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February 1st 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Innocence
People are in different stages of readiness and readiness for Enlightenment is true innocence. If there is true innocence it means that the ego will not be a big obstruction to Liberation. We are born with this innocence and it is this very innocence in us that experiences the pain of separation.
The awakening of Self-recognition is when this innocence recognizes itself as the Self and the ego is recognized as non-Self. Under the weight of this Self-discovery the ego is seen as unreal. This is when the whole universe turns upside down and this is when all is revealed to be very different than it had seemed.
Some may find this frightening, but ego is the illusion of separateness that doesn't want to give up its illusion of separateness. Remember it is not the ego that longs to be Free.
Andrew Cohen
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 2nd 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Public Opinion
Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God. Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain nor freed a human soul.
Mark Twain
You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbour. Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to think other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
Walter Bagehot
The Master seemed quite impervious to what people thought of him. When the disciples asked how he had attained this stage of inner freedom, he laughed aloud and said, "Till I was twenty I did not care what people thought of me. After twenty I worried endlessly about what my neighbors thought. Then one day after fifty I suddenly saw that they hardly ever thought of me at all."
Anthony de Mello
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 3rd 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Mystical Theology.
I used unexpectedly to experience a consciousness of the presence of God, of such a kind that I could not possibly doubt that He was within me or that I was wholly engulfed in Him. This was in no sense a vision: I believe it is called mystical theology.
St Teresa
Some simple people imagine that they are going to see God as if he were standing yonder and they here, but it is not to be so. God and I, we are one.
Meister Eckhart
God is my Self. That Self is the only Self there is -- my Self and your Self.
Rightly speaking, there is not God and you, but God is ever manifest as you, and this is the oneness which assures you of infinite good.
Joel S Goldsmith
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 4th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Removing Inner Obstacles
When you are no longer concerned with overcoming anything or realizing anything, then meditation is spontaneious and effortless.
Andrew Cohen
If you could enter for a moment deeply into 'the place where no creature dwells', you would hear God speaking to you. This 'place' is within yourself and if you could be silent just for an hour from your thinking and willing, you would hear the unspeakable words of God.
If you desist from the thinking and willing of your (egoic) selfhood, the eternal hearing, seeing and speaking will reveal itself in you, and you will recognize the divine within. It's only your own willing, hearing and seeing that keeps you from seeing and hearing God.
Jacob Boehme
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 5th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Reality & Illusion
You and all that comes to your consciousness as person, place or thing, is divinely Real -- yet as it appears through the testimony of the five senses, it is illusion.
You must recognize what you see, hear, taste, touch or smell as finite concepts of Reality; therefore, you must not love, hate or fear that which is visible to sense, but realize the omnipresence of the invisible Reality even while this Reality is not apparent to sense. It means you are not to worship any human concept appearing as person or thing -- regardless of how good or noble.
God is the all of you -- anything else is illusion.
Joel S Goldsmith
Whenever hope and illusion become the source of the will to live, all knowledge of reality becomes highly threatening, since at any time a new piece of information might remove the grounds for this hope. When life is motivated by hope for improvement, denial of reality is necessarily renewed and fortified.
Christina Thurmer-Rohr
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 6th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Beloved Invisible
What you are you do not see, what you see is your shadow.
Rabindranath Tagore
The individual who has come to 'recognize' the Infinite Invisible within and discovered that his or her true Self is also infinite and invisible, will find that this Infinite Invisible will manifest Itself as a creative, healing and transformative 'power' in their outer visible world.
PSS
'I' am God-created, and since God is Spirit, 'I' must be spiritual. God is invisible, and therefore, 'I' must be invisible: 'I' can never be seen by anyone. 'I' am as invisible, as spiritual, and as incorporeal as God, for this 'I' that I am is the offspring of God, made of the life, substance and being of God.
Joel S Goldsmith
It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon.
Bovee
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 7th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Finding a Solution
When we become still and go into the temple of our being for the answer to some important question or the solution of a vital problem, it is better that we do not formulate some idea of our own, outline a plan, or let our wish in the matter father our thought. Rather should we still the thinking mind so far as possible and adopt a listening attitude.
It is not the personal sense of mind, or conscious mind, which is to supply the answer, nor is it the educated mind or the mind formed of our environment and experience, but the mind of God, the Reality of us, the creative Consciousness. And this is best heard when the senses and reasoning mind are silent.
This divine Consciousness not only shows us the solution to any and every problem and the right direction to take in any situation, but being infinite, It is the consciousness of every individual and brings every person and circumstance together for the good of the whole.
Joel S Goldsmith
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 8th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Realization of Oneness
The first glimpse of what the life of inner peace was like ... came when I was out walking in the early morning. All a sudden I felt very uplifted, more uplifted than I had ever been. I remember I knew timelessness and spacelessness and lightness. I did not seem to be walking on the earth. There were no people or even animals around, but every flower, every bush, every tree seemed to wear a halo. There was a light emanation around everything and flecks of gold fell like slanted rain through the air. This experience is sometimes called the illumination period.
The most important part of it was not the phenomena: the important part of it was the realization of the oneness of all creation. Not only all human beings -- I knew before that all human beings are one. But now I knew also a oneness with the rest of creation. The creatures that walk the earth and the growing things of the earth. The air, the water, the earth itself. And, most wonderful of all, a oneness with that which permeates all and binds all together and gives life to all. A oneness with that which many would call God.
I have never felt separate since. I could return again and again to this wonderful mountaintop, and then I could stay there for longer and longer periods of time and just slip out occasionally.
Peace Pilgrim
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 9th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Dagger in the Wall
Imagine a king has sent you to some country to do a task, and you perform a hundred other services, but not the one he sent you to do. So human beings come to this world to do particular work. That work is the purpose, and each is specific to the person.
If you don't do it, it's as though a priceless Indian sword were used to slice rotten meat. It's a golden bowl being used to cook turnips, when one filing from the bowl could buy a hundred suitable pots. It's a knife of the finest tempering nailed into a wall to hang things on.
You say, "But look, I'm using the dagger. It's not lying idle." Do you hear how ludicrous that sounds? For a penny, an iron nail could be bought to serve the purpose. You say, "But I spend my energies on lofty enterprises. I study jurisprudence and philosophy and logic and astronomy and medicine and all the rest. But consider why you do those things. They are all branches of yourself.
Remember the deep root of your being, the presence of your lord. Give your life to the one who already owns your breath and your moments. If you don't, you will be exactly like the man who takes a precious dagger and hammers it into his kitchen wall for a peg to hold his dipper gourd. You'll be wasting valuable keenness and foolishly ignoring your dignity and your purpose.
Jalaluddin Rumi (1207-1273 Afghanistan)
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 10th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Source of Universal Energy.
Live to give instead of to get. As you concentrate on the giving, you discover that just as you cannot receive without giving, so neither can you give without receiving-even the most wonderful things like health and happiness and inner peace. There is a feeling of endless energy, it just never runs out, it seems to be as endless as air. You seem to be plugged in to the source of universal energy.
You are now in control of your life. Your higher nature, which is controlled by God, controls the body, mind, and emotions. (The ego is never really in control. The ego is controlled by wishes for comfort and convenience on the part of the body, by demands of the mind, and by outbursts of the emotions.)
I can say to my body, "Lie down there on that cement floor and go to sleep," and it obeys. I can say to my mind, "Shut out everything else and concentrate on the job before you," and it is obedient. I can say to my emotions, "Be still, even in the face of this terrible situation," and they are still.
A great philosopher has said, he who seems to be out of step may be following a different drummer. And now you are following a different drummer: the higher nature instead of the lower nature.
Peace Pilgrim
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 11th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- A Brightness and a Shine
(The) Dark night has taken me beyond the edges of my known self and extended the boundaries of what I can be and do. My knowledge of God is deepened and I am challenged to a whole new way of being.
"Anne"
Tragedy and misery are a part of life. If you focus on tragedy and misery then tragedy and misery will be what you see. Go beyond tragedy and misery to a place where nothing ever happens. Find that place where no event ever occurred.
If you are compulsively fascinated with memory then memories are all that you will see. Compulsive fascination with memory is akin to living in a house with dead, rotting corpses. It is a morbid experience. If you are looking only at dead bodies then the possibility of knowing something fresh and new will be impossible.
The happiness I talk about is knowing that which is new in every moment. There is a brightness and a shine that is ever new. That is the presence of God. That is your own Self.
Andrew Cohen
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 12th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Renewed Life
Every soul is a melody which needs renewing.
Stéphane Mallarmé
The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.
George Whitefield
By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.
Desiderius Erasmus
Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark, Out of the clouds a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again.
John Bannister Tabb
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 13th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- No Pairs of Opposites
The belief in two powers is what traps us into vacillating between the pairs of opposites -- harmony and discord, poverty and abundance, life and death, sickness and health; whereas the ability to abide in our inner being, realizing that there is only one power -- that there is no good and there is no evil in any form -- frees us and brings the peace that passes understanding....
The truth is that "there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." Then to be rid of pairs of opposites, we must stop the merry-go-round of the human mind, and that actually is not as difficult or as impractical as it sounds.
I have been asked many times, "How do you stop thinking?" And I have found one way. Tle minute I can look at any person or condition and know that it is neither good nor evil, my thought stops, and my mind becomes quiet. That is the end of it because then there are no thoughts left for me to think about it: I do not think good of it and I do not think evil of it.
All I know is that it 'is', and then I am back at the center of my being where all power is. Our mind is restless only when we are thinking about things or persons, either in tenns of good or evil, but the mind is at rest when we surrender all such concepts.
Joel S Goldsmith
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 14th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Changing People
We get from people what we give; we find in them what we bring; we discover that the changes in them are really changes in ourselves.
Source unknown
Treat people as if they were already what they could be, and you will help them become what they are capable of becoming.
J W von Goethe
Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.
Martin Luther King
In his love for someone he brought out that which was peculiar to a person's life, even though it lay hidden under layers of dirt; he loved it out. Therefore many who knew that he saw them and loved them became new persons and experienced the great transformation. His love was not simply a reaction to something lovable, as our love is. His love was creative. It called a 'new creature' into existence.
Helmut Thielicke
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 15th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- They're People Too
In '41 Mama took me back to Moscow. There I saw our enemies for the first time. If my memory is right, nearly 20,000 German war prisoners were to be marched in a single column through the streets of Moscow. The pavements swarmed with onlookers, cordoned off by soldiers and police. The crowd were mostly women – Russian women with hands roughened by hard work, lips untouched by lipstick and thin hunched shoulders which had borne half the burden of the war. Every one of them must have had a father or a husband, a brother or a son killed by the Germans.
They gazed with hatred in the direction from which the column was to appear. At last we saw it. The generals marched at the head, massive chins stuck out, lips folded disdainfully, their whole demeanour meant to show superiority over their plebeian victors. "They smell of eau-de-cologne, the bastards," someone in the crowd said with hatred. The women were clenching their fists. The soldiers and policemen had all they could do to hold them back.
All at once something happened to them. They saw German soldiers, thin, unshaven, wearing dirty blood-stained bandages, hobbling on crutches or leaning on the shoulders of their comrades; the soldiers walked with their heads down. The street became dead silent - the only sound was the shuffling of boots and the thumping of crutches.
Then I saw an elderly woman in broken-down boots push herself forward and touch a policeman's shoulder, saying: "Let me through." there must have been something about her that made him step aside. She went up to the column, took from inside her coat something wrapped in a coloured handkerchief and unfolded it. It was a crust of black bread. She pushed it awkwardly into the pocket of a soldier, so exhausted that he was tottering on his feet. And now suddenly from every side women were running towards the soldiers, pushing into their hands bread, cigarettes, whatever they had. The soldiers were no longer enemies. They were people.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 16th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Beyond Pain
I began to understand that I had stumbled on a kind of miracle. These people (concentration camp survivors) had walked into the valley of death and out the other side with their courage and their sense of humour intact. They were rich human beings, with no bitterness left in them. For years they had (suffered) starvation, torture, cold, loneliness and agonising loss … yet they seemed to be beyond hatred. To me it was bewildering. In fact, I was being shaken up and turned inside out. One could live with pain precisely by not fighting it, by not denying its existence, by taking it into oneself, seeing it for what it was, going beyond it.
Mary Craig
If you identify with the pain then you will be lost forever. If you identify with the pain as being who you are then there can be no Liberation. That's what creates ego -- the idea that there is a problem. That idea makes you feel special and feeling special makes you feel separate. Give up that idea and then you are Free. Give up the infatuation with your problem. That is what everybody has to do.
Andrew Cohen
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 17th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Kingdom of Love
If we 'expect' love from outside ourselves, we obstruct and limit its flow to us
Within our very own being is the kingdom of Love ... All we have to do to find love is to turn to this great spiritual realm that is within us, and there divine Love has Its abode.
If there is not enough love in your life, it is only because you are not loving enough and that means that you are not tapping the infinite source of love within your own being. Let that love flow out: Love this world; love the sun, the moon, and the stars; love the plants and the flowers; love all the people. Let the love flow. That love which flows out from the infinite storehouse within you will be the bread of life which will come back to you.
Every bit of love that we express is a love that is expressed to us (from within).
Joel S Goldsmith
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 18th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Fight for Freedom
In everything that lies outside the provision of the necessaries of life, there must be individualism, personal initiative, variety. The fight for freedom is not to be won by any mere change in our economic system. It is to be won only by a constant resistance to the tyranny of officials, and a constant realisation that mental freedom is the most precious of goods.
Bertrand Russell
By far the most numerous and most flagrant violations of personal liberty and individual rights are performed by governments. The major crimes throughout history, the ones executed on the largest scale, have been committed not by individuals or bands of individuals but by governments, as a deliberate policy of those governments, that is, by the official representatives of governments, acting in their official capacity.
John Hospers
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachments by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Louis D Brandeis
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 19th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Take No Thought
Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Jesus of Nazareth
"Take no thought" has nothing to do with the orderly planning of your life. That really must be done, and you must know in advance when to arrange for your holiday or if you are going to make a trip to a class somewhere or something of that nature. But even though you are making those arrangements, always hold yourself in readiness for a cancellation without concern because you must be trusting the fact that there is an invisible Presence that knows far more than you do and can govern and guide....
Tomorrow afternoon at five o'clock we are to be on a plane bound for Hawaii, and you know we are taking thought about that today because we have to go to the airplane company and fill out forms. We have to be sure that everything is packed and in order and that all the details of this work are closed. There is a lot of taking thought about that....
But where the "take no thought" comes in is to take no anxious thought. Do not be concerned; do not be fearful; do not be worried. Plan what you are doing, but always with the realization that there is Something greater than you working through you. Even though you are taking thought and making your plans and arrangements, be perfectly willing that they be changed.
Joel S Goldsmith
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 20th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Given a Tune
I only know two tunes. One of them is "Yankee Doodle" and the other isn't.
Ulysses S Grant
Joy is more joyful, given a tune.
Jane Swan
In the end the only relationship will be our relationship with our Creator, the relationship of 'oneness', the relationship of 'attunement'.
Joel S Goldsmith
Being in harmony is such a delightful, delectable state, not because things are coming your way, but because of the feeling of God-in-operation. It's a tremendous feeling; you just can't imagine how great it is. It is such a delight when you're in tune, in harmony -- you see God everywhere! You're watching God in operation. And that is what you enjoy, rather than the time, the incident, the happening. His operation is the ultimate.
Lester Levenson
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 21st 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Berry Patch
Imagine that the mind is a berry patch and that individual thoughts are like the berries in the patch. Imagine you are standing in front of the berry patch. As you stand in front of the berry patch you notice the different kinds of berries in the patch. You easily notice that some of the berries are sweet, that some are sour and that some are completely rotten. The sweet ones you cat freely and the sour and rotten ones you don't touch. And when your stomach is full you don't even touch the sweet ones.
The existence of the berry patch in no way disturbs or inhibits the perfect integrity of the universe. The existence of the berry patch in no way demonstrates the existence of any problem or conflict. A problem only arises when due to our own blind ignorance we stuff every berry that our eye comes into contact with in our mouth; rotten, sweet or sour. Then we wonder why our stomachs are upset all the time!
Stop the habit of compulsively eating every berry that comes into your sight. Take the time and make the effort to see whether the berry you happen to be staring at is sweet, rotten or sour. Never under any circumstance allow yourself to eat a sour or rotton berry. Eat only the sweet ones, and have the sense to eat them only when you are hungry.
Andrew Cohen
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 22nd 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Excellence is a Habit
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is therefore not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle
Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.
Jim Ryun
Before we can enter the mystical life, the habit of continuously thinking and talking must be transformed into the habit of continuously listening.
Acquire the habit of never doing anything without first opening consciousness to the inflow Spirit, of never engaging in any human activity without first opening consciousness to the inflow. Never begin any human activity-whether at the beginning of the day on awakening whether it is preparing a meal, whether it is going out into the business world, whether it is undertaking household duties, or whether it is retiring for a nap or for a night's sleep -- without specifically opening consciousness to the inflow of the Spirit.
Joel S Goldsmith
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 23rd 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Other Angels
Pain is a holy angel which shows treasure to men which otherwise remains forever hidden.
Adalbert Stifter
Stifter once said, "Pain is a holy angel ... " It must be so and I tell this to myself in my present position over and over again -- the pain of longing which often can be felt even physically must be there, and we shall not and need not talk it away.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sometimes, our pain is very deep and real, and we stand before her very silent, because there is no language for our pain, only a moan. Night's heart is full of pity for us: she cannot ease our aching; she takes our hand in hers, and the little world grows very small and very far beneath us, and, borne on her dark wings, we pass for a moment into a mightier Presence than her own, and in the wondrous light of that great Presence, all human life lies like a book before us, and we know that Pain and Sorrow are but the angels of God.
Jerome K Jerome
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 24th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The Adventure of Life
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller
Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life -- facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential.
John Amatt
You know you have a body and you have a mind, but you have not come to know 'you' that have the body and the mind. This is the you that is the "Adventure of Life," and the "Adventure of Life" is the awakening of this you. You are the Soul that lives. But first you must know you are the Soul, and then you must begin to explore, search and seek until you find 'Me' -- until you find your Self -- the real 'you'.
Joel S Goldsmith
There is adventure in eternal life. There is none in eternal death. I am all for adventure.
J W Dunne
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 25th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Our Beingness
Then, my view was just the opposite of what it had been months previously, that the real solid thing was not the physical world, was not my mind, but something, which was much greater. The very essence, the very Beingness of me was the reality. It had no limits, it was eternal and all the things that I saw before were the least of me, rather than the all of me. The all of me was my Beingness....
It was obvious to me that I wasn't the body and mind that I had thought I was. I just saw -- that's all! It's simple when you see it. I let go of identifying with this body. And when I did that, I saw that my Beingness was all Beingness. That Beingness is like one grand ocean. It's not chopped up into parts called drops of bodies. It's all one ocean.
This caused me to identify with every being, every person and even every item in this universe. Then you are finished forever with separation and all the hellishness that's caused only by separation. Then you can no more be fooled by the apparent limitations of the world. You see them as a dream, as an appearancy, because you know that your very own Beingness has no limits.
In reality, the only thing that is, is Beingness. That is the real, changeless substance behind everything.
Lester Levenson
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 26th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Beyond Seedhood
We are like thistle-down blown about by the wind -- up and down, here and there -- but not one in a thousand ever getting beyond seed-hood.
Samuel Butler
It takes divinity to exhibit anything divine, Socrates, Alfred, Hildegard, Columbus, Wordsworth, or any other brave preferrer of the still voice within to the roar of the populace -- a thing very easy to speak and very hard to do for twenty-four hours. The rest are people potentially, not actually, now only pupae or tadpoles -- say rather quarries of souls, heroes and heroines that shall be, seeds of Gods.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The seed of God is in us. Given an intelligent and hard-working farmer, it will thrive and grow up to God, whose seed it is; and accordingly its fruits will be God-nature. Pear seeds grow into pear trees, nut seeds into nut trees, and God seed into God.
Meister Eckhart
The will is free; Strong is the soul, and wise, and beautiful; The seeds of godlike power are in us still; Gods are we, bards, saints, heroes, if we will!
Matthew Arnold
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 27th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- The World We See
There is only one world, the world of consciousness or spirit, but there is a false sense of that world which you entertain and that false sense constitutes the other world -- the world of material sense.
The one world is the world of our judgement on appearances and the conditioned mind, and the other is the world that is revealed to us when we no longer form any judgements.
The real world is the world of Consciousness and Its forms ...
Joel S Goldsmith
We view the world with our own eyes, each of us, and we make from within us the world we see.
William Thackery
--- Anthologist and Mentor - Peter Stafford Sumner
February 28th 2003
From the OmniRead Treasuries -- Breaking the Shell
And a woman spoke, saying, 'Tell us of Pain'.
And he said: Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy; And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields. And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
Much of your pain is self-chosen. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity: For his hand, though heavy and hard, is guided by the tender hand of the Unseen. And the cup he brings, though it burns your lips, has been fashioned of the clay which the Potter has moistened with his own sacred tears.
Kahlil Gibran
