You know, culture was born of the imagination, and the imagination — the imagination as we know it — came into being when our species descended from our progenitor, Homo erectus, and, infused with consciousness, began a journey that would carry it to every corner…

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the worldwide web of belief and ritual

May 10, 2012

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We humans are mentally very complex – and often contradictory in our beliefs and actions. This must be a real problem for sociologists who often rely on surveys and self-reporting of beliefs. I have often wondered about the reliability and interpretation of survey data on…

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morality does not mean christianity

May 4, 2012

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