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Dec.02.2008
The Life of a Mystic The average individual has seldom understood the Mystic, this is often because they conceive the Mystic Life, with its ceaseless spiritual activity, and its restlessness, which knows no stay until it reaches its goal, as a life of tranquility, if not one of indolence and ease....
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Oct.29.2008
confession letter to my life coach jocelyn by ananda leekecopyright 2008 by madelyn c. leeke. Excerpt from That Which Awakens Me (Winter 2009) dear jocelyn, most of my feelings have been in the land of overwhelmed with writing and completing the memoir. i don't tell a lot of folks about this matter...
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Aug.17.2008
Contemplation-Can I Play Too? The fact is, that there is no gulf between the ordinary and the supernatural in prayer.  The soul in its quest, passes through unconscious and undistinguishable steps, just as the old year melts tranquilly into the new, without any sound breaking the silence of...
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Jul.14.2008
First and for most forgive my ineptness, for I am compelled to clarify via a part two of this subject; thus, a few fundamentals are in order, for clarification coupled with an example. 1) Contemplation is first realized, then recognized and finally manifested. 2) Intuition and instinct are not the...
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Jul.04.2008
A certain brother said to Abbot Achilles, “How is it that the demons have power against us?” The old man answered him thus: “The trees of Lebanon said, ‘How great we are and high! Yet we are cut down with a very small axe. Yes, and of the axe, which cuts us down the greater part is wood, and comes...