Spiritual Thoughts

[Rusty Zipper]

now thats my kind of soul...

fantastic sweet ann...

[Ann]

There were a few songs that brought me light through my darker days, and that was one of them. Glad you liked it, Pattee.

[Wolfchild]

If your mind is happy, then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look.


If you let go a little, you will have a little peace. If you let go a lot, you will have a lot of peace. If you let go completely, you will have complete peace.

[Ann]

Thank you for the reminder, Wolfchild, to be very grateful for the peace that is in my life today. It didn't come easy, but the important thing is that it came at all.

Hugs

[Rusty Zipper]

SA

grateful for the peace that is in my life today. It didn't come easy, but the important thing is that it came at all

amen!

[citychick]

Thats beautiful Ann. I'm on auto soul pilot, these days.

[Wolfchild]

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.


Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

[Rusty Zipper]

yep, we dont leave Post-It notes!

[Ann]

The Prayer

I pray you'll be our eyes, and watch us where we go
And help us to be wise in times when we don't know
Let this be our prayer, when we lose our way
Lead us to the place, guide us with your grace
To a place where we'll be safe
I pray we'll find your light, and hold it in our hearts
When stars go out each night,
remind us where you are
Let this be our prayer, when shadows fill our day
Help us find a place, guide us with your grace
Give us faith so we'll be safe
A world where pain and sorrow will be ended
And every heart that's broken will be mended
And we'll remember we are all God's children
Reaching out to touch you
Reaching to the sky
We ask that life be kind, and watch us from above
We hope each soul will find another soul to love
Let this be our prayer, just like every child
Who needs to find a place, guide us with your grace
Give us faith so we'll be safe
Needs to find a place, guide us with your grace
Give us faith so we'll be safe

Charlotte Church with Josh Groban

[Ann]

The Sense of a Goose

When you see geese flying along in "V" formation, you might consider what science has discovered as to why they fly that way. As each bird flaps its wings, it creates an uplift for the bird immediately following. By flying in "V" formation, the whole flock adds at least 71 percent greater flying range than if each bird flew on its own.

People who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they are going more quickly and easily because they are traveling on the thrust of one another.

When a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of trying to go it alone - and quickly gets back into formation to take advantage of the lifting power of the bird in front.

If we have as much sense as a goose, we will stay in formation with those people who are headed the same way we are.

When the head goose gets tired, it rotates back in the wing and another goose flies point. It is sensible to take turns doing demanding jobs, whether with people or with geese flying south.

Geese honk from behind to encourage those up front to keep up their speed. What messages do we give when we honk from behind?

Finally - and this is important - when a goose gets sick or is wounded by gunshot, and falls out of formation, two other geese fall out with that goose and follow it down to lend help and protection. They stay with the fallen goose until it is able to fly or until it dies, and only then do they launch out on their own, or with another formation to catch up with their group.

If we have the sense of a goose, we will stand by each other like that.

Unknown

[Wolfchild]

The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.


Every day we do things, we are seeing virtues that have to do with peace. If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know how to realize peace right in the moment.

[Ann]

"You Raise Me Up"
~Josh Groban~

When I am down and, oh my soul, so weary;
When troubles come and my heart burdened be;
Then, I am still and wait here in the silence,
Until you come and sit awhile with me.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up... To more than I can be.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up... To more than I can be.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up... To more than I can be.

You raise me up, so I can stand on mountains;
You raise me up, to walk on stormy seas;
I am strong, when I am on your shoulders;
You raise me up... To more than I can be.

You raise me up... To more than I can be.

[Wolfchild]

Dignity comes not from control, but from understanding who you are and taking your rightful place in the world.


In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth.


The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

[Dean62]

Lord I pray in the name of Thy Son my savior Jesus Christ for mercy. The Love you have for me is beyond anything I have known. Even when I hated myself you were there Loving me. Because you Love me so much I must belong, because of you I do belong. All these years I thought I was alone having no clue the path of Love was right there in front of me all I had to do was take that step. All that I am I owe to you, all that I am is your Love. I pray Lord that for today I may open my heart to your will for me, Love. That your Love may work through me. I pray the words I speak are yours, the actions I take are yours, the thoughts and feelings in me are yours.

Lord today I pray to be your instrument.

Thy will be done.

Dean

[public51]

thankyou great thread

[Fluttering]

DEEDS OF LOVE

Think not a smile can warm a heart
And leave an afterglow?
A word of kindness fosters hope
Where dreams no longer grow?
Think not a helping hand inspires
A soul to try anew
Or words of love rekindle joy
Where love no longer grew?
Think so! Think so! Be still and know life's purpose - and God's plan;
To do for others, day by day,
To be the best we can.
For selfless deeds done from the heart
Are blessed by God above,
and those who care and truly share
Shall know eternal love.

Vi B. Chevalier

[Wolfstarr]

When you walk through a forest that has not been tamed and interfered with by man, you will see not only abundant life all around you, but you will also encounter fallen trees and decaying trunks, rotting leaves and decomposing matter at every step. Wherever you look, you will find death as well as life.

Upon closer scrutiny, however, you will discover that the decomposing tree trunk and rotting leaves not only give birth to new life, but are full of life themselves. Microorganisms are at work. Molecules are rearranging themselves. So death isn't to be found anywhere. There is only the metamorphosis of life forms. What can you learn from this?

Death is not the opposite of life. Life has no opposite. The opposite of death is birth. Life is eternal.

Stillness Speaks

~~Eckhart Tolle

[GoldenGutters]

...a boo boo

[GoldenGutters]

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Then said Almitra, "Speak to us of Love."

And he raised his head and looked upon the people, and there fell a stillness upon them.

And with a great voice he said:

When love beckons to you follow him,

Though his ways are hard and steep.

And when his wings enfold you yield to him,

Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.

And when he speaks to you believe in him,

Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.

For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.

Even as he ascends to your height and caresses your tenderest branches that quiver in the sun,

So shall he descend to your roots and shake them in their clinging to the earth.

Like sheaves of corn he gathers you unto himself.

He threshes you to make you naked.

He sifts you to free you from your husks.

He grinds you to whiteness.

He kneads you until you are pliant;

And then he assigns you to his sacred fire, that you may become sacred bread for God's sacred feast.

All these things shall love do unto you that you may know the secrets of your heart, and in that knowledge become a fragment of Life's heart.

But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,

Then it is better for you that you cover your nakedness and pass out of love's threshing-floor,

Into the seasonless world where you shall laugh, but not all of your laughter, and weep, but not all of your tears.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself.

Love possesses not nor would it be possessed;

For love is sufficient unto love.

When you love you should not say, "God is in my heart," but rather, I am in the heart of God."

And think not you can direct the course of love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

Love has no other desire but to fulfil itself.

But if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires:

To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night.

To know the pain of too much tenderness.

To be wounded by your own understanding of love;

And to bleed willingly and joyfully.

To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving;

To rest at the noon hour and meditate love's ecstasy;

To return home at eventide with gratitude;

And then to sleep with a prayer for the beloved in your heart and a song of praise upon your lips.

Kahlil Gibran,

[ArchOtori]

Wow! Shesh, I'm new here sorry...but wow you are all so amazing!

[stands]

To be at peace in mind and heart is a good base of having compassion for all; not only when things are good. but when they get real bad; stop and ask your self [ have i apply the spiritual strength I gained by been drug free] This works for me. Just happy to be alive and drug free!!!!

[hope3]

No matter how long your journey apopears to be,

there is never more than this:

one step, one breath, one moment--now.

Love and Hope
Hope3

[one of]

Demos: Really Carlos! Why would you seek to apply logic in a place where logic cannot go?

Carlos: Because, Demos, while we surely cannot go physically into the past, we can and often do direct our minds there. Where can there be a difference in that directing whether before the Big Bang or hence?

Demos: Because, Carlos, before the Big Bang there was nothing . . . not even space nor time. How would you apply logic in such a place (or better "non-place") that cannot even be imagined? It is meaninglessness.

Carlos: No, Demos, it is not. We do have the tools of this place within time and space to speak to something that is irrefutable prior to time and space because it is irrefutable within time and space.

Demos: What is it you are saying, Carlos? What can possible have existed when nothing was?

Carlos: "Capability," Demos. There had to be capability. For we know, Demos, within the deepest part of what it means to say, "this is true," that nothing can happen that does not first have the capability to happen. That is the gift which truth profers to us, with the capacity to look backwards in time. We do not know this simply within time and space. We know this because the truth of it is eternal for us. It is for that reason that we can say with conviction, that prior to the Big Bang, there had to exist the capability for the Big Bang. And with that knowledge, Demos, we open that nothingness which cannot even be conceived to very possibly contain much more than mere capability for Big Bangs, do we not? For if that nothingness simply had to contain the capability for the Big Bang, then the term containment is no longer meaningless when speaking of the nothingness prior to the Big Bang, does that not follow?

You and I have discussed the eternal nature of Truth, have we not?

Demos: We have discussed the term, Carlos, yes. And I have reminded you that the term would have no meaning unless there was a thinker present to be thinking that which was either true or false.

Carlos: Yes, Demos, but now, can you not see that even before a thinker there had to first be a capability for a difference between truth and falsehood or truth could not have been used by the first thinker?

Demos: Oh come now, Demos! You will next be saying that prior to the Big Bang, in a nothingness so pure it has no concept with which a human being can grasp its meaning, there existed the capability for everything that has happened since the occurence of the Big Bang.

Carlos: (With a smile) Well Demos, were I to say that, would I be saying a truth, would I be saying an absurdity, or would I be actually belaboring the obvious? At the least, we should be able to see that since humbling truths lead the willing "seer" from egoism with its nil capacity to love towards humility with its infinite capacity to love, there had, when the capability for truth first existed, to be also the capability for love to exist. Wouldn't you agree?

Demos: I don't know, Carlos. You have me so confused I just simply don't kinow.

Carlos: Yes, of course. Before one can know something, the capability for knowing something has to exist, doesn't it? . . . I wonder when that capability first existed. . .

Demos: Shut up! Carlos, just shut up!

Love and Blessings - Chuck