#detachment

Mastering Manifestation: Align Your Mind and Intentions

The art of manifestation is fascinating because it combines several interconnected principles that bridge mindset and action.

Resonance

First, there’s the principle of vibration and resonance—essentially, you attract what you embody. When you genuinely align your thoughts, feelings, and actions with your desire, you naturally start noticing and creating opportunities matching that frequency. It’s less about magical thinking and more about tuning your awareness to possibilities that were always there.

Intention

The second principle is clarity of intention. Vague wishes tend to create vague results. When you can visualize your desire with crystal clarity—down to how it feels, looks, and impacts your life—you’re essentially creating a detailed blueprint for your subconscious mind to work with.

Inspired Action

Then there’s the principle of inspired action. Manifestation isn’t passive; it’s an active partnership with the universe. While you hold your vision, you need to remain alert and responsive to opportunities that arise, even if they come in unexpected packages. Think of it as co-creating rather than just wishing.

Detachment

The principle of detachment is equally crucial. While this might sound contradictory, being too desperately attached to specific outcomes can actually block their arrival. It’s about holding your vision with passionate intention while remaining flexible about the how and when.

Gratitude & Presence

Perhaps most importantly, there’s the principle of gratitude and presence. When you cultivate genuine appreciation for what you already have, you create an abundance mindset that naturally attracts more to be grateful for. Living in constant scarcity consciousness sends a very different message to both your subconscious and the universe.

Alignment

Remember, manifestation isn’t about forcing outcomes—it’s about aligning yourself with what you seek while remaining open to how it unfolds. Sometimes what manifests is even better than what you initially imagined, because your higher self knows what truly serves your growth.

Insightful Living

The beauty of these principles is that they work whether you view them through a spiritual lens or see them as sophisticated psychological tools for programming your reticular activating system—the part of your brain that filters reality and determines what you notice and act upon. This duality allows for a rich exploration of human potential, offering insights that resonate with both the seeker of inner peace and the analytical mind. By understanding how these principles can influence your perceptions and reactions, you can harness their power to create a more intentional and fulfilling life. As you engage with these concepts, consider how they manifest in your daily experiences, guiding you toward opportunities and insights that align with your goals and desires. Embracing this holistic approach can lead to transformative changes, enhancing your ability to manifest the reality you wish to create.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7vxXHVxIkbAF9I5d2Z19ah?si=yeC8fPX7R4mg1ADDm7KB2w

Welcome to a meditation that balances mindful presence with intentional manifestation, guiding you to cultivate a deep awareness of your thoughts and feelings while aligning your aspirations with the universe. This practice invites you to focus on the present moment, allowing you to fully experience the world around you, as you set clear intentions for what you desire to bring into your life. By harmonizing these two powerful aspects, you create a space where mindfulness and manifestation work hand in hand, empowering you to transform your reality and enhance your overall well-being.

#alignment #awareness #balance #detachment #experience #flow #goals #guidedMeditation #healing #howToManifest #howToManifet #insightfulLiving #inspiredAction #intention #intentionalLiving #lawOfAttraction #manifestYourDreams #manifestYourReality #manifestation #manifesting #meditation #mindful #mindfulness #moments #practice #presentMoment #raiseyourvibration #resonance #universeHasYourBack

Quote of the day, 22 May: St. Joachina de Vedruna

Vich, 19 December 1825

Your Excellency,

Joachina de Mas y de Vedruna, desiring to work for the glory of God and the good of others, wishes to embrace a few poor souls who are burning with love for God and long to become religious. But because they are poor and have neither resources nor a place in convents that live in poverty, they are unable to pour out their love to good Jesus.

Therefore, I beg you to grant me permission to receive into my home a few such souls who, through their labor and some alms, may sustain themselves and embrace poverty, following our Master Jesus Christ. In this way, they will also be able to live as religious women.

I make this request with the permission of my confessor and other spiritual advisors.

May God keep me.
At your feet, this sinner,
Joachina de Mas y de Vedruna

In the margin: 19 December 1825, submitted. Jesus Christ.

Saint Joachina de Vedruna

Letter 81 to Bishop Pablo de Jesús Corcuera, Bishop of Vich

Note: This letter, dated 19 December 1825 and addressed to Bishop Pablo de Jesús Corcuera of Vich, marks the official beginning of the Carmelite Sisters of Charity of Vedruna. Written just weeks before the congregation’s foundation on 26 February 1826, it expresses Joachina’s longing to serve Christ through a new religious community: one that was poor, apostolic, and dedicated to the good of others. As the Vedruna sisters approach their bicentenary in 2026, we honor Saint Joachina’s vision, which continues to flourish through her daughters around the world.

Vedruna, J. de 1825, Carta 81 to Bishop Pablo de Jesús Corcuera, in Epistolario J. de Vedruna, scanned edn by Marta Sarti, Carmelite Sisters of Charity of Vedruna, Barcelona. Available at: https://vedruna.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/5-Epistolario-J.-de-Vedruna.pdf

Translation from the Spanish text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

Featured image: This 1903 oil portrait of Saint Joachina de Vedruna was painted by Francesc Morell i Cornet (1845–1916), based on a retouched original photograph. Image credit: Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).

⬦ Reflection Question ⬦
What is one heroic thing that I can do to help the poor or educate needy children?
Join the conversation in the comments.

#Centenary #children #desires #detachment #hearts #Jesus #love #openness #StJoachinaDeVedruna

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2025-05-17

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Marie du jour, 15 May: St. Teresa of Avila

The queen is the piece that can carry on the best battle in this game, and all the other pieces help. There’s no queen like humility for making the King surrender. Humility drew the King from heaven to the womb of the Virgin, and with it, by one hair, (Sg 4:9) we will draw Him to our souls.

And realize that the one who has more humility will be the one who possesses Him more; and the one who has less will possess Him less. For I cannot understand how there could be humility without love or love without humility; nor are these two virtues possible without detachment from all creatures.

Saint Teresa of Avila

The Way of Perfection, chap. 16, no. 2

Teresa of Avila, St. 1985, The Collected Works of St. Teresa of Avila, translated from the Spanish by Kavanaugh, K; Rodriguez, O, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Featured image: King (H.NS 19) and Queen (H.NS 23) from the Lewis chessmen, carved of walrus ivory. Scandinavian, late 12th century. Discovered in 1831 in an underground chamber in the parish of Uig, Isle of Lewis. Image credit: National Museum of Scotland / Wikimedia Commons (Some rights reserved).

⬦ Reflection Question ⬦
How can I imitate Mary’s humility, the virtue that draws Christ into the heart?
Join the conversation in the comments.

#chess #creatures #detachment #humility #KingOfHeaven #love #StTeresaOfAvila #surrender #VirginMary #womb

MyTodayQuestionmytodayquestion
2025-05-12

How do I not become attached to the world?

Attachment to the world is perilous. Remind yourself of death and the Day of Judgment, and prioritize spiritual values.

mytodayquestion.com/en/questio

Quote of the day, 4 May: St. Raphael Kalinowski

‘Do you love me? Do you love me?’ [Cf. Jn 21:15-17]. Love gives strength to do the will of God in every situation, to avoid everything that might displease Him, to work and to suffer for His glory.

St. Teresa wanted to suffer or to die; St. Magdalen de Pazzi did not want to die, but to suffer.

Love is strong as death [Sg 8:6]. And just as nothing can resist death, love gives strength to triumph over every challenge. Then you don’t feel pain, and if you do you welcome it. From this fire of God’s love the flame of love of neighbor arises.

Anyone who loves God with all his heart desires that God be loved by all and this desire pervades his whole life….

But who is able to achieve such a degree of perfect love, which will free our soul from attachment to any earthly goods and completely unite our will with God’s will?

When the Divine Savior again asks us for our hearts, let us ask Him to take them to Himself; only He can purify them and light the fire of holy love and an ardent desire to be detached from everything and to want only His holy will.

Saint Raphael Kalinowski

Tierney, chap. 8: Vicar Provincial for the Carmelite nuns (1901)

Tierney, T  2016,  Saint Raphael Kalinowski: Apprenticed to Sainthood in SiberiaBalboa Press,  Bloomington, IN

Featured image: This detailed view of The Denial of St. Peter by an anonymous follower of Gerard (Gerrit) van Honthorst (Dutch, 15921656) was painted in the 17th century and is now in the Prado Museum in Madrid. The canvas, cut on all four sides, is believed to be based on an engraving after van Honthorst’s original, dated around 1620–25 and held in the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Christian tradition has long seen Jesus’ threefold question to Peter in John 21 as a loving invitation to reaffirm his devotion, undoing his triple denial on the night of Christ’s Passion. Image credit: Copyright ©Museo Nacional del Prado (Public domain)

⬦ Reflection Question ⬦
How is Jesus inviting me to respond more fully to His love, even in the face of weakness or failure?
Join the conversation in the comments.

#detachment #GodSLove #hearts #inspiration #love #perfection #StRaphaelKalinowski #strength #suffering #willOfGod

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-04-28

A quotation from Victor Hugo

At a certain level of wretchedness a kind of spectral indifference takes over, and you see human beings as ghostly presences. Those closest to you are often no more than vague shadowy forms, barely distinct from life’s nebulous background and easily reabsorbed by the invisible.
 
[À un certain degré de misère, on est gagné par une sorte d’indifférence spectrale, et l’on voit les êtres comme des larves. Vos plus proches ne sont souvent pour vous que de vagues formes de l’ombre, à peine distinctes du fond nébuleux de la vie et facilement remêlées à l’invisible.]

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Les Misérables, Part 4 “St. Denis,” Book 6 “Little Gavroche,” ch. 1 (4.6.1) (1862) [tr. Donougher (2013)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/hugo-victor/76374/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #depression #detachment #ghosts #isolation #misery #poverty #shadows #unreality #withdrawal #wretchedness

2025-04-18

Detachment or disconnection ruminations-

#disconnection says: “This pain is not mine. I don’t have to feel it.”

#detachment says: “This pain is not only mine. I can feel it with care, not be consumed by it.”

Disconnection numbs us from the field.

Detachment frees us to stay in the field without drowning.

Disconnection can be a trauma reflex.

Detachment can be a trauma integration.

2025-04-03

"Sometimes it is more loving to allow someone else to experience the natural consequences of their actions, even when it is painful for us both. In the long run, both of us will benefit. Today I will put love first in my life."

- Courage to Change (Al-Anon), pg. 124

#love #courage #detachment

Subir Pal vedic astrologersubirpal
2025-03-12
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2025-03-02

WHAT DOES IT MEAN WHEN A SPIRITUAL MASTER IS ALWAYS IN SANYASA

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WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-02-18

A quotation from Hugo

However, as we have just pointed out, brains which are absorbed in some bit of wisdom, or folly, or, as it often happens, in both at once, are but slowly accessible to the things of actual life. Their own destiny is a far-off thing to them. There results from such concentration a passivity, which, if it were the outcome of reasoning, would resemble philosophy. One declines, descends, trickles away, even crumbles away, and yet is hardly conscious of it one’s self. It always ends, it is true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. In the meantime, it seems as though we held ourselves neutral in the game which is going on between our happiness and our unhappiness. We are the stake, and we look on at the game with indifference.
 
[Du reste, comme nous venons de l’indiquer, les cerveaux absorbés dans une sagesse, ou dans une folie, ou, ce qui arrive souvent, dans les deux à la fois, ne sont que très lentement perméables aux choses de la vie. Leur propre destin leur est lointain. Il résulte de ces concentrations-là une passivité qui, si elle était raisonnée, ressemblerait à la philosophie. On décline, on descend, on s’écoule, on s’écroule même, sans trop s’en apercevoir. Cela finit toujours, il est vrai, par un réveil, mais tardif. En attendant, il semble qu’on soit neutre dans le jeu qui se joue entre notre bonheur et notre malheur. On est l’enjeu, et l’on regarde la partie avec indifférence.]

Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French writer
Les Misérables, Part 3 “Marius,” Book 5 “The Excellence of Misfortune,” ch. 4 (3.5.4) (1862) [tr. Hapgood (1887)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/hugo-victor/74854/

#quote #quotes #quotation #acquiescence #decline #detachment #deterioration #distancing #fortune #happiness #living #matters #passivity #problems #unhappiness

Calico Jessedeinol@dice.camp
2025-02-16

Playing in a team tournament in a couple months. Don’t expect to win.

My guard army is only
Deathriders + Lord Marshall
Baneblade + Tech Priest
Basilisk + Artillery Team

So a lot of strategems or army rules don’t apply.

I’m almost certainly spending 1CP a turn to pop smoke on the baneblade.

Options and poll follow:

1/2

#40k #WH40k #Tactics #Strategy #ImperialGuard #AstraMilitarum #DeathRiders #RoughRiders #BigGunsNeverTire #Detachment #Warhammer40k #Baneblade #Artillery

Warhammer 40K models.

Mostly unpainted models I need to finish before tournament. 

10 Victoria Miniatures Winged Hussar Rough Riders.

Krieg Lord Marshall. 

Mostly painted Artillery Team, black uniforms with orange helmets, boots, and gloves.
Comics and Jokes @ Lucentinian Works Co Ltdcomics@social.lucentinian.com
2024-12-19
2024-11-09

"Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace."

– Nisargadatta Maharaj

#quote #quoteoftheday #nisargadatta #detachment #PeaceOfMind #mindfulness #peace #desire #fear

I give thanks to Providence for granting me the opportunity to come and venerate the relics and recall the figure and teachings of St. John of the Cross, to whom I owe so much in my spiritual formation. I came to know him in my youth and was able to enter into an intimate dialogue with this master of the faith, with his language and thought, culminating in the development of my doctoral thesis on Faith in St. John of the Cross. Since then, I have found in him a friend and teacher, who has pointed to the light that shines in the darkness, guiding me always toward God, “with no other light or guide / than the one that burned in my heart. / This guided me / more surely than the light of noon” (The Dark Night, stanzas 3–4, trans. Kavanaugh and Rodriguez).

The Saint from Fontiveros is the great teacher of the paths leading to union with God. His writings remain relevant and, in a way, explain and complement the works of St. Teresa of Jesus. He shows the paths to knowledge through faith, for only such knowledge in faith disposes the mind to union with the living God.

How many times, with a conviction born from experience, he tells us that faith is the most fitting and appropriate means for union with God! It is enough to cite a well-known text from The Ascent of Mount Carmel, book II, chap. 9, sec. 1: “Faith alone … is the only proximate and proportionate means to union with God. … Just as God is infinite, faith proposes him to us as infinite. Just as there are three Persons in one God, it presents him to us in this way. … Only by means of faith, in divine light exceeding all understanding, does God manifest himself to the soul. The greater one’s faith the closer is one’s union with God” (The Ascent of Mount Carmel, book II, chap. 9, sec. 1, trans. Kavanaugh and Rodriguez).

With this insistence on the purity of faith, John of the Cross does not wish to deny that the knowledge of God is attained gradually from the knowledge of creatures, as taught in the Book of Wisdom and echoed by St. Paul in the Letter to the Romans (cf. Rom 1:18–21; cf. Spiritual Canticle, st. 4, sec. 1). The Mystical Doctor teaches that in faith, it is also necessary to detach oneself from creatures, both those perceived through the senses and those reached through understanding, in order to unite oneself cognitively with God Himself. This path that leads to union passes through the dark night of faith.

Saint John Paul II

Homily, 4 November 1982
Convent of the Discalced Carmelite Friars
Segovia, Spain

John of the Cross, St. 1991, The Collected Works of St. John of the Cross, Revised Edition, translated from the Spanish by Kavanaugh, K and Rodriguez, O with revisions and introductions by Kavanaugh, K, ICS Publications, Washington DC.

Translation from the Spanish text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

Featured image: At five in the afternoon on October 31, 1982, Pope John Paul II arrived at Barajas Airport in Madrid, kissing the ground upon his arrival. When the crowd erupted in excitement, officials began placing carpets along his path, which he bypassed to continue his custom of kissing the ground. That same day, before departing Rome, he had canonized two French nuns and led the Angelus prayer in St. Peter’s Square, as he did every Sunday. This marked his 15th official trip, covering sixteen locations in nine days at an intense pace. Image credit: Marisa Flórez / prisamedia.com

https://carmelitequotes.blog/2024/11/03/jp2-4nov82homly/

#darkNight #detachment #DoctorOfTheChurch #faith #inspiration #StJohnOfTheCross #StJohnPaulII #theology #unionWithGod

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