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	<description>Practicing the Art of Forgiveness since 1999</description>
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		<title>How to Get and Stay in Recovery from Addiction and Alcoholism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yea, I&#8217;m a spiritual person, but I suffer from alcoholism and drug addiction.  As an Alcoholic and Addict, I fell prey to poverty, loss of family, loss of employment, hospital stays, being jailed and many other severe trials and sorrows. This is an alcoholic&#8217;s lot in life.  We are wired up differently than others and, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oraea.com/2012/02/07/staying-in-recovery-from-addiction-and-alcoholism/</link>
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		<title>What is Enlightenment?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;O SON OF MAN! &#8220;The light hath shone on thee from the horizon of the sacred Mount and the spirit of enlightenment hath breathed in the Sinai of thy heart&#8230;&#8221; from the Hidden Words of Baha&#8217;u'llah So what, exactly is enlightenment?  It is often spoken of as something to be sought.  But, if the above [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oraea.com/2011/07/31/what-is-enlightenment/</link>
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		<title>A Trained Mind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, I could have been more sensitive&#8230;.or not. This is not what matters. I sit here, stewing in my own juices from my brother&#8217;s verbal attack upon me from just a moment ago.   I notice that my initial, knee-jerk reaction is to want to fixate somehow, out of the discomfort. I feel triggered: judged, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oraea.com/2011/05/31/a-trained-mind/</link>
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		<title>Love&#8217;s Fire</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Enter Into the Silence Of your own heart&#8217;s rose garden. Be still, be still&#8230; Let love&#8217;s fire light up the sky. ~Rumi One of many mystical quatrains by Jelal-u-din Rumi. The music was created by Susan Sheely and me during one of our Tuesday night fireside gatherings&#8211;not unlike a night that might have been spent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oraea.com/2010/10/07/loves-fire/</link>
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		<title>Seeing Past the Veils of Mortal Sight to True Vision</title>
		<description><![CDATA[True Vision and Remembrance Did you know that its really effortless to “see”? Seeing, or more accurately, corrected, spiritual vision, is a natural outcome of an assemblage point shift, or a shift in the way you have organized your world view. That shift in perception is toward a more subjective, deeper view. This deeper view [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oraea.com/2010/10/06/seeing-past-the-veils-of-mortal-sight-to-true-vision/</link>
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		<title>Your Awakening into Enlightenment</title>
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		<link>http://oraea.com/2010/09/27/your-awakening-into-enlightenment/</link>
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		<title>The Vanishing of Everything But Love Itself, part I</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Vanishing of Everything But Love Itself &#8211; Part 1 Since I claim to have practiced the Art of Forgiveness since 1999,  people have naturally, asked me,  &#8221;Well&#8230;what happened in 1999?&#8221; The following is an account of an unprecedented experience I had beginning in February of 1999, following a period of profound disenchantment with my life [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oraea.com/2010/07/03/the-vanishing-of-everything-but-love-itself-part-i/</link>
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		<title>The Vanishing of Everything But Love, part II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About Love: Part Two Upon deplaning, I cross through the arrival gates. While crossing through the first doorway, an energetic veil strips away from my perceptual field. Everything pops into a bright and vibrating luminosity, the very molecules appear to be moving faster. I scarcely have time to notice this, when I passed through the next gate. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oraea.com/2010/07/03/the-vanishing-of-everything-but-love-part-ii/</link>
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		<title>The Beholder&#8217;s One Good Eye</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Poem about the dual realities that exist within all of us...The enlightened One and the darkened one.  This one speaks of the boredom of inaction and the promise of fulfillment.]]></description>
		<link>http://oraea.com/2010/06/20/the-beholders-one-good-eye/</link>
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		<title>Undercover Angels of the Mind &#8211; Could You Be One of Them?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are You an Undercover Mind Angel?  There are angels among us. Some stand out in a crowd, some blend in. All of them work as miraculous healers, mostly behind the scenes. We usually do not even notice the quiet yet powerful work they do to transform our lives. Sometimes they perform simple acts of kindness, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://oraea.com/2010/06/18/undercover-angels-of-the-mind-could-you-be-one-of-them/</link>
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