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"A beggar had been sitting by the side of a road for over thirty years. One day a stranger walked by. "Spare some change?" mumbled the beggar, mechanically holding out his old baseball cap. "I have nothing to give you," said the stranger. Then he asked: "What’s that you are sitting on?" "Nothing," replied the beggar. "Just an old box. I have been sitting on it for as long as I can remember." "Ever looked inside?" asked the stranger. "No," said the beggar. "What’s the point? There’s nothing in there." "Have a look inside," insisted the stranger. The beggar managed to pry open the lid. With astonishment, disbelief, and elation, he saw that the box was filled with gold.

I am that stranger who has nothing to give you and who is telling you to look inside. Not inside any box, as in the parable, but somewhere even closer: inside yourself.

"But I am not a beggar," I can hear you say.

Those who have not found their true wealth, which is the radiant joy of Being and the deep, unshakable peace that comes with it, are beggars, even if they have great material wealth." Read more…

The Power of Now is one of the most influential spiritual books of our time. The following is an excerpt of the complete first chapter called "You are not your Mind".

Chapter 1 "You are not your mind" is definitely the entry point for raising your awareness to see, that identification of your self with the thoughts and emotions you have is a core error. If you become able to be the watcher of thoughts, instead of identifying with thoughts, you move to be able to free yourself from one of the greatest sources of suffering and open the door to a higher consciousness (or awareness, Eckhart uses both synonymously).

What then happens is that the mind becomes the servant, the great tool to be used consciously, instead of running on autopilot using you. Your true essence then reveals itself as the underlying awareness itself.

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Your Purpose: Deciding the WHAT to do?

Finding the right thing for you to do, where you spend a lot of time in your professional life, is a task really worth taking seriously. Usually it gets most important in our later teen-time or early twenties, but really it is a question that should be asked over the whole lifetime, since it can change dramatically when we develop ourselves.

The right career means finding a profession, where you want to, or even love to work. It’s something that fulfils you and something where you really can bring your whole person into the set; something where you really can be successful, including earning a lot of money on the long run and provide service for other people and society.

So how can we go about it? I give you my advice, which worked for me so far.
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"I cannot tell you any spiritual truth that deep within you don’t know already. All I can do is remind you of what you have forgotten." - Eckhart Tolle

For most of the readers here, the topic of spirituality may be a very fuzzy and unknown place. “What’s the use of it? What can I do with this? Why should I even bother?” I hear you asking. And the strange thing is, although this is not the best question to ask, I will try to answer it. I will try to give an entry point for everybody who is not (yet) familiar with the experience of spirituality, which is usually a total different perspective than what we have in our mind as the mental concept of spirituality.

First I like to clarify that when I want to talk about the topic of spirituality, I don’t talk about religion and I don’t talk about belief (in a God or not). Frankly speaking, that was never a real interest for me. I am talking all about experiencing spirituality and nothing else really matters. Then I think it becomes a topic for everyone.
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"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." - Wayne Dyer

How to get out of our own way

Most of the time we are our greatest enemy. From childhood on we are literally scripted like a program by things that were said to us by our parents, other close relatives, teachers or friends. Experiences that happen to us also are stored in our memory and our brain is making conclusions about what we can do and more importantly, what we can’t or shouldn’t.

This way of experiencing reality results in a set of rules that become our belief-structure and therefore our mirror of "reality" and as an important part of it our own identity. But this reality isn’t a fixed thing, it is an image, a perspective we have in our minds. If it comes to our own self these beliefs can be supporting for us, or limiting.

It is very important to realize, that these beliefs are not reality. Reality is a relative construct. Beliefs are thoughts in our head that have formed an image of the world, that we work with. But it is not reality.

You may not even be aware of such self-limiting beliefs, but certainly they are there inside. Even if you made a lot of personal progress in working on yourself, there are a lot of areas were limiting beliefs are holding you back.

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“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our minds.” - Bob Marley Redemtion Song

What is the initial stepping stone for personal growth?

This question bothered me for some time now. I don’t mean external factors like a lucky gain on something or a very negative experience we had that shaped our life. I’m talking about what has to happen internally inside ourselves. What interested me was always to look inside first, to life inside-out. How do we run the inner “program” to function in a best possible way, to enable ourselves to grow and expand?

For me I came to a conclusion. I think there is nothing more important as a first step, than taking full responsibility for what happens in our life. A lot of what we describe as success in life flows directly from it. Or you could say only the responsible person enables him- or herself to get to the next level of personal development.

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I decided to change the name of the blog from CANEIblog.com to AwakeBlogger.com, just because the acronym CANEI isn’t that easy to remember, and especially not that easy to tell. Although I like the philosophy of Constant And Never Ending Improvement , I switched to "AwakeBlogger.com" as the name for the future. Please update bookmarks and RSS-feed subscriptions.

I also planned the future content of AwakeBlogger and there are two major guides that I want to publish here . The first is a guide to personal development as a series of about 7 articles; from the starting point, which is in my eyes taking responsibility for yourself , until being fully able to live ones own potential. This is planned as a walk through guide which you can start at point one and advance through it. It will include changing limiting beliefs , igniting desire, building a personal vision and setting goals efficiently, focused action and managing success.

The other planned guide is in the realm of spirituality , which is in my opinion the logical advancement if you became able to achieve personal success. It’s the raising of consciousness. But first I will focus on personal development mainly.

Also there will be practial articles about methods, tools, mind-sets that just proved to be valueable to me. The range of these topics will be from mind, body, social to finances and business.

So besides these two guides I’m looking forward to writing articles that I call healthy fast food , stuff like 7 powerful habits of happy living , that is easy to digest if you just surfed by. ;)

So I hope that sounds interesting to you, I’m having fun writing it. If you are looking forward to it just subscribe to the feed and you will be updated on new material :)