[et_pb_section admin_label=\u201dsection\u201d background_image=\u201dhttp:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Morning-Meditation.jpg\u201d transparent_background=\u201don\u201d allow_player_pause=\u201doff\u201d inner_shadow=\u201doff\u201d parallax=\u201doff\u201d parallax_method=\u201doff\u201d custom_padding=\u201d30px|30px\u201d padding_mobile=\u201doff\u201d make_fullwidth=\u201doff\u201d use_custom_width=\u201doff\u201d width_unit=\u201don\u201d make_equal=\u201doff\u201d use_custom_gutter=\u201doff\u201d][et_pb_row admin_label=\u201dRow\u201d make_fullwidth=\u201doff\u201d use_custom_width=\u201don\u201d width_unit=\u201doff\u201d use_custom_gutter=\u201doff\u201d custom_padding=\u201d30px|40px\u201d padding_mobile=\u201doff\u201d allow_player_pause=\u201doff\u201d parallax=\u201doff\u201d parallax_method=\u201doff\u201d make_equal=\u201doff\u201d column_padding_mobile=\u201don\u201d][et_pb_column type=\u201d1_4\u2033][et_pb_image admin_label=\u201dImage\u201d src=\u201dhttp:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/A-JOURNEY-Brz.jpg\u201d show_in_lightbox=\u201doff\u201d url_new_window=\u201doff\u201d animation=\u201doff\u201d sticky=\u201doff\u201d align=\u201dleft\u201d force_fullwidth=\u201doff\u201d always_center_on_mobile=\u201don\u201d use_border_color=\u201doff\u201d border_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d border_style=\u201dsolid\u201d] [\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\u201d1_2\u2033][et_pb_blurb admin_label=\u201dBlurb\u201d title=\u201dThe Twelve Pathways To Unconditional Love\u201d url_new_window=\u201doff\u201d use_icon=\u201doff\u201d icon_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 use_circle=\u201doff\u201d circle_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 use_circle_border=\u201doff\u201d circle_border_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 image=\u201d \u201d icon_placement=\u201dtop\u201d animation=\u201dtop\u201d background_layout=\u201dlight\u201d text_orientation=\u201dleft\u201d use_icon_font_size=\u201doff\u201d use_border_color=\u201doff\u201d border_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d border_style=\u201dsolid\u201d header_font=\u201dHappy Monkey||||\u201d header_font_size=\u201d28\u2033 header_text_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 body_font_size=\u201d18\u2033 body_text_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 body_line_height=\u201d1.4em\u201d]<\/p>\n
The Twelve Pathways were written by Ken Keyes, Jr., author of the Handbook To Higher Consciousness. \u00a0While there is much more to say about the pathways (and even more to know as you experience their power to transform) the following articles, written by Gregg Sanderson, attempt to help you apply them for a life of unconditional love.<\/p>\n
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I am freeing myself from security, sensation, and power needs that make me try to forcefully control situations in my life and thus destroy my serenity and keep me from loving myself and others \u2026 MORE<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_blurb admin_label=\u201dBlurb\u201d title=\u201dThe Second Pathway\u201d url_new_window=\u201doff\u201d use_icon=\u201doff\u201d icon_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 use_circle=\u201doff\u201d circle_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 use_circle_border=\u201doff\u201d circle_border_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 icon_placement=\u201dtop\u201d animation=\u201dtop\u201d background_layout=\u201dlight\u201d text_orientation=\u201dleft\u201d use_icon_font_size=\u201doff\u201d use_border_color=\u201doff\u201d border_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d border_style=\u201dsolid\u201d header_font=\u201dHappy Monkey||||\u201d header_font_size=\u201d22\u2033 header_text_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 header_line_height=\u201d1.1em\u201d body_font_size=\u201d16\u2033 body_text_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 url=\u201dhttp:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=1985&action=edit\u201d]<\/p>\n I\u00a0am discovering how my consciousness-dominating addictions create my illusory version of the changing world of people and situations around me\u00a0\u2026 MORE<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_blurb admin_label=\u201dBlurb\u201d title=\u201dThe Third Pathway\u201d url_new_window=\u201doff\u201d use_icon=\u201doff\u201d icon_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 use_circle=\u201doff\u201d circle_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 use_circle_border=\u201doff\u201d circle_border_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 icon_placement=\u201dtop\u201d animation=\u201dtop\u201d background_layout=\u201dlight\u201d text_orientation=\u201dleft\u201d use_icon_font_size=\u201doff\u201d use_border_color=\u201doff\u201d border_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d border_style=\u201dsolid\u201d header_font=\u201dHappy Monkey||||\u201d header_font_size=\u201d22\u2033 header_text_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 header_line_height=\u201d1.1em\u201d body_font_size=\u201d16\u2033 body_text_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 url=\u201dhttp:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/the-third-pathway-to-unconditional-love\/\u201d]<\/p>\n I welcome the opportunity, (even if painful) that my minute-to-minute experience offers me to become aware of the addictions I must reprogram to be liberated from my robot-like emotional patterns\u00a0\u2026 MORE<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_blurb admin_label=\u201dBlurb\u201d title=\u201dThe Fourth Pathway\u201d url_new_window=\u201doff\u201d use_icon=\u201doff\u201d icon_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 use_circle=\u201doff\u201d circle_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 use_circle_border=\u201doff\u201d circle_border_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 icon_placement=\u201dtop\u201d animation=\u201dtop\u201d background_layout=\u201dlight\u201d text_orientation=\u201dleft\u201d use_icon_font_size=\u201doff\u201d use_border_color=\u201doff\u201d border_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d border_style=\u201dsolid\u201d header_font=\u201dHappy Monkey||||\u201d header_font_size=\u201d22\u2033 header_text_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 header_line_height=\u201d1.1em\u201d body_font_size=\u201d16\u2033 body_text_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 url=\u201dhttp:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/the-fourth-pathway-to-unconditional-love\/\u201d]<\/p>\n I always remember that I have everything I need to enjoy my here and now, unless I am letting my consciousness be dominated by demands and expectations based on the dead past or the imagined\u2026 MORE<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_blurb admin_label=\u201dBlurb\u201d title=\u201dThe Fifth Pathway\u201d url_new_window=\u201doff\u201d use_icon=\u201doff\u201d icon_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 use_circle=\u201doff\u201d circle_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 use_circle_border=\u201doff\u201d circle_border_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 icon_placement=\u201dtop\u201d animation=\u201dtop\u201d background_layout=\u201dlight\u201d text_orientation=\u201dleft\u201d use_icon_font_size=\u201doff\u201d use_border_color=\u201doff\u201d border_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d border_style=\u201dsolid\u201d header_font=\u201dHappy Monkey||||\u201d header_font_size=\u201d22\u2033 header_text_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 header_line_height=\u201d1.1em\u201d body_font_size=\u201d16\u2033 body_text_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 url=\u201dhttp:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/the-fifth-pathway-to-unconditional-love\/\u201d]<\/p>\n I take full responsibility here and now for everything I experience, for it is my own programming that creates my actions and also influences the reactions of people around me \u2026 MORE<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_blurb admin_label=\u201dBlurb\u201d title=\u201dThe Sixth Pathway\u201d url_new_window=\u201doff\u201d use_icon=\u201doff\u201d icon_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 use_circle=\u201doff\u201d circle_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 use_circle_border=\u201doff\u201d circle_border_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 icon_placement=\u201dtop\u201d animation=\u201dtop\u201d background_layout=\u201dlight\u201d text_orientation=\u201dleft\u201d use_icon_font_size=\u201doff\u201d use_border_color=\u201doff\u201d border_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d border_style=\u201dsolid\u201d header_font=\u201dHappy Monkey||||\u201d header_font_size=\u201d22\u2033 header_text_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 header_line_height=\u201d1.1em\u201d body_font_size=\u201d16\u2033 body_text_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 url=\u201dhttp:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/the-sixth-pathway-to-unconditional-love\/\u201d]<\/p>\n I accept myself completely here and now and consciously experience everything I feel, think, say, and do\u2013including my emotion-backed addictions\u2013as a necessary part of my growth into higher consciousness \u2026 MORE<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\u201d1_2\u2033][et_pb_blurb admin_label=\u201dBlurb\u201d title=\u201dThe Seventh Pathway\u201d url_new_window=\u201doff\u201d use_icon=\u201doff\u201d icon_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 use_circle=\u201doff\u201d circle_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 use_circle_border=\u201doff\u201d circle_border_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 icon_placement=\u201dtop\u201d animation=\u201dtop\u201d background_layout=\u201dlight\u201d text_orientation=\u201dleft\u201d use_icon_font_size=\u201doff\u201d use_border_color=\u201doff\u201d border_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d border_style=\u201dsolid\u201d header_font=\u201dHappy Monkey||||\u201d header_font_size=\u201d22\u2033 header_text_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 header_line_height=\u201d1.1em\u201d body_font_size=\u201d16\u2033 body_text_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 url=\u201dhttp:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/the-seventh-path-to-unconditional-love\/\u201d]<\/p>\n I open myself genuinely to all people by being willing to fully communicate my deepest feelings, since hiding in any degree keeps me stuck in my illusion of separateness from other people\u00a0\u2026 MORE<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_blurb admin_label=\u201dBlurb\u201d title=\u201dThe Eighth Pathway\u201d url_new_window=\u201doff\u201d use_icon=\u201doff\u201d icon_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 use_circle=\u201doff\u201d circle_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 use_circle_border=\u201doff\u201d circle_border_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 icon_placement=\u201dtop\u201d animation=\u201dtop\u201d background_layout=\u201dlight\u201d text_orientation=\u201dleft\u201d use_icon_font_size=\u201doff\u201d use_border_color=\u201doff\u201d border_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d border_style=\u201dsolid\u201d header_font=\u201dHappy Monkey||||\u201d header_font_size=\u201d22\u2033 header_text_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 header_line_height=\u201d1.1em\u201d body_font_size=\u201d16\u2033 body_text_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 url=\u201dhttp:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/the-eighth-pathway-to-unconditional-love\/\u201d]<\/p>\n I feel with loving compassion the problems of others without getting caught up in their predicaments that are offering them messages they need for their growth\u00a0\u2026 MORE<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_blurb admin_label=\u201dBlurb\u201d title=\u201dThe Ninth Pathway\u201d url_new_window=\u201doff\u201d use_icon=\u201doff\u201d icon_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 use_circle=\u201doff\u201d circle_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 use_circle_border=\u201doff\u201d circle_border_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 icon_placement=\u201dtop\u201d animation=\u201dtop\u201d background_layout=\u201dlight\u201d text_orientation=\u201dleft\u201d use_icon_font_size=\u201doff\u201d use_border_color=\u201doff\u201d border_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d border_style=\u201dsolid\u201d header_font=\u201dHappy Monkey||||\u201d header_font_size=\u201d22\u2033 header_text_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 header_line_height=\u201d1.1em\u201d body_font_size=\u201d16\u2033 body_text_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 url=\u201dhttp:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/the-ninth-pathway-to-unconditional-love\/\u201d]<\/p>\n I act freely when I am tuned in, centered, and loving, but if possible I avoid acting when I am emotionally upset and depriving myself of the wisdom that flows from love and expanded consciousness\u2026 MORE<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_blurb admin_label=\u201dBlurb\u201d title=\u201dThe Tenth Pathway\u201d url_new_window=\u201doff\u201d use_icon=\u201doff\u201d icon_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 use_circle=\u201doff\u201d circle_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 use_circle_border=\u201doff\u201d circle_border_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 icon_placement=\u201dtop\u201d animation=\u201dtop\u201d background_layout=\u201dlight\u201d text_orientation=\u201dleft\u201d use_icon_font_size=\u201doff\u201d use_border_color=\u201doff\u201d border_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d border_style=\u201dsolid\u201d header_font=\u201dHappy Monkey||||\u201d header_font_size=\u201d22\u2033 header_text_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 header_line_height=\u201d1.1em\u201d body_font_size=\u201d16\u2033 body_text_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 url=\u201dhttp:\/\/spiritwithasmile.com\/MS\/the-tenth-pathway-to-unconditional-love\/\u201d]<\/p>\n I am continually calming the restless scanning of my rational mind in order to perceive the finer energies that enable me to unitively merge with everything around me\u2026 MORE<\/a><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_blurb][et_pb_blurb admin_label=\u201dBlurb\u201d title=\u201dThe Eleventh Pathway\u201d url_new_window=\u201doff\u201d use_icon=\u201doff\u201d icon_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 use_circle=\u201doff\u201d circle_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 use_circle_border=\u201doff\u201d circle_border_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 icon_placement=\u201dtop\u201d animation=\u201dtop\u201d background_layout=\u201dlight\u201d text_orientation=\u201dleft\u201d use_icon_font_size=\u201doff\u201d use_border_color=\u201doff\u201d border_color=\u201d#ffffff\u201d border_style=\u201dsolid\u201d header_font=\u201dHappy Monkey||||\u201d header_font_size=\u201d22\u2033 header_text_color=\u201d#000066\u2033 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