I AM

By Patrick N. Kramer

I am above and over you.

I am below you as well it is true.

I am to your left and to your right.

I am the light of day and the dark of night.

I am always there!

Your troubles I am willing to share.

I am the flower that gently bends

in the breeze.

I am there within the cool morning breeze.

I am the tree the mighty oak.

I am there so you will not be broke.

I am the roots that are in the ground.

I am there look for me I can be found.

I am the air you breathe; this day.

I am the rain that comes your way.

I am there within you.

I am within everything it is true.

I am in your heart waiting for you to find me.

I am there just open your heart and soul,

and I you will see.

GRATITUDE TO:

angelsgarden

How to Access your Divine Inner Guidance

By Jafree Ozwald

There is a powerful and highly creative Universal Intelligence inside you (right now) waiting for you to tune into it. It knows exactly what actions, decisions and life path you need to take that will create your greatest possible success in life. This divine inner voice has always been speaking to you, trying to get your attention since the moment you were born. Everywhere you go it is within you, sending you extremely personal messages that will allow you to manifest whatever it is you want in your life.

“The Holy Spirit’s voice is as loud as your willingness to listen.”
~ A Course in Miracles

If you feel challenged with listening to this divine guidance within, its most likely that you have become overly addicted to your mind. Hooked into the dramatic stories of what the mind is thinking, perceiving and believing all the time, you become caught in the incessant chatter of thoughts that flood your consciousness. Most people don’t realize they have a choice whether they are going to pay attention to their mind or not. They simply follow the mind wherever it goes, like a blind sheep following the flock, as the mind continuously tries to solve its problems. The moment you’ve become aware of this very subtle yet deeply unconscious addiction, you’ve taken your first step towards absolute freedom.

“A problem cannot be solved on the same level that it was created.”
~Albert Einstein

As often as you can, let yourself become submerged in the gap between your words. There is a space between each thought, and if you allow your consciousness to rest there, you’ll find that the mind’s agenda doesn’t take precedence. You’ll discover that you can take a step back away from the mind, become more conscious, and actually hear this subtle wisdom speaking. In this backstage approach you’ll notice that the divine can only arrive when you’re patient, not rushing, or demanding that it comes. When you’re the most relaxed, receptive and feeling “spacious” you can easily communicate with your higher Self. It mainly depends on how willing you are to let go of your addiction to the ego’s daily agenda (getting its demands met) and hear this gentle divine whisper that arises from your gut.

“Everything people experience in their outer life corresponds exactly to something that is going on in their inner life.”
~Brian Tracy

You don’t have to create Silence, its already here. Its more about your quality of listening that shifts everything. Just listen to the stillness that is beneath your mind chatter right now. It’s not about turning up the volume on your inner guidance, but more about creating a space of Silence within and noticing how you’re listening. Where are you listening from? From the mind, the ego, the soul, or perhaps from the Universal mind’s perspective? The moment your mind is completely quiet, you’ll start experiencing your own Divinity everywhere you go, and it’s totally amazing. You’ll hear it th rough your radio, TV, internet, books, magazines, friends, family, neighbors etc. When Silence becomes your God you will begin seeing, hearing and feeling this all-loving Infinite presence in everyone and everything. When the mind is no longer in the way analyzing, judging, comparing, and criticizing everything and everyone (including you) life becomes simply divine.

“Make your life a mission, not an intermission.”
~Glasgow

When you do less, you’ll accomplish more. Trying to listen to your guidance through an overly active mind it’s like trying to hear the sparrow’s morning song in a tree filled with squawking blackbirds. The birds are sooooo concerned about what is going on in the world, and talking so loud about it that they miss out on enjoying the abundant life they’re sitting on. Simply watch your mind, don’t buy into its story. Whenever your mind gets addicted to some idea in the past or future, just sit back and say, “Thank You Squawking Blackbird”, and return to resting in the Silence. Very soon you’ll hear the little sparrows message deep in the background.

“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else.”
~ Peyton Conway March

One key rule to know is that the more you try to force Silence, the more you’ll miss it. The infinite source is already pouring through you. Trying to force it is like forcing yourself to breathe. It just doesn’t work. When you can let go of your attachment to what you think your ego needs to be happy, you’ve just hit the lotto jackpot! Divine wisdom is the biggest goldmine of them all, if Spirit keeps calling you and is getting a “busy signal” on the phone, you’re working waaaaay to hard to create what you want in life. The Divine Source has been trying to contact you everyday for a millennia, yet if you’re paying more attention to the mind and this world, nothing spiritual or cosmic can come through. It’s a big jump, yet dropping everything you believe is “the world” is how awakening begins.

“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.”
~Richard Bach

If you’d like to experience a profound peace in your life, and begin this awesome awakening process, I recommend taking a Silent retreat. When you’re willing to have a spiritual experience, spend at least one weekend alone in total silence with no communication with the outer world. Read no books, and don’t listen to any external information or music. Eat very simply, do yoga, and take long walks in nature twice a day. Focus on relaxing into your greatest possible stillness. Do not speak out loud to anyone, just be with yourself in the silence. You will soon find yourself, your true Self, as it magically happens on its own. You’ll get to face your smaller self and embrace all the fears that you have been keeping prisoner inside. When you return to the normal activities of your daily life, you’ll be able to become the center of the cyclone and find peace with all the desires the mind has been chasing.

“The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.”
~Albert Einstein

If you cannot find the courage, time or money to take a weekend alone, you can still discover this great peace within. Any moment you feel yourself getting tired, needing to rest, or slowing down, instead of picking up a book, talking with a friend, checking your email, or turning on the TV, just turn off your cell phone and sit with your presence inside. Be present to what is witnessing this moment. No matter where you are, take the mind by surprise and ride your consciousness in. Go beyond the chatter to the source of the emptiest place you can find. Be absolutely ruthless and radical, there’s no other way to transcend the mind. When you find there are no thoughts, no feelings, no past, and no future then you have arrived! Let yourself experience nothing-ness deeply and completely. Give yourself permission to be nothing for as long as you ca n take it, the results are mind-blowing! You are very very blessed to even receive three seconds of a mind empty of thoughts, so enjoy this void. It’s truly like coming home. This is where your manifesting power abides, and your true infinite spirit lives. You can use your will power and imagination to initially get you there, yet it takes a deep surrender to pure awareness to remain there.

“People are like stained-glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
~Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

It can seem like an eternity for the mind to shut up and you arrive in Nirvana. Yet, it is worth the wait since the effects of total bliss will last a lifetime. If you get stuck on “how to” get to emptiness, forget it. It is not a “how to” but rather a state of letting go. It just happens the moment you release ALL efforting and be totally here now. When there is nothing that is more important in your life than inner peace, you’ll find it inside. Simply visit this emptiness and trust it. If it doesn’t happen suddenly, just wait you’ll arrive sometime soon. It’s like you know you’ll end up eating dinner sometime tonight, it just happens right when you’re the most hungry.

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and then leave a trail.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

SOURCE

EnlightenedBeings.com

Gratitude to: blue lotus

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In this first video Neal Barnard MD discusses the science behind food additions. Willpower is not to blame: chocolate, cheese, meat, and sugar release opiate-like substances. Dr. Barnard also discusses how industry, aided by government, exploits these natural cravings, pushing us to eat more and more unhealthy foods. A plant-based (vegan) diet is the solution to avoid many of these problems. Neal Barnard is the founder of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM)

The State of Your Heart
Heavenletters

It matters not so much what you do. What matters is your state of mind as you do it. Rather your state of heart. You could do everything magnificently, but if your heart and what you say or what you do are not aligned, your act belies itself. Your state of identification is not hidden. Anger will be known. It may sneak out on tip-toe. It may be smoke escaping, but anger, so long as it burns within you, will override your best presentation that tries to say otherwise. Trying to paint a picture of love is a poor painting. When you feel anger and you answer sweetly, illness forms.

The answer isn’t to vent your anger, nor is it to dissuade anger, not to cover it up, nor to mollify it. In a week or month or year, it is likely that the anger will no longer be there. It will have faded away on its own because now you see your inflammation more clearly for what it is, a sudden flare-up of ego. Within the interval of time, ego has soothed itself enough so that its anger recedes. You are no longer so preoccupied with ego and fostering its anger, so now it doesn’t have such a comfy place in you. Anger has outlived its welcome. It can only park itself somewhere else.

There may well be solid reason for your anger, and you always are sure of that.

In time, your anger diminishes because your perspective changes. What has changed but your perspective? Well then, change your perspective now. Change your perspective ahead of time. Be a wise owl who sees from a height.

Even in the most dire circumstances, you are not a victim of another’s view. That is fallacy. They are victim of their own perspective, and you are a victim of your own. Enough of ego. Enough of anger. Be dispassionate, beloveds. Be impartial sooner. You can do it.

Another’s anger belongs to them, not to you. Let them deal with it. You are not going to work it through for them. All your intelligent explanations will not assuage their ego. You are not responsible for their ego. Their ego, their distress, their anger, that is their responsibility,.. not yours. Nor are you responsible for theirs.

Your own anger is one of the hardest things you have to deal with. A subsidiary of ego, anger is always a front for it. Ego has conditioned you to respond. It has conditioned you to feel spleen rather than heart. It has conditioned you to feel gall in your throat. Have not My children served ego well? Have they not danced to its tune?

Because you sense another’s reflex of anger, it doesn’t mean you have to pick it up and make it your own.

Sometimes the anger you feel is not your own. You are really picking up the power of another’s thoughts. You are feeling their feelings, not your own. You are feeling their discomfort. They have thrown it at you, and you have caught it. It has become a virus. Anger is a viral infection.

Wordlessly, you made their anger your own. Now, wordlessly, your waves of understanding can evaporate their anger. Get the anger out of your system, and they may no longer house theirs. Whatever is thrown at you, you do not have to catch it. You can let it pass by you. Embrace others’ love but not their anger.

Gratitude:

♥Angel Love♥

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~ LOVE IS THE LAW OF GOD ~

Love is the law of God. You live that you may learn to love. You love that you may learn to live. No other lesson is required of Man.

And what is to love but for the lover to absorb forever the beloved so that the twain be one?

And whom, or what, is one to love? Is one to choose a certain leaf upon the Tree of Life and pour upon it all one’s heart?

What of the branch that bears the leaf? What of the stem that holds the branch? What of the bark that shields the stem? What of the roots that feed the bark, the stem, the branches and the leaves? What of the soil embosoming the roots? What of the Sun,and sea, and air that fertilize the soil? If one small leaf upon a tree be worthy of your love how much more so the entire tree in its entirety? The love that singles out a fraction of the whole foredooms itself to grief. You say But there be leaves and leaves upon a single tree. Some are healthy, some are sick; some are beautiful, some, ugly; some are giants , some are dwarfs. How can we help but pick and choose. I say to you, Out of the paleness of the sick proceeds the freshness of the healthy.

I further say to you that ugliness is Beauty’s palette, paint and brush; and that the dwarf would not have been a dwarf had he not given of his stature to the giant. You are the tree of Life. Beware of fractioning yourselves. Set not a fruit against a fruit, a leaf against a leaf, a bough against a bough; nor set the stem against the roots; nor set the tree against the mother- soil. That is precisely what you do when you love one part more than the rest, or to the exclusion of the rest. You are the Tree of Life. Your roots are everywhere. Your boughs and leaves are everywhere. Your fruits are in every mouth. Whatever be the fruits upon that tree; whatever be its boughs and leaves; whatever be the roots; they are your fruits; they are your leaves and boughs; they are your roots. If you would have the tree bear sweet and fragrant fruit, if you would have it ever strong and green, see to the sap wherewith you feed the roots. Love is the Sap of Life. While Hatred is the pus of Death. But Love, like blood, must circulate unhindered in the veins. Repress the blood, and it becomes a menace and a plague.

And what is Hate but Love repressed, or Love withheld, therefore becoming such a deadly poison both to the feeder and the fed; both to the hater and to that he hates. A yellow leaf upon your tree of life is but a Love-weaned leaf, Blame not the yellow leaf. A withered bough is but a Love-starved bough. Blame not the withered bough. A putrid fruit is but a Hatred-suckled fruit. Blame not the putrid fruit. But rather blame your blind and stingy heart that would dole out the sap of life to few and would deny it to many, thereby denying it to itself. No love is possible except by the love of self. No self is real save the All-embracing Self.

Therefore is God all Love, because he loves himself. So long as you are pained by Love, you have not found your real self, nor have you found the golden key of Love. Because you love an ephemeral self, your love is ephemeral. The love of a man for woman is not love. It is thereof a very distant token. The love of a parent for the child is but the threshold to Love’s holy temple. Till every man be every woman’s lover, and the reverse: till every child be every parent’s child, and the reverse, let men and women brag of flesh and bone clinging to flesh and bone, but never speak the sacred name of Love. For that is blasphemy.

You have no friends so long as you can count a single man a foe. The heart that harbors enmity how can it be a safe abode for friendship? You do not know the Joy of Love so long as there is hatred in your hearts. Were you to feed all things the sap of Life except a certain tiny worm, that certain tiny worm alone would embitter your life. For in loving anything, or anyone, you love in truth but yourselves. Likewise in hating anything, or anyone, you hate in truth but yourselves. For that which you hate is bound up inseparably with that which you love, like the face and the reverse side of the same coin. If you would be honest with yourselves, then must you love what you hate and what hates you before you love what you love and what loves you.

Love is not a virtue. Love is a necessity; more so than bread and water; more so than light and air. Let no one pride himself on loving. But rather breathe in Love and breathe it out just as unconsciously and freely as you breathe in the air and breathe it out. For Love needs no one to exalt it. Love will exalt the heart that it finds worthy of itself. Seek no rewards for Love. Love is reward sufficient unto Love, as Hate is punishment sufficient unto Hate. Nor keep any accounts with Love. For Love accounts to no one but itself. Love neither lends nor borrows; Love neither buys nor sells; but when it gives, it gives its all; and when it takes, it takes its all. Its very taking is a giving. Its very giving is a taking. Therefore is it the same to-day, tomorrow and forevermore

~ Mikhail Naimy from “The Book of Mirdad”

by Sharon Marquart

Spiritual freedom is the energy of the heart. No matter where you live, the circumstances of your life or if you practice a religion or not, you have the freedom to tap into the energy of your heart. The energy of the heart is the Spirit that gives you life. Each one of us, all humans on this planet, can tap into the energy of their heart. As each individual taps into their heart’s energy and allows this energy to guide their thoughts, words, and deeds, together we will evolve into One Heart and One Spirit. Learning and experiencing heart energy is vital to the evolution of our human race and the healing of the planet. Celebrating spiritual freedom is the first step.

The beliefs of a religion can appeal to our intellect and the spirit of the religion can appeal to our heart. Religion is what gives shape and form to a particular belief system. Religion provides Holy Books, teachings, rituals, and guidelines for followers to use. Following a religion can give a sense of security by having a system of beliefs while providing connection to a community. For some, it is a necessity to belong to a religion – having beliefs gives structure to their lives. And, there is a Spirit at the heart of every religion that frequently is forgotten and lost in the practice of the religion. You can be a member of a religious community and tap into the true Spirit of that religion, thus celebrating Spiritual freedom.

Some find it challenging to feel the spiritual essence of their religion so they abandon their religion in order to experience their heart energy. Those who say they are “Spiritual, not religious” typically are saying they believe in the Spirit of life without adhering to the structure of a religious belief. Spirituality has become a “buzz” word to mean that you’re not religious. With the concept One Heart and One Spirit, it makes no difference whether you follow a specific religion. Remember, Oneness is one, without division. With or without a religion, you can tap into the energy of your heart. Bringing the head and the heart together in Oneness is dynamic. Once this is achieved, you can join the collective movement of conscious living.

Heart energy is the same for everyone. Heart energy is loving, kind and compassionate. Every one of us has a desire to love and to be loved. When your heart energy leads you, you are less judgmental about life’s circumstances and others’ actions. Heart energy gives you inner wisdom to guide your actions. When you have a sense of security from within, you see more similarities than differences, and connections with others are made heart to heart.

Celebrating Spiritual Freedom is important for every one of us. Once we master this ability, where we place our focus expands. If each person who reads this article will take a moment to celebrate spiritual freedom by tapping into his or her heart energy, the global consciousness of One Heart, One Spirit will expand. And that is a freedom to celebrate!

Spiritual Freedom Exercise

Sit comfortable. Allow your breath to find it’s own pace. As your breath slows, your thoughts will slow. Place your awareness at the center of your chest, closest to your heart energy. With each exhale, feel the release of tension and the awareness of your heart energy grow stronger. In each inhale feel the energy of your heart moving. Perhaps you actually see it as a swirling circle or spiral of energy. Where you place your attention expands. See the expansion of your heart energy growing larger than your heart space and extending out into your life.

As you sit in this energy, bring to your mind the sense of spiritual freedom. Sit it the celebration of this feeling for a few moments. If there is a situation in your life that is restricted or confined, bless it with the energy of your heart. You are free to feel and apply this energy to whatever may be going on in your life. Take a few moments to sit in the presence of your heart energy. Celebrate the freedom it offers you.

Take time daily to practice this spiritual freedom exercise. It takes but a few minutes- and makes such a positive shift in how you view your day.

livingatyes.com

Love What Is To Transform It

Proposition: rather than waste another ounce of energy fighting with reality, surrender and love what is in order to transform your reality now.

Rationale: obstructions and difficulties show up and maintain their presence till you’ve received the gift they came to bring you. Though you might not yet understand the gift they’re bringing, by surrendering and loving everything exactly as it is, you unlock the flow of understanding and receive the lesson, enabling things to move on and make way for the new.

Method: list the five things that are obstructing you or causing you difficulty of any kind. Visualize that each contains a wee Buddha-like figure sitting on a lotus smiling at you, ready to give you a gift. Thank the wee being with all your heart even without knowing or understanding yet what the gift may be.

Then to balance and lighten things up a tad, list just three things you’re thankful for anyway, see the Buddha-like beings in them too and say thank you.

May you manifest a most startling transformation of conditions for the better

SOURCE

Barefoot Doctor, Stephen Russell

The Transformation of the Earth

By Mashubi Rochell
World Blessings.Net

There is a great transformation going on upon the earth that will alter the ways in which human beings interact with each other as well as the ways in which each perceives themselves to be related to the rest of humanity. This transformation is initiated by a force of light that is strengthening upon the planet, brought about by a Divine intentionality that created this timetable a long time ago, at the beginning of time.

All who are here, today, are being brought into the consciousness of the soul level of expression and are also being brought into the awareness of their oneness with every other soul. Out of this emerging awareness shall come a new beginning for the earth – one that will affect every area of life from the political, to the social, to the economic, to the ways in which people relate to the fundamental tasks of daily life. There is not one aspect of life that will not be affected by the change in human consciousness now taking place.

The transformational process, also known as ‘purification’, is a way through which human beings in body, heart, mind, and spirit can become one with their higher identity, freed from the limitations that the presence of separation from God has created. Purification sets free the embodied self to become more than it was capable of before. It allows the self to emerge from the chains which have held it back as it grows in light, understanding, and unity with all. There is no greater freedom that God has to offer to humanity than this – to be able to become all that one holds as a possibility within the self. It is this freedom that the process of purification and of transformation sets in motion.

As a result of these changes, that which has held darkness up until now shall be returned to the light. That which has felt alienated and alone shall discover its oneness with others. And that which has felt empty and has hungered for something nameless that could not be found, shall finally be filled through the experience of oneness with God and with all of life