Sharing the Ascension Experience
Human efforts [are] cumulative, something in every effort [is] preserved and added to the whole. — Fifty Degrees Below Zero, Kim Stanley Robinson (1952-) This week’s qualities are Aplomb and Fortified. They have in common a certain poise. You may be wrong. Take that as a given. But more likely you are right in at … Read more
Always bear in mind that your resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. — Abraham Lincoln (1806-1865) 16th U.S. President We Maneuver through life with stumbles, fits, and starts. But we do move, we grow, we become better than we are — and occasionally our choices are Stellar. Peace, Jim STELLAR … Read more
New reasons, new arguments, new motives . . . all can lead to new goals – new aspirations. — David Brin (1950 – ) Existence, American Author Even if someone has looked into the unknown before you, each of us is a Pioneer when we look at it for the first time. We find out … Read more
We change the outcome of our future through the choices we make in each moment of the present. — The Dead Sea Scrolls (ca 100 AD) Is it Fitting that any of us call ourselves Auspicious? I have read that progress is the watchword of the universe. We will always be moving from our current … Read more
The social pathology, existential vacuum, and meaninglessness experienced by contemporary society is the result of intrinsic values starvation, Being-value deficiency. Transpersonal values command adoration, celebration, and reverence. They are worth living and dying for. Contemplating and becoming one of these values gives the greatest sense of worth and joy that human beings can experience. — … Read more
Match the frequency of the reality you want, and you cannot help but get that reality. — Albert Einstein (1879-1955) Deep Thinker The word good in a Good Self-image can represent quite a few descriptors, including the words in the definition of Clean. We all have an idea of self which often does not match … Read more
Also are these angels very much concerned with the means whereby man’s spirit is released from the tabernacles of the flesh and his soul escorted to the mansions in heaven. Angels are the sure and heavenly guides of the soul of man during that uncharted and indefinite period of time which intervenes between the death … Read more
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. • Be Proactive (responsible, independent, imaginative, self-aware) • Begin with the end in mind (conceptualization, visualization, creation) • Put first things first (time management, start with matters of importance) • Think Win/Win (mutual benefit, successful, integrity, maturity) • Seek first to understand, then to be understood (good listener, … Read more
The end then of learning is to…know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may be nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection. — Of Education, John Milton, … Read more
Courage, Character, and Loyalty — Little League Baseball’s Motto, 1939 When we take care of the basics, we can be Content we have at least done the minimum. And most or the time this is enough. But to be truly content, it behooves us to do a bit more, go the extra mile, give an … Read more