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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[ Presence in all things]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 11:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[no  matter where you are no matter where you think you are no matter what you believe yourself to believe in matter in thought which is matter there is presence in all things the ever knowing You]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: center;">no  matter</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">where you are</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">no matter where you think you are</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">no matter what you believe yourself to believe</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">in matter</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">in thought</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">which is matter</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">there is</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">presence</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">in</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">all things</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">the ever knowing</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">You</p>
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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[The Singer that Lives Within the Song]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 22:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you look up into the starlight you can hear the choirs of ancient voices that once sung of praise and beauty to the simplicity of all things and then as their time was spent so their songs became part of the old starlight the fabric of the energy of space and as their voices [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="center"><font color="#3300ff">When you look up into the starlight</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#0000ff">you can hear the choirs of ancient voices</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#0000ff">that once sung </font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#0000ff">of praise and beauty</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#0000ff">to the simplicity of all things</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#0000ff">and then as their time</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#0000ff">was spent</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#0000ff">so their songs became</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#0000ff">part of the old starlight</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#333399">the fabric of the energy of space</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#333399">and as their voices touched</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#333399">a living planet</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#333399">there,</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#333399"> they made</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#333399">the start of Life</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#6600cc">an impulse to voice</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#6600cc">and sound</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#6600cc">and creation became the</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#6600cc">result</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#6600cc">a function of the duality</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#6600cc">in the endless riddles</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#6600cc">of time</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#6600cc">consciousness</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#6600cc">and becoming</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#6600cc">you can hear every voice</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#6600cc">singing</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#6600cc">a long and sonorous song</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#6600cc">on the arc of light</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#6600cc">and space</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#cc99ff">in the quantity of degrees</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#cc99ff">the equinox of beauty</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#cc99ff">and eternity</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#cc99ff">fit together </font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#cc99ff">a pulse, a wave,</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#cc99ff">a sudden flicker</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#cc99ff">a quake, a drum beat</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#cc99ff">of love,</font></p>
<p align="center"> <font color="#d87093">love,</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#d87093">the eternal fragrance </font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#d87093">of becoming, being,</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#d87093">beginnings and endings</font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#d87093">the singer that lives within the song </font></p>
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		<title>Reflections through Human Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; 1 Take A Walk Across the Land Take a walk across the land, or down the street, extend your hands, feel the human pulse in all that is there step back do you feel fear? Take a walk across your life, or down the memories that make the landscapes in your mind, through the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"> 1</p>
<p align="center"><strong><em>Take  A Walk Across the Land</em> </strong></p>
<p align="center">Take a walk across the land,</p>
<p align="center">or down the street, extend your hands,</p>
<p align="center">feel the human pulse in all that is there</p>
<p align="center">step back do you feel fear?</p>
<p align="center">Take a walk across your life, or down the memories that make</p>
<p align="center"> the landscapes in your mind, through the crowded market place of emotions</p>
<p align="center">and through the long rememberings of the longing heart,</p>
<p align="center">extend you hands</p>
<p align="center"> ..feel the human pulse in all that is there&#8230;</p>
<p align="center"> do you feel love?</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><em>I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart, </em></p>
<p align="center"><em>the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light</em></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">2</p>
<p align="center"><strong><em>The Sound of a Single Note<br />
</em></strong></p>
<p align="center">Each of us remains too frightened in our daily lives,</p>
<p align="center">I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart,</p>
<p align="center">the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light</p>
<p align="center">there are harmonic rhapsodies in the faces of love and fear,</p>
<p align="center">call to them,</p>
<p align="center">like the Pied Piper of Hamlyn</p>
<p align="center"> or the Snake Charmer of Lucknapoor ,</p>
<p align="center">they will come scuttling to the tune,</p>
<p align="center">fear comes like a horde of rats</p>
<p align="center"> because fear is stronger in a crowd and more curious,</p>
<p align="center">love will come willingly for love is willing</p>
<p align="center">and not because the piper calls but that</p>
<p align="center"> love knows that piper in order to heard needs to be followed</p>
<p align="center">until the day that the piper casts the pipe away</p>
<p align="center">Love and fear harmonic interplay</p>
<p align="center">you can travel world on a single note</p>
<p align="center">from future to the past and</p>
<p align="center">the illusion of now</p>
<p align="center">extend your hands and feel the human pulse</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">3</p>
<p align="center"><strong><em>The Finder is Not the Knower </em></strong></p>
<p align="center">we are born to meander through the human pulse</p>
<p align="center">in search of meaning and the celebration of our Self</p>
<p align="center">If you seek to look for God or the answers to your life</p>
<p align="center">stop and feel the human pulse</p>
<p align="center">for all the names of God are found</p>
<p align="center">in the human  world in the beating heart and it essence</p>
<p align="center">if you seek to be comforted, the comfort that is</p>
<p align="center"> within is to be reflected in the creation of friendship</p>
<p align="center">if you seek for answers to your life then stop to know</p>
<p align="center">the way of how you love and why you do</p>
<p align="center"> then give it up and you</p>
<p align="center">will find the truth</p>
<p align="center">whatever you may search for will be found</p>
<p align="center">but on finding it then you must understand</p>
<p align="center">understanding is the discoverer and explorer too</p>
<p align="center">been the finder is not the knower</p>
<p align="center">You may find God, You may find Meaning</p>
<p align="center">You may find Love, You may find fame</p>
<p align="center">Finding is not the Knowing</p>
<p align="center">to know we must give up what we have found</p>
<p align="center">to understand we must give up meaning</p>
<p align="center">to have meaning we must give up all our prejudice</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><em>I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart, </em></p>
<p align="center"><em>the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light</em></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">4</p>
<p align="center"><em><strong>Unknown </strong></em></p>
<p align="center">In the world and in our heart there is the</p>
<p align="center">divine, unknown, we seek to find  a way to love</p>
<p align="center">which will lead to us been known.</p>
<p align="center">but all things return to the unknown</p>
<p align="center">and the emergent</p>
<p align="center">when you feel alone and lonely</p>
<p align="center">separate and unknown</p>
<p align="center">pause and offer up these states of being</p>
<p align="center">as imperfect prayers to the unknown</p>
<p align="center">and you will find that the</p>
<p align="center">Cosmos and its Descent</p>
<p align="center">will be falling within and up</p>
<p align="center">bathing you in the Unknown</p>
<p align="center">We are the Unknown</p>
<p align="center">the lonely and the content</p>
<p align="center">we are the journey and the last coin spent</p>
<p align="center">we are the meaning and dreaming</p>
<p align="center">and the reflections through human experience</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><em>I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart, </em></p>
<p align="center"><em>the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light</em></p>
<p align="center"> 5</p>
<p align="center"><strong><em> What We Have Now is Also This</em></strong></p>
<p align="center">All is offering and acceptance</p>
<p align="center">seeking its own delight</p>
<p align="center">all our bitterness is a call for this</p>
<p align="center">all our love and suffering too</p>
<p align="center">what we have now is also this</p>
<p align="center">what we seek is in the seeking</p>
<p align="center">we fall in love with ourselves</p>
<p align="center">this is what we seek</p>
<p align="center">what we have now in the essence of our being</p>
<p align="center">is what we had in the first impulse of our coming into being</p>
<p align="center">we are reflections through human experience</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><em>I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart, </em></p>
<p align="center"><em>the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light</em></p>
<p align="center"> 6</p>
<p align="center"><em><strong>With a Single Constant Breath Make Ourselves Again<br />
</strong></em></p>
<p align="center">Give up the patterns of your thoughts</p>
<p align="center">the past, wherefores and whys</p>
<p align="center">go beyond comparisons</p>
<p align="center">beyond truth and lies</p>
<p align="center">through the furnace of awakening</p>
<p align="center">through the glamour of illusion</p>
<p align="center">go beyond to</p>
<p align="center">the one unspoken word</p>
<p align="center">there is no this or that</p>
<p align="center">there is no us or them</p>
<p align="center">there is no good or bad</p>
<p align="center">for the Cosmos and its Descent</p>
<p align="center">only moves to find its way</p>
<p align="center">a sunset and sunrise</p>
<p align="center">a moonset and moonrise</p>
<p align="center">fleeting light on fleeting lives</p>
<p align="center">starlight, lovelight, carlights</p>
<p align="center">there is</p>
<p align="center">Awake and be kind to your heart</p>
<p align="center">look out around you</p>
<p align="center">to the mind field, that pattern which you call your life</p>
<p align="center">there the mind field is a vast skein of light</p>
<p align="center">harmonic interludes that create day, birth, night, death</p>
<p align="center">and eternity</p>
<p align="center"><em>I have flown the world on the sound of a single note from my heart, </em></p>
<p align="center"><em>the pure sound of sitar and guitar on the first morning light</em></p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">when the world is at last, swept away ,we will gather up the dust</p>
<p align="center">and with a single constant breath</p>
<p align="center">make our selves again in the image of our being</p>
<p align="center">our creation will be</p>
<p align="center">reflections through human and divine experience</p>
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		<title>Change Takes Time</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever thought to yourself or heard someone say, &#8221; I thought I dealt with this! I thought it was over and done with! why did it take so long to deal with it..why Now? I have wasted all the years, why couldn&#8217;t I have dealt with this years ago?&#8217; Because change takes time, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Have you ever thought to yourself or heard someone say,</p>
<p>&#8221; I thought I dealt with this!</p>
<p>I thought it was over and done with!</p>
<p>why did it take so long to deal with it..why Now?</p>
<p>I have wasted all the years, why couldn&#8217;t I have dealt with this years ago?&#8217;</p>
<p>Because change takes time, like true love, it takes the understanding of time</p>
<p>and the acceptance that change only comes when you are ready..</p>
<p>and often we may think we are ready, but deep within we are not</p>
<p>Change takes time, and time can only be a helper if you see time as agent of change</p>
<p>Time goes in cycles , not in a straight line..</p>
<p>Change goes in cycles, not in a straight line..</p>
<p>There are no straight lines within the growing psyche,</p>
<p>in the inner expression of spiritual change there always is to be found a cycle</p>
<p>of change and time, like two different coloured flowers on one slender plant</p>
<p>Time needs change to give meaning to humanity</p>
<p>and Change needs Time to grow and mature</p>
<p>We are all children of time and change</p>
<p>They are two of  twelve great mysteries that give humanity the impulse of evolution.</p>
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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[ Karma, Rebirth and Reincarnation]</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:34:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People often wonder&#8230; what is Karma? Karma is any intentional process, a thought, action, word or gesture or combination of all that is done with intent and focus. This the primary impulse of Karma. It does not matter whether the intent is positive or negative.  Because such activity creates many patterns that replicate themselves beyond [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>People often wonder&#8230; what is Karma?</p>
<p>Karma is any intentional process, a thought, action, word or gesture or combination of all that is done with intent and focus. This the primary impulse of Karma. It does not matter whether the intent is positive or negative.  Because such activity creates many patterns that replicate themselves beyond measurement, we all are linked in a karmic fish net, that trawls the bottom of our unconscious karmic ocean.</p>
<p>If we wish to change patterns in our life, we need to understand what prompts our thoughts, actions, words and gestures, and what are the drives behind our intentions and focus. We can change karmic patterns by changing the nature of our intentions to the world, our inner world, outer world and to all people and other living creatures.</p>
<p>People often wonder &#8230;what  is Rebirth, thinking it the same as Reincarnation.</p>
<p>Rebirth is the process of suddenly been born as soon as you are dead without any understanding or control over the emotional, psychological and spiritual aspects of dying. If you lived a confused life and died with confusion, fear or any other overwhelming emotion that caused you to feel trapped,then it can be that you will be born immediately, as there are endless wombs waiting to be filled with life.</p>
<p>Rebirth is sudden and without understanding, it is a rush an endless flow and pattern. But you can rise out of that pattern by learning how to become conscious and more aware of your inner state so it does not sabotage your mental state as you die. This leads us to Reincarnation.</p>
<p>People often wonder&#8230; what Reincarnation is&#8230;</p>
<p>Reincarnation is the conscious application of mental , emotional and spiritual insight to yourself as you die, thus clearing away all the inner fears and projections that emanate around you as you die. You create a choice within you as to how you shall be, you enter into a dimension of choices. And when you know it is right, you have an element of choice over how, when and to whom you will be born.</p>
<p>In the death process if you enter into the state of clarity, you can redeem yourself, heal all your regrets, learn as to the whys and hows of your karmic legacy and inheritance and transform yourself.</p>
<p>Death is the great equalizer but in that you have choice and intention and focus.   Whatever you have done, you can heal in the process of death, and stay in the dimensions between the former life and the possibility of a new one, to enhance your inner evolution and well being.</p>
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		<title>AChristopher Hansard:[Bliss and Boredom]</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bliss and Boredom, silence and noise, calm and rush, silence and noise, clamour and quietude, dark and light, to have and not to have, these are the questions that are asked deep within our everyday selves and we are not normally conscious of the asking. Until, one, some or all of them come rushing out [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bliss and Boredom, silence and noise,</p>
<p>calm and rush, silence and noise, clamour and quietude, dark and light,</p>
<p>to have and not to have,</p>
<p>these are the questions that are asked deep within our everyday selves and we are not normally conscious of the asking. Until, one, some or all of them come rushing out in a surprise guerilla assault of our fragile sense of self. These fuel most people&#8217;s search for meaning, comfort and stability.</p>
<p>But they are heat waves that come from the energy our everyday mind when it tries to make sense of our lives, selves and the world.</p>
<p>To move beyond becoming influenced by the rise and fall of all of these, we need to understand that we can let go of trying to make sense of it, and allow the natural sense to make sense of us.</p>
<p>Yes, we need to let go of the searching when fueled by all of these things that I have listed and allow the natural sense within us to show us that there is no search.</p>
<p>Because  you are the  journey and the destination and you have already arrived, it is just, that at some point in your journey through Life, you forgot. Its like meeting someone from years ago, and you can&#8217;t quite place their face or name, but you know that you know them from somewhere.</p>
<p>The natural sense within can show you that beneath the thrum of all of these experiences that I mentioned earlier is a great simplicity, and it is constant and yet as you experience it, it is renewed and so are you.</p>
<p>There will be no more bliss or boredom, but contentment and a knowing of the great laugh that resounds in the universe, and you will taste joy in everything and everyone.</p>
<p>Beyond Bliss, beyond boredom, you will find yourself and like a long lost lover rush to embrace yourself in the experience of the ever constant divine.</p>
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		<title>AChristopher Hansard:[Are You Disatisfied?]</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:17:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you disatisfied? With the way your life is? The amount of money that you make? Your health, status, relationships, body, confidence ? Are you disastisfied with your lack of acheivement. Well I would like to ask you, compared to what? Disatisfaction? What are you disatisfied with when compared to&#8230;? If you start to compare [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you disatisfied?</p>
<p>With the way your life is?</p>
<p>The amount of money that you make?</p>
<p>Your health, status,  relationships,  body, confidence ?</p>
<p>Are you disastisfied with your lack of acheivement.</p>
<p>Well I would like to ask you, compared to what?</p>
<p>Disatisfaction? What are you disatisfied with  when compared to&#8230;?</p>
<p>If you start to compare &#8230;your disatisfaction will fade, because</p>
<p>just like comparison, disatisfaction is fleeting and not true.</p>
<p>Yet it can prompt people to really acheive incredible things and bring them to a place of truth, disatisfied people search for the meaning of things and change, content people do not. How disatisfied are you? Can you sit in your own company?</p>
<p>Can you accept that where you are in your life right now is where you are meant to be?</p>
<p>Disatisfaction is not something you can have for long or cling to, it is both a sensory and an emotional experience that prompts each of us to higher states of change, it is not the goal or the destination, but a process that leads us to knowing who we truly are.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t get caught up in disatisafction, but take the lesson it offers,</p>
<p>give thanks for what it shows in you and move on.</p>
<p>But what of satisfaction?</p>
<p>It is merely disatisfaction at rest and it too is fleeting,</p>
<p>like a Summer shower that comes in the morning it will not last all day.</p>
<p>Disatisfaction is the everyday mind experiencing the underlying knowing that the material world can not offer a lasting peace or meaning, and so it expresses itself through our fears, longing and regrets.</p>
<p>Give thanks for all that,</p>
<p>give thanks for the moments of satisfaction,</p>
<p>the times of disatisfaction and know them both to be</p>
<p>transient and a heat wave of your ego in search of meaning&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[Are You Happy?]</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 13:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you happy?</p>
<p>Can you ask yourself and find an answer?</p>
<p>There is no quick answer, only a slow one that evolves as you experience your evolution through the challenges of life .</p>
<p>Happiness comes and goes, but its sweetness is a reminder, that beneath the delights of happiness exists a greater joy and contentment that shows  us all, the &#8216;being&#8217; , within the human..</p>
<p>Happiness improves our health and conscious, but the media has hijacked it, turning it into something &#8216;aspirational&#8217; like a fashion item or latest gizmo, happiness is for us to see beyond ourselves and to be thankful for the life we can make from the life we have.</p>
<p>Happiness is also a choice, both a belief, as an act of faith and a psychological state that shifts our consciousness.</p>
<p>How do we find happiness?</p>
<p>We need to look within for that is where its foundation lies,</p>
<p>and without, not in things, but in our relationships to people,</p>
<p>the natural world and the place we stand in,</p>
<p>as we express who we think we are.</p>
<p>Happiness is trust, a trust in the goodness of life, people and ones Self.</p>
<p>If you can not trust in these, then happiness takes time to emerge into your daily activities and thinking.</p>
<p>Happiness is waiting for you to claim it as your own.</p>
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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[Gentleness; when we listen to the interdependence within ourselves]</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gentleness is the expression of interdependence and of the person who is unafraid of the connection with the varied experiences of Life. In a world where people are born unequal, gentleness has a greater impact than the biggest fanfare. Gentleness is the opportunity of communication and is the first step in true intimacy, of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Gentleness is the expression of interdependence</p>
<p>and of the person who is unafraid of the connection</p>
<p>with the varied experiences of Life.<span id="more-52"></span></p>
<p>In a world where people are born unequal,</p>
<p>gentleness has a greater impact than the biggest fanfare.</p>
<p>Gentleness  is the opportunity of communication</p>
<p>and is the first step in true intimacy,</p>
<p>of the self, of your inner consciousness and with another.</p>
<p>Gentleness comes about when we listen to the interdependence within ourselves.</p>
<p>When we take the vow of the sacred marriage</p>
<p>between the dark and the light that rumbles through our everyday mind.</p>
<p>When we give up dogma, prejudice and set ideas,</p>
<p>burn away habits back to their original inspiration,</p>
<p>gentleness waits to be experienced.</p>
<p>Gentleness will come when invited.</p>
<p>It is not cautious but has spiritual courtesy.</p>
<p>If you want to experience gentleness</p>
<p>do not be afraid of the love that is revealed</p>
<p>to you in the experience of gentleness.</p>
<p>When the world goes mad and rowdy,</p>
<p>when people became overblown and pollute the world with their lack of care,</p>
<p>when hope seems to evaporate,</p>
<p>gentleness will still be with you.</p>
<p>Gentleness overcomes all things.</p>
<p>It creates renewal and rejuvenation of the heart.</p>
<p>To become gentle and to accept it with you</p>
<p>awakens the impulse within you to embrace  all things with out fear.</p>
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		<title>Trust is Self-Love, Trust is Healing, Trust is Complete</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/02/23/trust-is-self-love-trust-is-healing-trust-is-complete/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trust is an act of self-love, trust is healing when offered, understood and received, trust is complete. It takes trust to receive trust, and trust to enter into the act of trust. If you can trust regardless of what other people do or believe, you can change your world and the world around you. Trust [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Trust is an act of self-love,</p>
<p>trust is healing when offered, understood and received,</p>
<p>trust is complete.</p>
<p>It takes trust to receive trust, and trust to enter into the act of trust.<span id="more-49"></span></p>
<p>If you can trust regardless of what other people do or believe, you can change your world and the world around you.</p>
<p>Trust is more than faith, it is understanding that is wordless and continuous and comes from Love.</p>
<p>Trust is the great act of courtesy from one person to another.</p>
<p>When you trust you create all good things and heal negativity.</p>
<p>True trust can never be broken for it is a naturally arising quality, and comes as when it should.</p>
<p>Trust is an expression of our evolution as a species and directs us to sanity, authenticity and peace.</p>
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