Thursday, September 23, 2010

The Devil, Hell and Salvation

‎"Men invented the devil to scare people into doing what they wanted, under the threat of separation from God if they did not... Yet now you need be afraid no more. For nothing can, or ever will, separate you from Me. You and I are One. We cannot be anything else if I Am What I Am: All That Is."

Conversations With God, Book 3

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

"You are all on a journey into a new world, a world of your dreams, a world where everything comes true; that world is on a different vibration and you are all on a journey to move from one vibration to the next, one dimension to the next. In the new world you will create your reality from pure love. Allow the love to flow and let the love dissolve what is not love. Remember as the love flows into your bodies something must flow out. So for those of you that are feeling something other than love just know that it is okay; the love is releasing emotions that are not love and those emotions will come and they will go."

- Kryon

Saturday, September 11, 2010

The fisherman and the businessman (brazilian proverb)

There was once a businessman who was sitting by the beach in a small Brazilian village.As he sat, he saw a Brazilian fisherman rowing a small boat towards the shore having caught quite few big fish.
The businessman was impressed and asked the fisherman, “How long does it take you to catch so many fish?”
The fisherman replied, “Oh, just a short while.”
“Then why don’t you stay longer at sea and catch even more?” The businessman was astonished.
“This is enough to feed my whole family,” the fisherman said.
The businessman then asked, “So, what do you do for the rest of the day?”
The fisherman replied, “Well, I usually wake up early in the morning, go out to sea and catch a few fish, then go back and play with my kids. In the afternoon, I take a nap with my wife, and evening comes, I join my buddies in the village for a drink — we play guitar, sing and dance throughout the night.”

The businessman offered a suggestion to the fisherman.
“I am a PhD in business management. I could help you to become a more successful person. From now on, you should spend more time at sea and try to catch as many fish as possible. When you have saved enough money, you could buy a bigger boat and catch even more fish. Soon you will be able to afford to buy more boats, set up your own company, your own production plant for canned food and distribution network. By then, you will have moved out of this village and to Sao Paulo, where you can set up HQ to manage your other branches.”

The fisherman continues, “And after that?”
The businessman laughs heartily, “After that, you can live like a king in your own house, and when the time is right, you can go public and float your shares in the Stock Exchange, and you will be rich.”
The fisherman asks, “And after that?”
The businessman says, “After that, you can finally retire, you can move to a house by the fishing village, wake up early in the morning, catch a few fish, then return home to play with kids, have a nice afternoon nap with your wife, and when evening comes, you can join your buddies for a drink, play the guitar, sing and dance throughout the night!”
The fisherman was puzzled, “Isn’t that what I am doing now?”

classic Brazilian story, probably also present in other cultures. Someone found the English version, but I could not identify the translator

From Paulo Coelho's blog

Monday, September 6, 2010

True Power

"Power is not an energy that dominates, suffocates or causes distress to others as many are persuaded to understand on the Earth. Power is your life force energy, the very essence of your being, the fuel that drives and maintains your activity both spiritually and physically. Power is the magical, active, transformational, focused, strength and purpose of the Creator. Power is the energy inside of you that is loving, caring, compassionate and supportive to yourself and others. Power is your core strength, your intuition, your soul and the Creator combined as one within you. True power can only be found within you, true power is not even within you but it is you as you are now, and as your higher greater self also.

Many do not associate themselves or their truth as being powerful, the words that spring to mind when searching or experiencing your inner soul energies are 'love' and 'peace' but power is your truth, power is love and peace. In many ways a person who is connected to the source of their soul and the Creator within them or that they manifest as, who exists in love and peace eternally is far more powerful than a person living from fear or the ego. Yet we see those who hold and create fear as having a greater power over others. The person who exists as love and peace wealds a power that is immensely strong and expansive because this person holds the ability to transform situations, experiences and their own reality. They have to power to use their mind and energy to create positive change that brings about a greater presence of the Creator's light. This person guided by the will of the Creator has the potential to create anything through focus, clarity of mind and working as one and in balance with all."

The Celestial White Beings channeled by Natalie Glasson

God(dess): Reveling in Supreme Love

I honor the God and the Goddess,
The eternal parents of the universe.

The Lover, out of boundless love,
Takes the form of the Beloved.
What Beauty!
Both are made of the same nectar
And share the same food.

Out of Supreme Love
They swallow each other up,
But separate again
For the joy of being two.

They are not completely the same
But neither are they different.
None can tell exactly what they are.

How intense is their longing
To be with each other.
This is their greatest bliss.

Never, even in jest,
Do they allow their unity
To be disturbed.

They are so averse to separation
That even though they have become
This entire world,
Never, for a moment, do they let a difference
Come between them.

. . .

They sit together
In the same place,
Both wearing a garment of light.

From the beginning of time
They have been together,
Reveling in their own Supreme Love.

The difference they created
To enjoy this world
Had one glimpse of their intimacy
And could not help
But merge back into the bliss
Found in their union.

Without the God,
There is no Goddess,
And without the Goddess,
There is no God.

How sweet is their love!
The entire universe
Is too small to contain them

Yet they live happily
In the tiniest particle. . . .

Jnaneshwar (1271?-1293?)
Indian poet-saint, author at age 16 of exquisite commentary on the sacred Hindu scripture Bhagavad Gita

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Soul Love

"Soul love is a steady, consistent radiation of the Universal Presence of Love that is the very essence of the universe. Soul love is a state of being a part of the oneness - where you are accepted and where you accept, where you are loved and where you love, and where you feel connected to the greater whole of which you are always a part."

- Orin, Soul Love