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How does a tiny acorn become the mighty oak tree?

            Hint: it’s not what you think.

            Sure, the DNA in the seed has something to do with the tree’s final shape.

            But DNA is only part of the story. DNA doesn’t provide water to the seed. DNA doesn’t provide nutrients and sunlight.

            Yet the water, soil and sunlight of the environment aren’t even the whole story.

            In order to grow the oak tree needs the gravity of the Earth, the gravity of the Sun, the pull of the Moon. The necessary factors become subtler but nonetheless essential the farther away you back the lens from the tree…

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Astrology, Spirituality, SynchronicityJames MoranPower, DNA, Gravity, Sun, Moon, CreationComment
Your won title here
Your won title here

How does a tiny acorn become the mighty oak tree?

            Hint: it’s not what you think.

            Sure, the DNA in the seed has something to do with the tree’s final shape.

            But DNA is only part of the story. DNA doesn’t provide water to the seed. DNA doesn’t provide nutrients and sunlight.

            Yet the water, soil and sunlight of the environment aren’t even the whole story.

            In order to grow the oak tree needs the gravity of the Earth, the gravity of the Sun, the pull of the Moon. The necessary factors become subtler but nonetheless essential the farther away you back the lens from the tree…

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Astrology, Spirituality, SynchronicityJames MoranPower, DNA, Gravity, Sun, Moon, Creation Comment
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Whenever you hear a person or group of people being singled out for behavior that is “terrible” or “wrong,” remember that we are all part of one system.

            The enemy is never a person or people or animal or being of any kind. The enemy is our lack of awareness of a part of the mind whose job it is to pinpoint and single out “problems” for the sake of our survival.

When we are singling out our “problems” in our lives, the reason for our suffering, for our lack of progress, a wonderful part of the mind is functioning.  This part of the mind has evolved into a sharp instrument for our survival.

It is our tool and yet we forget this; we become its servant. We are like zombies carrying around a plague that is controlling us in order to spread itself to more people (perhaps this is one of the reasons zombie apocalypse movies are so popular these days—we are subconsciously aware of this zombification)…

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Astrology, SpiritualityJames Moranhuman behavior, pathology, Problems and Solutions, Human mind, LifeComment
Your won title here
Your won title here

How does a tiny acorn become the mighty oak tree?

            Hint: it’s not what you think.

            Sure, the DNA in the seed has something to do with the tree’s final shape.

            But DNA is only part of the story. DNA doesn’t provide water to the seed. DNA doesn’t provide nutrients and sunlight.

            Yet the water, soil and sunlight of the environment aren’t even the whole story.

            In order to grow the oak tree needs the gravity of the Earth, the gravity of the Sun, the pull of the Moon. The necessary factors become subtler but nonetheless essential the farther away you back the lens from the tree…

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Astrology, Spirituality, SynchronicityJames MoranPower, DNA, Gravity, Sun, Moon, CreationComment
Your won title here
Your won title here

Whenever you hear a person or group of people being singled out for behavior that is “terrible” or “wrong,” remember that we are all part of one system.

            The enemy is never a person or people or animal or being of any kind. The enemy is our lack of awareness of a part of the mind whose job it is to pinpoint and single out “problems” for the sake of our survival.

When we are singling out our “problems” in our lives, the reason for our suffering, for our lack of progress, a wonderful part of the mind is functioning.  This part of the mind has evolved into a sharp instrument for our survival.

It is our tool and yet we forget this; we become its servant. We are like zombies carrying around a plague that is controlling us in order to spread itself to more people (perhaps this is one of the reasons zombie apocalypse movies are so popular these days—we are subconsciously aware of this zombification)…

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Astrology, SpiritualityJames Moranhuman behavior, pathology, Problems and Solutions, Human mind, LifeComment
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If you’ve ever heard a lecture on meditation you may have heard the dark side of the mind brought up. This is the storage vault of your doubts and fears.

In meditation we’re meant to just observe them and not really play in to them.

Yet, why when doubts come up, do we never ever just observe them?

Why don’t we remember that lecture on meditation that forewarned us and prepared us for this very moment?…

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Spirituality, MeditationJames MoranPresent Moment, Mind, mindfulness, Dark Night of the SoulComment
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If you’ve ever heard a lecture on meditation you may have heard the dark side of the mind brought up. This is the storage vault of your doubts and fears.

In meditation we’re meant to just observe them and not really play in to them.

Yet, why when doubts come up, do we never ever just observe them?

Why don’t we remember that lecture on meditation that forewarned us and prepared us for this very moment?…

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Spirituality, MeditationJames MoranPresent Moment, Mind, mindfulness, Dark Night of the SoulComment
Your won title here
Your won title here

How does a tiny acorn become the mighty oak tree?

            Hint: it’s not what you think.

            Sure, the DNA in the seed has something to do with the tree’s final shape.

            But DNA is only part of the story. DNA doesn’t provide water to the seed. DNA doesn’t provide nutrients and sunlight.

            Yet the water, soil and sunlight of the environment aren’t even the whole story.

            In order to grow the oak tree needs the gravity of the Earth, the gravity of the Sun, the pull of the Moon. The necessary factors become subtler but nonetheless essential the farther away you back the lens from the tree…

Read More
Astrology, Spirituality, SynchronicityJames MoranPower, DNA, Gravity, Sun, Moon, CreationComment
It's Not All Up to You. You Are a Part of Something Bigger
It's Not All Up to You. You Are a Part of Something Bigger

Whenever you hear a person or group of people being singled out for behavior that is “terrible” or “wrong,” remember that we are all part of one system.

            The enemy is never a person or people or animal or being of any kind. The enemy is our lack of awareness of a part of the mind whose job it is to pinpoint and single out “problems” for the sake of our survival.

When we are singling out our “problems” in our lives, the reason for our suffering, for our lack of progress, a wonderful part of the mind is functioning.  This part of the mind has evolved into a sharp instrument for our survival.

It is our tool and yet we forget this; we become its servant. We are like zombies carrying around a plague that is controlling us in order to spread itself to more people (perhaps this is one of the reasons zombie apocalypse movies are so popular these days—we are subconsciously aware of this zombification)…

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Astrology, SpiritualityJames Moranhuman behavior, pathology, Problems and Solutions, Human mind, LifeComment
Your Skill Set is Not As Important As You Think in Determining Your Career Path
Your Skill Set is Not As Important As You Think in Determining Your Career Path

Have you ever witnessed the baffling rise of an individual without specialized skill to the top of an industry? What about the slow but sure rise of the least skilled employee to the top of a company?

            If the world were a neat and tidy place the skill assessment test you took back at the beginning of your career would have clearly defined your path up to the present.

            Only it didn’t.

            Neither is the world neat and tidy nor is it a function of our skills.

            It functions according to storyline…

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Astrology, SpiritualityJames Moranskill assessment, storyline, birth chart, childhood traumaComment
What if You Could Know the Future…Just a Little Bit
What if You Could Know the Future…Just a Little Bit

The world is changing…fast. That is simply the truth.

No one can deny it.

But a lot of our awareness of the changes around us is superficial. Many current advances in technology are superficial. In fact, not only are they superficial, they are making us more superficial. We spend so much time on our phones and looking at images online these days.

Do you see a feedback loop happening here?

We are becoming more superficial and we are only able to see the superficial change all around us, which encourages us to be more superficial, and on and on.  Self-driving cars are an advancement, but do they make our lives more meaningful? Does being able to share images with anyone anywhere on Earth really deepen our connection to life?…

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Astrology, SpiritualityJames Moranprediction, self-driving cars, technology, superficiality, social media, cell phones, Life, RealizationComment
Our Careers Are Our Avenues for Life’s Highest Pleasures
Our Careers Are Our Avenues for Life’s Highest Pleasures

Have you ever bought a brand new car and been so excited about it…for the first week? Have you ever cued up your favorite song and then realized that the song is over and you didn’t even enjoy it fully because your mind was somewhere else? Have you ever wondered why personal pleasure is great in theory but short-lived in practice?

            On the surface, reality certainly looks like its set up for us to achieve our pleasures, but the real story is very different. Individual pleasures are based on the assumption that we are just individuals. In actuality we are the totality of our experience and everyone in it…

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Astrology, SpiritualityJames Moranpleasure, suffering Comment
How to Turn the Economic Freefall to Your Advantage Using Astrology
How to Turn the Economic Freefall to Your Advantage Using Astrology

What would happen if you loved to inhale and you hated to exhale? You would spend all your time inhaling and avoiding exhaling…and you would pop…and die.

Life is movement, and movement involves shifting between opposites: Up/down, forward/backward, expansion/contraction.  The economy is no different. It expands and contracts, just like our lungs. That’s what keeps us alive.

Not only does the movement between opposites keep us alive, it makes us thrive. With this in mind we can choose to see the upcoming economic crunch as an opportunity to thrive…

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Astrology, SpiritualityJames MoranSaturn/Pluto, economy, Economic Crash, Fitness, SalsaComment
Doubt is Your Greatest Ally
Doubt is Your Greatest Ally

Do you ever feel that you are the only one that doubts yourself? That everyone else knows what they are doing and you are the odd man out?

If no one else experienced doubt then why would doubt show up again and again in the different religions and mythologies of the world?

Jesus had his moment of doubt on the cross. Doubt was the last thought the Buddha conquered before attaining enlightenment…

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Spirituality, MeditationJames MoranJason Momoa, doubt, king, jesus, buddha, enlightenment, cross, judgement, aquamanComment
What is Nirvana?
What is Nirvana?

Nirvana, or Nibbana, are two words from the lexicons of ancient India that refer to the state of experience discovered by the Buddha. In this state a human being experiences the cessation of suffering. The words literally mean to extinguish, or "no burning."

To understand a bit more about the nature of Nirvana we have to first understand the nature of perception...

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Spirituality, MeditationJames MoranNirvana, Perception, Buddha, India, Nibbana, MoviesComment
How to Recognize Gifts From the Universe
How to Recognize Gifts From the Universe

An amazing thing happened to me. I was concluding a meeting and had a long bike ride in the hot sun ahead of me. I had no water on me. I was returning to where I had locked my bike and considering where I could buy water or a sports drink. Then I noticed on the handlebar of my bike a bag with two big cold bottles of Gatorade in it. A construction worker saw my approach, claimed the bag of Gatorade and apologized. I joked, "I was wondering how someone knew I wanted a Gatorade." The construction worker said, "You know what..." and he handed me one of the bottles...

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Synchronicity, SpiritualityJames MoranThe Universe, Gifts, Suffering, The Holocaust, GatoradeComment
Growing Old Rocks!
Growing Old Rocks!

Movies and books these days are highly entertaining but not that memorable. The U.S. is striving to create and sustain a golden era of story telling (such as that of ancient Greece or 19th century Russia) but failing. Why is this?

The culture of the United States is obsessed with youth and staying young. No one wants to get old. Yet we love it when a character in a story comes to a crossroads and makes a hard choice that shows how they've matured over the course of the story. They've reached a new level of growth. This is literally character growth. It feeds our subconscious and makes a great story.

Remaining obsessed with youth is resistance to growth. Growth is good. Growth is life...

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Ritual, SpiritualityJames MoranOld age, Growth, Rituals, Elders, Strength, Movies, BooksComment
The Universe is Sending You an Evite
The Universe is Sending You an Evite

Dear Beloved Child,

I am sending you this Evite to invite you to step up and meet your full potential. I have actually sent you this Evite many times. You know how, when you don't reply to an Evite, it gets sent to you again and again. Those Evites I sent you could have been in the form of the relationship breakups, the sadistic bosses, the angry road ragers, the judging authority figures, the addictive behavior patterns. I have sent so many Evites. In fact, that's mostly what I do: send Evites to graduation parties. I love celebrating when you graduate to a new level of realizing your potential.

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Spirituality, AstrologyJames MoranEvite, Universe, Love, Intimacy, Love Letter, Heartbreak, Wounding, Addiction, Higher Power, PoetryComment