Thank You kindly Jack Mathias, for Your time & attention today, & for sharing Your knowledge, wisdom & insights of Your spiritual enlightenment with Me. You continue to be an inspiration to Me Jack, & thank You also for sharing the following prayer with Me...
Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi (Prayer for Peace)
god, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.
O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Namaste My brother, You are One of Us 🙏🏻🧡🙏🏻
scooter
scooter@primal.net
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...slow is smooth, smooth is fast...&...where attention goes, energy flows...
god, Be Gracious to Us...
Blessed is the One who considers the poor! In the days of trouble god delivers Us;
god protects Us and keeps Us alive; We are called blessed on this Earth; We do not give Them up to the will of Our enemies.
god sustains Us on Our sickbed; in Their illness We restore Them to full health.
As for Me, I say, "god, Be Gracious to Me; heal Me, for I have sinned against You!"
My enemies say of Me in malice, "When will I die, and My name perish?"
And when one comes to see Me, They utter empty words, whilst Their hearts gather iniquity; when They go out, They spread it about.
All who fear Me whisper together about Me; They imagine the worst for Me.
They say, "Insane and impossible things are poured out onto Me; I will not rise again from where I rest."
Even My close friend in whom I trusted, who ate My bread, has lifted Their heel against Me.
But You god, Are Gracious to Me, & raise Me up, that I may repay Them!
By this I know that You delight in Me: My enemy will not shout in triumph over Me.
But You have upheld Me because of My integrity, & set Me in Your presence today, tomorrow, & forever...
Blessed is god, from everlasting to everlasting!
Amen & Ahimsa
🙏🏻💛🙏🏻
When it comes to Security there are two basic options:
1. Build physical walls & armies to protect what you believe belongs to you, which will ultimately fail, because it has done, repeatedly, throughout history... No man is an island.
2. Build a resilient, distributed network that gains strength through knowledge of its own shortcomings... We are better, together.
The concepts of Ownership & Private Property are at the root of Samsara, all of human suffering, because the moment we become attached to a thing, believing it to be ours, we have, in that moment, removed ourselves from the dance of Lila, & once again (re)entered Maya. The road out of Maya (suffering) is long, dark, narrow & not well travelled...
Most people would rather bury their pain & suffering than face it head on, hence why most people end up buried, six feet underground... their pain & suffering got the better of them... & they never found the answers within unity & the truth within consciousness...
Death is an illusion. Life is eternal...
Reality is whatever you choose it to be, but be under no illusion, one can only realise & embody the peace & grace of god, when we unknowingly stare into the abyss & the abyss knowingly stares back...
When you lose yourself with the abyss you will experience a terror like nothing you have ever imagined possible...but, this too shall pass, as one begins to realise, oh, "i AM" the abyss, made MANiFEST...
Rule number !..hugs before slaps....now go ii Rule number i!i...
Rule number ii...there are no rules, jUSt ! universal law, so get on with iT!..now go back ii Rule number !..
Rule number i!i...do What ever ! ask, When ever ! ask, & that She tells You ii do, as long as iT does not contravene Rule number ii & the jUSt, but necessary, ! universal law...now go ii Rule number ii...
Unless it is urgent, as in life or death, I choose to focus on what is important to Me, & on what will have the biggest impact, over TiMe...
Our TiMe is precious, & iT is the current that allows energy ii flow, which is why I spend iT on the little things that make B!G waves & a BiG difference to Me...
...I do see the light, beauty, and magic within and around us, EvEN from a (spooky action at a) distance...
There is such a thing as Universal (gods) #Truth & gods truth always (eventually) points to its self, because...
"When You have eliminated the #impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be, The Truth."
- Arthur Conan Doyle
...one of the most self destructive things We can do, is believe someone elses (negative) opinions of Who & What We are...
...only When YOU know Who "i AM" will You know Your self...
...for do not accept What I tell You, unless it agrees with You personally...
In You, god, I have taken refuge; let Me never be put to shame; deliver Me in Your righteousness.
Turn Your ear to Me, come quickly to My rescue; be My rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save Me.
Since You are My rock & My fortress, for the sake of Your name lead & guide Me.
Keep Me free from the trap that is set for Me, for You are My refuge.
Into Your hands I commit My spirit; deliver Me, My faithful god.
I feel sorrow for those who cling to worthless idols; as for Me, I trust in You.
I will be glad & rejoice in Your love, for You saw My affliction & knew the anguish of My soul.
You have not given Me into the hands of the enemy but have set My feet in a spacious place.
Be merciful to Me, for I have been in distress; My eyes grew weak with sorrow, My soul & body with grief.
My life was consumed by anguish & My years by groaning; My strength faultered because of My affliction, & My bones grew weak.
Because of all My enemies, I was the contempt of My neighbors & an object of dread to My closest friends - those who see Me on the street fled from Me.
I was forgotten as though I were dead; I had become like broken pottery.
For I hear many whispering, “Terror on every side!” They conspire against Me & plot to take My life.
But I trust in You; I say, “You are My god.”
My times are in Your hands; deliver Me from the hands of My enemies, from those who pursue Me.
Let Your face shine on Your servant; save Me in Your unfailing love.
Let Me not be put to shame, for I have cried out to You; but let the ignorant become enlightened & be silent in Your divine peace & grace.
Let their misguided lips be silenced, for with pride & contempt they speak arrogantly against the righteous.
How abundant are the good things that You have stored up for those who judge You, that You bestow in the sight of all, on those who take refuge in You.
In the shelter of Your presence You hide them from all human intrigues; You keep them safe in Your dwelling from accusing tongues.
Praise be to You, for You showed Me the wonders of Your love when I was in a city under siege.
In My alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” yet You heard My cry for mercy when I called to You for help.
I love You, & all these faithful people! You preserves those who are true to themselves, but the proud are paid back in full.
Be strong, take heart & have faith, all You who hope...
- Psalm 31
...remember, be careful What You wish for...
Everything ( #reality ) is an experience we are having, & thus experiencing can be perceived without judgement, just conscious awareness. When done so, the experiencing will lead to insights that were previously unexplored, & therefore unknown. As the insights become known, the purpose of the experiencing becomes clear, leading to increased clarity & increased perception, therefore enhancing focus of mind & #PMA (Present Moment Awareness)...
...this allows us to increasingly interpret reality, in real-time, with far greater depth, #meaning & purpose than we thought possible, when we were sitting in judgement...
When & Where there is a will, there is always a way...even if this means moving Heaven & Earth...the key is conscious awareness & conscious intention, then anything & everything becomes possible, because there are no limits, only the ones We impose upon Our selves...
god is My shepherd; I shall not want. god makes Me lie down in green pastures.
god leads Me beside still waters. god restores My soul.
god leads Me in paths of righteousness for My name's sake.
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort Me.
You prepare a table before Me in the presence of My enemies; You anoint My head with oil; My cup overflows.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow Me all the days of My life, and I shall dwell in the house of god forever.
- Psalm 23
A Grand Rising 🌅 #GM #nostr #ThrowbackThursday, so it has just passed the 9 o'clock watershed here in the UK ... because We must always protect the innocent ... Today's throwback is none other than the R rated Pulp Fiction ...
"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.
Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children.
And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers.
And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."
- Ezekiel 25:17
Pulp Fiction is a near perfect metaphor for life, because We often do not understand the lessons We are taught & the challenges that We are given until We take a step back from our lives, & get some perspective ... unfortunately many people are still trapped within The Matrix, so their time preferences are so high, that they cannot stop working long enough to catch a breath, let alone take years away from the job ( slavery ) to truly find themselves.
I have been fortunate enough to take time out, because I was unfortunate enough to spend a lifetime secretly trying to cope with life, until one day it all became too much & I had no choice but to stop & take a knee & a breath ... it is not that the people around Me did not care, it is that they did not understand, & therefore could not relate to Me, or provided Me with what I needed. Their simple ideas of how to "fix" me where idiotic, because they kept telling Me to do the very things that MADE ME ILL, when all I really needed was for those around Me to show up & hold My hand ...
Not a lot makes sense in this world, because We are all fixated on viewing time as linear ... it is not! We are just experiencing it that way through the awareness of human CONSC!OUSNESS, which is just ( #god ) #consciousness MAN!FESTED... We have never actually experienced time, because consciousness is always #present in the #here & #now ... & this is very easy to #verify for yourself ... think of a memory ... You are now viewing a memory of the past, but in the present moment ... every frame that passes through the lens of your awareness does so in the present moment ... #time & #space are an illusion ... a very convincing illusion, but an illusion none the less ... & do not take My word for it, simply read The Power of NOW & A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, or the many other books of interpretation written on this subject ...
Once You have watched the entire movie, Pulp Fiction begins to make sense, and We resequence the events mentally into a logical story that flows ... We see the beginning of the story ... the middle of the story ... and the end of the story ... this is a metaphor for life ... remember to take some time out occasionally, go somewhere nice & neutral & ground yourself in nature ... learn to let go, & let god
There is this one scene in Pulp Fiction that has always stuck with Me, for a multitude of reasons ... but the most poignant one comes at the end, which is closer to the beginning of the movie, where there is a divine intervention ... which changes Jules, for the better, forever ... happy groundhog day people ... do not wait to die before You start living! Life is eternal, & death is just a doorway to the past, that recreates the lessons of the future that We need to repeat in the present, over & over again, until We learn from our mistakes & ascend to the next level ...
WARNING - The following clip contains scenes of a violent nature & strong language ... & should therefore not be viewed by anyone!
There are also multiple mistakes within this clip, one being the hamburger scene and one being the divine intervention scene ... where the bullet holes are already in the wall before the shots are even fired ... but then this is all a work of fiction ;-) & I am not talking about the movie ... WE are litterally manifesting Our own reality ...
A Prayer of Unity
I put My hand in Yours, & iigether WE can do what We could not do alone.
No longer is there a sense of hopelessness; no longer must We each depend upon Our own unsteady will power.
WE are iigether now, reaching out Our hands, for a power & strength greater than Our own, & as WE join hands WE find a love & understanding beyond Our wildest dreams...
🙏🏻💛🙏🏻
Note to self: circa 15 years & counting, down...
"Power prefers darkness. If it's exposed to light, it erodes..."
- Noam Chomsky
"We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living"
- Richard Buckminster Fuller
(July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983)
An American architect, systems theorist, writer, designer, inventor, philosopher, and futurist...
I am uncompromising when it comes to My values & My integrity...
To know yourself, do nothing, be nothing...
To hear yourself clearly, listen to the silence...