"Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you knew everything was really all right, and that it always has a happy ending, then you would not feel trepidacious about your future. Everything is really so very all right! If you could believe and trust that, then, immediately everything would automatically and instantly become all right.
Excerpted from Silver Springs, MD on 4/11/99
Our Love,
Esther
(and Abraham and Jerry)
🙏
Excerpted from Silver Springs, MD on 4/11/99
Our Love,
Esther
(and Abraham and Jerry)
🙏
"Of all the choices you make each day none is more important than the choice of a positive attitude."
Tim Fargo
Tim Fargo
As you are related to all people upon Earth, everything that you do affects all people upon Earth. And as you affect all people upon Earth, in one way or the other, for good or bad - I mean, you affect all people upon Earth either for good or bad - if you yourself become a wiser person, you gradually shed wisdom into the world because you have that effect upon all people you meet...
To give healing to a brother who suffers, helps all the people who suffer on the world.
To walk past a person who is starving, hinders all the people upon the world.
Everything you do matters. So choose your actions, words and even your thoughts wisely x
To give healing to a brother who suffers, helps all the people who suffer on the world.
To walk past a person who is starving, hinders all the people upon the world.
Everything you do matters. So choose your actions, words and even your thoughts wisely x
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart”
Rainer Maria Milke -
‘Letters to a young poet’
Rainer Maria Milke -
‘Letters to a young poet’
'ARE YOU THE WORLD'S SALVATION?
Every single day, all over the world, shootings, fires, torture, killing, violence beyond comprehension.
How to hold all of this in your fragile heart?
Ignore it? Deny it? Pass it off as 'mere illusion'?
Tell yourself 'it's their problem, not mine'?
Label others as 'evil' and separate yourself?
Close your heart even more?
Was it not closed hearts and quick judgements that caused the devastation in the first place?
Seeing the daily 'realities' of this planet, one may be tempted to give up entirely. Give up on healing, give up on change, give up on humanity itself.
What's the point? There's just too much violence out there.
Too much ignorance. Too much pain. Too much evil.
We have passed the point of no return, you may say.
A fair conclusion.
Better to build our walls even higher.
And yet. And yet.
Every single day, all over the world, shootings, fires, torture, killing, violence beyond comprehension.
How to hold all of this in your fragile heart?
Ignore it? Deny it? Pass it off as 'mere illusion'?
Tell yourself 'it's their problem, not mine'?
Label others as 'evil' and separate yourself?
Close your heart even more?
Was it not closed hearts and quick judgements that caused the devastation in the first place?
Seeing the daily 'realities' of this planet, one may be tempted to give up entirely. Give up on healing, give up on change, give up on humanity itself.
What's the point? There's just too much violence out there.
Too much ignorance. Too much pain. Too much evil.
We have passed the point of no return, you may say.
A fair conclusion.
Better to build our walls even higher.
And yet. And yet.
Many have suffered the most outrageous injustices, and carried on.
Many have carried on, and grown, and healed, and transformed,
and brought their transformation to others, and broken down walls deemed impossible to break down.
There are heartbreaking stories of unconditional love shining in even the most impenetrable regions of night.
Focus on what's 'wrong' with the world, and you may end up paralysed, helpless, full of unexpressed rage.
Focus on what's 'right' with the world, and you may just be burying your head in the sand.
Beyond right and wrong, there is a field of indescribable truth and light.
Focus on the field.
Focus on the light.
Focus on the world that burns in your heart, rather than the passing reality you see.
Acknowledge the reality, yes, but don't use it as an excuse to give up.
Use it as an excuse to burn even more brightly, love even more unconditionally, forgive even more radically, question every ounce of evil you have been taught, extinguish every ounce of violence in yourself, for you contain violence too.
Change will require a devastating self-reflection.
Even a tiny candle can begin to illuminate a vast cavern.
Nothing is ever 'tiny' in the eyes of the Universe.
In the Talmud it is written:
'He who saves a single life, saves the world entire'.
The world may be broken, yes,
but you may be her salvation'.
- Jeff Foster
Many have carried on, and grown, and healed, and transformed,
and brought their transformation to others, and broken down walls deemed impossible to break down.
There are heartbreaking stories of unconditional love shining in even the most impenetrable regions of night.
Focus on what's 'wrong' with the world, and you may end up paralysed, helpless, full of unexpressed rage.
Focus on what's 'right' with the world, and you may just be burying your head in the sand.
Beyond right and wrong, there is a field of indescribable truth and light.
Focus on the field.
Focus on the light.
Focus on the world that burns in your heart, rather than the passing reality you see.
Acknowledge the reality, yes, but don't use it as an excuse to give up.
Use it as an excuse to burn even more brightly, love even more unconditionally, forgive even more radically, question every ounce of evil you have been taught, extinguish every ounce of violence in yourself, for you contain violence too.
Change will require a devastating self-reflection.
Even a tiny candle can begin to illuminate a vast cavern.
Nothing is ever 'tiny' in the eyes of the Universe.
In the Talmud it is written:
'He who saves a single life, saves the world entire'.
The world may be broken, yes,
but you may be her salvation'.
- Jeff Foster
“Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.”
Corrie Ten Boom
Corrie Ten Boom
SUNDAY STORY
THIS STORY IS FROM KATHARINE HEPBURN - IN HER OWN WORDS
"Once when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus. Finally, there was only one family between us and the ticket counter. This family made a big impression on me. There were eight children, all probably under the age of 12. You could tell they didn’t have a lot of money. Their clothes were not expensive, but they were neat and clean. The children were well-behaved, all of them standing in line, two-by-two behind their parents, holding hands. They were excitedly jabbering about the clowns, elephants and other acts they would see that night. I could sense they had never been to the circus before. It promised to be a highlight of their young lives.
Their parents were at the head of the pack. They were as proud as can be. The wife was holding her husband’s hand, looking up at him as if to say 'you are my knight in shining armour'. he was smiling and enjoying seeing his family happy.
The ticket lady asked the husband how many tickets he wanted. He proudly responded, “Eight children’s tickets and two adult tickets please.”
The ticket lady quoted the price.
The wife let go of her husband’s hand, her head dropped, the husband’s lip began to quiver. The husband leaned a little closer and asked, “How much did you say?”
The ticket lady quoted the price again.
The husband didn’t have enough money.
How was he supposed to turn and tell his eight kids that he didn’t have enough money to take them to the circus?
Seeing what was going on, my Dad put his hand into his pocket, pulled out a $20 bill and dropped it on the ground. (We were not wealthy in any sense of the word) Then he reached down, picked up the bill, tapped the husband in front on the shoulder and said, “Excuse me, sir, this fell out of your pocket.”
The husband understood what was going on. He wasn’t begging for a handout but certainly appreciated the help in a desperate, heart-breaking, embarrassing situation. He looked straight into my Dad's eyes, took my Dad's hand in both of his, squeezed tightly onto the $20 bill, and with his lip quivering and a tear streaming down his cheek, he replied, “Thank you, thank you, sir. This really means a lot to me and my family.”
My father and I went back to our car and drove home. The $20 that my dad gave away is what we were going to buy our tickets with. Although we didn’t get to see circus that night, we both felt joy inside us that was far greater than the circus could provide. That day I learned the value to give. The giver is bigger than the receiver, if you want to be large, larger than life.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything. The importance of giving, blessing others can never be over emphasised because there's always joy in giving."
Katharine Hepburn - American Stage and Film Actress - (born 12,5,1907 – 29,6, 2003)
THIS STORY IS FROM KATHARINE HEPBURN - IN HER OWN WORDS
"Once when I was a teenager, my father and I were standing in line to buy tickets for the circus. Finally, there was only one family between us and the ticket counter. This family made a big impression on me. There were eight children, all probably under the age of 12. You could tell they didn’t have a lot of money. Their clothes were not expensive, but they were neat and clean. The children were well-behaved, all of them standing in line, two-by-two behind their parents, holding hands. They were excitedly jabbering about the clowns, elephants and other acts they would see that night. I could sense they had never been to the circus before. It promised to be a highlight of their young lives.
Their parents were at the head of the pack. They were as proud as can be. The wife was holding her husband’s hand, looking up at him as if to say 'you are my knight in shining armour'. he was smiling and enjoying seeing his family happy.
The ticket lady asked the husband how many tickets he wanted. He proudly responded, “Eight children’s tickets and two adult tickets please.”
The ticket lady quoted the price.
The wife let go of her husband’s hand, her head dropped, the husband’s lip began to quiver. The husband leaned a little closer and asked, “How much did you say?”
The ticket lady quoted the price again.
The husband didn’t have enough money.
How was he supposed to turn and tell his eight kids that he didn’t have enough money to take them to the circus?
Seeing what was going on, my Dad put his hand into his pocket, pulled out a $20 bill and dropped it on the ground. (We were not wealthy in any sense of the word) Then he reached down, picked up the bill, tapped the husband in front on the shoulder and said, “Excuse me, sir, this fell out of your pocket.”
The husband understood what was going on. He wasn’t begging for a handout but certainly appreciated the help in a desperate, heart-breaking, embarrassing situation. He looked straight into my Dad's eyes, took my Dad's hand in both of his, squeezed tightly onto the $20 bill, and with his lip quivering and a tear streaming down his cheek, he replied, “Thank you, thank you, sir. This really means a lot to me and my family.”
My father and I went back to our car and drove home. The $20 that my dad gave away is what we were going to buy our tickets with. Although we didn’t get to see circus that night, we both felt joy inside us that was far greater than the circus could provide. That day I learned the value to give. The giver is bigger than the receiver, if you want to be large, larger than life.
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything. The importance of giving, blessing others can never be over emphasised because there's always joy in giving."
Katharine Hepburn - American Stage and Film Actress - (born 12,5,1907 – 29,6, 2003)