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11 Aug, 2008

Sacred Tools

Posted by: edb In: Mrs. Overall's Things

Sacred tools are important, wonderful, helpful helpers and assistants but tools are simply that.
Tools for the use of.
For the highest good of.
They should never become of such a strong focus that the original intent/focus is diminished. It is possible for us to sometimes be unaware that our focus on the tool is [...]

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I asked God to take away my habit.
God said “No”. “It is not for me to take it away, but for you to give it up”.
I asked God to make my handicapped child whole.
God said “No”. “His spirit is whole, his body is only temporary”.
I asked God to grant me patience.
God said “No”. “Patience is [...]

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11 Aug, 2008

What Prayer Is

Posted by: edb In: Mrs. Overall's Things

Prayer is the language of the Universe, the language of the cosmos. It is the simplest, yet the most profound language that there is. Prayer unites us to Heaven and Earth. The Divine spark within us enables us to pray – otherwise prayer would be impossible. Were it not for our God-connection within, we would [...]

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11 Aug, 2008

Intuition is…

Posted by: edb In: Mrs. Overall's Things

This is a combination of writings that I have read and also my own “Ann-thoughts”.

“Intuition knowledge” is not aligned to being “academic”. The word “intuition” is derived from the Latin “intueri” which means “to look within”. You can know something and not necessarily understand it. There is a huge difference between knowledge and understanding. There [...]

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11 Aug, 2008

Visualization for the Self

Posted by: edb In: Mrs. Overall's Things

Imagine a pearl, deep inside you, of pure, white light, smooth and shining, brilliant and clear, a thing of beauty – it is your beauty within, it is you

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about the brolly thing

The White Parasol is our (see "about little me and mrs. overall) umbrella where reflections on the confluence of religious,spiritual and modern, everyday life - with all its conflicting issues - can be looked at without and with prejudices. A practical emphasis to provide another way of looking at the bigger picture, in the midst of the ordinary material life, but without theological restriction (which doesn't mean that it is to be disregarded either). The parasol is to protect us from the heat that the issues generate theologically and politically. To propose and discuss,listen to and open up to, other perspectives without fear of getting burnt, in the hope of moving onwards. A belief is not necessarily a reality or a truth, but a programming. The overriding approach: "Faith is about searching for the truth without fear, so it doesn't matter if we lose all of our beliefs.." (from a compilation of ancient wisdoms spanning all religions in Anthony De Mello's "Song of the Bird). But can we question,without fear,issues which shape families, towns, nations and what wars are made of? Well if all the political diplomacy we have had since time immemorial can deliver only a war-torn earth, even in contemporary and "more enlightened" times two thousand years after Christ came to bring peace, perhaps we should dare to.