For the last two years of school, I have only seen Sam write his name and not much else. I found this on his drawing pad last week. He did it without any prompting or supervision.
Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Friday, December 19, 2014
What Goes Around Comes Around
More than once I've been asked, "Why do some people always seem to get away with stuff?" And then these people would proceed to tell me how their friend, or aunt, or sister always manage to escape the karmic boomerang. The stories they tell usually involve how these "lucky people" had hurt them but never got retribution for it.
I often thought about this question. I personally believe in "what goes around comes around" because it never fails to find me if I did something bad. And it is obviously true in cases like drug lords, mafioso, or crooked cops. These individuals use violence in their daily lives and often perish by violence. They inflict fear on others, but they themselves live in constant fear.
Could it be possible that the karmic laws of what goes around comes around apply only to the most vicious people? Do ordinary people get exempted because their infractions are so small in comparison? I asked God for an answer. And He promptly granted me one. :)
I posted a laptop for sale yesterday. The responses were immediate because the price was so attractive. One buy texted me asking all kinds of specifics. After about half an hour of texting, he said he would like to buy it. However, he couldn't stop by to buy it until two days from now. I said OK.
This morning another buyer called and said she's in the neighborhood. She asked if she could drop by and look at the laptop. I said sure. She liked it right away and bought it almost immediately.
I texted the first buyer telling him the laptop is sold so he wouldn't waste his time coming over. To my surprise I got a series of angry texts saying how "we had deal" and how he really "needed this laptop". I apologized that he felt that way but that these kinds of sales have always been "first come first serve". But he was still angry and ended with a warning to me... "what goes around comes around".
I had my answer. I took a moment to thank God and then had myself a healthy chuckle...not at the expense of the buyer's misery, but at our own petty human nature.
The answer is that NO ONE escapes the "what goes around comes around". It applies to everyone... from the coldest murderer to the sweetest grandma. However, it applies to only REAL injuries, involving Love... or more specifically the removal of Love.
The Universe will match your words and deeds automatically...Love for Love and Fear for Fear. There are no exceptions. It's just IS.
If you remove Love from the Whole e.g. taking a life, destroying hope, breaking trust, inflicting fear, propagating hate, oppressing free wills, and so on...the Universe will remove the same "amount" of Love from your own life. The opposite is true if you instead add Love to the Whole.
The question that most people ask "Why does my friend always get a way with stuff and I can't?" is not a valid question because most of these perceived injuries are NOT real. What these people actually complaining about is that their egos were bruised. And like a balloon, the larger the ego the louder the complain. The "suffering" is due to the fact that someone didn't act the way they had scripted for that person in their heads. But according to how the Universe sees it...if there is no REAL subtraction to the Love Equation, no retribution is required.
Had I told the first buyer that I would hold it for him and I broke that trust...that would have been a REAL injury. Then I would have to resign to the fact that I was going to be screwed over in the near future.
I often thought about this question. I personally believe in "what goes around comes around" because it never fails to find me if I did something bad. And it is obviously true in cases like drug lords, mafioso, or crooked cops. These individuals use violence in their daily lives and often perish by violence. They inflict fear on others, but they themselves live in constant fear.
Could it be possible that the karmic laws of what goes around comes around apply only to the most vicious people? Do ordinary people get exempted because their infractions are so small in comparison? I asked God for an answer. And He promptly granted me one. :)
I posted a laptop for sale yesterday. The responses were immediate because the price was so attractive. One buy texted me asking all kinds of specifics. After about half an hour of texting, he said he would like to buy it. However, he couldn't stop by to buy it until two days from now. I said OK.
This morning another buyer called and said she's in the neighborhood. She asked if she could drop by and look at the laptop. I said sure. She liked it right away and bought it almost immediately.
I texted the first buyer telling him the laptop is sold so he wouldn't waste his time coming over. To my surprise I got a series of angry texts saying how "we had deal" and how he really "needed this laptop". I apologized that he felt that way but that these kinds of sales have always been "first come first serve". But he was still angry and ended with a warning to me... "what goes around comes around".
I had my answer. I took a moment to thank God and then had myself a healthy chuckle...not at the expense of the buyer's misery, but at our own petty human nature.
The answer is that NO ONE escapes the "what goes around comes around". It applies to everyone... from the coldest murderer to the sweetest grandma. However, it applies to only REAL injuries, involving Love... or more specifically the removal of Love.
The Universe will match your words and deeds automatically...Love for Love and Fear for Fear. There are no exceptions. It's just IS.
If you remove Love from the Whole e.g. taking a life, destroying hope, breaking trust, inflicting fear, propagating hate, oppressing free wills, and so on...the Universe will remove the same "amount" of Love from your own life. The opposite is true if you instead add Love to the Whole.
The question that most people ask "Why does my friend always get a way with stuff and I can't?" is not a valid question because most of these perceived injuries are NOT real. What these people actually complaining about is that their egos were bruised. And like a balloon, the larger the ego the louder the complain. The "suffering" is due to the fact that someone didn't act the way they had scripted for that person in their heads. But according to how the Universe sees it...if there is no REAL subtraction to the Love Equation, no retribution is required.
Had I told the first buyer that I would hold it for him and I broke that trust...that would have been a REAL injury. Then I would have to resign to the fact that I was going to be screwed over in the near future.
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Monday, September 15, 2014
Friday, September 12, 2014
Wednesday, September 10, 2014
All is One (part 2)
When I was a young Catholic boy, I thought God was this great powerful being who lived in heaven and looked down on us. The reason why He had to be in heaven was because He couldn't stand being around a bunch of sinners.
It sounded logical because the priests kept telling us that we were always living in sin...and it was almost impossible not to sin. Even if I had a "bad" thought, I was "sinning". And if you know teenage boys, I had a lot of bad thoughts.
Unless I found a way to be "unborn", I wasn't going to escape the fact that I was born a sinner and would continue to be a sinner until the day I die. And if I wanted to see God, I needed a plan. The trick was to get my confession in just a few moment before I die. That way, I would only have to act saintly for a minute or two and then, voila, I'm in!
About 40 years later I had a different concept of God. It was right after I lost my second wife. That experience plunged me into a deep depression. I needed a different kind of God to get me through it. I needed a more personal God, a more loving God, a God that I could be one with. That's when I revised my picture of God.
The concept of me being a part of God took me out of my depression and gave me much more. It transformed me into a much more loving person. How could I not be? If I am a part of God, then His nature must also be my nature. His Love essence must also be my essence. Except for the fact that He is omnipresent and omnipotent there isn't anything that IS God that is not me...or is it? This leads us to what happened yesterday...my breakthrough.
The difference between the second and the third revision is not just evolutionary or revolutionary. It is EPIC.
For example, if I were to pray to God under the second concept of God, it would go something like this...
"God I need guidance. I lost my job. I couldn't finish school because of my health. I have a special need child that needs me to be at home. Give me sign of what I can do to pull us out of this dilemma." And then I would wait.
Weeks or even months would go by and I would have to pray again, "God, I really need an answer here. My savings are running close to empty. Should I try writing or something to make some money from home? God, please tell me what to do so I can do it and get on with my life!" And then I would wait some more.
Weeks later and I would still get no answer. So then I would start blaming God. "God, why don't you answer me? I have You to thank for all my problems. Why can't You get your fat butt off your throne and do something? Can't You see I'm waiting for your answer here?" And then the prayers would get really ugly from here.
Now... if I were operating under my latest concept of God. The prayer would go something this...
"Thank you God for giving this opportunity to demonstrate my power of creation. I know what I have to do and it shall be done." That's it...short and simple. Because if I KNOW I have the power of God in me to create and change anything I wish...there's no need for supplication. There is only gratitude.
Incidentally, if you go back to the prayers that were done under the second concept and substitute my name or the word "I" or "me" for every time the word "God" was used, you would see exactly who was the cause of the problem.
It sounded logical because the priests kept telling us that we were always living in sin...and it was almost impossible not to sin. Even if I had a "bad" thought, I was "sinning". And if you know teenage boys, I had a lot of bad thoughts.
Unless I found a way to be "unborn", I wasn't going to escape the fact that I was born a sinner and would continue to be a sinner until the day I die. And if I wanted to see God, I needed a plan. The trick was to get my confession in just a few moment before I die. That way, I would only have to act saintly for a minute or two and then, voila, I'm in!
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| This is my first impression of God. He is everywhere, but He is separate from me. |
About 40 years later I had a different concept of God. It was right after I lost my second wife. That experience plunged me into a deep depression. I needed a different kind of God to get me through it. I needed a more personal God, a more loving God, a God that I could be one with. That's when I revised my picture of God.
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| In this second revision, I am a part of God. God is everywhere and in everything...including me. |
The concept of me being a part of God took me out of my depression and gave me much more. It transformed me into a much more loving person. How could I not be? If I am a part of God, then His nature must also be my nature. His Love essence must also be my essence. Except for the fact that He is omnipresent and omnipotent there isn't anything that IS God that is not me...or is it? This leads us to what happened yesterday...my breakthrough.
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| This is my most recent concept of God. He is as much in Me as I am in Him. He is my Creator; but at the same time I am also creating Him. We are One...yet we are not One. Such is the Divine Dichotomy. |
The difference between the second and the third revision is not just evolutionary or revolutionary. It is EPIC.
For example, if I were to pray to God under the second concept of God, it would go something like this...
"God I need guidance. I lost my job. I couldn't finish school because of my health. I have a special need child that needs me to be at home. Give me sign of what I can do to pull us out of this dilemma." And then I would wait.
Weeks or even months would go by and I would have to pray again, "God, I really need an answer here. My savings are running close to empty. Should I try writing or something to make some money from home? God, please tell me what to do so I can do it and get on with my life!" And then I would wait some more.
Weeks later and I would still get no answer. So then I would start blaming God. "God, why don't you answer me? I have You to thank for all my problems. Why can't You get your fat butt off your throne and do something? Can't You see I'm waiting for your answer here?" And then the prayers would get really ugly from here.
Now... if I were operating under my latest concept of God. The prayer would go something this...
"Thank you God for giving this opportunity to demonstrate my power of creation. I know what I have to do and it shall be done." That's it...short and simple. Because if I KNOW I have the power of God in me to create and change anything I wish...there's no need for supplication. There is only gratitude.
Incidentally, if you go back to the prayers that were done under the second concept and substitute my name or the word "I" or "me" for every time the word "God" was used, you would see exactly who was the cause of the problem.
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
All is One
"What you do for your Self, you do for another.
What you do for another, you do for the Self.
This is because you and the other are one.
And this is because...There is naught but You."
from Conversation with God Book 1
from Conversation with God Book 1
God is the macrocosm in which ALL THAT IS and ALL THAT IS NOT exist. The human Soul is a part of this macrocosm...but at the same time it is also a microcosm of God. ALL THAT IS and ALL THAT IS NOT exist within the Soul. God creates you, but you are also creating God. This is the Divine Dichotomy.
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