' Nothing is to be Feared '...
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
-Marie Curie
' Golden Peace '...
My dynamite will sooner lead to peace than a thousand world conventions.
As soon as men will find that in one instant,
whole armies can be utterly destroyed,
they surely will abide by golden peace.
-Alfred Nobel
' Turning a Life Around '...
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment,
or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
-Leo Buscaglia
We Are Actors '...
"All the World is a Stage and We are meer Actors " wrote William Shakespeare..
The comment is True..
Shakespeare spoke of life and called us Actors..
He is a Mystical Writer..
You have 'Free Will '..
To choose the Character to play and call it, Ego...
Let's be Real, and understand that You are Consciousness and can Manifest upon Desire..
But, the funny part is that Desire is Prison...
-thomas
' Your Aim in Life '...
An aimless life is always a troubled life.
Every individual should have an aim.
But do not forget that the quality of your aim will depend the quality of your life.
Your aim should be high and wide, generous and disinterested;
this will make your life precious to yourself and to others.
Whatever your ideal, it cannot be perfectly realized unless you have realized perfection in yourself.
-Sri Aurobindo
' Pursueing Happiness '...
If you pursue happiness, you are an ordinary person.
If happiness pursues you, you are an extraordinary person.
Do not chase happiness; let it chase you.
-Peter Deunov
' Love and Opinion '...
Love is higher than opinion.
If people love one another the most varied opinions can be reconciled -
thus one of the most important tasks for humankind today and in the future is that we should learn to live together and understand one another.
If this human fellowship is not achieved, all talk of development is empty.
-Rudolf Steiner
' Thoughts on a Tuesday Night '...
Robocalls still try to sell me products as my phone rings without an answerer..
This is the Field of Mind that tries to control your mind..
It has always been about 'mind control '..
To control the mind and the wallet is the Dream that we live within..
To think beyond madness is difficult, when the media is controlling the thoughts..
The thoughts of the other entities will decide your will..
Repeat a lie enough times and it will be believed..
This is why Consciousness is most important..
No more thinking from the ego consciousness..
Reality is the 'Watcher' not the 'Observed '..
Who are You ?...
-thomas
' Be Critical '...
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth.
Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
-Aristotle
' The Golden Rule '...
The way to happiness is:
keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry.
Live simply, give much.
Fill your life with love.
Do as you would be done by.
-Gautama the Buddha
' He Became Me '...
I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person.
Or he became me.
-Cary Grant
' Let us speak of Reality '...
We find our self to be born with a servant badge..
Therefore, the mind must be reborn to obey..
It is so strange to speak to souls that are not Mystics..
You are not aware of Reality and therefore, My words are worthless..
I am speaking to you in Truthfulness..
You exist within a Dream, A Hologram..
I understand, that you do not understand..
My words are to Awaken you to consciousness..
At this point of Consciousness
you do not understand..
This is Normal..
But, what I speak is
Real..
-thomas
' Transformed Into God '...
To love is to be transformed into what we love.
To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.
-Saint John of the Cross
' Feel the Burn '...
As a magnifying glass concentrates the rays of the sun into a little burning knot of heat that can set fire to a dry leaf or a piece of paper,
so the mystery of Christ in the Gospel concentrates the rays of God's light and fire to a point that sets fire to the spirit of man.
... Through the glass of His Incarnation He concentrates the rays of His Divine Truth and Love upon us so that we feel the burn,
and all mystical experience is communicated to men through the Man Christ.
-Thomas Merton
' Liberty Decreases '...
I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.
Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ...
The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases.
The two enemies of the people are criminals and government,
so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first.
-Thomas Jefferson
' Thoughts on a Friday Night '...
I live near New York City, the leading member of the Lost Lives of the World..
But, I do not fear death..
There is nothing that does not Die within an Illusion..
All Manifestation returns to Dust..
Many Souls fear the end of Manifestion and Egoic-desire..
When you no longer fear the loss of a Dream, You are Free..
So many Spiritual Masters speak to us of Love..
This has always been the Secret of Freedom..
Those that spoke of Love were usually Killed..
You exist within a Dream of Egoic-desire and Material Desire..
It is not too late to Awaken..
Living or Dying is a Win-Win experience..
-thomas
' Where Strength Begins '...
...the Lord of the Universe carries the entire burden of this world.
You imagine you do.
You can hand all your burdens over to His care.
Whatever you have to do, you will be made an instrument for doing it at the right time.
Do not think you cannot do it unless you have the desire to do it.
Desire does not give you the strength for doing.
The entire strength is the Lord's.
-Ramana Maharshi
' Understanding Yourself '...
To be beautiful means to be yourself.
You don't need to be accepted by others.
You need to accept yourself.
When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower.
If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life.
True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.
-Nhat Hanh
' The True Cause of Suffering '...
The next time you lose heart and you can’t bear to experience what you’re feeling,
you might recall this instruction:
change the way you see it and lean in.
Instead of blaming our discomfort on outer circumstances or on our own weakness,
we can choose to stay present and awake to our experience,
not rejecting it, not grasping it, not buying the stories that we relentlessly tell ourselves.
This is priceless advice that addresses the true cause of suffering—yours, mine, and that of all living beings.
-Pema Chodron
' Our Unwillingness '...
There is a very Simple Secret to being happy.
Just let go of your 'demand' on this moment.
Any time you have a demand on the moment to give you something or remove something, there is suffering.
You're Arguing with 'What Is' - Your demands keep you chained to the 'dream-state' of the conditioned mind.
The desire to 'control'... is, ultimately, our unwillingness to just be awake.
-Adyashanti
' Attain the Supreme '...
Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth.
All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye.
Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme.
-Adi Shankara
' Giving Up '...
Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.
The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
-Thomas A. Edison
' I Value Love '...
Because I have known despair,
I value hope.
Because I have
tasted frustration,
I value fulfillment.
Because I have been lonely,
I value love.
-Leonard Nimoy
' Waking Up '...
Waking up to who you are requires letting go of who you imagine yourself to be
-Alan Watts
' The Matrix of All Matter '...
As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter,
I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much:
There is no matter as such.
All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration
and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together.
We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind.
This mind is the matrix of all matter.
-Max Planck
' Sound and Light Waves '...
We are slowed down sound and light waves,
a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos.
We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments
and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music.
-Albert Einstein
' Thoughts on a Friday Night '...
I am sure that many mystics have stopped reading this blog because they need no more knowledge..
You reach a stage of Knowing and need no more nudging..
You exist within the Dream but Know who You Are..
As the Nazarene said;
"You must be within the world, but not of it"..
But, most of humanity still needs these words that push them forward..
Therefore, I remain writing..
You are the Observer of the Dream and not the participant..
But, this Dream appears so real..
Your main desire is Happiness which you have discovered is Love..
And yet Love consists of giving and not taking..
All of your life, you have desired to receive benefits,
but now, Happiness is found within giving..
How strange that Happiness is found when the egoic desire for taking is thrown away..
This is called Love..
This is called Happiness..
The greatest Happiness is giving Everything,especially the desire for existence..
This is called Enlightenment...
-thomas
' Forgeting '...
I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
-Maya Angelou
' Heart and Intuition '...
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
-Steve Jobs
' Who Gets the Credit ?'...
There is no limit to the amount of good you can do,
if you don't care who gets the credit.
-Ronald Reagan
' Friends '...
You meet people who forget you.
You forget people you meet.
But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget.
Those are your 'friends
-Mark Twain
' The Truth Is Simple '...
The truth is simple.
If it was complicated,
everyone would understand it.
-Walt Whitman
' Too Far '...
Only those who will risk going too far,
can possibly find out how far one can go.
-T. S. Eliot
' Thoughts on a Sunday Night Within Death '...
We find ourselves within the fear of death..
We that have found ourselves within combat, know this fear..
This is what, we call PTSD..
This is where you are now..
An Invisible Enemy is attacking you..
Why do others support this power?..
Power, wealth, and fame are the desires of false ego attraction..
It is still a Dream..
This survival of ego is attached to survival of life..
None of this, is Real..
The Survival of Consciousness does not need these Desires..
'We Wake Up!'...
-thomas
"Nobody, Son of Nobody"...
Shaikh Abu Saeed Abil Kheir (Abu Sa'id ibn Ab'il Khair ) (967 - 1049 ce) referring to himself as "nobody, son of nobody" he expressed the reality that his life had disappeared in the heart of God. This revered Persian Sufi mystic from Khorasan preceded the great poet Jalaluddin Rumi by over two hundred years on the same path of annihilation in Love.
Until you become an unbeliever in your own self,
you cannot become a believer in God.
~~
If you are seeking closeness to the Beloved,
love everyone.
Whether in their presence or absence,
see only their good.
If you want to be as clear and refreshing as
the breath of the morning breeze,
like the sun, have nothing but warmth and light
for everyone.
~~
Beloved, show me the way out of this prison.
Make me needless of both worlds.
Pray, erase from mind all
that is not You.
Have mercy Beloved,
though I am nothing but forgetfulness,
You are the essence of forgiveness.
Make me needless of all but You.
~~
Piousness and the path of love
are two different roads.
Love is the fire that burns both belief
and non-belief.
Those who practice Love have neither
religion nor caste.
~~
Be humble.
Only fools take pride in their station here, trapped in
a cage of dust, moisture, heat and air.
No need to complain of calamities,
this illusion of a life lasts but a moment.
~~
Suppose you can recite a thousand holy
verses from memory.
What are you going to do
with your ego self, the true
mark of the heretic?
Every time your head touches
the ground in prayers, remember,
this was to teach you to
put down that load of ego
which bars you from entering
the chamber of the Beloved.
To your mind feed understanding,
to your heart, tolerance and compassion.
The simpler your life, the more meaningful.
The less you desire of the world,
the more room you will have in it
to fill with the Beloved.
The best use of your tongue
is to repeat the Beloved's Name in devotion.
The best prayers are those in
the solitude of the night.
The shortest way to the Friend
is through selfless service and
generosity to His creatures.
Those with no sense of honor and dignity are best avoided.
Those who change colors constantly
are best forgotten.
The best way to be with those
bereft of the Beloved's qualities,
is to forget them in the
joy of silence in one's corner of solitude.
Shaikh Abu Saeed Abil Kheir - "Nobody, Son of Nobody"
~~
from wahiduddin.net
' This Is My Wish '...
This is my wish for you:
Comfort on difficult days,
smiles when sadness intrudes,
rainbows to follow the clouds,
laughter to kiss your lips,
sunsets to warm your heart,
hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see,
friendships to brighten your being,
faith so that you can believe,
confidence for when you doubt,
courage to know yourself,
patience to accept the truth,
Love to complete your life.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
' Kindness '...
Kind hearts are the gardens,
Kind thoughts are the roots,
Kind words are the flowers,
Kind deeds are the fruits,
Take care of your garden And keep out the weeds,
Fill it with sunshine, Kind words, and Kind deeds.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
' Dear Soul '...
Be comforted, dear soul!
There is always light behind the clouds.
-Louisa May Alcott
' There is no divine judgment. by John Smallman '...
You are on the cusp of great revelations that will amaze and alarm humanity, as the scale of corruption and deceit in human affairs, engaged in for eons by those who would rule and control you, are brought to light by some very courageous investigators of the utmost integrity. Part of the game of separation has been the motivation by those of high intelligence to set themselves up as leaders and controllers because they consider themselves superior to others and, therefore, totally deserving of power and privilege. They see “the masses” as tools to be used to help them achieve their aims. They have appeared as emperors, as kings, as dictators, as tribal chiefs, as people of importance who have “rightfully” inherited their positions due to their royal blood lines, and they have gone to great lengths to prevent those blood lines becoming “contaminated.” They have always been very secretive, and have, without any qualms, disposed of any who would not submit to their authoritarian ways, including members of their own families. Their greed for power has always been insatiable. Now their secrets and their criminal activities are to be revealed, in fact are already being revealed.
Many have suspected those in high places of nefarious activities, which have been ongoing for a very long time, but, until now, there has been no way to expose these activities, or the ambitions of these intensely egotistical people and call them to account. Enormous change is in the air, and it will surprise quite a few when who the “good guys” are, becomes known. Nothing, in the illusory world, is as it seems.
Reality is Love, and there is nothing other than Love. In the unreal world, the world of form, where sentient life experiences itself as a physical being, material forms appear to be separate, individual, disconnected from each other. This unreal world, the world of illusion was constructed with the express intent to experience separation, individuality, aloneness, and it has done this extremely well.
Although modern science has now demonstrated very clearly that there is only a vast and infinite field of energy within which everything is connected, and that therefore separation is physically impossible, nevertheless, the way humanity experiences itself and life in form remains an experience of separation – me totally physically separate from everyone else. This has been humanity’s experience since the illusion was constructed for this very purpose, and because this belief is so deeply ingrained within the human collective, it is very difficult to dissolve. While it remains, for a short while yet, a seemingly totally valid belief, those with intense egotistical personalities will continue to behave as they have been doing for eons, namely by caring for themselves while disregarding the rights and needs of others.
BUT, humanity is awakening! Consequently the vast majority of humans have seen, or are now beginning to see the insanity of attempting to live separate lives in which each looks only after him or herself. Your history of endless conflicts and the resultant pain and suffering of so many clearly demonstrates the results of this belief, and of the behaviors that follow from it. Humanity is ready for change, for awakening, and the collective decision to awaken has been made, and your awakening is happening right now. As a result, much that has been hidden is being brought into the light, and, because until very recently people trusted the system that has been endlessly using and abusing them, what is being revealed is immensely shocking and disturbing for many. There is even a powerful sense of disbelief that theseinsane criminal activities and deceptions could have been ongoing for so long, and people are asking themselves, and those with whom they associate regularly “Can this really be true. Surely we would have known something of this. Are our governments and their agents really so utterly and criminally corrupted?” And the answer is becoming quite apparent, and is most definitely in the affirmative.
To awaken is to become aware of Oneness, to know that All are One, and in that knowing peace and joy arise. To awaken is to open your hearts fully to Love. This means that all that is not in perfect alignment with Love, all that is unreal – judgment, bitterness, hatred, resentment, etc. – has to be dissolved back into the nothingness from which it appears to have arisen. Nothing can arise from nothingness, so it is just a case of acknowledging certain unloving thoughts and beliefs and letting them go, thus allowing Love to fill your hearts completely. You do this just by withdrawing your power, your focus of attention from them, and then they are gone, because it is by your choice to focus your attention on them that you make them seemingly real – and only in your minds! The difficulty is that you can see this very clearly in others, but your egos do an excellent job of hiding them from yourselves. You could liken it to going through the home you have resided in for a very long time and clearing out the enormous accumulations of “stuff,” of “clutter” that you no longer need, and delighting in the large open space that is then available and into which you can expand and be fully yourselves.
There is no need to search out and bring to justice those who have misbehaved, because to do so is to engage in judgment thus reducing the space available in your hearts for peace, joy, and Love. Those who have misbehaved are also awakening, and the majority will become aware, will be shocked and horrified at what they uncover within themselves – the “stuff” arising into their awareness, “stuff’ that has been denied or ignored for a very long time – and will seek assistance to release it. Many of you chose to incarnate at this point in humanity’s spiritual evolution to offer this kind of exceptionally loving assistance to those who become conscious of and horrified by the personal misbehaviors in which they have engaged.
Remember, ALL, without exception, are the beloved children of God, and ALL are the prodigal ones returning Home to the most magnificent of celebrations. There is no divine judgment, there is only self-judgment, and the divine Will is that you cease and desist from that, forgive yourselves, forgive all others, and truly awaken into the full awareness of your own Divinity. God creates only like unto Himself, and She always does it with infinite perfection!
As your last unawakened moments flow past, please celebrate in the knowledge that all is well, that all is unfolding perfectly just as Father/Mother/God has always intended.
Your loving brother, Jesus.
' Do Not Disturb The Inner Peace '...
When we start to feel anxious or depressed,
instead of asking, "What do I need to get to be happy?"
The question becomes,
"What am I doing to disturb the inner peace that I already have?"
-D.T. Suzuki
' Replace Fear '...
By replacing fear of the unknown with curiosity we open ourselves up to an infinite stream of possibility.
We can let fear rule our lives or we can become childlike with curiosity,
pushing our boundaries, leaping out of our comfort zones, and accepting what life puts before us.
-Alan Watts
' Heavy becomes Light '...
The life of this world and the hereafter,
in the heart of a person are like the two scales of a balance,
when one becomes heavier, the other becomes lighter.
-'Abd Allah ibn 'Amr ibn al-'As
' Don't Worry, Be Happy '...
Don't worry about the situation of the world.
You must be very happy, very very happy!
Only through happiness and waves of bliss you will be able to help your country and the entire world in an automatic manner.
You will remain ever invincible when you don't allow anything to obscure
your happiness.
-Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
' Experience the Miraculous '...
According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness.
The first symptom is that you stop worrying.
Things don't bother you anymore.
You become light hearted and full of joy.
The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities.
And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous.
-Deepak Chopra
' Freedom of Speech '...
Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.
-Benjamin Franklin
' Thoughts on a Thursday Night '...
I sit in small talks with my beautiful lover and speak of fear..
We watch the television and both read at the same time..
Multitasking is the modern word, as time moves too slow..
We take walks outdoors to feel free..
We cannot meet our friends that bring meaning to our lives..
We are forced to re-enter Silence and Meditation..
We are forced to watch our own thoughts..
If we are strong enough in spirit, we will meet mercy..
We will once again witness Wisdom and Understanding..
We Will Actually Awaken..
Thank God...
-thomas
' A Rocky Road '...
There will always be rocks in the road ahead of us.
They will be stumbling blocks or stepping stones;
it all depends on how you use them.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
' Infinitely More Precious '...
There is a loneliness more precious than life.
There is a freedom more precious than the world.
Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.
-Rumi
' Heroism '...
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
-Joseph Campbell
' All else is madness '...
When you complain, you make yourself a victim.
Leave the situation,
change the situation
or accept it,
all else is madness.
-Eckhart Tolle
' Be, what you seek '...
You can't expect to draw people into your life who are kind, confident, and generous
if you're thinking and acting in cruel, weak, and selfish ways.
You must be what it is that you're seeking- that is,
you need to put forth what you want to attract.
-Wayne Dyer
' No Reward Needed '...
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight.
Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster,
and do it with no thought of any reward.
Your life will never be the same again.
-Og Mandino
' To Hope '...
I was hungry.
I was cold.
But I was also free.
Free not to get up in the morning,
not to go to bed at night,
free to get drunk if I liked,
to dream... to hope.
-Edith Piaf
' Power Given '...
Let go of your plans.
The first hour of your morning belongs to God.
Tackle the day's work that he charges you with,
and he will give you the power to accomplish it.
-Edith Stein
' Start Being Brave '...
Start being brave about everything.
Drive out darkness and spread light.
Don’ look at your weaknesses.
Realize instead that in Christ crucified you can do everything.
-Saint Catherine of Siena
' Racism'...
This is not true to the Realist..
We Souls of Truth do not see the color of skin..
In All reality, We only see the eyes of Knowledge..
Only, Mystics know this Knowledge..
The Eyes are the Mirror of the Soul..
The Lies that state that hatred is involved in the amount of melanin within skin is false..
We only seek Truth..
If you call Truth, God... so be It..
The Reality of life is the word,
Truth..
All other words are worthless...
-thomas
' Words from a Hebrew Guru '...
Tuesday afternoon, March 10th 2020.
John: I have finally concluded, after listening to my intuition, and after conversing with a couple of very dear friends to publish the following message from Jesus, which I received on February 5th 2020.
Jesus message on Wednesday night February 5th 2020.
John: I felt that Jesus possibly wanted to commune with me, so I said:
“Here I am dear brother, please talk.” And he responded:
Jesus: A very good evening to you dear John. Yes, I was calling you. Relax a moment to place yourself in listening/receiving mode and then we can start. (a short break here . . .)
Enormous physical changes are occurring within the planet and will continue for three months – until mid-May – which will be extremely unsettling for all, and will lead to intense suffering for many.
I want you to know and understand that all sentient life is safe, is protected, because you are immortal beings of Light. Many will lay down their physical bodies. They incarnated to do this to provide a major wake-up call to humanity. Love is the way forward, so judgment, blame, shame, bitterness, resentment, and hatred must cease.
You are all beautiful beings of Love, and you need to become aware of that now – you must know that Love is what you are – and release or discard anything to which you are clinging that is not in alignment with Love. The time for being blind to Love, unaware of Love, ignorant of Love, in denial of Love has passed.
Love is the divine field of conscious awareness in which is contained All That Exists. There is nowhere that is not Love, and all illusions of something other than or apart from Love will just fall away.
Any who continue to cling to illusory ideas that deny or avoid Love will suffer intense pain until they let go and surrender to Love, to Reality, to their True Nature.
You, John, and many, many others are now called to demonstrate Love constantly and continuously whatever may arise in your lives of form. Life will become very intense, so keep resetting your intent to be only loving whatever occurs, knowing you are fully supported in every moment, and knowing that you will succeed most magnificently.
It’s a little like a snake shedding its skin, it’s perfectly normal but unsettling and uncomfortable, but all is exceedingly well.
Be in Joy, be in Faith, be in Love, be in God.
Your loving brother, Jesus.
John: I have doubts about the above! Yes, indeed I do! But I will set the intent to be only and constantly loving, and trust in Mother/Father/God, One, Source, Love, knowing that whatever may occur is divinely intended for the highest good of all. If I get the sense, later on, that I should publish this message, then I shall do so.
W
' Christ '...
Christ beside me,
Christ before me,
Christ behind me,
Christ within me,
Christ beneath me,
Christ above me.
-Saint Patrick
' Do Not Waste A Moment '...
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.
Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.
This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
' Character '...
Bear in mind that brains and learning, like muscle and physical skill, are articles of commerce.
They are bought and sold.
You can hire them by the year or by the hour.
The only thing in the world not for sale is character.
-Antonin Scalia
' That's My Religion '...
When I do good,
I feel good.
When I do bad,
I feel bad.
That's my religion.
-Abraham Lincoln
' What Are Angels ?'...
They are material manifestations of the Consciousness of Source..
Just As We Are..
I must admit that my Guardian Angel has saved my life many times,
and yet, I know no name or gender of this Angel..
To warn me fifteen seconds before I would be killed and gave me a chance to live..
But, if you did not believe in these warnings, you would have died..
But these Angels and Us are not Real..
We and They are both the Dreams from the Dreamer of Creation..
I say 'We' because 'We' Believe that we are the Manifestion of Thought called Ego..
This is the Belief that We are separate from Creator..
" I and the Father are One ",
said the Nazarene..
-thomas
' Happiness '...
Happiness is a butterfly,
which when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp,
but which,
if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you.
-Nathaniel Hawthorne
' The Great Knowledge '...
Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me.
In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism.
It is of all ages, climbs, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge.
When I read it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a summer night.
-Henry David Thoreau
' The Greatest Glow of Happiness '...
When we recall the past,
we usually find that it is the simplest things -
not the great occasions -
that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
-Bob Hope
' If You Begin '...
My advice to you is not to undertake the spiritual path.
It is too difficult, too long, and is too demanding.
I suggest you ask for your money back, and go home.
This is not a picnic.
It is really going to ask everything of you.
So, it is best not to begin.
However, if you do begin, it is best to finish.
-Chogyam Trungpa
' Worrying '...
Worries are pointless.
If there's a solution, there's no need to worry.
If no solution exists, there's no point to worry.
-Matthieu Ricard
' The Right Day to Love '...
There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done.
One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow.
Today is the right day to Love,
Believe,
Do and mostly Live.
-Dalai Lama
' Knowledge of All '...
To reach satisfaction in all,
desire its possession in nothing.
To come to the knowledge of all,
desire the knowledge of nothing.
To come to possess all,
desire the possession of nothing.
To arrive at being all,
desire to be nothing.
- Saint John of the Cross
' Government Benefits '...
There is nothing government can give you that it hasn't taken from you in the first place.
-Winston Churchill
' Thoughts of a Wednesday Night '...
I am almost seventy four years old, if I receive this virus, I will die..
I understand this road to demise..
I accepted this sentence in Viet Nam..
I refused to feel the pain of fear..
It has always been a Circle of Understanding..
The mistaken soul returning to Earth, to learn..
The Fearful that live a life of slavery..
I have already been There..
I already Know, what will happen..
The Surrendering of the Desire for Life, will Free You..
Love will be Seen and Felt within this Experience called Enlightenment..
Buddha and Jesus call many, but few arive..
-thomas
' Three Steps to Paradise '...
I was in darkness, but I took three steps and found myself in paradise.
The first step was a good thought,
the second, a good word;
and the third, a good deed.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
' The Three Stages of Truth '...
All truth passes through three stages.
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
' Ahura Mazda '...
One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda.
With purity of mind and holiness of heart one can find Him in one's own heart.
-Zoroaster
' To Be Beautiful '...
To be beautiful means to be yourself.
You don't need to be accepted by others.
You need to accept yourself.
When you are born a lotus flower, be a beautiful lotus flower, don't try to be a magnolia flower.
If you crave acceptance and recognition and try to change yourself to fit what other people want you to be, you will suffer all your life.
True happiness and true power lie in understanding yourself, accepting yourself, having confidence in yourself.
-Nhat Hanh
' We have no present '...
We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time,
in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future.
We have no present.
Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation.
We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience.
We are therefore out of touch with reality.
-Alan Watts
' Liars '...
A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth,
either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others.
When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him,
he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal.
And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself.
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
' Thoughts, Words, and Deeds '...
Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors.
Nothing more will be wanted.
They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbour of Heaven,
as a safe guide to the gates of paradise.
-Zoroaster
' Journalism '...
Journalism is one of the devices whereby industrial autocracy keeps its control over political democracy;
it is the day-by-day, between-elections propaganda,
whereby the minds of the people are kept in a state of acquiescence,
so that when the crisis of an election comes,
they go to the polls and cast their ballots for either one of the two candidates of their exploiters.
-Upton Sinclair
' What We Need '...
What we need in the United States is not division;
what we need in the United States is not hatred;
what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness;
but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another,
and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country,
whether they be white or they be black.
-Robert Kennedy
' Pain and Pleasure '...
Pain and pleasure are transitory; endure all dualities with calmness,
while trying at the same time to remove their hold.
Imagination is the door through which disease as well as healing enters.
Disbelieve in the reality of sickness even when you are ill.
The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery.
-Sri Yukteswar Giri
' Free Will '...
The important thing to realize is that while we may not escape our own basic pattern,
we can work in harmony with it.
That is where free will comes in.
Once having chosen, a man has to accept the consequences of his choice,
and go on from there.
-Swami Yogananda
' Heart Felt '...
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched -
they must be felt with the heart.
-Helen Keller
' In Life '...
In dwelling, live close to the ground.
In thinking, keep to the simple.
In conflict, be fair and generous.
In governing, don't try to control.
In work, do what you enjoy.
In family life, be completely present.
-Laozi
' Inward Realization '...
Do not confuse understanding with a larger vocabulary,
sacred writings are beneficial in stimulating desire for inward realization,
if one stanza at a time is slowly assimilated.
Continual intellectual study results in vanity and the false satisfaction of an undigested knowledge.
-Sri Yukteswar Giri
' This Is The Place '...
Don't depend on death to liberate you from your imperfections.
You are exactly the same after death as you were before.
Nothing changes; you only give up the body.
If you are a thief or a liar or a cheater before death, you don't become an angel merely by dying.
If such were possible, then let us all go and jump in the ocean now and become angels at once!
Whatever you have made of yourself thus far, so will you be hereafter.
And when you reincarnate, you will bring that same nature with you.
To change, you have to make the effort.
This world is the place to do it.
-Paramahansa Yogananda
' Reality Of Fact '...
1 : the quality or state of being real
2a(1) : a real event, entity, or state of affairs his dream became a reality
(2) : the totality of real things and events trying to escape from reality
b : something that is neither derivative nor dependent but exists necessarily
3 : television programming that features videos of actual occurrences (such as a police chase, stunt, or natural disaster) —often used attributively
reality TV
in reality
in actual fact
'' Etta James "...
Etta James brings true manifestion..
Seeing from Non-duaity, We meet for coffee..
We see the Imaginary..
You may call call me 'Zimmy'
It might be the Devil or the Lord..
We, Mystics seek further..
We do not believe in personalities..
We Believe in You..
We See the Media and Know Truth..
How does this Manifestation survive within so much fear..
We are within this together,
We are Love..
Welcome, Home....
-God
' Reality '...
There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is curiosity.
There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is vanity.
There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve;
that is Love.
- Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
' Ideas '...
For if you are caught up in ideas, then you will be caught up in the
self.
And even if you are caught up in ideas about nothingness, you
will still be caught up in the self.
That's why we should not get
attached to the belief that things either exist or do not exist.
This
is the hidden meaning when I say that my teachings are a raft to be
abandoned when you see true being.
-Diamond Sutra
' The Media '...
If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed.
If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.
-Mark Twain
' Your Time Is Limited '...
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.
Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking.
Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.
And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
-Steve Jobs
' The Illusion of Freedom '...
The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion.
At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain,
they will just take down the scenery,
they will pull back the curtains,
they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.
-Frank Zappa
' Changing the World '...
Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem,
smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you'd ever imagined.
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.
Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
-Rumi
' Captive to God '...
Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils,
for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God.
I cannot and will not recant anything,
for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.
Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise.
God help me.
Amen.
-Martin Luther
' Love Them Both '...
We must love them both,
those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject,
for both have labored in the search for truth,
and both have helped us in finding it.
-Saint Thomas Aquinas
' Impossible to Believe '...
Impossible to believe as we stare at this screen before us..
We awoke this morning from the nothingness and into the illusion of materiality..
All of this time, we firmly believe that we are awake in reality..
We pass through this day wondering why we are here..
Perhaps, instead of crying at our unknowing,
We should laugh at our ignorance..
As all of the Mystic Masters have told you,
" The answer is within"..
Within what?..
The Heart and Mind..
This is why you are here..
The mind will lead you to the 'Door'
The heart will open the 'Door'..
As the Nazarene said;
" Knock and the Door shall be opened"..
The mind is the ego that desires to exist but still seeks freedom..
The Heart is Divine Consciousness that offers freedom to the mind..
The mind is troubled by this decision between annihilation of it's existence and
the freedom that is promised by this sacrifice of existence..
Reality is beyond the mind (ego),
To view Reality, the mind (ego) must dissolve into nothingness...
Courage is the name given to those that fear and yet still proceed..
Are you Courageous?..
- thomas
' Lovers of Wisdom '...
Mankind will never see an end of trouble until lovers of wisdom come to hold political power,
or the holders of power become lovers of wisdom.
-Plato
' Conquer by Love '...
Conquer anger by love,
evil by good;
Conquer the miser with liberality,
and the liar with truth.
-Gautama The Buddha
' Eyes, Feet, and Hands '...
Christ has no body now on earth but yours, no hands, no feet but yours.
Yours are the eyes with which Christ looks out his compassion to the world.
Yours are the feet with which he is to go about doing good.
Yours are the hands with which he is to bless us now.
-Saint Teresa of Avila
' Clutter Within Our Minds '...
The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds.
-Thomas Merton
' You Are Above '...
The more you struggle to live, the less you live.
Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing.
Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....
you are above everything distressing.
-Baruch Spinoza
' Buddha also said This '...
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
-Immanuel Kant
' To Be Like Christ '...
A true and faithful Christian does not make holy living an accidental thing.
It is his great concern.
As the business of the soldier is to fight,
so the business of the Christian is to be like Christ.
-Jonathan Edwards
' The Best Thing to Give '...
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness;
to an opponent, tolerance;
to a friend, your heart;
to your child, a good example;
to a father, deference;
to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you;
to yourself, respect;
to all others, charity.
-Benjamin Franklin
' The Definition of Madness '...
The true definition of madness is repeating the same action,
over and over,
hoping for a different result.
-Albert Einstein
' Suffering '...
Wouldn't it be wonderful if you could spare them from all suffering?
No, it wouldn't.
They would not evolve as human beings and would remain shallow, identified with the external form of things.
Suffering drives you deeper.
The paradox is that suffering is caused by identification with form and erodes identification with form.
A lot of it is caused by the ego, although eventually suffering destroys the ego-but not until you suffer consciously.
-Eckhart Tolle
' I Changed '...
I was neurotic for years.
I was anxious and depressed and selfish.
Everyone kept telling me to change.
I resented them and I agreed with them, and I wanted to change, but simply couldn't, no matter how hard I tried.
Then one day someone said to me, Don't change.
I love you just as you are.
Those words were music to my ears:
Don't change, Don't change.
Don't change . . . I love you as you are.
I relaxed.
I came alive.
And suddenly I changed!
-Anthony de Mello
' Possibilities '...
You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going.
What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment,
and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.
-Thomas Merton
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