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 Gina Lake is a spiritual teacher who is devoted to helping others wake up and live in the moment through her books, counseling, and intensives. She has a master's degree in counseling psychology and over twenty years experience supporting people in their spiritual growth. She is the author of eight books. For more info, visit her aptly titled site: Radical Happiness
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Wednesday, 10 December 2008 09:58 |
One of the easiest ways to experience essence is to experience beauty. Actually the full experience of anything, including what you might consider ugliness, will align you with essence. Whenever you really allow yourself to experience something fully with your senses without the interference, interpretation, or evaluation of the mind, you drop into essence. With something beautiful, it’s easier to do this because you naturally love and accept something of beauty. The only judgment that might come up is that it’s beautiful, which is more of an observation than a judgment. This isn’t like the judgments that come from the ego, which take you away from essence. However, as soon as a story arises about something being beautiful or about something in the past that was or wasn’t beautiful, then you are no longer in essence but in your mind about it.
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Saturday, 06 December 2008 19:38 |
Life is a mystery. What’s it about? What’s behind it? What’s going on here? In fact, the Divine is often referred to as the “Mystery.” Everyone loves a mystery, so the Divine must love one too! Apparently it does because it has hidden the truth about life, although it’s in plain sight. This is why the truth is often called an “open secret.” The secret isn’t really hidden; it’s out in the open but overlooked.
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Saturday, 06 December 2008 05:22 |
Essence—your essential Self—loves not knowing. This manifestation of life that you are part of was created to make it possible for the Oneness that you are to experience itself through its creation and to have a multitude of experiences. How could you enjoy an experience if you knew what was going to happen next? The Oneness loves the excitement of seeing what will happen next. What will each creation choose and how will they affect each other? Forgetting who you really are allows the Oneness to experience free will and the unknowable mystery of this unfolding life.
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Wednesday, 03 December 2008 18:25 |
The now is just what you are experiencing right now, in this moment. Probably part of what you are experiencing is thought, but thoughts and the feelings that arise from them are only part of the now. Much more is going on in real life. We say “real” because the experience of the moment feels more real and is more real than thought, which is, simply, thoughts about experience. Thoughts about something lack the juiciness and aliveness of pure experience. Thoughts take you into a virtual reality, so to speak, and out of Reality.
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Tuesday, 02 December 2008 06:52 |
You’ve probably noticed how much enjoyment you can get out of the simplest little things: finding just the right candlestick for your table, potting a plant, taking a hot shower, having jeans that fit just right, or reading a book. These are things that cost very little but can deliver as much enjoyment as many things that cost much more. The myth is that there’s more enjoyment in owning or doing something expensive than in owning or doing something less expensive. Owning or doing anything is a passing pleasure, and the pleasure of owning or doing something expensive passes just as quickly, or almost, as owning or doing something less expensive. In fact, many who are very rich get less pleasure out of their wealth than those who have little because of the law of diminishing returns. At a certain point, getting more and better just doesn’t have the kick it used to.
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