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	<title>Christopher Hansard &#187; Self</title>
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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[ a space in time]</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2009/09/15/christopher-hansard-a-space-in-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:43:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[each of us is a space in time a place in space and a spark of mind each of us is a space in time a place in space a noetic motion in a wave of vibration each of a space in time, a place in space a spark of mind]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="center">each of us</p>
<p align="center">is</p>
<p align="center">a space in time</p>
<p align="center">a place in space</p>
<p align="center">and a spark of mind</p>
<p align="center">each of us is a space in time</p>
<p align="center">a place in space</p>
<p align="center">a noetic motion</p>
<p align="center">in</p>
<p align="center">a wave of vibration</p>
<p align="center">each of a space in time, a place in space</p>
<p align="center">a spark of mind</p>
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		<title>There is a Promise</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/05/11/there-is-a-promise/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 22:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a Promise that is hidden in all things it waits to be discovered offering words of love and hope of illumination and shows you the continuity of all things.. &#160; that there is one eternal season and that the stages of humanity are the spring, summer, autumn and winter the day and night [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="center">There is a Promise</p>
<p align="center">that is hidden</p>
<p align="center">in all things</p>
<p align="center">it waits to</p>
<p align="center">be discovered</p>
<p align="center">offering words</p>
<p align="center">of love</p>
<p align="center">and hope</p>
<p align="center">of illumination</p>
<p align="center">and shows</p>
<p align="center">you</p>
<p align="center">the continuity</p>
<p align="center">of all things..</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">that there is</p>
<p align="center">one eternal season</p>
<p align="center">and that the stages</p>
<p align="center">of humanity</p>
<p align="center">are the spring,</p>
<p align="center">summer,</p>
<p align="center">autumn and winter</p>
<p align="center">the day and night</p>
<p align="center">the first kiss of life</p>
<p align="center">the first kiss of death</p>
<p align="center">all contained in</p>
<p align="center">the query, question</p>
<p align="center">and surprise that makes you wonder</p>
<p align="center">what the promise itself may be..</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">we are all like incense on the wind</p>
<p align="center">we live as both fragrance, ash</p>
<p align="center">fire, dust, intent ,</p>
<p align="center">and</p>
<p align="center">for a time we burn</p>
<p align="center">and are gone</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">there is a promise</p>
<p align="center">it waits in the hearts</p>
<p align="center">of everyone</p>
<p align="center">a true romance</p>
<p align="center">of a soul&#8217;s meander through</p>
<p align="center">the psyche</p>
<p align="center">and the pyche&#8217;s leap</p>
<p align="center">to consciousness</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">we should take the time</p>
<p align="center">to bow to the humble</p>
<p align="center">and the small</p>
<p align="center">for in such things and people</p>
<p align="center">the promise speaks</p>
<p align="center">the most</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">if you search for god</p>
<p align="center">or happiness</p>
<p align="center">wealth or a brand new car</p>
<p align="center">a golden lover or bright new dream</p>
<p align="center">pause and stop</p>
<p align="center">to know that</p>
<p align="center">there is a promise</p>
<p align="center">dwelling in between</p>
<p align="center">the rush and rapture</p>
<p align="center">of what you call your life</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">There is a promise</p>
<p align="center">it waits for you</p>
<p align="center">every day and impression</p>
<p align="center">each passing year,</p>
<p align="center">in tears and laughter</p>
<p align="center">the promise waits</p>
<p align="center">a quiet voice, it speaks</p>
<p align="center">waiting for you to hear</p>
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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[When the Sunlight Falls]</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/04/30/christopher-hansardwhen-the-sunlight-falls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the sunlight falls upon the waves carefree and glancing as they lap around the last remains of a sky scraping tower the young child from the little boat looks up with wondering eyes &#8216;who made these things?&#8217; his mother catches his thoughts.. &#8216;men who were like gods, men who fell to the earth and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="center">When the sunlight falls upon the waves</p>
<p align="center">carefree and glancing as they lap around the</p>
<p align="center">last remains of a sky scraping tower</p>
<p align="center">the young child from the little boat looks up with wondering eyes</p>
<p align="center">&#8216;who made these things?&#8217; his mother catches his thoughts..</p>
<p align="center">&#8216;men who were like gods, men who fell to the earth and could not get up again&#8217;</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">the child wonders,sad thoughts</p>
<p align="center">trawling a memory of what was once</p>
<p align="center">another world, fingers trailing in water</p>
<p align="center">as fish swirl around the little boat</p>
<p align="center">as by thought it moves silently</p>
<p align="center">across the great saltwater lake</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">deep in the refracted depths</p>
<p align="center">white whales harvest the plankton</p>
<p align="center">while a serrated moon</p>
<p align="center">hangs tilted in the blue starred night</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">years pass the child now a man</p>
<p align="center">goes past in a little boat</p>
<p align="center">and his daughter wonders the very same as he once did</p>
<p align="center">a hundred years go past</p>
<p align="center">people pass by they do not see the ruins</p>
<p align="center">they do not know what they are</p>
<p align="center">the ruins</p>
<p align="center">they have slipped</p>
<p align="center">from memory and so they do not exist</p>
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		<title>Christopher Hansard:[Love is Within Us]</title>
		<link>http://www.blog.christopherhansard.com/2008/04/27/christopher-hansardlove-is-within-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 22:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; ONE: &#160; Wisdom has a sadness of its own, pensive like a cello playing in a soft snow fall Compassion holds a knowingness that looks into all things with an unblinking eye Anger seeks to include everyone in its rage of ignorance and self-defeat, Greed seeks solace in having all it can to bury [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="justify">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"> ONE:</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="justify"> <font color="#000080">Wisdom has a sadness of its own, pensive like a cello playing in a soft snow fall</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000080">Compassion holds a knowingness that looks into all things with an unblinking eye</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000080">Anger seeks to include everyone in its rage of ignorance and self-defeat,</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000080">Greed seeks solace in having all it can to bury the  oncoming fear</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000080">Lust craves a chance at halting mortality and believes in the tempoary as real</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000080">Illumination lights only what needs to be illuminated for the awakening of the Self happens in the dark</font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#000080">Loss and learning go together, and love and liberation are good friends.</font></p>
<p align="justify">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">TWO:</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="right"><font color="#800000">Love was within us before we came and went, love was in the first cosmic form</font><br />
<font color="#800000">and fell in the first rainfall, love was within us and will be when we forget that we once dwelt</font><br />
<font color="#800000">upon the Earth, love was within the first rising spark of Wisdom and the clear sight of Compassion</font><br />
<font color="#800000">and Love took the journey willingly into the dark matter and confusion of the temporal world in order</font><br />
<font color="#800000">to evolve back to its own recognition again.</font></p>
<p align="center"> THREE:</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center"><font color="#000080">The human race is a pathway in which Love plies its course, </font><br />
<font color="#000080">a river that flows through time and space</font><br />
<font color="#000080">creating diversity and matter, consciousness and place, </font><br />
<font color="#000080">perception and awakening and the nature of living light</font><br />
<font color="#000080">Love has made the chance for Life </font><br />
<font color="#000080">when it embraced itself openly with Light,</font></p>
<p align="center">
<font color="#000080">for Love and Life make Light and from that all things are:</font></p>
<p align="center">
<font color="#000080">for in Light, Consciousness takes form </font></p>
<p align="center"><font color="#000080">shrouding Love&#8217;s constant breath </font><br />
<font color="#000080">and in that come  the two eternal seasons, mortal life and mortal death </font><br />
<font color="#000080">two great teachings of  Love and Light </font><br />
<font color="#000080">by which the Cosmos and Consciousness descend and create form</font><br />
<font color="#800000"> </font></p>
<p align="justify"><font color="#800000"> </font></p>
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		<title>The Moment is Illusory</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The moment comes fleeting, illusory and charmed like a bright star full of inspiration empowered by the flash of intuition that leads us past the facade of the world, moments are illusory there is no now, formed by the gaps of the brain we are children of the past but by seeing the connections we [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="center">The moment comes fleeting,</p>
<p align="center">illusory and charmed</p>
<p align="center">like a bright star full of inspiration</p>
<p align="center">empowered by the</p>
<p align="center">flash of intuition</p>
<p align="center">that leads us</p>
<p align="center">past the facade of the world,</p>
<p align="center">moments are illusory</p>
<p align="center">there is no now,</p>
<p align="center">formed by the gaps of the brain</p>
<p align="center">we are children of the past</p>
<p align="center">but by seeing the connections</p>
<p align="center">we can jump into the gaps</p>
<p align="center">between moments</p>
<p align="center">and discover</p>
<p align="center"> the eternal</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">Living in the moment is a mental rat trap</p>
<p align="center">stop ..</p>
<p align="center">go beyond moments,</p>
<p align="center">in the nanosecond that our brain pauses</p>
<p align="center">between processing billions of  types of information</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">let your self dive</p>
<p align="center">beyond</p>
<p align="center">the brain made world</p>
<p align="center">to</p>
<p align="center"> the place of consciousness</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">pause and be still</p>
<p align="center"> and there</p>
<p align="center">the</p>
<p align="center"> gaps will</p>
<p align="center"> open,</p>
<p align="center">vast ,</p>
<p align="center">doorways</p>
<p align="center">to the</p>
<p align="center">underlying</p>
<p align="center">reality</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</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:[Power]</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 10:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hansard</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Power is often confused with force, and force is regarded as strength, and in many worldly situations that is true and appropriate when needed. However, true power in all its forms stems from the relationship a person has with their inner power, and the greatest power is the knowing of when to act, when to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Power is often confused with force, and force is regarded as strength, and in many worldly situations that is true and appropriate when needed.</p>
<p>However, true power in all its forms  stems from the relationship a person has with their inner power, and the greatest power is the knowing of when to act, when to not, to be aware of the time of things, for all things have their own time.</p>
<p>The greatest power comes from living in accord with your authentic emotional and spiritual state which can not be defined by anyone other than you and the eternal Self that takes on the material identity that you regard as your personality, day by day. Power comes not from things but from being.</p>
<p>When power is applied it not longer becomes power but another quality of action and intent.</p>
<p>You are potentially more powerful than any man made force or natural cycle or cosmic event or body, you are the summation of a thousand million universes, countless aeons of conscious journeying through many life forms, you are the great navigator and commander of  the most profound power of all..the continuity of Consciousness  which is the energy that all power is derived from.</p>
<p>Power takes on a conscious form when applied that is why as your inner self grows and matures it becomes powerful, not in ego or desire but in accordance with the cycle of things, there are many on this planet who have power but are not mature, their power comes from the intent of despair and ego, fear and the desire for safety from their inner knowledge that their power will fade thus bringing the fear of mortality.</p>
<p>This relationship to power comes from the fear of change and the misunderstanding of who we are as human beings in the natural and universal world.</p>
<p>We are immensely powerful, we are learning to be immensely responsible, but we can come to that by awakening the immense compassion that lies within us. If one person in the millions on this planet was truly compassionate but for a moment, all us would change our relationship to power and no one would seek it for artificial means.</p>
<p>The power that all people, all beings respond to and understand wordlessly is the frequency of love , in this material world it is the greatest and most enduring of all forms of power. Is is the one we as individuals and as a species run from but it is the hidden impulse in our evolution.</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>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you happy? Can you ask yourself and find an answer? There is no quick answer, only a slow one that evolves as you experience your evolution through the challenges of life . Happiness comes and goes, but its sweetness is a reminder, that beneath the delights of happiness exists a greater joy and contentment [...]]]></description>
			<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>
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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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