you can give yourself the gift
of reading through the five ideas below
they have the potential to change your life....

Is there mental/emotional/spiritual aerobics involved  in connecting these five ideas into one "unified field theory"? -Your very own little "God/dess’ acre"…..- Or is engaging in mental-emotional-spiritual aerobics the mistake we all so often make? Maybe it is all about being right here and listening to your heart?  You have the power to decide. (”The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes”  - Proust).

1.

A guy called Eckhart Tolle lived in a state of continuous anxiety interspersed with suicidal depression. He kept think: “I cannot live with myself any longer”.
Then suddenly one day he became aware of what a peculiar thought it was. If I can not live with myself, there must be two of me!! The “I” and the “self” that I cannot live with.
Eckhart thought: Maybe only one of them is real!
He was so stunned by this strange realisation that his mind stopped and he felt drawn into a vortex of energy and lived for the next five months in a state of peace and bliss where everything was fresh and pristine as if it had just come into existence. He was constantly marveling at the beauty and aliveness of a pencil, an empty bottle, the miracle of life on earth. The peace and bliss he experienced gradually diminished somewhat in intensity. Eventually he understood that the intense pressure of his suffering must have forced his consciousness to withdraw from its identification with the unhappy and deeply fearful self, which is ultimately a fiction of the mind. This withdrawal must have been so complete that his false, suffering self immediately collapsed, just as if a plug had been pulled out of an inflatable toy. What was left then was our true nature as the ever present I am: consciousness in its pure state prior to identification with form.

2

 “That which you cannot find within, you cannot find without” 
(From “The Charge of the Great Goddess” )

3

“You cannot transcend what you do not know. To go beyond yourself, you must know yourself”.
(Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj).

4

“The important thing is this: To be ready at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you could become”.
(Charles Dubois)

5

Excerpts from a conversation in "Child of the Dawn" by Gautama Chopra

(Mustafa:) "We are not living in the moment if our attention is consumed by the future or the past.
When we live in the future, we invite fear.
When we live in the past, we invite sorrow.
But when we live in the moment, we invite excitement, enthusiasm and innocent wonder."
(Hakim:) "How do we know if we are making the best choice, choosing the best road?"
(Mustafa:) "The only way to do that my friend, is to trust your heart, the voice of your intuition." "To often we make choices based on the intellect alone, and we keep ourselves locked into the same pattern and routine. We relive the same experiences over and over again, afraid to take risks or to act on our dreams."
(Hakim:) "How can we trust what our heart tells us when there are so many roads to choose from?"
(Mustafa:) "How can we not, Hakim? Only the heart considers every probability, every possible outcome in the universe. Nothing is excluded, everything is accounted for. That is what enables it to guide us towards the right decision."
(Hakim:) "How will we know it is the right choice?"
(Mustafa:) "You will feel it."
(Hakim:) "Feel what?"
(Mustafa:) "You will feel peace and comfort and no resistance from the universe. When you make the right choice, your body will let you know with a feeling of comfort. You will feel good. But if you make the wrong choice, you will feel that too, as discomfort in your body."
"There is a common thread that weaves through each one of us, despite our differences .... you and I are made of the same stuff, the same spirit. It is called God. The spirit of God is in the heart of every being -"
Hakim interrupted "What does God -"
Mustafa broke in "No, no, no, God does not. God is. The presence of God can be found everywhere, in everything. The same spirit that runs through a blade of grass speaks to each of us through our heart. When we listen and make choices based on its wisdom, we ultimately bring happiness to everyone."