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Thursday, April 26, 2018
Seeking In Earnest
“Every thought is made up of two factors, knowledge and feeling.” What
do you believe? We all believe in all sorts of things. Ford is better
than Chevy, Yankees are better than the Red Sox, my grandkids are cuter
than yours are all examples of thoughts/opinions based heavily in
feeling rather than knowledge, except the one about my grandkids of
course. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line,
Hawaii is an island, two plus two equals four are all examples of
knowledge/facts with little feeling or passion attached. Heated discussions have
and will take place concerning the former, yet probably never concerning
the latter.
Clearly without passion nothing happens. Living on the Spiritual Basis is a passionate way of life, tempered with truth. Not someone else’s truth but your truth arrived at by scientific prayer and meditation. Read with your eyes but study with your heart. Listen with your ears but hear with the Divine Presence within and do not mortgage your future on any one teacher or interpretation. The Great Carpenter taught that we are all connected to the Father, not requiring any intermediaries to establish this bond since it is ours by right of birth, a teaching that turned the world on its head, forgotten by many. So read spiritual books and study teachers that strike a cord with you, but keep your own counsel in the “secret” place of your heart. When questions arise seek out those who have touched you and consider their words in meditation and if you find their counsel rings true and is just, incorporate it in your life. The right answers will come if our own house is in order, but this requires us to remain willing and open to all spiritual experience, remember “the realm of Heaven is roomy, all inclusive, never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek.”
Clearly without passion nothing happens. Living on the Spiritual Basis is a passionate way of life, tempered with truth. Not someone else’s truth but your truth arrived at by scientific prayer and meditation. Read with your eyes but study with your heart. Listen with your ears but hear with the Divine Presence within and do not mortgage your future on any one teacher or interpretation. The Great Carpenter taught that we are all connected to the Father, not requiring any intermediaries to establish this bond since it is ours by right of birth, a teaching that turned the world on its head, forgotten by many. So read spiritual books and study teachers that strike a cord with you, but keep your own counsel in the “secret” place of your heart. When questions arise seek out those who have touched you and consider their words in meditation and if you find their counsel rings true and is just, incorporate it in your life. The right answers will come if our own house is in order, but this requires us to remain willing and open to all spiritual experience, remember “the realm of Heaven is roomy, all inclusive, never exclusive or forbidding to those who earnestly seek.”
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Wayne Dyer, Recovery, Addiction, Zen, Emmet Fox, Opioids, Four Agreements,
Chopra, Heroin, Einstein, AA, Healing Path, Law Of Attraction
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Fulfilling The Law Of Forgiveness
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Fulfilling The Law Of Forgiveness
The true key of our freedom lies in forgiveness and we forgive not for the other person’s sake, but for your
own. Can you think of a single spiritual teacher that has not made
this point? Without forgiveness no real spiritual progress can ever be
made. When we fail to embrace forgiveness we lock ourselves into a
circular route that inevitably leads back to the same difficulties
clothed in different garb, again and again. Living on the Spiritual Basis
requires forgiving not only in word and deed, but in our
heart, breaking the cycle, but how?
When we hold onto an old hurt, justifying the feeling for any reason, we chose to stand outside the sunlight of the Spirit, placing ourselves in the shadow of resentment and fear. By embracing justified anger our thinking becomes stale, stagnant and unhealthy; by throwing open our heart to forgiveness we are rejuvenated. The course here is clear; when negative thoughts appear in our consciousness we immediately treat them with prayer asking to be shown how we can be of service to the person we are seeking to forgive. Becoming willing in Spirit sets us free. To be very clear, God will never place us in a position to be harmed if we are about His business, so forgive free of the fear of being spiritually harmed further. By taking the contrary action to what the World and our carnal mind would have us do, we raise our consciousness and stand in the sunlight of the Spirit, clean, rejuvenated and free, the Law of Forgiveness fulfilled.
© Vincent Lee Jones Living In Spirit
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Wayne Dyer, Recovery, Addiction, Zen, Emmet Fox, Opioids, Four Agreements,
Chopra, Heroin, Einstein, AA, Healing Path, Law Of Attraction
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