Anarchy & Economic Growth
| January 5, 2012 | Posted by Ed Sharrow under Anarchy, Civilization |
Anarchy can create unparalleled economic growth through improved financial practices and just wealth distribution. Economies, like all material manifestations, cycle. The five stages of the cycle include: birth, growth, application, maturity and rest. Ideally, every society should acknowledge and plan to minimize the extremes in the cycle regardless of their form of government. However, only anarchy…
“His Prisoner” Commentary
| October 28, 2011 | Instructional, Yogananda |
HIS PRISONER by Paramahansa Yogananda I dare not go Where my Beloved roams By the river of my love; For there I went to fetch Pure waters of devotion sweet To pour in offering at His feet, But His lotus fragrance Like a mystic potion Quite o’erpowered me. Timid of the surrender it evoked, I…
Living Right Side Up
| October 7, 2011 | Civilization, Instructional |
The world is upside down. Humans currently approach life from the wrong direction. This causes conflict, disease, sadness and it perpetuates confusion. The human body is a tool of the individualized conscious energy within each person. In common terms, humans are “souls who should be enjoying a body, not a body who happens to have a…
Creating A Community
| September 6, 2011 | Inspiration |
If I want: To be more loving & to feel more love To be more popular & to feel well-liked To expand my base of friends To find more like-minded individuals To understand and in the process become more understood To have more opportunities and to have help recognizing those when opportunties present To…
Writing a biography
| August 4, 2011 | Instructional, Personal |
Without storytellers, history would be lost. History belongs to the pop historian. Most of what the average person knows about history comes from the best told stories, not necessarily the most factual stories. By deciding to undertake a series of biographies, I have to make decisions regarding my approach to each life. While I strive to make the…
An Open Heart
| July 31, 2011 | Posted by Ed Sharrow under Enlightenment, Inspiration |
Only an open heart can guide the seeker successfully through the expansion of enlightenment. When one becomes enlightened, he gains wisdom. Wisdom is knowing what you need to know, when you need to know it. Wisdom is communicated through intuition and not through the intellect. The intellect uses limited material terms and observations in an attempt…
Live Life to the Fullest!
| July 21, 2011 | Posted by Ed Sharrow under Enlightenment, Inspiration |
“Man should desire to live the full measure of his life in this world; but he must do so by the performance of his duties, always with the ideal of self-perfection. Thus, his mind will not become a slave to sensory impressions. There is no path other than this to attain self-liberation.” Isha Upanishad, Verse…
How to Love Everyone
| July 16, 2011 | Posted by Ed Sharrow under Inspiration, Instructional |
Love is the natural expression of connectedness between humans. Everyone wants to experience unconditional love. Love is sought in many forms and lovers strive to understand what love signifies to them. Casually, ask your friends and family and most will say “I love you.” Probe further and ask them again if that love warms their…
The First Paradox of the Seeker
| July 9, 2011 | Posted by Ed Sharrow under Inspiration, Instructional |
“In the realization of one’s own true self are gained the moral courage to become the master of the will of the lower self; the spiritual strength to transcend ego, the sense-bound self-consciousness; and the power of divine qualities which guides the illumined consciousness to reveal wisdom. But in the realization of Brahman is attained…
Religion’s Right Purpose
The correct role of any religion is to inspire the seeker to discover their own true being and destiny. This role is fulfilled through external rituals, rules and support systems that help one to avoid greater ignorance while also providing specific techniques to awaken one’s personal intuition and expand one’s own consciousness. “They enter into…