Category: Spirituality

Hau’ōli aloha Pō’akōlu

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Maikā’i kākahiāka i nā mea a pau ʻia ōukou maikāʻi poe Ōhana a me Hoaloha. Kona kupanaha Pō’akōlu. E aloha ōukou makemake e ʻike i loko o ke ʻao nei! I ka pomaikā’i ʻo kā lā. Ō kā maluhia nō me ‘oe.


Good morning, beautiful family and friends! It’s wonderful Wednesday. Be the aloha you wish to see in the world! Have a blessed day. Peace be with you.

Daily Meditation

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This is the secret to gaining wisdom and reaching Gnosis. I talk about all the time.

“The heart and mind must be brought into perfect equilibrium before true thinking or true spirituality can be attained. The highest function of the mind is reason; the highest function of the heart is intuition, a sensing process not necessitating the normal working of the mind.”

— Manly P. Hall
“Melchizedek and the Mystery of Fire”

Energy Update | The Anatomy of a Smile, by Matt Kahn

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One of my favorite lifelong spiritual practices is simply a willingness to smile.

A smile is an offering of goodwill as the spark of Divine energy in two people pulls back the curtain of perception to remember the light dwelling in all. A smile is a subconscious ethical agreement, exchanging the ways society interacts with strangers to the openness of engagement, now that eyes have made direct contact. A smile is a celebration of your untainted innocent heart, always ready and willing to burst with joy throughout moments of inspiration, no matter how broken down, beat up, or defeated the past seemed to be.

A smile is a declaration of freedom shining out from your eternally liberated nature, shouting from the roof tops through the cosmic language of silence, “I am here. I matter. I exist for a reason.” A smile is a gift of emotional generosity, like a gift certificate of healing energy, where the receiver can decide where such energy can be best used for the evolution of his/her soul. A smile is a confirmation of alignment with Source and being settled in your highest Truth, only revealing the need for deeper transformations the moment you look away, pull back, and hide.

A smile is a high five exchanged between angels affirming the perfection of their victory no matter how circumstances come to be. A smile is a remembrance of Heaven sent from the purest space within you to awaken the purity of all. A smile is a symbol of awakened heart-centered consciousness affirming all that is whole, right, and perfect about this moment exactly as it is. A smile is a spiritual cease-fire that only brings defeat to the parts and aspects that were never created to go any further. A smile is a moment of profound surrender, no longer needing to hold anything together or manage a journey that is too busy taking care of you to brief you on its plan.

Whether as a gaze of ecstasy exchanged by lovers, the admiration given from parent to child, support sent from one friend to another, or an offering shared by planetary neighbors, may today be an opportunity to remember the power of your smile.

As you take the time to smile more deliberately, openly, and authentically than ever before, may you rejoice in how often you are given opportunities to positively affect the quantum field of reality just by engaging the simplest and sweetest acts of kindness more often. May you come to know the happiness already within you that can be received with greater awareness the more often you open up and dare to shine.

Through the healing energy encoded in these words, I pass along to you the transformative effects of this powerful practice. From my heart to yours, I offer you this smile and invite you to pass it along to all the incredible souls you are meant to meet. May you receive it fully and share it freely for the wellbeing of all.

All For Love,

Matt Kahn

Womens History Month || Smithsonian Shines Light on Hawaiian Queens for Women’s History Month

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The Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center’s Learning Together program announced in an emailed statement last week that, as part of Women’s History Month, it will share teaching materials on two women who were critical to the history of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

The Center’s Learning Lab, an online resource for educators, includes a wide range of content focusing on Queen Kapi‘olani (1834-1899) and Queen Liliʻuokalani (1838-1917)—two of the most important leaders in a rich native culture that existed long before the establishment of the United States.

Read article here: https://www.colorlines.com/articles/smithsonian-shines-light-hawaiian-queens-womens-history-month

Musings …

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All of us struggle with our identity. Maybe, we date someone we shouldn’t … maybe, we’re related to someone we wish we weren’t. Maybe, we need rules … maybe, we shun them. Maybe, we need to shake who we always thought we were and try on something new. Maybe, we should loosen up … maybe, we should take a leap … because when we do, maybe we just might surprise ourselves.

Hau’ōli aloha Pō’aōno

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Aloha kākahiāka e Hau’ōli aloha Pō’aōno nā Kānaka. Aʻia i kā ʻōlelo nō keʻola, aʻia i kā ʻōlelo no ka make. Ō kā maluhia nō me ʻoe.

Good morning and Happy Saturday, People. In speech is life, in speech is death. In ancient Hawai’i, a kahuna ‘ana’ana could pray someone to death or counter another’s death prayer. The saying tells the Hawaiians that words can either be a source for healing or destroying and so we need to be careful with our words. Peace be with you.

Spring Equinox Heralds Nature’s New Year

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

March 21 – 3.21 is the first day of our year on the natural cycle.

Today marks the first day that all natural life springs into action, beginning a new cycle of life over the next 12 months.

The first day of SPRING is like the first hour of SUNRISE on a microcosmic scale…

The first day of SUMMER is like the first hour at MIDDAY….

The first day of FALL/AUTUMN is like the first hour of SUNSET…

The first day of WINTER is like the first hour at MIDNIGHT…

Everything is a microcosm of a macrocosm…

Everything in the natural world is perfectly balanced & synchronised.

We do not need to follow the spelling dates of manmade calnders to tell us when, what or how things are…

All we need to do is observe & tune into the natural cycle & order of nature itself.

Musings …

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#SolitudeHeals

It is in the quiet times that we build our strengths and know we have something to rely on.

Solitude is not withdrawal into a place where no one and no sound can penetrate.

It is a sweet moment of peace with or without other people that lets us re-center and reset the rhythm of the mind, body and spirit.

It is wisdom to stay close to the solitude of nature to keep us young and pliable.

~Joyce Sequichie Hifler~

#ArchaeologyForTheWomansSoul

Spirituality | THE MYSTERY OF SPIRITUAL EVOLUTION, by Paramahansa Yogananda

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Spiritual evolution is a mystic adventure – the adventure of raising consciousness. In this adventure, there is no chance or fortune because spiritual evolution is dynamic. It is in the existential flow and transcends fate. In short, to evolve spiritually is to overcome destiny and rewrite the future.

In the process of spiritual evolution, opposites based on the polarity principle become united. Through spiritual evolution, the clash of the opposites ends and the individual goes beyond the polarity principle. Because of this transcendence, internal conflicts come to an end and the individual attains peace.

Through the spiritual evolution, the individual turns towards beauty and escapes from the ugliness. Negativity is the reality of earthly life, but in the process of the spiritual evolution, everything negative starts to turn into positive because there is no place for negativity in absolute existence.

A person’s negativity can hinder his spiritual evolution. Because of the negative tendencies, the individual may deviate from the spiritual evolutionary path. This kind of deviation causes conflicts, pain, uneasiness, and chaos. The individual falls from the spiritually evolving cosmos to the chaos of decline.

The reason for the decline is the freedom to disobey the principles of the universe. When the individual abuses the absolute freedom that he has, he rebels against universal law and starts to decline. The only way to get rid of this declining is to evolve.

To choose the path of spiritual evolution, the individual has to taste the pains of downfall, because the one who does not know the pain of decline will not be able to know the value of spiritual evolution. Also, the one who does not know the decline cannot understand what spiritual evolving is. For that reason, only the ones who hit the floor of the decline will know the worth of the spiritual evolution.

– Paramahansa Yogananda