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Swami Beyondananda’s
State of the Universe Address for 2010
Part 2
Step One: Wake Up Laughing
Do you realize that billions of people worldwide go to bed serious every night? And wake up the same way?
Seriously.
So naturally — or in this case, unnaturally — the world is in serious condition. Between the stresses of work, the economy, and a [...]
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Swami Beyondananda’s
State of the Universe Address
2010
“Wake Up Laughing, And Wise Up Loving:
The Upwising Has Begun!”
– Swami Beyondananda
“We’re not here to earn God’s love, we’re here to spend it!”
- Swami Beyondananda
Well, another 12-month episode of that long-running comedy of situations, Universe Knows Best, is in the can, and you’ll be happy to know the show has [...]
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I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you which shall be the darkness of God.
– T.S. Elliot
We here in the Northern Hemisphere are in the deepest darkness of the year, with the arrival of yesterday’s New Moon and then the Winter Solstice less than a week away. At [...]
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Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.
Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions.
– Rainer Maria Rilke
This week, we welcome the powerful Major [...]
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Surround yourself with people who respect and wish you well. — Claudia Black
To recover our inner artist, we must face the scars that block us. As if we are trees, we remember and grieve where the hopeful young sapling’s limbs of potential were damaged by the ice storms of criticism, broken by aloof (perhaps [...]
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Spirit of the Redwoods © Willow Arlenea
Draw into thy Centre-deep…thy Heavens within…Take present care of the Heavens of our Mind…Dive into our own Celestiality, and see with what manner of spirits you are endued; for in them the Powers do entirely lie for Transformation.- Jane Leade, A Fountain of Gardens
How do we find our center-deep? [...]
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from The Hypochondriacs Alphabet © Holly T. BurrowsI don’t know how things are going in your life, but here at the Owl’s Nest, things have been a bit heavy. As I’ve mentioned, there have been two unexpected deaths of loved ones in recent weeks.
And then, in just the last three days, two other very dear [...]
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Welcome to our honored guest blogger today – acclaimed artist and author, Kris Waldherr.
I am so excited that the wonderful artist and author, Kris Waldherr, has generously offered to be my guest writer today. If you aren’t already familiar with the lush beauty of her Goddess Tarot, you need to be!
If our Raleigh-Durham Tarot Meetup [...]
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Bodhisattva: In Mahayana Buddhism, the Bodhisattva is a person who already has a considerable degree of enlightenment and seeks to use their wisdom to help other human beings to become liberated themselves…an already wise person who uses skillful means to lead others to see the benefits of virtue and the cultivation of wisdom. (from [...]
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Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good.If it doesn’t, it is of no use.– Carlos Castaneda
Nowadays, many people are discovering that they have a powerful sixth sense, and are seeking ways to understand and cultivate their intuitive powers. So a question that often comes up for my clients is [...]
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