Explores the world of consciousness under a spiritual banner and presents meditations and exercises to unleash our inner power.
Evolution has led us to the gates of a new world: handheld devices are everywhere, scientific progress is dazzling, financial crises repeat themselves and climatic change worries. In this unpredictable and unsettling environment it is normal to seek a common thread to help us through personal challenges and broaden our horizons.
The good news is that there is one. There is no need to travel the planet to find it. It starts with us. The road it follows is called life. Its vehicle is consciousness.
WE ONLY LIVE ONCE explores the mysterious world of consciousness under a spiritual banner and provides means to unlock its power!With some willpower, you can use consciousness to perform a miracle: transform what you are so you can be part of change and shape your destiny the way you want it to be!
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Excerpt
Life is behind everything we experience on Earth. This principle or energy keeps us alive and thriving. It traverses space and time and is at the center of who we are and what we are. We see, feel, touch and sense its countless manifestations. Yet its very essence remains mysterious. Try as we might, we are still unable to determine what it is at its most fundamental level.
We only live once.
Everybody agrees with that, be they atheists, scientists, believers or mystics.
The atheist believes that life is valuable and beautiful in itself and worth living because of its unique character; that there is no need to have a divine intervention to give meaning to it. He believes that the only way to be immortal is to leave a legacy that is profitable for his children or humanity. In his eyes, life ends for the being that dies and that there is no proof whatsoever that there is something else or even that the human being has a soul.
The scientist agrees with this view, but he does so only because of lack of reliable data. He wonders what life after death means exactly, what are the parameters of this idea which, in the end, he considers to be illogical without a verifiable basis. As string theory suggests, he allows himself to see the universe beyond the readily accepted four dimensions, therefore beyond length, width, depth and time. And then, his quest for the infinitely small leads him to probe beyond what is readily observable: subatomic particles.
The vision of the believer generally depends on his religious creed. But he distinguishes himself here in the sense that he grants life a reprieve. He extends it beyond physical existence. If he is not Buddhist, he generally gives life substance, so to speak, by providing it with a soul that evolves in a beneficial or hateful world, a world that is more often than not organized with a foreseeable ending. For Christians and Muslims, it is the resurrection of the dead that occurs before Judgment Day, the end of times. For most religions, this vision of the afterlife leads the practitioner to tailor his existence accordingly.
The mystic, which tends to explain Creation by seeking what makes it tick and by forging links with the invisible, pushes the idea further. He views life as a great puzzle to solve, an essence which emanates from cosmic forces for which the material portion represents its concrete outcome. He strives to understand how it operates. To this end, he studies it; he learns to understand and to love it. By virtue of his faith and inner work, he opens pathways of supra-sensory knowledge from which he gathers concepts he yearns to test personally. In his eyes, life is viewed more and more as a laboratory to conduct spiritual experiences, to help his kindred spirits and further the progress of humanity.
As we can see, humans, in their diverse ways of viewing things, do not confine life to a sole mode of survival. As evidenced by philosophy and the countless books and essays it produced, it is viewed beyond the immediate environment.
What lies around us leads us to extrapolate. We address topics that go beyond physical experiences. We try to explain from several angles what should rightly be called the mystery of life.
Mystery there is, no doubt about it. We do not need to give credence to the vast amount of conspiracy theories that abound in cyberspace to fill our need for the unusual and the extraordinary. The difficulty to apprehending life probably comes from the fact that our understanding of it changes all the time and that, all and all, we have yet to discover what it is exactly, how it functions and what are its building blocks. A case in point: we do not yet understand the nature of the force that allows a cell to divide, a seed to germinate and an embryo to develop.
Because we have an opportunity to choose our attitude and focus our intentions in the present moment, the world and our own personal lives are a reflection of our thoughts. It is our 360 degree review on how we think. Put simply, our job is to fully
Because we have an opportunity to choose our attitude and focus our intentions in the present moment, the world and our own personal lives are a reflection of our thoughts. It is our 360 degree review on how we think. Put simply, our job is to fully
