"Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rear-view mirror" anon.
To be fair and objective, interpreting your own spirituality/beliefs by constant reference to the ancient experiencing/writings/traditions of someone else is a little bit the same as the above.
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Be gentle with yourself,Precious One. Allow your heart time to weep - for you, and we, have misplaced a great treasure and we must patiently wait for the floods of our feelings to subside before we shall see the shining of his/her presence in our hearts again.
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These days are precious days, let them move at their own pace and have no regard to how it may look to others. Try not to be angry and impatient with yourself but rather,if the burden becomes almost too heavy, decide to light a candle and as you light it concentrate,concentrate on one - just one - happy and joyful memory you have of that loved One…
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it will take you the rest of your lifetime and a lot of candles and even then you will not have exhausted the supply of wonderful memories that have been lovingly,magically woven into your being.
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It takes the joys of love to heal love's sorrows
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Something else also happened this day as well as the 'official' start of WW2.
within 3 days 186 children had been starved, denied water and then
It always seems to be so disastrous for humanity when politics gets all mixed up with religion – especially if the religion is pretty mixed up in the first place
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
It is a source of constant amazement and, yes, dismay to me as I get older to observe how often people simply cannot dare,or trust, to be themselves or to be fully open.
Fearing they will be used, abused or cheated in some way they so often compromise themselves.
I have even witnessed,regrettably many times, great spiritual principles or beliefs traded and sold for a pocketful of dust.
No one can take your dignity if you do not give it to them.
No one can take your integrity if you do not sell it to them.
No one can steal your love, for in truth Love is only ours to possess in that moment that we give it away.Until that moment we are possessed by love.
gg
"...keep knocking, and the Joy inside will eventually open a window
and look out to see who's there."
- Rumi
I have always tried to believe in the POWER OF LOVE. I have tried to live my life within the reality of that belief.
Occasionally, life has tested that reality and tested it almost to the point of destruction – but never quite!
Always has come some incident,accident,event that has protected and defended the belief.
Today I finished participating in a singing course with angels – and the dancing melodies of their lovingness is as shimmering sunrays in the forests of my doubts.
I have always tried to believe in the POWER OF LOVE.
In almost 65 years it has never failed to triumph though the manner of it's victory may have,at that time,seemed to be the opposite.
LOVE does not concern itself with logic.
ggCharacter is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.
(ps. I am aware that wrongs is spelt incorrectly but placed it there for the benefit of those people who find such happiness in constantly correcting others. Who am I to deny their joy?)
You know that truth which your spirit seeks to manifest to your consciousness at this time, all the rest is mind-games
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OK! Everyone has a bad day now and then….so it's good to look around at what is happening,quietly, in this world……it's amazing the caring,sharing,loving that is going on
Check out this story HERE
OR
visit the website that has now been set up about this remarkable man and his family.
Talking about caring,loving, is easy. Doing it is tough – but uniquely rewarding.
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According to Chip Cronkite, the son of the legendary and 'most trusted American' of the age Walter Cronkite, his late Father had an ashtray on which was written the saying:
“Just give me the facts: I’ll mix ’em up when I quote you.”
A pretty good saying for people that work in the media……and a brilliant saying for those who 'work in religious orgs'……
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The interplay of energies emanating from a common source,unstoppably expanding the permutations of possibilities of experiencing.Experiences so unique,so individual as to be totally valid in their own right.
Not a galaxy exists, nor a star, a person nor a single ant,not even a single blade of grass that is not equally and powerfully involved in the process of this pathway. It is not only,as Einstein Schweitzer et.al stated as a 'will to live' for expression of the life force is more,much more,than simply existence. This interplay of energies is in constant,ever constant creative mode. It applies to all things, for there is nothing that has been created that is not wholly and entirely unique and the presence of which has enriched beyond imaginings the potentiality of the process
.As quickly as one experience is created,so an infinite number of permutations arise from that one incidence.
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Life musr be lived forward…can only be understood backward……rarely has the opportunity to be 'in park mode'….and is fairly meaningless when in neutral. (with acknowledgements to Kierkegaard)
(I no longer believe in coincidences)
The Vatican made a loss last year as the weaker dollar reduced the value of donations from the faithful in the United States.
Almost a quarter of the $79.8m (£40.4m) worth of offerings it received came from collections made in US churches.
But as the dollar lost 15% of its value against the euro, the Catholic Church's governing body made a loss of 9.1m euros (£7.3m: $14.3m) in 2007.
That was despite receiving a single anonymous donation of $14.3m.
Geoff's Eulogy
Oh, you seem so sad.
Why?
After all we have discussed I find you looking down upon the ground
as though it was me down there.
I am up here.Here! I am dancing with the dust specks in the air waiting for the Dougaldog to come and change our rhythm.
I had thought that by now you would have come to the realisation that energy,especially spirit energy and more especially the energy of lovingness, never dies. It travels on.It transforms.It transmutes. I am already in the process of another pathway plan,one that will allow me to return to this most pleasurable cycle of experiencing. This next time I will have my snowboard and will go swishing happily down white clad mountainsides. For it is the nature of unconditional lovingness to permit us all that is within our creative energy comprehension in any of our earth- life walks.
What you are looking at upon the ground is simply the clothing that I wore.No less,no more. Clothing that permitted me to be in this metaphor you call existence. Clothing that allowed your senses to perceive me and consequently generate our dialogue.
It was my label.It was not me for I,and you,are much much more than the dusted labels of relativity. For a while we wear the label so that we may experience that which we truly are,in as many potential permutations as we are able within the framework of our chosen life pathway. I am sure you have understood by now that knowing something is not the same as experiencing it.
Dear and treasured One, we will walk together again as we have have done for thousands of years.We will talk together again as we have done from the beginning of time. We are not parting we are simply re-inventing new methodologies of experiencing who we truly are.
There is nowhere for us to go,for we are the Oneness. We neither come from it,nor return to it.
Oneness is omnipresent.All,all is the Oneness. There is nothing beyond the Oneness for it is...for it is....it is.
Yet, the pain in your heart is counterpointed by the joy in mine. That you can have loved me so preciously is a bliss of self-realisation for us both as we have journeyed along this pathway together.
What a truly magnificent,wonderful paradise of experiencing this has all been.
The interplay of energies emanating from a common source,unstoppably expanding the permutations of possibilities of experiencing. Experiences so unique,so individual as to be totally valid in their own right.
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Not a galaxy exists, nor a star, a person nor a single ant,not even a single blade of grass that is not equally and powerfully involved in the process of this pathway.
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It is not only,as Einstein Schweitzer et.al stated a 'will to live' for expression of the life force is more,much more,than simply existence. This interplay of energies is in constant,ever constant creative mode. It applies to all things, for there is nothing that has been created that is not wholly and entirely unique and the presence of which has enriched beyond imaginings the potentiality of the process.
As quickly as one experience is created,so an infinite number of permutations arise from that one incidence… gg
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If you stare at it for long enough you will forget your worries,surrender your anxieties……. simply wander through the exquisite detail of it's structure, the subtlety of it's colouring……… it is not such a problem to take the next step into this extravagance of creativity…. you can start to imagine the infinite complexity of a human structure.
Once our hearts open to the potentiality of beauty we begin to see it everywhere
Once we start to see the omnipresence of beauty….we begin to touch the limitlessness of the lovingness that surrounds us…everywhere…all the time. Our life blossoms into a celebration of beautiful lovingness…..
In this sense we and the orchid become as one
How wonderful it must be to speak the language of the angels, with no words for hate and a million words for love!
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It's some kind of cactus and we've had the plant for some years now. Apparently it must be happy because for the first time ever it produced this amazing bloom
The flower opens and stays open for about 4 hours.
On this special day I dedicate this special event to….Bruno and Nicole
"we do not achieve truth whenever we seek it, but only when it is forced on us" Dan Kloke
An interesting comment to a Roger Cohen article in NYT. It provoked my thoughts. Perhaps there is a dimension in this that speaks of our seemingly unlimited ability to 'moderate a circumstance to suit our needs/desires.
The reality of a perceived truth often seems difficult to accept – either because of it's freeing effects upon our indoctrinated belief systems – or simply because it's too simple.
To know that you are loved unconditionally is such a simple truth….. is it really too simple to accept?
"unless you become as a child you shall not enter the kingdom…………………"
For the pessimists amongst us, I have some good news
that should make you happy! Perhaps I should re-phrase
that: for the pessimists amongst us I have some bad news
that can make you even more unhappy!
I’m sure I cannot be the only one who has noticed an amazing
sequence of changes in the world.
Just look at a few events and consider what massive shift is
taking place.
1. A highly unexpected Presidential election result in the USA that is re-shaping world politics
2. A profound shift away from extremist-led politics
in Indonesia
3. A powerful movement to separate church and state in Iran
4. The recognition that warfare is not a means of solving problems
5.The rejection of terrorism as a means of achieving politico-religious ends
All these events within this past few months. It is as though
the world is waking up to a NEW ORDER. A period in the
history of humankind when the criteria of existence are being
redefined
Capitalism,communism,theocratic government are all being
shown to be inadequate as vehicles to express the
aspirations of the human soul.
This is the true dawning of the Age of One-ness. The age
in the history of humanity when we begin to recognize fully
our inter-dependence and act out the creed of love that
defines itself by mutual respect and co-operation.
Enlightenment is dawning on the horizon of history.
