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We Are All Meant To Shine

September 24, 2015 at 9:27 am · Filed under Authors, Bible, Bible Verse, Christianity, Faith, God, Healing, Health, Hope, Inspiration, Life, Living, Love, Meditation, Philosophy, Quotations, Quotes, Religion, Spirituality, Theology, Zen

My words to meditate today … on the topic of taking action – stepping out and DOING whatever it that we feel called or created for:

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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

– Mark Twain

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“We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

– Marianne Williamson

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“And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.”

– Jesus

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– pic from knotty82

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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.

We all are loved by God, and NO religion or person has a monopoly on it. Every single person on this planet is loved equally by God … SO many are cut off from God because they are told they don’t belong. God loves everyone … we ALL are beautiful creations … we don’t need to cringe when we hear the words “God”, or “religion”, or their judgments … God LOVES us all!

There is no requirement to change in order to be LOVED by God, or to LOVE God. God is LOVE, and LOVE is God … period. There is no one who God loves more than anyone else … there are only those who choose to LOVE more … to love God more, and consequently then to love each other more. In doing so, we grow closer to God … and know God.

By opening our hearts, and minds to God (free of boundaries like religion, or social trends); by LOVING God … we are exactly where we are meant to be. If we maintain that openness, never allowing any person or event to make us close our hearts, we will be guided by God to be who we are meant to be.

In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.

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Cud Chewing Cattle

September 17, 2015 at 11:07 am · Filed under Spirituality

Very frequently the times in our lives where we feel stuck are due to an inability to see things through to their completion. Either we are unwilling, or we grow impatient, or we are simply frightened by the unknown results on the other side. The problem is that if we balk at seeing things through to their completion, we wind up being stuck … permanently.

An example from my own life: a couple of years ago I was prompted to forgive somebody … this person had greatly wronged me, so much so that I had held onto my resentment for decades. It wasn’t like I thought about it every single day, although for the first few years I certainly did. Over time this resentment grew into bitterness. That bitterness grew into anger and began to shape every aspect of my life. I didn’t realize this at the time of course … I had grown so accustomed to this way of life that it simply seemed normal. This is what I mean about being stuck … you go on for so long one way, that you can’t even imagine being free of it … you almost don’t want to be free of it.

So I did it … I forgave this great villain of my life in a very conscious meditation session. I literally felt the anger and bitterness and resentment melt out of me. I asked God to come and fill the void left by the anger that had been inside me. God did.

This initial forgiveness triggered a string of successive breakthroughs … each one requiring me to forgive someone new. This progression in my life lasted about a year, it literally took that long to forgive all of the people I had been holding resentments against … kind of mind-blowing really … and humbling.

If at any moment in this period of time I had decided to stop … to get off of this seemingly endless train of internal exploration and excavation … I would have been right back where I started: stuck.

Life would’ve kept on going, my body would’ve continued to age … but my soul would’ve been a refugee stranded in time.

Now I have been led to a new string of directives … and each step is every bit as important as the last one. To stop is to go back to a deadened, numb nerve … a minute fraction of my True Self. The same is true for all of us, we are all on this journey … whether we know it or not … we are simply at different places along the Path.

This is the importance of Completion. You can resist, and stay stuck … the cud chewing cattle at the side of the Path, refusing to move on. Or you can listen, and trust what Love would have you know … and GO!

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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.

In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.

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Despite All My Rage I Am Still Just …

September 16, 2015 at 7:47 am · Filed under Authors, Christianity, Entertainment, Faith, God, Healing, Health, Hope, Inspiration, Life, Living, Love, Meditation, Meditative Writings, Music, Musician, Philosophy, Quotations, Quotes, Religion, Singer, Songs, Spirituality, Zen and tagged: Addiction, being connected to God, being in a relationship with God, Belief, Billy Corgan, Dalai Lama, Mark Twain, Meditation, open-hearted, Smashing Pumpkins

My words to meditate on for today. Whatever the feeling, whether anger or fear or anything else, if it causes you to close your heart to Love … well, you will be making decisions for your life from a closed-hearted place. Nothing but heartbreak and pain comes from making decisions out of a closed heart. Peace and Love to you.

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“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”

– Mark Twain

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“When reason ends, then anger begins. Therefore, anger is a sign of weakness.”

– The Dalai Lama

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“Despite all my rage
I am still just a rat in the cage.”

– Billy Corgan

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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.

In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.

pic from Life-Enhancement

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The Only Dance There Is – Osho

September 14, 2015 at 12:41 pm · Filed under Authors, Faith, God, Healing, Health, Hope, Inspiration, Life, Living, Love, Meditation, Movies, Philosophy, Quotations, Quotes, Religion, Spirituality, Theology, Zen and tagged: body and soul, Dark and Light, duality, Gestalt, God and the world, Good and Bad, Lower and Higher, Oneness, Osho, The Center and the Cyclone, the center has to be found, through division you become schizophrenic, Yin Yang

This one will take some time to sink in, I think … my words to meditate on:

“There is no center to this cyclone, the cyclone is the center. We have a chronic habit of dividing things into two, we have a chronic habit of duality: God and the world, body and soul, the lower and the higher the good and bad. The habit persists. Now it is the center and the cyclone.

“Let me insist on it: the cyclone is the center and there is no other center to it. Once you understand this oneness of life then all tension, anxiety, anguish, disappears. The anxiety is created because you are always dividing. Through division you become split; through division you become schizophrenic. Now you think that you are on the circumference – the cyclone – and the center has been lost, so now the center has to be found.

“It is the old habit of duality. The “center and the cyclone” is a new language, but this habit is very old, the gestalt is very old. It is always that wherever you are you are not right, you should be somewhere else.

“My whole emphasis is that whatsoever is, is right. There is no other right. There is nowhere to go. This is the only life there is, the only dance there is. Only then you can be spontaneous, really spontaneous.”

– Osho

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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.

In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.

pic from Imgur

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Be Grateful – Oprah Winfrey

September 12, 2015 at 1:38 pm · Filed under Authors, Christianity, Entertainment, Faith, God, Healing, Health, Hope, Inspiration, Life, Living, Love, Meditation, Philosophy, Quotations, Quotes, Zen and tagged: Generated way of being, Gratitude, Higher Perspective, karma, Manifestation, Manifesting what your focus on, Oprah, Perspective

My words to meditate on today:

“Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.”

– Oprah Winfrey

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Picture taken from Oprah.com

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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.

In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.

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Let Go

September 11, 2015 at 11:49 am · Filed under Christianity, Creativity, Entertainment, Faith, God, Healing, Health, Hope, Inspiration, Life, Living, Love, Meditation, Meditative Writings, Music, Musician, Philosophy, Politics, Quotations, Quotes, Religion, Singer, Songs, Spirituality, Theology, Zen and tagged: accepting, Allowing life to unfold, c'est la vie, following divine guidance, Frou Frou, Let Go, whatever will be

In my meditations today (on my prior post, “Free From Misery“) I went through all my usual rituals: grounding myself, bringing the energy of God’s Creation within, making amends for any negativity I brought into the world, and proclaiming my LOVE to and for God. Time went by and I continued to run Love through my energy centers … and finally I heard something,

“WHY SO SERIOUS? JUST LET GO … BE HAPPY.”

I smiled, and had to laugh at myself a bit … I do tend to constantly be searching for the next breakthrough. I suppose breakthroughs themselves can become addictive … I have had so MANY of them this past year. For a while I eagerly sought after breakthroughs because I just wanted to get through them … so that they’d be OVER and I could finally ARRIVE at wherever God wanted me to be.

Now, I realize that I really am just at the beginning. I don’t seek after the breakthroughs so that they will just be over any more … now I embrace the breakthrough because each one brings me that much closer to God … and the closer I get, the closer I want to get.

What I felt God telling me is that there is no need to try and rush things. In choosing to follow the path that is prompted by God, I am following God’s timing anyway. My pressing things isn’t going to make God change pace. I felt a release within … smiled … opened my heart … and just allowed joyful, happy energy to fill me.

So I did a search on the words I felt God give me today … and within a few minutes, I ended up enjoying this song. It actually is a nice song to meditate to … I could put it on a loop and have a very nice extended meditation … perhaps that is what I shall do now ;-).

Let go … be happy … fill yourself with God’s love … and laugh a little … no … laugh a lot! 🙂

Let Go – Frou Frou

Mmm are you in or out
Leave your things behind
‘Cause it’s all going off without you
Excuse me
Too busy
Oh, writing your tragedy
These mishaps
You bubble wrap
When you’ve no idea what you’re like

(So let go) so let go
Jump in
Oh well whatcha waiting for
It’s all right
‘Cause there’s beauty in the breakdown
(So let go) let go
Just get in
Oh it’s so amazing here
It’s all right
‘Cause there’s beauty in the breakdown

It gains the more you give
And it rises with the fall
So hand me that remote
Can’t you see that all that stuff’s a sideshow
Such boundless pleasure
We’ve no time for later now
You can’t await your own arrival
You’ve twenty seconds to comply

(So let go) so let go
Jump in
Oh well whatcha waiting for
It’s all right
‘Cause there’s beauty in the breakdown
(So let go) yeah let go
Just get in
Oh it’s so amazing here
It’s all right
‘Cause there’s beauty in the breakdown
‘Cause there’s beauty in the breakdown

So let go
Jump in
Oh well whatcha waiting for
It’s all right
‘Cause there’s beauty in the breakdown
So let go
Jump in
Oh well whatcha waiting for
It’s all right
‘Cause there’s beauty in the breakdown

Mmm the breakdown
‘Cause there’s beauty in the breakdown
Hey, the breakdown
So amazing, yeah
‘Cause there’s beauty in the breakdown.

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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.

In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.

re-blogged from – Let Go – Frou Frou

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The Elusiveness Of Being Happy

September 10, 2015 at 12:30 pm · Filed under Christianity, Faith, God, Healing, Health, Hope, Inspiration, Life, Living, Love, Meditation, Meditative Writings, Philosophy, Religion, Spirituality, Zen and tagged: Addiction, change, connecting to God, inner work, Open heart

There really is no one else out there … not one person … who will be the answer to your personal happiness.

Your personal happiness must come from you first … and then from there you can find someone to share that happiness and Love with. It doesn’t work the other way around and yet for millions of people in this world THAT is how they go about trying to attain happiness.

You can make a family and then strive for success, you can strive for success and then make a family when that comes along, you can follow your own personal dreams and just take what’s given to you … or any other prescribed formula. If you don’t have happiness within you already … none of those ventures will succeed in bringing happiness to you.

Ultimately, all of these knee jerk reactions toward trying to engineer life into our own personal happiness machine … will simply fail, and you will be left empty, unhappy, and back down at the ground zero of trying to figure out what next venture will be the answer.

The answer is waiting for you … but you won’t find it out there. The only place you will find it; the “answer”, happiness, inner peace, the meaning of life, oneness with God, whatever anyone wants to call it … is by taking the time to go within yourself.

Take the time to work through all of the chaotic crap storm that your inner self has become. You must discover and endure what may very well seem like a soul-rending, inner apocalypse … and come out the other side having learned to keep your heart open through all of it. To do that you have to consciously make yourself be still … meditate, pray, communicate with your Creator, and allow what comes up internally to be … just allow it, accept it, work through it with an open heart, and let it go.

When you have learned to never close your heart, to never shut that inner part of you down, no matter what? Then you will move forward into a new life, and you will discover that happiness simply comes as a result of being open … all the time. Allowing God to flow into and out of you … a constant conduit.

When your heart is open, you really can’t give anything but Love … anything other than Love will close your heart down, even if it is just for a split second. If you judge someone else, your heart closes. If you lie, that door slams shut. Anger stacks up like bricks of an oven; encasing you inside of your closed-off, roasting inferno of a heart. All of these things, and many more, must be worked through, broken down, and released to get to that wide-open expanse of a field that is Love.

It takes time, and along that road there will be times that you revert to your old ways … you close your heart, but as long as you are aware of it … you can just open it again. It’s that easy … or at least, it becomes that easy. It’s harder than any imagined Hades to get to that point … but it is SO worth it … because then? You get to spend the rest of your life being centered in Happiness and Love. Your exterior life simply becomes a series of tests for you to overcome in terms of keeping your heart open … and as long as you do, you will be happy.

That is Heaven. That is Valhalla, Nirvana, and Enlightenment all rolled into one. When you leave this shell of a body? That is what you will be left with … either Heaven or Hell … they are simply the state of your soul sans body; the state of your relationship with God … and thus we really do have Heaven and Hell right here on Earth … it’s called your life, and how you have chosen to live it.

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– pic by photon tamer.

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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.

In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.

re-blogged from “The Elusiveness Of Being Happy“

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Blissful Happiness Ensues

September 8, 2015 at 10:12 am · Filed under Christianity, Faith, God, Healing, Health, Hope, Inspiration, Life, Living, Love, Meditation, Meditative Writings, Philosophy, Religion, Zen and tagged: connecting to God, Grounding technique, letting go of stress, open-hearted

Allowing other people, or events, to negatively affect our own actions is one of the greatest day-to-day challenges we face. If you already have an open hearted, centered relationship with God these circumstances are merely bumps in the road … they can still be dangerous, however, if we are not careful to reestablish that connection each and every time.

For those who are struggling to understand and achieve a place of centeredness … life can be quite literally a minefield. Every step could lead to a potential explosion. Each day is spent reeling and hurtling from one concussive explosion to another. In such a place, every day is frightening … and the idea of being centered, or openhearted, is as foreign and ridiculous as a human being flapping their arms and flying off into the horizon.

I implore those of you feel that you are trapped in such a scenario to consider the idea that finding peace is not quite that ludicrous … it is possible.

For myself, I employ a simple grounding technique to filter outside energies. I have always been fairly sensitive and find myself picking up other people’s energy all day, every day … so I am literally doing this exercise many times a day. It has become rote for me … so habitual that I don’t consciously realize I am doing it sometimes.

I envision a series of roots extending into the earth. The earth is God’s creation; a precious gift that is full of energy. I allow this gift of energy that God has given us to fill my space. Whatever energy is not mine, but rather is the energy of some intruding force (stuff someone else is sending my way, for example), I allow it to float away like the spores of a dandelion. I then concentrate on allowing that space to be filled with God’s Love.

Once this has been completed, I focus on opening my heart again, and I allow that loving energy to flow out of me.

When you are caught up in a state of reacting to the negative energies around you, you are living with your heart closed. You can feel it if you pay attention … let’s say, for instance, you are blissfully daydreaming of something wonderful. For that brief moment … you are happy. Then something happens … someone confronts you, a car cuts in front of you, etc. … when that happens, just take notice of the way you reacted. Your heart was WIDE open, and then suddenly the door to your heart was defensively slammed shut!

The ultimate goal is to get to the point where we never close our hearts to God … for anything. When we do though, and it happens to the best of us, I find that the grounding exercise I described above helps me to find a place of being centered so that I can open my heart. That is where Love is … and where Love is … blissful happiness ensues.

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This post was written after meditating upon my prior post, “Why are people so afraid“. Pic frompeevish mama.

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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.

In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.

re-blogged from: Blissful Happiness Ensues

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Eye of the Storm

September 7, 2015 at 10:19 am · Filed under Authors, Christianity, Faith, God, Healing, Health, Hope, Inspiration, Life, Living, Love, Meditation, Philosophy, Quotations, Quotes, Religion, Spirituality, Zen and tagged: 'God is in my heart, I am in the heart of God, Kahlil Gibran, Ramana Maharshi, Saint Augustine

My words to meditate upon today are with the forethought of staying in the center of one’s being throughout any period of change, or turmoil … preparing for these things by knowing your True Self, and connecting with God on that level … and then trusting, and allowing, God to guide you through whatever may come.

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“As in the night when the sun is not present, one sees the light in the moon, the man who is not present in the heart, sees merely the mind.”

– Ramana Maharshi

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“Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.”

– Saint Augustine

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When you love you should not say, ‘God is in my heart,’ but rather, ‘I am in the heart of God.’ And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

– Kahlil Gibran

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pic by Andrew Bisset

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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.

In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.

re-blogged from: Eye of the Storm

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A Treacherous Path

September 6, 2015 at 11:50 am · Filed under Christianity, Faith, Healing, Health, Hope, Inspiration, Life, Living, Love, Meditation, Meditative Writings, Philosophy, Quotations, Quotes, Religion, Spirituality, Theology, Zen and tagged: hopelessness, Overcoming, overcoming depression, suicidal tendencies

Fear of Failure … that recurring event that most frequently is far worse than the actual event you feared. For many, myself included, fear of failure has proven to be a crippling and suffocating force with anaconda-like strength … crushing our wills while making our heart pound, pulse race, and each breath turn shallow and ragged.

Fear of Failure finds its roots in several sources. The social aspect of it is that we care SO desperately what everyone around us thinks of us … whether they approve of us … that we devote our entire lives to this endless exercise in futility. Secondly, on the inner level … we have been trained by a lifetime of events to actually believe the worst of ourselves. When you combine a lack of belief in oneself with an obsessive need for other’s acceptance?? The results range from depression, to social disorders, to ruined homes and families, and even suicide.

Sometimes it seems like there is no end in sight … that the future holds no hope … so why even exert the effort it would take to be successful, when you are only going to be slapped down again?

The answer that I have found is to unplug myself from those sources, and re-plug those energy conduits into Love … into God. I do this on a meditative level, and visualize this process accordingly. It takes conscious work to re-train your brain … and even more to re-train the reactive impulses that have come to seem completely natural to you.

In my own life, overcoming this crippling condition began with inner work … creating a place inside of me that I enjoyed being … a place where I loved to be and could reside in quietude; away from my fears and simply at one with God. Over time this activity began to have physical manifestations. Suddenly you don’t care quite as much about whether somebody else will reject you, because you find SO much contentment in that beautiful inner world that you share with your Creator.

Once you arrive at that place, then you can begin the work of re-training your habits in how you live life, in your relationships, and ultimately in the things you fear most as well. You get to the point where you don’t even need to TRY to overcome those fears … because you simply won’t care about them any more. You will be happy with who you are, and what other’s think or say simply won’t matter any more … because those places will be being filled with fulfilling, unconditional LOVE from the ultimate source.

It’s a long journey and process … but just start with creating a conscious inner space where you give and receive Love … where you commune with God. If you can do that each and every day … eventually, God will lead you out of the suffocating maelstrom of failure, and the fear of failure.

Do not despair, you are Loved.

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This post was based on meditating on my prior post, “Julia’s Wisdom“. Pic by Lev Tsimring.

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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.

In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.

re-blogged from: A Treacherous Path

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Risking all to be oneself

September 5, 2015 at 12:02 pm · Filed under Authors, Christianity, Faith, Healing, Health, Hope, Inspiration, Life, Living, Love, Meditation, Meditative Writings, Philosophy, Quotations, Quotes, Religion, Spirituality, Theology, Zen

My words to contemplate in meditation today:

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“You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.”

– William Somerset Maugham

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“Sometimes, what’s right is not peaceful or passive. What matters is that you do not hide from the consequences. You bear what must be borne.”

– Orson Scott Card

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“Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that’s what maturity is all about.”

– Osho

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pic from US Department of the Interior

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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.

In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.

re-blogged from: Risking all to be oneself

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What the flower within me would look like

September 3, 2015 at 11:29 pm · Filed under Christianity, Creativity, Entertainment, Faith, Healing, Health, Hope, Inspiration, Life, Living, Love, Meditation, Meditative Writings, Philosophy, Religion, Spirituality, Theology, Zen

It is impossible to discern what it is that God has in store for us, which is why so few actually attempt to walk such a path. It seems SO much safer (and more rational to our limited minds) to plan everything out, and plot our course accordingly.

The primary problem is that we don’t really know what will actually make us happy. We think we know, but such deductions are invariably influenced by our own insecurities, our past experiences both good and bad, and whatever upbringing we have been personally saddled with. So we plot our course and devote every ounce of energy to the journey of making it happen … making our dreams come true. When we get there, however, we find that there is something within still wanting … that aching, hollow void begging to be filled.

The second problem, which is even more daunting than the first problem, is that we have no clue what the future will hold … NONE. So not only do we not know what the future will hold, we don’t really know what will actually make us happy even if we could somehow fathom the great mysteries of the future.

When you think about it, it starts to seem fairly ludicrous that anyone would think that they could figure out the path to their own happiness. Yet that is what we do; all of us for at least parts of our lives, and many of us for ALL of our lives.

So what does it mean to allow God to guide us on our own personalized path to happiness??

First, you have to learn how to stop all the busyness; to quiet your mind … and then listen. When you’ve gotten to a place where this feels quite natural … it means you are ready to start walking that path.

Secondly, you have to be willing to trust; to follow the promptings that might not make sense to you at the time … but that your intuition KNOWS to be Divine. These promptings could be about inner work that needs to be done, or outer actions that you feel prompted to enact.

Most importantly, everything you do MUST be based in Love. If it is not, then it is a prompting from something other than God.

A year ago, if you would’ve asked me what would make me happy, I could have given you a list of what that happiness would require. Six months ago you could have asked me the same question and I would’ve given you another list … a very different list, but one that I felt equally sure of.

Today … I don’t have a list anymore. Virtually none of the things on those two lists have happened … and yet God has fulfilled me more completely than I could ever have imagined! I couldn’t even have written a list for the things within me that are now being fulfilled … I was but a bud, without a clue what the flower within me would look like.

Sheer Bliss, overwhelming Love, and pure Joy … radiating out into the Universe. That is the path that God would put you on … if you only take the time to learn how to listen.

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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.

In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.

re-blogged from: What the flower within me would look like

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The Hardest Part (TRUST) …

September 3, 2015 at 11:44 am · Filed under Christianity, Diet, Faith, Healing, Health, Hope, Inspiration, Life, Living, Love, Meditation, Meditative Writings, Music, Musician, Philosophy, Poetry, Quotations, Quotes, Religion, Singer, Songs, Spirituality, Theology, Zen and tagged: Chris Martin, Coldplay, divine purpose, Faith, higher power, overcoming difficulty, que sera, stress, walking the path, What will be will be

The hardest part

is simply waiting …

wondering what will be

and knowing that to do

anything

alters the landscape of your life

forever.

That’s what it is really,

TRUST,

it’s all about waiting:

mind-numbing, scream-at-the-ceiling,

clench-your-fist-’til-your-palm-bleeds

waiting.

What is the point?

Well, here’s the thing …

only God knows what is best for our lives,

and only God knows when, where, and how

that will all unfold.

So your heart may be breaking for loving too much,

or someone you love is suffering unbearably,

or you’ve lost everything you ever owned …

the trials of Job.

But …

if you take things into your own hands;

try to make everything be

what you want it to be?

Then you will never get

to where God wants you to be.

Every proverbial flailing arm

sends you falling

farther than you ever would have fallen

if you had just waited …

and trusted.

THAT

is the hardest part.

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“The Hardest Part” is a song by Coldplay.

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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.

In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.

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re-blogged from The Hardest Part (TRUST) …

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Become The Sky – Rumi

September 2, 2015 at 8:42 am · Filed under Authors, Christianity, Creativity, Faith, Healing, Health, Hope, Inspiration, Life, Living, Love, Meditation, Meditative Writings, Philosophy, Poetry, Quotations, Quotes, Religion, Spirituality, Zen and tagged: Addiction, Art, Belief, change, Energy, Faith, inner work, Rumi, spiritual exploration

Here are my words to meditate upon today:

“Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape.”

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”

“All religions, all this singing, one song. The differences are just illusion and vanity. The sun’s light looks a little different on this wall than it does on that wall, and a lot different on this other one, but it’s still one light.”

– Rumi

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Religion4All is an idea: that every human being (no matter their race, religion, sexuality, social status, lifestyle, or any other possible factor) is LOVED by God; just … as … they are.

In that space of openness we can then live a life of LOVE, and be guided to where we are meant to be … forever in LOVE.

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Consequence of Sin

September 1, 2015 at 1:59 pm · Filed under Spirituality

A nice poem to revisit …

Religion4All

Consequence of Sin

By: Religion4All

So much to do

to undo

the deeds

already done.

So many words

to unsay

or wish

it could be that way.

I’m a zen-like

trancing monk

who lets you

pierce my shield.

Opening

that fragile bloom

you always wish

you knew.

Here’s my body

please partake

with an ounce of blood

your thirst slake.

Here’s my soul

ephemeral

a mixed elixir

and now your full.

My arms are open wide.

My heart just sits there throbbing.

My crown unfurls anew;

a sacral fountain bubbling …

… and no matter what you take

I’m filled again within.

Resting on this cloud-like stasis

assuming consequence of sin.

My cheeks are flushed and full

I’m turning back and forth for

your blows.

But no matter what you send

I will not let my heart

close.

Peace be with you.

I love you,

and that is all

I…

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Let Go

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Blissful Happiness Ensues

Eye of the Storm

A Treacherous Path

Risking all to be oneself

What the flower within me would look like

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