Passion

One of the most beautiful words in our language is “enthusiasm.” It is a Greek word, which translates to “a God within.” Within you is an infinite passionate soul that wishes to express itself. It’s the God within you urging you to fulfill a deep sense of what you were meant to be.
The beauty of feeling passionate and enthusiastic is the glorious feeling of joy and cheerfulness that comes along with it.
If you want to feel great, look into the mirror, and say to yourself, “I am eternal; this reflection will fade, but I am infinite. I am here temporarily for a reason. I will be passionate about all that I do.” Then, notice how you feel as you stare at your reflection in the mirror. You will get a sense of belonging to eternity. In a world that lasts forever, you certainly must belong! It’s impossible for you not to belong, because your presence here is evidence that a passionate, enthusiastic divine source, intended you to be here.
Any idea that our life is temporary and that you aren’t a piece of God’s infinite perfection devoid of passion leads you to self-doubt, anxiety, self-rejection, depression, and many more low energy feelings of misery.
If you change the way you feel about things, the things you feel about will change.

Today’s Exercise: Be passionate in everything you do.
Today’s Affirmation: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: Enthusiasm is from the Greek words “entheos” and “yashim.” Enthusiasm means the God within.

Your Choice

When all is said and done there are only two feelings to choose from, love or fear. Love is the ultimate expression of life, and self-expression is our purpose in this life. There are several different forms of love, with only one degree. Either you love or you don’t. Filial love is the love you feel for your family. This love is in born and grows stronger every day. Agape is the love you feel for a friend. This love must be earned and sometimes becomes stronger than filial love. Eros is the love you feel for a romantic lover or spouse. This love can be fickle and can be transferred to another.
These are all forms of love simply expressed in different ways.
One of the underlying effects of death is losing our individual identity. If individuality is lost, who will there be to love? This is why so many people cry at funerals. We lose the ability to love the deceased person because they no longer can react to our love. This love turns into grief. This grief turns into a feeling of unfulfilled love and loneliness and we in turn fear death even more.
Losing the ability to love means losing the ability to understand who we really are. This loss depending on your core beliefs either brings you closer to God or widens the gap between you and God.
The good news is you never need to fear the loss of self-love, because you and God are one. Even if you were the last person on Earth, you would feel Love because God does not abandon anyone.
You and Love cannot be separated, for Love is God and you were never apart from God, nor will you ever be.

Today’s Exercise: Don’t be afraid to tell people you love them and why. It will go a long way.
Today’s Affirmations: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: Love has only one degree; either you Love, or you don’t.

Love Is the Underlying Unity of the Universe

The world is constantly at war. We fight over deserts where nothing grows. We fight over oceans that we can never own. We fight over religious beliefs, none of which we can prove. We fight over cultures, most of which we don’t understand. Most of all, we fight because we don’t know and don’t understand who we are or who they are.
The answer to stop the fighting is simple. Find out who we are and find out who they are. God created the universe. At this point, to our knowledge, God put humankind on this planet. He gave humankind Earth to share, grow, and live; more importantly to love.
What have we gained by wars? How can we justify war if we understand that love is the underlying unity of the universe? Could organized religion be the real culprit here? We tried to explain God through hundreds of created religions. Some of these religions have been used and are being used as an excuse to kill our fellow humans.
The time has come to stop using God as an excuse for wars. God is Love and Love is God. Humankind is not separate from God. Humankind is the physical reality of God’s spirit (soul). If we could take our spirits (souls) and lay them out for inspection, we would only find one soul and that soul (spirit) is the Universal Superconscious Mind of God. This spirit is pure love. This spirit is eternal and all knowing. God gave us a mind to think and a body to act in kindness. Where in the heck did we lose sight of this?

Today’s Exercise: Love starts with us. Stop hating yourself today.
Today’s Affirmation: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: The time has come to stop using God as an excuse for wars.

Love Rules All Love

The message of truth is that you, yourself, your real being, is spirit. Your physical materiality is simply your expression, your physical materiality is what you use in your expression of life. This materiality is your servant not your master. When you recognize and realize your true nature, you will be perceptive to its real relations to you and yours to it.
A supreme power and wisdom governs the universe. This supreme power, this supreme mind is measureless and pervades all space. This supreme power is in everything that exists, from the minute atom to the expansive universe. Our faith gives us the power to believe and the power to see that all things are part of the infinite spirit of God and this power must work for our good.
Faith, confidence, and expectation regarding the beneficial power of God tend to open the channels of God’s influence in our life. Doubt, disbelief, distrust, and fear tend to clog up those channels depriving you of its wonderful power.
To a great extent you determine the quality of your own life by your thoughts. By the nature of your thoughts, you live either a very productive life, or a very unproductive, miserable, fearful existence.
When you learn how to control your thoughts, you can control your world. Do you still have doubts? If you are waiting for love, money, health, happiness, or peace of mind, examine your thoughts on these subjects. You may be compounding your situation while you blame it on some outside influence. There is a four-inch space between our ears that controls our world. Control that four-inch space and live the life that God intended for you. God loves you, and would not have given you the ability to vision, without the ability to achieve your visions.
Look at your neighbor. They probably handle their situation in a way worse than you do. The good news is; most people are either standing still or going backwards. All you need to do to succeed is to dream, to believe, and to put one foot in front of the other. Don’t look back, look ahead, but look with a new perspective. See that God loves you, and that he will provide you with all that is necessary to achieve your goals. Accept it, accept God, and accept the fact that your soul is infinite and will never die.
Today’s Exercise: Do an audit on your values. Are they what you need them to be to succeed?
Today’s Affirmation: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: Accept God, and accept the fact that your soul is infinite and will never die.

God Is Love

Without a doubt the most important words you will ever read or hear is “God loves you.”
God does not love you sometimes, or if you are good or if you belong to a certain religion or if you pray and make sacrifices. God loves you all the time unconditionally. God even loves you if you don’t believe in God.
As humans, we seek love and are devastated without it. Love is simple; it requires you to give it first. God gives us love every minute of every day. When we separate ourselves from God, we block God’s love so that fear, hatred, jealousy, violence, and failure are manifested into our lives.
The secret of success and happiness is love. Love is the path we must follow in order to perceive the great spiritual unity between God and humankind. This universal law called love is necessary to bridge the gap between God and all else.
The mighty truth that has been hidden from us is that we are not separate from God, as we have been led to believe. Through love, we attain a rebirth of consciousness and a unity with the Universal Superconscious Mind of God. God’s love moves through the universe expressing itself in every flower, bush, tree, butterfly, snowflake, the light and warmth of the sun, the majesty of the mountains, a field of wheat gently blowing in the breeze and in the mighty power and vastness of the oceans.
God’s love is manifested in physical form for us to see. We are the only aspect of God’s creations that can make a conscious effort to return God’s love.

Today’s Exercise: Go into the countryside and experience God’s love and perfection in nature.
Today’s Affirmation: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: God loves you all the time unconditionally. Through love, we attain a rebirth of consciousness and a unity with the Universal Superconscious Mind of God.