Stay Grateful, Walk in Beauty - You Have Everything You Need

Each of you is discovering the truth of your nature, that you already have everything that you seek, and that it is all vibrationally focused at your center. That stuff that appears to you in the outside world is just the outward manifestation of something you have already gestated vibrationally on the inside for a long time, in your imagination, in your beliefs, in your musings.

The Source of Everything is focused through your center of being. And if you want to change the shape of your world, that is the place to go to do it. Everything you might pursue on the outside—money, food, relationships, sex—throws you off balance. There’s nothing bad about any of it. Its not a question of this is good and this is bad. That’s irrelevant. What is relevant is if you call it to you through your center of being, and allow it to be delivered by Source; or if you go out on a journey or an action quest to try to find fulfillment outside of yourself.

You already have everything within. You have been given everything. So when you go out on a quest you are giving up everything to try to catch something that is really just an elusive physical shadow of the real world of vibrational essence. You have the real world within. Your time within is worth a billion of whatever you might catch without. Stay focused, stay centered—much more important than anything you might pursue. Stay centered even when you are in pursuit. Walk in Beauty. That’s what that expression means. And where is Beauty? It lies within.
Bright blessings on your time-space journeys,~Twelve www.TwelveSpirit.net

To all earth's creatures God has given the broad earth, the springs, the rivers and the forests, giving the air to the birds, and the waters to those who live in water, giving abundantly to all the basic needs of life, not as a private possession, not restricted by law, not divided by boundaries, but as common to all, amply and in rich measure. Gregory of Nazianzus
Rob Jackson ‎"The first person who, having enclosed a plot of land, took it into his head to say this is mine and found people simple enough to believe him was the true founder of civil society. What crimes, wars, murders, what miseries and horrors would the human race have been spared, had some one pulled up the stakes or filled in the ditch and cried out to his fellow men: "Do not listen to this imposter. You are lost if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong to all and the earth to no one!" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau (The Social Contract and The Discourses)
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Ron Alexander: Right ON, Rob!Jeanne Porter Ashley: Nice, Ron & Rob! ♥ ♥Jeanne Porter Ashley: Ron... ♥♥<3Joy to the world
All the boys and girls now
Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea
Joy to you and me...3 Dog Night...1975Ron Alexander: ‎& don't forget Jeremiah the Bullfrog! lol!

“As you prepare to take your rightful place as multidimensional beings in the Oneness of All, trust that within your soul is all the information and power you will ever need. No longer will you ask for answers from external sources such as we and other messengers of the light because your innate wisdom of the universal laws and your l...atent abilities will serve you well. Perhaps you will smile when you realize that the enlightenment and guidance we have offered over the years always has been your own knowledge and all we did was gently nudge it into your remembrance.”
TheLightCircleEzine; Message from Matthew

Sailing & Swimming in the Ocean of Love

There's an ocean of love between us
All we gotta do is learn to sail it
There's an ocean of love between us
All we gotta do is learn to bail it.
Come on girl and get your feet wet don't be shy

If you see good in people, you radiate a harmonious loving energy which uplifts those who are around you. If you can maintain this habit, this energy will turn into a steady flow of love. Annamalai Swami

Every single act of love releases blocked energy in your body. Unconditional love heals the body and the mind. Keep reminding yourself of this truth until it becomes your reality. Love is a frequency that you can choose to tune into, just as you tune into a frequency on the radio. ~ Nagarajan Subramanian


"Many know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the ocean merges into the drop."

"Love does not grown on trees or brought in the market, but if one wants to be "LOVED" one must first know how to give (unconditional)LOVE.."


"The river that flows in you also flows in me." — Kabir

Swimming in The Ocean Streams of Thought

Twelve Insight Journal

Each of you must decide which voices you are going to listen to each and every day. There are infinite streams of information flowing out there, and any number of them may serve you very well. When you find sources of ideas that are in alignment with your own desires and destination, you should adhere to them for as long as they remain in alignment with where you are wanting to go.




“But what about my own thoughts?”, you say. Your own thoughts are central to your being, but at the same time, you are swimming in an ocean of thought. You don't see them all the time. You see thoughts that are manifested and those that are manifesting in front of you. But for every manifested thought, there are literally millions of thoughts that fed into and shaped that creation before it crystallized into solid form.




It is so very easy to be distracted by all of that other stuff going on all around you. Even though that stuff's not for you, even though much of it—most of it—is not something that you want. It draws your attention, and where your attention goes Source Energy flows. So it is a benefit to immerse yourself in pools of positive thought; thoughts that are in alignment with the life experience you are wanting to create for yourself.



And it doesn't matter if the thoughts are true or not, it only matters if they feel right to you. When they feel right to you, then you are in a stream or a pool of thought that is in alignment with who you really are. And for now, it's the right place for you to be.



It may not stay that way forever—nothing ever does—but for now, that stream of thought is going in a direction that you want to go. You make a decision about these streams of thought every day. And you will always know by the way you feel, whether that stream is taking you to a place that's going to feel good when you get there.

Namaste.
~Twelve
www.TwelveSpirit.net
Continually Swimming in the Flow of Divine Energy
Swim in the Ocean Stream of affirmative thinking, prayer, and meditation will keep this flow of Divine Energy streaming in our minds, our bodies, and our affairs, animating everything we do with the vitality that knows no weariness.
"This Energy is never depleted; it is never lessened. All of it is present right where we are; and all the joy in living is flowing within me and around me continuously." Ernest Holmes (paraphrased)

In the Beginning was the Word...

"My words fly up,
my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts
never to heaven go."

-Hamlet 3.3

Words are our thoughts made into sounds! They can make you laugh or cry. They can wound or heal.
Be careful with your thoughts and especially your words that come out of them.
Capture the spirit of discovery that has motivated all who have sought to lift their words and ideas beyond the pale confines of this "too too solid flesh." As many have before them, their words will reach the heavens...

A powerful agent is the right word.
Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words...
the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual,
and electrically prompt. -Mark Twain.




The Rundetaarn or round tower is Europe's oldest functioning observatory. The curious have glimpsed the stars from atop this tower since 1642. When these early explorers studied the heavens from its summit, it teases the mind to imagine what they must have thought.

Mind Beyond Judgements

‎"A mind beyond judgments watches, and understands." - Buddha
Buddha painting by Ashutosh Sharma



.Bob Sampron ‎... and denies, which is still judgment. To not judge is to judge. There is no escape.
Ron Alexander: I have found lately, Bob, that if I stay as completely in the moment as possible, stay focused, I really reduce my judgements. If I have compassion for someone who cuts me off in traffic, I reduce my judgements. I think that Buddha learn to stay in the moment with his strong meditation practice and at same time, he developed great compassion watching the same thoughts and feelings pass through him as everybody. The key words here are "passing" and "as everybody"- our Oneness. Thanks, Bob, for helping me reflect, as I have been such a judge, that often I thought I belonged on the Supreme Court!
Bob Sampron: Ron, how is that living? It seems to me the only place to stay effectively in the moment is in the grave.

Ron Alexander: Lol! Well I consider staying in the moment and being compassionate and non-judgemental as possible to be really joyously ALIVE! i find when I am happy, what other people say or do don't affect me. Thanks for the inquiry - you help me to reflect on how I am attempting to live, and I feel fairly successful and getting better all the time!

Jeanne Porter Ashley: when the stepping aside from the reflex of judgement becomes the new reflex who is to say a different path is necessary...17
Bob Sampron: The stepping aside is a judgment. The reflex is an instinctive judgment. There is judgment or there is no life.
Ron Alexander: Thanks for all your well-reasoned input Bob and Jeanne and Ra! Life is good!
Bob Sampron: And if instinctive judgment is not Spirit talking through us in the form of its experience of life, then I don't know what is.
Ron Alexander: Talking about humans not reptiles - the reptilian (lower) part of the brain is where instincts come from - of course, instincts are God-given, yet no "free will" choice there...
Ra Divakar Have to agree with Ron here Bob, even though there is truth in "social interactionism", it applies to lower consciousness, while Ron is talking about Higher Consciousness, which you call "theological" - a big difference in words. Although there is still alot of semantic differences here, I think you are both telling your truth, just in different spheres of consciousness.
Bob Sampron: Ra, may I suggest you read George Herbert Mead on the subject of social interactionism. Also Charles Horton Cooley. Experiment after experiment shows them correct. It's not faith. It's science.
Christi L Spivey: I wonder if you can become too watchful . . .
.Ron Alexander: Thanks Bob & Christi, in the past, I have not agreed with sociology, which does not mean it is not true. I agree with Ra, that this "Science" is on a lower consciousness sphere, as compared to Quantum Physics for example. Christi, I think it is impossible to be ever vigilant, however I do think increasing awareness is a most vital part of our growth. Again thank you both for helping me to "seriously" look at this.

Meditate More

‎"So your solution here is to find your own calm and peaceful center. Make it your home. And in that calm and peaceful center recognize the presence of all the things, people, places, events, that you are wanting to create in your life expe......rience. We want your calm, peaceful center to be the place you always return to. So when those thoughts appear that are disturbing you, you know immediately that they do not belong, and you know immediately they are not presently a part of your center. "The Twelve"
Lael Bat Elohim: ‎@Ron- could you make me a gigantic poster with those wise words? I need to read that every day. I'd have it tattooed on my forearm but I weep at the images that brings.
Ron Alexander: Good idea for large poster, Lael - better would be to meditate more and more - a big reason that Jeanne and I are soon to enter a ten day silent meditation retreat - meditating ten hours per day and listening to the meditation teacher 2 hour discourse at night! thanks for suggestion, Peace, ron

Travis E. Duke And then imagine...only having to walk 60 ft...to a Zendo...it's pretty good man !! Rin Shin Ji...Forest Heart Temple....it rocks !! For Sure !!
Ron Alexander: Gotta keep that Beginner's Mind - Loving kindness, ron
Travis E. Duke: Every morning...and many evenings...for 25 months...I've entered that Temple...bowed..offered incense to the Buddha, sat zazen, chanted...bowed..9+ times...I'm sure I don't need to tell you...it works !! Been practicing with this group..5 yrs...nothing special...but it's a game changer for me..
Ron Alexander: That's impressive Travis. I am going back for another ten day silent Vipassana retreat again soon...expect it to stick this time!
Bobby Hinkle:
When your consciousness becomes a still mirror, a still lake, a silent reservoir of energy, God is reflected in it. - Osho

Dean A. Banks: ‎"There's a mirror moving inside my mind, Reflecting the love that you shine on me, Hold on now to that feeling, Let it flow, let it grow" ~Gary Wright, Love Is Alive - Dream Weaver (Inspired by Paramahansa Yogananda)

When we speak of a calm state of mind or peace of mind, we shouldn't confuse that with an insensitive state of apathy. Having a calm or peaceful state of mind doesn't mean being spaced out or completely empty. Peace of mind or a calm state of mind is rooted in affection and compassion and is sensitive and responsive to others. ~ Dalai Lama

The Summer Triangle

The Summer Triangle
Three brilliant stars form this stellar right triangle making it our best heavenly landmark in the August night sky. Vega high above and its western point appears the brightest of the three. Deneb, also high above and to the east of Vega, appears the dimmest. Altair shines below in the south, forming the most distant point of this great triad.

These three stunning stars are an unofficial star group or asterism that link the three constellations ... Lyra, Cygnus the Swan and Aquila the Eagle. This Summer Triangle lies high above, over the Milky Way which now sweeps across the heavens from north to south.

When one ponders upon this heavenly trinity, a transformational gateway appears. The qualities of this gateway, when personally activated lead one on the path of the gods to divine unity.

The Summer Triangle Stars and Their Constellations





Top-north, bottom-south, left-east, right west
Image: adapted from Sky and Telescope

Note: This graphic does not show the Milky Way, which sweeps through the Summer Triangle from Cassiopeia in the northeast to Scorpius in the southwest. The little green cross marks the zenith, the midpoint between the eastern and western horizons. The Summer Triangle formed by the stars Vega, Deneb and Altair is outlined in yellow. The constellations associated with these stars are as follows ... the pink parallelogram marks Lyra, the large aqua cross marks Cygnus, The Swan and the blue lines form Aquilla, The Eagle.


Vega stands just at the western edge of the summer Milky Way. Look Up, almost straight up, at the zenith to find Vega, the prima donna of this triangular trio. Sparkling blue-white Vega is in the constellation Lyra, the Lyre or Harp.

To locate this constellation which does
not really looklike a musical instrument,
look for a little parallelogram of stars
south of Vega toward Altair.

Image: 365 Starry Nights by Chet Raymo



Astronomical Vega


Image: The Sky Astronomy Software

Vega is interesting for several different reasons … its close proximity to the Earth at only 25 light years away, its brightness, many times that of our Sun, which comes from an inherent luminosity not just from its closeness, its color and apparent brightness which make it a basic standard against which all other stars are ultimately compared, and its relationship to the pole star. Vega, the brightest star in the Summer Triangle, will be the "North Star" in about 12,000 years, instead of present-day Polaris. This change in pole stars is caused by precession, the very slow (26,000-year cycle) wobble of the Earth's rotational axis. The illustration above shows the apparent path of the pole with corresponding years labeled for the present cycle.


An esoteric point of interest is Vega's relationship to the star Sirius. Ponder on this ... when Vega is directly overhead at the Zenith (about 3 hours after an August sunset) Sirius, the God Star and the brightest star, is under our feet! From our head to our toes we are heavenly stimulated in Leo. Another Vega connection to Sirius lies in the Japanese myth. A peasant boy, the star Altair, is allowed to cross the River of Heaven (Milky Way) to unite with the princess and his lover, the star Vega. When does this occur? ... on the seventh day of the seventh month. This is the time when our physical Sun is conjunct our spiritual Sun, Sirius. During this time many celebrate freedom and liberation.