From Alice the Canine Messiah:
The centering element of Relative Time (a past through a present into a future) is Absolute Time - the Eternal Now moment in which all experience occurs.
That simply means Beginning with and maintaining an attitude of "This, Here, Now is precisely where I want to Be."
When you ask the question "Is it always going to be this way?", it indicates that perhaps - just perhaps - you do not enjoy Being the experiencer of your current This, Here, Now Experience - whatever it may be.
Perhaps you do not perceive this Experience as a Gift of the Universe. one you long ago expressed a Desire to Experience. Many of us do not perceive any, or many, of our LifeTime experiences as Gifts, as Opportunities we have - ahem - Attracted to our Human form...
What, exactly, IS your Time for, when an Experience arrives? To Dance With It, Live It, Be It, Experience It, Run With It - to allow IT to Dance With You, Live Through You, BE through You, Experience You, and Run With You???
Or are you looking for a way to "get through" this Experience that you don't quite understand, that seems painful or unpleasant?
Wishing you peace,
Alice
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Thursday, December 27, 2007
As It Is
"If I could tell the world just one thing it would be: We're All Okay.
And not to worry cause worry is wasteful and useless at times like these.
I won't be made useless, I won't be idle with despair.
Gather mySelf around my Faith for light does the darkness most fear." (Jewel)
**
A friend wrote to me recently with some news about their father, who is gradually losing cognitive abilities. It took awhile to find the words to write back. Here is what I came up with.
**
Hi ....,
I'm very sorry to hear about your dad's news.
My grandmother had a stroke when she was still alive, after a surgery. She was doing fine, and they came in and got her out of bed and helped her to sit in her chair for a few minutes, as they had done each day - and they came back and she had suffered the stroke.
It was tough seeing her fine one day, then with so much gone the next. While she regained some of her abilities, she struggled with speech, and it was quite difficult for my mom and all of us. She had been a master seamstress, and all of that was gone - all of her creativity and ability to express...
I do not know what it was like for her. I do not know if she compared her skills "today" with those of her youth, or even last week. I only know what it was like for me. Sad. Frustrating. Painful. Agonizing trying to understand what she was asking for, what she wanted or needed. Gut wrenching to see her this way. It was hard to be around, and I wish I had spent more time with her then, on her terms. I was sick when they buried her, and did not go to her funeral.
My dad just accepted her as she was, and began to learn how she was able to communicate. The challenge seemed to be his, not hers, and for all she knew he was thrilled to be challenged with this new aspect of their life together. He never ever acted like anything was wrong, or different - other than the respectful, courtesy things of course, like being sure she was safe when walking, and using stairs, and making sure she was comfortable.
My dad understood - as he always has I think - that "it is what it is", and never missed a beat. Even though this lady had treated him not very nicely for much of their lives together, as his mother in law.
My point is this my Friend: It is what it is.
I respect your compassion, and I respectfully wonder about the wisdom of holding dad in comparison to some past "ideal state" he used to inhabit, and labeling the present moment "sad". Your dad is glorious just as he is, right now. He does not exist in comparison to anyone, or anything, or any idea. He does not exist relative to his past or some idea of a future. That is mind stuff, not existence stuff.
Your dad exists as an Absoulute incarnation of The Grand Self. Pretty impressive stuff. He is Self, acting as grand and glorious a role as any of which we are aware. You can honor the current role my Friend, as well as the past. The man with the 90 IQ is to be honored, is he not?
Perhaps this is what I am trying to get at: My dad honored my grandmother's 80+ years of life, and all she had accomplished, through the display of respect for her in every aspect of his dealings with her. He always treated her as the most brilliant artistic seamstress he'd ever known, even when she could not color a page in a simple child's book.
At the same time he honored the 80+ year old lady with a stroke by helping her color that page, and never ever carrying a thought in his head of how sad this all was as she smeared the page, or spilled her Cheerios everywhere for the thousandth time at breakfast...
He never had time for sad my Friend. He had time for Love. He absorbed his pain into his heart, and it came out Love.
Wow. You are helping me realize how deep my dad's heart is.
Thanks! :0)
I wish you, and yours, Love.
**
Dance In the Moment,
alice and greg
And not to worry cause worry is wasteful and useless at times like these.
I won't be made useless, I won't be idle with despair.
Gather mySelf around my Faith for light does the darkness most fear." (Jewel)
**
A friend wrote to me recently with some news about their father, who is gradually losing cognitive abilities. It took awhile to find the words to write back. Here is what I came up with.
**
Hi ....,
I'm very sorry to hear about your dad's news.
My grandmother had a stroke when she was still alive, after a surgery. She was doing fine, and they came in and got her out of bed and helped her to sit in her chair for a few minutes, as they had done each day - and they came back and she had suffered the stroke.
It was tough seeing her fine one day, then with so much gone the next. While she regained some of her abilities, she struggled with speech, and it was quite difficult for my mom and all of us. She had been a master seamstress, and all of that was gone - all of her creativity and ability to express...
I do not know what it was like for her. I do not know if she compared her skills "today" with those of her youth, or even last week. I only know what it was like for me. Sad. Frustrating. Painful. Agonizing trying to understand what she was asking for, what she wanted or needed. Gut wrenching to see her this way. It was hard to be around, and I wish I had spent more time with her then, on her terms. I was sick when they buried her, and did not go to her funeral.
My dad just accepted her as she was, and began to learn how she was able to communicate. The challenge seemed to be his, not hers, and for all she knew he was thrilled to be challenged with this new aspect of their life together. He never ever acted like anything was wrong, or different - other than the respectful, courtesy things of course, like being sure she was safe when walking, and using stairs, and making sure she was comfortable.
My dad understood - as he always has I think - that "it is what it is", and never missed a beat. Even though this lady had treated him not very nicely for much of their lives together, as his mother in law.
My point is this my Friend: It is what it is.
I respect your compassion, and I respectfully wonder about the wisdom of holding dad in comparison to some past "ideal state" he used to inhabit, and labeling the present moment "sad". Your dad is glorious just as he is, right now. He does not exist in comparison to anyone, or anything, or any idea. He does not exist relative to his past or some idea of a future. That is mind stuff, not existence stuff.
Your dad exists as an Absoulute incarnation of The Grand Self. Pretty impressive stuff. He is Self, acting as grand and glorious a role as any of which we are aware. You can honor the current role my Friend, as well as the past. The man with the 90 IQ is to be honored, is he not?
Perhaps this is what I am trying to get at: My dad honored my grandmother's 80+ years of life, and all she had accomplished, through the display of respect for her in every aspect of his dealings with her. He always treated her as the most brilliant artistic seamstress he'd ever known, even when she could not color a page in a simple child's book.
At the same time he honored the 80+ year old lady with a stroke by helping her color that page, and never ever carrying a thought in his head of how sad this all was as she smeared the page, or spilled her Cheerios everywhere for the thousandth time at breakfast...
He never had time for sad my Friend. He had time for Love. He absorbed his pain into his heart, and it came out Love.
Wow. You are helping me realize how deep my dad's heart is.
Thanks! :0)
I wish you, and yours, Love.
**
Dance In the Moment,
alice and greg
Thursday, December 13, 2007
What Thinking's For
There is only The Self.
If you look out and see Other than Self, look again.
Spiritual folks seem to get hung up with this idea, afraid that it takes them into a highly egotistical realm of "this is about me, john doe, and nobody else".
Quite the opposite. It destroys the basis of the Relative Ego and opens the possibility for the Absolute Ego to be expressed and experienced.
The Grand Self manifests in every imaginable way, and in many we cannot imagine.
Knowing this, we look out and are aware of countless aspects of The Grand Self.
Our Self Awareness is also an aspect of The Grand Self, and we give it a name like alice or greg allen.
Deeply we know that all we are aware of is The Grand Self.
And then comes the question "So you think this is all you? You do not think that I am even here as a unique personality called jane doe? How egotistical of you."
And we say "You and I are one, jane doe. That much we know. But... Do we think you are Other than Us? Even though we know we are One, do we think that you are Other than alice and greg?"
"Of course we do. That's what thinking is for."
If you look out and see Other than Self, look again.
Spiritual folks seem to get hung up with this idea, afraid that it takes them into a highly egotistical realm of "this is about me, john doe, and nobody else".
Quite the opposite. It destroys the basis of the Relative Ego and opens the possibility for the Absolute Ego to be expressed and experienced.
The Grand Self manifests in every imaginable way, and in many we cannot imagine.
Knowing this, we look out and are aware of countless aspects of The Grand Self.
Our Self Awareness is also an aspect of The Grand Self, and we give it a name like alice or greg allen.
Deeply we know that all we are aware of is The Grand Self.
And then comes the question "So you think this is all you? You do not think that I am even here as a unique personality called jane doe? How egotistical of you."
And we say "You and I are one, jane doe. That much we know. But... Do we think you are Other than Us? Even though we know we are One, do we think that you are Other than alice and greg?"
"Of course we do. That's what thinking is for."
Up to Know Good
Wing.
It's written on your feet.
Your Achilles Heel is a tendency
To Dream.
You've known that from the beginning.
You didn't have to go so far.
You didn't have to go.**
**
The idea that we absolutely MUST experience really lousy stuff in order to know what "not lousy" stuff is, is a wonderful "alibi", a basis for all sorts of horrible human behaviors and excuses to justify them.
We find it interesting that spiritual leaders and their followers are convinced of and propagate this outdated and arguably harmful idea.
It is a human idea of Relativity, a Relative Idea of Relativity.
It is not an acceptable idea to us any longer, although we enjoyed that movie for years...
As manifestations of the Absolute, humans "know", and have been privileged with glimpses of "it all".
We know Love, or we would not long to return to it.
We are Love. (With the glorious ability to pretend we are not, and make excuses for it.)
Relativity is an Absolute concept, in which there are no "lousy" experiences.
Only Grand and Grander.
Dance In the Moment,
alice and greg
** lyrics from All the Way to Reno from REM's Reveal CD.
It's written on your feet.
Your Achilles Heel is a tendency
To Dream.
You've known that from the beginning.
You didn't have to go so far.
You didn't have to go.**
**
The idea that we absolutely MUST experience really lousy stuff in order to know what "not lousy" stuff is, is a wonderful "alibi", a basis for all sorts of horrible human behaviors and excuses to justify them.
We find it interesting that spiritual leaders and their followers are convinced of and propagate this outdated and arguably harmful idea.
It is a human idea of Relativity, a Relative Idea of Relativity.
It is not an acceptable idea to us any longer, although we enjoyed that movie for years...
As manifestations of the Absolute, humans "know", and have been privileged with glimpses of "it all".
We know Love, or we would not long to return to it.
We are Love. (With the glorious ability to pretend we are not, and make excuses for it.)
Relativity is an Absolute concept, in which there are no "lousy" experiences.
Only Grand and Grander.
Dance In the Moment,
alice and greg
** lyrics from All the Way to Reno from REM's Reveal CD.
Friday, November 30, 2007
The Now Moment
Living in the now moment has little to do with time, believe it or not.
The Eternal Now Moment is not like a really long time - it is more like the absence of time.
It is more like "an awareness" within which time and space and etc "take place"...
Relative Ideas like past and future should not really be confused with Absolute Ideas like Now, or "living in the moment".
Absolute Ideas are, to me, best not discussed as though they have "opposing sides", or "either/or sides" - as though the past and present conflict with each other. (Remember, there are no conflicts in the Absolute...)
That being said, of course it is a wonderfully fun Relative Life Experience to learn more Now about our past lives, and we can even look into our future lives Now if we choose. It is not necessary, but certainly an option to place one's focus Now intently on past or future lives.
We wrote about the idea of Exchanging Gifts below, and this reminds us of that.
It is totally cool to Exchange Our Gifts of Time, Talent, Love and whatever else we perceive Life's Gifts to be for further knowledge of things we have already done, or may do one day.
In the same way it is fun to Exchange Our Gifts so we can explore a foreign language, or how to better pilot a racing motorcyle, or take "better" photos. Simply because one enjoys these things, and wishes to know and experience more about them.
All of these are things we do and experience in Relativity. That, to us, is Life!!
Robert Monroe wrote great books on out of body experience, and the direct, conscious exploration of past and future lives, and that "spirit family" concept you mention he also touches on. The Monroe Institute is near where we live, although we have never visited - but we have read many of his books and experienced a great deal of that which he discusses - great, great stuff, and wildly fun!
Finally, some Now find that their deepest most directly rewarding Relative Life Experience is to delve deeply into the Absolute Experience of the Eternal Now Moment.
This would be to focus our Now Gifts on the Now Moment of the Now Life. Not better, just another way.
This arguably, theoretically, merges the Relative and Absolute perspectives - the Relative is observing the Absolute, and the Absolute observing the Relative. Sort of "locking eyes with The One as one goes through the day".
Often some sort of transcendent thing is reportedly experienced.
Best regards,
Alice & Greg
The Eternal Now Moment is not like a really long time - it is more like the absence of time.
It is more like "an awareness" within which time and space and etc "take place"...
Relative Ideas like past and future should not really be confused with Absolute Ideas like Now, or "living in the moment".
Absolute Ideas are, to me, best not discussed as though they have "opposing sides", or "either/or sides" - as though the past and present conflict with each other. (Remember, there are no conflicts in the Absolute...)
That being said, of course it is a wonderfully fun Relative Life Experience to learn more Now about our past lives, and we can even look into our future lives Now if we choose. It is not necessary, but certainly an option to place one's focus Now intently on past or future lives.
We wrote about the idea of Exchanging Gifts below, and this reminds us of that.
It is totally cool to Exchange Our Gifts of Time, Talent, Love and whatever else we perceive Life's Gifts to be for further knowledge of things we have already done, or may do one day.
In the same way it is fun to Exchange Our Gifts so we can explore a foreign language, or how to better pilot a racing motorcyle, or take "better" photos. Simply because one enjoys these things, and wishes to know and experience more about them.
All of these are things we do and experience in Relativity. That, to us, is Life!!
Robert Monroe wrote great books on out of body experience, and the direct, conscious exploration of past and future lives, and that "spirit family" concept you mention he also touches on. The Monroe Institute is near where we live, although we have never visited - but we have read many of his books and experienced a great deal of that which he discusses - great, great stuff, and wildly fun!
Finally, some Now find that their deepest most directly rewarding Relative Life Experience is to delve deeply into the Absolute Experience of the Eternal Now Moment.
This would be to focus our Now Gifts on the Now Moment of the Now Life. Not better, just another way.
This arguably, theoretically, merges the Relative and Absolute perspectives - the Relative is observing the Absolute, and the Absolute observing the Relative. Sort of "locking eyes with The One as one goes through the day".
Often some sort of transcendent thing is reportedly experienced.
Best regards,
Alice & Greg
Sunday, November 18, 2007
The Idea of Absolute Truth
My copy of Rebellion of Thought arrived in Saturday's mail and I've been watching it today. It seems to me there have been some changes since the version I saw screened a year ago here in Charlottesville. Great film! I am thrilled to have Story of Our Lies, the included in the soundtrack. The soundtrack rocks - I am in some fine company. I'm not sure when the Soundtrack CD's will be available - they sent us advance copies for now.
The Rebellion of Thought DVD has the entire Soundtrack and all of the Artist Bios as one of the Special Features.
I've watched the pre-release version about 4 times, and in viewing Rebellion of Thought again I was struck this time around by the attitude of most of the "experts" in the film toward the idea of Absolute Truth. The term is tossed around quite a bit in the film. Most of the religious experts view Absolute Truth as an idea which has the polar possibility of an "Absolute False". The idea that there may be a God is either Absolutely True or Absolutely False.
As though Absolute means a Duality with a great deal of space between the Extremes, but no Continuum of Ideas within that Space. Along the way from Hot to Cold we find an abundance of warmer, warm, cool and cooler. There is no such continuum of ideas with respect to the Truth or Falseness of God. There is no partial truth about God or Not God. So goes the argument.
That seems odd. Anything with the possibility of a polar other, or opposite, is a Relative Thing, not an Absolute Thing. Even the filmmakers cite the idea that "We will all die" as an Absolute Truth. It is not. The fact that all humans will ultimately stop being human is a Relative Truth. We will be dead humans compared to living humans. Even Christians acknowledge the continuation of the conscious life of the spirit, albeit in the continuing Relative Imagery of "heaven" as opposed to "hell".
The idea of an Absolute Truth having the possibility of a polar "other" is odd to me. It misses the point entirely I am certain.
The concept of Absolute is not "part of" the concept of Relativity. Nor is it "other than".
The concept of Absolute Anything is a concept that has no other side; no relative other.
It just IS, and is accepted as such in polightened** company.
One cannot say what The Absolute IS. One can however refer to The Absolute by saying what it is not, or what it is like.
And one can know The Absolute, up close and personal, for it's simply and gloriously the "Christ" within***, to use one reference point. The knowing within that manifests Relative Truths like The Golden Rule. It's what theologians should mean when they talk about "accepting Christ" personally, but mostly it is not.
An Absolute Truth would be more along the lines of "all humans and the planet and universe originated in the same creative moment that continues to unfold". No matter what your creation story, there is "no other side" to this simple obvious truth.
The Absolute Truth, sadly for the religious experts is indeed One's Own Truth. It is indeed that simple, that glorious, and that scary if one has no faith in the Creation Story they claim, and perhaps even their Awakening - or Evolution - Story.
***
The other odd manifestation of the experts' misunderstanding of Absolute and Relative showed up in their claim that "Relativism" is when each of us has our own truth. When we put Truth into God's Realm they claim, then we will know Absolute Truth.
Flat backwards.
Placing God in a position of "Other Than" man is the very (obvious) basis of Relativism, at least Spiritual Relativism, which is what we are on about here. This view states that God created us, we are separate, God has the truth and we do not. Yet.
When each of us possesses the Truth of God within ourselves, we are instantly United with God, Unified - the very basis of Absolutism. No Other Side. No Other Source.
I Am. It.
Of course this scares the crap out of theologians...
The brothers Williamson on the other hand seem to be getting it. They are asking some crazy good questions. The experts seemed to miss the point, which I think is the film's point. That's my analysis so far anyway... ;^)
More importantly, the brothers Williamson seem to be living their questions!! That is impressive, promising and radically threatening to the church structure. The idea of living the questions is one I highly recommend. (The idea is presented in the song Grasshopper on my upcoming CD It's Time That Time Was Overthrown.)
The Rebellion of Thought DVD has great special features, with over an hour of unedited interviews from many folks in the film - stuff that got cut from the final mix, but rounds out many of the perspectives very nicely.
Check It Out!
available at Amazon dot com and Barnes and Noble dot com and others...
website: Rebellion of Thought
Dance In the Moment,
Greg Allen
footnotes:
*The Absolute can indeed be seen as a Duality with No Continuum between the Extremes; however there is No Continuum because there is No Space between the Extremes; for they have merged into The Absolute...
**Polightened = Polite Enlightened (copyright me 2007)
***Hint: Not the Jesus within...
The Rebellion of Thought DVD has the entire Soundtrack and all of the Artist Bios as one of the Special Features.
I've watched the pre-release version about 4 times, and in viewing Rebellion of Thought again I was struck this time around by the attitude of most of the "experts" in the film toward the idea of Absolute Truth. The term is tossed around quite a bit in the film. Most of the religious experts view Absolute Truth as an idea which has the polar possibility of an "Absolute False". The idea that there may be a God is either Absolutely True or Absolutely False.
As though Absolute means a Duality with a great deal of space between the Extremes, but no Continuum of Ideas within that Space. Along the way from Hot to Cold we find an abundance of warmer, warm, cool and cooler. There is no such continuum of ideas with respect to the Truth or Falseness of God. There is no partial truth about God or Not God. So goes the argument.
That seems odd. Anything with the possibility of a polar other, or opposite, is a Relative Thing, not an Absolute Thing. Even the filmmakers cite the idea that "We will all die" as an Absolute Truth. It is not. The fact that all humans will ultimately stop being human is a Relative Truth. We will be dead humans compared to living humans. Even Christians acknowledge the continuation of the conscious life of the spirit, albeit in the continuing Relative Imagery of "heaven" as opposed to "hell".
The idea of an Absolute Truth having the possibility of a polar "other" is odd to me. It misses the point entirely I am certain.
The concept of Absolute is not "part of" the concept of Relativity. Nor is it "other than".
The concept of Absolute Anything is a concept that has no other side; no relative other.
It just IS, and is accepted as such in polightened** company.
One cannot say what The Absolute IS. One can however refer to The Absolute by saying what it is not, or what it is like.
And one can know The Absolute, up close and personal, for it's simply and gloriously the "Christ" within***, to use one reference point. The knowing within that manifests Relative Truths like The Golden Rule. It's what theologians should mean when they talk about "accepting Christ" personally, but mostly it is not.
An Absolute Truth would be more along the lines of "all humans and the planet and universe originated in the same creative moment that continues to unfold". No matter what your creation story, there is "no other side" to this simple obvious truth.
The Absolute Truth, sadly for the religious experts is indeed One's Own Truth. It is indeed that simple, that glorious, and that scary if one has no faith in the Creation Story they claim, and perhaps even their Awakening - or Evolution - Story.
***
The other odd manifestation of the experts' misunderstanding of Absolute and Relative showed up in their claim that "Relativism" is when each of us has our own truth. When we put Truth into God's Realm they claim, then we will know Absolute Truth.
Flat backwards.
Placing God in a position of "Other Than" man is the very (obvious) basis of Relativism, at least Spiritual Relativism, which is what we are on about here. This view states that God created us, we are separate, God has the truth and we do not. Yet.
When each of us possesses the Truth of God within ourselves, we are instantly United with God, Unified - the very basis of Absolutism. No Other Side. No Other Source.
I Am. It.
Of course this scares the crap out of theologians...
The brothers Williamson on the other hand seem to be getting it. They are asking some crazy good questions. The experts seemed to miss the point, which I think is the film's point. That's my analysis so far anyway... ;^)
More importantly, the brothers Williamson seem to be living their questions!! That is impressive, promising and radically threatening to the church structure. The idea of living the questions is one I highly recommend. (The idea is presented in the song Grasshopper on my upcoming CD It's Time That Time Was Overthrown.)
The Rebellion of Thought DVD has great special features, with over an hour of unedited interviews from many folks in the film - stuff that got cut from the final mix, but rounds out many of the perspectives very nicely.
Check It Out!
available at Amazon dot com and Barnes and Noble dot com and others...
website: Rebellion of Thought
Dance In the Moment,
Greg Allen
footnotes:
*The Absolute can indeed be seen as a Duality with No Continuum between the Extremes; however there is No Continuum because there is No Space between the Extremes; for they have merged into The Absolute...
**Polightened = Polite Enlightened (copyright me 2007)
***Hint: Not the Jesus within...
Thursday, November 1, 2007
The Gift Identity
I Am The Gift.
The Gift is Infinite, Eternal, Absolute Love. - Love with No Other Side.
Keep It Simple.
Know that You Are The Gift, and that The Gift is Absolute Love.
Absolute Love is Eternal, Infinite.
An Awakened Life is about Living the Gift, Being the Gift, Giving the Gift in one's own unique way.
One Thus Has the Opportunity to Live Life as The Gift That Keeps On Giving, in a multitude of wonderful ways.
***
The Gift is Love.
I Am Love.
Expressed In the Manner I Choose.
A Unique Individuation of Absolute Love.
Keep It Simple.
The Gift is Love.
The How is Up to Me.
The Gift is Infinite, Eternal, Absolute Love. - Love with No Other Side.
Keep It Simple.
Know that You Are The Gift, and that The Gift is Absolute Love.
Absolute Love is Eternal, Infinite.
An Awakened Life is about Living the Gift, Being the Gift, Giving the Gift in one's own unique way.
One Thus Has the Opportunity to Live Life as The Gift That Keeps On Giving, in a multitude of wonderful ways.
***
The Gift is Love.
I Am Love.
Expressed In the Manner I Choose.
A Unique Individuation of Absolute Love.
Keep It Simple.
The Gift is Love.
The How is Up to Me.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
We Are Our Own Saviors
There is a wonderful email story going around about a lady's encounter with homeless folks at a restaurant. For me it is a simple reminder that there are Such Opportunities as This every day.
It is the most incredible experience to Just Do something like this. It's easy to take $5 or $10 or $20 and put it in a special place in one's wallet - always have it handy. And to Declare That It is Intended specifically for an Opportunity such as this. The Opportunity can show up so fast we might miss the first one. But there'll be more if we do - not to worry.
The lady states to the homeless folks she buys breakfast for, when they Thank her, "I did not do this for you. God* is here working through me to give you hope."
Oh My God is that powerful. I tried to speak it last night, imagining I had actually said it to someone that I had actually helped in a similar situation. I could hardly speak it for the tears and the shaking. I am going to work on being able to say something along those lines.
I can hear some folks saying "Oh, how arrogant". It is rather bold in one sense to say "Yo. God chose me to work through and Give you Hope."
But when God in Neale Donald Walsch's Conversations with God books asks "Are You ready to declare YourSelf a man of God?", this is the very context in which I take the question. Are You ready to live every moment like this lady just did, ready to act and "explain" yourself from the deepest truth you know? That is exactly what she did with her act of Love and when she made that statement from a place of her deepest - and oh so beautiful - truth.
My deepest truth is that God is working through both myself and the homeless folks in that story. (I think she knows this, and just did not word it thus - I am not saying I am better. O'tay? :^)
So I might try to say it more like "God is here working through Us. We are Our Own Saviors; You are Mine, and I Am Yours. Our Relationship In this Beautiful Moment Is Also Our Opportunity To Allow Absolute Love to Shine Into This Place, and Thus Into This World. Bless You, and Thank You."
Or something...
How wonderful I will feel having spoken such a Truth - in a fast food restaurant no less...
***
This is what I refer to when I say it is so very important to Conceive and State Very Clearly One Simple Thing. Who I Am.
Perhaps many people look at homeless and think "Who I Am Not". It is then easy to step away from those things when they come close to us. This is true about Life in general. The easiest thing to do is to point, point, point at and talk, talk, talk about all the things I Am Not. There's a lifetime worth of them to say no to.
But pinning down that One Grand Thing - The Gift.
Stating it clearly, humbly, and In Every Living Moment.
That's Big. Like quitting smoking, or dieting - only bigger - You feel like You ought to Live Up to It if you're gonna state it. And that is frightening for some reason.
I have known my Gift since childhood. I could tell you stories of why I am only claiming, stating and Living It now. But I won't. They are stories. Memories. Now is Now.
God is at work through Us, dear Friends. We are Our Own Saviors; You are Mine, and I Am Yours. Our Relationships In Every Beautiful Moment Are Also Our Ongoing Opportunities To Allow Absolute Love to Shine Into This Place, and Thus Into This World.
Let's Together Give Ourselves Away**.
Peace, and Thank You, and Dance In the Moment,
Greg
* Atheists, as always in my posts, can begin now to substitute the phrase "Big Bang" for the word God. Perspective.
**closing line from my song Story of Our Lies, the
It is the most incredible experience to Just Do something like this. It's easy to take $5 or $10 or $20 and put it in a special place in one's wallet - always have it handy. And to Declare That It is Intended specifically for an Opportunity such as this. The Opportunity can show up so fast we might miss the first one. But there'll be more if we do - not to worry.
The lady states to the homeless folks she buys breakfast for, when they Thank her, "I did not do this for you. God* is here working through me to give you hope."
Oh My God is that powerful. I tried to speak it last night, imagining I had actually said it to someone that I had actually helped in a similar situation. I could hardly speak it for the tears and the shaking. I am going to work on being able to say something along those lines.
I can hear some folks saying "Oh, how arrogant". It is rather bold in one sense to say "Yo. God chose me to work through and Give you Hope."
But when God in Neale Donald Walsch's Conversations with God books asks "Are You ready to declare YourSelf a man of God?", this is the very context in which I take the question. Are You ready to live every moment like this lady just did, ready to act and "explain" yourself from the deepest truth you know? That is exactly what she did with her act of Love and when she made that statement from a place of her deepest - and oh so beautiful - truth.
My deepest truth is that God is working through both myself and the homeless folks in that story. (I think she knows this, and just did not word it thus - I am not saying I am better. O'tay? :^)
So I might try to say it more like "God is here working through Us. We are Our Own Saviors; You are Mine, and I Am Yours. Our Relationship In this Beautiful Moment Is Also Our Opportunity To Allow Absolute Love to Shine Into This Place, and Thus Into This World. Bless You, and Thank You."
Or something...
How wonderful I will feel having spoken such a Truth - in a fast food restaurant no less...
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This is what I refer to when I say it is so very important to Conceive and State Very Clearly One Simple Thing. Who I Am.
Perhaps many people look at homeless and think "Who I Am Not". It is then easy to step away from those things when they come close to us. This is true about Life in general. The easiest thing to do is to point, point, point at and talk, talk, talk about all the things I Am Not. There's a lifetime worth of them to say no to.
But pinning down that One Grand Thing - The Gift.
Stating it clearly, humbly, and In Every Living Moment.
That's Big. Like quitting smoking, or dieting - only bigger - You feel like You ought to Live Up to It if you're gonna state it. And that is frightening for some reason.
I have known my Gift since childhood. I could tell you stories of why I am only claiming, stating and Living It now. But I won't. They are stories. Memories. Now is Now.
God is at work through Us, dear Friends. We are Our Own Saviors; You are Mine, and I Am Yours. Our Relationships In Every Beautiful Moment Are Also Our Ongoing Opportunities To Allow Absolute Love to Shine Into This Place, and Thus Into This World.
Let's Together Give Ourselves Away**.
Peace, and Thank You, and Dance In the Moment,
Greg
* Atheists, as always in my posts, can begin now to substitute the phrase "Big Bang" for the word God. Perspective.
**closing line from my song Story of Our Lies, the
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Faith: Showing What You Know/Don't Know
welcome to the first post in awhile - I plan to post here more frequently as I develop various writing themes. I welcome your comments and feedback, and especially your questions.
I'll expand on ideas such as the Absolute Studio in other posts very soon.
Dance In the Moment,
Greg Allen
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Faith is Living One's Life as The Announcement of What One Knows That One Will One Day Know..
A Self-Aware Creator in God's Absolute Studio is a gift to the world.
To declare One's Self as A Creator In God's Absolute Studio is simply to announce the Deeply Known Truth.
Faith is the attitude that allows One to Announce and State The Vision of their Creator Role even prior to their Understanding It, or "Feeling It". Indeed I have come to know This Very Understanding/Experience to be an Evolution, a Process to be Enjoyed throughout My Life.
A Self-Aware Creator in God's Absolute Studio is a gift to the world.
To declare One's Self as A Creator In God's Absolute Studio is simply to announce the Deeply Known Truth.
Faith is the attitude that allows One to Announce and State The Vision of their Creator Role even prior to their Understanding It, or "Feeling It". Indeed I have come to know This Very Understanding/Experience to be an Evolution, a Process to be Enjoyed throughout My Life.
It does not just happen, and then You go on. It happens, then You and It go on. ;^)
In a Very Real Sense, Life Itself is simply and profoundly The Evolution of The Knowing.
Faith Unfolding Into Knowing is Faith In Action - it's a Life Well Lived and Loved, even before you knew you could do it. Even before it felt acceptable to you.
Eventually the Acceptance, the Knowing, Comes, in an Experience or Moment commonly termed "Enlightenement". Again, this is truly a process, a series of "moments". The beginning of a lifetime of them, strung closer and closer together...
The Noble Experiment is to put Aside Human Hope and Announce Absolute Faith.
The Noble Statement is the Clear Announcement of One's Vision, One's Gift, One's Purpose
The Noble Moment is Every Moment in Which The Stated Vision is Lived, The Stated Gift Given, The Purpose Brought To Life; regardless of the Degree to which One Feels They Know The Truth.
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