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« Reply #360 on: May 20, 2010, 22:54:31 »

I am so singing this song along with the Daily OM ~ smiley

Blessings of Well-Being Intended for the Highest Good of All,

InLove's Keeping,

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Space in Togetherness
Healthy Barriers


Healthy barriers will give you the freedom to pursue your development apart from those whose approval you seek out.


As relationships evolve, lives gradually become entwined. We tend to have a great deal in common with the people who attract us, and our regard for them compels us to trust their judgment. While our lives may seem to run together so smoothly that the line dividing them cannot be seen, we remain separate beings. To disregard these barriers is to sacrifice independence. It is our respect for the fact that our lives exist independently of the lives of others that allows us to set emotional and physical boundaries, to explore our interests and capabilities even when people close to us do not understand our partialities, and to agree to disagree. Maintaining healthy barriers is a matter of recognizing the point at which our principles and those of our loved ones and peers no longer overlap.

Human beings must relentlessly fight the temptation to follow the crowd. Naturally, we want to be liked, accepted, and admired, and it often seems that the easiest way to win approval is to ally ourselves with others. When we assume that our standards are the same as those of the people close to us without first examining our own intentions, we do ourselves a disservice. The barriers that exist between us are a reminder that our paths in life will be unique, and we must each accept that "I" and "we" can coexist peacefully. Our reactions, our likes and dislikes, our loves, our goals, and our dreams may or may not align with those of others, but we should neither ask others to embrace what we hold dear nor feel compelled to embrace what they hold dear.

As you learn to define yourself as an emotionally and intellectually distinct individual, you will grow to appreciate your autonomy. However much you enjoy the associations that bind you to others and provide you with a sense of identity, your concept of self will ultimately originate in your own soul. The healthy barriers that tell you where you end and the people around you begin will give you the freedom to pursue your development apart from those whose approval you might otherwise be tempted to seek out. Others will continue to play a role in your existence, but their values will not direct its course, and the relationships you share will remain marvelously balanced and harmonious as a result.


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« Reply #361 on: May 30, 2010, 22:29:12 »

Hello again Julia Smiley

Working with children and finding joy in that it is indeed a rewarding stage in a person’s life.  
Having contact with innocent souls that haven’t learnt yet to ‘act’ or guard themselves brings one back to the purity we once were.
For a few years starting when my last baby was 5 months old having a daycare in my home was the only way for me to be able to make a living and be with my children at the same time. So I suppose I got to experience bliss and chaos at the same time.

And truly children can be our greatest teachers.

Blessings Julia and thank you for sharing,

Love – Laura  








Hello Laura, I think that is a good practice for you and your children. You could be able to teach them the right manner by keeping your relationship and spiritual together. You would also be able to join them in finding joy of their lives.
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« Reply #362 on: June 22, 2010, 11:28:00 »

Hello All, smiley

A warm welcome to all the new members posting in this forum. Leo, Matrix and Nikos. smiley

I am in the process of change in my life and have been online alot less for right now. I do come in and view the recent posts here and in Facebook and am not participating as much.

This forum as I have said many times and still feel this way, is a wonderful place to experience and evolve. It's an iron sharpening iron opportunity to get to the Heart of one's authenticity by letting go of the attachments based on seeing ourself only as our self-image, who we 'think' we are by trusting more in what another's opinions and behaviors are towards us as 'speaking' for ourselves.

I've been in this process of releasing for quite awhile and my moving is a part of this ongoing experience.

Letting go of alot in my life has made room-space leading into Silence allowing me to be in touch with Being myself authentically. I find that I have less 'time' to think about what another 'needs', to be 'spiritual' or a 'master of spirituality' and have found it to be more about being a Love Light in this world because this is Being who I am and this gives me a deep sense of peace and well-being.

If I focus on these things and transfering this upon another then I am not being in my rightful place that I am here to uphold as a part of this Universal experience.

I am not here to 'fix' or blame another and if I think that, then all it reveals is I am not seeing where this idea that I am broken and powerless lies within is. My thoughts are reflected upon what my Heart and Mind are agreed upon.

Honoring the self is experienced in Being, it's living from Spirit-Soul in me breathing within my skin. Honoring the self-image is to think I am the way others define me or see me according to what I give power to. Only I know the 'truth' within my being as you do.

I cannot be about my purpose here if I am focused on what I think someone else needs to do or be, that someone has to change for me to experience that all is right in this world. In all honesty, through the years of moving from this mindset, I have come to realize that when I have been so bent on telling another where or what they are or must be in their Journey it is because I do not want to look into my own dark areas where these thoughts are arising from. I am transfering my own power to another to create something for me. A seeking for self worth and acceptance.

From immaturity moving into maturity. Taking responsibility for myself because I know myself as a Being of Love in nature and in turn extending Love to ones I meet along my way. Trusting that their way is leading them along in their Journey as mine is and that everything returns from the place from which it comes.

Awareness is seeing how it all fits together in the Grand Design. Creation, conservation and dissolution = Life's ongoing cycle.  

It is the personality-persona-ego in us that seeks to separate itself from others. Look at me! Look at me!! Tell me how good I am at this and that. It seeks outside references to validate itself as worthy. From this place all sorts of jealousies, envy and not good enough emotions arise from a competitiveness which sets one into the cycle of having to 'prove' oneself to another when seeing life from this view.

It's when I am able to accept myself in this moment as I am being in my way. I lived from the persona's way for many years until being aware of it in me and have been in the process of letting this way go for awhile.

The only person who knows what feels right for oneself is one self. And we live this way when we know who we are and live it authentically from the Heart. Meditation is what allows us to experience our connection to the All that Is Life.

Being passionate is a beautiful thing yet, while it may allow one to feel connected by feeling heaven on earth by the lit up feelings it also has the ability to blind.

May we be aware of our own blindspots and spend less time on telling another what we think 'their's' are emotionally.

Otherwise, someone is not taking their rightful place in the Universal Design, they are too busy 'trying' to take another's place by molding and shaping them according to their own ideas of how another 'should' live and be.

I highly InCourage and InPower all to share from their well as a Divine expression. May Love be the sound flowing from within.

Sharing with others allows us to increase our view of this life and world by seeing the diversity of the Universe.

Service to others as Adrian has shared over and over again, comes from the idea that you are not losing anything. Your hands, Heart and Mind are open. To share with all, without prejudice by extending Love and not by barring it. As Talker shares, perhaps the only thing in life is to be kind to others.

My presence here, in Facebook and especially in my immediate orbit with the ones I live with daily is Being Love's 'body' to another, by touching authentic self within as I see through the Light of Love's eyes ongoingly.

As always, I speak for myself Being in first person.

To disagree, it's part of this experience. To tear another down in disagreeing reveals the Heart of the one doing so.

I 'personally' have found that Authentic Love edifies and all the ones I have met along my way who exhibit this Love are ones who have called upon a Higher Mind to tap into this Love and this Love changes the way a person lives.

Holy Spirit for me in my 'dialect' is One Spirit -Wholeness.

Love is intended here and may the seeds fall where they may and grow in extending this Love.

I release Blessings of Love's Peace,

To our Highest Good and outcome always,


Julia cool







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« Reply #363 on: June 22, 2010, 15:50:37 »

It's okay Dear Friend,

You are allowed to evolve. Your work has been so extensive, thorough, selfless... and MASSIVE. Come in from the battle and rest... be what feels natural to you in every moment, and be where it feels natural to you to be in every moment, and dont feel the obliging energy of living up to every word that has flowed through you from the spirit... you are the messenger. Sometimes your words are for others... if a messenger delivered the word to build a car with instructions to the mechanic, the messenger is expected to be a builder of cars any more than the car builder is expected to run messages... You flow, you breath, and the spirit gives utterance... that is all you are responsible for flowing in every minute, even when the person you are ministering to is YOU. Its okay.

Great Love to you Julia, you are a powerful warrior present with us, or present with someone else or alone, or the same ole Julia you have always been, or a new Julia who is looking at life from a different vantage point now... whatever, it is okay. You give freely with no obligatory energy... there are no oppressing ties that bind you to anything in any moment. Just "BE" we love you.

"K".
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« Reply #364 on: June 22, 2010, 15:57:10 »

I guess Im like you... I come into things... I back out of things... I make my presence known and felt as long as it seems right to me... then I go as easily as I come, and I dont apologize for it... because I have a right to be me in every moment, and the words I give through the spirit are only words given through the spirit for whatever purpose the spirit see's fit... when they are given my job is done... even my personal character sometimes paints a picture of dichotomy... and you know what? That picture is important for some reason... I entertain no moral dilemmas even when my own self doesn't live up to my words: I just "am". Thats okay.
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« Reply #365 on: June 22, 2010, 17:18:09 »

Hello All, smiley

A warm welcome to all the new members posting in this forum. Leo, Matrix and Nikos. smiley

I am in the process of change in my life and have been online alot less for right now. I do come in and view the recent posts here and in Facebook and am not participating as much.

This forum as I have said many times and still feel this way, is a wonderful place to experience and evolve. It's an iron sharpening iron opportunity to get to the Heart of one's authenticity by letting go of the attachments based on seeing ourself only as our self-image, who we 'think' we are by trusting more in what another's opinions and behaviors are towards us as 'speaking' for ourselves.

I've been in this process of releasing for quite awhile and my moving is a part of this ongoing experience.


Letting go of alot in my life has made room-space leading into Silence allowing me to be in touch with Being myself authentically. I find that I have less 'time' to think about what another 'needs', to be 'spiritual' or a 'master of spirituality' and have found it to be more about being a Love Light in this world because this is Being who I am and this gives me a deep sense of peace and well-being.

If I focus on these things and transfering this upon another then I am not being in my rightful place that I am here to uphold as a part of this Universal experience.

I am not here to 'fix' or blame another and if I think that, then all it reveals is I am not seeing where this idea that I am broken and powerless lies within is. My thoughts are reflected upon what my Heart and Mind are agreed upon.

Honoring the self is experienced in Being, it's living from Spirit-Soul in me breathing within my skin. Honoring the self-image is to think I am the way others define me or see me according to what I give power to. Only I know the 'truth' within my being as you do.

I cannot be about my purpose here if I am focused on what I think someone else needs to do or be, that someone has to change for me to experience that all is right in this world. In all honesty, through the years of moving from this mindset, I have come to realize that when I have been so bent on telling another where or what they are or must be in their Journey it is because I do not want to look into my own dark areas where these thoughts are arising from. I am transfering my own power to another to create something for me. A seeking for self worth and acceptance.

From immaturity moving into maturity. Taking responsibility for myself because I know myself as a Being of Love in nature and in turn extending Love to ones I meet along my way. Trusting that their way is leading them along in their Journey as mine is and that everything returns from the place from which it comes.

Awareness is seeing how it all fits together in the Grand Design. Creation, conservation and dissolution = Life's ongoing cycle.  

It is the personality-persona-ego in us that seeks to separate itself from others. Look at me! Look at me!! Tell me how good I am at this and that. It seeks outside references to validate itself as worthy. From this place all sorts of jealousies, envy and not good enough emotions arise from a competitiveness which sets one into the cycle of having to 'prove' oneself to another when seeing life from this view.

It's when I am able to accept myself in this moment as I am being in my way. I lived from the persona's way for many years until being aware of it in me and have been in the process of letting this way go for awhile.

The only person who knows what feels right for oneself is one self. And we live this way when we know who we are and live it authentically from the Heart. Meditation is what allows us to experience our connection to the All that Is Life.

Being passionate is a beautiful thing yet, while it may allow one to feel connected by feeling heaven on earth by the lit up feelings it also has the ability to blind.

May we be aware of our own blindspots and spend less time on telling another what we think 'their's' are emotionally.

Otherwise, someone is not taking their rightful place in the Universal Design, they are too busy 'trying' to take another's place by molding and shaping them according to their own ideas of how another 'should' live and be.

I highly InCourage and InPower all to share from their well as a Divine expression. May Love be the sound flowing from within.

Sharing with others allows us to increase our view of this life and world by seeing the diversity of the Universe.

Service to others as Adrian has shared over and over again, comes from the idea that you are not losing anything. Your hands, Heart and Mind are open. To share with all, without prejudice by extending Love and not by barring it. As Talker shares, perhaps the only thing in life is to be kind to others.

My presence here, in Facebook and especially in my immediate orbit with the ones I live with daily is Being Love's 'body' to another, by touching authentic self within as I see through the Light of Love's eyes ongoingly.

As always, I speak for myself Being in first person.

To disagree, it's part of this experience. To tear another down in disagreeing reveals the Heart of the one doing so.

I 'personally' have found that Authentic Love edifies and all the ones I have met along my way who exhibit this Love are ones who have called upon a Higher Mind to tap into this Love and this Love changes the way a person lives.

Holy Spirit for me in my 'dialect' is One Spirit -Wholeness.

Love is intended here and may the seeds fall where they may and grow in extending this Love.


I release Blessings of Love's Peace,

To our Highest Good and outcome always,


Julia cool





Feeling with you deeply dear Julia

And love shall find its way...
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« Reply #366 on: July 16, 2010, 12:08:39 »

'When the student is ready, the teacher appears.' ~ Buddhist Proverb

I have kept this one tucked within throughout my Journey and its meaning rings clearer the more I live my life while walking in this world ...

The 'Master' who showed up in my life years ago led me through the church and then right back out of it. It took 16 years but in the scheme of things who's counting. It's the way it happened for me. Truth.

The purpose of a master in my life experience has been to show me through the process of removing the limited vision that there is more to see, that my (our) authentic state of being is about living from freedom and mobility, enabling us to go on being creative creators like our Source and multiply by understanding the cycles of life, that life continues on.

Describing it as shifts of my coordinates step by step, moving from once seeing myself as a serf to slowly stepping into the self I Am. Unwrapping The Presence always present in my (our) life as being my 'Higher Self', the Self I Am made in God's presence, the image that stands on tippy toes and presses her cheek against 'God's' and whispers her wondering's through her wanderings in God's ear while cocking my ear to hear the loving response. God responds to Its God made Child of whom we all are. God being a short form word for Giver of Life for All Life.

All this is going on underneath the currents while I am weaving my story and observing it and seeing more, when I am genuinely focused is when I sense I am moving closer and closer to home and can see the lights left on along the path that lead me into it. The light being in me as this was given to me as I was leaving home. All of us were given this light when we came out to walk about in this world ...

'Study nature as the countenance of God.' ~ Charles Kingsley

Life's manual as I have found Nature to be, keeps validating this to be so in my experience ... why? because even a child can understand life cycling around and around by actively participating and observing nature's life cycles while with an actively participating parent.

Positive affirmations are made null and void when we lose our focus of who we are. And focus is not a one specific doing of a thing only idea. It is a combination of sensing, hearing and following the directions of one's soul-voice all working together. This is why it is helpful to have a place to contain what you gather in the experiencing of these things. As in journaling, painting, writing, dancing and so on. We overlook these things because they seem too 'simple' and easy. They are the retrieved artifacts we gather along the way that show us the way to return home, we find these landmarks along the way that say we are heading in the right direction as they were the bread crumbs we dropped while heading away from home. Soul leaving signs and artifacts, mementos of what it experience it was having.

We do not need someone else to tell us how to be us and have an intimate relationship with our Source of Life. Mentors who are worth their weight in gold 'assist' by living with you as you go through life, overseeing and communing with the yet to be experienced ones by showing them how to recognize for one self how to understand the cycles of life so they can recognize the traps, cages and what is poisonous to the young soul and how to avoid them and gain skills to be able to move freely through them and not get stuck, entangled and possibly experience a death to the soul experience. Where one lays down and doesn't get back up. Like animals do with their young exampling how to be self sustaining in nature's garden.

A positive affirmation for one in a far removed from state of knowing one self is like applying oil to water. It doesn't stick, it slides right off and one then feels one is doomed to live a life of desperation of pointlessness. Soul crying out to be redeemed from its ankles being shackled and the river is rising and it is drowning in it. Soul feeling trapped in a cage or reeling from drinking poison. Being uninitiated it does not recognize what is life giving and what is not. I have shared about releasing the focus on the body ... why a dear friend asked in conversation recently ... and I sat in the rocker of my soul and just rocked, letting it sit and rest...

My recent sense to be absent from the topside world was due to my hearing the call to come inside and sit for awhile with the parent-spirit of my soul and at this place in my life, being stripped of almost all outer influences through the normal process of life's cycling in my life experience, I know when to do this and really listen now.

We must disconnect from the physical world in moments to be able to hear our Higher Self speaking or to feel It nurturing us. Nurturing and comforting are not the same things. They are as different as compassion is from sympathy.

Animals when they are threatened or aroused stand still instinctively. They step back and take it in, and do not make hasty choices or decisions.

When we have an over active ego, we tend to be instinct impaired (make rash decisions usually when in an emotional state) and this can be the cause of the ill affects we are experiencing in our life. The time to make healthy choices is not when we are in the midst of experiencing out of control emotions.

I have found that it is the ego that wears down and grows tired as it is the connector and creator of the physical world in my understanding. The spirit in me does not wear down, it is the keeper of the home fires, life in me, the source and giver of my souls life. When my ego-soul grows weary unless I leave my stuff behind and return to where I am from, I can become too much of something. Too tired, too cold, too deadened, too close to feeling an explosion and so on. This is from observing myself throughout the years and observing my patterns and then seeing this play out in others around me.

A process of understanding how to form the words coming from my heart and being able to see it as breath looks like upon the glass in the mirror. We experience moments when we don't see the breath forming upon the glass, an our breath has just about left us feeling in these moments ... take heart.

There is always a way to retrieve what rightfully belongs to each one of us and be home safe within our shells, healthy and actively alive and breathing. By being given insight and understanding through the life cycles of nature that is going on all around us we can know, we can see how to master the unrolling map of our Journey here and begin to experience Joy, Bliss and enjoy the view of the ride.

I felt to begin this thread of sharing the practical processes that can be applied by anyone to retrieve one's shoes (Soul), ones mobility and freedom to be on one's Life way again. Not to tell another what to do, only to share ways that ones can be active in maintaining ones creative soul life, to rekindle the light that seems to have gone out by all the dust that can blow over it and hide it, leaving one to feel abandoned, orphaned, walking as shoeless children on this earth. Souls who feel they have no home to go to, no parents to nurture them or care about or for them.

I am the girl who lost her handmade red shoes and retrieved them and I have come to tell my family all about this Journey from this place of Soul retrieval, to share the love to share the Presence that lingers when shadows are formed in lights fading.

A Journey of the Soul known as Julia. May this gift and bless another to tell their story as well ...

I may write more here or as Beloved Louis has InCouraged me to do, I may just write a book. Yes, Louis, lovingly said in returning. smiley

For now, I am on my way into this day and calling out ~

InJoy this day knowing Love is in your corner,

Namaste`

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« Reply #367 on: August 18, 2010, 13:36:06 »

Sharing from my Soul's Journey, again, my Soul's Journey ~ wink

As always and ever... take what speaks to you and leave the rest ~

http://www.you-nique-by-design.com/discerning-loves-many-fruits-in-relationships/

Blessings InLove's Well-Being, to our Ultimate Healing ~

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« Reply #368 on: August 27, 2010, 09:47:35 »

To InCourage and InPower you ~

Blessings InLove's Peace All ~

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August 27, 2010
By Liz Cronkhite

But I'm Not Feeling God!, revisited
 
(From March 27, 2007) 
 
"The Holy Spirit does not speak first, but He always answers. Everyone has called upon Him for help at one time or another and in one way or another, and has been answered. Since the Holy Spirit answers truly He answers for all time, which means that everyone has the answer now." (T:6.IV.3)
 
Often, students tell me that they are not feeling God's Presence in their life. Perhaps they think that they are not, because they have an expectation of the experience that is not being met by the actual experience. While a Revelation of God is profound, experiencing God in your life in the world - what is called the Holy Spirit - is not. It is far more subtle, and can be an ordinary, everyday experience. At first, it is often only recognized in retrospect. But, with conscious effort, you soon begin to feel the Presence around you all of the time.

You are Part of God, so of course you experience God. It is just that this experience is jumbled up with all of your ego experiences, and it takes a while to sort out what is God and what is ego. What I've learned is that those who feel God do so because they expect to. They simply trust that God is with them, so they discern God working in their lives. This brings them Peace and Comfort - the experience of God that they are seeking.
 
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. It is not necessary to seek for what is true, but it is necessary to seek for what is false." (T:16.IV.6)
 
For myself, I experienced an important shift many years ago when I was meditating and trying to reach God. Suddenly, I felt the Presence right here. I realized that I had always been reaching past God by trying to reach for God. Of course God is right here! I am always in God.

The physical world is neutral. You can choose to see all that is around you as part of God, part of a larger plan; or you can choose to see it as meaningless, and yourself as isolated. When you decide you want to remember that you are Part of God, then everything becomes a reflection of that; the means that the Holy Spirit in you can use to awaken you to your Self.

Feeling God is a choice. You have to consciously choose to "Be vigilant only for God and His Kingdom" (T-6.V.C.2), and not to sit passively by and wait for the experience to come. You are retraining your mind to think with the Holy Spirit when you are used to thinking with the ego. That takes conscious effort. But, because it is effort that is toward Truth rather than against It, the effort soon reaps rewards that motivate you and makes it easier.

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« Reply #369 on: September 04, 2010, 11:19:56 »

Synchronistic thoughts are flowing through ~ Love Vibrations ~ same idea, another perspective on the changes we are all experiencing together on Planet Earth ~

Shared to InPower and InCourage you all ~

Blessings InLove's Peace and Well-Being,

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September 3, 2010
Love Shows the Way
We Are Here to Serve

During times of great change it’s important to remember that we all chose to be here at this time to experience change.


We are living in a time of great change. Many thinkers and seers agree that humanity and the planet Earth are evolving at a quickened pace, and that this evolution will necessarily be severe and seemingly chaotic at times. It is natural for people to react with fear, because these changes will doubtless bring some level of difficulty and loss to many of us. However, it is essential that we all remember that our souls chose to be here at this time and to be part of this process. Every movement in the universe is a movement toward love. This is true even in situations that appear on the surface to be the opposite of loving.

Since we chose to be here, we are capable and ready to rise to the challenges in which we find ourselves. It is helpful to reflect on our own lives and make any changes necessary to fully support humanity and the planet into the state of love. When we open our hearts in love instead of closing them in fear, we serve the divine process. We are all powerful spirits who took form at this time in order to serve our fellow humans, our planet, and the universe. As we find ways we can serve, our fear dissipates. We may serve by remaining calm and loving with our children and our families, even as the situation seems dark. We may serve by sending money to people who need financial assistance. We may serve by going out into the world and actively helping to rebuild lives. Regardless of what actions we choose to take, the essential element will be the internal gesture of choosing to remain in love. This is all that is needed.

When it is difficult to remain in love, we may always call upon our unseen helpers: the teachers and guides who are always with us. All we need to do is ask and then trust that we are being helped. The guidance we receive is love itself, showing us the way.


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« Reply #370 on: September 18, 2010, 13:52:06 »


When it is difficult to remain in love, we may always call upon our unseen helpers: the teachers and guides who are always with us. All we need to do is ask and then trust that we are being helped. The guidance we receive is love itself, showing us the way. .



Vibing with you in great Unconditional Love Julia.


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« Reply #371 on: September 18, 2010, 14:00:45 »

Namasté Laura InLove ~ smiley
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« Reply #372 on: September 18, 2010, 14:26:45 »

Hello All ~ smiley

I realize that some of the articles and 'words' I have shared in the forums in moments may seem a bit controversial. I must say that the intention is not to 'convert' anyone to any particular way of faith, it is using the way I was led through to see through it, that leads to acceptance of all faiths leading to the same Source.

Truth is a word that raises the hairs on ones necks in moments, and I have observed it not only in this forum but in life in general as a participating Soul here on Planet Earth. What exactly is this Truth she speaks of may or may not be asked...

What I have been observing in my own life being brought up for review, not so I could rehash it in wondering this time, I have been seeing it in a very different way... this Truth I am speaking of well, it hasn't been so much about finding or seeking Truth for me I realize, it has been uncovering what hides it, and recognizing what hides it and releasing it so that Truth will be more clearly seen and understood. Releasing fear and choosing faith.

Underneath all of our seeming 'differences' which can become barriers to Truth, and willing to see and know the Truth beyond my own understanding as a participant here on Planet Earth. There is only One Source-God of All.

There is no name for it really. It Is to each one what It Is in this world. In this Presence, there is no identifying with a religious faith, it is identifying with the Source of All Good withIn each one of us here.

This Truth does not lead to separation but to Unification. Heading in the same direction and not so much looking at all the differences, but coming to an acceptance that underneath all the differences is the One Unifying Force of Life of all that is.

I am sharing this article yes, controversial one it is, only to allow those who grew up in a very religious background to take another look beyond the way it was presented and has been. This has been a very thorn in the side of many whether brought through the orthodox religions of the West or not ~

Keep what speaks to you and leave the rest.

To Freedom from fear, and to freewill that leads to Freedom, Peace is the indicator of which direction we are heading. Towards or away from Love which is Source.

In Peace extending the Highest Loving Thought towards All,

To Life!!

InJoy this day ~

Julia cool



Overcoming Jesus' Crucifixion, revisited
 (From April 17, 2007)
By Liz Cronkhite ~ ACIM Mentor
 

Long after I had accepted the ideas in A Course in Miracles, I still had a lingering fear that, if I totally gave my life to God, I would eventually be asked to suffer through something horrible, like Jesus' crucifixion. Even though I was not raised in any religion, the idea that God asks horrible sacrifice of those who serve Him best is so embedded in our culture, and so reinforced by ego, that it was not until fairly recently that I was able to overcome a superstitious feeling that I would be called upon to suffer. After many years of listening to and following the Holy Spirit, and learning that the Holy Spirit always gives me so much more than I am asked to give, I have finally accepted that God does not need me to suffer at all.

If it has taken so long for me, who had no formal religious training, to accept this, how much harder is it for students who come from a religious background? Still, some students tell me that they are grateful that "Jesus died for my sins" when the Course makes it clear that both death and sin are not real. These are ideas that need to be pulled out of us by the roots, or they bloom again and again.

"The only message of the crucifixion is that you can overcome the cross. Until then you are free to crucify yourself as often as you choose." (T:4.in.3)

The ego uses the crucifixion of Jesus to "prove" that God is so cruel that He had his own Son tortured and murdered. It also uses it to make you feel guilty - Jesus suffered and died for you. The Holy Spirit uses the extreme nature of Jesus' crucifixion to teach you how even something so horrible can be forgiven because it is not real. The crucifixion was overcome; it was forgiven. What can you not forgive?

Even if you do not believe that these things ever really happened, it is a very powerful symbolic story from either point of view that demonstrates the core lessons of the Holy Spirit or the ego. The Holy Spirit emphasizes the forgiving resurrection; the ego emphasizes the guilt-inducing crucifixion. It is important to look not just to your mind, but to your feelings when you examine what it is that you really believe. Ideas may bring you some relief from fear, but it is only through experiences that teach you that you are only asked to accept Love, not to sacrifice for It, that you will really be released.

"The journey to the cross should be the last 'useless journey'. Do not dwell upon it, but dismiss it as accomplished. If you can accept it as your own last useless journey, you are also free to join my resurrection." (T:4.in.3)

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« Reply #373 on: September 19, 2010, 23:24:39 »

This is perhaps the most intelligent presentation of the crucifixion I have read yet
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« Reply #374 on: September 20, 2010, 13:35:22 »

My pleasure to share it Irreverant Monk.  Thank you for sharing your Voice.

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