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Why God Notices You

It’s so easy for us humans to get bogged down in the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves, which are mostly not good stories. Our mental chatter goes round and round about how inadequate we are, how much we mess up, how we aren’t as good as someone else is, how we ought to be better, ought to do better. All of this dismal self-chatter stops us living fully. Positive thinking is supposed to combat this negativity. But it works only to a limited degree. It never really cures us of our self-deprecating self-talk.

Primary topic: Consciousness and Awareness

Consciousness and Awareness

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A Different Focus for the Bread and Wine

Writing to the Corinthians, St. Paul corrected the way they were participating in what we today know, depending on our particular tradition, as the Mass, Eucharist, Communion, or the Lord’s Supper. “When the time comes to eat, each of you goes ahead with your own supper, and one goes hungry and another becomes drunk,” he complained. In those days the bread and wine were standard parts of a meal. The people came together on Sunday evenings to enjoy a potluck in which everyone was supposed to eat well and have plenty to drink.

Primary topic: Consciousness and Awareness

Consciousness and Awareness

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Who Determines the Course of Your Life?

To live a self-determined life is the essence of consciousness. A self-determined life is fundamentally different from a life that’s determined by our ego. When the ego is in charge of running our life, we only have an illusion of determining our life, not the actual experience of doing so. To be able to determine our own life requires us to be free, a state that few on our planet yet enjoy. Even those of us who think we are free are so heavily programmed by family and society that we don’t even know we aren’t free.

Primary topic: Consciousness and Awareness

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A Universe on a Journey

From the minute to the mammoth, order emerges spontaneously in the Universe. The natural state of things is to pull everything toward patterns. It works a lot like a magnetic field. If you put a magnet under a glass table and move it around, iron filings scattered on top of the glass line up in patterns. Without any direct interference or manipulation, order emerges quite naturally as a result of the influence of the magnetic field.

Primary topic: Consciousness and Awareness

Consciousness and Awareness

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Why the Pursuit of Happiness Never Works for Long

How happy are you in your everyday life? In the television miniseries The Impressionists, which is fascinating viewing, someone comments about one of the artists that he sounds happy. The other responds that he doesn’t think happy is on his palette. How about you—is happy on your palette? We’re not talking about the pursuit of happiness, which hordes of us are engaged in. When we pursue happiness what we achieve never lasts long. A new job, a new love in our life, a new home—all of these bring only a temporary experience of happiness.

Primary topic: Consciousness and Awareness

Consciousness and Awareness

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To Be Awake Is to Accept Ourselves

A great many people are seeking to be enlightened, or what is often spoken of as "awakening" or becoming "conscious." Some have been searching for years, but any kind of sustained enlightenment continues to elude them. When we search for enlightenment, or struggle to awaken or become conscious, we are really saying that we are not happy with ourselves as we are now. We feel somehow inadequate as we are now—even perhaps apologetic for who we find ourselves to be.

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Recapturing Our Joy

Laura was drowning in self-pity. After Dan called off their relationship, she began driving by his home in the hope of catching a glimpse of him. She also phoned when she knew he was out, just to hear his voice on the answering machine. She told herself she wanted to feel close to him, but all she was really doing was torturing herself.

Primary topic: Consciousness and Awareness

Consciousness and Awareness

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