Leo Tolstoy on God

LEO TOLSTOY ON GOD: "When you look inside yourself, you see what is called 'your own self' or your soul. You cannot touch it or see it or understand it, but you know it is there. And this part of yourself--that which you cannot understand--is what is called God. God is both around us and inside of us--in our souls.

The more you understand that you are at one with God, the more you will understand that you are at one with all His worldly manifestations."

Sunday, April 24, 2011

GO AHEAD: Pop "The Pill" For Resurrection!


Upon leaving the movie "Limitless," starring Bradley Cooper and Robert DeNiro, I began to think of getting my "pill."

I wanted to be able to take a little colorless pill and leave all of the troubled world behind, rising high above the clouds and fulfilling all of my human potential.

Like characters in the movie who took the pill, then ran out, I could imagine overthrowing whole apartments, too, to find my "pill."

Yes.

That's what happens to us when "magic" happens. We get hooked!

It doesn't take too much of an imagination to know that what sometimes is too good for us also turns out to be "too good to be true."

An everlasting...permanent...state of enhanced view of the world. The ability to clearly see all things in milliseconds. The ability to manipulate the stock market and gather millions into a bank account in one or two transactions.

Yes. A pill.

I want that pill!

I began to imagine what my magic pill would taste like when I swallow it...especially the first time.

I began to imagine what my magic pill would do to my senses when I swallow it... especially the first time.

The time...before I got "hooked."

You see, the time to think before we swallow...a pill, or anything else, is BEFORE the first time.

We need to really...really think about our altered state, and do we truly, really, truly want to "go there."

Eddie Morra's (Bradley Cooper) girlfriend, "Lindy," played by actress Abbie Cornish, was forced to take one pill ...at a time when her life was in extreme danger and this was the only way for her to survive.

So, she took the pill...and she lived.

Unlike Bradley's character, she didn't like the impact of the pill on her "Beingness." Sure, she functioned at a higher level. Sure, she was able to have strength and power she never would, could have under normal circumstances. But, it was clear that she was not looking to radically change her life.

So, she opted out of continuing on the pill.


Many people living in an unstable world at this time would love to have such a "pill" to swallow.

As we celebrate this Easter, there's a little "pill" I'm offering that you swallow. I'm suggesting that like Bradley Cooper's character in "Limitless," you'll find yourself in the right frame of mind, i.e. clear, all the time...performing optimally...all times. I can't promise that you'd be able to accomplish physical feats, but again, I'll promise you that you wouldn't constantly be "running for your life, looking behind you" or chasing your own shadow.

I promise you that much.

The "pill" that you should take is a little clear pill, too.

It's filled with an invisible substance.

That substance is the SPIRIT of God: the Holy Spirit.

You see essence of the pill already resides within you. But since it's taken you a lifetime and you obviously haven't tapped into it, I'm recommending that every day you get up, you make a concerted effort to take the "holy spirit" in a pill form as you begin your day.

As you take that first swallow...I want you to imagine what it will do to your body.

I want you to imagine this pill penetrating every pore...every cell...every inch of your body and mind.

Then sit back and imagine.

Imagine the places you could go that day...Imagine the feats you could accomplish that day...Imagine the doors you can have open for you that day...

That day...and every day...you take that pill!

Let's look at this special pill and what it would do for you.

1. It would make kindness a permanent state of "beingness," not an option, depending on your mood.

2. It would take fear out of your vocabulary and out of your life, filling you with FAITH as the only operating system that you know.

3. It would make you compassionate in a way that is second-nature, not as an afterthought, or because of extreme effort, or worse, to make you "look good."

4. It would make every person a special extension of yourself, making no one a "stranger" at least in your heart.

5. It would make you see past the exterior of troubled souls and able to look deeply into their hearts and know exactly what burdens that person may be carrying and challenges he/she may be facing that day.

6. It would make you passionate about caring about life outside your own limited sphere.

7. It would make you see beyond your immediate borders and see inside the world. In fact, you will have a view from a higher level and where you can see the world from the "Center of the Universe."

8. It would help you understand the role you came into the world to play...in the job, career, family and life you have built for yourself.


That little pill...

the little pill I'm suggesting you take would lift you beyond your wildest imagination into a resurrected world that you can not even now imagine. That's because...

at the heart of that little pill, you see, is the key ingredient that makes us all our most optimum in all ways at all times.

At the very center of that pill...

is love.

Love is kind...
Love is true...
Love is compassionate...
Love is LIMITLESS.


Isn't that the pill you need for your RESURRECTION, today?

Think about it.

After that...

I want you to ...

swallow that pill.

Yes.

I want you to take this mind-altering DRUG!

I want you to GET CLEAR...today...and EVERY DAY!

Yes. I want you to get CLEAR on love.

Take that pill...please...for your continued resurrection.

Happy Easter!

Oh...and please don't forget to go see the movie "Limitless."

You'll see that all I told you...is true...about your "limitless" and resurrected self.
Who knows...one day you may look up and see "his" reflection... as yours.

One day, too, you might even see the face of real strangers reflecting back. Isn't that the point of living in the "ceaseless flow of transcendent life?" Isn't that the point of "limitlessness?" Isn't that the point of your "Resurrection?"

Namaste',

Che'

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Are you READY to "Cross Over?"


I've always been fascinated with supernatural events and happenings. So you shouldn't be at all surprised to hear I enjoyed the television show, "Ghost Whisperer," starring Jennifer Love Hewitt. The show ran on CBS from September 23, 2005 to May 21, 2010.

I so much enjoyed the show that I now watch it in re-runs on Ion television, whenever I get the chance.



As the character Melinda Gordon, Hewitt has the ability to speak to ghosts who are still lingering on Earth because of unresolved issues. With her assistance, the ghosts are able to resolve their earthly concerns and finally cross over into "the light."

Today's post, too, is about crossing into the light and getting rid of "ghosts" from our past that keep us from moving forward.

"If we don’t start treating ourselves with the love and attention we need, we will continue to be our own worst enemies."
-Debbie Ford, highly esteemed spiritual teacher, tweeted on April 4, 2011.


Many of us are afraid to delve deeply into painful experiences of the past because we don't want to disturb our current peace. Until we do, though, we are living a false reality.

Unearthing negative past experiences, if correctly handled, reveals to us the truth about who we always were as a person. It also shows us how all along the journey, there always was a loving, gentle hand leading us and comforting us. Seeing this, and knowing this truth, helps us reach Wholeness.


What this truth also should signal to is that since The Presence was always there ...it always will be there.

As we look back, we should remember that the consciousness we have today is not the same consciousness that we carried yesterday.

Every day...in every way...we are evolving.


The Soul does not retrogress. It moves us forward into a new level of consciousness with each new experience of each new day.

So, when we did something 20, 10, five or even two years ago, we did so with the consciousness we had at the time.

It's always wise to remember, "consciousness we had at the time!"

[DISCLAIMER: If you've got serious issues from your past that need to be resolved, please seek the help of a licensed psychiatric professional.]



Most of us are walking along the road...going into our todays...and tomorrows...with lots of "ordinary" baggage from yesterday weighing us down. This type of baggage needs to be discarded and left at the curb of our past.

We cannot keep dragging along stuff that no longer serves us and expect that one day, we'll wake up whole.


No matter how many spiritual teachers you hear speak...no matter how many spiritual self-help books you read... you will not be able to move into "the light" until you take a long, long look at your past.

No person is born into Wholeness.

Even Jesus...the Buddha...Mohammed...fill in the names...evolved into the essence of who they were after years of LIVING.


They didn't get rid of their past; they integrated it beautifully into their PRESENCE.

That's what you also must do...to move into the LIGHT of your Soul and into Wholeness.

If we look around our world, we'll see that all aspects of life keep evolving: our corporate world ...countries around the world...our family, friends...the microcosm we operate in as our world.

This is the essence of life: Evolution.



"I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."
--Nelson Mandela

For you to be afraid to look back on your past because of shame or fear is doing a disservice, not only to yourself but also to the rest of the world. By not showing up as the person you were meant to be, you cheat us all!

We are all born with unique gifts and talents that should be shared with the world. Your gifts were intended to be used in the world for the "common good."


"You've been given YOUR life. No one else has your version. You'll never bump into yourself on the sidewalk. You'll never meet anyone who has your exact blend of lineage, loves, and longings. Your life will never be lived by anyone else. You're not a jacket in an attic that can be recycled after you are gone."
--Max Lucado, Outlive Your life

As we move closer to the resurrection of "The Christ" spirit on Easter Sunday, I urge you to open up your past.

Go into the silence of your Soul.


Speak to God in the silence.

Then...listen...listen...listen.

Once you've heard and seen areas of your life causing you current discomfort.

Examine them.

Examine them.

Examine them.

Then...discard them.

Hop out of the box of yesterday.

Cross over.


D-E-C-I-D-E to cross over.

It's only by making a conscious decision to "cross over" can we do so.

So, decide...then, in one leap...move over...
into the light.That's it.

After that...don't look back. It's gone.

From then on, trust God to lead you.

"Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path."--Proverb 3: 5-6

"If you've felt like you've wasted years of your life in the wrong job, hanging around the wrong people, doing the wrong things, God will gather those years and restore them back to you."
Joel & Victoria Osteen, Word For Today, Friday, April 8, 2011

You will reach Wholeness. You will find TRUTH.




Pray...pray...pray...
in the Silence.


Affirm today's Daily Word: "This day is a new beginning for me, and I embrace it with enthusiasm!"

I'm hopeful you'll find that new beginning by Easter Sunday...in time to be resurrected...into the light!


I'm wishing the same for myself, too, i.e. illumination becomes a "sustained state" vs. periodic states of enlightenment.

Namaste',

Che'

Personal Authenticity: "To Thine Own Self Be True"...

"To Thine Own Self Be True and it must follow as the night, the day, Thou canst not then be false to ANY man."
William Shakespeare.