John Harrigan

Immediate Bliss

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Feb 252011

Happiness, compassion and love share a common ground in comprising the feel of life. Feel your life, and experience who you are. Happiness, compassion and love will come to you.

We are not separate from the goodness of life. Love is with us, present as who we are. Feel the love of life; feel the cohesion. We belong.

The presence of love is composed as all things.

If we look, we can feel and see the presence of love–it is an everywhere bliss. The feeling of life is the presence of love, belonging to all of the world.

(From my book, “Lessons in Love”)

Posted by John Harrigan at 4:10 pm

We Share the Spark of Life

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Feb 242011

Everything we see–living and non-living–is who we are, a part of our totality. We come from the primordial spark that is now the universe. We share this spark with everything and everyone.

The spark feels powerful inside us. Its tune is love. This love can be soft and warm as a friend’s embrace, or strong and immediate, mending what is torn.

The spark lives on in everyone and everything. We may appear separate and apart, but we are united in our origin and unified by life.

(From my book, “Lessons in Love”)

Posted by John Harrigan at 7:55 pm

We Are the Will of Love

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Feb 172011

(In this short Personal Development article, you will be inspired and directed to find your “will of love” and get what you want from life.)

We are not slaves to the world and destined for pain. With love we get our way.

The will of love stands forth within us, waiting on our call. Love is within and all about us, in everything we do. In prayer and contemplation we can feel this.

We are the will of love. As we know this, it has effect… and love becomes boundless. We feel our purpose and know who we are.

The will of love protects us and directs our way in life.

We can destroy or create in the making of the world? As we act, this action is acted upon us. Yet with love, we can make and have our way, every day for the rest of our lives.

Posted by John Harrigan at 12:10 pm

Personal Development: You Can Change Now!

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Feb 162011

(In this personal development article from my book, “Lessons in Love,” you will learn the value of the present moment in making the changes in your life you want. Get what you want “now”!

Personal change begins now, in the present. Our lives take place right now. The present is the place we live, and the only time we have power to change. We feel in the present; emotions are in the now. All of love and life takes place in the present. Knowledge is in the “now”.

By letting go of feelings we no longer need, we are brought closer to the “now.”

Living in the present requires balance and practice. When we plan for the future, we need not get caught by emotion and worry. We may plan and let go. The process of life will provide.

The value of “now” applies to the past. We must rely on past experience to act in the present, but we do not have to live in resentment or fear, repeating the past in a way that does not serve us well.

Ask that your bad feelings be removed; your brain will respond to this demand in a natural and reflexive manner. Our brain takes direction and changes itself as we request, if we practice with intention.

If we center our thoughts on love and strength, we are brought to the present. The present is where love and the best of life dwell.

The present is where we have our power, the power to change the world and enjoy who we are.

(From my book, “Lessons in Love”)

Posted by John Harrigan at 6:49 am

Life Is Not a Fight

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Feb 152011

When we see life as a fight for survival, we lose our dignity. We cut ourselves off from our core. We do not feel connected or at peace. We’re at war.

When fighting for survival, it is hard to cooperate, and things may not go our way. While pursuing our needs, at the expense of others, life can be difficult—this is disharmony we create.

If we cooperate with life and find its flow… life can be easy.

Are we moving with the direction of life, or going against life’s flow?

If you feel tired, worn out and struggling–let go. Don’t resist and fight so much. You may be heading in the wrong direction? Let go and discover the current of life.

Let yourself be carried and helped. As you understand the way life is going, you can move along. You can work with life, and let life help you. Struggle can end.

Life is not a fight for survival. It is an opportunity to find the best of ourselves, to change and mature.

(From my book, “Lessons in Love.”)

Posted by John Harrigan at 6:48 am

Purpose Is Power

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Feb 122011

(From my book, “Lessons in Love“)

We are imperfect beings… but only when we have forgotten our purpose and identity.

We are made in the likeness of the world; we are made to do good works. As we know this purpose, we begin to change, and life starts to work.

This change may be slow, quick… or a little of both? It is our choice, to do what is best.

What we do determines how we feel and think. What we think determines how we feel.

If we do what is best, we thrive and experience the best of life.

Compassion is our primary self, but we have to use compassion to have it in our lives. We have to act and practice our best, to get the best of life.

To act from our best is to know the best of who we are. We have to use the best of ourselves, minute by minute and day by day, if we are to have the best of life.

We have been chosen by all the world. We are significant and unique. As we realize our value and purpose, we express the love of our soul. We begin to know who we are.

As we identify with life and all the world, we experience love. Things go well. We feel better in every way. Our problems leave us, and the difficulties that remain seem less unimportant than they were. As we know who we are, we know our purpose, and all we dreamed becomes real.

(From my book, “Lessons in Love“)

Posted by John Harrigan at 9:24 pm

We Are Creators

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Feb 122011

(From my book, “Lessons in Love“)

As we go within, as we aspire and hope… there is love. As we give away what has been freely, love flows in as power and strength.

In helping other people, we become who we are. In our own requests for help, we become greater.

We belong to life and live in unison, yet we all are unique. As we act, we act with all of the world.

To know that we are unified with life is the highest form of love. As we love ourselves, we love all there is.

As we identify with life, we awaken our souls. As we share our souls, love and belonging come to us.

We and every person alive are twin flames, making one flame of life. We are divine creators, making ourselves and the world.

(From my book, “Lessons in Love“)

Posted by John Harrigan at 12:16 am

At Our Center We Are Gold

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Feb 092011

(From my book, “Lessons in Love”)

No matter what we look like, every human being is beautiful as their true and honest self. When we find our self, we find our soul… a thing of beauty and gold.

Our souls are loving, kind and strong. As we let our true and honest selves express, the way we are seen by others changes. We become radiant, strong and kind; we are seen in an attractive light. Our physical appearance improves as we are our true and honest selves.

As our true selves, we are strong and benevolent with attractive qualities. We are seen for who we are.

At our center, we are gold.

As we express our loving and benevolent nature, the truth of who we are begins to shine. Our soul appears as majestic beauty.

See yourself as beautiful, as generous and full. Realize that you are a wonderful person. Picture this within your mind, and express it in your life. Do generous things and be kind. Be humble. Express love at every opportunity. Let your beautiful soul express.

Treat yourself well, and know the marvelous person that you are. Treat others well. See the world as it is meant to be seen–with love, kindness and beauty. See heaven on earth, and let your soul make this heaven yours.

(From the book, “Lessons in Love”)

Posted by John Harrigan at 7:52 pm

With Love, You Get Your Way

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Feb 092011

With love, there is understanding and knowledge; without love there is misinformation.

When our actions and motives do not come from love, there may be misunderstanding and consequences we don’t want.

True Love Is a Deliberate Choice

True love is a deliberate choice that must be made again and again to become habit. The latest research shows it requires 2 or 3 months to form a true neurological habit. This is a lot more time than the often stated idea that a habit takes 2 or 3 weeks of practice. Make love a habit.

How to Form the Habit of Love

Look at the archives of my Lessons in Love blog. Make reading this blog a habit. Take the suggestions. Read daily for two or three months.

The deliberate choice to love requires little, beyond choosing to love. To love does not put us at risk or in danger… just the opposite: Love gives us clarity and enables us to act in a beneficial way.

Love Makes us Safe

To love, deliberately, makes us safe and not endangered. Use your will to love. Transform yourself. Love more. Love yourself. Love and love deliberately. Love and love more; this will bear you a gift.

Love Now, and Get Your Way

Make love your mind, your way. View and consider everything with love.

In love, is how we think and plan the best. In love, is how we best work. In love, is how we best play. We rest the best in love. Make love your way.

Practice and use your will in a gentle way, to love deliberately. Love every day.

Posted by John Harrigan at 12:35 am

Personal Development: Make a Choice that Benefits You!

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Feb 092011

(This is a Personal Devleopment article that will help you improve your abilities to have love, “the power of choice” and the gift of your heart and soul. It is an exerpt from the book, “Lessons in Love” by John Harrigan)

Make a Choice

In life, look for the gift. Look all around. Keep looking, and you will find the gift.

At first, you may think the gift is something outside of yourself, perhaps something you must do or own? After much searching, you may come to realize that the gift is you? The gift is in your heart and in your soul, the home to all there is.

Discover Your Gift

Discover your gift, which is you. Nurture it. Dance with it. Feel its pain and loneliness. Love it. The gift is you.

You are your greatest gift! You are God’s gift to the world, and you are divinely perfect, though imperfect you may feel.

Your Gift Begings with You

Your gift begins with you, and the secret lies in your heart and soul.

As you see and feel that you are a gift, you will become aware that all of creation is a gift to you.

What makes us most a gift is the quality and power of choice we have.

Our greatest quality is that we can choose what we become. However, we must first become aware of our power of choice.

We Become what We Choose

We choose our destiny. It may be unconscious at first. It may be an unknowing habit our entire life, but choice is there. And we are using choice to shape our lives.

Choice is our greatest gift. It is our road to freedom. When fully used, it is a path to the heart and soul. Why is this? It is because our nature is bliss, true love and happiness.

Make a Choice that Benefits You

Given the right time and place, we can make or create anything. However, only one thing will stand the ravages of time, and that is our gift: the conscious choice and ability to choose… to choose love when it is not expedient, handy, appropriate or the first intent of our mind… to change and shape our lives into some-thing good.

Demand of yourself that you choose love until it is a habit, until it is your first thought, your first command of yourself. Become Love. This is your Gift. It will change the world.

Make a choice that benefits you.

Posted by John Harrigan at 12:16 am
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