John Kevin's Journal: HAPPY THURSDAY!!!

Thursday, December 11, 2014

HAPPY THURSDAY!!!

I give thanks for the bounties of this world.
~Jonathan-Lockwood Huie

WASSUP FAMILY!!!

DEAR DIARY:

Well, the bad news is I won't be able to go to the farmer's market, or the Downtown Artwalk (Maybe.) The good news is I AM gonna work today, YAY!!!

------------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 #4766 Messenger of God’s Heart, December 12, 2013

God said:
See into My heart, and you will see your Self. My heart is the mirror for you to look into. You can see. You are not far away. You are close. You have imagined distance.

You have tended to imagine lesser scenarios.

You are a hero who seems to see himself or herself as a laggard. Or you see yourself as ego which isn’t much, yet you may go about enhancing ego. In the world, beloveds, you are an impersonator. If you see yourself as less than I see you, you are an impersonator. Oh, yes, you may be good at impersonating what is not so.

If you would allow yourself to be the real you, all strain would leave. You would recline in the reflection of your Self. You would reflect Me. You would shine and bask in the sunshine of My heart, and you would know – you would know – what life is truly about.

Life is not about all this contrariness you have patterned yourself after. You could be a straight arrow that reaches to the innermost and the nethermost. You would reach the heights of your Self. You would not have to stand on tiptoe. It would not be a reach at all. It would be where you are yet have not paid attention to. Perhaps you have looked away from your Greatness. This is not humility, beloveds. This is disregard.

Do you know what humility is? It is awareness. It is appreciation. You are not to bow down to any man, and yet you are to bow to all. You honor others as you honor your Self. On Earth, be your own hero.

You give glory to Me, beloveds, so you do not glorify yourself, yet, at the same time, you know who you are. It is not extraordinary to be you. When you are an eagle, it is not extraordinary to fly. When you are God’s child, you are not extraordinary to love and to love more and to be gentle and generous to all who are, after all, your One Self, in other words, I.

When you are All Glory, what glory do you need?

When you are All-Knowing, what more do you have to know?

When you are All Right, what verification do you have to have? I appointed you the Glorification of the World. Glory is not ego. You have better things with which to occupy yourself with than ego.

You have a day to begin and work to be done, but not effort. Life is to take no effort. Life is to be nice and easy. Life is not wayward, nor is your heart.

Be straightforward in life. Do not retract yourself. Be not be false to yourself. False to yourself, you are false to Me.

Do not underestimate yourself. Awareness is not ego. Short-sidedness is ego. Abundance is not ego. Sharing is not ego. Giving from the Truth of your heart is not ego.

It is not that you have to be something or another. It is that you already are Everything. I appointed you Messenger of My Heart. Do you think I am a Fool? I do know what I am doing. You do not yet know the Truth of Who You Are.

You must think that you were switched at birth and, somehow, are a lesser being. You must think you are a substitute. No, you are My beloved, and you are to know yourself as I do know you. Let go of all the downsides that you may see.

Get to know your Self as I do know you. What gall it takes for you to think you are less than I say you are? Have I not asked you to be humble?

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In case you haven't noticed, I found a very nice You Tube channel called THE SCHOOL OF LIFE, which has some really cool videos on their channel, so I decided that I'm gonna post some of their videos here for this week.

I hope you like them.

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A moment after something happens, it is already dead. Whatever happened to us as a child, in school, with friends, in love relationships--whatever was true thirty years ago--is no longer true.
~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.

Thursday, December 11, 2014

HAPPY THURSDAY!!!

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