KIM O'LEARY: Find the Endless Love
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November 25, 2022Are You Still Grateful on the Day AFTER Thanksgiving?
It's easy to be grateful on Thanksgiving. But what about the other 364 days of the year? Are we grateful then? Maybe this will help. (And be sure to note the link at the bottom of the post.
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November 22, 2022Quotes on Longing
All of us long for something -- the almost insatiable thirst of the spirit for union, expression, and the experience of love beyond words. What do you long for?
"There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing." - Kahlil Gibran
"This hunger is better than any fullness; this poverty better than all other wealth." - C.S. Lewis
"We are homesick most for the places we have never known." - Carson McCullers
"Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations." - Albert Einstein
"Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?" - Greta Garbo
"Longing is the core of mystery. Longing itself brings the cure. The only rule is, suffer the pain. Your desires must be disciplined. And what you want to happen in time, sacrificed." - Rumi
"If some longing goes unmet, don't be astonished. We call that life." - Anna Freud
"Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind." - Bertrand Russell
"It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them." - George Eliot
"Only longing can fill with more of itself." - Virginia Woolf
"Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great." - Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
"We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie." - Michael Ondaatje
"Longing is like a seed that wrestles in the ground." - Emily Dickinson
"The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it." - Gail Godwin
"You must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God." - Paramahansa Yogananda
"Nature has planted in our minds an insatiable longing to see the truth." - Cicero
"Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God." - Ramakrishna
"The longing for light is the longing for consciousness." - Carl Jung
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The Beautiful Sadness of Longing
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November 18, 2022If You Enjoy Reading What I Write
If you enjoy my writing, I invite you to click on any one of the six links below. These are the six most popular posts of mine on MEDIUM -- an online platform where I am publishing daily. If you like what you read, feel free to subscribe to my posts and request to receive an email alert whenever anything new of mine is published there. Enjoy!
What I Learned, in a Closet, from my 3-Year Old Son
What It Really Means to Be a Friend
On Realizing the Nature of True Being
Here's the Problem with Reading Rumi
100 Sure-Fire Reasons to Go Within
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November 13, 2022The Shortest Pilgrimage (and the rebooting of my MEDIUM blog)
Good news! After a long hiatus, I have rebooted my blog on MEDIUM -- a very lovely online platform where the best of my writing is being published. I will be posting one piece daily. Feel free to subscribe. It's free. And if you want to receive email alerts whenever something new is posted, be sure to click that option.
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November 12, 2022Reboot Your Consciousness in Six Minutes or Less
Here are five brief video clips of Prem Rawat waxing poetic on a variety of essential life topics. Excerpted from the Practical Peace Library from his website.
You, emanating you (1:39)
Fear destroys You (5:53)
How do you want to live (1:59)
Breaking the pattern (2:35)
What is gratitude (2:43)
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November 08, 2022Find the Miracle
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November 05, 2022How Has the Practice of Knowledge Changed My Life for the Better?
"Self-Knowledge is a route to personal peace... Practicing it enables me to stay centered and grounded... With Knowledge, there's no need to be anywhere else or think anything else. No need for an awareness of anything other than the sweet delight of being." - Prem Rawat
Recently, we asked people who have practiced the techniques of self-Knowledge that Prem Rawat teaches how it has changed their life for the better. Below is a sampling of their responses -- the first in a series of posts on this topic.
"Getting to know my real self via the practice of Knowledge has been the most interesting, the most powerful, and the most pleasurable experience of my life." - Jean Paul Peretz, Mexico
"I feel peace after practicing Knowledge. All positive traits like love, kindness, clarity, and serenity become automatic in me. Once again, I begin to live in the present." - Nim Lal Bhandari, Nepal
"Practicing Knowledge is like having an inner tuning fork." - Joyce Gerber, USA
"The gift of Knowledge has been a constant source of joy in an ever-changing world and has enriched my experience of life in a very positive way. To know that within me is an ocean of peace that I can feel each day is wonderful." - David O'Neil, UK
"When I practice Knowledge, I am so filled with love, peace, and calm that all my sorrows disappear." - Milagros Olarte Roman, Spain
"Practicing Knowledge, I realize that I have been shown a point of reference in me that is constant, unchanging, solid and secure. In a constantly changing world, it feels very good to know this." - William Sheppard, Canada
"My headspace is often full of complexity, confusion and unanswered questions. Knowledge shows me my heartscape, where simplicity, clarity and answers abound. It has restored the balance in my life. For that, I'm extremely grateful!" - Rosalind Nunn, UK
"Practicing Knowledge allows me to set the bar for fulfillment in my life. It shows me that my true nature is peace and that I always have a choice in every circumstance. It shows me that I possess all the tools I need to live in harmony with my deepest humanity." - Alla Rogers, USA
"The gift of Knowledge teaches me how to receive every day as a gift full of surprises that leaves me in awe." - Sylvie Armand, France
"Practicing Knowledge offers me a constant source of love and inspiration which, in turn, strengthens me with personal courage, resilience, passion and compassion. It brings me personal fulfillment." - Rosemary Herd, Australia
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