As the many societies prepares to celebrate Halloween, party and have fun, watching the children going treat or treating, it is also a time of reflection.  A time to remember those who have gone before.

Today would have been my mother's 81st birthday.  She has been physically gone now for almost 16 years, my sister is almost 8 years gone and my brother is 5 years gone.  Today I remember those who have left the physical world remembering that while I am the only one of my family left,…

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To Love and be Loved Is the Greatest Gift of All.



What does this mean? Become Love. Not silly, petty, unstable romantic love but Unconditional, Universal True Love. Allow your Self to be Love. This means leaving Ego behind. Leaving behind opinions and thoughts. Just being Love.



Would you give all you own to someone who has nothing? 

Would you bring a homeless person into your home and feed them?

Would you hold someone in pain and tell them you love them?

Would…

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Long into the

night she lay

awake and alert.

Her mind racing, 

her emotions pulsing

like a storm brewing.

Silent darkness.

Stillness, breathless.

Silence except

for the blood

coursing

through her veins.

The visions she sees,

the emotions she feels

all prevent the rest

she needs

coming to her.

She longs for her love.

Longs to feel him

in the night

beside…

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Ashley 1994-2011

 

You have been in my life since a tiny kitten.  You brought calm and happiness into our lives.  Traveled from state to state and always remained by my side.  With your purrs and slobbers and cries in the night.  I miss you Ashley.  Although you have only been…

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In the current economic climate many people are out of work and also many community and voluntary groups are having their funding cut more and more.  Many of these groups carry out vital work in their communities and yes I find in my own local area, while the level of unemployment creeps up, the number of people willing to volunteer is dropping drastically!

 

I am lucky to still have full time work and I volunteer in my local area working with disadvantaged families (not a do…

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There come times, of greater awareness of the world around us, that sometimes are so vast in scope that I feel almost on the verge of madness, or that my head or the whole world will split open with the force of it.

Moving .. thought.. into places beyond the scope of language and symbols my mind has for it, but instinctively knows are there, hidden beneath the specific illusions of the senses we create in order to experience and manifest our environments.. which are really one and the…

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All I really have to offer, Is my authenticity.

I created the Temple, because I wanted a place like this to exist.. I had a vision for a community that I wanted to be a part of, that I couldn't find. So I decided I would try to build it.

I decided to put any fears and insecurities behind, and devote myself to focusing on doing what I love, making friends, sharing with people, welcoming them, and just being authentic, and encouraging others to do the same.

In our…

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Something that is often mentioned is about 'pushing our limits'. What is meant by this and for what purpose? I can only speak my own truth and opinion here but I would be happy to hear others opinions.



From my own perspective, it means pushing past the norm, past old habits and old ways of being. Embracing a new way of being and changing the script.

This is all fine and well as long as we really do change things, not just pay lip service to it and then go back to our old… Continue