If I could sit beside you
I would gently hold your hand.
I'd comfort you and tell you of a
a very special land.
A land with joy and laughter where
the angels fill the air;
a land of such great beauty that
the earth cannot compare.
I know in all your sorrow how
you wish me back with you,
though I with life beyond your thoughts
can give you just a view.
So do not put your trust in men
for mortals cannot save.
But put your hope in Jesus Christ
the victor of the grave.
Then whether it is days or years
until I hold your hand
take comfort, for the Lord and I
are in a special land.

-- by Carla Muir

God give us wider vision to see and
understand that both the sunshine
and the showers are gifts from Thy
great hand.

And when our lives are overcast with
trouble and with care, give us faith
to see beyond the dark clouds of
despair. And give us strength to rise
above the mist of doubt and fear
and teach us that it takes the showers
to make the flowers grow.

And only in the storms of life when
the winds of trouble blow can we too
reach maturity and grow in faith and
grace and gain the strength and courage
to enable us to face Sunny days as well
as rain, high peaks as well as low.

Knowing that the April showers you
make may flowers grow and then at last
may we accept the sunshine and the showers.
Confident it takes them both to make
salvation ours.

~Author Unknown~

Your stuck energies force you to be
someone who doesn’t exist anymore:
The angry child deprived of love,
the frightened child who doesn’t
feel safe. The past is a false guide
to the future, and yet it’s what
most of us rely upon. By letting go
of stuck energies, you let go of
your past.

People get used to fear, and they
mistake that for overcoming fear.
I’m trying to get you to look inside
yourself. Even when you don’t notice
it, fear has you in its grasp. Anytime
it wants to, it can jump you, and
you’ll be powerless to resist.

If you identify personally with
negativity, you will never let it
go. Learn to see anger as only
energy,like electricity. Electricity
isn’t about you. Neither is anger.
It’s universal and sticks to
anything that seems unfair or
unjust. Fear sticks to anything
that feels dangerous or unsafe.

Imagine that your worst enemy comes
over to your house. He sits down in
the living room, and no matter what
you do, he won’t go away. Day after
day he refuses to leave. What do you
do? You begin to ignore him.
You pretend he’s not there. Your home
isn’t your home if there’s an enemy
living there. It doesn’t matter if you
toss a drop cloth over him, or if you
decide to completely redecorate the place.
Until you figure out a way to make
your enemy leave, you’ll never feel safe.

The world is your home, and it is safe.
God created it that way. But fear crept in.
Big problem. Nobody feels safe anymore.
As long as you live in fear, the world
is a threat. If that doesn’t matter to
you, okay. But living that way you’ll
never know the joy of your own soul.

ஒ The Path to Joy and Spiritual Optimism,
by Deepak Chopra (Harmony Books, 2008).

Synchronicity is a means of getting
in touch with God. It’s a path to
meaning and purpose in your life.
It’s a means of having the experience
of love and compassion. It’s a means
of connecting to the non-logical
intelligence of the universe.

If my attention is on situations
that generate stress, then it is
difficult to access synchronicity.
To do so effectively you have to
have an attitude of surrender to
the universal domain, which is
much grander than anything you
could imagine.

Surrender requires a leap of faith,
a jump into the unknown. Your inner
dialog can support this by saying.
“Things are not going my way. I’m
letting go of my idea of how they
should. My sense of ‘me and mine’
has to expand.”

If you take this leap of faith,
you will be richly rewarded. If you
find yourself worrying about next
month’s bills, it would be appropriate
to remind yourself that it is your
intent not only to fulfill your needs
but also to send your children to
school, to contribute to your community.

All people want to fulfill these needs
in their lives. However, having
articulated and expressed your intent
to fulfill them takes them to
the infinite mind, and in effect
says, “I put all this at your disposal.
I’m not going to worry about it because
you, the non-local intelligence that
resides within me, will take care of
it.”

Adapted from The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire
by Deepak Chopra

The word mantra has two components
to it: Man, which is the root sound
of the word mind, and tra, which is
the root sound of the word instrument,
So, the word mantra literally means
an instrument of the mind. The ancient
wisdom tradition of Vedanta examined
the various sounds produced in nature,
the fundamental vibrations of the world
around us.
According to Vedanta, these sounds are
an expression of the infinite or cosmic
mind, and provide the basis for every
human language. For example, if you
sound out all the letters of the alphabet,
the vowels and the consonants, you’ll
hear that these are the same sounds that
all babies make spontaneously.

These sounds also contain the same
vibrations that animals make. And if
you listen carefully, you’ll notice
that these sounds are everywhere in
nature. These are the sounds of the wind,
of fire crackling, of thunder, of the river
rushing by, of ocean waves crashing
on the shore. Nature is vibration.
The infinite being vibrates, and that
vibration is rhythmic, musical, and
primordial. Vibration is the means
through which infinite potential
expresses itself as the manifest
universe.

We know that the manifest universe
which appears to be made up of solid
objects–is actually made up of vibrations,
with different objects vibrating at
different frequencies. Of course, if I kick
a large rock, I don’t feel vibration.
I feel pain. But the fact is that the
foot that feels the pain and the brain
that records the pain are also
vibration. Vibration interacts with
vibration, and we interpret that as matter
and sensation. Mantra is just a word
that describes this quality of the universe.

The ancient seers are said to have heard
these vibrations of the universe when
they were in deep meditation. We can all
hear these same vibrations any time.
It is very simple. If you quiet your mind
and sit silently,, you will hear vibrations.
You can try it any time you want. Even
when you cover your ears, you’ll hear them.
Your body is also constantly vibrating,
but the sounds are so subtle that you
usually don’t hear them. But if you sit
quietly when there is no noise around you,
you’ll hear a background hum in the air.
And if you start paying attention to that
background hum, with practice you’ll
actually end up hearing all the mantras
that have been recorded in the Vedic
literature.

The Vedas also maintain that if you recite
a mantra out loud, its special pattern of
vibrations creates its own effects, and
can create events in our current physical
realm. Reciting the mantra mentally creates
a mental vibration, which then becomes more
abstract. Ultimately it takes you into
the field of pure consciousness or spirit
from where the vibration arose. So a mantra
is a very good way to transcend and go back
to the source of thought, which is pure
consciousness. This is why specific mantras
are recommended because of the specific
vibrations they induce.

The mantra I use, and that I recommend
for achieving synchrodestiny, is the simple
mantra “so-hum.” This is the mantra
of the breath; if you observe your breathing
you’ll hear “so-hum” as air moves in and
out of your lungs. As you inhale, the sound
of that vibration is “so.” And as you exhale
the sound becomes “hum.” If you want, you
can experiment with this.
Inhale deeply, close your eyes and your
mouth, and exhale forcefully through
your nose. If you concentrate, you’ll
hear the “hum” sound quite clearly.

One of the techniques of meditation is,
in fact, simply focusing on where your
breath comes from. With your eyes closed,
inhale and think the word; on the exhale,
think the word “hum.” Gradually both
the breath and the sound will become
quieter and quieter and quieter, and
the breath becomes so quiet that it
almost seems to stop. By quieting your
breath, you quiet your mind. When you
transcend, the mantra “so-hum” entirely
disappears, and your breath pauses
momentarily. Time itself comes to a
top and you’re in the field of pure
consciousness,the non-local domain,
spirit, the ground of being.
The mantra, then, is a way to
experience non-local consciousness.

Aborigines, Indians, Native Americans,
and many other traditional cultures
have used it for thousands of years.
In every tradition mantras involve
chanting to create special vibrations,
sounds of the universe that create
something from nothingness, that move
energy from the unmanifest into
the manifest.
த by Deepak Chopra

When people wonder if the personality
survives death, the answer is that
the personality doesn’t even survive
while we are alive. We are not
the same person we were five, 10,
or 15 years ago and it would be a
sorry state if we were.

Our personalities are constantly
evolving, transforming, growing.
If the question becomes “Does
the individual survive death?”
the answer is “What’s an individual?”
In reality what we call “me” is
different from day to day, week to
week, year to year.
Which individual are you talking
about, the young person who is in
love and full of romance and desire,
or the child who was full of innocence
and wonder?
Perhaps we must wait for the one who
is senescent and dying. Which one
would you survive as?

Perhaps none. Vedanta tells us
that the afterlife brings the opportunity
for a creative leap. As our choices
continue to expand, we will experience
a new reality that is far richer than
the conventional notion of heaven.

The biggest difference is that in
the afterlife the input of the five
senses no longer stimulates us.
The furniture of the mind has been
cleared away, leaving a space that
is both inside and outside ourselves.
It is full of possibilities.
Anything can be born there. In this
dream space we realize the transience
of all things and the immensity of
the unknown.
The stage of “crossing over”–the temporary
realm preceding the full experience
of the afterlife still feels personal.
People report seeing their deceased
friends and relations, for example.
The dying person continues to see
the room in which his body lies, and
memories and associations keep tying
him back to physical existence.
The possibility of taking a creative
leap has yet to be realized.

• Adapted from Life After Death-The Burden of Proof,
  by Deepak Chopra

The man whispered, "God, speak to me."
And a meadowlark sang.
But the man did not hear.

So the man yelled "God, speak to me!"
And the thunder & lightning rolled
across the sky.
But the man did not listen.

The man looked around and said,
"God, let me see you."

And a star shined brightly.
But the man did not see.
And, the man shouted,
"God, show me a miracle."
And a life was born.
But the man did not notice.

So, the man cried out in despair,
"Touch me, God,
and let me know you are here."

Whereupon, God reached down
and touched the man.
But the man brushed the butterfly
away and walked on.

This is a great reminder
that God is always around us
in the little and simple things
that we take for granted...
even in our electronic age.

The man cried "God, I need your help"
...and an e-mail arrived reaching out
with good news and encouragement.
But the man deleted it and continued
crying...~Author Unknown~

Your brain is hardwired to find God.
Until you do, you will not know who
you are. Life looks meaningless when
you have worn out old responses,
old realities and an old version of
God. To bring God back, we have to
follow new, even strange responses
wherever they lead us. As one spiritual
teacher wisely put it, “The material
world is infinite, but it is a boring
infinity. The really interesting infinity
lies beyond.”

God is another name for infinite intelligence.
To achieve anything in life, a piece of
this intelligence must be contacted
and used. In other words, God is always
there for you.

Where are you in your connection
to God?

Level 1 (Fight-or-Flight Response)
You fulfill your life through family,
community, a sense of belonging
and material comforts.

Level 2 (Reactive Response)
You fulfill your life through success,
power, influence, status and other
ego satisfactions.

Level 3 (Restful Awareness Response)
You fulfill your life through peace,
centeredness, self-acceptance and
inner silence.

Level 4 (Intuitive Response)
You fulfill your life through insight,
empathy, tolerance and forgiveness.

Level 5 (Creative Response)
You fulfill your life through inspiration,
expanded creativity in art or science
and unlimited discovery.

Level 6 (Visionary Response)
You fulfill your life through reverence,
compassion, devoted service and
universal love.

Level 7 (Sacred Response)
You fulfill your life through wholeness
and unity with the divine.

Adapted from How to Know God
by Deepak Chopra
(Harmony Books, 2007)

We cannot even imagine the complex forces
behind every event that occurs in our
lives. There’s a conspiracy of coincidences
that weaves the web of karma or destiny
and creates an individual’s personal
life–mine, or yours. Usually we see only
cause-and-effect relationships: This causes
that, which causes this, which causes
that–linear trajectories. Yet beneath
the surface, something else is happening.

Invisible to us is a whole web of connections.
As it becomes apparent, we see how our
intentions are woven into this web, which
is much more context-bound, much more
relational, much more holistic, much more
nurturing than our surface experience.

Very often we fall into ruts in our lives;
we maintain the same routines and act
in the same manner predictably day after
day after day. We set our minds on a certain
course of action, and simply proceed. How can
miracles happen if we march mindlessly,
unthinking and unaware, through our lives?

Coincidences are like road flares, calling
our attention to something important in our
lives, glimpses of what goes on beyond everyday
distractions. We can choose to ignore those
flares and hurry on, or we can pay attention
to them and live out the miracle that is
waiting for us.

This is not the real reality. The real reality
is behind the curtain. In truth, we are not
here. This is our shadow. What we experience
as everyday reality is merely a shadow play.
Behind the curtain there is a soul, living
and dynamic and immortal, beyond the reach of
space and time. By acting from that level,
we can consciously influence our destiny.

In synchro destiny, we consciously participate
in the creation of our lives by understanding
the world that is beyond our senses, the world
of the soul.

Adapted from The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire,
ஒ by Deepak Chopra

"In our imaginations we believe that
love is apart from us.
Actually there is nothing but love,
once we are ready to accept it.
When you truly find love,
you find yourself."

అ Deepak Chopra అ

And my God will supply all your need
according to His riches in glory in
Christ Jesus.
~ Philippians 4:19

Everyday they pass me by, I can see it
in their eyes.
Empty people filled with care,
Headed who knows where?

On they go through private pain,
Living fear to fear.
Laughter hides their silent cries,
Only Jesus hears.

People need the Lord, people need the Lord.
At the end of broken dreams,
He's the open door.
People need the Lord, people need the Lord.
When will we realize, people need the Lord?

We are called to take His light
To a world where wrong seems right.
What could be too great a cost
For sharing Life with one who's lost?

Through His love our hearts can feel
All the grief they bear.
They must hear the Words of Life
Only we can share.

People need the Lord, people need the Lord
At the end of broken dreams, He's the open door.
People need the Lord, people need the Lord.
When will we realize that we must give our lives?
For people need the Lord.

People need the Lord.
We need the Lord.
We need the Lord.

Oh, how we need you Lord! Oh, God,
how they need You! Father, fall fresh
on all those we love that so desperately
need You. They are lost, they have
now hope and they are floundering in
a world full of lies and ignorance.
Have mercy on them, sweet Jesus!
We pray in Your precious name.
Amen!

ஜ Author Unknown

If we hope for what we do not see,
we eagerly wait for it with perseverance.
—Romans 8:25
In Louisiana, a woman lies buried beneath a
grove of 150-year-old oak trees in the cemetery
of an Episcopal church. Only one word is
carved on her tombstone: “Waiting.”

A friend of mine knows an elderly pastor who
delivered a stirring Good Friday sermon titled
“It’s Friday, but Sunday’s Comin’.” In a cadence
that increases in tempo and volume, his sermon
contrasts how the world looked on Friday—when
the forces of evil seemed to have triumphed—with
how it looked on Sunday. The disciples who lived
through both days never doubted God again.
They learned that when God seems most absent,
He may be closest of all.

The sermon skips one day, though—Saturday—the day
with no name. What the disciples lived through in
small scale, we now live through on cosmic scale.
It’s Saturday on planet earth; will Sunday ever come?
That dark, Golgothan Friday can only be called
good because of what happened on Sunday.

Easter opened up a crack in a universe winding down
toward decay. And someday God will enlarge the miracle
of Easter to cosmic scale.
Meanwhile, we wait in hopeful anticipation, living out
our days on Saturday, the in-between day with no name.
It’s Saturday. But Sunday’s comin’.

ஃ Philip Yancey ஃ

Once I stood on a mountain top and
as I turned my eyes downward I saw
the valleys, the lakes and rivers.
I saw the forests as far as I
could see. I saw roads winding
through nature, around hills, some
traveling straight as arrows.

Then I gazed heavenward and clouds
of all shapes and sizes floated by
casting their shadows upon the earth.
I felt the wind in my face at first
gentle and pure then driven by fury,
rain fell around me quenching
the thirsty earth. As the sun broke
forth birds sang, flowers bloomed
lifting their brightness to the sun
as in thanksgiving. Grass that had
been brown now shimmered in luscious
green of life.Once I flew to heights
unknown to eagles. As I gazed downward
I saw as clear as day people like
ants as they went to and fro and
wondered at their destinations. Yet,
in all this I did not see as God sees.

He saw the broken heart, grieving from
sorrow at some tragic loss, He saw
the contrite soul as it bowed in
humble prayer, He saw and heard those
who worshiped Him in Spirit and in
Truth, He heard the cry of hunger,
the cry of need, He saw lost souls
wandering, seeking salvation. He heard
and saw the prisoner confined by his
sins, He heard and saw the child as
it struggled to grow true and strong.
He looked at man to whom He had sent
His love yet met Him with indifference.
Then He looked at me and wondered why
my heart was so empty.

Father, let me see what You see, to hear
what you hear that my heart be filled
with You, that my life be Yours, that
my ears will Hear your sweet words,
Your commands then may I humbly bow
before you and thus say:
"here I am send me to do Your will."

இ by sky pilot

I don’t know about tomorrow,
I just live from day to day.
I don’t borrow from it’s sunshine,
For it’s skies may turn to gray.

I don’t worry over the future,
For I know what Jesus said,
And today He walks beside me,
For He knows what lies ahead.

Many things about tomorrow,
I don’t seem to understand;
But I know who holds tomorrow,
And I know, yes I know, who's
holding my hand.

Many things about tomorrow,
I don’t seem to understand;
But I know who holds tomorrow,
And I know, yes I know, who's
holding my hand.

ఫ by anonymous