Life, Oneness, and You
The huge benefits of awakening to all that Life and You really are
About
About the Author
About Myself
My name is Richard Browning. I was born in Sydney, Australia, in December 1946. I still live in Australia but not in Sydney. Here ia a photo of me:
I enjoyed school, and my favourite subject was physics. I studied Civil Engineering at University and did very well. My first career, until retirement at age 67, was as a planning and design engineer in the water supply industry, for municipal water and sewerage infrastructure. I became a multi-disciplinary engineer due to the nature of the projects, which was mostly design of large treatment plants and pumping stations.
At about age 40, I started to develop a preliminary interest in spiritual matters including metaphysics.
Thus I had strong interests in physics, quantum physics and metaphysics. All three of these types of physics relate to the way things are made and how they interact, but in different realms.
Being a "Teacher about Life" is My Destiny
I have been told in multiple ways that I was here because of the Shift of the Ages, and was destined to be a Teacher about Life. That scared me and hindered my awakening for many years as all I want is a quiet and peaceful life.
In my early 60's, during a very quiet and peaceful meditation session with one other person, I heard the clearest possible voice from within say to me "I will teach about My Self, through you, in ways that are comfortable for you". However, I
still kept resisting any idea of public teaching.
Now, here I am at last, working with the One Self teaching about itself through me via this website. This is a comfortable way for me to do it, rather than from the "public stage" which I absolutely do not have the personality for or desire to do. I am a writer, not a speaker.
This work as a Teacher about Life is my second career. The teachings on this website are from the One Self within. I will talk about this more in later sections dealing with our True Self vs our Ego Self, and Levels of Self.
How My Former Career Helped with this Website
My earlier career as a design and planning engineer required me to write many reports about complicated subjects. This required integrating multiple components that contributed to the overall subject.
I regard my best skill as being an "integrator of concepts". My biggest challenge in developing this website, which was an enjoyable challenge for me, was to develop a structure for the site, plus an order and a name for each webpage, with structured headings and sub-headings, plus structure in the content of the pages.
I hope that the style of the website, especially its structure, assists you to understand the content.
The Contents Page that follows this page is the best place to see the overall structure of the site, including the recommended reading order for the pages.
My Email Address
If you want to contact me by email, please click on the link below:
Click to Email Me
About the Website
Priceless but Free
Although the material presented on this site is considered to be priceless, the site is free to use.
However I am inviting people who can afford to make a donation to please do so. A donation of any size at all would be appreciated. I am seeking financial support to create and publish more material to assist people on their journey through Life, while I exist on a small government pension.
Feel free to take whatever content you want and leave the rest.
Many Quotations Are Available
The quotations containing wisdom that are included on this site are a small fraction of what I have saved on my own computer, which are an even smaller fraction of the vast number of empowering quotations of timeless wisdom available online and in books.
Most of the images with quotations on this site were obtained from Facebook posts. If you want to see more, it just requires joining suitable Facebook groups, which are increasing in number almost daily.
Spelling (UK vs US)
Spelling on the website is a mixture of the UK/Australian spelling that I grew up with, and American spelling which sometimes matches pronunciation better.
Preferred Viewing Device
While attention has been given to make this website viewable on mobile phones and other devices with small screens, I recommend that you use a computer if at all possible. The larger screen size of computers will make your reading experience more efficient and enjoyable. (See more on page layout and screen size in the optional section below.)
Just Skip this Section if it is Not of Interest
The Purpose of the Section Below
This material below is not about the subject matter of the website itself, as an overview of that has already been provided on the home page.
It is about things such the method used to code the web pages, the page layout that has beeen used, and the reasons for it. It also mentions things done to make the material more readable, and to make it more visually interesting compared with excessive amounts of plain text.
I fully understand that many readers will have no interest in reading this type of information, which is perfectly reasonable. If you wish to, just skip the rest of this "About the Website" section. In that case I suggest looking at the Contents Page next.
Coding of the Webpages
The website has been hand-coded by myself using a very limited subset of HTML and CSS only. Nothing that would add bloat and complexity to the code has been used, such as drag-and-drop website builders, CSS frameworks, and content management systems (CMS). I believe that a CMS would be the grossest of overkills for a relatively small site like this one.
Although learning the bare minimum of CSS was quite frustrating, difficult, and time consuming, I am now truly enjoying writing and creating this website using only HTML and CSS, while being guided by the One Self on the content to include as it teaches about itself through me, as it said it would.
Page Layout and Screen Size
In addition to responsiveness to screen size, the page layout used has been chosen to serve users of both wider screens (e.g.computers) and small screens (e.g. mobile phones).
On wider screen sizes, pages will display with two equal-width columns side-by-side, while on mobile phones the columns will be shown one-at-a-time, one after the other as usual, but in this case based on columns of consistent width and thus consistent font size. On medium-width screens, the two columns will still be displayed side-by-side but with narrower width.
For Readability
Careful attention has been given to using font styles that are widely available and commonly used. The use of color in headings and quotations results in higher overall readability.
Visual Variety
Various ways of adding variety to what could otherwise have been a lot of plain text have been used. This includes quotations within colorful images.
Most of the quotations are from well-known and respected teachers (from all ages). These quotations by so many teachers also add credibility by showing that many of us are saying similar things.
The use of color in consistent ways in items such as text quotations, headings and sub-headings also contributes to clarity.
Link to the
Contents Page
About the Author
About Myself
My name is Richard Browning. I was born in Sydney, Australia, in December 1946. I still live in Australia but not in Sydney. Here ia a photo of me:
I enjoyed school, and my favourite subject was physics. I studied Civil Engineering at University and did very well. My first career, until retirement at age 67, was as a planning and design engineer in the water supply industry, for municipal water and sewerage infrastructure. I became a multi-disciplinary engineer due to the nature of the projects, which was mostly design of large treatment plants and pumping stations.
At about age 40, I started to develop a preliminary interest in spiritual matters including metaphysics.
Thus I had strong interests in physics, quantum physics and metaphysics. All three of these types of physics relate to the way things are made and how they interact, but in different realms.
Being a "Teacher about Life" is My Destiny
I have been told in multiple ways that I was here because of the Shift of the Ages, and was destined to be a Teacher about Life. That scared me and hindered my awakening for many years as all I want is a quiet and peaceful life.
In my early 60's, during a very quiet and peaceful meditation session with one other person, I heard the clearest possible voice from within say to me "I will teach about My Self, through you, in ways that are comfortable for you". However, I still kept resisting any idea of public teaching.
Now, here I am at last, working with the One Self teaching about itself through me via this website. This is a comfortable way for me to do it, rather than from the "public stage" which I absolutely do not have the personality for or desire to do. I am a writer, not a speaker.
This work as a Teacher about Life is my second career. The teachings on this website are from the One Self within. I will talk about this more in later sections dealing with our True Self vs our Ego Self, and Levels of Self.
How My Former Career Helped with this Website
My earlier career as a design and planning engineer required me to write many reports about complicated subjects. This required integrating multiple components that contributed to the overall subject.
I regard my best skill as being an "integrator of concepts". My biggest challenge in developing this website, which was an enjoyable challenge for me, was to develop a structure for the site, plus an order and a name for each webpage, with structured headings and sub-headings, plus structure in the content of the pages.
I hope that the style of the website, especially its structure, assists you to understand the content.
The Contents Page that follows this page is the best place to see the overall structure of the site, including the recommended reading order for the pages.
My Email Address
If you want to contact me by email, please click on the link below:
Click to Email MeAbout the Website
Priceless but Free
Although the material presented on this site is considered to be priceless, the site is free to use.
However I am inviting people who can afford to make a donation to please do so. A donation of any size at all would be appreciated. I am seeking financial support to create and publish more material to assist people on their journey through Life, while I exist on a small government pension.
Feel free to take whatever content you want and leave the rest.
Many Quotations Are Available
The quotations containing wisdom that are included on this site are a small fraction of what I have saved on my own computer, which are an even smaller fraction of the vast number of empowering quotations of timeless wisdom available online and in books.
Most of the images with quotations on this site were obtained from Facebook posts. If you want to see more, it just requires joining suitable Facebook groups, which are increasing in number almost daily.
Spelling (UK vs US)
Spelling on the website is a mixture of the UK/Australian spelling that I grew up with, and American spelling which sometimes matches pronunciation better.
Preferred Viewing Device
While attention has been given to make this website viewable on mobile phones and other devices with small screens, I recommend that you use a computer if at all possible. The larger screen size of computers will make your reading experience more efficient and enjoyable. (See more on page layout and screen size in the optional section below.)
Just Skip this Section if it is Not of Interest
The Purpose of the Section Below
This material below is not about the subject matter of the website itself, as an overview of that has already been provided on the home page.
It is about things such the method used to code the web pages, the page layout that has beeen used, and the reasons for it. It also mentions things done to make the material more readable, and to make it more visually interesting compared with excessive amounts of plain text.
I fully understand that many readers will have no interest in reading this type of information, which is perfectly reasonable. If you wish to, just skip the rest of this "About the Website" section. In that case I suggest looking at the Contents Page next.
Coding of the Webpages
The website has been hand-coded by myself using a very limited subset of HTML and CSS only. Nothing that would add bloat and complexity to the code has been used, such as drag-and-drop website builders, CSS frameworks, and content management systems (CMS). I believe that a CMS would be the grossest of overkills for a relatively small site like this one.
Although learning the bare minimum of CSS was quite frustrating, difficult, and time consuming, I am now truly enjoying writing and creating this website using only HTML and CSS, while being guided by the One Self on the content to include as it teaches about itself through me, as it said it would.
Page Layout and Screen Size
In addition to responsiveness to screen size, the page layout used has been chosen to serve users of both wider screens (e.g.computers) and small screens (e.g. mobile phones).
On wider screen sizes, pages will display with two equal-width columns side-by-side, while on mobile phones the columns will be shown one-at-a-time, one after the other as usual, but in this case based on columns of consistent width and thus consistent font size. On medium-width screens, the two columns will still be displayed side-by-side but with narrower width.
For Readability
Careful attention has been given to using font styles that are widely available and commonly used. The use of color in headings and quotations results in higher overall readability.
Visual Variety
Various ways of adding variety to what could otherwise have been a lot of plain text have been used. This includes quotations within colorful images.
Most of the quotations are from well-known and respected teachers (from all ages). These quotations by so many teachers also add credibility by showing that many of us are saying similar things.
The use of color in consistent ways in items such as text quotations, headings and sub-headings also contributes to clarity.
Link to the Contents Page