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Awakening

From Fighting To Freedom

I want you to take a moment and imagine…
Imagine a young Japanese man by the name of Morihei Ueshiba, the eventual founder of the martial art Aikido, who has decided to take a walk through his garden to calm his racing heart.
You see he’s just been attacked by a naval officer wielding a big stick.
The [...]

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Getting To The Core Of You

What’s at the core of you?
What makes you tick?
What do you like?
What don’t you like?
What do you believe in?
What do you really want to do with your life?
What are your hopes and dreams?
Who are you really?
Are you a fixed reality or an ever changing flux of fluidity?
And when was the last time you asked yourself [...]

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Openess & Insight

“If we imagine that our mind is like the blue sky,
and that across it pass thoughts as clouds,
we can get a feel for that part of it which is other than our thoughts.
The sky is always present;
it contains the clouds and yet is not contained by them.
So with our awareness.
It is present and encompasses all [...]

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Is Failure An Option?

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.” George Bernard Shaw
Why are we so afraid to fail?
I don’t think children even know what failure is. Or if they do they choose to ignore it. Focussing on their goal instead. Totally absorbed by it. [...]

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Inspiration – The Breath of Creation

Be Inspirational!
Guest Post by Naomi Ozaniec

“The gift of creative inspiration belongs to everyone, not merely the outstanding figures of history, it is the special enzyme of human experience which makes us the co-creators of our own existence.”
Where does inspiration come from? Who gets inspired? What is the value of inspiration?
Inspiration is a uniquely human quality, [...]

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Michael Jackson & The Meaning Of Life

“This is the moment. This is it.” Michael Jackson
I think that it’s finally really settled in for me, Michael Jackson is dead. The king of pop, the greatest entertainer ever, is no longer with us.
And no matter what you may think of his personal life or his inner demons, when it came to his fans, [...]

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Declaration Of Awakening

THE DECLARATION OF AWAKENING
(c) Ian Paul Marshall
I AM
I am awakened!
I have now awakened to the magic of my life, this present moment
and the divine connection I have to all of life.
I live, breathe, and have my being within a living field of unified consciousness.
My heart is aflame with love, joy, and compassion
and my hands reach [...]

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30 + 1 Questions To Open Your Mind

Sometimes
just the right
question
will open up worlds
of unknown
potential
within us:

If you had all the money in the world what would you do?
Do you think doing and being are the same thing?
What does being really mean for you?
Do you really think mean people will get their just deserts?
Speaking of desert, vanilla or chocolate?
Top or bottom?
If you could be [...]

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Growth

“Life needs continuous growth. The moment you stop its growth, it starts dying. So go into the world full of songs, full of dance and abundant love, and give it unconditionally, without any judgment, to anybody who is receptive — and you will go on [...]

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Are You Expressing The Three You's?

Aristotle, the great thinker of ancient times, was a worrisome man. And chiefly he devoted his attentions to discovering and uncovering ideas that would benefit lives of the people as a whole.
He worried and fretted about the three lives of the “good society”:

The first life is the life of productivity and knowledge gathering
The second, the [...]

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