How does one attain spiritual enlightenment? By reading holy scriptures and books? By serving his/her fellow humans? By renouncing all things material and adopting a Spartan way of life? By seeking knowledge and wisdom? There are perhaps no right answers. After all, spiritual enlightenment is an intriguing concept, and it’s hard to understand it with a simple this or that answer.
Before being able to comprehend the concept or possibility of spiritual enlightenment, we first need to understand the concept of the spirit. The spirit is our soul; it’s eternal and lives on even after we cease to exist in the physical world. The spirit’s journey is far longer and more complex than the age-restrained, relatively simpler journey of our bodies. The spirit moves on to the next plane of existence after it has learned its lessons in the physical world, and the ultimate goal of the spirit are what we know as absolution.
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Jack Canfield’s Healing Recipe
One of my favorite gifts I received is a book from my best girl friend in August 1997. I was leaving Vancouver, British Columbia, to move to California. She gave me the book Chicken Soup for the Woman’s Soul … 101 Stories to Open the Hearts and Rekindle the Spirits of Women.
I was hooked on Jack Canfield’s approach to sharing inspiration and wisdom with the world. You ask just about anyone, “When you hear about or think of Jack Canfield, what comes to mind?”, the famous Chicken Soup series almost always comes to mind. Most of us have read Chicken Soup books at some point in time to soothe our souls. The heartwarming stories collected from around the world have made us feel we are not alone in our sorrow and have helped us smile despite the odds at others’ triumphs over adversity and fate. The Chicken Soup series is, however, just one of the ways in which Jack Canfield has attempted to make a difference.
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I was hooked on Jack Canfield’s approach to sharing inspiration and wisdom with the world. You ask just about anyone, “When you hear about or think of Jack Canfield, what comes to mind?”, the famous Chicken Soup series almost always comes to mind. Most of us have read Chicken Soup books at some point in time to soothe our souls. The heartwarming stories collected from around the world have made us feel we are not alone in our sorrow and have helped us smile despite the odds at others’ triumphs over adversity and fate. The Chicken Soup series is, however, just one of the ways in which Jack Canfield has attempted to make a difference.
Continue reading here.
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