Archive for Clarity of mind
September 30, 2012 at 5:02 pm · Filed under Faith, Healing, Health, Hope, Inspiration, Life, Living, Meditation, Philosophy, Quotations, Quotes, Religion, Spirituality, Zen and tagged: attitude of silence, Clarity of mind, crystal clearness, disappointing God, Divine Guidance, following intuition, God, God chose you to be different, It's what one loves, listen to the soul, Love, Mahatma Gandhi, Paolo Coelho, quest after Truth, Quieting the mind, same as everyone else, Sappho, soul finds the path

My words to meditate on today:
“In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
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“You are someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that in my view is a serious illness. God chose you to be different. Why are you disappointing God with this kind of attitude?”
– Paolo Coelho
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“Some say an army of horsemen, or infantry, a fleet of ships is the fairest thing on the face of the black earth, but I say
It’s what one loves.”
– Sappho
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pic from Walking In Stillness
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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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September 20, 2012 at 9:03 am · Filed under Art, Christianity, Faith, Healing, Health, Hope, Inspiration, Life, Living, Meditation, Painting, Philosophy, Quotations, Quotes, Religion, Spirituality, Zen and tagged: "a ha" moment, Caspar David Friedrich, Clarity of mind, clarity of vision, Divine clarity, Enlightenment, flipping the switch, for what we could become, freedom and harmony, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Jack Kornfield, limitations of form, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, sacrifice what we are, the miracle from the faith, Wanderer above the sea of fog

“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.”
– Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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“When the stories of our life no longer bind us, we discover within them something greater. We discover that within the very limitations of form, of our maleness and femaleness, of our parenthood and our childhood, of gravity on the earth and the changing of the seasons, is the freedom and harmony we have sought for so long.”
– Jack Kornfield
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“Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith.”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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“Wanderer above the Sea of Fog” painting by Caspar David Friedrich
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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.
Southern California, Northern California, Mission Viejo, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Marin, San Jose, San Juan Capistrano, Santa Ana, Palm Springs, Long Beach