Plant Your Apple Tree Regardless

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin Luther


In bleak times one may ask themselves what the point would be if they were look on the times in a positive manner. Bleakness does look murky and dark to the naked eye but we should always remember that nothing in existence ever remains the same. No matter how unlikely things may seem we still should always plan for tomorrow, we should always plan for our dreams to be a reality even if it seems at the moment that our dreams may never come true. Set up life and make plans for better times. Do things that you would do if times were better. Plant your apple tree even if it looks as if the world is going to fall apart tomorrow. Change is always occurring, don’t think that things will always be the way they are now; in all reality we don’t want things to remain the same because if they did then we would never gain the opportunity for growth. It is in the thought that projects the reality. Everything we could ever want is a pond us, all we need to do is make ourselves ready for our wants so that they may manifest. If I want an apple tree I have to plant the seed first. If I don’t plant the seed then I will never get an apple tree. Within this moment we are in the position to at lease mentally plan for our euphoria. Just as we would need to plant a seed to get a tree, we need to plant a thought of euphoria to gain it. Let things undue as they may, don’t attach to an outcome at a certain moment in time. Time in the way that we view it is a delusion (time doesn’t truly exist. I will explain this concept in the next blog I write.), when we attach ourselves to time like it is a reality it’s like we are attaching ourselves to a fear based rule. Let things go as they may, let the wars go on around you, let the people get angry, let the frustrated be frustrated if that is what they choose, let them threaten to end society if that is what they please but always keep faith and hold firm on euphoric dreams. Plant the apple tree if you want an apple tree. Don’t let a bomb threat stop you; don’t let a prediction for a hurricane waiver wants ether. Still remain firm no matter what. If you were to live in a village that had no women and you wanted a wife, plan for a wife to arrive within your life. If you live in the artic circle and you want to lay in the summer sun on a beach, go out and buy your swim wear and your beach umbrella (even if you don’t have the slightest idea as of how you will get to a beach). Do you see where I am going with this? Wake up in the morning and give thanks for all that you have, also give thanks for your dreams. Give thanks like you already have them in your possession and think within your mind that they are already a pond you, never loose hope, never loose faith. You do have everything that you want; it all is in your grasp. Remember that and remember this as well, no matter what is happening around you, you can’t have an apple tree if you do not plant the seed. So what are you waiting for? Go plant that seed.

Namaste

Knowledge is Power (our children should embrace this)

Even though I will stress that education isn’t the most important thing in the world never the less in my opinion education does hold great importance. We all have come to this earth to gain happiness. It is the only reason we live, we come to actually become what we’ve come from which is Love. But in the mist of all of what we’ve come here to achieve I’ve realized something that needs to be looked at with urgency. For the last few days I have been running into people who are lacking the basic knowledge that all adults should have. There is no such thing as a true level of being as in one person being on a better level compared to another. Within Us is that Oneness which means that there is actually no one out there who is better then another. Now with that being said there is a reason why I believe so feverishly in education. I am going to utter a statement that all of us have heard throughout our lives and that statement is that knowledge truly is power. When I say power I mean freedom. The more knowledge we gain the more we’re able to achieve. With learning and knowledge doors are open and the more doors that become open for us, the more choices we will gain as in regard to our happiness. Now when I make the statements that I am about to make I want it to be known that I am not saying that simply because one person knows a little bit more then another it makes them a “better” person. I know that I’m not better then anyone who is and who has ever lived. Everything that I say in this blog is truly my humble opinion. I would never try to pass anything off that I say as the only gossip truth that exists. As I have just stated, I am just making observations of what I’ve witnessed within my life experience. Besides that, everything else I say is just my humble opinions.

For the pass few days I’ve been talking to more illiterate people then usual and this is sad to me. I’ve been running into full grown adults that can even read words like “Stonebridge”. We live in a country where education is given to us free. If it was realized as of how much a gift we have in free education I don’t think we would have people who are in their forties and can’t even read on a second grade level. What is happening to us? Why do we even have this problem in this day and age? I’ve been running into people who don’t even know information that I would have to consider “basic knowledge”. I don’t think I use words that are complicated when I speak but it seems that when I utter a statement certain people don’t know what I’m talking about and I have to “dumb down” what I am saying so they get me. When I say this I mean simply statements too. I will say, “If you consume that amount of food it may hurt you.” They will say, “Huh a customer, what’s that?” What is going on here? I think that it is really sad for us to be having this problem at this day and age. We are in the year of 2009, when I was growing up I use to watch movies that showed people whom lived in the 2000s with flying cars and such. We are not that far behind from being this advanced with our gadgets and such but then there are people alive who can’t read simple sentences and don’t understand simple statements. Then yesterday I read this article and to me it seemed like a bit of hope for this situation.

The president, who has a sixth-grader and a third-grader, wants schools to add time to classes, to stay open late and to let kids in on weekends so they have a safe place to go.


Even though our children may not like this idea to me it something that rises hope, I’ve always said that a lot of these problems that we have could be eradicated within one generation of we focus great consideration on our children. Our children are a big piece of this mess of a puzzle that needs to be put together.

We really do come into this world wanting to grow and learn. As young children learning is fun for us. It’s fun for us because children get it. They get it more so then adults do until adults start projecting their woes and fears onto them. I can pin point the grade that I began to say I didn’t like school. It was around the 3rd grade or so. This became fact to me after I had been surrounded by older kids who would say how boring and tedious school was for them. As a young child, I looked up to the older kids because they had been on this earth longer then I. I wanted to know how the world which I found myself in worked so that I would be able to function within it. I was so impressionable within that time that it wasn’t funny. Within that time period (between the 2nd and 6th grade) I gain a negative attitude towards school, reading and writing (before that I loved reading and I wrote little books on my own) and learning in general. I had never even gotten an F on my report card before that time. My attitude towards myself changed as well. I began to think that I wasn’t good enough, I began to think that I was ugly, weak and stupid, I began to believe in all of these lies but there was something that lived within me which never let me totally believe. I never was on to follow so I am glad about that but still, I was fed so many lies that it wasn’t funny. I was being taught how to live in a fear based society. With this attitude going on it may be quiet appalling to our children if we say that we are going to cut there summer vacation down and have them stay in school an hour long. In the same article which said that Obama was trying to make school days longer a child said that he didn’t like that at all because he would have less time to hang out in the streets with his friends. When did our children take standing on a street corner over gaining power within themselves (knowledge)? I gain negative impression as a child through adults and older kids. It was passed down to me and as of now, change needs to occur so that this doesn’t happen anymore.

All children were meant to shine and they all come into the world knowing this. Let’s keep the shine within them by letting them know education is power and freedom. They come into this world wanting to learn and gain knowledge of the world so it is quiet natural. If you don’t believe me just watch a baby go about his or her day. Watch as they play with everything they can get their hands on. Watch as they discover how to do something (like push a button) then tries to take what they’ve learn to another level, watch as they place everything that will fit in their mouths to see what happens. Watch as their eyes light up when they make a new discovery. Babies wake up in the morning with the “want” to learn and to gain knowledge. They know that they were put on this earth to grow and to learn. They know this and this is what they live for beside laugher and games. They know this but then that gift is snatched away from them. When children start learning how to read and count they get happy. They enjoy learning these things. They enjoy learning about science and doing science projects. They enjoy doing and learning about art. They enjoy music class and gym class. They enjoy every bit of school until they are taught not to by their elders. Obama’s plan to make school days longer is a very good idea and it won’t be a hard one to put forth once our children gain back what they’ve lost

It is shown that in countries where they have longer school days, they learn a lot more and they’re more advanced in their learning as well. Even children in this country have said that when their school days were made longer (this has happened in some schools already) they learn more. They say they feel a lot smarter and school is just easier for them once the days are made longer. It also has been shown that in a lot of our children knowledge decreases within their long summer vacation, so in turn and to be quiet blunt, the go back to school dumber. This comes from parents not having academic work for children to do during the summer. The brain is like a muscle, it needs to be worked out or it will decrease in its abilities. My mother use to have reading and math assignments for my sister and me to do during the summer months. These assignments use to take us maybe an hour and a half a day (so it really didn’t take away from our vacation) and she didn’t have us do them on weekends. It got to the point that I started not to like the assignments but I am thankful that she had us to do them. My mother use to read to us as well and she let us know the importance of reading. She herself read for recreation purposes so from that I gain the knowledge that reading was a good thing. A lot of our children don’t have this. Some of these parents can’t half read themselves and the others just choose not to. Some parents never read to their children. They rather plop them in front of the television and just go about their day. There are parents who never interact with their children. They are so busy living their fear based lives that they never put aside time for their precious children. This way of living is truly killing us all slowly.

For us to remain in a place of happiness growth needs to continue. Evolution needs to be embrace, fears need to be let go, and our ego needs to be recognized so that it won’t run us into the ground. Within us is the power to change this world for the better. Let’s make sure our kids don’t loose the love of learning and let’s continue to learn different things within our own lives as well. I don’t want to be in a society of brainless people who don’t even have a standing in basic knowledge. We all want to be wise and intelligent because in knowledge freedom is gained.

Namaste

Persistence is the key

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
(Calvin Coolidge)
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In life we are dealt with situations and events. Every situation and every event that occurs within our life experience reveals a lesson for us to learn. It may not be a lesson that we can verbally define and that is okay, just know that every singe situation that we go through in life is a lesson for us to learn. A true lesson is nothing but a remembrance of whom and what we are. We come into this world with the all knowing already. True lessons help us to gain that back because within life it does get lost and like I said, all life experiences hold “true lessons”. If we are open and not attached to anything within life, these lessons will become clearer for us to perceive. Within these lessons (remembrances) comes our purpose. Our purpose is our reason; within life our reason will always be shown to us. Once we gain this realization of our reason we may feel that it is out of reach for us to gain. We may feel that it isn’t attainable but if it weren’t then we would have never thought it to be our reason in the first place. There are certain people, situations, jobs, achievements and all else which we may believe should be in our life experience. These things may not all come to us at the same time but once they do we will gain them if we are determined and persistence. Persistence and determination are the most giving and powerful tools that we have in life. With persistence comes faith and with faith comes non-attachments. Persistence rains over our education levels and talent levels. A persistent person can be more successful then a so called more talented person. With persistence comes self confidence, with persistence comes strength, and with persistence comes non-failure. We don’t want to become attached to a person, place, or outcome; with persistence attaching ourselves to anything won’t be necessary. Attachment is an aspect of fear. We attach ourselves to people and situations because the attaching is a false way of feeling like we actually have something which we don’t truly have. Lost can happen at anytime and attaching ourselves to something isn’t going to prevent that lost. Attaching ourselves to an outcome will only make us expect an outcome to occur a certain way and this in itself is an aspect of fear which can’t be ignored. So in turn if we let go of the fear we can let go of the attachment and within all of that, our freedom will be born. With persistence attaching isn’t needed. Persistence is all that is necessary, persistence and faith. If we meet a person who we feel should be in our lives, persistence work with this as well. If that person seems to become more and more distant from us within our persistence all this means is that the person isn’t the person that they first appeared to be. Faith and persistence will bring anyone or anything that we truly (truly is the key word. If it is true for us and we are persistent then we will gain it) want for ourselves into our experience. We deserve to have whatever we want, in exactly the way that we want it and that is all to it. A person who believes in this will remain persistent in their efforts, giving up is not an options and nothing needs to be forced ether. Faith and persistence is the key. Faith in our abilities and persistence to walk that path until we are at our point of achievement, stay persistent no matter what. Never give up, you deserve to have everything in the way that you want it and that is all to it. You deserve to have your passion within your life, you deserve to have what you Love within your life; persistence will get you just that. Never give up, stay on that path and it will be brought onto you. I guarantee it!

Namaste

The power of thought and of words

A few years ago I worked as security for this business. On this particular night business was slow so because of that I was sitting around talking with some of the people whom I worked with. The lady that was at the time speaking spoke of one of her clients. She was busy expressing her distastefulness towards this individual. As she spoke she all of a sudden stopped speaking and looked at me. Then in a polite tone she said to me, “Excuse me for what I’m about to say”. Following, she turned towards everyone else and proceeded in talking. The next thing she said was, “This guy that I had to deal with was really fat, smelly and dark.” After she made the statement I wondered to myself why she would excuse herself to just me before making that statement. It took me a few seconds to figure it out but then, I finally did.

It was pretty obvious of why this young woman excused her self to just me before she spoke. I had happened to be the only “black” person in the room and she didn’t want to offend me, she figured that she might offend me because she was going to talk about another “black” person and also talking about his “blackness”. Something I heard on the radio this morning made me mentally recall that incident.

On the morning show that I listened to this morning they played a clip of the Oprah show and on this clip she was talking to the rapper Jay-Z. They spoke on the use of the “N” word and they felt differently about the word in general. Jay-Z said that he had no problem with people using the word. He said, “We (meaning him and his friends) use the word in a way that we’ve taken the power out of it. It was a negative word and now we’ve turned it into a word of endearment. By doing this we take all of the negative power from the word that was attached to it for so long. A word is a word and nothing more. When the “hurt” towards this word is felt it’s really not an issue of the word. It’s more so an issue of racism. That is the issue that needs to be addressed.” Oprah had a different opinion, she said, “Well I disagree because I feel that the word is hurtful. When I hear it I think of young black men being lynched, I think of pain and I think of hurt. I don’t think that the word should ever be used so I guess we will just agree to disagree on that one.”

For me, I feel that it is a fear within people that makes them look at other people and their situations with ignorance. In the experience that I had with the young lady excusing herself just to me before she spoke I really had to think about it to fully understand why she felt that she needed to do that. I didn’t know the person that she spoke of personally and I’ve never even meant or even saw the person that she spoke of so why would I have a problem or be offended if she chose to think negatively of that person? If she honestly felt that way about the person I would have always wanted her and anyone else who feels a certain way to feel that they are able to express there feelings honestly around me without feeling the need to ether excuse themselves or simply watch there tongue. That incident wasn’t the first time I’ve dealt with something of that type within my life and quiet frankly I tend to dislike it when people act that way around me. I do understand why people may feel like they need to be careful around me if they are speaking of certain issues but I truly don’t like it one bit.

We all know that probably most of the people whom live in this country with an African ethnic background’s ancestors were brought over here to be slaves, a long with that their came plenty of ignorance, from that ignorance there came this hate and from that the separation and the believing in the delusion that a person’s skin color determines if one person is better then the other. Since then slavery has ended and every single type of environment, job position and situation within this country has been occupied by a person whom has an African ethnic background. We even have a president with an African ethnic background. People with an African background have come so far in this country so why would we sit and dwell in a place that doesn’t serve how far people of the African ethnicity have come? If slavery is over why are we still being bothered by a word like nigger? On another note a few weeks ago our president was giving a speech on his new health care plan and as he spoke on how his plan isn’t going to cater to illegal aliens a congressmen screamed out, “You lie!” in an angry rage. Why did so many people say that because he (the congressman) simply screamed out “you lie” to our president that this made the congressman a racist? Why do we cling on to this mind state? Why are we so afraid to forgive, let go and move on? Why do we let any word in our language cause hurt and pain to each other? The answer of all of these questions is right in front of our faces. For some reason people won’t let go, for some reason people won’t forgive and that reason happens to be the reason of FEAR.

One of my purposes of starting this blog was to “out” certain hidden false powers that run and mess up our lives. I know I speak of fear a lot because quiet frankly every messed up situation that arises, every worry we get, everything that has ever gone bad or wrong for us and everything that feels bad and hurtful are because of fear. I want this to be known and I want this to be seen. Fear is the reason why we can’t seem to see that the heaven that we all crave is right here with us right now. It is within us, it is on our very earth and quiet frankly it is US (we ourselves are that heaven that we crave). There really are two choices that we are able to make and every other choice that is made comes from these two. There is fear and there is love and that is all there is. Now fear is nothing but a bunch of False Evidence Appearing Real, nothing of fear even exists so in all reality the only true choice that we are able to make is love. From Love comes understanding and from understanding comes forgiveness. From forgiveness comes freedom and from freedom not even the sky is the limit for what we could achieve. Slavery is over but slavery does still exist if we hold on to the thought of it still being around. How does that serve us? A slavery mind state will enslaves us personally; we don’t need it around anymore so why hold onto it? Think of how all of those people that fought for slavery to end would think if they knew it was still around. Some of these people gave there very lives so that people with an African ethnic background could be free in every way possible so why let even a simple word like nigger enslave? Why do you think that the young lady whom spoke to us at my job that day felt she had to excuse herself to speak honestly around me? She thought that because of the slavery thing people who have the skin color of mine were too weak to hear a simple truth. We should be able to speak our minds truthfully no matter what without worrying if what we say will offend someone else. What we say has nothing to do with anyone else so why should it offend? This young lady wasn’t talking about me so why would I take it as an offense? I want people to speak honestly around me. I don’t live my life off of fear, I just don’t do it. Fear is also used for people who chose to be weak to control one another. Some people say that they can say nigger (or nigga) but someone else (who isn’t of an African ethnic background) can’t, then if the other person (the non-African) does say nigger the person who said that the word isn’t to be uttered by them will say, “Hey you can’t say that you racist”. Then a false since of control and power is felt and the non-African person instantly feels bad. People like that want within themselves the control of how someone else feels because it gives them a false since a power; same thing goes with other so called derogatory like the word “bitch”, it is just a simple way that one person feels to gain control over another. Women are just as strong and powerful as men. They are capable of doing the same jobs the men do. They are in themselves different but they are equal. They are not under men in any shape, size or form so why should a word like bitch offend. If a man feels that women are nothing but bitches I think it is a good thing that he honestly expresses it. This way a strong woman will step up and show him all of the reasons why women are not just mere bitches. It is the same thing with the word nigger. If there is a racist person who thinks African ethnic people are all just niggers I want him to say so around me. I want him to say so with conviction and truth, I want him to simply be himself and to simply sing it if he must. I want him to also know that I am not going to be offended by him feeling that way. I want him to know that I can gain an understand of why he feels that way and also that if he watches me long enough he will think that way no longer. I also want him to know that the way he thinks or any word that he uses has no power over me what so ever. I am not going to accept something that I simply am not. He speaking of me in a negative, ignorant way will be the same as him calling me a pine tree. I’m not a pine tree and no matter how much someone says I’m a pine tree I will never be one so anyone who calls me a pine tree isn’t going to do a damn thing to me. This is what we need to do; this is all that we need to do. No one really should be using any aspect of fear to control anyone because the control is not real, they actually have no control over the people who they in a false way feel they do. When someone calls another person a racist then that person themselves is the actual racist because it is the accuser who is holding on to the “racist” mind state. Let’s free ourselves so that we are able to be honest around each other. You know what they say; a doctor can’t help a sick person if he doesn’t know that the person is sick. How can we truly show each other that we are all great in our own right if we don’t know that someone thinks that we really are lower or less then them for various reasons? It is time for us to free ourselves from the grips of fear so that we can grow, move forward and claim our heaven on earth. Fear tells us that if we let go and forgive then we will be losing something (a false power) within ourselves and this is a straight lie. Radiate Love by forgiving and moving on. Slavery only exists in the mind. Let’s align ourselves with a positive energy so that we may maintain our happiness. Words only have power to them when we give the word the power. If we cling onto a negative meaning of a word within ourselves then we have just given the word plus the person that chooses to use it the power to dictate our feelings. Why would we ever give any misguided person power like that? We are all One. We are all of the same Source and we are all a part of each other. We all have that “greatness” within so if we all could just see God in each other then we would realize that we have more in common with each other then we may think. Therefore we would see ourselves in each other and we would never want to cause pain to each other. We would never try and grab onto a false since of control over each other. Fear disables and Love empowers, this is and will always be the case. Remember that.

Namaste

ANGER (lack of understanding of the Self)

From anger comes confusion, from confusion memory lapses, from broken memory understanding is lost form loss of understanding he is ruin (Krishna, The Bhagavad-Gita)

Anger is an emotion that we’ve all had to deal with. When things just don’t go the way we feel they should anger is born. Anger is an honest emotion and I don’t necessarily think it’s simply a bad thing (it’s not a healthy thing but I wouldn’t call it bad) ether because it is an honest emotion. We have our own personal ethics, values, and morals and when any one of those things become broken within our life’s experience anger is born. But, from anger confusion will arise. Now if we become aware of the reason which has angered us we will be able to maintain control over our anger. The key is to know that all anger comes from fear (which is derived from the ego), with this understand we will be able to control our anger so that it doesn’t mess up our lives. If anger takes root then confusion will follow, then from confusion everything will become hazy within our world. Nothing else will matter but our anger, sometimes we become so angry that we forget why we’ve become angry in the first place. We just allow anger to take root and then once it is in control everything goes down hill. There is nothing but lack of understand in anger. We only become angry at others when we lack the understanding of there actions, like I said before these are actions that go against us (our egos). Anger is a very honest way to express our feelings; I don’t think that we should harness our anger if it is present within us. But the trick is to know why we are anger and to also know that this anger that we may be experiencing will only hurt us. When I become angry I don’t look to the other person whom I may feel has angered me to change, I look to myself to see why “I” have chosen to take on the anger. Everyone is in this world for happiness. Everything we do we do in the name of happiness, that is even a rule when it comes to things that may go against someone else’s values and ethics. So it is us (the one who is harnessing the anger) who are actually causing the anger and it is ultimately us that will get burned if we hold on to it as well.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. (Buddha)

Now I don’t speak of anger to say that we should stay in a situation which causes us to become angry. I only say that anger is good (because it is an honest expression of our feelings) and it makes no since to hold it in if we are feeling it. But, if our ethics, morals and values keep on becoming broken then how are we to grow and remain in a place of happiness from that? We are the ones who cause ourselves to become angry just as if I were to grasp a hot coal I would be the one who is causing me to become burned. But what since does it make to keep a steady grasp on a hot coal hoping that I will stop getting burned. Our happiness is our decision and our feelings are our indicator to how we are to get to that happiness. If we continue to become angry then maybe we should let go of the reason or situation which is causing us to anger. When we all realize that no one simply wakes up in the morning with the intent on angering someone just for the sake of angering them then our enlightenment on this will begin. If someone attacks another they are only doing it because of the fear that they harness within themselves. It is never about the person or people whom they are attacking so why should the intended target take it personal? It makes no since to stay in a situation that angers you and it makes no since to take the stuff personal. They aren’t doing the so called anger causing action because of you; they are doing it because of them. Why give in to that? Why feed that person’s fear (weakness)? Why even stay angry at someone at all? It’s not going to solve anything at all to remain angry. Once it is realized that the anger is in existence let it go. Shift our thoughts to something that makes you feel good and move on with your life. You can’t sit there and expect someone to change for you, that makes no since if the person who is causing you the anger feels that there action are causing them happiness. It just makes no since, it makes no since to stay angry at someone and it makes no since to stay in a situation that keeps on causing anger and heartbreak. Anger only hurts the person who harnesses it. If I do something that angers a person do you think I am going to feel bad for them? I am going to go on with my life. That person may stay in the house and remain angry but that isn’t going to affect me one bit. They might see me walking down the street laughing up a storm, enjoying my life while they stay inside by themselves angry. Who do you think is being affected by this, me or them? This is what I am talking about. It makes no since to stay angry at someone because that someone isn’t being hurt. This is why I used the Buddha quote today. It explains it perfectly. Also the first quote I used explains something about anger too. If we come into a place which we understand who we are and what we are on this earth for then there won’t be that many things that anger us anyway. Anger comes from a lack of understanding of the self. Again I will ask this question, why remain angry? It doesn’t feel good and it isn’t healthy for us ether. Why hold onto a hot coal if it is burning us? Do you think the hot coal shouldn’t be a hot coal simply because we’re being burned? It is a hot coal and it has every right to remain a hot coal for as long as it wants to, it should be able remain a hot coal as long as the hot coal feels that it is being served because it is a hot coal. The hot coal shouldn’t have to change what it is because of us. All we have to do is let the hot coal go and then we won’t be burned anymore. Why stay in a situation that causes anger and expect the situation to change? These things make no since but so many of us do these things all of the time. We do these things out of fear; we think that maybe if we let the hot coal go then we won’t have anything else to hold onto. All we have to do is grab a cold coal. Fear makes us thing that we are what we are and that is it and that is true but what fear leads us to believe is that we are something less then what we truly are. Therefore (fear has us believing) we need to remain in our current situation (even if it isn’t serving us) otherwise we won’t be anything. We won’t have our “heaven on earth” if we remain in the grips of fear. Remain in the company of those who serve us. Remain in the company of Love. Love never causes anger, only fear does. We cause our own anger because we remain in situations (because of fear) that go against who and what we’ve chosen to be within this life. It makes no since if you strip it down and really look at it. I want to close this passage by saying this. If anger arises don’t pretend that it isn’t in your presence, be honest about it. Become understanding of what really is causing the anger. Remain in a place of Love so that the anger doesn’t take control (start thinking about things that make you happy, start thinking of Love). Remain in Love, become Love and simply forgive the anger. Let it go and YOU become the better person (if change is needed YOU be the change. Don’t expect someone else to change just because you want them to). If you still find yourself in a place which anger keeps on arising then YOU are no longer being served in the situation. The situation needs to be eradicated so that you may continue to grow. Don’t stay in a “bad” situation. Don’t let fear run you. Remind in a place of Love, forgive always and if none of these things work then move on so that you may continue to grow. Love is always the answer and our feelings will dictate to us whether we are in a situation of Love or not. Our feelings never lie. If our feelings are fear then and only then are our feelings lying (and they still really aren’t lying to us because they are showing us fear. If we know what fear is then we still can us this.) It makes no since to remain in a place of pain and suffering when heaven really is a pond us at all times. It just makes no since to remain in a place of anger, then become confused and then have our memory lapse. Remain in Love.

Namaste

One Light, Different Windows

The prophets are like one single being. If you refuse one of them, you refuse them all. It’s like ritual washing. If you don’t wash one of your organs and wash all the others, it will be of no use. So, as the prophets recognize each other, if you don’t admit one of them, it is as if you had admitted none of them. In fact, there’s only One light that appears through different windows which reaches us through the person of each prophet. All of these lights stream from the same Sun. If you refuse a part of this light; that shows that you’re a bat. You’re like a bat who says, “I am against this year’s sun but I accept last year’s. “In fact, this year’s and last year’s sun are not different in any way. Whatever difference you think you perceive comes from the fact that you didn’t really experience last year’s sun.

Rumi
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It is the same Love that we receive and always have received; the same Source that sources us, the same wisdom and knowledge that has always enlightened us but yet it may appear a bit different at times. This is the message that I’ve received from this Rumi writing called “One Light, Different Windows”. The Sun’s light will shine through different windows but it really is the same Sun. If we sit and say that we will only accept the sunlight through one window then we really are cutting ourselves short and in turn we are cutting the sunlight short as well. We may not always be in a predicament which dictates us getting our light from the window that we are accustomed to but that doesn’t mean that we can’t get the light at all. The Sun will always shine, it gleams all the time and it has been doing this for a long time. Wisdom and knowledge may gleam through different people and situations. This doesn’t mean that it isn’t the same true wisdom and knowledge that will help us to grow and expand. It will always be the same Sun no matter what. Within being the same it is also different because we may just as well come in contact with different teachers and prophets and they may show us the wisdom that we crave in a different way but still, they are relaying the same wisdom that enlightens. If we choose to wave them away simply because they aren’t appearing as the same source which our parents and our parents’ parents gained there wisdom from it would be like we’re rejecting true wisdom all together. The Sun is the Sun, what does it matter if the window that it shines through is not the window that it always has. Those old windows may be old, dirty, and grimy. They may have just gotten so much muck on them that the sun may not even shine through them as bright as it should. As we live and as time goes on people who cling onto just one way of doing things usually loss the whole wisdom of the action all together. They forget that they are just a window for the Sun to shine through; they start thinking that instead of being that window for us to gain the Sun’s rays they feel that they are actually the Sun all together for us. They once were a clear window which the Sun could easily shine through and now they are just a dirty reflection of a reality that they’ve made up. No Sun shines through; all you get is the grime and dirt which actually covers up the Sun’s glare. No God shines through, just there ego. Within all of that ego (grime) the Sun (God) is no longer seen so it may just do us some good to accept a new window so that we are able to get that true shine from the Sun. It has always been the same Sun and this Sun will shine through different Windows. Don’t be like the bat that Rumi spoke of who shuns the Sun of today for the Sun of yesterday. You can’t shun something and except it at the same time. Why live in a duel mind state. Free yourself, open up and know that even though the windows may be different, the same Sun does shine through

Namaste

ALSO…. Let’s experience each day for the learning and growing experience that it is. Let’s experience each trail and tribulation as growth for our inner being. If we don’t see these experiences for what they truly are then we are cutting that part of the Sun’s glare from our lives. In doing this we will never recognize that it has always been the same Sun. With this we make the mistake of thinking that yesterdays Sun and today’s Sun are not one in the same “Whatever difference you think you perceive comes from the fact that you didn’t really experience last year’s sun.” Simply experience the Sun as a whole so that nothing will be missed.

Be like a thermostat, not like a thermometer

“Don’t be like a thermometer and just measure the temperature, be like a thermostat and change the temperature.”

As I got dressed this morning I listened to this pastor whom I very much enjoy named Joel Osteen. In the sermon that I listened to this morning he said a line that has stuck with me and this is why I am using it to write about today. He said, “Don’t be like a thermometer and just measure the temperature, be like a thermostat and change the temperature.” This statement had me thinking about how people tend to just go with the flow in any given situation. If it is a so called negative situation they radiate negativity. If it is a situation of the latter then that is what they may radiate. It’s like it needs to be conditioned outwardly for someone to act a certain way. This is the point that Joel was trying to make as he spoke. He said that if one person starts complaining about a situation in life others usually join in with the complaining, they add on with issues to complain about within there lives. If one person complains about there job others join in. If someone starts whining about how the economy is so bad and about how all our political leaders try to screw us, six or seven more people are adding on to that complaining with more negativity. There is so much whining and complaining about why things aren’t the way that they should be. It seems that it is a wide belief that the more one complains about something, the more of a chance they have to get rid of the issue that they are complaining about. I don’t know about you but I don’t believe that it works that way at all.

We get what we are. The things that happen to us are the things that we put all of our thought energy onto. If we sit and simply act like a thermometer, simply measuring what is going on around us then there is no way that things will change for the better. To change things for the better I believe that we have to actually “change”. We have to change the things for the better, not announce the bad. It is already known that things which we don’t like go on. We really don’t need to sit and put those things up front. There are plenty of good things going on too. Why not put those up front. Or better yet why not CHOOSE to simply be of the good and nothing else. Even if we are meant with someone who seems to want to bring us down. If someone comes to us with a rowdy attitude what good does it do for us to add on to that attitude by getting “rowdy” back at that person? Who is it going to serve to be rude to someone who is rude to you? All you are doing is accepting there rudeness and in turn you are taking that negative, rude feeling for yourself. When we do things like that its like we are accepting a gift that will not serve us. The more negativity we accept from others, the more negativity we will have within our own lives. Remember, a rude, negative person isn’t being that way because of you, even if they are aiming all of that negativity at you. It’s all about them and its all in them so why would you even take it on. If you kill them with kindness you and they will be served. Within that kindness they will take on a more positive attitude even if it isn’t shown to you. We really do have more control over what happens in the world then we think we do. So give it a try. If someone is being rude to you, be kind to them. Remember, don’t be the thermometer which just measures the temperature. Be the thermostat which changes the temperature. If you call a restaurant to order some food and the person who answers the phone says in a rude voice, “Just give me your order because I don’t know the answer your damn question. Like I said, I don’t know how much that cost. If you want to know you should look a menu because that is what we have them for. I am not a menu.” Don’t sit there and say, “You are so rude. You don’t speak to people that way and you will not speak to me in that tone. Where is your boss, I am going to get you fired for talking to me like that.” What good is it going to do you if you help in having a job taken from a person who obviously is already having a hard time with something in life? Instead try to be kind to them. Let them know that you apologize for not looking at the menu but you would appreciate it if they did this one thing for you. Say something nice to them. When they take your order and then when they finally do look the item up for you let them know that you really do appreciate them for doing that for you. Let them know that you realize they didn’t have to do that but they did anyway and because they did you are happy. Tell them that they work in a restaurant that serves the best food around. Let them know that you are impressed by how quick they took your order. Just throw all the kindness that you can think of at them and then see what happens. See what may happen from that. They may even offer you a free coupon for a free meal if you offer them kindness. Your kind words may just save them from so much heartache. You never know what someone is going through in there lives, you never know. Kind words go a long way. This world could be healed completely off of kindness. Compassion and kindness are the keys to happiness. You can trust me when I say if you choose to be like a thermostat, your world will go a lot smoother and you will be a lot happier. Kill them with kindness and control the temperature of your situation just like a thermostat would.

Namaste