Here we are again. Today is the last day of the year 2009. The fact that I 'm writing this means that I'm still alive. Thank you to my creator for that, then. Having said this, if we had to make an assessment of this year, what would it be? And if we had to make decisions for the new year year to come, what would they be?
First, I would thank God for lot of blessings in my life during the year 2009. I am alive and in a very good health with all my family. We live in total security. All my children have managed well in school. The first one has got his job in SEEG, another got his baccalauréat and all the others went to higher levels.
My wife, who has been unemployed since we live together married (20 years!) has finally got a job in 2009! This year, I have managed myself quite well also in my job and received, as usual, appreciation and support from my supervisor who really appreciates me. I thank God for that. Like during the previous years, I've also travelled a lot. The most important destination being New York, in the USA! I had always wanted to visit New York, oh my God; and now it's done! Thank you, thank you, thank you!
This years, I have really done a lot to improve my home. Painting and furnishing have been completed. Now, I really feel good in my home. I like to seat in, and appreciate what I have realized. Now, I can receive proudly anybody in my home. Thank you !
Beside these positive aspects of the year 2009, there are some which need improvement during 2010. Among them, my relationships with my elder brother, with one colleague, and with money. Specially with money, it seems there is never enough of it.
Also, I've been waiting for a promotion in my job for years. Even my supervisor has tried to help. But, something seems not to work and blocks this promotion. Anyway, for all these things, I say thank you to God, because He knows better than me. I am convinced that they are blessings disguised. Thank you father!
Today, which is the last day of year 2009, I pray God and His Holy Spirit to help me clean and purify myself from all negativity. I pray that all resistance, blocks and negativity be removed and cleansed and the end of 2009, so that I born again in 2010 with many improvements in all areas of my life.
During 2010, I really want to please people, strangers, parents, friends and relatives; and money is part of the equation.
Happy new year!!!!!!!!!
Thursday, December 31, 2009
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Conviction about God's love
Question: Are you really convinced of God's love for you?
Answer: Yes, I think
Question: You think. But, are you truly convinced of that?
Answer: I don't know...
Question: Why don't you know?
Answer: Because it is beyond my understanding. I just can say yes or no, but without a firm conviction based on a personal experience.
Question: So, you need a personal experience?
Answer: I think it would help.
Question: I see. Tell me, have you ever been in a situation involving such experience? For example when you asked for something important and God answered?
Answer: Yes, many times. I asked God for my present job, and He answered. I had been threatened many times in this job and God protected me. I have been involved in many accidents and have always been safe. I live in perfect health and security with my family. In fact, it seems that God extends His protection on me every time and every circumstance.
Question: Good. Now, let's go back to our main question. Are you convinced that God loves you?
Answer: I know and believe that God loves me. And I ask God to help me to be convinced of this truth all the time.
Question: Why is it so difficult to be convinced of this truth?
Answer: One reason may be, because our mind is divided. We live between fear and love. If we could just live in love, our conviction would be strong. But we feel threatened all the time because we identify ourselves with our body. If we could forget our body and live completelly in spirit, may be things would be different. But as long as this body will be with us, the battle will remain also.
Question: I see. Now that you know it, can't you change your mind about it?
Answer: We try, but as I said, as long as we will live in this body, the battle will go on.
Question: This is something you are convinced of, instead of what you should.
Answer: I am sorry
Question: Don't mind. If you finally realized that your body is not real, either everything else that seems to threaten you, could this make any difference?
Answer: I think so.
Question: Good. From today, could you once and for all understand that nothing you perceive is real, no matter how it appears to you? And that who you really are is invulnerable?
Answer: I will try and do my best.
Question: Can you forgive the world for its nothingness, so that you are released from it?
Answer: With God's help
Question: Do you think you have got it?
Answer: I hope so. Thank you
Answer: Yes, I think
Question: You think. But, are you truly convinced of that?
Answer: I don't know...
Question: Why don't you know?
Answer: Because it is beyond my understanding. I just can say yes or no, but without a firm conviction based on a personal experience.
Question: So, you need a personal experience?
Answer: I think it would help.
Question: I see. Tell me, have you ever been in a situation involving such experience? For example when you asked for something important and God answered?
Answer: Yes, many times. I asked God for my present job, and He answered. I had been threatened many times in this job and God protected me. I have been involved in many accidents and have always been safe. I live in perfect health and security with my family. In fact, it seems that God extends His protection on me every time and every circumstance.
Question: Good. Now, let's go back to our main question. Are you convinced that God loves you?
Answer: I know and believe that God loves me. And I ask God to help me to be convinced of this truth all the time.
Question: Why is it so difficult to be convinced of this truth?
Answer: One reason may be, because our mind is divided. We live between fear and love. If we could just live in love, our conviction would be strong. But we feel threatened all the time because we identify ourselves with our body. If we could forget our body and live completelly in spirit, may be things would be different. But as long as this body will be with us, the battle will remain also.
Question: I see. Now that you know it, can't you change your mind about it?
Answer: We try, but as I said, as long as we will live in this body, the battle will go on.
Question: This is something you are convinced of, instead of what you should.
Answer: I am sorry
Question: Don't mind. If you finally realized that your body is not real, either everything else that seems to threaten you, could this make any difference?
Answer: I think so.
Question: Good. From today, could you once and for all understand that nothing you perceive is real, no matter how it appears to you? And that who you really are is invulnerable?
Answer: I will try and do my best.
Question: Can you forgive the world for its nothingness, so that you are released from it?
Answer: With God's help
Question: Do you think you have got it?
Answer: I hope so. Thank you
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Back home to our true reality
The spirit, which is who I really am, needs nothing. It does not need money or any other kind of stuff.
For all my attacks and judgements to "others" who in fact, are myself, I say “I am sorry, please forgive me, I love you, thank you”.
Thank you to myself for the feedback from which I am informed about what’s going on inside of me. This feedback is a blessing to me that helps me take action by forgiving myself through God’s strength, instead of resisting to what happens to me.
TO MYSELF
I am sorry for what ever I had done that seems to manifest as what I am experiencing now
Please forgive me for that
I love you, instead of resisting negatively
Thank you for your feedback, your unconditional forgiveness , and my eternal innocence
· Money: believing not having enough; or scarcity, is a judgement and an attack on myself
· My job: feeling stuck in my current grade is a judgement and attack on myself
· My son's performances in school: judging them poor is an attack on myself
· My wife: judging her school level poor is an attack on myself
· My brother: judging him mean is an attack on muself
WHY?
Simply because those people and circumstances do not exit as such. It’s me, and me alone, who show up as projections in them, asking for help, forgiveness and love from myself also in order to be free.
PRAYER
For everything that shows up in your life, say:
“Thank you father, for this BLESSING coming into my awareness, to help me know that something to get RELEASE from dwells inside of me; so that I may FORGIVE and be FORGIVEN. This is my ticket back to you, where my real HOME is.
As someone said: “keep your eyes on the ball”, meaning focus only to get back home, to God. Therefore along the path, just keep saying
THANK YOU LORD!
INNER CARE
If you could take care of our Inner as we do with the outer, our life would be far better than it is now.
Our negative reaction is an erroneous judgement and an attack on ourselves , the source, from which the feedback comes. How can you judge, you who don’t have a clue what exactly is going on inside of you?
Know that whatever you perceive is false. Therefore, judgement is not something you are not qualified to do. How can a blind talk about colors?
The wise thing to do in front of any situation, is to acknowledge that you don’t know what’s going on and, welcome it as it is, without any label on it. Instead see it as a blessing from God to help you find relief and your path to him through forgiveness.
Your only GOAL or REASON of being here is to USE the WORLD as a MEANS to go back HOME, or GOD.
Life is not about getting something here or change the world. But rather, use it as a device to remember your oneness with all that is and find your way back to God.
Therefore, if you can genuinely appreciate everything that shows up in your life, “good” or “bad”, and understand that it is through them that you get relief or total detachment from your illusions and find your path to God by forgiving, you would have finally got it.
Now, you live in total confusion, not knowing exactly what is “good” or “bad”, and most of the time taking one for another.
People like Benjamin Franklin understood it; that everything, everything, was a blessing, and served only one PURPOSE, which is help you to return back to your original state, as son of God.
BACK HOME
In the United States of America, particularly in New York where I am back from a workshop in UNDP. What what I have seen inspires me is this. Man came to earth for a certain reason, like a hunter or a fisherman who goes to the bush or the river for a certain length of time after which he finally returns back home to his family.
But, in this world in general, it seems that lot of people do not know why they are here, and behave as if their daily occupations are the finality of their journey on this planet.
It is as if they are from this world and spend all their time just for the purpose of making their life better with more money, nice homes, nice cars, prestige and consideration from others, etc.
People are so busy looking for all kind of stuff that they lose sight of the essential. You can do what you want to make your life better while still here on the earth, as the fisherman or the hunter do while in the bush . Nothing wrong with that.. But, it is not wise to focus all your energy and time on stuff for the improvement of one’s life.
The fisherman knows he went to the river to capture enough fish to nourish his family. He does not spend all his time building and improving shelters. Is he did, how could he nourish his family then when he returns home? He knows why he is here for.
But what, as human beings did we come here to do?
According to what is my deep belief now after coming into contact with teachings such as “A Course in Miracles” and “Ho’oponopono” (although a huge gap exists between them), I think that we are here for one reason, or one purpose. This purpose is to wake from our dream, meaning release ourselves from the illusions that seem to be our life, and find our way back to our true reality, or God. There is no other purpose in life than that.
The world we live in wants to keep us away from this objective by attaching us to our illusions that it is real and creating confusion in us. But when we start to see more clearly, instead of being the puppets and victims of this world, we realize that we have been cheated and remember who we are and what we came here to do.
Now, we can use the world in our advantage and set ourselves free. How? By no longer believing in it. And get relief through forgiveness and love. Know that you lose your power and believe in it anytime you react negatively like a victim. But once you decide to no longer give it reality, you get your power back. At this moment, no matter what happens, your only reaction is the one of forgiveness and love. On the other hand, attitudes such as anger, frustration, worry, anxiety or fear give reality and power to the world, attach yourself to it and make you slave.
Like the fisherman, we came for a purpose, but with the ultimate goal to get back home, no matter how long we stay. The difference is that we have forgotten the way back home, believing that we are from the world.
Our task therefore is to detach and release ourselves completely from this world, through forgiveness and love for everyone and everything. When it is done, we can find our way back home or God, “our ultimate reality” as stated by Adrian Cooper.
To me, forgiveness is the complete release you achieve through your total detachment from the shadows you now perceive as being your reality.
For all my attacks and judgements to "others" who in fact, are myself, I say “I am sorry, please forgive me, I love you, thank you”.
Thank you to myself for the feedback from which I am informed about what’s going on inside of me. This feedback is a blessing to me that helps me take action by forgiving myself through God’s strength, instead of resisting to what happens to me.
TO MYSELF
I am sorry for what ever I had done that seems to manifest as what I am experiencing now
Please forgive me for that
I love you, instead of resisting negatively
Thank you for your feedback, your unconditional forgiveness , and my eternal innocence
· Money: believing not having enough; or scarcity, is a judgement and an attack on myself
· My job: feeling stuck in my current grade is a judgement and attack on myself
· My son's performances in school: judging them poor is an attack on myself
· My wife: judging her school level poor is an attack on myself
· My brother: judging him mean is an attack on muself
WHY?
Simply because those people and circumstances do not exit as such. It’s me, and me alone, who show up as projections in them, asking for help, forgiveness and love from myself also in order to be free.
PRAYER
For everything that shows up in your life, say:
“Thank you father, for this BLESSING coming into my awareness, to help me know that something to get RELEASE from dwells inside of me; so that I may FORGIVE and be FORGIVEN. This is my ticket back to you, where my real HOME is.
As someone said: “keep your eyes on the ball”, meaning focus only to get back home, to God. Therefore along the path, just keep saying
THANK YOU LORD!
INNER CARE
If you could take care of our Inner as we do with the outer, our life would be far better than it is now.
Our negative reaction is an erroneous judgement and an attack on ourselves , the source, from which the feedback comes. How can you judge, you who don’t have a clue what exactly is going on inside of you?
Know that whatever you perceive is false. Therefore, judgement is not something you are not qualified to do. How can a blind talk about colors?
The wise thing to do in front of any situation, is to acknowledge that you don’t know what’s going on and, welcome it as it is, without any label on it. Instead see it as a blessing from God to help you find relief and your path to him through forgiveness.
Your only GOAL or REASON of being here is to USE the WORLD as a MEANS to go back HOME, or GOD.
Life is not about getting something here or change the world. But rather, use it as a device to remember your oneness with all that is and find your way back to God.
Therefore, if you can genuinely appreciate everything that shows up in your life, “good” or “bad”, and understand that it is through them that you get relief or total detachment from your illusions and find your path to God by forgiving, you would have finally got it.
Now, you live in total confusion, not knowing exactly what is “good” or “bad”, and most of the time taking one for another.
People like Benjamin Franklin understood it; that everything, everything, was a blessing, and served only one PURPOSE, which is help you to return back to your original state, as son of God.
BACK HOME
In the United States of America, particularly in New York where I am back from a workshop in UNDP. What what I have seen inspires me is this. Man came to earth for a certain reason, like a hunter or a fisherman who goes to the bush or the river for a certain length of time after which he finally returns back home to his family.
But, in this world in general, it seems that lot of people do not know why they are here, and behave as if their daily occupations are the finality of their journey on this planet.
It is as if they are from this world and spend all their time just for the purpose of making their life better with more money, nice homes, nice cars, prestige and consideration from others, etc.
People are so busy looking for all kind of stuff that they lose sight of the essential. You can do what you want to make your life better while still here on the earth, as the fisherman or the hunter do while in the bush . Nothing wrong with that.. But, it is not wise to focus all your energy and time on stuff for the improvement of one’s life.
The fisherman knows he went to the river to capture enough fish to nourish his family. He does not spend all his time building and improving shelters. Is he did, how could he nourish his family then when he returns home? He knows why he is here for.
But what, as human beings did we come here to do?
According to what is my deep belief now after coming into contact with teachings such as “A Course in Miracles” and “Ho’oponopono” (although a huge gap exists between them), I think that we are here for one reason, or one purpose. This purpose is to wake from our dream, meaning release ourselves from the illusions that seem to be our life, and find our way back to our true reality, or God. There is no other purpose in life than that.
The world we live in wants to keep us away from this objective by attaching us to our illusions that it is real and creating confusion in us. But when we start to see more clearly, instead of being the puppets and victims of this world, we realize that we have been cheated and remember who we are and what we came here to do.
Now, we can use the world in our advantage and set ourselves free. How? By no longer believing in it. And get relief through forgiveness and love. Know that you lose your power and believe in it anytime you react negatively like a victim. But once you decide to no longer give it reality, you get your power back. At this moment, no matter what happens, your only reaction is the one of forgiveness and love. On the other hand, attitudes such as anger, frustration, worry, anxiety or fear give reality and power to the world, attach yourself to it and make you slave.
Like the fisherman, we came for a purpose, but with the ultimate goal to get back home, no matter how long we stay. The difference is that we have forgotten the way back home, believing that we are from the world.
Our task therefore is to detach and release ourselves completely from this world, through forgiveness and love for everyone and everything. When it is done, we can find our way back home or God, “our ultimate reality” as stated by Adrian Cooper.
To me, forgiveness is the complete release you achieve through your total detachment from the shadows you now perceive as being your reality.
Monday, December 21, 2009
And if tomorrow was your last day to live?
Life is an uncertain journey, and never will you be able to predict in advance what the next moment will bring you. It is like walking in the fog without seeing what is in front of you. You just keep walking, until your next step leads you to a precipice, and you fall to death.
Knowing that at any moment, you can fall into such a precipice and die, what would be the best way to go with life?
I don't know. However, it would be a good idea to be prepared everyday for this last step. And you do it by asking yourself this question everyday:
If tomorrow was my last day to live, what would I do?
In my case, I would say:
I have tried to understand through books, like many others before me, what life was about. And from that, I wanted to be the best person I could imagine myself to be: Healthy, Wealthy and Wise. I really wanted to express my fool potential and become a role model for others. I thought also that, with a certain level of spiritual knowledge, it would be possible and I would be able to manifest the kind of life I desire.
Today, can I honestly say that I have succeeded or not? It seems really difficult, because my perception of truth is so limited that any affirmation from me would be a mistake.
I sincerely think that, on my own, it is impossible to find out what all this is about. And, walking in the fog, I need a power greater than me, to show me the way and lead me. So that, even in the fog, I could feel secure, knowing that He walks with me, and protects me.
Thus, if I had to leave the game tomorrow, my advice to my brothers would be to be humble and realize that, because we are blind and deaf, and not even knowing where we are going, the only alternative, the ONLY ONE, is to give ALL OUR LIFE TO GOD, AND HAVE A BLIND TRUST, FAITH AND CONFIDENCE IN HIM, AND HIM ALONE.
Believing that we can succeed alone, without His light and support is pride.
Knowing that at any moment, you can fall into such a precipice and die, what would be the best way to go with life?
I don't know. However, it would be a good idea to be prepared everyday for this last step. And you do it by asking yourself this question everyday:
If tomorrow was my last day to live, what would I do?
In my case, I would say:
I have tried to understand through books, like many others before me, what life was about. And from that, I wanted to be the best person I could imagine myself to be: Healthy, Wealthy and Wise. I really wanted to express my fool potential and become a role model for others. I thought also that, with a certain level of spiritual knowledge, it would be possible and I would be able to manifest the kind of life I desire.
Today, can I honestly say that I have succeeded or not? It seems really difficult, because my perception of truth is so limited that any affirmation from me would be a mistake.
I sincerely think that, on my own, it is impossible to find out what all this is about. And, walking in the fog, I need a power greater than me, to show me the way and lead me. So that, even in the fog, I could feel secure, knowing that He walks with me, and protects me.
Thus, if I had to leave the game tomorrow, my advice to my brothers would be to be humble and realize that, because we are blind and deaf, and not even knowing where we are going, the only alternative, the ONLY ONE, is to give ALL OUR LIFE TO GOD, AND HAVE A BLIND TRUST, FAITH AND CONFIDENCE IN HIM, AND HIM ALONE.
Believing that we can succeed alone, without His light and support is pride.
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
You are a magician
Considering that your life is a reflection or projection of your own thoughts, everything you perceive outside can only be but merely your own creation.
But, you are not conscious of that. Because you have created it magically at the unconscious level, before projected it outside.
Now, it appears as if it is external to you; which is not the case. In fact, nothing and nobody exists outside of you. Everything comes from you.
You created this mechanism yourself to let you know your current state of mind. But, because you have forgotten how it works, you react negatively to its feedback. And doing so, instead of correcting your mental state, you make things worse with your resistance.
In fact, what you do on a regular basis is magically disguising all your mental states, thoughts, feelings and emotions and giving them life through your external projections in the form of people, events or circumstances.
And, when you perceive them, they seem to be separate from you. But they are not. They are you, projected by yourself as witnesses of you own mental states.
So,when you blame someone you believe is outside of you, you are in fact blaming yourself through the image or illusion you perceive. When you forgive someone, you are forgiving yourself. When someone is asking you for something, it is yourself expressing a particular need, and refusing it is depriving yourself from forgiveness and the love you seek.
Is it clear to you now? Remember, nobody and nothing exists outside of you. All of this is your own mental state, projected by you for a purpose.
Think about it and...
Stay synchronized...
But, you are not conscious of that. Because you have created it magically at the unconscious level, before projected it outside.
Now, it appears as if it is external to you; which is not the case. In fact, nothing and nobody exists outside of you. Everything comes from you.
You created this mechanism yourself to let you know your current state of mind. But, because you have forgotten how it works, you react negatively to its feedback. And doing so, instead of correcting your mental state, you make things worse with your resistance.
In fact, what you do on a regular basis is magically disguising all your mental states, thoughts, feelings and emotions and giving them life through your external projections in the form of people, events or circumstances.
And, when you perceive them, they seem to be separate from you. But they are not. They are you, projected by yourself as witnesses of you own mental states.
So,when you blame someone you believe is outside of you, you are in fact blaming yourself through the image or illusion you perceive. When you forgive someone, you are forgiving yourself. When someone is asking you for something, it is yourself expressing a particular need, and refusing it is depriving yourself from forgiveness and the love you seek.
Is it clear to you now? Remember, nobody and nothing exists outside of you. All of this is your own mental state, projected by you for a purpose.
Think about it and...
Stay synchronized...
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