Awareness

"Stress happens when the mind resists what is. The brain and the mind are different. The brain is a great tool and founder of the heart; the mind creates resistance to change and paradox and humor; the mind creates fear unnecessarily, not the brain. When troubling thoughts and memories arise without your intent, it's not your brain working but your mind wandering...the tractor that has run wild. Your mind, not other people or surroundings is the source of your moods."

"You don't have to do anything except to stop seeing the world form the viewpoint of your own personal cravings. Loosen up! When you lose your mind, you'll come to your senses. By "losing your mind", it is not referring to going insane or becoming irrational. On the contrary, it is paying attention to the reality around you, rather than merely thinking about it."

--Wisdom of the Peaceful Warrior, by Dan Millman (world class gymnast)

"Unless what I have just said is a sin of ignorance."

Bequeathed in the rhm,
forever sainted by those who could not agree
he met the one clothed in camel's hair,
belt of animal hide around his waist...
most modest, was he illegitimate or born a sin
by prostitute,
which was it? Mary had many children, at least
one by a Roman according to what scholar's think;
Then who is this mystery man? Virginity prospers
those who follow the tribal law at such times,
a reality to beget if to be born. Was Jesus a son,
of Roman or God, god or stepfather?

"What sin have I committed, that I should go
and be baptized by him?" John a greater or lesser
Man than Jesus, if either can be agreed upon by
the Apostles' confusion of description. Let it be,
let it be, we are just trying to understand ghosts, it must be...
no matter what.

Who sinned. Who missed the mark?

"Hate withers the soul all to quickly. Thank god love has the patience of angels. If death tries to render you weak, smile into it cheek to cheek. Nothing can take laugh lines away from us..."

A family specter, a family spectrum

Whence we come and whence we are, where are we without roots and careful handling? We grow quicker through hardship, beating ugly stone into diamond, but best if given the needed push and support to fly. Why are family's afraid to try to love as a team? Are they afraid of their own shadows? Can distraction keep them from true reflection and outreach to other's? Or are they more afraid than when they were born? Alone in one's scene, is ego most obscene. Gently let go embracing...

forgiveness. Love is the only armor anyone can afford.

Aaron

Life is an ongoing process of creation.

A secret of all Masters is to stop changing one's mind; keep choosing the same thing.

Don't take no for an answer.

We "call forth" what we think, feel, say.

Life can be a process of creation or reaction.

The soul creates, the mind reacts.

Stop trying to figure out what is "best" for you (how you can win the most, lose the least, get what you want) and start going with what feels like Who You Are.

Your feelings are your truth. What is best for you is what is true for you.

Thoughts are not feelings; rather, they are ideas of how you "should" feel. When thoughts and feelings get confused, truth becomes clouded, lost.

To get to your feelings, be out of your mind and get back to your senses.

Once you know your truth, live it.

Negative feelings are not true feelings at all; rather, they are your thoughts about something, based always on the previous experience of yourself and others.

Previous experience is no indicator of truth, since Pure Truth is created here and now, not reenacted.

To change your response to anything, be in the present (that is, the "pre-sent") moment--the moment that was sent to you and was what it was before you had a thought about it.... In other words, Be Here Now, not in the past or the future.

The past and the future can exist only in thought. The Pre-sent Moment is the Only Reality, Stay there!

Seek and you shall find.

Do whatever it takes to stay connected with God/Truth. Don't stop the practices, the prayers, the rituals, the meditations, the readings, the writings, the "whatever works" for you to stay in touch with All That Is.

--Neale Walsch

"Then you come to me and say you've been seeking and knocking for 35 years.
I hate to be the one to disillusion you, but....

It's time you stop being disillusioned in Me and started seeing you as you really are.

Now--I tell you this: You want to be "Christed"? Act like Christ, every minute of every day. It's not that you don't know how. He has shown you the way. Be like Christ in every circumstance. (It's not that you can't. He has left you instructions.)

You are not without help in this, should you seek it. I am giving you guidance every minute of every day. I Am the still small voice within which knows which way to turn, which path to take, which answer to give, which action to implement, which word to say--which reality to create if you truly seek communion and unity with Me.

Just listen to Me."

from Neale Walsch's book, "Conversations with God, Living in the world with Honesty, Courage and Love"

National Anthem~~

We must open our hearts further and wider than we ever have. We must work as a team and raise our level of expectation to win as a team and carry those around us who need help so that some day they can carry other's who need it. We must inspire ourselves to rise higher than we would otherwise~~and as an inspired team succeed.

This is the spirit of Nelson Mandela