“Help me to perform those miracles you want of me today.”

Those words can change the fate of a day. And the fate of a day can change the trajectory of a life.  One day – no – ONE MOMENT can be pivotal in taking you where you really want to go, and in being who you know you can be.

Yet, in our hectic lives, even when we know something is good for us and will lead us to our joy and purpose, we so often skip it. Even when it’s as easy as an eleven-word prayer.

Why?  Why do we put our good last? Is it an inherent belief that we are unworthy? That we do not matter? Has the ideology of sinfulness been so ground into our psyches that we feel nothing we do or say can make much difference? [Read more →]

Peace Day is September 21st. See this one-minute forty-nine second video made by the man who worked to make an international “day of peace.”

Queen Rania of Jordan speaks moving words in this brief video in which she begins by saying: “The reality of peace is sadly absent from too many in the Middle-East. Too many of my people are starved of the thing they need most: peace.”

Annie Lennox speaks about peace in this video in which she says peace is within ourselves, yet seems harder and harder to find.

Lastly, the Dalai Lama gives us his insights in this video wherein he says ”This is our moral responsibility to make the attempt… we have the responsibility to show the right path or at least make the attempt for a better future…”

All of these links come from Peace One Day.  

No one wants world peace. At least that’s the conclusion we might come to if we look around at the conflict we see and the fact that few people seem outwardly concerned.

Yet here’s a secret: although we’re not seeing big peace marches, millions have begun the peace journey inside, where it really counts. They’re taking small, inner steps toward peace because that is where world peace starts: inside you and me.

Do you want to contribute to world peace? Can’t imagine yourself organizing a peace rally? Don’t have the time or energy to march on Washington? Feel overwhelmed by ideas about what you “should” do to help create peace? Are you beating yourself up over it, mumbling that “no one” cares or if you “really” cared that you’d “do something?” [Read more →]

Miracles are about flow. Likewise, a life full of miracles isn’t about avoiding all challenges for all time.  It’s about learning that love is everywhere and in everything, and that the giver and the receiver are the same.

A life of miracles is a life of loving yourself well enough to open to see beauty in even the rough patches, even when you fall or get sick. Rough patches, after all, can be revelatory on a path dedicated to discovery.

Take, for example, the story published by Modest Needs (choose August 2008 and press the GO button) about Martha and her mammogram: [Read more →]

Historia de un Letrero (The Story of a Sign) is the winning film of the NFB Online Competition Cannes 2008. A beautiful short film about what moves us to compassion, I think you’ll enjoy it. It is, in its own way, a prayer.

Director : Alonso Alvarez Barreda
Running Time : 04:50
Year : 2007
Country : Mexico/ U.S.A
Category : Short film

“With a stroke of the pen, a stranger transforms the afternoon for another man in this emotionally stirring short film by Alonso Alvarez.”

HISTORIA DE UN LETRERO (THE STORY OF A SIGN)

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Fall Of The Rebel Angels from Wikipedia

People like to speculate as to whether there is a heaven or hell, and what it will be like to be in heaven or hell if these places exist.

Frankly, I can’t see myself in either heaven or hell since those who assert that these are actual physical places describe them as realms where nothing ever changes.

Certainly the ideas passed down to us from medieval times about heaven and hell leave something to be desired, for both seem to be prisons. In one you are, supposedly, allowed to be horrifically tortured for eternity (and this by a God that is pure love) and in the other you just sit around playing a harp.

Yet, what if heaven, no matter what realm we are in – physical or non-physical – is a feeling of connection with God and hell is a feeling of alienation from God? Certainly some people experience heaven on this earth as they feel the love of God unfolding their lives in peace, joy and harmony while others, like those in Iraq, are clearly experiencing hell.

But also consider this: what if you get a life review after you die and you feel all the emotions you elicited in other people? So if you gave them joy, you feel their joy, but if you gave them pain, you feel the depth of their pain?

What if, after you die, hell is feeling how much you hurt others? Or how much you could have done to alleviate suffering and spread joy on the earth? What if hell is the regret of missed opportunity? [Read more →]

If you want to be selfish (i.e. do something that is really in your best interest and will benefit you) then choose to forgive others for their transgressions against you because forgiveness is the best thing for you, your mind, your body, your spirit and your life.

Yet the beautiful thing about God is that He created a universe in which there are no “unequal contracts.” There is no selfishness possible in the area of forgiveness. It turns out that forgiving others is the same as forgiving ourselves.

Why? Because we can only forgive others when we have forgiven ourselves for our own perceived shortcomings. It’s a truism that we are angriest and most unforgiving toward those who are acting out qualities we have.

Bottom line, the antidote to stress is forgiveness and total acceptance of yourself. So face whatever it is about yourself that makes you uncomfortable. After all, you can’t hide anything from God or yourself and trying just uses up energy that you could use for other things.  [Read more →]