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Heart Power - Living more from the heart means paying attention to how we feel. ‘Positive emotions’ is the key to living a happier, more productive life. Techniques have been developed to de-stress and cultivate creativity. It’s easier than you think.

The Awakening - Entrance to the Path of Purification: The spiritual path contains within it a great divide. It is a division that marks the transition from spiritual living based exclusively on faith, to a type of awareness governed by experiential recognition of the soul. During the long sojourn of the soul over countless lives, there comes a particular incarnation when an individual will experience, for the first time, the eternal soul deep within.

The Buddha's Four Noble Truths for Today!:The Four Noble Truths of the Buddha were given over 2,500 years ago, and yet they have a vital message for today! They can help you find -- and follow -- your own Spiritual Path.

What is Service: Many people do good works; works generated from a sense of giving, understanding, or a sense of responsibility. Living in the modern world there is no shortage of opportunities to assist a person or a group, a community need or a global one.

Once a Full Moon: The Tibetan tells us that the full moon cycle of activity is a five-day period: two days before, the day of the exact full moon, and two days following. Many read those words and increase their meditation thereby, but do we understand why this is so?

Self-Actualization, Initiation, and Hierarchy: Every human being will one day be as illumined and glorified as the Buddha or the Christ. Both Great Ones said so. We are guaranteed illumination or heart-full expansions of consciousness because that is what the denouement of the human kingdom is.

A Diet for Happiness: Most people claim that all they really want is to be happy. Yet what is the magic ingredient? The key is to be conscious of what we choose to feed our minds.

The Secret of Translation: The Tibetan writes of the secret of translation. It is the secret of the human kingdom. It is the secret of its power and its realization.

Giving Energy to the Good: We energize what we dwell on. The way of transformation, both self-transformation and world transformation, is to look for the good, then to give energy to that good.

To Judge or not to Judge: Why do we feel that we need to have our experiences labeled as something good or bad, delightful or painful, etc. instead of simply being with the experience?