The Divine Father/Mother have impressed upon me their deep desire to know each of us. And they have impressed upon me that sharing my experiences is helpful to that end…so I share today; Notes on Meditation…

For me Meditation is the Divine calling me away to spend time with me in the quiet;
to share Himself/Herself with me.
To share healing for my emotions and physicality.
To show me how things work.
To make her love for me known.

It’s kind of like a date, I give her my attention, the best I can, and she leads the way.

It is the most powerful part of my day. She brings me one beautiful awareness after another and I give her my heart, my trust and my willingness.

She helps me untangle my thinking, a little at a time. Just like one might entangle a snarled head of hair.

Dear Divine Mother/Father, please call me to you and show me your love, and show me that I am Thee.

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These are some ideas I wrote down about unconditional love this morning to help me remember as I go through this day…

Unconditional Love sees beyond the learned behavior to the real self that continues to shine forth. Unconditional love sees and knows more about what is, and it accepts and allows and loves that real self.

Because it only sees the beautiful real self, the self that is doing everything here, it only trusts and does not try.

Unconditional love trusts and loves. And relaxes in that love, and that is called peace. When the beauty of the self is what is seen and reflected, there is no fighting.

When unconditional love forgets herself and reaches for thoughts of the world instead – then she isn’t unconditionally loving, but she is still unconditional love. Just like everybody else is.

When she remembers herself and reflects the self and the love for the self, in attitude and actions, others are comforted and they remember too.

I love you,
Anne
12/14/19

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Unconditional Love Revealed
by Anne Partain
12/09/19

I keep thinking about how children love their parents.

When we are really little, and connected to our inner knowing, we hardly even notice when our parents do it wrong. We are sorry for them and want to comfort them when things go wrong. We are on their side no matter what, we love them and want to be with them and be like them.

And then from those same ones we have loved so tenderly we begin to learn that we are wrong, for crying, for wanting to have our way, for not wanting to share, for telling something less than the truth, for hitting. And they drive in our wrongness with their anger, shame, guilt and accusations and even hitting.

And then we stop listening to the voice within, source, our soul and we become like our earthly examples, our parents. By the time we are teenagers the unconditional love has been covered over with hate, anger and embarrassment. Now we have become part of this world, getting ours, hidden agendas, fighting and finding fault.

This scenario is part of all of us to some degree and in some way. Looking at it helps us understand why we don’t love ourselves, our world and each other more; and why we don’t experience more peace.

We can look back to that very first decision to abandon the unconditional love that is who we are and when we began listening to and following the ways of our parents.

They taught us how not to love unconditionally when they told us we could do wrong. They betrayed our unconditional love for them with the conditional love they showed us.

We have been angry, ashamed and sad about that ever since. We learned to protect.

With an understanding of what happened and faith in the Divine we can begin to re-decide about following the voice within us, the voice of the Divine Unconditional Love.

The good news is that the unconditional love is still there inside, waiting. The Divine knows the way and can teach us how to become our own unconditionally loving parent. And that we are still loved unconditionally and have never done anything wrong.

I am so thankful to the Divine for this understanding and for every one of you!
Love,
Anne

Update December 9, 2020 – I don’t want to make it sound like we are blaming our parents for anything. They were taught by their parents. We just need to each individually make the decision to follow the voice within, the voice of the Divine, and let go of our old ways of following this world. xo

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I asked this question during my meditation time, “What would you say to the world?”

And here is the answer from Spirit, “I love you, I’m very proud of you.
I’ve seen how hard it’s been and I’ve watched you try. And I’ve seen your pain.

“Know this! You are perfectly doing what you came to do.
“I see all your beautiful parts and I am blind to anything else.

“I know what you think it looks like; and I’m not changed by your thoughts,
Why? Because I created you and I understand the bigger picture.

“My truth is that you absolutely can do no wrong.

“I created you out of myself and I know I am not wrong or unclear or nearsighted on this.
And since I know you are me…I know you are doing what you came to do.”

We share these words because they have brought me great comfort and freedom, and we, Spirit and I, want you to know the Divine part of yourself. Meditate on them, let them wash over you…

With love,
Anne

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Hi Friends, I wanted to be sure to recognize, appreciate and share with you; this list of teachers and Gurus who continue to be there, or their ideas continue to be there, for me when I need them. They do more for me than I can say.

Also, it’s important to note that I can’t share the names of every one of my teachers through-out my life in one Blog Post. I do thank you all..

Jesus Christ – Yeshua HaMashiach – Jesus the Messiah, or Anointed One. – When I first started my “Search to Know” when I was 22 I began reading the Bible. I was at home that year while Ronnie, my then husband, was making his way to Florida and back as a Truck Driver. I only had a couple of TV stations that worked and I followed one of those TV preachers in my first prayer inviting Jesus and God into my life. It was Pat Robertson.

I began to watch more teachers on TV, when I moved and had more channels. Kenneth Copeland became one of my favorites and he taught me about Faith in God.

I met Jim and Susan Meyers, they were the pastors at the little church I loved to go to. I learned through time with them how the Bible came to be, I studied Greek and Hebrew Language and Culture and I began to understand a little more.

After a divorce from Ronnie, I married Charles Griffith, he taught me from a spiritual and psychological perspective, how to understand myself and my world better. Charles lived for 9 years after we married and also introduced me to my now husband and soul mate, Ken Partain.

Ken’s affection, gentleness, support and unconditional love make Ken one of my greatest gifts of this lifetime.

Abraham Hicks – I can’t ever forget their words or their love. It was around 2005 or so that I was given a CD by Abraham to borrow. I instantly fell in love and enjoyed them by CD for hours daily for about 5 years.

More recently I’ve used the process called “The 4 Questions and Turn Around” as taught by Byron Katie. Her simple method of getting to the truth has shown me the way, often.

I love to notice occasionally the powerful lives and ideas of Adyashanti and Gangaji and Mooji. These three, their truth and their lives have given me courage and understanding to become all that I can be for my Beloved Divine.

Mahavitar (Divine Incarnation) Babaji and the Gurus of Self Realization Fellowship – Through my lessons from the Self Realization Fellowship I have come to know my greatest teacher, after myself. That precious One is Babaji. There’s not much known about him. It is believed that he was born many centuries ago. His followers know that he still resides here to help others come to know their Greatest Self.

Babaji began to come to me during meditation soon after I began the SRF Lessons. All the Gurus of Self Realization Fellowship came to me and they remain with me. They have promised to never leave me.

Sri Yukteswar, Guru of Paramahansa Yogananda, taught me and gave me his face to use when I need to remember that I’ve never done anything wrong.

Paramahansa Yogananda teaches me wisdom and discipline. And his love inspires me to Know God.

Lahiri Mahasaya, Guru of Sri Yukteswar silently meditates with me, radiating gentleness, humility and singleness of purpose.

My most humble thank you to these mentioned and everyone who has helped me directly or indirectly. And let me not leave out those who have taught me through their pain. Everyone is my teacher.

And thank you to you who are reading now. I love and appreciate you more than you know!

With great affection,
Anne
10/31/19

You can see a list of Resource Books Here that I’ve used over the years to help me with clues to myself and my environment.

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As I’ve traveled along my path, I’ve worked to let go of people, worries, fears, cares, concerns, self doubt and self hate.

In the last several weeks there has been some letting go of a very basic idea I’ve always held about myself. I am the little girl that wasn’t wanted by the father. It wasn’t personal, he just didn’t want kids at all.

I’ve always seen myself as partially unloved and unwanted and I clearly saw the connection of this and why I have had the problems I’ve had all my life. I’ve been a fighter and created my life with this view.

I saw it clearly – one day while working with my emotions and thoughts in my quiet place. I saw it…I’ve been fighting for this unloved part. I created a whole life with this person in the center, always wanting to be loved but never really feeling it.

And here’s the way I did it…I would love others, sometimes sacrificially, I would give and share and help…but then I expected and wanted to be loved back.

When that rarely happened, I would get angry because they did it wrong. And then of course, they liked me less.

As I remembered this faces and situations flashed by and I could see that I have recreated the situation over and over with people all my life.

I also realized that nothing was ever about anybody but me. Except my parents who gave me the world view I had. And I can see clearly now that they were just handing down what they were taught about themselves by their parents. Just as I did with my children.

We all feel wronged in some way, and we all create a personality that reflects this…until we see from the point of view of the One.

Maybe ask yourself, might you be doing things you don’t really want to do, hoping to be loved and valued? If the answer is yes, you are not alone. The way out is to love, listen to and value our own voice.

I love you!
Anne
Written June 2011

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In all the world there is no place like our earth. There’s no other place anywhere in close proximity to us that has the beauty and splendor and balance and harmony and majesty and serenity and exquisiteness of our home. We have explored and not found another planet to compare.

Pull back and observe the glory and just how full of wonder this planet is, that so many forms of life could inhabit it’s gardens.

We are told that by the choice to continue to eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil we remain cast out of the garden.  (To me this means we are unable to fully enjoy the beauty and bounty.)

This happens when we set our vision on parsing what we see into good and bad categories.  When we continue to choose this way we also believe we are separate and experience ourselves as separated.  We believe we need to work for our existence.

We no longer experience living in the lap of bounty and trust, we now live in want and isolation always attempting to rectify this painful separation with the same choosing that took us out of the garden, separating Life into good and evil and so many other categories.

But what if we woke-up and chose to eat of the tree of Life.  Trusting all of life for value.  Remembering the One who put us here and honoring and respecting and trusting and allowing.  Trusting that Life has remembered us and is for us, unconditionally, no matter what our separated mind tells us we see.

To begin to choose to trust Life, we must begin with ourselves, right where we are, by trusting what is wanted and what is felt.  Sitting with the self and regaining a relationship.

Asking questions and listening for answers.  And observing the qualities within our self, all of them.  The anger is there for a reason, the fear is there for a reason, the sadness is there for a reason, and it’s most likely not the reason we think.

Very few really go through this courageous change of choosing and experiencing Life without parsing everything into good and evil.

Many have a form of Life but not the power and glory and splendor that Life can be here on earth…to these I say thank you for your wonderful, beautiful and glorious expression of the Divine.

But….to those who are ready to hear what I’m saying…let us trust the Divine to lead us to peace.

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Today I see that I give a lot…and it’s enough.

I give enough. I’m always trying to give enough.

And where there’s not enough, there’s never enough.

I can also see that the prevalent voice of the world is “not enough.”

We are all enough, just as we are.

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We had the privilege of joining our friends recently when they picked up their children from summer camp. It was 8 year old Matt’s first year to be at the two week camp.

We heard from the counselor that Matt was homesick the first couple of days. His counselor took him to another counselor for help with the problem and after the talk Matt was fine and the homesickness disappeared.

On the drive home in the van Matt’s mother asked him what the counselor had said to him that helped him so much.
Here’s the secret of Matt’s recovery…

The counselor told Matt it was normal to be homesick, that he would be concerned if Matt wasn’t homesick.

That’s it, so simple, doesn’t take a lot of words…what is…is normal and expected, allow it.

Matt said that after that his homesickness went away and never came back.

It is simple and so easy to breeze on by, but the powerful peace giving idea that what is…is normal, and needs no fighting or judgment, will heal us just the same, so we can enjoy our vacation here…

What are you homesick about? It’s ok and normal…there is nothing wrong with life or you…

Let us trust that God knows the way.
I love you,
Anne

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While I don’t read other peoples words very often, I do still consult the reference sections of these books, especially during my meditation/contemplation times, for clues about myself and my world.

One book I have read recently, from cover to cover is Autobiography of a Yogi. Author Paramahansa Yogananda. Published by Self Realization Fellowship. This book has changed my life in so many ways, and increased my faith in God, Myself and what we call Miracles.

My Reference Books…

Animal Speak – This one helps me get clues about myself from the animals I encounter. If you cross paths with an animal just look it up.
Author Ted Andrews. Llewellyn Publications.

The Only Astrology Book You’ll Ever Need – This one helps me understand myself and others better by understanding the way the planets influence us at birth.
Author Joanna Woolfolk. Taylor Trade Publishing

Know the Name, Know the Person – This book helps me understand myself and my world by understanding the influence and symbolism in our names.
Author Sharon Lynn Wyeth. LightKeepers Publishing.

You Can Heal Your Life – This book has a reference section that correlates the disease with the emotional problems.
Author Louise L Hay. Hay House Publishing.

Loving What Is, 4 Questions That Can Change Your Life – I have the little Excerpt version – This little and powerful book helps me understand myself by giving me a way of evaluating my attitudes and thoughts about others in my life.
Author Byron Katie. Harmony Books.

The Bible – I have spent a considerable amount of my life studying and memorizing the Bible. So I use it sometimes to reference how it’s writers thought about ideas I’m working with and to see what Jesus had to say and how he behaved.

Our world holds clues for us. These books have provided those clues for me along my path. I trust they will do the same for anyone with a sincere heart to know God and Themselves More.
Love, Anne, 2011

Anne – 2011

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