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		<title>NDE, Buddha on karma, Zen Buddhism books</title>
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<h2>Short Quotes</h2>
<h3><a href="http://www.katinkahesselink.net/tibet/inattention.html">Buddha, Dhammapada</a>, Translation <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/bhagavad-gita-classic">Juan Mascaro</a></h3>
<p>165 By oneself the evil is done, and it is oneself who suffers: by<br />
oneself the evil is not done, and by one&#8217;s Self one becomes pure. The<br />
pure and the impure come from oneself: no man can purify another.</p>
<p>166 Let no man endanger his duty, the good of his soul, for the good of<br />
another, however great. When he has seen the good of his soul, let him<br />
follow it with earnestness.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.katinkahesselink.net/proccult.htm">H.P. Blavatsky, Practical Occultism</a></h3>
<p>To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and<br />
wait patiently when it is time for repose, puts man in accord with the<br />
rising and falling tides (of affairs), so that, with nature and law at<br />
his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may<br />
accomplish wonders.</p>
<h3>Jeremy Taylor</h3>
<p>Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.katinkahesselink.net/other/aspirant.htm">N. Sri Ram, Thoughts For Aspirants</a>, Second Series</h3>
<p>Will in the spiritual sense must co-exist with intelligence and love;<br />
it is imbued with all the qualities which pertain to the spiritual<br />
nature of man.</p>
<h3><a href="http://www.katinkahesselink.net/his/brunton.html">Paul Brunton</a>, The Secret Path, Chapter X</h3>
<p>Man, eager to improve his machines, forgets to improve himself.</p>
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<h2>To the Ancients, Earth was a Living Being</h2>
<h3>From &#8220;The Avatar&#8221; by AE, Found in <a href="http://theosophy.katinkahesselink.net/canadian/Vol-14-Index-C-Theosophist.htm">Canadian Theosophist, Vol. 14</a>, <a href="http://theosophy.katinkahesselink.net/canadian/Vol-14-10-C-Theosophist.htm">#10</a></h3>
<p>&#8220;To the ancients,&#8221; he said, &#8220;Earth was a living being.  We who walk upon it know no more of the magnificence within it than a gnat<br />
lighting on the head of Dante might know of the furnace of passion and imagination<br />
beneath.  Not only was Earth a living being having soul and spirit as well as body, but it was a household wherein were god folk as well<br />
as the whole tribe of elemental or fairy lives.  The soul of Earth is our lost Eden.  This was the Ildathach or Many-coloured Land<br />
of our ancestors, and of which Socrates too spoke, saying Earth was not at all what the geographers supposed it to be, and there was a divine earth<br />
superior to this with temples where the gods do truly dwell.  Our souls put on coats of skin.  That is, they were lost in our bodies here,<br />
and at last we fell together outside the divine circle and came to live on surfaces, not even dreaming that within the earth is a spirit which towers up<br />
within itself from clay and rock to the infinite glory.  Only the poets and mystics have still some vision of the lost Eden.  The gods are<br />
still in the divine household, and the radiance over the palaces of light appear at times to seers like yourself as dragon-crests of flame or rivers of<br />
light running out to the stars.  It is time for us to be traveling inward, and if there be an Avatar to come, he may show us the way once more as<br />
did the Avatars of the past.  How do I know all this?  The Earth Spirit has been talking to me ever since I came here, telling me the meanings of<br />
all I have read and many things which never were written, and it confirmed that dream I told you about, that there would come a day when the<br />
immortals once more would walk among us and be visible heroes to us.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://lucifer7.katinkahesselink.net/i/2010/6.html">My spiritual newsletter for June 2010</a></p>
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		<title>Horoscope Zodiac Jewelry Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:10:33 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think one of the nicest way to dress up your wardrobe spiritually is to wear spiritual jewelry and what is more suitable than <a href="http://www.horoscopejewelry.org/">astrological jewelry</a>? It says &#8216;I&#8217;m spiritual&#8217; while also providing a conversation starter for those in the know. Oh and of course they&#8217;re pretty. </p>
<p>I&#8217;ve set up a blog for astrological jewelry for all, so far only the Western, zodiac signs. <a title="View all  posts filed under Aries" href="http://www.horoscopejewelry.org/category/aries/">Aries, </a><a title="View all  posts filed under Taurus" href="http://www.horoscopejewelry.org/category/taurus/">Taurus</a><br />
,<a title="View all  posts filed under Gemini" href="http://www.horoscopejewelry.org/category/gemini/">Gemini</a>, <a title="View all  posts filed under Cancer" href="http://www.horoscopejewelry.org/category/cancer/">Cancer</a>, <a title="View all  posts filed under Leo" href="http://www.horoscopejewelry.org/category/leo/">Leo</a>, <a title="View all  posts filed under Virgo" href="http://www.horoscopejewelry.org/category/virgo/">Virgo</a>, <a title="View all  posts filed under Libra" href="http://www.horoscopejewelry.org/category/libra/">Libra</a>, <a title="View all  posts filed under Scorpio" href="http://www.horoscopejewelry.org/category/scorpio/">Scorpio</a>, <a title="View  all posts filed under Sagittarius" href="http://www.horoscopejewelry.org/category/sagittarius/">Sagittarius</a>, <a title="View  all posts filed under Capricorn" href="http://www.horoscopejewelry.org/category/capricorn/">Capricorn</a>, <a title="View  all posts filed under Aquarius" href="http://www.horoscopejewelry.org/category/aquarius/">Aquarius</a>, and <a title="View all  posts filed under Pisces" href="http://www.horoscopejewelry.org/category/pisces/">Pisces</a>.</p>
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		<title>New spiritual lenses February 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[February 4th 2010: Soul awakening

  When the Soul Awakens: The Path to Spiritual Evolution and a New World Era 
I did not think it was possible: a summary of the esoteric world view for today. I mean really &#8211; the authors of this book have done it. They&#8217;ve summed up all the themes I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
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<dt> <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/soul-awakens"><img src="http://static.squidoo.com/resize_smart/squidoo_images/120/120/lens9352701_1265305390soul-awakens-spiritual-ev" alt="featured lens" /></a> <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/soul-awakens">When the Soul Awakens: The Path to Spiritual Evolution and a New World Era</a> </dt>
<dd>I did not think it was possible: a summary of the esoteric world view for today. I mean really &#8211; the authors of this book have done it. They&#8217;ve summed up all the themes I&#8217;ve been hearing about for 15 years now. From the effect of music on plants to t&#8230;</p>
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<h2>Feb. 7th 2010: Hindu Purana Mythology</h2>
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<dt> <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/hindu-mythology-purana"><img src="http://static.squidoo.com/resize_smart/squidoo_images/120/120/lens9399001_1265570359hinduism-myths-puranas.jp" alt="featured lens" /></a> <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/hindu-mythology-purana">Classical Hindu Mythology: A Reader in the Sanskrit Puranas</a> </dt>
<dd>There are several ways to approach Hindu myths. One is to study what stories Hindus tell each other these days. Another is to delve into the oldest texts containing such myths in existence. This book follows the latter method. Translating versions o&#8230;</p>
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<h2>Feb. 13th 2010: Islam and Religion books</h2>
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<dt> <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/world-religion-books"><img src="http://static.squidoo.com/resize_smart/squidoo_images/120/120/lens9498411_1266055585religions.jpg" alt="featured lens" /></a> <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/world-religion-books">Best books about the world religions</a> </dt>
<dd>I&#8217;ve made several reviews of books about the world religions: Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism etc. I&#8217;ve also found you some books about religion in general. Take your pick.</p>
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<dt> <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/essential-quran"><img src="http://static.squidoo.com/resize_smart/squidoo_images/120/120/lens9498011_1266053396essential-koran-quran.jpg" alt="featured lens" /></a> <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/essential-quran">The Essential Koran</a> </dt>
<dd>This is just what it says: a book with selected quotes from the Quran (aka Koran or Qu&#8217;ran) that just help lay people to get to know the world of Islam and prophet Muhammad. The book includes a good introduction to Islam as well as quotes from the s&#8230;</p>
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<h2>Jan. 24th 2010 Existential psychotherapy &amp; Zen Buddhism</h2>
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<dt> <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/existential-psychotherapy"><img src="http://static.squidoo.com/resize_smart/squidoo_images/120/120/lens9160441_1264321749existential-psychotherapy" alt="featured lens" /></a> <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/existential-psychotherapy">Existential Psychotherapy, Irvin D. Yalom</a> </dt>
<dd>This lens is dedicated to my mom. She&#8217;s a humanistic psychotherapist and Irvin D. Yalom is one of her heroes. The smile on her face when I picked out this book from the bookcase is one I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll never forget&#8230;I&#8217;m afraid some part of her is partl&#8230;</p>
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<dt> <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/steve-hagen"><img src="http://static.squidoo.com/resize_smart/squidoo_images/120/120/lens9166161_1264359428steve-hagen-zen-buddhism." alt="featured lens" /></a> <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/steve-hagen">Steve Hagen</a> </dt>
<dd>His book &#8216;Buddhism Plain and Simple&#8217; is one of the best selling Buddhism books of our time. In it Steve teaches Buddhism as we many people love to see it: as a practical spiritual system, not a belief system or a religion.</p>
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<h2>Jan. 30th, 31st 2010: gratitude, planners and datebooks</h2>
<h3>Inspiration</h3>
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<dt> <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/christian-planner"><img src="http://static.squidoo.com/resize_smart/squidoo_images/120/120/lens9265651_1264849871bible-psalm-christian-org" alt="featured lens" /></a> <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/christian-planner">Christian planners and Organizers 2010</a> </dt>
<dd>Blessed by the Lord &#8211; are we all, whether we feel it or not. On this page I&#8217;ve found you inspiring Christian planners and organizers that will help remind you just how deeply God cares about you and your fate, as well as that of all of humanity. Psa&#8230;</p>
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<dt> <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/gratitude-alphabet"><img src="http://static.squidoo.com/resize_smart/squidoo_images/120/120/lens9279471_1264940124alphatudes-gratitude-wahl" alt="featured lens" /></a> <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/gratitude-alphabet">Alphatudes &#8211; the alphabet of gratitude</a> </dt>
<dd>I am always a bit suspicious of books about gratitude. The very concept sounds to me like a way of telling people to not feel their pain and ignore their troubles. This book is not like that. It tells us to lovingly embrace our emotions, to deal with&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Gratitude practice &#8211; does it work for you?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently found a book, Alphatudes &#8211; the alphabet of gratitude, which does a great job of both explaining the value of gratitude as a spiritual practice AND inspiring people wanting to practice it. Do you all practice gratitude?
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently found a book, <a href="http://www.squidoo.com/gratitude-alphabet">Alphatudes &#8211; the alphabet of gratitude</a>, which does a great job of both explaining the value of gratitude as a spiritual practice AND inspiring people wanting to practice it. Do you all practice gratitude?</p>
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		<title>Oh boy, another place to blog :)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been cleaning up my online act recently. That has included buying the thesis theme: I&#8217;ll be using that on all my self hosted blogs. You can already see it in action on my latest post on All Considering, for instance. The same theme is also in use on my Dutch spiritual blog: Overpeinzende.
It makes [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve been cleaning up my online act recently. That has included buying<a href="http://www.marketingspiritual.com/2010/choosing-wordpress-theme/"> the thesis theme</a>: I&#8217;ll be using that on all my self hosted blogs. You can already see it in action on <a href="http://www.allconsidering.com/2010/new-theme-search-page/">my latest post on All Considering</a>, for instance. The same theme is also in use on <a href="http://www.overpeinzende.nl/2010/nieuw-uiterlijk-wordpress/">my Dutch spiritual blog: Overpeinzende</a>.</p>
<p>It makes my blogs faster and more easily optimized for search engines (who needs a link to the author page on wordpress?).</p>
<p>I&#8217;m not yet sure what I&#8217;ll be using this blog for. I&#8217;ll probably be posting the summary of<a href="http://lucifer7.katinkahesselink.net/i/2010/"> my spiritual newsletter</a> here, as I do on several other places online as well.</p>
<p>Other than that? Who knows? I certainly don&#8217;t.</p>
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