While
the energy of our thoughts, speech, and actions is powerful, this energy is
infinitely more powerful when we join together with others. When we come
together as a group, with a common purpose and commitment to mindful action, we
produce an energy of collective concentration far superior to our own
individual concentration. This energy further helps us to cultivate compassion
and understanding. If we practice mindful sitting, walking, speaking and
listening together as a group, then everyone can feel the collective energy and
everyone can receive nourishment and healing.
This
collective energy can lead to collective insight and to a collective awakening.
Our
collective compassion, mindfulness and concentration nourishes us, but it also
can help to reestablish the Earth’s equilibrium and restore balance. Together
we can bring about real transformation for ourselves and for the world
Love Letter to the Earth by Thich Nhat Hanh
(pg 76)
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The
true answers to the mystery of life after death remain locked behind a
spiritual door for most people. This is because we have built-in amnesia about
our soul identity which, on a conscious level, aids in the merging of the soul
and human brain. In the last few years the general public has heard about
people who temporarily died and then came back to life to tell about seeing a
long tunnel, bright lights, and even brief encounters with friendly spirits.
But none of these accounts written in the many books on reincarnation has ever
given us anything more than a glimpse of all there is to know about life after
death.
This
book is an intimate journal about the spirit world. It provides a series of
actual case histories which reveal in explicit detail what happens to us when
life on Earth is over. You will be taken beyond the spiritual tunnel and enter
the spirit world itself to learn what transpires for souls before they finally
return to earth in another life
Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives
by
Michael Newton, Ph.D
(pg 1-2)
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In
a wat temple in the mountains of Northern Thailand, a Buddhist teacher once reminded me of
a simple truth. “Life,” he said, “is offered as a means of self-expression,
only giving us what we seek when we listen to the heart.” The highest forms of
this expression are acts of kindness. Our soul may be traveling away from a
permanent home, but we are not just tourists. We bear responsibility in the
evolution of a higher consciousness for ourselves and others in life. Thus, our
journey is a collective one.
We
are divine but imperfect beings who exist in two worlds, material and
spiritual. It is our destiny to shuttle back and forth between these universes
through space and time while we learn to master ourselves and acquire
knowledge. We must trust in this process with patience and determination. Our
essence is not fully knowable in most physical hosts, but Self is never lost
because we always remain connected to both worlds.
Journey of Souls by Michael Newton, Ph.D.
(pg 275-276)
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“Everyone deserves love and appreciation. If there is someone in the world whom we do not love, it is our blessing to work this out within ourselves. A very key spiritual principle, echoed in the Cayce readings as well as mainstream psychology, is that whatever we see in others that makes us angry, sad or jealous is a reflection of an issue we have in ourselves. If we can learn to love, respect and forgive ourselves, then we will not be angered and offended by what we see in others.”
The Synchronicity Key by David Wilcock
(pg 320)
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“…Disease, though apparently so cruel, is in itself beneficent and for our good and, if rightly interpreted, it will guide us to our essential faults. If properly treated, it will be the cause of the removal of those faults and leave us better and greater than before. Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt. Let it also be known that in those who understand and are able to read the significance of premonitory symptoms disease may be prevented before its onset or aborted in its earlier stages if the proper corrective spiritual and mental efforts be undertaken. Nor need any case despair, however severe, for the fact that the individual is still granted physical life indicates that the Soul who rules is not without hope.”
Heal Thyself by Dr. Edward Bach
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"True healing is simply the radiance of the self causing an environment in which a catalyst may occur which initiates the recognition of self, by self, of the healing properties of the self."
The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One
(Volume I & II)
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"The understanding, experiencing, accepting and merging of self with self and other-self, and finally with the Creator, is the path to the heart of the self. In each infinitesimal part of your self resides the One in all of Its power.”
The Ra Contact: Teaching the Law of One ( Volune I and II)
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“Enlightenment is related to how you see, not what you do. And yet, when you See Truly, then what you do, or how you live your life, automatically adjusts to reflect who you are. The opposite has also been true. You chose to look upon sin and death, and were surprised when a world rose around you that seemed to support your decision. What do you think will happen if you choose to See only Life? Is it possible that the former world will be replaced by one where only Light Prevails? If the world you perceive is not real, but rather, is the extension of the decisions you make about yourself, then this shouldn’t surprise you at all.
“This is why I am calling you to See as God Sees every moment, for it is the only way to release the world you thought was there, in favor of a world that reflects who you really are.”
The Art of Spiritual Peacemaking, by James Twyman
(pg 146)
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“In the moment that I made the decision to go on toward death, I became aware of a new level of truth.
I discovered that since I’d realized who I really was and understood the magnificence of my true self, if I chose to go back to life, my body would heal rapidly—not in months or weeks, but in days! I knew that the doctors wouldn’t be able to find a trace of cancer if I chose to go back into my body!
It was then that I understood that my body is only a reflection of my internal state. If my inner self were aware of its greatness and connection with All-that-is, my body would soon reflect that and heal rapidly…..
….It felt as though I had a purpose to fulfill. I perceived that I wouldn’t have to go out and search for what I was supposed to do—it would unfold before me…..I simply had to allow it to unfold.
To access this state of allowing, the only thing I had to do was be myself! I realized that all those years, all I ever had to do was be myself, without judgment or feeling that I was flawed. At the same time, I understood that at the core, our essence is made of pure love. We are pure love—every single one of us. How can we not be, if we come from the Whole and return to it. I knew that realizing this meant never being afraid of who we are. Therefore, being love and being our true self is one and the same thing!
…..I understood that merely by being the love I truly am, I would heal both myself and others. ……If we’re all One, all facets of the same Whole, which is unconditional love, then of course who we are is love! I knew that was really the only purpose of life: to be our self, live our truth, and be the love that we are.
As though to confirm my realization, I became aware of both my father and Soni [both of whom had transitioned to spirit] communicating to me: Now that you know the truth of who you are, go back and live your life fearlessly!
Dying to be Me by Anita Moorjani
(pg 75-76)
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"When you know God as peace within, then you will realize Him as peace existing in the universal harmony of all things without."
Paramahansa Yogananda
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"With the realization of God comes all power. If the little wave knew that behind it is the great ocean, it could say, "I am the ocean." You should realize that just behind your consciousness is the Ocean of God."
Paramahansa Yogananda
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"Humbly serving all with their beauty, flowers say more to us about God than anything else. Each one brings a message that the Heavenly Father is right here."
Paramahansa Yogananda
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"Lord," I prayed, "am I dead or alive?"
A dazzling play of light filled the whole horizon. A soft rumbling vibration formed itself into words: "What has life or death to do with light? In the image of My light I have made you. The relativities of life and death belong to the cosmic dream. Behold your dreamless being! Awake, My child, awake!"
Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
(pg 318)
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Truth is inseparable from who you are. The very Being that you are is Truth. Jesus said: ‘I am the way and the truth and the life.’ Jesus referred to the innermost ‘I Am’, the essence identity of every man and woman, every life-form. He speaks of the life that you are. Christian mystics call this the ‘Christ within’.
When you are in touch with that dimension within yourself—and being in touch with it is your natural state, all your actions and relationships will reflect the oneness with all life that you sense deep within. This is love. Laws, commandments, rules and regulations are necessary for those who are cut off from who they are, the Truth within.
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
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The Guest House
This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.
A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.
Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.
Be grateful for whatever comes
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.
by Jelaluddin Rumi,
translation by Coleman Barks
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“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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"It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself... ... Serve and thou shall be served."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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