New Age

Self-Worth and Self-Esteem
Everyday Enlightenment: The Twelve Gateways to Personal Growth
by Dan Millman
Because many people assume that self-esteem and self-worth mean the same thing, it seems important to note the distinctions between the two. Self-worth (associated with self-respect) refers to your overall sense of value, worth, goodness, and deservedness

Walk With Me Now
Soul Signs: An Elemental Guide to Your Spiritual Destiny
by Rosemary Altea
It was just a little more than five years ago that the subject of soul signs first came up, and the moment Grey Eagle mentioned it to me, I was fascinated. Considering the fact that I have been working with the spirit world for more than twenty years

Money and Self-Worth
Everyday Enlightenment: The Twelve Gateways to Personal Growth
by Dan Millman
Your perceived worth is another kind of belief that impacts how deserving you feel of abundance. Other factors being equal, money scarcity is often related to low self-worth and resultant self-sabotage. For example, lottery winners and others who suddenly

Life Scan: Rating Your Own Worth, Self-Reflection on Self-Worth
Everyday Enlightenment: The Twelve Gateways to Personal Growth
by Dan Millman
Remember that your sense of self-worth-of deservedness-is related to your perception of your relative goodness. On the scale stretching from a totally bad person to a totally good person, where do you fall?

Know That You Are Not Alone
Everyday Enlightenment: The Twelve Gateways to Personal Growth
by Dan Millman
The first step is to realize that you are not alone. We have all made mistakes as part of our life and growth. We have all said, thought, felt, and done things we regret. Our worth is not dependent upon being perfect.

Why Do Bad Things Happen?
Fire in the Soul: A New Psychology of Spiritual optimism
by Joan Borysenko
I had almost finished the first draft of this chapter late in June 1990 when a tragedy led our family to ask the age-old question: Why? If there is any love in this universe, why do bad things happen? My husband, Myrin, and I were sound asleep when we

The Choices You Make
Everyday Enlightenment: The Twelve Gateways to Personal Growth
by Dan Millman
The central theme of the first gateway is that you subconsciously choose or attract into your life those people and experiences you believe you deserve. In everyday life pain is inevitable, but suffering is optional-a by-product of poor choices.

Taking Charge by Taking Responsibility
Everyday Enlightenment: The Twelve Gateways to Personal Growth
by Dan Millman
While coaching gymnastics at Stanford University, I walked into a workout one day and found Jack, the team captain, lying on the mat, stretching-grasping one of his legs and pulling it toward his chest. As I walked by, I saw him grimace and heard him groa

Welcome to You
The Simple Abundance Companion
by Sarah Ban Breathnach
You are beautiful. Right now. Today. Just as you are, just the way you look as you read those three words: You. Are. Beautiful. Say it slowly aloud, as if the phrase were a foreign language, for it probably is. You are beautiful.

Your Internal Scorecard
Everyday Enlightenment: The Twelve Gateways to Personal Growth
by Dan Millman
One of the most important steps you can take to improve the quality of your life is to become aware of how your self-assessment has shaped your existence and how you can transcend whatever rating you gave yourself.

Promises, Promises
The Simple Abundance Companion
by Sarah Ban Breathnach
During the early seventies I worked in London as a fledgling freelance writer and earned in a flush week about $75. Of necessity, I inhabited a dreary, cheerless cell euphemistically known as a bed-sitter.

Who, What And Where Is God?
New Age Judaism: Ancient Wisdom for the Modern World
by Melinda Ribne
Many people will be surprised to find that Judaism is fundamentally aligned with what we think of as the New Age. Many of the things we associated with the New Age are not new but are part of Kabbalah, the Jewish mystical tradition.

The Beginning
Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love
by Brian L. Weiss, M.D.
Our task is to learn, to become God-like through knowledge. We know so little… By knowledge we approach God, and then we can rest. Then we come back to teach and help others.

Catching up with the Dream
The Simple Abundance Companion
by Sarah Ban Breathnach
A dream is a promise you make to Spirit and yourself. Sometimes it takes literally years to keep that promise, whether it's a home, a family, a career, or a lifestyle. Dreams cost sweat, frustration, tears, courage, choices, money, perseverance

Is There An Answer For Job?
Fire in the Soul: A New Psychology of Spiritual optimism
by Joan Borysenko
The Book of Job goes on to provide considerable insight into how people think about the question of whether the universe is a friendly place or not. After Job's stirring soliloquy of suffering and misery that we read a few pages back, his three friends si

Opening to Life
Everyday Enlightenment: The Twelve Gateways to Personal Growth
by Dan Millman
It is a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it. - W. Somerset Maugham. Road Map: The First Key to Transformation

Longing
The Love Spell. An Erotic Memoir of Spiritual Awakening
by Phyllis Curott
How do you know when it's real? I glanced over to find him smiling at me. I smiled back. He pulled his old Scout off the old gravel road, bumping along the tractor path at the edge of the field.

Psychological and Religious Pessimism
Fire in the Soul: A New Psychology of Spiritual optimism
by Joan Borysenko
A doughnut-shaped greeting card that I once sent to a friend defined optimism and pessimism succinctly. It said, The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is droll. The optimist sees the doughnut and the pessimist sees the hole.

A First Story
Fire in the Soul: A New Psychology of Spiritual optimism
by Joan Borysenko
A First Story, as I presented the idea in the parable that opens this section, is an archetype-a master story-that each person must live through in the process of growing their soul and finding their way back to God.

One
I Know Why We're Here : An Ordinary Woman, An Extraordinary Psychic Gift
by Mia Dolan
In my earliest memory, I am standing on the doorstep of our house on the Isle of Sheppey, looking out at a group of children playing in the driveway. There is my older brother, Jed, my kid brother, Peter, and our neighbors' children-six of them-all