John Kevin's Journal: HAPPY SATURDAY!!!

Saturday, August 17, 2013

HAPPY SATURDAY!!!

There is NOTHING that I "must", "have to", or "should" do today.
~Jonathan-Lockwood Huie

GOOD MORNING FAMILY!

Connected each to each (and God). Nothing else to teach. --Dei-Ku Poems by Jeffrey Agnoli (and God) added by Steve Farrell
FROM HUMANITY'S TEAM

Well, today is SATURDAY, which means it's time for another episode of ASK TEAL with Teal Scott.

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 10, 2013
It is easy to feel as if you are improving for a while only to "slip backwards". And it is especially common in spiritual practice that we reach a place where we feel in alignment regarding our life, only to experience a time period where we feel like we are back to square one. We are struggling. We can not find a sense of inner peace. It is important to realize when this is happening in your life that it is impossible to go backwards. The universe only ever moves forward. And much of your perception of "falling backwards" has to do with your physical perspective, which operates according to a linear timeline. In this episode, Teal presents a diagram to illustrate just what is happening when we feel as if we have taken a step backwards.
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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 #4629 God's Name Whirling in Your Heart, July 28, 2013

God said:

Say My Name day and night. Instead of all the thoughts that whirl through your head, whirl My Name around in your mind and your heart and into your day-to-day-life. Is there something hard about that? Try saying a three-letter word. When you wake up in the morning, say, “Good morning, God,” or just say, “Hi, God,” or just say, “God.” I am quite comfortable at the tip of your tongue. I am in your very cells. Why not on the tip of your tongue?

Consider Me your good luck piece. What do you need with a lucky coin or a prestigious fortune cookie when you can have Me in your awareness at any moment you choose? Hallow-ed be My Name.

Instead of recounting your fabulous woes, or counting sheep, impress My Name into your consciousness. Talk to Me or just think of My Name, My Name in whatever language is yours. My Name is like a genie you summon to you. You summon My Name, not so that you ask Me for something you have been yearning for, but because you recognize your yearning for Me.

There is a big difference between asking Me for something and beckoning Me to you. Beckon yourself to Me so that you bless Me with your presence. Truly, I don’t require your presence for My Sake but for yours. The finest place for you to be is with Me. If I had need of prayer, I would pray for you to be aware you are with Me. For your sake, I would pray this. What possible prayer could I have for My Sake. I AM. I AM everything, and I have everything, and I have you in My awareness. My desire is that you have Me fully available to you, and all that requires is your remembrance of My Name.

Consider My Name a vibration. How I desire that you have the vibration of My Name. What can equal it, beloveds?

You have perhaps tried to find Me in people on Earth. Although I AM within everyone and you, a person next to you or across from you cannot supply you with Me nor can even the most fabulous person you ever met supply Me to you. Ah, they can point you to Me just as I am pointing you to Me now. I beckon more than I point. I look you in the eyes, and I wiggle my finger, saying:

“Come to Me. Right over here, come to Me.” I look into your eyes, and ask you to look into Mine. Something bountiful will happen to you as you look into My eyes, even when you can’t see them. You will feel them. You will feel something. You cannot look into My eyes and not gain something. Looking into My eyes and saying My Name is worth more than anything you can put in your hand. With your intent on My eyes and My Name vibrating in you, you have everything. A seed contains the whole. An atom that you don’t see is mightier than the arm of a chair or the leg of a table or the prow of a ship. Even when you can’t see it, a star in the sky is still a star in the sky.

Everyone and everything is leveled in an atom. My eyes and My Name pull you to the center of yourself faster than the speed of light.

Do you want great vitality? These two simple acts – looking into My eyes and listening to yourself think My Name are two mighty minerals and vitamins. Look into My eyes. Close your eyes to see Mine. Say God, God, God in your heart, and My Name will resound around the world and back again.

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Now, let's start the day with "COME TO ME", by AMY MAY.

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Amy May is an amazing singer/songwriter from the UK. She regularly performs at the 3rd street promenade in Santa Monica, usually on the weekends, so if you happen to be over there, be sure to check her out.

If you want to know more about Amy May annd her music, check out her website, www.amymaymusic.com

You can also buy her music here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-grace-sessions/id487495289

And now, as always, I'm gonna end this post with the most beautiful song in this whole, entire world.

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Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive.
~don Miguel Ruiz

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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 17, 2013

HAPPY SATURDAY!!!

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