Not Alone, But All One. Imagine.

So much of our energy, time, and money goes into maintaining
distance from one another. Many if not most of the
resources of the world are used to defend ourselves against
each other, to maintain or increase our power, and to
safeguard our own privileged position.

Imagine all that effort being put in the service of peace
and reconciliation! Would there be any poverty? Would
there be crimes and wars? Just imagine that there was no
longer fear among people, no longer any rivalry, hostility,
bitterness, or revenge. Just imagine all the people on this
planet holding hands and forming one large circle of love.
We say, "I can't imagine." But God says, "That's what I
imagine, a whole world not only created but also living in
my image."
 
Henri Nouwen

Feel The Lurve, O My Soul.

What is the soul after?
The highest feeling of love you can imagine.
This is the soul's desire. This is Its purpose. The soul is after the feeling. Not the knowledge, but the feeling. It already has the knowledge, but knowledge is conceptual. Feeling is experiential. The soul wants to feel Its Self, and thus to know Its Self in Its own experience.

Conversations With God, Book 1
Neale Donald Walsch

I Think, Therefore I Am. Not.

Humanity's condition: Lost in thought.

Stillness Speaks
Eckhart Tolle

The Universe Bows Before You

The Glory that is You...

If it's not yet obvious, the real reason for this, and all seasons, is You. A more perfect child of the Universe has never lived. Until now, only celebrations cloaked in myth and mystery could hint at your divine heritage and sacred destiny. You are life's prayer of becoming and its answer. The first light at the dawn of eternity, drawn from the ether, so that I might know my own depth, discover new heights, and revel in seas of blessed emotion.

A pioneer into illusion, an adventurer into the unknown, and a lifter of veils. Courageous, heroic, and exalted by legions in the unseen.

To give beyond reason, to care beyond hope, to love without limit; to reach, stretch, and dream, in spite of your fears. These are the hallmarks of divinity - traits of the immortal - your badges of honour. May you wear them with a pride as great as the immeasurable pride we feel for you.

Your light has illuminated darkened paths, your gaze has lifted broken spirits, and already your life has changed the course of history.

This is the time of year we celebrate You.

Bowing before Greatness,

The Universe

Let The Joy Flow - Be Who You Are

Whenever the free and unlimited expression of life and love -- that is, the experience of unity and oneness with all things and with every sentient being -- is prohibited or limited by any circumstance or condition, the soul, which is joy itself, is not fully expressed.

Joy not fully expressed is the feeling that you call sadness.

Friendship With God
Neale Donald Walsch

Zen and the Art of Computer Maintenance

The Tao that is seen
Is not the true Tao, until
You bring fresh toner.

Ah so.

Luv U 4 Ever lol

Most people will find this very hard to believe, but there is nothing, ever, worth being unhappy about.

Because, no matter what happens, it will add to you, you'll still live forever, and our love affair will remain tabloid fodder in realms far, far away.

But then "most people" don't believe in a Universe that conspires, dotes, and sends emails.

Earth rocks,

The Universe

Do Be Do

Life has nothing to do with what you are doing,
and everything to do with what you are being.

Be careful not to get caught in the "doingness" of your
life. That is not what you are here for. You are a sacred
soul, and you came here to the earth to Be something.
And not just one thing, but many things.

The wonderful thing is, you get to choose.
And you get to do that right now. Always Right Now.
So what do you choose to Be right now? Happy?
Content? Safe? Peace? Forgiving? Compassionate?
Love? Go ahead, choose. As many as you wish! 

NDW

I Am.

I am not Body.
I am not Mind.
I Just Am.
I Am a Gloriously Singular Expression of All That Is.
And so Are You.
And I Love It.
Whatever It Is;)

God Thinks

I Am.

Amen.

An Ancient Learning Passed Away

Let us be still an instant, and forget all things we ever learned, all thoughts
we had, and every preconception that we hold of what things mean and
what their purpose is. Let us remember not our own ideas of what the world
is for. We do not know. Let every image held of everyone be loosened from
our minds and swept away.

Be innocent of judgment, unaware of any thoughts of evil or of good that
ever crossed your mind of anyone. Now do you know him not. But you are
free to learn of him, and learn of him anew. Now is he born again to you,
and you are born again to him, without the past that sentenced him to die,
and you with him. Now is he free to live as you are free, because an ancient
learning passed away, and left a place for truth to be reborn.

from A Course In Miracles

True Purpose

There is only one reason to do anything: as a statement to the universe of Who You Are.
 
Conversations With God, Book 1
Neale Donald Walsch

We Are All One

We just need to wake up, become aware, remember Who We Are and Where Our Home Is.
Just like Jesus did.

All of creation belongs together in the arms of its Creator.
The final vision is that not only will all recognise that they
are brothers and sisters called to live
in unity but all members of God's creation will come
together in complete harmony.  Jesus the Christ came to
realise that vision.  Long before he was born, the prophet
Isaiah saw it:

...The wolf will live with the lamb,

the panther lie down with the kid,
calf, lion and fat-stock beast together,
with a little boy to lead them.
The cow and the bear will graze,
their young will lie down together.
The lion will eat hay like the ox.
The infant will play over the den of the adder;
the baby will put his hand into the viper's lair.
No hurt, no harm will be done
on all my holy mountain,
for the country will be full of knowledge of Yahweh
as the waters cover the sea...
(Isaiah 11:6-9)

Henri Nouwen

A Mystic's Manifesto

I couldn't say it better... 
"I mean by the word mystical; entering into conscious direct relationship with the divine. It must be conscious and it must be direct to be mystical. Mystical is not theological; it’s not having a series of ideas about God, however lucid or wonderful.  It’s not emotional; it’s not having a series of feelings, however deep and adoring, about God.  And it’s not intellectual, in any sense, even in the most refined sense." 
Andrew Harvey

Space. Time.

Hubble Ultra Deep Field in Near Infrared

 

Some of these galaxies appear as they were over 12 billion years ago, and this is the furthest back the Hubble Time Machine has ever viewed.

Still no sign of Doctor Who though, so I'm sceptical.

Reality

Every atom, every subatomic particle, is Existence Expressing Itself Uniquely.

How amazing does that make Existence?

And none of it is ever destroyed, but simply changes form into another subatomic particle, combination of the same particles into atoms, or combination of atoms into molecules, along with an exchange of energy.

Matter is 'condensed' energy, and 'solid' as it seems to our senses it is in fact all but a tiny fraction nothing, nada, zip, nix. Pure Emptiness. A Void. And that tiny fraction which we call 'matter' can be described both as energy and a particle, depending on how we look at it. And the very act of observing what's 'happening' at these tiny scales actually changes what is observed, because it involves the use of energy (the reflection of light etc.)

And we insist on calling this All But Nothingness, which refuses to be pinned down, Reality. Ha! Crazy or what?!

....and the earth was without  form, and void. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters....

...and God said, let there be light, and there was light...

...The Tao that is seen is not the true Tao...

...in Him we live and move and have our very existence...

God is Love. In Love we live and move and have our being. Love never fails, but just changes form into the next utterly sublime expression of Itself. Love, Divine Energy, is never lessened by being given, because the very act of giving is accompanied by a simultaneous receiving. Love is never lost, but simply moves between one expression of Itself and another. 

...Therefore love, for love is of God...

Glory.

The Divine Dropkick

Love wants to reach out and manhandle us,
Break all our teacup talk of God.

If you had the courage and
Could give the Beloved His choice, some nights,
He would just drag you around the room
By your hair,
Ripping from your grip all those toys in the world
That bring you no joy.

Love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly
And wants to rip to shreds
All your erroneous notions of truth

That make you fight within yourself, dear one,
And with others,

Causing the world to weep
On too many fine days.

God wants to manhandle us,
Lock us inside of a tiny room with Himself
And practice His dropkick.

The Beloved sometimes wants
To do us a great favor:

Hold us upside down
And shake all the nonsense out.

But when we hear
He is in such a "playful drunken mood"
Most everyone I know
Quickly packs their bags and hightails it
Out of town.

From: 'The Gift' by Hafiz
Translated by Daniel Ladinsky

Just Askin'

Just what use are the ideas of hell and the devil, except to keep folks in fear and to manipulate them?
It's all a pile of steaming dingos' kidneys.
Humanity, just grow up! Wake up and smell the glorious aroma of the Coffee of Life! OK?
Thanks, ever so.
Signed, God.

Live. Now.

What if your contribution to the world and the fulfillment of your own happiness is not dependent upon discovering a better method of prayer or technique of meditation, not dependent upon reading the right book or attending the right seminar, but upon really seeing and deeply appreciating yourself and the world as they are right now?

How would this affect your search for spiritual development?

The Dance
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
Page xi

Fear. Not.

If perfect love casts out fear,
And if fear exists,
Then there is not perfect love.

But only perfect love really exists.
So if there is fear,
It creates a state which does not exist.

from A Course in Miracles