tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16936444629091884012024-03-12T16:39:24.614-07:00The New Professionalism: Connecting Science and SpiritBeing considered a professional is important. But most of us are 'old' professionals, not old in age, but old in thinking style and approach to living. Old professionals separate science and spirit and think in terms of either/or - 'you're either for me, or against me.' New professionals connect science and spirit and think in both/and terms. Please read: The New Professionalism: Connecting Science and Spirit, available at www.WisdomAtWorkUSA.com.drStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02473719373125097126noreply@blogger.comBlogger868125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693644462909188401.post-80970306481939021522014-04-08T05:22:00.000-07:002014-04-08T05:22:15.353-07:00Empty hands, open mind and heart<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
“This is difficult to believe,” Devorah said. “And it’s
similar to the radical shift in belief and perspective I shared a few posts
ago. But Heaven itself is reached with empty hands and open minds, which come
with nothing to find everything. This means holding everything lightly even our
most sacred laws, cherished beliefs and ideals. <br />
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“To do violence in God’s name and in the name of your most
cherished beliefs and ideals is not only hypocritical and absurd, it is to do
violence not only to those cherished ideals, but to ourselves and our reality
as one with the power we call ‘God.’ God does not require us to defend him or
worship him in certain arcane ways. God is not Zeus. God is an invisible power
within us, reflected in our desire for love, compassion, peace, mercy,
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“The fear of God is in truth the fear of ourselves and our constant
misuse of the power we call ‘God.’ Heaven itself is real and within each of us
right now, even within the sinners, perverts and evil-doers, and is reached by
releasing the interferences to Its presence within us, judging not, and
remembering Its benign and loving reality. Release the ego thought system you
clutch so tightly and your empty hands become free to receive Heaven’s gifts.”</div>
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“Apply, when tempted to deny!” Devorah said, grinning at her
neat turn of phrase. “When tempted to see yourself as a victim of something or
someone outside you, believing your change of mood is due to anything other
than the power of your mind, turn within and claim the power of your mind and with
it the oneness with the power we call ‘God’. When tempted to hold a grievance,
feel victimized or blame (even yourself), not only do you deny your mind’s
power to upset you, you also deny its power to make you whole and peaceful. The
mind’s power is returned to you when you remember to think: ‘I loose the world
from all I thought it was, and choose my own reality instead….’ Apply when
tempted to deny!”</div>
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The position includes your photo on the Staff page of the
HQPubs.com website. Pay negotiable at an hourly rate. Ten hours a week minimum.
Will need to read the book and have some marketing experience, be open-minded
and creative. Apply here with preferred hourly rate and phone number. <br />
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drStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02473719373125097126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693644462909188401.post-65627973550150322182014-03-24T05:30:00.001-07:002014-03-24T05:30:27.514-07:00Seek Not to Change the World, But to Change You Mind About the World, Four of Four<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Devorah said. “But Love is not silent and unheard. Be quiet and still but for
an instant and you will hear it and you will know the truth. Not one note of
Heaven’s song has been missed. Believe this, not the ego. Choose truth, not
illusion and you will experience truth, not illusion. Know that each moment and
hour and day can be an opportunity to hear God’s song and know the truth of who
you (and everyone and everything else) is by bringing the illusion to the
truth. Do not seek to change the world, but to change your mind about the world.”
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“This is going to be a radical one today,” Devorah said. “Were
you quiet and still but for an instant, you would hear the soundless melody
that pours from God to you eternally in loving praise of what you are. But you
are not quiet nor still. You listen to the raucous shrieks of the ego.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can the power we call ‘God’ reach you
when it is your ego’s specialness to which you listen, and which asks and
answers, drowning out the vast song of honor and love for what you are and making
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“This is going to be a radical one today,” Devorah said. “The
self you made and take to be real is not the child of the power we call ‘God’.
Therefore, this self does not exist. And anything it seems to do and think
means nothing. It is neither bad nor good. It is unreal, and nothing more than
that. It does not battle with you, cannot hurt you, cannot turn eternal
sinlessness into sin, nor love to hate. What power can the self you made have
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“This is going to be a radical one today,” Devorah said.
“Not about changing the world, for the world is an illusion, but about changing
our minds about the world; not about praying to the power we call ‘God’ to make
things better here, but praying to know the world is an illusion and bring that
illusion to the truth.” Devorah sighed. “Simply listen and consider what I say.
In quiet receive the word of God today. Don’t try to figure it out for what we
figure with is part of the illusion. <br />
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“The power we call ‘God’ is always and only benign,
inclusive, compassionate, joyous, peaceful and loving,” Devorah said. “Our
experiences to the contrary arise from a mistaken identification with the ego,
the idea that we are solitary individuals, separated from God. We fear losing
our individuality so we cling to our specialness and grievances. But what if
when we have faith in this benign power, get our bloated nothingness out of Its
way, let go and let God, we don’t disappear into God to be lost, but to be
found…?”</div>
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“The power we call God is always and only benign, inclusive,
compassionate, joyous, peaceful and loving,” Devorah said. “It is who we are. It
is us, and we are It. No one and no thing is excluded from Its blessings –
neither Christian nor Jew, Republican nor Democrat, gay nor straight. All are
equal in Its eyes. No one and no thing is better or more special. </div>
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drStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02473719373125097126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693644462909188401.post-22803823458558938942014-03-10T05:20:00.002-07:002014-03-10T05:20:17.297-07:00ALL things<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
“‘Wanting’,” Devorah said, “is a judgment about your life that
says something is lacking and you’re dissatisfied. Thinking like that is back
asswards. To have a life of joy, health and abundance, feel joy, health and
abundance, not lack, want and limitation. Cultivating feelings of gratitude,
shifts your energy to acceptance and appreciation. ALL of life is a gift,
whether it appears to be or not. ALL things contribute to our well being and
growth whether they appear to or not. Therefore, include ALL things in your
gratitude.”<br />
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drStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02473719373125097126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693644462909188401.post-76938726118927170512014-03-07T02:52:00.001-08:002014-03-07T02:52:29.061-08:00Mindfulness: Part Three of Three<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">“Self awareness and mindfulness allow Self
awareness. Realizing that you are not alone and the victim of forces beyond
your control, but rather part of something much greater – an evolutionary
progression of both integrative and disintegrative process, frees you from your
story and its seemingly automatic, programmed conditioned responses. You are
the thinker, not the thought. You are spirit, and spirit is free, un-programmed
and unconditioned. You can re-write your story. Be mindful of who and what you
are. Stop settling for crumbs when you can have your cake and eat it, too!” </span><br />
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drStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02473719373125097126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693644462909188401.post-59506599789412849592014-03-05T02:41:00.000-08:002014-03-05T02:41:02.832-08:00Mindfulness: Part Two of Three<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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event, but perhaps you’ve noticed that there’s actually a brief window of time
between the event and the emotion, during which we assign meaning and create an
explanation. Being aware of this window allows us to choose. Will we react as
we always have or will we pause then consciously choose what we want to feel?
Will you re-enact your story, or will you choose to modify it? Do you want to
assign meaning with yourself or yourSelf?” </span><br />
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Devorah smiled. “Our emotions are not generated by what we
experience, but rather by the meaning we assign to what we experience. Even
so-called evil negative things like cancer or war can be perceived as
opportunities for growth. Experience itself is neutral. What we tell ourselves
about it, is not. Our story determines the meaning. Change your story, change
the meaning and the experience changes.<br />
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drStevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02473719373125097126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1693644462909188401.post-90390809549901144932014-02-28T03:54:00.003-08:002014-02-28T03:54:49.358-08:00Building Spiritual Muscle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
“And please remember, this is a process, a never ending
process. Know that each time you’re tempted to believe in, honor and serve the
ego’s idols of darkness and fleeting passions is an opportunity to choose
yourSelf instead. Ask to see things differently, with yourSelf instead of
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discipline that builds spiritual muscle. And the more you do it, the stronger that
muscle becomes. Rather than seeing the world as the ego sees it - a dark trial
between life and death with brief periods of peace and joy with death being
inevitable, see it as a classroom in which you can learn who you really are,
awaken from the ego’s nightmare and feel and share your reality, true love,
compassion and glory with everyone and everything you encounter.”</div>
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“Consider the arbitrary shabbiness of what we have accepted
as reality – honor, fame, fortune, glory, guilt, war, fear, cancer, judgment,
punishment – when instead we could accept the gifts of Spirit – the peace that
passeth understanding, perpetual never ending blessings, eternal love and
oneness with all that is,” Devorah said.<br />
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“We have chosen graven images, earthly idols that we
ourselves have made, in place of ourSelves, what we could never make, but
nonetheless are.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please let go of the
shabby substitutes given by the ego! Experience them as the arbitrary worthless
idols they are. Let go of your grievances against yourself and others. You are
as God created you! Fear not that you will lose yourself and disappear into
nothingness. Go through this fear and terror and acknowledge your Identity, and
you will indeed disappear, but into your Self, not to be lost, but to be
found!” </div>
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“Humanity’s greatest spiritual teachers and metaphysicians
have told us the world and our experience of it is an illusion,” Devorah said.
“That there’s something greater, a greater Reality than our everyday thinking
allows us to perceive and we can turn to It, and use It to guide and enlighten
us instead of the ego.<br />
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“A first step to moving toward the greater benign Reality is
to question what we take to be reality now, and to see our so-called reality as
arbitrary, as merely a set of subjective, capricious psycho/social conventions.
But beware, when we begin doing this, tho the rewards are great, when we
violate its arbitrary rules, the ego is threatened, becomes vicious and attacks
with a range of things from an itch to cancer, so that we hastily retreat to
the safety of our habitual ways.”</div>
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“Would the benign loving power we call ‘God’ really want
It’s children and It’s creation thought of in this way? No! Thus this idea (that
how we treat one another and creation may not be ‘God’s’ will) shows the arbitrary
illusory nature of our perceptions and beliefs about ‘reality’. So, starting
with this understanding (about the arbitrary nature of our perceptions and
beliefs about ‘reality’) enables us to perceive them as illusions, not facts,
and move beyond them to the greater Reality that is the Source of all beliefs, perceptions
and experience.”</div>
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“It’s difficult to go directly from how we’re thinking now (our
everyday ego based reality) to the idea that it’s an illusion, a mere shadow of
the greater benign Reality behind it. A first step to moving toward the greater
benign Reality is to question what we take to be reality now, and to see our
so-called reality as arbitrary, as merely a set of subjective, capricious psycho/social
conventions. <br />
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“For example, is it true that a certain set of rituals is
more pleasing to God than another set; that the ‘chosen’ and ‘God-given’ set of
rituals will bring us a better life and keep us from hell; and that those who
do not follow the ‘chosen’ and ‘God-given’ rituals will not only be damned but
are our sworn enemies determined to convert and destroy us? It this really
God’s will, or a set of arbitrary cultural subjective, capricious psycho/social
conventions?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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“Our greatest spiritual teachers and metaphysicians have
told us that the world and our experience of it is an illusion,” Devorah said.
“Tho our everyday ego based reality denies this, I have experienced it and you
probably have, too. The usefulness of this idea (that the world and our
experience of it is an illusion) lies in the fact that if this is true and it
is, then there’s something greater, a greater Reality than our everyday
thinking allows us to perceive and we can turn to It, and use It to guide and
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“I’m a big believer in ‘both/and’ thinking instead of
‘either/or’ thinking,” Devorah said. “Of including, tolerating, and accepting
instead of excluding, judging and blaming. The fear, hatred and competitiveness
we experience (even within ourselves) are the fruits of ‘either/or’ thinking. Our
experience of living would be different and better if we used more ‘both/and’
thinking.<br />
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“And yet, ‘either/or’ is essential in one crucial respect.
We must decide whether we’re spirit or ego. We can’t be both. They are mutually
exclusive states. We and everyone and everything else is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">either</i> spirit <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">or</i> ego. It
seems as if we can be both and our experience vacillates between both because we
haven’t made the tough decision about what our fundamental nature is. </div>
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“Both/and thinking, inclusion, tolerance, peace and joy flow
from a decision to identify with our Self, with spirit. Either/or thinking,
exclusion, intolerance, hate, fear, and ‘my way or the highway thinking’ flow
from identifying with the ego self. </div>
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“Unfortunately when you look around at the wars, pain,
suffering, exclusion, hate, blame and environmental degradation, it’s clear we’ve
chosen to identify with the ego. But that choice is a mistake and can be
undone. Each time you’re tempted by ego to hate, blame, fear, worry, judge,
punish and exclude, realize that it’s either/or, self or Self and choose Self.
Each time. It’s a never ending process because the ego is the world’s default.
But, the more you choose spirit, the more spirit becomes the default. </div>
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“What are you choosing right now? Think about it. The power
is yours to use. You’re not a robot. How are you using your power? How’s that
working for you? If it’s a mistake, let it go and choose differently. It’s not
as difficult as you think and the results will be amazing!”</div>
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“Most of the commentary on current events from so-called
pundits focuses on competition between two sides,” Devorah said, “as if there
were only two sides and as if the competition itself were important. The more
we focus on competition, the more we all lose. Do we really want to make half
of us losers? And will the losers simply forgive and forget? Life is not a
football game, no matter how much so many of us wish it were. There is no season,
no referee and few rules that apply equally to everyone.<br />
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“Take the so-called punditry surrounding us with many grains
of salt; be not seduced by the entertainment value of competition. It’s the
rising above competition and the search for common ground that is important. We
are in desperate need of pundits that will bring us together; who believe there
really is common ground, point it out to us and help us reach it.”</div>
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“It is essential,” Devorah said, “that error be not confused
with sin. It is this distinction that makes salvation possible. Sin calls for
punishment, error for correction. Thinking we are separate from the one loving power
we call ‘God’ is a mistake, not a sin. We are and can never be separate from
the one power. It is only our stinkin’ thinkin’, our misuse of the power that
makes us think a separation has occurred. We but mistake interpretation for the
truth. Salvation is realizing a mistake is not a sin, that the one loving power
has not forsaken us nor ceased to be.”<br />
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“Whenever we feel special,” Devorah said, “make judgments or
are deeply engaged in anything of the ego (the world: pleasure or pain) we are
saying we don’t want the peace, joy and compassion the power we call ‘God’
intends for us and have accepted the ego’s substitute instead.” Devorah sighed.
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“We project out the guilt we feel over this mistaken choice and thus harbor
grievances and find fault with everyone and everything.” Devorah smiled. “The
idea is not to judge ourselves for doing this, for projecting, but to be aware
of what we have done and the tremendous cost to us for having done so. The
world is a classroom. Let us use it, learn, be mindful and choose again, every time!”</div>
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“Because faith is so powerful, people talk about it as if it
were only good, for the benefit of everyone and everything,” Devorah said. “We
say ‘faith can move mountains’ and that’s true. However, in reality, faith is
neutral and can be used for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">either</i>
good (inclusiveness - for the benefit of everyone and everything) <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">or</i> ill (exclusiveness – for the benefit
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“We’re never without faith. We always have faith in
something. What do you have faith in? The goodness of human nature? The wrath
of God? The danger of big government? How’s that working for you, your family, the planet? Perhaps
it’s time to shift and put your faith in something else. After all, if you
always do what you always did, you’ll always get what you always got….”</div>
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