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Instructions for Life in the new millennium from the Dalai Lama:
	Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
	When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
	Follow the three Rs: respect for self, respect for others, responsibility for all your actions.
	Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
	Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
	Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
	When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
	Spend some time alone every day.
	Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
	Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
	Live a good, honorable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
	A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
	In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
	Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
	Be gentle with the earth.
	Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
	Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
	Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
	Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

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Spiritual Counseling
Our lives are precious gifts from God and our relationship with God is the most fundamental and essential aspect of that life, if that life is to be vibrant. At the same time, in order to thrive we must establish ourselves within the world and relate ourselves within our society.

In so doing and in order to find fulfillment, we must search basic questions about our existence and our origin, our purpose....we must find our center if we are to move in balance and live effectively.

What we call that center, that relationship so fundamental to us, be it God, Mother, Father, Spirit, Creator, Truth, Love, Higher Power, Universe...that is of little consequence, but it must be called, discovered, chosen, learned - it must unfold from within each one of us and find a home in our beings, if we are to flourish.

I believe that the genesis of psychological, emotional, physical and spiritual "disease" is the absence of the inner self related to one’s God, Truth, Higher Power, Spirit.... This fosters emptiness and isolation. It manifests in the form of stress - disorder in relationships, family’s health...unhappiness, violence, drug and alcohol abuse, etc. Spiritual Counseling is the experience that encourages self awareness as well as other awareness, self enlightenment and self love. Spiritual counseling is a process whereby one learns to ask questions of self and to search one’s heart and mind for one’s own unique individual story. As the counseling unfolds, one finds alignment and order within - relieving the stress unhappiness.

Spiritual Counseling is intended for the soul’s journey into the rhythms and directions of its’ relationship with Truth/God/Love.... It is an environment that encourages learning. Spiritual Counseling is a safe environment of love and listening, one of encouragement to see self as perfect and whole. It is a place to learn a process. A place of no expectations yet absolute faith. It is an environment of truth and trust.

The Spiritual Counselor is there to offer example, tools and training of a spiritual/emotional nature. If it is the right time and place, the awesomeness of one’s life will manifest.

I encourage dialogue of any emotional or spiritual nature and I will respectfully respond. Please contact me at info@aPlaceofPeace.org. I look forward to our encounter.

Check back at the website – I will post different reflections, articles and meditations as I can.

A Place of Peace is within you! Thank you.
- Teri Kierbel