Have you ever heard of FOMO?

This moment, and who you are, is absolutely perfect. You are missing nothing, because there is nothing better. You can breathe, and let go of all that fear of missing out, and be happy with what you have. Be grateful, and each moment think not about what you’re missing, but what you’ve been given. zenhabits : The 39th Lesson

The past has no impact on how we behave and feel today.

Here's the real reason a "coward dies a thousand deaths." By law, any fear we refuse to face always returns... until we finally learn its essential lesson: resistance ensures repetition, so that whatever we try to go around will come back around again.~ Guy Finley

Do not mentally linger over completed actions, but leave them and go on to the next fresh moment.~VH

The past has no impact on how we behave and feel today. ~Morty Lefkoe

As events occur, we always assume that we know what they mean for us, and we immediately fall into... [continued] ~ Guy Finley

There once was a woman...

May Thoughts: James Allen

Comfort ye! The heights of Blessed Vision ye shall reach.

EOLAUS: I know that sorrow follows passion; know

That grief and emptiness, and heartaches wait

Upon all earthly joys; so am I sad;

Yet Truth must be, and being, can be found;

And though I am in sorrow, this I know

I shall be glad when I have found the Truth.

WE are Light and WE are Loved

Anytime that two or more beings commune in the energy of love, unconditional love, there is a blessing. That was in an email from a friend.

Your thoughts are copied unaware until you learn this text: "My help cometh from the Lord." You are supremely original when you receive your illumination straight from Principle and not person. Bind this motive to your heart: "God is my sun and my shield." ECH

And she also wrote:  

THE WOODEN BOWL

The Wooden Bowl

I guarantee you will remember the tale of the Wooden Bowl tomorrow, a week from now, a month from now,

a year from now.

Once you see a belief as a belief and not the truth it is already beginning to lose its grip on you.

When I first began to mesmerize and as I became interested in the experiments, I found that the subject could see through matter. I could not help believing this and it showed me that matter could be seen through by a clairvoyant; so it became not an opinion but a truth to me. I also found that all that man's senses embraced could be seen and felt by a person whose bodily senses were dead, if we judged by the body. All this became a wisdom, not a belief, but a part of my identity. So what is a belief to the world concerning these things was to me a truth. My next aim was to become a clairvoyant myself, and as I became convinced that matter was only a medium for our wisdom to act through, I could see how it could be transformed and the senses or clairvoyant state be attached to any idea the natural man might think of. The two kinds of reasoning make up the natural man. Both modes of reasoning can be carried into the clairvoyant state for this does not embrace reason. Spiritualism: Death of the Natural Man March 1861

The good news about beliefs is that they are not permanent. Once you see a belief as a belief and not the truth it is already beginning to lose its grip on you.

A test can detect whether a medium is clairvoyant or not.

Blindfold the subject and see if he can tell what you have in your pocket or wallet.

The capacity of thought-reading is the common extent of mesmerism. Clairvoyance is very rare and can be easily tested by blindfolding the subject and giving him a book to read. If he can read without seeing, that is conclusive evidence that he has independent sight. This state is of very short duration. They then come into that state where they are governed by surrounding minds. PORTLAND ADVERTISER International House, Feb. 13, 1862 Letter to the Editor

Can God Be Found in the Midst of Pain?

"Millions of men and women suffer terribly simply because they can't say NO. Few understand this strange situation. You can." VH

The Holocaust through a Young Girl's Eyes
Helga Weiss was sent to four Nazi concentration camps with her mother. Miraculously, she was one of the few children to survive the Holocaust.

Internal Garden

An inspiring story of healing : Internal Garden touched me at an emotional and personal level. The phrase “holding people away from her” reminded me of when my mom died of cancer back in 1995. Towards the end I think she did that. She needed to for her sake. When she was diagnosed with breast cancer I remember she made the statement “I don’t want to be a burden”. She never was and how could she be ever.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

There is another advantage, - and a very important one, - in referring decisions to the Holy Spirit with increasing frequency. Perhaps you have not thought of this aspect, but its centrality is obvious. To follow the Holy Spirit's guidance is to let yourself be absolved of guilt. It is the essence of the Atonement. Do not, then, think that following the Holy Spirit's guidance is necessary merely because of your own inadequacies. It is the way out of hell for you. To say, "Of myself I can do nothing" is to gain all power. The Holy Spirit knows the truth about you. The image you made does not. To ask the Holy Spirit to decide for you is simply to accept your true inheritance. Teachers Manual

Can you imagine what this means?

Salvation comes from my one Self.

Correct action is action against anything which is _wrong_, not merely against whatever is wrong with the neighbor or the social system. It is an endless trick of egotism to see wrongness outside of itself, while conveniently forgetting its own falsity which contributes to the very social system it denounces. By seeing both sides of wrongness at once, both within and without, we no longer divide it, which means we are no longer wrong. VH

Osteens talk role of faith after Boston, Texas tragedies

Deep down inside ourselves

The entire process of becoming happy consists in gradually weakening the False Self so that the True Self regains its rightful position in your life. The False Self is always unhappy. The True Self is never anything but happy.
Back in 1904 a scientist named A. V. L. Verneuil [Auguste Victor Louis Verneuil (1856 – 1913)] invented synthetic rubies. They were so similar to natural rubies that they nearly knocked the bottom out of the market for the natural gems. Nobody could tell the difference. The world of commercial rubies was thrown into panic and confusion.

Anyone can change direction at anytime.

I am happy and grateful Democratic Republic of the Congo became the newest reader of my blog April 18^th.

A story from ancient Egypt tells of a young prince who lived with his father, the Pharaoh, in a palace along the banks of the River Nile. Restless, as young men are, the prince set out one morning in search of adventure. The Pharaoh warned, "Stay near the safety and refreshment of the river. Don't wander into the dry desert."

The evil we see in ourselves and others is nothing more than

a defense against the underlying love and forgiveness that reflects the reality of our true self.

People fail to attain personal liberation because they are unaware that such a state actually exists. People never go after something unless they at least suspect that it is real, that it is there. They must therefore become consciously aware if dimly at first-that an entirely new world exists for them. 

The problem?

Reality is WHAT IS (YouTube - Byron Katie Loving What Is *). Take a walk in nature, don’t worry about what’s behind you (past) or what’s in front (future) of you. See the birds and the bees and the flowers and the trees.  When you do that everything becomes up close and personal. Then you see things as they are . Not as you are.

That’s part of my 10^th speech at Toastmasters I gave yesterday. I’m now designated as Competent Communicator (CC). 

People Don't Consciously Or Knowingly Burden Themselves.

The fable is told of the traveler staggering down the road with a rock in one hand and a brick in the other. On his back was a sack of earth, and around his waist was wound a long coil of vines. On his head was balanced a heavy pumpkin.

We need only sail in natural waters.

Back in the days of sailing vessels, British and American sea captains were faced with a peculiar problem. In crossing westward from England to Boston, the voyage was much slower than when crossing eastward from Boston to England. In fact, the westward crossing took an additional two weeks, which represented considerable loss of time and energy. The owners of the vessels carried their problem to Benjamin Franklin, who was Deputy Postmaster General at that time. Franklin, in turn, consulted a veteran sea captain named Timothy Folger. 

Remember YOUR castle.

A king was out hunting with his princes in a forest many miles from the castle. A sudden snowstorm fell on the party. In the confusion, the king was separated from the others. When he failed to return to the castle after four days he was given up as lost. But on the fifth day, he appeared in the warm dining room.

Now You Can Enjoy Yourself Every Day

People are often puzzled by the idea of making life more enjoyable by changing their viewpoints. Let’s examine it:

Life flows from the inner to the outer.

The great teachers ... have therefore always entrusted Truth with most confidence to parables, which, because of their simplicity, picturesqueness and association with everyday life, are a thought-form most likely to be remembered and least likely to be corrupted. Each man, then ... can perceive that depth of Truth to which he has a capacity to respond.! Dr. Raynor C. Johnson

Find time this weekend to turn off your phone, calm your nerves, cast your cares on the Lord, and meditate in the field of His faithfulness.

Isaac was an outdoorsman who worked the fields during the day; but he returned there in the evenings for another kind of work -- the mental work of meditation. Imagine his world. No electricity or electric lights, no radios or headsets, no cell phones or engine noises. With the vault of heaven above him, Isaac took time for nocturnal walks before bedtime to pray and think and meditate. Read More...

'How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.'

Walden Pond is a 102 foot- (31 metre)-deep lake in Concord, Massachusetts in the United States. A famous example of a kettle hole*, it was formed by retreating glaciers 10,000–12,000 years ago. *A kettle (kettle hole, pothole) is a shallow, sediment-filled body of water formed by retreating glaciers or draining floodwaters.

The writer, transcendentalist, and philosopher Henry David Thoreau lived on the northern shore of the pond for two years starting in the summer of 1845. His account of the experience was recorded in Walden; or, Life in the Woods, and made the pond famous. The land at that end was owned by Thoreau's friend and mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, who let Thoreau use it for his experiment.

Henry David Thoreau ( 1817 – 1862 ) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.
Walden - an annotated edition by Henry David Thoreau – 1854 @ http://thoreau.eserver.org/walden00.html

Pelagianism, Semipelagianism, Total depravity

Pelagianism is the belief that original sin did not taint human nature and that mortal will is still capable of choosing good or evil without special Divine aid. This is still sometimes called Limited Depravity. Thus, Adam's sin was "to set a bad example" for his progeny, but his actions did not have the other consequences imputed to original sin. Pelagianism views the role of Jesus as "setting a good example" for the rest of humanity (thus counteracting Adam's bad example) as well as providing an atonement for our sins. In short, humanity has full control, and thus full responsibility, for obeying the Gospel in addition to full responsibility for every sin (the latter insisted upon by both proponents and opponents of Pelagianism). According to Pelagian doctrine, because humans are sinners by choice, they are therefore criminals who need the atonement of Jesus Christ. Sinners are not victims, they are criminals who need pardon.

I can be calm and free from care on any shore, since God is there.

Jeanne-Marie Bouvier de la Motte-Guyon (commonly known as Madame Guyon) (18 April 1648 –  1717) was a French mystic and one of the key advocates of Quietism. Quietism was considered heretical by the Roman Catholic Church, and she was imprisoned from 1695 to 1703 after publishing a book on the topic, A Short and Easy Method of Prayer.

The supreme aim of life on earth is The Contemplation of the Uncreated Light whereby man is Intimately United with God.

Miguel de Molinos (c. 1628–1697), Spanish divine, the chief apostle of the religious revival known as Quietism. He was born about 1628 near Muniesa (Teruel). He entered the priesthood and settled in Rome about 1670. There he became well known as a director of consciences, being on specially friendly terms with Cardinal Odescalchi, who in 1676 became Pope Innocent XI.

Good health, happiness, love, success, prosperity, good fortune and unlimited money.

These are blessings.

I AM Money.

Feeling gets the blessing. Feeling lets the blessing.

Money is your obedient servant and money loves to be around you and circulate. So tell yourself "I'm a magnet to money and money loves ME." and YOU will be a magnet to money. Rev. Ike

Life meets you exactly the way you meet life...

... when you meet life cheerfully and lovingly, life will meet you that way. Rev. Ike

In all battles of the heart over the mind, go with your heart. www.tut.com

zen habits: A Guide to Practical Contentment

Shall the world lead you, or shall you lead the world? This is the point that is to be settled in your mind.

"Reflect often on the interesting idea of getting out of your own way."~ Vernon Linwood Howard

Happiness is an attribute of love. It cannot be apart from it. Nor can it be experienced where love is not. Love has no limits, being everywhere. And therefore joy is everywhere as well. God, being Love, must be joy. This basic error is the false belief that God is fear. Happiness belongs to you, because of what He is. ~ACIM

Why do you do it?

Sin and misery are the effects of our belief put in practice, governed by a law of sin and death. Man is the medium of these two laws; the one, chance or ignorance, which is of this world; the other, God or Science, which is of a higher. The wisdom of one is called the law; the knowledge of the other is the gospel or science. PPQ February 1860