John Kevin's Journal: HAPPY SUNDAY!!!

Sunday, November 9, 2014

HAPPY SUNDAY!!!

Hi Everyone.

DEAR DIARY: Well, I don't have much to say but, I hope I get to work this coming week.

------------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 #4761 The World Is Relative to You, December 7, 2013

God said:
When you have taken offense, you have taken offense. You took it. You accepted it. You didn’t have to take offense, but you did. You participated. You joined yourself to a remark someone made, or you took offense to a tone of voice, or an expression on another’s face, or a gesture, or a look in someone’s eye.

Whereas you are your brother’s keeper, you are to take responsibility for yourself in such a matter. No one makes you take offense. On another day, when you are exhilaratingly happy, you wouldn’t take offense. You would be too happy to take offense. What would it even matter to you what someone says when you just won a million dollars or the man of your dreams invited you to marry him?

By the same token, if your child had had a serious illness and was now declared free of the illness, you would rejoice. What would a careless statement that someone makes matter to you next to your child’s getting well? Not at all would it matter to you. You would not make any more of it than you would have about missing a bus.

Beloveds, you live in a relative world, and all that you garner hurt from is relative. Nothing is a big thing unless you say so. Life is all about what you relate it to. Listen to your remarks, and you will know what your life is like. If you complain, your life will be full of complaint. If life wrongs you, you will be full of wrongs. If life stirs you, your life will be stirring, bright, even brilliant. If life were your orchestra, then you orchestrate your life. Life plays your tune.

You are not only the receiver of your life. You are the inviter. You scatter the constellation of your life, and what you scatter, vibrates.

You have an agenda, beloveds, and some things make you happy, and some things make you sad, and, yet, nothing from the outside has the power to make you anything except as you say so. When your truth is that life is good, your life will be good. Life takes its cues from you. What cue card do you read? Life is awful, or life is beautiful. You are the one who leads the way. You have this power.

You may consider yourself powerless. When you consider yourself powerless, then you kneel before powerlessness. You submit yourself to it. You acquiesce to it. You declare powerlessness as true, and you hold yourself to it. The truth is that you are powerful. You are far more powerful than your mind can grasp.

What do you talk about? You will receive what you talk about. A horn blasts that echoes a preview you gave. You have resources within you that set the tone of your life. This is how we come back to responsibility again and again. Take responsibility, beloveds, or you tend to engender resentment.

Whatever happens outside you happens outside you. It may seem to have happened to you from out of nowhere. You may be more clueless than innocent, beloveds. Do you take offense at what I say? You are My most beautiful child, and I love you totally. I also call the shots as I see it, not as you might like Me to. If there is an error to your ways, I do not keep it a secret. Why would I? I honor you. I speak from My heart of love. Brighten up your life with bright thoughts. Is that so much to ask?

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Over the last few months, I was showing eisodes of "AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 FAITHS". The video below, is an interview of the host/traveler in that series, Peter Owen Jones.

Published on Oct 7, 2013
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At Quest Festival in Devon, Life Arts Media's contributing editor Will Gethin interviews Peter Owen Jones - the maverick 21st century priest, spiritual explorer, TV presenter and author - whose philosophy is that spirituality can be found anywhere, not just in a church. A pioneering ecological thinker and champion of ethics - as a BBC TV presenter, Peter has explored the world's vast pantheon of religious and spiritual ideas and distilled essential wisdom for contemporary modern life. In recent years, Peter has presented some award winning TV documentaries for the BBC, including 'Extreme Pilgrim' (nominated best religious programme ever made by the Daily Telegraph), 'Around the World in 80 Faiths' and 'How to Live a Simple Life'. He has also written four highly acclaimed books, the most recent being 'Letters from an Extreme Pilgrim'. After an early career in advertising, he left the material rat race to join the clergy in his late 20s, becoming ordained in 1992. He is now a house for duty priest on the Sussex Downs.
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And this is the 1st episode of EXTREME PILGRIM.

O.K., I saw this on You Tube yesterday, and I just HAD to share it with you guys.

And Now, I'm gonna end this blog with the most beautiful song in the whole, entire world.

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The problem with most people is that they lose control of their emotions. It is the emotions that control the behavior of the human, not the human who controls the emotions.
~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.

Sunday, November 9, 2014

HAPPY SUNDAY!!!

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