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The Embrace #115: Oneness through Relational Mysticism

Many great teachers tell us that we are all one—we are not separate from the Earth we walk upon, the trees that shade us, or from one another. We belong to each other and to all of nature. How can we live and breathe and know the reality of these words in the depths of our bodies, hearts, minds, and souls?

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The Embrace #114: Doing by Being: A New Activism

The Embrace #114: Doing by Being: A New Activism

I grew up thinking that things should be achieved with effort and dedication. I learned in the past that merit and striving had an intrinsic capacity to add value to my actions. “If I do it with sacrifice, somehow it will be worth more.”

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The Embrace #111: Paint a New Picture

The Embrace #111: Paint a New Picture

I’d bet more than a few of you remember The Great Recession. It had been a rough couple of years before we even landed there. My dad’s health started to decline in 2006. At the same time, my pregnant daughter had moved home.

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The Embrace #113: The Essential Dark

The Embrace #113: The Essential Dark

My Dad’s passion was photography, and his favorite subject matter was ugly courthouses, thunderclouds, scenic landscapes, and Art Deco architecture. Whenever we were on vacation he would always have two cameras hanging around his neck.

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The Embrace #110: Burning Coal

The Embrace #110: Burning Coal

When a piece of charcoal burns, what is around it will also ignite, but only if it has the right composition. If what surrounds a glowing coal is made of wood, paper or phosphorus, it will certainly catch the flames.

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The Embrace #112: Co-Creating Our New Earth

The Embrace #112: Co-Creating Our New Earth

World peace? A new era of cooperation among all nations? The eradication of poverty? Millions of us have had such hopes and aspirations only to be pulled back to “reality” on hearing the latest news of ongoing warfare, souring relations between countries, or the rise in homelessness and poverty.

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The Embrace #109: The Sure Path to God

The Embrace #109: The Sure Path to God

Very early in the revelation of Choose Only Love, Jesus tells us that he wants to show us a sure path to happiness and fulfillment. This, in his words, consists of “loving all that arises” in our present human lives.

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