' The Meaning of Life '...
The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.
......................Rabindranath Tagore
' Owning Yourself '...
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.
..................Rudyard Kipling
' Judging a Nation '...
When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.
...........................John Calvin
' The Trials of Life '...
The trials of life will not wait for us. They come at their own time, not caring much to inquire how ready we may be to meet them.
..................James Anthony Froude
' Mistakes '...
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
..........................Thomas Carlyle
' The Purpose of Life '...
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.
.............Ralph Waldo Emerson
' Nothingness '...
It is difficult to understand Nothingness... The Energy of Thought is a Miracle that We have been trying to understand since the Begging of this Hologram........... Welcome Home to Reality..................thomas
' The Little Things in Life '...
Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for
.............Robert Frost
' Acts of Kindness '...
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
..................William Wordsworth
' Doubt and Trust '...
Love is weak when there is more doubt than there is trust, but love is most strong when you learn to trust even with all the doubts. If a thing loves, it is infinite.
..................William Blake
' The Mask of Virtue '...
Villainy wears many masks; none so dangerous as the mask of virtue.
..............Washington Irving
' Disarming all Hostility '...
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
......................Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
' Self-Education '...
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
..............Isaac Asimov
' Human Beings '...
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
..................Douglas Adams
' Responsibility '...
We each decide whether to make ourselves learned or ignorant, compassionate or cruel, generous or miserly. No one forces us. No one decides for us, no one drags us along one path or the other. We are responsible for what we are.
.....................Maimonides
' The Answers '...
You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.
...................Galileo Galilei
' Integrity '...
It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
...............Francis Bacon
' The Open Door '...
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
...............Alexander Graham Bell
' Enlightenment '...
To remove the ego from Consciousness..... I suggest the method that I used of Surrendering the ego to the Universe... No god figure needed.. Be prepared for the Fear of the Death of self... that self is a false representation of Your Being and Divine Consciousness... This is when Enlightenment occurs............... thomas
' Only Hoped For '...
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
.............................Epicuru
' Know Yourself '...
The most important relationship we can all have is the one you have with yourself, the most important journey you can take is one of self-discovery. To know yourself, you must spend time with yourself, you must not be afraid to be alone. Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
................Aristotle
' Politics and Morality '...
Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them.
..................Jean-Jacques Rousseau
'' Exclamation '...
Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation
................Isaac Newton
' To Be Perceived '...
To be is to be perceived (Esse est percipi)." Or, "If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound?
.................George Berkeley
' The Material World '...
We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains.
.............Nicolas Malebranche
' Minds '...
Minds are not conquered by force, but by love and high-mindedness.
..................Baruch Spinoza
' The Force '...
The force that is running inside you is the same force running the solar system... the moment you relax from the 'I' the 'other' will disappear... you become 'one' with the truth.
......................Swami Nithyananda
' The Secret of Health '...
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. . . Live each moment completely and the future will take care of itself. Fully enjoy the wonder and beauty of each moment.
.................Paramahansa Yogananda
' Peace and Joy '...
Having a good home, eating good food, wearing good clothes, are a means to living well; they are not the goals of our life. The quality of your life is decided by how peaceful and joyful you are.
.................Jaggi Vasudev
' Enjoy It '...
Life is a challenge, meet it! Life is a dream, realize it! Life is a game, play it! Life is love, enjoy it!
................Sathya Sai Baba
' Basis for Living '...
The only basis for living is believing in life, loving it, and applying the whole force of one's intellect to know it better.
..................Emile Zola
' Actors '...
The world is full of actors pretending to be human
.....................J. D. Salinger
' The Deepest Sin '...
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
..............Aldous Huxley
' Courage '...
Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.
....................Omar N. Bradley
' Nothingness '...
WONDER & PLAY
“This is the real secret of life— to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now— and instead of calling it work, realize it is play.” Work as Play ~The Essence of Alan Watts
“As Aristotle says, the beginning of philosophy is wonder. Philosophy is man’s expression of curiosity about everything.” Relevance of Oriental Philosophy
IDENTITY
“You are all Vishnu playing that you’re in this mess, which is part of the cosmic dance. So, if that’s the case, dig it! You see? I mean, get with it! Be that!” ~Zen And The West (audio)
“Everybody is ‘you’. Everybody is ‘I’. That’s our name. We all share that.” Audio?
“Your real self, the real you, is everything there is… but concentrated and expressing itself at the point called your physical organism.” ~Introduction to Zen (audio)
What you are in your in-most being escapes your examination in rather the same way that you can’t look directly into your own eyes without using a mirror, you can’t bite your own teeth, you can’t taste your own tongue, and you can’t touch the tip of this finger with the tip of this finger.” audio Myth of Myself or Ego
“When you look out of your eyes, at nature happening out there, you’re looking at you. That’s the real you. The you that goes on of itself.” ~A Conversation with Myself
TRUST & FAITH
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone. On Yoga from The Ways of Liberation album
Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That will be like trying to smooth ripples in water over the flat iron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone. Art of Mediation 4:20
The first rule is don’t try to, because if you do, you will be like someone trying to make rough water smooth with a flat iron. And all that will do will stir it up. On Yoga 20:00
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. Relevance of Oriental Philosophy ?
A rigid bridge will be blown down by the first hurricane (find original)
CONTINUITY
“Before you were born there was this same nothing-at-all-forever. And yet… you happened. And if you happened once, you can happen again.” ~AW Biography (audio) Illusion of the Self
“It’s one of the great wonders of life: What will it be like to go to sleep and never wake up? And if you think long enough about that, something will happen to you. You will find out, among other things, that it will pose the next question to you: What was it like to wake up after never having gone to sleep? That was when you were born. You see, you can’t have an experience of nothing. Nature abhors a vacuum.” Nothingness OR DEATH?
The More a thing
NOTHING & DUALITY
Something and nothing are two sides of the same coin. The positive and the negative; the something and the nothing go together Nothingness video
We say ‘you can’t get something for nothing.’ But I would say you can’t have something without nothing.To be or not to be is NOT the question. Because you can’t have a solid without space; therefore you can’t have an “is” without an “isn’t”; a something without a nothing; a figure without a background. And we can turn that right the way around. Nothingness video
CONNECTION & UNIVERSE
We do not “come into” this world; grew out of it – just as an apple tree apples, the earth peoples. Myth of Myself?
“There is no such thing as a single, solitary event. The only possible single event is all events whatsoever. That could be regarded as the only possible atom; the only possible single thing is everything.” ~Buddhism, The Religion of No Religion
“A baby has for a long time been part of its mother and has floated in the ocean of the womb. So it has the sense from the beginning of what is really to an enlightened person totally obvious—that the universe is one single organism.” ~The Philosophies of Asia
“Your skin does not separate you from the world. It’s a bridge through which the external world flows into you. And you flow into it.” Audio?
“We have been hypnotized—literally hypnotized—by social convention into feeling and sensing that we exist only inside of our skins… That we are not the original big bang, but just something out on the end of it. And therefore, everybody feels unhappy and miserable.” Nature of Consciousness Audio? Missing: Curlique
Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.” – Alan Watts.
THE SELF
“If we came to our senses, we would be aware of ourselves not as only on the inside of our skins… But we would be aware that the outside is us too.” ~ Ecological Awareness (audio)
“This very moment, this very world, this very body is the point. Now. You see? But, if you’re seeking something beyond all the time, you never get with it. You’re never here.” ~Zen And The West (audio)
“What do we mean by ‘I’? We mean the symbol of ourselves. Now ourselves, in this case, is the whole psycho-physical organism—conscious and unconscious, plus its environment. That’s your real self. Your real self, in other words, is the universe as centered on your organism.” Audio
“When you are not getting in the way of yourself, you will begin to find out that all the great things you do are really happenings. All growth is something that happens. For growth to happen two things are important. You must have the technical ability to express what happens. And secondly, you must get out of your own way.” Audio?
“The word ‘person’ comes from the latin word ‘persona’ which referred to the masks worn by actors in which sound would come through. The ‘person’ is the mask—the role you’re playing. And all of your friends and relations and teachers are busy telling you who you are and what your role in life is.”
“What happens if you know that there is nothing you can do to be better? It’s kind of a relief isn’t it? You say ‘Well, now what do I do?’ When you are freed from being out to improve yourself, your own nature will begin to take over.” Audio?
SPONTANIETY AND MUSIC
“The physical world is diaphanous. It’s like music. When you play music, it simply disappears. There’s nothing left. And, for that very reason it is one of the highest and most spiritual of the arts, because it is the most transient.” ~Comparative Philosophy (audio)
“We love to see a child lost in the dance and not performing for an audience. To be happy and know that you are happy is really the overflowing cup of life. To dance as if there was no audience.”
ANXIETY & THE MIND
To go out of your mind at least once a day is tremendously important, because by going out of your mind you come to your senses. 2-5-04 Mediation 27:45
And if you stay in your mind all the time, you are over rational. In other words, you’re like a very rigid bridge which because it has got no give, no craziness in it, is going to be blown down in the first hurricane 2-5-04 Mediation 28:00
No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen. Audio source?
“You are in relationships with the external world that are, on the whole, incredibly harmonious. But we have this rather myopic way of looking at things. And we screen out from attention anything that is not immediately important to a scanning system based on sensing danger.” Audio
RELATIVITY & PERCEPTION
“There is no such thing as ‘the truth’ that can be stated. In other words, ask the question: ‘What is the true position of the stars in the Big Dipper?’ Well it depends on where you’re looking at them from.” ~Comparative Philosophy (audio)
Not picking and choosing doesn’t mean that you have to cultivate being detached. You can try that, sure. But then you find you’re terribly attached to your non-attachment. Like you’re proud of your humility.” ~Zen And The West (audio)
“Consciousness is a radar that is scanning the environment to look out for trouble, in the same way that a ship’s radar is looking for rocks or other ships. The radar does not notice the vast amount of space where there are no rocks and other ships. By and large we scan things over but we pay attention only to what our set of values tells us we should pay attention to.”
“Light is a relationship between electrical energy and eyeballs. It is you, in other words, who evoke the world and you evoke the world in accordance with what kind of a ‘you’ you are.” ~Philosophy of Nature (audio)
“Let’s ask, ‘How big is the sun?’ Are we going to define the sun as limited by the extent of its fire? That’s one possible definition. But we could equally well define the sphere of the sun by the extent of its light.” ~Time video Essentials
“The possibility of seeing down into something goes on forever and ever. When you work with mantras, you can learn to hear similar infinite depths in sound.” ~Buddhism The Religion of No Religion
“When you get to a deep ethical problem—where there is no easy decision on way or the other—you must look at the problem from the point of view of an artist. Which way of doing this is, in some sense, greater? It may be better to go off with a bang than a whimper.” Audio
THE PRESENT
“You can’t live at all unless you can live fully Now” Time, Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life
“Reality itself is gorgeous. It is the plenum; the fullness of total joy.” Nature of Consciousness
THE FUTURE
“Supposing you knew the future and could control it perfectly, what would you do? You’d say: ‘Let’s shuffle the deck and have another deal.’” ~Image of Man (audio)
“Nirvana is right where you are, provided that you don’t object to it.” Audio?
EDUCATION
“Education, in the real sense, is not preparation for life, it is actually living. It is the child participating in adult concerns. And doing it now and realizing that the point of the process in which the child is engages, is not to prepare the child for the future, but to enjoy doing the thing today.” Audio?
THOUGHT
“Thought is a means of concealing truth, despite the fact that it’s an extraordinarily useful faculty.” ~Veil of Thoughts 1 (audio)
MONEY AND MATERIALISM
“Money is an abstraction. It cannot, of itself, buy any pleasure whatsoever. Because all pleasures involve skill and love.” Pursuit of Pleasure
“We’ve run into a cultural situation where we’ve confused the symbol with the physical reality; the money with the wealth; and the menu with the dinner. And we’re starving on eating menus.” audio? Art of Meditation
“Money is the same order of reality as inches, grams, or lines of longitude and latitude. It is an abstraction. It is a method of bookkeeping to obviate the cumbersome procedures of barter. But our culture, our civilization, is entirely hung up on the notion that money has an independent reality of its own.” audio Veil of Thoughts 1
“If you say making money is the most important thing, you will spend your life completely wasting your time. You’ll be doing things you don’t like doing in order to go on living. That is, to go on doing things you don’t like doing. Which is stupid. Better to have a short life, which is full of what you like doing, than a long one spent in a miserable way.” audio Do You Do It…
USE OF TECHNOLOGY
“Man has to realize that he is an integral part of nature… that he is just as much a natural form as a seagull or a wave, or a mountain. And if he doesn’t recognize that, he uses his technical powers to destroy his environment… to foul his own nest.” ~Future of Communications (audio)
NATURE
“The physical world—clouds, mountains, humans—is wiggly. When you try to pick up a fish with your bare hands, it wiggles and slips out. What do you do? You use a net. And the net is the basic thing we have for getting hold of the wiggly world. And then somehow we think we understand when we have translated it into terms of straight lines and squares. But it doesn’t fit in nature.” A Conversation with Myself
“When you look out of your eyes, at nature happening out there, you’re looking at you. That’s the real you. The you that goes on of itself.” ~A Conversation with Myself
MYSTERY
“The more complete kind of mind, which can feel as well as think, remains to ‘indulge’ the odd sense of mystery which comes from contemplating the fact that everything is at base something which cannot be known.”audio? ~Become What You Are
“I prefer not to translate the word Tao at all because to us Tao is a sort of nonsense syllable, indicating the mystery that we can never understand—the unity that underlies the opposites.” ~What is Tao? (audio)
“Absence speaks. Nothing is important. But, we are brought up… We are so brainwashed, we are so bamboozled, we are so hypnotized, that we don’t know that.” ~Comparative Philosophy (audio)
CHANGE
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless Audio source?
“Transiency is a mark of spirituality. A lot of people think the opposite… that the spiritual things are the everlasting things. But, you see, the more a things tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.” ~Philosophy of Nature (audio)
“We’ve run into a cultural situation where we’ve confused the symbol with the physical reality; the money with the wealth; and the menu with the dinner. And we’re starving on eating menus.” audio? Art of Meditation
“We can see that the eternal is the transient, for the changing panorama of sense experience is not just a sum of appearing and disappearing things; it is a stable pattern or relationship manifested as, and by, transient forms.” Audio?
LOVE
“People who exude love are apt to give things away. They are in every way like rivers; they stream. And so when they collect possessions, and things they like, they are apt to give them to other people. Because, have you ever noticed that when you start giving things away, you keep getting more?” ~Spectrum of Love (audio)
“Love is a spectrum. There is not, as it were, nice love and nasty love… spiritual love, and material love… mature affection on the one hand and infatuation on the other. These are all forms of the same energy, and you have to take it and let it grow where you find it. If you find that only one of these forms exist in you, if at least you will water it, the rest of the plant will blossom as well.” Spectrum of Love ~Comparative Philosophy (audio)
JOURNEY
Music differs from say travel —when you travel you are trying to get somewhere and of course we because being a very compulsive and purposeful culture are busy getting everywhere faster and faster and faster until we eliminate the distance between the places— with modern jet travel you can arrive almost instantaneously, and what happens as a result is that the two ends of your journey become the same place.
The Japanese have a phrase which is just like our phrase ‘follow your nose’ but they say ‘follow you feet’ because, unlike the United States, Japan is an easy place to wander in. Here is a difficult place to wander in— it takes narrow streets and funny courtyards— you need curly kinds of places for effective wandering Here you are not allowed to wander, and if you go wandering in a nice part of town the police will stop you to ask where you are going … and everything is straightened out, the shortest distance between two points, no wandering allowed. Pursuit of Pleasure 3@25:30
Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home. Audio source?
WAY OF THE TAO / NIRVANA
“There’s no need to possess [the Tao]. You are it, and by trying to possess it you imply that you’re not. So, by trying to catch hold of it, you as it were, push it away… Although you can’t really push it away because the very pushing is all it. You see?” ~Ecological Awareness (audio)
“When you know that this moment is the Tao, and this moment is considered by itself without past and without future—eternal, neither coming into being nor going out of being—there is nirvana.” ~The Philosophies of Asia
WATERCOURSE WISDOM
“We are all floating in a tremendous river and the river carries you along. Some of the people in the river are swimming against the current, but they are still being carried along. Others have learned that the art of the thing is to swim with it. You have to flow with the river. There is no other way. You can swim against it, and pretend not to be flowing with it. But you still flow with the river.” Audio Swimming Headless?
“When you know that you have to go with the river, suddenly you acquire—behind everything that you do—the power of the river.” Audio see ‘force of the river’ SH?
“You hear the sound of water… And that’s quite as important as anything I’ve got to say.” ~Ecological Awareness (audio)
THE BUDDHA
“Buddha is the man who woke up, who discovered who he really was.” ~Buddhism the Religion of No Religion
“A buddha would see you all as being exactly right; just where you are, all of you are buddhas. Even for those of you who do not know it, it is right for you not to know it at this moment.” Audio?
~Compiled by Annie Tichenor, with the help of Mark Watts, Nicolette Schumacher, and Allison Faust
' Nothing Exists '...
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
..............Democritus
' Words '...
Many words are not proof of the wise man, because the sage only talk when it's needed, and the words are measured and corresponding with the need.
.......................Thales
' A Free Thinker '...
Be a free thinker and don't accept everything you hear as truth. Be critical and evaluate what you believe in.
......................Aristotle
' The Controlers '...
If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.
...............Voltaire
' The Eternal Present '...
There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.
..................James Joyce
' This Age '...
We live in an age which is so possessed by demons, that soon we shall only be able to do goodness and justice in the deepest secrecy, as if it were a crime.
.................Franz Kafka
' Solitude '...
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
......................Nikolai Gogol
' Faith '...
The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy.
..............Leo Tolstoy
' Success '...
The secret of success is to do the common things uncommonly well.
...............John D. Rockefeller
' Happiness '...
Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. So start each day by thinking of all the things you have to be thankful for. Your future will depend very largely on the thoughts you think today. So think thoughts of hope and confidence and love and success.
......................Dale Carnegie
' Positive Thinking '...
A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions
...............Norman Vincent Peale
' History '...
History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.
..............Dwight D. Eisenhower
' Mathematics '...
Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty.
................Archimedes
' Science '...
If you study science deep enough and long enough, it will force you to believe in God.
................Lord Kelvin
' Science and Religion '...
The person who thought there could be any real conflict between science and religion must be either very young in science or ignorant of religion.
............Joseph Henry
' Reality '...
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.
.................Niels Bohr
' Understanding '...
The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
.........................Baruch Spinoza
' The Hologram '...
We do not describe the world we see, we see the world we can describe.
...................Rene Descartes
' Rules for Happiness '...
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
.............Immanuel Kant
' Being Fooled '...
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
...................Soren Kierkegaard
' You Are Infinite '...
Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.
...................Swami Vivekananda
' Human Character '...
When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
......................Abraham Maslow
' A Lifetime '...
It takes a moment to tell someone you love them, but it takes a lifetime to prove it.
..................Erich Fromm
' Traveling '...
When traveling is made too easy and comfortable, its spiritual meaning is lost. This may be called sentimentalism, but a certain sense of loneliness engendered by traveling leads one to reflect upon the meaning of life, for life is after all a travelling from one unknown to another unknown.
.............D.T. Suzuki
' The Gospel of Thomas '...
Jesus said, “Let the seeker keep seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will be disturbed. When he is disturbed, he will be amazed. When he is amazed, he will be invincible to everything. And when he is invincible to everything, he will be at rest.”.......... from the Gospel of Thomas the Apostle
' Self-Reflection '...
We have so committed ourselves in different ways that we have hardly any time for self-reflection, to observe, to study.
.............Jiddu Krishnamurti
' Coincidences '...
When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.
...............Deepak Chopra
' Pleasure '...
Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
.................Eckhart Tolle
' History '...
History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
...........Maya Angelou
' Awakening to Reality '...
New post on Jesus through John
To be awake is your God-given right.
by John Smallman
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All is unfolding precisely as our dear and beloved Father intends. It always does! No other unfoldment is possible. Therefore, allow yourselves to relax as the Tsunami of Love continues to warmly and completely envelop the Earth, and all the sentient lives who are presently experiencing a very realistic but utterly unreal sense of separation as individual beings.
Only Love is Real, nothing else is necessary or possible, as you all know at the depths of your being, even though at present that awareness seems to be unavailable or hidden from you. This is not the case, it is not hidden from you, you have just chosen to be unable to see, sense, or know Reality as you continue to engage with the drama that being human entails. Over the eons there have been quite a large number who, after years or lifetimes of engaging with this drama, have allowed themselves to become aware of their divine nature, and who have then shared that knowledge with anyone who asks them for it. Often those who ask find themselves unable to accept or understand what is offered because they have such a strong belief that the illusion is all that is real.
This conviction has been changing very rapidly over the last few decades, as increasing numbers of humans allow themselves to become at least a little bit aware of their divine nature, and consequently set out on the spiritual quest that will expand that sense of awareness. Many of them write books and offer talks so that others may also start becoming aware that they too are divine beings as they step out on the paths that these books or talks help them to see, and encourages them to at least investigate them. The rate at which humanity’s collective sense of conscious awareness is reaching out to millions who are still very much asleep is accelerating, as it nudges them gently and lovingly towards becoming aware that that awareness is their natural state, a state from which their egos can no longer keep them fully disengaged.
To be awake is to be aware that who you are is a state of conscious awareness constantly in the Presence of and at One with Mother/Father/God, Source, LOVE, fully alive in peace and joy with all life. To be awake is your God-given right, but instead you chose to forget that and enter into a dream state that most severely limits your knowledge of who you truly are, and the drama of that state – its egotistical and narcissistic self-absorption – became an addictive distraction to which you have clung for a very long time. It is the Me, Me, Me syndrome which has led to great dysfunction and disagreement among so many of you. You are all very easily able to observe and negatively judge that syndrome in others – even though for many previous generations it had seemed to be totally normal – but it demands great courage and self-acceptance to acknowledge that it also operates through yourselves in times of fear or stress.
As humans in form you did require egos to call attention to yourselves in infancy and early childhood so that your survival needs could be acknowledged and provided for by your care-givers – parents, family members, teachers, and friends – but as you grew and matured in a welcoming and loving environment that requirement should fall away, as you yourselves began to engage only lovingly with others most of the time, just as had been demonstrated so lovingly to you.
However, vast numbers of humans have not spent the majority of their early lives in a completely loving environment, but have instead had to deal with pain, suffering, and trauma that has severely affected their personal outlook on life and on others. What is occurring now is that many are coming to an awareness that for life to work harmoniously for humanity – which is what the majority desire – people have to engage with one another with trust and love, in spite of their earlier experiences of betrayal of that essential trust which led to shock/trauma, pain, suffering, conflict, resentment, and even hatred. This awareness that “there must be a better way” (to quote Bill Thetford from the book A Course in Miracles), has been growing and intensifying over the last few decades, and many groups have formed all across the world with the intent to work together in harmonious and honest cooperation, enabling a move away from the mistrust and suspicion that has for so long been endemic, and which has seemed essential to your safety and survival.
This major change in attitude in so many is happening because so many of you reading this and other similar material are setting the daily intent to be only loving whatever arises in your daily lives. As I have told you before, doing just this, and nothing else, is extremely powerful because every individual energy field has an effect on the whole human energy field which is presently also being magnificently and wondrously embraced by the Tsunami of Love which is streaming abundantly across the planet touching all. There is no one who is not being powerfully influenced by It.
So once again I will remind you go within daily – even if you do not feel or experience any sense of the positive affect that you are having worldwide – and relax totally as you set that most powerful intent and sit quietly with it for at least a few minutes. By doing this you are changing yourselves, moving away from reliance on your fear-based egos, and constantly expressing your true nature, Love. You incarnated to do this because you knew how powerful and effective it would be, and I am with you all as your intuition or God-given guidance to keep reminding you of this, because, as humans, it is very easy for you to get drawn into the drama of the unreal dream or game, forget your intent, and engage with it egotistically instead of lovingly.
Don’t forget that you are in every moment fully supported by your teams in the non-physical realms, who are watching over you, encouraging you, and cheering you on. So call on them when you have any doubts or anxieties, and listen so that you may hear and access their most loving assistance, as you join with them in sharing and extending Love to all of humanity.
Your loving brother, Jesus.
' Trust Self '...
Have good trust in yourself,
not in the One that you think you should be,
but in the One that you are.
..........Taizan Maezum
' Zazen '...
We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen.
...............Kodo Sawaki
' Body and Mind '...
When both body and mind are at peace, all things appear as they are: perfect, complete, lacking nothing.
............Dogen
' A Happy Child '...
An adult is one who has lost the grace, the freshness, the innocence of the child, who is no longer capable of feeling pure joy, who makes everything complicated, who spreads suffering everywhere, who is afraid of being happy, and who, because it is easier to bear, has gone back to sleep. The wise man is a happy child.
...........Arnaud Desjardins
' Happiness '...
Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill.
..................Matthieu Ricard
' Most People '...
Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant
.............Socrates
'One Moment '...
One moment can change a day, One day can change a life and One life can change the world
........Gautama the Buddha
' The Good News '...
The bad news is you're falling through the air, nothing to hang on to, no parachute. The good news is, there's no ground.
.................Chogyam Trungpa
'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
' Miss no Opportunity '...
Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.
..................Therese of Lisieux
' Humility '...
Learn to love humility, for it will cover all your sins. All sins are repulsive before God, but the most repulsive of all is pride of the heart. Do not consider yourself learned and wise; otherwise, all your efforts will be destroyed, and your boat will reach the harbor empty. If you have great authority, do not threaten anyone with death. Know that, according to nature, you too are susceptible to death, and that every soul sheds its body as its final garment.
........... Saint Anthony of Padua
' A Peaceful World '...
The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.
............Bridget of Sweden
' Seeking Truth '...
When you seek truth, you seek God whether you know it or not.
............Edith Stein
' The Title of Today '...
It is Veterans Day in America.. I received a free meal from Apolbees but, I feel like a fool.. I was a Viet Nam combat veteran... I was treated as garbage on return into America... I worked for you and I was willing to die for You and all of the other souls..............thomas
' The meaning of Now '...
You can only understand the meaning of Now instead of the movement of time is through the experience of Enlightenment... Time does not exist within Reality............thomas
' Hard Times '...
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.
...............Anton Chekhov
' Can You Remember ? '...
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
..............Charles Bukowski
' The Night will End '...
The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.
..............Ernest Hemingway
' Be Soft '...
Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.
....................Kurt Vonnegut
' To Be Simple '...
It is very simple to be happy, but it is very difficult to be simple.
......................Rabindranath Tagore
' Education '...
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
...................William Butler Yeats
' Expect Nothing '...
If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.
..............Sylvia Plath
' Happiness '...
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
...........Mahatma Gandhi
' Tyranny '...
In a democracy the people choose a leader in whom they trust. Then the chosen leader says, 'Now shut up and obey me.' People and party are then no longer free to interfere in his business.
...................Max Weber
' Know Thyself '...
The first thing you have to know is yourself. A man who knows himself can step outside himself and watch his own reactions like an observer.
................Adam Smith
' Fearing the Facts '...
Those who fear the facts will forever try to discredit the fact-finders.
.................Denis Diderot
' Death '...
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.
..........Jean de La Fontaine
' 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
' Natural Science '...
Natural science does not consist in ratifying what others have said, but in seeking the causes of phenomena.
............ Saint Albertus Magnus
' Ignorance and Fear '...
Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation.
..................Averroes
' Trapped by Desires '...
How can the heart travel to God, when it is chained by its desires?
...............Ibn Arabi
' The Pursuit of Happiness '...
The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.
..........Benjamin Franklin
' Education '...
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
.................Bertrand Russell
' A Law in Psychology '...
There is a law in psychology that if you form a picture in your mind of what you would like to be, and you keep and hold that picture there long enough, you will soon become exactly as you have been thinking.
...................William James
' The Responsibility of Freedom '...
Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
................Sigmund Freud
' Prayer '...
In books we seek God; in prayer we find him. Prayer is the key which opens God's heart.
...............Pio of Pietrelcina
' Displaying the Truth '...
There is nothing better to display the truth in an excellent light, than a clear and simple statement of facts.
............ Saint Benedict of Nursia
' Human Freedom '...
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom.
......................Clarence Darrow
' Random Act of Kindness '...
Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.
................Princess Diana
' The Rule of Fools '...
If you do not take an interest in the affairs of your government, then you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.
................Plato
' Insults '...
Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.
................Jean-Jacques Rousseau
' The Soul '...
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
.................Daniel Defoe
' Pride '...
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
...............Ezra Taft Benson
' A Dream within a Dream '...
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
....................Edgar Allan Poe
' Words '...
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
........................Nathaniel Hawthorne
' True and False '...
The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.
....................James F. Cooper
' Be Yourself '...
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
...........Ralph Waldo Emerson
' Baha'u'llah '...
Bahá'u'lláh is not the Intermediary between other Manifestations and God. Each has His own relation to the Primal Source. But in the sense that Bahá'u'lláh is the greatest Manifestation to yet appear, the One Who consummates the Revelation of Moses; He was the One Moses conversed with in the Burning Bush. In other words Bahá'u'lláh identifies the glory of the Godhead on that occasion with Himself. No distinction can be made amongst the Prophets in the sense that They all proceed from One Source, and are of One Essence. But Their stations and functions in this world are different.
................Shoghi Effendi
' Be Truthful '...
Be truthful, and the result is bound to be amazingly interesting.
...............Virginia Woolf
' The Spring of Hope '...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
.....................Charles Dickens
' The Support of Paul '...
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
....................George Bernard Shaw
' We Are All Connected ' ...
I do believe we're all connected. I do believe in positive energy. I do believe in the power of prayer. I do believe in putting good out into the world. And I believe in taking care of each other.
..................Harvey Fierstein
' Capable of Being '...
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
..................Abraham Maslow
' Creating Reality '...
Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.
...................Stanislav Grof
' A Way Out '...
There is a way out, but the way out is really a way within.
...................Ken Wilber
' Life and Bliss '...
Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.
...................Joseph Campbell
' Truth '...
Truth is a Space that exists without Time.... It is a space of Light and a Frequency of Unconditional Love... So very strange to Feel.. But, so good to feel..This is usually only given to Mystics ,,, but, if you are without ego,, you can also enter this frequency....................thomas
' Mathematics '...
An equation means nothing to me unless it expresses a thought of God.
.......................Srinivasa Ramanujan
' Yes and No '...
The oldest, shortest words - 'yes' and 'no' - are those which require the most thought.
...................Pythagoras
' What Is Life ? '...
What is life but an unpleasant interruption to a peaceful nonexistence.
...............Jean-Paul Sartre
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