Ten Simple Spiritual Tools

From "Transcending The Levels of Consciousness," by Dr. David R.
Hawkins, pp 333-334."

1. Be kind to everything and everyone, including oneself, all the
time, with no exception.

2. Revere all of life in all of its expressions, no matter what, even
if one does not understand it.

3. Presume no actual reliable knowledge of anything at all. Ask God to
reveal its meaning.

4. Intend to see the hidden beauty of all that exists - it then reveals
itself.

5. Forgive everything that is witnessed and experienced, no matter
what. Remember Christ, Buddha, and Krishna all said that all error is due
to ignorance. Socrates said that all men can choose only what they
believe to be good.

6. Approach all of life with humility and be willing to surrender all
positionalities and mental/emotional arguments or gain.

7. Be willing to forgo all perceptions of gain, desire, or profit and
thereby be willing to be of selfless service to life in all of its
expressions.

8. Make one's life a living prayer by intention, alignment, humility,
and surrender. True spiritual reality is actually a way of being in the
world.

9. By verification, confirm the levels of consciousness and spiritual
truth of all teachers, teachings, spiritual groups, and literature with
which one intends to be aligned or a student.

10. Accept that by spiritual declaration, commitment, and surrender,
Knowingness arises that provides support, information, and all that is
needed for the entire journey.

Gloria in Excelsis Deo!

Five Words To Resolve Any Relationship Problem

Move aside, John Gray. Get off stage Oprah. Here are the five words to resolve any relationship problem immediately. All you need to do is to say and feel the meaning of these five words to the best of your ability, often and immediately.

The five words to make any relationship flow are:

WHATEVER

MAKES

YOU

HAPPY

DEAR.

Followed closely only by the magic three words: I love you. And exceeded only by the magic two words: I'm sorry.

What's the best thing you could be working on, and why aren't you?

From www.paulgraham.com:

"In his famous essay You and Your Research (which I recommend to anyone ambitious, no matter what they're working on), Richard Hamming suggests that you ask yourself three questions:

"What are the most important problems in your field?

"Are you working on one of them?

"Why not?

"Hamming was at Bell Labs when he started asking such questions. In principle anyone there ought to have been able to work on the most important problems in their field. Perhaps not everyone can make an equally dramatic mark on the world; I don't know; but whatever your capacities, there are projects that stretch them. So Hamming's exercise can be generalized to:

"What's the best thing you could be working on, and why aren't you?"

Shut Up, A Love Poem

Shut up.

Nobody cares what you think.
They're not interested.

Stop wondering what they think.
They're not thinking of you.

Nobody wants to know your name.
They're only remembering it for practice.

Imagine the earth as a big blue ball
And imagine that you're gone.

Now what's the use of the whole world
Without you there? Who cares?

Nobody. And that's my point.
Shut up. We're not interested. Yes - you.

Disconfirm all your degrees of difference.
Nobody gives a damn how you're unique.

They just want value and novelty from you.
Grow up and get on with your own truth.

I mean, shut up. Shut up and live.
Stop your gabbling and live loud and true.

Be the self that you and only you
Can truly and honestly and completely be.

Be you.