Receiving Another's Love
Mood:  amorous
Topic: Musings

Receiving Another's Love

You can only receive another's love in the way that you give them yours. They can love you their way as long as they want. You can only receive it your way.

Friendship With God Neale Donald Walsch

project peace on earth
I choose peace and to always come from a place of love, harmony, forgiveness, and peace in my thoughts and deeds.
In this moment I am at peace with myself.
I am at peace with my husband.
I am at peace with my family.
I am at peace with my friends and neighbors.
I am at peace with those who no longer choose to be my friends.
I am at peace with past relationships and with those who have passed on.
I am at peace with those who are not at peace with themselves and others.
I am at peace with those who have never experienced peace.
I am at peace and I choose peace in my life.

Despite the chaos and negativity that surrounds me, I choose to hold thoughts of love, forgiveness and peace. "Peace begins with me" and radiates out to the world. In meditation and prayer, I will focus on peace and send healing energy out to the world.

For as long as I can remember, every campaign involving disease, drugs, alcohol, terrorism, and yes, even sports has been couched in the metaphors of war.

I want to participate in changing the way we speak so that positive results will manifest. I've experienced too often in my life that "what you resist, persists", that war only begets more war, that peace is more than a word...it's a state of beingness. I want to facilitate others in finding their own inner peace and to learn to radiate healing energy throughout our pain ridden planet.

Let there be peace on earth.
Om shanti, http://www.project-peaceonearth.org/

Your Moment of Awakening

Your Moment of Awakening

Your moment of awakening can come to you at any time, and through any person. Therefore honor all times and all people, for the moment of your deliverance may be at hand. It will be your deliverance from The Illusion, the moment when you can be with it, but not within it.

There will be more than one such moment in your life. Indeed, your life is created to bring you just such moments.

These are your Moments of Grace, when clarity and wisdom, love and understanding, guidance and insight are brought to you, and through you.

These Moments of Grace change your life forever, and often, the lives of others as well.
Communion With God
Neale Donald Walsch
Pages 199-200

Valentines workshops....

St Valentine’s Day

 

 

Celebration

 

 

 

 

The Southville Centre is hosting a St Valentine’s Day celebration

9.30am – 3.00pm Saturday the 14^th of February.

 

 

 

Come and wander around our St Valentine’s art exhibition with pieces submitted by local artists and residents.  Try some delicious homemade cakes and savouries or buy some to take home for a special tea. Buy or even customise your own Valentines gift for a loved one or yourself! Hand tie your own bouquet of flowers, decorate a beautiful mirror, ice your own homemade biscuits, or buy that special person  a Reiki session.

 

A fun, informal, free event open to all.

 

For more information ring

The Southville Centre on 0117 9231039.

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Need Is Nonexistent

Need Is Nonexistent

Need is non-existent in the Universe. One needs something only if one requires a particular result. The Universe does not require a particular result. The Universe is the result.

Communion With God Neale Donald Walsch Page 27

On this day of your life, dear friend,

On this day of your life, dear friend, I believe God wants you to know...

....that the goodness in your life does not come to you

from someone else. When you see this, you will be free.

 

There is no reason and no need to "play up" to another,

or to try to remain in their good graces. Remain in your

own, by not betraying yourself. Simply speak your truth,

with gentleness and love.

 

And have courage, for what you seek is not outside of

you. It is not a gift from another person. It is yours -- to

give, not to acquire. Let no one, therefore, hold you

hostage. Not your partner, not your boss, not your

family...and certainly not your God.

 

You know right now exactly why you received this

message today.

 

 

Love, Your Friend....Neale Donald Walsch

WHAT IS OUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
WHAT IS OUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?

A few weeks ago I met a bewildered woman. She was a successful civil servant in her forties who was waking up to her spirituality and had begun to attend some psychic development classes.

'I just don't know what I'm supposed to be doing with my life,' she said. 'I don't seem to have a purpose.'

We started to have a conversation and it turned out that she had a family and was a senior manager in social services. She was a good person and she was doing good. But she now thought that being psychic and having clairvoyant experiences was the only meaningful way of living. She had stopped valuing her role as a carer, manager and parent. She was temporarily enchanted by the illusion that psychic experiences were more meaningful than being of service.

This reminded me of an old friend who once confessed that he was envious of my being a spiritual teacher and workshop leader. He himself was a financier with a sumptuous life style and I asked what it was about my life that he envied, expecting him to say that it was because my work was congruent with my soul or that it helped me to be centered. Instead, he started to describe how he saw my life as being a bit like a pop or movie star, with status and glamour. That, he felt, would bring him real satisfaction.

I winced with embarrassment. My model of a good spiritual teacher is not someone who is successful or well known, but someone who is quiet and hidden. I love the stories of the great Muslim mystics, the Sufi Masters, who work as cobblers and bakers. To find them, you have to look for the most invisible person in the crowd.


LIFE'S PURPOSE

People are always trying to work out what they should be doing with their lives. But the more I look at this idea of having a 'life's purpose' the more I think and feel that it is an illusion.  Let me risk a wide-sweeping generalisation.

Everyone's life purpose is the same.  

Our purpose is to develop our compassion and consciousness until finally, in every single cell, we are completely and totally loving, awake and of benefit to all living beings.
Full stop.

One hundred per cent compassionate and conscious in every fibre of our being.

No buts or ifs. No waiting until we have found the right career. Being awake and compassionate is The Career!

Everybody knows this. It is at the core of all spiritual traditions.

So why is it that we so often get lost and confused and think we do not know our life's purpose — when, in fact, we do know it?


SIX IDEAS

So here are six thoughts that help me and may be of use to you too.

One — When something gives us pleasure, our basic survival instinct for self-gratification drives us to wanting more of it. So if we enjoy imagining a different type of life, we will start to desire the actual thing. Imagination and desire are normal parts of being human. Unfortunately, as the Buddha so helpfully reminded us, desire is the source of all suffering and a destructive emotion. So enjoy daydreaming about other possibilities, but don't get hooked in by actually desiring them.

Two — Spiritual growth is not easy because we have to meet our wounded psychological selves in order to heal and integrate them - and this can be painful. Not surprisingly we have an instinct to avoid this pain, but this avoidance can then lead us away from true spiritual development. We look for easy solutions and 'finding our life's purpose' is an easy sounding solution, like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. The way forward here is courage and realism about the spiritual journey.

Three — Our brains are genetically hardwired to understand life through stories that have a plot and a conclusion. The basic story is hunt, gather, eat and survive. Ambiguous stories cause us anxiety. (How do you feel when you only know three quarters of a story?) We are therefore impatient to understand the plot and the ending of our own life stories. Again, we may look for simple solutions and reject the ambiguities of paradox, unknowing and mystery. The trick is to learn how to be and accept all of life's conundrums.

Four — We all carry personal and collective karma, which can create almost unbearable feelings of negativity. Like infants we want the comfort and gratification that might come with success and material fulfilment. But no amount of success or riches from the right 'career' will deliver satisfaction. Only through building a strong centre and learning the skills of self-healing will these internal hungry ghosts be integrated.

Five — Then there is a sense of being stifled and having creative talents that need to be fulfilled. Dealing with these feelings is a life art. There are no easy answers.  Sometimes we need to explode and release ourselves into something new. Other times, we need patience and careful experimentation. And often we just need to accept that we are perfectly fine the way that we are.

Six — And then there is the great illusion that once we have achieved our life's purpose and are in the right 'career' we will feel fulfilled and content. But we are not islands. Is it possible to feel fulfilled when fellow creatures are still suffering? Are personal purpose and personal fulfilment inherently self-centred? It is probably more realistic to stay with the core message of Christ and with the Vow of the Bodhissatva Buddhas. This Vow states: We shall not rest until every being is liberated from suffering.  

So here then is the possible life purpose for all of us — to become fully awake and compassionate; and to strive until all beings are free of suffering. Each in our own unique way, each in our own everyday lives.


All my love.

William

www.williambloom.com

Today Bristol is signing up to WWF's Earth Hour

Today Bristol is signing up to WWF's Earth Hour WWF's Earth Hour team is in Bristol - and we want Bristol to be a flagship city for this global event. On Tuesday and Wednesday this week, 20-21 January, we are signing up as many people, businesses and other organisations as possible.

Follow today's live action We've been sending live photos of people in and around Bristol to our Flickr page as they get involved with the Bristol Earth Hour signup - why not take a look at what's been happening today...

What is WWF's Earth Hour? On Saturday 28 March 2009 at 8.30pm, people around the world will take part in WWF's Earth Hour - turning off their lights for one hour and showing their support for global action on climate change.

Sign up online now If you're a school, business, organisation, or individual - Earth Hour is a great way to show how much you care about people, wildlife and the planet and how much you want world leaders to take action on climate change.

Meet our Earth Hour team in Bristol If you want to know more about WWF's Earth Hour before signing up then please come and meet us in Bristol. On Tuesday 20 at 6pm, we'll be at The Elbow Room in Park Street (map), showing a short film about WWF's Earth Hour and answering any questions you have about getting involved. For example, we can tell you about some of the events, such as candlelit dinners and lights-out parties, other supporters are already planning.

On Knowing God

On Knowing God

The only way to move forward on this is to ask yourself, "What would happen if everything I thought was 'wrong' was actually 'right'?" Every great scientist knows about this. When what a scientist does is not working, a scientist sets aside all of the assumptions and starts over. All great discoveries have been made from a willingness, and ability, to not be right. And that's what's needed here. You cannot know God until you've stopped telling yourself that you already know God. You cannot hear God until you stop thinking that you've already heard God. I cannot tell you My Truth until you stop telling Me yours

Conversations With God, Book 1 Neale Donald Walsch Pages 7-8