Cultivate Life! Magazine #35

This issue contains:
Quotes of the Week:—Hugh Prather.
"Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for
long-term values."
—Joshua LLiebman.
"Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident. Riches take wing. Only one
thing endures. And that is character."
—Horace
Greeley.
"Abilities wither under faultfinding, blossom with encouragement."
—Donald ALaird
Feature Articles:

Silence and time alone are great qualities to assist you into a manifest space of peace and serenity. It is very difficult for you to do this until you switch off your mobile phones, computers, TVs, and so on. It is a good idea to get out of the habit of always using your car and to learn to walk or cycle instead. Read more...
Florence
Scovel Shinn, The Game of
Life
Most people consider life a battle -- but it is not a battle, it is a
game. It is a game, however, which cannot be plaid successfully without
the knowledge of spiritual law, and the Old and the New Testaments give
the rules of the game with wonderful clearness. Read more...
Cultivate Life Weekly Writers:
Have you ever fought over a parking place? Have you ever jumped up to make a phone call to straighten someone out? Have you ever snapped at a family member? These are moments when you sell your soul. Read more...
Chuck Gallozzi, Thought Power
What do you think about thinking? Most of us probably
think we do a lot of it, but we don't. True, for most of us, there is
an endless stream of chatter drifting through our consciousness. But
self-talk isn't thinking. It's just commentary. Read
more...
Beca Lewis, The Squirrel and
Two Power Cords
I have a squirrel friend who must know the spiritual law,
"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it
shall be opened unto you." Perhaps
squirrels automatically teach it to their children and perhaps in a
squirrel family it is actually believed and acted upon. Read
more...
Steve Wickham, Never Explain,
Never Complain
For direction in life and purpose to meet all the wiles
that inevitably come, the four-worded title above—one which is
attributed to both Henry Ford II and Benjamin Disraeli—is quite a boon
for wisdom that can only benefit us. Read
more...
Cultivate Health:
We must love people back to health. We must address all the needs of the entire patient - love, faith, sense of purpose, etc., and not just his/her disease. In the words of Dr. Jerome D. Frank, American psychiatrist: "Any treatment that does not minister to the human spirit is grossly deficient." Read more...
Nick Mutt, Do You Know the
Natural Remedies for Depression?
In this condition a person due to something complex experiences sad
feelings and also downturn in their mood. It is a mental state which is
characterized by inadequate negative sense and also lack of activityIt is a mental disorder which is associated with reduced pleasure or
interest in almost all the activities. Read
more...
Cultivate Forgiveness:
As you wrap 2010 and wrap up your gifts this holiday season, wrap up something that costs absolutely nothing but gives you high dividends in relationships: Wrap up forgiveness. Read more...
Lori
Radun, Forgiveness - Breaking the Cycle of
Resentment
Over 20 years ago, my mother disowned me for a period of 10 years
of my life. It wasn't something I could ever imagine doing to one of my
children, but it happened. It was one of the most painful times of my
life. I was angry at her. Read more...
Cultivate Life Extras:
We use the word "will" often every day. But, what does it mean? The dictionary says that will is an auxiliary verb - an extra verb that's followed by the REAL action in the sentence. I will get more sleep, I will go shopping, I will see you tonight. I will achieve my goals. Read more...
C. Lynn Beebe, Gain Control
Over Holiday Stress
The holiday season is upon us. Does that statement make you jump
for joy or wish you could hide under the covers for the next month or
so? Holiday stress is an unwelcome visitor that plagues far too many
people each year. Read more...
Gabriella Kortsch, Companions
That Shape Your Life
John was recently told he has a tumor. Malignant or benign, he will
not know for about three weeks, after a series of tests and the results
that they offer. Marguerite was taking her husband’s suits to the
cleaners and found a hand-written note — not his handwriting — in the
breast pocket of one of the jackets: Your love makes life
worth living. Read
more...
Linda Sapadin, The Art of
Asking
Wouldn't it be nice if you could start off this school year with a
fresh approach to dealing with your kids' responsibilities? Read
more...
Phil Evans, Time for Some
Personal Freedom?
What does that really mean? How important is personal
freedom to
each and every one of us? How many of us are stuck in feeling some sort
of guilt, shame or embarrassment? Read more...
From The Shelf, Notes to
Myself by Hugh Prather
Reading Notes To Myself is one of those rare
experiences
that comes only once in a great while. The editor
who discovered the
book said, "When I first read Prather's manuscript it was late at night
and I was tired, but by the time I finished it, I felt rested and alive. Read
more...
Cultivate Life Partworks:
Tiger Woods knows it. Michael Jordon knows it. So does World-Record Olympian runner Lee Evans. Not to mention Olympic ski jumper Adam Malysz, and famous gymnast Mary Lou Retten, who had figured it out by age 16. Read more...
A Course In Miracles, Lesson
26 plus Commentary by Allen Watson
My attack thoughts are attacking my
invulnerability.It is
surely obvious that if you can be attacked you are not invulnerableYou see attack as a real threat. That is because you believe that you
can really attack. Read more...
Charles F. Haanel, The Master
Key System, part fifteen
Experiments with parasites found on plants indicate that even the
lowest order of life is enabled to take advantage of natural law. This
experiment was made by Jacques Loch, M.D., Ph. D., a member of the
Rockefeller Institute. Read more...
Carolyn Evers, Going Within, part four
I
believe that observation is our teacher for factual information, along
with emotional growth and development. If you pass a field of flowers
and you are caught up in other thoughts, the flowers might not come
into your awareness. However if you become aware of them, you might
notice colors of yellow in varying shapes, some of them you haven't
noticed before. Read more...
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