How To Lead An Original Life

In any form of learning, travelers require a structure. If you wish to live an Original Life and fulfill your own, individual destiny, follow these principles. • Strive to lead a balanced life and avoid excess. • Enter into the mainstream of your community. Strive to become an ‘ordinary’ citizen within the society you find […]

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Higher Than Angels

In this world, because of the demands and pleasures of the physical body, many travelers loose sight of the soul’s long journey back to the Source. Yet, if we are somehow able to transcend this physical pull, even for an instant, we are able to soar higher than the angels. -SB  

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Every Snowflake Different?

Do you actually believe every snowflake is different or the world is populated with over 7 billion people? If so, consider why you believe these statements to be true. You probably never examined a hundred different flakes or saw with your own eyes more than several hundred thousand people at a sporting event. Yet on […]

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In This Cell

In this cell, I sit day after day. It is not the cell of cloistered monk or political prisoner. Far from that. It is the world of repetitious living. Sadly- I am the jailer who has forgotten the key. Frightened, I will get familiar with the darkness and no longer seek the Light. -SB

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Easter Sunday

This upcoming Sunday is Easter Sunday. This day, it is said Christ arose from the grave. This holy day is celebrated all over the world. On this day, hundreds of millions of people: Pause, pray and celebrate this glorious, transcendent event.   Yet, how can we be sure this happened 2012 years ago, on this […]

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Man/Woman is the Microcosm

He/she is Master Who reigns supreme In their own kingdom. -SB *          * Q:      Man/woman is the microcosm.  What does this saying mean and its significance to the spiritual traveler? In relation to the larger cosmos and God/Absolute, each traveler is the smaller universe.  It is believed that when a traveler has mastered their own […]

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Wisdom: Why it Cannot be Given Away?

The Exemplar exists to show the traveler what is possible. If you are lucky enough to find a wise man or woman don’t be surprised if they don’t dispense wisdom like a coca-cola machine.  Wisdom is not the type of thing that can be offered to another person like an afternoon cup of coffee; it […]

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4 Poems

And he went into the desert to find the answers. He looked into the sky and began to ask, And the days passed.   When no answers came He looked across the land and asked again, And the days passed.   When he realized the desert could not answer, Tears from the heart began to […]

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Remember

Traveler:    If the purpose of life is to join in Kingship with our Creator; then why weren’t we born with this awareness firmly fixed in our conscious mind?  Why do we go through the struggle or journey of trying to reach this realization? Wouldn’t it simplify things to have us born Awakened to this […]

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Impact of a Tragedy: Trayvon Martin

The whole world is a marketplace for Love, For naught that is, from Love remains remote. The Eternal Wisdom made all things in Love. On Love they all depend, to Love all turn. The earth, the heavens, the sun, the moon, the stars The center of their orbit find in Love. By love are all […]

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Religious Form: Internal & External Reality

Let your heart be in such a state that the existence or nonexistence of anything is the same. Then sit alone in a quiet place, free of any preoccupation, even the reciting of the Koran or thinking about its meaning. Let nothing besides God enter you. Once you are seated in this manner, say, “Allah, […]

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