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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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Why We Can’t Be Broken

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.Ernest Hemingway

broken?

After the devastating Tsunami in Nippon we’re all feeling a sense of loss, fear and uncertainty about the future. It’s so natural to feel that way. Let’s invite that feeling and not push it away. When we do that we come face to face with it and can experience it fully. Doing that is our ticket to feeling better. A primary goal of life is to banish fear and to embrace love in its stead.

prayer

The idea is to raise our own vibrations and not be affected by negative vibes from outside ourselves. A great way to raise our vibrations is to pray, to chant , to sing and to generally reach for and experience joy. As we do that, we heal and become capable of serving and healing others. Rejoice my friends because we’re all ultimately safe, believe this truth and celebrate!!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM safe and joyous!

Recommendation: Notes from the Universe by Mike Dooley

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What Silence Leads To…

6.30 And when he sees me in all and he sees all in me, then I never leave him and he never leaves me.

6.31 He who in this oneness of love, loves me in whatever he sees, wherever this man may live, in truth this man lives in me. The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 6)

god realization

Meditation, silence and a life of love-soaked service leads to an ever increasing realization of God. This ‘realization’ consists of seeing God in everything and everything in God according to this holy book of the Hindus.

love…

What emerges from this ‘vision’ of life is that love abounds and is the underpinning of reality itself. Love of God and by extension love for others reveals how we’re all connected at the deepest level. We are all brothers out on an eternal adventure that keeps unfolding…

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM one with all, in love.

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

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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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What To Do When Turmoil Hits?

Give God time.  – Qur’an

increasing turmoil

Because change is ever present, apparent and real turmoil is what we confront on a daily basis. Now with revolution starting to overthrow despotic governments around the world we’ll begin to see increasing planet-wide turmoil.

one respite

A main strategy in dealing with turmoil is to look within. God is ever present and a willing partner to all aspects in our lives. Won’t he who designed and upholds the entire universe, who cares for even a sparrow and who ever seeks our attention not care enough to provide direction and solace to us? When our earthly parents can provide so much love how much more can our heavenly parents? We may not presume on another’s love but certainly we can bank on God’s. Let’s not live another moment in loneliness.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM with God.

Recommendation: In Tune with the Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine

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