Stephen Marshall
Struggling writer, self employed middle aged male with interests in the pursuit of truth, and knowledge and spiritual aspects of living. Currently selling second hand books on the internet. Also write on other writing sites, such as Helium.com.
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Dropped out of University disillusioned and lost.....finding myself now in my writing.Motto
Love never dies or diminishes in itself. Love only ever just loves.Affiliations
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Our Soul's Continuing Journey After Our DeathOur spiritual journey is one that we all must take as our soul, not just as our physical body, and this is why death is yet but another experience for our soul, on its own continuing journey in going through God's love.
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Haiku Lost in HaikuThe meaning of this form of poetry comes from a connection that leaps past all of the words -
Poetry: Haiku Arrives LateHaiku is usually only understood after a second or third reading.....
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Poetry: Deepness Grows Shallow If Not LovedA short poem equating deepness to becoming wiser within the application and understanding of God's love.
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Poetry: Our Weaknesses Are Never All WeakA poem that shows us that our strength begins often in us, by us slowly growing from our weaknesses, as long as we have the courage to love all of us from the length of God's strength, to fully accept ourselves.
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Poetry: Is it Really Ever Possible to Be Me?A poem that throws around this idea of trying to be ourselves, and shows that what we throw out was already being held within God's hands.
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Poetry: The Spirit of God Comes Alive Within UsA poem that shows how God's spirit is connected to God's love.
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Poetry: Nothing Can Become Something Only Within UsA short poem about nothing, that shows that nothing is not nothing, and that it never has been.
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The Long and the Short About Yin and YangA short enough article to ask some questions and to provide some answers about the mystery hidden behind the apparent duality of yin and yang only being that precisely, apparent, but not really the full picture.
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Poetry: Love Never DiesA piece of poetry that shows that love is always alive in us at all times. It is always only ever we that can die to love, and never love that ever dies to us.
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Freedom is More Freeing when it is Given More Freely AwayFreedom is not necessarily freedom. Sometimes it is our wanting of freedom that is actually taking away from us the very freedom that we want. Real freedom is not obstructing yourself ever away from real love.
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Questioning the Controlling Nature of FreedomThe secret of anything is that there are no secrets. Freedom is therefore a controlling idea if we try to embrace it to try to release us from our thinking that we are being controlled. Oneness is all things being nothing.
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Poetry: Awakening to Sleep More DeeplyA poem that endeavours to show us that our real role of soul might still be sleeping whole within us, still waiting to extol, when we begin to enrol, and get off from our patrol of control.
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Wisdom is Relative. We Are All Wise Beings, Being OurselvesWisdom simply shows us how much we are loving. We are always living from love. There is only love. Wisdom allows us to better understand how love works in us, while remaining being connected to all else.
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Can Eternity Be Ever Measured by Time?Eternity only loves us now. This means that all other ideas of eternity only ever try to take us away from embracing love and God fully now. Eternity has never existed. God is just forever God being all of himself now.
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Duality's Intrusion into God's OnenessDuality exists to complete trinity's emergence from oneness in order to create a picture that we can all see as reflecting the journey of love as it moves through us all together as one within God.
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Our Mind is Mysterious in Its MakeupOur mind is often seen to be a mystery to us, and the concept has seemed to remain a mystery to science as well. This article will try to remove some of the mystery, not from our mind, but from explaining how it all works.
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Poetry: My Soul Knows Me More Than I DoOur soul is the real us, but we can never know this until we freely believe in the real us, or our soul. When we connect to our soul, we open our hearts to a greater love.
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My Grandfather's Infinite PatienceMy grandfather was a school teacher before I knew him, but to me he was a patient man, who always seemed to make the extra time available just for me, when I visited him as a child.
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Gaining a Better Understanding of SinThis article tries to understand the concept of sin in relation to its position in regard to the perfect oneness of God's love being all that really ever is ever existing.
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The Struggle to Be HonestThe struggle to be honest is always more a struggle to love. This article tries to show how honesty is related to love. Struggling with honesty is struggling with our fears about being totally loving.
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Life Purpose. Is Finding Our Purpose Really Our Purpose?Most of us spend too much time either chasing or running away from our true life purpose. We all have the same purpose. We just achieve it in different ways. Our purpose is simply to serve God with love.
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A Look at Chakra's and Spiritual EnergyAll energy ultimately only ever comes from love. This article explains the working of chakra's in their relationship to love, and to its infinite energy that all directly always comes from the oneness of God loving us.
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Poetry: The Difference is Always Only Within OurselvesA poem that tries to show that everything contains everything within itself. Nothing is missing from any part of everything. All is oneness seeing itself differently only from its own part's preferences.
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Short Story: A Story About the Inventor of Haiku Forms of PoetryA tall tale, with some factual bits, about the old Zen master who created the form of Japanese poetry known to us all as Haiku. Of all things, it is said that he named it after a fish. Read the story to see why.
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Poetry: Haiku Came from Amongst UsJapanese Haiku is always just loud enough to softly awaken you to yourself.
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Poetry: Love Suppressed is Not ExpressedA poem that tries to show that suppression of the love within our hearts by our minds often causes us to feel depressed. In short, when we fear being our real self, we can become depressed.
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Poetry: Reaching Beyond LoveLove is love. Love is the oneness of God loving within us being us. The way to reach beyond love is simply to love more, from exactly where, and from exactly who we are, right now.
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Poetry: The Pain of Love Only Ever Leads to a Fuller LoveA poem that tries to show that pain can only ever lead us to more love. The truth is that all things only ever bring us more to the understanding of love within a greater way.
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Poetry: All Resistance is Only Ever Resistance to LoveA poem that tries to show how resisting anything is at its heart only ever resisting love. This is not easy to see at first, but can be readily seen when we know that all is love just loving. Love is oneness.
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How Prayer Always Works Together with LoveA lively discussion on how prayer is a good method to connect us to our own part of God's oneness that comes alive in us only from prayer, meditation, and other similar practices.
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Poetry: Surrendering is Not the Same as TrustingA poem that shows how surrendering to love must be accompanied by trusting God, to be real.
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Good and Bad? Why Bad Things Happen to Good PeopleA common enough observation in life is that the good often suffer bad things happening to them. This article explains why the good people need to suffer these bad things from out of their love for all life.
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Short Stories: The Boy Who Learnt About CourageThis is a story, set long ago about the timeless role of courage within our lives. We obtain courage only by being brave enough to be our real selves, in spite of all the opposition trying to prevent us from doing so.
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Poetry: All True Strength Only Ever Finds that it Has Come from LoveAny real strength that we possess has always begun in us from the love that is in us. Love is the mother of all our strength. Our real strength only comes from love. Nothing is ever so strong as love. Nothing is ever so loving in its real strength.
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Poetry: My Inner Silence was Too Noisy to Hear the Voice of LoveThe struggle to find true silence leads to hearing the voice of love. Our silence can often be too noisy to listen to love. Silence sometimes is speaking louder that even the voice of love. Silence is sometimes the answer. Love is always the answer.
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How Our Car Reflects Our Personality, and How Our Personality is Sometimes Affected by Our CarThis is a personal story about what my own choice of cars might have been saying about me, and also to me, over a period of thirty or more years of my own car buying.
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Poetry: The Real Meaning of Love is Often Lost Within the Newness of Its Older MeaningsA poem that tries to show how love lives on despite us labelling it as either new or old. Love is renewed from its older meanings and refreshed alive again when these older meanings then become new. All is the same within love's oneness.
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A Look into the World of Our Dreams Though My DreamsA personally written article that analyses some of my own dreams, to try to see meaning within them, and from there to try to connect this meaning to the greater meaning that we are all trying to find, in some way.
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Does the Law of Attraction Apply to All Life Forms?A questioning discussion about how the Law of Attraction must either work for everything or nothing, unless it is only just really an illusion, and so non existent in reality. There is only love. Love has no room for laws.
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Does the Law of Attraction Always Really Work?This article discusses how and why Laws, such as the Law of Attraction must always be working within our life. They will always affect our lives, unless we are living from a greater Law. The Law of Love, can always bypass all other laws, when necessary.
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The Spiritual Path is Always SpiritualChoosing the right spiritual path might be more a step towards letting your own brand of spiritual truths open more within you. There is no choosing ever needing to be made, only ever just being. Being your own self.
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The Relationship Between Wisdom and LoveWisdom and love are intimately related. You cannot have one, without the other. When you love, you see the wisdom in loving. Growing into more wisdom then, you love even more. One leads only to the other.
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Is Human Consciousness Just a Part of a Greater Consciousness?Human consciousness is often said to be evolving over time. Is this true, or is it more that the human itself is involving, and so is then able to access greater levels of an already existing consciousness.
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Does Our Soul Really Need to Be Saved?This article suggests that it is not our soul that needs to be saved. It is always a part of God's oneness. We only need to be saved from our lower selves, in thinking that we as these individual bodies are all that there is.
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How the Law of Attraction Complements the Bible, and Never Contradicts ItThe Law of Attraction is a relatively recent rewording of that great karmic law of the bible, that says, that what we sow, we will reap. This article discusses how the Law of Attraction relates to the bible.
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Short Story: The Monotony of Daily Life Does Not Have to Be MonotonousA short story that shows how monotony is only an attitude, and how an attitude to remain positive must not become complacently only monotonous in you, over time.
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Short Story: Zen is the Same Now and ZenThis is a short story about an ancient Zen monastery that just might have once existed. There is truth existing within all things. This story shows but one way of finding it.
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The Purpose of Creation is Lost Within Its OnenessEverybody looks for purpose and reason, for meaning and greater understanding. Is it possible that there is no purpose? Love just loves. Purpose comes from loving, not from trying to find it first.
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Poetry: Desperate to Find LoveA poem that shows we have never lost love, except when we are too desperate to find it. We cannot then see it right in front of us, and within our own hearts, and before our own eyes.
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Understanding Universal Laws of the UniverseAll laws are only ever laws because someone has accepted them to be. In the oneness of love, there is never any room for any laws at all.
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The Law of Attraction and LoveThe Law of Attraction never works independently of love. It is the love in anything that is the only real force of attraction within anything. All is only ever, only ever love.
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The Significance of Feeling Insignificant. The Insignificance of Feeling SignificantEverything that we do is significant and helps to take us further on our path. The question then is, is our path itself significant, or is all only ever really just insignificant within the overall oneness?
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God's Personal Name is PersonalAn article that discusses the idea of God having a personal name that we might not know because as yet we have not created a personal enough relationship with him for him to tell us it as yet.
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Alternative Sources of Vitamin DMost of us in this day and age spend far too much time locked away inside, outside of the sunlight. We need to spend more time outside, inside of the sunlight instead! If we can't do this, this article provides some alternatives.
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Poetry: Overwhelming Love Never Does OverwhelmA poem that tries to show the truth behind love's overwhelming power to not ever overwhelm us. Love always just gives as itself, and that is always just enough.
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How Our Inner Child Relates to Our SoulThis article takes a fresh look into the ideas behind the psychological creation of the concept of the inner child, by relating it back to God and to his creation of us, as soul.
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Correct Dream Interpretation is Always Individually BasedYour dreams, along with your life only ever basically and fundamentally apply to you, yourself. You are the only one that can really ever know what they mean. They are your unique truths alone.
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Prime Numbers Simply ExplainedThis article touches on the field of mathematics in such a way that your interest will only be primed, as you explore more the fascinating area of prime numbers.
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Exercises for the Lazy ExerciserMost of us are not motivated each day in the same ways. Some days we feel too lazy to exercise. On those days try a few of these lazy ways to exercise that I have included here in this article
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Simple Exercises to Obtain a Flatter StomachThis article describes a new method of dynamically exercising your stomach muscles, and that if followed consistently will lean to flatness of your stomach, rather than just feeling flatness from your fatness.
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The Healing Power of Forgiveness when Linked to LoveThis article tries to explain that when we are not forgiving all others, in truth this can only ever mean that we are withholding some of our love from them. This only ever hurts us as much as it hurts them.
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Struggling Against the StruggleAn article debating the necessity of struggle, while at the same time pointing out to us, that struggle is only just an illusion within the overall oneness of God.
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Poetry: Persuasion is Not CompulsionA poem that tries to show how love is not ever forceful, but how it can still never the less be very powerful in drawing us to it, and in persuading us to follow its way within us.
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Happiness is Your BirthrightAn article that claims that happiness is lost further by searching for it. Only the unhappy are searching. The happy are too busy loving. Happiness is a by-product of our loving.
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Poetry: Drifting Across the Face of LoveThe difference between drifting with life, and flowing with the tides of love.
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Lose Thirty Kilos in Thirty WeeksThis method of dieting is not really about dieting, but more about life style changing, and increasing the awareness of our current habits and their affects on our health.
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Relieving Neck and Shoulder PainA short article that gives some unusual old forgotten exercises that can still be enormouslly beneficial for you today, and to help remove some pain by stretching it all away
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Poetry: Death is Love in RenewalA poem about why death is a part of love, and why love never loses any of its love in death.
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Our Inner Spirit's Connection to God's LoveAn article that discusses what our inner spirit is, and how it relates to God's indwelling love that sits perfectly and endlessly within our heart waiting only for us to manifest it within our lives.
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Poetry: Karma Makes You Calmer in the EndA poem that tries to show how karma serves us, without ever vindictively punishing us. Karma in fact, is only ever trying to show us the love that we are overlooking right now deep inside.
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The Law of KarmaKarmic law. Even the sound of the word law sounds restrictive, and so perhaps leads us to the idea that karma punishes us. It never does, our karma in fact is always only loving us.
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The Illusion of Duality Exists Only Because Time is Attached to ItAn article that endeavours to explain how duality could ever arise from within oneness, given that oneness is complete and exists entirely only ever as itself.
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The Oneness of Everything Absorbs All Inner and Outer Paths into Its OnenessA short article that discusses the ideas of our having an inner self or an inner path to follow. Are we really ever either inner or outer directed however, when all is only ever oneness?
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Contemplating on God and Who He Might Be?A questioning style article that asks the big questions, and gives a simple answer. God is simply our comfort zone. He is a cushion that we rest in and on, and have come to love him for providing to us.
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Poetry: Wiser Living is Living from LoveA poem on life and love and the wisdom that arises from the combination of the two.
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Poetry: Love is a Flower Not Without ThornsA poem which tries to show why pain is often a part of love. It then points out to us that this pain is only noticed when we have missed seeing the flowers for its thorns.
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Karmaless ActionAn article that describes why we incur Karma and what it is exactly.
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Short Stories: Family KarmaA short story that looks at the karma behind a tragic accident, that took the happier peaceful positive brother, rather than the negative rebellious cantankerous one.
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Saving Our SoulA lot of religions have told us that we need to save our souls. Apparently they need to be saved from something. If all is really oneness, we can at once see the falseness in this idea.
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Poetry: My PainA poem that looks at why pain is necessary for growth, but that the catchphrase, ''No pain, no gain'', should be, ''No love, no growth, no growth, no pain''
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The Law of Attraction Doesn't Always Attract What You Want it ToA fresh look at the Law of Attraction from old eyes. We don't always get what we want, but we always get what it is best for us to get.
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Listening to Your Inner VoiceOur inner voice is always silently speaking love to us. We only need to consciously grow in love more to expand the ears of our heart to hear it.
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Is God Inside of Us, or Outside of Us?A discussion about the oneness of God giving no room for him to be external to us. Oneness also means that we too must be part of God, or at least made of the same substance and always inwardly connected to him.
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Poetry: Unsatisfactory DissatisfactionA poem that looks behind dissatisfaction to find the love that is still there waiting to be be satisfied within you.
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The Illusionary Nature of InfinityThe spiritual view often matches the scientific. All is oneness. Where then does the idea of the infinite come from. What is infinity?
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Humour: Gardening Can Send You Off the EdgeA humorous mostly true story of an event in my gardening life.
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Can Positive Thinking Sometimes Be Negative?Positive thinking has been touted as the only way to think, but does it in fact distort the real picture for us. We only see the positive colours, and miss out on the shades.
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What and Who is God?An article that discusses who God might be and how he came about, and our own part in it all.
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Heaven and HellThis article examines whether Hell really does exist, or if the real truth is that all there ever is and was existing is Heaven.
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The Substance of Our ThoughtsThis article discusses whether we should guard or control our thoughts in any way, or whether we should just let them all be just as they are.
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Short Story: Recycled ZenA short story in which a young Chinese boy through a seemingly chance meeting with an old Zen master repeated again in his later life, recycles himself into himself.
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Short Story: Living a Simple LifeThis is a story about John, who always had a unique way to find the most simple solution to all of life's often unnecessary over complications.
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Poetry: Japanese HaikuHaiku is a form of poetry that is brief, to the point, and then pricks you awake with its real point.
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Personality and Your NameAn article with more than a grain of truth, written from an amusing angle with a little tongue in the cheek.
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Common Fruits and Their Fibre ContentThis article details the ranking of the fibre content of some of the common, and the not so common fruits.
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The Akashic RecordsEach soul has a record in the Akashic records that records their own individual soul experiences. This article explains how this all works and fits together.
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Spiritual Truth and the Law of AttractionLaws and following laws can be freeing when you know the laws, and restrictive when you think that the Laws are greater than your own self.
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God ExplainedThis article tries to explain the existence of God and who and what he might be, and in short how God works.
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Poetry: Forgiving is LovingA poem about how unconditional love is always forgiving, and how forgiving fully is always coming from loving fully.
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Stiff Necks Are PainfulThis article describes how a stiff neck might first come about, and then gives some useful advice on how to lift away some of the stressful pain.
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The Power of No PowerAre power and love related? Is love a type of power? Does power contain any love? This article asserts that not only does love contain no power, but when we operate from personal power we are operating from less than a full love.
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Poetry: By Wanting to Know All, I Knew NothingWhen we get caught up with wanting too much to know, we overlook the truth already in our own hearts. We can only really know our own truths.
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The Blessings of God's LoveSince time immoriable, we have been giving blessings to each other. What is behind this idea of blessing someone else?
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Free Will and DestinyDo free will and destiny work together, or are they two paths that can never meet? Even so do they both find themselves on the infinite pathways of total love?
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Poetry: I Lost Too Much Love in My ThinkingA poem linking thinking to love. Can we think too much and lose contact with love? Can we overthink, and not recognise love? Love is never found from thinking about it. Love is just love.
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Numerology: An Explanation of How it Works, and Why it WorksNumerology can be both easy and difficult to follow. This article explains the ins and the outs of why your particular numbers come up, how they come up, and what they might all mean for you.
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Poetry: Silence is Wordlessness LostA poem pointing out the paradoxical nature of silence being found from the noise of its voiced wordlessness.
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Prayer: The Value of Prayer to God. The Power of Prayer to Ourselves.Prayer has been said to have great power to obtain for us what we think that God wants. Is this power real or only imagined?
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Fruits and Their Protein ContentIt is not generally well known that fruits also contain a good deal of protein. Some fruits are higher than others. This article will inform you of the protein content of some common fruits.
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Can We Really Ever Do All Things? Can the Universe Supply Us with Anything and Everything?The only real power is love. There is no lasting power that exists apart from love. Power yourself from love and you can do all things through God now strengthening you.
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The Long and Lonely Road to EnlightenmentEnlightenment never leaves us. We have just covered it over with our own thinking. How do we find enlightenment? Stop thinking about it!
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Karma, Numerology and Your Birth NameNumerology is a science that investigates the significance and meaning of numbers as they apply to an individual's life path and journey. This article discusses how karma, numerology and your birth name are linked together.
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Chess: Time Again to Change the RulesChess is a wonderful game in which the rules have been updated to increase its enjoyment at various times in its long history.
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Is the Idea of God Existing Old Fashioned and Outdated in Today's Society?This article discusses the relevance of God in today's society. Can God still be of importance to us in our lives?
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Poetry: Conflict is Not an Addiction when LovedThis poem shows how conflict and fear are part of a splitting of love. Love values growth even more that it does pain. Embracing duality as reality splits love.
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Poetry: The Completed Emptiness of NothingA poem about emptiness needing to be recognised to find a fullness of emptiness's still within love.
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Poetry: Love Lives on Never DyingThis poem conveys a message that the real truth is that it is not that it is better to have loved and lost, but that when you love you only ever really win.
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The Blame GameBlame is in essence not accepting responsibilty for loving fully. This poem gives you clues how to love without blaming or inflaming.
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Smoking and the Spiritual PathSmoking is a relatively recent addition to the habits of mankind. Why did God allow it to be introduced at all. Does it serve any spiritual function?
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The Way of Pure SilenceGod is the friend of silence. This article describes how to touch the silence in our souls and then use it to bring you towards the greater silence of God
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Simple and Easy Stretching Exercises for Your Fingers and HandsFinger exercises can be done almost at any time and almost anywhere that you find yourself. This article shows you the some of the best ones you can do.
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Can Love Be Defined?A poem about living from your inner love rather than only just living from an outer show of love
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Trusting Other PeopleThis short article discusses how we come to trust other people by using as an example how we go about finding a trustworthy motor mechanic.
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The Healing Power of ForgivenessForgiveness has great power. Spiritually it connects you back to love. Love heals all. Love can heal your depression. Nothing else can.
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Is God Conscious of Himself?What is consciousness? Does consciousness only exist within life? Is God the highest form of consciousness, or is he not really conscious of himself at all?
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Non Rhyming PoetryA brief introduction to the joys of writing poetry concentrating here on the non rhyming style.
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Poetry: Broken and Lost to LoveA poem about loss and becoming broken from misunderstanding love.
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Simple Home Remedies for Relieving HeadachesHeadaches lessen the quality of our life and cause us much distress that perhaps we can avoid by following one or two of these simple home remedies.
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Poetry: I Cry to Be Me by Not CryingA poem about why I cannot cry.
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Knowledge of Itself is Never PowerThere have been many writers who have claimed over the years that "Knowledge is power." Author and philosopher Sir Francis Bacon (1561 to 1626) is claimed to be one of the first to have said this. Is it true?
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Car Colours Choices: What Do They Really Mean?Most of us have a preference for a particular colour. We all have a favourite colour. Sometimes this changes during our lives. What does our choice of this colour really mean? What does our choice of car colour mean? -
The Meaning of Your DreamsDreams have general meanings generally but they always specifically have their own unique message only for the dreamer.
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The Fear of DeathWe are all living and trying to live our lives without fear so that we can be happy. How do we remove the biggest fear of them all, the fear of death from our life and our thoughts?
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Consciousness ExplainedConsciousness has been explored throughout the ages of man. What is Universal Consciousness? Does consciousness assist us in our lives, or does it stop us being our true selves? Is embracing our consciousness too much, the real reason that we are unhappy?
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Rhyming PoetryRhyming poetry is not just a matter of adding a few words that rhyme, at the end of each line. Here are a few hints and guidelines to help you to write better poetry that rhymes while maintaining its rhythm, and style, and flow between the rhymes.
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Water PurifiersAre there any good water purifiers really available? Or are they all exaggerated in their claims, containing elements of propaganda, and not accurate in their claims as to how they really perform in purifying our water? -
Albert Einstein's Early LifeDoes genius erupt in us, or is it born in us? This article examines the growth of the genius that was Albert Einstein, examining his early life and youth. -
Bad Breath: Easy Ways to Easy DaysBad breath is something that will affect most of us at some time, sometimes at the worst possible of times. Here's some simple ideas to help you in managing and understanding this small problem, which might only grow bigger when neglected.
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Numerology: An Explanation of How Numerology WorksDoes numerology and its study bring us any real benefits? What is numerology? This article mentions a few salient features, and describes the inherent possible truths in it.
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Poetry: Taking Your Next StepPoetry about the truth of your next step being the right step for you only when you actually take it.
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Acrostic PoetryAcrostic poetry is a special form of poetry carrying a hidden message within it for the reader to find. Apparently it was also an ancient form of prophecy.
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Karma: How Karma Relates to the Idea of Personal FreedomThis article discusses another greater understanding of how the Laws of Karma work. The Law of Karma is not one of retribution, and the old meaning of "what you sow, you reap", can really be better described by changing it to, "What you reap, you keep."
