How to Live Skillfully: 20 Minute Meditation with Eckhart Tolle

Learning how to analyze your dreams is the first step towards interpreting them. Knowing what you dream about and why can assist you in controlling your dreams and driving away your nightmares.

In The Declaration of Independence, Truth Is Held To Be Self-Evident. Some say that truth is relevant to understanding. If this false premise were so, then truth would be limited to our feeble ability to comprehend the unknowable. How can they determine certain truths to be self-evident? Perhaps the answer lies in the closing statement within the Declaration of Independence.

In the corporate world and many other disciplines where personnel is required, your track record is what gets you shortlisted, interviewed and appointed. God on the other hand uses a different method. He anoints and appoints the disappointed, downtrodden, least qualified; trains them, prepares them. puts them on the fast track and ushers them into the leadership positions he has prepared for them. A leader is not chosen on the day he assumes office. That is merely fulfillment of what was ordained a long time ago. We need to understand God’s process of appointing leaders.I tackle ten things that God does when He chooses a leader, for your benefit.

There is one spiritual gift that has intrigued me, or has aroused a great interest or curiosity on my part. Learn about this gift. You may have it also.

Psalm 79 is part lament and part petition. It can help us as loss is an abjectly horrible thing. In context, the Israelites in exile had lost three fundamental things – the land, the king, and the temple – and to say they’d been spun into an endemic crisis of faith would be the supreme understatement. This psalm can help us in our losses too.

We’re called to a majestic inheritance – one ordered for the saints of the Lord. It’s a resplendently regal holy power that manifests itself in and through us – a greatness no one and nothing can match, understand or correspond with.

Outside the trees were swaying, the clouds were racing across the sky and the top of the bird feeder was barely staying attached. It occurred to me that if I didn’t know about the force called “wind” I might attempt to explain away all these occurrences as the result of a “mystery” something. Why would I think it was a mystery?

On sunny days, the sky is seen blue or it’s not there at all – we don’t even notice it. As the weather closes in, we see an opportunity for healthy diversion or we’re swallowed whole by the gloom.

There are times in life when we think the above verse is a lie – times we feel God’s power and Presence is unexpectedly absent. Whether it’s Satan that leads us to this or not is irrelevant to us at the time; we’ve just been pushed too far and our strength is puny.

In those times when we’re busy dreaming up the next plan, the next love, the next thrill, aren’t we really looking for a way to renew ourselves? Most of us experience “renewal” when some idea or a hope that we have gets fulfilled, filling us in turn with a sense of excitement; and then, in that feeling of being full of ourselves, comes a certain kind of pleasure that we take as being the same as renewal in this life.

Many people believe that dreams cannot be controlled. Learn how to influence what you dream about.

One thing is certain, if the Pilgrims arrived in America today, they would be singing on the same sheet of music as the ACLU–and it wouldn’t be Silent Night. The ACLU has taken the view that Christmas-related carols and plays are a threat to the separation of church and state. This is not new thinking.