John Kevin's Journal: HAPPY SATURDAY!!!

Saturday, August 10, 2013

HAPPY SATURDAY!!!

Like a Rose, I Thrive - Blessed With Both My Thorns and My Blooms.
~Jonathan-Lockwood Huie

GOOD MORNING FAMILY!

No Such Place as Hell, Heaven

You can be in heaven (Oneness with All) and not know it. Indeed, most of you are.

This can be changed, but not by something you are doing. It can only be changed by something that you are being.

This is what is meant by the statement, "There is nothing you have to do." There is nothing to do but be.

And there is nothing to be, but One.

--Communion With God by Neale Donald Walsch
FROM HUMANITY'S TEAM

Well, today is SATURDAY, which means it's time for another episode of ASK TEAL with Teal Scott. In today's episode, Teal teaches us how to stop worrying.

Teal Scott is an extrasensory, esoteric who writes and teaches about spirituality, the meaning of life, and the road to health and happiness. You can find out more about her at her website: www.thespiritualcatalyst.com

Published on Aug 3, 2013
Everywhere you turn, you are bombarded with things to worry about and people who think you should worry about them. The collective human belief is that danger is lurking around every turn. We are convinced that worrying keeps us and the ones that we love alive. We think it allows us to see potentially life threatening or unpleasant things before they come and so we can prepare for them. But not only is this not the case, it ensures that we will live miserable, fearful lives. Many of us, especially those of us who worry, feel as if the universe is against us. And the universe seems so much larger than us. So, it feels as if we are up against something we can't win against. But nonetheless, we organisms of earth are survivalists and so we must try to win all the same. Our survival and basic human need of certainty is at risk if we don't win. So, we use worry to try to outsmart our adversary. And our adversary is the universe. In this episode, Teal provides eleven steps for eliminating worry.
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------------HEAVEN LETTERS------------

Heavenletters™, bringing Earth closer to Heaven.
HEAVEN is here to reach every soul on earth to reawaken:
* Our connection to God *
* Our belief in ourselves *
* Our awareness of our shared worthiness to God *
* Peace on Earth *
God is always bringing us closer to Him.
Heavenletter #4622 Not Two but One, July 21, 2013

God said:

So long as you are on Earth, you are a human being. It is part of you and not to be ignored. Consider the human part of you as a pet you keep. You take good care of your pet. You feed it and exercise it. You pay attention to your pet, and you love it.

There is an emphasis here in Heavenletters on the Divine. Understandably because the world emphasis has perhaps not been enough on the Divine. Therefore, I emphasize the direction of the Divine. Of course, I do, for here is where your happiness comes from.

Still, there is happiness in the human side of you that is not to be denied. Enjoy the human pleasures. Enjoy everything you do, and enjoy more. If you are an artist, enjoy art. If you are a writer, enjoy writing. If you are a chef, enjoy preparing delicious feasts.

Enjoy eating. Enjoy preparing food. Enjoy work, and enjoy play. In fact I will tell to enjoy the human side more.

I have said it before, and I’ll say it again:

Who enjoyed life more than the laughing Buddha?

Who enjoys life more than the young child?

And parents receive joy from their children’s joy. The ultimate aim of parents is to allow and encourage the happiness of their children. And this is how parents reap joy.

And so treat the human side of yourself as your child, and encourage it in the way to grow. The way to grow is through joy, for joy incurs joy. Joy is a great lesson in living life. It is the most direct speediest way to live life.

One joy leads to another.

Even on the side of your Divinity, take it not so seriously. Love the Divinity in your life as well. Feed it, groom it, and know you don’t have to go overboard. You don’t have to prove anything. Embracing the Divine side of a human being is also joy. Joy, not effort, is the way to go. Ease, not effort, is the way to grow. Turn your face to Me. Say, “Hi, God!” Fol de rol is not better than a simple embrace, a nod, a smile, a turning to Me.

Have you known Me to exert Myself and struggle and so forth? I enjoy. I enjoy calling you to Me. I don’t get impatient. I don’t fear time because I know Infinity and Eternity. The fact is that you know Infinity and Eternity as well, yet you stamp URGENT on so much. I stamp URGENT not at all.

In My Heaven, there is no urgency. There is joy. The Divine is great joy. It is not hard work. Struggle is not a word in Heaven’s vocabulary. I would like to request that you toss the word struggle away and substitute joy. Struggle is a poor substitute, so I ask you to come back to the preferred word which is joy. In fact, you can call Me Joy. You can call Me Joy to the World. Perhaps you had thought of Me as the Taskmaster. I am a Master of Joy. Of course, I didn’t have to master joy. It was always Mine, and joy has always been waiting for you.

You are My joy. You are not My struggle.

Now, after all this discussion today, let Me rephrase: Divinity is housed within the Human. The meeting place of the human and the Divine is in your heart. I live in your heart. The human is a high expression of the Divine on Earth. Earth is not a low place, for you remember space does not exist. Heaven is pictured as very High Up, yet the Divine is as much you as the Human. What might be called a High Human is Divine, and, yet, every human is Divine. They work together.

And so, you are One, and you are One with Me, and I, One with you. There is no two that will meet. There is One Who is meeting now.

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What is a Warrior?

I see through different eyes.

I see a bigger picture when others see only grey skies.

Though many can’t conceive it,

I stand... facing the wind.

My bravery not from fighting,

but from my strength within,

I am a Warrior.

I will walk the extra mile,

Not because I have to,

Because it’s worth my while.

I know that I am different,

When I’m standing on a crowded street.

I know the fullness of winning;

I’ve tasted the cup of defeat.

I am a Warrior.

They say I walk with ease.

Though trained for bodily harm,

My intentions are for peace.

The world may come and go,

But a different path I’ll choose.

A path I will not stray from,

No matter... Win or Lose.

If you've been in the Martial Arts for a while, you'll find many people who would like to believe in the idea that just because they practice the Martial Arts, they are some kind of Warriors.(I like to call them Wannabee Warriors).

But what exactly is a Warrior? I mean, throughout history, there have been many different types of warriors, all having different Codes of Honor that they live by (And in case you're wondering, yes, there is a Warrior Creed that I follow and try to live up to also...) . But if you really try to define what a warrior is, there seems to be no one answer to that question. In fact, there seems to be many answers, almost as many answers as people you ask.

So, what I did was provide some links to some different websites about different warriors and types of warriors throughout history. Hell, I even posted links to web sites about Dan Millman and Carlos Castaneda for you "Spiritually Aware" types. Perhaps if you look through them, you'll find a good definition of a warrior for yourself...

And for you Wannabee Warriors out there... Some of the links I put up are to Law Enforcement & Military websites. If you really want to be warriors, Check out those links and become a police officer, or go join the armed forces. They need you!!!

FROM WIKIPEDIA, THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA: Silat is a collective word for indigenous martial arts of the Malay Archipelago and Malay Peninsula of Southeast Asia. Originally developed in what are now Indonesia, peninsular Malaysia, southern Thailand and Singapore, it was also traditionally practiced in Brunei, the Philippines, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Vietnam. As a result, it is closely related to other Southeast Asian martial arts including krabi krabong and eskrima. Practitioners are called pesilat. The Chinese fusion of silat is known as kuntao.

There are hundreds of different styles but they tend to focus either on strikes, joint manipulation, bladed weapons, throws, animal-based techniques, or some combination thereof. Silat is one of the sports included in the Southeast Asian Games and other region-wide competitions. Training halls are overseen by separate national organizations in each of the main countries the art is practiced. These are Ikatan Pesilat Indonesia (IPSI) from Indonesia, Persekutuan Silat Kebangsaan Malaysia (PESAKA) from Malaysia, Persekutuan Silat Brunei Darussalam (PERSIB) from Brunei and Persekutuan Silat Singapura (PERSISI) from Singapore.

Below, I added some links to various websites and video clips so you can get a better understanding of what Silat is about.

One of the gravest disservices we have done to the people of our world is to have provided them with a poor education. We do not teach students to think.

If you do not learn to effectively process information (and it is a learned skill) then you will always be at the mercy of people promoting their favorite dogmas.

The problem is, that all kinds of people would like you to uncritically believe what they are telling you about the way the world is. Many of them pretend that such uncritical belief is "faith", which it is not.

If you do not have the tools to discover what a given person or group is really trying to sell you, then you are libel to be making some really wacky presuppositions about the world, which will in turn become the heuristics by which you operate.

About half of what we perceive as "intelligence" is the ability to process information effectively, so if you want to be "smarter" then all you have to do is improve in that area.

While this is pretty simple, it is not necessarily easy. In my experience, most people are conditioned to a way of thinking already comfortable to the individual. When a person tries to change the way they process information they run a good chance of evoking a "threat response" from within themselves.

The wonderful thing about the internet is that you have access to so much useful information. If you're reading this, then you are able to self-educate on any number of subjects to a remarkable degree, and do it almost for free.

And that's what this section is about. I added some links here so anybody with a brain can study and learn to use it.

Remember 2 things people:

"I NOT ONLY HAVE THE RIGHT TO THINK AT ALL TIMES, BUT THE RESPONSIBILITY TO DO SO."

"IF I DON'T THINK FOR MYSELF, THEN SOMEBODY ELSE WILL DO IT FOR ME".

There are over 10,000 different religions in the world, 150 of which have at least 1 millions followers. Which one is the truth? "Christianity!" someone says, but even Christianity alone has over 38,000 different denominations. So which interpretation is the TRUE one?

Religion is not the anchor-point of truth. The truth always existed. Religion is man-made, meaning that the truth existed prior to both man and religion. Religion may be an effective catalyst for some individuals who desire to invest their minds into ideological association for whatever reason, but it is not a necessary nor a sufficient condition for a relationship with God, and understanding of the Creator, or the inner workings of the self.

Spirituality is not a belief. It is a state of consciousness, a mental framework with which you approach the world. Spirituality is in fact what birthed religion through the attempted organization of experience and wisdom, which ended up being the hierarchical stratification of various belief systems that we call religion.

Don't let the commitments you have to a religious belief system in your mind take you away from your natural state of Being with all things. You were a human before you learned religion. God's light existed in you before you learned this through some spiritual guru. Does this mean don't read or believe what Jesus of Buddha had to say? Of course not. Just make sure you take the time and effort to experience the rose instead of just believing in the accounts of others. This is not an attack on any religion by any means, and religion has brought many people happiness and the experience of being close to one's creator, but don't let it cause segregation away from our inherent unity.

As for my religious beliefs, well...

I'm a CHRISTIAN, in the sense that I believe that personal redemption is feasible for everyone and that universal love makes that salvation possible.

I'm a MUSLIM, in the sense that I believe that there's only 1 GOD, ans that all are equal under this one GOD. And, althought I'm not jewish, I do have a respect for JUDAISM.

I'm a BUDDHIST, in the sense that the seeds of enlightenment are within all of us as an integral part of our DNA, and that we are capable of reaching the Absolute through our own efforts.

I'm a HINDU, in the sense that I believe that GOD takes many shapes and forms to reach out to mankind.

I'm a TAOIST, in the sense that I have a total belief in the reality of Yin & Yang Energies.

And I also have a total belief in the world of spirits, and what we can learn from them, so I guess that makes me an ANIMIST.

I never want to tell someone what to think, for ones spirituality is a private matter between that person and their creator.

My goal here is only to show all of you the history and traditions of the many, many ways the people of the world have reached out to god.

Saturday, August 10, 2013

HAPPY SATURDAY!!!

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