Creation of the Soul

The creation of the Soul has already been perfectly accomplished, but the creation by Souls has not.  God created Souls so that He could depend on them because He created them perfectly.  He gave them His peace so they could not be shaken and would be unable to be deceived.  Whenever you are afraid, you are deceived.  Your mind is not serving the Soul.  This literally STARVES the Soul by denying its daily bread.  God offers only mercy.  Your words should reflect only mercy because that is what you have received and that is what you should give.

~ A Course In Miracles ~
(Original Edition Text)

Soul

"The greatest privilege of a human life 

is to become midwife to the birth of the soul"

~ John O'Donohue ~

Co-Creators

"In the realm of my near-death experience, it felt as though I were connected to the entire universe and everything contained within it; and it seemed that the cosmos is alive, dynamic, and conscious. Every thought, emotion, or action I make while expressing through the physical body has an effect on the Whole. In fact, in that realm of Oneness, it felt as though the whole universe is an extension of me. This realization has, of course, dramatically changed the way I view things. We’re all co-creating this world and our lives within it through our emotions,thoughts, and actions."

~ Anita Moorjani ~

Be Still My Soul

I said to my soul be still

And let the dark come upon you

Which shall be the darkness of God.

Wait without hope,

For hope would be hope

For the wrong thing.

Wait without love,

For love would be love

for the wrong thing.

There is yet faith,

But the faith and the love and the hope

Are all in the waiting.

Wait without thought,

For you are not ready for thought.

And so the darkness shall become the light,

And the stillness, the dancing.                           

~ T S Eliot ~

                                                                             

Rest, Weary Seeker

A sip of tea. The gentle, last touch of a loved one’s hand. A flurry of tingling sensation surging through the body. A stranger turning into a long-lost friend overnight. The incessant beeping of an IV machine. The sting of a needle that won’t enter its vein. The bittersweet chirp of a morning bird. An afternoon breeze, gentle on your cheek. This, the first and last day of your life. Ecstasy, and laundry. Love, and pain. This stunning ordinariness, rich with miracle, overflowing with grace beyond our conception of it. The completion of life within its very appearance. So rest, weary seeker. Rest in this. Always.

~ Jeff Foster ~

Christmas Eve Letter

I salute you. 

I am your friend and my love for you goes deep. There is nothing I can give you which you have not got. But there is much, very much, that while I cannot give it, you can take.

No heaven can come to us unless our hearts find rest in today.  Take heaven!

No peace lies in the future which is not hidden in this present little instance. Take peace!

The gloom of the world is but a shadow. Behind it, yet within our reach, is joy. Take joy!

Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty . . . that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven. Courage then to claim it, that is all! . . .

And so I greet you, with profound esteem and with the prayer that for you, now and forever, the day breaks and the shadows flee away.

("Letter to a Friend" by Fra Giovanni, 1513)

Fra Giovanni Giocondo (c.1435–1515) was a Renaissance pioneer, accomplished as an architect, engineer, antiquary, archaeologist, classical scholar, and Franciscan friar. Today we remember him most for his reassuring letter to Countess Allagia Aldobrandeschi on Christmas Eve, 1513.)

Divinity

Beloved one, you are coming to the place now where you recognize the divinity of yourself, and you recognize the divinity of each one of the friends and the ones that you interact with. It may not come at first. They may present a certain image to you and you have to look beyond that image. A lot of times what they do is they present the most disheveled image of who they think they are and they may want to fight, and they may think that everything is wrong. But what they are really asking you to do is to look past that and to see the Christ of them. The more they scream and hit out and act out, the more they are calling for your love, wanting you to see past what perhaps they cannot see past, but you can. You smile at them, and it is Christmas because you see the Christ of them.

~ Jeshua ~

"This is my opinion"

You never hear a prophet or a sage say: 'I think,' or 'This is my opinion.' Why? Because the unreality of a one who could have an opinion is exposed as a myth and denied at its root. It has no credibility at all. The liberated being, free of egoic identity and its influence, becomes the embodiment of the universal Self.

~ Mooji ~

Who Are You?

There must either be 'you' living in this body, or God living in this body. Who does better? Bear in mind it was God's house in the first place. Where did 'you' come from?

  

~ Mooji ~

The Thought of God

Light Of The World

You must come to the stage that when you go out from here, you remain effortlessly marinating inside your being all the time. Outwardly, there may be activities, but internally, you remain the unchanging peace and serenity. It is only then that weary and tired beings can take rest in your presence. If you are easily set on fire and agitated because of the events around you, you are not sufficiently established in the Self so that others can take rest in your presence or recognise themselves in your reflection. The sage's presence and being is the light of the world. Of course, all this is not your job, it is simply your joy.

~ Mooji ~

Regret is the longing to change the past.

Fear is the desire to control the future.

Peace is the surrender to Now.

~ Jeff Foster ~

Your Heart Is A Vast Room

The perfect body and the perfect mind could never provide the kind of perfection you long for. What you long for is the perfect present embrace of this bodymind in all its glorious imperfection, its heartbreak, its seeking, its struggle, its exhaustion, its absence of answers – the perfect love that you know you are. Your heart is a vast room, friends, and it can hold even the most profound heartbreak without breaking; it can carry the most intense grief without closing. Your true strength lies in your openness to all of life’s energies. Your true courage lies in your refusal to turn away from what is here. Your true nature shines brilliantly, always.

~ Jeff Foster ~

BEAUTIFUL CHAOS

It's not supposed to make sense, friend. 

Everything is changing now. 

Everything is thrown into uncertainty. 

Turn your attention towards the ground where you stand.

Embrace the wild chaos of your life story; 

sanctify this chaos, make it beautiful, holy. 

But be what you are, the vast unchanging room for it all, 

ever-present, a great Certainty in the midst of a storm 

of forces outside of your direct control.

Begin again in every moment.

Trust the intelligence of chaos.

Life is only refreshing itself.

Breathe.

You are here.

~ Jeff Foster ~

Forget ....

"Forget trying to have the perfect experience.

 Forget trying to get life right.

 Sink into your current experience.

 Let it wash over you, drown in its embrace.

When you feel lost, heartbroken, unsure where to turn,

 When doubts smoulder and questions rage,

 Know that this is only Love in disguise,

 Burning all your dreams of tomorrow to dust.   

You are doing better than you ever could imagine..."

  ~ Jeff Foster ~

Take The First Step

We only need to take the first step beyond all that we have known for reality to begin to unfold itself before us. We need to take that first step not once, but continually evermore.

~ Adyashanti

Be A Good Steward of Your Life

"To be a good steward of your life requires you to embrace every aspect of your life, inner and outer, pleasant and unpleasant.  You do not necessarily need to face them all at once, just whatever arises in any given moment. Give each moment the  attention, sincerity, and commitment that it  deserves. A failure to do so is more costly that you can ever imagine.  

Your life, all of your life, is your path to awakening. By  resisting  or not dealing with its challenges, you stay asleep to Reality. Pay attention to what life is trying to reveal to you. Say yes to its fierce, ruthless, and loving grace."

~ Adyashanti ~

The Way Of Liberation

May You Have a Powerfully Blessed 2014

Wishing you Dear Beautiful Soul a Very Blessed and Loving 2014.  May you find all that you ever want and need from within your own Sacred Heart and may You find your alignment with your One True Essence, your Pure Self.  A Very Merry Christmas and an extremely blessed New Year!  With Love, Lavina! ♥ ♥ ♥

If Only I Could Be Happy

What if, in­stead of think­ing, “If only I could lose weight, then I would be happy,” we said, “If only I could fig­ure out how to be happy, then I would lose weight”?

~ Jeanne Schraf ~

You Are It.

You need not get at it, for you are it.  It will get at you, if you give it a chance. Let go your attachment to the unreal and the real will swiftly and smoothly step into its own. Stop imagining yourself being or doing this or that and the realization that you are the source and heart of all will dawn upon you.  With this will come great love which is not choice or predilection, nor attachment, but a power which makes all things love-worthy and lovable.

~ Nisargadatta Maharaj ~

Forgiveness

"Forgiveness is the home of miracles."

~ A Course In Miracles ~

Relatioinships

"It is not possible to have a loving relationship with someone you have no relationship with at all."

~ John Shore ~

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Absolute Sincerity

"To have genuine sincerity is absolutely necessary in the spiritual life.  Sincerity encompasses the qualities of honesty, genuineness, and integrity.  To be sincere does not mean to be perfect.  In fact, the very effort to be perfect is itself insincere, because it is a way of avoiding seeing yourself as you are right now.  To be able and willing to see yourself as you are, with all of your imperfections and illusions, requires genuine sincerity and courage.  If we are constantly trying to hide from ourselves, we will never be able to awaken from our illusion of self."

~ Adyashanti ~

Clarify Your Aspirations

"Very few people have Truth or Reality as deep values. They may think that they value Truth, but their actions do not bear this out. Generally, most people have competing and conflicting values, which manifest as both internal and external conflict. So just because you think something is your deepest value does not mean that it actually is. By deeply contemplating and clarifying what you value and aspire to, you become more unified, clear, and certain of your direction."

~ Adyashanti ~

Unfoldment

Life unfolds along the lines of what you value most.
~ Adyashanti ~

Shared with Love by my Beloved Friend, Aimee.

Ancient Peace

You Will Never Be Without

Beloved One, you will never be without. Sometimes it may look a little bit tight, but you will never be without.  Always you will be taken care of. You have to be, because you have ordained that you will be taken care of.

~ Jeshua ~

Way To Success

Renounce Yourself, Not The World

So the first thing to be understood: I don’t teach isolation, because I don’t teach the ego. I don’t teach isolation, because I want you to leave the ego, and not the world. The world is not the problem. The world is tremendously beautiful; it is pure joy; nothing is wrong in it. Something is wrong in you, not in the world. Drop the wrongness in you; don’t renounce the world. I teach you to celebrate the world, not to renounce it. I affirm life, and affirm it unconditionally.

So, if you want to leave anything, leave yourself. If you want to renounce anything, renounce yourself. And the only way, the only way to renounce oneself is to celebrate. Because whenever you are happy, you are not; whenever you are sad, you are; whenever you are depressed, you are; whenever you are delighting, you are not.

~ Osho ~

God Is My Best Friend

God is my best friend and He also wants a friend.

I share my secrets with Him and He never tells anyone

He is so loyal and helps me live my days one by one

I need Him to love me and he needs love too

So why forsake Him? Just be in His shoes

He created me and everything in this world

Just want to thank Him as He is my life and world

I may not have one single faithful friend but 

I do not need them so

As God will never forsake me or let me go

I grow in His love every single day

He paves my life,my path,my way

If I could do anything for this beautiful Hero

I would just love,pray and make Him my bestie as old as I grow.

Thank you for my life, family,work,good people,food and rest

Dear God,I LOVE YOU

YOU are a SUPER HERO and THE BEST!!!

~ Nikita Ray ~

No-thing!

When you begin to realize you are nothing and no-thing, you begin to make a shift in thinking.  When you know that none of anything is YOU, you open wide great possibilities like tidal waves. What happened yesterday, happened yesterday/  Whatever you were excited about yesterday, was yesterday - finished, gone, over. Dwell in the present. Today is a brand new day. A new beginning. A fresh start. Believe it or not, no one really has a recollection of yesterday - only you.

Take the hurt out of Life.

You take the hurt out of life by first admitting you have it.  You get some understanding of why you  have  it, and finally  you  say: "I will now withdraw my need for it.  I no longer need to justify the present by the past.  I no longer need to justify my present inadequacies merely on the basis  of something that happened years or even weeks ago.  I am emotionally  interested  in the new concept of what I am, and I refuse to remember what I was.  I am intrigued by what I can become, and I no longer need to remember the hurts that made me what I was."

~ Raymond Charles Barker ~

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About Enlightenment

"I went through a very similar phase. I manifested some cool things, I understood how this dream of reality works, and got it to work in my  favor. Of course, I too was not satisfied completely. And so I too went deeper. You are on your way.

You see, most people don’t want enlightenment. Trust me, you don’t want this. What people really want is to apply Abraham’s methods, to manifest, to essentially make life work for them. They want to have good dreams and be happy. Enlightenment is not about having a good dream. It is about waking up from the dream all together. Seekers think they are moving towards enlightenment when they use the law of attraction, but really they are just becoming very good dreamers. There is nothing wrong with that. If the dream is good, keep dreaming. Nobody needs to wake up. The point of the dream is to dream, not wake up from it.

Some people though, are maniacs that will stop at nothing but the truth. You on the other hand, just like I was, have exhausted the novelty of manifestation and are still curious to find what lies deeper. Keep going."

~ http://nobodysnotes.com/tagged/excerpt ~

Living In The Moment

There is not a soul in your life who is going to live or be around forever. People come. People go. Everyone is passing through. Enjoy the moment. Don't try to stretch it or prolong it or hang on to it. Clinging and craving causes much suffering. Live in the moment of whatever the moment IS. As Byron Katie says:

Do You Hear What I Hear?

"Which is all to say that I am grateful for last week’s hearing loss- almost as grateful as I am for its restoration. It has rooted a needed awareness in my body, reminded me that even though in some sense we are One, every other is also wholly other with their own history, inner and outer challenges and resources. Remembering this, each encounter becomes an opportunity to explore the Mystery of the other. And for this, I am deeply grateful." 

~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer ~

  http://oriahsinvitation.blogspot.in/

Releasing Resentment

In the infinity of life where I am
All is perfect, whole and complete.
I am safe.
My life is ever new.
Each moment of my life is new
And fresh and vital.
I use my affirmative thinking
To create exactly what I want.
This is a new day. I am a new me.
I welcome change. I choose to change my way thinking.
I choose to change the words I use.
I move from the old to the new with ease and joy.
It is easier for me to forgive than I thought.
Forgiving makes me feel free and light
It is with joy that I learn to love myself more and more
The more resentment I release, the more love I have to express
There is no right or wrong, nor good or bad
The past is over and done
There is only the experience of the moment
I love myself for bringing myself
through this past into this present moment
Changing my thoughts makes me feel good
I am learning to make today a pleasure to experience
All is well in my world.

(Louis L Hay)

Yearning!

"To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of the most powerful "magic skills" that human beings are capable of.  It has been noted by almost every ancient wisdom tradition."

~ Elizabeth Gilbert ~

Listening With Love

"To listen another's soul into a condition of disclosure and discovery may be almost the greatest service that any human being ever performs for another" 

~ Douglas Steere ~

"When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence.  How can you love if you are not there?" 

~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~

Healing Through Deep Listening

Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening.  You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart.  Even if he says things that are full of wrong perceptions, full of bitterness, you are still capable of continuing to listen with compassion. Because  you  know that listening like that, you give that person a chance to suffer less.  If you want to help to correct his perception, you wait for another time.  For now, you don't  interrupt.  You don't argue.  If you do, he loses his chance.  You just listen with compassion and help him to suffer less.  One hour like that can bring transformation and healing.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~

Deep Listening

I Am determined to practice deep listening.

I Am determined to practice loving speech.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh ~

Live The Questions

"I beg you to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves. Don't search for the answers which could not be given to you now. The point is, to LIVE EVERYTHING! Live the questions NOW."

~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~

Changing A Habit

"A habit cannot be tossed out of the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time."

~ Mark Twain ~

Let Nothing Disturb You

"Let nothing disturb thee; Let nothing dismay thee; All things pass; God never changes.  Patience attains all that it strives for.  He who has God finds he lacks nothing: GOD ALONE SUFFICES."

~ St. Teresa of Avila ~

Follow Your Heart!

Don't be afraid to go where others fear to tread!

Follow your Heart

Many will be inspired when you do!

If I Had My Life to Live Over Again

"I've decided that if I had my life to live over again, I would not only climb more mountains, swim more rivers, and watch more sunsets; I would'nt only jettison my hot water bottle, raincoat, umbrella, parachute, and raft; I would not only go barefoot earlier in the spring and stay out later in the fall; but I would devote not one more minute to monitoring my spiritual growth.  No, not one."

~ Brennan Manning, The Furious Longing of God ~

"You" & "The Rest of You"

"There is the "you" that people see and then there is the "rest of you".  Take some time and craft a picture of the "rest of you".  This could be a drawing, in words, even a song.  Just remember that the chances are good it will be full of paradox and contradictions."

~ Brennan Manning, The Furious Longing of God ~

Longing!

If you call yourself a disciple of any person, the only real gift they can give you is to send you away.  A longing will begin that after awhile will force you to return, and  you fall at the master's feet with great humility.  Again you are told, "Go away".  Over and over you come and you go, and the longing increases till it is unbearable.  Finally something happens that you did not expect.  A door opens inside you that you did'nt know existed, but which the master saw all along.  It is the longing that creates the opening, not the satisfaction of finding another person who seems to have satisfied their longing for God.  It will never be satisfied within you until you  realize  that God, or the master, have never left your side, no matter where  you wandered off to.

~ Jeshua/The Art of Spiritual Peacemaking ~