Threads of Enlightenment: A Journey into Personal Growth

By Shivanata (Daddy) Ken Primus and Radhe Schiff

Searching for a way to change your life? Look no further than Threads of Enlightenment, a groundbreaking self-help manual to help you achieve happiness and fulfillment. Turn to your higher power to begin making the necessary adjustments in your life.

Authors Ken Primus and Radhe Schiff draw on their experiences with teaching God's principles to give you the guidance you need. With an easy-to-understand philosophy, Threads of Enlightenment will empower you to begin anew through several key concepts, including the following:

Self-love
Solitude
Forgiving others
Attitudes for success
Giving of yourself

Threads of Enlightenment challenges you from beginning to end. Delve deep into your heart and mind to make your life changes today!

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Apr 6, 2006
• ISBN: 9780595817795

Shivanata (Daddy) Ken Primus

Ken Primus was born in Guyana and served as the pastor of Abundant Grace Ministries in Orlando, Florida. He is the author of The Blue Print of Faith. Radhe Schiff was raised in the tradition of Kashi—honoring all faiths dedicated to the service of humanity—and has learned and lived the importance of universal respect and action for the rights of all.

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Threads of Enlightenment

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A Journey into Personal Growth

Ken Primus Shivanata (Daddy)

and

Co-Author Radhe Schiff

iUniverse, Inc.

New York Lincoln Shanghai

Threads of Enlightenment

A Journey into Personal Growth

Copyright © 2006 by Ken Primus & Radhe Rahna Schiff

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Contents

Introduction

Self-love

Solitude

Unchecked Emotions

Forgiving Others

Attitudes for Success

Conquering Damaging Habits

Giving of Yourself

Discovering Your Gift

How to Begin Using Your Gift

Power of Words

Introduction

The splendor of any decision is after you have made it, all that remains to be seen are its consequences.

—Ken Primus

We have made our decision!

It was with great honor, respect, and humility that Radhe and I accepted the responsibilities that came with putting this project together. We have been transformed in so many areas of our lives; it is very difficult to find words to truly describe what has happened to us.

In both our lives, the journey has brought us to this time and space of growth as natural and spiritual beings. It is our deepest desire and heartfelt hope that, as you read this book and meditate on its truths, you will be transformed as we were opening the universe that is within, forever growing from the space of grace and love.

We can testify that if there was a place to start, it would be first and foremost with your relationship with your God, your spiritual source, whatever or whoever that might be. For everything in your life will flow out of this relationship. This relationship will teach you how to trust and to believe. In complex times, help is needed from a source that is full of love, wisdom and understanding.

Begin where you are at this moment, for it is the best place to start.

—Ken Primus

In challenging time you may need to go to that source that has deeper wisdom and a clearer understanding of life’s principles, someone you can cry to and gather strength from when you need it. Your relationship with your God should be a mirror or an example of your relationship with yourself and others. From this relationship with your God you will learn to love. Everything you require will develop in and from this relationship. Therefore, it is essential to develop your relationship with your God. Without this you will never truly understand your connection to the cycle of life.

Everyone believes in something, even the atheist, because not to believe in something or someone is still a belief. The belief system is a part of the human spirit. Without it we could neither live nor survive. Everything is built upon this foundation. We first start with our God, then self, family, friends, and finally the world. We are working from the assumption that you’ve already taken care of your foundation, your relationship with your God. If not, start working on it. One of the great Christian truths is this:

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. (KJV Deut 6:5)

"No person may hear that for which they are not prepared to hear; Christ would say, ‘he who has ear to hear, let them hear.’

Control your destiny or somebody else will. Ken Primus

So with this in mind, we begin with self-love.

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Self-love

Self-love is a point of origin, not a destination.

—Radhe Schiff

Self-love is a point of origin for the ever-expanding experience of self. It is the big bang of the eternal internal. It is a commitment to strip myself of judgment, criticism, unworthiness, and arrogance; in other words, to strip myself of my ego, which tells me I am better than or less than what I am. For to love myself unconditionally does not mean to look at myself through the rose-colored lens of my ego but rather to look at every strength, every weakness, every unique characteristic that distinguishes me from you.

Throughout this book you will see that I use the words my and I. I use these words because this is the only way that I can share the wisdom that I have harvested through the ripening experience of time. I do not profess to know what goes on within your heart. This is something only you know, the same way I know what is within mine. If I speak in terms of you and ones, I would be removing myself and having an objective perspective. Life from that perspective is merely an observation. Life,