Love Lavishly
Love can transform persons, cultures, and even entire planets. If you want a better world, love lavishly. Love is a flow you enjoy as it
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Love can transform persons, cultures, and even entire planets. If you want a better world, love lavishly. Love is a flow you enjoy as it
Wake up every morning and say, “Good morning God. What have you got for me Today?”
God is your partner in every moment of your life. He is never absent or not paying attention. He is tremendously and eternally invested in
This post is an explanation of what it means to be spiritual and to pursue becoming a citizen of the non-material celestial realm by adopting personal characteristics like those of God. (20 min.) By William Cooper
This post explains that this life is the beginning of our education, by way of living experience, to become participants in God’s plan to vastly expand occupied space and administer and sustain it. Our destiny is awesome.
(20 min. by William Cooper)
A loving way of life can be cultivated and has wonderful social consequences. (10 min. by William Cooper).
Teasing and trickery are bad patterns to encourage at any age. They are a type of vicious play with potentially crippling consequences for both victim and perpetrator. (1 min.) By William Cooper
Your personal religion should be unique. It should consist in following the leading of your own Spirit Within who arrives in your childhood with a
Continual progress toward excellence of character is the objective and purpose of this life. Excellence of character is not completed in this life, but direction
There is a truth response in your heart which guides and counsels you on all things having meaning and value. This is an inborn talent
Your thoughts will be clearer and of higher quality if you meditate and think in partnership with the spirit of God within you. God delights
For inner peace and satisfaction, establish a continuous, constant, and eternal relationship with your Spirit Within. Contemplating your gratitude to the giver of beauty and
Forgiveness does not require forgetting. It does require setting aside the desire to punish, to penalize, or to even the score. When you forgive, you
When you forgive, you reopen the possibility of beneficial relationship. Forgiveness is an opportunity to try again for a friendly relationship.
When you forgive another, you relieve yourself of the ugly burden of assessing the guilt and punishment of the offender and of determining how much
Allowing yourself to seek vengeance or to hold grudges involves great spiritual costs to you and to everyone related to you. And we are all
Service extends the helpful hand of brotherhood and that is really impressive. Small services confirm friendship and willingness to be helpful.
Service is love expressed in action. It participates in the immense magical power of love.
Service is a cause of love, and it is a consequence of love. Loving service is emotionally, psychologically, and spiritually very powerful, very attractive, and
Service builds a mutual sense of relatedness on which all sorts of benefits grow. Service is active caring and that builds friendships.
Service is how love gets expressed through action. It is a primary way we develop our connectedness to others through love. Service satisfies emotional needs
Service shows actual willingness to give oneself and one’s assets for the benefit of another. The essential element of service is the intent unselfishly to
To make a friend of someone, find something you know they want and do it for them. Kindnesses are remembered as friendly acts.
Service develops friendships. If you want a friend, be a friend. Just sharing pleasant moments can be a service to someone who feels alone.
Helping another achieve her worthy needs and goals is an important service. Service can bond people together, and that is a very good thing.
A smile, a helping hand, courtesy, good attitude, cheerfulness, polite assistance; these are all services to others requiring no planning and no sacrifice. A basic
A lot of little services by many people will do wonders. Serving in small ways as you pass by requires only modest levels of planning
Service is not just an attitude or a desire. It is good deeds. Service involves action to fulfill generous motives.
You won’t find anything in life that will give you more pleasure than being of service to others. Helping another brings warm feelings to them
While love is the desire to do good for others. Service is the action of doing good for others. Even little actions can fill a
Learn to cope cheerfully and graciously with disappointment. Disappointment is a fast track to spiritual insight, and it is inevitable. Disappointment can make you stop
Pray for spiritual growth (character development) because that is the purpose of life. Character grows by adopting virtues into your way of living.
Trust is at the heart of faith. Prayer communicates with God. While faith acts — according to God’s principles and leading.
Be aggressive and lavish with love. The more you give the more you get from the spiritual source of all love. There is an endless
Be gentle with others and yourself because we are all works in progress. It may not be visible, but we are slowly perfecting as we
Perfection now is not required or expected. Nor is it even desirable. The experience of imperfection and failure Is an important achievement of this mortal
When you go apart to visit with your inner spirit What does your inner spirit say to you? What! You don’t visit!
God is your parent. Children just naturally grow up to be like their parents. In fact, they must work hard to avoid it. The goodness
Evil challenges virtue. Virtue consumes evil. Slay evil with love. Start within yourself.
An attitude of persistent, unselfish love works miracles of values transformation and good health in the person holding that attitude, and it has good consequences
Practice love, forgiveness, and respect. Spiritual magic from these will reward you and all who know you, with lasting friendships. These attitudes and actions have
We can use our creativity to invent ourselves by imagining the best possible behavior and then managing ourselves to display that behavior. Self-creation by our
This post describes one person’s experiences of worshipful communion with the spirit of God. (10 min. by William Cooper)
This post is mostly a quote from Jesus relating to the gift of his Spirit presence with us. (5 min. by William Cooper)
Love grows vigorously when its seeds take root in a love hungry soul and those are everywhere.
The joy of either love given or love received is a valuable reward of living. The Joy of love given is ours to have by
Every living thing and every person responds favorably to being loved. Love feels great and reassures.
Love is the best action and the best reaction, always. Love behaves gently, tolerantly, kindly, and respectfully in all circumstances. Love excels at everything and
It is a great privilege to experience life on such a primitive planet as this. It will help us to understand and help others in
We have self-creative choices to make. We can choose to be an animal or a noble spirit being. The animal part of us will die.
We are meant to be partners in each other’s lives. We are intended to be linked to one another by love, caring and respect. Enjoying
This life is the important beginning of your eternal career, not a purposeless occurrence. Some of the things you can learn here about love and
You can smell beauty from fresh mown grass, cinnamon, wisteria, bread baking, sea breezes. The scent of beauty surrounds its source with an invisible reality.
God said to me: “Be perfect as I am perfect. Become like me.” I replied: “God, I have taken my measure and concluded that is
Love rules the universe. Inevitably, love will one day rule this world and every heart in it. Love is gentle but it possesses power. Love
Living every moment lovingly is the will of your Spirit Within for your life. All love is significant.
Love is a valuable gift. Love benefits both the giver and the receiver and even the observer. All feel richer who recognize that a gift
Love should be our universal approach to everything. It has magical powers on personal, social, and political levels to lead to things that are important
Love disciplines in reasonable ways. It does not seek to hurt, harm, or administer vengeance. Discipline teaches self-mastery rather than fear of consequences. It is
Respect virtue even in the sinner. It proves the Spirit still dwells within. Loving proves there is capacity to love and to appreciate being loved.
Yes. Despise the sin, but still love the sinner. He is not without value just because he has so far failed to master his weakness.
Love comes in many forms. Love serves. It does not exploit. Love is gentle, kind, forgiving, merciful, and tolerant. So, if you behave this way,
by Rumi With life as short as a half-taken breath, don’t plant anything but love.
Some occurrences are just too unusual not to arouse suspicions of celestial intervention. This is a story of such a series of events. It was and continues to be fun to recall as well as highly beneficial. We hope you too benefit and enjoy.
Building a noble and generous character is important on every level and it is carried over into your afterlife. (15 min) By William Cooper
Odd things can qualify as loving service if their motive is to benefit others. (2 min.) By William Cooper
This post describes how our universe was formed by a specialized motherly expression of God. (7 min.) By William Cooper
This casual style of prayer will help you build a personal relationship with your Spirit Within. (3 min.) By William Cooper
Prayer and conversation with Spirit are spiritual practices that automatically bring some significant material benefits. (5 min.) By William Cooper
God’s will always supports God’s plan which is always the best possible outcome. (2 min.) By William Cooper
Caring about others and being cared for are supreme spiritual values in life. (2 min.) By William Cooper
Spending your life doing good for others is time well spent. It is progress towards godlikeness and that is your eternal goal. (2 min.) By William Cooper
Survival after death is a deity gift to all who love and want the goodness of God. No other conditions. (2 min.) By William Cooper
Prayer always spiritually benefits the praying person. (2 min.) By William Cooper
There is much more to prayer than requesting favors. (2 min.) By William Cooper
Here are some personal values that help you survive, succeed in this life, and build your spiritual self. Acceptance, Authenticity, Balance, Compassion, Confidence, and Courage (20 min.)
Here are some more values that will help you survive and succeed in this life, and in your afterlife. Honesty, Hope, Kindness, Listen, Love, and Openness (20 min.)
This post describes how to use your mind to find spiritual meaning and communication with celestial persons. (20 min.) By William Cooper
Personal friendship with deity is like the loving relationship between parent and child. It is unbelievable affection. Not just greater quantity but greater quality as well. (2 min.) By William Cooper
Six briefly stated spiritual truths you can build on. (10 min.) By William Cooper
God has given you magical spiritual powers. He wants you to use them continuously. (5 min.) By William Cooper
Feelings differ from thoughts, but they affect thinking and decision making. By William Cooper
Forgiving is important to the physical and spiritual health of the one who forgives. By William Cooper
This post celebrates the value and permanence of good memories. (2 min.) By William Cooper
Identifies the part of this life that is real and lasting. (1 min.) By
William Cooper
Your values stabilize and define your character. (1 min.) By William Cooper
An astonishing but accurate answer. Draws attention to our unexpected destiny. (1 min.) By William Cooper
A brief statement of spiritual wisdom. (one min.) By William Cooper
Choose to become ever more spiritually real. (1 min.) By William Cooper
This is a part of a series of Jesus stories you have never heard before. This particular story provides several new facts about a familiar biblical story. (20 min) By William Cooper
This is part of a series of Jesus stories you have never heard before. Through very unique circumstances, Jesus was and is both human and the creator of our universe. (20 min.) By William Cooper
This is part of a series of Jesus stories you have never heard before. It tells why Jesus is even more significant than Christianity has portrayed him. (20 min.) By William Cooper
A third selection of seven techniques for building your spirituality (10 min.) By William Cooper
A second selection of seven techniques for improving your spirituality (10 min.) By William Cooper
A selection of seven techniques for nourishing your spirituality (10 min.) By William Cooper
Explains in plain, nontheological English, the religion Jesus followed. (30 min.) By William Cooper
Observes that appreciating the motherly qualities of God greatly enhances God’s character and friendliness. (4 min.) By William Cooper
A short, simple, and useful statement of God’s will. (2 min.) By
William Cooper
A speculation on peculiar circumstances probably involving angel amusement and help. (4 min.) By William Cooper
How to become a better person by loving higher qualities. (2 min.) By William Cooper
Jesus, a master teacher, still uses this teaching style to teach us in spirit and we can adopt his method in serving others. (20 min. ) By William Cooper
An extremely important resurrection of Jesus’ personal religious practices and his philosophy of living. Both the theory and the methods are explained. (20 min.) By William Cooper
Identifies spirituality in ordinary things. (3 min.) By William Cooper
Speaks to the value of stories from the life of Jesus. (3 min.) By William Cooper
Tells how to engage your spiritual assets in thinking, problem solving, and character building. (3 min.) By William Cooper
Describes the benefits and satisfactions of an intentional relationship with your indwelling spirit partner. (2 min.) By William Cooper
This is a letter from Eric, the muse of spiritual exploration and discovery, on service, spiritual power, destiny, and deity contact. (5min.) By William Cooper
Eric, the muse of spiritual adventure, writes a letter about spiritual family. (3 min.) By William Cooper
A short poem dealing with becoming like God. (1min.) By William Cooper.
Answers questions about religion of the spirit. What it is, and what happens when you follow it. (20 min.) By William Cooper
Eric, the muse of spiritual adventure, writes about the experience of knowing God, person to person. (7 min.) By William Cooper
Gives short answers to whether there is a purpose to life, what it is and how to do it. (5 min.) By William Cooper
Eric, the imaginary personification of spiritual adventure, writes stirringly about living constantly in the immediate presence of God. (7 min.) by William Cooper
This is a guided imagining focusing your attention on the good feelings arising from service (15 min.) William Cooper
A guided imagining of experiencing the value “gratitude”. (10 min.) By William Cooper
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