Choose it! Use it!
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Use it.
Use this power. This divine, infinite, loving and predictable power is at our disposal.
Let's use it. And - KNOW - that we are using it, because whether we acknowledge it or not, we already use it all the time.
Use it, now, and let's go about it consciously - for ourselves and for each other.
"Divine order is centered in you, in the now - at this moment. The things that appear as problems are not cosmically designed fortresses that you have to scale and conquer. They exist in - and only in - one place - mind. And they are there, only because they have been invited and nurtured. You have watered them and fed them with countless hours of elaboration and description, lavishly spelled out and rendered to the outside world as existence. And there's no point in denying any of it.
But you don't have to keep feeding it if you don't like it. Now, let's choose - and you choose life, and choose to use the all-powerful that can only be yours - by yielding. "
Let the past die.
When we let the past die, it's not - "the past," that is dying.
It's a current thought - *about* - the past, about people that likely aren't even around us anymore, and it's bound up, in powerfully shaping the future.
And dying, means a choice for its being put out of consciousness - permanently.
Let the future die.
Bring aspirations, and desires into the present moment, and consciously use our divine power to, 'be' - them. Now.
And dying to the future means unruly, unproductive worry no longer formulates our now. Rather, our - now realization - of our dreams contributes to formulating our future - the way we want it.
In a meeting, a woman shared, "Is this, that I'm feeling - is it lonliness and isolation? Or is it quiet, and solitude? I realized she said, that I get to choose, and what I choose, is what it becomes - and what I become."
We're never 'alone'.
And when we feel most isolated, is when we have greatest potential for contact with the infinite, with God.
The difference is, choosing for loneliness we're focused on - 'out there'.
Choosing for solitude, we're focused on the still, quiet voice that is within and withall, in the now, and we're choosing for power, and grace, and love.
It's an act of quiet defiance of the world, and embracing all of the only power that exists.
Tomorrow - is our descendant. The next eternal moment - is our descendant.
Choose it. Let's - use it.
"I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you - life, and death, blessing, and cursing. Therefore, choose life, that both you, and your descendants, may live." (Deut.)
Let it be so.
And, so it is.
The Easter of Our Lives - by Joel Goldsmith
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(NEW YORK, NEW YORK - circa 1957)It is the day of the Crucifixion, and the Master is seated by himself somewhat apart from the people in the courtyard. Outside the gates the crowd has gathered. These are the multitudes whom Jesus fed when they were an-hungered; these are the people whom he healed of their diseases, of their sins, and of their infirmities. Some of them he even raised fro the dead. Now they have gathered to make sure that he is crucified. They have been lulled to forgetfulness of the good that they witnessed in his ministry, and evidently their ecclesiastical authorities have convinced them that Jesus meant to destroy their temple, their religion, even their God. The fact that they saw the healings and experienced them is forgotten in the cry, "Crucify him! Crucify him!"
The Roman authorities are much concerned, because they have nothing against the man Jesus; they have nothing against his teaching; and they have no liking for the work of the day. This the Master understands. He knows that on one side are the representatives of the Roman law, who have no desire to perform their unpleasant task, while on the other side are the ungrateful people whom he has blessed.
So he has a right to do a little thinking, and we have the right to look into his mind and to speculate as to what he is thinking. Could it be as he sits there waiting for the inevitable that he is saying to himself, "What a great spiritual victory has been given me! What a great revelation from on high, a revelation so great that I know that the words which I have spoken will never pass away. Some day men will remember them and repeat them, and these words will lift those who hear out of the grave of sin, disease, and death.
"What a wonderful light God has given me! What grace I have received from on high that I should know the meaning of all things, past, present, and future. With this great light I have brought healing, consolation, and comfort, not only to those of my present age, but even before Abraham was, those who existed will receive this light. Unto eternity will it brighten the lives of men. It will overcome the world: the world of war; the world of disease; the world of fear; and the world of sin. Yes, God has been very good to me; God has blessed me."
Alone in the courtyard, he remembers the love he has poured out on the world.
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Answers, Power, Collective Awareness
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(ATLANTA-07JUL10)A quilt - of conciousness ... many different ways to be aware.
Lots of colors; lots of textures; lots of planning; lots of thinking.
Woven together by the Master Quilt Maker.
We are all a part of it. We contribute to the end product. We each add the squares- experiences, of our lives that are sewn next to another person's squares. That person helps us through our experiences; we help them through their experiences.
Collectively - spiritually, we all have the answers, the power, to create, to resolve. We lose track. We forget.
That's when someone comes along and throws us the life line.
Someone out there - in our Quilted Consciousness Community - has been there before, can guide you in resolutions, needs your wisdom in some other area.
The value of the masses in solving problems and offering guidance is unquestionable.
What about the harnessing of the universe's energy in a major event that we all participate in? Where is the consciousness of the recent Gulf oil spill? Do we dare believe we can effect outcomes? "If we can dream it, it will be." Or are there some things just too big for that?
The quilt is our world - we bring together Quilted Consciousness, communing and dreaming and acting. Not a social face book or a texting site designed for whimsical sharing of information, but a serious resource for problem solving - a single individual's problem, or the problems facing us collectively in the world.
Recall the activity surrounding a large 16-wheel transport truck, stuck under a viaduct. After many hours of problem solving by all of the "powers" and "authorities" and a prodigious traffic jam, one little boy noted that they only need a couple of inches to clear the viaduct. "Why not let the air out of the tires?"
SOMEONE - among us - has the answer to our question: Common sense intertwined with learnedness, expertness intertwined with simple logic.
Can an ordinary person, like me, like you, make a difference? Or do we shrug and say, "What a shame - hope someone can fix it." And when, along that scale, does God get too small to be God?
It seems there needs to be a real call-to-arms: Spiritual leaders, intellectuals, and ordinary persons - masses of the ordinary persons - creating the resolution of what is most certainly a world disaster! Join me at
www.quiltedconsciousness.com.
A day spent waiting for God
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A day
“Life” has dealt me an uncommonly wonderful opportunity lately - the chance to choose completely how I will live this thing called, 'today'.
I'm not unique, and I'm not 'blessed' – any more than anyone else is either of these.
And it's not a given to say that making choices to open up to life leads to instant clarity. I can attest to that based on recent experience. Matter of fact, without some attention your thought can become quite insidiously 'circular'.
Anyway, last night – actually it was around 3:00 a.m. this morning - I decided that today, Thursday, I would spend in a constant search for ... God .
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Candid Camera meets ...
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A job in a gym.
Men and women on discerning womens mentrual cycles.
