<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032</id><updated>2011-07-23T05:59:01.005+12:00</updated><category term='angels'/><category term='creativity'/><category term='facebook'/><category term='meditation'/><category term='the recession'/><category term='your guardian angel'/><category term='counterparts'/><category term='spiritual living'/><category term='magic'/><category term='freewill'/><category term='natural cooperation'/><category term='reincarnation'/><category term='nature spirits'/><category term='basic goodness'/><category term='oversouls'/><category term='your spiritual journey'/><category term='love'/><title type='text'>Sumpter's Wisdom</title><subtitle type='html'>Channelled wisdom from a friend and supporter of The Spiritual Teachers on The Spiritual Mastery Path</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>25</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032.post-2409721542115883731</id><published>2010-07-31T07:38:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2010-07-31T07:38:36.363+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spiritual living'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='meditation'/><title type='text'>Each soul is part of a bigger reality</title><summary type='text'>Each soul is part of a bigger reality that is forever expanding in all directions and will always connect to the waking and sleeping present self that the soul is identifying as, in this particular time and place. When, in each century, souls explore and dedicate themselves to a particular mission that is their field of interest, and have a sincere desire to contribute to society and the world to</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/2409721542115883731/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2010/07/each-soul-is-part-of-bigger-reality.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/2409721542115883731'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/2409721542115883731'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2010/07/each-soul-is-part-of-bigger-reality.html' title='Each soul is part of a bigger reality'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032.post-3317272863533685247</id><published>2010-07-10T07:40:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2010-07-10T07:40:59.046+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spiritual living'/><title type='text'>A flower’s relating to this reality</title><summary type='text'>Each soul, in its natural state, is filled with a grace and a uniqueness of being itself, just as, for example, each flower is experiencing being its true self in each moment, experiencing its natural beauty, its state of being in harmony and communion with nature and with the godly aspects of all the plants around itself, and also, within itself it experiences the inner peace that lives in each </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/3317272863533685247/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2010/07/flowers-relating-to-this-reality.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/3317272863533685247'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/3317272863533685247'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2010/07/flowers-relating-to-this-reality.html' title='A flower’s relating to this reality'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032.post-2071947217173968051</id><published>2010-05-22T07:44:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2010-05-22T07:44:05.054+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spiritual living'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='the recession'/><title type='text'>Sumpter speaks on the world recession</title><summary type='text'>Similarly many timeframes express the joy of natural cooperation with all of individual aspects of glorious expansions and wellbeing. I experience many such delights of altered states which you call meditative contemplation of mind and soul. So many of you are bogged down in every day life’s chores and the serious business of making money to live on and spend. I consider myself rather fortunate </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/2071947217173968051/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2010/05/sumpter-speaks-on-world-recession.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/2071947217173968051'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/2071947217173968051'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2010/05/sumpter-speaks-on-world-recession.html' title='Sumpter speaks on the world recession'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032.post-4244358367537425252</id><published>2010-05-14T11:02:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2010-05-14T11:07:06.873+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='facebook'/><title type='text'>Find us on Facebook</title><summary type='text'>You can now join us on Facebook here:</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/4244358367537425252/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2010/05/find-us-on-facebook.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/4244358367537425252'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/4244358367537425252'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2010/05/find-us-on-facebook.html' title='Find us on Facebook'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/S-yFe3_UEFI/AAAAAAAAACE/6Tda0FzdOLQ/s72-c/5u84f48n.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032.post-7788201898160007080</id><published>2010-05-02T06:58:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2010-05-02T07:03:11.174+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='natural cooperation'/><title type='text'>You are natural beings, you are spiritual beings</title><summary type='text'>Now, you are natural beings, you are spiritual beings, the two statements mean the same thing. Each consciousness, from the least to the greatest, as you understand them, has a built-in recognition of the requirement to cooperate with all other beings in the gestalt or gestalts to which it belongs. The Earth is one such gestalt, (composed of many others) and all the consciousnesses which form it </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/7788201898160007080/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2010/05/you-are-natural-beings-you-are.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/7788201898160007080'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/7788201898160007080'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2010/05/you-are-natural-beings-you-are.html' title='You are natural beings, you are spiritual beings'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032.post-1701271416380928984</id><published>2010-03-03T06:56:00.002+13:00</published><updated>2010-03-03T07:01:32.565+13:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='freewill'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='basic goodness'/><title type='text'>Sumpter on 'the dark side'</title><summary type='text'>There are some comments I would like to make concerning the way some people talk about "the dark side" of humans. Now to suppose that a human has a dark side is simply another way of saying there is evil within the person. It does no good to reject the word "evil" if it is then replaced with another concept which still states that the human is not wholly good, but has some badness in them..Now as</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/1701271416380928984/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2010/03/sumpter-on-dark-side.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/1701271416380928984'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/1701271416380928984'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2010/03/sumpter-on-dark-side.html' title='Sumpter on &apos;the dark side&apos;'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032.post-5462854779880808883</id><published>2010-01-10T10:45:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2010-01-10T10:47:53.726+13:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reincarnation'/><title type='text'>The various lives that are lived</title><summary type='text'>'The various lives that are lived are so beautiful each by each, no matter how much terror or difficulty was experienced, that the overriding sensation when they are understood each by each, is one of joy and joyful fulfilment and this is often forgotten while the difficulties are being encountered moment by moment during the lifetime, but is always experienced again when the lives are held in </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/5462854779880808883/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2010/01/various-lives-that-are-lived.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/5462854779880808883'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/5462854779880808883'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2010/01/various-lives-that-are-lived.html' title='The various lives that are lived'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032.post-7134864026044328423</id><published>2009-10-25T09:01:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2009-10-25T09:03:04.414+13:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='magic'/><title type='text'>Magic</title><summary type='text'>Magic appears in your world when certain conditions are right, when they come together, so to speak..Your society has concentrated on aspects that are considered logical and scientific and straight forward to the extent that the loss of belief in the magical has infected the general belief systems. Each person of course, I will remind you, chooses to be a part of this, because it fits their own </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/7134864026044328423/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/10/magic.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/7134864026044328423'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/7134864026044328423'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/10/magic.html' title='Magic'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032.post-7095921554270955818</id><published>2009-10-18T11:49:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2009-10-18T11:51:11.612+13:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spiritual living'/><title type='text'>You are a divine and heroic being</title><summary type='text'>Exactly as you are now, you are a divine and heroic being. You are the hero or heroine of your own life. No-one else, ever, will have the same experiences that you have, or influence the world in the same way that you do. So be fully the hero or heroine that you are. Try living heroically. Remember you are the hero or heroine as you eat your meals, have a shower, wash the dishes, go to work, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/7095921554270955818/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/10/you-are-divine-and-heroic-being.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/7095921554270955818'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/7095921554270955818'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/10/you-are-divine-and-heroic-being.html' title='You are a divine and heroic being'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032.post-5249899507440474687</id><published>2009-10-04T07:18:00.000+13:00</published><updated>2009-10-04T07:21:16.980+13:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='creativity'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spiritual living'/><title type='text'>There is a high and splendid drama taking place</title><summary type='text'>There is a high and splendid drama taking place as humans meet the world and see what they can do with it. In every kind of human development, people take what they find naturally available and use it creatively, forming those special and spectacular human achievements found everywhere throughout history. If a cave can provide natural shelter from the weather, then what human equivalents of the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/5249899507440474687/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/10/there-is-high-and-splendid-drama-taking.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/5249899507440474687'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/5249899507440474687'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/10/there-is-high-and-splendid-drama-taking.html' title='There is a high and splendid drama taking place'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032.post-840495552338971308</id><published>2009-09-27T09:13:00.001+13:00</published><updated>2009-09-27T09:15:34.661+13:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spiritual living'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='love'/><title type='text'>Love is a giant of an emotion</title><summary type='text'>Love is a giant of an emotion. It is the primary emotion of the universe and by going with love you go with what you are and what the universe is and you become one with God. Every time you experience love flowing freely and well and lovingly you are at that moment one with God .... When love flows freely, creation flows freely into all kinds of developments .... Sumpter Copyright © Z Smith 1993.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/840495552338971308/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/09/love-is-giant-of-emotion.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/840495552338971308'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/840495552338971308'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/09/love-is-giant-of-emotion.html' title='Love is a giant of an emotion'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032.post-8739316705084635857</id><published>2009-09-05T08:22:00.001+12:00</published><updated>2009-09-05T08:24:32.086+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spiritual living'/><title type='text'>There is never any need to justify your existence</title><summary type='text'>There is never any need to justify your existence, instead society should justify its ignoring of the beauty of the people. The Earth does not ignore the beauty of the people. Sumpter Copyright © Z Smith 1993.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/8739316705084635857/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/09/there-is-never-any-need-to-justify-your.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/8739316705084635857'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/8739316705084635857'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/09/there-is-never-any-need-to-justify-your.html' title='There is never any need to justify your existence'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032.post-2303921292340607958</id><published>2009-08-29T07:27:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2009-08-29T07:30:44.528+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='angels'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nature spirits'/><title type='text'>You are always linked with other beings</title><summary type='text'>You are always linked with other beings. This is not very obvious to many of you, but there are beings of nature, of the sea, the air, the ground and the angelic kingdom, beings that are associated with and share your reality, and yet are focused entirely differently. Together, all these beings are making up the gestalt of your world along with the physically living beings. There is a combined </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/2303921292340607958/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/08/you-are-always-linked-with-other-beings.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/2303921292340607958'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/2303921292340607958'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/08/you-are-always-linked-with-other-beings.html' title='You are always linked with other beings'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032.post-5743456702329678510</id><published>2009-08-22T07:31:00.001+12:00</published><updated>2009-08-22T07:35:37.623+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='your spiritual journey'/><title type='text'>The Wisdom of your Memories</title><summary type='text'>Each moment of your life, the wisdom of your memory instils a sense of safety, reassurance and balance for you. In your waking state as you go about your life, it doesn’t matter how you are associating to each moment of your memories, some good, some bad, so long as you always reaffirm the sacredness of your own being, and go boldly forward with faith in yourself and faith in your divinity, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/5743456702329678510/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/08/wisdom-of-your-memories.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/5743456702329678510'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/5743456702329678510'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/08/wisdom-of-your-memories.html' title='The Wisdom of your Memories'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032.post-8535538253659019115</id><published>2009-08-08T07:53:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2009-08-08T07:57:35.853+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spiritual living'/><title type='text'>Dream a dream of beauty</title><summary type='text'>Your life, indeed your physical reality, is like a dream, it has a dreamlike quality that you perceive as your own dream, and each individual has their own dream and dreamlike quality, individualised and personalised, and perfectly fitting to their soul. And that means that there are unlimited realities, unlimited dreamlike qualities, that are each individual’s own qualities, which beautifully </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/8535538253659019115/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/08/dream-dream-of-beauty.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/8535538253659019115'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/8535538253659019115'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/08/dream-dream-of-beauty.html' title='Dream a dream of beauty'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032.post-4863108728120455252</id><published>2009-08-08T07:36:00.000+12:00</published><updated>2009-08-08T07:47:21.485+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spiritual living'/><title type='text'>You are currently celebrating sending some astronauts to the moon</title><summary type='text'>It is so beautiful and reassuring to observe from my perspective, how each society, whether in the past or present, or in the distant future, carries the desire for a natural magical and mystical existence, living a life of hopes and dreams in a peaceful, cooperative and natural way, which has many expressions and many ways to reach fulfilment, and will always incorporate the understanding of, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/4863108728120455252/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/08/you-are-currently-celebrating-sending.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/4863108728120455252'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/4863108728120455252'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/08/you-are-currently-celebrating-sending.html' title='You are currently celebrating sending some astronauts to the moon'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032.post-4245583926635658407</id><published>2009-07-18T08:17:00.001+12:00</published><updated>2009-07-18T08:21:00.294+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spiritual living'/><title type='text'>A Grand and Glorious Quest</title><summary type='text'>In your dreams, in your so-called imaginings, in your quiet moments in nature, in all of the outreachings of your soul, and the souls of others, is a searching, a grand and glorious quest for the Reality behind reality, for the moments of uplift, which take you out of the mundane, ordinary round of chores and tasks, and show you glimpses of the magnificence of nature, and creation, and humanity. </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/4245583926635658407/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/07/grand-and-glorious-quest.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/4245583926635658407'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/4245583926635658407'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/07/grand-and-glorious-quest.html' title='A Grand and Glorious Quest'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032.post-6938510268049591665</id><published>2009-07-07T07:03:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2009-07-07T07:06:49.749+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spiritual living'/><title type='text'>It is not selfish to take care of yourself</title><summary type='text'>It is not selfish to take care of yourself but essential. Your own needs must come first in your own life for no-one else will take such care of you. No-one else is going to put you first. They cannot do that because they are not living your life. Each person indeed each being, each creature, each plant, each animal, each insect should and must of necessity look after its own needs first and the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/6938510268049591665/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/07/it-is-not-selfish-to-take-care-of.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/6938510268049591665'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/6938510268049591665'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/07/it-is-not-selfish-to-take-care-of.html' title='It is not selfish to take care of yourself'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032.post-13202552343738739</id><published>2009-06-21T06:22:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2009-06-21T06:28:10.035+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spiritual living'/><title type='text'>It is a glorious world</title><summary type='text'>It is a glorious world when you know how precious and beautiful the realms of all existences are, so beautifully couched in God’s love for you and all of creation. I myself have lived many lives and appreciate existence in a very different way now than many centuries ago. I have explored many avenues of life and all its challenges, and have always appreciated the insights and the treasures I have</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/13202552343738739/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/06/it-is-glorious-world.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/13202552343738739'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/13202552343738739'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/06/it-is-glorious-world.html' title='It is a glorious world'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032.post-6062627697163387375</id><published>2009-06-10T07:20:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2009-06-10T07:25:34.678+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='your guardian angel'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='angels'/><title type='text'>Angels</title><summary type='text'>Comment:  People have different ideas about angels.  I think of them as 'beings of light', not human in any way.Sumpter: You  are  right,  of course with your perceptions of  angels  and earth angels as 'beings of light', with a different, yet still loving, interest  in the world.  They are, if you like, a different species in their own right.  They would be more immediately available  to human  </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/6062627697163387375/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/06/angels.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/6062627697163387375'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/6062627697163387375'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/06/angels.html' title='Angels'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032.post-5841413745055229652</id><published>2009-05-24T06:49:00.003+12:00</published><updated>2009-05-24T07:07:01.983+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spiritual living'/><title type='text'>Natural Heroism</title><summary type='text'>The spirit, your spirit, is a wonderful thing. Your basic nature is divine, unlimited, glorious, powerful, capable of soaring to unguessed levels of brilliance and achievement. There is in you, a spiritual requirement then, for recognition of the heroic, and for heroic action. This is poorly understood in your current social experience. Some of your psychologists consider it a problem for some </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/5841413745055229652/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/05/natural-heroism.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/5841413745055229652'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/5841413745055229652'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/05/natural-heroism.html' title='Natural Heroism'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032.post-1410477082931436134</id><published>2009-05-19T06:43:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2009-05-19T06:54:50.965+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='oversouls'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='reincarnation'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='counterparts'/><title type='text'>Oversouls and Counterparts</title><summary type='text'>The  current theories about the nature of the soul make it out to  be  much  less than the wonderful and complex  creation  that  it really  is.  While  this  is  helpful  for a  simple  and straightforward  course of action, eventually more of the souls' true nature needs to be understood in order for further spiritual development to take place..What is an oversoul?   And what is a counterpart?</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/1410477082931436134/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/05/oversouls-and-counterparts.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/1410477082931436134'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/1410477082931436134'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/05/oversouls-and-counterparts.html' title='Oversouls and Counterparts'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032.post-3825254947206463194</id><published>2009-05-09T08:10:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2009-05-19T06:57:35.826+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spiritual living'/><title type='text'>Following Your Goals</title><summary type='text'>Sometimes when you are all at sea, there is still a star shining to guide you, if you but look up, instead of down. Sometimes it is important to avoid looking at the problems and look only at the guiding light, so that you may move forward in the direction in which you wish to go. If you are fighting every single wave, then your attention is diverted, and you might find yourself washed up on a </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/3825254947206463194/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/05/sometimes-when-you-are-all-at-sea-there.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/3825254947206463194'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/3825254947206463194'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/05/sometimes-when-you-are-all-at-sea-there.html' title='Following Your Goals'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032.post-4415747225904076848</id><published>2009-05-02T09:22:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2009-05-19T06:58:03.765+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spiritual living'/><title type='text'>Creating  beneficial change in  yourself</title><summary type='text'>If you are doing beneficial work and creating beneficial change in yourself, then you never need to fear the changes that come seemingly from outside for they also will be in tune and beneficial.Sumpter.Copyright © Z Smith 1991.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/4415747225904076848/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/05/creating-beneficial-change-in-yourself.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/4415747225904076848'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/4415747225904076848'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/05/creating-beneficial-change-in-yourself.html' title='Creating  beneficial change in  yourself'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8015559503431702032.post-454547638286449448</id><published>2009-05-02T09:17:00.002+12:00</published><updated>2009-05-19T06:58:35.580+12:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='spiritual living'/><title type='text'>A New Beginning</title><summary type='text'>It is indeed a new life when a soul embraces the spiritual life as being the priority, as putting the spiritual life first; not that this means the physical life is no longer cherished, indeed, if you do this correctly, the physical life will be cherished more dearly than ever before. However it is a case of getting your priorities straight. Once this is done, no matter who the individual is, or </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/feeds/454547638286449448/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-beginning.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/454547638286449448'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/8015559503431702032/posts/default/454547638286449448'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://sumpterswisdom.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-beginning.html' title='A New Beginning'/><author><name>Faith and Love</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04746002224889767302</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='32' src='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9Mw5UdoeH44/SKXafZP3aRI/AAAAAAAAAA4/gjHWH0I4__s/S220/smp02.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
