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Consequences, the result of your Actions

Maybe you are looking at a sea or green change, career change, further education, having a child, or something else.  Regardless of what changes you have in mind it helps if you take time to consider the consequences of this change, particularly if you are in a relationship and have...

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If You had Just One Wish…

So you found the proverbial genie’s lamp washed up on the shore and begin to rub. Lo and behold, a genie with the voice of Robin Williams, appears. No wait, that’s Aladdin’s lamp. Okay, so some guy in... So you found the proverbial genie’s lamp washed up on the shore...

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1 Great Way to Improve Your Life.

Perhaps there is no greater means of improving one's life than striving to answer in the most enlightened way this single question: Why live? I started to ask myself that question about thirty years a... Perhaps there is no greater means of improving one's life than striving to answer in...

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Award Winning author, journalist and humorist, Burton h. Wolfe is Interviewed

Norm Goldman, Editor of the book reviewing and author interviewing site, www.bookpleasures.com interviews award winning author, writer, journalist, and humorist, Burton h. Wolfe Author: Burton h. Wolfe ISBN: 1419619748 The following interview was conducted by:  NORM GOLDMAN:  Editor of Bookpleasures. CLICK TO VIEW  Norm Goldman's Reviews        To read Norm's Review...

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Experience

Although experience is the best teacher in life, the wise are able to learn from other's mistakes and greatly accelerate their progress. The necessary ingredient for a nexus between fundamentals and skill is experience. This applies to every facet of life, not just to vocations but to interpersonal success as...

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Things Mound Up

Life is not a matter of here today and gone tomorrow. Choices we make accumulate over time to create burdens that eventually must be either psychologically or physically dealt with. Guiding life with intelligent foresight is the key to long term happiness. What is not taken into account in this...

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Don’t Get Involved In Other People’s Problems Or You Will Get Sick

Let me give you a very effective recipe for “getting sick as soon as possible”: just go and try to fix other people’s problems! I’m not kidding! Always trying to come up with solutions to problems that aren’t yours is a dangerous road to follow. Always ask yourself, “Whose problem...

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Follow Your Dream, It Is The Meaning Of Your Life!

Your dream is the reason for the way you are. Your dream is not a coincidence. Your dream IS who you are. You SHOULD pursue it! Your dream gives you a sense of meaning and purpose, and drives you on into your chosen future. Your dream IS the meaning of...

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Life Is Uncertain

Try as we may, life cannot be perfectly scripted. Nor should it. Its ups, downs and surprises create the experience that is necessary to become better people. The world that is promoted presents a Pollyanna ideal in which people are physically perfect, apparently don’t worry, are certain of their life’s...

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Focus on Your Dream

Here are five simple ways to develop the focus that will propel you forward: 1. Suspend your disbelief. Put it on a shelf and open yourself to actuallyexperience new ways of creating positive momentu... Here are five simple ways to develop the focus that will propel you forward: 1. Suspend...

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Astronomia Vedica II

Astronomia Vedica - Part II Cosmological Time Cycles in Indian Astronomy Long before Copernicus, Galileo & Ptolemy, Aryabhata propounded the Heliocentric Theory of Gravitation, that all planets revolve around the Sun due to celestial gravity. The term given to Celestial Gravity was Guru-tva-Akarshana, which also has a philosophic meaning. Guru...

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Water Softeners: The Good, Bad and the Ugly.

Water softeners and purifiers inadvertently remove health-preserving minerals from our water supply.  Why would we want to remove these minerals from our water; that which we drink and bathe in?  Enter the modern day of plumbing, expensive appliances and hard water scale.  Aesthetic tidiness has ruled the roost when it...

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It IS Devine

Whatever it is you are experiencing right now is Divine. We all have those experiences that seem to turn our lives upside down.  They come.  They go.  We go on. In each of these exper... Whatever it is you are experiencing right now is Divine. We all have those experiences...

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School for Gods, the Book.

Its aim is to show you the path followed by an ordinary man away from a hypnotic view of the world, from an accusing and plaintive interpretation of existence, to escape the rut of a programmed destin... Its aim is to show you the path followed by an ordinary man...

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Achieve Your Desires By Scoring Goals

Do you have a desire? Silly question I know because everybody has desires, just not the same ones. Of course there are many that most of us share like those old clichés of health, wealth, and happiness. But there are some that are exclusive to a certain group of people....

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Life Trumps Death

Do you ever ponder the meaning of life? Why are we here? Perhaps these questions surface when we receive news we'd rather not receive, the passing of an uncle, a beloved aunt, a friend's spouse who di... Do you ever ponder the meaning of life? Why are we here? Perhaps...

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A Change of Direction in Feng Shui


A Change of Direction in FengShui Remembering to keep your Balance By:  Carole Provenzale, CFSP         Feng Shui Long Island         http://www.FengShuiLI.com         [email protected] M... A Change of Direction in FengShui Remembering to keep your Balance By:  Carole Provenzale, CFSP         Feng Shui Long Island         http://www.FengShuiLI.com         [email protected] Much of Feng Shui is based on...

Palmistry - The Life Line


An analysis of the life line yields valuable information about your physical well-being. The line's formation indicates the state of health, the degree of stamina, and the condition of the nervous sys... An analysis of the life line yields valuable information about your physical well-being. The line's formation indicates the...

Heroes and idols


Everybody has heroes, people that they look up to and want to copy, emulate. My heroes are Lao Tzu, Buddha, Jesus, Wyatt Earp, Malcolm X and Warren Buffet, to name a few. I look up to all these... Everybody has heroes, people that they look up to and want to...

Is My Parents Love Greater Than Gods?


Why was I taught that God's love was conditional? Once you fully realize that God’s love contains no conditions or restrictions you begin to feel a freedom like never before. It will be a freedom from worry and fear, which keep you from moving toward your true passion. You may...

The Varieties of Wisdom


There are several varieties or "flavors" of personal wisdom.  Here, Copthorne Macdonald discusses three of them as well as the back-and-forth relationship between personal wisdom and socio-cultural wisdom. PERSONAL WISDOM At every moment in our lives we face some real-life situation, some fact-based reality. But what do those facts MEAN?...

Playing the Wisdom Game --- Part 2


Subtitled "Some thoughts about the nature and development of wisdom," this article was first published in the 2006 book LIVING A LIFE OF VALUE. Wise values express themselves in wise attitudes and wise ways of being and functioning. Among the value-based expressions of wisdom that speak strongly to me are:...

Playing the Wisdom Game --- Part 1


Subtitled "Some thoughts about the nature and development of wisdom," this article was first published in the 2006 book LIVING A LIFE OF VALUE. What is wisdom? Like stupidity, we know it when we see it. But because wisdom manifests in so many different ways, it can't be adequately defined...

Seeing the Nature of Reality Through Buddhist Meditation


Many Eastern texts have sought to explain the "Perennial Philosophy" view of reality.  Here the author attempts it using some concepts the ancients didn't have, and discusses how two varieties of Buddhist meditation can help us internalize this view. The perennial philosophy "nondual" spiritual traditions (such as Nisargadatta's Vedanta, and...

Developing Personal Wisdom


We know what it takes to become knowledgeable, but what does it take to become wise?  Is the process totally beyond our control, or are there things we can do to speed it up?  In this article Copthorne Macdonald, author of three books on wisdom and webmaster of THE WISDOM...

The Role of Values in Wisdom


"High" or "superior" values are a hallmark of wisdom. They have two roles in the lives of wise people. First, they provide illuminating slants on the data of life. Second, they guide the decision-making process toward wiser decisions. British philosopher Nicholas Maxwell has called wisdom "the capacity to realize what...

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The Role of Values in Wisdom

"High" or "superior" values are a hallmark of wisdom. They have two roles in the lives of wise people. First, they provide illuminating slants on the data of life. Second, they guide the decision-making process toward wiser decisions. British philosopher Nicholas Maxwell has called wisdom "the capacity to realize what...

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