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HEAVEN is here to reach every soul on earth to reawaken:
* Our connection to God *
* Our belief in ourselves *
* Our awareness of our shared worthiness to God *
* Peace on Earth *
God is always
bringing us closer to Him. | Heavenletter #5214 What Does Your Heart Say?, March 5, 2015
God said: Yes, of course, it makes a difference where you sit. From where you sit, you see. Sit
on the floor, and you have one view. Sit on stool at a counter, you have a different view. Sit outside on the deck at night,
and you can see the stars. I am trying to say that often you sit where your intellect is and perhaps less often where
your heart is. There is really one place for you to sit and go by, and that is in your heart. The question to ask is: What
does my heart say? Now, now, I don’t mean never to listen to your mind. You can use your head. Don’t run
across a train track hoping to be faster than an oncoming train. Don’t tell your boss off just because you want to.
Don’t beat your chest and be like Tarzan in the middle of Times Square. You can listen to your heart and be circumspect
at the same time. Maybe the question is: What does my gut say? Must my mind always have the say-so? Must I be so guarded
that my heart doesn’t dare to speak? Perhaps your heart and mind can marry and answer you as One. I
am quite sure that, if your present perspective holds you back, there is another place for you to sit. If you were
in someone else’s shoes, you would see differently. You might well understand something you don’t understand to
date. Let’s face it. Your mind isn’t tolerant. Your mind may race around and back again. Your mind is
even a debater of itself. Your mind likes to stay with the status quo whereas your heart more likely ventures into the Unknown.
What you have always known may not work for you any longer. It may never have served you, yet you listened to your
mind rather than your heart. You don’t have to worry that your heart will get spoiled. It’s not frequent that
your heart has a chance of getting spoiled. You may well mix up your heart with excuses your mind gives you. Too often
your mind answers from its chair and says: “Better to stay where you are than venture out.” Beloveds, I don’t
know anything more contradictive to living life than that or this: “Better to be safe than sorry.” How do you
know that any of this is true? A made-up mind may have stopped seeing and thinking some time ago. Let Us say that
your mind is like a cup of tea, yet you do not keep heating up your tea. You start all over again with a fresh cup. If there
is no percentage in adding water to your same cup of tea to make it last, what gain do you think there is in reheating old
thoughts? There are some thoughts that are tried and true. The thought that I exist is true. This thought stays warm
of itself all the time. It never fizzles out. It isn’t that you want to make your thoughts be true. You want to think
true thoughts. Of course, there is something to be said for finding out. Life will find out. Life will teach you.
Only love is true. Only light is true. Only brotherhood is true. What is negative, no matter how seemingly true doesn’t
stand up. You may believe in fear, yet that doesn’t make fear true. You can believe that someone deserves to be hurt,
yet that isn’t true. When you come down to your last breath, you will know that isn’t true. You will also know
that death is not true. Only on the physical plane can death be true. Be true to yourself, and you will know what love is,
and you will find love right here in your heart. |
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Alabama, US of A.
Thought Adjuster.
Subject:
“Creative Agents”
Received by Oscar.
Thought Adjuster: “When mortals let themselves be guided
by spirit, they progressively become creative agents of their own reality, participating in the evolutionary process of the
universe and the manifestation of the divine plan — the will of the Father.
“This is not the time to rest on your laurels. You will always be motivated to explore and to find new avenues
of expression for the soul that grows within you. The more light you shed on your surroundings, the more you will be used
as a resource to enlighten this world and guide those who are searching for the truth. Opportunities to lovingly serve your
neighbors will never vanish and you will have plenty of situations where you will have to make decisions that will have an
impact on your spiritual growth. You will continue to accumulate experience to prepare yourself for the next levels of your
existence.
“Considering your time in this world is limited,
it would serve you well to put aside your material progress with the objective of giving priority to your spiritual growth.
This doesn’t mean for you to live in poverty. Instead, it is an intelligent decision to make for those who have reasonably
satisfied their material needs. If you already have more than enough to ensure your material sustenance and the needs of
your family, you can start to explore the spiritual side of your being. Very few in your world are able to decide when they
have enough and dedicate their lives to excessive accumulation of wealth that doesn’t really add any particular value
to their lives.
“Putting a limit on your material progress is not to become complacent
or lazy. You should deal with your responsibilities and do your worldly duties, but when the benefits you obtain from your
work are enough, why would you dedicate more time to get even more material things? Wouldn’t it be better to explore
other areas of your life and start reaping the benefits of a life dedicated to achieving the things that will create real
value and satisfy that inner yearning that has remained ignored for so long?” © The
11:11
Progress Group.
My Gift to you is for you to be of Service to Me — Christ Michael.
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6 March Posted:
04 Mar 2015 10:00 PM PST Yogasara-Upanishad Mantra
- 2 Yoga
is the restraint of thought-waves Notes and Commentary Now I proceed to explain the system of yoga philosophy in brief and bring home to the readers
the salient and vital points in the yogic system. Yoga teaches how to control the vrittis (thought waves) of the mind and
get freedom. Yoga teaches how to curb the outgoing mind and attain one's pure state of bliss by going beyond the mind. Yoga
teaches how to transmute the unregenerate nature and attain the state of divinity. Yoga is a complete suppression of the tendency
of the mind to transform itself into objects, thoughts, etc. Raja yoga is an exact science. One can ascend the yogic ladder patiently
through its different rungs. The highest summit of the ladder is asamprajnata samadhi (super-consciousness), wherein all the
samskaras (mental impressions), which bring about successive births, are absolutely fried up. The eight limbs of ashtanga
yoga are: yama (self-restraint), niyama (religious observances or canons), asana (posture), pranayama (restraint of breath),
pratyahara (abstraction of senses), dharana (concentration), dhyana (meditation) and samadhi (super-conscious state). This is one kind of classification
of yoga: karma, upasana, raja yoga and jnana. This is yogatraya (three fold yoga). Upasana is bhakti. Another classification
is mantra yoga, laya yoga, hatha yoga and raja yoga. Mantra yoga is recitation of mantras as "Om Namah Shivaya" of Lord Siva,
"Om Namo Narayanaya" of Lord Vishnu, Gayatri, etc. Laya yoga is kundalini yoga. Nada anusadhana (concentration on anahata
sounds of heart) is also laya yoga. Laya means dissolution. The mind is dissolved in God. Hatha yoga relates to the restraint of breath
(pranayama), asanas, bandhas, mudras, etc. 'Ha' and 'tha' mean the union of sun and moon, union of prana and apana. Hatha
means any obstinate practice till the object or end is achieved. Hatha is sticking to some spiritual practices. Mauna (vow
of silence), trataka (steady gazing), crystal-gazing, standing on one leg (a kind of austerity) etc., are all hatha practices.
Hatha yoga is not separate from raja yoga. It prepares the student to take up raja yoga. Hatha yoga is concerned with the
breath (prana) and the physical body. Pranayama purifies the pranamaya kosha (vital sheath). |
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An Angst-Ridden and Redemptive Full Moon
Thursday morning's Full Moon is a powerful configuration, strongly aspecting Uranus and Pluto in the month that they come to the final perfection of their difficult square. This week we therefore get
another taste of what we have already been experiencing and are most decidedly in the midst for the early going of this climactic
year. This is nothing less than a revolution of ideas and values, and of structure, that is taking place in our personal lives,
and within the surrounding collective also, ultimately indicative of irrevocable changes. In this Full Moon configuration, not only the Sun and Moon, but also Venus and Jupiter trigger Uranus and Pluto in their square, making for a fairly angst-ridden time, as the transformational pressure mounts and as we
experience our resistance. We are truly up against it now and might well fear that we will be shaken loose from all of our
previous moorings.
Chiron, the Wounded Healer, is greatly emphasized in this Full Moon configuration, being conjuncted by the Sun and opposed by the Moon, with the cosmic support of Jupiter making an inconjunct to Chiron from Leo. This reminds us that while we can have optimistic attitudes about our situation, all the pressure upon us
now could feel daunting. We have nothing to lose but our dysfunction; and yet, entering into the unknown is understandably
fearful. One mythological touchstone for Chiron is the dark cavern, symbolic of the unknown and hidden parts of the psyche, where demons could lurk. It is
like the dragon guarding the cave wherein lies buried treasure. First we must confront the dragon, before we can take advantage
of the treasure.
Feeling our moment in history, and with Chiron thus invoked, we can see both the angst and the potential reward that is available to us, once we work through
facing up to what is going on deep inside ourselves. You may feel that you have difficulty in attempting to better know yourself
deep down and all though, of accepting yourself at these profound levels, with all of your drawbacks and imperfections. And
yet this could be something of an illusion. In any case what is available to you once you make these difficult and significant
first steps is the richer life that is ahead of you. This is your reward if you can squarely face the sources of your pain.
Saturn represents structure, and remains in square with numinous Neptune, an aspect that was highlighted in the timing of the New Moon two weeks past. This constitutes another potent symbol for this month's astrology, indicating that things
are in a somewhat nebulous state, with confusion about the way that the very structure of our lives could be morphing with
reckless abandon, versus our diminishing capability to keep holding on.
The Sabian Symbols for this powerful Full Moon may have something to teach us about what we are currently up to. For the Moon, in the fifteenth degree of Virgo, we find: "An ornamental handkerchief." Marc Edmund Jones relates this old-fashioned symbol to a grace note
of refinement and charm, representing uniqueness, calling it "a symbol of [a person's] self-quickening desire for allegiance
to a reality higher or finer than [oneself] ... a reminder of his [or her] better impulses." For the Sun in the same degree of Pisces, we have: "An officer preparing to drill his men," and Jones comments that this represents "man's self-betraying
desire for a hierarchy of allegiances in which he can lose himself ... on the side of the superficial life of everyday." He
also calls for "[the] challenge to make the best of the situations from which there is no immediate extrication ... with a
determination to participate in some reality of a more enduring importance." The trick of course is to find that guiding principle,
by means of which we can have the courage to rise above and make it through, when the cultural symbols of the past have largely
lost their meaning for us. We must discover this guiding principle in a way that is uniquely our own, in the only place that
it can indeed be found, deep inside our very own minds and hearts.
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