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  • Knowing

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    “Know Yourself” “To find yourself is only possible by knowing yourself.
    To be forgiven is only possible by forgiving.
    To be born to eternal life is only possible by dying.”

    This is where the main goal of initiation lies: To be a different person, belonging to another world. To know yourself is the sole way to reach wisdom, the essential condition to understand life and the universe.

    As engraved at the entance to the temple of Apollo, the God of Harmony: Know yourself! Then you will know the universe and even the Gods.”

    Yes, know yourself and try to see the ONE within MANY. Do not forget, we have come from the ONE and we will return to the ONE. Don’t blame anybody for anything that happens in your life. The cause and the reason of everything is YOU!

  • Shambhala~The Universal Monarch~chp 19

    The challenge of warriorship is to step out of the cocoon, to step out into space, by being brave and at the same time gentle.
    Shambhala Crest

  • Shambhala~How To Rule~chp 18

    The notion of ruling your world is that you can live in a dignified and disciplined way, without frivolity and at the same time enjoying your life. You can combine survival and celebration.

    Shambhala Crest

  • Shambhala~Natural Hierarchy~chp 17

    Living in accordance with natural hierarchy is not a matter of following a series of rigid rules or structuring your days with lifeless commandments or codes of conduct. The world has order and power and richess that can teach you how to conduct your life artfully, with kindness to others and care for yourself.

    Shambhala Crest

  • Shambhala~Sacred World~chp 16

    When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environment or how to rule their world - which is saying the same thing. Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time that they destroy one another. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world.
    Shambhala Crest

  • Shambhala~Overcoming Habitual Patterns~chp 15

    The process of freeing yourself from arrogance and cutting off your own habitual tendencies is a very drastic measure, but it is neccessary in order to help others in this world.

    Shambhala Crest

  • Shambhala~Overcoming Arrogance~chp 14

    When you are fully gentle, without arrogance and without aggression, you see the brilliance of the universe. You develop a true perception of the universe.
    Shambhala Crest

  • Shambhala~How To Invoke Magic~chp 13

    When you express gentleness and precision in your environment, then real brilliance and power can descend onto the situation. If you try to manufacture that presence out of your own ego, it will never happen. You cannot own the power and the magic of this world. It is always available, but it does not belong to anyone.
    Shambhala Crest

  • Shambhala~Discovering Magic~chp 12

    Any perception can connect us to reality properly and fully. What we see doesn't have to be pretty, perticularly; we can appreciate anything that exists. There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything.

    Shambhala Crest

  • Shambhala~Nowness~chp 11

    We need to find the link between our traditions and our present experience of life. Nowness, or the magic of the present moment, is what joins the wisdom of the past with present. 
     Shambhala Crest

  • Shambhala~Letting Go~chp 10

    When you live your life in accordance with basic goodness, then you develop natural elegance. Your life can be spacious and relaxed, without having to be sloppy. You can actually let go of your depression and embarrassment about being a human being, and you can cheer up.
    Shambhala Crest

  • Shambhala~Celebrating The Journey~chp 9

    Warriorship is a continual journey. To be a Warrior is to learn to be genuine in every moment of your life.
    Shambhala Crest

  • Shambhala~Renunciation and Daring~chp 8

    What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more available, more gentle and open to others.
    Shambhala Crest

  • DailyOM: A Separate Reality

    I know we have the direct link at the side of the page however yesterdays inspirational message is so relevant.

    A Separate Reality
    Disconnecting from the Source

    We all experience periods where we feel separated from the loving ebb and flow of the universe. These times of feeling disconnected from the source may occur for many reasons, but self-sabotage is the most common cause for us choosing to cut ourselves off from the flow of the universe. We purposefully, though often unconsciously, cut ourselves off from this flow and from the embrace of humanity so we can avoid dealing with painful issues, shun the necessary steps for growth, or prevent the success that we are afraid of achieving from ever happening. When you choose to disconnect from the source, you block the flow of the universe’s energy from passing through you. You become like a sleepwalker who is not fully awake to life, and your hopes, plans, and dreams begin to appear as distant blurs on a faraway horizon. Universal support has never left you, but if you can remember that you became disconnected from source by choice, you can choose to reconnect.

    Reconnecting with the universe grounds you and is as easy as you making a concerted effort to become interested in the activities you love or responding to what nurtures or stimulates you. You may also want to make a list of the activities and kinds of experiences that touch your soul. Try to pinpoint the times when you have felt fully engaged and aware and ask yourself what you were doing. But one of the easiest ways to reconnect is simply by stating the intention of doing so.

    When you disconnect from the universe, your sense of purpose, creativity, and ability to be innovative are not as easy to access. You may also experience a deep and empty sense of longing or feel devoid of ideas or unworthy of love. It’s important, however, to recognize that being disconnected from the universe is never a permanent state, and it can be reversed any time you decide that you are ready to reconnect. When you are connected to the universe, all aspects of your being will feel alive as the flow of the universe pours through your being and into your life.

  • Shambhala~The Cocoon~chp 7

    The way of cowardice is to embed ourselves in a cocoon, in which we perpetuate our habitual patterns. When we are constantly recreating our basic patterns of behaviour and thought, we never have to leap into fresh air or onto fresh ground.
    Shambhala Crest

  • Shambhala~The Dawn of the Great Eastern Sun~chp 6

    The way of the Great Eastern Sun in based on seeing that there is a natural source of radiance and brilliance in this world - which is the innate wakefulness of human beings.
    Shambhala Crest

  • Shambhala~Synchronizing Mind and Body~chp 5

    Synchronizing mind and body is not a concept or a random technique someone thought up for selfimprovement. Rather, it is a basic principle of how to be a human being and how to use your sense perceptions, your mind and your body together.
    Shambhala Crest

  • The Wiccan Rede (Full Version)

    Bide within the Law you must, in perfect Love and perfect Trust.
    Live you must and let to live, fairly take and fairly give.

    For tread the Circle thrice about to keep unwelcome spirits out.
    To bind the spell well every time, let the spell be said in rhyme.

    Light of eye and soft of touch, speak you little, listen much.
    Honor the Old Ones in deed and name,
    let love and light be our guides again.

    Deosil go by the waxing moon, chanting out the joyful tune.
    Widdershins go when the moon doth wane,
    and the werewolf howls by the dread wolfsbane.

    When the Lady's moon is new, kiss the hand to Her times two.
    When the moon rides at Her peak then your heart's desire seek.

    Heed the North winds mighty gale, lock the door and trim the sail.
    When the Wind blows from the East, expect the new and set the feast.

    When the wind comes from the South, love will kiss you on the mouth.
    When the wind whispers from the West, all hearts will find peace and rest.

    Nine woods in the Cauldron go, burn them fast and burn them slow.
    Birch in the fire goes to represent what the Lady knows.

    Oak in the forest towers with might, in the fire it brings the God's
    insight. Rowan is a tree of power causing life and magick to flower.

    Willows at the waterside stand ready to help us to the Summerland.
    Hawthorn is burned to purify and to draw faerie to your eye.

    Hazel-the tree of wisdom and learning adds its strength to the bright fire burning.
    White are the flowers of Apple tree that brings us fruits of fertility.

    Grapes grow upon the vine giving us both joy and wine.
    Fir does mark the evergreen to represent immortality seen.

    Elder is the Lady's tree burn it not or cursed you'll be.
    Four times the Major Sabbats mark in the light and in the dark.

    As the old year starts to wane the new begins, it's now Samhain.
    When the time for Imbolc shows watch for flowers through the snows.

    When the wheel begins to turn soon the Beltane fires will burn.
    As the wheel turns to Lamas night power is brought to magick rite.

    Four times the Minor Sabbats fall use the Sun to mark them all.
    When the wheel has turned to Yule light the log the Horned One rules.

    In the spring, when night equals day time for Ostara to come our way.
    When the Sun has reached it's height time for Oak and Holly to fight.

    Harvesting comes to one and all when the Autumn Equinox does fall.
    Heed the flower, bush, and tree by the Lady blessed you'll be.

    Where the rippling waters go cast a stone, the truth you'll know.
    When you have and hold a need, harken not to others greed.

    With a fool no season spend or be counted as his friend.
    Merry Meet and Merry Part bright the cheeks and warm the heart.

    Mind the Three-fold Laws you should three times bad and three times good.
    When misfortune is enow wear the star upon your brow.

    Be true in love this you must do unless your love is false to you.

    These Eight words the Rede fulfill:

    "An Ye Harm None, Do What Ye Will"

  • Shambhala~Fear and Fearlessness~chp 4

    Acknowledging fear is not a cause for depression or discouragement. Because we possess such fear, we also are potentially entilited to experience fearlessness. True fearlessness is not the reduction of fear; but going beyond fear.
    Shambhala Crest
  • Celestine Prayer Project for Israel and Hamas

    Global Prayer Project
    Prayer, Meditation & Discussion
    with James & Salle Redfield
    via Live Teleconference & Webcast

    Tuesday, January 6
    8-9 pm Eastern/US

    If you can't join us, please hold a supportive prayer vision for
    the world at that time...

    * This week's prayer visualization:
    We’ll begin this new year with visualizing peaceful resolution of all
    conflict in the world, with a special emphasis on resolving the
    current violence between Israel and Hamas. Help us in this endeavor
    to create a more peaceful 2009.

    * Follow-up discussion:
    What we know about achieving win-win situations in our own lives.

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    Teleconference:
    Call 212/461-5860 OR 646/519-5860
    Caller ID: 6999#

    The phone line will open at 7:55pm EDT. Call the number above and
    follow the directions. Once you are connected to the call,
    please say your name and where you are from, and then press *6
    to mute yourself so the noise level will be kept to a minimum.
    Each participant will be responsible for their own long-distance
    phone charges.

    Live Webcast @ [http://www.celestinevision.com]

    ______

    Our twice-monthly gatherings have been making a powerful
    difference, both in people's individual lives and the world at
    large. Many of you have written us saying that the energy
    generated from this network of spiritually-minded participants
    is "indescribable," and we look forward to continuing this
    healing circle of focused prayer. Like all prayer experience
    devoted to helping others, many participants have felt the
    results in their own bodies and received guidance for their own
    lives.

    Research tells us that the more people praying together, the more
    powerful the prayer and the greater the level of energy felt by
    the participants. We invite you to join the largest regular
    prayer network in the world. If you would like to take an active
    role in maintaining a circle of positive intention across the
    globe, while going deeper and heightening your own spirituality,
    join us on Tuesday, January 6.

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    US & CANADA
    Tuesday, January 6
    8 pm New York
    5 pm Los Angeles

    AUSTRALIA
    Wednesday, January 7
    12 noon Sydney

    EUROPE
    Wednesday, January 7
    1 am London

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    Blessings,
    James Redfield
    Salle Merrill Redfield

    EXTENDING PRAYER FIELDS
    For centuries, religious scriptures, poems, and philosophies have
    pointed to a latent power of mind within all of us that
    mysteriously helps to affect what occurs in the future. We are
    now finding that this prayer power is a field of intention,
    which moves out from us and can be extended and strengthened,
    especially when we connect with others in a common vision.
    -The Eleventh Insight
    [http://www.celestinevision.com/insights2.html]

    © James Redfield 2009

  • Shambhala~The Genuine Heart of Sadness~chp 3

    Through the practice of sitting still and following your breath as it goes out and dissolves, you are connecting with your heart. By simply letting yourself be, as you are, you develop genuine sympathy towards yourself.
    Shambhala Crest

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