Finding God

10 thoughts about bliss to ponder

Bliss is a way of describing your boundless nature, unconquerable and free, unchanged by outer events. It is another name for God. Bliss is balance and balance is bliss. Many things in this world promise happiness. But the question you need to ask yourself is whether they can deliver lasting happiness? The cool thing about bliss is [...]

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How God opened a door in heaven

It was Sunday evening, February 5, 2005. I had just started to watch the evening news with my wife JoAnn, and everything was as normal as could be. Life was fine, as far as I was aware. I was quite happy, or at least I thought I was. Suddenly I started to feel a [...]

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Are we really alone?

I was alone, eating supper on a cold winter’s evening 300 miles north of Vancouver, British Columbia. It was cold and cheerless outside, and it was cold and cheerless inside — in my heart, and in my home. My wife, Joy, to whom I had been married 25 years, had died suddenly a month or [...]

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Happiness loves an open heart

“If your everyday practice is to open to all your emotions, to all the people you meet, to all the situations you encounter, without closing down, trusting that you can do that — then that will take you as far as you can go. And then you will understand all the teachings that anyone [...]

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100 steps to grace for 2011

Everybody wants to find more fulfillment and happiness in life. As we move forward in this New Year I’d like to share with you 100 lessons that I have learned in my life (and continue to learn) in hopes they will help you find increased happiness and peace in 2011. This post is part of the Life Lessons Series [...]

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Give yourself permission to sit quietly — and see what happens

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6 steps to contentment — your “natural wealth”

Once, when I was a young fellow of 12 or 13, my parents took me on a holiday to a beautiful region of England called the Norfolk Broads. Knowing how much I loved boats, they had rented a houseboat for a week on the River Bure, near the small village of Horning. I was ecstatic. [...]

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How Robin Easton found freedom in the Australian Rainforest

In her new book, Naked in Eden, Robin Easton describes her quest for freedom in the Daintree rainforest of Australia.

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Eat, Pray, Love: Is authentic happiness in Bali — or in you?

Eat, Pray, Love is a hit movie – so much so that many people plan to follow in the footsteps of the author, Elizabeth Gilbert, and travel to exotic places in pursuit of happiness. There’s nothing wrong with that, of course. But we each come into this world with a unique gift to give — a unique mission [...]

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Listened to your inner voice lately?

“The eye must be something like the sun, otherwise no sunlight could be seen; God’s own power must be inside us, how else could godly things delight us?” — Goethe I love these words of the great German philosopher, Wolfgang Goethe. They stir my body and my soul. I lived for 34 years in a [...]

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How quickly an intention can manifest

I wrote an intention for myself last evening in my journal. It manifested in a most remarkable way this morning.

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The gift that a raven brought

“You may hide yourself in a thousand forms, Still, All-beloved, I recognize you.” –Goethe. I went for a hike yesterday on the Devil’s Backbone trail outside Loveland, and a wild creature brought me a special surprise. A gift to give me a lift. I’ve been tired the last few days. I was tired as I [...]

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