There is a kind of spirituality that transcends the bounds of religion,
that honors a God who is beyond the particular path you found to get to
that God. Honoring differences is a spiritual practice that causes us
to make major shifts in our lives but that can give us some of the
greatest joy we will ever experience. When we learn to respect each
other’s uniqueness, we truly understand that in truth, we are all one.
– Mary Manin Morrissey

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and
brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
– Jean Shinoda Bolen

The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change
your own beliefs about the nature of life, people and reality to
something more positive…and begin to act accordingly.
– Shakti Gawain

Continuing to cling to the patterns you know inhibits your ability to discover what you don’t know.
– Eric Allenbaugh

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can
be great.
– Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

All things belong to us; that is, all things are ready for us whenever
we can use them; but we cannot use the greater things in life so long
as we are living a small, partially dormant life. The riches of the
kingdom are not for us ‘to have and to hold;’ they are for us to use;
and we can use them all only as we become alive with the life more
abundant in every element of body, mind and soul.”
– Christian D. Larson
 
God is on your side. God has a stake in you. God is not someone to
reach for but a Presence to accept. Instead of dwelling on how
difficult things are for you, turn often to the center of your being
and relax in the assurance that you are God’s living enterprise and
that your good fortune is secure because it is God’s good pleasure to
give it to you.
– Eric Butterworth
 
All emerge from that One Whose Being is ever present and Whose Life,
robed in numberless forms, is manifest throughout all creation.
Creation is the logical result of the out-push of Life into
self-expression.
Ernest Holmes
 
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can
be great.
– Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
 
Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
– Leo Buscaglia

In your moments of fear, recognize what your own power of choice is.
You are not at the mercy of your inadequacy. The intention that will
empower you must come from a place within you that suggests that you
are indeed able to make responsible choices and draw power from them,
that you are capable of acts of wholeness.
– Gary Zukav

Have no fear about being afraid. Fear can’t learn, which is why you
must learn about fear if you ever wish to be a fearless learner. So,
the first thing you must learn is how to get past your fear of being
afraid. Here’s how. The next time a fear of some kind tries to fill one
of your moments, try to see the difference between the fact of your
situation and your feelings about it. This it the right use of your
mind. For instance, it’s a fact that interest rates change. It’s not a
fact you have to get scared when they do. That fear is not a fact of
life, but only becomes one for you as long as you insist that life
perform according to what you think are your best interests. As you
learn to see that these fearful feelings don’t belong to you, but only
to your wrong thinking, you cease to be afraid, even of your own fears.
– Guy Finley

He who would not forgive must judge, for he must justify his failure to
forgive. But he would forgive himself must learn to welcome truth
exactly as it is.
– from A Course In Miracles

A significant portion of the earth’s population will soon recognize, if
they haven’t already done so, that humanity is now faced with a stark
choice: Evolve or die. A still relatively small but rapidly growing
percentage of humanity is already experiencing within themselves the
breakup of the old egoic mind patterns and the emergence of a new
dimension of consciousness.
– Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

What is arising now is not a new belief system, a new religion,
spiritual ideology, or mythology. We are coming to the end not only of
mythologies but also of ideologies and belief systems. The change goes
deeper than the content of your mind, deeper than your thoughts. In
fact, at the heart of the new consciousness lies the transcendence of
thought, the newfound ability of rising above thought, of realizing a
dimension within yourself that is infinitely more vast than thought.
You then no longer derive your identity, your sense of who you are,
from the incessant stream of thinking that in the old consciousness you
take to be yourself. What a liberation to realize that the ‘voice in my
head’ is not who I am. Who am I then? The one who sees that. The
awareness that is prior to thought, the space in which the thought – or
the emotion or sense perception – happens.
– Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows
straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
– Gautama, called the Buddha

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you
didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bow-lines. Sail
away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.   – Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)

Your devotion in worship is of great importance.  If you’re not
willing to spend time in worship because other things are more
important to you then you might as well realize that for what it
is.  If your Father misses spending time with you out of his love
and adoration, don’t you think that He would be pleased with whatever
time you spend with him rather than none at all?
– John Morton

Loving is constantly in motion – experiencing, expressing, giving. The
loving nature doesn’t just say, “I am love,” while doing nothing.
– John-Roger with Paul Kaye, Momentum, Letting Love Lead – Simple Practices for Spiritual Living

The source of loving is inexhaustible. There’s no way we can ever
exhaust the opportunity to be more loving.  Part of the illusion
is that the source of loving is finite and somehow loving can be
reduced and become unloving. The source of loving is always full, more
than full and overflowing in love.
– John Morton

You don’t do the spiritual exercises as a way to get out of doing work
or to get away from the world or the people you don’t like or who don’t
like you. You don’t do them because someone has been saying bad things
about you. All of those are avoiding the relationship of yourself and
the rest of God’s body.  You do spiritual exercises as a sacrifice
and an offering to the Lord.
– John-Roger, Walking with the Lord

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Your Life Number for 2006

Find your personal number and what it means for the path ahead of you
this year. It’s easy to get this valuable heads-up! Find out how, here:

1. First, you need to find your personal one-digit number for this
year. Write your birth month and day in numbers (for instance,
September 23 would be 9 + 23.)

2. Then add 2006 to your birth month and day (ex: 2006 + 9 + 23 = 2038).

3. Now add those 4 digits together. (ex: 2 + 0 + 3 + 8 = 13).

4. If, like me, you got a 2-digit number, add those digits together (ex: 1 + 3 = 4). THIS is your number for this year.

5. Here is the chart for determining what lessons and tasks you are likely to face this year, based on your personal number:

ONE – A great year to begin something, a project or enterprise. One
years are filled with energy and the power of focused will. Know that
you can change your life for the better! Just be sure to take into
account the feelings of those around you.

TWO – A year for forming partnerships of many kinds, and for focusing
on your own deep ways of knowing that go beyond the intellectual. What
does your gut feeling say? What are the deeper forces at work in your
psyche that will eventually demand expression? TWO years often involve
exploration of the more mysterious aspects of life, either through
therapy or the study of shamanic or other practices.

THREE – This is a creative year, rich with possibilities for bringing
things into form. If you have dreamed or envisioned something, a THREE
year is the time to come out into the world with it. Be sure to spend
some time in nature, and to enjoy the process of living every aspect of
your life creatively.

FOUR – This is a year to build firm foundations, make clear-sighted
plans, take on a leadership role in your own life, become your own
authority. FOUR years are the building-block years of great
achievement. Make sure you think things through carefully. Own your own
power as the architect of your life, rather than giving that power away
to others.

FIVE – This is a year to explore your relationship to the
systems–especially religious institutions–that exist to help humans
find the keys to Spirit. You may be called to take a stand on spiritual
views that are unconventional.

SIX – This is a year of loving connection. Although SIX years often
include falling in love, there is more to them than that: SIX years are
about clearing away our “stuff” so we can be a better conduit for the
mysterious power of loving that flows through the universe. This may
take the form of passionate involvement in causes, as much as in
forming unions with a beloved Other.

SEVEN – SEVEN years are all about forward momentum, being in the
driver’s seat of your life. The important thing to remember is the
necessity of aligning all aspects of yourself–mind, body, heart, will,
spirit–with your purpose. If your wheels are not aligned, it will be
difficult to get anywhere. But if you are completely in accord, there
will be no stopping you.

EIGHT – This is a year of balancing the needs of your ego and will with
those of your body and your instincts. Great achievement is possible
during an EIGHT year, but be sure to take time to rest, and play, and
daydream.

NINE – This is a good year to take time away from all the noise and
busyness to commune with your inner Wise One. Some time alone may be in
order, or you may need a nourishing retreat to get yourself back in
touch with the still, small voice that knows your answers. This is also
a good year to begin a program of study, or to find a mentor or teacher
who will be helpful to you.

– from Earth, Water Fire, and Air: Essential ways of connecting to spirit.

[my number is SIX – Moss]