A LITTLE JOKE

 Children were lined up in the cafeteria

of a Catholic school for lunch. 

At  the head of the table was a large pile of apples.

The nun had written a note:

"Take only one, God is watching."


Moving through the line

to the other end of the table,

the children found a large pile of chocolate chip cookies.

In the unmistakable scrawl of a child
 was a note which read: 

Take all you want,

God is watching the apples."

 

(Anonymous)

CHRISTMAS IS THE CHILD I AM

The Christmas season is more than the matter of a few days.  Christmas is the Heart's Season and the Heart is forever.  Christmas is Love's Season and Love is without end.  Christmas is the season that belongs to children and there is no time when we are not children.

What is meant by the Christmas Story of "the coming of the Christ"?  Christmas is Love's Season and Love is without end.  Christmas is the season that  belongs to children and there is no time when we are not children.



What is meant by the Christmas Story of "the coming of the Christ"?  The Christ is the Truth.  The Truth is the Christ. Truth comes as a "dawning".  The Christ is the discovery of the Truth we are.  The yearned for Messiah is none other than the here and now awareness awakened to the meaning of those words.  Does not the Christ say: "I AM the truth"?  We declare without doubt or hesitation that we are the Presence of the living Comforter come to "set all things straight."  We take this Identity into the Self and live it.  We gird up the loins and live it.  
  Somewhere along the line comes the truthful (Christfull) discovery that we are not a finite body containing life, awareness, within it, but that we are awareness.  Life, Love, containing all bodies with "us".  Reader, for me that awakening is the Christmas of the Christ-I-am- a pure and pristine Light out of a new day, immaculately conceived, untouched by the world-a holy Child born in a manger.  But a child beset quickly by the intellectual Herod I fancied myself to be.

The child we are survives, however.  The child of Light "grows strong" and dares, with simple honesty and actions that coincide, to challenge the fiction for the fraud it is.  This is your Season, Reader.  This season commemorates your Self-discovery.  This Christmas is YOU.  The pealing bells, the carols, the hotly leaves, at he laughter, red belts, the carols, the holly leaves, the laughter, red  noses, plum pudding, tinsel and happy years arae yours.  These things every one, are ours.  They are us.  They are identity.  This holy season is the merriment that Love is and it commemorates our own Identity discovered.

 

THE GIFT

At this moment it seems to me that we have a most important "mission."  It is to discover and live the Christ Love we are that we may be found to be the comforter of this world of images that appears within the Selfhood that Awareness is.   "As I be lifed up," says the Christ, "all mankind shall be lifed likewise and drawn unto Me."

We give the gift of Childlikness to our world.  We give the gift of unbounded joy.  We give the gift of tenderness that warms the Heart and brings the soft breath of happiness, the tender touch  and the unrestrained tear of gratitude.

We tell the story of Identity.  We tell the weary who they are.  We show them the Kingdom of their heritage.  We hand them their scepter and point to the limitless Light of Love which is their dominion.  We look up and out and "show unto mankind his uprightness."

This is the Father's business, so let us be at it.

     

 
Follow Your Bliss

   The words "follow your bliss", often associated with Joseph Campbell, can be used interchangeably with "listen to your Heart",  or "turn within", and they are to the Heart as honey is to the bee, they are like dew drops shimmering on rose petals.  Why?  Because heaven is right now where you are and what is heaven but an exquisitely blissful peace and gratitude that resides eternally in the Heart of One that is All.  Love in our heart and peace in our soul is our divine inheritance , not to be earned, but to accept with love and gratitude.

      

If your worldly inheritance is deposited into your bank account, it is of no consequence to you if you are not aware of it or if you do not accept it.  The only requirement to access the funds from the bank is proof of your identity. However, these conditions satisfied, you may still live in poverty if you wish, your inheritance will be of no benefit to you if you do not utilize the funds.  

   

   Likewise for your heavenly treasure, recognition, acceptance, identification and continually drinking from the Eternal Fountain is to 'follow your bliss'.  Living  your Identity is bliss, is peace and harmony and love and joy and understanding.

   

If you are disturbed, if you find yourself less than peaceful in your Heart, it is you who are disturbing the flow.  How?  Your false identification disentitles you, it dams up, it interrupts the flow from the Fountain just as surely as presenting false I.D. or no I.D. at the bank would disentitle you of your bank account.

 

     Identification is the Key to Happiness. Let it be the pill that you carry in your pocket, the pill that is the remedy to all that ails you.  It need not be complicated, it is not required that one understand the metaphysics. The Child Heart you are is pure, innocent simplicity living the Joy and Wonder and Glory that is Its divine inheritance right here and where you are now.

 

Role of the Teacher

William Samuel

The role of the honest Teachers, like that of the profit of old, is to touch our tender places.  What is pain but the push to find Something Beyond?   Somewhere along the line we learn this slowly.  If we are fortunate, we find someone with the courage to tell us directly and honestly in words we can understand, in words that punch their way through our crust of selfishness and fear.  The Teacher within does not give us the smooth stone or the soft sound.  The Truth is not always gentle.

by:  William Samuel

The corrupting power that a personal following represents can be the bane of the metaphysician who uses that as the measure of his success. The real measure lies in living God’s Allness as the only Fact of being. The “following” this appears to produce is not likely to be large, but those who find it are the “one in a thousand, two in ten thousand”. They are the elect, the chosen of God “whom He hath given us,” and we are given us,” and we are given all that is necessary. These are the ones who will become the world’s grand pillars of strength. And they will each, in turn, be given theirs, and theirs, theirs, all Self-images included in this Awareness I-Identity is.

As appearances go in the world, storm clouds are gathering soon to rage across the land and around the earth- clouds of violence and fear. More than ever before it will appear incumbent upon us to be the calm and tranquility the world so longs to find. We can do it because we are it.

That is, God is the Comforter as the unbound Identity-we-are. Ours will be the joy of taking no sides in the struggle and thereby remaining untouched—the pristine mark that “others” may see, attain, and find themselves. This makes us “peacemakers”, doesn’t it?

 

The practice of Being “one-Self” is an experience very much akin to the little roadside buttercup that blooms along the country pathways here. It just “be’s” itself and blooms; then each season it looks out on an ever-growing circle of Itself. That’s what we do. We just “be’s” who and what we be—with neither regard nor regret for approval or disapproval.

Ah, but then we are honest in doing everything this simple “being lets us see what we should do. Most often this is a “telling” of what we have discovered to those who come asking. Mind you, we don’t go out proselyting and beating the bushes for believers. We give our pearls to those who come asking about our Light. They are the only ones who will listen to the Heart’s message anyway. But they will come and we will be faithful to them because “the Father hath sent them to us.” Humanity hears our laughter; angels direct the traffic.

 

God's Pharmacy!

A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye... and YES, science now shows carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart has four chambers and is red.
All of the research shows tomatoes are loaded with lycopine and are indeed pure heart and blood food.

Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds on the nut are just like the neo-cortex. We now know walnuts help develop more than three (3) dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.

Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.

Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and many more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough sodium in your diet, the body pulls it from the bones, thus making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

Avocadoes, Eggplant and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female - they look just like these organs. Today's research shows that when a woman eats one avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight, and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? It takes exactly nine (9) months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (mo dern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).

Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the mobility of male sperm and increase the numbers of Sperm as well to overcome male sterility.

Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.

Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries

Oranges, Grapefruits, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

Onions look like the body's cells. Today's research shows onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes.

A working companion, Garlic, also helps eliminate waste materials and dangerous free radicals from the body.