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If you want to know what your values are, just look at your own life. Your life looks like your values. A lot of us think we have higher or spiritual values, but those values are not necessarily reflected in our so-called personal lives.

I want a dream to take us deeper, to see everything as a gauzy display of images. Dreams help me see through ordinary experiences to their underlying narratives and images and mysteries.

Thomas Moore

Has been a monk, a musician, a professor, a psychotherapist, an author and a lecturer

The power of love to dissolve negativity cannot be underestimated. This power becomes our closest ally in removing the emotional blocks that keep us isolated from our love source.

Toni Emerson

Writer; holistic life coach, spiritual activist

Living by deliberation means intentionally aligning your thoughts, behaviors, and choices with who you really are, and the outcomes you're trying to achieve.

There are two ways that you can experience the intoxicating joy, profound peace and ecstatic wakefulness of the Ground of Being: spontaneously or through effort.

Not all contemplative paths kindle the same doubts or present the same liabilities. There are, in fact, many methods of meditation and "spiritual" inquiry that can greatly enhance our mental health while offering no affront to the intellect.

Manifesting means co-creating with the universal field to attract experiences, people or things into your life by sending out your unique electromagnetic signal and taking action based on our mindset and beliefs.

Sharon Kirstin

Modern Alchemist, Transformational Coach, Energy Healer & Spiritual Mentor. Join the FREE 'Activate Your Business Alchemy' Course: sharonkirstin.com/activate-your-business-alchemy

While this was anything but an easy filtering exercise (so many good ones to choose from), here are my top 10 books in the realm of health and fitness -- which I define broadly as the harmony of physical, emotional, social, intellectual, and spiritual needs -- from the past year.

One day, and whether I like it or not, I won't have a choice. Neither will you, your best friend or worst enemy. If we could invest in the inevitability, we'd all be rich. The problem is; dying isn't sexy and it doesn't sell, while fear, denial and escapism is the defining hustle of our time.

When you try to get "there" and THEN feel peace, it never works out. You just end up realizing that what you thought you wanted, doesn't actually feel as great as you thought it would.

Sheila Viers

I help people break free from yo-yo dieting and self-sabotage so they can feel amazing in their skin.

All dreams serve a purpose: to help us change, grow, evolve, forward a vision. There are many types of dreams and different ways that this plays out, ...

Erin McElroy

Writer, Photographer, Changemaker: inspiring and facilitating change. Connect at erinkmac.com

I am sure about something. Small children know from whence they came. They are still a part of heaven. That is why one of the easiest ways to feel the presence of the Divine is to connect with a child.

Shortly after my second son, Sawyer, was born, my wife, Jen, began experiencing some discomfort in her abdomen. Several trips to the gynecologist yiel...

William Kenower

Author of Write Within Yourself: An Author's Companion; Editor-in-Chief of Author magazine.

image made @ http://www.canvas.com "You will be a failure, until you impress the subconscious with the conviction you are a success. This is done by makin...

Olivia Madlock

Lightworker Liv is a compassionate healer who has many gifts. Her current focuses are massage therapy, intuitive healing, and coaching.

Creating life is not just a physiological process; as that revolutionary Jewish couple showed, every adult who decides to support new life becomes the greatest expression of the universe.

Ale e Edu

Authors of Il Marito dello Sposo blog

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