Archive for the ‘Meditation’ Category
“Let us live in the eternal presence of God’s happy smile…folded in the arms of Love forever” – Ernest Holmes
Ernest Holmes also said “the journey back (home) should be fraught with happiness and joyful expectation for we shall be met with a smile from the Universe and shall be folded in the arms of love forever.” I know that I am met in each and every moment with the open arms of God welcoming me home and I know I am home wherever I go. No matter how far I wander off from my center. How separate and apart I feel from the love of God I just turn my thoughts back to my heart, the home of God, my heaven in the midst of chaos and I know I am enfolded in Its loving arms.
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“If the mind wants to comprehend reality it will have to come out of the past and the future” – Osho
We spent some time discussing in our noonday meditation sessions on Tuesday what does it really mean to pray audaciously. We open the call with the quote above from Osho to really bring us present to the NOW moment. You see we cannot really begin to understand anything, and I mean anything at all, until we allow ourselves to release the baggage, burdens or thoughts that keep us bound to the past of future.
Are you courageous enough to transform belief into realization?
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It is no longer good enough to cry peace, we must act peace, live peace and live in peace. – American Indian Proverb
Recently, I’ve been doing something on a regular basis that I never thought I would be doing – cooking. I have been using recipes and preparing meals for my wife and I that not along ago seemed complicated. I have been making different types of quiches, spaghetti, pasta etc. All these dishes involve different seasonings I am not familiar with, ingredients etc.
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To everything there is season & a time for every purpose under the sun; a time to plant and a time to reap. Ecclesiastes 3:1
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How deep is your desire to evolve? Is you intention to evolve more important to you than anything else in the world? The Universe is always speaking to us…we must simply slow down and listen. There is a song that I love very much from Rickie Byars Beckwith, a stanza from it says “I am ready to listen now, I’ve heard your voice before, your way has been calling me. Now I’m willing to be so much more.”
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“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man, true nobility is being superior to your former self.” Ernest Hemingway
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“Find the place where your greatest love meets the world’s greatest need. Ask yourself – what is it that you love? and are you certain it will serve other people?” – Tom Sawyer – Advice to his daughter, Diane.
In this weeks’ meditation we spoke about LOVE. The power word that so many of us interpret in many different ways. In 1 Peter 1:22 we read “having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart.”
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This week we had the opportunity during meditation to look at our agreement with mediocrity. We defined this as the status quo or better yet the “good enough” state of being. Is is possible to suggest that good is the enemy of great?
Is it possible to ponder that perhaps the reason we don’t have great schools is because we have good schools? Or the reason we don’t have great government is because we have good government ?
“To straighten the crooked you must first do a harder thing- straighten yourself.” This was the thought we used to start out the noonday meditation this week, just a little thought provoking statement that will hopefully get us all to turn within. It was the Buddhist that quoted – the mind composed of ignorance or wrong view suffers from spiritual disease, it sees falsely. Seeing falsely causes it to think falsely, speak falsely and act falsely. To me this solidify that we must first straighten out our minds.
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