It is no longer enough to be smart. All the technological tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance our core values, the deepest part of our heart.
Doc Childre and Bruce Cryer, Namaste Newsletter, Religious Science Baltimore, Vol. 11, No. १
Acquiring knowledge is no guarantee of practical, useful application. Wisdom implies a mature integration of appropriate knowledge, a seasoned ability to filter the inessential from the essential.
Category: Inspiration
Blue Like Jazz
In [community], people [are] hungry for input from others, to the point where they let their guard down and [accept] you through kindness. That [is] what fuel[s] so much of the creativity.
Bob Weir, Rolling Stone, June 2007
“Too much time is spent
trying to chart God on a grid
and too little allowing our hearts
to feel awe.
By reducing spirituality to formula,
we deprive our hearts of wonder.
I was happy… I was free to love. I didn’t have to discipline anybody, I didn’t have to judge anybody, I could treat everybody as though they were my best friend, as though they were rock stars or famous poets, as though they were amazing, and to me they became amazing… I have lost an enemy & gained a brother. And then he began to change. It didn’t matter to me whether he did or not, but he did. He was a great human being getting even better. I could feel God’s love for him. I loved the fact that it wasn’t my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God’s, that my part was just to communicate love & approval.
When I am talking to someone there are always two conversations going on. The first is on the surface; it is about politics or music or whatever it is our mouths are saying. The other is beneath the surface on the level of the heart, and my heart is either communicating that I like the person I am talking to or I don’t. God wants both conversations to be true. That is, we are supposed to speak truth in love. If both conversations are not true, God is not involved in the exchange, we are on our own, and on our own we will lead people astray. The Bible says that if you talk to somebody with your mouth, and your heart does not love them, that you are like a person standing there smashing two cymbals together. You are only annoying everybody around you. I think that is very beautiful and true… now… when I go to meet somebody, I pray that God will help me feel His love for them. I ask God to make it so both conversations, the one from the mouth and the one from the heart, are true.”
Release, Abraham Hicks
When you are happy in the stream wherever you are, you have made peace with where you are. And in making peace with where you are, you have released resistance. And in the releasing of resistance, you are flowing rapidly toward what you are wanting. And it will feel to you –if you can maintain this feeling even for a day or two– it will feel to you like all of the things that you have been wanting have been lined up outside your door. And the door just opened. And now they’re flowing in.
Abraham Hicks
Peace, Kryon
The real peace for the planet is the peace of the human heart. When the human heart is changed and vibrates at a new level, the peace on the planet will follow. For you see, it’s the human beings that create the peace on the planet when their consciousness changes…
Look upon the old energy not in judgment, but in appropriateness as you see the things that are happening… Tolerating the intolerable is what we’re talking about, and that is being peaceful with life. And in your peace with life you do something remarkable: In your silence of the intolerable, what you do is to ignite a light in a dark room and stand there in your peace.
Kryon via Lee Carroll, Adelaide, Australia, August 16, 1997
Live For Now
Orange roams the surrounding landscape. I make my silent greeting. A celebration of awakening commences: birds chirping their cheery response! First one, faintly, then another, three, four and a whole choir takes flight! The brilliance of their song echoes the sparkles of the sun, both flitting about in every which way. As light comes to land, the indescribable is echoed in sweet birdsong! What harmony! What honor! What gratitude overflows! Each day unfolding brings infinite gifts, as long as we accept them as such; now is, eternally, a celebration of life.
It is still dark as I climb to see over the tiny foothills carefully rising off flatland. As the horizon is revealed, the sun also emerges through a pink blush. It steadily rises in a kaleidoscope of warming hues. Here, on this incline, I have found a truer bed than any: cradled against the whole of the Rocky Mountains! I am bundled in goose down, on a mattress of snow drifts, my snowshoes planting me surely to the ground. I rest, and float into sweet sleep, while remaining subtly aware, supremely present. Light (a beautiful vibration of color) immerses the hillside in the truest rhythm, a pulse of Oneness.

“…now time is NOW! The problems you have that you want resolved cannot be solved until you go to the now and only then they’re solved. Many times the timing of that confusing attribute can only be at the moment of the solution to the problem, which is naturally at the end of that test’s journey. That’s where the solution is. We have told groups before that humans have a tendency to see crossroads coming and they don’t know what to do. A required decision is looming in the distance so what do they do? Some humans decided to sit down and worry about the issue. The ones with the now overview, however, are the ones that say, “We cannot make a decision at the moment, but we’ll know later.” It’s against human nature to do this, because it voids planning ahead.
Dear ones, blessed is the human being who has the overview of knowing that the solution to the problem is ahead at the crossroad. And that bravely, without anxiety, he or she walks up to it and looks for the direction sign–out of sight before, but viewable when he or she gets there. The sign says, “Turn right or turn left.” And it’s at the crux of the crossroad where it stands, and often only viewable when you arrive there. That’s the now. That’s the honored spot. And it’s going to remain that way as long as you live…
…The hardest part will be the last minute part. It may be an oversimplification, but we have said it before: If you want to know how God reacts to humans, take a look at how nature and God react to one another. For the mechanics are all there for you to study and actually observe. The bird wakes up in the morning but it does not have a storehouse of food. Each day it must create its own sustenance and its own reality. Each single day, at the last moment, it must go out and find food for itself and its children. And what does that bird do when it awakens in the morning? It sings! If you’re following this metaphor, then you understand what we’re asking you to do.
When you awaken in the morning, even though you do not know how the [problem] is going to be solved, celebrate and sing regarding the solutions which are there in the now for you. Sing! With that attitude, dear ones, in will come the energy that you’re singing about… For you are powerful, and you can easily create what you need.”
-Kryon Channel, Adelaide, Australia, August 16, 1997
Way and Wayfarers
“Their punishment, for fighting about religion, was that each had to learn one complete prayer from the religious observances of the other. ‘In this way is justice done,’ Quasim Ali said that night, his bark-colored eyes softening on the two young men,’ because justice is a judgment that is both fair & forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, even those who offend us and must be punished by us. You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them… The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men. It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them. There are good deeds, and bad deeds. Men are just men – it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone – the noblest man alive or the most wicked – has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion. The truth is that we are all, every one of us, every atom, every galaxy, and every particle of matter in the universe, moving toward God.”
Gregory David Roberts, Shantaram
Oftentimes have I heard you speak of one who commits a wrong as though he were not one of you, but a stranger unto you and an intruder upon your world.
But I say that even as the holy and the righteous cannot rise
beyond the highest which is in each one of you,
So the wicked and the weak
cannot fall lower than the lowest which is in you also.
And as a single leaf turns not yellow but with the silent knowledge of the whole tree,
So the wrong-doer cannot do wrong
without the hidden will of you all.
Like a procession you walk together towards your god-self.
You are the way and the wayfarers.
And when one of you fall down he falls for those behind him,
a caution against the stumbling stone.
Ay, and he falls for those ahead of him,
who though faster and surer of foot,
yet removed not the stumbling stone.
Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
