If you are drawn to an enlightened teacher, it is because there is already enough presence in you to recognize presence in another. There were many people who did not recognize Jesus or the Buddha, as there are and always have been many people who are drawn to false teachers. Egos are drawn to bigger egos. Darkness cannot recognize light. Only light can recognize light. So don’t believe that the light is outside you or that it can can only come through one particular form. If only your master is an incarnation of God, then who are you? Any kind of exclusivity is identification with form, and identification with form means ego, no matter how well disguised.

Use the masters presence to reflect your own identity beyond name and form back to you and to become more intensely present yourself. You will soon realize that there is no “mine” or “yours” in presence. Presence is one.

Group work can also be helpful for intensifying the light of your presence. A group of people coming together in a state of presence generates a collective energy field of great intensity. It not only raises the degree of presence of each member of the group but also helps to free the collective human consciousness from its current state of mind dominance. This will make the state of presence increasingly more accessible to individuals. However, unless at least one member of the group is already firmly established in it and thus can hold the energy frequency of that state, the egoic mind can easily reassert itself and sabotage the group’s endeavors. Although group work is invaluable, it is not enough, and you must not come to depend on it. Nor must you come to depend on a teacher or a master, except during the transitional period, when you are learning the meaning and practice of presence.

-Eckhart Tolle

Help us welcome the redesigned Craig Wickersham website online.

Craig Wickersham is a Scottsdale Arizona Architect who provides architectural services and architectural rendering services.

Visit the NEW site today.

Lunchbox Collective is proud to announce that BLURdigital.com is now available.

“BLUR is a state of mind. It’s the place where our differences are no longer a barrier to communication and understanding, but instead are an opportunity to explore new things, to adapt the best qualities of our intersecting cultures, and to EXPAND OUR FOCUS.”
-Will Mandeville, Co-Founder

Share your story, browse the BLUR Map, and read articles about cultural diversity.

Have you ever felt at one with the world and then in a millisecond you are slammed back into your humble reality?

Take a moment and Watch this Video.

This inspirational video will help you understand how that 3 pound mass between your ears actually works.

namaste~

Lunchbox Collectives Martin Kulakowski celebrates the completion of our 4th year in business with a clean shave at v’s barbershop in Scottsdale.

Matthew Creamer with the help of Jakob Nielsen sheds some light on internet advertising in his recent article on Advertising Age.

Jakob Nielsen, an expert in user behavior who consults with Fortune 1000 companies on corporate websites, made the following declaration:

“The basic point about the web is that it is not an advertising medium. The web is not a selling medium; it is a buying medium. It is user-controlled, so the user controls, the user experiences.”

Are you looking for a vibrant, fun and progressive learning environment for your son or daughter?

Beat the heat this summer on the cool shores of Lake Simcoe which is 60 miles northwest of Toronto to experience the quintessential Canadian Summer Camp.

Youth Leadership Camps Canada (YLCC) is an international summer leadership camp for youth aged 7-19. The camps motto is “Move You to Fly!” and every staff member of YLCC has dedicated themselves to do just that.

The camp in partnership with Robin Sharma and Sharma Leadership International provides each and every camper with tools to succeed. To achieve better results in school, to have more self confidence, to manage their time and set achievable real goals.

Don’t wait to give your loved one a head start on their personal success.Register your child for one of this summers residential sessions.

Help us welcome the redesigned Schubach Jewelers website online.

From exquisite Valentines gifts to golden anniversaries, Schubach Jewelers will put a smile on her face and a sparkle in her eye.

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While bouncing from store-to-store and from party-to-party, keep in mind all of the work that goes on behind the scenes.

To gain insight into how your gifts make it under the tree; from extraction through sale, use and disposal, and all the stuff in our lives that affects communities at home and abroad.

Check out the Story of Stuff.

When planning the adventure trip of a lifetime, the most important decision isn’t where to go, but who to go with.

To help you pick the right outfitter, National Geographic magazine conducted the world’s first authoritative rating of adventure travel tour operators and we are proud to say that our long time client and friends from Discovery Treks have been named one of the “Best Outfitters in the World” by National Geographic Adventure magazine.

Click on over to Discovery Treks and take the adventure of a lifetime.