Saturday, May 31, 2014

Never Apologize for your existence

Even if, at times, you feel you have done the worst thing imaginable or that the whole world is against you or rejects you. Even if you feel no one understands you, loves you or accepts you, do not entirely trust your mind.
Do not think it... is on your side.

Know This:

You never have to apologise for your existence.
You are not here by accident but by the will and love of the Supreme Lord of the universe.

You are not merely 'living' life; you are Life itself and also the witness of life.


All challenges in life arise to motivate, mature and direct your mind towards true wisdom. Thus, by opening your heart to Truth, they stimulate and inspire you to go beyond the inhibited personal self and its projections, misconceptions and false beliefs.
Ultimately challenges lead you, through Grace, to discover your real nature and Self as Unborn Awareness.
Ultimately challenges lead you, through Grace, to discover your real nature and Self as Unborn Awareness.

~ Mooji

May 2014
www.mooji.org 

Who is more powerful?






Ra Divakar's photo.
 

Veterans comment upset me until...



When fellow veteran told me about his wife's(she is a minister) brother having this big ranch in Nebraska, that he wants to use for vets. How? I asked him - "He has all kinds of guns and he wants to teach them how to shoot, one that will shoot around corners, one that will hit a coffee can a mile away...." It sickened me, felt kind of depressed, so went back to apartment and prayed and meditated one precious breath at a time, just watched my breath and sensations and feel much better now staying in the moment one precious breath at a time! MAY ALL BEINGS BE PEACEFUL
 
Theda Parks Have to say.. this doesn't make one bit of sense. Anyone who has been to basic training or in a war situation would know how to shoot already. Pretty sad if it's true, and so not appropriate. I have seen articles where ranchers have worked with injured veterans to help them regain some sense of self-reliance.. it was heart-warming. Maybe you could suggest this to your fellow veteran. XOXO
 
Ron Alexander Well, Theda Parks, he was glowing when he told me this, as he is one of many vets who want to overthrow Obama and the government, so he was looking at it as part of an insurrection. And everyone else was agreeing with him. I had just told them about a friend of mine, who wants to use her 200 acre farm near here for a Veteran retreat, therapy and job-training. I am obtaining the non-profit expert from our Vets. on Deck, who has worked with non-profit for years. I am sickened at the right going farther and farther to the right - to me it is traitorous, and the tide has to turn against them sometime!
 

Ron Alexander Metta (loving Kindness) Prayer - MAY ALL BEINGS BE HAPPY!
 

  • Theda Parks We are a large country, and there will always be fringe groups. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.. it's their right, but it doesn't include violent acts against the government. They'd have to get the laws changed for that one. You can be sure they will be under observation by the very people they want to overthrow. So go to prayer and lose the fear--ask that all that destructive thinking be converted to something that's good for all of mankind. Put prayer into your friend's place for recovering vets. Wish we had something like that closer to our area. Nothing stands in the face of God. XOXO
     
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    Ron Alexander Theda Parks: "Put prayer into your friend's place for recovering vets. Wish we had something like that closer to our area." I am doing a lot more than "putting prayer" into this "area". She asked me to help create it. I am the one that came up with the three-pronged idea, I am the one leading the way to make it non-profit, I am the one going after the funding. I am the connection ith the VA. Why don't you help create something like that down there...???
     

    Theda Parks That's awesome, Ron! Where would you suggest I begin? Would it require finding someone who is willing to donate property to such a project first? I have zero experience with these things.. but I really like the idea, and am a big supporter of Wounded Warriors. XOXO
     

    Pamela Arrington Make him a counter offer - since so many vets suffer from PTSD they would probably rather not hear the sound of guns. How about some evenings around the campfire listening to nature and each other. Going on nature walks in the early morning. Spending afternoons watching the sunset. Just BEING. Lots of people would like to just get away and find some peace.
     
     
     
     
     
    Ron Alexander Forgive them for they know not what they do! Hatred does not make sense!
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  • Pamela Arrington I think the last thing these Vets need is more bullets coming at them. They need friends, family, normalcy, jobs, and medical care.
     

    Ron Alexander Pamela Arrington, I agree wholeheartedly, that is why I was sickened and depressed for awhile after I heard this, however their far right beliefs are rigid, and there alot of them! The guy says his brother-in-law had close to 75,000 weapons out there...I had an retired officer tell me the name of their org. which I found on facebook, and he says they are determined to overthrow the govt. That brother-in-law wanted those type of vets out there to be part of the insurgence. They are being watched and is one reason the attorney general has taken some strong steps - too strong for "do not tread on me" types of t-partiers. Unfortunately, I think the attorney general is just being protective, and these extreme rightwingers are actually traitors, adn they call themselves "patriots." Very sad!

     






  • Photo: When fellow veteran told me about his wife's(she is a minister) brother having this big ranch in Nebraska, that he wants to use for vets. How? I asked him - "He has all kinds of guns and he wants to teach them how to shoot, one that will shoot around corners, one that will hit a coffee can a mile away...." It sickened me, felt kind of depressed, so went back to apartment and prayed and meditated one precious breath at a time, just watched my breath and sensations and feel much better now staying in the moment one precious breath at a time!
     

      

    Stay Juiced, follow your heart



    Photo: Keep juiced, follow your heart!

    Good Morning

    I saw this and can't stop laughing.  Poor sloth.  Poor unappreciated, ridiculed sloth.

    Put Foundations Under Your Dreams

     
     
     
    If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost. That is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
    Henry David Thoreau(gratefulness.org)
    

    Friday, May 30, 2014

    START LOVING YOURSELF FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU ARE

     
     
     
    And start tonight - and ponder on this as you go to sleep, and everytime you wake up and then ponder it in the morning and all day tomorrow until you STOP hating yourself!
     START LOVING YOURSELF FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU ARE FOREVER MORE!
    

    STILL I RISE, in memory of Maya Angelou

    Maya Angelou Wrote This Poem To Remind Everyone They're Worth So Much More
    Joseph Lamour
    Maya Angelou was a poet, novelist, and public figure who became an American treasure in her 86 years on earth. Her work has received accolades, and in particular, her autobiography "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" — about her early life overcoming racism and trauma by turning to the written word — has become a literature classic. Listen to a popular poem of hers, one I distinctly remember reading in the newspaper as a child, below.

    Transcript: You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? Just 'cause I walk as if I have oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like suns and like moons, With the certainty of tides, Just like hope springing high, Still I rise. Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful cries. Does my sassiness upset you? Don't take it so hard Just 'cause I laugh as if I have gold mines Diggin' in my own backyard. You can shoot me with your words, You can cut me with your lies, You can kill me with your hatefulness, But just like life, I'll rise. Does my sexiness offend you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance as if I have diamonds At the meeting of my thighs? Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past rooted in pain I rise A black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling, I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak miraculously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the hope and the dream of the slave. And so, naturally, There I go rising.
     
  • Pamela Arrington I heard her do a reading of this - I think it was on an Oprah event. She had a wonderful speaking voice to do such things. Chilling.
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    Eva Tzouma Thanks for sharing this Ron. It's very inspiring!
     

    Ron Alexander Yes Pamela Arrington and Eva, I heard it recite this powerful piece I think it may have been Pres. Obama first inaugaration - very big event anyway - awesomely powerful voice also!
     

    Remember Who You really are...












    Photo: Remember who you really are, you dont have to discover it, it' already there.

Martin Soulreader
     

     

    Slow down and listen

     
     
     
     
    We must slow down to a human tempo and we’ll begin to have time to listen.
    Thomas Merton(gratefulness.com)
    Photo: WORD FOR THE DAY - www.gratefulness.org
Friday, May. 30

We must slow down to a human tempo and we’ll begin to have time to listen.

Thomas Merton.
(photo by Annie Wall)

     
     
     
     
    Tammy Priddy Bennett Slowing the physical mind down allows the spiritual vibration a clear path to speed up!
     
    

    Thursday, May 29, 2014

    Do you honor the servant and forget the gift?














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    Nothing can dim the light from within.

    NOTHING, NOTHING CAN DIM THE LIGHT THAT SHINES FROM WITHIN.

    Maya ANGELou 1928-2014 Your Loving Light will always shine on us, thanks so much!






    Photo: NOTHING, NOTHING CAN DIM THE LIGHT THAT SHINES FROM WITHIN. 

Maya ANGELou 1928-2014 Your Loving Light will always shine on us, thanks so much!
     

    Take Refuge in the Divine
















    Bhaskar Sen Sharma on Universal Consciousness's photo.
    Bhaskar Sen Sharma on Universal Consciousness's photo.
     

    Gratitude Unlocks the Fullness of Life




    Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.
    Melody BeattieI(gratefulness.org)
    

    Wednesday, May 28, 2014

    A True Prosperity - A Consciousness of God



    Thought For the Week: Rev. Ed Kosak
    We are in the midst of a series on Sundays called "Quantum Economics"a personal and societal quest to use quantum mechanics (God!) to gain true prosperity (a consciousness of God!). As we have stated many times, things and stuff are not bad, in fact they are to be enjoyed and relished! AND...there is a balance to be achieved. We find it in our best interest to not become over attached to things and stuff as they are not ultimately fulfilling and can be distracting. Here is some wisdom that comes from the very respected Neale Donald Walsch and someone I don't know about, John Ruskin:
     
    "...every increased possession loads us with a new weariness."

    John Ruskin said that, and he was right. Life is not
    about our physical or material possessions, it is about
    the Agenda of our Soul. When material possessions
    serve that agenda, they can be wonderful and are to
    be celebrated. But if they come between us
    and the soul, then we may very well be delayed
    on our holy journey.

    Our journey is the path back to peace, to harmony,
    to deep inner joy, to love, and to God.
    What do you think?

    Wise Words about anger

    LIKE: "Better to express it when it is in our awareness - not in a way that is destructive to humanity - but in a way that is authentic and that restores the integrity of our being. Anger is not the enemy. Misplaced anger is. Let the River flow."

    The old psych way of hitting pillows to release anger did not work, because it led to addiction to the adrenaline high of expressing anger, and lead to more anger.
    Photo: Rightful anger needs to be released... As my grandmother often said 'Better out than in...'
     

    Living Your Soul Signature
















    Photo: Don't stress that you have not found your #SoulSignature. It will come. And when you start living it, the result will be beyond all that you hope for! #33DayPath
     

    Blessed Maya Angelou, we love and will miss you!













    Photo: Rip Maya Angelou. April 4,1928 to May 28, 2014
Thank you goddess Maya for being a ”phenomenal woman”, for being LOVE, for being LIGHT, for being a great poet, for your important contributions to civil rights, and for being a great teacher. We all remember you for how you made us feel, exactly as you knew we would. I am honored to have walked here in the time where you set your divine footprint on humanity's hearts. Bless you till we meet on the other side when I come HOME too. I SEE you. In LOVE and respect.
Namaste

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."~Maya Angelou 

"My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style."~Maya Angelou 

"Nothing can dim the light which shines from within."~Maya Angelou 

"Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."~Maya Angelou

I envision you holding hands with Dr. King, Mahatma Ghandi and all the others that has shone the LIGHT like you while in the visible realm, all laughing JOYFULLY and rejoicing in knowing that we will all grow up to know that LOVE is what works. That thought make me feel JOY for knowing you are HOME with goddess.
Namaste
     

    From Broken Heart to Open Heart: When Breaking Up Is a Good Thing

    From Broken Heart to Open Heart: When Breaking Up Is a Good Thing
    Sunny Girl
    “When you blame others, you give up your power to change.” ~Dr. Robert Anthony
    On March 18th, 2011, I received an email that forever changed my life.
    “You got me—I’m seeing someone else.”
    That’s the only line I remember. I had noticed that my boyfriend at the time had been acting “strange” and confronted him on it. He fessed up to me in an email while I was at work. There was nothing I could do and nowhere I could go.
    I felt that burning sensation on the back of my neck. I wasn’t sure what to do next, so I sat there at my desk in my office in a haze for the rest of the afternoon.
    I spent the next few days plugging along, assuming that since I had not shed a single tear, everything was just fine. It wasn’t.
    Three days later, I walked into my house after an evening of hanging with friends, and all of sudden it hit me: He was gone. I was alone.
    I broke down, sobbing uncontrollably. I saw no hope, just days and days of pain ahead of me. Unfortunately, that would come to be true.
    Until that point, I was a “relationship jumper.” I’d move from one relationship to the next with little to no break in between, and had done so for fourteen years and four serious relationships.
    Not once during that time had I stopped to think about what I wanted.
    My fear of being alone far outweighed any desire to get to know myself, so I continued on from one relationship to the next, wondering with the ending of each one why it had failed.
    Of course, I blamed all of them. There couldn’t possibly have been anything wrong with me. I was a good girlfriend—I supported them, was there for them, gave more than they did, kept my mouth shut and tried not to get angry with them, stayed with them even when I knew something didn’t seem right. 
    I was accommodating. I didn’t take a job that was far from home to stay close to one of them. I didn’t leave a job I wasn’t happy with to stay close to another. I put myself aside.
    In early 2011 it was no different. It was all his fault. He cheated on me. He left me. He did this to me. I was the victim. It ended because of him. Sure, I was thinking about leaving him, but I didn’t. Sure, there were major red flags, but a good partner just ignores them, right?
    Then something changed. As I began picking up the pieces over the next few months, I started thinking consciously about why this had happened. I began to wonder if, in fact, I had played a role in this and in the ending of all my previous relationships. I began to take responsibility.
    Sometimes, a broken heart isn’t such a bad thing; it can allow more love in than you thought you were capable of.
    I made an executive decision to spend some time alone and form a relationship with myself for the first time in my life.
    I started doing yoga. I rediscovered my love for writing. I graduated from pastry school. I traveled to Paris. I wrote music. I found a spiritual mentor. (When the student is ready, the master really does appear.)
    I was finally becoming the person I was supposed to be. I wasn’t lonely; in fact, I was less lonely then I’d ever been.
    I also realized that I was not the victim. All my actions, all my choices, and all their consequences were happening because of me, not just happening to me.
    I began to notice that my relationships with others were improving, as well. I was letting people in and allowing them to really know me, something I had struggled with in the past.
    I was finally asking for help and leaning on friends and loved ones instead of always trying to do everything myself.
    I found that responsibility and forgiveness go hand in hand, and bridged the gap on two strained relationships, both with people I’m extremely close to today. One of them is the mother of two of my nephews, who I now spend more time with than ever before.
    My broken heart brought me closer to my family and friends.
    It was not an easy journey, by any means, and it is far from over. But two years later I’ve come a long way. I’m awake, aware, and alive. 
    Every day is another chance to give love and receive love in return. You really do get what you give.
    They say everything happens for a reason, even bad things, and I truly believe that. Out of the ashes of my sadness and fear rose responsibility, forgiveness, and love.
    Sometimes we must suffer heartbreak to truly open us up and let out all the greatness we hold within. I’m thankful every day that my heart was broken. I’ll never allow it to close back up again.
     

    The Place where Light enters
















    Photo: Every obstacle is a doorway, and every wound is an opportunity for healing.

    Photo: Every obstacle is a doorway, and every wound is an opportunity for healing.
    Every obstacle is a doorway, and every wound is an opportunity for healing.