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From Holidays to Holy-Days -By Derek Rydall.

02nd February 2011
This could be the best holiday of your life. The holidays are such an interesting time. On one hand, they have the potential for the most meaningful and miraculous moments… …and on the other hand, they can be the most crazy-making, hectic, painful, ... Read >

What You Appreciate…Appreciates -By Derek Rydall.

02nd February 2011
I want to encourage you to take advantage of the wave of energy that sweeps across the country — and even the world – during these holidays (holy days), starting with the American holiday of Thanksgiving. Whether you celebrate it or not, it’s always a ... Read >

Only Invest In The Changeless -By Derek Rydall.

02nd February 2011
As I was meditating yesterday, a deepening realization of Reality came upon me. What I could see was that Reality or The Real is changeless. It isn’t evolving, it wasn’t better in the past and won’t get better in the future — it simply IS, has always been... Read >

You Have No Problems. -By Derek Rydall.

02nd February 2011
I had a powerful insight tonight that I just had to share. I was grappling with some ‘problems’ in my life as I sat in meditation, when all of a sudden the thought bubbled up — ‘you have no problems’ — and with it there was this sudden shift of perspectiv... Read >

Are You Living YOUR Values or Someone Else’s? -By Derek Rydall.

02nd February 2011
It’s interesting to contemplate the question, “Who were you before your parents were born?" Then to ask “where do my current values, desires, goals come from?" Are they from your parents, schooling, society, or do they come from that pure, unconditiona... Read >

Cause & Effect and Grace -By Derek Rydall.

02nd February 2011
Traditional religion teaches us that we are at the whim of some external God that rewards or punishes us for good and bad deeds, like Santa’s ‘naughty or nice list’ – or just acts in capricious, ‘mysterious’ ways beyond our control. On the contrary, a spi... Read >

The Self vs. the ‘self’. -By Derek Rydall.

02nd February 2011
We have been born under a mistaken identity. And almost everything that we see, hear, and experience – almost everything produced by society – keeps us in the dark about who and what we truly are. The mistaken identity is that we are merely human beings, ... Read >

Indigenous vs. Endogenous. -By Derek Rydall.

02nd February 2011
If, like an acorn, you need the right conditions to grow, aren’t you back to the problem of being at the whim of external forces? Here’s where human nature leap frogs over Mother Nature, and where the Law of Emergence takes an evolutionary step past psych... Read >

What Is The Law Of Emergence?. -By Derek Rydall.

02nd February 2011
“More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones" — Mother Teresa I once knew a guy who used the law of attraction to ‘attract’ a Mercedes into his life. “Wow, this stuff really works!" he declared, becoming an instant convert. Two weeks... Read >

Opening Your Art. -By Derek Rydall.

02nd February 2011
“Each word before leaving my lips seemed to have passed through all the warmth of my blood. There was no fibre in me which did not give forth an harmonious sound. Ah, grace! The state of grace! Each time it is given me to touch the summit of my art, I rec... Read >

You Are The Only Power Over Your Life. -By Derek Rydall

02nd February 2011
“Nothing moves except Mind." When this thought first bubbled up in my mind, it startled me. I had been contemplating the idea that consciousness being infinite, there couldn’t be anything outside of it. But this took it to a new level. Not only could ... Read >

From ‘Problem-Solving’ to ‘Spiritually Evolving’. -By Derek Rydall.

02nd February 2011
We’ve been brought up to believe that the best way to advance our life and work is to solve the problems that inevitably present themselves. Seems logical enough. An obstacle appears, we attack it with whatever tools we have, whatever knowledge we have or... Read >

Nothing “Out There” Can Determine Our Attitude. --By Derek Rydall

02nd February 2011
Even with all we know about the power of our mind to create our experience, it’s still so easy to forget that — since we are the creators of our experience — nothing outside of us has any power over us. We may believe we can manifest something using our m... Read >