Where Your Thoughts Go
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CG Walters, Insight, inspiration, Sacred Vow, self-development, spirituality, wisdom
Your life follows where your thoughts go. This short Cherokee parable eloquently guides us in one of the most effective ways to improve our lives. Two Wolves An old Cherokee chief was teaching his grandson about life… “A fight is going on inside me,” he…
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leave a comment Is There An Obligation to Speak?
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CG Walters, insight, inspiration, sacred vow, Sai Baba, sharing, silence, spirituality, Taoist, truth, wisdom
When I bring forward anything I write—fiction or philosophy (never mind if there is a difference)—it is because I imagine that I see a possibility that the work might benefit someone I meet in print. Otherwise, the work remains private, as the exercise only meant…
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Spirit Story…an Old Genre Reawakening
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CG Walters, drumming, inspiration, myth, novel, Sacred Vow, spirit, storytellers, truth, wisdom
Admitting that the cosmology expressed in Sacred Vow is a truth to me, I have often been questioned about my choice to present my truth in the format of fiction. I personally have always been inclined to fiction for expressing truths, much the way myth…
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A Spiritual Teacher IS…..
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cg walters, guidance, insight, metaphysical, mystic, Sacred Vow, spiritual, student, teacher, wisdom
It is not the teacher before you that manifests what you perceive as an awakening, but the awakening within you that manifests what you perceive as a teacher. * For most of my years, I sought my idea of a traditional spiritual teacher to provide…
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Ego as Spiritual Ally
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ego, insight, perspective, progression, reality, self-development, spiritual, Tao, wisdom
A common “suggestion/implied obligation” encountered in one’s spiritual study is to “overcome the ego.” The idea seems to be that one should subdue, train, or even eliminate the ego. As a tool to avoid misidentifying myself as only ego, it has often been suggested to…
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Find Your Center: Personal Preferences
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centering, cg walters, happiness, insight, meditation, relaxation, sacred vow, wisdom
After last week’s article, “Finding your center,” I was asked to give some detail about my own personal tools for connecting with my center, my higher self. First of all, anything I say here is strictly (as always) my opinion. In things of the spirit,…
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Compassion so Subtle it’s Sublime
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Buddhism, compassion, interconnectedness, love, wisdom
Alex Blackwell at The Next 45 Years tagged me to join in the Spread the Love Now! Group Writing Project initiated by The Three Monks. For the rules for submitting an article go to one of their websites: http://www.urbanmonk.net/233/spread-the-love-now-group-writing-project/ http://kentonwhitman.com/blog/2007/12/21/spread-the-love-now-group-writing-project/ http://themiddleway.net/2007/12/21/spread-the-love-now-group-writing-project With receipt of Alex’s…
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Walking on Water: Unlearning our Limitations
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blake, cg walters, delusion, illusion, insight, koan, learning, mystical, sacred vow, unlearning, wisdom, zen
Someone may be “walking on water” not because they have learned a great secret, but rather that they have not ‘learned’ that they cannot do such a thing. Sometimes the correction for a situation is not to do something more, but primarily to stop what…
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4 commentsTruth is But a Resting Place
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cg walters, information, insight, intuition, knowledge, personal development, progression, sacred vow, wisdom
“The way you remember it is the way that it is.” - Strike a Chord of Silence, CG Walters I have been given reason to be suspicious of personal lore, those self-defining stories of the past—’memories’ if you must—whether my own or those of another.…
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Finding the One Truth?
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cg walters, love, sacred vow, searching, soul mate, truth, twin flame, wisdom
Welcome to the ever-progressing horizon! I went looking for a single, unchanging truth—something to buffer my mind and spirit from the harsh realities of life. Many popular paths were sampled. Despite their undeniable benefits for so many others, I was not able to achieve a…
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