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AWARENESS
MOVING INTO A HIGHER STATE OF CONCIOUSNES
MOTIVATION AND WILL
THEME FROM TIME
 

AWARENESS

“The sacred and the mundane are inseparable. Your life is your path. Your disappointments are part of your path; your joys are your path; your dry cleaning, and your dry cleaner are on your path; ditto your credit card payments. It's not helpful to wait until you have more time for meditation or contemplation, because it may never happen. Cultivating spirituality and awareness has to become a full-time vocation, and for most of us this has to take place within the context of a secular life here in the Western Hemisphere.

For you, the seeker, what matters is how you attend to the present moment. This includes motivation, intention, aspiration, desire, hope, and expectation. This is not just about what you do but how you do it. The present moment is where the rubber actually meets the road. Your traction on the path, spiritually speaking, depends on how you apply your heart and soul.

What then is most truly transformative? Is it merely a matter of changing one's clothes or hairstyle, or joining up with some group that hopes its message will change the world! Could it be simply a matter of receiving the ultimate mantra or initiation; learning to perform the proper rite or ritual; finding out how to meditate; doing yoga, praying, breathing, chanting, having cosmic sex; going to the Himalayas, Jerusalem, Mecca, Machu Picchu, Mount Kailash, Mount Shasta; or meeting the right guru! I don't think so.

Or is it not most transformative, most earthshaking, to pierce the veils of self-deception and illusion, and crack the eggshell of ignorance, to most intimately encounter oneself!

Through honest self-inquiry and no-holds-barred meditative introspection over a sustained period of time, one can take apart and deconstruct the hut that ego built, thus entering the mansion of authentic being.” This is our challenge and our mission here on earth.

Extract from Awakening the Buddha Within by Lama SuryDas

MOVING INTO A HIGHER STATE OF CONCIOUSNES

(Taken from A little light on Angels by Diana Cooper)

 

	Read inspirational books. This will keep you open to spirit.
	Focus on beauty joy and higher qualities.
	Walk in and enjoy nature as often as you can.
	Listen to inspirational music. Music enters your cells and lifts your vibratory levels.
	Constantly say thank you for the things that you do have. When you say thank you, you send out an energy of appreciation which attracts more good things into your life.
	Relax - trust and let the flow take you.
	To bring angels into your life - focus on Angels

 
 

MOTIVATION AND WILL

 

In this world, persisting toward a goal requires either a want or a will.

 

When you want something--when you act out of desire--you depend upon feelings of motivation, interest, or excitement to carry you past problems to your goal. You don't need will.

  

When you will something--when you act out of duty, commitment, loyalty, or integrity--you depend only upon your power to act. You don't need motivation. You persist because it is the right thing to do, or because of the consequences of not doing it, or simply because it needs doing. You call upon the sleeping giant within you, the power of your will.

 

Motivation is a welcome wind at your back. But winds are changeable and fickle; motivation comes and goes.Will is a faithful friend, at your side in both the sunlit days and dark nights of the soul, speaking quietly of what is important and good. You can depend upon your will, because it comes from within you.

 

So sail the winds of motivation when they blow, but in the calms and dry spells, rely on your will to carry you through.

 

-From Everyday Enlightenment by Dan Millman

 

 

THEME FROM TIME

 

Stand before me on the sign of infinity, all you of the earth. With the granting of the law of provenation, comes the application of change – I will give you the key. And  with this knowledge please realise, comes the responsibility of sharing it – I will show you the way. 
It’s very simple.

 

Throughout the Universe there is order. In the movements of the planets, in nature and in the functioning of the human mind. A mind that in it’s natural state of order is in harmony with the universe, and such a mind is time-less. Your life is an expression of your mind, you are the creator of your own universe. For as a human being, you are free to will whatever state of being you desire, through the use of your thoughts and words……..and there is great power there.

And be a blessing or a curse, it is entirely up to you. For the quality of your life is brought about by the quality of your thinking………..think……..about that…….

 

Thoughts produce actions. Look at what you are thinking. See the bitterness and the envy and the greed and the fear and all the other attitudes that cause you pain and discomfort. Realise that the one thing you have absolute control over, is your attitude, see the effect that it has on those around you, for each life is linked to all life, and your words carry with them chain reactions, like a stone that is thrown into a pond. If your thinking is in order, your words will flow directly from the heart, creating ripples of Love.

 

If you truly want to change your world my friend,  you must change your thinking.

Reason is your greatest tool. It creates an atmosphere of understanding, which leads to caring, which is Love.

 

Choose your words with care. Go forth with Love.

 

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