Saturday, November 29
You Answer
Sunday, November 23
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 328
I choose the second place to gain the first.
What seems to be the second place is first, for all things we perceive are upside down until we listen to the Voice for God. It seems that we will gain autonomy but by our striving to be separate, and that our independence from the rest of God's creation is the way in which salvation is obtained. Yet all we find is sickness, suffering and loss and death. This is not what our Father wills for us, nor is there any second to His Will. To join with His is but to find our own. And since our will is His, it is to Him that we must go to recognize our will.
There is no will but Yours. And I am glad that nothing I imagine contradicts what You would have me be. It is Your Will that I be wholly safe, eternally at peace. And happily I share that Will which You, my Father, gave as part of me.
Quote of the Day
"If we go for God, all that is not authentically ourselves will drop. Go for the light and darkness will disappear. Focus on Christ means focus on the goodness and power that lie latent within us, in order to invoke them into realization and expression."
— Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
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One of a handful of "work colleges," -- institutions that require students to incorporate work as part of the educational curriculum -- College of the Ozarks provides full scholarships to all students who make it in, and free room and board as well for every student willing to give up summer break. Students enrolled there jokingly refer to it as "Hard Work U."
"Students who don't need to be in debt wind up in debt each year," Davis says. "Institutions are partly to blame. Colleges and universities aren't known for controlling their costs. The government is certainly a problem, too."
Davis point out that allocating more money for loans instead of scholarships and work-study funding means we should not be surprised by the continued rise of tuition and subsequent debt.
"While the listed tuition price is expensive, it's still far below the actual cost that institutions bear for educating each student," Redd says. He cites a study by the Washington, D.C.-based think tank The Delta Project showing that among public undergrad institutions, tuition accounts for only 51 percent of each student's total cost. At private schools, it accounts for 65 percent and in both cases, the rest is subsidized by school funds.
"If you could get the CEO of one of these companies to say 'OK, we would like to support a higher-education institution,' that could work. Alternately, you could get a higher-education institution to develop a business that would generate enough profit to support the academic infrastructure."
The problem with applying this business model to other schools is that it requires initial startup funds and then years for universities to build up revenue streams in the millions. It requires a different student mindset.
"Many students from a well-to-do background are looking for a traditional college experience, a pretty campus, a relaxed ivory-tower environment with climbing walls and swimming pools and facilities that we don't have," Campbell says. "We attract kids who need free tuition and that's in part because we're a no-frills kind of college."
To do that will require a combined effort from everyone involved in the financial-aid process.
"It's not as simple as making a new business model," Cooper says. "There are over 3,000 institutions in this country and they all have unique finance policies. When we peel this onion, we have to think about the federal government's role, the state's role, the institution's role and the family's role."
Friday, November 21
Blank page
I feel I should write on your stage
But what do you want
From me
See me
Be me
You say
OK
Here goes I AM
Writing
Strong
I am
Great
I am
But what will it take for me to focus
Maybe I'll relax my soul
And truly just go with the divine flow
Yes no time exists whenever I go so no
Anxiety, Fear, Hurt, Pain or any negatismo
I am strong, powerful, loving, positive, peaceful, ext., and great
So yes Blank page
I wrote on your divine page.
Black Panther
You stand calmly with you own
Yet live alone in a world disowned
Where are you now
The light needs you
Yet you scan the darkness alone
Being hunted voraciously sometimes by your own
Are you number one the FBI's list
Why are many rotting in the wake
Some never found in the hot cake
Time now for US to team up
Time now for us to team up
Stand strong in your deep dark skin
We are more now, more than ever before
O bold black panther
Thank You for standing so strong
Young Man
Who do you have to impress
To no one especially when they act
Similar to youngns they wack
Grow up and grow like a leaf
Filtering the light of God
Through each being
Grow from strong roots
And you will never fail or fall
Monday, November 17
Internally looking for Eternity
Hope (Poem)
Friday, November 14
Living in Miami, FL. USA
So I made a library to continue my "studies". Miami has a lot of libraries so one can get a good book in any area here as their is a whole Miami-dade library system and they are all connected kind of like us once one chooses to be aware of it.
I am going to keep on blogging on "Life Examined- The thinkers thoughts". So keep up and pray up to stay up. Life is a gift guys and gals/ my peeps. SO take any hardship as a gateway to a much needed lesson that you must learn. Stop fighting - your arms to short to box with God, besides you are really just fighting yourself.
O yea that jet poem was on a plane as i always wanted to be on the mile high club. ; )
1 love
Vickens Moscova
Monday, November 10
Righteously Jetting
Ready to buy evrything in the sky mall
So much good cool things in it
Things that come from the Holy Spirit
Pretty Girls givin' me all their digits
Ima call them one day while I'm cascading all these riches
I am as rich now as Solomon is but it aint through wishes
Using this God given wisdom just like he did w/ his
SO listen close to my words kids
For it is God and not Vickens who speaks
God seriously loves us eternally, infinitely
So what are you choosing to let go to get on wit him
I dare not say I am as perfect as his son did
Yet I know where my vision is
So let and watch me fly high in my honda personal jet
As I stay greened collecting the finest gems, diamonds and begets
Then cashing 'em in cause its so much more worth it
TO give back while they saying he musta deserved it
1 love Vickens M.
W.E.B. Quote
—W.E.B. Du Bois
Monday, November 3
Hafiz- 14th Century Poet
Dreams
So Ill never let loose of you
When we meet will I BE amazed
Or will I feel like I allready seen you
Deja Vu
In Living grace to let it BEcome before my face.
Haitian Sugar Plant
Purple Pen
BE Wings
You see who you want to BE
But what you want to BE doesn't even want to BE itself
So who am I?
One has has to ask themselves
Who can I BE if I really see myself
JESUS was the son of GOD and grew into himself to the fullest
He rarely questioned himself yet was a fool the foolish
People just realize that you need real savings more than a beating heart
Cause once that heart stops pumping you lose heart plus self plus life
Then one can rule the bottomworld with the stingy angel of the dark
That once was but is here negatively unpositively in ones mind
Telling you that you too can't be o so divine
Cause he can't BE, he cant see the greatness
He can't spread wings like love highly unlikely
So what are you to BE or not
Positively living like one should BE or not
Truth Profits
Now Im ridin' and chillin in a brand new lamborghini
Its more graceful and faster in here
What have I been doin' all these blessed years
I'm in a movie starring me and deez
With the universe producing and directing for me
I make music for your soul with these poems
So now you have no choice but to listen to me quotes
I been told you God is real
So where you gonna go and how do you feel
Positive and great things are only what I deal
Businesses that are for-benefit while making mad profit for the reals
Prophesing I am so hear me like we are stuck together in a coffin
And realize you too can BE as great as my Word
That come from something we like to call God or the Truth from a prophet
Future Vision
I can't explain exactly how this works
Something tells me this cant be how to'd or wiki'd
So take it as it comes man
Be glad you are a part of me son
And get up and out your hood
For its good weather all the time here
Chillin in Cabo and England dear
Doing business with people also on a mission
Visiting where saint Teresa was with her vision
One day people will be screaming my name
While I am jewelizing their brains
On some real ish I can't take credit for this
But what backs me up can back you up too in bliss
Above emotions
To gain control of emotions
Is to not fear Love
To not fear the down ones
Will help keep one above
Love is so sweet
Fear is dispersing to your feet
Walk over it unlookingly
Because your love is for me is so deep
For beauty is more than any can see
Sunday, November 2
This too shall pass...(poem)
This too shall pass while smiling said the poor man
This too shall pass while crying said the rich man
What defines you defiantly not me said V
But arent we all one said the g
Surely we are said Big G
God bless all the children
So let peace begin with them
Then one day they can teach US
This too shall pass said the one living
So true said the one dying
Please pass on this message said he to she
What,
That through all the trials and tribulations
Everything will eventually pass
Happiness (poem)
Some poems from myself to you w/ video
Friday, October 31
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 305
There is a peace that Christ bestows on us.
Who uses but Christ's vision finds a peace so deep and quiet, undisturbable and wholly changeless, that the world contains no counterpart. Comparisons are still before this peace. And all the world departs in silence as this peace envelops it, and gently carries it to truth, no more to be the home of fear. For love has come, and healed the world by giving it Christ's peace.
Father, the peace of Christ is given us, because it is Your Will that we be saved. Help us today but to accept Your gift, and judge it not. For it has come to us to save us from our judgment on ourselves.
Quote of the Day
"God is all that is good. He creates only love, therefore he did not create sickness. Sickness is an illusion and does not actually exist. It is part of our worldly dream, our self-created nightmare. Our prayer to God is that He awaken us from the dream."
— Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
Sunday, October 26
Motivational Quotations
"People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success."
-- Norman Vincent Peale
"Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it."
-- William Durant
If you love what you do, you will never work another day in your life."
--Confucius
"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."
-- Max DePree
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"If you want to know your past - look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future - look into your present actions."
-- Buddhist Saying
"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."
-- Carl Bard
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
-- Mark Twain
"I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot... and I missed. I have failed over and over and over again in my life. And that's precisely why I succeed."
-- Michael Jordan one of the NBA's greatest players.
"If you never change your mind, why have one?"
-- Edward De Bono
"Nothing on earth can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude"
-- Thomas Jefferson
"I'm not telling you it is going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it"
-- Art Williams
"The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret"
-- Leo Bascaglia
"Life is like a grinding stone - it can polish you or pulverize you - depending on how you position yourself"
-- Larry De Angelo
"A person is led on the path that he truly wants to travel on."
-- The Talmud (Makkot 10b)
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."
-- Elbert Hubbard
"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."
-- James Allen
"You start with a bag full of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck. Good judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately, the experience usually comes from bad judgment."
-- Unknown
"A small trouble is like a pebble. Hold it too close to your eye and it fills the whole world and puts everything out of focus. Hold it at a proper distance and it can be examined and properly classified. Throw it at your feet and it can be seen in its true setting, just one more tiny bump on the pathway of life.
--Celia Luce
Have a good day, count your blessings, and pass this along to remind everyone else how blessed we all are."
-- Racheal Gordon
"The trouble with many plans is that they are based on the way things are now. To be successful, your personal plan must focus on what you want, not what you have."
-- Nido Qubein
"Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human." - Viktor Frankl
"The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness."
-Sigmund Freud
An inspirational story about a 5th grade school teacher named Mrs. Thompson
"One of the unfortunate things about our education system is that we do not teach students how to avail themselves of their subconscious capabilities."
-Bill Lear
"Everything must be made as simple as possible but not one bit simpler."
-Albert Einstein
"Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness."
-William Lyon Phelps
"All we can ever do in the way of good to people is to encourage them to do good to themselves."
-Randolph Bourne
It's been said, "All is an illusion." That's an insufficient distinction; more accurately, it's all a perception.
-Eldon Taylor
"Strength of mind is exercise, not rest."
-Alexander Pope
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning. Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi
"There is nothing impossible in all the world except that the heart of man is wanting in resolution."
-Confucius
"God gives every bird its food, but he does not throw it into the nest."
-Josiah Gilbert Holland
"I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in."
-William Saroyan
"Strength of mind is exercise, not rest."
-Alexander Pope
"Grief is the agony of a moment; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life."
-Benjamin Disraeli
"He possess dominion over himself, and is happy, who can everyday say, "I have lived." Tomorrow the Heavenly Father may either involve the world in dark clouds, or cheer it with clear sunshine; he will not, however, render ineffectual the things which have already taken place."
-Horace
"All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth -- in a word, all those bodies which compose the mighty frame of the world -- have not any substance without a mind."
-George Berkeley
"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order."
-John Quincy Adams
"Few minds wear out; most rust out."
-Christian Nextell Bouee
"The only catalogue of this world's goods that really counts is that which we keep in the silence of the mind."
-Walter John de la Mare
"No man is free that cannot command himself."
-Pythagoras
"Genius is nothing but continued attention."
-Claude Adrien Helvetius
"The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to lose time in order to gain it."
-Jean Jacques Rousseau
"Children share with geniuses an open, inquiring, uninhibited quality of mind."
-Chauncey Guy Suits
"Learn something new every day under the sun. You will never get old if you do."
-Lois Bey
"The plays of natural lively children are the infancy of art. Children live in a world of imagination and feeling. They invert the most insignificant objectwith any form they please, and see in it whatever they wish to see."
-Adam Gottlob OchleuschlÅ’ger
"Inspiration springs more readily from knowledge than from ignorance."
-Horace Meyer Kallen
"Thinking a smile all the time will keep your face youthful."
-Frank Geletl Burgess
"The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended."
-Alan Stewart Paton
"There is a deity within us who breathes that divine fire by which we are animated."
-Ovid
"Doubt whom you will, but never doubt yourself."
-Christian Nestell Bovee
"Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice. Not something to wish for, but to attain."
-William Jennings Bryan
"Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible."
- "Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity."
-Edwin Hubbel Chapin
"The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it."
-Laurence Sterne
"The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort."
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Ideas are merely sensations imprinted deep inside us...Like attracts like...There is great wisdom in the subconscious mind. If you begin to work with it, it can be of tremendous benefit to you and serve as an excellent reservoir of knowledge.."
-James Van Praagh
"Truth comes home to the mind so naturally, that when we learn it for the first time, it seems as though we did no more than recall it to our memory."
-Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle
"Manners, - The final and perfect flower of noble character."
-William Winter
"Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.."
-Washington Irving
"I do not say that all men are equal in their ability, character and motivation. I do say that every American should be given a fair chance to develop all the talents they may have."
-John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Possibilities "The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it cannot be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it."
-Elbert Hubbard
Attitude "There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative."
-W. Clement Stone
Joy
"When a bit of sunshine hits ye,
After passing of a cloud,
When a fir of laughter gits ye,
And ye'r spine is feelin' proud,
Don't forget to up and fling it,
At a soul that's feelin' blue, For the mini that yet sling it,
It's a boomerang to you."
- Capt. Jack Crawford
Success "No one has success until he has the abounding life. This is made up of the many-fold activity of energy, enthusiasm and gladness. It is to spring to meet the day with a thrill at being alive. It is to go forth to meet the morning in an ecstasy of joy. It is to realize the oneness of humanity."
-Lillian Whiting
"Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world."
-Walter Savage Landor
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas Alva Edison
A ship in harbor is safe -- but that is not what ships are for.
- John A. Shedd
Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
When you feel terrific, notify your face.
Worry pulls tomorrow's cloud over today's bright sunshine.
"Happiness is a form of courage."
-Holbrook Jackson
If God shuts one door, He opens another.
If at first you do succeed, hide your astonishment.
The road to success is dotted with many tempting parking places.
The one thing worse than a quitter is the person who is afraid to begin.
"Man is made or unmade by himself...In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroys himself; he also fashions the tools with which he builds for himself heavenly mansions of joy and strength and peace. By the right choice and true application of thought, man ascends to the Divine Perfection; by the abuse and wrong application of thought, he descends below the level of the beast. Between these two extremes are all the grades of character, and man is their maker and master."
-James Allen As A Man Thinketh
There is one art of which man should be master--the art of reflection.
"Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another."
-Norman Mailer
"Each forward step we take we leave some phantom of ourselves behind."
-John Lancaster Spalding
People who look for the easy way out seem to have trouble finding an exit.
The most important ability is availability.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
School is a building that has four walls--with tomorrow inside.
"As soils are depleted, human health, vitality and intelligence go with them."
-Louis Bromfield
There are many ways of going forward, but there is only one way of standing still.
There is no great success without great commitment.
Out of the mouths of babes come things parents never should have said.
Last year I made a list of things that I resolved to do--I'll use that list again this year--it's still as good as new.
Always hold your head up, but keep your nose at a friendly level.
A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills.
People are very open-minded about new things--as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict from life, but the ability to cope with it.
The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
Most of us know how to say nothing, but few of us know when.
Fear of becoming a has-been keeps some people from becoming anything.
It is better to hold out a hand than to point a finger.
Doing your best is more important than being the best.
A cheerful friend is like a sunny day.
Forgiveness is like sunshine after a rainy day.
A bad habit is nothing more than a mistake repeated.
In the eyes of a child, there are 7 million wonders of the world.
Between each dawn and setting sun, set aside some time for fun.
Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for getting old.
No person ever advanced by traveling in reverse.
All that you do, do with all your might--Things done by half are never quite right.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but lack of enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.
You can't turn back the clock--But you can wind it up again.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Time is not an enemy unless you try to kill it.
If television shows continue the way they're going, the public will soon be demanding longer commercials.
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Giant oak trees started out as little nuts that held their ground.
To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.
Nature is the art of God.
A truly contented person enjoys the scenery along a detour.
We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors--we borrow it from our children.
No brook is too little to seek the sea.
Joy is not in what we own...it's in what we are.
An obstacle may be either a stepping stone or a stumbling block.
Gentleness and kind persuasion win where force and bluster fail.
The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter.
The best thing you can spend on your children is time.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Wednesday, October 22
Prayer to the Blessed Virgin
(Never known to fail). O most Beautiful Flower of Mt. Carmel, Fruitful Vine, Splendor Mother of the Son of God. Immaculate Virgin, assist me in my necessity. Oh Star of the Sea, help me, and show me herein You are my Mother. Oh Holy Mary, Mother of God, Queen of Heaven and Earth, I humbly besseech You from the bottom of my heart to succor me in my necessity (make request). There are none that can withstand Your power. O mary conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to Thee (3 times). Holy Mary, I place this cause in your hands (3 times). say this prayer for three consecutive days. You must publish it, and it will be granted to You.
Sunday, October 19
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 293 w/ my reflections.
All fear is past and only love is here.
All fear is past, because its source is gone, and all its thoughts gone with it. Love remains the only present state, whose Source is here forever and forever. Can the world seem bright and clear and safe and welcoming, with all my past mistakes oppressing it, and showing me distorted forms of fear? Yet in the present love is obvious, and its effects apparent. All the world shines in reflection of its holy light, and I perceive a world forgiven at last.
Father, let not Your holy world escape my sight today. Nor let my ears be deaf to all the hymns of gratitude the world is singing underneath the sounds of fear. There is a real world which the present holds safe from all past mistakes. And I would see only this world before my eyes today.
Quote of the Day
"We do not always know at the time why the Holy Spirit directs us as He does. The miracle worker's function is merely to follow instructions in a desire to serve God. Our compensation, materially and emotionally, will arrive in God's own time and way."
— Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
My Reflections: The world can be a scary place. It may seem like we have to do this or that just to continue living in our own homes. Parents telling us this or that while we can tell they are not even really happy. Who did they listen to one has to ask themselves and if I listen to them will it be an old voice in their head I am really listening to. To me it would make sense to get on the path of the "being" that set this whole thing in motion because if hhe smart enough to make a living cell we call earth, how come he cant tell me the best way to go about living my own life.
Friday, October 17
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 291
This is a day of stillness and of peace.
Christ's vision looks through me today. His sight shows me all things forgiven and at peace, and offers this same vision to the world. And I accept this vision in its name, both for myself and for the world as well. What loveliness we look upon today! What holiness we see surrounding us! And it is given us to recognize it is a holiness in which we share; it is the Holiness of God Himself.
This day my mind is quiet, to receive the Thoughts You offer me. And I accept what comes from You, instead of from myself. I do not know the way to You. But You are wholly certain. Father, guide Your Son along the quiet path that leads to You. Let my forgiveness be complete, and let the memory of You return to me.
Quote of the Day
"We're afraid to leave things in God's hands because we don't know what He'll do with them. We're afraid He'll lose our file. If we're going to set any goal, let us set the goal of being healed of the belief that God is fear instead of love."
— Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
Tuesday, October 14
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 288
Let me forget my brother's past today.
This is the thought that leads the way to You, and brings me to my goal. I cannot come to You without my brother. And to know my Source, I first must recognize what You created one with me. My brother's is the hand that leads me on the way to You. His sins are in the past along with mine, and I am saved because the past is gone. Let me not cherish it within my heart, or I will lose the way to walk to You. My brother is my savior. Let me not attack the savior You have given me. But let me honor him who bears Your Name, and so remember that It is my own.
Forgive me, then, today. And you will know you have forgiven me if you behold your brother in the light of holiness. He cannot be less holy than can I, and you can not be holier than he.
Quote of the Day
"The miracle worker's goal in every circumstance is peace of mind."
— Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
Sunday, October 12
The Realm of Consciousness
How easy it is for people to become trapped in their conceptual prisons. The human mind, in its desire to know, understand and control, mistakes its opinions and viewpoints for the truth. It says: this is how it is.
VIEWPOINTS - You have to be larger than thought to realise that however you interpret your life or someone else's life or behaviour, however you judge any situation, it is no more than a viewpoint, one of many possible perspectives. It is no more than a bundle of thoughts. But reality is one unified whole, in which all things are interwoven, where nothing exists in and by itself.
INNER SPACE - The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are. The mind exists in a state of not enough and so is always greedy for more. When you are identified with mind, you get bored and restless very easily. When you feel bored, you can satisfy the mind's hunger by picking up a magazine, making a phone call, switching on the TV, surfing the web or going shopping. Or you can stay bored and restless and observe what it feels like to be bored and restless. As you bring awareness to the feeling, there is suddenly some space and stillness around it, as it were.
A little at first, but as the sense of inner space grows, the feeling of boredom will begin to diminish in intensity and significance. So even boredom can teach you who you are and who you are not. You discover that a bored person is not who you are. Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not yours, not personal. They are conditions of the human mind.
DYSFUNCTIONAL CONCEPTS - Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence. Thinking that is not rooted in awareness becomes self-serving and dysfunctional. Cleverness devoid of wisdom is extremely dangerous and destructive. That is the current state of most of humanity.
TRANSCENDING THOUGHT - The next step in human evolution is to transcend thought. It doesn't mean not to think anymore, but simply not to be completely identified with thought, possessed by thought.
Feel the energy of your inner body. Feel the life that you are, the life that animates the body. The body then becomes a doorway, so to speak, into a deeper sense of aliveness underneath the fluctuating emotions and underneath your thinking.
ALIVENESS - There is an aliveness in you that you can feel with your entire being, not just in the head. Every cell is alive in that presence in which you don't need to think. Yet, in that state, if thought is required for some practical purpose, it is there. The mind can still operate, and it operates beautifully when the greater intelligence that you are uses it and expresses itself through it.
AWARE PRESENCE - You may have overlooked that brief periods in which you are "conscious without thought" are already occurring naturally and spontaneously in your life. You may be engaged in some manual activity or walking across the room or waiting at the airline counter and be so completely present that the usual mental static of thought subsides and is replaced by an aware presence. Your perceptions become crystal clear, unclouded by thought.
STATE OF KNOWING - To the mind, all this is not significant because it has more important things to think about. It is also not memorable and that's why you may have overlooked that it is already happening. The truth is that it is the most significant thing that can happen to you. It is the beginning of a shift from thinking to aware presence. Become at ease with the state of not knowing.
BEYOND THE MIND - This takes you beyond mind because the mind is always trying to conclude and interpret. It is afraid of not knowing. So, when you can be at ease with not knowing, you have already gone beyond the mind. A deeper knowing that is non-conceptual then arises out of that state.
MASTERY - Artistic creation, sports, dance, teaching, counseling - mastery in any field of endeavour implies that the thinking mind is either no longer involved at all or at least is taking second place. A power and intelligence greater than you and yet one with you in essence takes over. There is no decision-making process anymore; spontaneous right action happens and you are not doing it. Mastery of life is the opposite of control. You become aligned with the greater consciousness. It acts, speaks, does the works.
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Go with the flow and grow
I have been learning a lot recently, more than my years in school, elementary, middle, high school and even college. Life is meant to be easy and yet we complicating by wanting more than we truly need. (i.e. our financial mess that is affecting the whole world.) In these time it is better to let go of what you have been taught and start fresh learning a new. Life will get better for not only you, but us all since we have to realize where we have been going wrong if we want to change what has been happening to us. I know we all want to feel like individuals and make our own life but if you truly dont care for your neighbor how are you truly going to care for yourself.
Instead of looking at what others have think " God Blessed you with that and if I needed that I would have been born with it". Instead of trying so hard to "fix" your outer appearance aim to find your inner knowing and you will automatically feel a lot better about yourself. I guarantee it like meineke. We have so much more to be thankful for than not so everyday write a least 5 things you are thankful for in a notebook as a way to help you realize this fact. Do different things if you want different results. If it did not work last year why would it work now.
Look inside and dont be afraid of what you will find because you will only be better and a stronger being. Starting looking into your feelings instead of denying them. Start being more gracious and thankful because you really never had to exist and life truly is a gift. So know that you have purpose here and God just would like for us to live it.
So my fellow being let us pray and meditate for eachother, why, beacause we are all one. What affects you may have an effect on me.
God Bless and let us co-create grerat things with God instead of against Tao.
Go with the flow and grow, I promise.
Saturday, October 11
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A Course in Miracles, Lesson 285
My holiness shines bright and clear today.
Today I wake with joy, expecting but the happy things of God to come to me. I ask but them to come, and realize my invitation will be answered by the thoughts to which it has been sent by me. And I will ask for only joyous things the instant I accept my holiness. For what would be the use of pain to me, what purpose would my suffering fulfill, and how would grief and loss avail me if insanity departs from me today, and I accept my holiness instead?
Father, my holiness is Yours. Let me rejoice in it, and through forgiveness be restored to sanity. Your Son is still as You created him. My holiness is part of me, and also part of You. And what can alter Holiness Itself?
Quote of the Day
"Ultimately, it is not our credentials but our commitment to a higher purpose that creates our effectiveness in the world."
— Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
Friday, October 10
Awakening the Healer Within
Awakening the Healer Within
by Deepak Chopra
In my experience as a physician, over several decades, I have come to realize that a person's internal state of well-being really influences the outcome of illness. If you are feeling safe, loved, and the people around you are supportive, then your body is more likely to self-regulate. Self-regulation is an important part of the healing process. We all have a healing response built into our biology. This healing response is the restoration of homeostasis.
Homeostasis is a state of dynamic, non-change in the midst of change. This means that in a healthier person, thousands of biological parameters remain within a certain range no matter what is happening in the environment. These biological parameters include everything from blood sugar levels to hormone levels to body temperature regulation to regulation of the immune system. It is now known that stress disrupts homeostasis and the experience of centered awareness and the giving and receiving of love restore homeostasis.
As I have indicated, disruption of homeostasis is the beginning of disease and the restoration of homeostasis is the healing response. Therefore, no matter what illness you are facing, the most important thing you can do is to move from a place of fear to a place of love and safety. In breast cancer in particular there is research to show that women in support groups have a much healthier outcome then women who feel lonely and afraid.
Today, the precise biological pathways through which love heals are even being mapped out by scientists. In particular, an internal state of euphoria induced by the experience of love causes the secretion of neurochemicals such as dopamine, serotonin, opiates, oxytocin, and vasopressin. These chemicals are not only antidepressants; they also modulate the activity of the immune system and are referred to as immuno-regulators.
Therefore, have confidence in your own healing power, awaken the healer within you, and surround yourself with loving and caring people and have a one-pointed intention that you will heal yourself. The mechanism through which intention orchestrates biological response is a mysterious phenomenon. But there is no doubt that intention influences our biology.
Through meditation, for example, one can learn to lower heart rate and blood pressure and eliminate the stress response. When intention is introduced before meditation it works in a precise manner by evoking very specific biological phenomena. According to wisdom traditions, intention has infinite organizing power.
This means that intention can orchestrate an infinity of space-time events in order to fulfill the intended outcome. In fact, a frequently-used term in the field of biology is teleology. Teleology was an old-fashioned term which is now being used frequently to explain certain mechanisms in evolution. Many scientists feel that intended outcomes influence their own biological mechanisms even in evolution (in other words, evolution is purpose-driven.) In any case, do not underestimate the power of intention. Think of it as electricity or electromagnetism and learn to harness it.
Tuesday, October 7
Heart-Centered Consciousness
by Owen Waters
Unconditional Love
The purpose of being human, as we shift into the New Reality, is to learn about heart-centered consciousness. The universe is, by its very design, filled with the love of the Original Creator. Universal love is the aspect of Original Consciousness which holds Creation together. In the Original Creation, Infinite Being divided its consciousness into two complementary aspects - thought and feeling - and then set them into motion.
The love of the Original Creator forms the very fabric of space. No material thing and no part of "empty" space is devoid of that love. Universal love is literally everywhere. However, the human condition is only affected by this love when it is channeled into the human realm through its use by humans.
We are here on Earth to learn how to translate universal love into human form. Once universal love has been transformed through the consciousness of any individual human being, it enters the global mind atmosphere of Earth. We all share constant access to this global mind. While we initiate thoughts and feelings on our own, we also receive thoughts and feelings from the global mind. We sometimes alter these by our own thought, sometimes not, and then pass them back into the global mind. In an unconscious way, but not consciously, people are fully telepathic as they receive and transmit thoughts and feelings from and to the global mind atmosphere.
When a person experiences heart-centered consciousness, they radiate a type of consciousness which is very different to basic emotion. Heart-centered consciousness is a state of unconditional love. It is not a product of emotional like or dislike. Once started, nothing in physical reality affects the flow of unconditional love. It is something that just is, regardless of the circumstances.
Unconditional love is something that flows through your heart when you reach up above day-to-day consciousness, then open your heart and just allow it. This heart-centered consciousness always sees the elegant solution to the sorrows that can arise from basic human emotions.
Unconditional love allows, accepts and supports. It is not something you try to do. It just flows when you allow it to enter your heart and take your consciousness above the cares of daily reality and into an expanded vista of awareness.
Each time you radiate unconditional love into the global mind atmosphere, you upgrade the entire human experience, taking humanity yet one more step into the unfolding New Reality.
source - infinitebeing.com
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A Course in Miracles, Lesson 281
I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts.
Father, Your Son is perfect. When I think that I am hurt in any way, it is because I have forgotten who I am, and that I am as You created me. Your Thoughts can only bring me happiness. If ever I am sad or hurt or ill, I have forgotten what You think, and put my little meaningless ideas in place of where Your Thoughts belong, and where they are. I can be hurt by nothing but my thoughts. The Thoughts I think with You can only bless. The Thoughts I think with You alone are true.
I will not hurt myself today. For I am far beyond all pain. My Father placed me safe in Heaven, watching over me. And I would not attack the Son He loves, for what He loves is also mine to love.
Quote of the Day
"There's no more potent way to thank God for your gifts, or to increase them, than by sharing them. You will be given as much power in the world as you are willing to use on His behalf."
— Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
Sunday, October 5
A Course in Miracles, Lesson 278
Listen In
Understanding our freedom is acknowledging that we are not bound. We are not bound by a body, because we have a spirit. We are not bound by fear, because we reside in God's love. Our father is free, and we are free. In this lesson, we exercise our right to the freedom of God. If I am bound, my Father is not free.If I accept that I am prisoner within a body, in a world in which all things that seem to live appear to die, then is my Father prisoner with me. And this do I believe, when I maintain the laws the world obeys must I obey; the frailties and the sins which I perceive are real, and cannot be escaped. If I am bound in any way, I do not know my Father nor my Self. And I am lost to all reality. For truth is free, and what is bound is not a part of truth.Father, I ask for nothing but the truth. I have had many foolish thoughts about myself and my creation, and have brought a dream of fear into my mind. Today, I would not dream. I choose the way to You instead of madness and instead of fear. For truth is safe, and only love is sure.When we're working solely for money, our motivation is getting rather than giving. The miraculous transformation here is a shift from a sales mentality to a service mentality. Until we make this shift, we're operating from ego and concentrating on the things of this world rather than on love.Quote of the Day"When we're working solely for money, our motivation is getting rather than giving. The miraculous transformation here is a shift from a sales mentality to a service mentality. Until we make this shift, we're operating from ego and concentrating on the things of this world rather than on love."— Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
Tuesday, September 30
Mysteries of the Universe
Mysteries of the Universe
by Owen Waters
The metaphysics of today is the physics of tomorrow. By studying spiritual metaphysics, you get a head start in understanding the mysteries of the universe.
For example, two hundred years ago, electricity was still a huge mystery. Back then, a few visionaries uncovered more and more information about the nature of electricity. Once it became possible to generate electricity, it powered the Industrial Revolution and then went on to produce the Electronics Era, which soon morphed into today's Information Revolution.
This enormous chain reaction of technological evolution was made possible by the original curiosity of just a handful of visionary mystics. Now, imagine what the mystic insights of today's world could do for tomorrow's world. For example, the next energy to be understood is etheric energy. A more subtle cousin to electricity, etheric energy is the life force that streams towards us from the Sun, energizing and motivating all forms of life.
The mastery of etheric energy will lead to far more wide-ranging advances than electricity ever did. Within etheric energy, lie the keys to powerful healing modalities, pollution-free energy, and many other valuable innovations. Just the advent of abundant, inexpensive energy will transform the world, eliminating poverty and much of today's third world suffering.Etheric energy is life energy. It is the energy that passes from spiritual healer to patient. It is the vitality or life force contained within air, water and food. It is the mystery energy which powers the endless orbit of electrons in their atoms and planets around their suns.
Etheric energy has been known by many other names - prana, life energy, vital life force, chi or qi, orgone, universal life force, odic force, cold electricity, tachyon energy; the list goes on.
Cosmologists - scientists who study the structure of the universe - are actually already on the trail of etheric energy. They have detected its presence in the cosmos through its gravitational side-effects, but they haven't been able to see it, so they call it 'dark energy.' The existence of dark energy - and its related dark matter - is one of the great, unanswered mysteries of science today. According to the observed movements of galaxies, it is calculated that 23% of the universe consists of dark matter and 73% of the universe consists of dark energy.The universe, it would seem, is filled with unseens. At least, to the limited capabilities of physical eyes. When a cosmologist stares at a clear, night sky, wondering where all the missing energy and matter is in the inky blackness of the depths of space, it would come as a surprise to them if they knew that a clairvoyant - a person who has developed the ability to see subtle energies - sees the same night sky very differently.
It may sound unconventional, even rebellious to tradition, to suggest that a scientist should ask a clairvoyant what they perceive, but it has been done before, and with breakthrough results. For example, in the mid 1800s, one of the top scientists of all time did exactly this. Carl von Reichenbach had heard that clairvoyants can see a subtle energy of which science was unaware. The fact that he, like most people, lacked clairvoyant vision did not deter him. Such a minor complication was not to be an obstacle to his curiosity and his desire to understand this new form of energy.
So, for his experiments, he hired a group of skilled clairvoyants to describe to him what they could see. He cataloged the appearance and behavior of etheric energy, which he called the 'odic force,' around substances such as magnets, crystals, wood and metals.
Today, a cosmologist could, if they dared to be that adventurous, ask a skilled clairvoyant what they see in the clear, night sky. The clairvoyant would report that they see the etheric energies that surge through the universe. To their subtle perception, etheric energy does not appear in the least bit dark. In fact, it glows brightly with the light of its own life energy. To them, the night sky is filled with a brilliant interplay of pure and magical, etheric light.Etheric energy is one of the three fundamental types of energy in the universe. These three energies are electric, magnetic and etheric. Electric energy operates at a right angle to magnetic energy. The third energy of Creation, etheric energy, operates at yet another right angle to the other two.
Physical matter is made from electromagnetism, which is the interplay of electric and magnetic energies. Etheric matter is quasi-physical, i.e. solid only to the subtle senses, and it is made from etheromagnetism, which is the interplay of etheric and magnetic energies.
Etheric energy and etheric matter are the missing components in today's cosmology. Etheric energy is the mysterious 'dark energy' and etheric matter is the mysterious 'dark matter.' Knowing that it can be seen by the subtle senses certainly makes it a more immediate candidate for study and research.Just the fact that 'dark' or etheric energy reveals its presence through its gravitational effects implies that its understanding could lead to control over gravity, and the introduction of weightless, high-speed flying vehicles.
The possibilities for research into this fledgling field are almost unlimited. For example, many of Nikola Tesla's experiments involved a strange new form of energy that he called 'cold electricity.' When his experiments are reviewed in the light that cold electricity is none other than etheric energy, then they begin to make a lot more sense. Etheric energy is the third energy of Creation. It is not a form of electricity. Etheric energy and electric energy share the common bond of interacting with magnetic energy. They bring to life the magnetic fabric of space when they intertwine with it to invoke physical electromagnetic energy and quasi-physical etheromagnetic energy.Spiritual metaphysics provides a head start in understanding the mysteries of the universe. The sooner today's scientists search within for understanding, the sooner the world will see them emerge as the modern-day visionaries of science.
When a deeper understanding of etheric energy is achieved, society will reap many benefits, ranging from powerful healing machines and precise weather control to clean, unlimited energy and travel to the stars.source - infinitebeing.com
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A Course in Miracles, Lesson 274 Marianne Williamson
Today belongs to love. Let me not fear.
Father, today I would let all things be as You created them, and give Your Son the honor due his sinlessness; the love of brother to his brother and his Friend. Through this I am redeemed. Through this as well the truth will enter where illusions were, light will replace all darkness, and Your Son will know he is as You created him.
A special blessing comes to us today, from Him Who is our Father. Give this day to Him, and there will be no fear today, because the day is given unto love.
Quote of the Day
"There is no amount of money, time or energy too great to spend on our children. They are our angels, our future. In failing them, we are failing ourselves."
— Excerpted from A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles
Sunday, September 28
Changing Your Outer Reality
Changing Your Outer Reality
by Egan Sanders
THINK OF THE UNIVERSE AS A CIRCLE and that you are in the middle of it. Imagine that the vibrations of your consciousness move outward from you – like waves - and then return back to you as experiences and events. Our BETA - beliefs, emotions, thoughts and actions - are the vibrations that are moving out from us - the center of our circle - and then coming back. They are the literal mechanism of creation.
Until you are aware – consciously aware – of your beliefs, emotions, thoughts, and actions, your ability to shape your experience can be limited. The good news is that it is very easy to become aware. You simply observe yourself for nothing is hidden – unless you believe it is hidden.
Two people can be standing right next to each other and experience a completely different reality depending on their beliefs, emotions, and thoughts.
A belief is like a blueprint. It is the plan or pattern to which all the materials needed to flesh it out are drawn. The architect is you. All vibrations are self-perpetuating. Your beliefs are self-perpetuating. An optimist will see the positive and create those circumstances, while a pessimist will naturally vibrate with a critical viewpoint and see the negative in every situation. Two people can be standing right next to each other and experience a completely different reality depending on their beliefs, emotions, and thoughts.
This is the great power that each of us has been given. How are you using it? The universe is impartial. It does not tell you what to believe, think, or feel. If you have a negative thought or feeling, you have the choice to give yourself a positive alternative. In this age of transformation, many people are espousing the idea that we create our reality just with our thoughts. While this idea is valid, we also have to recognize that as human beings we are a package deal of beliefs, emotions, thoughts and actions.
If the goal of many people is to grow, expand, and express their unique potential, it inevitably compels us to work holistically – integrating all the aspects together to rediscover wholeness once again. Although it may seem a contradiction – the higher we reach in consciousness, the more we may encounter unresolved issues, feelings, or thoughts. Things come up to be healed – to reestablish wholeness.
Does it serve us to deny that which we truly feel or think? If we affirm something with a smile, but do not fully feel that it is possible, then the outward result will be mixed. Covering up feelings with positive thoughts may not get to the root of the issue. In fact, it may just build up a stronger charge, which may show up later in a more dramatic form.
Here is a conscious, holistic approach to changing your outer reality by observing and changing your inner reality. These questions are an easy way to first examine what you are putting out into the universe, and then giving yourself a positive alternative. Begin by taking something that is bothering you; a negative thought, an experience or a situation and use the following questions to gain more awareness of how you are using your creative power."What would I need to believe in order to be feeling this/experiencing this?"
"What emotion(s) does this belief generate within me? How does the belief make me feel physically? How does it affect my breath?"
"What thought(s) does this emotion(s) generate? What ideas, perspectives and viewpoints come up?"
"What action(s) would these thoughts generate? If I were a person believing, feeling and thinking in this particular way, how would this cause me to act?"
This is owning the belief. This is really looking at the effects it creates. All emotions, thoughts, and feelings are the effect of a belief. These questions may get you in touch with something you have hidden from yourself or bring up emotions that you may not even realize you had. This is step one – seeing what is.
Step two - give yourself a new choice. Ask yourself what would you truly prefer to experience? What is the positive alternative? Take the negative thought, experience, or situation that you used for the above questions, and change the belief to a positive one. Now ask yourself the following questions to align yourself with the positive reality.
"What would I need to believe in order to be experiencing this positive alternative?"
"What emotion(s) does this positive belief generate within me? How does the positive belief make me now feel - physically?"
"What thought(s) does this positive emotion(s) generate? What new ideas, perspectives and viewpoints come up?"
"What action(s) would these positive thoughts generate? If I were a person believing, feeling and thinking in this particular way, how would I act?" Who would you be?"
More than likely you will feel lighter and a greater sense of well being from looking at the positive alternative. If you then focus on the positive alternative, and consistently act the way a person would if they had that positive belief, you will then step into that version of reality.
Too often people do not even question reality or give themselves other possibilities. You hear a negative voice in your mind and surrender to it. Voices are really choices. The truth is you create yourself anew in each and every moment. In each moment you choose who you are and the universe automatically supports you in whatever choice you choose. When you believe - you are choosing your reality, and you always have a choice.source - egansanders.com
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