Happy New Year 2013

Happy New Year

2013: New Dreams, New Goals, New Possibilities.

If you can make the reader believe anything no matter how absurd it is, he will prove it to be true by his experiments. This proves that our beliefs make us act and our acts are directed by our belief, for the wisdom or knowledge is in the belief. People are not aware of this.

Make man responsible for his belief and he will be as cautious what he believes as he is in what he says and does, for he will see that just as he measures out to another just so it will be measured out to him.

If you make a person believe that he is in danger of any trouble he will be affected just according to his belief, so all beliefs are to be analyzed like food or drink to see what it contains and how it acts upon the body, for the belief being in the mind, it shows itself on the body.

The Test Of Truth

But the essential thing is learning that YOU DO NOT KNOW. Knowledge is power, and all power is of God. You who have tried to keep power for yourselves, have lost it. You still HAVE the power, but you have interposed so much between it and your AWARENESS of it, that you cannot use it. EVERYTHING you have taught yourselves has made your power more and more obscure to you. You know not WHAT it is, nor WHERE. You have made a SEMBLANCE of power, and a SHOW of strength, so pitiful that it MUST fail you. For power is not seeming strength, and truth is beyond a semblance of any kind.

January Thoughts: James Allen

The way from passion to peace is by overcoming one’s self.

Aspiration is the longing for heavenly things.

Where is peace to be found! Where is the hiding-place of truth!

The soul will cry out for its lost heritage.

If one would find peace, he must come out of passion.

That which can be conceived can be achieved.

Our life is what we make it by our own thoughts and deeds.

There is a life of victory over sin, and triumph over evil.

Having clothed himself with humility, the first questions a man asks himself are:—

“How am I acting towards others?”
“What am I doing to others?”
“How am I thinking of others?”
“Are my thoughts of, and acts towards others prompted by unselfish love?”

As a man, in the silence of his soul, asks himself these searching questions, he will unerringly see where he has hitherto failed.

The Christ Spirit of Love puts an end, not only to all sin, but to all division and contention.

Drops Of Gold

December 30
Great possibilities of usefulness to the world lie in your nature. You are of the tribe of Judah. Keep this for your life motto: “Good judgment is given unto me.”


December 31
Never despise anybody. Think daily that there is no respect of persons with God. Your spiritual nature is your true nobility. This nature showing forth you hold the government of nations in your grasp. This is your text: “Thy vows are upon me,
God; I will render praises unto thee.”

by Emma Curtis Hopkins

The Law of Agreement

People are enslaved by ideas of lack; lack of love, lack of money, lack of companionship, lack of health, and so on.
They are enslaved by the ideas of interference and incompletion. They are asleep in the Adamic Dream: Adam (generic man,) ate of "Maya the tree of illusion"[1] and saw two powers, good and evil.
The Christ mission was to wake people up to the Truth of one Power, God.
"Awake thou that sleepeth." Ephesian 5:14

Look well therefore to this day!

Money is nothing to you. Therefore, you can have all you like by getting a right thought. Great possessions naturally flow to you if you do not hold a foolish thought strongly. This verse will give you your successful idea: "All my help from Thee I bring."
December 28  EmmaCurtisHopkins 

December 29 Yours is a great and noble nature. Even if some thought has deceived you into misfortune, you may rise speedily into prosperity on these words: "God is my Provider. I am satisfied with the bounty of God." Èmma Curtis Hopkins

 

“Listen to the exhortation of the dawn! Look to this day! For it is life, the very life of life. In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existence. The bliss of growth, the glory of action, The splendor of beauty; For yesterday is but a dream, And tomorrow is only a vision; But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, And every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day! Such is the salutation of the dawn”

Kalidasa ~ Classical Sanskrit writer,

FlorenceScovelShinn-isms

"There is peace on earth for him who sends goodwill to man!"

Jesus  said, "Resist not evil," for He knew in reality, there is no evil, therefore nothing to resist. Evil has come of man's "vain imagination," or a belief in two powers, good and evil.

"I have a wonderful work, in a wonderful way, I give wonderful service, for wonderful pay!"

SUGGESTIBILITY LEADS TO GULLIBILITY

Suggestibility is caused by depending upon confused exterior authorities, who always disagree with each other. Since he does not know from his own essence, he must endlessly switch his beliefs from one authority to another.
Suggestibility also leads to gullibility,
making one a target for sharp-shooting charlatans. VH

God's table of Abundance

A New Journey

This holy instant would I give to You.
Be You in charge.
For I would follow You,
Certain that Your direction gives me peace.

Celtic Woman - Orinoco Flow

"When you know who you are you know what to do. So look, that means there is no need for you to ever get up in the morning and wonder what you’re going to do with yourself.

The Hearts Cry

Let us turn to Him Who leads the way and makes our footsteps sure.
So let us not forget our goal is shared,
for it is that remembrance which contains the memory of God,
 and points the way to Him and to the Heaven of His peace.
We are restored to sanity,
in which we understand that anger is insane,
attack is mad,
and vengeance merely foolish fantasy.
We have been saved from wrath because we learned we were mistaken.
Nothing more than that.
And is a father angry at his son because he failed to understand the truth?
We come in honesty to God and say we did not understand,
and ask Him to help us to learn His lessons,
through the Voice of His Own Teacher.
And if we need a word to help us,
He will give it to us.
If we need a thought,
that will He also give.
And if we need but stillness and a tranquil,
open mind,
these are the gifts we will receive of Him.
He is in charge by our request.

2012 Christmas_Themes from "A Course in Miracles"

SHEPHERDS AND THE STAR

 

Luke 2:8-20

Part of lesson presumed given Christmas Day December 25, 1892

Emma Curtis Hopkins

Why did the shepherds catch the gleams of a light that was not sunlight or moonlight or fire light? Because they were setting themselves free from the world-wide idea that some kind of material light must shine or they would be in darkness. Why did they have the songs of harmonious choirs whose soul-strung voices never had chanted of death or of mourning, but only of life and delight? Because for just a brief space they let alone the teachings of their schools and their churches concerning dying before seeing heavenly beings, and being resurrected before hearing of happiness as everywhere.

Home and the Heartland

 Riverdance - "Home and the Heartland"

See Them As They Really Are

Christmas

Peace be to me, the holy Son of God.
Peace to my brother, who is one with me.
Let all the world be blessed with peace through us.

InChorus sings Adiemus
at Edinburgh's Festival Theatre,
September Concert 2010

"Our life-observation starts with a collection of blurs. In our early confusion, we think we must change the trees and hills. But, as our vision clarifies, we see that we need pay no attention to anything out there. We need only to see them as they really are. _That_ makes them right for us." VH

Vernon Howard quotes

Christmas Greeting

If you have truly forgiven someone,
you will remember the incident, 

but will no longer feel the sting or hurt. 

This is the acid test of forgiveness. 

You must meet it psychologically and spiritually. 

Otherwise you are simple deceiving yourself. 

You are not practicing the art of true forgiveness. 

To Understand All Is to Forgive All

 

Peace

As a guide to the truly valuable, realize that anything gained by force or pressure or guile has no value at all. VH

God's answer is some form of peace. All pain
Is healed; all misery replaced with joy.
All prison doors are opened. And all sin
Is understood as merely a mistake.

PURITY OF LIFE

Romans 13:8-14

There's a little book of axioms in mental science which no Occidental student has proved the accuracy of, and which no Orientalist yet wafted to our shores has been a living demonstration of, though the book was written in India no telling how long ago, and the faithful Westerners have been working hard at it now these dozens years.

There is one purpose running through the book, and that is to urge every man to get the strings on a singular apparatus called the mind. If once he can hinder the thoughts of that unruly engine and direct them at will, he has a masterly fine time riding over this globe. It shows that actions all spring from runaway thoughts if those acts are not easily controllable. For instance, if you cannot go without eating for six weeks or so without feeling faint you have attained to little or no management of your mental machinery.

Miracles and higher truths.

Vernon Howard

You need not strain and struggle to understand higher truths, you need only realize that you don't understand.  When you don't know something, and stick with that unknowing, there is no conflict.
And there is also the opening for understanding something higher. Conflict,pain, strain, falling downhill occurs when you don't understand something about life, but pretend that you do, grab your own solutions and call them higher answers.

Now, look at the amazing state of not knowing what to do with yourself and leaving it at that.  When you  don't know how to straighten out your life, when you have no idea of how to push away the worries of past and future, when you don't know that and stay with that, a fantastically marvelous miracle occurs.  And here it is:  What happens when you don't know and simply say, "I don't know," what happens is a falling away of falseness, of ridiculous effort, of vanity, of pretense.  When you are simply all alone with the fact that you don't know what to do about that difficulty, when you're all alone with that and don't fight to grab your own answer, the miracle occurs.  A spiritual change starts.

What happens

Connectiveness

“Anybody on the outside of me is someone whom I can respond to, but they are never the definers of me, unless I have handed over my charge of myself to them.” Virginia Satir

When you love someone, your internal representation of that person enriches you, and becomes part of the internal world that you carry with you everywhere. But you gain much more than just taking in something wonderful from outside. You also discover yourself in all the wonderful responses that you are capable of. You discover yourself as you relate to that other person. If they had never come into your life, you might never have known about your own ability to care, and appreciate, or whatever else you discovered about yourself in that relationship. Every time you take in something wonderful from outside yourself that is beautiful and true, you also discover more about yourself, and you become greater than you were. The more you have inside,

Let me not forget myself is nothing, but my Self is all.

self versus Self_Themes from "A Course in Miracles"

Kenneth Wapnick, Ph.D. discusses a line at the end of workbook lesson 358.

Let me not forget myself is nothing, but my Self is all.

Let me not forget my ego is nothing, but my Self is all.

Understand totally by understanding TOTALITY.

Anger cannot occur unless you believe that you have BEEN attacked, the attack was JUSTIFIED, and you are in no way responsible for it. Given these three wholly irrational premises, the equally irrational conclusion that a brother is worthy of attack rather than of love follows. The way to undo an insane conclusion is always to consider the sanity of the premises on which it rests. You cannot BE attacked, attack HAS no justification, and you ARE responsible for what you believe.

 There is only one way out of the world's thinking, just as there was only one way INTO it. Understand totally by understanding TOTALITY. Perceive ANY part of the ego's thought system as wholly insane, wholly delusional, and wholly undesirable, and you have CORRECTLY EVALUATED ALL OF IT. This correction enables you to perceive ANY part of Creation as wholly real, wholly perfect, and WHOLLY DESIRABLE. Wanting this ONLY, you will HAVE this only, and giving this only, you will BE only this. The gifts you offer to the ego are ALWAYS experienced as sacrifices. But the gifts you offer to the Kingdom are gifts to YOU. They will always be treasured by God, because they belong to His Beloved Sons who belong to Him. All power and glory are yours because the Kingdom is His. (7,VII,10.9:11.6)

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