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In A Perfect World

John — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:57:27 +0000

It was an eye opening day the first time I realized that the world is perfect. Not perfected, just perfect.

The world is perfect for us to grow. We weren’t sent here to eek by or survive, that’s part of some people’s journey. But we are here to grow and become greater than what we were before, just as a child grows to become like his parents.

Instead of seeing the things in your life that you don’t like, that you think of as imperfect, see them as opportunities to grow. Perfect opportunities. Even the withered arm on a crippled man is still a perfectly withered arm. Even pain and suffering are perfect. They exist for us because we have not been perfected yet, and they present the perfect opportunity to transcend them. How to do that… well we’re all learning aren’t we? I believe that once our hearts are perfected our world will be too. As above, so below. As within, so without.

Some people are so weighed down with trying to make it from day to day, or keeping up with the latest fashions, or making their car payments that they have never had that Matrix awakening moment where you realize that this world is not the only one, and indeed it’s a Contested World. It’s our choice whether or not we want our world to be a paradise or a wasteland. We happen to be at the tipping point one way or the other.

How much thought have you given to the world you are helping to create everyday? What kind of world do you want your children to inherit? Most importantly, what are you doing to create that world? Becoming the most successful person in the world doesn’t mean a thing if you raped the planet to get there. If your children have to grow up in an uglier world, what kind of parent are you?

Begin with imagining your Perfected World, what kind of place is it? Where do people live? What is their quality of life? Is everyone equally happy, or is it an elitest world, where only the privledged have the opportunities to pursue happiness? Think about things like our food source… do we put toxic chemicals on our food in the future? What about our houses? What do they look like? Do they get even larger and more separate from their environment, or do they merge together with it? How about our jobs and school system? Do we still work 50 hours a week at jobs that we hate? Or do we get to enjoy our lives and work in the way that we choose? What about money? Do we still have currency, or do we invent something better? Do we become more commercial, consuming more products, or do we have better things to do than watch TV and play video games and surf the internet? How do we travel? Do we ever solve the fossil fuel problem? Do we go electric and solar, or do we invent some new technology? Maybe we fly everywhere instead of drive?

Really think about it. Talk about it with your friends, ask them what kind of world they would create for their children.

Then the fun part… The part that should put a smile on your face, or tell you that you need a new picture of the future, one in which you are smiling… Now that you have a picture of where you are going, you can begin to break that down into small chunks. Just like eating an apple, you can’t eat the whole thing at once, so you take small chunks of it and before you know it, you’ve accomplished your task. In the beginning, this might look like eating low on the food chain (vegetarian), recycling, organic gardening in your yard (or even on the balcony of your apartment). You might keep your old car a little longer so you can save up and buy a hybrid or wait for one of the new electric or hydrogen cars. If you live in the city, maybe you bike to work, or walk a few times a week. If you’re building a new house, maybe you build it off the grid, with solar and wind energy fueling your electric needs. Maybe you avoid toxic chemicals in your household cleaners. Maybe you petition your city to stop drugging your water supply with unnatural chemicals and pharmaceuticals. Maybe you plant some trees on your birthday to counter how much paper products you use each year.

Each and every thing in this world is perfect for you, and with your growth, this perfect world becomes perfected. Create beauty on the inside and beauty will manifest on the outside.

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Who Settles For Bad Fruit?

John — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:38:46 +0000

Who settles? What kind of person settles? Do you settle?

Be honest. Chances are that any area in your life that you are unhappy with, is an area where you have settled for less than what you believe you deserve. Or perhaps you may have settled for believing that you deserve less than what you do deserve.

That’s right, you get to choose what and how much you deserve in this life. And you definitely get to choose what you believe about what you deserve. Take a look at your beliefs. What do you settle for right now? In what area of your life do you deserve more? And why do you deserve more? Is it a right that you have as a human being, or have you done something to deserve it? Here’s a neat thought: We are all created equal, right? So then, we all deserve the same as everyone else, right?

So, Happiness? You deserve it. Love? You deserve it. Peace, and Joy, and Health, and Abundance? You deserve it.

Now that we’ve taken care of those limiting beliefs, by replacing them with beneficial beliefs, let’s take a look at why people don’t have what they deserve: It’s because people settle for less than they deserve.

Do you see a vicious cycle here? People don’t have, because they believe they don’t deserve to have, so they set up their lives in such a way as to keep them from getting the things that they don’t think they deserve to have.

First change your beliefs about what you deserve, and then stop settling for anything less than you deserve.

Want relationships that are drama free? Stop settling for those relationships. Be better than that. Persist until you find the relationships that you deserve.

Want more money in your bank account? Stop settling for the circumstances that keep you in your present condition.

Do you want to be healthy and vibrant and full of energy? Stop settling for feeling like a run down, overweight, flesh eater.

See the pattern emerging? In order to stop settling and achieve the results you want and deserve, a LifeStyle Change is required. If you want to be healthy, than going on a diet will never work. You have to live a healthy lifestyle. If you want abundance, you must live an abundant lifestyle. If you want loving relationships, you must live a loving lifestyle.

You can’t grow good fruit from a bad tree. You have to have a good tree to grow good fruit. The fruit comes from the tree, so if you don’t like the fruit of your life, heal the tree, don’t try to heal the fruit.

Stop settling for bad fruit.Similar Posts:

How Was Your Day?

John — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:22:54 +0000

How was your day? If the answer is “fine”, or anything similar then I doubt you are living your purpose in this life.

What is your purpose?

If you don’t already know the answer to this one, then I can’t tell you, but it’s something you definitely need to figure out… immediately!! Life is too short to waste time on things that don’t matter.

If you do know what it is, then why aren’t you living it? What’s holding you back?
Fear of?
Fear of?
Fear of?

Do you see the problem with this? This is why our days are filled with just fines, and it’s ok’s…
instead of the greats! and the best day evers!

Have the courage to follow your heart and do what you love… if you don’t know how to make a living from what you love yet, don’t worry about it. Start doing what you love anyway and the doors will be opened.

Paths are made by people who are walking, people who are in motion… if everyone waited for the path to appear we would never have any paths at all. So get walking!Similar Posts:

The Lord’s Prayer by Anastasia

John — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 20:29:15 +0000

From the book Co-creation, by Vladimir Megré:

My Father, You are present everywhere!
For the light of life I gladly thank You,
For Your bright kingdom visible here and now,
And for Your loving will. Long live the good!

For daily bread and daily food with joy I thank You!
And for Your loving patience,
And for Your giving of forgiveness of sins on Your Earth fair.
My Father, You are present everywhere!

I am Your daughter here midst Your creations.
Weakness and sin — I shall not let them in,
But prove myself worthy of Your consummations.

My Father, You are present everywhere!
I am Your daughter, Your joy I declare.
My entire self shall magnify Your glory,
In Your bright dream the coming ages all will live and share.
It shall be so! I wish it so! I am a daughter of Yours.
My Father, You are present everywhere.Similar Posts:

Build A Temple To Achieve Your Goals

John — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 19:45:56 +0000

The Christ told us that our bodies were a Living Temple, a place wherein God could reside. Let’s use this as an example for our goals in this life.

1. Are our goals living or dead?

Consider what you want in life, is the end goal worth having? Is it alive, will it bring vibrancy and light to your life? What good is it to have everything you ever wanted, only to find out that the price you paid to get there was too great? If you’re not happy on the path to your Happiness, then you’re probably on the wrong path. Make sure what you want is indeed, what you want.

2. What is our Blueprint?

As any builder can tell you, if you don’t know what the building is supposed to look like, then you can’t build it. Who or what are you modeling your goals after?

This is not the place to be cheap or modest… Shoot for the moon here. Find the best at what you want and devour everything you can find about them and what they did to achieve the thing you want. An example… if you want to be successful in real estate, don’t model yourself after the agent from Century 21, model yourself after Donald Trump… if you want to play in the NBA, don’t model yourself after your high school coach, model yourself after Michael Jordan.

Don’t mistake what I’m saying though, you can still learn a lot from the high school coach and the local real estate agent, in fact, that’s a great place to start, but what I’m saying is pick a Blueprint of Perfection for whatever goal you may have.

3. How is a Temple built?

Here’s where most people fall away… It’s built one stone at a time. You create your body one cheeseburger or one vegetable at a time… you wanna know why people are dying all around you? Because they eat flesh that is dead… and as we all learned as children, you are what you eat, and one dead stone after another, they have created a temple of death around them.

In the same way, you create your goal one step or mini-goal at a time. You’re not going to become a millionaire, or an enlightened being, or an amazing lover and spouse and parent overnight. Some people are able to work faster than others. It depends on where you are when you begin. Some have more natural resources than you might… which is why there’s no time like right now to begin.Similar Posts:

Where Is Your Bailout Money?

John — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:23:11 +0000

It begs the question, what’s really going on here?…

They’re giving away millions of tax payers dollars… enough to where they could give every person in the US a million dollars each, and why isn’t that money going to the people?

Well my brother has argued that if everyone were suddenly millionaires, no one would work, and inflation would be insane… and that may be true, but let’s think for a moment about what we would all do if money wasn’t king… if we all didn’t need money.

My counter argument to this is why not pay out the million dollars to each US citizen as monthly payments, in such an amount as to keep everybody working (which is really all this is about, keeping us enslaved to money)…

Or why don’t we pay off everyone’s personal debt with the bailout money? The system would come crashing down that’s why… All the little worker bees (that’s you and me) would suddenly be free… Oh no! what’s going to happen to the honey production? How will our hives get built? What about the Queen? Who’s going to protect, and provide, and feed her?

We are not a Hive species… we can be if we want, but I think we are all happiest when we are who we were created by God to be… and that is the Children of God.. literally, sons and daughters of the Creator and independently Sovereign Beings. Sovereign, do you remember what that word means? Are you beginning to remember what it feels like?

It’s been a long time since we were domesticated into what we are today… Let’s face the sad truth that most of us couldn’t even feed ourselves if we wanted to. We think food comes from a store, or a plastic bag. We think of Nature as being dirty, and a harsh environment… something to be scrubbed off of us as soon as we get back out of it.

Let’s consider where we are right now in Human existence, which is at a cross roads… will we continue down our path which has us heading for worse environmental conditions… to the point where we could end up with an environment like the moon, or Mars, and we would all be living in giant malls (which some marketer would probably call a space station or some such thing)… or will we clean up our environment and work with it to create a Garden of Eden on the earth? We possess the technology (i.e. knowledge + tools) to do both, and we’re at a beautiful place to choose which path we all want to head down.

We have to help wake people up so that they can choose for themselves instead of having the advertisements choose for them. A pattern interrupt, if you will. Talk with people, friends, family… don’t be scared to discuss the path that Humanity is on. And together, we can create for ourselves The Golden Path, without the need for a Tyrant like Leto to do it for us Similar Posts:

Overcoming Emotional Pain

John — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:33:20 +0000

After many years struggling with the pain of break-ups and other life altering emotional pains, I had an epiphany the other day that I’d like to share.

If something is causing you pain, Let Go Of It!

That’s it… It took me years to figure that one out… I should have listened to myself as a child with the stove. Let’s think about it though.

Physically, if you were to grab a hot pan, what would you do? You’d get it out of your hand as soon as possible, right? Does this mean you’ll never use or relate to that pan again? Hardly… it just caused a pain in you that was undesirable, so you let it go.

It is the same thing with emotional pain… you don’t stop feeling or loving or expressing, you just let go of whatever it is that’s causing the pain.

This can be difficult as most people confuse how they feel for who they are. You are not your emotions.

Pain is often a teacher that helps us to realize what we need to grow and heal… Hence, why we tend to repeat painful lessons over and over again, until we’ve finally learned them. Often we become addicted to the emotional pain/depression, and like a drug addict (which is literally what’s happening to your brain chemistry), every time we begin to feel ok again, we trigger a memory or something else that sends us spiraling into emotional pain again, and our brain gives us a chemical fix for that depressing feeling.

In the same way that a drug addict has to detox and quit the habit, if you’ve become addicted to the buzz of your emotional misery, than you’ll need to quit as well.

How do you do this? A Higher Power always helps (hence why it’s part of the programs NA & AA), and then you take responsibility for your thoughts.

When your thoughts begin to stray down a path that you know will tear open the healing wound and cause you pain, you simply don’t go there anymore… You let go of it, or maybe a better way of looking at it, is You Stop Holding On To It.

In the end, it all still comes down to healthy thoughts. Garbage In, Garbage Out… You are what you think you are… and you truly are what you eat (literally, it’s what your body is physically made of).

Much Love and Sunshine! )…Similar Posts:

Viva La Resolution!

John — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:27:31 +0000

Hello, and welcome to a brand new year! Every year, around this time, everyone is expected to have their new year’s resolution. I’ve had the typical ones in the past: lose weight, exercise more, blah, blah… but this year, I’ve decided to step it up a notch, and stretch myself farther than ever before.

This year I want to say yes to the opportunities that Life presents. No more waiting for things to happen to me, no more passing up on things because I’m in fear that I might miss out on something else. I want to jump in the River and be in the Flow this year. I want to follow my heart and live as One with everything. I want to practice “You are Me also” in everything I do. I want to experience more in this single year than I have in all my previous 26 years of life.

What is this going to entail for me?

I’m going to have to stop living in fear, and begin living in love (not just in word, but in actual deed as well). No more worrying about things that ultimately don’t matter like food, clothing, and shelter. If I want to do something, then I want to do it this year! No more talking about it, or daydreaming the thing to death. It’s great to have dreams, but I’ve evolved to the point where I’m ready to create reality out of my dreams.

And what about you, dear Reader? What will your year be like? Will you end up in the same place, having gone nowhere and done nothing?

I often joke with my friend that there’s no way 2009 can be worse than 2008 (I went through a lot of painful growing), but it could be, if I don’t use what I’ve learned from 2008.

Ultimately it was 2008 that inspired me to live my 2009 in such a way. As a celebration of making it out of 2008 alive. And I hope I’m still celebrating living in 2010, but I’m not worried about it if I’m not

Whatever you’ve decided 2009 will look like, I hope you that you make it a beautiful reality. Don’t just wait for Prince Charming to come swoop you off your feet this year, become a Princess first, if you want a Prince. (and vice versa for all you guys out there, if you want the girl of your dreams than first become the man of hers)

Love you all, and as always, think about it!Similar Posts:

The Laws Of Motion

John — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:48:12 +0000

As most of us learned at a young age, there are certain physical laws that seem to govern the running of the cosmos. One of those laws is that, for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Inertia

An object in motion tends to stay in motion, unless acted upon by an outside force. Again just a variation of action/reaction, but Inertia can be a wonderful thing if it’s applied to your life in a positive manner.

Another way to state the law of inertia would be to say that once the big ball gets rolling, it’s fairly easy (requires little energy) to keep it rolling. Now replace the big ball with success in your life. Once you get success going for you, it’s a chain reaction, and success just seems to happen all by itself. It requires hardly any energy to keep going, as opposed to the energy it took to get going in the first place. Remember how we talked about people are attracted to success?

Action Vs. Re-action

I believe one of the major reasons, that people never get what they want in life is because they never take the time to think actively or do actively or anything actively. Everything starts with a thought though, so let’s start there too.

How much time you spend thinking actively, as opposed to reactively? How much time do you waste contemplating the thoughts of someone else? This is how the masses can be led around like sheep, by advertising, and ‘leaders’, it’s because no one thinks for themselves, and the system is set up to keep you from doing just that.

All day long you’re bombarded with things that you react to, but do you spend anytime or energy doing some acting of your own? What are you uniquely contributing to humanity?

So here’s the homework for today

You want success? If it doesn’t directly contribute to your ability to act on what you want, then stop reacting to it. All the distractions that you think make up who you are… just leave them right where you find them or take action to keep them from happening again.

It’s like a dog that just won’t leave you alone… I’m sure you’ve had this happen to you before, you’re sitting down, relaxing, watching a movie or talking with friends and the dog wants attention. So he takes action, he goes over to you and starts licking your hand, or gently biting it in the way that most dogs do when they want something. The thing is, you don’t want to give attention to the dog, you want to continue doing what you were doing. Now you can do one of two things… You can act or you can react.

Ignoring the dog will usually work (this would be not-reacting which is a form of action when consciously done), but patience is required and for sake of argument, let’s say this dog is very persistent.

You can give in and pet the dog, but all this does is make the dog want more, and so all of a sudden you have a bigger drain on your energy.

Or you can take action that will prevent the dog from interrupting you (training him to lie down and not beg for attention or putting him outside) Whatever the fix might be, taking action and not reacting, is the only way to make sure that you don’t end up doing the dog’s bidding as opposed to your own.

So spend a few minutes every day when you wake up, thinking actively about what you want, and if it doesn’t bring a smile to your face and joy and peace to your heart, then what you want isn’t worth having, or you’re in it just for the money which will never make you happy or content.

THink About IT…Similar Posts:

Think About It Part 2

John — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:20:18 +0000

Yes, obviously, I’ve been thinking a lot about thinking…

Today’s thought comes from the bible and a book written in 1902.

As a man thinks in his heart, so is he… (Proverbs 23:7a)

The book is called As A Man Thinketh by James Allen. I believe you can actually find free copies of it floating around the internets (gotta love Bushisms).

It’s true though, you are the sum of your thoughts. Just like Nature, good seeds produce life, bad seeds produce death. So if we are spending our precious little thinking time that we do get these days, on things like the news, which let’s face it, is never good news, or movies, which usually deal with the darker side of humanity, or TV which bombards us with advertising, effectively turning us into consumers, then is it any wonder why so few of us are happy?

In contrast to the popular Secret…

In 1902, James Allen came to the conclusion that “We do not attract what we want, but what we are.” “Achievement happens because you as a person embody the external achievement; you don’t ‘get’ success, but become it. There is no gap between mind and matter.”

What are you thinking about?

Emerson has commented that, “A person is what he thinks about all day long.” What do you spend your time thinking about?

Sadly, I think most of us will find that according to Emerson’s definition, we are just consumers. We spend most of our time thinking about how to buy something we want, or how to get the money to buy what we want, as if Happiness had a price tag or physical embodiment.

Some more great quotes from Allen that I’ll let you do your own thinking on:

“Circumstances do not make a person, they reveal him.”

and

“Most of us are anxious to improve our circumstances, but are unwilling to improve ourselves–and we therefore remain bound.”

Some other interesting notes… The word thinketh from Proverbs above, comes from the Hebrew root word meaning to split or open, and the word heart comes from the Hebrew root word for the word to breathe, in this case, denoting a breathing creature.

So another way of looking at it would be to say, ‘As a man splits open in his breathing, so is he’.

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