As soon as you have a thought, laugh at it. Because Reality is not what we think. We see things not as they are but as we are.
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Old saying but very true. Everything is about what you believe within.
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The idea that fever might actually have medical benefits goes way back. The ancient Greek physician Hippocrates claimed that “those who cannot be cured by [medicine or] surgery can be cured by heat; and those who cannot be cured by heat are to be considered incurable”
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7195085/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7195085/
There are 4 kinds of people:
1. The Pretenders.
You will see them reading and talking about the Truth, even doing the postures of meditation and the forms of worship, but their minds are often somewhere else.
And yet they are practicing the ways of love, the fruits of love, as if they really knew love, and this will save them in theend. They are learning that the One has many names. May their limitation become reality.
2. The Warriors
They practice the Greater Work, the struggle with the ego. They are quiet and gentle, thankful and courteous. The activities they love are the simple acts of living, prayer, and spontaneous service. They have shed the artificialities of the ego and its many distractions. Their egos have been tamed by love, found submission, and learned to serve their great Self If you find them, stay with them long enough to learn patience and the real contentment.
3. People of Remembrance.
They remember the One inwardly in all they do. They
eat little, sleep little, and speak little lest they distract one another's attention from the presence of the One. They are the easiest people to be with—light as feathers, never a burden on anyone. If you spend many years with them, you might overcome your forgetfulness, doubt, and withholding. But even when you do, you will still have the hidden contradiction of I and He.
4. The People of Total Submission
They are speechless. They undertake no unnecessary action on their own, but there is no obstacle to the will of their great Self, no hesitation, no second thoughts, no bargaining. They have reached the most subtle state of themselves and know their own nothingness. These people ask nothing for themselves because they are identified with the creative power Itself. You may live among them for many years until you know of their state and your actions appear as theirs, but you will not be inwardly one of them if you still suffer from separation, if you are still yourself, if you still feel lover and beloved. If your experience still comes from the well of your own subconscious, by your own inner faculties—as long as a trace of you remains in you—you have not attained your purpose. Know that there is a knowledge and a certainty that comes through Spirit alone. Spirit plus Nothing: that is your highest destiny.
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1. The Pretenders.
You will see them reading and talking about the Truth, even doing the postures of meditation and the forms of worship, but their minds are often somewhere else.
And yet they are practicing the ways of love, the fruits of love, as if they really knew love, and this will save them in theend. They are learning that the One has many names. May their limitation become reality.
2. The Warriors
They practice the Greater Work, the struggle with the ego. They are quiet and gentle, thankful and courteous. The activities they love are the simple acts of living, prayer, and spontaneous service. They have shed the artificialities of the ego and its many distractions. Their egos have been tamed by love, found submission, and learned to serve their great Self If you find them, stay with them long enough to learn patience and the real contentment.
3. People of Remembrance.
They remember the One inwardly in all they do. They
eat little, sleep little, and speak little lest they distract one another's attention from the presence of the One. They are the easiest people to be with—light as feathers, never a burden on anyone. If you spend many years with them, you might overcome your forgetfulness, doubt, and withholding. But even when you do, you will still have the hidden contradiction of I and He.
4. The People of Total Submission
They are speechless. They undertake no unnecessary action on their own, but there is no obstacle to the will of their great Self, no hesitation, no second thoughts, no bargaining. They have reached the most subtle state of themselves and know their own nothingness. These people ask nothing for themselves because they are identified with the creative power Itself. You may live among them for many years until you know of their state and your actions appear as theirs, but you will not be inwardly one of them if you still suffer from separation, if you are still yourself, if you still feel lover and beloved. If your experience still comes from the well of your own subconscious, by your own inner faculties—as long as a trace of you remains in you—you have not attained your purpose. Know that there is a knowledge and a certainty that comes through Spirit alone. Spirit plus Nothing: that is your highest destiny.
@sparkjoywithin
We are knee deep in a river, searching for water. We are part of an invisible river, but we are so distracted by outer things and what we imagine they could mean to us that we lose contact with the source of our own Being.
When we are caught in desire, in form, in externals, we are pulled out of ourselves into a fantasy world, a desire world. We lose touch with the invisible river, the waters of life, through our identification with unconscious innerprocesses and with outer demands.
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When we are caught in desire, in form, in externals, we are pulled out of ourselves into a fantasy world, a desire world. We lose touch with the invisible river, the waters of life, through our identification with unconscious innerprocesses and with outer demands.
@sparkjoywithin
We begin with a sense of self, an "I." Before we say whether this "I" really exists or not, we can say that it is something we all experience. What this experience is like varies enormously from person to person, from a contracted, separate self to an expanded, spiritualized Self Commonly, however, this "I" is a very small part of ourselves. It is as much of ourselves as we are conscious.
Beyond this "I" or conscious mind is a vast realm that can be called the Subconscious. Commonly, it is viewed as a kind of warehouse of buried memories, conditioning, complexes, drives, and obsessions. From a more spiritual perspective this Subconscious is also the Heart, the source of wisdom and subtle
perceptions. It is infinite, at least compared to the conscious mind, and is spontaneously in communication with other minds and Mind-at-large.
Where we identify ourselves on the false self and essential Self spectrum influences our experience of "I," as well as the
condition of our subconscious mind.
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Beyond this "I" or conscious mind is a vast realm that can be called the Subconscious. Commonly, it is viewed as a kind of warehouse of buried memories, conditioning, complexes, drives, and obsessions. From a more spiritual perspective this Subconscious is also the Heart, the source of wisdom and subtle
perceptions. It is infinite, at least compared to the conscious mind, and is spontaneously in communication with other minds and Mind-at-large.
Where we identify ourselves on the false self and essential Self spectrum influences our experience of "I," as well as the
condition of our subconscious mind.
@sparkjoywithin