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Breaking  Trail 
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About Breaking Trail............................................................................................... 3Introduction ............................................................................................................. 5Meditation and Prayer .............................................................................................7Samsara ................................................................................................................10Change ................................................................................................................. 12Intention ................................................................................................................14What is Important in Your Life? ............................................................................ 16Mindfulness ...........................................................................................................17Enlightenment.......................................................................................................19God Consciousness ..............................................................................................20What Makes God Smile? ......................................................................................22Surrender ..............................................................................................................24Step Into Witnessing .............................................................................................26The Witness is Your Friend .................................................................................. 28Karma ....................................................................................................................30What If I Lose My Connection? ............................................................................ 31We Are One ..........................................................................................................32Love ...................................................................................................................... 33Sangha ..................................................................................................................35Partnership ............................................................................................................37Forgiveness .......................................................................................................... 39Defending Your Beliefs .........................................................................................41Be Awake ..............................................................................................................43Growth .................................................................................................................. 45Truth ......................................................................................................................47Temptation ............................................................................................................49Defeating Temptation ........................................................................................... 51Patience ................................................................................................................53Just a Step ............................................................................................................55Love What You Do ................................................................................................56I Am Unique ..........................................................................................................58Assessment.......................................................................................................... 60Roadblocks ...........................................................................................................62Altruism .................................................................................................................64Pain .......................................................................................................................65Gratitude ...............................................................................................................67Share .....................................................................................................................68Ethics .................................................................................................................... 69The Middle Way ....................................................................................................71Commitment..........................................................................................................73Generosity .............................................................................................................75Wisdom .................................................................................................................77The Golden Rule ...................................................................................................79Your Highest Self ..................................................................................................80Process: What comes next? 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 About Breaking Trail 
Everyone wants inner peace and to feel love for, and from, family and friends.But if you ask everyone you know, you will find that most are far from feeling loveand peace. What about you? Do you feel at peace with what you’veaccomplished in your life? Do you pause and bask in the love that pervades theUniverse? Do you look forward to tomorrow because you know it will bring joyand equanimity? Or does the future beckon with bills you don’t know how you willpay? Is it fraught with fear of the bad news the next email or phone call maybring? Is it an empty pit of loneliness, or a rut of unintended boredom? Peoplewho are truly happy know their purpose, are focused on their heart’s goal, arefearless about pursuing justice for all, and relentlessly spread love among all theyencounter. Does this sound like someone you’d like to be?We all can use some guidance from time to time, a reminder of what’s importantand a nudge towards making the changes in attitude and action that will bring uscloser to our goal of equanimity. We enjoy learning when the topic is pertinent toour lives. We welcome change when it brings us more peace and love. But toooften, we wait for this growth to overtake us or fall into our laps. It’s easier towatch one of the 500 satellite channels, or level up in World of Warcraft than tovolunteer at the local food bank or donate blood at the Red Cross Blood Center. Ihope this book can serve as a course that you commit to finishing, that you giveyour attention to on a minute-by-minute basis throughout your day. Promiseyourself you’ll work through these 43 concepts and questions. Take each chapter a day at a time, or spend as long as you need with the ideas of one beforemoving onto the next. Search your heart for answers that are true for you, notwhat you think others want to hear. It may be helpful to journal about thequestions being posed, or you may find that having a trusted partner who is openand willing to discuss these questions with you will help you clarify your thinkingand feelings.Many sense a change in global consciousness approaching. Religion as weknow it gave structure and meaning to life throughout the current paradigm. Asour worldview changes, as our growth in consciousness brings new awarenessthat we are not separate from each other or our Universe, the old paradigm willbe replaced by a new spirituality that recognizes this reality. Not a religion per se,this new spirituality will complement the consciousness that recognizes our connection with all that is. It will guide us to find our purpose, our heart’s goal,and to grow into this new paradigm of consciousness.
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asks that you manifest the change you want to see, that you be arole model. New solutions to our problems are required, and that can only comefrom a new way of thinking and a new understanding of reality. In turn, this leadsto a new spirituality, one that speaks to inclusion and awakening to Truth. Wecan all contribute our vision to see the birth of this new way of being, if we openour hearts and set our goal.To set your heart’s goal, to plan the actions that will accomplish that goal, and tosidestep the distractions and difficulties that will inevitably interrupt your path, the
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