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A Welcome/Initial Quick Tips |
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A1 What Spirituality Can Do for You
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A2 Dispelling Several Myths about Spirituality
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A3 Ten Places to Meditate Before and After You’re Spiritually Enlightened
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A4 Dedication
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Part One: Getting Acquainted with Spirituality
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1 Chapter One: Finding Authentic Spirituality |
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1a Intro
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1b Spirituality and Self-Knowledge
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1c Spiritual Practices
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1d Spiritual Living
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1e Spiritual Wisdom
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1e1 Trusting Yourself
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1e2 Serve Joyfully
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2 Chapter Two: Defining Spirituality
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2a Intro
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2b Spirituality: The Basic Idea
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2b1 Opening up to a spiritual view of life
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2b2 Making a best guess
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2b3 Spirituality: The true wealth
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2b4 Spirituality is about following your heart
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2b5 Experiencing self-awareness right here and right now
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2b6 Getting to know your spiritual heart
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2b7 Oh, the contradictions!
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2c The Difference between Spirituality and Religion
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2c1 GOD: Generous Omniscient Divinity
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2c2 Playing “My God is Better than Your God”
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2d What Spirituality Can Do for You
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2d1 Great things about being spiritual today
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2d2 Not so great things about being spiritual today
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3 Chapter Three: Discovering Your Own Spirit
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3a Intro
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3b The First Step: Knowing That You Don’t Know
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3b1 Two kinds of ignorance
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3b2 You are a worldview maker
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3c The Truth Is Simple, but You Have to Be Ready
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3d Who Are You?
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3d1 Knowing thyself
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3d2 Looking at your shadows
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3d3 Appreciating your depths
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3d4 You are the flowing water
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3e Yes, But Who Are You Really?
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3e1 Big Self, little self
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3e2 Good news! You already are spiritual
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3e3 Fanning the divine flame
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3e4 Taming the donkey
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3e5 Diving into the experience of pure soul
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3f Moving Beyond Ego
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3g Being Nothing Isn’t So Bad Either
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4 Chapter Four: Exploring Your Soul’s Journey
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4a Intro
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4b Why Are You Here?
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4b1 You’re here to evolve
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4b2 Life is a School for the soul
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4b3 Finding the hidden gems
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4c Where Will You Go Next?
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4d Befriending Death
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4e Death: Period or comma?
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4f Reincarnating all over again
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4g A guided tour through an experience of death
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5 Chapter Five: Finding Your Spiritual Path
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5a Intro
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5b Searching for Truth in a World of Pretense
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5b1 Being a good editor
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5b2 Following your intuition
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5c Spirituality is Not One Path Fits All
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5d Separating the Wheat from the Chaff
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5e Benefiting from Teachers, Thinkers, Saints, and Sages
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Part Two: Spiritual Practice Makes Perfect
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6 Chapter Six: If You’re Already Spiritual, Why Practice? |
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6a Intro
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6b Growing Through Spiritual Practices
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6b1 Clarifying what you want
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6b2 Applying steady effort
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6c Finding What Practices are Right for You
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6c1 Discovering the techniques
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6c2 Letting your practices flow
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6c3 Doing practices for body, mind, and spirit
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6c4 Strengthening your willpower
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6c5 Practicing being happy
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7 Chapter Seven: Spiritually Energizing Your Body
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7a Intro
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7b Taking Care of Your Body Temple
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7b1 Adding spiritual touches to physical activities
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7b2 Exploring food choices
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7b3 To indulge or not to indulge
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7b4 Staying natural
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7c Stretching, Exercising, and Hatha Yoga
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7c1 Where hatha yoga postures come from
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7c2 Remembering to rest
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7d Practicing Spiritual Breathing
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8 Chapter Eight: Empowering Your Mind
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8a Intro
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8b The Amazing Value of Your Mind
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8b1 Opening up your creative mind
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8b2 Change your outlook, change your life
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8b3 Taking steps to refine your mind
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8c Recognizing and Clearing Your Mental Clutter
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8c1 Using contemplation to clear your mental clutter
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8c2 Focusing your thoughts
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8c3 Putting your desires in order
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8d Contemplating Spiritual Teachings
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8d1 Unlocking the scripture of your own life
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8d2 Tapping into the power of contemplative writing
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8e Meditating: Silent Mind, Holy Mind
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8e1 Meditation: a natural part of life
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8e2 Relaxing into meditation
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9 Chapter Nine: Nourishing Your Spirit
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9a Intro
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9b Understanding Spiritual Communion
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9c Prayer: Touching the Sacred
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9c1 Connecting through prayer
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9c2 Giving Blessings to Others
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9c3 Be your own house of worship
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9d Worshipping God in Form
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9e Creating a sacred space
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9f Singing to the Divine
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9f1 Singing with a group
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9f2 Singing and your breath
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Part Three: Living a Spiritual Life
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10 Chapter Ten: Cultivating Spiritual Virtues
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10a Intro
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10b Discovering How Spiritual Awareness Brings Virtues
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10b1 Watching virtues come naturally
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10b2 Recognizing the signs of a sage
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10b3 Understanding how one virtue leads to another
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10c Gaining the Power of Truth through Honesty
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10c1 Discovering the perks of being truthful
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10c2 Being honest with yourself
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10d Understanding Humility
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10d1 Resting in the humility of your heart
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10d2 Protecting your virtues through humility
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10e Wishing Everyone Well With Compassion
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10e1 Increasing your power of compassion through empathy
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10e2 Being compassionate in today’s world
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11 Chapter Eleven: Uplifting Your Whole Life
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11a Intro
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11b Moving from Worldly Limitations to Spiritual Freedom
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11b1 Moving beyond desires and attachments
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11b2 Entering a vision of equality
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11c From Work to Divine Service
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11c1 Serving without personal motives
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11c2 Seeing how service and success work together
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11d From Forgiveness to Gratitude
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11d1 Moving beyond forgiveness
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11d2 Maintaining an attitude of gratitude
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11e From Greed to Divine Abundance
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11e1 Can you really have it all?
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11e2 Living in pursuit of lasting fulfillment
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11f From Relationships to Divine Love
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11f1 Love, Relationships, and potential potholes
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11f2 Avoiding mediocre relationships
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11f3 Understanding the power of company
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11f4 Finding love inside yourself
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12 Chapter Twelve: Turning Troubles into Triumphs
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12a Intro
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12b Seeing Troubles with a Positive Eye
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12b1 Rising above suffering
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12b2 Finding blessings from tragedy
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12c Recognizing That There Are No Mistakes
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12d It’s Not Punishment but Guidance
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12e Transforming Challenge into Ecstasy
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12e1 Weathering the storms
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12e2 This too shall pass
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13 Chapter Thirteen: Finding the Deep Calling of Your Soul
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13a Intro
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13b Discovering your dharma
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13b1 Discovering your righteous path of living
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13b2 Finding your calling
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13b3 Being guided from within
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13b4 Following your bliss
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13c Being an Artist of Life
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13c1 Finding your own style
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13c2 Sharing the treasures of your journey through writing
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Part Four: Connecting With This Conscious Universe
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14 Chapter Fourteen: The Individual Nature of Universal Creation
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14a Intro
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14b The Spiritual Science of Universal Creation
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14b1 Stage 1 of Universal Creation
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14b2 Stage 2 of Universal Creation
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14b3 Stage 3 of Universal Creation
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14b4 Stage 4 of Universal Creation
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14b5 Stage 5 of Universal Creation
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14b6 Stage 6 of Universal Creation
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14b7 Stage 7 of Universal Creation
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14c What is the world made of?
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14c1 How this world is like a movie
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14c2 Rising above illusions
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14c3 Life is but a dream
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14c4 Shifting into a Higher Perspective
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14c5 First cause versus second cause
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15 Chapter Fifteen: The Laws of Karma and Attraction
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15a Intro
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15b The Laws of Karma
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15b1 Karma is a natural law
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15b2 So, is the idea to make lots of good karma?
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15b3 Cleaning up your karmas
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15c The Law of Attraction
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15c1 Checking out some laws
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15c2 Applying the laws
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15c3 You are a co-creator
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15c4 Untangling the web of desires
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15c5 Ask for the whole cosmos!
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15d Appreciating the Power of Words
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15d1 Empowering your affirmations
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15d2 How affirmations affect your mind
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15d3 How affirmations transform the world
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15d4 The Universe is always listening
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16 Chapter Sixteen:When Thy Will Be Done Becomes My Will Be Done
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16a Intro
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16b Spirituality and Worldly Desires
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16b1 Clarifying what spirituality is by describing what it’s not
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16b2 Using manifestation techniques
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16b3 It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature
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16b4 Are you really ready to drive this thing?
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16c Clarifying Your Intentions and Goals
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16c1 Weeding your desires
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16c2 Asking for the highest
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16c3 Accepting the inevitable
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16d The Supreme Surrender
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16d1 The importance of divine guidance
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16d2 Understanding to whom you’re surrendering
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16d3 Welcoming “Thy Will Be Done”
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16d4 Understanding that everything happens for the best
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16e Depending on Spirit
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17 Chapter Seventeen: Liberation, Enlightenment, and the Cosmic Joke
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17a Intro
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17b What Enlightenment is Like
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17b1 You become yourself, but more so
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17b2 It’s a shift of awareness
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17c Being in the Flow
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17c1 Being here, now
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17c2 Flowing with time
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17c3 Dancing through life
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17d Enjoying the Cosmic Joke
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17d1 Why do you think they call it realization?
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17d2 And life goes on. . .
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Part Five: Extra Sections with Lists of Ten Things (not part of the audiobook)
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18 Chapter Eighteen:Ten Small Things You Can Do to Uplift Your Life
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18a Intro
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18b Add Conscious Pauses to Your Day
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18c Read Uplifting Words
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18d Bless Your Day When You Wake Up
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18e Play Spiritual Music to Soothe Your Spirit
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18f Do Your Work with an Attitude of Service
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18g Surround Yourself with Things that Evoke Positive Feelings
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18h Be Friendly to the People Around You
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18i Add Symbolic Contemplations to Your Actions
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18j Watch Your Breath
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18k Use Rituals and Affirmations to Invoke Spirit
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19 Chapter Nineteen: Ten Spiritual-Sounding Linesand What They May Really Mean
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20 Chapter Twenty: Ten Opportunities to See Your Life with Spiritual Eyes
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20a Intro
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20b When Obstacles Block Your Way
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20c When You Have a Dream but Don’t Know How to Get There
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20d When You’re Afraid of Losing Something or Someone
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20e When You’re in Love
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20f When You’re Under Ongoing Pressures
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20g When You Don’t Like Your Job
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20h When You’ve Experienced a Difficult Childhood
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20i When You Feel Spiritually Lost
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20j When Something Awful Happens
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20k When Good Fortune Comes Your Way
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21 Chapter Twenty-One: Ten More Commandments
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21a Intro
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21b Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You
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21c Think Good Thoughts
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21d Look Beyond Matter to Spirit
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21e Keep Good Company
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21f Turn Within for Guidance
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21g Be Moderate and Balanced
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21h Remember Death
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21i Express Yourself Freely
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21j Keep Your Word
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21k Have a Good Sense of Humor
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21l Never Let Your Creative Spirit be Limited by Numbers
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