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Short story: Will the real self please stand up, and be counted

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 18 Jun 23

The spiritual master, Sri Anota Berbaski, would always tell his students that the spiritual journey was never really just about self-improvement, on its own. Here is how he put it: "It is more about our allowing ourselves...

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Short Story: Spiritual love, and human love

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 13 Jul 22

Pastor Frelon Herbostke, was giving his weekly sermon to his parishioners. His topic was: Love, and consciousness. Here is what he said: [b]"The growth of spiritual consciousness depends on two things, the amount...

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Spiritual Living, and the Consumption of Alcohol

emptychair @innertalks (23744) • Australia 24 Mar 21

The Christian bible, in Ephesians chapter 5, verse 18, advises us not to drink excessively. ''Don't be drunk with wine, because that will ruin your life. Instead, let the Holy Spirit fill, and control you.'' [i]Is this...

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Setting the right tone for alarm

Isaac Christian N @creatorscreations (20) • Chennai, India 21 May 16

A right alarm tone can give you a peaceful start in the morning. I have broken several of my mobile phones because of getting up frustrated from the sleep and throwing it in some corner of the room. Many wont think much about...

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Are you growing spiritually?

blessing2u @blessing2u (496) • Philippines 28 Mar 10

We have a basketball league and before we have our game, our team leader, who is our playing coach gather us together to have a short bible study. We learned yesterday that God wants us to grow as a believer, not just to stay as a...

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Your not really as grown as you think in life

revellanotvanella @revellanotvanella (4033) • United States 21 Mar 09

Ive come to this little revelation of mine. Yea, big deal, but I started thinking about this. Me Im 27 and somewhere in my life Its like Ive assumed the role of a 30 year old and that all the growing up; or the majority of it,...

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Do you believe we have a purpose in life?

sharra1 @sharra1 (6340) • Australia 24 Nov 08

I believe that we live many lives and that our spirits choose our parents in order to set us on a particular growth path. I am not saying that our lives are planned just that we choose a possible life path to give us the chance of...

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How do you measure spiritual growth?

youdontsay @youdontsay (3497) • United States 22 Oct 07

How does an individual measure their own spiritual growth? I have been looking at church evaluation forms and one asks congregants how much spiritual growth they have experienced. How do you measure that?

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Dirty Hands.....

a_cabillon @a_cabillon (12) • Philippines 21 Mar 07

Sometimes there's just one step to go before we yield to sin,But God will help us to say no... One the William Shakespeare's intriguing character is Lady MacBeth. Having heard that her husband would become a king, she convinced...

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