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2 Aug 2006 @ 16:36, by vector8. Spirituality
"To err is human, to forgive divine."
We've all experienced forgiveness in various ways. It could be someone said something hurtful and you forgave, or you hurt someone and you were forgiven. Can you forgive in all occasions or are there certain situations you believe are unforgivable?
Recently, the British media focused on the Stephen Lawrence case, a young black man who was murdered 13 years ago. No one has ever been convicted.
[["An investigation is being launched over claims that police corruption helped shield the killers of black teenager Stephen Lawrence from conviction." Lawrence case 'corruption' probe]] More >
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29 Jul 2006 @ 11:45, by vector8. Spirituality
In one form or another I have always been interested in consciousness raising, which is focusing one's attention on a particular belief or cause. This motivates you to join groups or organisations focused on the same belief or cause. What you focus on gets magnified and that's all you end up experiencing for as long as you are interested. More >
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 27 Jul 2006 @ 15:34, by scotty. Spirituality
In my previous thread - as in several of my threads - I talk about being One !
The more I talk about it the more I realise that I have to really LIVE it .. right here and now - in the present - and in all the future presents that will become my Now !
Everything is constantly changing - objects relationships situations ( the list can continue on and on and on ad nausium ) and our reaction to this reality of change depends on how we look at it!
The bad part about this is - as much as we'd like certain things to stay the same - (our friends family etc... ad vomi) they don't !
The good part is - new things can happen and sometimes things can turn out even better than we expected!!!!
One of Buddha's favorite images was that each and every one of us is a wave in the great ocean of life... if we don't realize or see this oneness then we'll just continue to feel seperated and the result is we'll suffer.
Buddha once asked a studen 'What is the length of a human life?' ... After several incorrect answers the student finally said 'It is the length of one breath ' to which the Buddha replied ' YEAH ! at long last you've understood the lesson !!! Yahoooooo !!!!
And that's what the secret of living in ONeness is about - everything is constantly changing and constantly new - we can't hold onto a moment and we have to let it go !
The leaf that falls from the tree to the earth becomes the food for the tree ... everything is linked - everything becomes one like the waves in the ocean ... we are One and we can live it in our ever changing instants .. in our Now.
I'd like to share the following with you because I believe it's really important !!
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"Realizing oneness puts an end to grumbles;
Consequences thought of first as to oneself.
Viewing beings as equals avoids prejudices;
Each eats karmic fruits of his own activities." ~ Yutang Lin More >
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27 Jul 2006 @ 12:07, by vector8. Spirituality
Life is a chair. By "life" I don't mean the human experience, I'm referring to the one life that is taking infinite forms.
A chair is both form and formlessness.
Chairs come in many forms: with backs, backless; with arms, armless; with wheels, without wheels; and in myriads of colours, shapes and sizes. All chairs share the one purpose - to give support. More >
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21 Jul 2006 @ 10:34, by vector8. Spirituality
It's the nature of the sun to shine.
It's funny how as babies most of us are adored for who we are. Your parents and family find you delightful. But slowly, bit by bit, your parents chip away at your unique self and try to mould you to become what they want you to be. More >
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 17 Jul 2006 @ 20:38, by i2i. Spirituality
“...launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.”
—Henry David Thoreau
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 17 Jul 2006 @ 12:50, by vector8. Spirituality
In a previous article called Self-Acceptance, I wrote that I considered the computer screen to be a physical manifestation of my real Self because It accepts whatever I throw at it without condemnation or judgment. Self, like the computer screen, is free of concepts, beliefs, opinions and rules. This is what I'm referring to as emptiness.
In truth, the whole universe is emptiness. It is us humans that try to fill the emptiness with our beliefs, judgments and expectations. Filling the emptiness is an impossible and futile dream however because it is the nature of the Universe to be emptiness. More >
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9 Jul 2006 @ 13:30, by vector8. Spirituality
[["Angels are not etherealized human beings, evolving animal qualities in their wings; but they are celestial visitants, flying on spiritual, not material, pinions. Angels are pure thoughts from God, winged with Truth and Love, no matter what their individualism may be." (Science and Health)
"For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone." (Psalm 91: 11-12)]]
I believe Love is all there is and Love is expressing in infinite ways as ideas and thought forms. These ideas and thought forms of Love are angels. While these angels, or messengers of Love, can appear human or other physical forms, majority of the time they are invisible to the senses. Yet, we are always surrounded by angels that are always meeting our needs. We simply need to be aware that they do exist and know how to invoke them. More >
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 4 Jul 2006 @ 08:11, by judih. Spirituality
An Interview with Ram Dass, as found on Mavericks of the Mind, and saved to be savoured. It's hitting a spot within me this morning, so perhaps it'll resonate with you.
Here's the link to the entire interview, but my intention is simply to quote a small portion.
Mavericks of the Mind, Ram Dass More >
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 3 Jul 2006 @ 01:48, by i2i. Spirituality
Picture 1 (left) is from a DVD cover of Godfrey Reggio’s 1988 movie, Powaqattsi. Powaqattsi is a Hopi Indian conjunctive from the word Powaqa, which refers to a negative sorcerer who lives at the expense of others, and Qatsi - i.e., life.
Picture 2 (right) is Wayne Forte’s acrylic on paper Cain and Abel IV '89 - 80” x 50”.
After Cain had murdered his brother Abel, God asked him, "Where is Abel thy brother?" Cain answered, "I know not; am I my brother's keeper?" Cain's words have come to symbolize people's unwillingness to accept responsibility for the welfare of their fellows - their "brothers" in the extended sense of the term. The tradition of Judaism and Christianity (the "Good Samaritan," "Love thy neighbor as thyself," and "Love your enemies") is that people do have this responsibility.
Commentators of old, those who searched through the Bible for allegorical content, saw in the two figures of Caïn and Abel only one person, only one entity in conflict with itself. It is the first schizophrenia of humanity. It refuses a part of itself. More >
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