Please, take a walk with me. Let's explore the Universe.
My journey begins here, with these two books:
My journey begins here, with these two books:
Does the mere sight of the word "SATAN" in bold, red letters freak you out a little bit? I'll admit that I was intimidated, and thought that people would see me reading it and think I was crazy. But please, hear me out on this one. We all know there isn't a fiery pit of hell underneath us, where a creepy red guy with a trident sits on a throne calling you names and laughing as you burn for all eternity. No. That's silly. Just like there isn't another dude above us in his throne cheering on a select few that "He" feels is going to church every Sunday and deserves a free ticket to Heaven. Blasphemy. What is True, is that there are forces WITHIN us that serve as tools to navigate us through life. Don't you see? We are EXPERIENCING heaven and hell RIGHT NOW, in our day to day lives. We experience it by the thoughts we think, the words we say and the things we DO.
There is a voice in your head that tells you to keep eating, and watching TV. Sure, keep gossiping and telling yourself that you are better than the person next to you. That homeless man doesn't need money, he is just going to buy booze. Why send money to some kid in Africa, we don't know where the money is really going. We need guns and weapons to protect ourselves from other countries, in fact let's go over there and post up with our weapons just to make sure they don't shoot us with theirs. Congratulations, we have come up with enough warfare to completely blow up our Earth as we know it, and we already have by exploding test atoms bombs in our Earth's surface and in our atmosphere. By now, this voice seems so real that you begin to believe it and think it is actually YOUR voice. How can it be so easy to feel so disconnected from the Earth that we feel as though we have the right to destroy it and punish it for reasons unknown to me? Oh, wait. Isn't this the planet we live on? Isn't this our home (our only home as we know it) and aren't we all connected to it, and each other.. ?
Oh, yes. Yes we are.
Then there is another voice that takes you down a certain road, a road that you would never think to take, but you became brave and you stepped out of the ordinary. Then you found a place, maybe a moment, where you seemed to be weightless; timeless. The same feelings you felt as a child, so new to life. Unconditional Love, is what it's called. God is another name too. I can feel it, I know it. Now, can I trust it?
'I can see my blood running through my veins. And by blood I mean Love. My heart is this source of this Love.' Don't be afraid when your heart is beating fast.. it is only pumping faster and faster to overcome your fear. For in Truth we are more scared of Love than we are Death.
LOVE & DEATH
Ah yes, these are the supreme example of the duality in the world. The ups, the downs. The love, the fear. The dream and the nightmare. It's all a part of the plan. The highest of plans, to forget who we are so that we can remember who we are. Believe it or not, we wanted this. We wanted every part of this foggy, distant, separated, yet extremely beautiful existence, and we got just that. We were everything that ever was. All powerful, all loving, supreme beings. What can God do but be God? So, we begged for something more. Something that was not ourselves so that we could truly see and experience our True Selves. So the opposite of eternal life would then be death, right? An illusion created to show us humans what it truly means to be alive. What matters right now if I can die at any moment? What relationships are worth creating if it can end in an instant?
You know what.. for me the greatest lesson I have learned was the expression and feeling of deep, abiding gratitude. "You don't know what you've got until it's gone." We have been saying this for years and haven't yet let the words really sink in. From the moment of birth we set sail on the path to death. Are you ready to die? Look around you. Are you happy with what you see? Do you see everyone around you with the eyes of gratitude, even the person flipping you off in the car behind you? Chances are, probably not. And that is OK, we are all trying in the best way that we can. But there is one thing I am positive about, and that is this: when you walk to path less taken, and when you sing the song less sung, there you will find the path to your heart, and the key to eternity..
Woah, that may be a bit much for some of you lovely readers, but that is the best thing about the Truth.. it wakes you up.
WAKE UP my Dear Friends, for we have been sleeping too long. Wake to the life worth fighting for. Wake up to the gift of giving. Wake up to WHO YOU REALLY ARE.
So, how will we know we are on the path? How will we know that we are embracing the Divine Moment, you ask? .. I have asked the same question, and the answer is this:
We have been made in the image and likeness of God/Goddess (The Universe/God is energy to be experienced from within, it does not have a gender). We were given total and complete Free Will (hence the worlds current condition) and we are Loved very much. So here is the lowdown. We have been given the choice, the OPPORTUNITY to give to each other as Spirit gives to us. Sometimes it may seem like and 'obligation' when life asks you to look at another with compassionate eyes, and give more. But it isn't and obligation. We can really do whatever we want with our lives. But we have been given the choice and the gift of giving to others. We have this Grand Opportunity to give ourselves and others UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. A Love that cannot break, cannot be thwarted.. cannot be broken. We will know we are on our way to Higher levels of BEING when we give everything that exists the same Unconditional Love and Free Will that we have been given. Even the plants and animals around us, the ground beneath us so desperately needs our Love and compassion, for without the ground to walk on, where are we? Without the air the breath, the trees that create that air, the water we drink, the friends and family we choose to live out lives with, what do we have?
Let's face it, when you find yourself trying to control someone else, or even the outcome to a situation, you are in Ego. You are hearing the other voice.
There is no need to beat yourself about it though. In fact, I'd like to take this moment and personally thank our Adversary, for helping me to grow and become strong. For without strength anything can push you over, or bring you down. We have all experienced that. It is times like these where our total focus and attention is required, so that we can get back up from where we have "fallen." So yes, it was my insecurities that taught me confidence, and my weakness that taught me strength. A giant THANK YOU to the big man downstairs.
For there is no real prayer than a prayer of gratitude. Any thing else is a prayer of need and of lack. But in Truth, nothing is lacking. It is all right here waiting to be seen; waiting to be known. "Even before you ask, you have been answered."
Just look at nature. A snowflake. A tree. The geometrical patterns that sustain life, in all things. It's all there, acting as a treasure map back home, back to our Hearts.
There is a voice in your head that tells you to keep eating, and watching TV. Sure, keep gossiping and telling yourself that you are better than the person next to you. That homeless man doesn't need money, he is just going to buy booze. Why send money to some kid in Africa, we don't know where the money is really going. We need guns and weapons to protect ourselves from other countries, in fact let's go over there and post up with our weapons just to make sure they don't shoot us with theirs. Congratulations, we have come up with enough warfare to completely blow up our Earth as we know it, and we already have by exploding test atoms bombs in our Earth's surface and in our atmosphere. By now, this voice seems so real that you begin to believe it and think it is actually YOUR voice. How can it be so easy to feel so disconnected from the Earth that we feel as though we have the right to destroy it and punish it for reasons unknown to me? Oh, wait. Isn't this the planet we live on? Isn't this our home (our only home as we know it) and aren't we all connected to it, and each other.. ?
Oh, yes. Yes we are.
Then there is another voice that takes you down a certain road, a road that you would never think to take, but you became brave and you stepped out of the ordinary. Then you found a place, maybe a moment, where you seemed to be weightless; timeless. The same feelings you felt as a child, so new to life. Unconditional Love, is what it's called. God is another name too. I can feel it, I know it. Now, can I trust it?
'I can see my blood running through my veins. And by blood I mean Love. My heart is this source of this Love.' Don't be afraid when your heart is beating fast.. it is only pumping faster and faster to overcome your fear. For in Truth we are more scared of Love than we are Death.
LOVE & DEATH
Ah yes, these are the supreme example of the duality in the world. The ups, the downs. The love, the fear. The dream and the nightmare. It's all a part of the plan. The highest of plans, to forget who we are so that we can remember who we are. Believe it or not, we wanted this. We wanted every part of this foggy, distant, separated, yet extremely beautiful existence, and we got just that. We were everything that ever was. All powerful, all loving, supreme beings. What can God do but be God? So, we begged for something more. Something that was not ourselves so that we could truly see and experience our True Selves. So the opposite of eternal life would then be death, right? An illusion created to show us humans what it truly means to be alive. What matters right now if I can die at any moment? What relationships are worth creating if it can end in an instant?
You know what.. for me the greatest lesson I have learned was the expression and feeling of deep, abiding gratitude. "You don't know what you've got until it's gone." We have been saying this for years and haven't yet let the words really sink in. From the moment of birth we set sail on the path to death. Are you ready to die? Look around you. Are you happy with what you see? Do you see everyone around you with the eyes of gratitude, even the person flipping you off in the car behind you? Chances are, probably not. And that is OK, we are all trying in the best way that we can. But there is one thing I am positive about, and that is this: when you walk to path less taken, and when you sing the song less sung, there you will find the path to your heart, and the key to eternity..
Woah, that may be a bit much for some of you lovely readers, but that is the best thing about the Truth.. it wakes you up.
WAKE UP my Dear Friends, for we have been sleeping too long. Wake to the life worth fighting for. Wake up to the gift of giving. Wake up to WHO YOU REALLY ARE.
So, how will we know we are on the path? How will we know that we are embracing the Divine Moment, you ask? .. I have asked the same question, and the answer is this:
We have been made in the image and likeness of God/Goddess (The Universe/God is energy to be experienced from within, it does not have a gender). We were given total and complete Free Will (hence the worlds current condition) and we are Loved very much. So here is the lowdown. We have been given the choice, the OPPORTUNITY to give to each other as Spirit gives to us. Sometimes it may seem like and 'obligation' when life asks you to look at another with compassionate eyes, and give more. But it isn't and obligation. We can really do whatever we want with our lives. But we have been given the choice and the gift of giving to others. We have this Grand Opportunity to give ourselves and others UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. A Love that cannot break, cannot be thwarted.. cannot be broken. We will know we are on our way to Higher levels of BEING when we give everything that exists the same Unconditional Love and Free Will that we have been given. Even the plants and animals around us, the ground beneath us so desperately needs our Love and compassion, for without the ground to walk on, where are we? Without the air the breath, the trees that create that air, the water we drink, the friends and family we choose to live out lives with, what do we have?
Let's face it, when you find yourself trying to control someone else, or even the outcome to a situation, you are in Ego. You are hearing the other voice.
There is no need to beat yourself about it though. In fact, I'd like to take this moment and personally thank our Adversary, for helping me to grow and become strong. For without strength anything can push you over, or bring you down. We have all experienced that. It is times like these where our total focus and attention is required, so that we can get back up from where we have "fallen." So yes, it was my insecurities that taught me confidence, and my weakness that taught me strength. A giant THANK YOU to the big man downstairs.
For there is no real prayer than a prayer of gratitude. Any thing else is a prayer of need and of lack. But in Truth, nothing is lacking. It is all right here waiting to be seen; waiting to be known. "Even before you ask, you have been answered."
Just look at nature. A snowflake. A tree. The geometrical patterns that sustain life, in all things. It's all there, acting as a treasure map back home, back to our Hearts.
I ask you now, to come with me. To experience the ecstasy that is LIFE. We will start with small steps, maybe more giving and less taking. There you go, you've got it. Your feeling it. You digging the new perspective. It won't happen overnight, and frankly, it would be boring that way. Let's just keep living. Keep smiling. Keep growing. Plant your seed, give it the time it needs to stay concealed underground, and watch this beautiful process of life take fold as it comes steady out from it's covers and into the world. Maybe it will flower and bear fruit. Remember to water it with tenderness, and nurture it with compassion.
To close, I would like to once again Thank our "opposing forces" for giving my heart a beating a making life worth while. And I would also like to express my everlasting gratitude to the "forces of Love" for reminding me over and over again, day after day that there is so much more to Life and to Love that I have yet to comprehend, and to just keep doing the best I can everyday. Some days won't be my best, but I know there is always tomorrow, the sun will come up again.
Keep trying. Push your limits; go beyond your comfort zones. I promise what you will find there is something so pure and true that you will begin to desire the Ultimate Truth, and thus igniting your flame of Love.
There is always something to remember, to re-live; to re-Love.
It's like re-reading your favorite book, re-living you wildest dream, all for the very first time..
Now, let's see that soul shine.
To close, I would like to once again Thank our "opposing forces" for giving my heart a beating a making life worth while. And I would also like to express my everlasting gratitude to the "forces of Love" for reminding me over and over again, day after day that there is so much more to Life and to Love that I have yet to comprehend, and to just keep doing the best I can everyday. Some days won't be my best, but I know there is always tomorrow, the sun will come up again.
Keep trying. Push your limits; go beyond your comfort zones. I promise what you will find there is something so pure and true that you will begin to desire the Ultimate Truth, and thus igniting your flame of Love.
There is always something to remember, to re-live; to re-Love.
It's like re-reading your favorite book, re-living you wildest dream, all for the very first time..
Now, let's see that soul shine.