Post by saisri on Jan 29, 2006 5:49:12 GMT
A Cherokee Legend
How Strawberries were made and why
Long ago, First Man and First Woman were living together in their home near
the lake. Earth Maker was their good friend and visited often.
First Man and First Woman loved each other very much and were happy together. Occasionally they had little arguments, which First Woman always won, but the arguements were never serious. Then one day they had a Monumental fight! They fought over who started the fight, then they had another fight about what the first fight had been about. Finally First Woman had enough "I'm sick of you and you can cook your own supper tonight and for the rest of your life!" and she strode out of the home, across the field, down the valley and over the hill beyond, all without a backwards glance. First Man sat back and breathed a sigh of relief, he thought he was better off without First Woman. When the sun set, First Man decided to have some supper.
Now First Man had no knowledge of cooking, First Woman had done all those chores, so he ate a cold supper. After a few bites he decided that he should just go to bed. The bed was terribly cold too. First Man was lonely and slept badly. When he awoke in the morning there was no warm tea to greet the day.
Then Earth Maker came bursting into the home.
Earth Maker looks at First Man and asked where First Woman was.
First Man told Earth Maker of the fight and First Woman storming off. First Man tells Earth Maker of his loneliness. Earth Maker tells First Man to go after her,
to find her and bring her home. First Man rushes out wondering how he'll catch her, she's had a very big head start on his chase. Earth Maker said he would slow First Woman down. Earth Maker moving at the speed of thought finds First Woman and decides to put a forest in her path.
The forest does not slow First Woman down, who is still very angry!
Earth Maker puts a Lake in front of her. First Woman just dives in and swims quickly across the lake. Earth Maker thinks of how First Woman was made with strong will. Thinking First Woman must be hungry she zaps a few apricot trees, pear trees, orange trees and peach trees to stop her. First Woman keeps up her furious pace and grabs the fruit off the trees on her way by! Well Thinks Earth Maker, this is a challenge, I guess I will have to fall back on the ultimate contingency. I'll make strawberries!
One more zap!
First Woman notices a bush growing across the path with beautiful white flowers. She stops and looks at the bush. As she watches, she sees the flowers turn into lovely red berries. And the berries had the same shape and same colour as the human heart. First Woman touches one and feels that it is like the human heart, soft and firm. First Woman picks one and tastes it. She thinks it is so sweet, sweet like human love. She picks and eats the berries and starts thinking about First Man and what a silly fight it was. She decides that she should pick the berries and turn around to bring them to First Man. First Man caught up to
First Woman, they ate the berries together, made love and went home together to the home made for them by Earth Maker.
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FOR THE GARDEN OF YOUR DAILY LIVING
PLANT THREE ROWS OF PEAS:
1. Peas of mind
2. Peas of heart
3. Peas of soul
PLANT FOUR ROWS OF SQUASH:
1. Squash gossip
2. Squash indifference
3. Squash grumbling
4. Squash selfishness
PLANT FOUR ROWS OF LETTUCE:
1. Lettuce be faithful
2. Lettuce be kind
3. Lettuce be patient
4. Lettuce really love one another
You Can't Have a Garden Without Turnips:
1. Turnip for meetings
2. Turnip for service
3. Turnip to help one another
To Conclude Our Garden We Must Have Thyme:
1. Thyme for each other
2. Thyme for family
3. Thyme for friends
Water Freely With Patience And Cultivate With Love!
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Grace
by Edna Ballard
You have often heard the phrase "by the Grace of God." Do you know
what it means? In a hazy kind of way, it is generally interpreted to
mean goodness of God or special dispensation of God.
There is, however, the condition of Perfection upon which this
present universe is modeled and which is manifesting into form from
that which has no form. This is above the law of opposites and
simply automatically changes everything into Itself - which is
completed Perfection.
There is, during the process of manifestation from no form into
form, an exact law of balance operating everywhere in creation,
which not even the finest atom can escape obeying. It has been
called by various names: the law of compensation, equilibrium, cause
and effect, and karma, It matters not at all what we call it, so
long as we understand its operation and have the good sense to
adjust ourselves accordingly, working with it instead of against it.
The law of balance or karma always says that whatever we send out in
thought, feeling, word or deed, we will receive back into our own
experience according to the same kind and quality. This is the law
of Moses, spoken of in the Bible as the law of "an eye for an eye
and a tooth for a tooth." We are, in our human sides, the thoughts,
feelings, words and acts which we have sent out to others.
Let us stop for just five minutes and look at our habitual thoughts,
feelings, words, and acts concerning the people and things we
contact every day and then try to realize that the human side of us
is just that and no more. If we observe the world around us, even
occasionally, we can find thousands of examples where we can see the
cause go out and the effect come back to the very individual that
sent out the cause. We will gain more good from the observation,
however, if we take ourselves as the field of examination, It will
show us just exactly what we are doing to ourselves every time we
think, feel, speak or act. Nothing in this life goes unbalanced.
That is an eternal Decree of the Source from which we all proceed.
This means, that according to the decree of the former dispensation,
if we injure anyone in this life in thought, feeling, word or deed,
we shall by the law of attraction, draw to ourselves that injury -
and through our own soul and body will pass the like experience.
This should teach us that we cannot with impunity send inharmony to
anything in the universe without redeeming our creation and
neutralizing or balancing every force sent out from ourselves. We
all as individuals sooner or later realize that there is only one
way to an harmonious, happy existence and that is through obedience
to this most important of all laws.
To the individual who is sincerely trying to correct the old race
habits of thought and feeling, words and deeds in himself, there
comes the desire to obey this law consciously. When that happens, he
is shown the way whereby he may correct his mistakes and redeem his
creations immediately. In answer to the very desire within him to
right the wrongs done others, his Diamond Self - the Christ within,
if he will listen to Its impulse, will show him how to make the
balance harmoniously. It will open the way for him to do it, if he
will but listen.
This is Grace - the way whereby we keep the balance to everything in
the universe, but correct our mistakes harmoniously instead of
through suffering. Every human being is always shown the harmonious
way to make all balance needed in his life first; but if he will not
hear or will not listen, then he compels himself to balance the
account with the law of equilibrium from which there is no such
thing as escape.
This is why Jesus, the incarnation of Light, said: "Moses brought
law, but I bring Grace." It was the conscious understanding of this
application that made him also say: "My yoke is easy and my burden
is Light. Come unto Me all ye that are heavy laden, and I will give
you rest." These words were not idly spoken. They carry a very great
sense of Freedom when understood from this viewpoint. This is also
the Law of Forgiveness. When we forgive anything we give something
for that thing. Then, if we call upon the Law of Forgiveness and ask
to be kept under Grace, and not under karmic law, we will find a
harmonious way out of every inharmonious situation. For the Diamond
Self in each one of us will open the channel whereby all adjustment
that is necessary can and will be made harmoniously. This is also
coming back into the Father's House, and it is His good pleasure to
give us the Kingdom. The Kingdom is perfect, harmonious activity,
every part with every other part. This is Grace.
Again, you must turn to that Glorious Diamond Self within you for
the solution of whatever problem comes into your life, if you would
be free from the discord of earth, if you would manifest that
dominion which you have been promised from the beginning and which
is your Divine birthright and prerogative.
Even in the parlance of human law we find reference to the Grace of
God - meaning again Perfection, which is the Light. Therefore,
meditate upon Grace - the Light. Live under Grace and adore the
Light; for You are the Light, the very throne of Grace.
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LOVE
By Leonard Nijssen:
I live each day with LOVE in my life, for this is the best way to
achieve happiness.
Only the inner feeling of LOVE can open the minds of all people.
I make LOVE my most effective tool in bringing happiness to myself
and others.
I live each day with LOVE in my life.
I look on all things with LOVE since that makes me feel better and
better.
I LOVE the Sun, for it warms my body.
I LOVE the rain, for it cleanses my spirit.
I LOVE the light, for it shows me the way.
I LOVE the darkness, for it shows me the stars.
I live each day with LOVE in my life.
I welcome all experiences with gratitude, for it speeds my spiritual
growth.
Positive experiences reinforce my belief in myself, yet I will
accept all experiences as a challenge to solve problems and the
solutions increases my positive experiences so little by little I
eliminate all negative thoughts, making my life better and better.
I live each day with LOVE in my life.
I Love all manner of humanity, for each has qualities to be admired,
even though they may be hidden.
Using LOVE as a tool I can tear down the walls of suspicion and hate
people have built around themselves, and in its place I leave LOVE.
I recognize the inner wholeness of each person I meet.
I live each day with LOVE in my life.
I respond to the actions of others with LOVE.
I awake each morning with a vitality that is always increasing.
Each night before I go to sleep I forgive all persons that day that
may have misunderstood me and forgive myself for any
misunderstandings that I may have caused and see all whom I meet in
a perfect state of health, happiness and success.
My vigor increases, my enthusiasm rises, and my desire to meet the
world causes me to experience greater and greater happiness.
The radiation of my unconditional LOVE re-awakens the joy of living
in everyone I meet.
I live each day with LOVE in my life.
I address each person I meet in only one way. In silence, and to
myself I say, "I LOVE YOU".
Though spoken in silence, these words shine in my eyes, unwrinkle my
brow, bring a smile to lips and echo in my voice.
Most important of all, I LOVE myself and affirm often that I LOVE
myself, so I can speed my spiritual evolvement.
I live each day with LOVE in my life.
I continue to take steps toward a higher level of development in the
improvement of humanity.
If I had no other quality, I could succeed with LOVE alone.
LOVE is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to
complete and fulfill them.
LOVE joins all people by what's deepest in them.
I live each day with LOVE in my life.
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Recipe For Miracles
Ingredients:
1 part of knowing who you are.
1 part of knowing who you aren't.
1 part of knowing what you want.
1 part of knowing who you wish to be.
1 part of knowing what you already have.
1 part of choosing wisely from what you have.
1 part of loving and thanking for ALL you have.
Instructions:
Combine ingredients together gently and carefully, using faith and
vision.
Mix together with strong belief of the outcome until finely blended.
Use thoughts, words and actions for best results.
Bake until Blessed.
Give thanks again
Yield: Unlimited Servings
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May the Sun of Truth, Wisdom and Light
Rise in your heart and illuminate
Your life with grace and joy.
May the luminous beings from heaven
Surround, bless and protect you always.
May you ever dwell in the divine light.
SO BE IT.
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this is a fairly lengthy article but it is very informative about why AMERICA IS OBESE and WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT. PASS IT ON TO OTHERS, PLEASE.
BY JOHN ERB
I wondered if there could be an actual chemical causing the massive
obesity epidemic, so did a friend of mine, John Erb. He was a research
assistant at the University of Waterloo, and spent years working for the
government.
He made an amazing discovery while going through scientific journals for a
book he was writing called The Slow Poisoning of America. In hundreds of
studies around the world, scientists were creating obese mice and rats to
use in diet or diabetes test studies.
No strain of rat or mice is naturally obese, so the scientists have to
create them. They make these morbidly obese creatures by injecting them with
MSG when they are first born. The MSG triples the amount of insulin the
pancreas creates, causing rats (and humans?) to become obese; they even have
a title for the race of fat rodents they create: "MSG-Treated Rats."
I was shocked too. I went to my kitchen, checking the cupboards and the
fridge. MSG was in everything! The Campbell's soups, the Hostess Doritos,
the Lays flavored potato chips, Top Ramen, Betty Crocker Hamburger Helper,
Heinz canned gravy, Swanson frozen prepared meals, Kraft salad dressings,
especially the 'healthy low fat' ones. The items that didn't have MSG had
something called Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein, which is just another name
for Monosodium Glutamate. It was shocking to see just how many of the foods
we feed our children everyday are filled with this stuff. They hide MSG
under many different names in order to fool those who catch on.
But it didn't stop there. When our family went out to eat, we started
asking at the restaurants what menu items had MSG.
Many employees, even the managers, swore they didn't use MSG. But when
we ask for the ingredient list which they grudgingly provided, sure enough
MSG and Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein were everywhere. Burger King,
McDonalds, Wendy's, Taco Bell, every restaurant, even the sit down ones like
TGIF, Chilis', Applebees and Denny's use MSG in abundance. Kentucky Fried
Chicken seemed to be the WORST offender: MSG was in every chicken dish,
salad dressing and gravy. No wonder I loved to eat that coating on the skin,
their secret spice was MSG!
So why is MSG in so may of the foods we eat? Is it a preservative or a
vitamin? Not according to my friend John. In the book he wrote, an expose of
the food additive industry called The Slow Poisoning of America,
www.spofamerica.com/
he said that MSG is added to food for the addictive effect it has on the
human body. Even the propaganda website sponsored by the food manufacturers
lobby group supporting MSG at:
www.msgfacts.com/facts/msgfact12.html
explains that the reason they add it to food is to make people eat more.
A study of elderly people showed that people eat more of the foods that it
is added to. The Glutamate Association lobby group says eating more benefits
the elderly, but what does it do to the rest of us?
'Betcha can't eat just one', takes on a whole new meaning where MSG is
concerned! And we wonder why the nation is overweight?
The MSG manufacturers themselves admit that it addicts people to their
products. It makes people choose their product over others, and makes people
eat more of it than they would if MSG wasn't added. Not only is MSG
scientifically proven to cause obesity, it is an addictive substance!
Since its introduction into the American food supply fifty years ago, MSG
has been added in larger and larger doses to the prepackaged meals, soups,
snacks and fast foods we are tempted to eat everyday.
The FDA has set no limits on how much of it can be added to food. They
claim it's safe to eat in any amount. How can they claim it is safe when
there are hundreds of scientific studies with titles like these?
The monosodium glutamate (MSG) obese rat as a model for the study of
exercise in obesity. Gobatto CA, Mello MA, Souza CT, Ribeiro IA. Res Commun
Mol Pathol Pharmacol. 2002
Adrenalectomy abolishes the food-induced hypothalamic serotonin release in
both normal and monosodium glutamate-obese rats. Guimaraes RB, Telles MM,
Coelho VB, Mori RC, Nascimento CM, Ribeiro Brain Res Bull. August 2002
Obesity induced by neonatal monosodium glutamate treatment in
spontaneously hypertensive rats: an animal model of multiple risk factors.
Yamamoto M, Iino K, Ichikawa K, Shinohara N, Yoshinari Fujishima Hypertens
Res. March 1998
Hypothalamic lesion induced by injection of monosodium glutamate in
suckling period and subsequent development of obesity. Tanaka K, Shimada M,
Nakao K, Kusunoki Exp Neurol. October 1978
Yes, that last study was not a typo, it WAS written in 1978.
Both the medical research community and food "manufacturers" have known
MSG's side effects for decades!
Many more studies mentioned in John Erb's book link MSG to Diabetes,
Migraines and headaches, Autism, ADHD and even Alzheimer's .But what can we
do to stop the food manufactures from dumping fattening and addictive MSG
into our food supply and causing the obesity epidemic we now see?
Even as you read this, George W. Bush and his corporate supporters are
pushing a Bill through Congress, and it's called the:
"Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act" also known as the
"Cheeseburger Bill".
This sweeping law bans anyone from suing food manufacturers, sellers and
distributors. Even if it comes out that they purposely added an
addictive chemical to their foods.
Read about it for yourself at:
www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/8458081htm www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/8458081.htm>
Last month the House of Representatives passed the "Personal
Responsibility in Food Consumption Act" to protect the food and beverage
industry from civil lawsuits. Under the measure, known as the "Cheeseburger
Bill,"people who buy food or drinks couldn't sue the companies that made
them, the stores that sold them or the restaurants that served them if they
got fat from the products, so long as the products met existing laws. The
Senate is expected to take up a similar bill later this year."
The Bill has already been rushed through the House of Representatives, and
is due for the same rubber stamp at Senate level. It is important that Bush
and his corporate supporters get it through before the media lets everyone
know about MSG, the intentional Nicotine for food.
Several months ago, John Erb took his book and his concerns to one of the
highest government health officials in Canada. While sitting in the
Government office, the official told him "Sure I know how bad MSG is, I
wouldn't touch the stuff!" But this top-level government official refused to
tell the public what he knew.
The big media doesn't want to tell the public either, fearing legal issues
with their advertisers. It seems that the fallout on the fast food industry
may hurt their profit margin.
So what do we do?
The food producers and restaurants have been addicting us to their
products for years, and now we are paying the price for it.
Our children should not be cursed with obesity caused by an addictive food
additive.
But what can I do about it?
I'm just one voice, what can I do to stop the poisoning of our children,
while guys like Bush are insuring financial protection for the industry that
is poisoning us.
I for one am doing something about it. I am sending this email out to
everyone I know in an attempt to show you the truth that the corporate
owned politicians and media won't tell you.
The best way you can help save yourself and your children from this
drug-induced epidemic, is to forward this email to everyone.
With any luck, it will circle the globe before governments can pass the
Bill protecting those who poisoned us.
The food industry learned a lot from the tobacco industry.
Imagine if big tobacco had a bill like this in place before someone blew
the whistle on Nicotine? Blow the whistle on MSG.
If you are one of the few who can still believe that MSG is good for us,
and you don't believe what John Erb has to say, see for yourself. Go to the
National Library of Medicine, at www.pubmed.com
Type in the words "MSG Obese", and read a few of the articles foryourself.
We do not want to be rats in one giant experiment, and we do not approve
of food that makes us into a nation of obese, lethargic, addicted sheep,
waiting for the slaughter.
Put an end to this, and stop the Slow Poisoning of America. Let's save our
children.
JOHN ERB
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FORGIVING
Please take a moment to take in the following message:
What forgiveness is
"Forgiveness is a form of realism. It doesn't deny, minimize, or justify what others have done to us or the pain that we have suffered. It encourages us to look squarely at those old wounds and see them for what they are. And it allows us to see how much energy we have wasted and how much we have damaged ourselves by not forgiving.
Forgiveness is an internal process. It can't be forced, and it doesn't come easy. It brings with it great feelings of wellness and freedom. But we experience this only when we want to heal and when we are willing to work for it.
Forgiveness is a sign of positive self-esteem. We no longer identify ourselves by our past injuries and injustices. We are no longer victims. We claim the right to stop hurting when we say, "I'm tired of the pain, and I want to be healed." At that moment, forgiveness becomes a possibility-although it may take time and much hard work before we finally achieve it.
Forgiveness is letting go of the past. It doesn't erase what happened, but it does allow us to lessen and perhaps even eliminate the pain of the past. The pain from our past no longer dictates how we live in the present, and it no longer determines our future.
It also means that we no longer need resentment and anger as an excuse for our shortcomings. We don't need them as a weapon to punish others nor as a shield to protect ourselves by keeping others away. And most importantly, we don't need these feelings to identify who we are. We become more than merely victims of our past.
Forgiveness is no longer wanting to punish those who hurt us. It is understanding that the anger and hatred that we feel toward them hurts us far more than it hurts them. It is seeing how we hide ourselves in our anger and how those feelings prevent us from healing. It is discovering the inner peace that becomes ours when we let go of the past and forget vengeance.
Forgiveness is moving on. It is recognizing all that we have lost because of our refusal to forgive. It is realizing that the energy that we spend hanging on to the past is better spent on improving our present and our future. It is letting go of the past so that we can move on.
We all have been hurt. And at one time or another most of us have made the mistake of trying to run away from the past. The problem is that no matter how fast or how far we run, the past always catches up to us-and usually at the most inopportune time. When we forgive, we are dealing with the past in such a way that we no longer have to run.
For me, learning how to forgive wasn't easy. But I did learn, and my life is better for it - even here on death row."
Michael B. Ross
Death Row
Somers, Connecticut
How Strawberries were made and why
Long ago, First Man and First Woman were living together in their home near
the lake. Earth Maker was their good friend and visited often.
First Man and First Woman loved each other very much and were happy together. Occasionally they had little arguments, which First Woman always won, but the arguements were never serious. Then one day they had a Monumental fight! They fought over who started the fight, then they had another fight about what the first fight had been about. Finally First Woman had enough "I'm sick of you and you can cook your own supper tonight and for the rest of your life!" and she strode out of the home, across the field, down the valley and over the hill beyond, all without a backwards glance. First Man sat back and breathed a sigh of relief, he thought he was better off without First Woman. When the sun set, First Man decided to have some supper.
Now First Man had no knowledge of cooking, First Woman had done all those chores, so he ate a cold supper. After a few bites he decided that he should just go to bed. The bed was terribly cold too. First Man was lonely and slept badly. When he awoke in the morning there was no warm tea to greet the day.
Then Earth Maker came bursting into the home.
Earth Maker looks at First Man and asked where First Woman was.
First Man told Earth Maker of the fight and First Woman storming off. First Man tells Earth Maker of his loneliness. Earth Maker tells First Man to go after her,
to find her and bring her home. First Man rushes out wondering how he'll catch her, she's had a very big head start on his chase. Earth Maker said he would slow First Woman down. Earth Maker moving at the speed of thought finds First Woman and decides to put a forest in her path.
The forest does not slow First Woman down, who is still very angry!
Earth Maker puts a Lake in front of her. First Woman just dives in and swims quickly across the lake. Earth Maker thinks of how First Woman was made with strong will. Thinking First Woman must be hungry she zaps a few apricot trees, pear trees, orange trees and peach trees to stop her. First Woman keeps up her furious pace and grabs the fruit off the trees on her way by! Well Thinks Earth Maker, this is a challenge, I guess I will have to fall back on the ultimate contingency. I'll make strawberries!
One more zap!
First Woman notices a bush growing across the path with beautiful white flowers. She stops and looks at the bush. As she watches, she sees the flowers turn into lovely red berries. And the berries had the same shape and same colour as the human heart. First Woman touches one and feels that it is like the human heart, soft and firm. First Woman picks one and tastes it. She thinks it is so sweet, sweet like human love. She picks and eats the berries and starts thinking about First Man and what a silly fight it was. She decides that she should pick the berries and turn around to bring them to First Man. First Man caught up to
First Woman, they ate the berries together, made love and went home together to the home made for them by Earth Maker.
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FOR THE GARDEN OF YOUR DAILY LIVING
PLANT THREE ROWS OF PEAS:
1. Peas of mind
2. Peas of heart
3. Peas of soul
PLANT FOUR ROWS OF SQUASH:
1. Squash gossip
2. Squash indifference
3. Squash grumbling
4. Squash selfishness
PLANT FOUR ROWS OF LETTUCE:
1. Lettuce be faithful
2. Lettuce be kind
3. Lettuce be patient
4. Lettuce really love one another
You Can't Have a Garden Without Turnips:
1. Turnip for meetings
2. Turnip for service
3. Turnip to help one another
To Conclude Our Garden We Must Have Thyme:
1. Thyme for each other
2. Thyme for family
3. Thyme for friends
Water Freely With Patience And Cultivate With Love!
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Grace
by Edna Ballard
You have often heard the phrase "by the Grace of God." Do you know
what it means? In a hazy kind of way, it is generally interpreted to
mean goodness of God or special dispensation of God.
There is, however, the condition of Perfection upon which this
present universe is modeled and which is manifesting into form from
that which has no form. This is above the law of opposites and
simply automatically changes everything into Itself - which is
completed Perfection.
There is, during the process of manifestation from no form into
form, an exact law of balance operating everywhere in creation,
which not even the finest atom can escape obeying. It has been
called by various names: the law of compensation, equilibrium, cause
and effect, and karma, It matters not at all what we call it, so
long as we understand its operation and have the good sense to
adjust ourselves accordingly, working with it instead of against it.
The law of balance or karma always says that whatever we send out in
thought, feeling, word or deed, we will receive back into our own
experience according to the same kind and quality. This is the law
of Moses, spoken of in the Bible as the law of "an eye for an eye
and a tooth for a tooth." We are, in our human sides, the thoughts,
feelings, words and acts which we have sent out to others.
Let us stop for just five minutes and look at our habitual thoughts,
feelings, words, and acts concerning the people and things we
contact every day and then try to realize that the human side of us
is just that and no more. If we observe the world around us, even
occasionally, we can find thousands of examples where we can see the
cause go out and the effect come back to the very individual that
sent out the cause. We will gain more good from the observation,
however, if we take ourselves as the field of examination, It will
show us just exactly what we are doing to ourselves every time we
think, feel, speak or act. Nothing in this life goes unbalanced.
That is an eternal Decree of the Source from which we all proceed.
This means, that according to the decree of the former dispensation,
if we injure anyone in this life in thought, feeling, word or deed,
we shall by the law of attraction, draw to ourselves that injury -
and through our own soul and body will pass the like experience.
This should teach us that we cannot with impunity send inharmony to
anything in the universe without redeeming our creation and
neutralizing or balancing every force sent out from ourselves. We
all as individuals sooner or later realize that there is only one
way to an harmonious, happy existence and that is through obedience
to this most important of all laws.
To the individual who is sincerely trying to correct the old race
habits of thought and feeling, words and deeds in himself, there
comes the desire to obey this law consciously. When that happens, he
is shown the way whereby he may correct his mistakes and redeem his
creations immediately. In answer to the very desire within him to
right the wrongs done others, his Diamond Self - the Christ within,
if he will listen to Its impulse, will show him how to make the
balance harmoniously. It will open the way for him to do it, if he
will but listen.
This is Grace - the way whereby we keep the balance to everything in
the universe, but correct our mistakes harmoniously instead of
through suffering. Every human being is always shown the harmonious
way to make all balance needed in his life first; but if he will not
hear or will not listen, then he compels himself to balance the
account with the law of equilibrium from which there is no such
thing as escape.
This is why Jesus, the incarnation of Light, said: "Moses brought
law, but I bring Grace." It was the conscious understanding of this
application that made him also say: "My yoke is easy and my burden
is Light. Come unto Me all ye that are heavy laden, and I will give
you rest." These words were not idly spoken. They carry a very great
sense of Freedom when understood from this viewpoint. This is also
the Law of Forgiveness. When we forgive anything we give something
for that thing. Then, if we call upon the Law of Forgiveness and ask
to be kept under Grace, and not under karmic law, we will find a
harmonious way out of every inharmonious situation. For the Diamond
Self in each one of us will open the channel whereby all adjustment
that is necessary can and will be made harmoniously. This is also
coming back into the Father's House, and it is His good pleasure to
give us the Kingdom. The Kingdom is perfect, harmonious activity,
every part with every other part. This is Grace.
Again, you must turn to that Glorious Diamond Self within you for
the solution of whatever problem comes into your life, if you would
be free from the discord of earth, if you would manifest that
dominion which you have been promised from the beginning and which
is your Divine birthright and prerogative.
Even in the parlance of human law we find reference to the Grace of
God - meaning again Perfection, which is the Light. Therefore,
meditate upon Grace - the Light. Live under Grace and adore the
Light; for You are the Light, the very throne of Grace.
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LOVE
By Leonard Nijssen:
I live each day with LOVE in my life, for this is the best way to
achieve happiness.
Only the inner feeling of LOVE can open the minds of all people.
I make LOVE my most effective tool in bringing happiness to myself
and others.
I live each day with LOVE in my life.
I look on all things with LOVE since that makes me feel better and
better.
I LOVE the Sun, for it warms my body.
I LOVE the rain, for it cleanses my spirit.
I LOVE the light, for it shows me the way.
I LOVE the darkness, for it shows me the stars.
I live each day with LOVE in my life.
I welcome all experiences with gratitude, for it speeds my spiritual
growth.
Positive experiences reinforce my belief in myself, yet I will
accept all experiences as a challenge to solve problems and the
solutions increases my positive experiences so little by little I
eliminate all negative thoughts, making my life better and better.
I live each day with LOVE in my life.
I Love all manner of humanity, for each has qualities to be admired,
even though they may be hidden.
Using LOVE as a tool I can tear down the walls of suspicion and hate
people have built around themselves, and in its place I leave LOVE.
I recognize the inner wholeness of each person I meet.
I live each day with LOVE in my life.
I respond to the actions of others with LOVE.
I awake each morning with a vitality that is always increasing.
Each night before I go to sleep I forgive all persons that day that
may have misunderstood me and forgive myself for any
misunderstandings that I may have caused and see all whom I meet in
a perfect state of health, happiness and success.
My vigor increases, my enthusiasm rises, and my desire to meet the
world causes me to experience greater and greater happiness.
The radiation of my unconditional LOVE re-awakens the joy of living
in everyone I meet.
I live each day with LOVE in my life.
I address each person I meet in only one way. In silence, and to
myself I say, "I LOVE YOU".
Though spoken in silence, these words shine in my eyes, unwrinkle my
brow, bring a smile to lips and echo in my voice.
Most important of all, I LOVE myself and affirm often that I LOVE
myself, so I can speed my spiritual evolvement.
I live each day with LOVE in my life.
I continue to take steps toward a higher level of development in the
improvement of humanity.
If I had no other quality, I could succeed with LOVE alone.
LOVE is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to
complete and fulfill them.
LOVE joins all people by what's deepest in them.
I live each day with LOVE in my life.
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Recipe For Miracles
Ingredients:
1 part of knowing who you are.
1 part of knowing who you aren't.
1 part of knowing what you want.
1 part of knowing who you wish to be.
1 part of knowing what you already have.
1 part of choosing wisely from what you have.
1 part of loving and thanking for ALL you have.
Instructions:
Combine ingredients together gently and carefully, using faith and
vision.
Mix together with strong belief of the outcome until finely blended.
Use thoughts, words and actions for best results.
Bake until Blessed.
Give thanks again
Yield: Unlimited Servings
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May the Sun of Truth, Wisdom and Light
Rise in your heart and illuminate
Your life with grace and joy.
May the luminous beings from heaven
Surround, bless and protect you always.
May you ever dwell in the divine light.
SO BE IT.
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this is a fairly lengthy article but it is very informative about why AMERICA IS OBESE and WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT. PASS IT ON TO OTHERS, PLEASE.
BY JOHN ERB
I wondered if there could be an actual chemical causing the massive
obesity epidemic, so did a friend of mine, John Erb. He was a research
assistant at the University of Waterloo, and spent years working for the
government.
He made an amazing discovery while going through scientific journals for a
book he was writing called The Slow Poisoning of America. In hundreds of
studies around the world, scientists were creating obese mice and rats to
use in diet or diabetes test studies.
No strain of rat or mice is naturally obese, so the scientists have to
create them. They make these morbidly obese creatures by injecting them with
MSG when they are first born. The MSG triples the amount of insulin the
pancreas creates, causing rats (and humans?) to become obese; they even have
a title for the race of fat rodents they create: "MSG-Treated Rats."
I was shocked too. I went to my kitchen, checking the cupboards and the
fridge. MSG was in everything! The Campbell's soups, the Hostess Doritos,
the Lays flavored potato chips, Top Ramen, Betty Crocker Hamburger Helper,
Heinz canned gravy, Swanson frozen prepared meals, Kraft salad dressings,
especially the 'healthy low fat' ones. The items that didn't have MSG had
something called Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein, which is just another name
for Monosodium Glutamate. It was shocking to see just how many of the foods
we feed our children everyday are filled with this stuff. They hide MSG
under many different names in order to fool those who catch on.
But it didn't stop there. When our family went out to eat, we started
asking at the restaurants what menu items had MSG.
Many employees, even the managers, swore they didn't use MSG. But when
we ask for the ingredient list which they grudgingly provided, sure enough
MSG and Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein were everywhere. Burger King,
McDonalds, Wendy's, Taco Bell, every restaurant, even the sit down ones like
TGIF, Chilis', Applebees and Denny's use MSG in abundance. Kentucky Fried
Chicken seemed to be the WORST offender: MSG was in every chicken dish,
salad dressing and gravy. No wonder I loved to eat that coating on the skin,
their secret spice was MSG!
So why is MSG in so may of the foods we eat? Is it a preservative or a
vitamin? Not according to my friend John. In the book he wrote, an expose of
the food additive industry called The Slow Poisoning of America,
www.spofamerica.com/
he said that MSG is added to food for the addictive effect it has on the
human body. Even the propaganda website sponsored by the food manufacturers
lobby group supporting MSG at:
www.msgfacts.com/facts/msgfact12.html
explains that the reason they add it to food is to make people eat more.
A study of elderly people showed that people eat more of the foods that it
is added to. The Glutamate Association lobby group says eating more benefits
the elderly, but what does it do to the rest of us?
'Betcha can't eat just one', takes on a whole new meaning where MSG is
concerned! And we wonder why the nation is overweight?
The MSG manufacturers themselves admit that it addicts people to their
products. It makes people choose their product over others, and makes people
eat more of it than they would if MSG wasn't added. Not only is MSG
scientifically proven to cause obesity, it is an addictive substance!
Since its introduction into the American food supply fifty years ago, MSG
has been added in larger and larger doses to the prepackaged meals, soups,
snacks and fast foods we are tempted to eat everyday.
The FDA has set no limits on how much of it can be added to food. They
claim it's safe to eat in any amount. How can they claim it is safe when
there are hundreds of scientific studies with titles like these?
The monosodium glutamate (MSG) obese rat as a model for the study of
exercise in obesity. Gobatto CA, Mello MA, Souza CT, Ribeiro IA. Res Commun
Mol Pathol Pharmacol. 2002
Adrenalectomy abolishes the food-induced hypothalamic serotonin release in
both normal and monosodium glutamate-obese rats. Guimaraes RB, Telles MM,
Coelho VB, Mori RC, Nascimento CM, Ribeiro Brain Res Bull. August 2002
Obesity induced by neonatal monosodium glutamate treatment in
spontaneously hypertensive rats: an animal model of multiple risk factors.
Yamamoto M, Iino K, Ichikawa K, Shinohara N, Yoshinari Fujishima Hypertens
Res. March 1998
Hypothalamic lesion induced by injection of monosodium glutamate in
suckling period and subsequent development of obesity. Tanaka K, Shimada M,
Nakao K, Kusunoki Exp Neurol. October 1978
Yes, that last study was not a typo, it WAS written in 1978.
Both the medical research community and food "manufacturers" have known
MSG's side effects for decades!
Many more studies mentioned in John Erb's book link MSG to Diabetes,
Migraines and headaches, Autism, ADHD and even Alzheimer's .But what can we
do to stop the food manufactures from dumping fattening and addictive MSG
into our food supply and causing the obesity epidemic we now see?
Even as you read this, George W. Bush and his corporate supporters are
pushing a Bill through Congress, and it's called the:
"Personal Responsibility in Food Consumption Act" also known as the
"Cheeseburger Bill".
This sweeping law bans anyone from suing food manufacturers, sellers and
distributors. Even if it comes out that they purposely added an
addictive chemical to their foods.
Read about it for yourself at:
www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/8458081htm www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/8458081.htm>
Last month the House of Representatives passed the "Personal
Responsibility in Food Consumption Act" to protect the food and beverage
industry from civil lawsuits. Under the measure, known as the "Cheeseburger
Bill,"people who buy food or drinks couldn't sue the companies that made
them, the stores that sold them or the restaurants that served them if they
got fat from the products, so long as the products met existing laws. The
Senate is expected to take up a similar bill later this year."
The Bill has already been rushed through the House of Representatives, and
is due for the same rubber stamp at Senate level. It is important that Bush
and his corporate supporters get it through before the media lets everyone
know about MSG, the intentional Nicotine for food.
Several months ago, John Erb took his book and his concerns to one of the
highest government health officials in Canada. While sitting in the
Government office, the official told him "Sure I know how bad MSG is, I
wouldn't touch the stuff!" But this top-level government official refused to
tell the public what he knew.
The big media doesn't want to tell the public either, fearing legal issues
with their advertisers. It seems that the fallout on the fast food industry
may hurt their profit margin.
So what do we do?
The food producers and restaurants have been addicting us to their
products for years, and now we are paying the price for it.
Our children should not be cursed with obesity caused by an addictive food
additive.
But what can I do about it?
I'm just one voice, what can I do to stop the poisoning of our children,
while guys like Bush are insuring financial protection for the industry that
is poisoning us.
I for one am doing something about it. I am sending this email out to
everyone I know in an attempt to show you the truth that the corporate
owned politicians and media won't tell you.
The best way you can help save yourself and your children from this
drug-induced epidemic, is to forward this email to everyone.
With any luck, it will circle the globe before governments can pass the
Bill protecting those who poisoned us.
The food industry learned a lot from the tobacco industry.
Imagine if big tobacco had a bill like this in place before someone blew
the whistle on Nicotine? Blow the whistle on MSG.
If you are one of the few who can still believe that MSG is good for us,
and you don't believe what John Erb has to say, see for yourself. Go to the
National Library of Medicine, at www.pubmed.com
Type in the words "MSG Obese", and read a few of the articles foryourself.
We do not want to be rats in one giant experiment, and we do not approve
of food that makes us into a nation of obese, lethargic, addicted sheep,
waiting for the slaughter.
Put an end to this, and stop the Slow Poisoning of America. Let's save our
children.
JOHN ERB
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FORGIVING
Please take a moment to take in the following message:
What forgiveness is
"Forgiveness is a form of realism. It doesn't deny, minimize, or justify what others have done to us or the pain that we have suffered. It encourages us to look squarely at those old wounds and see them for what they are. And it allows us to see how much energy we have wasted and how much we have damaged ourselves by not forgiving.
Forgiveness is an internal process. It can't be forced, and it doesn't come easy. It brings with it great feelings of wellness and freedom. But we experience this only when we want to heal and when we are willing to work for it.
Forgiveness is a sign of positive self-esteem. We no longer identify ourselves by our past injuries and injustices. We are no longer victims. We claim the right to stop hurting when we say, "I'm tired of the pain, and I want to be healed." At that moment, forgiveness becomes a possibility-although it may take time and much hard work before we finally achieve it.
Forgiveness is letting go of the past. It doesn't erase what happened, but it does allow us to lessen and perhaps even eliminate the pain of the past. The pain from our past no longer dictates how we live in the present, and it no longer determines our future.
It also means that we no longer need resentment and anger as an excuse for our shortcomings. We don't need them as a weapon to punish others nor as a shield to protect ourselves by keeping others away. And most importantly, we don't need these feelings to identify who we are. We become more than merely victims of our past.
Forgiveness is no longer wanting to punish those who hurt us. It is understanding that the anger and hatred that we feel toward them hurts us far more than it hurts them. It is seeing how we hide ourselves in our anger and how those feelings prevent us from healing. It is discovering the inner peace that becomes ours when we let go of the past and forget vengeance.
Forgiveness is moving on. It is recognizing all that we have lost because of our refusal to forgive. It is realizing that the energy that we spend hanging on to the past is better spent on improving our present and our future. It is letting go of the past so that we can move on.
We all have been hurt. And at one time or another most of us have made the mistake of trying to run away from the past. The problem is that no matter how fast or how far we run, the past always catches up to us-and usually at the most inopportune time. When we forgive, we are dealing with the past in such a way that we no longer have to run.
For me, learning how to forgive wasn't easy. But I did learn, and my life is better for it - even here on death row."
Michael B. Ross
Death Row
Somers, Connecticut