The Way I Met the Peaceful Warrior I love the old zen story about the farmer who’s neighbors thought it was a bad, unlucky thing that his horse ran away. The old man’s reply? “We’ll see.” As the story goes, the horse came back with another wild horse, and the neighbors quickly switched to remarking how good and lucky that was! The old man’s reply? “We’ll see.” Then the old man’s son started training the horse for riding, but he was thrown and broke his leg. Again the neighbors switched to how bad and unlucky that was. And again the old man replied, “We’ll see.” Later the army came but could not conscript his son due to the broken leg, …
Alchemy wins book deal, $50,000 marketing package
November 15, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The Alchemy of Love and Joy wins book deal, $50,000 marketing package Ottawa, ON – Cindy Teevens, author of The Alchemy of Love and Joy has won first prize out of 2,800 books in the “Next Top Spiritual Author” contest. The prize is a book publishing deal with Hampton Roads (USA) plus a $50,000 marketing package. The contest began last spring with over 2,800 entries from around the world and ended November 15th when Teevens got that call that her book won. The Alchemy of Love and Joy is a story of suffering transcended into joy, and a powerful yet simple life-altering practice. It is how to feel good no matter what is going …
Don’t look for reasons why you hurt
This is a transcript from the workshop video: “Don’t look for reasons why you hurt” (Part 1) Cindy has invited her up a few times… Participant (distraught, crying): “But will they go away for good?” Cindy: “I know…” Participant: “I’ve got such much to be thankful for Cindy.” Cindy: “Yes!” Participant: “…So much!…why do I feel so shitty? Cindy: [motions]…Come up? [Participant gets up] Cindy: “Yah!” [clapping] Cindy: “The whys are coming-up, I know. And they try their hardest, don’t they?” Participant: “I ask my doctor that…’Why?’ And she said it’s your mind. Your mind’s getting in there.” Cindy: You don’t need a why. Do you? [Participant shakes head] Participant: “I keep searching for why though. I want to know …
Cindy interviewed about the practice of Alchemy
Cindy Teevens, a Top 4 author in the global Next Top Spiritual Author competition speaks about her book, The Alchemy of Love and Joy, the end of suffering and birth of unconditional love and the practice of “Alchemy”. She says, “We don’t want things, people, or events–we want the feeling we mistake them for. You can give it to yourself any time. This astounding realization and the practice of “Alchemy” can free you from the ups and downs of this world.” The practice came through her own suffering and discovery of joy, and then it emerged and took form in words to help someone else. You can listen to the interview here.
If the lake doesn’t take it –the wind’s going to break it
“Whhhhhhuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!” the wind howled directly at us with a strength and length I have rarely known. Since Dad passed beyond this life in May, I have been introduced to family members I had never met before. This summer about sixty of them gathered together for a week of camping on family property on the very edge of Lake Erie for a family birthday and Canada Day. My tent was pitched just a few feet from the last of the green turf, which was protected by massive rocks that shielded it from the continuous, pounding waves. While wind cannot be seen, it’s potency can be known when you stop and look, listen, and watch.
Perspective is everything, for everyone…even Stephen Hawking, and God
Perspective is everything, for everyone…even Stephen Hawking, and God The newspaper headline reads, “God did not create Universe: Hawking.” Hawking is not immune to being a respected error-maker and now I may add him in second place to my all-time favourite: Descartes, who declared “I think, therefore I am.” “I am..” comes before the thought “I am a thinker.” There must be Knowing before thinking. As a result of this mistaken identity of being a thinker, many people have, in essence, come to worship the thinking mind, and their thoughts as truth. It would be closer to the truth to say “I am, therefore I think.” Oh well, to err is human, and other brilliant thinkers once concluded the earth …
You were Born a Bundle of Joy!
Three times people who turned and looked at me were drawn, with a new smile as broad as mine, to ask if I needed help. They returned to their business in the mundane state they were in before. Looking around the room, scanning the six or so people working, I felt like I was going to burst—I felt like a child with a secret.
Man Makes Plans, and God Laughs
Man Makes Plans, and God Laughs The giant chestnut tree that Anne Frank wrote about in her diary, while hiding from the Nazis during World War II, crashed to the ground this week. While Frank and her family were hidden for more than two years, viewing the tree from the attic was her only respite from the cramped quarters. Instead of cutting-down the fungal-infected, 150-year-old tree for safety reasons in 2007, officials built a steel support that was intended to keep the tree standing for up to fifteen years. However three years later a powerful storm took the tree down. “Man makes plans, and God laughs.”—Yiddish proverb This proves that while we busily make plans, the Universe, God, Source, Reality, …
What is a “spiritual” author?
When you cruise the categories of the books entered in the “Next Top Spiritual Author” contest, you find subjects like: Art, Business, Dating, Diet & Nutrition, Divorce, Gardening, Massage, Organizing, Sports, Technology, Travel, and UFO’s. This makes one question exactly what is meant by a “spiritual” author. The contest organizers say “This competition is focused on finding authors who have a message that appeals to the spiritual market. This market, often referred to the “new thought market” offers personal growth and spiritual messages (religious messages are not considered “new thought”). Authors like James Twyman, Neale Donald Walsch, Wayne Dyer, James Redfield, Abraham Hicks, etc – have messages that appeal to this market.” To me, in the truest sense of the …
Alchemy Makes Top 25 Spiritual Books
It began with over 2,800 international books and authors. That was whittled down to 250, based on public support from votes. Yesterday, based on a combination of public votes, an expert panel, and the sponsoring publisher, Hampton Roads, only 25 books remain in the contest. The Alchemy of Love and Joy™ is one of them. Over the next three weeks authors will write (or refine) two more chapters, and based on the quality of writing, the story idea and market potential, one book will be awarded a publishing deal plus a $50,000 marketing program to promote and sell the book, which will be launched next year. Organizers say, “In round 1 over 82,000 votes were cast from 136 different countries. …