by Michael Mamas | Friday, December 21, 2012 | World View |
I received this in an email last night. There is still a great deal to do of course, but the message is beautiful
In a recent speech to the UN, Evo Morales, president of Bolivia, said that according to their tradition, December 21 marks the end of the non-time and the beginning of time.
It is the beginning of life in accord with Natural Law.
It’s the end of selfishness and the beginning of brotherhood.
It’s the end of individualism and the beginning of the collectivism.
It’s the end of hatred and the beginning of love.
It’s the end of the lies and the beginning of the truth.
It’s the end of the sadness and the beginning of joy.
It’s the end of the division and the beginning of the unit.
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by Michael Mamas | Thursday, December 20, 2012 | Spirituality, World View |
It’s simple enough, isn’t it? So much can be accomplished through friendship. So much damage is done through conflict. Yet so many try to get what they want from others with vinegar… so few with honey.
Think about it. There are those who are reliably polite and kind. Then there are those that consistently stir hard feelings. Of those, whom do you feel naturally inclined to help? And for whom do you feel like you are the one who always has to ‘take the high road’, even though your inner child’s first response may be the opposite. Which of those people get the most from you?
Interestingly enough, the vinegar type of behavior seems to come about more readily when things really matter or when money is involved. Usually immediately, and certainly long term, honey will get you better results. So why is it that vinegar is so prevalent in world… especially when it seems to really matter!? Wouldn’t you think that when it really mattered, people would behave the most wisely, not the least?!
The answer is quite simple… weakness. It is easy to put on a honey facade when everything is fine and minimal inner strength is required.
Everyone would do well to ask themselves how they behave during more challenging times. Remarkably, it is not only individuals in our daily lives but also our world leaders who behave from such emotional and psychological weakness. Wars are fought over such weaknesses. Unbelievable really… isn’t it?
I bring this up in hopes of inspiring a better way. Yes the angry inner child is there. Yes, it is not healthy to stuff your feelings away. But it is even more life damaging to act out the vinegar. There is such a thing as working with your inner emotions in a constructive manner. Finding that way and using it… perhaps that is what being a mature adult is all about.
This simple lesson is a major component to the art of manifesting. The light of awareness heals. By holding this up to the light of awareness, may we progress as the family of humanity.
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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 | Spirituality |
In response to a recent comment:
The Christ is The Self. We are all one with God. Whether someone knows it or not, this still holds true.
Or in scientific terms: Everything is the Unified Field. Whether someone knows it or not, this still holds true.
The more you understand science, the more you understand anything, then the more you understand God. It is all very simple really. But it is not simplistic.
Simplistic understandings of what Christ said, what he was, have created many problems (as you are well aware).
Wisdom is rooted in sweet simplicity. Arrogance is rooted in the simplistic. To the simplistic, the most simple can seem so complex.
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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, December 19, 2012 | World View |
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by Michael Mamas | Tuesday, December 18, 2012 | Spirituality |
The good thing about atheists is that they are able to stand up and declare that the prevelant understanding of spirituality is deeply flawed. The unfortunate thing is that they have thrown out the baby with the bath water.
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.” ― Carl Sagan
“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” – Mark Twain
Though computer studies have clearly shown that Darwin was missing something, that evolution happened much to quickly for random chance to be a sufficient explanation, ‘scientists’ still cling to the old understanding.
Though galaxies have been identified to be older than the big bang, physicists still cling to the current understanding of the manifestation of existence.
The bamboozle permeates not only spirituality and science, but all realms of life. The Great Bamboozler is called conditioning, samskaras, identity with a paradigm. Discernment, the path of true spiritual growth, is indeed a rarity.
Discernment is the art of refining your current understanding. The latter refutes the former. Lord Shiva is sometimes referred to as The Destroyer, but in the most positive sense. He enables us to move forward – to release the past and open to a brighter future.
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