Within every human being is the natural tendency and capacity to live wholeness of life -- to be fully awake and aware of the holistic qualities of life while applying all the specific laws of nature to accomplish one's goals.
It is incomplete development of the mind that has produced the conception of a normal person as one who makes mistakes, has problems, falls sick, and is at the mercy of circumstances. When the total potential fo Natural Law is awakened in human awareness, life can be lived in fulfillment, free from mistakes, problems, and illness. Higher states of consiousness and a state of wholeness are characterized by complete alertness and spontaneous use of one's full potential; command over one's destiny, with the organizing power to accomplish any worthy goal without strain; a spontaneously nourishing, life-supporting effect on everyone and everything; and the quality of bliss and wholeness pervading one's existence.
I have heard many times in my life people talk about how we are placed in this life so that God can find out what kind of person we are or will be. That perspective never set right with me. If God is all knowing (and He is), then He doesn't need anything proved to Him because He knows it. We are not an experiment. This life is not a tensile test to determine at what amount of pressure we will break.
I think that in this life we are learning what kind of person we are and learning to stand within our true state despite whatever other influences we might encounter. We are spiritual beings having an earthly experience not earthly beings having spiritual experiences. We are learning more and more to be One. Being One means standing independent of worldly influence unified with Deity in true principles and universal law.
If spiritual death is separation from God and Eternal Life is living with God, then I believe when we have the Spirit with us we are experiencing a taste of Heaven.
Therefore what? When we feel unhappy feelings they are indicative that our thought processes are not in harmony. Our emotions are a strong indication of whether our thoughts are directed appropriately. If your thoughts bring you joy continue in that vein. If your thoughts bring sorrow or unhappiness, then change them.
Therefore what?.... that is one my favorite of your oft said phrases. It is the ultimate question. What do you do with what you know? And when you learn something new, do you change? It makes me think of the lyrics to Tracy Chapman's song "Change". I love them!
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Saw the face of god and love,
Would you change?
Would you change?
If you knew that love can break your heart
When you're down so low you cannot fall
Would you change?
Would you change?
How bad, how good does it need to get?
How many losses? How much regret?
What chain reaction would cause an effect?
Makes you turn around,
Makes you try to explain,
Makes you forgive and forget,
Makes you change?
Makes you change?
If you knew that you would be alone,
Knowing right, being wrong,
Would you change?
Would you change?
If you knew that you would find a truth
That brings up pain that can't be soothed
Would you change?
Would you change?
How bad, how good does it need to get?
How many losses? How much regret?
What chain reaction would cause an effect?
Makes you turn around,
Makes you try to explain,
Makes you forgive and forget,
Makes you change?
Makes you change?
Are you so upright you can't be bent?
If it comes to blows are you so sure you won't be crawling?
If not for the good, why risk falling?
Why risk falling?
If everything you think you know,
Makes your life unbearable,
Would you change?
Would you change?
If you'd broken every rule and vow,
And hard times come to bring you down,
Would you change?
Would you change?
If you knew that you would die today,
If you saw the face of God and love,
Would you change?
Would you change?
Would you change?
Would you change?
If you saw the face of God and love
If you saw the face of God and love
Would you change?
Would you change?