by Michael Mamas | Saturday, September 10, 2011 | Spirituality |
If upon seeing suffering and unhappiness in the world, I did not see how I could do much about it, I could understandably just go about my life trying not to think about it.
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However, I know we can change the world… I know there is a technology that can change the world… so how can I do anything but try to bring it forth? How can I rest? How can I take even a moment off?
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There are people out there suffering. I am telling you that we can create Heaven on Earth. The only question is, will people understand what I am saying? Or will you think, “How can that possibly be so?”
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We must not waste time. I assure you that at some point my words will be proven true. People will then be compelled to wonder, how it is they sat on the sidelines, sipping their tea, while others stepped forward to help pull the world out of the grip of misery?
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There are those out there that believe they understand my teachings. If they do understand me, how is it they are not involved… shoulder to shoulder with me… striving to transform this world? It can only be that they will not really understand until we have accomplished our goal. Then they will deal with the question of why they did not join in.
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My appeal is to become a visionary. Learn to connect the dots that are in front of you to see the direction the arrow points. Then believe in yourself and what you know enough to move forward with conviction and determination.
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by Michael Mamas | Thursday, September 8, 2011 | Relationship, Spirituality |
It has been said that there is no stronger force in the universe than a mother’s love for her children.
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Certainly we all have aspirations for our children. Understandably, those aspirations are an expression of our own relationship with life and the world. My life has not been exempt from that. I recall as a young man, the difficulty my parents had with my decision to pursue a spiritual life. Their well-intended world view revolved around more traditional and money oriented pursuits. Their idea was to get a college education, get a good job/profession, get a house, a wife, kids, and live a traditional life until death.
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The only problem was that was their calling, not mine. I was compelled to follow a spiritual path. Interestingly enough, that direction, for me, ultimately lead to a rather traditional lifestyle in many regards. My wife and I have two lovely children, a nice home, and a traditional lifestyle, while embracing and living true to our own inner truths.
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As opposed to attempting to overly control our family member’s lives on the surface, we would do better to look to the depth. Who are they? How true do they live to laudable core values? Raising children is no easy thing. As a parent, I too am extremely committed to doing right by my children. I have deep concern that as they grow, their lives will be good and healthy.
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If one of my children chose a spiritual path, I would have many reservations. Cults certainly do exist and are most worrisome in this regard. I would want to know, beyond question, that my child was not going to be indoctrinated into such thinking. If my child chose a spiritual path, I would make it my business to look into the teaching they were following.
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There have been a number of individuals that, upon discovering that their spouse had interest in my teachings, took the time to personally explore them also. I have a great deal of respect for that. Such an approach brings the family members closer together enabling them to evaluate things as a team.
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In contrast, an immediate knee jerk reaction of opposition only divides the family. I am sorry to say that is what happened in my family, when as a young man, I chose the spiritual path. The years have proven that those concerns and that reaction were unfounded and damaging to our family unit.
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I’ve noticed that sometimes when a family member chooses to go on a spiritual path, their relatives think of it as a life commitment. The truth is, more often than not, it’s a life-enriching sabbatical. Life’s journey is not a straight line. You move in one direction for a period of time and then shift. Yet life is constructed of that series of shifts. We would do well to reflectively support a family member in the building of his or her own life.
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Love is not always an easy thing. It becomes entwined with our own personal fears, biases, and limitations. To deal with all that can be most demanding of time and energy. Yet is has been said that if you do not have the time to do something properly, where are you going to find the time to go back and correct the results of a poor approach?
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I encourage you to take the time to do your very best. I pray that I too will devote myself sufficiently to raising my children wisely, as they grow into independent adulthood. Like love, life is not always easy. May we all do our best to approach it wisely.
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Ultimately, perhaps the best we can do for our children is to model nobility and wisdom within our own behavior.
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by Michael Mamas | Wednesday, September 7, 2011 | Relationship
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The state is made for man, not man for the state. And in this respect science resembles the state. – Einstein
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This quote says very nicely something that I have often talked about but never felt like I conveyed it to the degree I would have liked.
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Life is all about people. Mentality entrenches humanity into a corresponding reality.
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There are an infinite number of realities. Realities are born of relationship.
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By changing global mentality, we can change reality.
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There is no limit to the potential this affords.
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by Michael Mamas | Sunday, September 4, 2011 | Spirituality |
“The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.”
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I am going to give Einstein the benefit of the doubt here and assume he means the superficial self… the self identified with conditioning or programming.
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Though that is the ‘self’ most consider to be real, the true self lies deeper. It is the transcendental self… the universal self. Though universal, it wells up through and as your own unique individuality… the Atma.
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The superficial self dissolves away as you evolve… “liberation from the self.”
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The last words of the quote could read “liberation from the self” if he was referring to the true self. To be more accurate though, the true Self is eternally liberated. It is only your awareness of it that is awakened (liberated) as you evolve to enlightenment.
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Every step of the way the superficial self, which you believe is the real you, feels threatened – fighting, screaming and squirming. However, at the same time, the true you feels ever increasingly free, blissful, emancipated and joyful.
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Which side of the coin you focus upon is up to you. My suggestion: go with the bliss.
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by Michael Mamas | Friday, September 2, 2011 | World View
Here is an interesting quote from Winston Churchill:
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“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”
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Though I prefer to not get into a long commentary on economic systems at this time, I will say that things are changing rapidly now.
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Current thinking will go through radical changes (for the better) over the next decade or so. Yet the transition will be an uncomfortable surprise to many who currently consider themselves to be ‘enlightened thinkers’.”
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Prepare for change. Prepare to change.
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Take the words of an old man when asked for advise on longevity. “Embrace change with both arms.”
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Right now the world is going through a birthing process, which includes the well-known birthing pains. Through the transition, good times will arrive.
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How long it will take and how comfortable (or uncomfortable) the transition is up to us.
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