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Your True Nature
• Norman Paulsen, Sunburst Founder • Over millenniums, animal forms have been evolving from primal, simple consciousness into the higher reaches of self-consciousness. Humankind now stands on the threshold of Cosmic consciousness, Christ consciousness,...
Are You Looking For Me?
• Poem by a 15th century Indian mystic, saint, and weaver, known as Kabir. • Translated by Robert Bly • Kabir saw religions as meaningless. He was condemned by both Hindus and Muslims; but after his death members of both religions claimed him as being of their...
A Rare View of Venus
• by Dawn King • Before the age of industrialization—the late 1800s—all of humankind looked to the skies as their calendar. Today, there are cultures that still rely on observations of sunrise, sunset, moon, stars and planets to set their sacred dates. Even now,...
Start Living YOUR Dream
• by Dawn King • Confusion is rife on our planet today. Realize that this too shall pass, and all human conflicts will end over time. Meanwhile, you are expanding your awareness of how to be part of the solution of rebuilding society and the planet…starting today....
Releasing Worry, Finding Peace
• by Patty Paulsen • Singing at Sunburst’s Sunday service, and listening to the music, quiets our thoughts, so we become very attentive to this very moment of being totally present, totally alive and awake. We experience the movement within our heart as it opens...
Your Divine Connection
• Norman Paulsen, Sunburst Founder • NASA Photo "Hand of God" • What a fantastic thing it is, this Divine Consciousness which is within and around all of us. It is here within you right now, as much as it ever will be. Think of what life would be if everyone was...
This Perfect Moment
• by Dawn King • photo by April Juels • Today, I found myself reflecting on the music gathering we had last Saturday at Sunburst. People came from near and far corners of California to play and listen to impromptu performances. Mostly the instruments were...
Love Life – Inhale it Deeply
• by Sharon Ray • You will often find that people who care about their health have a strong spiritual life. Loving God and loving life go hand in hand with loving and caring for the body temple that one lives in. Building and maintaining good health is a way to...
Banishing Blame
A person can fail many times, but they are not a failure until they begin to blame somebody else. • Excerpt from Thich Nhat Hanh • When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need...
Birth of a Visionary
February 3 saw a celebration of the birthday of Sunburst Founder, Norman Paulsen. Following is an excerpt from his book, Life Love God, which begins with a description of his birth. We are descending. Beneath us lie the waters and the land. This sphere, a celestial...