A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion....this is the place to go now.
But the sky knows the reason and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons.

Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect.
Then be sure of one thing:
The Is has imagined it quite a bit better than you have.

A boat longing for the sea...

I have studied many times
The marble which was chiseled for me—
A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor.
In truth it pictures not my destination but my life.
For love was offered me and I shrank from its disillusionment;
Sorrow knocked at my door, but I was afraid;
Ambition called to me, but I dreaded the chances.
Yet all the while I hungered for meaning in my life.
And now I know that we must lift the sail
And catch the winds of destiny, wherever they drive the boat.
To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,
But life without meaning is the torture of restlessness and vague desire—
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

- George Gray

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Darwin Stephenson

Our life is the union of the Body, Spirit and Mind but it isn’t often that all three of our entities experience the same path to completeness. Sometimes the Body is sick, but the Spirit is at an all time high. Or possibly your Mind is sharp as a tack, but your Body is struggling. When we experience ourselves as a singularity of consciousness, the comingling of our Body, Spirit and Mind is difficult to understand. But when we distinguish between the three, it is easier for us to see the cycle that is playing out in our lives.

With the goal to grow the Body, Spirit and Mind into balanced union towards completion, life would be so much easier to manage if our three entities were in perfect synchronicity. However, for most of us, the Spirit may be rising, but the Body is dropping and the Mind is flat-lining. Or the Body is rock solid, but we’re Spiritually bankrupt and the Mind has never experienced the nurturing it craves. With the three out of synch, our efforts to make our lives better never seems to garner the impact we expect.

As a result, is it any wonder that we hear stories everyday about perfectly healthy people dropping dead from a heart attack? Or being dismayed to find out that someone committed suicide when they appeared to have it all together? With our three entities not operating as a team, our efforts to nurture one of them in isolation is a futile exercise that often ends without achieving the results we desire.

If this cycle were unbreakable, then life would have very little meaning. Without the ability to change the course of our lives, we could do little more than hang on and wait for our next lifetime and hope that it is better. But this cycle is not only breakable, but breaking this cycle is instrumental in both you and God attaining enlightenment.

Whoa? God attaining enlightenment? You’re probably asking yourself how that would even be possible with God being God? Isn’t God already enlightened? When we envision enlightenment, we tend to think of this experience connecting us to the Divine. God is all knowing and by way of us connecting to God, our enlightenment will bring with it an understanding that is Divine. So if that is the case, then how could God possibly not already be enlightened?

To understand, consider that before there was a Universe or Humanity there was only God. In this state, God was complete, all knowing and perfect. In this singular state, God’s love was less than it could be. With only God and no other, love could not be shared and thus was not the full embodiment of love. And so God created the Universe and brought forth life. To do this, God took part of himself to make what we now experience as the Universe and Life.

In this selfless act, God allowed himself to be less than complete in order to expand love. By bringing forth life capable of loving and embracing God’s love, God sacrificed his completeness for us. He created a Universe that sustains life so that we could exponentially bring more and more love into the world. In return, we provide God with original creations that expand collective consciousness and fascinate his all-knowing nature.

However, we should not think of God as being satisfied with his creation. His bringing forth of the Universe and Life is the means by which love grows, but our purpose is tied to his original intention. God’s hope for us is that we will become complete so that he too can return to completion. - Darwin Stephenson, from my book Inspiration Divine

P.U.S.H – A New Word For Better Life

A man was sleeping at night in his cabin when suddenly his room filled with light, and God appeared. The Lord told the man he had work for him to do, and showed him a large rock in front of his cabin.

The Lord explained that the man was to push against the rock with all his might. So, this the man did, day after day.

For many years he toiled from sun up to sun down, his shoulders set squarely against the cold, massive surface of the unmoving rock, pushing with all of his might. Each night the man returned to his cabin sore and worn out, feeling that his whole day had been spent in vain.

Since the man was showing discouragement, the Adversary (Satan) decided to enter the picture by placing thoughts into the weary mind:

“You have been pushing against that rock for a long time, and it hasn’t moved.”

Thus, he gave the man the impression that the task was impossible and that he was a failure. These thoughts discouraged and disheartened the man. Satan said, “Why kill yourself over this? Just put in your time, giving just the minimum effort; and that will be good enough.”

That’s what the weary man planned to do, but decided to make it a matter of prayer and to take his troubled thoughts to the Lord.

“Lord,” he said, “I have laboured long and hard in your service, putting all my strength to do that which you have asked. Yet, after all this time, I have not even budged that rock by half a millimeter. What is wrong? Why am I failing?”

The Lord responded compassionately,

“My friend, when I asked you to serve me and you accepted, I told you that your task was to push against the rock with all of your strength, which you have done.”

“Never once did I mention to you that I expected you to move it. Your task was to push. And now you come to me with your strength spent, thinking that you have failed. But, is that really so?

Through opposition you have grown much, and your abilities now surpass that which you used to have.”

“Look at yourself. Your arms are strong and muscled, your back sinewy and brown; your hands are callused from constant pressure, your legs have become massive and hard.

Now I, my friend, will move the rock.”

“True, you haven’t moved the rock. But your calling was to be obedient and to push and to exercise your faith and trust in my wisdom. That you have done!”

At times, when we hear a word from God, we tend to use our own intellect to decipher what He wants, when usually what God wants is just a simple obedience and faith in Him.

By all means, exercise the faith that moves mountains, but know that it is still God who moves mountains.

When everything seems to go wrong…

Just P.U.S.H.!

When the job gets you down…

Just P.U.S.H.!

When people don’t react the way you think they should…

Just P.U.S.H!

When your money is “gone” and the bills are due…

Just P.U.S.H!

When people just don’t understand you….

Just P.U.S.H.

PUSH that is…

P = Pray
U = Until
S = Something
H = Happens!

What Is True Love? (A Spiritual Perspective)

Emotional love can flower into true love when the fire of emotions cools down and is substituted by a wiser and more mature relationship. True love needs a fresh and renewing atmosphere, without fears.

When you feel spiritually full, you feel flowing over with pleasure, happiness, wellbeing, and that state helps you to accept the one whom you love as they are, because from your fullness you give and share and you don’t need or expect anything from the other. While you need something that you want the other to satisfy, you will have expectations and the fear that those needs might not be satisfied, and you will get frustrated more easily.  When you feel like a being of peace, a being of love, a tranquil being, a being that is spiritually full and satisfied, your relationship with others is a relationship of sharing on a level on which fear is not generated. You are not asking for or taking anything from the other. An elevated sharing of love, of happiness, of knowledge, of wisdom takes place, in which you do not generate a dependency on the other.

Attachments and dependencies, fears and insecurity, block our experience of love, of peace, serenity, freedom, happiness. When you have a feeling of love that takes you to a state of joy, to wholeness, but then you attach yourself to the object of your love, be it a person, or a  property, automatically the feeling changes into fear: you fear to lose the object of your love and, instead of feeling wholeness and enjoyment, you feel  fear.

Over time that attachment turns into a dependency and you start to become inwardly empty: that is, your energy level goes down.

Love in its purest form is a like a spring that pours forth for the benefit of others. Learn the art of loving, being free and allowing to be. Pure, true, love is an unconditional love that flows freely. Do not cling (hold on to). Love does not cling. 

The Power To Face

Situations arise where it may not be enough to tolerate or accommodate, but where I need power to face very unpleasant and perhaps threatening realities. What we are talking about here, in effect, is courage. Meditation helps enormously.

First, the practice of the awareness of myself and others as eternal souls greatly reduces fear of death, an ever-present reality that we spend much time, money and mental and emotional energy trying to avoid. If soul-consciousness is firm enough, I’ll have the absolute conviction that when someone dies, it’s not that they are no more, just that they have moved further on their eternal journey. This faith makes it much easier to face the departure of someone close to me. It also removes much or all of the fear I might otherwise suffer about leaving my own body. I’ll still value my life greatly – probably even more than before, because of having the burden of fear removed. But I won’t let concern for the body stop me from facing what I must.

Secondly, meditation makes it easier for me to oppose evil. It does this by allowing me to differentiate clearly between the actor and the action. Spirituality helps me understand that the original qualities of every soul are peace, love, happiness and so I have no hatred in my heart for anyone.

This helps me become fearless and stand firm against wrongdoing. With a clean heart, a clear understanding of good and evil, and connection with the divine, I am much more likely to have the faith and courage with which to stand up for what is right.

Thirdly, if the negative behavior I am opposing activates negative tendencies within my own personality, the fight will soon wear me out and I’m unlikely to be victorious. Power absorbed from the Supreme in meditation helps me remain positive and above negative tendencies and hence face someone’s negative behavior and emerge victorious.

Does Greed Fulfill?

The false intention and assumption behind greed, in the form of a thought and feeling, is‘the more I have, the more I am’. It is a combination of trying to add to the value of the self through material possessions, position, role, talent or achievements and then becoming attached to these as a form of identity, finally leading to personal collapse. To try to add to the sense of self in this way has the effect of diverting oneself from the real self, which is why, in many cases, a person who has everything material is left with the feeling of being empty, disorientated and even fearful.

We cannot accumulate, or rely on the external, to create a sense of personal value.

People often try to fill the void of personal inadequacy or emptiness through greed, but this ‘method’ goes against natural, universal laws. All that I am, all that I can be, all that will make me truly happy must begin from inside the self. We have to start from the inside out, not the other way round, otherwise we create desires that have no end, like the ten-headed “Ravana” – every time “Ram” cut off one of his heads, another grew in its place. “Ravana” did not die until “Ram” aimed for his heart. Desires are created from wanting one thing or another, believing that we will find achievement when those desires are fulfilled. This pattern of behavior keeps deceiving us and the proof of this is seen in the state of discontentment and emptiness people find themselves in.

Understanding Fear

Everyone, when they are young, knows what their destiny is. At that point in their lives, everything is clear and everything is possible. They are not afraid to dream, and to wish for everything they would like to see happen to them in their lives. But, as time passes, a mysterious force begins to convince them that it will be impossible for them to realize their destiny… There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.

Fear is an energy that puts a brake on you and prevents you from doing what you want and aiming where you want to go. It blocks you in the communication and expression of what you want to say.

Fear makes you hide, suppress and not express the most attractive; the most beautiful part of your inner self.

Fear has an influence on our capacity to reason, discriminate and take decisions. It makes us doubt, it makes us indecisive even in the simplest decisions of our lives. Fear does not allow your energy to flow, and that weakens your state of wellbeing and general health. Fear locks you into yourself and makes you become indecisive. It is a shadow over your inner self that prevents you from acting with ease and fluidity. It reduces your capacity of expression, of being yourself, of dealing with life and flowing in it.

‎"I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of a man is to live, not to exist." - Jack London

‎"What is my definition of right? That which is harmonious with existence is right, and that which is disharmonious with existence is wrong. You will have to be very alert each moment, because it has to be decided each moment afresh. You cannot depend on readymade answers for what is right and what is wrong." Osho

Thoughts as Energy

Just as the physical atmosphere is the result of climatic conditions and air quality, there is a subtle (non-physical) atmosphere which cannot be seen, heard or measured but can be experienced and influenced by the mind and analyzed by the intellect. It is variously described as the “prevailing mood”, the “vibration” and so on. What is the cause of this non-physical atmosphere, these “vibrations?”




Thought has been proven to be a powerful yet non-physical “energy”, which can influence other souls and matter. Thoughts, emotions, desires and moods generate a “field” around the soul (just like an electric field), which can be called positive, negative or neutral, depending on the quality of its effect on other souls and on matter. When a large number of souls are all experiencing positive thoughts, feelings and emotions, then the atmosphere becomes “charged” with positivity. When they are experiencing negative emotions, the opposite happens.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? - Benjamin Franklin

‎"Are you doing what you're doing today because you want to do it, or because it's what you were doing yesterday?" -- Dr. Phil

Inspiration of the Day

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you too, can become great. When you are seeking to bring big plans to fruition, it is important with whom you regularly associate. Hang out with friends who are like-minded and who are also designing purpose-fulled lives. Similarly be that kind of a friend for your friends.

Daily Happiness Quote

"To unpathed waters, undreamed shores." -- William Shakespeare

Revolution

There can be no political revolution, no social revolution, no economic revolution. The only revolution is that of the spirit; it is individual. And if millions of individuals change, then the society will change as a consequence, not vice versa. You cannot change the society first and hope that individuals will change later on." Osho

Picasso

Picasso was in a park when a woman approached him and asked him to draw a portrait of her.

Picasso agreed and quickly sketches her.

After handing the sketch to her, she is pleased with the likeness and asks how much she owed to him.

Picasso replies: "$5,000."

The woman screamed, "But it took you only five minutes."

"No, madam, it took me all my life".