<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><rss xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/" xmlns:blogger="http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008" xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" version="2.0"><channel><atom:id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23620405</atom:id><lastBuildDate>Wed, 09 Oct 2024 01:29:54 +0000</lastBuildDate><category>awareness</category><category>enlightenment</category><category>mind</category><category>truth</category><category>organic nutrition</category><category>health</category><category>love</category><category>peace</category><category>spirituality</category><category>consciousness</category><category>god</category><category>zen</category><category>buddhism</category><category>ego</category><category>karma</category><category>self</category><category>buddha</category><category>forgiveness</category><category>funny</category><category>healing</category><category>humor</category><category>law of attraction</category><category>meditation</category><category>nutrients</category><category>the secret</category><category>cells</category><category>comedy</category><category>holistic health</category><category>oneness</category><category>self realization</category><category>selflessness</category><category>silence</category><category>spiritual</category><category>a course in miracles</category><category>acceptance</category><category>buddhist</category><category>comic</category><category>curing disease</category><category>david hawkins</category><category>divinity</category><category>frequensea</category><category>happiness</category><category>poetry</category><category>reality</category><category>reincarnation</category><category>vitamin supplements</category><category>world peace</category><category>absolute</category><category>bodhidharma</category><category>christianity</category><category>compassion</category><category>disease</category><category>epiphanies</category><category>falsehood</category><category>formlessness</category><category>ghandi</category><category>holistic</category><category>huang po</category><category>no-mind</category><category>placebo effect</category><category>relative</category><category>selfishness</category><category>thinking</category><category>thoughts</category><category>FDA</category><category>acim</category><category>all-knowing</category><category>antioxidants</category><category>bhagavad gita</category><category>bible</category><category>biofeedback</category><category>biology</category><category>blame</category><category>body</category><category>boredom</category><category>brain</category><category>cancer</category><category>cause</category><category>completion</category><category>consciousness awareness</category><category>cure</category><category>dalai lama</category><category>definition</category><category>devotion</category><category>eft</category><category>energy</category><category>fear of death</category><category>fear of dying</category><category>food</category><category>form</category><category>gandhi</category><category>identity</category><category>infinite</category><category>intuition</category><category>jesus</category><category>jokes</category><category>joy</category><category>krishna</category><category>lao tzu</category><category>liberation</category><category>movie</category><category>natural</category><category>no-thing</category><category>nonduality</category><category>nutrient defciency</category><category>nutrient deficiency</category><category>nutrition</category><category>observer</category><category>organic</category><category>pharmaceutical industry</category><category>prayer</category><category>ramana maharshi</category><category>ribbons</category><category>science</category><category>silly laws</category><category>stress</category><category>surrender</category><category>tao te ching</category><category>unmanifest</category><category>vitamins</category><title>Higher Truth</title><description>&quot;No problem can be solved by the same kind of thinking that created it.&quot; - Albert Einstein&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xa;&quot;No learning is acquired by anyone unless he wants to learn it, and believes in some way that he needs it.&quot; - A Course in Miracles&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&#xa;The problem with having opinions &amp;amp; beliefs is that nobody can know the truth, or the next level of truth, as long as they think they already know the truth.</description><link>http://higher-truth.blogspot.com/</link><managingEditor>noreply@blogger.com (Jarett)</managingEditor><generator>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>66</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23620405.post-7638989336742101433</guid><pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2017 03:21:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2017-05-20T21:21:58.567-06:00</atom:updated><title>Love All-Knowing - An Epic Spiritual Poem</title><description>So I wrote a book. Sort of. It largely wrote itself in a state of surrender and out of love for mankind. It took on a life of its own right from the beginning and it feels kind of awkward putting my name on it, but for the sake of social conventions, the label of &quot;Jarett Sabirsh&quot; attached to this physical body is on the cover of the book.&lt;br /&gt;
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Once read it&#39;ll be understood that it&#39;s one of the most important spiritual books ever written. A bold claim, maybe, but it is what it is. It might take a 100 years to catch on but it&#39;ll eventually go down in history alongside Dante&#39;s Divine Comedy, the Tao te Ching, The Art of War, Rumi&#39;s poetry, the Bhagavad Gita, the Dhammapada, and all such other similar type texts. Love All-Knowing defies classification and integrates many different topics and themes into one cohesive unit with the intention of alleviating mankind&#39;s suffering in all its various forms; physical, mental, emotional, psychological, philosophical, theological, religious, societal, scientific, and especially spiritual.&lt;br /&gt;
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To offer a small glimpse into what the books entails a &quot;Highly Abridged Remix Version&quot; was made and can be read on the main page of the website or in this video.&lt;br /&gt;
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Until the book gets fully published in paperback the full-length poem is available as a free downloadable PDF eBook from the website!&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;br /&gt;</description><link>http://higher-truth.blogspot.com/2017/05/love-all-knowing-epic-spiritual-poem.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jarett)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://img.youtube.com/vi/sYKJ_nVtQA4/default.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23620405.post-2689670933048168359</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 May 2013 22:43:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2013-05-30T16:49:27.988-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">divinity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">funny</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">humor</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">oneness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">poetry</category><title>Ode to The Evolving Cosmos Comic</title><description>&lt;div class=&quot;separator&quot; style=&quot;clear: both; text-align: center;&quot;&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;&quot;&gt;I enjoy reading comics on the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gocomics.com/sunny-street/2013/05/06&quot;&gt;GoComics.com&lt;/a&gt; website. While seeing this Sunny Street strip on May 06, 2013 I felt inspired to write a poem in the comments section. Click on the image to visit the original posting and to see the full size image.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;&quot;&gt;Here&#39;s the poem...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;&quot;&gt;For you cosmos&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;&quot;&gt;from which all flows&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;&quot;&gt;let us compose&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;&quot;&gt;not in prose&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;&quot;&gt;but with juxtapose&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;&quot;&gt;great beauty flows&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;&quot;&gt;from he who knows&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;&quot;&gt;divinity’s under his nose&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;&quot;&gt;I don’t suppose&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;&quot;&gt;man ever outgrows&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;&quot;&gt;the highs and lows&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;&quot;&gt;while life’s wind blows&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;&quot;&gt;to all I propose&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;&quot;&gt;that time will expose&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;&quot;&gt;the illusion of foes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;&quot;&gt;and oneness of all those&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;&quot;&gt;that are in life’s throes&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;br /&gt;</description><link>http://higher-truth.blogspot.com/2013/05/ode-to-evolving-cosmos-comic.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jarett)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23620405.post-9147215775131099641</guid><pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:27:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2015-08-12T13:28:20.253-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">awareness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">comedy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">comic</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">consciousness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">funny</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">humor</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">meditation</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mind</category><title>I Am Cat</title><description>&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;Iams Cat&quot; src=&quot;http://www.thetruthsoflife.com/comics/iamscat-228x410.png&quot; style=&quot;height: 410px; width: 228px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Not funny?&lt;br /&gt;It could be by becoming familiar with &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0893860220?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=j32r4m-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0893860220&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;I Am That&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0893860220?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=j32r4m-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0893860220&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;img alt=&quot;I Am That&quot; src=&quot;http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514PRB4855L._SL160_.jpg&quot; style=&quot;border: 0px solid; height: 160px; width: 100px;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;Okay, maybe not. It&#39;s a bad joke. But the book is profound. Read it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: 16px;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://higher-truth.blogspot.com/2010/09/i-am-cat.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jarett)</author><thr:total>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23620405.post-4802237357502364621</guid><pubDate>Sun, 12 Sep 2010 05:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-09-12T01:32:35.967-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">awareness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">healing</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">health</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">holistic</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">meditation</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mind</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">placebo effect</category><title>Placebo Awareness</title><description>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Here in North America everywhere you go there are campaigns going on for cancer awareness, diabetes awareness, heart disease awareness, and so on. While the intentions behind these campaigns are undoubtedly positive, I believe there is a grave error being made that most people are completely unaware of.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;There is the placebo effect and then there is the nocebo effect. Most people have never heard of the nocebo effect, nor do they understand the full implications of it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;The placebo effect is when an illness, health issue or disease is suddenly, instantly and miraculously gone when absolutely no (actual) medicine or treatment of any kind has been taken. It&#39;s what happens when the mind no longer believes that a disease is real. The mind has been completely emptied, even on a subconscious level, that there is such a thing as illness. There IS only health, and not an iota of doubt about it exists in consciousness. Health alone is real.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Now if the mind is this profoundly powerful and can eradicate and cure disease with no effort whatsoever, what does this mean for the nocebo effect? In short, the nocebo effect means that when we buy into and believe something (ie. cancer runs in my family, 1 in 3 people get it), we&#39;re far more likely to experience that in our life.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Many health conscious folks will argue (as I used to) that it&#39;s the additives and chemicals in processed foods, in our water and in our overall environment that&#39;s &quot;causing&quot; these diseases. While this may be partly true, on the other hand perhaps this is just another belief that&#39;s contributing to our health issues.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Years ago I once saw on television (might have been Ripley&#39;s Believe It Or Not) a guy put molten metal in his mouth without being harmed. Another person has eaten nothing but metal for years, like nails, and x-rays proved it. These are just a couple prime examples of the power of the mind.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;We are only subject to what we buy into. Have the belief that you are untouchable. The power of the mind, when properly harnessed, overrides the physical, and this means that we no longer need to be searching for the cure. The placebo effect is the cure.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Being Positive = Truth/Love/Peace = Placebo Effect = Healthy Cells = Healthy Body&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;Remember, there IS only health. It alone is real.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I highly recommend:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0971500789?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=j32r4m-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0971500789&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;border: 0px solid ; width: 101px; height: 160px;&quot; alt=&quot;Healing and Recovery&quot; src=&quot;https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/31MYkzzxXyL._SL160_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0971500789?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=j32r4m-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0971500789&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Healing and Recovery by Dr. David R. Hawkins&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;Apple-style-span&quot; style=&quot;font-size: small;&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><link>http://higher-truth.blogspot.com/2010/09/placebo-awareness.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jarett)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23620405.post-3106071585131593163</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:42:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-04-25T19:47:08.224-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">god</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nonduality</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">oneness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">self</category><title>Truth is One</title><description>&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Truth is One.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;All is One. All is God. All is Self.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt; God is All. God is One. God is Self.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Re-read these individually until each is understood.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt; The goal is to realize, live, experience and be this Truth.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;There is no &quot;this&quot; and &quot;that.&quot; There is no &quot;here&quot; and &quot;there.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt; There is no &quot;you&quot; and &quot;me.&quot; There is no polarity.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt; There is no individuality. There is no &quot;other.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt; There are no opposites. There is no duality.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;All is One which is Self.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://higher-truth.blogspot.com/2010/04/truth-is-one.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jarett)</author><thr:total>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23620405.post-4818156760349019334</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:36:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-25T18:37:54.490-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">awareness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">meditation</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mind</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">reincarnation</category><title>Pro-life vs. Pro-choice: Who Cares?</title><description>&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;With the understanding and recognition of reincarnation and the fact that we are not the body, or that Life is not confined to a body, the whole &quot;pro-life vs. pro-choice&quot; argument seems silly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;Nobody is ever born and nobody ever dies. Life/consciousness is neverendingly forever. By having an abortion, nobody is being harmed, nobody is losing anything and nobody is being denied of life. If consciousness doesn&#39;t enter that specific physical body, it&#39;ll simply reincarnate into a different one. No big deal. Life goes on, and it can&#39;t do anything but. The essence of Life itself is eternal. There was never a time that you weren&#39;t, and there will never be a time that you won&#39;t be.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;However,  nobody can really fully understand this unless they&#39;ve had a &quot;spiritual experience&quot;, out of body experience, past-life regression (hypnosis) session, or something else along these lines. And because relatively few people have had such experiences, the pro-life vs. pro-choice debate will go on and on and on... and on.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;If you haven&#39;t had any such experience yourself, and you&#39;re curious about what is said here,  a quick 30 second meditation session can verify this for a person. If you tell the mind to stop thinking, it starts right back up again all by itself. And if the mind is operating completely on it&#39;s own, which this simple experiment shows very clearly that it is, then you are the Silent Awareness that is watching the mind&#39;s thoughts. And if the mind isn&#39;t you, then all the physical actions that the body does, which are the direct result of the functioning mind, then none of the body&#39;s actions are &quot;you&quot; either. &quot;You are not the doer of deeds&quot; says the Hindu scriptures, the Tao Te Ching, and countless Zen Masters. Thus, you are not the body, and whether it lives or dies is ultimately irrelevant.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;Here&#39;s a fun lyric from Stevie Wonder&#39;s Higher Ground...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;I&#39;m so darn glad he let me try it again&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;Cause my last time on earth I lived a whole world of sin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;I&#39;m so glad that I know more than I knew then&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;Gonna keep on tryin&#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;Till I reach the highest ground&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006JSS8?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=j32r4m-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=B00006JSS8&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;border: 0px solid ; width: 160px; height: 160px;&quot; alt=&quot;Stevie Wonder - Definitive Collection&quot; src=&quot;http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517ig9h5cRL._SL160_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://higher-truth.blogspot.com/2010/04/pro-life-vs-pro-choice-who-cares.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jarett)</author><thr:total>7</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23620405.post-833413062252469121</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-03-13T15:34:07.807-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">consciousness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">karma</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">oneness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">reincarnation</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">self</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">spiritual</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">spirituality</category><title>No More Why&#39;s</title><description>&lt;span style=&quot;;font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;&quot;  &gt;I once posted on Twitter &quot;Like a scientific experiment karma can be put to practice purposefully to see if it&#39;s true or not. Change yourself &amp;amp; you&#39;ll see.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Between free will, karma and reincarnation, the &quot;why&quot; of absolutely everything is explained. The question &quot;why did this happen&quot; no longer exists in one&#39;s consciousness because it&#39;s fully recognized, as a result of personal experience, that everything is the result of one&#39;s own past actions, thoughts, opinions, beliefs, perceptions, views, emotions and attitudes (which are all a choice), either in this physical life, or in past ones.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There&#39;s never anything or anybody else to blame for anything because the way &quot;others&quot; act towards you is a mirror of yourself. &quot;They&quot; are you. It&#39;s all you, all the time. 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href=&quot;http://www.flickr.com/photos/jsab0/4246087770/sizes/o/&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 200px;&quot; src=&quot;https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhITkOJLAjKfKHsfPiJ_e-5t8Wpin9zo4iZ5PBQ24MjnnyekQ47ozaiZ57-TVt4xA-np2O7K0_xQvnd57I521lsh2MlSVhA_sjVGLCy_jF9TQOsxv_sP5K31rQ3yCySQMKXE8tH/s400/leggomyegobox-450x225.png&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Leggo my ego&quot;id=&quot;BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5438308824122323746&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;(click for full size!)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><link>http://higher-truth.blogspot.com/2010/02/leggo-my-ego.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jarett)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhITkOJLAjKfKHsfPiJ_e-5t8Wpin9zo4iZ5PBQ24MjnnyekQ47ozaiZ57-TVt4xA-np2O7K0_xQvnd57I521lsh2MlSVhA_sjVGLCy_jF9TQOsxv_sP5K31rQ3yCySQMKXE8tH/s72-c/leggomyegobox-450x225.png" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23620405.post-784367803211213089</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:26:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2010-02-11T02:36:32.161-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">buddhism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">comedy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">comic</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">funny</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">humor</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">zen</category><title>Does a Cow Have Buddha Nature?</title><description>&lt;img style=&quot;width: 430px; height: 343px;&quot; alt=&quot;Cow Buddha Nature&quot; src=&quot;http://www.thetruthsoflife.com/comics/cowmu2.png&quot;&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><link>http://higher-truth.blogspot.com/2010/02/does-cow-have-buddha-nature.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jarett)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23620405.post-4167029997108722729</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:56:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-25T22:04:31.344-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">bible</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">christianity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">falsehood</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">god</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jesus</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">spiritual</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">spirituality</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">truth</category><title>A More Accurate Bible</title><description>&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060859512?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=j32r4m-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0060859512&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;border: 0px solid ; width: 104px; height: 160px; float: right;&quot; alt=&quot;Misquoting Jesus&quot; src=&quot;http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/513X2vYD6NL._SL160_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;The book &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060859512?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=j32r4m-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0060859512&quot;&gt;Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why&lt;/a&gt;&quot; takes a close academic look at the Bible by going back to the original writings, which were written in the ancient Aramaic language. By doing this, the author, Bart Ehrman, discovers an astounding amount of errors, flaws and discrepancies in the Greek and English translations that we have been reading, studying and practicing for centuries.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;He then goes on to explain the many reasons why there are so many mistakes, but his book was written primarily to explain these &quot;why&#39;s&quot;, and it&#39;s by no means a new translation of the entire Bible. Far from it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Fortunately for us there was a man named George Lamsa.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;But before we get to Lamsa&#39;s work, we should understand that the many books included in the Bible weren&#39;t written until several decades, or even a century or two after the fact,  often by anonymous random people who never even witnessed the teachings firsthand. Thus,  the recorded accuracy of what was originally taught is highly questionable, but despite this it&#39;s obvious that the Bible still has some very important teachings  in it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;So, despite the many flaws and errors that are contained in the Bible, we still want to read it to improve our lives.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;While it&#39;s pretty much impossible to know what the exact words and teachings of Jesus and the various Saints were, we have to work with what we have, and what we have is the &quot;original&quot; texts written in Aramaic.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060649232?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=j32r4m-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0060649232&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;border: 0px solid ; width: 105px; height: 160px; float: right;&quot; alt=&quot;Holy Bible: From the Ancient Eastern Text&quot; src=&quot;http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51tqOEaek9L._SL160_.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Unbeknownst to most people, there was a man named George M. Lamsa that translated the entire Aramaic Bible directly into the English language! Naturally, it&#39;s far more accurate than the versions that have been translated into Greek, and then later into English, by people who sometimes had hidden intentions and agendas.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;If you enjoyed the immensely popular &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060859512?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=j32r4m-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0060859512&quot;&gt;Misquoting Jesus&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060649232?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=j32r4m-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0060649232&quot;&gt;The Holy Bible: From the Ancient Eastern Text&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is a perfect compliment to it. You could say that  Ehrman gave us step one by explaining that our Bible does indeed have flaws, and Lamsa gave us step two by giving us a proper translation, except Lamsa&#39;s Bible has been available since 1985 while Ehrman&#39;s book is only 2 years old.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://higher-truth.blogspot.com/2010/02/more-accurate-bible.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jarett)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23620405.post-7388163943364380505</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:02:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-09-13T19:56:33.911-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">consciousness awareness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">david hawkins</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ego</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">enlightenment</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mind</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">truth</category><title>Power vs. Force</title><description>&lt;span style=&quot;;font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;&quot;  &gt;We all have opinions and beliefs, and we express them constantly, but are those opinions and beliefs actually true, or is it just wishful thinking on behalf of the ego? What if those opinions and beliefs are in reality quite negative and harmful to us, creating all sorts of discord and suffering in our life that we&#39;re not even consciously aware of?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fentity%2FDavid-R.-Hawkins%2FB001H6MLOO%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref%255F%3Dntt%255Fathr%255Fdp%255Fpel%255F1&amp;amp;tag=j32r4m-20&amp;amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&quot;&gt;David R. Hawkins&lt;/a&gt; points out, the fundamental limitation of the human mind is that it&#39;s unable to tell the difference between truth and falsehood, positives from negatives, and that which is beneficial from the harmful. Thus, we have problems in our lives and in the world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If we all actually knew the truth, and were living that truth, there wouldn&#39;t be a single man-made problem in the entire world, ever, because truth doesn&#39;t ever create problems. Only falsehood creates problems, or the illusion of &quot;problems.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://www.thetruthaboutfoodandhealth.com/articles/power-vs-force.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 167px; height: 252px;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.thetruthaboutfoodandhealth.com/articles/power-vs-force.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;David Hawkins&#39; book &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1561709336?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=j32r4m-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=1561709336&quot;&gt;Power vs. Force&lt;/a&gt;  provides a solution to the human brain&#39;s built-in ignorance; a means to tap into pure all-knowing consciousness so that we can drop negatives from our life, adopt positives, and solve the world&#39;s problems. We can now tell - instantly - whether anything at all is true or false, despite all opinions about it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Power vs. Force is a monumental achievement in the study of consciousness that will undoubtedly, if practiced, change the world in profoundly beneficial ways. The painful process of learning by trial and error can now be a thing of the past, and consequently, the evolution of mankind has the potential to make huge leaps and bounds in very little time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you&#39;re a fan of &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1577314808?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=j32r4m-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=1577314808&quot;&gt;The Power of Now&lt;/a&gt;&quot; and other such &quot;self-help&quot; style books, or anything on the topics of enlightenment and the nature of the ego, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1561709336?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=j32r4m-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=1561709336&quot;&gt;Power vs. Force&lt;/a&gt; will change your world in ways you can&#39;t even imagine. I HIGHLY recommend this book (and Hawkins&#39; others). It&#39;s absolutely vital reading for anybody on the spiritual, philosophical, or even scientific path. If you seek truth of any sort, at any level, this is the ticket.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To give a (very) small taste of what you&#39;ll find, here&#39;s a few quotes from the book:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Intelligence and rationality rise to the forefront when the emotionalism of the lower levels is transcended.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;By taking responsibility for the consequences of his own perceptions, the observer can transcend the role of victim to an understanding that &#39;nothing out there has power over you.&#39;&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Relatively few people are genuinely committed to peace as a realistic goal, for in their private lives, most people prefer being &#39;right&#39; at whatever cost to their relationships or themselves.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;At the lower levels of consciousness, propositions are accepted as true even when they&#39;re illogical, unfounded, and express tenets neither intellectually provable nor practically demonstrable.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Facts are accumulated with great effort, but truth reveals itself effortlessly.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Man&#39;s dilemma - now and always - has been that he misidentifies his own intellectual artifacts as reality. But these artificial suppositions are merely the products of an arbitrary point of perception.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;There is only one absolute truth; all the rest are semi-facts spawned from the artifacts of limited perception and positionality.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://higher-truth.blogspot.com/2009/09/power-vs-force.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jarett)</author><thr:total>9</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23620405.post-8518781323000513722</guid><pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-11-12T10:23:52.560-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">a course in miracles</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">gandhi</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">god</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">law of attraction</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">spiritual</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">spirituality</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">the secret</category><title>Is the LOA Spiritual?</title><description>&lt;span style=&quot;;font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;&quot;  &gt;Practicing the &quot;law of attraction&quot; as taught by the movie The Secret basically breaks down into &quot;my will be done.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Practicing the spiritual teachings as taught by &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gandhiserve.org/streams/mahatma.html&quot;&gt;Gandhi&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://home.comcast.net/%7Emotherteresasite/mother.html&quot;&gt;Mother Teresa&lt;/a&gt;, Jesus, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1586380192?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=j32r4m-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=1586380192&quot;&gt;Krishna&lt;/a&gt;, and so on, breaks down into &quot;Thy will be done.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That&#39;s a huge difference.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, is practicing the LOA really a spiritual practice if it&#39;s constantly fueling the desires of the ego instead of surrendering the ego and its workings to God/Truth/Love?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When looked at in this light, the LOA is all about the me, mine and I, while true spiritual practices are all about losing the me, mine and I.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&#39;s no wonder that it&#39;s said that &quot;God laughs at our plans&quot;. We&#39;re all too eager to try to control every aspect of our life, but where does that leave the perfect infallible Will of God that always knows what&#39;s in the best  interest of All? (That which is everything, knows everything.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Zen Master once said &quot;Don’t try to win. Go out with nothing in your mind. Give up the thought, &#39;This is how I’m going to win.&#39;&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0941524760?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=j32r4m-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0941524760&quot;&gt;Aurobindo&lt;/a&gt; taught that &quot;None of us are here to &#39;do as we like&#39;, or to create a world in which we shall at last be able to do as we like; we are here to do what the Divine wills and to create a world in which the Divine Will can manifest its truth no longer deformed by human ignorance or perverted and mistranslated by vital desire.&quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&#39;s important to remember that the word &quot;spiritual&quot; refers to the non-material and non-physical, so the practice of spirituality is the evolving beyond the material &amp;amp; materiality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1883360250?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=thetruabofooa-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=1883360250&quot;&gt;A Course in Miracles&lt;/a&gt; says &quot;Those who perceive and acknowledge that they have everything have no need for driven behavior of any kind.&quot; Since this quote is taken out of the context of the whole I should make clear that  by &quot;have everything&quot; it means &quot;are everything&quot;. And that&#39;s what Oneness is; all of existence is Oneself. What&#39;s there to get, gain or obtain when you are already the Allness of Existence?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://higher-truth.blogspot.com/2009/07/is-loa-spiritual.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jarett)</author><thr:total>4</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23620405.post-7563774395733038832</guid><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:13:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2011-07-25T22:07:07.319-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">awareness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">christianity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">consciousness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">divinity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">god</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mind</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">poetry</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">truth</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">zen</category><title>Dante is Daunting</title><description>&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;I say, reading Dante is a bit daunting,&lt;br /&gt;though no longer in native tongue,&lt;br /&gt;the great &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451208633?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=j32r4m-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0451208633&quot;&gt;Comedy&lt;/a&gt; remains haunting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many weeks will be spent reading,&lt;br /&gt;entranced in the beauty and grace,&lt;br /&gt;it urges one&#39;s soul to sing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though just beginning, I already sense&lt;br /&gt;that words are just words,&lt;br /&gt;and of value is the primal essence.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The message is timeless and true,&lt;br /&gt;turning from vice, and toward virtue,&lt;br /&gt;transcending inner hell are the few.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Clinging to beliefs and desires,&lt;br /&gt;ruled by the mind and rarely the heart,&lt;br /&gt;chasing illusions till the body expires.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Experiencing within, feelings of all sorts:&lt;br /&gt;Of inferno, purgatorio or paradiso,&lt;br /&gt;whatever it be, the mind distorts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&quot;Leave the mind behind&quot; say the wise,&lt;br /&gt;and with this I must agree.&lt;br /&gt;Stay true to the heart and thou shall rise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The heart thinks too, but not with words,&lt;br /&gt;it just knows, innately, intuitively and always.&lt;br /&gt;Adopting love and peace has many rewards.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When pushing on and reaching towards&lt;br /&gt;a heart of perfect wisdom,&lt;br /&gt;just know that your heart is the Lord&#39;s.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For years now I have been led,&lt;br /&gt;and thanks to the graceful Lord in my heart&lt;br /&gt;there are few illusions left to shed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know Dante&#39;s message before it&#39;s all read,&lt;br /&gt;far from my first spiritual book,&lt;br /&gt;I&#39;ve almost lost my head.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christianity, Hinduism, Taoism, Zen:&lt;br /&gt;There remains little I haven&#39;t read.&lt;br /&gt;Love &amp;amp; truth are universal, Amen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Inspired by&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451208633?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=j32r4m-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0451208633&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51b51Xxj0qL._SL160_.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0451208633?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;tag=j32r4m-20&amp;amp;linkCode=as2&amp;amp;camp=1789&amp;amp;creative=390957&amp;amp;creativeASIN=0451208633&quot;&gt;The Divine Comedy, Translated by John Ciardi&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://higher-truth.blogspot.com/2009/07/dante-is-daunting.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jarett)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23620405.post-8351134853548741724</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:24:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-07-15T17:02:56.542-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">buddhism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">compassion</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">dalai lama</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">love</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">movie</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">peace</category><title>Dalai Lama DVD</title><description>&lt;a onblur=&quot;try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}&quot; href=&quot;http://www.thetruthsoflife.com/mypeacetv/dalailama.png&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 211px; height: 300px;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.thetruthsoflife.com/mypeacetv/dalailama.png&quot; alt=&quot;Dalai Lama DVD&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Something worth sharing...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;There&#39;s a new documentary movie on DVD about the Dalai Lama and his meeting with 40 of &quot;America&#39;s greatest thinkers&quot;. The movie is called &quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot; href=&quot;http://www.dalailamafilm.com/104.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Dalai Lama Renaissance&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;&quot;, it&#39;s narrated by Harrison Ford, and has won 12 awards.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Here&#39;s the trailers...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;padding-left: 0px; display: none;&quot; ontop=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/qBbuyZIRXjA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/qBbuyZIRXjA&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;padding-left: 0px; display: none;&quot; ontop=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/zQVURek1How&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/zQVURek1How&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;padding-left: 0px; display: none;&quot; ontop=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/bXpHBkCyVYE&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/bXpHBkCyVYE&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;</description><link>http://higher-truth.blogspot.com/2009/07/dalai-lama-dvd.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jarett)</author><thr:total>1</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23620405.post-7673710692937479627</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:30:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-06-17T16:29:41.346-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">buddhism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">buddhist</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">comedy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">funny</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">humor</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">jokes</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">spiritual</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">spirituality</category><title>Spirituality &amp; Buddhist Jokes</title><description>&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;Practically every person who has ever looked into psychotherapy, spirituality or medicine understands the healing properties of smiling, laughter and humor. It&#39;s a well known scientific fact, and I don&#39;t feel it&#39;s necessary to explain the topic when it&#39;s already been done by countless others, so let&#39;s skip straight to the laughing part...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;When asked what he wanted for his birthday the Yogi replied, &quot;I wish for no gifts, only presence.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;Did you hear about the Buddhist who refused novocaine during root canal work? He wanted to transcend dental medication.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;What do you call a schizophrenic Buddhist? Someone who is at two with the universe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;How many psychotherapists does it take to change a light bulb? Just one, but only if the light bulb really wants to change.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;How many Zen masters does is take to change a light bulb? None, there is no light bulb. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot; href=&quot;http://bit.ly/HuangPo&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/HuangPo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;The waffle company created a product for Buddhists. The slogan is &quot;Leggo my ego.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;The spiritual student walked up to a hotdog stand and said &quot;Make me one with everything.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;Heard about the new Buddhist vacuum cleaner? It comes with no attachments.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;Nisargadatta Maharaj loved animals and even made a pet food product called &quot;IAMS Cat&quot;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot; href=&quot;http://bit.ly/IAmThat&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/IAmThat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;Nisargadatta Maharaj wrote a Broadway play called &quot;Thats&quot;, but it had no story.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;People thought there were 2 lake monsters, but actually there&#39;s only one-ness.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;Sorry, I didn&#39;t mean for my karma to run over your dogma.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;What&#39;s the difference between Peace and Nirvana? Peace became popular in the 60&#39;s and Nirvana became popular in the 90&#39;s.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;What&#39;s Krishna&#39;s favorite video game? Gita Hero. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot; href=&quot;http://bit.ly/Gita&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/Gita&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;Meditation - It&#39;s better than sitting around and doing nothing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;I hear that the classic fable by Aesop is being rewritten with a religious twist. The new version is called &quot;The Torahtoise and the Hare Krishna.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: times new roman;&quot;&gt;Feel free to comment and add your own! :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://higher-truth.blogspot.com/2009/06/spirituality-buddhist-jokes.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jarett)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23620405.post-4288296590128569443</guid><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:50:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-03-21T15:02:21.186-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">awareness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">forgiveness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">love</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">peace</category><title>Love That Actually Works</title><description>&lt;object height=&quot;337&quot; width=&quot;449&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3786129&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=0&amp;amp;show_byline=0&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=9D3C21&amp;amp;fullscreen=1&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3786129&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=0&amp;amp;show_byline=0&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=9D3C21&amp;amp;fullscreen=1&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; height=&quot;337&quot; width=&quot;449&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Love is not the emotional and physical kind that most people know it as.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Love is not a fluctuating unstable negative emotion.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Love is not greed, possession, owning, attachment, neediness, desire, infatuation, lust, craving, addiction, jealousy, anger, control, blame, guilt, or judgmentalism.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;These are all selfish attributes, so it&#39;s not really love at all.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;That which is selfish can&#39;t be love because love is selfless.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;True happiness will never form in a relationship based on those things.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;You cannot have or own another person when we are all free.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Love is good intent. Love is service. Love is selfless. Love is devotion.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Love is respect. Love is kindness. Love is compassion. Love is good will.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Love is forgiveness. Love is acceptance. Love is tolerance. Love is neutrality.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Love is unconditional. Love is non-selective. Love is all-encompassing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Love is pure. Love is Divine. Love is Eternal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Love is a way of being in the world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;It&#39;s the full blown radical forgiveness and acceptance of absolutely everything, as it is right now in this very moment, always.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Love is an INFINITE resource.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;It cannot be exhausted or used up.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;The more you give, the more you are able to give.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;The more you love, the more you can, and everybody has to start with where they are right now.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Love should not be given because you expect something in return.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;It is done out of selflessness (the absence of self).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;It&#39;s not about getting. It&#39;s about giving with no thought of reward.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Not even a &quot;thank you&quot; should be needed or expected because that&#39;s neediness.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;&quot;It is more blessed to give than to receive.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Love for the sake of loving.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Neediness often pushes other people away.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Relationships &quot;fail&quot; because people are searching outwardly for happiness and love.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Relationships fail to work because we&#39;re trying to get, gain and obtain love.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;We are meant to share and give the happiness and love that we ALREADY ARE, with others.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;In doing so, it grows constantly and continuously within the one who is giving and sharing it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Love is then experienced by being it yourself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Love is experienced from within, which means the source of it is WITHIN, when it&#39;s chosen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Love is not an outside source. It&#39;s already inside you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;You make love happen to yourself by loving others and by being love yourself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;We give and share the happiness and love that we are by simply BEING it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;When we choose to be it, it&#39;s automatically being shared with others.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Doesn&#39;t the energy of a room suddenly change when a particular person enters it?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;&quot;Everything is energy.&quot; It doesn&#39;t require any &quot;doing&quot;. Just be love/peace.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;In becoming a better person yourself (losing the selfish self), you will be helping all others (and yourself) in turn.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;There is no longer a &quot;special&quot; individual to love when all is loved equally and unconditionally.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;When all is equal nobody is &quot;more important&quot; than anybody else.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Real Love is all-encompassing.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;It&#39;s not selective, choosy, picky, fussy, judgemental, or discriminatory.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Real love, when unobstructed by false individual opinions, beliefs, perceptions, thought processes and emotionalism is unconditional and non-selective, no matter what.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;No matter what.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;That&#39;s why this is love that actually works!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;And that&#39;s the difference between Divine Love and emotional love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://higher-truth.blogspot.com/2009/03/love-that-actually-works.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jarett)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23620405.post-2114872530866166419</guid><pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:01:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-23T23:04:41.885-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">awareness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">biology</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">brain</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">consciousness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ego</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">enlightenment</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mind</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">science</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">self</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">spirituality</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">zen</category><title>Zen Biology Lesson for Enlightenment</title><description>&lt;object height=&quot;339&quot; width=&quot;449&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2928715&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=0&amp;amp;show_byline=0&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=9D3C21&amp;amp;fullscreen=1&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2928715&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=0&amp;amp;show_byline=0&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=9D3C21&amp;amp;fullscreen=1&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; height=&quot;339&quot; width=&quot;449&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;;font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;&quot;  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;The heart pumps blood all by itself without you doing it.&lt;br /&gt;The lungs breathe air all by themselves without you doing it.&lt;br /&gt;The brain associates concepts with other concepts all by itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The mind is thinking (randomly babbling) completely on its own.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let&#39;s look inside for just a brief minute...&lt;br /&gt;How long can you keep the mind completely silent?&lt;br /&gt;If you try to stop thinking, it just starts right back up again.&lt;br /&gt;Words, verbalization, thoughts, thinking, and emotionalism are completely automatic.&lt;br /&gt;You can&#39;t stop it by controlling it, but you can (eventually) stop it by non-judgmentally watching it.&lt;br /&gt;The brain works completely by itself.&lt;br /&gt;It has nothing to do with &quot;you&quot; doing it.&lt;br /&gt;This means that you are not the doer of deeds, nor the thinker of thoughts.&lt;br /&gt;The mind/body is an &quot;it&quot;, not a &quot;me&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The brain&#39;s thoughts and body&#39;s actions are just the result of cells doing work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are not the physical body/mind and its senses.&lt;br /&gt;We are not the mind and its automatic rambling thoughts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are the still, conceptless, silent Awareness that is aware of them.&lt;br /&gt;We are the Awareness that is watching the body/mind&#39;s automatic functioning.&lt;br /&gt;We are the Silent Formless Observer.&lt;br /&gt;We are the Life/Consciousness/Awareness that is simply aware of Itself as existing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have mistakenly identified ourselves as being the physical mind/body.&lt;br /&gt;We have mistakenly identified ourselves with form.&lt;br /&gt;It was an erroneous belief all along.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The real &quot;you&quot;, the Silent Aware Mind, is not confined to a brain, or anything else.&lt;br /&gt;It&#39;s Infinitely Everything beyond physicality.&lt;br /&gt;It&#39;s the (formless) Allness of Existence.&lt;br /&gt;It&#39;s No-Thing, yet Infinitely Everything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But thinking about that won&#39;t help you realize/experience that.&lt;br /&gt;You have to stop identifying with thoughts altogether to realize that.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://higher-truth.blogspot.com/2009/01/zen-biology-lesson-for-enlightenment.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jarett)</author><thr:total>5</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23620405.post-1350357788128181063</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 Jan 2009 02:44:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-01-15T19:48:30.722-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">acceptance</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">acim</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ego</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">enlightenment</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">forgiveness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">meditation</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mind</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">peace</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">spirituality</category><title>Extreme Forgiveness &amp; Acceptance for Enlightenment</title><description>&lt;object height=&quot;339&quot; width=&quot;449&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2842723&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=0&amp;amp;show_byline=0&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=9D3C21&amp;amp;fullscreen=1&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2842723&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=0&amp;amp;show_byline=0&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=9D3C21&amp;amp;fullscreen=1&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot; height=&quot;339&quot; width=&quot;449&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;;font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;&quot;  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;Forgiveness is an aspect of acceptance/love/peace/truth.&lt;br /&gt;Resentment is an aspect of hatred/emotionalism/negativity/falsehood.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Forgiveness brings utter peace and serenity of mind.&lt;br /&gt;Resentment brings inner turmoil and suffering.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which do you choose? And when? And how often?&lt;br /&gt;It&#39;s totally up to you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Acceptance/forgiveness means choosing to see the absolute perfection and beauty in everything.&lt;br /&gt;Everything/everyone is currently operating at it&#39;s own level of awareness and/or evolution.&lt;br /&gt;Everyone/everything is what it is right now because that&#39;s what it needs to learn, or un-learn.&lt;br /&gt;People are what they are, and make mistakes, beause they really don&#39;t know otherwise (or they don&#39;t want to know otherwise).&lt;br /&gt;If they REALLY knew otherwise, they would ALREADY be otherwise.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If there&#39;s full blown radical forgiveness/acceptance of absolutely everything, then...&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to judge,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to discriminate against,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to condemn,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to criticize,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to label,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to describe,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to define,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to interpret,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to translate,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to suppose,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to explain,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to say,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to talk about,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to expound upon,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to express an opinion about,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s no thing to make into something,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to express a belief about,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to emotionalize about,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to worry about,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to fear,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to rationalize,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to determine,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to hypothesize,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to complicate,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to solve,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to manipulate,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to get confused about,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to distort,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to change,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to force,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to set right,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to fix,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to resolve,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to alter,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to modify,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to seek,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to search for,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to learn,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to get,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to lose,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to gain,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to do,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to want,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to desire,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to obtain,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to intellectualize,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to conceptualize,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to verbalize,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to communicate,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to babble on about,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to say,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to declare,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to communicate,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to articulate,&lt;br /&gt;there&#39;s nothing to perceive,&lt;br /&gt;and there&#39;s nothing to think about at all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Man, talk about peace of mind.&lt;br /&gt;That&#39;s absolute bliss.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everything just IS, nothing more.&lt;br /&gt;Existence just Is. Reality just Is. Life just Is.&lt;br /&gt;Anything else is a distortion of Reality/Truth.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://higher-truth.blogspot.com/2009/01/extreme-forgiveness-acceptance-for.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jarett)</author><thr:total>3</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23620405.post-1580459787764173210</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:53:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-20T11:02:55.500-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">acceptance</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">blame</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cause</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">enlightenment</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">forgiveness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">love</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">peace</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">spirituality</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">world peace</category><title>Nobody to Blame</title><description>&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Let&#39;s start by stating a bold claim that you&#39;ve probably never heard before. Upon first hearing this claim, you&#39;ll most likely think it to be ridiculous and absurd, but by the end of this article, you&#39;ll see the utterly obvious truth of it, and you&#39;ll never look at the world the same way again. Are you ready for it? Here it is…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;There is no cause of anything.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;That&#39;s right. Nothing &quot;causes&quot; anything else to happen… ever. Now let me explain why.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;As an example, let&#39;s say that a man needs milk, and he walks several blocks to the corner store to buy it. After purchasing the milk he begins his walk home, but while crossing the street there&#39;s a drunk driver that doesn&#39;t notice the stop sign at the intersection where the man is crossing. At the very last second the drunk driver slams on his breaks, but it&#39;s too late, and he hits the man crossing the street.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p  style=&quot;text-align: left;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.thetruthsoflife.com/mypeacetv/blame-blogpost.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Now, with our current mindset, the vast majority of people would automatically say that the drunk driver &quot;caused&quot; this to happen. Or did he?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;If we just take a step back in the way we perceive things, we could just as easily say that the man was hit by that drunk driver because cars were invented. Or because the wheel was invented. Or because of the development of technology. Or because somebody figured out how to make pavement for driving on.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Maybe the man was hit because of his neediness for milk. Or because his wife sent him to the store. Or because of his wife&#39;s enjoyment of breakfast cereal. Maybe it&#39;s because people drink milk. Or perhaps it happened because cows exist.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Maybe it happened because the man chose to live in the exact location that he does. Or maybe it was because that was the only house on the market that he could afford, and he could only afford that house because of the job he has, and he has that job because he dropped out of high school.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Maybe he was hit by the drunk driver because of the precise speed in which the man walks, and the exact time he got there. Or because he had to stop to re-tie his shoe lace that had come undone. Or because he didn&#39;t tie them properly when he first left his house. Or because he chose to wear that specific pair of shoes to walk to the store. Or because he chose to buy those exact shoes. Or because he could only afford those shoes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Maybe it&#39;s because the city chose to install a stop sign instead of traffic lights. Or because stop signs aren&#39;t twice as big. Or because they&#39;re not fluorescent yellow.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;What if the whole incident happened because the man decided to walk to the store instead of driving? Or what if it was because the store was built at that location? Or because the owner of the store decided that was a good place to set up shop?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Perhaps it was because the drunk driver was born. Or because the man buying milk was born. Or because either of the men&#39;s parents had sex. Or because his parent&#39;s parents had sex. Or because any of these people ever met each other in the first place.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;What if it was because the human species evolved in the manner that it did? Or because life came to be on the planet? Or maybe it was because of the &quot;big bang&quot; (if that&#39;s how it happened). Maybe it&#39;s because the physical universe exists.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;It might have been because of the location of the bar that the drunk driver was drinking at. Or because the drunk driver had to be home at a certain time. Or because the drunk driver had to work in the morning. Or because his taste buds like the taste of alcohol. Or because he&#39;s not able to overcome his addiction despite all of his efforts. Or because nobody has taken him to an AA meeting.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;The drunk driver may certainly be irresponsible, and maybe he lacks proper judgment, but that certainly isn&#39;t &quot;the cause&quot;. It&#39;s only one tiny minute reason out of a literally infinite and unending number of factors within all of existence. There is no end to the amount of circumstances that come into play, and not a single one of them is the cause of anything else.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;So let us repeat the lesson learned… There is no cause of anything… ever. There are only automatic effects and consequences. Everything is happening of its own, as a spontaneous result.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Most importantly of all, if there is no cause of anything, there is nothing and nobody to blame for anything, and if there is nothing to blame, then there is absolutely nothing to be angry about. Everything just is what it is, and we have no choice but to accept it. No matter what&#39;s happing in the universe, it&#39;s perfect, and it can&#39;t possibly be anything but. This understanding literally forces us to fully accept absolutely everything as it is. There is nothing to complain about and we have no choice but to forgive everybody for everything they have ever done, no matter what that might have been.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;What a person does, and chooses, is determined by what a person is, and what they are is determined by what they are aware of. Everybody is exactly what they are currently aware of, and what they are currently aware of is based upon an infinite number of factors.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;We might all be learning from &quot;mistakes&quot;, but at least we can all be at peace (of mind) with each other as life unfolds. The whole concept of causation is an entirely false ingrained perception that is in everybody&#39;s best interest to let go of. If everybody had this understanding, we would have total world peace because nobody would be acting out of anger, blame, resentment, hate, or fear. Everybody would fully accept, forgive, respect, and love all of life for what it is. And we would no longer need lawyers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://higher-truth.blogspot.com/2008/11/nobody-to-blame.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jarett)</author><thr:total>4</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23620405.post-6110467195898551254</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-11-19T22:15:02.959-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">body</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">cure</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">food</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">healing</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">health</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">holistic</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">natural</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">nutrition</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">organic</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">stress</category><title>The Cure Already Exists</title><description>&lt;span style=&quot;;font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;&quot;  &gt;Most of my blog posts have been on the topics of truth, love, and especially Spiritual Enlightenment, but for a moment I&#39;m going to step outside of that because I also have some highly important lower levels of truth to share as well that also have the ability to end a great deal of humanity&#39;s suffering.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Over the last several years I&#39;ve come to some profound realizations on the topics of health and healing. But they&#39;re only profound in their simplicity, and in that they contradict many of our current so-called &quot;health truths&quot;. Now that I have this much higher understanding I feel it&#39;s my responsibility and duty to share this information with others. So, without wasting your time, here it is...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There&#39;s an endless amount of contradictory health information out there, but the truth is that being healthy is far simpler than we&#39;ve come to believe. Health and healing is not the gigantic complicated mess we think it is.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is the key to perfect health, and the absence of disease... There is nothing new about health. It has been around forever. Organic nutrition and life sustaining energy have been around for millenia. Natural organic nutrition has been supporting life for eons.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The answer to health cannot be invented because it already exits. The &quot;search for the cure&quot; is really quite futile and pointless because &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;the placebo effect (positive peaceful emotions), and natural organic nutrition, are the answer to health.&lt;/span&gt; See how profoundly simple that is? But let me explain further...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The simple fact is that disease doesn&#39;t happen because we have a deficiency of a man-made drug.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;width: 403px; height: 139px;&quot; alt=&quot;FrequenSea&quot; src=&quot;http://www.thetruthaboutfoodandhealth.com/frequensea/whichone.jpg&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which of these speaks to the cells of your body?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pharmaceuticals don&#39;t (or can&#39;t) address the 5 basic mechanisms of disease:&lt;br /&gt;1. Cellular inflammation (Solution: nutrients)&lt;br /&gt;2. Cellular oxidation (Solution: antioxidants)&lt;br /&gt;3. Lack of cellular energy (Solution: voltage/pH/alkalinity)&lt;br /&gt;4. Cellular toxicity (Solution: natural organic foods &amp;amp; pure clean water)&lt;br /&gt;5. Poor cellular communication (Solution: all of the above)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As you can see, &quot;food is the best medicine&quot; because it does address all of these. But positive peaceful thoughts, emotions, opinions, beliefs, and attitudes have a huge effect on all 5 as well. Cells heal themselves when properly edified.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Your body is a collective community of co-operating cells. That&#39;s several trillion individual living things all working together harmoniously. Every single one of those cells is doing the best job it can, at all times. The human body is a self-healing mechanism; that&#39;s all it does! 24 hours a day it&#39;s protecting, healing, repairing, regenerating, and rebuilding. But (and this is a big but) its ability to do that more effectively and thoroughly depends upon our lifestyle choices. This is because our cells are either in protective mode, or growth mode. It&#39;s one or the other. Cells can&#39;t do both at the same time. It&#39;s like you trying to walk forwards and backwards at the same time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, health is the body&#39;s natural state when the cells aren&#39;t stressed. The body&#39;s natural state is balance, harmony, ease, and peace. If the source of health issues is removed, the body can then heal itself. Simply remove the stress from one&#39;s lifestyle, and provide the body energy, and the cells/body heals itself.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Because the body is at all times healing itself, diseases never happen randomly, or for no reason. All health issues, serious or minor, always happen for very specific reasons. &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;All degenerative diseases, physical or mental, no matter the name, are the result of just one thing... STRESS on the body&#39;s cells (the brain/mind is made of cells too).&lt;/span&gt; Having stressed out malfunctioning cells will naturally lead to disease.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Having &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cellshealthy.com/healthycellsblog/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;healthy cells&lt;/a&gt; equals overall bodily health. And having stressed out unhealthy dysfunctional cells means the body has disease. Every single health issue, no matter the name, comes down to cellular health. Cells constantly subjected to physical, emotional, and energetic stress become dysfunctional. And this dysfunction equates to &quot;dis-ease&quot; because the cells/body are no longer at ease. Now do you see where the word &quot;disease&quot; came from, and what it truly means?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now here&#39;s another biggie... &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Unnatural substances (&quot;toxins&quot;), a nutrient deficiency, and stressful negative emotions are what stress the cells. Practically all degenerative diseases are because of at least one of these 3 things.&lt;/span&gt; Headaches, backaches, arthritis, cancer, obesity, diabetes, alzheimer&#39;s... it&#39;s all cellular dysfunction due to stress. This small list of diseases is barely even scratching the surface. If a person has any type of health issue at all, it&#39;s because of some sort of stress on the cells of the body.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Biologically, energy is something that provides vitality and life. If the body had no energy, it wouldn&#39;t be alive. If the cells had no energy, they wouldn&#39;t be alive. Degenerative diseases (including the cold and flu) are the result of a lack of energy at the cellular level. Having &quot;a weak immune system&quot; means that our cells lack the energy and strength to eliminate intruders. A person doesn&#39;t get sick (cold &amp;amp; flu) unless their &quot;immune system&quot; (cells) is weak and stressed out.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It doesn&#39;t even matter what the name of the health problem is. To heal, stressful negatives must be let go of, and positives adopted. This is a universal truth of physical life that will never change.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The body heals itself when given all of the proper raw materials to make new healthy cells. If this is done, even severely and chronically ill patients can heal. &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;Fix the cells and EVERYTHING else is fixed because the body IS a community of cells.&lt;/span&gt; Every health problem is a perfect representation of how healthy, or unhealthy, our individual cells are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Both preventing and healing disease is the exact same process. Preventing is giving the cells/body the proper materials to REMAIN healthy. Healing is giving the cells/body the proper materials to BECOME healthy. Whether it be for preventing or healing, the cells require the exact same materials. There&#39;s absolutely no difference between preventing and healing. And so we use the saying: &lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;&quot;Stop fighting disease. Embrace Health.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thetruthaboutfoodandhealth.com/frequensea/&quot;&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;border: 0px solid ; width: 200px; height: 243px; float: left;&quot; alt=&quot;FrequenSea&quot; src=&quot;http://www.thetruthsoflife.com/mypeacetv/frequensea-pour.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;I personally use, highly recommend, and sell, an all-in-one nutrient product called &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thetruthaboutfoodandhealth.com/frequensea/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;&quot;&gt;FrequenSea&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. Every single nutrient that the human body needs for perfect optimal cellular functioning and health is in this one highly concentrated liquid juice product. And if you fully grasped this blog post, then you&#39;ll understand that the health benefits of using this product are &quot;profound&quot;, &quot;miraculous&quot;, or even &quot;impossible&quot; to the average person that doesn&#39;t yet &quot;get it&quot;. The only catch... it must accompany a healthy diet and a healthy positive attitude towards life. Otherwise you&#39;re just counteracting all the good that those nutrients/energy are doing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After that, once your brain cells are healthier and your mind is clearer and more calm, then you might begin to be interested in deeper spiritual matters and perhaps even Enlightenment. But that&#39;s totally up to you.&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://higher-truth.blogspot.com/2008/11/cure-already-exists.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jarett)</author><thr:total>7</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23620405.post-6135511422865493879</guid><pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2008 03:45:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-29T21:04:28.499-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">buddha</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">buddhism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">buddhist</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mind</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">self</category><title>Who/What is a Buddha?</title><description>&lt;object height=&quot;344&quot; width=&quot;425&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/Ov9k0wDafEQ&amp;amp;hl&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;rel=0&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/Ov9k0wDafEQ&amp;amp;hl&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;rel=0&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; height=&quot;344&quot; width=&quot;425&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;;font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;&quot;  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;No individuality,&lt;br /&gt;no relativity,&lt;br /&gt;no duality,&lt;br /&gt;no personal self,&lt;br /&gt;no individual me,&lt;br /&gt;no selfish mine,&lt;br /&gt;no thoughts,&lt;br /&gt;no mind,&lt;br /&gt;no I.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those who are free of all notions are called Buddhas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://higher-truth.blogspot.com/2008/08/whowhat-is-buddha.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jarett)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23620405.post-9140197993914820121</guid><pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:48:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-29T21:04:53.276-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">boredom</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">ego</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">happiness</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">mind</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">peace</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">silence</category><title>What is Boredom?</title><description>&lt;span style=&quot;;font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;&quot;  &gt;Boredom is the neediness for something &quot;exciting&quot; to happen. It&#39;s the craving for drama. It&#39;s the attachment/addiction to experiencing physical sensations. It&#39;s the desire to satisfy the physical senses. It&#39;s the wantingness to satisfy animal urges, rather than spiritual peace. It&#39;s the choosing of a temporary instant gratification, over long term well-being. Boredom is the choosing of pleasure over peace, because peace is perceived as being &quot;boring&quot;. It&#39;s the urge to DO something in hopes of finding happiness, instead of simply BEING that something (happiness).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boredom is the inability to accept life for what it is, as it is in this very moment. Boredom is the inability to see the beauty of the world, as it is right now. It&#39;s the unwillingness to see the perfection of what&#39;s right in front of our faces. It&#39;s the faulty judgemental egoic opinion that something is &quot;wrong&quot; with existence. Boredom is the absence of acceptance, and the rejection of contentness. It&#39;s the neediness to change the situation because the mind refuses to be happy with what is. Boredom is the refusal of happiness in this very moment. When the mind is needy, there always has to be something more. With boredom, things always have to be different than how they already are. Boredom is intolerance and discrimination. Boredom is the absence of love.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boredom is the anticipation of what could be, but isn&#39;t. It&#39;s the looking forward to what doesn&#39;t exist in reality. It&#39;s the indulgence in an illusionary dream of imagination, and the escaping of reality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boredom is a form of anxiety and stress. Boredom determines many of our erroneous actions, and is therefore the source of much of our suffering. Boredom is a psychological problem that is best to be let go of. When one lets boredom take control of them, one is never satisfied (happy/content).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boredom is the false notion that happiness lies outside oneself. It&#39;s born from the unawareness that happiness can simply be chosen at all moments of life, despite life&#39;s circumstances. Boredom happens because of ignorance and unconsciousness. Boredom is the result of a lack of truth. Boredom is a negativity. Boredom creates problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boredom is the identification with the autonomous cellular neural functioning/activities/thinkingness of the physical brain, instead of the identification with the formless spiritual awareness that silently observes the mind&#39;s automatic functioning/thinking from an &quot;outside&quot; perspective.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boredom is the worry that something is being missed out on. It&#39;s the fear of doing nothing. It&#39;s the fear of silence, or more specifically, the fear of the silence of your own mind. It&#39;s the fear that one&#39;s life will come to an end if one stops thinking. It&#39;s the fear that the &quot;me&quot;, &quot;myself&quot;, and &quot;I&quot; might die. Boredom is the fear of death because the automatic thinkingness of the mind is falsely identified as being &quot;me&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When one takes control of the mind (lets it go), instead of being controlled by it, boredom becomes non-existent, and happiness/joy/contentness/peace then becomes permanent, instead of just temporary. When one&#39;s happiness is no longer limited to only when experiencing external phenomena, one realizes that the true source of happiness is, and always has been, found and experienced within, as a choice. Happiness is an inner choice, right here, right now, and always, no matter what life&#39;s external happenings are. The outer becomes completely irrelevant as one becomes immersed in this permanent inwardly experienced happiness/joy/bliss/ecstasy. And this profoundly ineffable bliss/ecstasy/peace is far beyond any physical sensation that one could possibly imagine (and yes, that includes sex). All that one has to do is refuse the mind&#39;s activities, and choose to be it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Boredom can&#39;t be quenched. It can only be let go of.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://higher-truth.blogspot.com/2008/08/what-is-boredom.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jarett)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23620405.post-5349335640088089088</guid><pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:33:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-29T21:05:25.278-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">buddha</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">energy</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">falsehood</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">karma</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">truth</category><title>Ocean of Energy</title><description>&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;From the perspective of science, quantum physics, vibrational frequencies, resonance, entrainment, electromagnetic fields, and energy oscillations, we become what we surround ourselves with. Or from a spiritual point of view, it&#39;s called &quot;karma&quot;, &quot;your reap what you sow&quot;, the law of attraction&quot;, and so on.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Everything is energy and everything is affecting everything else in various positive and negative ways. Physical life unfolds according to energy, or &quot;karma&quot;. It&#39;s why reading highly advanced spiritual teachings like the Buddha&#39;s is so powerfully uplifting and life changing, and it&#39;s why Gandhi was able to ward off the entire British empire by simply being peaceful.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you simply change yourself, and what&#39;s going on inside your own mind and heart, you&#39;ll be absolutely amazed at just how radically your &quot;outside&quot; life changes automatically as a result. If you don&#39;t ever put it to practice for yourself, then you&#39;ll never be able to see the profound truth of this. All of these words being written right now are absolutely worthless unless the information is put to practice in one&#39;s own life. Life is not about merely obtaining external &quot;proof&quot;. It&#39;s about firsthand verification. Believe nothing blindly, no matter who it comes from. Come to know it yourself, by being that truth yourself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;The basic elemental teaching of every Enlightened teacher throughout history is to let go of negatives, and to adopt positives. Personally, I gave up listening to heavy metal because it&#39;s aggressive, violent, and negative in nature. It has nothing at all to do with Peace, which is identical to the condition of Enlightenment. And the television was given up for basically the same reason. It&#39;s entertainment for the mind, when the individual personhood of the mind is now seen as the thing to be transcended and left behind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://higher-truth.blogspot.com/2008/07/ocean-of-energy.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jarett)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23620405.post-8560723131023984094</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:20:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-29T21:06:21.488-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">buddha</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">buddhism</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">buddhist</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">karma</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">peace</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">silence</category><title>Objectivity vs. Subjectivity</title><description>&lt;span style=&quot;;font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;&quot;  &gt;Thinking vs. silence.&lt;br /&gt;Doer vs. observer.&lt;br /&gt;Experiencer vs. watcher.&lt;br /&gt;Time vs. timlessness.&lt;br /&gt;Order vs. syncronicity.&lt;br /&gt;Ordinary vs. miraculous.&lt;br /&gt;Linear vs. non-linear.&lt;br /&gt;Force vs. power.&lt;br /&gt;Effort vs. effortlessness.&lt;br /&gt;Struggle vs. ease.&lt;br /&gt;Conflict vs. flow.&lt;br /&gt;Fighting vs. harmony.&lt;br /&gt;Violence vs. peace.&lt;br /&gt;Strife vs. grace.&lt;br /&gt;Dominate vs. benign.&lt;br /&gt;Competition vs. co-operation.&lt;br /&gt;Mine vs. ours.&lt;br /&gt;Getting vs. giving.&lt;br /&gt;Get vs. are.&lt;br /&gt;Desire vs. desirelessness.&lt;br /&gt;Neediness vs. non-attachment.&lt;br /&gt;Controlling vs. allowing.&lt;br /&gt;Pushing vs. pulled.&lt;br /&gt;Individual karma vs. universal karma.&lt;br /&gt;Me vs. All.&lt;br /&gt;Mind vs. No-Mind&lt;br /&gt;Duality vs. non-duality.&lt;br /&gt;Thing vs. No-Thing.&lt;br /&gt;Form vs. formlessness.&lt;br /&gt;Individuality vs. Infinity.&lt;br /&gt;Relativity vs. Absolute.&lt;br /&gt;Irrelevancies vs. Reality.&lt;br /&gt;Details vs. Essence.&lt;br /&gt;Part vs. whole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Life is a reflection of one&#39;s level of consciousness/awareness/truth/love.&lt;br /&gt;So, how would you like to experience life?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://higher-truth.blogspot.com/2008/07/objectivity-vs-subjectivity.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jarett)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23620405.post-27523663137080214</guid><pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2008 07:46:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2008-10-29T21:04:00.878-06:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">devotion</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">divinity</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">god</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">prayer</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">spirituality</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">surrender</category><title>Prayers of Deep Devotion</title><description>&lt;object height=&quot;344&quot; width=&quot;425&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/4hq3lMv8-AU&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;rel=0&quot;&gt;&lt;embed src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/4hq3lMv8-AU&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;rel=0&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; height=&quot;344&quot; width=&quot;425&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size:85%;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Only when one sees the vast limitations of the intellect/brain/mind, that is based on seperateness...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Only when one learns of the automatic biological consequences (disease) of stressful negatives and selfishness...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Only when one sees the errors of their current way of being...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Only when one feels stuck, is tired of suffering, or has hit rock bottom...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Only when one is attracted to being kind, respectful, compassionate, accepting, and forgiving...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Only when one is curious about the true nature of reality, versus one&#39;s perceptions of it...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Only when one questions the validity of one&#39;s own thought processes, opinions, attitudes, and emotions...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Only when one contemplates if there is something more to the universe than the physical...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Will one finally surrender to that which is beyond a personal &quot;me&quot;, &quot;myself&quot;, &quot;mine&quot;, or &quot;I&quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;If you&#39;ve reached any of those points, these prayers/meditations are yours to practice:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Please provide unwavering focus, concentration, and strength, my Lord.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Please give me undying faith and trust in you, my Lord.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Please help me see the perfection of absolutely everything, my Lord.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Please help me forgive all others, and myself, for absolutely everything.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Please help me overcome the emotions of the mind.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Please give me strength to overcome all wants of the mind and body.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Please give me utter peace of mind, my Lord.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Please make me totally whole and complete, my Lord.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Please spread your Love through me, to All.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Please use me to my utmost potential for the highest good of All.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Please use me as your instrument in whatever ways you see fit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Please do as thy will with this mind, body, and spirit, my Lord.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Please guide me, every moment, every second, always.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Please do as thy will for the good of All, my Lord.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Please take over this life wholly and completely.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Please fill me and become me, utterly and completely, my Lord.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Please make me as pure and holy as you are, my Lord.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;Please make me exactly as you are, my Lord.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family:times new roman;&quot;&gt;I am yours for all Eternity, my Lord.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description><link>http://higher-truth.blogspot.com/2008/06/prayers-of-deep-devotion.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (Jarett)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>