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How The Truth Can Set Us Free!

9.6 Even as the mighty winds rest in the vastness of the ethereal space, all beings have their rest in me. Know thou this truth.

9.13 But there are some great souls who know me: their refuge is my own divine nature. They love me with a oneness of love: they know that I am the source of all.The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 9)

the truth

As is often said, ‘we move and have our being’ in God. It is a Truth that can set us free. We play in God’s lap, we’re ultimately safe, nothing of eternal import can harm us. We ought to be worry free. We ought be full of joy and celebrate!!

through love

When we can daily experience God’s partnership in life, when we feel his love and can be conduits for it, when we serve others in love without seeking reward, then we know God and know that he is Source.

Daily Affirmation: Today I serve and trust the Source.

Recommendation: The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics) by Juan Mascaro

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Why Fear Must be Banished!!

The key to change … is to let go of fear.Roseanne Cash

the grand scheme

Because of our animal origin (evolution) and uncertain place in the Universe we live in fear. Maybe not the ‘grand’ scheme but part of the purpose of Life and of this Universe is to give us opportunities to banish fear. Look at anything happening in our lives. We have relationship issues because of what we fear the other might do, say or think. We have fear about our jobs, our health, our well being etc. Why should we get rid of this fear? Love cannot exist where fear does. Love feels a lot better than fear Smile!God wants his children to live in peace and in love. In love we can be truly connected to each other and build wholesome relationships. That, is an end in itself; which is why fear must be erased!

love not fear

To understand why we fear, to increase our self-knowledge of why we act and think the way we do, is important. Even more important is to allow love to flourish in our beings. We must become gentle, loving and kind beings. That is the sure way to transform self and eventually the planet. Let’s pledge to love self and others whole-heartedly!

Daily Affirmation: Today I banish fear through love.

Recommendation: The Essential Laws of Fearless Living by Guy Finley

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Why We Must Let Go…

People are so used to having their own way, they get distressed when something higher than themselves tries to have its way with them. And that, by the way, is what Truth, Reality is always trying to do, which is to dislodge you from your own life so that it can give you what it has prepared for you.Vernon Howard

listen

Everything that happens to us is a message, the good the bad and the ugly. We ought to heed and pay attention, because when we don’t the prodding from ‘Truth’ and ‘Reality’ continues…

There’s a certain purpose afoot to all that goes on. When we pay attention and go ‘with the flow’ life becomes an adventure, more fun and certainly more meaningful.

let go

We must let go and relax. As we do that literally and figuratively, we can attune to the march of the Universe. We come closer to Nature. The Universal Life current itself starts to guide us, and as a result we’re happy campers! We can then explore what Life really has in store for us, which isn’t quite possible if we aren’t open to it.

Daily Affirmation: Today I glide with Life.

Recommendation: Tao Te Ching by Lao-Tse

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Why There’s Nothing to Fear…

The presence of fear is a sure sign that you are trusting in your own strength.A Course In Miracles

why we fear

Beyond biological fear that’s handed down generationally, there’s the everyday fear that we often live with. Where does it come from? There are many shallow and peripheral reasons why we feel fear. These can be fear of losing health, wealth, family and the like. If examined at deeper levels the reason is exactly what the amazing quote above highlights. We fear life and its circumstances because we fall for the illusion that it’s all up to us!!

freedom from fear

All we see and all we experience is within the über paradigm we may call God. We literally move and have our being in God. Nothing goes unnoticed in the universe. If we believe that we’re fully responsible for us, we’ll always be disappointed because we cannot ensure our ultimate well-being. We’re simply not capable enough. We can instead rely on God as an essential anchor through-out our day and our lives. Doing so is the pre-requisite to a happy, peaceful, fulfilling and fearless life! Try it.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM safe because God is my strength!

Recommendation: A Course in Miracles by Dr. Helen Schucman

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Living Our General Life Purpose…

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or the darkness of destructive selfishness. Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?Martin Luther King Jr.

darkness

It’s rather dark when we’re all about ourselves and focused primarily on what’s important to us. The whole economy of the Universe appears to hinge on integration, on cooperation and on the growth of the whole as well as the individual. We cannot have real meaning in our lives and certainly no lasting fulfillment if our efforts and time are not primarily spent on others and larger goals.

light

The universal light shines a bit brighter on us when we decide to devote a larger part of our lives to others. Fulfillment really is that simple because when we do that a few things happen:

  1. The Universe (via Angels and other forces) guides our efforts.
  2. Life for others and us improves, gets better.
  3. We become happier.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM my brother’s keeper.

Recommendation: Bringers of the Light by Neale Donald Walsch

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How Love Is Born …

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.  – Morrie Schwartz

receive first

Last week I had shared the above quote with you; wanted to revisit it because it’s so central to all that we truly need. We all seek happiness and fulfillment. That may come via worldly pursuits such as relationships, career and money. But truly what we seek at a deep level is simply love and security. We can’t manufacture love. That’s because it’s a central reality of the Universe and God the creator is its source. We must receive the love first. That’s the only way we can experience it and the only way we can possibly shower it on any one else. To receive loads of love there are 2 requirements:

  1. We must think it’s possible to receive it; then ask for it.
  2. We must be whole enough to receive it.

Step one is accomplished via prayer. Step 2 is made possible when we ask for forgiveness and forgive all around us. Guilt, fear and love cannot coexist.

then conduit it…

One essential life purpose, it’s clear, is to receive and conduit the currency of the universe, love… Love is what ties us to our creator and to each other. It’s what will eventually create the network that will lead to the spiritual dawn this planet yearns for. And the only way to fully experience and increase the love that we ask for and receive, is it to then pass it along. Love increases as we give it away. Why is that? Because we actually live it and feel it as we give it away, the person who receives it experiences it as well, so by giving our love to just one more person we’ve doubled it!

Daily Affirmation: Today I channel the love I receive. I give so that I can have.

Recommendation: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom

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Why Goodness Wins…

As you view the world, remember that the black patches of evil which you see, are shown against a white background of ultimate good.  – The Urantia Papers

evil

Often we focus only on negativities. The press certainly does. We too perk up when we hear bad news from around the world. Why is that? One explanation, of course, is that we feel better when we discover our own circumstances to be better than others’. Another reason is that we feel that world-wide turmoil might lead to the better tomorrow we all want.

goodness

And that’s exactly what will happen and is happening. Let’s know and expect that goodness triumphs, that God’s plan will play out, that evil can’t last and that a brotherhood of mankind is now beginning to dawn! Celebrate!!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM a sibling to all.

Recommendation: The Urantia Papers

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