Allow Love to Take Over Your Life!

When we fall in love with ourselves everything becomes beautiful and love takes over our life... Let's be love and live in love.. E/A ♥(Effie Aghili)

Allan Brunton shared Effie Aghili's photo:
Remember when you had that magic with someone? Turn it on yourself and love someone that knows you better than anyone else

Feeling Neglected, Rejected, Unselected?

Don't (Feel Neglected, Rejected, Unselected) - Bless our Hearts!
or

The heart is right to cry even when the smallest drop of light, of love, is taken away....You are right to do so in any fashion until God returns to you.
Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky
The Gift: Poems by Hafiz(gratefulness.org)

However, the truth is God never goes anywhere, so cry awhile until you realize this.
You are never alone!

Karma/Grace

Some people are really good at fooling other people. Some people are really good at fooling themselves, too! But those people are foolish if they think they can fool karma. This is why it is so important to remember Wayne Dyer's words: How ...

people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

Sometimes you can tell if someone is not being upfront with you. But sometimes you can't. You just don't know. This is why it is a very bad idea to react to what you see/hear or what you think you see/hear from the other person. You could get it completely wrong, and make a real karmic mess, especially for yourself.

But if you don't react, because you understand that how you see things may not be the way it really is, and you understand that we all must take responsibility for ourselves, and you instead keep focused on your own karma/the karma that you are creating, then you are standing on firm ground. If the other person thinks they have 'fooled' you, and is not honest even with themself, then no matter how smug or clever they may feel, you can be sure that the karma being created here is not good.

When you think about it, that person needs our compassion, not our reaction. There's just no getting away from karma (at least from where most of us are at right now), and the more we try to convince oursleves that we are, the worse we are making it for ourselves. Better to face up, don't you think? -

"Grace" and "karma" are different paths to "salvation" to me. In Christianity, grace means that once one accepts Jesus Christ as their savior, then all sins are washed away, and salvation is instant. In Eastern Religions, karma is seen as cause and effect - negative thoughts and behavior lead to suffering and Buddha teaches that purifying thoughts leads to "end of suffering" - Bliss, Nirvana! I lean toward purification of thoughts since it is a tangible process, and is not confined to a "religioius belief" ie salvation.
I have also  heard "Grace" described as the activity of God within us. I like that, which to me means when we follow Spirit, there is nothing but good Karma! and there is no "sin" just merely mistakes which should produce no guilt.
Jeanne P. commented "Well said..." Thanks dear Jeanne P.!

Immense Love - Love in the Moment

We are the convergence of the whole universe. We all have a great need for immensity.

Pir Vilayat Inayat Khan(gratefulness.org)
Alchemical Wisdom

How does one attain this Immense Love?  We already have it. Love is the Essence of our Being. However, to realize it now, we must be mindful of it now in this moment. The same thing for Peace. We have to be mindful of Peace every moment. And the same for Joy, we need to be aware of Joy in the moment - mindful of Joy every moment. Love, Peace and Joy awareness by mindfulness in every moment.

Ron Alexander

 

 

Ron Alexander for the IMMENSE LOVER in ALL of US!

 

Ron Alexander Awareness of IMMENSE LOVE, JOY & PEACE leads to IMMENSE internal FREEDOM! 

Love is all you Need, as Love Never Fails!

Anonymous said...

It is good to remember to show your love to the ones who love you daily. Those who love you in all the normal boring day to day chores. Those who see the good side and the dark side as the hours pass. The crowd loves us as we are passing by. The crowd does not come to aide. Nothing is stable in the crowd.

November 28, 2012 10:52 PM

captron said...

I am pretty sure I know who you are, and to love another, one needs to trust this person. Respect has to be garnered by being integral,and not using the other person to get your needs met.
Relationships to be whole takes two whole people - not one who takes, takes and does not give to the relationship - the difference between a careTAKER & a careGIVER.

Anonymous said...

We have not met, Ron. Your postings have showed a gentle side and I appreciate them. If one speaks so highly of love for all, how can one claim it is only for "whole people"? Do you not believe love heals all and maks us "whole" when we parter with another? This give and take, respect and trust are all mental attachments to the pure love element.

November 29, 2012 6:29 AM

captron said...

Good feedback Anonymous - I certainly take the unconditional out of love when I stated that, I found out you were not the person I thought you were, and I am very grateful of this dialogue - very helpful in my relationship! Please keep responding...

Well, it looks like "Anonymous" is not the person I thought she(he) was - however grateful for startup of dialogue!
Anonymous said...

No interest in being a relationship doctor from me. I am perfect flawed human in forgiving coupling with my human Beloved. Not whole, yet, not looking to separate from the high and low that gives divine balance and all meaning to life. Can you see the balance of high and low equates give and take and equates respect given and received! Your relationship longer than 12 months? It is a success! for the path has not been perfect, correct? You two have seen high and low, correct? You love beyond words of love, correct? What are you worried about, then? Allow for mind to rest and accept that someone cares that much for/about you in this big planet

Really appreciate this feedback Anonymous (oh, "caregiver" & "caretaker" are used interchangably over hear - for nursing - I really see a big difference between "giving care" and "taking care" though.
really like - You two have seen high and low, correct? You love beyond words of love, correct? What are you worried about, then? Allow for mind to rest and accept that someone cares that much for/about you in this big planet   Thank you Anonymous!

Opportunity to see God's Handwriting

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(gratefulness.org)

 

Experience Peace, Teach Peace

Place our children in the middle of a circle for peace. Teach our children peace and they can help create a World of Peace.

As a youth, I did not want peace, as I thought it would be boring, however, as an elder, I realize that Peace, Joy and Love are all interconnected - not One without the Other!

 

Celebrate the Small Steps to Peace Made Daily

Peace of Mind-fulness

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily difference we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

Marion Wright Edelman(gratefulness.org)

Peace of Mind - fulness

Many times, after I sit in meditation, for a while I feel this blissful peace of  mindfulness, where I am completely in the moment.  Everything I do I do is in the moment, and I experience the peace I want in my life. So more sitting, more mindfulness, more Peace. I am very grateful!

 

Let Go of Old Nonsense

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (gratefulness.org)

 

 

PEACE - anywhere anytime

 

 

Collages from PeacePole Planting Ceremony

Charleston Unity Church Sunday after noon, I observed an inspirational Peace Pole erected in an awesome Ceremony led by Rev. Ed Kosac including several Leaders of other faiths and featuring

children including the minister's and an Imam's sons. The children delighted putting their handprints
in the fresh concrete around the pole. We finished with a large diverse circle around the pole and children singing the wonderful Unity Peace Song. Dr. Reba Parker and some of her students from the College of Charleston graciously obtained the Peace Pole for the Church. and were there to be part of the ceremony.

 

Let There Be Peace On Earth

Let there be peace on Earth, and let it begin with me Let there be peace on Earth, the peace that was meant to be With God as creator, family all are we Let us walk with each other in perfect harmony Let peace begin with me -- let this be the moment now With every breath I take, let this be my joyous vow: To take each moment and live each moment in peace eternally Let there be peace on Earth and let it begin with me.

The Peace Pole Project is the official Project of The World Peace Prayer Society. It started in Japan in 1955 by Masahisa Goi, who decided to dedicate his life to spreading the message, "May Peace Prevail on Earth" in response to the bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Peace Poles are handcrafted monuments erected the world over as international symbols of Peace. Their purpose is to spread the message "May Peace Prevail on Earth" in the languages of the world.

 

ABUNDANT PEACE NOW

*“Maintaining a proper ecological balance and learning to coexist in peaceful abundance with all the Earth’s creatures are absolutely essential.” Sonya Fitzpatrick, ‘What the Animals Tell Me’

Awesome Peace Pole Ceremony

At Charleston Unity Church today after noon, I observed an inspirational Peace Pole erected in an awesome Ceremony led by Rev. Ed Kosac including several Leaders of other faiths and featuring
children including the minister's and an Imam's sons. The children delighted putting their handprints
in the fresh concrete around the pole. We finished with a large diverse circle around the pole and children singing the wonderful Unity Peace Song. Dr. Reba Parker and some of her students from the College of Charleston graciously obtained the Peace Pole for the Church. and were there to be part of the ceremony.

Let There Be Peace On Earth

Let there be peace on Earth, and let it begin with me Let there be peace on Earth, the peace that was meant to be With God as creator, family all are we Let us walk with each other in perfect harmony Let peace begin with me -- let this be the moment now With every breath I take, let this be my joyous vow: To take each moment and live each moment in peace eternally Let there be peace on Earth and let it begin with me.

The Peace Pole Project is the official Project of The World Peace Prayer Society. It started in Japan in 1955 by Masahisa Goi, who decided to dedicate his life to spreading the message, "May Peace Prevail on Earth" in response to the bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Peace Poles are handcrafted monuments erected the world over as international symbols of Peace. Their purpose is to spread the message "May Peace Prevail on Earth" in the languages of the world.

Source will always send you exactly the right people, places, and circumstances to bring you there.

Twelve Insight Journal

Dear Twelve,
Something recently happened at my job that necessitated me leaving there immediately. A person that I have to work with is unbalanced and out to ruin my reputation and certainly my happiness. I cannot work there any longer.
I have been more connected to the God Source without her in my energy. But I have been off of work for a week and am having waves of fear about "what is going to happen to me?" Can you speak a little about fear for one's self when one is alone, discouraged, with virtually no family?

If you are feeling more connected to Source, then this is exactly where you should be. And part of the reason you are feeling fearful and disconnected is the manner in which it happened. So we would invite you to reconsider the idea that that person was out to get you, and consider that the Universe sent them to get you out of a good place and into a better one. In other words they are your friend even though they are unpleasantly disguised.

When you choose to live your life in alignment with Source, and have conscious intention for the kind of life you are wanting to live, the Source will always send you exactly the right people, places, and circumstances to bring you there. Sometimes we just have to blast you out of a comfortable position to get you to move on. In fact, you should get used to it, because the more magnificent your life becomes, the more often you will find yourself leaving a place that is better than it's ever been before, to go on to your next adventure, that will be even better than ever. Better, better, and better. That's the way it becomes.

You cannot intend for even better, and stand still.

We invite you to get used to the idea that you will always be letting go of what-is and releasing it every day. It is your attachment to these things that causes it to be painful, not the fact that you are moving onward with your life. It's that death grip that most of you get on your familiar surroundings. There was that movie about the man whose airplane wrecked and left him on a deserted island for years. That was all about letting go. In the end he even had to let go of his familiar island, which he had learned to appreciate when it had saved him, in order to move forward with his life.

Appreciate, and let go. Appreciate, and let go. That is the way to always have that which is new and vital flowing into your life. Then you are always in the position, no matter how good it has become, to discover what can be even better than this.

Your journey is blessed. We see it. All is well. It really is.

Namaste,
Twelve
www.TwelveSpirit.net

(L: The movie they mention is Tom Hanks in "Castaway".)
I think Source sent me Rev. Edwin and Others at Unity of Charleston - see posts above about PeacePole!
 

With Love, I breathe in Gratitude

With gratitude, I breathe in Love!
With Love, I breathe in healing.
With healing Love, I breathe in gratitude!

If you never learn the language of gratitude, you will never be on speaking terms with happiness.

 

 

I Am choosiing Happiness Today

If you never learn the language of gratitude, you will never be on speaking terms with happiness.

 

 Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.

Thomas Merton

Thriving or Surviving?

 

Blessed are they who strive to thrive instead of just survive; for they are the expression of the Divine in the mutual growth and expansion of all into living in Divine love. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

 

Keenan W Robinson: That's the way I want to travel dean expressing life in a big way why just survive...peace and love Dean thanks for this divine truth.♥

Humility Helps - You Know Who You Are....

Bobby Hinkle

Consciousness of spirit becomes greater to the degree a person willingly takes the lower seat. Spirit is most connected to the lowest of low. But those who are filled with desire and ambition rarely look down.

 

 

Thanks Happy Receivers of Love

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Rabindranath Tagore(gratefulness.org

 

Life is not hurrying on to a receding future, nor hankering after an imagined past. It is the turning aside like Moses to the miracle of the lit bush, to a brightness that seemed as transitory as your youth once, but is the eternity that awaits you.

R. S. Thomas
"The Bright Field," from Laboratories for Living

Thanks Happy Givers of Love

 

“The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They ‘re in each other all along.” – Rumi

 

You are in me, and I am in you.  Thanks Happy Givers of

Love!

 

 

FEAR NOT - Obey only Love

...Today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Kahlil Gibran(gratefulness.org)

Anonymous said...

Thank you -- obey only love -- how true and, how freeing to do just that - removes doubt about a life well-lived! BE love!

 

BREATHING GRATITUDE

I breathe into a state of all-encompassing gratitude.

 

(Last year, I woke several times panicing because my breath had completely stopped. I thought I was dying! Thank God, I remembered my Yogic training in breathing - pranayama so I went deep to my diaphragm to force out the air, and I had to consciously keep it up, however the situation got worse, so I took an overnight sleep lab test at the VA hospital (Thank God for them too!). I was stopping my breathing 72 times in a 2 hour period, which was called "ultra severe sleep apnea". I was given a C-PAC breathing machine which forces air into lungs using a mask. Sometimes this is from heart problems, but I am thankful that it was damaged lungs instead. The gift is that I have to consciously pay more attention to my breath, and that I have to live mindfully. Now to add gratefulness to that gift.)

 

As long as I have breath, I have life. As long as I have life, I am grateful.

I draw in deep, calming breaths that spread through my body, enlivening my

senses. I breathe in gratitude for all I see, hear, taste, smell and touch. I am

grateful for my loved ones, my home, and for the myriad blessings in my life.

 

With my next breath, I dive deeper into gratefulness, breathing in gratitude for

my oneness with God. I am grateful for who I am in God--whole, beautiful and

irrepressible. With an energizing amplifying breath, I breathe out any disquiet in

my soul.

 

Poised and in an elevated awareness of gratitude, I give thanks for ALL experiences:

the physical and the mystical.

(from Unity Daily Word Nov. 22, 2012)

I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart. - Psalm 86:12

 

 

 

 

 





Sow Seeds of Peace, Joy and Love

We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.

Dorothy Day(gratefulness.org)

 

 

 

 

Peace of Mind leads To Love

sharing Peace of Mind thanks Unconditional Love

Only when a person has peace of mind can he really feel love for humanity. Lack of peace of mind leads to animosity towards others. Peace of mind leads to love.

Only if a person has peace of mind will he be able to pass the test of dealing...

properly with other people. He will be able to kindhearted to everyone. His peace of mind will enable him to tolerate others and be patient with them.

(see Daas Chochmah Umussar, vol.2, p.203; Mussar Hatorah, p.10; Gateway to Happiness, p.73)

Sunshine to Flowers as Smiles are to Humanity

Monday, Nov. 19

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Joseph Addison(gratefulness.org)

This leader is so deserving of a visit from our president -
Obama recalled Suu Kyi's years of captivity and said she was "an icon of democracy who has inspired people not just in this country but around the world".
"Today marks the next s...

tep in a new chapter between the United States and Burma," he said, using the country name that she prefers. Before he left, the two embraced and he kissed her on the cheek." Thanks for your compassionate support for Suu Kyi and her country Mr. President! He has a great smile and you can tell Suu feels grateful for his support!