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    <title>ExPaNd your vocabulary.....</title>
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      <name>☆Jai☆</name>
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    <id>http://tribes.tribe.net/lingo360/thread/0849f7a8-af8f-4bd7-86c9-5b2b78172dc3</id>
    <updated>2008-06-26T08:09:57Z</updated>
    <published>2007-11-21T14:39:30Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;Words are important; and as a thesaurus may explain, for each word you know, there are a number of subtle variations upon, each with a more prescise statement about the quality that you are trying to express :)
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&lt;br/&gt;Arm yourself. Be prepared:
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&lt;br/&gt;Vocabulary of difficult words:
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&lt;br/&gt;http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficultwords/&lt;/div&gt;
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    <dc:date>2007-11-21T14:39:30Z</dc:date>
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    <title>words that have a special taste in your mouth</title>
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      <name>jacqueline</name>
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    <id>http://tribes.tribe.net/lingo360/thread/e4fa710d-ebd6-483e-a083-46f316c3c214</id>
    <updated>2008-06-26T08:03:08Z</updated>
    <published>2007-02-10T06:41:16Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;i was just wondering..
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;as a kid i've always wondered about the sound that emits from a word and am particularly curious about words like 'world' and 'heart'..
&lt;br/&gt;of course there is a branch of numerology that calculates the number vibration given in a word.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"A famous linguist once said that of all the phrases in the English language, of all the endless combinations of words in all of history, that cellar door is the most beautiful." That was Tolkien..
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;the one word that continually appears allurring to me the way 'cellar door' does is the word 'languid'. i love the way it sounds and i love saying it, feeling the way the mouth and throat moves towards expressing the sound of the word..
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;what's yours?&lt;/div&gt;
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    <dc:date>2007-02-10T06:41:16Z</dc:date>
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    <title>Spell-ing and the Aleph-Beth</title>
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      <name>☆Jai☆</name>
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    <id>http://tribes.tribe.net/lingo360/thread/eb482d7e-af90-4a13-ab2b-778dc9777504</id>
    <updated>2007-11-21T15:12:27Z</updated>
    <published>2007-11-21T15:12:27Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;How you spell a word is just as important-
&lt;br/&gt;Letters are derived from magick symbols representing things. For example, most of our alphabet started off as Phonecian heiroglyphs that represented a material thing. These proto-letters were then passed down to the Greeks and Romans alike.
&lt;br/&gt;For example, 'A' originated as Phonecian 'Adelph', meaning 'Ox'; and via trade routes became adopted by the Semitics, the Greeks and Romans.
&lt;br/&gt;So each letter has a core meaning and value, even if it is a corruption of an older example.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The entire alphabet history:
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&lt;br/&gt;http://www.alphabetandletter.com/
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&lt;br/&gt;How words are 'spelled' is a unanymous consensus based upon the most common spellings of a word that were around when Samuel Johnson put together the English dictionary in 1836 (so I guess). Shakespere himself spelled his name 7 different ways, and if you've ever read Geoffery Chaucer, then you'll know exactly what I'm talking about. Besides, different colloquial dialects had their specific ways of spelling due to regional accent variation...  
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Is spelling accurately actually important? so long as it is phonetically viable, why should there be a right way of constructing words?
&lt;br/&gt;Like it's name suggests, spelling creates a spell; a feeling or attitude verbalized. It used to be a means of expressing your individual interpretation, identity or culture, that now has been expunged for a homogenized Samuel Johnson interpretation.
&lt;br/&gt;SJ's intention was to give definate meanings to each word, not to create everyone to spell 'correctly'...
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&lt;br/&gt;Mmmmmm...
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;(Thank @:*! for spellcheckers)
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&lt;br/&gt;:)Jai&lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>This shall by my response to Violence</title>
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      <name>caroleeena</name>
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    <id>http://tribes.tribe.net/lingo360/thread/72549729-2ad1-43b5-a902-d7396d63c316</id>
    <updated>2007-08-01T21:05:08Z</updated>
    <published>2007-04-17T22:25:30Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;This shall be my response to violence -- to love my friends and family more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before, to be intensely compassionate, to love unconditionally, to create art, to serve, to heal and help others heal, to have zest and enthusiasm and endless optimism, to refuse to be discouraged by defeats, to forgive, to seek to understand, and strive to remember that if we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each life enough sorrow and suffering to disarm all hostility. Love is an endless act of forgiveness. 
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&lt;br/&gt;"Everything can be taken from a man but the last of the human freedoms – to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." - Victor Frankl, Holocaust Survivor&lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>Be fully conscious of what you are saying :)</title>
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      <name>☆Jai☆</name>
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    <updated>2007-05-31T20:59:35Z</updated>
    <published>2007-05-31T15:55:08Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;It is self evident that each word has a personality... The pronunciation of a word communicates feelings- the manner in which it is said; the pitch, the stress, the accent, the tone, the punctuation used when written........ 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Even the inference, intonation and context or the differing configuration of letters in homophonic pairs give those words their uniqueness!!!
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Words are feelings. They are archetypal essences, they are emotional tools, they always provoke reaction.....
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&lt;br/&gt;All this is axiomatic and automatic...
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&lt;br/&gt;The thing is that words are connected intrinsically with the thinking process. 
&lt;br/&gt;Thinking is feeling- words are the actions of these feelings...
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&lt;br/&gt;Be fully conscious of what you are saying.... every word counts!!!
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&lt;br/&gt;**************LOVE**************&lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>Lysistrata Revisited: Trojan Horse Revolutionary</title>
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      <name>amana</name>
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    <updated>2007-04-17T16:57:15Z</updated>
    <published>2007-04-17T16:57:15Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;Lysistrata Revisited
&lt;br/&gt;By Indi Riverflow
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The civil struggle over the invasion of Iraq has finally reached the grass roots. The peace movement, enlivened by the return of the two-party system (what, is it a democracy again, all of a sudden?) are reviving folksy tactics from the sixties, such as sit-ins and marches, in a quaint push to demand an immediate end to the occupation.
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&lt;br/&gt;We have die-ins, candlelit vigils, rowdy rallies, and mock occupations of congressional offices. A courageous group, here on the West Coast, has been harassing dovish Democratic representatives, urging them to take a harder line on troop withdrawal, on the theory that Republicans are likelier to call the cops. But if we really want to stop the war, people, the protest is going to have to span from the boardrooms to the bedrooms.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The problem with the peace movement is that the underhanded tacticians are all on the other side.
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&lt;br/&gt;The war will end when those who support it find their stance costing, not merely lives and freedom, but something really important to them.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;If you managed to stay awake through your Greek comedy course, you’ll recall Lysistrata, a rather mind-blowing, bawdy gem from the vaults of pacifist literature.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Dating from the Peloponnesian War period, the play absolutely giggles with recycled relevance, as we confront the horrible reality that we are collectively culpable for the slaughter, and unless we get rolling on something more serious than tickling ourselves, tickling itself will be banned by the humorless neo-fascists currently occupying the organs of the body politic.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;For those who were nodding off in class, the story goes like this: the women of Athens band together around one central base of power: their very wombs. Weary of the war against Sparta, the wives in Lysistrata heroically organize and go on sexual strike against their husbands, and are joined by prostitutes and priestesses alike in one hysterical act of truly grass-roots direct action that brought the battle of the sexes down to one simple reality:
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Love is better than war.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Aristophanes is way headier than Aristotle, just as Groucho Marx is cooler than Karl. The philosophy of comedy is quite serious, except for the clowns who repeatedly insist on getting offended.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Therefore, I boldly propose, in the name of Lysistrata, that all lovers of life adopt a passive pro-peace stance, by steadfastly refusing to have intercourse with anyone who does not support diplomatic solutions to military problems. This will, incidentally, lead to more fulfilling and time-consuming relationships in general.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Feel free to disagree. But the logic is lovely and tested by the centuries. And unless you support the atrocities form Fallujah to Guantanomo Bay, time to vote with your womb or willy. While it still is yours.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Because there is a great deal more at stake than an appropriations bill that could ease poverty in either country, rather than enrich the merchants of death. There is a critical cultural judgment on the line: will we roll over and let the big cocks wag all over the more poorly armed nations of the world, or will we let it be known that this was not done in our name?
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;We can’t take this lying down.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Four years ago, the Blitzkrieg flew into Baghdad, on the flimsiest of pretexts, in a move that openly and cynically labeled itself OIL. Operation Iraqi Freedom has liberated hundreds of thousands of Iraqis from their lives. The next listing in the phone book is Iran, and by the time withdrawal actually begins, we can be sure the war machine will soon be knocking next door, peddling a similar emancipation in Farsi.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Oh, well. We’ll just change all the “q’s” to “n’s” on the protest banners.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Meanwhile, the Shrub is piously busy counting angels on the head of a pin, worried that stem cell research on dead fetuses might somehow impugn the sanctity of human life.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The Resident-in-Thief is a stubborn and unapologetic mess of contradictions, and like the monster under the bed, derives his power from the belief we have in him. We are supposed to believe that this regime is pro-life.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;One can only conclude that they expect to need plenty of fodder for the cannons of the future. The sanctity of human life apparently doesn’t extend to the victims of imperialist policy.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;And yet, in spite of all this, Newt Gingrich managed to find someone to practice being Bill Clinton with.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Someone is going to have to take a stand, and the bulk of the burden will have to fall on the sex workers and interns in Washington. When a hawkish congressman can’t find a lunch-hour handjob, the funds for waging war will dry up faster than an unlubricated Trojan.
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&lt;br/&gt;Read On! www.blues4kali.com&lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>Sweet Dreams</title>
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      <name>estrellasoul</name>
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    <updated>2007-03-08T08:53:26Z</updated>
    <published>2007-03-08T08:53:26Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;the sky is GRAY like the STATIC in my head
&lt;br/&gt;and the ETERNAL buzz in my ears once my NIGHT is still
&lt;br/&gt;my scalp itches like my CREATIVE drive
&lt;br/&gt;projects SWIRLING in my THOUGHTS -theres so much that i didn't get done
&lt;br/&gt;and I THINK
&lt;br/&gt;i haven't much to show for the HARD WORK ive put in
&lt;br/&gt;and i THINK
&lt;br/&gt;yes you do, in SMILES and HUGS and more PEACEFUL DREAMS
&lt;br/&gt;dreams REMEMBERED and REALIZED
&lt;br/&gt;and i realize that MY DREAMS are still the same
&lt;br/&gt;because i REMEMBER when i was a CHILD
&lt;br/&gt;and am i really all that different NOW
&lt;br/&gt;i KEEP REMEMBERING -soon i'll FORGET AGAIN
&lt;br/&gt;thats just HOW IT WORKS, the conveyor belt that is my BRAIN,
&lt;br/&gt;ON again, OFF again, ON again, here we go WHIRL
&lt;br/&gt;lightning FLASHES through the gray
&lt;br/&gt;and im off on the nearest TANGENT
&lt;br/&gt;CONNECTING the dots till i find my way HOME
&lt;br/&gt;with pockets full of odds and ends to add to the COLLECTION
&lt;br/&gt;SWEET DREAMS&lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>&amp;amp;lt;&amp;amp;lt;&amp;amp;lt;WORDS&gt;&gt;&gt;</title>
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      <name>vaHini</name>
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    <updated>2007-01-19T07:05:50Z</updated>
    <published>2007-01-03T17:44:03Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;"Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired."
&lt;br/&gt;(Paramahansa Yogananda in Scientific Healing Affirmations)
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    <title>Healing through Blessed Sound</title>
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      <name />
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    <updated>2006-12-25T18:34:30Z</updated>
    <published>2006-12-14T18:10:50Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;The sounds OM, AH, and HUNG (pronounced hoong, with a soft h) are viewed as seed syllables of the body, speech and mind of Buddha, the fully enlightened nature. Because of the universality of these sounds, anyone can benefit from them.
&lt;br/&gt;These three syllables comprise one of the most powerful chants in Buddhism. They are pure in archetypal in nature, free from elaboration, concepts, grasping and rigidity. So just giving voice to these sounds allow us to be more open.
&lt;br/&gt;........
&lt;br/&gt;Each syllable represents particular healing qualities. Singing OM brings peace, bliss, clarity, firmness, courage, stability and strength; AH brings energy, openess, expansion, and empowerment; HUNG is associated with enlightenment, infinity, essence and oneness.
&lt;br/&gt;......from "The Healing Power of  Mind" byTulku Thondup Rinpoche (Tibetan Buddhist)&lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>H'oponopono</title>
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      <name>merlin</name>
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    <updated>2006-12-25T18:25:13Z</updated>
    <published>2006-12-23T07:24:03Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;please excuse that it is a cut &amp;amp; paste, but this is a huge word:
&lt;br/&gt;H'oponopono 
&lt;br/&gt;By Joe Vitale 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"Two years ago, I heard about a therapist in Hawaii who cured a complete ward of criminally insane patients without ever seeing any of them. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The psychologist would study an inmate's chart and then look within himself to see how he created that person's illness. As he improved himself, the patient improved. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"When I first heard this story, I thought it was an urban legend. How could anyone heal anyone else by healing himself? How could even the best self-improvement master cure the criminally insane? It didn't make any sense. It wasn't logical, so I dismissed the story. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"However, I heard it again a year later. I heard that the therapist had used a Hawaiian healing process called ho 'oponopono. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;I had never heard of it,yet I couldn't let it leave my mind. If the story was at all true, I had to know more. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;I had always understood "total responsibility" to mean that I am responsible for what I think and do. Beyond that, it's Out of my hands. I think that most people think of total responsibility that way. We're responsible for what we do, not what anyone else does—but that's wrong. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"The Hawaiian therapist who healed those mentally ill people would teach me an advanced new perspective about total responsibility. His name is Dr. Ihaleakala Hew Len. We probably spent an hour talking on our first phone call. I asked him to tell me the complete story of his work as a therapist. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;He explained that he worked at Hawaii State Hospital for four years. That ward where they kept the criminally insane was dangerous. Psychologists quit on a monthly basis. The staff called in sick a lot or simply quit. People would walk through that ward with their backs against the wall, afraid of being attacked by patients. It was not a pleasant place to live, work, or visit. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"Dr. Len told me that he never saw patients. He agreed to have an office and to review their files. While he looked at those files, he would work on himself. As he worked on himself, patients began to heal. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"'After a few months, patients that had to be shackled were being allowed to walk freely,' he told me. 'Others who had to be heavily medicated were getting off their medications. And those who had no chance of ever being released were being freed.' I was in awe. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;'Not only that,' he went on,'but the staff began to enjoy coming to work. Absenteeism and turnover disappeared. We ended up with more staff than we needed because patients were being released, and all the staff was showing up to work. Today, that ward is closed.' 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"This is where I had to ask the million dollar question: 'What were you doing within yourself that caused those people to change?' "'I was simply healing the part of me that created them,' he said. I didn't understand. Dr. Len explained that total responsibility for your life means that everything in your life- simply because it is in your life--is your responsibility. In a literal sense the entire world is your creation. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"Whew. This is tough to swallow. Being responsible for what I say or do is one thing. Being responsible for what everyone in my life says or does is quite another. Yet, the truth is this: if you take complete responsibility for your life, then everything you see, hear, taste, touch, or in any way experience is your responsibility because it is in your life. This means that terrorist activity, the president, the economy or anything you experience and don't like--is up for you to heal. They don't exist, in a manner of speaking, except as projections from inside you. The problem isn't with them, it's with you, and to change them, you have to change you. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"I know this is tough to grasp, let alone accept or actually live. Blame is far easier than total responsibility, but as I spoke with Dr. Len, I began to realize that healing for him and in ho‘oponopono means loving yourself. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"If you want to improve your life, you have to heal your life. If you want to cure anyone, even a mentally ill criminal you do it by healing you. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;I asked Dr. Len how he went about healing himself. What was he doing, exactly, when he looked at those patients' files? 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"'I just kept saying, 'I'm sorry' and 'I love you' over and over again,' he explained. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"That's it?" 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"That's it." 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"Turns out that loving yourself is the greatest way to improve yourself, and as you improve yourself, you improve your world”. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"Let me give you a quick example of how this works: one day, someone sent me an email that upset me. In the past I would have handled it by working on my emotional hot buttons or by trying to reason with the person who sent the nasty message. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"This time, I decided to try Dr. Len's method. I kept silently saying, I'm sorry' and 'I love you,' I didn't say it to anyone in particular. I was simply evoking the spirit of love to heal within me what was creating the outer circumstance. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"Within an hour I got an e-mail from the same person. He apologized for his previous message. Keep in mind that I didn't take any outward action to get that apology. I didn't even write him back. Yet, by saying 'I love you,' I somehow healed within me what was creating him. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"I later attended a ho 'oponopono workshop run by Dr. Len. He's now 70 years old, considered a grandfatherly shaman, and is somewhat reclusive. He praised my book, The Attractor Factor. He told me that as I improve myself, my book's vibration will raise, and everyone will feel it when they read it. In short, as I improve, my readers will improve. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"'What about the books that are already sold and out there?' I asked. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"'They aren't out there,' he explained, once again blowing my mind with his mystic wisdom. 'They are still in you.' In short, there is no out there. It would take a whole book to explain this advanced technique with the depth it deserves. 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;"Suffice It to say that whenever you want to improve anything in your life, there's only one place to look: inside you. When you look, do it 
&lt;br/&gt;with love." 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;It's the attraction factor - like attracts like - his God-self was so strong that it attracted the God-self in others." 
&lt;br/&gt;
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&lt;br/&gt;www.drcat.org/articles_in...otfudge.html
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&lt;br/&gt;hooponopono.org/Articles/s...entity.html
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&lt;br/&gt;hooponopono.org/Articles/t..._to_be.html&lt;/div&gt;
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    <dc:date>2006-12-23T07:24:03Z</dc:date>
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  <entry>
    <title>Accepting Responsibility for peace</title>
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    <author>
      <name>Steve</name>
    </author>
    <id>http://tribes.tribe.net/lingo360/thread/a9826141-7372-4307-8b77-1aea66f8e37d</id>
    <updated>2006-12-18T04:40:50Z</updated>
    <published>2006-12-17T13:32:40Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;         We have a hidden war that is being fought in the collective consciousness. This war is between innocence and guilt and is evident on all levels of experience; we deny this conflict because it is what we use to get the most out of our lives. The weapons in this war are our personal strategies that we use to keep us comfortable at the expense of others. Offence and defence are not the answer. Argument only defends our ignorance and prevents us from knowing how to be peaceful. Many of us are looking in the wrong direction, fragmenting into needy lifestyles that demand the satisfaction of our desires, and it is this demand that keeps us going in circles, making and spending money so that we feel we are living and in control of ourselves. We all have a sense of using different forms of energy in our personal progression through life, but there is a very misunderstood lack of tact in how to use our physical, emotional and mental energies that is blatantly the cause of all our suffering. Because of the ignorant nature of the human condition we assume that we can do what we want without conditioning our future actions and relations. They say that money makes the world go round, and yes, money does enable us to do miraculous things, but it’s the complications that we get from the feelings of power and the habit of defending reputation and power, that causes the problems which lead to further suffering. Accumulating lifestyle facets to strengthen our sense of identity is in reality putting up a wall that protects our insecurities from being exposed. The construct of personality is built on fear. To see our way to liberation from fear we have to be prepared to accept that our opinions are just excuses that attempt to justify ignorance. 
&lt;br/&gt;         Living a worldly life and assuming that we know how to live, we are wasting all the opportunities of growth that we find in self discipline, ignoring the virtues that will heal us. Realising the way to happiness is about shifting our belief away from assuming anything about ourselves or the world, to accept life as mysterious. We seek comfort in our indulgences, judgments and assumptions to make living with our mysterious predicament (the human condition) bearable. It is more commonplace to hide fear inside and let it distort our view than to seek liberation from it with selfless love. It is a whole lot easier to conform and follow a self oriented lifestyle than it is to be responsible for ourselves. The real intention behind the messages that the marketing giants surround us with is to herd us into adopting a lifestyle that consumes needless products, to make us feel that we have arrived at success, while enabling control of the masses.
&lt;br/&gt;      Those who assume that they are on top, (bureaucracy), inject energy into the system, from all directions to keep the money machine turning, feeding or ignoring the problems then selling us the solution, and up go the prices. To escape this frenzy of lazy, needy energy, that dictates our lives, we have to be courageous enough to take control of our lives. . You will be more balanced without cosmopolitan, needs or lifestyles, and you’ll not be dependent on the latest demands for common trends that justified your life. Be consciously responsible for your direction and quality of thought, be 100% considerate, and see how it changes your life. There is no need to fear, or be anxious about losing peoples attention or attachment to the things in your life. Things change. Patience and acceptance will guide you to strength and courage and impossibility will become an illusion. It is only personal fear that makes things seem beyond us. Of course this is a gradual process. Depending on the purity of your intention you will move forward. Good intentions are always multiplied by angels and intuitive guidance is the reward. We take on a new struggle. What we leave behind us is a dark aimless path that is false freedom fed by experience and hard cash. What we discover when we drop needless desire is true freedom. We don’t have to waste our time with the continual hunt for satisfaction when we connect to the source of love.  
&lt;br/&gt;         To grow and evolve we have to accept responsibility, at all times, for the causes of our happiness, - get it from inside with understanding, instead of manipulating or controlling our outer world with money and emotion. When we know how to find happiness needing nothing but our quality of thought, we will be agreeable and peaceful. It is searching for happiness in the external world at the expense of people or the environment that is the cause of argument and conflict. There can not be peace when we are looking for happiness in our pockets. Worldly pleasures are all we know; we spend our entire lives seeking to satisfy our needs and ambitions. We have been told and programmed to follow this direction, so that our leaders can further teach us how to live our lives. 
&lt;br/&gt;         Reflections of how humankind is evolving are everywhere to be seen. Our personal journey, condition, perceived role or place in life can tell us where we are and the direction of wholeness, but only if we are prepared to judge ourselves honestly. Finding the way to wholeness is impossible; if we still believe that personal choice (what supports our gross ego or lower self) is the way to go. It is the opposite of ego oriented comfort that is the way to a healthy mind and body. Wholesome life choices have unlimited power. When our actions serve our selves only, we contribute nothing to the world. When we cease justifying our lives with the attention from others, and choose to give our energies freely without expectation, we will be guiding countless others towards the healing truth of wisdom by example.   
&lt;br/&gt;         The growing number of us that is considerate towards others and the planet is finding the way. Those of us that acknowledge our personal guilt, and change our ways, because we understand what is wrong with us, are finding the way. When our minds are thinking of how good we look, or have pride in what car we drive, how fit or attractive we are, or what we have accumulated to make us comfortable, we are living in a fabricated life plan, that feeds on the energy of others through intentional misguidance, denial of bad thought, manipulation, secrets that protect our illusions, arguing and fighting with anger and jealousy to make our choices feel right, the list of negative ego tools is unlimited. This is the illusion of freedom that shows us how to be more opinionated, defensive and unhealthy minded. The lower self will never lead us to a healthy mind. The actions motivated by the lower self, only set traps for us to avoid in the future in ignorance of our fear, postponing genuine growth.
&lt;br/&gt;         Humans have destroyed each other and the environment gradually by thinking that seeking the easiest way to comfort and riches will complete them and rest will come. The growing need for excitement, experience and quality keeps us distracted and inflated with pride; there is no lasting happiness or rest gained from material possessions, only attachment and withdrawal symptoms. It is nice to see humanity growing out of this at the same time. A contrast is emerging in consciousness where a growing number are seeing their way out of the lower self towards wisdom. Those that rely on attachment to the personal world are finding it harder to justify their selfish intention as we are growing up. We do not have to expand as far from our bettered selves, seeking the truth, to reach the threshold of awakening. It’s like we are picking sides. As we are evolving we are collectively ascending towards a point of awakening that will eventually weed out and expose the insanity in the ego.
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt; Reflections of this resistance have created the insecure world of image and money collection and all its conflict. Our (self/money/possession/greed) systems are destined to destroy themselves with their own ignorance. And the meek shall inherit the earth!.
&lt;br/&gt;         True rest, is freedom from the need to be continually distracted by a busy personal agenda. The healthiest thing we can do with our minds is to resolve our fears in the hope of simplifying our personal maintenance. Being honest by exposing to ourselves what fears we have, if we can realise them, will show us vaguely how far we have to go towards waking up from the conditioning effect of fear. Scrupulous honesty is where the magic of cognitive development begins, because as we take our first steps, making the effort to be honest with ourselves, we usually find that we progress a great degree faster than we assumed we would. Be steadfast and courageous, and fear will scamper away with its tail between its legs. Waking up from our fears and insecurities is the scariest and most confusing part of the journey, and the beginning of a more rapid ascension of the soul to higher vibrations. The path to enlightenment is an invisible one. The major turning point towards true growth is where we are able to walk away from the struggle (because of our fear) for comfort, identity and more money, to the struggle (when we are fearless) of steadfastness and discipline in the face of ignorance. When we have the courage to resist the illusions of desire and satisfaction, we will see how ugly ignorance really is. We will also be healing the earth and human consciousness with the light of our truth realisations, this is the purpose of the spiritual path, to be a conscious healing force for evolving consciousness.&lt;/div&gt;
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    <dc:date>2006-12-17T13:32:40Z</dc:date>
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    <title>respect</title>
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    <author>
      <name>merlin</name>
    </author>
    <id>http://tribes.tribe.net/lingo360/thread/bfc1822c-5e95-4852-9e8b-46b8b9948a58</id>
    <updated>2006-12-15T17:00:26Z</updated>
    <published>2006-12-13T07:02:46Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;this word finds its way into some people's spiritual/religious trip.  what do you think it really means?  i have got some problems with this word.  
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;i think i looked at the etymology of the word before and validated that it is basically "to look back upon", re (again) spect (see).  in my mind i translate that to "think twice about it".  to me it is kind of a fear-based choice (maybe healthy, maybe not) to consider negative outcome.  
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;the tough part in being respectful is in knowing just where the other guy is at.  what are his/her buttons?  i respect the law and the badge.  it is fear-based.  i think honor is a better way to go.  to be honoring of (at least the divine aspect of) all sentient beings.  that is based on my intent, not guessing the other guys rules.  &lt;/div&gt;
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    <dc:date>2006-12-13T07:02:46Z</dc:date>
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  <entry>
    <title>36 years ago in the Now</title>
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    <author>
      <name />
    </author>
    <id>http://tribes.tribe.net/lingo360/thread/d523957c-b022-497f-9558-b91f920290c1</id>
    <updated>2006-12-14T17:57:39Z</updated>
    <published>2006-12-14T17:57:39Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;this is a little rememberance of some moments in my life when living in Oakland, Ca in 1970:
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;The streets of Oakland were unusually quiet this day along Merrit Park
&lt;br/&gt;Barefoot, I walk the pavement and never get a scratch
&lt;br/&gt;I see my reflection in the antique store window - long hair, shaggy beard, patched jeans
&lt;br/&gt;The store is closed...all is quiet
&lt;br/&gt;The store window contains many glorious and powerful oriental statues
&lt;br/&gt;then....
&lt;br/&gt;A sudden transformation
&lt;br/&gt;A shift of my self
&lt;br/&gt;I feel for a moment the presence of an ancient being
&lt;br/&gt;I can see his face
&lt;br/&gt; a tibetan? a native american? chinese? aztec?
&lt;br/&gt;I feel his presence before we become one
&lt;br/&gt;We merge
&lt;br/&gt;and the whole world is now completely empty
&lt;br/&gt;and full
&lt;br/&gt;clear
&lt;br/&gt;infinite
&lt;br/&gt;nothing
&lt;br/&gt;everything
&lt;br/&gt;the All and the Nothing
&lt;br/&gt;How long before I see my reflection again in the store window?
&lt;br/&gt;I take a deep breath. I feel light!
&lt;br/&gt;the Yin and Yang in balance.&lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>Axis Mundi</title>
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    <author>
      <name>☆Jai☆</name>
    </author>
    <id>http://tribes.tribe.net/lingo360/thread/8533bf38-7902-4e43-9514-f34f874855ca</id>
    <updated>2006-12-13T15:14:52Z</updated>
    <published>2006-12-13T15:14:52Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;Quetzalcoatlic pinneal being 
&lt;br/&gt;Inside raw primal soular screaming 
&lt;br/&gt;Hollistic anamorphic archetypal dreaming 
&lt;br/&gt;-WYRD WIRED- 
&lt;br/&gt;Neuron tantra, telluric fusion 
&lt;br/&gt;Shapeshifting the one in this quantum illusion 
&lt;br/&gt;Mathematrixical web of pulsating intrusions 
&lt;br/&gt;Where binary timestrings exhalt evolution 
&lt;br/&gt;Kali conscious, the wheel turns, burning 
&lt;br/&gt;Reaching out from the depths of unfathomable learning- 
&lt;br/&gt;Interaction, attraction, reaction, adaption 
&lt;br/&gt;Reflection, deflection, harmonic refraction 
&lt;br/&gt;Fractal mandala- there's only one way 
&lt;br/&gt;We have our roles to fulfil in this mayan passion play... &lt;/div&gt;
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    <title>there is a light that shines.....</title>
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    <author>
      <name>GALACTIC-SUN</name>
    </author>
    <id>http://tribes.tribe.net/lingo360/thread/99edefca-6ce1-49a6-92f9-ad58d40ff975</id>
    <updated>2006-12-13T14:39:00Z</updated>
    <published>2006-12-12T18:28:48Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;
&lt;br/&gt; There is a light that shines within-
&lt;br/&gt; that purifies the urge to sin- 
&lt;br/&gt;that when you move away the fog
&lt;br/&gt; you can see that everything you need you all ready 
&lt;br/&gt;  have,........ that spark that light has  always   been and will always be, 
&lt;br/&gt;  that feeling that no matter what, you are alright and the world is 
&lt;br/&gt;   okay------ but even better than that you are eternal, the energy flows 
&lt;br/&gt; both within and without you,------ truth be told so we aren’t sold for a 
&lt;br/&gt; dime a dozen and bound with our cousins to the torment of fear and 
&lt;br/&gt;oppression,------ but welcomed into the arms of grace and acceptance and 
&lt;br/&gt; freedom from the cages so many accept as their reality---- so many like 
&lt;br/&gt;puppets on stages wait to be led like sheep this way or that way -----but 
&lt;br/&gt;  instead you know to reach for truth, to seek out what is true for 
&lt;br/&gt;  you and maybe no other, ------this is the best thing- the only thing you 
&lt;br/&gt;      can ever do to be free, to be happy with all that is or isn’t,----- no 
&lt;br/&gt;thing in this world will satisfy your soul, no person will ever fill 
&lt;br/&gt;  that hole, we are spiritual, the only way is to know who you are and 
&lt;br/&gt;     who you are not -----and I am not myself, this body and this mind are not 
&lt;br/&gt;eternal----- but my spirit, my soul is eternal and with that I am 
&lt;br/&gt;     comforted-- ---like my thirst has been quenched --but I know that every day 
&lt;br/&gt;   I want to drink this comfort and let the water of truth fill my body 
&lt;br/&gt;     and wet my lips like sweet honey dripping down my spine ---like sugar 
&lt;br/&gt;   melting through me  &amp;amp;  into you because we are  connected and all 
&lt;br/&gt;    seeking acceptance and friendship and love----- and the only way is to 
&lt;br/&gt;   love first your GOD and then yourself and everything else will flow -
&lt;br/&gt; ------   like the river and join the ocean as we all learn -----and we must learn, 
&lt;br/&gt;   to walk hand in hand for a better future by being present to the 
&lt;br/&gt;     moment on this land , together lets overstand.   
&lt;br/&gt;blessed beets -akasha&lt;/div&gt;
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  <entry>
    <title>Mind-Full words (a short discourse on words)</title>
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      <name>☆Jai☆</name>
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    <id>http://tribes.tribe.net/lingo360/thread/2f4309bd-65e9-4f56-9c11-4175d8af5fdf</id>
    <updated>2006-12-13T06:44:27Z</updated>
    <published>2006-12-12T15:07:11Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;Each word is a power-full symbol... 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Each word has a resonant value, at least one etymological root, an individual history, one or more symbolic meanings and can be ambiguous, a hybrid or can have hidden words with seperate meanings within... 
&lt;br/&gt;We could not relate to each other at all fluently without words; there is a word to describe everything in the English language (I meant that in both ways) real, theoretical and imaginary... 
&lt;br/&gt;What is more, each letter in a word has a root and value that when combined give individual values as a part of the whole (word) but evidently, the whole being more than the sum of the parts... 
&lt;br/&gt;Words actively GET YOU EVERY-(W)HERE in life. 
&lt;br/&gt;The voice in your head perpetually manifests realities into existance. Your present human condition is to do with words~ emotions, beliefs, healings etc... All words!!! 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Words are probably the most powerful human tool in existance... 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Using the right combinations can get you right where you want to be, emotionally, mentally and even physically... &lt;/div&gt;
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  <entry>
    <title>Word Tribe</title>
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    <author>
      <name>☆Jai☆</name>
    </author>
    <id>http://tribes.tribe.net/lingo360/thread/3ec5e77a-9120-40cd-9dab-76513601d38a</id>
    <updated>2006-12-13T06:31:35Z</updated>
    <published>2006-12-12T15:08:14Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div&gt;Welcome.... 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;I have created this tribe in order for members to share freely positive word magick; poetry, prose, spells, word analyses, lucidity, discussion... whatever comes into mind 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;EXPRESS YOURSELF 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Be inspired!!!! 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;Love... 
&lt;br/&gt;
&lt;br/&gt;3-R &lt;/div&gt;
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