“Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you’ll be surprised at how little you have.” — Ernest Haskins This quote is a joke, of course, but actually, in the beginning, it’s true. When we’re digging ourselves out of financial difficulties, our first efforts at …
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“I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.” — e. e. cummings If you are often or always in debt, you will never experience financial freedom until you resolve to stop buying on credit. To do this, you need to set a …
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“The person who doesn’t know where his next dollar is coming from usually doesn’t know where his last dollar went.” — Source Unknown Have you started to keep track of every coin you spend? Do you know where your money goes each month? This vital exercise helps us gain control of …
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Author Robert Sardello talks about how our experience of time is affected by duration and tempo. We can identify the natural tempo of life in the rhythm of the heartbeat. We experience duration in the rising and setting of the sun, the ebb and flow of the tides and the …
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When we are first drawn to the spiritual path, we may begin to move away from the material. And yet the nature of our journey is the experience of spirit in matter. We are here to express spirit through form. The two depend on each other. And so we want …
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The spiritual journey first follows the path of personality to explore limitation and separation. It then takes the path of soul to reconnect with expansiveness and unity. Here’s another bird’s eye view of how our lives unfold to awaken our consciousness: 1. Unconscious love: When we are born, we exist …
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The Tibetan teacher, Chogyam Trungpa, warned of the trap of spiritual materialism. He says we must be ever diligent to spot the ego’s use of the spiritual journey to further its own ends. If ego’s wants underlie our desire for spiritual connection, we may be using spiritual techniques to strengthen …
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Do you sense that something is missing in your life? Chances are, you are experiencing the lack of soul in your world. What is soul? Our minds may want to understand soul as an entity. Andrew Schneider says that “soul is who we are as incarnated Spirit, …who we are …
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