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The Source of Light and Union
Separating illusion from reality doesn’t usually happen all at once. What we experience as reality changes in different stages of consciousness. For those who decide to renounce the world completely, it’s possible to leap directly toward the goal. But even then there is no guarantee that perception has actually shifted.
A person may enter a monastery because the Church deems that a holy life. But if old perceptions get dragged through the door, the monastery holds the same traps as the material world: Ego.
Jesus wanted his disciples to come into union with God. Any other life was steeped in illusion. Ego keeps that illusion strong because “I, me, and mine” is so rooted in worldly affairs. The most worthwhile life is spent discovering your spiritual core and building your existence on it. If you do that, you will be first in the eyes of God even if you are last in the eyes of the world.
If you can perceive the light within, you will gain its fullness. But if you are blind to it, you will have none. The reality you find yourself in depends on you. The light is God’s reality, the dark is the absence of God.
Jesus wanted to share the unity he experienced with God, and therefore he often used the phrase abide in me. The parable of the grapevine elaborates on the point. Jesus declares that being cut off from God is sterile and fruitless. The sap that nourishes the vine and causes it to bear fruit is God, the source of life. By implication, the only life that escapes death is one that connects back to its ultimate source.
Adapted from The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore, by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2008).
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In my opinion, ego is a three letter word for "worth by comparison". Letting go of ego and engaging in spirituality needs to happen/is happening.
Spirituality in my opinion, is an extensive knowledge of the self. An internal awareness that when engaged in, is projected to the external, implicitly. Through the collective conscious (what the bible refers to as the holy spirit) we create our own destinies. Through spirtuality, a deep understanding of the self, minus the cliches and the popular ego building cynical dialogue most of us engage in. Heaven on earth is found....
Spirituality is intrinsic, Engage in it, its yours, it cannot be taken away....
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WHO ARE WE ---- TO NOT WAKE UP ---STAND UP ----THEN
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Obviously Meda A. you have not been working on the petitions, the lives, seeing this land in dire need??, I was talking of hope after the fall of this era and the work that need be done. Thinking you may be negative, in your words?
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GOD IS INVISABLE HIS DEMINSION IS OTHER THAN OURS
HIS CREATION OF MANKIND WAS CONVERTED BY JESUS CHIRST
BY THE INFILLING OF GODS HOLY SPIRIT
AS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF ACTS OF THE APOSTELS
Part two
The BEAST used their SUPER EGOS to control the vast segments of people for their profit while building tribes, bands, and warriors and then in city-state and nations administrations.
And most of us know first hand some of the BEAST that was let lose by the BUSH BUNCH. Looks like we will be in for a fall soon if we do not get things turned around.
Now to receive the gift of the INFILLING OF GODS HOLY SPIRIT does not take much except the will to allow the transformation. READ THE BOOK OF ACTS in it you will see many evidences of how GOD amazed all around when in those acts by HIM.
The proof of where we are today is found in Romans 11 and 12.
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GOD IS INVISABLE HIS DEMINSION IS OTHER THAN OURS
HIS CREATION OF MANKIND WAS CONVERTED BY JESUS CHIRST
BY THE INFILLING OF GODS HOLY SPIRIT
AS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF ACTS OF THE APOSTELS
Seems many try to teach and preach to mankind that god resides in each one, and that our path to know him is a work inside each of us to know spiritual matters.
However that is just repeats of ancient pagan thoughts that have been around since the creation of mankind.
THE TRUTH
Those born sane without severe mental impairments have a good and godly conscience.
Violations against the conscience is imposed by the EGO, the EGO in mankind is used by mankind for out of bounds reasoning [acts against conscience] and all about how to get satisfaction and pleasure for the raw senses innate in each of us.
The working of the SUPER EGO in mankind comes about from study and life experiences. Some train themselves to be better and some train themselves to be BEAST.
Prior to Jesus coming and making the way for mankind to be a vital part of GODS COSMIC PLAN and PLAY [by being converted from simply mortal mankind to immortal mankind the INFILLING OF GODS LIGHT HIS HOLY SPIRIT] the general population of mankind was lead by the BEAST. The BEAST knew what pleasures mankind wanted and made that a part of political control and allowance for pagan religious cult practices. The BEAST used their SUPER EGOS to control the vast segments of people for their profit while building trib
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I love my journey.......to meet with God......He is Me.....I am You....there is no need for Ego......
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Brenda, what we all need is for people like you to stop speaking such negative words. There should be no blame; you should not try to bring anyone else down to your depths. Try to raise yourself instead! I truly believe that one reason for the recession is all the negative thoughts and words that so many people have been repeating - endlessly - instead of working in the light. It's not Bush's fault. In the words of Obama, the fault lies with all of us!
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As all the Country's and Nation's in the world need bail outs at this time in history, lets just hope that we can all perceive a generous out come of light.
As we all work so hard to recoup and recover from this terrible Bush era, a President who has made the biggest mistakes in history, also was the blindest person in office. Like the Edsel was the ugly car? The Bush name will be the same. As we will all now fight to survive the ugly budget effects.
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