Tag Archives: Soul

Embracing Stillness as Key to Conscious Living

Embracing stillness, we commune with the divine light of love and peace that is so pure and natural for us. Here is where we gain our clarity and creative insights -- and realize our mission and service in the world. At the OASIS Center for Conscious Living, the guiding principles for Conscious Living are described within the acronym for O.A [...]
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Pleasure-producing relationships

All relationships can be pleasurable when we know how to generate happiness regardless of what others say and do. Love and prosperity are self-generated, because we are love and prosperity. Because we are love, we do not and cannot get love from anyone, but when we are around people who like us, it is easier to be ourselves (which [...]
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Twin pillars of relationship

Every relationship is an echo of the soul's relationship with Source, the foundation of existence and love. Existence as a finite being only happens in relationship to the Divine. Our relationships with each other reflect that reality. When we see the Divine in ourselves and others, we affirm our own existence. When we see others as of significance only [...]
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Love Will Have Its Way

At a seminar, a young Jewish woman named Miriam tearfully reported that she was in love with a Muslim man, but her father forbade her to see him. This created a terrible quandary for her, since she could not reconcile her love for this man with her desire to honor her father's wishes. Miriam wrestled with this issue for [...]
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Soul Sisters: Raising the Consciousness – Part 1

They're sisters of soul, these two. Colleen Buckman -- mystic, massage therapist, healing touch practitioner and intuitive healer, writer, songwriter, singer -- and Susan Shehata -- feng shui practitioner, Reiki practitioner, rebirther/breathworker and healer of space, people and animals -- come together every Sunday afternoon to present consciousness-raising radio, sharing their connected vision of peace, love and understanding. Colleen and Susan [...]
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Reinventing the Body, Resurrecting the Soul

In my first semester in medical school, I walked into a stifling dissection room and faced a body lying under a sheet. Pulling back that sheet was shocking - and definitely exciting, as well. I took my scalpel and cut a fine line down the skin over the breastbone. The mystery of the human body was about to reveal itself. At [...]
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Nothing At All!

I have moved myself through the things that they speak of The mind and refined it to the point of uselessness The body; I have found its use as a space ship to traverse this The spirit to the attention of the inner workings of nature to hear it And the soul if I be so bold....that which to [...]
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Connecting to My Soul

The last thing my grandmother ever said to me was "And I love you!" in the special way she always did. Really, that's all there is - love. My roots are deeply embedded there, entwined with silly things, simple things and sometimes sad things, but nourished nonetheless with love. Love in its infinite manifestations, ever present, ready to remind me [...]
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Finding Euphoria

Imagine you're surrounded by the beauty of tall pines, feeling the softness of a thick blanket of pine needles below and smelling pine sap all around. There's an owl screeching off in the distance and the rhythmic sound of waves fills your body and soul. Cell phones and computers don't exist and the air is so clean [...]
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T’ai Chi’s Deeper Connections

When I think about the experience of connecting and reconnecting deeply, the Chinese discipline of t'ai chi comes immediately come to mind. As befits something so rooted in yin-yang ideas, there are two aspects to it - two sides of the same coin. One aspect is about connecting with the self as you practice - that feeling of being transported [...]
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