Until You Truly Live In Spirit

Let’s suppose that in this moment

Something you have been longing

For quite such a great length of time

That you can’t even remember again

How long you have been praying for it
Finally happens and manifests today

 

Maybe you‘d fall down on your knees

Early in the morning following that day

In front of the main entry of your home

Your eyes and hands raised up to the sky

And all your senses filled with emotion

 

While at the same time giving thanks

To express appreciation and gratitude

To Father God and all your beloved ones

Now living in the invisible world of spirits

For their continuous care and support

And all their blessings poured on you

 

Combined with creative imagination

Genuine act of appreciation and gratitude

Must precede any degree of manifestation

And is by excellence the premium currency

Used to pay in advance whatever you want

If you are willing to get it fast and easily

And make all your dreams come true

 

It is the way to impress the subconscious

And convince it about the truth that is yours

Thus help you believe that you have received

Whatever you desire and want to manifest

By the frequent use of your imagination

 

It is also the way to seek first the Kingdom

Or the spiritual essence of everything in life

And make anything else be added onto you

By holding and rehearsing in your imagination

Vivid mental images of the ideal in view

 

Don’t wait until your desires materialize

In order to manifest your gratitude to God

True gratitude in fact precedes experience

And is all about the spiritual cause of things

Not their manifestation or the final result

 

Understand that truth or reality is spiritual

And their manifestations are merely effects

But until you completely change your mind

To have all your attention fully focused on it

Until you identify yourself with this spirit

And love it more than idols you’ve created

You’ll always feel separate and incomplete
And this is your greatest challenge on earth

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The Kingdom of Heavens as a State of Consciousness

The Kingdom is merely a State of Mind and not some place, some where. It is a state of Unconditional Love, Infinite Peace, Joy and Total Satisfaction. So the Trip of life is no more no less than a Journey in your own Consciousness towards a Higher Consciousness called the Kingdom of Heavens. This is your Final destination, your True Home, where your Real Self, the Higher Self or the Superconscious dwells forever, hidden like the invisible part of the iceberg, from your conscious mind.

Thus, consciousness Journey is just an awakening process. That is,  you wake up from your deep Dream of Separation of your self with Your True Self which, however, is fully and eternally awake in God. It's as if a seed that  before was a tree, is growing to be transformed again into the same tree, which later will produce fruits which in their turn, to loop the loop, will later give birth to other seeds. And the process goes on over and over again. That's what the Consciousness Journey looks like.  

Now, when preparing yourself to Join the Kingdom and be Whole again, choose and take with you only what is Necessary, Permanent or Eternal like the Kingdom itself. For example, you can bring with you one Billion tones of Wisdom, one Billion tones of Love, one Billion tones of Peace, one Billion tones of Patience, one Billion tones of Joy, one Billion tones of Harmony, one Billion tones of Self gift, etc.

Doing so does not mean you will add anything to the Kingdom which is already sufficient in itself, but this demonstrates or proves your great Potential and enables you to be recognized and accepted by your Peers as a member of the Kingdom.

Don’t worry for a moment about Wealth or Abundance, they follow automatically in the Presence of the first and, particularly, the presence of Love, which knows only how to Give, and never how to take back. Look at the Sun, the Tree or Nature in general and be like them. Once again, never look for Wealth or Abundance in the first place, or they will be missed out and never will be found.

Remember King Salomon’s story in the Bible when asked by God to express his most important wish. Wisdom was Salomon’s number one and unique choice and God congratulated him about it. You know how the story went on next in terms of Abundance in King Salomon’s life. 

Also, don’t worry about weight. All these tones you take with you are kept in your Heart and, I can assure you, they are lighter there than a feather.

On your Path to the Kingdom, use the World all around you as the Barometer of your Evolution. For how you React to people, events and circumstances is an indicator of whether you Progress or not in the direction of your Home.

That is, until you no longer notice Sin, Culpability or Mistake in your Brother, until you no longer React negatively to what you think he has done wrong to you despite his Total Innocence as a Son of God, know that you are still far from the Kingdom.

Remember that there is no such thing as Out there and the world you perceive is merely a Reflection of your current State of Mind. Therefore, you know you are approaching your Final Destination when what you see in your Brother becomes only Light, or the Reflection of your own True Self.

So, every time you notice the Slightest Negativity in another person or in anything, know that it is Yours, but Projected outside in order to Blame someone else, who in fact does not exist. In this case, instead of Resistance, manifest your Gratitude to your Barometer. Because as a God given Tool,  this is a sign that it works perfectly well in a way that it makes you become Conscious of what is going on in you or that you are Off course, so that you may correct your trajectory accordingly.

By the way, did you know that when God looks at you, the only thing He Sees is His Own Image?

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Comments on Benjamin Franklin's appreciation and gratitude trait

"Notice the blessing in everything, big and small. Dwell on the beauty in all I see, hear, touch, taste and smell. Realize that everything is a gift from the Almighty and is put there in order to enjoy and learn from" (Benjamin Franklin).

This advice on appreciation and gratitude is Benjamin Franklin's first self mastery trait among the thirteen he developed during his lifetime. Personally, I don't know whether or not the author left some insights in relation with the outcomes attached to this advice, except the enjoyment and learning he states to be  the purpose of everything. But, one thing is sure, a deep understanding of this subtile idea is necessary in order to grasp its profound meaning. Otherwise, you would focus only on the visible part of the iceberg and completely miss the hidden and most important one.

When looking closely at this formula, it seems to gather most of the ingredients known today by almost the entire globe to be necessary in order to make the law of attraction work for you and not against you, although, as far as I know, the author didn't specifically refer to this law in his advice.

For me, this is a very powerful formula that, if applied systematically by anyone, can unlock in any area the doors of succees which, from my point  of view, means first to overcome the ego with all its demands. Second, success is also about being resistance free and totally in peace and loving, no matter how threatening or challenging the illusory environment you live in could appear in the dream you call life. That is what success means to me in the first place. It's about self mastery and die while you live; no more no less.

The first advice given by the author in this formula is to "notice the blessing in everything, big and small"; why? Let's try to look more closely at the idea and attempt to understand its profound meaning, always from our personal point of view which, anyway, could not be shared by many people and even by the author himself.

To begin, it is known that what you like, you appreciate and what you don't, makes you prefer and chose something else. In other words, without what you dislike, you wouldn't prefer something different. The teachings or Abraham refer to this as being the contrast whose purpose is to serve you and help you chose what you really want by exclusively focusing your attention on it and no longer on what you don't want. Isn't this true? And isn't it a sufficient reason to consider what you disliked before as a blessing to appreciate and be greateful for finally?

Notice also that concerning everything in this first advice, reference is made to big and small and not to good and bad. Why is that? When you see only the blessing in small things and are grateful for them constantly and consistently, due to the law of attraction, you begin to attract more and more things you are grateful for. In addition, when you pay attention and appreciate the smallest quality anyone or anything may present despite all their defaults, they change positively from your perspective.

Wayne Dyer is right when declaring that "when you change the way you look at things (appreciation, gratitude and love), the things you look at change also". It's like bringing a spark of light into a dark room. And the fact is that not only what you perceive changes, but you begin to change also in your state of mind.That's the truth!

So, you don't have to wait for big things to happen in order to be grateful, because big things don't come every day. But, little ones do almost every split second if you pay attention carefully to everything in your present environment. Thus, only small things will make the law of attraction work consistently for you. Now, when big ones come, your gratitude increases even more.

It's important to note also that, in fact, true gratitude precedes everything we could experience with our physical body, considering that we are not really our body first, but spiritual  beings. In this regard, true gratitude is first about our direct relationship with the Father. It's our connecting link with God, in response to His uncontional love for His Son (human kind), for Who We Really Are.

Now, why didn't the author refer to good and bad? The fact is that if he did, this would have created resistance among lots of people not ready yet for this kind of truth. Who would easily accept without resistance the idea that the bad condition in front of them can at the same time include the good? Wouldn't it be pure nonsense for most people?

Therefore, in order to avoid this useless resistance, to which the teachings of Abraham refer also as being the source of most of our trouble in life, the author, I assume, deliberately didn't make any mention about good and bad.

The second advice in this idea to "dwell on the beauty in all I see, hear, touch, taste and smell" is the process that helps you attract and manifest what you prefer and chose in everything using your imagination in the laboratory of your mind. In effect, every condition or situation you perceive is like a coin with its two faces, and what you get back depends on which face you focus your attention on.

In imagination when you dwell on the beauty in all you see, hear, touch, taste and smell, your five physical senses become so involved in the process in such a way that no difference exists between what you imagine and the objective reality. You start really believing that you have received what you chose and it has to manifest.

Also, the fact that you focus only on the positive aspect or dwell only on the beauty in every perception helps you release the resistance you would have experienced in your experience if it was the opposite.

"Realize that everything is a gift from the Almighty and is put there in order to enjoy and learn from" is another advice in this idea of appreciation and gratitude and suggests that even desires are part of everything. As such, they must be enjoyed like their manifested form and, in my opinion, even more.

Desires are like seeds, for which you must take care of and give all your attention, so that they may grow, expand and manifest in the physical form. When you have a desire, it is an indicator that what you want is already yours. Therefore, you should be grateful and joyful first at this stage, before manifestation occurs. Doing so, "you believe that you have received" and it would manifest soon or later. Therefore, don't wait for manifestations to occur in order to be grateful. Gratitude must come first and later, you could finally learn from experience, when time comes.

It is important to emphasize that joy, as such, is not limited only to human beings. It is extended to God Himself, Who is the bank of joy, happiness, all our good experiences and in Whom all this is amplified unlimitedly. All of us, without exception, contribute to the credit of this bank just as cells  in the body participate to the quality of our state of mind and our experiences of joy, peace, love, etc. Human kind, therefore, looks like a community of cells in the ultimate experience of life or God.

So, when we play our role as designed by God, our creator, we contribute effectively to this ultimate and unlimited experience of joy and, doing so, we get interests in our personal account and feel good in return. And, the more we contribute and get interests in our account of joy, the more we are joyful and feel good.

But if we don't contribute enough, even the little joy that was available for us is taken away (parable of talents in the bible). As a result,  we cannot feel good and receive our share from the bank of abundance, peace, joy, happiness, love and wealth all available available for us, but that we deprive ourselves most of the time due to our ignorance.

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Teachings from the universe

Every element of the Universe
Has specific lessons to teach you
Provided that you are Open-minded
And Ready Enough with the Willingness
To Look, Hear and Listen in order to be able
To Learn and Apply the Lessons given to you

Every single day

The Sun reminds you to live a Proactive life
By Giving out Unconditionally What You Are
To Everyone and Everywhere without Expectations
Knowing that what you are is Joy, Happiness, Patience
Forgiveness, Love, Smile, Kindness, Warm, etc.
And that it's Only by Giving out What You Are
Could you Experience it Yourself also

Every single day

The Seed reminds you that Patience is Everything
That Focus on your main Goals is all that matters
As well as Constant and Consistent Actions
In Alignment with your Objectives in life
If you are Willing to Surely and Safely
Reach your final Destination in God

Every single day

The Fruit Tree teaches you the Secrets of Generosity and Abundance
By Giving you Freely its nourishing Fruits which maintain you Healthy
Knowing that as you Give Generously so shall you Receive Abundantly also

Every single day

The River helps you to remember that it is like your Mind 
And as such should always be maintained Undisturbed and Clear
By Avoiding useless Disturbances caused by your erroneous Thinking

Every single day

The Ocean reminds you that you are of the same Structure
Its Surface being Identified with your Conscious mind
With all its Waves coming and going endlessly all day long
Just as Thoughts, Feelings and Emotions do the same through you
Knowing that in the Depths of Sea like the Depths of Consciousness
Is the Realm of Perfect Stillness and Peace Beyond Understanding

Every single day

The Caterpillar reminds you that you are both the same
And that just as it becomes later a Beautiful Butterfly
Through a Process of Natural Transformation
You also are going through the same Process
But Focus, Patience, Alignment and Faith are keys
Which enable you to Fly or be Whole again
After Waking up from your current Dream

Evey single day...

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The myth of the prodigal son

As prodigal son in this world
Which in fact is not yours at all
You have really never left your Home
You have really never been separated
You have really never been detached
From the loving presence of God
Your Almighty Father

This myth of separation from Source
Is merely a bad dream a tiny part of you
Known as the prodigal son
Is living like a nightmare about himself
Having forgotten Who He Really Is
As the beloved Son of God
Still and forever safe at Home
In the loving presence of His Father

But for taking his dream
Or his so called life too seriously
With all his worries, anxieties and fears
This one seems more and more real to him
Like a movie you become too involved in
Forgetting that nothing at all is real

Awakening from this dream begins
When he starts remembering theTruth about Himself
Without any attachment with the movie he sees
No matter what physical senses may perceive
An no matter what his mind may suggest

The way back Home is found
When the prodigal son remembers
How much magnificent life is at Home
In Heaven with his Father
Where even subjects have a better treatment
Compared to the one he is experiencing

The way back Home is found
Once you start being the spectator of your own life
Without too personal involment in the process
Focused on your True Self behind the scene
Knowing that no matter happens on the surface of things
Who You Are can never be threatened

The way back Home is found
Once you turn your back to the dream
Taking your attention from the movie
And put it on the presence in you
Where forever you remain at Home
And would like your tiny part to return
Like the prodigal son it is
In order to live again
In the fullness of your being

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I Am Money

Whenever you chase
Or run after Me
I cannot be found

Whenever you steal Me
Or get Me unfairly
I cannot stay with you

Whenever you force
Only by will to keep Me
I will escape and fly away

Whenever the nature
Of your relationship with Me
Is one of anxiety, worry or fear
Instead of Love and Joy
I am pushed away from you

Instead Give me away freely
For the good and benefit of others
And I will multiply abundantly
For your own good and benefit also

Know that I am not meant
To be searched directly in the first place
Being Dependant of something else

I am merely a Direct Result
I am simply a Direct Consequence
I am  just a Logic Outcome
I am but a By-Product

Of an Exchange between people
Of a Service rendered to others
In one way or another

This is our natural way to meet
And stay durably together
This is the process to go through
In order to be my longlife Companion

But first genuinely Love Your Self
Hidden in all People around the world
Second find your Passion
And Share it with the entire Globe

Know that behind it
Is also hidden like a treasor
The Service you may render to Others
For the improvement of their life
As well as your own
In one way or another

For this Sharing in itself
In the form of Service or Exchange
Is the Only true way
Through which you find Me
Or anything else of equal value

I am Money

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It's All or nothing

If God is All That Is
If everything I perceive proceeds from Him
Being the Source of All thing

If He loves me so much
That the only thing He gives me
Is love and happiness

How then can I seek something else ?
How can I crave for any kind of stuff
While the totality is forever available to me in Him?

How can I run after mere shadows
While Truth is calling on me so lovingly
And Is in fact what I really am ?

How can I turn my back to light
And blindly jump into darkness
Where only illusions abide?

Today I have made a new decision
Today I have made a new choice
Today I take a new direction

I choose only Totality and nothing else
I choose Reality and Truth instead of shadows and illusions
I choose the Source instead of Its mere projections
And I choose light instead of darkness

It's All or nothing !


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Your identification with your mind is slavery

It is just because you believe you are what you are not that such a confusion prevails in your mind, through which thoughts come and go incessantly and moment to moment. But you, who are merely their channel of expression, have the tendancy to identify yourself with them.

This is so at the point that in the presence of worry or anxiety for exemple, no difference no longer exists between you and such feelings. That is, you become them and they become you, if you are not conscious enough to detach or separate yourself from what you are not.

Nkow that what you are is without attributes. It is neither good nor bad, but just is.  Identification begins when you start lebelling them as good and bad and doing so you judge; which is not role. Your role is to be a detached observer. And, as such, you let everything that crosses your mind come and go, without attachement  to any of them.

Do not let anything affect your mind and dictate you a particular behaviour inherent to them, unless it is of love. Because only love is your essence, your true nature and who you really are. And out of love anything else is dictatorship and is there for the only to put you into slavery.

Don't accept to be the slave of your own kingdom. You are the sovereign  authority of the kingdom called your mind, and not its puppet. So, refuse to become its slave by not being identified with all the thoughts, feelings and emotions that cross it through the day.

That is the cost of your total freedom and your way back to your oneneness with God if you dare to separate and detach yourself from your mind.

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Your self realization in 2012

The purpose of the seed is to grow in order to become a plant. The plant, later, will give birth to beautiful flowers that, in turn, will  bring joy to men and women who appreciate them so much. That is perceived as a service to the world. Another seed of a different species will grow into a big tree which later will nourrish people with its delicious fruits or provide shelter to birds and wood to people.

As human being, you  have also a purpose here on this planet. It is to awaken from the dream you call life and and get back Home, in the fullness of who you really are through. This is done through the realization that, in fact, you are already at Home  in  God; not sometime in the future, but now,  in this very moment.

This realization is possible only through forgiveness and love of whatever occurs in your life, in the form of people, events or circumstances.These are blessings for you, as they let you know what is going on in you. Otherwise, you wouldn't be able to know it and forgive the world as well as yourself.

Instead of resisting what you perceive and judge as bad, welcome it and be grateful . Now, you can use it as a means to find your way back home through forgiveness and love. God loves you and give you another chance and opportunity to save yourself and the world, with the help of the holy spirit.

My wish for you this new year is that forgiveness and love become for you like second nature, so that you finally realize that you are already free, perfect, whole, loved, and at home with the Father Who Is forever with you.

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Playing truant in the school of life delays your personal evolution

All creatures, including human beings, are here to grow, evolve and expand towards a higher consciousness. That's one of the main reasons for which we are here. But this implies diverse types of tests and experiences  along the path, including small incidents  as well as big challenges often erroneously perceived as problems, obstacles, difficulties, blocks, injustices and so on.

In fact, what you perceive as such are gifts and blessings from the Almighty, and should not be dreaded, resisted and avoided as most people do. Understand that these are necessary steps we all must go through, if we are willing to grow in knowledge, strength, wisdom, understanding, self mastery or even faith; and so, get ready for the next level of higher consciousness.

The majority of people would like life to be as a long calm and quiet river without any disturbance, so that they may enjoy it more fully. They believe that the unique purpose of life is to make human beings happy during their entire journey on earth, by insuring that every possible unwanted condition is put out of equation.

Only a few dare to challenge themselves by facing the difficult conditions of life with the conscious intention to exceed their current limits, and grow, up to a superior level of their consciousness. Maybe intuitively they know that there is not another way towards spiritual growth and evolution.

However, happiness is not the main purpose of human existence. Of course, enjoying from time to time happy events that delight your soul for a moment can be a good thing. But, such circumstances are always ephemeral by nature, like anything else in this dimension of life. So, they come and go, but never last forever.

The main purpose of life however, as stated at the beginning, is to make you grow, evolve, and expand unlimitedly, through all the exams presented to you along the path, in the form of challenges of all kinds. Happiness may delight you; that's true. But, by itself alone, you cannot achieve the spiritual growth and evolution you seek. 

And, if you'd like to have an idea of what your current level of self mastery and spiritual growth is, just observe how you react to the present conditions and circumstances of your life. The feedback you get from yourself like that is an accurate indicator of your current state of mind, as well as your spiritual level. This test will always reveal you the truth about yourself.

As such, life can be compared to a school in which we learn new lessons, that prepare us everyday for the next class, the next year. But if, all year long, we keep playing truant, miss and avoid important courses, we will not catch the essential lessons we are supposed to learn through these courses and pass the final exam that opens for us the door to the next class.

However, it is what we do all the time, when we resist the challenges of life which, like school, gives us new and important lessons every single day, through people, events and circumstances. But, these lessons are so well wrapped and deeply hidden in them that, most of the time, we focus only on forms.

We keep complaining about appearances, or  what is, erroneously perceived as threatening, while in fact these are bearers of lessons for us to grasp. Therefore people, events and circumstances come to you as messengers or teachers, not as ennemies whose mission is to hurt and push you down.

So, instead of joyfully and gratefully welcoming situations without any preconceived idea, and open mindedly be willing to learn from them in order to achieve a greater understanding that leads to a higher knowledge, we resist. Because we believe that life is unfair and against us.

Therefore, we do whatever we can to avoid or escape from people or situations we resent and dread.  But the fact is, as long as we behave like that, situations we resist cannot change; just as students who play truant cannot pass exams and enter the next class. That is, until they change their mind and decide to attend the courses and learn the lessons of the current class, they cannot move to the next.

In fact, situations are not meant to change externally. Change, instead, must come from you, in terms of  understanding and inner growth, before new challenges can be presented to you. That means, you have to become strong, spiritually speaking, to the extend that you no longer perceive conditions as separate, but as integrate parts of who you are now.

Today, take the decision to change your mind about people, situations, events and circumstances of your life.Remember, what is is, but the choice is yours; the choice to react  according to who you are. Decide you will no longer perceive them as separate entities, obstacles, blocks, or threats. But as blessings and opportunities to learn and evolve. And, with more and more understanding, by choosing love you would move towards higher levels of consciousness.

Once you've learned the lessons from a specific level of consciousness, situations will change by themselves and open the door for new ones in the same class or the next. It is not another way around. There is no escape, and the only result you get when playing truant, resisting and refusing to learn your lessons, is but a useless delay in your personal growth and evolution.

This, by the way, is not wise. Because when you do, you'll keep living the same situations over and over again, until you learn the lessons deeply hidden in them. These lessons, however, are delivered for your highest good. For in its infinite wisdom, life knows you must be well prepared and become strong, before you move foreward to the next level.

God knows all your impatience, frustration and anger. But, He's got also the whole picture; meaning,  the challenges waiting for you ahead, in your next classes. And because He loves you more than anything, He prepares you to be ready first, before you face those next challenges.

But, it is important to remember that you are not alone on the path of your journey to higher consciousness.God, through the Holy Spirit is forever present in you, providing you with continuous support and assistance.

That is the job of the Holy Spirit in you; to guide you and help you to catch the hidden lessons of your situations, so that you can move forward. But you also have an important responsibility in this process. It is to ask.

To do so, you must know what to ask,  how to ask, when to ask, and to whom. Asking is not as easy as  people think. If you are not clear at this point, you shouldn't even try to ask for anything. Because risks are that you get opposite results from your "bad" requests.

According to the bible, there is a major condition to perform before formulating any demand. In Matthew 21:22, this condition  is as follows:

"You can pray for anything, and if you have faith, you will receive it."

"If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer."

You've got it! This major condition is belief, or faith that you have already received whatever you ask in prayer. But, what is it that you really ask for? What do you really need on your path to a higher conscousness?

In truth, the first thing you should ask from the Almighty is faith. For when you have faith,  you get clear about any situation; you get light. It is what you really need, in order to achieve the state of clarity necessary to learn your lessons.

Now that you know what to ask, when to ask then? You ask only when you are in a state of absolute relaxation, stillness, peace of body and mind. Call it the vortex or whatever. Anything you do out of this state, with a  trouble mind, leads directly to failure and disappointment.

But, how do you ask more effectively? You do it by genuinly giving thanks and gratitude that it is so, and living according this truth. You give thanks to whom? Of course to God, the Almighty, All That Is, through the Holy Spirit which is in you.

Only the Holy Spirit's voice can be understood by God, the Father. The Holy Spirit is the bridge between the Creator and you. You are not pure enough to get in touch with the Almighty, and all your efforts in trying to address directly your pryers and your gratitude to Him, will be vain.

There is still a lot to say about this communication between you and God. This, however, is the big picture.

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Like a thirsty fish in the water

If God, the Almighty, is All That Is, that means nothing exists apart from Him. Wherever you are in this lifetime, whatever your conditions may be, understand that your are forever in God, as He is in you, like a fish in the water. Have you ever seen a thirsty fish in the water?

If you are surrounded by Love Itself , why then do you feel afraid, worried, anxious, powerless, inferior, not enough, not loved, poor, insecure, and so on? Doing that, can't you realize you are behaving like a firsty fish in the water?

The main reason is that you keep identifying yourself with your body alone.However, you are more than just your body; you are also a spiritual being, the beloved Son of God, living with Him for eternity. Therefore, stop selling yourself short, by reducing yourself to your physical aspect alone, which is what makes you feel deprived, powerless and insecure.

Once and for all, understand that whatever they may be, your conditions are just conditions; no more, no less. And, as such, they are neutral , until you judge and put a label on them. Of course, they exist for a reason that, maybe, you could not understand. But, first of all, they are related to your body which, by the way, is not who you are. 

Therefore, never again identify yourself with them again.

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Thank you

To be genuinly grateful for everything is one of the best ways to return love to God.

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There is only one version of yourself

Most people do not like the kind of person they are at one point of their life. They always feel inferior or not enough worthy, compared to others around them that seem to be more blessed and more lucky than they are. And, doing so, they make themselves miserable their entire life.

The truth, however, is that they can only be but who they are right now, no more no less, and not who they would like to be. They don't understand that they are a specific version of God and no one, in the entire universe, can be comparable to them.

The point is that you are who you are, and you must accept and love yourself as well as your life just as it is, without condition.  And your life is about anything related to you, such as  your body, your wife, your children, your family and relatives, your friends, your colleagues, your job, your home, your car, your failures, your successes, your weaknesses, your strengths, etc.
Whatever is related to you is part of you, and has contributed to what you are in this moment. And, denying a part it is denying your entire being. Your wholeness then is about your present reality, and nothing can be missing to you. That is, if you loose one leg right now, you are still whole, even without that leg, because your wholeness is about who you are right now, and it is perfect.

From another point of view, if you consider yourself to be a spirit, and not a body, it is evident that whatever occurs to your body cannot affect your spirit which therefore remains whole forever. You see, the meaning of your life depends on the perspective from which you look at it, whatever may happen to you.

From today, the decision to give a positive meaning to the circumstances of your life belongs to you. And what was considered as "bad" before has now become the best thing that could happen to you. Are you ready to  accept this?

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Just believe that it is so

God's love for His son
Is unconditional and eternal
And everything that happens
Is for his highest good

The son may not understand this truth
And even does not have to understand
For this is not his business
But that of the Holy Spirit

Who Knows this truth
And Is  also the only One
Having received from the Father
The gift of judgement

The business of the son
Is simply to believe that it is so
Through an unshakable faith
Despite any other external suggestion
Contrary to this truth

From this clear understanding
Proof about truth is no longer required
Now the only thing that really matters
Is the state of relief, peace and freedom
That has become his

This inner state of being
Is indeed what the son needs first
Before any accomplishment
Can take place outside

But striving for the reverse
Is putting the cart before the horse
Is swimming against the current
Or expecting to reap without sowing

This is a grave attempt
To violate the natural laws
That govern the universe
And this can work but
Only against you

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The pleasure behind scarcity

In some african regions, especially in Central Africa, grows a kind of shrub whose red fruits are very much appreciated by birds of various species. However, beside loving those fruits, it seems that birds appreciate something else; the search for the search itself, for the pleasure or the fun it provides.

That is, they don't like an abundance of mature and delicious fruits, ready to be eaten, be exposed to them. What they prefer is spending time themselves searching for the good ones, using their beak, until they find and eat them with appetite. Isn't it curious to realize that instead of abundance, those birds choose scarcity?

Sometimes, certain shrubs make their fruits hatch almost all at once, turning all the branches almost into red. When this occurs, instead of rushing on such a chance and fussing around to gulp down as much fruits as they can to feed themselves till death, they avoid these shrubs and fly away; all of them ,witout exception.

Do you think that birds are the only creatures that behave like that? Not at all; even human beings do the same. Is it that the easy way does no procure as much satisfaction as the hard way? Why does what is obtained easily and without effort seem to loose its value and interest?

You can verify this in some loving relationships. For example, meeting a new person is always very exciting.   But, after a while, this excitement falls down on one side or another, when one of the two partners starts manifesting too much love for the other.

At the beginning, it's very satisfying for the ego. But, in time, it can become very ennoying for certain people who no longer look at their partner as they used to do at the beginning of their relationship. Of course, they may still love them, and consider them as an important part of their life.

However, the excitement of the first days of their relationship has vanished, no matter the number of good qualities one could have. As a result, the partner who has lost his or her excitement starts looking outside, to search  new vibrations in someone else.

Why is that? Why, instead of attracting or retaining, too much love, too much abundance, too much stuff, too much success or too much fame make us feel that way? Could it be that getting "too much" of something generates boredom and reduces our interest in certain things?

However, almost everybody would like  to get all they want in life, but not realizing the danger behind it. If you had everything you want, which is by the way impossible in this three dimentional world, for what reason would you keep living on this planet?

Remember, abundance is not what you really want, and you don't really want the outcome either. What you are really looking for, is the state excitement you achieve before the end result, or the manifestation of your desire.

What you are really looking for in any activity you are engaged in, is the fun or pleasure it provides you, and not the end result which is the death of your enthusiasm and your motivation. An old saying goes like this: "the pleasure is in the journey, and not in the destination; in the hunting, and not in the game".

That means, whatever you do, look first for the pleasure and the fun it can provide you, not the outcome. Release any attachment you could have to the end result, and let it take care of itself. Also, understand that in any entreprise lies a diamond, which is the satisfaction, the pleasure or the fun you can find in it.

Your task is to search and find it!

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Let the dead bury the dead

You cannot put your attention on scarcity, trouble, problems, difficulties, obstacles, limits and so on and expect to achieve clarity, inspiration or happy outcomes. Focusing on the problems you have is like keep moving the mud in the river with the intention to find your lost coin. You will never find it!

Everything  takes place first in the mind which, by nature, is formless and shapeless like free water, but capable to take the form of any bowl or container. Bruce Lee said: "Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless — like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend".

In order to be formless and shapeless like water and able to get set into the form you like, you must first learn how to teach your mind to become still and empty. It is then that clarity will arise and you will be able to see and  finally find  what, deep inside of you, you were looking for, but which you really didn't  know on the surface or conscious level.

Once you've got there, focus all your attention only on that, and forget about what you don't want. Of course, you know it because it makes you feel bad and unease. So, never again pay attention to it by thinking or talking about it. Doing so would strengthen what you don't like and be like attempting to find something lost in the river by turning the mud over and over.

What you want is peace, love and happiness in abundance. Just focus on them only . Allow your mind to take their form, and let those things that trouble you (problems) take care of themselves. That is what Jesus meant by saying: "Allow the dead to bury their own dead" – Matthew 8:22 (18-23) and Luke 9:60 (57-62).

Matthew 8:18-20: "When Jesus saw the crowd around him, he gave orders to cross to the other side of the lake. Then a teacher of the law came to him and said, 'Teacher, I will follow you werever you go.'

"Jesus replied, 'Foxes have holes and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.'

"Another disciple said to him, 'Lord, first let me go and bury my father.'

"But Jesus told him, 'Follow me, and let the dead bury the dead.'"

These are very interesting passages in the bible that, when quietly understood, may clarify lots of things in our life.
 
As stated in the second paragraph, everything takes place in the mind, that can take any shape, just like water. In the scriptures, reference is made to a lake! The crowd that is refered  to here represents  problems in our mind, where their only reality is. As for the other side of the lake, it stands for any good thing that may deserve all your attention.
 
Here, Jesus advises us to let behind us all trouble, to let go of all the problems in our mind, and focus  only on their opposite, or the other side of the lake, where you can find peace, happiness, joy, security, abundance, beauty, love, etc. Your mind, therefore, would move from one form into another endlessly.
 
Now, instead of moving continuously  from one form into another, which apparently is a big waste of time, my advice would be that you focus your energy only on Christ, or God.  Because in Him, lies everything you would ever need for peace, happiness, joy, abundance, love, etc. That's why I call Him "All In One" or  "Shortcut" for a fulfilled life.
 
 
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Do you love your Self enough?

The first and most important commandment in the Bible, the Word of God, is:  "“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself” (Luke 10:27).

In the previous post, we talked about how to love God and came up to the conclusion that as God loves us unconditionally and eternally, so should we love Him back unconditionally and eternally also. And, one of  the best ways to do it is through incessant and moment to moment expression of gratitude, for this inestimable gift we are offered, no matter what may happen in our live. Because God's love flows to us incessantly and non stop also.

Benjamin Franklin was right when he suggested, in his first  personal mastery trait, to "Notice the blessing in everything, big and small. Dwell on the beauty in all I see, hear, touch, taste and smell. Realize that everything is a gift from the Almighty and is put there in order to enjoy and learn from".

However, it is clear that no matter what our efforts would be or how hard we would try, it is impossible to love God as He loves us. For this reason, the only thing we can do, is to answer to His love with infinite gratitude and appreciation, in the way that we no longer  feel dissatisfied, frustrated, worried, afraid, powerless, separated or in a word,  not loved by God.

The fact is that through negative feelings or emotions, what we are telling God, although unconsciously, is that He does not love us, so we don't love Him either. Otherwise, we would not experience whatever we would be experiencing in that moment. That is, dispite the permanent flow of God' love towards us, we deny it to ourselves and, at the same time keep ourselves apart from all the blessings we deserve as beloved sons of God the Almighty. Doing so, not only we are not loving ourselves, but we cannot love others either.

In addition, when we are unhappy, dissatisfied,  unloving about ourselves for anything, we are also not loving God, our creator. And, this is understandable. Because if we dont' love the Son, how can we love the Father. More specifically, if you cannot love your Self , the Son of God in you, how can you love Him in others, as recommended by the Word of God?

Remember also that you have only one Self, that you have to live with in this lifetime. Notice how unhappy you have been up to this moment, just because you don't love it as you should. Realize that you cannot exchange it and never any other would be available to you during this life time. So, you have only one choice: You love your Self and are happy, or you don't and become miserable all your life. What do you choose?

At last, have in mind that there is only one Self, which is in you, in everybody as well as in everything else. God loves this Self (You) without condition. In return, love it and be happy. Forgive your Self in you and in others for all the seemingly mistakes and errors you could notice. Be totally satisfied, kind, caring  and encouraging towards it. That way, you would be able to do the same for your neighbors as you would also recognize this divine and unique Self in them.

Like that, you fulfill the will of God for His Son,  present in the entire creation.

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How to love God?

How to love God?

This question sounds like the one related to how to be happy? And for me, in the question also lies the answer. That is, you love God by loving God, just as you are happy by being happy. Period. Both love and happiness are one and of the same nature.

A few questions arising here are the followings:  Who or What is God? And what does it mean to love God?

Who or What is God?

It is said that God is the ultimate Source of everything, and His love for us is unconditional and eternal. Personally, I believe it strongly. However, in order to understand Who or what is God, we must first know what He is not. In a word, God is not what we perceive with our physical senses, but the spirit, the essence of it. Therefore, in order to love God, we shouldn't invest too much on the things manifested, which are merely idols, but on their Source.

What does it mean to love God?

Knowing that God's love and blessings never stops and flows to us eternally, to love God then logically becomes to answer to His love for us in return, in the same way it is given to us. That is, we must give thanks to God incessantly, non-stop, and abundantly, in order to express our gratitude and thankfulness to Him.

God's love flows to us abundantly and eternally. Answer by incessantly returning to Him your gratitude and thankfulness every moment of the day, and in every circumstance. That is one way you love God in return.

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If you don't understand why "you" are stuck

Dispite all your efforts and good will, you don't understand why sometimes things do not work the way you want. "You" feel stuck and no longer know what to do in order to improve the situation that displeases "you". The first wise attitude is to express gratitude to God.

You would ask, why?

Simply because "you" don't have a clue what's going on under the surface of things. Your whole life is like an iceberg. "You" can see only the top, not the big part of it. Only God holds the whole picture, and you cannot know more than Him. Therefore, say thank you to God, because everything is for your highest good.

Then you would ask, why in spite of knowing it, I don't achieve the relief and peace I seek, which are the only things I really need? Why then all this frustration, worry and anger in me?

You don't achieve the relief and peace you seek because of your identification with ego. In fact, it is not really you, feeling these negative emotions. It is your false self, or ego, that feels that way and makes you feel the same, due to your unconscious identification with it.  The purpose of ego, hidden in you, is to make you believe that it is you, and you are what it is; which of course, is  untrue.

But, is there a way out? Is it possible to suppress this identification and stop suffering?

Eckhart Tolle suggests to let all negative emotions and feelings be, and meet them without any judgement or resistance, until they fade away like smoke. Otherwise, resistance and suffering would get stronger and stronger, and compromise the relief and peace we seek.

On the other hand, teachings from a "Course in miracle" ask us to forgive everything, so that only love takes place in us. And through this forgiveness would we awaken from the dream of life and get back home to God, which means to achieve the relief and peace we long for.

It is essential for human being then to understand and know why he is here on this planet, in order to deal wisely with life. He must also know that everything life brings to us today, in this moment, is tied to something else in the past or our past lives.

That is, nothing happens to us by chance. And life does not unfold randomly. Everything, without exception,  is the consequence of our previous thoughts, feelings and actions. Call it karma ot whatever, the fact is that we pay the price or get the reward for whatever we have done in in the past. 

Forgiveness, for this reason, is of great importance here, as escape from the implacable laws that govern the universe is impossible. It is only when you have learned the lessons brought to you by life through all the forms it takes before us, that would you grow and evolve towards higher levels of consciousness.

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God's omnipresence, omniscience and omnipotence as the key for living

Whenever you perceive a problem, a difficulty, or an obstacle in any situation, this is a perfect indicator that you are doing it wrong. That you are not going with the flow. But are swimming against the current. Also, that means you are not seeing, but just interpreting. Because real seeing is based on truth or reality, which in turn are the fruits of knowledge, while interpretion is an outcome of our limited physical senses.

Your interpretation of something is based on your unique limited point of view, depending on all your  past experiences and unconscious memories, your environment, your traditions, your culture, etc. All these parameters form the filter used by you, unconsciously, to interpret everything you perceive. That is, your conscious participation in this process is very weak, because of its automatic nature. In other words, most of the time it is taking place through you without  you knowing it, unless you become awake or conscious. 

Too become awake or conscious requires knowledge. The knowledge of Truth, or reality. Then, live according to it. But, what is truth? It is nothing else but God, which is the name that summerizes everything good; such as love, harmony, joy, happiness, kindness, abundance, wisdom, clarity, wholeness, oneness, kindness, peace, perfection, etc. 

As individuals, all of us we have our personal view about everything, that is different from one person to another, according to the perspective from which we are looking at the world; perspective strongly tied to our core values, which are byproducts of our past memories and experiences, as stated earlier.  

However, never will our personal perspective or point of view be true. Because it is too partial and, therefore, different and opposed to the whole. At the contrary, truth is wholeness, oneness and perfection. And, only perfection is, has always been, and will ever be, dispite the apparent turmoil of daily life.

What does that mean? Simply that nothing that you may perceive with your physical senses is as you see it. Because you perceive only from your partial perspective only. The fact is that you are blind, deaf and therefore, cannot really see.

For this reason, you cannot judge anything whatsoever. And because of that, the only thing you must do is giving whatever happens to God, Who holds the whole picture, and can see the truth for you. Taking into account God's omnipresence, omniscience and omnipotence, ask Him to see for you, to hear for you, to speak for you, to do for you and, above all, to judge for you. Step aside, and let Him do for you what you cannot do for yourself.

Also, as you cannot judge, so can you not do anything either. Because only God, the Almighty, can do everything. For this reason, your part is only to surrender. The condition that irritates you does so just because of the lack of depth in your thinking. You are too superficial and always stops on the surface of things.

But, in case you cannot stop judging the world around you, do it the right way. That is, knowing that because of His Omnipresence, only God is and nothing else, start seeing Him everywhere, in every man and woman, as well as in every circumstance. That way, you judge righteously, according to the truth.

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