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Vol 58 -Addendum- July, 2005
In Truth, Simplicity Love and Service
FEATURES:
Lokah samastah sukhino bhavantu.Om.
Let the whole world be Happy!
May all mother sentient beings, boundless as the sky
have happiness and the causes of happiness.
May they be liberated from suffering and the causes of
suffering.
May they never be separated from happiness which is
free from sorrow.
May they rest in equanimity, free from attachment and
aversion.
From the Guru Gita
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BLESSINGS TO THE GURU ON THE FULL MOON OF JULY 2005
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Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger
within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and
instead nourish our positive qualities - those of
compassion, understanding, and loving kindness.
- Thich Nhat Hanh -
http://www.motivationalinspirationalquotes.com/
What we choose to emphasize in this complex history
will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it
destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember
those times and places - and there are so many - where
people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the
energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending
this spinning top of a world in a different direction.
- Howard Zinn -
http://www.spiritsong.com/quotes/
We either fear that human culture is falling apart, or
we can hold the Vision that we are awakening. Either
way, our expectation is a prayer that goes out as a
force that tends to bring about the end we envision.
Each of us must consciously choose between these two
futures.
- James Redfield -
http://www.johnworldpeace.com/peacequotes.html
No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we all are
his accomplices.
- Edward R. Murrow -
http://www.strangeloops.com/quotes.html
Reach out to those who war, for they too are your
brothers who have lost their way. The task is great,
but in the end we will win the battle through love.
- Matthew through Suzie Ward -
http://www.matthewbooks.com/
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm
it.
- Lucy Larcom -
http://www.great-quotes.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi
A Native American grandfather was talking to his
grandson about how he felt. He said, "I feel as if I
have two wolves fighting in my heart. One wolf is the
vengeful, angry, violent one. The other wolf is the
loving, compassionate one." The grandson asked him,
"Which wolf will win the fight in your heart?" The
grandfather answered, "The one I feed."
- Unknown -
http://www.indianchild.com/brotherhood_quotations.htm
Whatever the question, love is the answer.
Whatever the problem, love is the answer.
Whatever the illness, love is the answer.
Whatever the pain, love is the answer.
Whatever the fear, love is the answer.
Love is always the answer because, Love is all there
is.
- Gerald Jampolsky & Diane Cirincione -
http://www.renaissancealliance.org/silenc/quotes.htm
A new, spiritually based social activism is beginning
to assert itself. It stems not from hating what is
wrong and trying to fight it, but from loving what
could be and making the commitment to bring it forth.
Those who have been immersed in the tragedy of massive
death during wartime, and who have faced it squarely,
never allowing their senses and feelings to become
numbed and indifferent, have emerged from their
experiences with growth and humanness greater than
that achieved through almost any other means.
- Elisabeth KuBler-Ross -
http://directory.google.com/Top/Reference/Quotations/Religion_and_Spirituality
We look forward to the time when the power to love
will replace the love of power. Then will our world
know the blessings of peace.
- William Edwart Gladstone -
http://www.passioninaction.org/quotes.html
Why all of the violence in the human dance? Those whom
are failing to ascend are failing to move up in
vibration with Earth. In failing to move up in
vibration with Earth, the discord increases
surrounding their field. This increases the veils of
illusion such that the beliefs that they hold become
their truth, just as the veils of illusion surrounding
the Annanuki reflected back their own thoughts which
then became their truth. In believing such paranoid
thoughts to be true, such humans then manifests a
crime of murder in the insanity of the paranoia.
All thoughts manifest beloved. If one holds onto a
thought of violence, one shall experience violence. If
one holds on to the thought of death, one shall
manifest their death. If one holds on to the thought
of separation, one shall manifest a divorce,
separation or loss of job, and so on. At another time,
one could fantasize about killing the boss, or killing
the friend or teacher, or killing the parent, and not
manifest it in physicality - at least not in the
current lifetime. However, such fantasies would
manifest in a future ancestor's life experience as a
result of the fantasy nonetheless.
- The Buffalo Species through Karen Danrich "Mila" -
http://www.ascendpress.org/
Within a duality reality you empower what you oppose.
- Dean Fraser -
http://www.spiritsong.com/quotes/
The moment we create an enemy we can never have true
peace, within our heart and in our everyday life.
- Richard A Fletcher) -
http://www.supportworldpeace2000.org/
It is better to light one small candle than to curse
the darkness.
- Confucius -
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/New_Age/Channeling/Channeled_Material/
Every thought you think is generating your future.
Every act you do is cultivating your future. Every
word you speak is creating your future. Become aware
of your thoughts, words and actions... Do your habits
assist you in creating what you desire, or do they
hold you back? Many humans have self-defeating habits
and are not even aware of them; one of them being our
thoughts. Become aware of your thoughts: are they of
beauty, goodness, joy, truth and light? You have
millions of thoughts a day - how many of them are
uplifting and positive for yourself and others? How
many of them are negative or put-downs? You must
become aware of the thoughts you are tossing out into
the universe.
- The Brotherhood of Light through Edna G. Frankel -
http://www.beyondreiki.com/
There will be many things that will distract you and
challenge you; but you are vital for holding the
energy field that stabilizes the planet. As you
practice the principles of peace and bring forth this
loving vibration into the world, you become the change
you wish to experience in the world. By staying in a
loving, peaceful energy field, you have the ability to
assist Earth and your species in being stable and
coming through the challenges of transition.
- Laiolin & the Council of Abboraha through Judith K.
Moore -
http://www.cropcirclesrevealed.com/
You are living in a Universe of resonance. Therefore,
that which you concentrate on increases because it
attracts more of the same to you. If you wish to
experience more joy in your life, concentrate on that
which gives you joy on a daily basis. This does not
mean that you need to ignore those things that make
you unhappy, but by acknowledging the aspects of your
life that do make you happy, you give yourself joy,
and begin to increase the amount of joy in your life.
The Universe operates according to the Law of
Increase. This law ensures that whatever you
concentrate on will automatically increase in your
life. If you concentrate on lack, then lack will
manifest itself in more shortage and more experience
of the things that give you that feelings.
- Omni through John Payne) -
http://www.consciouscreation.com/journal/Archives.htm
Whatever we pay attention to, read, worry about, feel
strongly about, write about, get energetically charged
about, we attract to us like a magnet. It does not
matter WHAT it is or whether it is good or bad for us.
We just get MORE of it. So when we resist war or
protest war, guess what, we get more of the same. When
we are FOR peace and focus upon peace and love, we get
more of that... The magnet of our energy and attention
brings the darkness or the light - it is our choice.
And when enough of us see only the light and only the
love and pay attention only to that, we will ALL
experience only the liquid love of the truth of this
divine creation.
- Kalama Hawkrider) -
http://www.earthrainbownetwork.com/Archives2004/MiscelSubjects205.htm
Whatever you dwell on in the conscious mind grows into
your experience.
- Brian Tracy -
http://dmoz.org/Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/New_Age/Ascension/
Everything you hold in your head will now become
reality very quickly. Choose foremost to become
masters of your own thoughts. Examine each thought
from a higher perspective. Examine everything you do.
- The Group through Steve Rother -
http://www.lightworker.com/
Use your thoughts wisely. Understand their power.
Thoughts have a tendency to become their physical
equivalent. This is one of the fundamental laws of the
universe. Another one is the law of attraction, which
states that 'like attracts like.' Because it is
consciousness that creates reality, the kind of
consciousness you hold - your vibration - actually
creates the kind of life you're living.
- Dr. Christiane Northrup -
http://www.drnorthrup.com/
The Earth changes that are taking place activate and
intensify any energies that are present. Therefore, if
you concentrate on beauty, peace, abundance and
health, then these things will increase. Likewise, if
you concentrate on fear, poverty, danger, and disease,
then these things will increase. The very nature of
matter, and the energies present, upon this planet are
changing. With these changes, the power of your
thoughts is also increasing. The energies present are
becoming more fluid and supple, reacting more swiftly
to your thoughts and desires, therefore, your thoughts
and feelings are able to have a greater effect than
previously possible. You can choose to use this power
for the greater good of all by focusing on the
goodness in your life.
There is much that one learns when they come to
Schoolhouse Earth, dear ones! One of the biggest
things is learning to be positive in a negative world;
learning to keep a balance, no matter what is going on
in your life. When you keep a positive attitude, you
are in a state of receptivity and so your intuitive
results are high. Keep up the positive attitude! Keep
your intent high, and you will then be in command of
yourself. In other words, you will "take dominion"
over yourselves.
- Sananda -
http://www.1spirit.com/sananda/
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USA, July 17, 2005: Can three guys kicking around the
country with a mail-order video camera open doors on
the wisdom of the universe? It's beginning to look
like a possibility to viewers of a low-budget film
produced in Michigan by Chad M. Powers, an attorney,
and friends Chad Munce and Scott Carter. They pooled
funds for the $10,000 budget. The filmmakers went
knocking on the doors of some of the world's most
admired spiritual thinkers and -- far more than they
had any reason to hope -- were welcomed with open arms
and minds. The trio was casting for answers to 30
profound questions, and they pulled in wisdom not only
from those considered by many to be enlightened but
from young people on the street in places as far-flung
as Detroit's Cass Corridor and Colorado's mountains.
The final product concentrates on 15 of the questions,
such as "What happens to you after you die?" "Describe
God" and "What are we all so afraid of?"
The film's
website is:
http://www.circleofbliss.com/
The insights of the film coalesce in its title: "One,"
distilled from its working title "We Are All One."
Powers said he believes the trio connected with so
many famous people because "they all sensed the
urgency of the message, that awareness of our oneness
is the next step." Munce (Powers' cousin) ran the
camera, and Carter helped with editing and has an
acting role as a silent spiritual seeker in the movie.
Perhaps the centerpiece of the film is the response of
American-born Tibetan Buddhist monk and scholar Robert
Thurman to the request: "Nonverbally, by motion or
gesture only, act out what you believe to be the
current condition of the world."
Thurman's solemn stare haunts the film. In one of the
voice-overs describing the making of the film, Powers
goes from wondering what Thurman is thinking, to fear
that the inquirers are being dismissed to realizing,
"Oh, it's perfect!" Those moments correspond to the
steps of a spiritual journey, Powers said.
Everyone from fundamentalist Christians to people
attending an atheist convention shared their views
with the digital-camera-toting team, including: --
Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk nominated
for the Nobel Peace Prize by the Rev. Martin Luther
King Jr. -- New Age author Deepak Chopra -- Thomas
Keating, a Trappist monk who is a leader in the
contemplative prayer movement -- Ram Dass, whose
spiritual journey included psychedelic drugs in the
'60s and has continued through exploration of
Hinduism, karma, yoga and Sufism. Michael Fitzpatrick,
who has traveled extensively with the Dalai Lama to
produce a CD called "Compassion," sent permission for
its use as background music in "One," along with a
taped message from the exiled high priest of Tibetan
Buddhism. "There are no answers in it. Everyone finds
their own truth. At the end, the answers are yours,"
said Powers' wife, Diane, the fourth member of the
filmmaking crew. "That's what we hoped to do: cast
bread on the water and let people feed off it."
Ward Powers said he was surprised that "One" triggered
"so many tears," even from a 35-year-old man at a
recent film festival in Saugatuck, Mich. An older man
told him: "You know what you've made here, son? You've
made a cult classic. And you know who's the cult?
Everybody from 8 to 87." In Southfield, Mich., some
viewers reserved a screening room to present the film
to friends as a gift. One woman used it to celebrate
her 50th birthday, and another to thank those who
helped her through her first year of widowhood. The
idea for the film presented itself to Ward Powers more
or less spontaneously in April 2002, in a world
rapidly separating into factions after the Sept. 11,
2001, terrorist attacks. "There was a sense the world
needed to pull together," Powers said. Diane Powers
added: "We are all beautiful in our differences, (but)
we had forgotten we belong to each other."
A trial lawyer for 20 years, Powers and his friends
had no experience as filmmakers when they jumped into
the undertaking. Now, they're learning to meet the
post-production demands of a project that's attracting
hundreds of e-mails from across the country.
Optimistic about hooking up with a national
distributor, Powers currently has his sights set on an
eight-city tour to places such as San Francisco;
Portland, Ore.; Boulder, Colo.; and Santa Fe, N.M.
"Definitely, the demand is there," he said. "Three
weeks ago we were just coming out of the basement with
this."
The 15 questions asked in the film:
-- What happens to you after you die?
-- Why is there poverty and suffering in the world?
-- Describe God.
-- How does one obtain true peace?
-- When is war justifiable?
-- Describe Heaven; and how do you get there.
-- What is the greatest quality humans possess?
-- Why are so many people depressed?
-- What is the meaning of life?
-- How would God want us to respond to aggression and
terrorism?
-- What are we all so afraid of?
-- What is your one wish for the world?
-- What is our greatest distraction?
-- The theme of the project is: "We are all one." What
are your thoughts on this?
-- Nonverbally, by motion or gesture only, act out
what you believe to be the current condition of the
world.
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Daily Inspiration
Parents must teach children to appreciate those who
are different, those who believe differently; teach
them the openness that they need to live in a
pluralistic world where others have their unique ways,
their life and culture; teach them the value of human
diversity and the narrow-mindedness of a provincial
outlook; give them the tools to live in a world of
differences without feeling threatened, without
forcing their ways or their will on others; teach them
that it never helps to hurt another of our brothers or
sisters.
Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami (1927-2001), founder
of Hinduism Today
Lea Rothrock
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