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Spiritual Advancement

“…Spiritual advancement comes through the tiresome exercise of the free will. Spiritual advancement comes through the correct choices of that free will and through the long suffering of the physical because of those correct choices. Spiritual advancement is not a paved road. It is literally strewn with dead-ends, high walls, and dark pitfalls. It is […]

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Free Will

“The free will should be one of an individuals most prized possessions. This is an elementary spiritual concept. If we were to urge and warn a person continually, or if we were to continually point out his errors and future downfalls, we would be grossly affecting that person’s right to choose. An individual’s free will […]

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Action On Behalf Of Life

“Action on behalf of life transforms. Because the relationship between self and the world is reciprocal, it is not a question of first getting enlightened or saved and then acting. As we work to heal the earth, the earth heals us.” ― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of […]

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Support Each Other

“Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more […]

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You Are Divine

People cannot change who you are and what you were born to be. They can create obstacles in your path. They can do things that make you believe you are other than what you are, but people cannot change, alter, or in any way hinder the truth of your being. The truth is you are […]

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Collective Wisdom

“The shining totality of the Collective Wisdom cannot be accepted, nor even truly approached, until one’s conceptual dogmatic confines are shed and one willfully transcends all the clinging traditional systems presently perceived as truth.” -Mary Summer Rain, Pinecones: Autumn Reflections

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For All That You May Ever Keep. . .

“For all that ye may ever keep is just what you give away, and that you give away is advice, counsel, manner of life you live yourself.” The manner in which you treat your fellow man, your patience, your brotherly love, your kindness, your gentleness. That you give away, that is all that ye may […]

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Invictus

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and […]

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The Value of Living and Being YOU

“To get a human body is a rare thing. Make full use of it. There are four million kinds of lives which a soul can gather. After that, one gets a chance to be human, to get a human body. Therefore, one should not waste this chance. Every second in human life is very valuable. […]