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Location: United Kingdom | The Tale Of The Brick
One day, a successful young business man was travelling down one of his neighbourhood streets. He was the proud owner of a new sports car and was going too fast. In the distance he saw some children playing between the cars parked on either side of the road. Slowing down, he could see no children nearby, but suddenly a brick flew through the air and crashed into the side of his beloved new toy. Slamming on the brakes, he reversed to the spot from which he thought the brick had been thrown.
Angrily, he jumped onto the pavement and grabbed hold of a boy who was standing there. Pushing him against the car, the man shouted: ‘What was that all about and who are you? Just what do you think you are doing? This is a brand new car and the repair of the damage your brick has caused is going to cost me lots of money. Why did you do it?’
The boy was most apologetic and pleaded: ‘I’m so sorry, mister. I just didn’t know what else to do. I threw the brick because no-one would stop and help me.’ With tears rolling down his face and dripping off his chin, he pointed to a spot just beyond a parked car. ‘I did it for my brother,’ he said. ‘He rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair. On my own I’m not strong enough to lift him.’ Sobbing loudly by now, the boy asked the man: ‘Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He’s hurt and far too heavy for me on my own.’
Moved beyond words, the man swallowed the rapidly swelling lump in his throat. Together they hurried to the wheelchair and lifted the handicapped boy back into it. Using his fine linen handkerchief, the man dabbed at the invalid’s cuts and bruises, but he could see that everything would be fine.
‘Thank you and may God bless you,’ the boy in charge of the wheelchair gratefully said to the stranger. Too shaken for words, the man could do nothing but nod his head and watch the boy pushing his brother home. Deep in thought and very slowly he walked back to his car. Although the damage was very noticeable, he never bothered to have the dent repaired. He kept it as a constant reminder of: ‘Don’t go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention!’
Our Creator, the Great Father/Mother of all life, is alive in all of us. It is the small still voice of conscience that communicates with us through the world of our feelings and whispers in our hearts. For each one of us there are times when life appears to bombard us with one brick after another. This is likely to continue until we finally slow down and start to pay attention to the lessons we have come to learn in our present lifetime and the messages the Universe is constantly trying to give us. Eventually every soul re-awakens to its true nature and begins to realise which things are truly important for us as God’s children of the Earth, and finds a set of eternal values.
We are all loved just the way we are. The living proof of this is that the Universe at all times showers us with its gifts, like food to eat and clothes to wear, flowers in spring and a new sunrise every morning. The only thing we have to do is take possession of, enjoy and be thankful for everything that is on offer. All the Universe expects from us each one of us is that we should make an effort to learn something from all our experiences, so that we may evolve and grow in wisdom and understanding of ourselves, each other and our world.
When we freely and voluntarily and with a loving heart give of ourselves and use the special talents the Highest has bestowed upon us, which may have taken many lifetimes to develop, we do our share of making our world into a better, more beautiful, harmonious and peaceful world for all. This is how our worthiness of being called a son/daughter of God reveals itself to the wise ones in charge of us.
The Great White Spirit, Father/Mother of all life, never promised us that all humankind’s days should be without pain, and that we should have laughter without sorrow and sunshine without rain. What S/He can and does give us is strength for each passing day, comfort for our tears and light for our way. Furthermore it gives an eternal assurance that each time one of us has to endure the most bitter and painful life lessons of their lives, the wise ones in the world of light, the Angels and Masters, guides, friends and helpers will always be there to accompany us and guide us safely through them.
Edited by Aquarius 2/18/2016 7:24 AM
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Location: United Kingdom | How right you are, dear Ophiucus. Yet, some things are more so than others, don't you think?
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| Everything is as it is, and if it were not, it would not be so
..... was it Miranda in The Tempest whom Shakespeare had say:
'Everything is for the best, in this, the best possible of all worlds' ... [that quote may not be exactly right]?
... although to which, Groucho Marx might have said
"And who is she kidding?" [but I made that link all up]
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Location: United Kingdom | 'It's a good one. Write it down,' as one of our comedians used to say. Sorry, can't recall his name. * * *
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Location: United Kingdom | White Eagle On Trust
‘God’s plan is perfect. Why then do you allow yourself to become so anxious and worried? Nothing happens by chance, everything is ordered by Divine law. When one ‘sins’ or rather breaks spiritual law, the result is always put to good use by the Divine laws. This is how God and the Angels are constantly repairing and healing individual souls and those of the nations. And though it may seem to you that certain things happen perchance, in fact everything works together according to the Divine will. Always remember this and when you have done your best with the material that is available to you, surrender the rest to the Divine love and perfect law.’
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Location: United Kingdom | I Can See Clearly Now
For far too long the fog and mists of false beliefs, prejudices and superstitions about God’s true nature and our own, and of the purpose and meaning of our earthly existence have been clouding humankind’s vision and understanding. The spiritual wisdom and knowledge that is flowing ever more powerfully directly from the Highest levels of life into the consciousness of our world are clearing them away. And an ever more beautiful picture emerges of the bright and sunny future that indeed lies ahead of us and our world. That’s why there is every reason for our hearts and souls to rejoice and sing:
I can see clearly now, the rain has gone.
I can see all obstacles in my way.
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind
It’s gonna be a bright, bright Sun-shiny day.
I think I can make it now, the pain is gone.
All of the bad feelings have disappeared.
Here is the rainbow I’ve been praying for.
It’s gonna be a bright, bright Sun-shiny day.
Look all around, there’s nothing but blue skies.
Look straight ahead, nothing but blue.
I can see clearly now, the rain has gone,
I can see all obstacles in my way
Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind.
It’s gonna be a bright, bright Sun-shiny day.
Johnny Nash
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Location: United Kingdom | About Time
Refuse to think of time in the earthly sense. Consider only the timelessness of Eternity and look at life from the viewpoint of your Highest immortal self, Me. Know that everything that happens in your world rests safely in My hands and is part of the Great Plan of spiritualisation and bringing forth the self-realisation that enables you to recognise yourself as part of Me and Me as part of you – that in fact you yourselves are God. This process involves you as individuals as much as your planet. Fields of exploration and adventures await you that so far lie beyond the reach of your wildest dreams. Rest assured that everything will be for your highest good and greatest joy. Good is the ultimate goal of all life. True and lasting happiness and great miracles and wonders are in store for each one of you in the conscious reunion with Me and the returning home into My loving embrace.
Your planet is the only place where the concept of time exists. In truth it is always now. There is no tomorrow and no yesterday. They are merely ideas that had to be created especially for your world, to assist you with setting boundaries and giving structure and shape to your earthly sojourns. Know that you are in Eternity and that Eternity is now, that attitude is everything and that there is no need for you to worry about tomorrow. All you will ever have is your present moment and every new one of them will always bring fresh learning opportunities for those who are ready to take advantage of them. Let tomorrow take care of itself. If they so wish, let others worry about it but refuse to join them.
Because on the inner level of life all is one, when one of you changes their attitudes and thinking patterns, everybody else changes with them. If you are familiar with spreadsheets, think of humankind and your whole world as a gigantic one of these. Now, change one figure – imagine that this figure is you – and watch the effect rippling through all the others – the rest of humankind and everything else in your world. See how they too are all changing – it’s pure magic! The world you are inhabiting is a wondrous place. Alas, to unaware souls who are as yet unable to look beyond the ends of their noses and below life’s surface to perceive how I, the living spirit, am at work throughout all life, the insecurity of Earth life can be very frightening.
Rest assured that nothing can manifest itself in your environment unless it has first happened on the inner level of life. As a result, each time one of you consciously changes their inner perception and attitude towards life, your whole world follows suit. And when you save and redeem yourself in thoughts, words and actions, your world is saved and redeemed with you. So, go your way with your eyes wide open and be alive by taking an active interest in what surrounds you. Your intelligence is part of and one with Mine. Use it for good purposes only and strive to make your world a better place through bringing a renewed understanding of the true purpose and meaning of your earthly existence to as many as you can. Share the knowledge you find to help ignite the Divine spark in people’s hearts and souls, and the small still flame of spiritual understanding comes alive in them and renews their faith and trust in Me, your Creator, and the goodness of the life I have prepared for each one of you.
Assist the people you meet to become aware that in truth there is no yesterday or tomorrow, only this glorious moment of here and now, and that every moment of their lives is part of Eternity and precious. All who at any given time are dwelling on the Earth plane are aspiring to become a lightbringer and healer, who in the fullness of time can be used as a channel through which My wisdom and truth, the macrocosm, flows ever more forcefully into the consciousness of your race, the microcosm. Know that the power of creation is in you and that imagination is the source of all creation. Use yours to create the ideal world of your dreams where all live together in peace and harmony, and where warmongering, sickness and death are no longer known. By thinking about this often, you call it into being. And when you meditate and reflect upon it, through your inner guidance I will show you how you can do your share of bringing your new world about.
Rejoice in your oneness with Me and experience the elation of acting as a true child of Mine by assisting others to become aware that they also are the daughters and sons of My eternal spirit. In the name of love I ask this of each one of you.
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Location: United Kingdom | Plea To My Spirit And Soul 
Oh, my spirit and soul,
Where are you and what are you made of?
Being invisible and incomprehensible,
Do you belong to the Divine part of me?
Whenever my eyes gaze upon
The beauty and wonder of God’s Creation
And I feel the loving embrace of the Sun,
I am in touch with you.
My inner ears listen and
There’s no doubt in my mind
That you are there.
Although my earthly eyes
Still fail to see you,
There’s no doubt in my heart.
Intangible as you are,
You are not understood by the masses.
You can neither be weighed nor measured,
But when I close my eyes in disgust over something
Or when I am frightened and cover my ears,
Deep within I feel your presence and reassurance
That guides and protects me,
By day and by night.
Only a fool would deny your existence.
And yet, to this day many choose
To ignore your callings that come to
Us earthlings from deep within
The very core of our own being.
If only you could be seen and heard
And were shouting, at least sometimes,
As a loud voice in the marketplace,
People would listen to your pleas
And do their best to bring a more peaceful
World into being by becoming
More peaceful, kind and loving themselves.
Oh, my spirit and soul . . .
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Location: United Kingdom | Doing The Right Things
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centred.
You don’t have to like them, but love them anyway!
They are all part of your spiritual family.
They are part of you and you are part of them.
They may not yet know it, but you being wiser,
Love them anyway!
People may project their own ulterior motives onto you,
And accuse you of having them.
Rest safe in the knowledge that the Universe
Knows their hearts as well as yours.
Do good anyway!
If being successful means that we can only win
False friends and real enemies.
Succeed anyway!
The good we do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do it anyway!
What could have taken years of building up,
Can be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway!
People who are in need of our help,
May attack us whilst we are trying to help them.
Help anyway!
Give the world the best that is within you,
And should it be rejected, do not stop giving.
Give anyway!
The Universal Law of Karma ensures that what we send
Into the world, has to return to us.
Give of your best and only the best is sure to return!
Bishop Abel Muzorewa
African Spiritual and Political Leader
Edited by Aquarius
From ‘The Astro Files Philosophy’
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Location: United Kingdom | Dear Aquarius
Your diagram seems a rather truncated version of human/divine experience/interaction if you do not mind my saying ... sorry!
there is no reference to
the heart
the mind
to say nothing of other stuff ....
the interstellar impregnation of starry materials with our cellular structures, for example
And as for 'doing the right things'
I think Norton Juster said that very well in the Phantom Tollbooth
Let me know if you would like the quotation, Princesses of Rhyme and Reason
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Or then again, Dietrich Bonhoeffer's, 'Whom Am I?" prayer ...
Love
Paul
Edited by Paul Joseph 2/20/2016 3:18 PM
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Since it is presumed that every communication on this Board is of the soul, the idea of a thread proclaiming prose for the soul seems tautologous ...
So I am freezing this thread at this point
Blessings
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Location: United Kingdom | Thank you. Much appreciated. Surely you can by now trust me that I would not post anything unsuitable here or anywhere else on the Forum.
With love - Aquarius * * *
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Location: United Kingdom | Reflections On Beauty
To paraphrase Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Swiss Psychiatrist and Author: ‘Truly beautiful people are those who have known defeat, suffering, struggle, loss and who worked their own way through these experiences, hand in hand with God and the Angels. Out of the depths of the hell of human suffering they have risen with a fresh appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness and a deep loving empathy with the pain of others. Beautiful people do not just happen, they can only grow and evolve on the Earth plane.
The small earthly self of those who emerge with these qualities from their suffering has died on the cross of Earth life. The characteristics of their Christ nature are breaking through and their spirit and soul has been resurrected. Through their behaviour to the world around them it is taking to its spiritual wings and doing its share of establishing God’s kingdom on the Earth
Physical beauty as often as not goes only skin-deep and with the passing of time it goes from us in any case. At the latest this happens when we leave our earthly existence behind. But any kind of inner beauty we have found by then is ours to keep forever and it was the wisdom of the Highest who decreed that this can only be done in earthly life. That’s the only thing we take with us into Eternity and when we do, it considerably eases our pathway through life during all subsequent earthly sojourns.
I know which kind of beauty I prefer. How about you?
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Location: United Kingdom | All Of Life Is Flowingness 
And in this flowing, there is meaning and law.
I cannot lose, what is my own;
I need not seek, what is my own,
For what belongs to me, will come.
Whatever goes does not belong to me.
Only what I am has power.
I now give up all personal struggle and ambition,
Knowing that all that is rightfully mine
Will then be drawn to me. So, I now let go,
And trust my Highest Self and the Universe,
To run my life for me
And to always show me the way. Anon.
Edited by Aquarius 2/25/2016 1:57 PM
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Location: United Kingdom | About Prayer
Then a priestess said: ‘Speak to us of prayer!’
And the Prophet replied:
‘You pray in your distress and in your need.
Would that you might pray also in the fullness of your
Joy and your days of abundance.
What is prayer but the expansion of yourself into the living ethers?
And if you receive comfort through pouring your darkness
And negativity into space, at least make an effort to create balance
By also sharing your delights and pleasures with the Universe.
Don’t forget to give thanks for all that Earth life itself,
Your kind and loving teacher,
Brings to you all the experiences that help
To learn and grow ever more heaven-tall.
For as long as you are still asleep to your true nature,
You cannot help weeping and complaining
Rather than giving thanks and praise to your Creator.
So whenever your soul summons you to prayer,
Shed your tears and be comforted by God and the Angels
Who bring you healing as soon as you draw closer to them.
Learnt to surrender all your troubles and woes
To your Highest or God Self so that you,
The small earthly self, together with your spirit and soul,
Will soon be smiling again.
When you go within to communicate with them,
In your prayers you are rising to meet in the ethers those
Who, like you, are praying at that very moment
And whom, save in those moments
Ob bliss you would otherwise
Never be able to get in touch with.
In the long course of your evolution and in the fullness of time,
May each of your visits to your inner temple of the soul
Be for nothing but spiritual ecstasy
And sweet communion with
The Great Father/Mother of all Life
And the Angels.
But take care that when you go there,
You do not make demands on them.
Isn’t it enough that you are allowed to enter the temple
And be there for a while,
To be recharged with God’s loving energies?
Nobody can teach you how to pray in words.
God does not listen to them, save when S/He
Utters them through your lips.
And because you must all learn from your own experiences,
Nobody can teach you the prayers of the oceans,
The forests and the mountains,
Except those who were born of these places.
They know such prayers in their hearts.
And if you but listen in the stillness of the night,
You can hear their silent pleas:
‘Our God, who art our winged self.
It is Thy will in us that willeth.
It is Thy desire in us that desireth.
It is Thy urge in us that turns our nights, which are Thine,
Into days, which are also Thine.
We cannot ask Thee for aught,
For Thou already knowest
Everybody’s true needs before we are born.
Each spirit and soul is born of Thy desires
And Thou art our need.
In giving us more of Thyself,
Thou givest us all.’
From ‘The Prophet’ by Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931
Lebanese/American poet
Edited by Aquarius
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Location: United Kingdom | Healing The Relationship With Ourselves And God
Searching For Peace Deep inside me there is something,
Hiding but calling and ever abiding.
It unfurls a deep grief in my breast
And will not let me rest.
Could it be a longing for a different place,
Maybe for disappearing without trace?
Searching blindly, I continue my quest
To heal this pain in my chest.
Having explored some of the dark aspects of life,
I feel like a freak who is caught in a trap
I race forwards and yet peer back
At the mistakes I once made,
And the wages of my sins waiting to be paid.
There just has to be more to this life
Than the drawing of a card
And the rolling of a dice.
I’m reaching for a higher realm of understanding,
Something to give my life a purpose that’s more demanding.
It’s an inner war I’m fighting,
Which I’m sure I can win.
And so I keep trying again and again.
But still I act like a freak who’s caught in a fiendish trap,
Running scared and yet without stopping to look back.
What sacrifices am I willing to make to find peace?
If it’s my life, o Universe, it’s yours to take.
I willingly pay what you are demanding
To gain Your forgiveness and understanding.
The wages of sin are I am paying now
Are worse to endure than death.
And I would give my dying breath
To let go of my inner demons,
So my soul rests and finds peace
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The Great Mother’s Response Beloved child of the Earth, you are dear and precious to My heart much more than you will ever be able to understand. The seafaring folks’ of your world are giving you a demonstration of the behaviour of all human souls during their lifetimes in earthly life. Whenever they are at home with their mother and other loved ones, they are only happy and content for a short while. It does not take long until they once more begin to yearn and pine for sailing the seven seas of your world. Each one of you is a sailor on the great ocean of life. You and your earthly character are the boat and destiny that has been given to each one of you. And you alone are responsible for commanding and steering it back home to Me.
One of these days you will be back home in the world of spirit, with the Angels and Me, and other human souls you have come to love during your many earthly adventuring and exploring sojourns. Although you love it there, it will not take long until you become restless and long for more consciousness expanding experiences that help you to grow in wisdom and understanding of yourself, the world around you and life in general.
Now that you have reached quite an advanced evolutionary level, refuse to look at yourself as some kind of a freak, even though at times you had to take the boat of your life through some of the most loathsome whirlpools of earthly experiences. None of them have made you a freak, My dearest child. You did nothing worse than studying in the school of Earth life and everything you ever did took place because you were attending the lessons that are prescribed by the curriculum of this institution for every one of its pupils.
When you look back and recognise that you did not like some of your lessons, that to Me is a sign that you have not been wasting your time. You have made progress on the evolutionary spiral of life only because the happenings in your life made you grow in wisdom and understanding. Rejoice, for now you are ready to choose a different pathway that – if you so wish – will lead you forwards and upwards only, rather than moving down, down, down the way you did in the past. Your yearning for experiences of a higher and more elevated nature shows the Angels in charge of you and Me that all is well with you and your spiritual development.
Know that nothing on the Earth plane or anywhere else ever happens perchance or coincidence, the drawing of a card or the rolling of a dice. Everything is part of the great plan of life and the pathway through it for each one of you is mapped out, complete with the people and events that can help you at any given moment to take part in the lessons you are ready for. Your own energies draw them towards you and you always have the freedom to choose whether you wish to walk the upper or the lower road.
Eventually for each one of you there comes the moment when you realise that the lower road is no longer right for you, because it fails to give you the satisfaction you had hoped to gain from it. And that is what’s happening to you and why you cannot shake off a nagging feeling that there must be more to life than what you have been experiencing in the past. You are right, there is. That’s why you are beginning to draw people into your orbit who are willing to share with you the higher things and understanding their own life’s experiences has taught them.
Naturally, that is no coincidence either. In the school of life you are presently attending, whenever one of its pupils is ready for a more advanced lesson a teacher appears from somewhere, as if by magic. In Earth terms this is magic. It’s a sign that in the spiritual background the Angels and Master, your spirit guides, friends and helpers are watching, guiding and coaxing each one of you along the pathway of their earthly sojourns. Events of this nature reveal their presence and intervention.
At all times they are willing to support and guide you, but they cannot do your learning for you. No-one can do that, except you. You yourself have to walk through the depths to which the desires of your lower earthly nature are capable of leading you. But eventually there comes the time when your Highest Self takes you by the hand and shows you how to leave the pull of the desires of your lower animal nature behind. Through the world of your feelings your God Self has always been guiding you. When you have reached a certain point in your development vague and uncertain feelings begin to disturb your peace of mind and you sense that the lower road is not worthy of you and the hopes, dreams and aspiration of humankind’s higher nature. The way you feel about yourself and the things that have been occupying you is your Highest Self coaxing you along, so that under your own steam you can gradually come to the conclusion that enough is enough.
All along I am there with you. I am your Highest or God Self, the wise one within and when you are suffering, I suffer with you. Whether you are laughing or weeping I am sharing every experience with you. And I speak to you through the small, still voice of your conscience. At some stage in your spiritual development it begins to whisper to you and makes itself felt through an ever growing aversion against your adventuring of the past. When you start to listen to your feelings and respond to them by taking constructive actions to leave the darker aspects of life behind, you have reached a vital evolutionary turning point.
Your decision to start a new chapter in your life proves to the Angels in charge of you and Me that you are growing from spiritual infancy and adolescence into adulthood. Now you are ready to take charge of your earthly self’s character and that empowers you to positively and creatively influence your destiny of where and how you will be spending future lifetimes. But for the present you are moving ever closer to fulfilling your high and holy destiny as a true child of Mine, who through its behaviour and thinking patterns is doing its best to establish My kingdom on the Earth plane.
With the help of the knowledge you are now finding you can afford to look at you and your ways of the past not with loathing and disgust but with love and compassion for the suffering it has brought you. Enduring them have been the wages of sin and you have paid them already, many times over. Don’t keep on doing this over and over again. There is no point in it and there are no prizes for martyrdom. Rather than wallowing in self-pity, rejoice and celebrate for you have grown stronger and wiser. I am proud of you, My child.
Your feelings of guilt and shame, unworthiness and uselessness, and that your life is lacking purpose and direction have been part the wages of sin you had to pay. Your feelings are important, they have purpose and meaning, the same as everything else that is in your life. Listen carefully to the whole gamut of them, as each one is a signal from your inner Highest Self, the wise one within, Me. Through the world of your feelings I was showing you that the manner in which you had been conducting yourself was no longer right for you.
Because you had reached a sufficiently high degree of spiritual maturity, I was knocking at the door of your inner consciousness to call you back into the awareness of your true nature and your oneness with Me. I am glad that you finally set off in search of the missing parts of yourself. This quest is bringing you ever closer to me.
You will have heard it said that love understands all and forgives all. You probably know by now through your own life’s experiences how true this is. When you love someone and they trespass against you in some way, if you make the effort to look into and understand their motivations and the lessons they are currently taking part in, you can do nothing but forgive that person. And because I understand the whole of our pathway throughout all lifetimes, from the beginning of each one to its end, and the suffering your soul has already endured, I find there is nothing to forgive. As a matter of fact, each one of you is forgiven before you set out on your first visits to the Earth plane.
Because I love all of you totally and unconditionally and understand the trials and tribulations that are lying ahead and have to be gone through by each and every one of you, there really IS nothing to forgive. And because you now understand why everything you experienced was a necessary part of your earthly education, the time has come for you to look at yourself with compassion and love, and to forgive yourself.
For a long time you have felt an ever increasing emptiness and a void within you. Whatever you tried to fill it, be it alcohol and drugs, money and material possessions, and endless pleasure-seeking, the barrenness would not go away. When you had tried all those things unsuccessfully, your soul with the help of your feelings was showing you that ultimately the only thing that can fill such inner voids is a conscious reunion with Me. Many of you are working on it now and I bless each one of you for the troubles you are taking upon you to bring this about. Peace be with you, always. Dedicated to Firemajic WF – with love. From ‘Astrology As A Lifehelp In Relationship Healing’
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Location: United Kingdom | Hope
What do optimists do?
They hope! But what is hope?
It is not the closing of one’s eyes to
Difficulties, risks or failures.
Hope is an inner trusting that:
If we fail now, we shall not do so forever.
If we make mistakes,
We shall learn something from them
And if we get hurt, we shall be healed.
Hope is an inner knowingness that:
Life is good.
Love is all-powerful.
It can heal, mend and resolve everything,
Even the most difficult situations and relationships.
Hope is one of the Universe’s finest gifts.
It enables us to trust that in truth
The moment of physical death is not an ending,
But a new beginning and a release into
The greater freedom of our true home,
The world of light,
Where those who have gone before us
Are waiting to welcome us.
From ‘Comfort for the Bereaved’
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Location: United Kingdom | Moving On
As every flower fades and youth must give way to old age,
So all wisdom and each virtue may be valid only in its day.
Nothing but our Highest Self stays with us forever.
At life’s calling we have to say farewell
And be ready for a new beginning.
Bravely and without sadness we need to
Enter into ever new learning,
Resting safely in the knowledge that
In the background of all life dwells the power of the Unseen,
Who guides and protects us and helps us to live,
Wherever our destiny may one day take us.
We are meant to move happily through space and time,
Without making our home on the Earth plane,
Because our true home lies elsewhere.
The Divine Spirit of the Great Father/Mother of all life
Never aims to tie and restrict any of Its children.
Quite the opposite is true.
Step by step the Universe constantly tries to lift us
Beyond the horizons of our present understanding.
Whenever we are in danger of staying
With one particular way of living for too long,
Our spirit and soul stagnates and starts to yearn for
Fresh learning through new adventures and explorations.
As soon as we awaken to the awareness that there is no death,
That life is eternal and has neither beginning nor end,
We give in more readily to life’s demands,
When our time for moving on has come.
It eases the hour of our departure from the physical plane of life
And we can consciously enjoy our rebirth
In the world of light on another level of existence
And learning of a different kind.
The realisation that life’s call
For all human souls will never end
Fills our heart and soul with good cheer.
It enables us to say good-bye willingly and happily,
Whenever the need for it arises.
Peacefully we go forward because at last
We have found rest and healing
In the conscious awareness of
Our oneness with God.
‘Stufen’ by Hermann Hesse
Freely translated by Aquarius
From ‘The Spiritual Aspects Of Depression And Suicide’
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Location: United Kingdom | Thank you Aquarius for reminding us of that great poem which appears in Hesse's The Glass Bead Game as being written by the book's hero, and Master of the Glass Bead Game, Joseph Knecht ... this is how I first read it there, translated by Richard and Clara Winston
Stages
As every flower fades and as all youth
Departs, so life at every stage,
So every virtue, so our grasp of truth,
Blooms in its day and may not last forever.
Since life may summon us at every age
Be ready, heart, for parting, new endeavor,
Be ready bravely and without remorse
To find new light that old ties cannot give.
In all beginnings dwells a magic force
For guarding us and helping us to live.
Serenely let us move to distant places
And let no sentiments of home detain us.
The Cosmic Spirit seeks not to restrain us
But lifts us stage by stage to wider spaces.
If we accept a home of our own making,
Familiar habit makes for indolence.
We must prepare for parting and leave-taking
Or else remain the slaves of permanence.
Even the hour of our death may send
Us speeding on to fresh and newer spaces,
And life may summon us to newer races.
So be it, heart: bid farewell without end.
More of Hesse's (or Knecht's!) poems can be found on this web-link
http://southerncrossreview.org/67/hesse-poems.htm
I make the distinction between Hesse and Knecht, in the same way as it evokes the question of how much an author's character's words reflect the author's own beliefs.
Hence Shakespeare can make one of his tragic characters (Macbeth) say;
'Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing'
Whereas another (Hamlet) takes a rather different view:
'There is a destiny that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we may'
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With which one do we resonate, or neither?
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Location: United Kingdom | Dear Paul, Thank you for sharing this translation of Hermann Hesse's poem with us here. As pointed at at the end of my version, I freely translated Hesse's words and re-interpreted them in keeping with the advanced knowledge we by now have about the meaning of life and death. With love - Aquarius * * *
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Location: United Kingdom | There Is No Death
‘There is no death,
Only a change of worlds.’
Chief Seattle
Extract from a talk at a Remembrance Service by White Eagle, from ‘The Way of the Sun’: ‘There is no death. Of what are you afraid? You may look upon an empty shell – like the shell of a chrysalis – and say: ‘This is death!’ No, this is not death, it is rebirth and life. Life continues. It always is, always has been and forever will be. We, your guides from the world of light, who are fully conscious of having passed the great initiation called death, come to you having crossed the bridge of love, which is partly created by the love you are giving us. God, the Great Spirit, has so created you and your bodies – your physical and your higher bodies – that you have the power within you to commune with those you love in the world of spirit. You have material available for the construction of this bridge between your physical world and the worlds on the higher ethers. We are coming to you and you can also learn to join us in full consciousness.
‘In your earthly life you can be builders, together with us, your companions of your spirit, of a bridge between your state of life and the higher life. When humankind has accomplished this task in full consciousness, it will know that the Angels and Masters, the great siblinghood of the Christ Star, are with you to inspire and assist you with all your tasks in earthly life. This does not mean shifting your present responsibilities onto the companions of your spirit. It means you yourself are acting on the Divine laws of the Universe. Some people seem to think they can sit back and let God and the Angels do the work. This is not the case. You are on the Earth to learn about vital spiritual truths and these lessons can only be learnt through everyone’s own daily experiences. You have to learn to do and act with love and great care. Merely saying so is not good enough.’
The following is the essence of a White Eagle Message from the Star Link 7.12.2013: ‘Love is the law of life and the greatest force in the whole of Creation. In love and on the inner level of life there is no separation, all is one. Your loved ones are not dead. Your love for each other has created a bond between you that nothing and no-one will ever be able to destroy. They have not gone from you and contact with them is always possible for you in your thoughts and meditations.
‘You are on the Earth plane to rediscover the awareness that life is eternal and ever renewing itself. When you know that God is love and loves each one of you totally and unconditionally, you cannot help loving your Creator, the Great Father/Mother of all life. Every human spirit and soul is part of God and immortal, for in God’s consciousness there is no such thing as death. Because your loved ones are alive in that love and therefore also in your own spirit, they are with you and will never leave you.’
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Location: United Kingdom | The Daffodil Principle
Several times my daughter had telephoned to say: ‘Mother, you must come and see the daffodils before they are over.’ I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from my home to hers. ‘I’ll come next Tuesday,’ I promised, a little reluctantly when she asked me the third time. Tuesday dawned cold and rainy. Still, I had promised, and so I drove there. When I finally walked into my daughter’s house, after hugging and greeting my grandchildren, I said to my daughter: ‘Let’s forget about the daffodils. The road is almost invisible in the clouds and fog, and there is nothing in the world except you and the children that I want to see badly enough to drive another inch.’ My daughter smiled calmly and replied: ‘We drive in weather like this all the time, Mother.’ I replied: ‘You won’t get me back on the road until it clears, and then I’ll be heading for home!’
‘I was hoping you’d take me to the garage to pick up my car,’ my daughter said. ‘Okay, I’ll do it. How far is it?’ ‘Just a few blocks,’ came the reply. ‘I’ll drive because I’m used to the road conditions.’ I knew where the garage was and after several minutes in the car I asked: ‘Where are we going? This isn’t the way to the garage.’ ‘This time we’re going the long way round past the daffodils,’ my daughter smiled.
‘I don’t want to go there, can’t you hear me? Please turn the car round and let’s go home.’ ‘It’s all right, Mother. I promise you, you would never forgive yourself if you missed this experience.’ After another twenty minutes or so we turned onto a gravel road. At the end of it a small church came into view and on its far side a handwritten sign said: ‘Daffodil Garden’. We got out of the car, each took a child’s hand and we followed Carolyn down the path. When we turned a corner and I looked up, I gasped with astonishment at the glorious sight before me. It was as if someone had taken a huge vat of gold and poured it over the mountain peak and slopes. There were flowers everywhere. They had been planted in majestic, swirling patterns – great ribbons and swathes of deep orange, white, lemon yellow, salmon pink, saffron and butter yellow. Each colour variety has been planted as a group that seemed to swirl and flow a river with its unique hue. Altogether there were five acres of flowers.
‘Who is responsible for this?’ I asked Carolyn. ‘Just one woman,’ she replied. ‘She lives on the property, it’s her home.’ My daughter pointed to a well kept house that looked tiny and very modest in the midst of the glory before us.
Walking up to the house, on the patio we found a poster that read:
‘The Answers To The Questions You Are Going To Ask’.
- 50,000 bulbs.
- One at a time, by one woman. Two hands, two feet, not much money and very little brain.
- Started in 1958.
I realised that from now on experiences of this nature would represent the Daffodil Principle for me. They would make me think of the woman who more than forty years ago had begun to bring her vision of beauty and joy to an obscure mountain top. By patiently planting one bulb at a time, year after year, she had created something of indescribable magnificence, beauty and inspiration. She truly had changed the world in which she lives and made it into a better and more beautiful place for all.
The principle behind this is one of the greatest of all. By learning to patiently move forwards towards the fulfilment of a dream one tiny step at a time, by loving what we are doing and being really interested in it, the Universal forces reward our efforts and perseverance. They smile upon us and help us to make our vision become a reality in earthly life. By combining tiny fractions of time with small but continued efforts, truly magnificent things are achievable in the fullness of time and we can indeed change our world.
I have to admit that the sight of the daffodil fields made me a bit sad, too. I couldn’t help thinking what I might have accomplished if only I had come up with a great idea thirty-five or forty years ago. What if I had worked at it ‘one bulb at a time’ in the subsequent years? It didn’t bear thinking about what I might have been able to achieve. When I told my daughter, she paused for a moment and replied: ‘Never mind. It’s not too late. How about starting tomorrow? I believe it’s pointless to think of all the lost hours of yesterday. The best way of making learning a lesson a celebration instead of a cause for regret is by asking: ‘How can I put this to use today?’
‘You can’t hit a home run unless you step up to the plate.
You can’t catch a fish unless you put your line in the water.
You can’t reach your goals if you don’t try.’
Kathy Seligman
And from small acorns great oak trees grow.
Created by Anon.
Edited by Aquarius
From ‘Words Of Wisdom & Healing From The Tree Of Life’
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Location: United Kingdom | When someone is in distress and our first reaction is to reach out and offer a helping hand, and this has become not our second but first nature, we are true to our real nature. When we have re-learned to follow the instinctive and intuitive reactions that come from our Highest Self, rather than the urge of our lower earthly nature to turn away, our progress on the great wheel of fortune that is this life speeds up considerably. Every small kindness rendered to any of God’s creatures is valuable and counts spiritually.
Even if at times nothing can be done except giving a person in distress a friendly smile, a few words of encouragement and comfort, a shoulder to cry on and/or a hug. When the recipient is lifted and helped above their present situation, even if only in a small way, the law of Karma sees to it that our thoughtfulness one fine day in some form or another returns to us. Hence the saying that bread cast onto the waters of life does return. This means that help is sure to come when we require some. It may not happen through the people we once helped. In fact, it hardly ever does, but come it will and that often quite magically and then only seemingly out of the blue. If you want to be happy in life,
Contribute to other’s happiness,
For any joy we give
Returns to our heart.
Goethe
Edited by Aquarius 3/7/2016 7:56 AM
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