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The 11:11 Equation

From Christine Delorey, master numerologist at Creative Numerology and writer extraordinaire, this enlightening piece written in November 2008:

The 11:11 Equation

With 11:11 occurring on the calendar this week, I have received many questions about these numbers, but I have to admit that it’s not the easiest of topics to articulate. The answer lies in the sum of 11, which is 2. And 2 is the number of connections. Therefore reading this sequence is like a never ending game of ‘connect the dots’.

The tendency of 11 is to illuminate or ‘shed light’, and it is certainly revealing that our desire for ease and simplicity has caused us to reduce our capacity to understand. Collectively, we have become lazy and easily distracted when it comes to learning anything NEW! We’re not discovering any more. We’re just hashing out the same old stuff, and think creativity is a matter of finding new ways to rehash it. We’re recycling our creativity, which means that creativity is stifled – and where we should be recycling and taking a far more responsible stance, we’ve been stifling the planet herself, suffocating her under a seeming impenetrable blanket of rubbish that we continue to produce and throw away!

The more deeply I look into this sequence of numbers, the more I see it as both a reflection of humanity’s evolving energy, and an inevitable effect of what we ourselves call the ‘digital age’. The entire planet is awash in an ocean of zeros and ones which make up the binary code of our computerized lives. Who is to say whether the two center dots in 11:11 are reflections of zeros, and that 11:11 is actually digital energy identifying itself through its own linguistic system. There is a connection there with something else I am seeing, which I will express a little later.

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Osho Said It Best

Osho was a soul scientist…a mystic who believed that all is science, and that our inner journey is a subjective form of science (as opposed to the objective science which decides about the outside world).  I wholeheartedly advocate  his advice to seekers of wisdom, and so I share it with you here:

“Always remember, whatsoever I say to you, you can take it in two ways. You can simply take it on my authority, ‘Because I say so, it must be true’ — then you will suffer, then you will not grow. Whatsoever I say, listen to it, try to understand it, implement it in your life, see how it works, and then come to your own conclusions. They may be the same, they may not be. They can never be exactly the same because you have a different personality, a unique being. Whatsoever I am saying is my own. It is bound to be in deep ways rooted in me. You may come to similar conclusions, but they cannot be exactly the same. So my conclusions should not be made your conclusions. You should try to understand me, you should try to learn, but you should not collect knowledge from me, you should not collect conclusions from me. Then your mind-body will grow.”

“My message is not a doctrine, not a philosophy. My message is a certain alchemy, a science of transformation.”

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Another 10 Commandments

While perusing the blog of a commenter, I came across a link to this piece by Cherie Carter-Scott (thank you,  A).   This list of 10 Commandments outlines the actual charter for being a human, and is more useful to every day living than the original (unless you’re murderous or covetous inside–but then, you probably wouldn’t be reading this blog).

10 Rules for Being Human

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s yours to keep for the entire period.

2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called, “life.”

3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and experimentation. The “failed” experiments are as much a part of the process as the experiments that ultimately “work.”

4. Lessons are repeated until they are learned. A lesson will be presented to you in various forms until you have learned it. When you have learned it, you can go on to the next lesson.

5. Learning lessons does not end. There’s no part of life that doesn’t contain its lessons. If you’re alive, that means there are still lessons to be learned.

6. “There” is no better a place than “here.” When your “there” has become a “here”, you will simply obtain another “there” that will again look better than “here.”

7. Other people are merely mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects to you something you love or hate about yourself.

8. What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. What you do with them is up to you. The choice is yours.

9. Your answers lie within you. The answers to life’s questions lie within you. All you need to do is look, listen, and trust.

10. You will forget all this.

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The Power of Quest-ions!

Explore with questions

“The word ‘question’ is derived from the Latin ‘quarrier’ (to seek) which is also the root of ‘quest.’ A creative life is a continued quest, and good questions can be very useful guides. Most useful are open-ended questions; they allow for fresh unanticipated answers to reveal themselves.”

– Source Unknown

“If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.”

– Susanne K. Langer

“You don’t want a million answers as much as you want a few forever questions.”

– Richard Bach

Questions hold the power to draw out answers that surprise us. If we are on an inner journey to greater self-knowledge, we must seek to understand unfamiliar parts of ourselves. The most enlightening answers are released by our subconscious minds or by our intuition. Use questions frequently to go exploring.

Try these out:

  1. What qualities do you find most attractive in others? How do you exhibit those same qualities?
  2. What is your greatest fear? Why do you fear that?
  3. What message is your body trying to get through to you?

Thanks to the good folks at Higher Awareness for sharing this message!

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Face It – You Are Beautiful

Excerpted from “The Simple Abundance Companion” with permission of Warner Books. Copyright 2000 by Sarah Ban Breathnach.

Welcome to You

Undoubtedly, we become what we envisage.  –Claude M. Bristol

You are beautiful. Right now. Today. Just as you are, just the way you look as you read those three words: You. Are. Beautiful. Say it slowly aloud, as if the phrase were a foreign language, for it probably is.

You are beautiful. Now say it in the first person singular.

I am beautiful.

Do you know that? If so, remind yourself of this glorious fact every day. If not, it is time to become beautiful in your own eyes. This will require a makeover of sorts, but not the kind you think. Learning to love the way you look has nothing to do with starting a diet or reshaping your eyebrows. Accepting and embracing your authentic beauty means seeing yourself from the inside out. I love me, I love me not–I love me.

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Smart is in the Heart

By Melissa Shawn

This perspective will be very useful to you if you can suspend your thoughts about what I am going to say, and instead just experience the truth of it in your heart.  As you read, you may get a sense that you already understand the ideas being presented intellectually, but perhaps you are still missing a living, breathing, heart-based knowing.  The truth presented here is so simple–but when our brains take charge of processing it, we end up making a complicated mess of it.

Whenever we “fall in love with someone else” — whether this is platonic love for a friend, romantic love, or just love of a certain quality in another — we are really falling in love with ourselves.  Whatever it is you find to love in the other is actually portraying an image of that which you deeply love in yourself.  It is never (yes, never) THEM you love; you are loving an image of YOUR OWN SOUL — reflected by the other so that you can see it and love yourself more.  This is no different than seeing your physical self reflected back in a mirror so that you can see it, except it is your soul being reflected rather than your body.  It is YOU that you are loving any time you love another.   In loving an other, you are seeing that which you deeply love about yourself—but aren’t consciously connected to.  And so the “other” comes along and hands you the gift of conscious connection to your own self love.
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Enlightenment?

Now here’s a link to a long–but thorough and eye opening–piece on the subject of Enlightenment, written by Neale Donald Walsh.  Regardless of how you may feel about him,  his books or his viewpoint, what he has written here provides an excellent grounding for anyone who feels they are somehow missing something from their lives…and that this missing ‘something’ keeps them from the elusive ‘enlightenment’.  Or–for those who are certain they’ve achieved enlightenment and are waiting for everyone else to get there.

Do yourself and the world a favor and click the link, then read the entire piece.  Enlightenment?

You will find the source of this article, Spirit Library,  in our list of favorite links.  I hope you find your own version of instant enlightenment from reading this excellent essay!

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