22-12-2012

"Spiritual progress changes your mind as to what is good and bad for your life." Vernon Howard

John Nash was the subject of the Hollywood movie A Beautiful Mind. The film, loosely based on the biography of the same name, focuses on Nash's mathematical genius and struggle with paranoid schizophrenia. He saw and heard people that weren’t there. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his tragedy, and finally - late in life - received the Nobel Prize.

Christmas is not a time; it is a state of mind.

Freud, urTEXT & ACIM

Bits and bites

"God will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed (or set) on Thee because he trusteth in Thee."

The statement means that God's peace is set in the Holy Spirit, because it is fixed on God. It is also fixed in you. You, then, ARE fixed in the peace of God.

_LOVE EXISTS_

"There is a reason why people, as you see them in the supermarket and on the street, are sad, desolate, blank-faced, irritable, gloomy, why they snap out rude remarks and why they have so many problems.
I'm going to tell you why people are that way. It's because that man or woman has no one to love and has no one to love him. That's it.
_Love exists_.
You don't know it,
but like a lighted lodge in a dark forest,
love exists."

VH

 Sickness is but another name for sin.
Healing is but another name for God.
The miracle is thus a call to Him.

 The First Five Years Of Childhood Exert A Decisive Influence On Our Life

It is not that I have anything new to say, nothing that I have not clearly expressed a quarter of a century ago.

Your Very Awareness Is Your Power.

"Suppose you were given a one-man airplane to use in any way you like. But you did not understand the powers of an airplane; you were unaware that it could carry you across the sky. But still, wanting to make some use of it, you hitched it to a horse and drove it around. Because of your limited awareness of its use, your actual use was also limited. But after studying the machine for a while you discover its motor, propeller and other items of power. So you unhitch the horse and drive the airplane around on the ground with its own power. This is an advanced use, but still far from making the most of its intended purpose. So you study some more and you discover that the air- plane has wings for a practical purpose; you see the possibilities of rising above the earth to soar aloft. With this new knowledge you go into action. Finally, you fly. By discovering the full capacities of that airplane, it carries you to whatever destinations you desire.
A man's mind is like that. The power is there all right, blocked only by lack of awareness that it is there. Persistent self-study reveals power that _is_ already there.

Your very awareness is your power for full flight." VH

Akhetaton, Moses AND Monotheism

MOSES AND MONOTHEISM by SIGMUND FREUD

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN by KATHERINE JONES

1939

Without Akhetaton (Ikhnaton), would there have been a religion with one God? Would there have been an exodus or Moses? What was the relation of Moses to Akhetaton? Freud offered his theories in 1938 which if anything provides ample research references.

In the sixth year of Amenhotep's reign this enmity had grown to such an extent that the king changed his name, of which the now proscribed name of the god Amon was a part. Instead ofAmenhotep he called himself Ikhnaton. [I follow Breasted's (American) spelling in this name (the accepted English spelling is Akhenaten). The king's new name means approximately the same as his former one : God is satisfied. Compare our Godfrey and the German Gotthold.] But not only from his name did he eliminate that of the hated God, but also from all inscriptions and even where he found it in his father's name Amenhotep III. Soon after his change of name Ikhnaton left Thebes, which was under Amon's rule, and built a new capital lower down the river which he called

The Joy Of Natural Giving: Nonviolent Communication

Marshall Rosenberg (born 1934) is an American psychologist and the creator of Nonviolent Communication, a communication process that helps people to exchange the information necessary to resolve conflicts and differences peacefully. He is the founder and former Director of Educational Services for the Center for Nonviolent Communication, an international non-profit organization.

“What others do may be a stimulus of our feelings, but not the cause.” - Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D.,

Mr. Question Mark

"Once upon a time there was a city called Weakland. It was called Weakland because that was the nature of its citizens. Everyone was weak, wishy-washy, un-strong. And because their character, their nature, their psychology was feeble, they acted it out. They lived out their weakness, and that meant that one weakling exploited and hurt and took advantage of another weakling. The result, of course, was enormous and never-ending suffering in all the people of Weakland.