Articles by David Robert Ord
When Life Seems to Be Against You, It's Actually Working for You! - The Little Prince Series -
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David Robert Ord
Daily Insight from the Story of The Little Prince It's easy when situations become painful to imagine that our life is going all wrong. But there has long been a mystical sense among humans all over the world that the divine Presence that pervades everything is...
Trying to Imagine God -
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David Robert Ord
Daily Spiritual Insight from the Story of The Little Prince The way millions upon millions, in fact more likely billions, picture God isn't really very different from the king the Little Prince encounters on the first planet he visits. If I had to sit on a...
Authentic Gift Giving Is An Expression of Who You Are -
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David Robert Ord
Daily Spiritual Insight from the Story of The Little Prince "I just don't know what to get him," Cathy, forty-two, confided in her twin sister as she tried to decide on a Christmas gift for their father. "He always says he has everything he wants." Amy...
Coping withe the Demands of Seasonal Giving - The Little Prince Series -
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David Robert Ord
Daily Spiritual Insight from the Story of The Little Prince It isn't only children who expect gifts for the holiday season. Adults want to be catered to also and can be just as demanding as children. The issue when we have expectations of gifts of a...
How Can You Tell Whether You Are Reacting or Responding? - The Little Prince Series -
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David Robert Ord
Daily Insight from the Story of The Little Prince Suppose you find yourself in a situation in which you aren't sure whether you should speak up for yourself, or whether you should remain quiet and process any emotions that arise within yourself. Whether you let your...
How to Handle the Person Who Bullies You - The Little Prince -
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David Robert Ord
Daily Insight from the Story of The Little Prince When someone does something to upset us, they are actually setting us up for a potential growth experience. So the first realization that needs to dawn deep within us is that this situation is, at least right...
A Peaceful Passage Through the Holidays -
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David Robert Ord
What I want to introduce today is a practice that any two or more people can use. But for the sake of clarity, I will set it in the context of a couple. I learned this from Michael Brown, the author of the Namaste books...
Why Relationships Begin to Die - The Little Prince Series -
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David Robert Ord
Daily Insight from the Story of The Little Prince The most common cause of relationships going wrong is simple neglect. We take people for granted. Whether we are talking about a romantic relationship, our relationships with family members or friends, or our work relationships, we fail...
How to Participate in a Faith Tradition as a Conscious Person -
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David Robert Ord
Daily Spiritual Insight from Eckhart Tolle's Stillness Speaks Do you belong to a faith tradition? Many readers do, whether Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, and so on. If you do participate in a faith tradition, how do you handle any aspects of the tradition that perhaps don't...
A Lesson from South Korea -
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David Robert Ord
Daily Spiritual Insight from Eckhart Tolle's Stillness Speaks How calm, present, and non-anxious can you stay in a life-threatening crisis? A BBC News report from John Sudworth in Seoul, South Korea, says that the recent skirmish between North and South Korea "is of a different order"...
How to Live from Your Heart -
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David Robert Ord
Daily Insight from the Story of The Little Prince When we approach life from consciousness instead of from the way we've been programmed from childhood up, we become increasingly deep feeling individuals. How can we not feel deeply, given that we are expressions of divine love? The very...
Giving Thanks When All Is Not Well -
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David Robert Ord
In the northern hemisphere, the harvest is in, winter is upon us, Canada has already celebrated, Britain too, and this week it is the turn of people in the United States to gather to give thanks. A question: What does it mean to give thanks...
How Deeply Do You Feel? - The Little Prince Series -
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David Robert Ord
Daily Insight from the Story of The Little Prince I often run across people who are quite shocked when a person they consider to be "spiritual" expresses strong emotion. It's as if spiritual people are supposed to be completely even-keeled, dispassionate—the sort of people who...
Are You Afraid of Hurting People's Feelings? - The Little Prince Series -
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David Robert Ord
Daily Insight from the Story of The Little Prince There is a much-watched British soap called EastEnders that's been running for about a quarter of a century, some two hours a week, reflecting working class life in the East End of London. If a single motif...
Do Truly Spiritual People Ever Feel Really Sad? - The Little Prince Series -
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David Robert Ord
If you are a truly spiritual person, should you ever feel really sad? Well, the Little Prince, who represents our inner being, felt very sad. In fact we will find as we proceed through the Little Prince's story that he experienced the full range of...
How You Can Begin to Feel Really Good about Yourself - The Little Prince Series -
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David Robert Ord
Learning to be present in my life—to simply enjoy this moment, right now, with no thought of the next moment—didn't happen quickly for me. So if you are discouraged by your own progress, take heart. I can tell you that today I dwell each and...
You Are the Answer You are Seeking - The Little Prince Series -
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David Robert Ord
Anna Quindlen, novelist and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist, reminisces in Living Out Loud about summers spent at the beach searching for what the Little Prince would call a "baobab" to make her feel happy—someone to fill the emptiness she was experiencing in her life. "My fantasies of...
When Life Throws You a Curve, Is that Okay with You? - The Little Prince Series -
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David Robert Ord
How we see reality has to do with our beliefs. If you hold one set of beliefs, you will interpret what happens to you in a very different way than someone who holds an opposing set of beliefs. However, at a deeper level our beliefs...
What Does It Mean to Live in Non-duality? - The Little Prince Series -
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David Robert Ord
Daily Spiritual Insight from the Story of The Little Prince When the Little Prince talks about good seeds and bad seeds that sprout on his planet, someone responds, "But he is judging. It's a judgment to say something is good or bad. We are supposed to...
Why Telling Yourself You Are "Worthy" Never Sticks for Long - The Little Prince Series -
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David Robert Ord
"Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy," says a quote on Twitter that cites Dr Wayne Dyer. But is it true? For me it never was. I tried for decades to think myself into self-worth. But despite all my positive thinking, there was...
