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Nama sika: venia benya I AM the one; I AM the whole

I greet you beloved family. I reach out to all who are here. I send forth my love, my embrace.

As I find my sense of balance and alignment within each of you, I can feel the energies of the Universe coming into balance and anchoring more so into and around the Earth.

As you are still here anchored in wherever you are as you listen to these words, I invite you to take a look around. You may see the room in which you are. You may see the landscape if you are outdoors, and as you are doing this you see what you tend to always see as you look at this space.

I now invite you to take in a slightly deeper breath, close your eyes for a moment and then look first with your inner eyes, as if you were opening up your emotions or your sensors, and take in what you feel may be in and around you.

You breathe gently and easily then open up your eyes in that first flash as you open up is your perception different? Do you see something that you had not noticed before? Do you experience your environment in a different way?

This is one of the tools that you can use in your daily life. You look around and then you breathe deeply, allowing yourself to center within and then take a second look. The more that you practice that the more you will begin to see, sense, experience multiple dimensions or expanded awareness.

I invite you to shift your focus now. As you do so, you may take one last breath and send it down into the Earth to anchor you, and then as you allow yourself to release, feel as if you are aligning with the energies of the magnetic grid.

As you arrive within this space you may feel your expanded consciousness, you may feel your higher self, you may also have the sense of the other energies around you and the movement of energy as it’s passing through this space.

From there feel as if you let go the energies of the magnetic grid and allow yourself to move into the crystalline grid. This is called a gridwork but indeed it is less of that structured formation and more of a space of consciousness.

As you allow yourself to move through this space, allow your perception or your energies to open in such a way as to feel your own crystalline energies or your own lightbody energy. There is a movement here that assists you as you open and feel the flow of this energy.

From there you have a sense of releasing this space. As you release this energy allow yourself to shift into the energies of the soul plane. What does the soul plane mean to you? Is it that place that you always feel or you already feel that’s in alignment with your divinity?

Look around. Send out the intention to align with your divinity. As you do so you may feel as if it’s coming up from within you. You may see it as if it’s yourself and you are walking towards it. Howsoever you perceive this energy, allow yourself to open up your consciousness, open up your heart, feel the blending that takes place as it all comes within you.

As you feel yourself merging with your divinity, allow yourself to let that flow of love, that flow of compassion, and the acceptance for who you are in this lifetime. As it all flows through you, allow yourself to accept these energies. From here, I the Goddess move in and amongst each of you. As I do so I reach out to embrace each one of you.

It is as if there is only you and I. It is as if my energies merging with you creates a new space or a new awareness. As our energies merge together feel yourself shift into the space of the All That Is.

As you move into this space in some ways it’s as if you can expand as big as you want to get, and yet as big or wide open as this space is, you feel a sense of security, a sense of peacefulness or perhaps even a sense of awareness of exactly who you are.

As I am feeling the energies of everyone present, I am considering what I would like to speak with you about this evening.

I invite each one of you to create that screen in front of you that we’ve used in the past. You can consider it like a big screen tv or perhaps you’re at a movie theatre and it's a big huge, humongous screen. It can be as big as you’d like it to be or as small.

As this screen is being created for you, I’m going to infuse an energy of illumination into the picture or into the screen itself. The reason for this is that I would like to invite each one of you to have a sense of opening up to other potentials that perhaps I may illuminate for you.

But first of all consider where you are in your life right now; as if you are watching this movie and it is proclaimed ‘This is my life right now’ coming up on the heading. What is the first thing that you notice? As you see this movie of your life infuse into it not only what your first perception is but as if to expand upon this infuse your emotions into the picture.

For a number of you it’s as if that screen has now become somewhat subdivided with different images, as if your emotions may be showing your life from another little perspective, and you can see you as the person that you are.

And off to the side, perhaps the happiness that you feel in another picture. Any sadness, and whatever emotions seem to be most within and around you right now, allow them to become a part of this picture in whatever way works for you.

As you are the somewhat detached observer, do you notice things in a different perspective as it relates to your emotions? As you look at this movie of you as you are moving through your life, as there are different things that may be taking place on the screen perhaps your everyday activities, can you see that the emotions you are feeling have an effect upon the movie that is your life?

You can perceive that but I would like to add to it. Consider your mental body. These are the thoughts that you have, these are your beliefs, these are those things that go around and around in your mind. As you infuse your thoughts, your beliefs, into this movie that is your life, does it change anything or does it illuminate something of which you were not aware?

Again for those that have the different windows or screens within their movie, you can use that as a means of identifying or creating a greater understanding of how your thoughts and beliefs are affecting your life.

Let’s consider your thoughts. On an average day do you find that your thoughts become focused on a particular subject? Maybe you are in the process of moving through something right now.

Maybe you are seeking to create a change but your thoughts can create a focused awareness that really pushes you along or your thoughts can become a barrier that keeps you in a place of security or what your mind believes to be security.

Looking at this screen, looking as an objective person what are your thoughts doing in your life? As you are considering your thoughts how much of that is based upon the beliefs that you have in your life. Let’s take a look at your beliefs.

We’re going to change the movie for a moment, shifting it in a different direction so to speak. As you open up that door within your mind or your consciousness that has to do with your beliefs, allow them to just flow freely.

Let’s consider beliefs about you as a person you are in this lifetime. Are they supportive of you? Do you believe that you are a unique and special individual who has manifested this life so as to experience your divinity upon Earth?

I have to laugh a little bit at that one because for so many people on their spiritual journey, something along that mind or that mindset seems to be at the foundation of your beliefs.

As you consider that for your life, does it feel supportive of you or does it feel as if it’s holding you back? Do you have any beliefs about your ability to accomplish something within your life, you can fill in whatever that may be.

Oooh wee! I heard a wave of energy from people saying ‘No, I don’t believe it’s going to happen because it’s never happened’. And I also heard ‘Well yes I believe I can do it but I don’t know what I can do to make it work because it’s not working’.

Therefore what I’m sensing from that one particular idea or potential is that there is a part of you that has a lot of faith and belief in yourself, perhaps because you know you’ve done so much work, perhaps because you know you are tuned into your divinity and in alignment with that. And yet there’s another part of that belief as if standing there like a mirror saying ‘But you haven’t done it. You’re not good enough. You’re doing it wrong’.

There are times when the belief which is the most strong support of yourself is either anchored down or has a mirrored effect that can be even stronger than your intention. At this time I invite you to look at that, look at the belief that is in support of you, and see on this big screen in front of you the ways in which your beliefs are now flowing through and interacting with everything else in your life.

As this continues to evolve in front of you, you can see how the beliefs may affect your emotions which may affect your physical. How your emotions may affect your everyday reality which supports or contradicts your beliefs. In this perception as you continue to observe this movie, allow yourself to now be open to see, sense, feel the light or the illumination that comes up from within.

I invite you to take this moment and as you consider all of these things that are coming up to your awareness, acknowledge that perhaps those emotions you thought were holding you back were creating a sense of security for you.

Perhaps the beliefs or the thoughts that are limiting do so because it too is saying ‘But this is our experience, this is our reality, this is what it is’. Let any of those things as they become illuminated by this light come up in this moment.

As you observe it all working together upon this screen you can make the choice to disconnect from what no longer works for you; you can disconnect from the emotions, the thoughts, whatever it may be, that have been holding you back.

And as you do so allow that wave of energy to move through you; let it move through you in the space that you are, let it just wash through you, and send it up into the screen. As that happens it’s as if there’s a bright flash of light, the screen blanks out for a moment as if you are re-booting or re-starting your life.

Look again at that screen. Look at your life. Do you have a new perception now? Can you see opportunities that were hidden from you because your focus was on a different perspective?

If you were looking at this you are the creator, what would you like to reach out towards? What would you like to emphasize? Where would you like the energy of your awareness to flow?

Because you are here in this place of creation, you have a chance to try out different potentials. Have a sense of allowing yourself to step into this screen, step in to this movie of your life. As you do so, as if totally whether you call it your imagination or simply being in this space of the All That Is, consider what it is you wake up to in the morning.

Perhaps you’re going to a different job than you went to before. Perhaps you’re looking around at your family life, and your family members are different; you’re reacting differently to each other. Perhaps you live in a different city, drive a different car, have a different home. Perhaps you have that abundance you have been seeking.

What does it look like? What do you sense or feel? As you see or experience yourself in this alternative reality, open up the door. What are your emotions feeling like at this time? It’s very interesting what I was sensing…for some of you that sense of rightness, this is where I want to be, this is what I’ve been seeking, it’s here, I’m living it now.

In others, I could feel you looking around experiencing what you are seeking and yet still feeling sad, disappointed, depressed. Still others I could feel you looking around and thinking ‘we’re on the right track and this feels much better to me but I think in truth I really want to go in this direction’.

This is a way of coming to a greater understanding of what’s happening within your emotions. Use them to be of assistance for you. For those who still continue to feel sadness, loneliness, depression, whatever it was, even when you were in a different reality.

Make a consciousness intention to move into those emotions, bring them up within you, create that alignment, that merging, whatever it is that you need. And let it move through you down to wherever that source is so that you can love, honor and support whatever is creating those emotions. As you do this you can then let them go.

You receive whatever it is that you need to have and then you release whatever was hanging over you, holding you within that space. And I invite you to look around again. How does your creation feel to you? For those of you who are in this space of creation and you’re looking or experiencing what you’ve been seeking to have, you can always ask yourself ‘What do I need to get here? Is there anything I need to change in my life?’

As you do this you find yourself shifting over into the thoughts or the mental process of this new creation or new opportunity. You can use your analytical self to give the descriptive answers that you are seeking. You can look from that descriptive perspective to be able to open to a greater awareness.

This is your place of creation. Allow yourself to sit back for a moment and just bask in these energies of feeling good. Allow yourself to feel the love, the support, the awareness that moves through you on every single level.

I invite you to take this feeling with you as you move through your day. Sometimes you may be within the space of this for only a few seconds at a time. Other times you may stretch it longer into minutes, hours, weeks, whatever it may be.

Take in a deep breath, breathing deeply, easily, allowing yourself to feel the flow as it moves through you. As you look again at that screen in which you’ve been at times observing and at times walking within the experiences of your life, is there anything that comes to you.

I invite you to have a sense of shifting your focus. As you do so allow yourself to come back. You may feel, see, sense the group of people who are here. And coming up within that group is the hologram that represents the Earth and the New Earth.

As this hologram comes up within the group, I invite you to send a flow of energy or awareness of what you have just created, letting it go down into the Earth or into the hologram. As you observe the hologram you may see that there is a swirl of energy that’s moving through it or you may see sparkles that seem to come out from it.

As you take all of this in, put forth the intention or the awareness that there is a balanced energy that is also flowing through this hologram. You then have a sense of letting it go as it flows down from you. There is a stream that moves out through the crystalline grid in in one direction and then the rest of it goes down into you physical earth in the other direction.

It moves through the magnetic grid and then moves down into the physical Earth itself, anchoring within, and then the energy of that hologram expands outwards. It comes out through every layer of the Earth, it comes up through the grass, the water, the trees, the flowers, it comes up through everything.

It comes up within you in your physical reality. Allow what you created to move through the space in which you live, the space in which you work, perhaps you drive, your town; it could be as big or as little as you would like. And all that energy expands moving through there.

As you do this you may have a sense of seeing how you are creating a greater stability for yourself. Continue to observe yourself from this higher perspective as you look at your life. And as you look at those alternatives you were playing with as you were living within that movie of your life, see what changes may come about in your everyday reality.

There are the solar flares, there are eclipses, there is a full moon. There are always going to be these changes in the Universe that are affecting the Earth, sometimes amplifying the energies, sometimes seeming to create barriers and sometimes seeming to create a greater ease. With this intention, as you look at yourself, as you look at your life, put forth the awareness that you are balanced.

And that you have a flow and an ease within your life. Open up to become aware of any information or emotions or whatever it may be that comes to you as you look at your life from this higher perspective. You may then feel your energies or feel yourself coming back within this space of the All That Is.

As you look around there may be an opening in the perspective or an expansion in your awareness. Let that move through you. Have a sense of allowing yourself to move through the energies of the All That Is until you find yourself back in the soul plane. Here within the soul plane you align once more with your divinity. Take in your greater perception that is now available to you.

Recognize how your divinity embraces and receives back any part of you that you have let go that you’ve released that’s no longer working for you.

It is brought back into the fold of the All That Is or your I Am presence so that you as you shift your focus and your consciousness coming back down more so into your everyday reality you are bringing with you that which is in your best interest and it flows through.

You feel yourself shifting thought the crystalline grid moving back into the magnetic grid and you once more feel that pull, the gravitational pull of the Earth here within your consciousness.

You again allow yourself to flow back down within your physical reality. As you come back within this space let yourself feel the expansion around you. As much of your divinity as you can flows down, filling up within and around you.

Accept this new potential; accept this new reality. Feel yourself as more balanced within your life.

And so with that beloved family we will bring this evening to a close.

I invite you to work with that screen as a means of giving yourself that detached perspective of yourself. I invite you to open up to the flow of compassion and awareness within yourself.

I invite you to take this as an opportunity of looking at your life with new eyes, experiencing the potentials around you from a new perceptive and then allowing all of that to unfold in whatever shape it may.

I am ever with you and within you.

Ansaluia
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Heavenletter #4277 Love Beyond the Borders of the World, August 10, 2012

God said:

The Divine Feminine. There is a lot of talk about the Divine Feminine in spiritual circles. It is a name given to love, yet love has no gender. Love belongs to the men in the world. Love belongs to the women in the world. Oneness is love, and men are not excluded from Oneness. As the symbolic story goes, Eve was made from Adam’s rib, yet there is much more to the story, for you as well as Adam and Eve are indisputably far more than your physical body. The physical is marvelous. Yet the physical of you is the least of you. It is a covering of you. It allows physical motion.

I am neither masculine nor feminine, or, We can say that I am both masculine and feminine. I am Love, and you are love. We do not need to call love masculine or feminine or neuter or anything at all but love. There are far more levels than the body. Love is way beyond the borders of the world, the fictional borders of the world. Borders have to be fiction, or love would not exist, and love exists, and love is all.

It is well worth it to love. It is well worth it to keep love viable. Strong love. Tender strength. They are the same. Love is strength. Love is power. Love is the most powerful of all. Tenderness is love. Strength is love. Love is the dynamo of the Universe.

Mind is powerful, and, yet the mind, with its preconceived ideas, has limited the expression of love. From fear, the mind has repressed love. The mind can activate love. The mind has cautioned love, so the mind can enliven love as well. The mind can do lots and lots, yet love can do more. Love can flow and reach everywhere and win over everything.

Love is not a passive role. Love is not for shirkers. It is not for the timid. Love is for the powerful. Love is a force. The force of love is love.

It is love that is Divine. Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine are a dividing, a sub-category. It is a defining. Let love not be defined.

The fact is that We are entering the Age of Love. And what an age this is. The heart of the world is opening, and love is playing music on your heartstrings. I am playing love on your heartstrings. I play beautiful music. I have captured your heart. And yet I have given all of My heart to you. Will you accept that We are One, and Our Love is One, and love deserves exaltation?

Hurray for love. About time more love alit on Earth through the portals of open hearts. About time that love becomes the only expression. With love, there is peace. With love, there is intelligence. Love is going to be dancing in the streets. Love is dancing on the rooftops and in the streets and in dancehalls. Love is changing the world, and love is changing you. Love is the baton. It is the magic wand. Love is the common denominator of the world.

You, Divine Love, are heralding a new age. This new age could be called the Age of Heaven on Earth, yet Age of Love will do. Three simple words. Age of Love. I like it.

It took ages before the world could accept its Divinity. There is nothing for you to do except to accept. Accept love from everywhere. Accept love from yourself for yourself. Then love is so easy to spend.

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The Tibetan:

The centuries have come and gone since last we were as one.  The nights have followed days, and with the ending of each life, the return to spirit - those cycles have evolved as the wheels of rebirth played out their scenarios.  But today, the past has become the present, the present the past.

So what about the future?  The future is just a recognition of the past, our history, my heritage, old souls meeting yet again, but we have never been apart.  It has appeared that way - those invisible barriers have stood in the way, those memories, hidden and dim sometimes, such then is that pain, being unable to see you again.

Now that mist has cleared, the glass shines clear, even though I know, you have always been near.

That signpost has been acknowledged, that sign seen, the green light recognised in my pathway ahead, those stepping stones not stepped upon, but instead realised, that transference of the material to the spiritual has taken place, I have come into my own, I am ever more aware of home.

Happy days, full of joy - love and peace sift through my consciousness, to enable me to realise "everlasting peace".

My quest is acknowledged, recognised and shared, those fellow travellers also remembering that which once was, is, and therefore is not new, for nothing new exists, every thought and memory, is but a repeat of same, throughout the aeons of time. Nothing has been added or taken away, all is as it has always been, throughout time.

Pat Grabham

31 October, 2005.

PTAH:

There he stands in all his glory, filled with majesty and splendour.  His light shines so bright, it fills me with delight.

From a vast distance he beckons, my soul says yes to all that he asks.  One day when I reach the other side of life, after a while, having seen family and loved ones, there will come a time I know when I will feel a sense of loss, if he is not there.

I know he could see me, albeit for a brief moment in time, but until I have arrived at that place wherein he resides, my goal will still be a long way off and that dream but a speck, for where he waits is the Kingdom of Heaven, that doorway to Eternity, which when I reach, so will I know him more, but in the meantime, my soul waits, listens and adores that beauty and light, which without there would always be night.

To see but once is not enough, but then perhaps I meet him in those dream states when yes, that memory is reived of those long ago days in the very beginning of time, which my soul searches once more to find, and so there he stands like a signpost, showing me the way, for I have no other option than to follow wherever he leads, for that is the key to Paradise, and fulfilment of al my dreams.

I have spoken to often I know to that love of my life and indeed shared many memlories of far off days when the world was different to today.

Indeed he was a Father to my youth, an inspiration to my innocence, the be and end of all things resided in his very presence, so is it any wonder, my soul will never be able to rest completely till that time comes when once more he and I are one, just as we were in the Beginning of Time.

Pat Grabham

1989.

Heavenletters #3850 Make a Friend, June 10, 2011
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HEAVEN is here to reach every soul on earth to reawaken:

* Our connection to God *
* Our belief in ourselves *
* Our awareness of our shared worthiness to God *
* Peace on Earth *

God is always bringing us closer to Him.

HEAVEN #3850 Make a Friend, June 10, 2011

God said:
If you came across people with leprosy frequently, you might say to yourself: “What have I done to attract this?” You might take it personally, hold yourself accountable, karma and so forth, or you might not hold yourself accountable at all but be mightily annoyed that people with leprosy seem to gravitate to you. You see it that you are being given a hard time.

So now, here’s the difference between you and the Great One who helped to heal. He said nor thought any of the above. His thought was: “What can I do to be of service?”

He wasn’t thinking of himself. That meant he didn’t wonder how he might have brought people with this illness to himself nor did he find fault with them for having a disease that made them outcasts in the common world they lived in, nor did he resent them for choosing to come to him. His immediate thought was to be of service to his Heavenly Father through the needs of those before him. He served, and yet he did not take others’ difficulties to himself.

I use the above by way of example.

Now, let Us say that you suffer ill-will too many times from others. Others seem to be offended by you, and a sure result might be that you offend them back. It is like you are innocent and yet you find yourself in the same pickle time after time. The incidents you may come across can be compared to the appearance of people with leprosy. Your common response might me: “How come there are so many people who take offense at me? They shouldn’t behave this way to me. It’s always like this. This isn’t right. What is the matter with these people?”

You may see that somehow the world mistreats you. You recriminate the others for their lack of consideration to you.

There are others who see themselves responsible for the recurrence of situations, and, yet, they are still as helpless as the ones who cannot come to grips with the idea that they somehow contribute to the drama repeated in their lives again and again. These children of Mine may hold themselves guilty of doing something wrong, even when they don’t know what, and even may be an innocent bystander.

In one scenario, one person takes no responsibility, and in the other scenario, one dwells in guilt about it. In both cases, attention goes on themselves.

Better to get away from these scenarios and ask yourself the questions now: “What do I do? How do I respond to this? How can I repair the experience for the benefit of all?”

Let Us say that someone accuses you of being rude to him or unkind in some way, and you see this as an assault on you. Your reaction is anger. You are going to have nothing to do with this person in the future. That did it. He or she wronged you, and that’s the end of your exchange with that person.

That’s the end of that person in your life. You’re finished.

And so you punish the other person, and, in the process, you punish yourself.

In kindness and generosity, you could say to the person who was offended and who, in the process, offended you: “I’m so sorry. I had no idea. I was unaware. I would never want to offend you. I will be more careful in the future. I never want this to happen again.” How would it hurt you to say this?

Or would you rather be the angry victim?

We are talking about your being a true friend, not a happenstance one.

If, for good reason or no reason, you have alienated someone, don’t alienate them further. Make peace.

Better to make a friend than a foe. Better for all. Better for the world.

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Heavenletters #3853 Cheer the World , June 13, 2011
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HEAVEN is here to reach every soul on earth to reawaken:

* Our connection to God *
* Our belief in ourselves *
* Our awareness of our shared worthiness to God *
* Peace on Earth *

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HEAVEN #3853 Cheer the World , June 13, 2011

God said:

The importance of your staying positive cannot be overestimated. It is incumbent upon you to set the sites of the world. Your thoughts produce the world.

Let Us say, for the moment, that you are a manufacturer of bottle caps. As the manufacturer of bottle caps, you know better than to say negative things about bottle caps. You wouldn’t say they aren’t made right. You wouldn’t say that the bottle caps you manufacture are foolish. You wouldn’t say, “Bottle caps. Tut tut.”

And, yet, about the world, you say, “Tut tut.” About the world, you give dire prognoses. About the world, sometimes you throw up your hands. About the world, you may say, “There will always be wars.” You may say, “History repeats itself.” And by your very statements, thought mentally or said aloud, you try to establish that what you say is true. So, when history repeats itself, you can say, “There, I told you so. I could see it. I knew it. I predicted it.” “And I won,” your mind says vacuously.

From now on, please shed light on the world. The world is of Our making, beloveds. It is Our baby. If you do not speak well of Our baby, who is going to?

The world is your infant. How you nourish an infant makes a difference. The world depends upon how you think of it and what you say about it. The world will change according to how you think about it.

There is the age-old topic of nature or nurture. The world which I gave birth to in love also depends upon nurture. The world depends upon your nurture.

Is it not well-known that how you think and speak of a houseplant makes a difference to its growth?

If you want your houseplant to be blooming, you bless it. If you neglect or badmouth your plant, it will wither. You can’t possibly think that the world is less affected than a houseplant you picked up at the super market.

There are truly good things you can say about the world, and you must say them. Say them, or be quiet. Either cheer the world, or be mute, but it is much better to cheer the world.

Without the world, you wouldn’t even have it to find fault with! The world is not be your scapegoat. The world is your opportunity. You have an influence on the state of the world. You cannot fling the world aside for the sake of your own declarations.

The world is a living breathing entity. It is well-meaning. It has no choice but to reflect you. Give it something wonderful to reflect. Be the world’s best cheerleader. Lead the world on to victory.

Consider the world your army, and so you give it its direction. Of course, the world can be an armed solider ready for war. Of course, the world can also be the loving Mother Earth it was designed to be. It is your call. You call the shots. Your thumbs up or your thumbs down make all the difference in the world. You are the designator of the world. You are the propagator of the world. You are the farmer who tills it. And you are the children who pick the fruit from its trees. Upon all of you, the world depends. It takes its cues from you. You are the mother of the world. You are its orchestra leader.

You are its champion. You support the world. Find that which to admire. And so you bolster the world. There is much in the world to love right now. Love it.

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Heavenletters #3857 The Bank of Love , June 17, 2011
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HEAVEN is here to reach every soul on earth to reawaken:

* Our connection to God *
* Our belief in ourselves *
* Our awareness of our shared worthiness to God *
* Peace on Earth *

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HEAVEN #3857 The Bank of Love , June 17, 2011

God said:

The only thing you need in your life is more love.

You have more love to give, only you don’t really understand this, understand what this means.

You cannot manufacture love, yet you can give it. You can give it to yourself. It would be good for you to love yourself more. Love your Being more. Love your personality as well, and yet know that personality is a fleeting thing, often associated with ego. Concerning your True Being, there is no ego involved. As you love Me, you love your True Being.

Your True Being isn’t concerned with image. Image is concern with ego. Yet if you can love other people’s personalities, why not love your own?

You can keep your personality in place, and yet you can behold it with love.

What a singular thing to be a True Being housed secretly in the human aspects of your given name.

What a parade. What a charade.

Getting back to love, how do you give more even when your heart feels parched? How do you feel more love? Remember it. Remember love. Come back to love. When you feel more love, you will naturally breathe out more love. Is there a greater joy than love? I cannot think of one.

And every day you have occasion for love. Your love does not have to be humongous love. It can be simple toned-down love. It can be awareness of love. What does it feel like to love?

The passageways of your heart are cleared. You send out love without a big to-do. It is an easy-going thing to give out more love.

It is not that you psych yourself up to love. It is that you focus more on love than you focus on the matters you have been focusing on. Worries, for example.

Look, when you want to have more money, it’s unwise to focus on lack of money. When you want to radiate more love, it’s unwise to focus on perceived lack of love. The only thing you truly have to give is love. Acts of love may or may not be backed by the Bank of Love. Acts of love have their merit. An active flowing heart of love merits more. When it comes to love, it doesn’t matter how you box it and wrap it. It matters the love itself.

Love is energy, beloveds. Your True Nature is love. The love I filled your heart with cannot be overlooked forever. Instead of knuckling down to love, just idly paddle love as you would a canoe. If you are making your life a movie of love, you will not make an epic movie of love. It will be a low-key movie. It might even be a silent movie.

Let love be known to you. You do not have to profess love. Be present in love. Sink into the cushions of love. Lean back, recline, know that you are love and that you have love to give. You do want to give love, don’t you?

Give love from your heart. Be telepathic with love. Let your love go everywhere. Let the love in your heart emanate from there. Let love be your password to life. Let love be the path you walk on. Go arm and arm with love. Rather than profess love, allow your God-given love to be. You are not shooting your love out. There is no need for a barrage of love. There is just need for love to flow as naturally as you breathe.

Love is good. You are love. You are good. Love is the epitome of your life. Be a hot-cross bun of love. Be a provider of love on the corner. People will find you there. You don’t need a big sign. Casual encounters with love will do. Easy does it.

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Heavenletters #3860 To What Are You Beholden?, June 20, 2011
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HEAVEN #3860 To What Are You Beholden?, June 20, 2011

God said:

To what are you beholden? Not to obligation. Obligation and responsibility are not the same thing. Joy is your responsibility. Love is your responsibility. Obligation doesn’t seem to carry joy. Obligation is a favor or an exchange. Obligation may be a bartering situation. Obligation is a loosely-written contract.

Such contracts often have repercussions. Obligation isn’t generous. As a matter of fact, obligation stints. Obligation is a miser and does not come from the heart. Obligation is a weight. Duty and obligation are not generous words, and, when enacted, they are not giving acts. Duty and obligation can be considered skinflints.

Responsibility and heart ride together. Duty and obligation are more like grimaces or gritted teeth. May you be spared from those who would serve you from a sense of obligation. Free yourself and others from obligation.

Obligation comes from outside you. It is like a rule you’ve heard. Responsibility comes from inside you, and is, therefore, timely. Responsibility is your decision. It is not imposed upon you. You accept it.

A mother comforts her baby. That is the mother’s joy. And so she gives joy to her baby. The mother may not like being awakened at night, but she wants to nurse her baby more than she wants to sleep.

She is responsible for her baby, and it is a responsibility that, by nature, she accepts. The mother blesses the baby, and the baby blesses the mother. It is not a trade. It is the will of both mother and baby.

Obligation is heavy-handed. Obligation may incur resentment. Obligation is simply not appreciated in the way that responsibility is. Obligation hangs heavily on your shoulders. Responsibility strengthens your shoulders. It makes you stand taller, straighter. Responsibility is not drudgery. Responsibility is an offering to the altar of life. It is not a formality. Obligation is a leech. Responsibility is an honor.

You may be a prisoner of obligation. Obligation is like being in a chain gang. There are fetters around your ankles.

Responsibility has no handcuffs. Responsibility is a free choice you make. You are responsible to yourself. Taking on responsibility is a gift to yourself, and it bears gifts to others. Being responsible is something you want to take care of. It is only a committed heart that reinforces responsibility.

Responsibility is an embrace. Obligation is like a forced march.

There is a fine line between responsibility and obligation. Remember, you are responsible for yourself as well as to another. If you are to treat others as you treat yourself, make sure you treat yourself well. What you may do from a sense of obligation obligates another. When you feel obligated, you may well be obligating another, and then you start measuring and counting what you are owed. You may not want to do this, yet you do it. Give others their freedom, and keep your own freedom of choice intact.

When you obligate another, you deny them their freedom. You may become a dunning debt collector.

Even when you don’t say a word about it, you are moiling over debts due you in your mind. You are adding up figures.

Be not an obligator, nor obligated be. Either way, obligation is not wholesome.

Responsibility on the other hand is wholesome. Responsibility is a lightweight. Obligation is a heavyweight. Responsibility is an opportunity. Obligation is a ball and chain. A sense of obligation has been thrown at you. Responsibility, on the other hand, is like carrying a torch at the Olympics.

Responsibility is a winner who carries the torch and runs with it.

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Heavenletters #3865 All That You Have Been Given, June 25, 2011
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HEAVEN #3865 All That You Have Been Given, June 25, 2011

God said:

Give the thoughtful little acts. They mean so much. Visit the lonely, the sick, the poor, and give them occasion to feel better. Sometimes all it takes is a little attention. I will call this survival of the fittest, you being the fittest, beloveds. Survive by giving to others that which is yours to give.

You will find many occasions to bless someone, and so you are blessed. You are blessed twofold. You are blessed by your ability to give, and you are blessing by the deed of giving. Maybe thrice-blessed, blessed again that someone gives you the opportunity to give.

Do not overlook the power of the little things. A word. A glance. A deed.

Remember to give what someone wants more than you want to give something else that you favor to give.

Company may or may not be a gift desired. Sweets may or may not be a gift desired. Give what the receiver desires. Think of what the receiver desires. It could even be a bowl of lemons.

There are occasions where your presumed needs take a back-burner. Not what you want, but what means most to another.

When you are grateful for your own life, express your gratitude in the avenues of others’ lives. This pleases Me very much. Any kindness you give to one of My children, you give to Me. I thank you for your generosity. I thank you for taking care of My children as if they were your own. Of course, that is the case. Every child is yours. Everyone is yours, and therefore everyone is for you to care for.

In your awareness, skip no one. Just as you might total bills, tote up those who value a thought from you and can use it.

Once you had a narrow awareness. Now it has widened. Your awareness widens with your vision.

Soon your vision will be all-encompassing. In passing, you will take care of everyone. You will see out of the corner of your eye. You will see even that which the eye cannot see.

You will look into My eyes, and see through them. You will see all. You will hear all. You will be All.
Responsibility is not worry. Responsibility is awareness. Your reach is long. Your step is long. Your giving does not even feel like giving. It is where you are. And so you carry out every responsibility to the world and to yourself. It is to yourself that every generous act is directed. You skip no one.

It is that your mind and heart encompass all. You are a soldier of mercy who carries everyone to the light. There is no battlefield. You succor everyone. You carry a sword of light that mutes all darkness out in the field. You are the ray of light that eager eyes look to. You light up hearts, and those hearts light up other hearts. You lead the Light Brigade.

In so doing, you put out fires. They are so easy to put out. They never should have been. They submit eagerly at your feet.

And, so, the whole world becomes at your service. You who serve the world are served. Not a day goes by that you are not served. This is true for everyone, only what you are served may not be as you desired. Give more, and desire more. Everything is for you to give, and everything is for you to receive.

As you widen your eyes, you will see all that you have been given. This makes it very easy for you to give, and give you will.

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Heavenletters #3867 The Dawn Has Come, June 27, 2011
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HEAVEN #3867 The Dawn Has Come, June 27, 2011

God said:

Heigh ho, a day has begun. The dawn lifts up its eyes and glances into yours. All is well. Heigh ho, a day has begun.

The whole world wakes up to a new day. Even in the skylines of New York City, the dawn, heralded by the rosy sun, has made its appearance. The dawn and the skyline are blessed by the sun. All that shines under the sun is blessed. And all shines under the sun.

Yet the sun has no patent on light. As mighty as the sun is, you have light within you that shines as brightly or even brighter. I think We have to say brighter than the sun. The sun, as enlightened as the sun is, is like a stalwart delivery truck that follows a steady route. The sun has a schedule to follow. It is always prompt.

You, on the other hand, have no limits to your delivery. You have no schedule. Your light is simply meant to stay on. No turning it off. Night or day, you can shine your light, and your light reaches far.

Your light has long fingers, fingers longer than the rosy fingers of the dawn. Your fingers of light have no end. This is the nature of the light that shines from your heart, or your eyes, or your smile, or from the evidence of your life. Plane down a board, hold a child's hand, lift up your eyes, your light pierces the world. Light from you isn't illusory. It is momentous. It is soul-brightening. It is heart-polishing. It needs no batteries. It runs on light that sustains itself. It needs no batteries, no storage, no timer, no winding like a clock, no unwinding.

The light of the sun is solar. Your light is soul light shining out just the way the sun meets the day. You are full of soul. No one is soul-less. Who on Earth would cover up his light? And yet this has occurred. And yet this has even become commonplace, as if the world were no place for light, as if Earth should have its shades pulled, as if there were no sun, no stars, no reflection on lakes and splashes of light entering the windows and makes itself at home indoors.

If My light is momentous, then yours is the same. You have great light within you. Awareness of the light you are is beginning to dawn on you. Simultaneous are the dawning of awareness and the dawning of light. They are reciprocal in any case. They let in the fresh air. Open your heart wide.

Through the windows of your soul, your light will beam across the horizon and enter hearts and nourish hearts. Light will touch their hearts, and the lighted people will not even know where the light came from. They will just know that the light has come. Even from furrowed foreheads, light can come, and light can land, and all on Earth can be light. All can be like light never seen before, like light never quite dancing like this before, like light like a huge chorus line. The dancers' feet never touch the ground. Light travels at the speed of light. Light multiplies itself, and the world is drowned in love. The world swoons in love, and anything but love is knocked out.

This is heigh-ho, the dawn has come. It is not ho-hum. It is heigh-ho, and off We go. We charge across the Universe, light leaping high, light leaving love everywhere to a tune that you have hardly dared dream of and yet is yours to see with, that blinding light of your heart alighted on love and nothing but love.

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Heavenletters #3872 You Can Inspire, July 2, 2011
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HEAVEN #3872 You Can Inspire, July 2, 2011

God said:

Consider responsibility. Remember that you represent Me. You can be real and represent Me. Just remember that you represent Me. Consider how you represent Me.

You can inspire. You can authentically inspire even when you do not feel inspired. You don’t have to let everyone know what you are thinking or feeling at any given moment. Even when you feel like whining, you don’t have to. Who are you to whine? You have other alternatives at your disposal.

What does being a responsible person mean?

Certainly it is not your responsibility to discourage the world. Certainly it is not your responsibility to point out the errors of the world. Who asked you to? Certainly not I!

I never meant you to broadcast the newspaper headlines. I never asked you to speak ill of the world. I never asked you to air its foibles.

Because you feel disappointed is no reason to foster disappointment in the world. It doesn’t take much to be good at fostering disappointment. Be good at something else.

I ask you to go higher, and I mean now, not later, not just for when you feel like it. I ask you to spread light even when you don’t feel like it. Uplift even when you do not feel like it, and you will be uplifted. It is not for you to share the doldrums. If you feel you must be in the doldrums, then at least do not invite others in. What are you trying to prove? Are you trying to prove that you are a victim?

Why on Earth would you want to do that?

Prove that you are a hero instead.

Is it asking too much of you that I ask you, once and for all, to stop complaining?

The time for moaning and groaning is over. It is time to put a stop to it. There has been enough. The end of complaining has come. What was the purpose in complaining anyway?

What kind of accomplishment is complaint anyway?

Anyone can do it. There are probably some who can do it better than you, but why complain at all?

It is an old song. Be tired of it.

What is so revelatory about your disappointment and your disapproval?

What is it that prompts you to carry on with it?

If you have been complaining, stop now. It does not become a child of God to whine. Not at all. It is not necessary. Why would you gripe and gripe again when there are so many other choices before you?

Why would you gripe if only to yourself?

Do you really want to hear about it over and over again?

Is it music to your ears?

Are you really so in love with all the reasons why you are too straightforward to uplift the world?

Your mission in life cannot be to complain. I ask you to let go of pointing out wrongs, personal wrongs or otherwise.

Who wants to hear you moan about the rain or anything?

Be edifying instead. Look, can’t you find something interesting to talk about?

If there is something you have said once, don’t say it again. Well, don’t say it again unless it is far-seeing and opens the hearts of all those who hear you.

Why on Earth would you want to be a heart-closer when you have the opportunity of opening hearts and opening the whole world to itself?

When you can circulate love, why aren’t you?

I ask for your help in enlightening the world. Did you not know that?

If you did not know that, why didn’t you?

And if you know that now, well, then, act on it. This is your responsibility. It is your responsibility to inspire the world. This is what I ask of you. If you have to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, then pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

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Heavenletters #3874 Be the Glory, July 4, 2011
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HEAVEN #3874 Be the Glory, July 4, 2011

God said:

Hear ye, hear ye. I am speaking to you. There is not a moment when I am not. There are moments when you hear. Will you kindly speak to Me?

Carry Me with you. Talk to Me as you would to a high-priced consultant. Here you have Me at your fingertips, as it were, and may not avail yourself of Our consultancy.

Even if you cannot hear Me in words, you can hear Me in feeling. You feel an urge to go in this direction or that direction. Something urges you forward or something stops you. Could it be I? Could I be at your elbow?

Certainly, there are times when you don't know what direction to take, and, yet, there are more times when you do know, and, yet, a little nudge from ego takes you down a path that does not serve you, or Me or anyone at all, well, except as a warning sign of a path not to go down.

One who steals justifies his stealing, as if stealing were just a slight turn in the world, as if your perceived need warranted it. If you steal in any sense of the word, you have made yourself needy. If you take honor that is not yours, you have stolen. If you take an invention that you did not invent as yours, you have stolen. If you take credit which is not yours, you have done a disservice to yourself.

You walk on hollow land.

Can you imagine that I would advise you to take that which is not yours?

And, once, you have done the deed, do you think I am no longer at your elbow?

I am right with you as ever, nudging you now. I will pick you up. I will embrace you as before.
No longer are you to hide behind any mask. Theft is a mask. Cruelty is a mask. Heartache is a mask.

Cleverness is a mask. Wit is a mask. Take off your masks, and you will find sincerity ready to come forth.

Sincerity is good. Sincere regret beats haughty pride, for regret shows recognition that you have passed a hurdle. Of course, let go of regret quickly. Regret is not a harbor. It is not an inn to stay in, not for even one night. Regret can also be a kind of pride. Pride at regret and pride of virtue are their own stumbling blocks, and are hard to get past. No longer rank yourself, and stop ranking others.

Confide in Me. I am with you now. Tell Me your story, not someone else's. There is no delight in making comparisons.

Come out of the shadows. Put down your defenses. Do you defend yourself from Me?

I know you better than you know yourself. I know in Whose image you are Made. You don't seem to believe it. You refuse to believe it, so inculcated have you been in the mirage of fault. You pick out your faults in a blink of an eye, and, sad as it is, you run away from the Wholeness that you are. Really, would you rather be a broken twig than a whole growing tree?

In Whose image do you want to be made other than in Mine?

And in Whose image would I want to make you other than Mine?

There is not even another image for Me to make you in. I am the only Image there is, and I am way beyond image, and you are greater than image. I am telling you that you are the real thing.

Take off your cloaks and masks, and just be the glory that I made when I made you.

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On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...
...that wisdom is learning what to overlook.

William James said that, and he had it absolutely right.

And someone in your life right now is hoping, praying,
that you will overlook their faults, their foibles, their
most recent mistake.

Will you?

The Universe invites you to say yes.

Love, Your Friend....

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On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...
...that you can change what you see. You don't have
to be trapped by it.

Nothing has to remain the way it is, and nothing is
the way it is forever unless and until you say so.

You really are in charge of your day-to-day
experience. Really.

You know exactly why you received this message
today.

Love, Your Friend....

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On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...
...that enthusiasm is half of the journey to success, and
all of the journey to joy.

If you're going to do something, do it with gusto. Don't
do anything half-heartedly. That dishonors the doing
and the doer. So go for it. Hold nothing back. In life.

Or love. Or anything at all.

You will not have to think but a second to know
exactly why you received this message today.

Trust that your inner goodness will rule this moment...

Love, Your Friend

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On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...
...that kindness is one of your wonderful traits, but
where you really shine is in your generosity.

It is one thing to be kind, and you are that. Yet it is quite
another thing to also be unfailingly generous--with your
time, your talent and energy, your willingness to
"be there" for others, and yes, with your money.

You are a generous person, and that takes kindness
to a new level. Be happy in the knowingness of this.

Love, Your Friend.

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On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know......

that life was meant to be FUN! It's hard to believe
sometimes, but it's true. It's all about point of view.

Even our most difficult moments bring us gifts. And so
life may call upon us to be a bit "philosophical" now and
then; to embrace the "low's" with the "high's."

The trick, of course, is gratitude. Therein will you find
both your peace and your joy.

Love, Your Friend

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On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...
...that your inner goodness is going to carry the day.

I know that you know what a good person you are.

Yes, we all make mistakes, but when everything is said
and done, you are a genuinely good person...and you
know it.

So here's what you should be told: God knows it, too.

Trust that your inner goodness will rule this moment...

Love, Your Friend...

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On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...
...that illness is not a sign of spiritual weakness, but of
spiritual strength.

When we fall ill there are some who will say, "Why
did you create that for yourself?" They might convince
you to see it as a sign of spiritual weakness or failure.

It is not. It is a sign of spiritual strength.

All challenges are a sign of spiritual strength, and of
the readiness of the Soul to move on;
to evolve even further.

Love, Your Friend....

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On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...
...that progress is not measured in miles, it is measured
in inches.

Do not wonder why things are "taking so long." In fact,
everything is rolling out exactly as it needs to, using
not a minute more than Perfection requires.

Rest easy and be at peace. Life is working its magic
even as you take your very next breath.

There. See? You could almost feel the Perfection,
couldn't you?

Love, Your Friend....

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On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...
...that how bad things may look right now means nothing.
It's how good you know they can look with God's help
that counts.

Life has a habit of changing itself completely around in
24 hours. Heck, in 24 minutes sometimes.

Don't you dare give up on Tomorrow because of the
way things look Today. Don't even think about it...

Love, Your Friend....

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On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...
...that obstacles are not opposing you, but merely and
gently re-routing you.

It is important not to view that which stands in your
way as your 'enemy.' It can often be your best friend,
sending you on a detour that takes you around what
could have been your biggest stumbling block.

Send a word of gratitude, then, for anything that seems
to be 'opposing' you now. All things in life happen for
good. Trust God about that.

Love, Your Friend....

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On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...
...that intimacy means more than sex, as you know. Tell
others that, for you, it is about the connection of souls.

It is the true union of two beings. It is about walking
through all moments, both good and bad, and never
leaving the other's side.

You are intimate when you are fully with another, no
matter what. In fact, this has very little to do with that
which is physical.

Love, Your Friend....

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On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...
...that you cannot tailor-make your situation in life, but you
can tailor-make your attitudes to fit those situations.

World famous motivational speaker Zig Ziglar said that, and
he was profoundly right. How you shape your attitude is not
a small part of how you shape your life...it is the only part.

Does it sound as if I'm saying that attitude is everything?

Good. Because I am.

Love, Your Friend

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On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...
...that someone is extending love to you this day, and
hoping so dearly that you will receive it.

You have asked for someone to love you right now,
and God has answered your prayer. Look. Listen.
That loving person is right in your world. Open the
door for them to come in.

I promise you, I'm not making this up. Someone is
loving you right now. Look. Listen. Let it in.

There, I've said it twice. God wanted me to make sure
you really got it.

Love, Your Friend

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On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...
...that there is no need to be afraid. Even if you were to
die right now, there would be no need to be afraid.

This life, this wonderful life, is on your side. This universe,
this wonderful universe, is in your corner, supporting all
of life. This God, this wonderful God, places Divine
wisdom and power in your hands.

Trust that. Use it. And let it give you strength. Right now.
This day.

Love, Your Friend..

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On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...
...that there is a solution to all of this--and it is right
around the next corner.

A few weeks from now you will not even be facing
this problem. A few months from now, you will have
forgotten you ever had it. A few years from now, you
will wonder why you let yourself worry so much.

I'm not trying to make light of it here. I just want to
put it in perspective.

Okay? Trust God here. Trust life. And breathe.

Love, Your Friend.

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On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...
...that you can live a charmed life, and that there is a
formula by which you can make this work.

Here is the formula: You can live a charmed life by
causing others to live a charmed life. That is, be the
source of 'charm' -- of charming moments and
experiences -- in the life of another.

Be everyone else's Lucky Charm! Make all who you
touch today feel 'lucky' that you crossed their path.

Do this for a week and watch things change. Do it
for a month and you'll be a different person.

Love, Your Friend

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On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...
...that nothing is as bad as it seems. Nothing.

There is a benefit and a blessing hidden in the folds
of every experience and every outcome. That includes
every and any 'bad' thing that may be happening to
you right now.

Change your perspective. Know that nothing happens
ever that is not for your highest good. All that needs
to change for you to see this...is your definition of
'Highest Good.'

Love, Your Friend..

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On this day of your life, Melodie, I believe God wants you to know...
...that disappointment is temporary. Only your thought
it is permanent.
Change your mind about what has disappointed you
and you will change your life. All disappointment is
just Advantage, looked at from the other side.

You will not have to think but a second to know
exactly why you received this message today.

Love, Your Friend....

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On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...
...that the best argument you can make
is no argument
at all.

Do not argue with life, or with anyone in life. Life
presents itself perfectly in every moment, and every
person believe his or her point of view to be valid
and 'right.'

Arguing with any of this is pointless, and a terrific
waste of energy. Simply create what you choose next.

Love, Your Friend

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On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...
...that you've just had a really good idea!

Don't deny it! Don't cast it aside, or "put if off 'til
tomorrow," or in some other way give it short shrift.

Ideas are gifts from heaven. Don't dishonor them.

Jump right on it. Make it happen.

That's what ideas are for!

You will not have to think but a second to know
exactly why you received this message today.

Love, Your Friend

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On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...
...that perfectionism is the enemy of creation.

John Updike said that, and he was right. He understood
that nothing stops the forward march of any creative
endeavor like the need to do it absolutely perfectly.

And who is to judge what is 'perfect' anyway? What I
have judged full of flaws so many others have called
terrific. Maybe the definition of Perfection is something

that actually gets done.

Love, Your Friend....

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On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...
...that you should act like you expect to get into the
end zone.

Football coach Joe Paterno said that, and boy, did
he have it right. Nothing substitutes for positive thinking.

Nothing. It is more powerful than all the money, all the
influence, all the 'friends in high places' on earth.

You only need one friend in high places--and you already
have that. So go ahead, expect to get into the end zone.

You'll find that you do, 90% of the time.

Love, Your Friend....

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On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...
...that life begins now -- right now -- not tomorrow or
the next day or the next.

Every minute of every hour of every day, life begins
anew. That means everything can change in an instant.

It also means you can have a new beginning
whenever you want.

Why put off for one day that decision you've been
pondering...aren't you just putting life itself on hold?

Love, Your Friend

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On this day of your life, I believe God wants you to know...
...that it's okay to go ahead and take a risk.

There's no guarantee that everything will turn out exactly
the way you want it to, but there IS a guarantee that it
cannot possibly do so if you are afraid to even take the
chance.

"Nothing ventured, nothing gained" is not just a nifty
old-time saying. It's wisdom. Listen to it.

You know exactly why you received this message today.

Love, Your Friend....

A Secret Scrolls #134

A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda Byrne
Creator of The Secret

From The Secret Daily Teachings

When you close your eyes and you visualize having money and imagine doing all the things you want with that money, you are creating a new reality. Your subconscious mind and the law of attraction do not know whether you are imagining something or whether it is real. And so when you imagine, the law of attraction receives those thoughts and images as though you were actually living them, and it must return those visions to you.

When you are in the place where what you are imagining feels real, you will know that it has penetrated your subconscious mind, and the law of attraction must deliver it.

May the joy be with you,

Rhonda Byrne
The Secret... bringing joy to billions

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A Secret Scrolls #135

A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda Byrne
Creator of The Secret

From The Secret Daily Teachings

It is so important that you are grateful for everything in your life. Many people focus on the one thing they want and then forget to be grateful for all the things they have. Without gratitude you cannot achieve anything through the law of attraction, because if you are not emanating gratitude from your being, then by default you are emanating ungratefulness. Be proactive and use the frequency of your being to receive what you want.

May the joy be with you,

Rhonda Byrne
The Secret... bringing joy to billions

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A Secret Scrolls #136

A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda Byrne
Creator of The Secret

From The Secret Daily Teachings

The fastest way to become the Master of your thoughts and emotions is through challenging situations. If your life is going along fairly smoothly, there are not the same opportunities that enable you to strengthen your power and become the Master of your thoughts and emotions.

You see, even challenges are beautiful opportunities in disguise.

May the joy be with you,

Rhonda Byrne
The Secret... bringing joy to billions

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A Secret Scrolls #137

A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda Byrne
Creator of The Secret

From The Secret Daily Teachings

Another easy way to use the law of attraction for your benefit is this:

Every night before you fall asleep, replay in your mind the good moments of the day, and give heartfelt thanks for each one of them. Think about the next day also, and intend that it is going to be amazing, that it is going to be filled with love and joy, and that all good is coming to you.

Intend that it is going to be the best day of your life. Then when you wake in the morning, BEFORE you get out of bed, declare your intentions again for the day and give deep thanks as though you have received them all.

May the joy be with you,

Rhonda Byrne
The Secret... bringing joy to billions

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A Secret Scrolls #138

A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda Byrne
Creator of The Secret

From The Secret Daily Teachings

Each of us is attracting in every moment of our lives. So when you feel that the law isn't working for you because you don't have what you want, realize that the law is responding to you. You are either attracting what you want or you are attracting the absence of what you want.

The law is still working.

May the joy be with you,

Rhonda Byrne
The Secret... bringing joy to billions

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A Secret Scrolls #139

A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda Byrne
Creator of The Secret

From The Secret Daily Teachings

Be aware of the big difference between inspired action and activity. Activity comes from the brain-mind and is rooted in disbelief and lack of faith - you are taking action to "make" your desire happen. Inspired action is allowing the law to work through you and to move you.

Activity feels hard. Inspired action feels wonderful.

May the joy be with you,

Rhonda Byrne
The Secret... bringing joy to billions

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A Secret Scrolls #140

A Secret Scrolls message from Rhonda Byrne
Creator of The Secret

From The Secret Daily Teachings

The law of attraction cannot change anything in your life that you hate, because hate prevents the change from coming. Since the law is giving us exactly what we are putting out, when you hate something the law must continue to give you more of what you hate. You will not be able to move away from it. Love is the only way.

If you focus completely on the things you love, then you are on your way to a beautiful life.

May the joy be with you,

Rhonda Byrne
The Secret... bringing joy to billions

DailyOm – Ending The Cycle
February 4, 2011

Ending The Cycle

Start Today

Today we can make the choice to end a cycle or way of being that is not in alignment with our soul’s desire.

One of the hardest things in life is feeling stuck in a situation that we don’t like and want to change. We may have exhausted ourselves trying to figure out how to make change, and we may even have given up. However, each day offers us an opportunity to renew our resolve and to declare to the universe that we are ready for change. We may even say out loud that we have tried and struggled and have not found a way, but that we are open to help, and that we intend to keep working to create change for ourselves. Making this declaration to the universe, and to ourselves, may be just the remedy for the stagnation we are experiencing. And, it can be done today, right now.

It is difficult to understand, even with hindsight, how the choices we have made have added up to our current situation, but it is a good idea to examine the story we tell ourselves. If we tend to regard ourselves as having failed, this will block our ability to allow ourselves to succeed. We have the power to change the story we tell ourselves by acknowledging that in the past, we did our best, and we exhibited many positive qualities, and had many fine moments on our path to the present moment. We can also recognize that we have learned from our experiences, and that this will help us with our current choices.

When we do this kind of work on how we view our past self, we make it possible for the future to be based on a positive self-assessment. This inner shift may allow us to get out of the cycle we’ve been in that’s been keeping us stuck. Now we can declare our intentions to the universe, knowing that we have done the inner work necessary to allow our lives to change. Allow today to be the day to end cycles and enter into a new way of being.

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DailyOm – At The Feet Of The Divine

February 7, 2011

At The Feet Of The Divine

Laying Our Burdens Down

We weren’t meant to carry such heavy burden alone; visualize yourself laying down your burden and feel the lightness.

We all know the feeling of walking through life as if we are carrying the huge burden of our worries and stresses on our backs and shoulders, struggling to keep moving forward. There is no real way to move freely and fluidly in such a situation, and we are all longing to lay our burdens down. Just imagining that it would be possible to do such a thing can be enough to elicit a sigh of relief and a feeling of lightness.

The human imagination is a powerful tool, and we can use it to take journeys to faraway places without ever leaving our home. Because of this, we too can lay our burdens down at the feet of a divine being such as the great Mother, Buddha or a mountain. Releasing ourselves from that which we can’t handle on our own. No matter how smart we are, how capable we are, or how hard we work, no one can single-handedly cope with all the worries that we tend to take on in the course of our lives. And, we aren’t designed to do so. Our wellbeing depends upon our ability to hand over that which we can no longer carry by ourselves.

Visualizing yourself carrying your burdens to the feet of someone or something much bigger than you can be a powerful daily practice. To begin, sit with your eyes closed and envision an all powerful, supremely comforting being in what ever form that takes for you, standing at the end of a road. See yourself carrying a large sack, box, or other container, imagining that all your worries are inside it.

Watch as you make your way to the being of your choice, and lay your baggage down at their feet. Allow yourself to feel the lightness and relief of this action, express your gratitude, and surrender. You will be amazed by how this simple meditation can liberate you from a burden you were never meant to carry.

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DailyOm – Co-Creating with Nature

February 8, 2011

Co-Creating with Nature

Conscious Gardening

Think about gardening in a new way; work with your garden on a co-creative way, asking permission and listening to her.

Gardens offer us a perfect opportunity to reconnect to our true selves and remember our place in the natural world. Rather than approach our gardens as mere investments of energy, we can look at the entire process of gardening, from planting seeds to harvesting food, as a way of deepening our conscious relationship with the creative force of the universe. If we are willing to shift our intention from dominating, or at least directing nature, to co-creating with nature instead, we may discover a deep peace and renewed sense of wonder.

To co-create we must first begin with a foundation of mutual respect. As you create your garden in partnership with nature, you can respect the earth, water, insects and animals by using organic seeds, soil and fertilizers. You can also communicate with the plants, insects and elements involved in your garden, and create a regular practice of stillness to listen for any messages they may have for you. When it comes time for harvesting fresh vegetables or picking beautiful blooms, you might even ask permission first. If you ask with an open heart, you will always receive an answer.

Imagine what it would be like to surrender certain aspects of your human world to the precision and surety of the natural environment. You might decide, for example, to forego your calendar and plant in rhythm with the cycles of the moon.

Or, you might choose to ignore clock time and water your garden when the sun hits a certain position in the sky. By opening your garden experience to more of nature’s input, you can become available to witness a whole universe of miracles, while engendering a greater sense of honor between the two worlds.

When we recognize ourselves as allies, co-creators, with the earth and the natural world, our relationship to our environment begins to change. We no longer feel the need to control the circumstances around us and can relish in the perfection of all that is.

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DailyOm – Life Transitions

February 9, 2011

Life Transitions

The Death And Rebirth Of Self

Sometimes a part of us must die before another part can come to life.

Sometimes a part of us must die before another part can come to life. Even though this is a natural and necessary part of our growth, it is often painful or, if we don’t realize what’s happening, confusing and disorienting. In fact, confusion and disorientation are often the messengers that tell us a shift is taking place within us. These shifts happen throughout the lives of all humans, as we move from infancy to childhood to adolescence and beyond. With each transition from one phase to another, we find ourselves saying good-bye to an old friend, the identity that we formed in order to move through that particular time.

Sometimes we form these identities in relationships or jobs, and when we shift those areas of our life become unsettled. Usually, if we take the time to look into the changing surface of things, we will find that a shift is taking place within us.

For example, we may go through one whole chapter of our lives creating a protective shell around ourselves because we need it in order to heal from some early trauma. One day, though, we may find ourselves feeling confined and restless, wanting to move outside the shelter we needed for so long; the new part of ourselves cannot be born within the confines of the shell our old self needed to survive.

We may feel a strange mixture of exhilaration and sadness as we say good-bye to a part of ourselves that is dying and make way for a whole new identity to emerge in its place. We may find inspiration in working with the image of an animal who molts or sheds in order to make way for new skin, fur, or feathers to emerge. For example, keeping a duck feather, or some other symbol of transformation, can remind us that death and rebirth are simply nature’s way of evolving. We can surrender to this process, letting go of our past self with great love and gratitude, and welcoming the new with an open mind and heart, ready for our next phase of life.

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DailyOm – Remember The Light Side

February 10, 2011

Remember The Light Side

In Praise Of Fun

There is no need to feel guilty about having fun; having fun and being happy is our birthright.

Often when we talk about fun, or doing things just for fun, we talk about it in a dismissive way as if fun isn’t important. We tend to value hard work and seriousness, and we forget to pay our respects to the equally important, light side of silliness and laughter. This is ironic because we all know the feeling of euphoria that follows a good burst of laughter, and how it leaves us less stressed, more openhearted, and more ready to reach out to people. We are far more likely to walk down the street smiling and open after we’ve had a good laugh, and this tends to catch on, inspiring smiles from the people we pass who then positively influence everyone they encounter. Witnessing this kind of chain reaction makes you think that having fun might be one of our most powerful tools for changing the world.

Laughter is good medicine, and we all have this medicine available to us whenever we recall a funny story or act in a silly way. We magnify the effects of this medicine when we share it with the people in our lives. If we are lucky, they will have something funny to share with us as well, and the life-loving sound of laughter will continue to roll out of our mouths and into the world.

Of course, it is also important to allow ourselves to be serious and to honor that side of ourselves so that we stay balanced. After a great deal of merriment, it can actually be a pleasure to settle down and focus on work, or take some time for introspection until our next round of fun begins.

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DailyOm – Everyone Has A Story

February 11, 2011

Everyone Has A Story

Interesting People Everywhere

Each and every one of us has a story to tell and they are all important.

It's easy to forget sometimes that everyone has a story to tell if we take the time to listen. We are so accustomed to hearing the stories of people in the news that we sometimes lose track of the fact that the random stranger on the bus also has a fascinating story about where they came from and how they got to be where they are. The sheer variety of paths taken in this world, from farmers to CEOs to homeless people to world travelers, is indicative of how much we can learn from each individual. Sometimes the shy, quiet person at work has the most amazing life story and the biggest dreams, it is up to us to take the time to find out.

Some people travel a path of wealth and privilege, while others struggle with only themselves to rely on, and both have great stories to tell. Each person learns lessons, makes choices, and develops a unique perspective, which only they can claim and share. Even two people who have had very similar lives will have slightly different experiences, leading them to a different point of view, so each person remains a treasure trove waiting to be explored. When we take the time to ask questions and listen, we find that every person has a fascinating story to tell and an utterly unique perspective from which to tell it.

Bearing this in mind, we have the opportunity to approach the world around us in a new way. There is never any reason to be bored at a party, or on the bus, or in a conversation with a stranger. When we retain the spark of curiosity and the warmth required to open someone up, we always have in front of us the makings of a great story. All we have to do is ask.

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DailyOm – What We Can't See

February 14, 2011

What We Can't See

The Unseen World

Just because we can’t see something doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

Just because we can't see something doesn't mean it doesn't exist, although this is a common way in which people deny the existence of spirit guides, angels, and other unseen helpers in our lives. However, anyone who has encountered such beings can attest to the fact that they do, indeed, exist, just as our breath exists, keeping us alive, even though we can't see it. The wind exists, too, but we only know this because we feel it on our skin and hear it moving the leaves on the trees. All around us and within us are things we can't see, and yet we know they are just as real as the grass beneath our feet.

What we see and don't see may just be a matter of perspective, like the ladybug who sees the leaf on which she sits, but not the tree the leaf grows on, or the person sitting beneath it. And the person beneath the tree may or may not see the ladybug, depending on where he focuses his attention. Still, all of these things, whether seen or not seen by the person or the ladybug, exist in reality. Some people are more gifted at accessing that which we cannot see, but given an open and willing heart, anyone can tune into the invisible realm and begin to find their way.

Human beings have always done this, and it is only recently that we have fallen into distrusting the existence of what we can't see. If you have lost touch with the unseen world, all you have to do is resolve to open your heart to its existence, and it will make itself known. Closing your eyes in meditation and visualization, or engaging the unseen through the written word, are just two ways to welcome the invisible back into your life. Whatever you choose to do, cultivating a relationship with that which you can't see is a time-honored human practice that can greatly enhance your life.

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In Myanmar (Burma), “The Golden Land,” monasteries and meditation centers speckle the tropical countryside.

Isolated from the many distractions of modernity, it is home to one of the most ancient spiritual traditions in the world:

Theravada Buddhism. In the Theravada tradition, which is followed by over ninety percent of the Burmese people, freedom is not pursued externally; rather the Theravada Buddhists devote themselves to finding freedom within themselves.

The teachings of inner liberation are propagated by the Sangha, which is the community of ordained monks and nuns.

In order to survive the monastics rely on Sangha Dana: gifts and offerings given by lay devotees.

It is by the merit of Sangha Dana that the ordained monastics can continue to recompense Sangha Dana with Dhamma Dana:

the sacred gift of the Buddha’s teachings. These teachings are said to have come directly from the Buddha himself, preserved by oral and written lineages for more than 2500 years.

Have a nice & noble day!

Friendship is the Greatest!
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May all beings become thus Happy!
Friendship is the GREATEST!
Have a Nice Day!

Bhikkhu Samahita

Miracle Tales andthe Domestication of Kuan-yin

Yü Chün-fang
Professor ofRutgers University

Summary
Miracle stories about Kuan-yin began to be compiled inthe fourth century and continue to be collected and circulated down tothe present day. In this article I discuss how the miracle tale collections served as a medium for the domestication of Kuan-yin by focusing on several questions.

First of all, who were the compilers?　

Is there any difference in the choices made on the selections between a monk compilor and that of a lay person?　

What is the role of literatias promoters of the belief in Kuan-yin?　

Second, to whom does Kuan-yin appear and how does the bodhisattva appear: in dreams or in broad daylight?　

as male or female?　

monkor layperson?　

from what dangers does Kuan-yin rescue the believer and what benefits does the bodhisattva bestow?　

Third, what is theconnection between icons, visions and the changing iconograpy of Kuan-yin?

Fourth, how are thecollections organized?　

are the individual stories simply listed one after another without anyclear organizational principle?

are they categorized to fit a scriptural paradigm and there by serve to provide evidential proof for the truth ofthe sutra?　

and finally, compared to the early collections, do the later collections show marked departures reflecting historical changes effected both bythe new developments of the cult and new anxieties and hopes of the believers?

關鍵詞：

1.Kuan-yin

2.miracle tales

3. “stimulus andresponse”（kan-ying）

 
Anyone who visits a temple inTaiwan, Hong Kong and even in Mainland China can often find posters, pamphlets, brochures and books piled on the side tables or stacked on bookshelves along the walls of the main hall. Theyare printed by lay devotees and are placed there for visitors to browse or take home for later reading.　

Among the pious literature distributed free in this fashion, many are scriptures, such as the Diamond Sutra, the Heart Sutra, the A-mi-t'o ching（Smaller Sukhavativyuha Sutra, but the“Universal Gateway” chapter of the Lotus Sutrais by far the favorite.　

Stories about Kuan-yin's miraculous responses are also found very frequently among them. This is one of the best ways for a true believer to spread the Dharma and to create merit for him／herself at the same time.
The compilation of such stories about Kuan-yin's salvific deeds is not of course a modern phenomenon It began already in the fourth century. Contemporary stories, like their ancient counterparts, are characterized by their specificity:

who experiences the event when and where are usually carefully noted. When we examine the modern stories, they attract our attention by their ability to address our current concerns. Kuan-yin saves devotees more from cancer and car accident, for instance, than from imprisonment and shipwreck as in former times.

As the time changes, people begin to have new problems and new fears instead of old ones. Kuan-yin is nevertheless still always ready and capableof rendering help. In thus updating and upgrading the bodhisattva's competence, the stories contribute to the continuing faith of the people in the savior.　

I argue that this has been the role played bythe miracle stories all along. It is through such stories that the Chinese people forma personal connection with Kuan-yin. The stories concretize the knowledge about Kuan-yin provided by the scriptures. They make the sculpted and painted images of Kuan-yin take on living life. Miracle tales teach people about Kuan-yin and validate what thescriptures claim the bodhisattva can do. They also bear a close relationship to the cult oficons. Experiences of miracles often lead to the creation oficons or, conversely, the worship of Kuan-yin images facilitate the experiences. Finally, how a person experiencing the miracle sees Kuan-yin in his/her vision can often be predetermined by the existing iconographies of the bodhisattva or, in another direction, lead to the creating of new ones. There is acircularity between Kuan- yin, the devotee, andthe icon.
I offer a few examples culled from a collection of such stories published in the Buddhist journal Lion's Roar（Shih-tzuhou), which could serve as one of several sources supplying materials for such devotional liteature distributed in the temples, the other sources being traditional compendia, oral accounts, and the compiler's personal experiences.
The first one comes from Mao Ling-yun who was the compiler of the collection. When he read the news in the newspaper Central Daily on October 22, 1974 that a typhoon was moving northwestly toward Taiwan, he began to chant the name of Kuan-yin with great sincerity and prayed that it would change direction or reduce its power so that it would not come ashore to create havoc. Sure enough, it began to move toward north and northeast, then suddenly turning directly westward, it left the area.

In the meantime, it reduced its power and did not even cause much rain in Taiwan. In recent years, he would pray to Kuan-yin when ever there was a warning for typhoon and everytime it happened like this.
The second story comes from a woman devotee named K'uan-fen Chan Chung who related it to the compiler. Mrs Chung lives in Tai-chung, Taiwan, right across from the International Cinema on Fu-hsing Road. Her third son, Ching-li, was standing in front of the front door one day in the fall of 1953 when he was fifteen years old. A freight truck suddenly veered right in order to avoid hitting the three children playing inthe middle of the street and struck him instead. His clothes were caught and he was dragged along by the truck which could not stop right away. He cried out three times, “My mother believes in the Buddha. Kuan-yin Bodhisattva, please come quickly to save me!” The truck came to a stop and fortunately he was not killed. But his left arm was mangled badly. Because sand and pebbles got mixed together with blood and flesh, they could not be taken out.

He stayed in the hospital for four days and the arm became black and festered. The doctor told the mother that he would have to amputate the arm in order to save the son's life. She asked the doctorto first cut away the festered part before attempting to amputatethe arm. She called on Kuan-yin throughout the operation. When the boy woke up from the anesthesia, he said, “Just now a white-robed doctor carried me to Heaven and made heavenly maidens dance for me. I was very happy.” Apparently the White-robed Kuan-yin　

used her skillful means and made him forget his pain. He dreamt three times of Kuan-yin sprinkle pure water with the willow branch on to his damaged arm and he felt immediate coolness. Flesh gradually grew and the arm was healed.

 
The third story was supplied bythe famous woman writer Hsieh Ping-ying who wrote the preface to the collection. She related that she fell and broke her right leg on August 31, 1972 on board the ship sailing for America. Because there was no doctor and no medicine, she spent the entire twenty days chanting the “Universal Gateway” chapter, the Great Compassion Dharani, and Kuan-yin's name to reduce her pain. When she landed in America she was x-rayed in Michigan and NewYork and her doctors were astonished. Because although the leg was broken and the bones were crushed, it was not infested or even swollen. This was truly a miracle! he added that in the following year, 1973, she went to a two-week retreat at theGolden Mountain Temple in San Francisco. During that time, she became very clear-headed and intelligent. She painted several pictures of the bodhisattva although she did not know how to paint and composed fifteen poems in half an hour although she had not written any poem for several decades.
When I interviewed pilgrims on P'u-t'o island in March of 1987, one of the questions I asked them was if they knew of any stories about Kuan-yin's response either to their own prayer or somebody else's.

Invariably the reply was affirmative. I will just cite two examples from my field notes. A young woman of twenty-four came with her mother, a retired nurse of forty-nine, from Shanghai to fulfill a vow（huan-yüan). Two years ago the mother came down with cancer of the intestines. When she was operated, the cancer was very advanced and had spread. So the doctor sewed her up and predicted that she would die soon. Mother prayed to Kuan-yin for a whole year and vowed that if she should survive, she would come to P'u-t'o to give thanks. Now two years had passed and she was well. That was why mother and daughter were there.

 
A fifty year old fisherman from Ning-p'o had come to P'u-t'o six times. He told me that originally he did not believe in Buddhism. But ten years ago, in 1977, his left pinky finger was bitenoff by a snake and the whole arm became paralyzed. He went to Shanghai andBeijing for cure but had no success after spending 4000 RMB. His mother then accompanied him to pray to Kuan-yin at the Buddha's Peak nickname for Hui-chi Monastery situated on the highest point ofthe island）on P'u-t'o. One month later he had a dream in which he receiveda shot. It was so piercingly painful that he jumped up in his sleep and woke his wife. Soon after he could move his left arm. Believing that Kuan-yin had saved him, he came in 1979, the first year when P'u-t'o was reopened to the public after theCultural Revolution. He went up to the Buddha'sPeak following the Pilgrim'sPath（an uphill path leading from Fa-yü Monastery to Hui-chi Monastery）, bowing every three steps to show his thankfulness. He also told me about a miracle which happened to eight fishermen whom he met. Their boat went out with three other boats three years ago. There was a big storm and the other boats capsized drowning more than forty people. They followed a light which appeared in front of them and reached P'u-t'o safely.

When they embarked, the light also disappeared. They started coming every year on the 19th day of the 6th month （one of the three holy days of Kuan-yin, the day Kuan-yin achieved enlightenment）, making one full prostration after walking every three steps along thePilgrim's Path.

Miracle Tales and the Theory of kan-ying
I have called these stories “miracle tales” , for they do share a common feature with miracles as understood in the Western traditions. According to the Encyclopaedia Brittannica, miracle is “an extraordinary and astonishing happening that is attributed to the presence and action of an ultimate ordivine power” （Micropaedia VI: 927c）. What happened to the individuals whose stories I have retold would undoubtedly have been viewed by the mas nothing but extraordinary and astonishing.　They would also attribute them to the divine powerof Kuan-yin.　The Chinese word for such stories, however, isling-kan,“efficacious response” , or ling-ying, “efficacious manifestation” , or ying-yen, “evidential manifestation”. All these expressions are derived from an indigenous world view which believes that everything in the world is interrelated and interdependent. This beliefis called kan-ying which literally means “stimulas and response”, or, “sympathetic resonance”. John Henderson, referring to it as“cosmic resonance”, says, “According to this theory, things of the same category but in different cosmic realms were supposed to affect one another by virtue of a mutual sympathy, to resonate like properly attuned pitchpipes” （1984: 20）.

The relationship between the devotees and Kuan-yin is built on the theory of Ｋan-yin： their prayer and calling aloud of Kuan-yin's name is the initiating stimulus or trigger which, when it is sincere and desperate enough, is answered with Kuan-yin's response. Kuan-yin does not act gratuitously.　

Human suppliants are linked to Kuan-yin through sincerity（cheng）, for it is through sincerity that the mechanism of stimulus and response is set into motion. Although Avalokiteshvara was already known in India as the savior from perils, and Buddhist scriptures proclaim this as a central message, the Chinese compilers of miracle tales nevertheless understood the miraculous workings through this indigenous epistomological lense, just as the persons who themselves experienced the events did.
In order for us to understand why the Chinese see Kuan-yin in this way, it maybe helpful to discuss briefly the Chinese views of the universe prior to the introduction of Buddhisminto China. The world in which human beings live is called in the Chinese language, “Heaven andEarth”（t'ien-ti）.

Unlike most other religions, Chinese religion does not have a creator god. On the contrary, as seen in the Book of Changes（I-ching）, one of the basic Confucian classics, and a divinatory handbook of great antiquity, “Heaven andEarth” , is the origin of everything, including human beings, in the universe. This creating and sustaining force, otherwise known as Tao or the Way, is seen as good and the highest goal of the human life is to live in conformity to it. There is no God transcendent and separate from the world

Reality is permeated, indeed flooded, with divine creativity, nourishment, and care.

Marcus J. Borg

Conflict, Holiness, and Politics

It may be that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

Wendell Berry
Collected Poems

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I want to bring what is good about the internet and relocate it from the ephemeral everywhere and nowhere plane and bring it closer.

- Ari Davalos -

The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.

Charles Kettering

Confidence, like art, never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.

Earl Gray Stevens

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.

Etty Hillesum

Only the hand that erases can write the true thing.
Meister Eckhart

For listening to the stories of others ... is a kind of water that breaks the fever of our isolation. If we listen closely enough, we are soothed into remembering our common name.

- Mark Nepo -

Gratitude is the sweet fragrance of an opening heart.
Aine Belton

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart

- Steve Jobs –

One word can be more precious than all the treasures on earth.

Hazrat Inayat Khan
The Bowl of Saki

Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

- Michael Pollan -

The coin that pays for ecstasy is always stamped despair. One cannot love empathically until one wanders there.

Jane Krainin
Dictated right before she died of ALS

Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.

- Kahlil Gibran –

May all find simplicity the joyous and practical guide.
Buddhist Text

What you appreciate -- appreciates.

- Lynne Twist -

We will be known forever by the tracks we leave.
Dakota proverb

It is true that we are called to create a better world. But we are first of all called to a more immediate and exalted task: that of creating our own lives.

Thomas Merton
Love and Living, p. 159

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.

- Dorothy Day -

Even if you have a lot of work to do, if you think of it as wonderful, and if you feel it as wonderful, it will transform into the energy of joy and fire, instead of becoming a burden.

Tulku Thondup Rinpoche
The Practice of Dzogchen

You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

- Martin Luther King, Jr. -

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

Elie Wiesel

At the root of all power and motion, there is music and rhythm, the play of patterned frequencies against the matrix of time, Before we make music, music makes us.

- George Leonard -

Scatter the ashes of the past, happy in the wind. It is so healing, when you start again.

Sigrid Burger

When you don't choose love, you choose fear.

- iJourney.org Editors -

I am, therefore I thank.

Cindy Lubar Bishop

If we are to create peace in our world, we must begin with our children.

- Mahatma Gandhi –

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith, and hope.

Thomas Merton

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

- Arundhati Roy -

Sticks in a bundle cannot be broken.
Bondei Proverb

Strangers are just family you have yet to come to know.

- Mitch Albom -

Recipients of our appreciation are apt to express their own gratitude to others, lengthening the unending, golden chain of connections-in-goodness that stretches across the world.

Mary Ford Grabowsky

The Way of Mary

A song is a bridge between what we know, what we can feel, and the big mystery.

- Kate Munger –

You Can If You Think You Can!

If you think you are beaten, you are,
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you like to win, but you think you can't,
It is almost certain you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you're lost,
For out in the world we find,
Success begins with a fellow's will.
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you are outclassed, you are,
You've got to think high to rise,
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man.
But soon or late the man who wins,
Is the man who thinks he can.

~ C. W. Longenecker ~

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Ufo Hovering At Olympic Park Firework Display! On news! 2012

Ufo Hovering At Olympic Park Firework Display! On news! 2012
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If We Are in the Matrix Who Controls Us? The Truth May Be Surprising
http://youtu.be/4JVZR9DH0oQ

( http://19justinbrown88.yolasite.com/john-todd.php ) Morpheus told Neo that he was a slave. A slave to whom? The matrix. Now, what exactly is this matrix and who runs it? Did the movie The Matrix give us clues about our own world and how it works? Or, was it just entertainment and fiction?

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Please understand how the eyes and brain work. This is the real key to understanding what we call life!

The physical world is not real.http://youtu.be/LO4GH8bmYEg

Athene's Theory of Everything
http://youtu.be/dbh5l0b2-0o

<p>Qunatumn Physics is confirming what the sages,Yogis and Seers and Metaphysicians have been saying for over a millenia. Reality is an illusion, a projection from our collective being. Fred Allen Wolf, Geg Bradden, Bill Hicks, David Icke and more...</p>

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