Self Esteem, or Self-Importance?

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Ego is an important aspect of a healthy consciousness. It helps us to know and honor our own personal truth in life. It helps us to move through life with a positive sense of ourselves and our place in the world that is grounded in the greater well-being of all. If you have a healthy ego, you don't take it personally when things go wrong in your world. Instead, you focus on fixing what is yours to fix, asking for help when you need it and giving help wherever you can, and you trust that there … [Read more...]

Challenges are Our Opportunities

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Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)...Your challenge this month, as you'll discover on or around the Aquarius New Moon on February 13, is to fully embrace your humanness. We are all wounded, but until you quit blaming yourself, you'll never fully tap your power. Money luck is suddenly at record levels, so please forget the past and give your dream another shot. Pisces (Feb. 19-Mar. 20)..."I'd rather be lucky than good," my grandmother used to gleefully shout. With both of the good fortune planets, … [Read more...]

Love Will Have Its Way

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At a seminar, a young Jewish woman named Miriam tearfully reported that she was in love with a Muslim man, but her father forbade her to see him. This created a terrible quandary for her, since she could not reconcile her love for this man with her desire to honor her father's wishes. Miriam wrestled with this issue for a long time and a year later returned to another seminar, still distraught. A few months afterward, Miriam mailed me a copy of a letter she had written to her father. The … [Read more...]

How Can I Be in the Present Moment

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Question: My mind is never still and silent. Thoughts never stop for more than a few moments. How can I stop the thoughts? How can I be present if my mind is so active? Leonard's answer: First of all, you cannot stop the mind. The very effort to stop the mind is arising from within the mind. It is just another thought. But there is a hidden key that I share which will bring you instantly out of the mind into the world of Now. And when you become present in this way, thoughts will stop all by … [Read more...]

Fear? Pointless.

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This morning I found myself reflecting on personal experiences lived over the past 30 years. Or so. I can now say that fully half my life has been spent actively engaging in the large-scale change of consciousness I agreed to assist before I arrived. A large group of baby boomers came in as transforming agents, and I dutifully took on my part and those structures within consciousness that were mine to transmute. I didn't always know I was doing such work, of course, but I can finally see the … [Read more...]

You activate your thoughts with your emotions

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This is the fifth in a series of eight articles based on The Eight Principles of Inner Peace as channeled by the Light Collective through renowned intuitive Kathryn Harwig. These principles are simple, yet profound, and apply to all beings in the cosmos. The essence of all eight principles is inner peace, and personal empowerment -- the powerful ability of humans to create the world of their choosing. Last month I discussed Principle Four -- You Create With Your Thoughts -- the first of a … [Read more...]

Viral Love: Humanity’s Next Step

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There are many differences between us as human beings. We look different from each other. We think differently. We believe differently. We speak differently. We certainly do things differently. It's easy to see the differences between us, because they are noisier. The differences tend to bully their way to the forefront. They get the headlines and the top billing on network broadcasts. Differences are the reason we wage war and kill each other. Differences also are a habit. Over time, … [Read more...]

Negative Revelations

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On any given day, you can overhear people offer negative information about themselves in an effort to assuage the person they're talking to. For instance, Bob is tardy for a team meeting at work. His co-worker, Tanya, tells him not to worry about it. She arrived late herself, because she forgot a report on her desk. Tanya could have simply told Bob not to worry about being late. In this situation and billions of others, people offer up something negative about themselves to make someone else … [Read more...]

Acceptance and learning the lesson

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It was one of those months. Death in the family, complicated hospitalizations, interrupted meditation retreat, equipment failures, delivery of damaged goods, dental infections and car accidents, not to mention the general chaos associated with the holidays. Every time some sort of major event happened, I thought to myself, "There's a lesson to be learned here." And each time I thought I knew what the lesson was, something else would happen to shift the gaze, sharpen the focus. It sure seems … [Read more...]

Answers are inside of ourselves, and our homes

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They say that the eyes are the window to the soul. As usual, I do not know who "they" are, but I will add that if that's the case, your home is a close second. I believe that your home is truly a mirror of your life or a window to your soul; all your goals and all your obstacles are reflected within. I also believe that when you change your living space, you will affect the other areas of your life. My work as the Space Guru is to use feng shui, organization, design and intuition to coach my … [Read more...]