Welcome to the Present Moment | 20 Minute Meditation with Eckhart Tolle

Everything that comes and goes in your life is due to one thing that people give different names, chance, luck, destiny, God, or nature. The nature of the world is what it is. For example, using average people, the nature of a thief is to steal, the nature of an honest person is to be trusting.

I often wondered why Lot’s wife suffered such a harsh punishment for such a small incident. After all, she was only human and curiosity got the best of her. Why did she not heed God’s warning? Why did she look back? There are so many lessons to learn in the story of Lot’s wife; but, the first lesson to come to my mind….

Entering the world of Tarot can be confusing and challenging. There are, after all, 22 Major Arcana cards and 56 Minor Arcana cards for you to become familiar with and each has a set of meanings that are defined as much by the cards’ placement in relationship to each other as they are by their relationship to you and the question that you have asked.

When Jesus stands for us at that gate, our hearts fondly adoring, everything changes – it has to. Our lives are lit from within by the Holy Spirit – the former things are no more. They’re just transformed.

In June of 2004, the planet Venus made one of its rare transits across the face of the sun, passing between the sun and the Earth. No one alive on Earth had ever witnessed this event since the last pair of Venus transits took place in 1874 and 1882, a hundred and twenty-two years prior.

When did you realize you had some abilities others did not? My first really big moment of realization came when I stood up in a mediumship development circle I had just joined and made an instant connection with someone who had passed over. I immediately sensed and saw images of what they looked like, where they lived, what they were like, who they were around, stuff like that.

Guided Meditation, Self-Hypnosis and Sitting Zen are different enough to be considered in different contexts. But they also have much in common. The main thing they have in common is the achievement of a state of consciousness of uncommon relaxation. But it is worthwhile to consider where one technique ends and the other begins, and when can they all be used interchangeably.

So many things that are given to people to enjoy universally such as clean drinking water, nutritious food, shelter, and education, are still beyond the reach of the common man. Other things like freedom, dignity and opportunity to have a place at the table of global power, which are critical to a flourishing life, are unheard of in so many areas. Why is the situation like that?

The Prophet (S.A.W) said:” The ranks a man attains through silence is better than sixty years of worship”. Silence is an anchor which holds fast in the tides of difficulties so as to build endurance against the cutting tongue of the barbarian world. If wisdom is made of ten parts, nine are in silence, and the tenth is brevity of language.

Worship is a tremendous opportunity to glean valuable insights from the Word of God and transform your life. However, many people are passive about worship, sometimes even distracted and detached. In this article, I am going to give you 7 concrete strategies you can apply to be listening better, remembering more, and applying what you hear so that you will experience weekly growth from your worship experience.

There are times in our lives when it is very easy for us to be tempted into doing those things that we won’t normally do. It is not that we are weak or do not have faith, these are just times when we are least unaware of what is happening to us. Our spiritual immunity drops allowing for the devil to have his way with us.

Being optimistic offers a positive outlook to life and gives us reason for things that would normally be depressing. The opposite is true for pessimism. However in spirituality it is important to have the balance as we tread on our path to the Lord because they each have a part to play in our lives. There is a case for either and a need for balance to richly reap the fruits of our labor.