One of the keys to end all wars, hatred, bigotry, suffering, violence, and disease is kindness. Perform acts of kindness every single day. When you act with kindness, your brain increases its serotonin level going into your system. Serotonin is an organic compound, found in the brain, which makes you feel good. It also boosts your immune system. So, with acts of kindness, you get two for one. You feel good and you ward off illness. However, here’s the best part, the person who is the recipient of the act of kindness also feels an increase in his or her serotonin level as well as does everyone in the immediate vicinity. This is beautiful stuff. If we all performed one little act of kindness each day eventually we would have a world at peace and free of disease!
Look for the opportunity to act with kindness. It doesn’t have to be a big thing. I was at the supermarket one day and it was raining as I got out of my car. I noticed a man walking toward the supermarket. He used a walker and was getting wet. Several people walked past him and no one paid any attention to him. I was going to run to the supermarket door. Instead, I got my umbrella out of the trunk of my car and without saying a word, walked up to the man, held the umbrella over his head and walked beside him. He didn’t say much, but the smile he gave me lasted the whole weekend. I really felt good and for the first time in a long time no one ran their shopping cart up the back of my legs.
Your quest in life is to feel good. God is good, so your quest in life is to feel God. Start today by performing three small acts of kindness. Hold the door open for someone behind you; pick something up that someone drops. Just say “Hello” to everyone. Go out of your way to be kind; your health depends on it.
Today’s Exercise: Pick up some trash on the street. You could use the exercise and you’ll feel good.
Today’s Affirmation: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: Your quest in life is to feel good. Kindness is the key.
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
Love Is God
Love is the supreme spiritual law. This law is our salvation. The supreme spiritual law, Love makes our life meaningful. Without Love, our life is a waste of time. Without Love, we are breaking God’s supreme spiritual law. We will never become successful or happy without Love.
Who must we Love? We must Love ourselves for we are the physical realization of God’s spirit. We must love all human beings for they are the realization of God’s spirit. We must Love all living creatures for God has placed them here as a symbol of his Love. Lastly, we must Love our Earth, for God has given us this home so that we may share in its prosperity.
Christian beliefs have taught that we are here to keep the Ten Commandments. A noble thought, but why? The answer is so that we can go to Heaven as winged angels. Why? What do we do when we get there? How is anything going to change? Won’t we be jealous if our kindred angel has bigger wings? With all the time we will have on our hands, wouldn’t it be logical for some of us to want to start a war? One of the Ten Commandments says, “Thou shall not kill.” How do we explain the justification of war and jealousy? We cannot! Such behaviors break the supreme spiritual law, Love.
If we break the Ten Commandments, do we go to Hell and do we take our bodies with us? Logic says no; our bodies turn to dust. Do we take our souls? Our souls are God’s Universal Superconscious Mind. Does God send itself to Hell? No. Some organized belief systems are based on fear and God is not fear. God is Love and Love is the First Commandment. Actually, Love is all Ten Commandments. To change our station in life we must change our perception of life. The first step is Love, the supreme spiritual law.
Today’s Exercise: Take the first step to love.
Today’s Affirmation: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: Without Love, our life is a waste of time.
Who must we Love? We must Love ourselves for we are the physical realization of God’s spirit. We must love all human beings for they are the realization of God’s spirit. We must Love all living creatures for God has placed them here as a symbol of his Love. Lastly, we must Love our Earth, for God has given us this home so that we may share in its prosperity.
Christian beliefs have taught that we are here to keep the Ten Commandments. A noble thought, but why? The answer is so that we can go to Heaven as winged angels. Why? What do we do when we get there? How is anything going to change? Won’t we be jealous if our kindred angel has bigger wings? With all the time we will have on our hands, wouldn’t it be logical for some of us to want to start a war? One of the Ten Commandments says, “Thou shall not kill.” How do we explain the justification of war and jealousy? We cannot! Such behaviors break the supreme spiritual law, Love.
If we break the Ten Commandments, do we go to Hell and do we take our bodies with us? Logic says no; our bodies turn to dust. Do we take our souls? Our souls are God’s Universal Superconscious Mind. Does God send itself to Hell? No. Some organized belief systems are based on fear and God is not fear. God is Love and Love is the First Commandment. Actually, Love is all Ten Commandments. To change our station in life we must change our perception of life. The first step is Love, the supreme spiritual law.
Today’s Exercise: Take the first step to love.
Today’s Affirmation: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: Without Love, our life is a waste of time.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Phoenix Bird
Just as the mystical Phoenix bird rises out of the ashes to begin a new life, so must humankind rise out of the ashes of Dark Age beliefs and superstitions. No longer must humankind be afraid of death or the hereafter. No longer must we waste this life thinking that everything will be better in the next life. No, this life is to be enjoyed, to prosper, to live in peace, to create miracles, and to be happy.
No longer must we think of ourselves as sinners, not worthy to enjoy all of God’s beauty. We must become “born again: human beings. To re-quote the words of Jesus, “What has been created by me, all men and women can create and that which I am, all men and women will be.”
Reread the following sentence every day of your life. Our destiny is to achieve the spiritual awareness that we are part of God and that Jesus was a man who reached the highest level of human awareness, a destiny that someday all humans will reach.
Our task now is to be reborn, to rid ourselves of untruths such as, sin, Hell, devil, pain, stress, anger, greed and yes, even death. For when we lay down this body, our spirit like the mystical Phoenix will rise more glorious than we ever could imagine. This life is our Heaven or Hell depending on HOW we live it. The choice is ours.
Today’s Exercise: Mentally rid yourself of all negative thoughts and deeds.
Today’s Affirmation: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: This life is to be enjoyed, to prosper, to live in peace, to create miracles, and to be happy.
No longer must we think of ourselves as sinners, not worthy to enjoy all of God’s beauty. We must become “born again: human beings. To re-quote the words of Jesus, “What has been created by me, all men and women can create and that which I am, all men and women will be.”
Reread the following sentence every day of your life. Our destiny is to achieve the spiritual awareness that we are part of God and that Jesus was a man who reached the highest level of human awareness, a destiny that someday all humans will reach.
Our task now is to be reborn, to rid ourselves of untruths such as, sin, Hell, devil, pain, stress, anger, greed and yes, even death. For when we lay down this body, our spirit like the mystical Phoenix will rise more glorious than we ever could imagine. This life is our Heaven or Hell depending on HOW we live it. The choice is ours.
Today’s Exercise: Mentally rid yourself of all negative thoughts and deeds.
Today’s Affirmation: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: This life is to be enjoyed, to prosper, to live in peace, to create miracles, and to be happy.
Love = Creation
All of existence is the creation of God’s Love and all creation is a manifestation of God’s Love. Everything created was from within God’s desire to contribute to the betterment of creation and as resulting humanity. At this point, each of us must do some soul searching. Are we contributing to humanity or are we taking away from humanity? Do we spend most of our time destroying this planet that God has created for our home?
The essence of creativeness is the love of all life. Every creature has a purpose and every flower is here for a reason. Too often, we treat these essences as having no value and yet, every time we step on a bug we destroy ourselves.
God gave each of us a special talent, and sometimes our talent appears more than just one. Through God we have become unique, a unique expression in the universe created by God. We are here to make a conscious decision to return God’s love. This love develops our talent, contributing to humanity.
I always thought I didn’t have any talent; that my brother had it all. I now know that by denying myself Love is denying God to work through me, and that is the greatest fear we can take into our minds. No matter what we do in this life, we will never be completely happy unless we allow our talents to be developed; our destinies to be fulfilled; and our visions to expand so that we know and understand our partnership with God. By allowing God’s love to work in our lives as a power for good we become free, to explore these special gifts that God has set aside for us.
We may contribute to humanity in general. This contribution, no matter how insignificant we think it is, advances humankind along the path of knowledge, and only then can we hope to move in harmony with life itself. This becomes so evident that we finally realize that failure and unhappiness are our own creations. This is not an angry God punishing us, nor a vengeful God getting even. This is Love gone astray. The perfect seed of success and happiness lies within each of us. There is within us a channel in which God expresses Love. This channel is your mind. Love is the key to opening this channel and once it is opened, nothing may close it, except for the perceived lack of Love.
Today’s Exercise: Open your mind. Look for your special talent.
Today’s Affirmation: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: There is within us a channel in which God expresses Love. This channel is your mind.
The essence of creativeness is the love of all life. Every creature has a purpose and every flower is here for a reason. Too often, we treat these essences as having no value and yet, every time we step on a bug we destroy ourselves.
God gave each of us a special talent, and sometimes our talent appears more than just one. Through God we have become unique, a unique expression in the universe created by God. We are here to make a conscious decision to return God’s love. This love develops our talent, contributing to humanity.
I always thought I didn’t have any talent; that my brother had it all. I now know that by denying myself Love is denying God to work through me, and that is the greatest fear we can take into our minds. No matter what we do in this life, we will never be completely happy unless we allow our talents to be developed; our destinies to be fulfilled; and our visions to expand so that we know and understand our partnership with God. By allowing God’s love to work in our lives as a power for good we become free, to explore these special gifts that God has set aside for us.
We may contribute to humanity in general. This contribution, no matter how insignificant we think it is, advances humankind along the path of knowledge, and only then can we hope to move in harmony with life itself. This becomes so evident that we finally realize that failure and unhappiness are our own creations. This is not an angry God punishing us, nor a vengeful God getting even. This is Love gone astray. The perfect seed of success and happiness lies within each of us. There is within us a channel in which God expresses Love. This channel is your mind. Love is the key to opening this channel and once it is opened, nothing may close it, except for the perceived lack of Love.
Today’s Exercise: Open your mind. Look for your special talent.
Today’s Affirmation: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: There is within us a channel in which God expresses Love. This channel is your mind.
Monday, June 21, 2010
We Have Been Told Who to Hate
If the year were 1763, you would have been told to hate the French, because we were in the middle of the French and Indian War. A few years later, because of the War of Independence, the French were our friends and you were told to hate the English. Later, we were told to hate Native Americans (Indians). It seems they, the Native Americans had the audacity to be living on land that the settlers decided they wanted.
Then, we ran out of countries to hate so, we decided to have a civil war. It was easy. Depending on which side of the Mason Dixon Line you lived on, you just hated the other side. It didn’t matter if your own mother lived on the other side, she was the enemy, and you had to kill the enemy.
Then, in 1917, we were told to hate Germans, because we were in the “War to End All Wars.” Ha! Twenty-five years later, we decided to hate the Germans again. This time we threw the Japanese in to make it more interesting. Oh, by the way we liked the English, French, Russians, and sometimes the Italians. Now, that the war was over we thought we could rest for a while. Wrong, now we hate the Koreans, at least the ones that live north of the 38th Parallel.
From 1951 to 1953, I was in high school and I had never heard of Korea. It’s hard to hate somebody you didn’t know even existed. What’s the deal? North and South Koreans look the same. You could end up hating the wrong one. Well, we got through that war and since we were pretty good at meddling into other peoples’ Civil Wars, we decided to try it again. This time, we go to Vietnam. We are now supposed to hate somebody named “Charlie.”
Just about now, we begin to think there is no one left to hate, but we decide it’s Russia’s turn. Then we began something called the Cold War. We spend billions of dollars making weapons to wipe each other off the face of the earth. Well, somehow we got through that one without killing anyone and turned our attention to the Middle East. Now here comes Iraq, with the third largest army in the world. Yes indeed, we hate those guys, go in kick their butt, kill a lot of Iraqi, and get out relatively clean. Later, junior comes along and says, “You call that a war dad, I’ll show you a real war,” and we are still there.
In my opinion, the next twenty years we will go full cycle and hate the French again, wait a minute; we already hate the French. Who are we supposed to hate now? We are supposed to hate HATRED.
Today’s Exercise: Do one act of kindness towards someone you would not normally look at.
Today’s Affirmation: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: War is an excuse for fear. Fear is an illusion. War is stupid.
Then, we ran out of countries to hate so, we decided to have a civil war. It was easy. Depending on which side of the Mason Dixon Line you lived on, you just hated the other side. It didn’t matter if your own mother lived on the other side, she was the enemy, and you had to kill the enemy.
Then, in 1917, we were told to hate Germans, because we were in the “War to End All Wars.” Ha! Twenty-five years later, we decided to hate the Germans again. This time we threw the Japanese in to make it more interesting. Oh, by the way we liked the English, French, Russians, and sometimes the Italians. Now, that the war was over we thought we could rest for a while. Wrong, now we hate the Koreans, at least the ones that live north of the 38th Parallel.
From 1951 to 1953, I was in high school and I had never heard of Korea. It’s hard to hate somebody you didn’t know even existed. What’s the deal? North and South Koreans look the same. You could end up hating the wrong one. Well, we got through that war and since we were pretty good at meddling into other peoples’ Civil Wars, we decided to try it again. This time, we go to Vietnam. We are now supposed to hate somebody named “Charlie.”
Just about now, we begin to think there is no one left to hate, but we decide it’s Russia’s turn. Then we began something called the Cold War. We spend billions of dollars making weapons to wipe each other off the face of the earth. Well, somehow we got through that one without killing anyone and turned our attention to the Middle East. Now here comes Iraq, with the third largest army in the world. Yes indeed, we hate those guys, go in kick their butt, kill a lot of Iraqi, and get out relatively clean. Later, junior comes along and says, “You call that a war dad, I’ll show you a real war,” and we are still there.
In my opinion, the next twenty years we will go full cycle and hate the French again, wait a minute; we already hate the French. Who are we supposed to hate now? We are supposed to hate HATRED.
Today’s Exercise: Do one act of kindness towards someone you would not normally look at.
Today’s Affirmation: I am loved, because I love.
Points to Ponder: War is an excuse for fear. Fear is an illusion. War is stupid.
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