"So, the whole art for the new humanity will consist in the secret of listening to the heart consciously, alertly, attentively. And follow it by all means, and go wherever it takes you. Yes, sometimes it will take you into dangers — but then remember, those dangers are needed to make you ripe." Osho
Thursday, March 31, 2011
"Just listen and be open to the Divine guidance. It is always there for us. Pray not for help, for it is not needed. Pray for guidance, for instructions how to reach what seems to you to be His help. God is teaching us the musical notes and how to play the tune with the instruments in our hands - our life and us. Now, we can read the music and play it, the music of our lives.
The answer will come, eventually, in the form of a good advice or a timely instruction, a suddenly clearer perception of the problem, of the circumstances surrounding it and of your own abilities to solve it. It may come, also, in the form of a most providential circumstance, though coincidence it will be not, for this providential happenstance was there in the scheme of things, in the grat plan of things, of the Universe, from the beginning of time. It had just waited for the set moment, which was about to come, to materialize itself. Therefore, it is not help, but a tool to use, put in our hands for the advancement of His plan." - Dan Barkye
Darwin's Perspective: During my 21-days of enlightenment, I was immersed in the connective wisdom that flowed to me in response to my questions. Instantly connected to the divine connection that is present to all of us, I was like a freshman in college given unfettered access to a divine library. During this time, I became accustomed to asking a question and receiving an answer. As you can well imagine, I was quite amazed by this interaction and quite enjoyed receiving answers to life's most challenging questions.
But once in a while I would receive an answer which was not tied to my question. I would receive this seemingly irrelevant information and wonder, "Why did I receive this information? This doesn't have anything to do with my question." Trusting in God, I moved forward and included this information along everything else I was given.
And then the most peculiar thing happened. In asking a different question, I received an answer that answered multiple questions. Moreover, the answer would have made no sense without the prior information provided.
My conclusion? We are temporal beings (time oriented) that understand life through our logical Mind's way of thinking. Whereas God is not constrained by the dimension of time, we are constrained by time and thus need information to be in the proper order for us to understand.
Thus when you reach out to God for guidance and question why your life is the way it is, consider that you're on a path to something greater that would only be possible or understandable by way of your current situation. In orienting you towards your divine purpose, your Spirit is channeling wisdom to you from collective consciousness and introducing experiences into your life. In the present moment, this wisdom and experience may not make sense or be enjoyable. But in trusting God, know that you're here for a reason and this life experience has meaning.
You matter and your life is not circumstantial. Seek to find your purpose from the experience of life. The signs are all around you. Listening is all that is required.
The answer will come, eventually, in the form of a good advice or a timely instruction, a suddenly clearer perception of the problem, of the circumstances surrounding it and of your own abilities to solve it. It may come, also, in the form of a most providential circumstance, though coincidence it will be not, for this providential happenstance was there in the scheme of things, in the grat plan of things, of the Universe, from the beginning of time. It had just waited for the set moment, which was about to come, to materialize itself. Therefore, it is not help, but a tool to use, put in our hands for the advancement of His plan." - Dan Barkye
Darwin's Perspective: During my 21-days of enlightenment, I was immersed in the connective wisdom that flowed to me in response to my questions. Instantly connected to the divine connection that is present to all of us, I was like a freshman in college given unfettered access to a divine library. During this time, I became accustomed to asking a question and receiving an answer. As you can well imagine, I was quite amazed by this interaction and quite enjoyed receiving answers to life's most challenging questions.
But once in a while I would receive an answer which was not tied to my question. I would receive this seemingly irrelevant information and wonder, "Why did I receive this information? This doesn't have anything to do with my question." Trusting in God, I moved forward and included this information along everything else I was given.
And then the most peculiar thing happened. In asking a different question, I received an answer that answered multiple questions. Moreover, the answer would have made no sense without the prior information provided.
My conclusion? We are temporal beings (time oriented) that understand life through our logical Mind's way of thinking. Whereas God is not constrained by the dimension of time, we are constrained by time and thus need information to be in the proper order for us to understand.
Thus when you reach out to God for guidance and question why your life is the way it is, consider that you're on a path to something greater that would only be possible or understandable by way of your current situation. In orienting you towards your divine purpose, your Spirit is channeling wisdom to you from collective consciousness and introducing experiences into your life. In the present moment, this wisdom and experience may not make sense or be enjoyable. But in trusting God, know that you're here for a reason and this life experience has meaning.
You matter and your life is not circumstantial. Seek to find your purpose from the experience of life. The signs are all around you. Listening is all that is required.
ref: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Darwin-Stephenson/57584366939
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Friday, March 4, 2011
Kingdom of this world
An old hermit was once invited to visit the court of the most powerful king of those times.
- I envy such a saintly man, who is content with so little – said the ruler.
- I envy Your Majesty, who is content with even less than I – responded the hermit.
- How can you say such a thing, when this entire country belongs to me? – said the offended king.
- For precisely that reason. I have the music of the celestial spheres, I have the rivers and mountains of the whole world, I have the moon and the sun, because I have God in my soul.
“Your Majesty, on the other hand, has only this kingdom.”
I wish you enough
Recently I overheard a father and daughter in their last moments together at the airport. They had announced the departure.
Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the father said, ‘I love you, and I wish you enough.’
They kissed and the daughter left. The father walked over to the window where I was seated. I tried not to intrude on his privacy, but I could not refrain from asking:
‘When you were saying good-bye, I heard you say, ‘I wish you enough.’ May I ask what that means?’
He began to smile. ‘That’s a wish that has been handed down from other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone.’
He paused a moment and looked up as if trying to remember it in detail, and he smiled even more.
‘When we said, ‘I wish you enough,’ we were wanting the other person to have a life filled with just enough good things to sustain them.’
Then turning toward me, he shared the following as if he were reciting it from memory.
I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright no matter how gray the day may appear.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun even more..
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive and everlasting.
I wish you enough pain so that even the smallest of joys in life may appear bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting…
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good- bye.
The stone
A wise woman who was traveling in the mountains found a precious stone in a stream.
The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and the wise woman opened her bag to share her food.
The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked the woman to give it to him.
She did so without hesitation.
The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime.
But, a few days later, he came back to return the stone to the wise woman.
“I’ve been thinking,” he said. “I know how valuable this stone is, but I give it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious.
“Give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me this stone.”
The Alchemist
“Why do we have to listen to our hearts?” the boy asked, when they had made camp that day.
“Because, wherever your heart is, that is where you’ll find your treasure.”
“But my heart is agitated,” the boy said. “It has its dreams, it gets emotional, and it’s become passionate over a woman of the desert. It asks things of me, and it keeps me from sleeping many nights, when I’m thinking about her.”
“Well, that’s good. Your heart is alive. Keep listening to what it has to say.”
“My heart is a traitor,” the boy said to the alchemist, when they had paused to rest the horses. “It doesn’t want me to go on.”
“That makes sense. Naturally it’s afraid that, in pursuing your dream, you might lose everything you’ve won.”
“Well, then, why should I listen to my heart?”
“Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet. Even if you pretend not to have heard what it tells you, it will always be there inside you, repeating to you what you’re thinking about life and about the world.”
“You mean I should listen, even if it’s treasonous?”
“Treason is a blow that comes unexpectedly. If you know your heart well, it will never be able to do that to you. Because you’ll know its dreams and wishes, and will know how to deal with them.
“My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer,” the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky.
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second’s encounter with God and with eternity.”
“Every second of the search is an encounter with God,” the boy told his heart.
“Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him,” his heart said. “We, people’s hearts, seldom say much about those treasures, because people no longer want to go in search of them. We speak of them only to children. Later, we simply let life proceed, in its own direction, toward its own fate. But, unfortunately, very few follow the path laid out for them—the path to their destinies, and to happiness. Most people see the world as a threatening place, and, because they do, the world turns out indeed, to be threatening place.
“So, we, their hearts, speak more and more softly. We never stop speaking out, but we begin to hope that our words won’t be heard: we don’t want people to suffer because they don’t follow their hearts.”
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