Everlasting life and happiness!!!

Life is everlasting and will always be. To think otherwise is to think of something that is just a fallacy within itself. Because of the fallacious thought, people tend to take life too damn serious. We (people) hold ourselves back from taking steps that would determine our ultimate happiness because of mental walls and blocks that we have thrown up. This thing called life is simply a big game and this game was meant to be played for the joy of it. It (this life) is only a small step in the whole scheme of things to occur. Life has existed before even this earth was in existence. An ultimate boom occurred because of consciousness (which has always existed, I call this ultimate consciousness God but it really doesn’t matter what you call it) and then out of the boom it everything became. The scientists call this event the big bang theory. Because of the so called big bang theory we all are here in our present forms but even so, we have and always been (even before the big bang) and will always continue to be. We are all connected to this ultimate energy which I call God and we always will be connected whether we believe it or not. Energy is forever, it can’t be destroyed so it only transfers from one form to another and this is what will happen to us when we leave our physical bodies. How that transformation will affect us is anyone’s guess. There are people a live who have actually died and have come back from the dead (they were pronounced dead because they had no brain waves and their hearts had stopping beating but miracles do happen and for anomaly type reasons they’ve come back from the dead). Some that have been through this experience say they’ve seen Jesus waiting for them at the gaits of heaven, some say they’ve seen the heaven that Islam promises Muslim people. There are even factual cases in existence now that prove reincarnation (in Indian, there is a case where an old woman said she wanted to be reincarnated as a male. Before she died a scar was placed on her head so that when her male self was born he would be recognized. Guess what happened? A few years after she died a male was born in her village with a scar on his head that looked just like the one that she was given; it was even in the same place. There are countless stories that I’ve heard that prove reincarnation exists). There are also children that have died and come back; they usually say they went to a heaven filled with cute animals and such for them to play with. So in saying all of this I just want to state that even in a physical death there isn’t just one thing that is guaranteed to occur to us after. To be quiet frank and with all that I’ve stated being fact, we really don’t know what will happen to us when we pass. But whatever it is, it will simply be another stepping stone in what we call life. Life never ends.

Life is also within everything. A rock has life in it; the life that is located in a rock can be seen with a powerful microscope and energy can be felt with a machine that is made to pick it up as well. Protons and neutrons are floating around making very small changes to the rock, a rock just has a very, very low life frequency within it but it still does have life in it. It (the rock) is actually evolving as well. Everything is evolving because evolve means change and life IS change. Evolution is a reality that we can actually see. We as humans didn’t always look as we do; we evolved from something else just as every other animal has. We have bones and fossils that actually do prove this as fact and also prove that life started in water (we have fossils that date back billions and billions of years. At a point in times past the land animals fossil suddenly stop and then its nothing but aquatic animal fossils, we also have fossils of animals who looked to be fish that evolved fin like feet so that they would be able to come out of the water. All of these things are very interested to me. I think everyone should know a little bit about everything so I am encouraging anyone who comes across this to do a little research on these events for themselves. The more we know about the world around us, the more we know about ourselves). So all animals and us as well do all come from that same place, all of these past events that occurred billions and billions or years ago were stepping stones that have put us in the place which we find ourselves today. Life is in everything, life is happening all of the time, life will never end and life is always evolving into something else. So in saying all of this, it makes no since to deny oneself of ultimate happiness within this life (I say “this life” a lot in a lot of my blog post because I mean just that. This life isn’t the only life we will live and quiet frankly from what I’ve learned from studies it’s not the only life that we have ever had). We need to take chances for our happiness and know that it is up to us to decide what happiness is. Knowing that our life will never end should free up a lot of fear based mess that may stop us from doing what we know we should be doing. For me, studying religion, different philosophies and science has helped me to come to certain understandings about life in general and about myself. Meditating, praying (talking to God) and simply being love has also given me help but just like all of you I am still on “that” path. I still have issues that I need to step up and resolve, I still have situations which I need to simply take the chance so that I may reach a happiness that I’ve never known. It’s all what I call life and life is God. God is life, and God is love. Love is Life and Life is living. To truly live takes more then just breathing, it takes joy. If we are to sit and just exist that is not a living that is a Dying!!! Why would you have a dying when you could be having a living? We die within our very only physical lives so many times, it shouldn’t be anything new to us and it (death) shouldn’t be anything to fear because even though we have died so many times and may be having a dying instead of a life at this moment we are all still a live. I’ve died every time I’ve evolved into my next self and I mean in the life I’m in now; I’m not taking about reincarnation here. The old self has died and the new self was born but I mySelf will always live. Let’s get it going, take those chances and enjoy life!!!

Namaste

Remember, everything that I have stated whether science, holy books or whatever proves it for me are still just my humble opinions and if I find that I am wrong about anything I am not afraid to change my point of view and adopt another. My point in writing this is to free up fears and to let all know that life wasn’t meant to be taken so serious. We are here for happiness and regardless of what one may choose to believe in, our happiness is still our choice. There is nothing to fear in that!!!

Random Love Writings

Who am I? Am I this person who has comes into this life confused and wondering just as a child would comes into the world? Or am I this individual who looks at things on an outside of me level and then asks questions like why is it the world so mean to me? Again, who am I? What is the purpose of life and why am I here? Will I ever know and will my wondering ever end? Will I ever come to a place where all of my questions are answered within this lifetime and what would I do if I did? Would I simply sit in the clouds like a king of all gods and look down on all who just don’t know? What ever will I do and will it ever end for me at all?

As I sit here wondering I think to myself that to accept something as absolute is a fear based quality. To make claims like you are mine forever, you will be with me forever and I will have a certain quality forever which no one will ever take away from me is fear! How about this for a change, how about we just let it be as they are? The now is relevant and that is all which is important. A future not yet born is a future that doesn’t exist. To make claims over a philosophy, person or label in any way is to look at the fear of it instead of the love of it. To allow all to change as it needs to and not to CLING on to anything in life is the first step to enlightenment. But to also know that we will never truly, fully know and realizing who we are and what we will become is the totality of what is to be considered enlighten. Happiness is what we are here for and love is the vastness of what we come from, to be quite frank we are love but that could mean a lot of things, it simply doesn’t still tell us who and what we are to the world for that we will never know completely. If we radiate the true essence of love then we will come into happiness but if we cling onto that state of happiness that we may achieve nothing but heartache waits for us ahead. Evolution is evident no matter how much we fight. Things will change, people will change, relationships and philosophies will transcend because it simply is the way of things. Not even a rock stays the same forever, as I write this they are within there change. The molecules that make them up are in motion right now and they will always be.

If I have told you that I love you then it will always be. If I make a connection with you then that connection will always remain and you will always be with me. Love is something that is unbreakable but that doesn’t mean that a loving relationship isn’t a changing relationship. So if I’ve told you that you are loved by me, nothing more needs to be done by you. Simply be as you are, grow as you must and know that this love that I have for you is exactly what God is. It is strengthening and it is all out power. So within the world, we all have this Love within us and we’ve all connected this loving aspect in one way or another with others. This is what life is all about, being love. Knowing that change occurs and not allowing our egos to make us demand aspects of individuals in any way. If they want to change, allow them, if they want to leave, encourage them. To love and to express love are two different things. If I have one million dollars in the bank and I choose to live in a box on the streets then what good is my one million dollars? Yea I got the riches but I’m certainly not expressing them if I am living on the streets. And so it is with love. Okay so you love, but if you love why you do throw expectations and limitations on your loved ones? Why do you try and make your loved ones feel bad simply because they’ve chosen a route in life that may not include you in a physical way? If it is love then it allows, it encourages and it uplifts. What good is the love if it isn’t being expressed? What good is the cake if I can’t have a slice? What good is life if I can’t even breathe?

So there it is in a nutshell with all of its grace and glory. To make it even more simple the terms of it all goes as follows. First it’s hope that is needed and then comes belief. Following those two terms comes the KNOWING and because its so powerful and releasing KNOWING is the realist, most potent step into the enlightened side. All of these aspects require faith which is something that is always in need. Fear cuts off faith, and the ego loves to use fear. Know that love is a knowing not a “needing to be proven” is the pinnacle of what faith is. Love is the deepest connection that any person could ever gain; it is so powerful that it knows what will become of it. Love knows all because love is God. So have a knowing and allow those who are loved to go on living as they may. Have a knowing that your loved ones are happy and are always with you in the deepest most metaphysical way. If there is something in the heart that says this loved one should be in your presence in a physical way have a KNOWING that it will occur. Just be in that level of faith and just know. Allow, let go, and know. Become One with God and gain all the power. Change the world by changing yourself and simply allow love to do what it does.

Namaste

Choose your god wisely

“Be careful of the gods you choose, for you will reinforce each other” Jane(Seth) Roberts

When it comes down to it, we truly do embrace what we choose to be god or gods to us in life. If it’s a famous idol that we embrace then we ether try to look like that person or we try to blatantly be that person. So in knowing this as fact, even for a god or an aspect of a philosophy, it is what we choose as holy that determines who and what we will radiate within our lives. There is a source, and this source is what sources everything in existence. Everything came from it; it is everywhere all of the time and it is within everyone and everything. But this source is a vast source; it reaches the cervices of the universe and the smallest areas within our personal spaces as well. It is a source that gives us choices on how to view it, there is no one way to view this source which sources all that is and all that will ever be.

In that past, human cultures have views this source in terms of gods. These gods were basically big people who lived above us with powers over nature and such. They also had great egos as well. In Greek mythology there were a lot of gods. The purpose of these gods was to explain the natural occurrences that humans saw outside of themselves. Every god that existed back then could be proven because of a natural occurrence or a catastrophic natural past event. (There was a great volcano which occurred in Greece well over 6000 years ago. This volcano was so powerful that its force could have been felt all the way in California. The people who believed in these gods whom were referred to as the Olympians believed that the cause of this great, catastrophic shake was that of the gods warring with each other. They believed that it was the battle between the Titans and the Olympians that caused this great volcano. Their proof was the aftermath of the volcano which actually destroyed a great part of Greece and can still be seen today. They had physical proof for their god’s existence) so in saying this every aspect of every form of god or gods that existence does have something that truly happened which could back up their existence. Also, the great source which sources all is the source of all that occurs so it is the cause of these natural, great even as well (these Greek gods truly were source). If one wants to look at these natural occurrences as something negative then it can be look on as such, if one wants to look at these events as something of the positive, they can do that as well.

This source which I keep on speaking of is a source that gives unconditionally, and in doing this it empowers. It has given us the power do whatever we want in life and also the tools to do so. The mind is the greatest tool of all that this source has given us. It (this source) has also made us literally part of the physical environment that we see around us. We are made of the same stuff as the earth and the earth is made of the same stuff that the stars and stardust is. We are all one in the same with what we see, feel and touch and we have the power to change and maneuver whatever we need to in order to reach what we would consider joy in life and so with this, we have this source, which is all giving, all accepting and all understanding within us just like it exist in everything else. Things do occurring within our lives that may dictate a god or gods in the sky being angry but this is only because of our perception of what is going on, and that perception comes from somewhere within our hearts.

Right, wrong, pretty, ugly, strong and weak all are subjective perceptions that we come to conclusions about. Nothing is absolute, nothing is truly objective and nothing is made a rule of thumb without us making it so. What I consider God is an aspect of the whole that I see fit to consider God. I can’t say that my opinion on what God is happens to be the all out gossip truth of it all myself, I have no right to make such a statement (nobody does). If I were to do so I would be pointing out a bold face, fear based fib. Lately, I’ve been reading a book called “Seth Speaks” and in it is where I got the quote that I’ve used for today’s posting. In the same chapter that this quote is stated in, it also marks that we as people have this source that we call God within us but then we project it to exist outside of us. In doing this we try to connect back with it by comparing ourselves (consciously or unconsciously) to what we’ve deemed this god to be. I thought that the statement and the whole chapter in general hit a truth that not many people realize even exist. We are so unconscious of ourselves that it isn’t even funny.

Love is empowering, love gives and never ask for anything in return. Love always accepts, never hands out ultimatums, never judges in a negative way because love always understands. All love does is shine, it shines joy and it shines light and quiet frankly from simply studying nature, science, different religions and philosophies and looking at life itself I can’t help but say that God is love. Some people choose to believe in a fear based god, one that sits up in the clouds and judges us for our wrong doings. One that doesn’t understand why people do what they do, one that is absolute and that say everybody needs to follow a certain rule book to be “right” in the world. One that has a straight conditional love, one that says, “even though I love you, I will send you to an eternal damnation if you don’t do what I say and in the way that I say it”, one that kills because it is pissed, one that dislikes homosexuals with such a passion that it would damn them to an eternal hell of they don’t “straighten up”, one that just sits somewhere and says that if you don’t cater to its ego it will leave your side. Some people choose to believe in a god that simply will turn its back on us and allow us to suffer knowingly if we don’t act a certain way. This god is jealous, it doesn’t like anyone to grow over a certain aspect within their lives because it fears that they won’t love it, it wants everyone to simply praise it because this is what serves its ego the best and it will reward those who praise it and punish those who don’t. This god can’t connect with everyone because it has a limited opinion on what is right and wrong, if you happen to fall in the wrong then you are basically on your own and on the way to this eternal damnation unless you straighten up before you die. Who does this sound like to you? Doesn’t this sound like a great deal of people out there today? We live in a fear based society because too many of us believe in a fear based god. We truly reinforce this god to the fullest in ever aspect of life.

Imagine a world where the inhabitance within it really did embrace a God that is love. How would those people react? Even if one considers themselves and atheist, they still have something that they truly do consider god. It may be science, money, politics or just another person that they admire. It is simple human nature to claim something for god and radiates that which is claimed god. You don’t actually have to acknowledge a god to have one, as a matter of fact it isn’t even necessary that you do acknowledge a god if you don’t choose too, doesn’t change that fact that something still does exist within this world that you consider god. But if we all were to consider God simply love then this would be a world of love. This would be a world of acceptance, a world that doesn’t say one has to be or act a certain way to be wanted. A world that allowed others to grow in the ways that they need to grow without causing hardships for them, a world that would be free from the grips of fear. This would be a world that didn’t fear lost, this would be a world that didn’t allow the ego to run the show in life, this would be a straight “heaven on earth” world. Imagine a world that had people in it whom allowed each other to maintain every empowering and loving relationship that they gained. One that didn’t have individuals whose own egos felt threatened at any of this. Imagine a world that allowed everyone to embrace whatever religions, philosophies, or ways of life without trying to down them and making them feel like “sinners” for doing so. Imagine if every single person in your life accepted you for all and everything you were without trying to make you choose or try and make you change an aspect of it? If every single person that you encountered knew that even though situations and relationships change, love is a bond that is forever and will never be broken. Imagine a world that saw the oneness in all, a world that wants happiness for its loved ones even more then it wants happiness for itself. This would be so because in this world, people would see sparks of themselves in others, they would see growth within themselves when they saw others grow, this is the kind of world that I am aiming at; this is the kind of world that I want so THIS is the kind of GOD that I believe in. God is love to me and nothing else and this isn’t something that I am just making up, it is something that I see every single day and to me it is being proven more and more within every single breath I take.

There is a reason why Jesus the Christ overthrew Zeus the king of the gods and took over. There is a reason why the religion that Jesus is kind of (not all of the way but kind of) was the founder of is the most popular religion in the world today. This reason is because of the love and compassion that Jesus had within his lifetime. It’s because Jesus was love and Jesus felt the oneness between him and his father God as the same, the Greek gods saw themselves as separate from everybody else, not of one God and one essence like Jesus did. The Greek gods did actually serve a great purpose for their time, they were explanation for all of the natural happenings that occurred within the world but they were also very selfish. They had egos larger then the world as a whole, they wanted people to praise them just because they were more powerful and they would punish people who didn’t give them these praises. Jesus didn’t do this, but the thing is the religion that Jesus sort of founded has lost a lot of what Jesus was all about. It’s like Greek mythology all over again. People believe in this fear based god that will destroy and is jealous. There are so many paths, so many religions and so many philosophies that we can take in life. Every single one of them has a great truth that can be used as a catalyst for growth. Every last one of them can be placed on the road that leads to our happiness in life and not one is better then the other. If one wants to embrace Buddhist then it would be a powerful, and life changing religion to embrace, if one wants to do the same with Islam or Hinduism then they can be as equally life changing in a positive light. But the thing is to allow one to embrace what they choose and loving them for what they choose to embrace. This should be truly so within life, it should be simply about change, growth, and happiness. If we allow fear to stop us from embracing every single, growing, changing, shining, joyous aspect to life then we will never see the gates of heaven. I believe that the first step to becoming a loving society is to embrace a God that is love. Everybody wants love in their lives because everybody needs it. We all need love so we all need what I consider God within our lives. Without it (love) we would all die away, literally.

Imagine a God that just allowed people who embraced a certain rule book the right to breathe air. Imagine a God who didn’t let the sun shine on a certain group of people because they didn’t praise him a certain way. Imagine a God that took away gravity, strength, companionship, opportunity, and joy from a certain group of people because they weren’t apart of a certain belief system. Love gives because this is all love can do. Love allows relationships to grow in their most natural ways, love accept all that it comes in contact with; love doesn’t try to change others because it is afraid for its own ego, and love simply is strength. So I closing, even though there is a whole lot more that I could say on this subject I just want to state that a person filled with fear is a person who embraces a fear based god. A person who lives from love embraces a God that is love plain and simple. God really does dwell within us and all around us and if we embrace love, praise love, and live love then this loving God will radiate within our lives with every answer to any of our issues. Stand firm for what you believe in, grow in the way that you feel growth is best for YOU, and simply embrace love. Watch what will happen within your life and within the life of everyone who is around you. Remember this simple fact, love empowers and fear disables. It doesn’t get any simpler then that. GOD IS LOVE!!!

Namaste

Sweet Treats???

The sticky, sweet sustenance of sugar are ingested to help give our bodies a simple solution to its depleted energy, but how long will that energy last? Within every issue in life, sugary, sticky solutions arrive. It’s like candy to a baby, why not take a bite? Why not embrace the simple, the easy, the icing on the cake? I want to bask in it; I want to indulge in the sweetness no matter how quick that energy may leave me. Why not simply over eat? Lets just devourer all of the sticky treats that lay at hand. It’s like heaven in a plate, a dish of delectable deserts. So if I eat them all then I will gain the feeling of being satisfied. Or maybe those sweet treats my just sit in my gut and cause it to protrude. Is this what I want? A fat gut at the cost of the sweets? Do I want to feel again depleted of energy in a few moments because I’ve chosen the sweet treats as my only sustenance? And so it is with life, wisdom and knowledge are at hand but then the lucidness of just giving in is there as well. Feed the mind with insight, not junk. Stand for what you feel you should, remain in growth and keep it going. Never give in to fear no matter what. Never allow others to dictate what is good for YOU. If one can’t accept you for all that you are they truly aren’t accepting YOU. If it is only an aspect and not the whole then how is that love? If they allow the sweet treats to remain but frown at the nutritional entrées then what are they to you? A growth will occur; it can occur in a bad, ugly growth or in a beautiful, enlightening, strengthening growth. Evolution is happening right now and change will transpire. These sticky treats may be tasty for the moment but why would you want to fill up on junk? Why not be free, embrace the sustenance that will take part in your growth instead. But in saying all of this; there is nothing wrong with indulging in a “sweet treat” here and there. Keep life interesting yes; but still fill yourself with the nutritional, loving, empowering sustenance for your body and soul in a plenteous manner. It’s not the all out only gossip truth that I speak, but these are my simply, very, humble opinions that I share, do what you want with them and BE LOVE!!!

Namaste : )

Give Love freely.

"If you are feeling hurt or just plain angry, don’t give in to it! Instead go and give someone an unexpected compliment, smile at a stranger, do something for someone without expecting something back in return, just go find someone and serve them in a loving manner. This really does works better then drinking, smoking, or drugging your problems away. Its guaranteed to work. You will feel better, stronger and more ready to take on whatever the world throws at you after doing any loving, kind act for another. This really works!"

There are actually endorphins that are release within our physical, bodily structure after we do a kind act that gives even a physical reason why my quote which I used above is truth. We are loving individuals because we come from love and love truly is the answer to every issue bad or good. Someone that we care about may have rejected us in an unseen way, someone may have lied to us or cheated us out of something, we might even feel that things are going so bad in life that taking our very own life in itself may seem like the only solution out of a situation. We begin feeling negativity in any aspect because we align ourselves with a vibration of fear, this is what fear does, it separates us from joy and happiness, and it bars us from simply growing in a free manner. The best way to gain the vibe of love back from this fear vibe is to be love, be loving and that light of love will always outshine the darkness of fear. Simply head out, go and sweep off some elderly person's porch then leave without even letting them know you did it. You can even simply tell someone that they look lovely today without expecting anything in return, or why not just simply look a stranger in the eyes and smile at them. In doing any of these things (or any positive thing you can think of) love will shine bright, heaven on earth and within LIFE will be a step closer and you will simply feel great about yourself and about life. It really isn't hard to find someone in this fear based world to cheer up at all so the task is very easy to accomplish.

So instead of yelling at an individual because they've "pissed" you off or thinking that it would be better to hurt someone because they've hurt you, go out and be of service to someone. Seriously do this without the intentions of gaining anything back in return. If you do I promise you that happiness will spring from within your soul like a jack in the box. You will feel so euphoric that you won't even understand why you bothered to feel angry in the first place. This world is full of love and that love is the light of God. God is really everywhere all of the time but for you and me, the most potent place that God does dwell is within our hearts and souls. Simply do as God does, radiate love and joy and your whole mood will change to one of imprisonment to one of empowerment. An answer to all of your hard issues will come to you in a more potent manner if you are in a loving mood. If you aren't, don't expect insight to find you. Be love, let go of all of your issues, allow God to handle things that you find too much for you (by simply not even worrying at them) and simply serve in a positive light. I promise you that even if an answer doesn't come right away, the serving part will make you feel better, then and only then will you hear the voice of God speaking to you from within your heart and soul, and then, all will be well and everything will turn out perfect.

Namaste

Solution within

"When we are immersed in the depths of a problem, our situation is like the baby chick encased in its shell. As the chick evolves, the shell becomes a polluted and claustrophobic environment where its space, mobility, and plenitude are challenged. God does not step up to the plate and "solve" this problem for the chick. The solution has already been placed in the seed of the chick's existence-the chick pecks its own way out when it has sufficiently evolved to maintain a life outside the shell. And so it is within us. All that we need to do is peck our way out of any challenging predicaments, its (our solution to an issue) is already within us, awaiting activation by our taking self-responsibility" Michael Bernard Beckwith

I've learned a lesson in life which has served me in so many ways. Its a lesson of failure and pain. I've also tried to push the reasons for my failures and pains on others in the past and with that, I've uncosciously embraced more pain. As a matter of fact, every time that I've done this I've basically empowered individuals with the charge of my happiness. Then one day I came to a realization. This came in meditation. Following my meditation session, because my mind was no longer like a body of water which was shaken up so that ever piece of muck and murkiness floated around I was able to see. My meditating calmed the waters of my mind down in a much needed way. Life is so full of hustle and bustle, we are so full of this world and its demands and within all of that mess, our mind waters become shaken up. Nothing but worldly mess floats around within our minds. Our jobs, our family issues, our financial situations, our this and our that, we never see the end of it. Then when we find ourselves in a struggle and we are hurting for a way out, we then see no one else to put our pain on but the people who are within our lives. Then we start the blame game and it never ends. It becomes never our fault. But the thing is, every solution to our problems lie within us. We do know what to do in order to get out of an issue because quiet frankly, we are the ones who put ourselves in these so called issues anyway. The issue and the solution is simply located within and calming the mind with sitting in silence (all televisions and radios must go off for this!!!!) is the quickest way to see this as fact. We must allow all of that muck which the world has place in our mind waters to settle. It needs to settle just as dirt and muck would settle to the bottom of a pond once it has arrived at a calmness within itself. Then and only then will our mind waters be clear enough for us to see a solution.

Do you think a chick which is still encased in it's shell blames the shell for its situation. Do you think it sits there and says, "damn shell, why don't you move out my way!!" or do you think that it simply comes up with a solution to get out of the shell by itself? Chicks know that they have the power to free themselves from the shell when it is time. They realize that it's all within them, this power which can give them all the freedom they need to gain. We need to take a lesson from the chicks. All is located within us, we just need to find calmness within ourselves and the answer will come. It may come in the form of someone talking to us, or in the form of us leaving a relationship or a job situation that doesn't serve us. It make come in the form of us simply putting a stop to fights that we may constantly have with people in our lives and allow them to be right (even if we know they aren't). It make come in so many forms but for it to be felt, we need to first gain this insight from within. We need to feel it in our hearts and in our minds. After this occurs we will come to the realization that we are strong enough and wise enough to get out of a harsh and hurtful situation. It is all within us all, the solution to an issue always dwells with us no matter what or how harsh.

Namaste

The Ankh cross (life)

The Ankh Cross represents life (immortality) and death as one aspect of it all, also male and female, balance. It can also represent zest, joy of life, and energy. It's closely related to the looped cross that can mean fertility and life. The Ancient Egyptians used the ankh to stand for the word ʿnḫ meaning life. It is also called crux ansata, Latin for cross-with-a-handle.

Symbols are a very important aspect of humanity. Ever since humans emerged and gained the intellect that comes with the human spark, symbols have been in use. A symbol that I've come to embrace is that of the Ankh cross.

The Ankh, also known as key of life, the key of the Nile or crux ansata, was the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic character that read "eternal life", a triliteral sign for the consonants ˁ-n-ḫ. Egyptian gods are often portrayed carrying it by its loop, or bearing one in each hand, arms crossed over their chest.

Some people embrace symbols that represent suffering, some embrace symbols that represent hate. Others embrace symbols that represent the eternalness of life which is at hand. This is what the Ankh cross represents for me. It is a symbol that started as a Egyptian hieroglyphic, then it was embraced later on by certain Christian groups. It is a symbol that represents the power of life, it stands for the utter strength of God. In Egypt, gods are often represented carrying an Ankh, these gods and goddess are depicted as some of the more powerful ones. To embrace ones own God given divinity would be a great benefit in life. With a power like God's within, what could stop you from achieve great heights in life? Well, this power does dwell within all of us but some are ether afraid to embrace it or were taught that they weren't good enough to embrace it in full. It is something that dwells deep in our souls, something that gives us strength to rise out of the darkness that life sometimes puts us through, and it is a very empowering bit of wisdom to maintain. We all are One and apart of Love which is God in its truest form and I for one am not afraid to tell anyone whom I blatantly see this light shining through so. Nothing wrong with being one of the great ones to bare that Ankh, even if you don't have one of our own to bare, bare it within your heart and soul.

For me to say that nothing is needed accept belief in oneself is to cut off all of the egoic folk who want you to find God or happiness through them. It isn't cutting off God because God is just as much apart of us and with us as our own essence is. Empowerment gives and allows growth within itself, it doesn't strike fear in the hearts of its beloved. The Ankh is a powerful symbol to embrace if it is understood in an empowering way. To be love is to be one with God, to be One with God is to dwell within heaven's gates, and to dwell in heaven's gates is nothing but sheer, utter joy. If it isn't an Ankh that you choose to embrace, embrace something else that gives power and strength. To acutally make it really simply, all one actually needs to do is embrace the power of Love but even so, I personally think that Ankh cross is pretty darn cool.

Namaste