So you are bhakti.

Good place to live from.

peace

Living from the Soul-and that is what individuals like Yogananda, Mrs Eddy, and Deepak, Mother Theresa and all those who are in touch with thier soul are teaching-

We all are individuals of the One,, Each of us a living soul.. and we all have a choice to live out from our true nature in God-Some are still trying to find thier self, some are not, and some are living completely at the soul level…

When I look at other’s it is the One I see…The One I love, The only One there is…..

Yogananda has a beautiful poem on Omar’s Dream-Wine of Love..

excerpts:
My love is playing hide and seek in all human hearts, that each may learn to discover and worship, not the temporal human receptacles of my love, but my love itself, dancing from one heart to another-
Those who love Me as only one person, or who imperfectly love Me in one person,do not know what love is. Only they can know love who love me wisely, faultlessly,completely,all surrenderingly—who love Me perfectly and equally in all, and who love Me perfectly as all…

Love,
Gyanama

We have attended a few of his seminars and, yes, he is kind. I once watched him speak for an hour and a half, then sign books for another hour and a half during the intermission (He wouldn’t stop until everyone had been accommodated), then finish the seminar. He was fully present with everyone he spoke with that afternoon (I was sitting across the aisle from where he was signing books), and smiling throughout the afternoon. Genuine.

“The body is a trusted ally, the vessel created to carry you to the far shores of eternity.

Was fortunate to hear this one on his tape series, The Higher Self. A very long time ago. It is now in the hands of the meditation teacher, making a difference for many as they open to the journey.

Yes I have his book and have shared it with others too-Here is one of his quotes that I would like to share..
“Once you stop clinging to the idea that your body is a thing, you realize what should have been obvious: your body is the junction between the visible and the invisible worlds”…

One of my favorite books of his is Power, Freedom Grace. I have others too, that he signed for me at a Tampa book signing-10 years ago-
“He has a kind energy”

“Kinship in God”—-

I love sharing like this…

Peace

I should also mention that before discovering Mrs Eddy and Christian Science, I had been studying Kriya Yoga, based on the teaching of Yogananda- His Religious teaching is also a Science. and I took devote interest in a variety of religions and sciences–

…and to think I was born Catholic where a deep distorted conviction in hell fire and damnation was taught–I was born a hopeless sinner,,,,but I am grateful my heart knew otherwise, even at the age of 7, and that my soul lead me to greater outward evidences of what was in my heart of hearts all along-

but all of what I have learned has shown me the importance of interdependence–unity in relation to the Whole of Pure Consciousness itself….and the value of both religion and science coming together as One-

Peace and Love,
G-

Received it as a gift over the holidays. Another good read among the many offerings he has shared.

Psychoneuroimmunology.

Fascinating time we live in.

She writes in her book Science and Health with Keys to the Scriptures…”A time for true thinkers has come”

I have proven for myself that Christianity and Science are One-

I first discovered her book, when I was on a 1 year sailing trip in 1996.

As soon as I began reading her book, I felt a beautiful kinship- I have employed this Divine Science in my own life and have witnessed it’s efficacy.

-I have also had 2 family members with terminal cancer, whom I shared this teaching with, both today are healed and cancer free-I have witnessed other healings as well because of it…

But more especially then having a physical healing, this teaching gave my family members a better understanding of what really constitutes health. and they have a clear understanding of thier true inherent nature in God… That is the True healing-

Her teaching created a shift in thier consciousness. It makes me think of when Deepak speaks of how the Biology changes when we have a shift in consciousness—

Christian Science makes Natural sense to me-and I am very grateful to Mrs Eddy and her lifelong work that she gave to the world-

Peace-
G-

What a relief! One could not help but wonder if you had a stash of cocoons secreted away to snack on during the long winter months, and had incurred some kind of indigestion.

BTW…there is no need for mowing grass in January. So, relax. 🙂

A thank you isn’t necessary. You made mention on another thread that you felt discussing politics and religion was worthwhile. So it’s no surprise that you joined in.

No nothing is troubling me K…In fact I feel very content-

Peace to you—-

no, not struggling I meant to end and carried over on copy paste…that’s all. It was actually her continuation on that page and my(so called) mistake to carry it over—

Just sharing someone Else’s version on it. I find Mrs Eddy to be an extraordinary women with ideas and a Science that she experienced and proved to herself and to many others who benefited from her writings…Yogananada and many others have their own way of talking about it too..

and I have my way of expressing, and you have yours….we don’t all understand each other all the time, but that’s OK…

At least it is for me…thank you for sharing your ideas on the subject..

Peace,
G-

3 To take all earth’s beauty into one gulp of vacuity
and label beauty nothing, is ignorantly to caricature
God’s creation, which is unjust to human sense and
6 to the divine realism. In our immature sense of spirit-
ual things, let us say of the beauties of the sensuous
universe: “I love your promise; and shall know, some
9 time, the spiritual reality and substance of form, light,
and color, of what I now through you discern dimly; and
knowing this, I shall be satisfied. Matter is a frail con-
12 ception of mortal mind; and mortal mind is a poorer
representative of the beauty, grandeur, and glory of the
immortal Mind.”
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It’s pretty clear her thoughts have been taken out of context by you (the erratic numbering was kind of a giveaway)for some reason. I’m guessing you’re struggling to make a point.

?

But as you said, it’s a definition. Or, in this case, a really huge label.

Something troubling you?

HOUSE OF PINK

I have read most of your books and gaint a lot of knowledge , never the less for you to moderate your blogs content seems not in-line whit your philosophy,living in the moment of trued.
Edeting seems to me not willing to see “ALL”

AND HOW CAN I SUPPORT A MAN IN OFFICE HOW DOES NOT UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF THE 3 LETTTER WORD ,”ALL”

ALL THE BEST TO YOU, BUT YOU LOST ME BUDDY!

THIS IS A BIG-BLOW FOR ME I USED TO VALUE YOUR BOOKS AND IT’S CONTENT!

HOUSE OF PINK

HOUSE OF PINK

Her answer- Nothing and something are words which need correct definition. They either mean formations of indefinite and vague human opinions, or scientific classifications of the unreal and the real. My sense of the beauty of the universe is, that beauty typifies holiness, and is some-thing to be desired. Earth is more spiritually beautiful to my gaze now than when it was more earthly to the eyes of Eve. The pleasant sensations of human belief,
of form and color, must be spiritualized, until we gain the glorified sense of substance as in the new heaven and earth, the harmony of body and Mind. Even the human conception of beauty, grandeur, and
utility is something that defies a sneer. It is more than imagination. It is next to divine beauty and the gran-deur of Spirit. It lives with our earth-life, and is
the subjective state of high thoughts. The atmosphere of mortal mind constitutes our mortal environment. What mortals hear, see, feel, taste, smell,constitutes their present earth and heaven: but we must grow out of even this pleasing thralldom, and find wings to reach the glory of supersensible Life; then we shall soar above, as the bird in the clear ether of the blue temporal sky.
3 To take all earth’s beauty into one gulp of vacuity
and label beauty nothing, is ignorantly to caricature
God’s creation, which is unjust to human sense and
6 to the divine realism. In our immature sense of spirit-
ual things, let us say of the beauties of the sensuous
universe: “I love your promise; and shall know, some
9 time, the spiritual reality and substance of form, light,
and color, of what I now through you discern dimly; and
knowing this, I shall be satisfied. Matter is a frail con-
12 ception of mortal mind; and mortal mind is a poorer
representative of the beauty, grandeur, and glory of the
immortal Mind.”

Love,
G-

HOW THE STORY MIGHT HAVE ENDED

So the woman saw that the tree was good to eat and a delight to the eye, and the serpent said to her, “Eat of it, for when you eat of it, you will be as wise as God.” But the woman said, “No, God has commanded us not to eat of it, and I will not disobey God.”

And God called to the man and the woman and said to them, “Because you have hearkened to My word and not disobeyed My command, I shall reward you greatly.” To the man, He said, “You will never have to work again. Spend all your days in idle contentment, with food growing all around you.” To the woman, He said, “You will bear children without pain. They will need nothing from you. Parents will not cry when their children die, and children will not cry when their parents die.” To both of them he said, “For the rest of your lives, you will have full bellies and contented smiles. You will never cry and you will never laugh. You will never long for something you don’t have, and you will never receive something you always wanted.” And the man and the woman grew old together in the garden, eating daily from the Tree of Life and having many children. And the grass grew high around the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil until it disappeared from view, for there was no one to tend it.

From: How Good Do We Have To Be? by Rabbi Harold Kushner

Our lives are great gifts to each and every one of us. Live it fully, with Love.

One theologian has pointed out that the unusual Hebrew word for pain used in Genesis 3:16-17 when God decrees Adam and Eve’s fate is also used in Genesis 6:6 to describe the pain God feels at seeing how badly His world has turned out. Could it be that when God tells Adam and Eve that sexuality, and creativity will be painful, He is not so much punishing them as saying to them, “You ate of the tree because you wanted to be like God, knowing Good and Evil?” Well, you are about to find out how frustrating it is to be like God, to create something and then give up control of what you have created, to want something to turn out as perfectly as you have pictured it in your mind and then see how far short the reality falls of your original intention. There is more pain than you could ever imagine in knowing about Good and Evil.”

I see Eve as being terribly brave as she eats the fruit. She is not frivolous, disobedient, or easily seduced, as later interpreters have insisted on describing her. She is boldly crossing the boundary into the unknown, venturing to discover what lies beyond the limits of animal existence, and reaching back to bring Adam after her. The portrait of Eve in Genesis calls to mind the Greek myth of Pandora (described in some versions of the story as the first woman on earth). Pandora was given a box and told never to open it. Inevitably she did, and all manner of troubles and diseases flew out to plague the world ever after. One suspects that the original story has been misinterpreted, to paint the woman as the villain responsible for all the world’s problems. The name Pandora means “all gifts” in Greek, and one might speculate that in the original story, the box contained all sorts of ‘good things’ the gods wanted to keep from mankind. In the same way, I read the story of the garden not as an account of Eve imposing Sin and Death on her descendants, but as an account of her giving us humanity, with all of its pain and all of its richness. Like Pandora, the “donor of all gifts,” Eve has given her descendants more than existence, she has given us Life.

Reads like a quantum leap to me.

Question everything.

peace

The story in Matthew of Jesus and the fig tree is one of reconciliation:

12 And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry: 13 And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet. 14 And Jesus answered and said to it, No man eat fruit of you hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.

20 And in the morning, as they passed by, they saw the fig tree dried up from the roots. 21 And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away. 22 And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.23 For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.24 Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. 25 And when ye stand praying, forgive, if ye have ought against any: that your Father also which is in heaven may forgive you your trespasses.26 But if ye do not forgive, neither will your Father which is in heaven forgive your trespasses.

Our ego, or fig tree – the tree of experience (good and evil or knowledge) has its seasons and withers without the tree of life. Pray and receive! Or hold ourselves in the infinite consciousness of unlimited possibility, and move beyond the experience.

Thank you, Deepak, for all that you do.

Deepak, that id the biggest crock of hog wash I’ve ever heard
in my life! 🙂