Perspective is one of the most important aspects of our lives. 

How we see things determines more of our happiness our unhappiness,

positive or negative feelings, than we might ever imagine. 

One person's undefeatable obstacle is another person's stumbling block;

what I see as an insult another person may see as a funny joke.
The ways in which we react to things are usually a reflection of how we've seen them.

David R Hawkins On The Silence

This energy field is associated with the
experience designated by such terms as
transcendence, self realization and Godconsciousness.
It is extremely rare,
attained by only one in ten million
people. When this state is reached the
distinction between subject and object
disappears, and there is no specific focal
point of perception. Not uncommonly,
individuals at this level remove
themselves from the world, as the state of
bliss that ensues precludes ordinary
activity. Some become spiritual teachers;
others work anonymously for the
betterment of mankind. A few become
great geniuses in their respective fields
and make major contributions to society.
These people are saintly and may
eventually be designated officially as
saints, though at this level formal religion
is commonly transcended, to be replaced
by the pure spirituality out of which all
religion originates.
Perception at the level of 600 and above
is sometimes reported as occurring in
slow-motion, suspended in time and
space-though nothing is stationary; all is
alive and radiant. Although this world is
the same world seen by others, it has
become continuously flowing, evolving
in an exquisitely coordinated
evolutionary dance in which significance
and source are overwhelming. This
awesome revelation takes place nonrationally
so that there is an infinite
silence in the mind, which has stopped
conceptualizing. That which is
witnessing and that which is witnessed
take on the same identity; the observer
dissolves into the landscape and becomes
equally the observed. Everything is
connected to everything else by a
Presence whose power is infinite,
exquisitely gentle, yet rock-solid.
David R. Hwakins On Power Vs Force



A Doorway to Heaven

Finding the key to enter.

By David R. Hawkins, M.D., Ph.D.

Published: February 10, 2011

Thoughts guaranteed to awaken your soul.

Students of David R. Hawkins’s work have realized that the truths revealed there are ideally suited for spiritual aspirants of the Western world. The teachings are both in accord with the greatest mystics throughout history, and immensely practical in their application to daily life. Just one of these quotes or passages can transform a person’s life and catapult him or her ahead on the spiritual journey. As Hawkins says, “At some point, the illusion breaks down and the opening for the start of the spiritual quest commences. The quest turns from without to within, and the search for answers begins.”   — Scott Jeffery
Each step along the way to enlightenment is exciting and rewarding when its essence is revealed. Taken out of context, any critical insight can seem baffling, yet intriguing. For each seeker, there are important key understandings that light the way and facilitate success. This is a collection of such truths that serve as fulcrums for major leaps forward.
Although there are many doorways to heaven,
each seeker must find his or her own route.
Comprehension at great depths unravels the essential truth of seeming complexity.
It is said that there are 10,000 ways to God,
yet they can all be reduced to certain critical elements
common to all successful pathways.
May each of the quotes here prove to be of great value on your journey:

To become more conscious is the greatest gift anyone can give to the world; moreover, in a ripple effect, the gift comes back to its source.

Spiritual development is not an accomplishment but a way of life. It is an orientation that brings its own rewards, and what is important is the direction of one’s motives.

What can you actually do to be helpful to the world? Make a gift of your life and lift all mankind by being kind, considerate, forgiving, and compassionate at all times, in all places, and under all conditions, with everyone as well as yourself. That is the greatest gift anyone can give.

Out of all-inclusive, unconditional compassion comes the healing of all mankind.

In a universe where “like goes to like” and “birds of a feather fly together,” we attract to us that which we emanate.

Every act or decision we make that supports life supports all life, including our own. The ripples we create return to us.

One basic principle has the power to resolve the problems of the social marketplace: Support the solution instead of attacking the supposed causes.

In truth, we exist and survive, not because of the ego, but in spite of it.

To best serve the world, seek enlightenment and transcend illusions rather than contribute to them.

To transcend the world requires compassion and acceptance, the result of inner humility, by which the world is surrendered to God with increased peace of mind.

What the ego cannot lift with all its might is like a feather to the grace of God.
To win in life means to give up the obsession of “who’s at fault.” Graciousness is far more powerful than belligerence. It is better to succeed than to win.

By its nature, the pathway to God is not easy. It requires considerable courage, fortitude, willingness, and forbearance. It is strengthened by humility and a benign conscience.

An extremely valuable insight that is learned by all spiritually evolved persons in the course of their development is seeing one’s own personal consciousness as the decisive influence that determines all that occurs in one’s life.

Holding a goal in mind is inspirational and actually helpful to its accomplishment, because what is held in mind tends to actualize. However, it is a mistake to attack oneself with guilt for failing to achieve the ideal. Upon examination, it will be frequently discovered that it was not really the goal that was desired, but the satisfaction that was associated with it.

It’s pleasing to discover that it isn’t necessary to drive oneself forward; instead, one can simply allow oneself to move forward as blocks are removed. Thus, one becomes attracted by the future rather than propelled by the past.

Are You Following Your Calling?

Take a lesson from Jonah.

Published: March 21, 2011

By Alberto Villoldo, Ph.D.

Your invitation to unimaginable destiny.

One of my favorite tales of initiation is the biblical story of Jonah, who is called by God to go to Nineveh and teach the people there. Jonah is comfortable at home raising his children and dealing with everyday domestic affairs. When he hears God’s call, his response is to run as fast as he can in the opposite direction from Nineveh.
Jonah is not interested in heeding this calling; in fact, he’s horrified by the thought that he could be more than a simple fisherman. He believes he doesn’t have it in him to be a messenger of hope, and doubts that he could ever amount to anything more than a simple man who guts fish every morning. Terrified that he might fail at the task he has been given, Jonah boards a ship to get as far away as he can from his calling. When the vessel encounters heavy storms in the Mediterranean, the sailors suspect that someone has defied God, and they toss Jonah into the sea, where he is promptly swallowed by a whale. He remains in the whale’s belly until he is finally spat out—on the shores of Nineveh.
The moral of the story is that life will drag us kicking and screaming to our destiny if we try to escape it. Our choice is to be delivered in grace and beauty, which happens when we say yes to our initiation, or covered in whale spit, which happens when we reject it.
The whale in the story represents our emotions, a huge and irresistible power that threatens to swallow us and keep us trapped for days or years. Remember how long you were stuck in a painful relationship, angry with yourself and your partner, long after you realized it was time to leave? We can spend many years in the belly of the whale dealing with our rage, or our sense of not having the right partner or the right life, or our envy for the youth, success, or wealth others have that we might lack. Eventually the whale spits us out at the shores we were meant to reach.
When Jonah arrives on the shores at Nineveh, he is ready to follow his calling, unhesitant and fully able to access his power and to understand his mission. The shaman understands that there are more elegant ways to get to Nineveh than in the belly of a whale.
During my travels in the Amazon as an anthropologist, I witnessed many rituals that initiated young men into manhood, and young women into marriage or motherhood. But these, like our own Western ceremonies, were often choreographed festivities disconnected from their deeper meaning. Initiation, by contrast, is nothing less than an invitation to an unimaginable destiny. It is fraught with danger and opportunity. The outcome is not guaranteed. It requires a courageous response, and invites us to become the hero of our own journey. Initiation can take place within the secret confines of your heart, where you go to meet the Divine within, or in the exterior realm, anywhere in the world. Regardless of whether it is an inner or an outer journey, if you’re successful you will be blessed and graced.

***THINK ABOUT WHAT YOU HAVE***

In over a dozen years as a stress consultant, one of the most pervasive and destructive mental tendencies I've seen is that of focusing on what we want instead of what we have.  It doesn't seem to make any difference how much we have; we just keep expanding our list of desires, which guarantees we will remain dissatisfied.  The mind-set that says "I'll be happy when this desire is fulfilled" is the same mind-set that will repeat itself once that desire is met.
 We want this or that.  If we don't get what we want we keep thinking about all that we don't have--and we remain dissatisfied.  If we do get what we want, we simply re-create the same thinking in our new circumstances.  So, despite getting what we want, we still remain unhappy.  Happiness can't be found when we are yearning for new desires.
Luckily, there is a way to be happy.  It involves changing the emphasis of our thinking from what we want to what we have.  Rather than wishing your spouse were different, try thinking about her wonderful qualities.  Instead of complaining about your salary, be grateful that you have a job.  Rather than wishing you were able to take a vacation to Hawaii, think of how much fun you have had close to home.  The list of possibilities is endless!
Each time you notice yourself falling into the "I wish life were different" trap, back off and start over.  Take a breath and remember all that you have to be grateful for.  When you focus not on what you want, but on what you have, you end up getting more of what you want anyway.  If you focus on the good qualities of your spouse, she'll be more loving.  If you are grateful for your job rather than complaining about it, you'll do a better job, be more productive, and probably end up getting a raise anyway.  If you focus on ways to enjoy yourself around home rather than than waiting to enjoy yourself in Hawaii, you'll end up having more fun.  If you ever do get to Hawaii, you'll be in the habit of enjoying yourself.  And, if by some chance you don't, you'll have a great life anyway.
Make a note to yourself to start thinking more about what you have than what you want.  If you do, your life will start appearing much better than before.  For perhaps the first time in your life, you'll know what it means to feel satisfied.

There is a path before you now

Life's circumstances are not always what you might wish them to be.

The pattern of life does not necessarily go as you plan.

Beyond any understanding , you may at times be led in different directions

that you never imagined , dreamed,or designed.

Yet if you have never put any effort into choosing a path , or tried to carry out your dream ,

then perhaps you would have no direction at all.

Rather than wondering about or questioning the direction your life has taken ,

accept the fact that there is a path before you now.

Shake off the ''why's'' and ''what if's'' ,and rid yourself of confusion.

Whatever was- is in the past.Whatever is - is what's important.The past is a brief reflection.

The future is yet to be realized.Today is here.

Walk your path one step at a time - with courage , faith , and determination.

Keep your head up , and cast your dreams to the stars.

Soon your steps will become firm and your footing will be solid again.

A path that you never imagined will become the most comfortable direction

you could have ever hoped to follow.

Keep your belief in yourself and walk into your new journey.

You will find it magnificent , spectacular , and beyond your wildest imaginings.

Teachers like Buddha and Jesus

Learning how to harness your mind to promote growth is the secret of life,

 which is why I call it The Biology of Beilef.

Of course the secret of life is not a secret at all.

Teachers like Buddha and Jesus

have been telling us the same story for millennia.

Now science is pointing in the same direction.

It is not our genes but our beliefs that control our lives

Oh ye of little belief !!

Living in love and living in fear create opposite effects in the body and the mind. I’d just like to emphasize again that not only is there nothing wrong with going through life wearing the proverbial rose-colored glasses.

In fact, those rose-colored glasses are necessary for your cells to thrive.

Positive thoughts are a biological mandate for a happy, healthy life.

In the words of Mahatma Gandhi:

Your beliefs become your thoughts

Your thoughts become your words

Your words become your actions

Your actions become your habits

Your habits become your values

Your values become your destiny

*** UNCONDITIONAL LOVE ***

I love you as you are, as you seek to find your own special way to relate to the world.

I honor your choices to learn in the way you feel is right for you.

I know it is important that you are the person you want to be and not someone that I or others think you "should" be. I realize that I cannot know what is best for you, although perhaps sometimes I think I do.

I have not been where you have been, viewing life from the angle you have. I do not know what you have chosen to learn, how you have chosen to learn it, with whom or in what time period. I have not walked life looking through your eyes, so how can I know what you need.

I allow you to be in the world without a thought or word of judgment from me about the deeds you undertake. I see no error in the things you say and do. In this place where I am, I see that there are many ways to perceive and experience the different facets of our world. I allow without reservation the choices you make in each moment. I make no judgment of this, for if I would deny your right to your evolution, then I would deny that right for myself and all others.

  For it is the inalienable right of all life to choose their own evolution and with great Love I acknowledge your right to determine your future. In humility I bow to the realization that the way I see as best for me does not have to mean it is also right for you. I know that you are led as I am, following the inner excitement to know your own path.

I know that the many races, religions, customs, nationalities and beliefs within our world bring us great richness and allow us the benefit and teachings of such diverseness. I know we each learn in our own unique way in order to bring that Love and Wisdom back to the whole. I know that if there were only one way to do something, there would need only be one person.

I live my life in loving service, being the best me I can, becoming wiser in the perfection of Divine Truth, becoming happier in the joy of ...  
Unconditional Love

 

 

Fiona

  C A R O L    A N N  

Carol, you are half a century, or 5 decades, or 50 years, or 600 months, or 2609 weeks, or 18262 days, or 438288 hours, or 26297280 minutes, or 1577836800 minutes old, depending on what unit of measure you are using. Hey, at least I didn’t figure it out for seconds. Happy 50th birthday Honey .. I Love You Fiona !!

 Carol & Ted ... LOL

Dr. D.Dwyer

“As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.”
“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.”
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
How you choose to interpret people and your relationships makes a huge difference. So much of our relationships may be perceived to happen out there somewhere.
But your underlying frame of mind – for instance an open one or a protective and closed up one – will determine much about your interactions with new people and people you know.
So you really have to go inside. You have to realize that your interpretations from the past are interpretations. Not reality. You have to take a look at your assumptions and expectations and thought habits. Find patterns that may be hurting you (and others). This isn’t easy. Or always pleasant. You may discover that you have had some negative underlying habits of thought for many years.
But to change you have to do it. Instead of just keep looking at yourself as some sort of unmoving and objective observer of the world and reality. A change in you could – over time – change your whole world.

The Big Picture of your LIFE

When you find yourself caught in a trap of your own making ,

remind yourself that whatever it is you are worring about is

only ever part of the big picture of your life.

Look down on your life from the vantage point of an eagle.

Think about where you have to come from ,

what you have already learn-and where you are going.

Acknowledge what resources you already have.

Ask yourself gently if you need help and how you will ask for it. Remember tough situations that you have already survived;

what you learned; what you gained.

Let yourself see how the situation will look six month from now. Remember some dramas from the past that once loomed large,

and are now mere pinpoints in your history.

Appreciate the scale and depth of your life's journey:

the complexity of it,the richness of it, the uniqueness of it.

The attention that you give to the details of your life

will always be enhanced when you are also able to see and

appreciate the more spacious picture of your existence.

Greg G On - Not Being Charlie Sheen

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