The Energy in All Things

Recently I read a book that changed my life. I will say now that I have labeled this book as the greatest non-fiction book that I have read. When you're reading fiction, you're looking to be inspired in different ways and attain a different understanding than you are when you read non-fiction. That's one way to look at it anyway. But this book is so powerful that I would venture to say that it raised my level of consciousness just by having it around me, just by touching it or reading one or two lines it it. I would say that this book has an equal, if not higher, level of energy within it than the Bible, the Torah or the Koran. That is a bold statement, I know, but it's one that I stand by.
The book is called Power versus Force and it's written by a man named David Hawkins who is both a medical doctor and holds a PhD. The book discusses how everything in the world, in the Universe, is made up of an energy, everything. Everything from material things to memories to ideas to sound, words, laughter, images and feelings is made up of energy. That energy is either high or low, fast or slow. What's mind-boggling is that this energy can be measured by just about anyone, anytime, anywhere. All one needs is a partner.
This energy is measured through kinesiological testing and Dr. Hawkins along with an incredible team have performed millions of tests throughout the world measuring everything from the material to the immaterial, from the present and the past (*you'll see what I mean) and all of this research and documentation is in this one book.
Dr. Hawkins has found that things exist (on the average) on a scale between 0 and 1,000 in terms of energy He explains all of the levels of energy and what kinds of ideas/feelings/concepts are related to what levels of energy (everything from shame, which is below 200 and spirit, which is above 700) and how we can change our levels of consciousness and levels of this vibrational energy within ourselves with our thoughts.
Everything in it has an energy. I was thinking today about violence and how closely it is tied with our society. I think about the movies, the stories, the television shows, the video games, the media broadcasts, the language we use, the information that is promulgated to our fellow human beings daily. Wow. I will be the first to admit that I grew up on video games and even now a resonant voice within me tempts me back there to play those games with the violence and the killing and drugs and bombs and assassinations and on and on. My higher self just wants to be at peace. It wants to live peace, feel peace, give peace and know peace and nothing else. My insatiable ego just wants to be right and to win and to conquer and to be powerful and on and on it goes.
This book, Power versus Force, is the first book that I can say categorically has changed my life and the way I see things. It is beyond a recommendation. In fact to the readers of this blog, if you would like a copy, please simply comment below and I will send this book and it's wonderful loving energy to you.
Be blessed, be love, and be happy,

namaste


If you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm toward others, all living creatures will cease to feel enmity in your presence. - Patanjali

ANOTHER BOOK READ

Finished reading:  " The Wisdom of the Native Americans," ISBN: 1-57731-079-9.

The book included speeches from Ohiyesa, Chief Red Jacket, Chief Joseph, and Chief Seattle.  Very good read that discussed the character of Native Americans Tribal Leaders and their people, the character of the U.S. government and our people.

The book characterizes the Native Americans as incredibly nice people, and the U.S. government and settlers' seemed to be a villains. The most significant thing I take away from this book, is how often compromise was not achieved, and instead, the Native Americans were expected to yield to the U.S. government. The continued surrendering of rights by the Native Americans ensured the loss of very rich and valuable cultures as a trade-off for material possession by the U.S. government and the settlers. How much better this country would've been if we had more honest compromise from both sides which would have ensured richer cultures for all.

Thanks for the book J. DeHart!

Started another book:  “Making War to Keep Peace” by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations ISBN: 978-0-06-119543-3.

Thanks for the book K. Eschbach!

DELIVERING PERFECTION

Recently I came to the rerealization that we humans are imperfect. Not only are we not perfect, we were designed in the image of our Maker, and the thought of this really didn't set well with me when I look around me and I see so much dissection built into the very core of our DNA, and RNA, and every other XNA. This provided a moment of serendipity to ask the larger, if not the more important question "Why would our Divine Maker design us as we are in the first place, if when He gets upset and is at His limit with us, He destroys us." "It's His own damn fault that He designed us in the first place!" I said to Him.

Then a Holy serendipitous something occurred to me... When life seems bleak, pointless, barren of all hope and positivity, and darkness descending all around us--This is the perfect moment and location for conception of a Divine miracle, created by a human being, who was truly designed in the Divine Maker's Holy Image... A simple speck of hope is all it takes... How cool is that?!

Agape'

WE ARE HEADED SOMEWHERE

...With varying levels of something.

B.E.D.

TORN

The haze of death attempts another assault against one of life's strongest humans
Death's sword wields one more painful blow, recovery from this one may be out of reach
Life's rays of hope vaporize death's dew and another battle is over
The battle scars are many and steadily mounting with each passing year, month, and now minutes

Do we wish for a speedy death and an end to all suffering for our loved one?
Who's really suffering?
Who's choice is it in the first place?
Do we wish for a miraculous healing from God?
If not, then why not?

And, if we get what we asked for, are we truly capable of swallowing that pill?
Is there any way to escape selfish motives?

Would I want to live if I became incapacitated and no longer self-reliant?
Would I wish to be a burden to others?
Would I want to speed my return Home?
Is there a way to face death fully sober and evaporate with the morning dew and live?

God may you be with and aid my mother (and all those who are staring down death's eye), always. Amen

TOUR THE SISTINE CHAPEL

POINTOFLIGHT13'S LIFE MISSION STATEMENT

• Return my Maker's cup overflowing with love He/She would proudly call their own

• I want to leave a legacy of what's important to me, to those whose company I depart from, (especially my wife, children, and grandchildren)

• Live life in the fashion of epissé in all wonderful ways

• Cheat death over and over unless it means I become mentally or physically incapacitated to the extent where the burden is too great for my wife or other family members

• Do my best to raise self-reliant, and interdependent children who are intimate with God, true to themselves, happy in life, and who invest energies in easing the burdens of others, and who share their joy with others, especially with those most in need

• Be aware and on-guard for the negatives, but focus, grow, and invest in the positives, and especially the seemingly impossible

• Be a better person today than I was yesterday

• Invest in the needy, and poor as much (or more) as I do in myself and my family

• Let go of the past negatives and offenses by others, and instead, cling to the lessons learned, wisdom gleaned, and the positives

• Stop to consider the possibility that all things may be 180 degrees from how I feel and think right now

• THIS IS A WORK IN PROGRESS... AKA .... INCOMPLETE

TRUE AND GENUINE FRIENDSHIP

Dear PointofLight, although belated in my acknowledgement, I truly enjoyed and appreciated your list of “Unordered/Chaotic Life Principles.” At its initial posting, I can recall reading the principles and feeling compelled to add another principle, that of “friendship.” I began writing this a while back, lost my track, and then recently became re-acquainted with my thoughts on it. As my words often do, they formulated another essay-type expression. My apologies, but here they are:

True, Genuine Friendship

What is friendship? Friendship spawns initially from an attraction to familiarity or recognition of desirable qualities in the other. There is a mutual desire for companionship, discovery, and perhaps a common bond shared. As we know, often friends share likes/dislikes, interests, pursuits, and passions. It is a kinship.

"True and genuine friendship" involves:

A shared sense of caring and concern--- a desire to see one another personally grow and develop, and a sincere hope for the other to succeed in all aspects of life.

Accountability--- revealed in the forms of loyalty, encouragement, support, and dependability… all offered unconditionally.

Acceptance--- acceptance (and love) of who they really are, of who you are, and acceptance of the role each contributes to the friendship. Forgiveness of the inevitable human shortcomings as dictated by human expectations is an absolute.

Action--- doing for someone else while expecting nothing in return, sacrificing your needs at times for the other, sharing your innermost thoughts and feelings without fear of judgment, being willing to risk and share your “true self.”

Commitment--- commitment of time to invest not only in the relationship itself, but also in each other's growth.

Essential are: trust, faithfulness, respect, honesty, and depth.

True and genuine friendship involves freedom of choice.

Now, I’m sure many before me have already expressed these ideas, but I convey them from the forefront of my present mind. I wonder how many attain this in life? Does it truly exists? Is it an idealism? I believe it exists and is a gift contingent upon the true effort of each party toward their investments to cultivate and maintain ownership of it. Those who have found it are blessed.

JustMe97

FACING THREATS

Awaiting the bill for our meal with 2 of the three children gone to the restroom, and the baby sitting between me and my wife. All of the sudden a physical fight breaks out [in this family restaurant] in the isle just 3 tables down from where we were seated. I immediately go into sensory alert and the adrenaline starts flooding my senses, watching for potential threat to my loved ones seated with me and those due back any moment now, from the restroom.

Three men, appearing to be with the women try to dissuade them from their out-of-order behavior. They all appeared to be active duty military or spouses of the same. By now, the manager, assistant manager, and 3 male waiters have arrived, but NONE of them seem capable of stopping the arms and hands and hair-pulling, and I see the blob of people heading backwards toward our table. I immediately speak out in my Army drill and ceremony voice “You need to stop your fighting right now because I have children and a baby here! If you can't behave like adults then get out of here and go home... NOW!” Only some of the customers, and those employees trying to step between the two women pay any mind to my words, and the physical attack appears to continue to escalate and getting very close to our table. In a very loud and extremely convicted tone I speak again, “That's enough with the fighting, I'm telling you both, for the LAST TIME that your behavior is totally unacceptable and I won't tolerate it for another minute—GET OUT NOW! There are children and babies in here and you are going to hurt someone—GET OUT NOWWW!!! One of the two women backs up to our table and I'm getting ready to remove her myself when she finally stops turns in tears at me and says “I'm sorry. I'm really sorry.” To which I reply, “Sorry doesn't cut it. I don't except your sorry. Don't you see that we have a baby here who could've been hurt?! I suggest you get out of the restaurant and go home and don't go out if you can't behave like a mature woman.”

The assistant manager comes over to our table and apologizes, the waitress comes over to our table and apologizes, the man that couldn't control his woman apologizes “I'm sorry about her behavior, but I barely know her.” And the manager offers to give us our meal for free and begs us to come back another day and dine in her restaurant. I accept her offer and let her know that I know it's not her fault but was not at all happy that she had so many employees at the scene and still couldn't stop the women from fighting. “For legal reasons, we are not able to put a hand on anyone.” I asked her, “Why is it that so many restaurants with bars and bars have bouncers and are legally able to remove people if they are putting others health at risk? What would you have done to ensure the safety of my baby and wife if I were not here to intervene?” Sir, I do not know.

I've run the events through my mind over and over again and focus on a better way to handle the situation (if possible). I come up with the same path I chose.

Notes on Dr. Dyer's Secrets for Success and Inner Peace

All,
Below are simply some notes that I took on the audio portion of Dr. Wayne Dyer's 10 Secrets to Success and Inner Peace. May it serve as a reminder that we are all one with our Source as well as give our souls the nutrients that it ever hungers for. May you all be blessed with peace and kindness.

namaste


Have a mind that is open to everything, and attached to nothing.
No one knows enough to be a pessimist. When we close our mind off from what is possible for us or what is possible for humanity closes off the genius that resides in each and every one of us.
Most people spend their lives looking for reasons to be offended.
You can’t give away what you don’t have.
People who are not good at giving away love, can’t give it away, because they don’t have it to give away.
You can’t give away love for others if you don’t have it inside you to give away. If what you have inside is contempt, anger, fear, then that’s what you’ll be giving away. If your message to the Universe is gimme, gimme, gimme, that’s exactly what the Universe will say to you. How about How may I serve? If you ask What can I give? the Universe will fill your life with abundance.
There are no justified resentments.
If you carry that hatred and resentment and anger toward others - all those things that you have told yourself that you deserve to feel hateful for - all that will end up destroying and hurting you. You must send blame out of your life for any conditions of your life. If you’re sitting there with a disease, if you’re sitting there with any tough situations in your life, whatever it might be that’s going on in your life, you’re willing to say that I am here because of the decisions I’ve made in my life - I am responsible for everything. I’m just not going to assign responsibility to other people for where I am. No matter what comes my way, I will not feel hatred for another - all that will come out of me will be love.
Don’t die with your music still in you.
There are no accidents here, we all showed up here with a purpose. Everyone of us has a divine purpose. However distant that music may sound, don’t get to the end of your life and know that you’re going to leave without having played yet.
Embrace silence.
There’s only one power in the Universe, it doesn’t matter what you call it (“You can’t get wet with the word water”). It is indivisible. It’s a way to consciously know your Source.
Give up your personal history
If you don’t have a story, you don’t have to live up to it. All of us have these bags of manure that we carry around called our past. Yet, even though you may have been (fill in the blank_______), but this is here and now. Merge yourself here and now. Embrace your past - accept it. I had to go through all this stuff in my life to go down this path and be where I am and now I release my past - I don’t need it; I give it up. The wake is a trail that is left behind. It is an illusion to believe that it is the cause for the now.

You can’t solve a problem with the same mind that created it
You must change your mind to change your life. Admitting you were wrong is simply saying ‘I have been making choices in my life that have not been effective/working and I am changing that - I was wrong.’ If I’m in a relationship with a person that isn’t working, what am I thinking about that person - I should focus on what I love about this person and not what I dislike.
Treat yourself as if you already were what you like to become
There is a genius in you - you must treat yourself as that and know that.
Treasure your divinity
In every work of genius, we often reject our own thoughts. They come back to us. We often see the things we think of as grand and genius and we reject them because they’re our own. We must learn to treasure our divinity instead of being terrified of it - knowing that I am always connected to my Source because there is no way that I cannot be. It is in you and you are in me and I am in you and we are always part of the whole and the whole is part of us. There is no place that this source is not.
Wisdom is avoiding all thoughts which weaken you.
Every thought in the Universe has an energy. If you have a thought of shame, fear, stress, anguish, anxiety etc, this will weaken your muscles and what is the heart, but a muscle. If you have a thought like this, shift it, we can always shift it. Shift it to a powerful thought, a thought of high energy, willingness, love, kindness etc. It’s what you expect, it’s what you think about, that expands. Change your thoughts and you change your world.

The ancestor to every action is a thought - Ralph Waldo Emerson

EGO

AT 16:41 OF FEBRUARY 12, 2009 JUSTME97 WROTE...

I will venture to share some of my thoughts and questions on a particular subject that interests me. My thoughts have been scattered/erratic and I'm having difficulty trying to coerce them into an organized pattern of thought. Keeping in mind that with every perspective and position, there will ALWAYS be a counter perspective and position. So regardless of what each of us say and believe, there will be another to offer a counter. I accept this and believe this occurs for yet still another specific purpose in our life here on earth. It makes its contribution according to God's plan for us.

First, I would like to keep with the premises that we are indeed spiritual beings having a human experience, as both Dr. Dyer and Bob Frissel have stated. Also, that we are all One in the Divine. From this point on, my mind begins to travel in wonderment as I try to absorb and apply these premises to things we live while in our human experience. I do this because I believe our lives in the physical world are some sort of necessary platform that we've been afforded to utilize according to our choices and capabilities. Thi s is a very challenging task with daily obstacles, I believe. It is our necessary, preparatory, 'temporary reality.' I'm especially interested specifically in the ego-driven principle and how it relates to the concept of competition.

I have found it interesting that in my life, I have been introduced to varying definitions of what the human ego actually is. My psychology background of my early years taught me that the ego was a component of our human personality, the aspect that defines how we conduct ourselves as individuals. According to Freud, the ego is a stabilizing force keeping the human innate impulses/wants/desires in check within the realms of reality (i.e. perceived socially acceptable ways) while maintaining the perceived moral sense of right and wrong...it is the intermediary of dueling forces. To mention another view would be Maslow's "self actualization" level where atop an hierarchy of physical and psychological needs, lies the point where humans may reach an awareness of truth beyond themselves while rising above distinction and realizing their full potentials as humans. Others say that the ego is all things peripheral to the self that it has identified with and used to define itself. Dr. Dyer says that it the idea we carry around about who we are, the "false self." There are so many other versions. I believe every version has merit an d that all these versions, however accurate and from whatever angle you use them for explanation, have a purpose for us. While here, this ego, whatever it is, must be cultivated before we truly can see who we are in the Divine. So all the gymnastics we experience as we live our earthly lives, are all necessary in that cultivation...God gave us these for a purpose.

With that said, I believe that although we are all One in the Divine, we must acknowledge that God made us individuals in many different physical representations...with varying degrees of abilities, talents, skills, capabilities and potentials to reach before we return Home with Him. This is my prelude to the area that interests me, in which I suspect is up for debate with some. That issue is competition. Is competition necessarily ego-driven for self-absorbing reasons? I see it as a venue in which to exercise our Divine-given power to be used as His tool. God gave each of us different talents and skills with the potential to develop them. Competition is the impetus to help us evaluate the manner in which we are trying to discover and use those talents. In a sense, it is opportunity to realize our capacity for change, whether the perceived results are negative or positive by others, nonetheless it is change....opposite to stagnation, or void of growth. Competition spawns persona l development and betterment (however subjectively defined, though not as important) of skills and talents which ultimately can benefit others...through leadership, enlightenment, guidance, innovativeness, etc. Whether others around you agree with it or not, it still empowers them. It doesn't have to be viewed as a duality where a win is at the cost of someone losing. A win for one can be a win for all. It is an avenue to execute God's power within us. Through the competitive course, we continue the process of learning, struggling, growing, serving, giving and leading by example...all aiding in the journey to bring us All Home. God gave us these varying physical attributes and representations for a reason. Without competition, those historical figures (Copernicus, Galileo, Einstein, Joan of Arc) that you recently mentioned, wouldn't have accomplished what they did had it not been for their drive for discovery, betterment, striving to improve over any previous idea/concept...for them, it wasn't appropriate to say, "good enough is good enough." Competition is what has created things for humans to add to their learning environment in their human experiences, which all ultimately contributes to their personal routes toward their final endpoint. I differ in opinion with Dr. Dyer on one of his points, "We never arrive, we just strive." I think we strive yes, but we do actually arrive...for some it may be at small epiphanies along the way, but ultimately we do at the endpoint of the Path (in different readiness forms to the Divine). We are all playing and living out different human-defined roles in our lives along the journey Home (what else are we to do with our time here?). Time here is to learn and discern. Time is our classroom. It is all purposeful and destined, I believe. We are all individuals, which is not to be misconstrued as me saying that we are separate, as some might say I am implying. We still are linked as One in the Divine. "Not until the fullness of time, will it be resolved," was a biblical verse I recently heard this week....I thought to myself how this phrase can apply to virtually every aspect of our life here. My hubby once said, and with great wisdom I might add, that in our spiritual searches, we wander around much like a tuning fork trying and waiting to hit that certain pitch that will put us in communion with God. If what you say is indeed correct and what I'm inclined to think as well, we are already in communion with God, many of us just don't know it yet...or will realize it at varying spectrums of the life continuum.

Finally, the beauty in all that I have tried to express, is that others will have and offer many counterpoints and interpretations to my thoughts...this is a testament to the many individual differences God bestowed on us and maybe one of "competition" (be it consciously or subconsciously for us) to further or better explain, express, share, clarify or teach. With each counter point comes the initial received message, then a seed of further (counter) development, then additional counter seeds until eventually an 'accepted' position is arrived at (determined by the individual's standard) that feels right for him...one that helps him reach his relationship with God on his own course and pace.

WE ARE ALL PARTS OF A DIVINE ONE

In the beginning, everything was at a complete state of rest.

Those of us who make up the Divine One had a single thought.

The One's thought created all matter according to the detail of the thought.

We continually create physical human-like bodies throughout the all areas of the universe.

We send light streamed Spirits through spiritual umbilical cords to fill these people [from birth until death] , and upon death, these Spirits (us) return to the Divine One (us joined as One).

This human experience is complete.

ROADMAP HOME

Francis of Assisi (Giovanni Francesco Bernardone; born 1181/1182 – October 3, 1226)[2] was a friar and the founder of the Order of Friars Minor, more commonly known as the Franciscans.

El Greco (Domenikos Theokópoulos), St Francis in Prayer before the Crucifix (1585-90, Oil on canvas, 105,5 x 86,5 cm)

Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi, Italy

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy;

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.

For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

I was reminded of this today by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer's daughter, Skye Dyer and realized that somewhere along my way, I have inverted some of these Points, which I decided to weave into my fabric of life.

Thank you Wayne and Skye!

Thank you Namaste, for rekindling my eternal understand of so many things, some forgotten until now.

Thank you JustMe97, for being so much of each of these to me, and perhaps, unwittingly [to each of us], you prevented me from straying from my Path toward the Divine... The Source of all. By-the-way, you share something with our Francesco :(8^)

POETRY - DANCE OF THE HEART, MIND, AND SOUL

"If"

by Rudyard Kipling (1910)

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

-- Thank you for the poem share namaste in your comment on my life principles!
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November 29, 2008 7:31 AM

Anonymous said...

Although not a poem, this is a passage I personally have found inspirational and appreciate it's poignant lessons and truth--

Excerpt from "Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy," by Sarah Ban Breathnach, ISBN 0-446-51913-8

"Pray the Journey is Long"

Life as a journey. Life as a safari. Life as a pilgrimage. Life as a garden. Life as the highest art.
Pathfinders. Prospectors. Pioneers. Detectives. Explorers. Archaeologists. Pilgrims. Poets. Sojourners. Gardeners. Artists of the Everyday.

Women (and men) of Spirit. Women of substance. Women with style. Women who have lived the questions. Women ready to embrace the answers. Women who look great in hats. That's why we wear so many different ones.
Seekers of the Sacred in the ordinary. Real Life. The Mystical in the madness. The Holy Mysteries in the mundane.
Seekers of Love. Passion. Wholeness.
Authenticity.
Where are we headed?
We're headed Home.
Ithaka.
But before we arrive, there are vast worlds awaiting exploration. Worlds within. Worlds without. Earth. Heaven.
Heaven on earth.
Sometimes the terrain is rocky and the slopes steep. Sometimes the jungle is thick and its interior very dark. Sometimes the water is deep and the waves extremely rough.
Do you see now why we need some variety in our approaches?
How will we know when we get there?
You'll know.
It's that simple. Real things are.
Are we there yet?
Not quite.
But it's taking too long.
Often it seems that way. Chronologically we're at the end of the year but the beginning of the journey. Not to worry. We'll have the time we need in **kairos to find ourselves.
Each of us has discoveries that we need to make on our own.
But you won't be alone. Someone who loves you unconditionally is at the helm. Divine Love sustains you, surrounds you, enfolds you, protects you.
Go in peace.
You're as ready as you'll ever be; well equipped for the adventures awaiting. Divine Substance--which is your only Reality--provides abundantly.

--It continues to say that you must ask...ask...ask (ask for help, supply, guidance, Grace and a respite from all of your crises...suffering, pain), surrender expectations. Believe in yourself, give thanks because "...all that you have is all you need." "...Receive with open arms as wide as you can all the miracles with your name on them..."

Keep on the lookout for soulful markers. They surround you. The Soul's awakening is gratitude. The Soul's essence is simplicity. The Soul's serenity is order. The Soul's serenity is harmony. The Soul's passion is beauty. The Soul's purpose is joy.

Pray your journey be a long one. Savor the stops along the way. They make the search marvelous. Meaningful. Memorable. Find and honor your own pace. There are still so many harbors to be seen for the first time. You're headed for someplace you've never been before. Keep your thoughts held high. Let personal passions stir your mind, body, and spirit....If you get stuck, look out at the wider vista and see how far you've traveled.
Set your course for Authentica....No longer will you see things as they are. You will see things as YOU are. Through the parting of the midsts where doubt and faith meet, you will see the authentic self is the Soul made visible.

** "Chronos is clocks, deadlines, watches, calendars. Chronos keeps track... Chronos is the world's time. KAIROS is transcendence, infinity, reverence, joy, passion, love; the Sacred....Kairos is Spirit's time. We exist in chronos. We long for kairos. That's our duality. We do in chronos. In kairos we're allowed to be."

-- Thank you for the share Anonymous in your comment on my poetry - dance of the heart, mind, and soul!
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Posted by PointOfLight13

This is one of my favorites

13 December 2008 02:15 AM

The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

--Robert Frost, 1915

Some Analysis
http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~wldciv/world_civ_reader/world_civ_reader_2/frost_road.html
http://poetry.suite101.com/article.cfm/robert_frost_s_tricky_poem
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MOVIES

Hero

Alien

*** "Apoclypto", Film: Mel Gibson

*** "Hero", Jet Li, Tony Leung, Maggie Cheung, Film: Zhang Yimou

I am Legend

Irobot

** "Ironman", Robert Downey Jr., Terrence Howard, Jeff Bridges, Shawn Toub, Gwyneth Paltrow, Production: Marvel Studios

**** "It's a Wonderful Life",

** "Jumper", Hayden Christensen, Jamie Bell, Rachel Bilson, Michael Hooker, Annasophia Robb, Max ThieriotProduction: New Regency/Hypnotic

"Kiss of the Dragon", Jet Li, Bridget Fonda, Tcheky Karyou, Production: Europ Corporation

Matrix

*** "Star Trek Nemesis", Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, Production: Rick Berman


Star Wars

*** "The 13th Warrior", Amtpmop Bamderas, Dian Venora, Omar Sharif , Film: John McTiernan

**** "The Last Samuri", Tom Cruise, Timothy Spall, Ken Watanabe, Billy Connolly, Tony Goldwyn, Hiroyuki Sanada Koyuki, Film: Edward Zwick

To be continued...

LIFE'S TONICS

FRUIT JUICES:
* Cranberry
* CranGrape
* Hand-squeezed Oranges fresh off our hybrid orange tree
* Florida Orange w/lots of pulp
* Pomegranate
* (2 apples + 1 orange + 3 carrots + 1 pear) blended
= Fresh fruit juice. Ahh!--namaste

BEERS
ALES:
* Boddington's Draft Ale
* Wolfpack's Draft IPA
* Miller Genuine Draft

MALTS:
* Mickey's Malt Liquor

PORTERS:
* Limited Release Pipeline, Made w/100% Hawaiian Kona Coffee, Kona Brewing Co., Kona, Hawaii

STOUTS:
* Murphy's Irish Stout

WINES
MERLOTS:

To be continued...

November 27, 2008 1:42 AM

namaste said...

The tonics of Life -

I love the list, though I must admit that I've only partaken in the items of the first subcategory. I'm a teetotaler by choice, though everyone else in my family enjoys the occasional spirit or postprandial libation. I think that they (these tonics of life) add character and a certain variety to mood, atmosphere and attitude, depending on where the participants are in their lives. They're great! They can either invigorate and/or enervate; come to think of it, food just doesn't have the same flexibility nor the capability that the liquids have.
I would say that one of the concepts that I enjoy about alcoholic beverages is the simple history of it all. Not that I know the history of any one poison, but collectively, they go back to Ancient Greece and then some. I'm sure King Hammurabi of Mesopotamia delighted in his share long before he concocted the Code (Codex Hammurabi). I find that it's one of those aspects of life that helps us all let go and remember that taking things too seriously is not the way to go. Perhaps Billy Joel said it best (*at least I think he coined the statement) when he said, "I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints; the sinners are much more fun."

You've actually reminded me of breakfast, which, if I may, I'd like to add to the list. Two apples, one orange, three carrots and a pear - blended. Fresh fruit juice. Ahh! You can't beat it!

BOOKS - GLIMPSES INTO INFINITY

Here's a list of books (ascending numerical, alphabetical order) that I would recommend or that have been recommended to me by others--Enjoy!

"Angels & Demons" by Dan Brown,
ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-2479-3
ISBN-10: 1-4165-2479-7
-- Thanks for a superb Christmas (2007) gift, B!

"Coyote Medicine",

"Don't Sweat the Small Stuff" by Richard Carlson, PH.D.
ISBN-13: 1-4013-0343-3
--November 29, 2008
--Thank you anonymous

"Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy," by Sarah Ban Breathnach
ISBN 0-446-51913-8

"The Jerome Biblical Commentary", Editors: Raymond E. Brown, S.S., Joseph A Fitzmyer, S.J., Roland E. Murphy, O.Carm.
ISBN: 0-13-509612-X
--Thanks for the recommendation and mentoring, Father Ouellette!

"The Jerusalem Bible", General Editor Alexander Jones I.S.S., S.T.I., I.C.B.
--Thank you Memere and Pepere B (both deceased since 1977, and 1979 respectively) pour mon mere-Ruth, your foresightedness, Monday's French tutoring, wonderful examples to live by, and your unconditional love!

"The Last Lecture", Randy Pausch
ISBN: 978-1-4013-2325-7
--Thanks for the book loan, John! I'm glad we were able to share company in the oncology ward, Bruddah!

"You Staying Young", Michael F. Roizen, M.D., Mehmet C. Oz, M.D.
ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-9256-6
ISBN-10: 0-7432-9256-1
--Thank you to my angelic wife-S, son-B, and daughter-S, for putting up with me, bringing so much joy and laughter to my life, helping me grow up, teaching me so many things about humor, and always making me proud beyond human capacity to express!

November 27, 2008 1:59 AM

namaste said...

1. The Secret History of the World: As Laid Down by the Secret Societies, by Mark Booth.
ISBN-10: 1590200314
ISBN-13: 978-1590200315

From Publishers Weekly
Booth, a London publisher who has taught philosophy and theology at Oxford, is not shy about what he expects from readers—he asks that they enter into an imaginative exercise and embrace a world in which the basic facts of history can be interpreted in a way which is almost completely the opposite of the way we normally understand them. That radical re-interpretation is based on the tenets offered in the secret teachings of Rosicrucians, esoteric Freemasonry, Sufism and Kabbalism, among others, with additional references to Eastern religions and Greek and Roman mythology. According to Booth, these teachings inspire the cosmic mind that brought into being the material universe. Booth's history incorporates so many disparate philosophies, many of them far, far away from the mainstream, that it lacks all coherence. And his universe is full of bizarre theories, entertaining primarily for their weirdness. For example, he posits that the angels in the ancient Hebrew Book of Enoch who became sexually attracted to human women are none other than the Gods of Olympus.

2. The Prophet,
by Kahlil Gibran
ISBN-10: 000100039X
ISBN-13: 978-0001000391

Amazon.com Review
In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands. At the moment of his departure, he wishes to offer the people gifts but possesses nothing. The people gather round, each asks a question of the heart, and the man's wisdom is his gift. It is Gibran's gift to us, as well, for Gibran's prophet is rivaled in his wisdom only by the founders of the world's great religions. On the most basic topics--marriage, children, friendship, work, pleasure--his words have a power and lucidity that in another era would surely have provoked the description "divinely inspired." Free of dogma, free of power structures and metaphysics, consider these poetic, moving aphorisms a 20th-century supplement to all sacred traditions--as millions of other readers already have.

3. You Are a Spiritual Being Having a Human Experience (Paperback)
by Bob Frissell
ISBN-10: 1583940332
ISBN-13: 978-1583940334

"Frissell shows us how to move consciously through our fears and limitations to the realization that everything we need is within ourselves."
—Bodhi Tree Book Review

Product Description
Too many people allow themselves to be limited by their ideas about themselves and the world around them. Bob Frissell reminds readers that they create their own reality through their consciousness and that improving this reality and living a fuller life is simply a matter of broadening one's perspectives. In this book, he shows people how to reconnect with their multidimensional selves and remake their lives.

UNORDERED / CHAOTIC LIFE PRINCIPLES

CREATION ~ ALL KNOWN/SEEN & UNKNOWN/UNSEEN

• God created all things known/visible and unknown/invisible
• God created us all equally [some unequally]

GOD'S & OUR CHILDREN

• Our children are God's children who are entrusted to our care
• Our children pick [in union with God] us to be their parents before they are born
• Our children are here to help us mature in creativity, emotion, faith, hope, humor, joy, love, patience, rationality, and wisdom

RETURNING TO OUR MAKER ~ THE DIVINE

• Among our highest priorities in life is that we are all created to help each other along "our paths home"
• God sent Jesus to help us understand how to return to Him (God)
• Jesus used His disciples to carry out God's plan for Jesus' return home
• From before our birth, God desires our successful return to Him

FAITH AND RELIGION

• Faith and religion are separate
• Faith is what connects us [through the Holy Ghost/Holy Spirit] to God

HAPPENINGS

• All events happen on purpose
• The purpose of some life events is unknown
• The purpose of some life events isn't meant to be known
• The most painful/demanding events give birth to the most joyful/meaningful successes

ONENESS ~ COMMUNION

• We have a single conscience, which is God's Presence within each of us
• All of us in communion with Christ become One

THE WAY

• Truth is the best path to follow in all things
• Miracles are candles of faith that the Holy Spirit lights along our path
• Sharing our miracle experiences with others may light candles of faith along the paths of others around us
• The Holy Spirit lives among all of us to help us stay on the right path and make the best choices
• We [His gift of free will] influence the course of God's plan with every thought and breath
• The Apocalypse arrives for many of us every moment

UNDERSTANDING LIFE

• Life is much more simple than we choose to make it
• Life is about "0's" and "1's" (If you don't believe me look around you)
• Most of the important questions are begging [still] to be asked

LOVE

• Under rated to the furthest extreme by some
• A decision, not an emotion
• Jesus demonstrated the ultimate definition decided to save us all [I used to think I understood Christ in his incredible decision to agree to make this sacrifice, but this continues to be one of my current areas of prayer and study]
• Jesus freed us all with the keys to Heaven and hell
• Humans may choose unconditional love every new moment of every day
• Angels get only one chance to choose God for all eternity
• God's and Jesus' messages are about boundless love
• The most fulfilled life belongs to One who is willing to sacrifice theirs to save another
• Christ's mercy is compassionate enough to forgive Judas' sins

BAPTISM

• Baptism comes in 3 colors: 1) Desire; 2) Spirit; and 3) Blood
• The highest honor in baptism by blood

TREATMENT OF OTHERS

• What people do to others speaks loudly about how they feel about themselves
• Integrity is more about what is right for everyone else before consideration of self

JUDGMENT BEFORE OUR MAKER ~ THE DIVINE

• Everything we are, say, or do in all of time will eventually be witnessed by everyone from the beginning of creation
• What is conducted in the dark will be brought into the light
• Nobody can stand in our place when it's time to be judged by God

GOD ~ THE DIVINE

• The essence of God is infinitely greater than all the words in all the books ever written... ever
• If one were to burn me and my bones to dust and scatter me across the globe, God will put me back together again
• Jesus was closer to his own mother than anyone
• I wonder if Mary (Jesus' mother, was in fact God in the effeminate... Truly a Divine birth)

DEALING WITH SATAN

• God and Jesus tricked Satan into believing that once Christ was crucified, He would go to hell for all eternity

PRAYER

• The Holy Spirit can communicate to God on our behalf when we are at a loss for words

DIVINE PROTECTION

• We all have at least one guardian Angel; some of us have more

VOICE OF GOD ~ THE DIVINE

• The Divine speaks to us constantly
• If we allow it, our busy lives deafen us to our callings

To be continued...

November 25, 2008 9:54 PM

namaste said...
Hmm,

Dear Blogger,
Great speaking with you today. I'm not sure what your moniker will be for future comments or blogs, but I'll leave it as "Blogger" for the time being.
I enjoy all of the principles that you have set down here. As far as religion and faith go, I have always questioned and never been a pious member of any of the organized doctrines. What I truly believe is that, no matter what one believes, there is truth in all of it. Every creed has, at its center, a cynosure - being (or set of beings) that make/s up a pantheon of golden ideals/truths/virtues et cetera. There is truth in every one of these. The confusion lies in that each of them teems with human error as well. So, if the intuition/spirit of the individual isn't trained/strong, it is easy to accept all things in any given faith as true, as long as one believes that that is the one and only true path - at which point of thought process, we begin a downward spiral and end up like the camp director (I think her name was Becky) in one of the most frightening movies ever (in my opinion) called Jesus Camp. I would encourage anyone with an open mind to watch and see where the destruction and brain washing of children is done in the country. Personally, I disagree with raising a child without an open mind and without an encouragement to think for him/herself.
There's something I would like to read (in this comment) to you from a great book I recently finished called, You are a Spiritual Being Having a Human Experience, by Bob Frissel. It's about oneness... (ellipsis...)

The attitude of mind that sees the things of the world as divided up into separate entities and then judges these entities as good or bad is called "dualism" or "Polarity Consciousness." When the mind and heart together become aware of the Unity of Being, there is an end to this dualistic vision. What is this vision? What, if anything, is wrong with it? Actually there can be nothing really "wrong" with dualism as such, for to think that there is something wrong with it is in itself entirely dualistic!
Dual-ism means "two-ism": seeing the whole of Being as somehow fundamentally d-vided. ... It is the most natural thing in the world for a three-dimensional mind to create dichotomies, divisions, dualities. We see things in terms of left and right, up and down, hot and cold, big and small, more and less. ...
The kind of dualism that I am most concerned with and that quite disappears as soon as one catches a glimpse of the truth of the Unity of Being, is the dualism between good and evil: the view of reality as divided not only or most importantly between different kinds of stuff, but as a great, polarized, cosmic struggle between ultimately opposed forces or tendencies, or between two great beings: God and Satan or Lucifer. This to is a natural tendency of third-dimensional mind: to divide everything we see or know, everything we feel everything we think, as tending toward the good or tending toward the evil. We distinguish that which is good for us as opposed to bad for us, but first of all because we distinguish us! We separate our kind of being from everything that is not us.
Once we have separated Americans or Christians, or white people or black people, or men, or women, or any group whatsoever as being "our group" as opposed to all the rest of the human family, want want to support the survival of our group, and we don't care that much about the rest. We divide humanity into "us" and "them," or "me" and "not me." We think that our survival, or prosperity, our success is "good," and anything that opposes it or resists it, is "evil." First I divide myself from the rest of humanity. If I expand my view, perhaps I identify myself with my family. Now there is my family versus all the other families. If I expand my view a little further, the "good guys" are the clan or nationality to which my family belongs or the corporation for which I work or the religion that I was brought up in. Now I am in competition with other clans or companies, or potentially at war with other nations. And as for religion, certainly my religion must be uniquely in possession of the true and the good, and the other religions the false and the evil. - You Are.. - Frissel, pp. 57 - 59

I agree, Blogger, that we as human beings should respect one another and each of us is to respect the credo of each of those around him/her. Though our religions/faith-based beliefs may differ, we can both see the common ground of the truth around us in many ways - love, for example. Kindness is another nexus of truth between our souls/spirits/beings.
Last night, while I was reading a book I recently bought by a Yogi named Swami Kriyananda (book is called Meditation for Beginners), I was introduced again to a quotation by the late Mahatma Ghandi that went as follows, "Be the change that you want to see in the world." How profound, simple and warmly instructive. As one would call it God, another would call it Allah, and yet another would call it Zeus, Shiva, Ra, Odin or any number of the list of deities that our kind has presented us with. Whatever it may be, at least one grain of sand must be common on each of their respective beaches of doctrine or truth.

Great Blog - thank you for this opportunity to speak.
namaste

November 26, 2008 2:17 AM
PointOfLight13 said...
Thank you for sharing, namaste. I'm very glad that you stopped by, and even more that you are now a follower of my blog!

Best of our Divine's blessing always!
B
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November 27, 2008 1:47 AM

namaste said...
"If"

by Rudyard Kipling (1910)

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies,
Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breath a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on";

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with kings - nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds' worth of distance run -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!



-Great chat today. Happy Thanksgiving. namaste
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November 27, 2008 6:26 PM

PointOfLight13 said...
Mahalo nui for your each of your comments and friendship, Namaste!

Very nice talking with you yesterday. Thanks for sharing your web site/blog with me. They are thought provoking and each (including your comments on my blog) possesses a refreshing vivacious personality. You are both a treasure and treat to all that have the good fortune to know you!


非常感谢！

光点13

ALOHA!

This blog is my first and is born from the fact that I am [sometimes said by others] strongly opinionated and passionate about so many things in life. And for the most part, my passionate ideas, thoughts, feelings, experiences, etc. are kept quietly among myself and one other or a numbered few. I've been told by some that I should've written a book, or two, or three. I'm a relatively simple person and I offer as much of myself to others as I am able to, now.

Those of you who are kind enough to stop by for a read, are invited to please share whatever you are comfortable sharing. We are all teachers and students in life; whether we are aware that we are or not.

Best of God's Blessings to you always!