Like Candies in a Jar – Suzanne Giesemann

Blessed are the children

For wrong-thinking they have not.
They don’t spend their moments
Criticizing every thought.

It’s only as they grow and age
That they do learn to think.

And with each false belief they learn
The further they do sink.

Different cultures, different norms exist
Yet inside all are one.
So why so many differences

When the day is done …

You are a product of your thoughts.
Beliefs they shape your actions.

And it’s these same beliefs and thoughts
That divide you into factions.

Culture is a good thing.
It provides you with a root.
But when others you look down upon
The culture becomes moot.

For all is one, at heart the same.
When group norms you do remove.     It’s easier to learn to love
When you’ve nothing left to prove.

“My country’s best”, “Your ways are wrong.”


These thoughts they do divide.
They separate and obfuscate
The essence that’s inside.

There’s nothing wrong with thinking
Your group it is the best
Except that it does separate
Your group from all the rest.

Appreciate your differences
They make you who you are.
But you are all like candies
Fit inside a giant jar.

Each is slightly different in appearance
Called by a different name.
Each one a different color
Yet inside all are the same.

Appreciate the differences

 

But love your neighbor too.

For at the very heart of him.  He is the same as you.

suzannegiesemann.com

Just Like Children

“Yogananda:  ‘You see?  We must seek God with longing, with devotion.  And how can we long for something that isn’t deeply meaningful to us?’

‘People,’ he added, ‘hold God at a distance when they regard Him with too much awe.  They go to church as a solemn duty, and wear long faces as if attending a funeral.  The truth is, finding God is the funeral of all sorrows!

Before our Heavenly Father we should be like little children.  He likes that.  He has enough awesome responsibilities in running this universe!

He owns everything.  He knows everything.  He is all-powerful.  The only thing lacking to Him is our love.  That is what God wants from us: our love; our trust in Him; our joy in His infinite joy.

He doesn’t need from us carefully contrived theological definitions.  And He doesn’t want prayers that are chiseled to perfection lest they give offense to His imperial ears.  He wants us to love Him in all simplicity, just like children.’ ”

The Essence Of Self-Realization,  Paramhansa Yogananda, Recorded and compiled by Kriyananda (J. Donald Walters), pgs. 43 – 44.

Love Is In The Air.

Love is in the air. Feel the warmth of it, the joy of it, and the freedom that comes with it. Love is an inner state of being. It does not have to be talked about, for it expresses itself in a thousand and one little ways: a look, a touch, an action. Love is everywhere, but you have to be aware of it to appreciate it fully. The air you breathe is everywhere, but you take it all for granted unless you stop and become aware of it and of the fact that it keeps you alive.

Take nothing for granted, for when you do, it takes all the joy and sparkle out of life. Love starts with small beginnings and grows and grows. When you truly love one another, you have faith and trust in each other. Keep that love flowing and let nothing stand in the way.

Let My Divine Love flow through everything, and know that peace which passes all understanding.

~ guidance received by Eileen Caddy, findhorn.org

A Life Of Spiritual Mastery

“You must understand that you are powerful creators and that you create on many different levels of your being-ness. When something is not going according to plan, then you must recognize that there is a better plan, and you must resist the urge to get down on yourself for not making happen what you thought was the best-case scenario for yourself.

Trust that it is always a best-case scenario that you are living. Make the most out of what you do have and what opportunities do come your way, and relax about all the rest.

Relax and let go, surrender and go with the flow. These are concepts that you hear about all the time, but when it comes to your own life, you often think that you need to work harder, or try harder, or visualize harder.

But you do need to let go and trust, and know that the better is always coming because you are creating it as an aspect of Source Energy, and you would never deny yourself one of your creations.

Sometimes these creations don’t come in the timing you would prefer, and that just means you just need to relax even more, open up, accept, and focus on being the version of yourself you most want to be in those life circumstances, and that is the way to live a life of spiritual mastery.

We are the Arcturian Council, and we have enjoyed connecting with you.”

danielscranton.com

The Answer To Every Problem

“Here is the answer to every problem that will confront you, today and tomorrow and throughout time.  In this world, you believe you are sustained by everything but God.  Your faith is placed in the most trivial and insane symbols; pills, money, ‘protective’ clothing, influence, being liked, knowing the ‘right’ people, and an endless list of forms of nothingness that you endow with magical powers.

All these things are your replacements for the Love of God.  All these things are cherished to ensure a body identification.  They are songs of praise to the ego.  Do not put your faith in the worthless.  It will not sustain you.

Only the Love of God will protect you in all circumstances.  It will lift you out of every trial, and raise you high above all the perceived dangers of this world into a climate of perfect peace and safety.  it will transport you into a state of mind that nothing can threaten, nothing can disturb, and where nothing can intrude upon the eternal calm of the Son of God.”   A Course In Miracles – Workbook for Students, Lesson 50, 1-3.

“Think of the freedom in the recognition that you are not bound by all the strange and twisted laws you have set up to save you.  You really think that you could starve unless you have stacks of green paper strips and piles of metal discs.  You really think a small round pellet or some fluid pushed into your veins through a sharpened needle will ward off disease and death.  You really think you are alone unless another body is with you.

It is insanity that thinks these things.  You call them laws, and put them under different names in a long catalogue of rituals that have no use and serve no purpose.  You think you must obey the ‘laws’ of medicine, of economics, and of health.  You think: ‘Protect the body and you will be saved.’

These are not laws but madness.  The body is endangered by the mind that hurts itself.  The body’s suffering is a mask the mind holds up to hide what really suffers.  It would not understand the mind is its own enemy; that it attacks itself and wants to die. It is from this your ‘laws’ would save the body.  It is for this you think you are a body.

There are no laws except the laws of God.  It applies to everything that you have made in opposition to God’s Will.  Your magic has no meaning.  What it is meant to save does not exist.  Only what it is meant to hide will save you.  There are no laws but God’s.  Dismiss all foolish magical beliefs today (‘laws’ of nutrition, of immunization, of medication, friendship, of ‘good relationships, and reciprocity).  God’s laws forever give and never take.

Tell yourself: I am under no laws but God’s.”

A Course In Miracles – Workbook for Students, Lesson 76, 3 – 9.

 

No Room For Inequality

“And I want you to know, whatever your backgrounds, that there is no room for inequality in the spiritual world.  You are all of equal value; you are all of equal import in understanding the universe and in experiencing your lives.

A small female child is no less valuable in our eyes than the male president of a country.  We suggest you pay attention to that piece of information.

Many are under the illusion that they are more valuable because they are white males who are powerful and rich.  That is not the case.  Their experiences in their next incarnation may not be as pleasant as they hope.  Instead, they should use their power and influence to assist in educating and caring for the youngsters who do not fit into their description.

Their use of their awareness and influence will determine their next experience in the physical world.  If they are narrow-minded and convinced of their value over other beings, they will be given an experience to prove otherwise.  That is not a threat on our part, it is merely the way the system works.

We all get to experience everything.  We get to experience all of our delusions from both sides of the coin.  You get to be the one who is in charge of the delusion, and you get to be the one who is the victim of the delusion so that you can understand both aspects and come to a place of letting the delusion go completely.  That is the purpose of your incarnations:  It is to wake up, to let the dream go, and to realize that your misbeliefs are not who you are.

You are all divine aspects of God manifesting to see where you are mistaken, and it is in waking up that you are relieved of your burden of suffering.  It is in understanding that you are all the same, that you all deserve love, and care, and compassion, and that you are all on a difficult journey of awakening.  It is not easy for anyone to wake up in the three-dimensional plane.  It is a tricky place because it is laden with booby traps, which are your misunderstandings coming to life in the dream for you to see.”

Jesus: My Autobiography,  Tina Louise Spalding, pgs. 132 – 133.