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Tag Archives: ego
Failing or Failure?
Someone said, “No one ends up where they aim…not even God.” Really? Not even God? Surely, this person was not suggesting that God sometimes fails? Yes, come to think of it, I suspect God does. From the beginning, didn’t creation … Continue reading
Posted in ego, failing, failure, Grace
Tagged blessed holiday, creation was one colossal failure, drstevemcswain, ego, failing, failure, god, grace, grace is born, Jesus, steve mcswain, stevemcswain, The Buddha, the lost, to save, to seek
Ever Felt Misunderstood? Unfairly Attacked? What Do You Do?
ver felt misunderstood? Unfairly attacked? Betrayed? Like you’ve been set up by someone who asks what you think about something but, when you answer, they turn on you like a pack of wolves? Such was the case most recently. Continue reading
Posted in Attacked, ego, Faith, Happiness, Misunderstood
Tagged ego, enoch, enoch factor, misunderstood, personal attack
Death, Taxes, Ego, and Easter All Have Something in Common
I’ll spare you the overworked cliche regarding death and taxes. It’s only half true anyway. Taxes are as uncertain as the weather. Nearly half of all Americans pay no income tax. The super rich find their federal taxes aredropping dramatically. So the only thing about which you can really be certain is death itself. Continue reading
How To Be Happy: The Culprit in Virtually All Human Unhappiness
Robert Louis Stephenson once wrote: “I have a little shadow who goes in and out with me; and what can be the use of him is more than I can see. He is very, very like me from the heels … Continue reading
Posted in Happiness, How to Know God, Spirituality
Tagged chief culprit, clever poem, deepak chopra, ego, Happiness, human unhappiness, illusory image, immanuel kant, inner character, life experiences, little monster, little shadow, martha beck, necessary steps, nietzsche, old and new testaments, philosopher immanuel kant, robert louis stephenson, social mask, social self, wayne dyer
911, War and Peace
We hear a great deal about “winning” the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. Is war ever winnable? What really is the answer to the conflict in the Middle East? Is it all that different than the conflict in the human soul? Isn’t what goes on around us just a reflection of what’s going on within us? War without? War within. The world will only ever change from within. Here’s what I’ve learned… Continue reading
Posted in War, Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
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Why Are People So Unhappy?
Why is there so much unhappiness in our world? Where does it come from? How can we find the source of real happiness, bliss, and peace? In groundbreaking new book, The Enoch Factor: Sacred Art of Knowing God, author Dr. Steve McSwain explores the way to find happiness. Continue reading
Posted in Happiness
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Why the "Law of Attraction" Doesn’t Work for Most People
Author/Speaker/Spiritual Leader Provides Clues in Groundbreaking New Book, The Enoch Factor: Sacred Art of Knowing God. Continue reading
Posted in Law of Attraction
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