Light a Candle and the Dark will Never Ever Win

04.15.13

Choices Made

Every One every second every minute every hour every day makes choices. Many of these choices  are body specific and determine whether you live or die (or hurt alot) in the next second. However nothing your body does is really automatic; it is a finely tuned machine that, by design, reinvents you constantly  - as long as you don't get in its way with wasted thoughts, life-depriving food and actions, and general lack of the most elementary maintenance (such as enough sleep). Your body is a miracle, not just a random or simple evolutionary 'thing' you inhabit. Your choice. You picked it. If you realize that, then a life-altering fact becomes apparent: you can change it, for the good. First, though, you have to shed commonly held expectations of your body. You have learned to expect your body to decay, to grow old and wither like a tomato plant in a pre-Winter freeze. You know your mind doesn't decay (just some use of it, again another choice of yours) so why does your body? Your body wasn't made to die; you just expect it to.
     Your Soul inhabits this body; it never dies. It knows that Earth is the only place you can experience a physical being. Yet some among you deny yourself - and others - physical pleasure of all kinds, calling it 'bad.' The only thing bad is the emotion in your mind that says you 'aren't good enough' for...........(fill in the blank) so you deny yourself what you really want, physically, and become so jaded you deny what others really want (if you have the power to do so, which is where really insecure people end up, in 'power'). There's nothing bad about being a physical being unless you choose to make it bad.
     Your soul knows better; it is a traveler from the stars and will return to the stars after this physical body ends. Since the soul never dies it doesn't really worry about the body dying. It's your mind, the machine that runs your body, that 'decides' what will keep the body safe. Sometimes it works in amazing ways, saving a body from destruction. Other times it corrupts the body because of what it hears constantly about the badness of the body; the choices made to warp its shape with bad food, the choices made to disregard its general health, and the choices made to listen to those who have appointed themselves as guardians of every body on Earth in either a legislative, spiritual or physical action that determines your body to be 'bad.' How can a miracle be bad? It cannot.
     Gain control over your body, tell your mind 'no,' when accustomed to belittling the body, it resists your control. Make a mantra for yourself. Anything positive will do. When you (your body through your mind's accepted actions) decides to do something or continue something that is negative to you, repeat the mantra you have made three times, over and over in several ways until you (1) feel comfortable with what you are saying, and do it daily (or more), and (2) until you hear a small 'click' in your mind that acknowledges you really, really want to go somewhere else with your thinking. Your mind, and body, will then begin to follow you, somewhat grudgingly at first, and you will be able to change your choices and make new ones which will put you on a path of enlightenment and joy. Do you believe this? You must accept first the possibility it is true.
     Most of you want to have control - maybe over events or people, even conditions; once you change your path to a more positive one, you will also realize for once and all that the only thing in the Universe you can control is and always has been within your grasp. It is you.

Namasté

Clear the Clutter from Your Mind

We allow outside influences in our minds and hearts day in and out and still wonder why we cannot find peace and calm in our lives. We must take time, really take time to stop whatever is bombarding us at the time and allow ourselves some peaceful quiet. You’d be surprised what 60 seconds can do for you. You can slow your heart rate, your pain and diminish, and you can briefly connect with the real world of peace and harmony. 60 seconds. Give it a try, won’t you? You’ll find your true self waiting for you, cheering you on. And that true self is proof of your immortal soul, that you go on despite what happens outside you. After all, life goes on within you and without you. Once you’ve tried this, look at the clutter above again and you’ll find a sweet feline surprise.(Click on any picture to make it bigger).

Namasté

The things you do when nobody is looking

                 
                             are the things that define you

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Moving On through The End to Another Beginning

Some say, like the Rose, Earth will fade and die in 2012. Others dispute that outright - and some say, and I support this theory, that all humans will pass through that so-far shrouded End and come out to Another Beginning. As with all beginnings, there will be rough spots and taxing times, though the outcome will far surpass what Earth is experiencing now, and in a great, loving way.

Everyone has responsibilities they must face and finally accept. For too long fingers have been pointed away from the speaker, the blogger, the news person, the elected official, the military person, the - everyone. Now it is time to recognize such finger pointing just bounced back to you and instilled guilt and regret and a general depression that is covering all of Mother Earth right now. No one wants to be responsible for what they do, or say, or listen to anyone else. That will change with the End. What you must realize, though, is that if we are all One, then all of Humanity will face the final End together, for all have pointed a finger.

Fear not, for I am always with you, He said.
We will get through this. Together.
Namaste

We The People

The Statue of Freedom

Thomas Crawford
Bronze 1857
Atop the US Capitol Dome

America holds the Promise of a Better Tomorrow, Today

It’s the latter part of August and a lot is going on in your World. War, Famine, Storms, Earthquakes, Pain and Suffering seem to be the call signs of the day. Yet in the midst of each and every one of these tragedies there are those who Hope, who Love, who are Compassionate. Humans are more than the sum of their parts. Some New-Agers and now scientists too see Auras surrounding people that can be interpreted to indicate health and well being. There is a growing belief in Aliens. Communities are growing with people cooperating and becoming a maxi family. Evil is all over the World, and Good is still driving it back. With all the electronic media to separate you, many have come to realize the importance of common decency, compassion and a responsibility for their fellow human. Americans are once again at the forefront of this new push toward respecting others, despite their television programs and politicians who seem to champion the separation. America has always had the ability and foresight to do the right thing. Remember that. God is watching. Namaste

I don't have to give orders to anyone, and I've never done so. - God

I have to admit that I always did find it hard to believe God would tell people they may not intermarry, or that women must not allow any portion of their body to be seen in public, or that couples may not use contraceptives, or that men must wear beards.

I never did understand why God felt he had to give human beings so many orders.

I don't. I don't have to give orders to anyone, and I've never done so.

Never?

No. And I never will.

You never will? You mean that we will never know what God really wants?

No.

Why? Why would you do this to us?

Do what to you?

Why would you tell us to follow God's law, to obey your wishes, and then not tell us what you really want?

Because there is nothing that I do want. And this is what you cannot understand or refuse to accept.

There is nothing that God wants or needs.

God demands nothing, commands nothing, requires nothing, compels nothing. Teach this in your seminaries and your madrasas.

God neither orders nor requests, insists nor expects, anything. Tell this to your young.

I am the Author of Everything. I am the Creator and the Created. There is nothing that is that I am not. I have no need to give orders to anyone.

To whom would I give orders? There is no one to command but me. I am the All In All. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. And whom would I punish were my orders not kept? Would I use my right hand to slap my left? Would I bite my nose to spite my face?

Your teachers and your doctors of law, your priests and your ulamas, tell you that God is to be feared, for He is a vengeful God. You are to live in fear of God's wrath, they say. You are to tremble in His presence. Your whole life you are to fear the terrible judgment of the Lord. For God is "just," you are told. And God knows, you will be in trouble when you confront the terrible justice of the Lord. You are, therefore, to be obedient to God's commands. Or else.

Most of you, therefore, spend much of your adult lives searching for the "right way" to worship God, to obey God, to serve God. The irony of all this is that I do not want your worship, I do not need your obedience, and it is not necessary to serve me.

These behaviors are the behaviors historically demanded of their subjects by monarchs--egomaniacal, insecure, tyrannical monarchs at that. They are not Godly demands in any sense, and it seems remarkable that the world hasn't by now concluded that the demands are counterfeit, having nothing to do with the needs of Deity.

Deity has no needs. All That Is is exactly that: all that is. It therefore wants, or lacks, nothing--by definition.

If you choose to believe in a God who somehow needs something--and has such hurt feelings if He doesn't get it that He punishes those from whom He expected to receive it--then you choose to believe in a God much smaller than I. You truly are Children of a Lesser God.

No, my children, please let me assure you again, through this present writing, as I have done in writings past, that I am without needs. I require nothing.

Then you haven't given us "orders"?

No. It was human beings who felt they had to give human beings orders, in order to keep order. And the best way they knew how to get people to follow orders was to say that they came directly from God.

There were also those who sincerely believed that they were receiving directives from God about how life should be lived, and what they said that they received was passed on by others in good faith. Yet this does not mean that what was passed on was always accurate, nor does it mean that the person who claims to have been the original recipient of these revelations was infallible.

Any more than this book is infallible.

That is correct. That is exactly right. Any claim of infallibility for this book would be inaccurate.

It would be inaccurate to say that this book is accurate.

Yes.

So this book The New Revelations is accurate when it says that it is inaccurate.

That's clever, and that's another yes.

So if it's inaccurate, why should I believe it?

You should not believe it. You should apply it and see what works.

Incidentally, put every other writing that claims to be a communication from God to the same test.

From Neal Donald Walsh and his Conversations with God (link on this page).

When in the Course of Human Events

it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. — Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their Public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected, whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary Powers.

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil Power.

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:

For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:

For protecting them, by a mock Trial from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:

For depriving us in many cases, of the benefit of Trial by Jury:

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & Perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these united Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States, that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. — And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

Live at Peace with All

I urge you, brothers and sisters, by the mercies of God,

to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice,

holy and pleasing to God, your spiritual worship.

Do not conform yourselves to this age

but be transformed by the renewal of your mind,

that you may discern what is the will of God,

what is good and pleasing and perfect.

Let love be sincere;

hate what is evil,

hold on to what is good;

love one another with mutual affection;

anticipate one another in showing honor.

Do not grow slack in zeal,

be fervent in spirit,

serve the Lord.

Rejoice in hope,

endure in affliction,

persevere in prayer.

Contribute to the needs of the holy ones,

exercise hospitality.

Bless those who persecute you,

bless and do not curse them.

Rejoice with those who rejoice,

weep with those who weep.

Have the same regard for one another;

do not be haughty but associate with the lowly;

do not be wise in your own estimation.

Do not repay anyone evil for evil;

be concerned for what is noble in the sight of all.

If possible, on your part, live at peace with all.


Romans12: 1,2 & 9-18

Listen to Your Inner Voice

Namasté. It is a cold wet and snowy February over much of the United States of America, and storminess reigns all over Mother Earth right now. Imagine the size of the flooded plains of Australia. Everyone knows what's happening but no one who holds the control and money in this world wants to say it out loud. So is next year "the End" of everything? No, nor the next year, or the year after that. However, doing nothing about global warming, global cooling or just extreme climate shifts, whatever you want to call it, will mess a lot of things up, will cause catastrophes, reduced crops and hunger on a scale you haven't seen since your Dark Ages. It's time to listen to your inner voice that tells you what is written here is a truth and begin to speak to others about changing the bad habits that got you this far down the well. Demand truth and responsibility from corporations - corporations? - yes. It's gotten far worse than you thought, you know. Your representatives won't listen to you, they're being paid by the corporations not to. I could give several examples of this but your inner voice knows most of them anyway.
God is watching, waiting for you to take the lead and save yourselves. Sleeper Awaken!

Is There Any Hope? Always

It has been a year since I last visited these pages and I have come to the conclusion that what you do about your lives is not only your responsibility but completely essential to you and your world's survival.
So it's a choice. And my choice is to trust that the human race will pull itself out of selfish greed and disregard for each other and rise to a summit of compassion, tolerance and love that will usher in a new Age for Earth and her inhabitants.
Now, more than ever, Namaste

Are you so scared and insecure...

Another new Decade, and what has changed. What is it about the human condition that makes you scared of heroes? You want heroes, you crave them, you pray for them, and when one comes along you sing a Heavenly song of Praise for them – until the newness wears off. Then you do everything you can to persecute them, to tear them down, smear their reputations, and destroy their souls so you can discard them like the trash you put out on trash day – without another thought.
What is wrong with your religions? Where are the religious people telling you it is wrong to kill, to maim, to denigrate? Instead they blame earthly disasters on some imagined pact with an imagined devil (they would have to get a real job if they let you in on the secret that there isn’t a Devil, that Satan doesn’t really exist, that evil only lurks in the darkness of your souls). Louisiana ‘deserved’ Katrina because of all the blacks who lived there. San Francisco and Oakland ‘deserved’ the earthquake a few years back because of all the gays who lived there. Haiti ‘deserved’ the 7.0 earthquake this past week because of Voodoo and a pact with the ‘devil’ to keep them safe from the French decades ago.
Who will speak out? Who will say they’re tired of war, tired of prejudice, tired of the tearing down of integrity, of goodness, of kindness?
In the United States President Barack Obama has been in office one year this month and is being blamed for everything that has happened in the past nine years, eight of which he wasn’t in office. In your state of Massachusetts, which has been ‘democratic’ for decades, a Republican won yesterday making the Democrats in Congress one short of guaranteeing a passage of a health bill.

Wait a minute. The richest country on Earth, the freest country on Earth, the country whose Declaration of Independence shouts to the rooftops that “all men are created equal” – this United States of America is relying on petty partisan politics to gauge whether a bill guaranteeing all men are equal in that they can get health care?
What is wrong with you people? Why is it fun to watch ordinary people on television as in American Idol, etc., be treated like dirt, be disrespected, be ‘thrown away’? Why don’t you want your neighbor to be healthy so you can be healthy too? What about those people you work with – don’t you want them to be healthy so you can be healthy too? Why why why must you tear down everyone else but you?
DO YOU NOT BELIEVE IN GOD? DO YOU NOT BELIEVE IN GOOD? DO YOU NOT BELIEVE IN LOVE?
I’m completely disgusted with the lot of you. YOU are killing Mother Earth and She won’t let you – She will throw all of you off before you get that far. Did you not learn that lesson when you punched a hole in the Ozone layer and started getting widespread cancer from the Sun? YOU MUST ACT – you must tell your leaders you want no more of this hate. No one else can. You must stop patronizing television that demeans humans or animals. You must tell advertisers you will not use their products advertised on these shows.
YOU MUST ACT. GOD IS WATCHING US ALL. Let the Sleeper Awaken. Namaste

What’s it all about…?

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Spring has come and bad news just keeps coming along with it. So, a question. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The ‘bad’ times or the endless talking about the ‘bad’ times? It seems that humans are acting, as a group, like a group of unruly chickens running around talking about how the sky is falling and how it’s ruining their lives – but nobody is listening to them because they’re all talking at once and not allowing themselves to listen to anyone else. And when they do listen, it is to people on the Internet, on TV, whose job it is to make mountains out of molehills, not to reasonably assess situations.

You have an entire channel on TV devoted to nothing but weather – and what happens when a storm (not even a severe one) gets within 100 miles of your nearest metroplex. The channel goes into overdrive with local reports, long range predictions and a gigantic number of scenarios should the storm reach it’s “intended target,” all of which range from bad to worse. You are hammered constantly. Is this what you want to hear? No, it isn’t. But it brings viewers by the thousands and that brings big charges for advertisers, thus enriching the very people who tried their best to scare you to death in order to keep you safe.

The news channels are the same. Some try to be unbiased, but a few cater, yes, invite into your homes like a vampire all the bad news they can muster. And a smaller few just make things up to make sure you tune in to be scared to death about something or someone who is either coming for your money, your freedom, your life or your gun. This has been going on, in earnest, since the World Trade Center was destroyed. Unfortunately, it has its roots far far back in time. It is one of those ‘human’ things you acknowledge with some sort of perverse pride. Yes I am an animal, you say, but not descended from them, you say. I am king of all I survey.

You pick and choose when it comes to following the main religion in the United States at present (which I’m sure just scared someone to death that I said that aloud) – Christianity – you glorify the Ten Commandments – there were several instances of court houses and the legality of displaying them in the news a few years back, remember? – yet you do not follow all of the Ten Commandments.

You proudly talk about the wonderful Declaration of Independence and the Constitution and beat your chest about your right to bear arms and then forget the really important stuff, like all men are created equal. You spend hours a month attending church and then actively hate people based on how they look or act, or buy more guns or bullets for ‘the day’ when the country collapses. You blame everyone but yourself for what’s happening in this country today. It’s the President’s fault. The Congress. You don’t understand why we have to give so much money to the banks so they won’t fail, and you sure don’t understand why we have to help people who lost the only place to live they have because the bank let them buy that 285,000 dollar house when they only made 50,000 a year. It’s their fault, right? Wrong.

Are you not your brother’s keeper? Do you not have a responsibility toward your brothers and sisters of the world? You cannot be a Christian and say no to either of those questions. Being a Christian means being a follower of the Christ, Jesus and all of his teachings, not just ones you pick out. New Testament stuff here, not Old.

Now no one can be human and not understand the pain you are all in right now.

The reason is Karma, and the solution is within you, right now. You will get through this – one way or another. On the other side of this painful time lies many more good times for all, if you learn. If you learn that you have been asleep most of your life and it is time to awaken, to really live and to love everyone as Christ did, to realize that everyone has a stake, an equal stake, in making this a wonderful healthy loving world. There are people and organizations right now trying to do this, trying to make this a better world, to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Are you going to try, too? Or are you going to buy more bullets. Many humans are awaking now. It’s really time for you to awaken too – you know this in your heart.

Remember, God is watching you, now and always.

Another Year, More Challenges

A whole year has passed since I visited these pages. Much has changed on your Earth and much has remained the same, or gotten worse.

As I write this you are discovering what greed does, what self centered attitudes do when left unchecked by your most famous and eternal Golden Rule of life as celebrated in cultures all over your planet:
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

Lost your job, lost your home, lost your life as you knew it? There’s another saying on your planet that may apply here:
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it

In 1929 your world was plunged into a beginning of what became a very bad Depression caused by the same things that have plagued you this year – stock prices and real estate prices inflated on speculation and greed; these prices in turn spiking hikes in prices of all foods, some unnecessary, some too late to save the smaller independent suppliers, causing a domino falling effect that had just begun. It took nearly four years for your world economy to hit bottom, and by then millions of jobs, companies and individuals had been completely wiped out. In 1929 – 1933 stocks lost 90% of their value. Wages fell to 40% of their worth. People went hungry and died. Riots for food began.

Is this where you are headed now? Even I cannot see into your future. I only know that you must change your ways. Now. Only you can save your economy, your future. You must shed your petty and small minded ways. You must join together with people of all backgrounds and intelligences and finally understand you are all in this together. You always have been, you always will be, even if you act like there’s no-one but you or your philosophy or geographical region or religion that is right.

You are all right, yet you are all unable to see that you were given pieces of the puzzle of Life – all you have to do is join together and put them together. Then you will understand, and all will be given to you. Some among you even now cannot believe that you were so misled about things, that people in power all over were doing what was best for them, not for you, not for all. And look around you – who will pay for this misfortune, this greed, this self centeredness? Why you, of course.
And you will not put stipulations on this rescue, you will not demand that greed and self centeredness be put aside; you will not demand this in writing, for you could – but then you would once again be responsible also. You would have to shed your own old ways that got all of you here to this point. You would have to
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you

When you decide to awaken Sleeper, and do this, then Joy, real Joy will reign in your world.

You choose - Happy or Sad

What I want to talk about as the new year approaches is what we can do to make tomorrow and all the tomorrows a little better than we left our yesterdays. Sorrow gets a little monotonous after a while – in the world, in our lives. While you may not know great highs of happiness without experiencing awful lows of sadness, you have to wonder just how much of the bad thing you have to go through before it evens out. Or does it ever even out?

Then of course, if you have a conscience you start thinking of all those who may have more sorrow more often than you and guilt sets in – how could I feel badly if they can’t ever feel gladly?

I think it’s all relative, and that’s the way you have to approach it, unless you’re having worms for dinner or lobster for breakfast. The extremes don’t count. It’s still difficult to keep cheery when those you love don’t seem to return that love and some you don’t even know seem to have a ball trying to run you down. You just have to tell yourself it isn’t you, it’s them. We meet many people in this life (and the others) and not everyone is meant to be a part of your portion of it even if you want and try to have them be a part of it. Rejection is tough – but you can get through it. God’s there with you all the way. Be nice to someone today – they may be going through the same pain.

We’re all in this together.

Who Do You Trust

Who do you trust? Do you trust your love? Do you trust your work abilities? Your wife, your husband? Your best friend? Yourself?

I once saw one of your dogs, a beautiful Cocker Spaniel, eating peanut butter his human had given him. Despite the fact there was no way to swallow that peanut butter without first using his tongue to clean every inch of his mouth where it stayed stuck like glue, he kept trying and trying, full of trust for his human and this weird food he gave him, and happy too that his human noticed and loved him.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if everyone could trust so easily and accept whatever his Master gave them with love, and with the faith that God would never give them anything to hurt them?

And wouldn’t it be just great if we could trust ourselves the same way? To love ourselves, accept and have faith in us?

It’s been said in so many ways “to thine own self be true,” “the love you give was always meant for you.” Even Christ said how you love one another is how you love Him.
The first step to loving anyone else is loving yourself – the true love of one’s soul and the right of that soul to be here like all the others, the love of who you are, physically and spiritually. And the happiness of that love will seep into your everyday life and you will be ready for whatever God and you have planned for you, next. Sleeper awaken!

Responsibility to Your Soul

Why is it the sleeper cannot awaken. There’s no question mark there because it is a statement. Many lives later, you condition yourselves to dully continue your journey, missing what you came here for: to love, to live, to breathe the air of a magnificent physical world.

Some may question that statement, saying you are not asleep. Being bombarded with information twenty four hours a day doesn’t mean you are awake, though. Just stop for sixty seconds and look at the people around you, preferably in a public, not working place. How many are looking around, up at the sky, down at the Earth, listening to sounds, experiencing Life? It is literally amazing to me you can go through another life not realizing you are all here this time to wake up.

Watch traffic. If you are on a city street rather than a highway, watch to see how many people now never stop at stop signs (and some stop lights) when turning into the street you are on, sometimes even a left turn into your path. I would guess the percentage is way above fifty. Why? Didn’t you all agree, at some point, that society needed basic rules and to follow them? Why aren’t you?

You’re in a hurry. Where are you going? With the 300% increase in gasoline prices over the past seven years you have to know fast equals less gas mileage, money lost and pollution increased.

I suspect you don’t want to wake up. You don’t want the responsibility you know you already have to your own soul and the souls of everyone you know and don’t know…and to God. The problem with not waking up is that the pressure you feel inside is growing. You are more unhappy now than you’ve ever been, and that’s also because you know the play, the Big one, is about to begin, and you’d like just a few more minutes (years), hours (lives) before you play your part.

“Don’t worry, be happy” wasn’t a hymn to inaction, but a reminder to be who you are and shed fear and frustration. And of course smile at each other, for we are all together in this and we are all loved, forever and ever. Sleeper awaken!

Buddha knows best

Live your life in happiness, even though those around you lead lives which are unhealthy, and wish to spread their illness to you. Be Happiness itself. – Buddha

Something to think about, alright. Every day you are bombarded with people – on television, on radio, and in real life – people who are unhappy with their lives (and may not even know it, except at a deeper level) and want to talk about it. And it’s all one-way.

They don’t want to know about you, they just want you to know about them – and yet, they feel so separated from everyone it’s sometimes more a cry for help than ‘sharing.’

Think I’m being too deep? Next time you meet someone like that, test them first by saying something off the wall about yourself and see how long it takes for them to get back to them. Next, stop them and ask “what’s really going on with you?” and see what happens. Give them a soulful look. You may be surprised at what you hear.

You are all trying to get back to each other, for from each other you came to this life. You just haven’t awakened enough to know that all you need is love. Try to live your life in happiness. It’s not as easy as you think, yet.

Sleeper Awaken

How many times have you heard that? The more you have, the closer you are to awakening and enjoying physical Life as you should, the way God wants you to enjoy it. Nothing anyone has said, ever, is unique. It has all been said before. I am personally throwing out some ideas to see if anyone catches them, is sparked into thought, and then begins their own journey of discovery. It was once said in one of your books that there can not be one religion in this world because everyone is different. It is the same with everything we do; we are unique. Our thoughts, shared and shared again, are not, because we are all one spiritually and know everything. Yet we are all unique in our design because of our souls. So if anything I say sparks the tiniest quest by someone to discover, to awaken, then I, along with them, will be blessed.

Namasté.

I Alone Am Responsible for My Actions

Repeat that. “I alone am responsible for my actions.” One of you I know personally would say “Right,” then go on acting as if she were responsible for everyone in her life. It wouldn’t be a matter of her lying, or even deluding herself; it’s a disconnect between what she knows and what she feels. We come into this life knowing everything, yet we are astonished when infants smile at us (gas? Nope!) or when we read of child geniuses like Beethoven or Einstein (who didn’t just “spring genius” when they were adults). And yet … we are never ever surprised when the same young person or infant exhibits feeling. A baby crying or laughing is the most normal thing to us, and some would say a baby climbing up on a cabinet to get a forbidden cookie was normal too…a sign of original sin maybe, but normal.

Of course there is no original sin; there is no “sin” against God, ever. God loves us and is part of us and we are part of Her, so we can do no “wrong”, or God would be doing wrong also.

So what do I mean about being responsible for me? It is almost a reverse statement, for what it really means is

“I am not responsible for anyone else’s actions, ever.”

This lady I have spoken of has one son; this son has grown up, experiencing some normal life situations, and some not so “normal.” At this time he is married, with children, and despite a tendency to complain too much, is very happy. He has known from birth he was loved without reservation, expectation or requirement. He has only recently come to realize he is responsible for his actions, alone. A second son believed the same when young and is a hateful loner with no contact with anyone, yet makes tons of money. Another I know grew up believing he was loved with reservation, given expectations and requirements, and is deliriously happy. A fourth son also had a difficult childhood, and is now in prison for striking back when being beaten by his spouse. What’s the difference between the four sons?

They are the difference. Not the parents. Not the upbringing.

Someone once told me our children pick us as parents before they come into the mother’s womb, in order to experience us and to learn from and teach lessons to us too. We all have free will. That means you are free to be whatever kind of human you want to be – you can be the child who never grew up; you can be the one who held in anger at what negativity real or imagined you experienced, or who struck out in anger at your parents for what you think they did or did not do for you; or you can wake up and realize you are responsible for what you do, and not for what your parents or even your children do.

If you realize all of this right in the middle of a big emotional blow up in your lives, what do you do then? Start. Start to be responsible. Explain to the other that they are responsible for themselves, only. It will take time. It will work. It will take time, though, for you have been in the habit of thinking one way and it can be that way no longer. God is watching us. God wants the sleeper to awaken.

The best part is that the journey to being responsible for yourself only is a very very happy one. Once you accept it, and once you accept yourself with all your so-called faults, you will feel pounds lighter, and your mouth will curve upward into a smile – a smile God wants you to have, all ways, and always. And He will smile back.

Namasté - All You Need is Love

“I just hate how he..” “I wish she would…” “I can’t believe how awful I look…”

The negativity begins at home, with you. Anyone ever say someone is “awfully good at…”? If awful is bad, and good is, well good, then the whole meaning becomes a big fat zero with both words in the same thought. It’s just too easy to be negative, to be down, to be critical some times. And lots of you grew up with it and don’t think twice about spreading it. Think again.

Isn’t it time to try really hard to make yourself and those around you positive, upbeat and cheerful? It takes more guts, more masculinity, more strength, more “nerve,” more humanness to be upbeat and spread it around. You don’t have to be a salesman to be outgoing; you just have to love yourself first.

Get acquainted with yourself. Sit alone and think about it. You are all you have, finally, in the world you find yourself in right now. You are unique. If you feel love from others, from one other, then you love yourself no matter how much you may not believe that. So all you have to do is let the love out, let it embrace you, and you literally won’t believe how much better you feel about everything and everyone. You have to take the first step, that’s all. Sit alone and think – think of the person who loves you – no, no-one has to love anyone else (even though we all do), so if anyone does love you then you can feel free to love yourself (‘cause you do anyway) and just let it be. Let it be.

We Are All One

I wonder why you earthlings always want to separate yourselves, yet feel so separated? For example, in America you believe in the 'separation' of church and state, and yet allow your President to give religious organizations he agrees with, billions of your tax money, while ignoring attacks on other religions by the so-called religious right.
I wonder why you send people to a prison for accidents in which they were involved that resulted in someone's death the same as you might send someone who purposefully ended the life of another? Are they both the same? Are you not ending the fruitful life of the accident person just as you are the murderer?
Why do you have a 'war' on drugs yet celebrate their use with sympathetic characters in books and movies, but when a real person is charged with their use, you send them to prison too?
So much hate, so much anger. Where's the Love? Look up, to the sky, to the clouds. Imagine how you would want to be treated when you make your big mistake in this lifetime.
Remember, we are All One, and what you do in your name, you also do in mine. And God's.

Greetings, Earthlings

A new beginning. Time to talk about what IT is all about. Time to think out loud and see if anyone is listening. Earth is in a mess, and we're the only ones who can get Her out of it. We are responsible for Her, so what can we do individually to heal all Her ills? (There's more than one, you know.) Why do I care? Because what you do here on Earth affects the entire Cosmos.

If we are all Eternal, then why should anyone care? Because humans have been here before and didn't fix the problem, so here you are again. Utopia may sound dull, but wouldn't it be nice to just try it for awhile? You came here to experience physically what you already know, spiritually. YOU created this; YOU can re-create it. Think about it.
Maybe, just maybe you can be good to each other and support and encourage each other and then pay it forward and see just how good humans can be. You can save each other as well as Gaia, where all animals, plants, and even inanimate matter are telepathically connected, forming a single sentient planet-wide entity. For you are All One – with each other, with God. What one does affects All, eventually.

It’s time for the Sleeper to Awake. You only have to look at America to see what happens when Souls refuse to wake up. Everyone there breathed easy when nothing happened after midnight on the new Millennium, January 1, 2000, despite warnings that all computer driven things would stop working, including power and light.

Little did Americans know what lay ahead just one year and 19 days. America has been suffering more and more since then, and has virtually gone into a coma refusing to see what the current administration has done to erode your Constitutional rights and freedoms in the name of security. Today, gasoline in 'the heartland' is $3.34 a gallon while more than 80 percent of American refineries are operating at less than 88 percent capacity. This is completely, utterly, unprecedented, and the President and Congress are refusing to take action. There's no oil shortage. There’s hoarding and war profiteering. The only entity using gasoline besides the public is the government, gobbling it in a failed war in Iraq. The last time the Oil Companies went before Congress to discuss prices, the Republicans were in charge and refused to place their testimony under oath (perjury, anyone?).
You've lost a lot of ground here in this country. How do you regain freedom and curtail the kind of greed Big Oil is demonstrating? Vote vote vote. Talk to each other.

Write to candidates (does anyone know how to write a letter any more?) Tell them what you want to happen. Tell them you won't put up with their lies any more. Tell them you want America back, not the fall of the Roman empire all over again. Then be good to each other. Help people. Be kind. Stop whining - remember someone else has a worse life than you. Forgive yourself, then forgive others. But love yourself first; all the love you ever gave was meant for you. And remember you are All One, connected. You are not alone. Everything created started out with Thoughts. Think good ones.