Food For Thought

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Positive Thinking

Dear Precious One – you are so welcome . I had a feeling that might be the case! How about the following?

'As much as you can, avoid the whingers, whiners and moaners of this world. ‘Oh, isn’t it all awful!’ and ‘Look what state our world is in!’ people are no longer appropriate company for you. They are in a negative mindset one can all too easily get stuck in. In your mind, present them with a packet of whinger biscuits and move on. You are a budding healer and a wise one and owe it to yourself to look for the company of people with a positive outlook on life. With a bit of effort and practice, you soon will be able to see that there is something good in everything and everybody, if you but open our inner eyes and look for it.'

From ‘Positive Thinking’

‘Words & Prayers of Wisdom From The Tree Of Life’
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What Happens In Heaven When We Pray?

What Happens In Heaven When We Pray?​

In one of my dreams I went to Heaven and an Angel was showing me round. We walked side by side in a workshop that was filled with Angels. My guide stopped in front of the first section and told me: ‘This is the Receiving Section where all petitions to God said in prayer are received.’ The place was very busy with a great many Angels sorting the requests that had been received from people all over the world.

Leaving it, we walked down a long corridor until we reached another section and the Angel explained: ‘This is the Packaging and Delivery Section where the graces and blessings those on the Earth plane ask for are processed. If they are worthy of having their wish granted, it is despatched from here to the recipient.’ What a busy place it was! Many Angels were working extremely hard, as so many requests are constantly received.

Finally, we went to the farthest end of the long corridor. We stopped at the door of a very small room where, to my great surprise, only one Angel was seated who was doing nothing.

‘This is the Acknowledgment Section,’ my Angel friend quietly murmured, seeming very embarrassed.

‘Why is no work going on here?’ I asked.

‘Ah, it’s sad,’ sighed the Angel . ‘When people have received the gifts and blessings they asked for, very few think of sending us an acknowledgments.’

‘Well, what is the right way of acknowledging God’s blessings?’ I asked.

‘It’s very simple,’ the Angel replied. Just say, ‘Thank you, Great Spirit, Father/Mother Creator and Your Angels.’

What blessings should we give thanks for?’ I queried.

‘If you have food in your larder and/or refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep you are richer than seventy-five percent of your earthly brothers and sisters in your world. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet and maybe a bit of spare change in a dish, you are among the top eight percent of the world's wealthy, and if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the one percent in your world who can do so.’

‘If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the many who will not survive this day. If you have never experienced the fear of being involved in a battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture or the hunger pangs of starvation, you are ahead of about seven hundred million people in your world. If you can attend a church without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death you are envied by, and more blessed than, three billion people in your world. And if you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you’re an exception compared to the millions who live in doubt and despair in your world.’

‘Ok,’ I said. ‘I will do better. How do I start?’

The Angel said: ‘If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you as very special and you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world who cannot see and/or read at all. Give thanks for that.’

Created by Anon.
Edited by Aquarius​

 

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Positive Thinking

Thinking is the most powerful force in the whole of Creation. Our thoughts have created our present reality and are colouring it. Today’s thinking is bringing our future reality into being. Negative thinking patterns all too easily draw us into a downward spiral of negativity. Given time, it takes us deeper and deeper into the vortex of depression, until one can no longer see something pleasant in anyone or anything.

The good news is that this kind of thinking is nothing but a bad habit that can and indeed is meant to be changed, by us. We may have brought it with us from previous lifetimes into this one with the intention of doing better this time round. Changing our ways of thinking is an empowering experience. It puts us in charge of our character and our life and enables us to actively and positively influence the flow of our destiny. One of the almost immediate effects of positive thinking is that our life appears brighter to us and others find us more attractive. For their sake and our own, it’s well worth any small effort we make.

By following the link below, you can find a few tips of how to go about it:

From ‘Positive Thinking’

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What Happens In Heaven When We Pray?

What Happens In Heaven When We Pray?​

In one of my dreams I went to Heaven and an Angel was showing me round. We walked side by side in a workshop that was filled with Angels. My guide stopped in front of the first section and told me: ‘This is the Receiving Section where all petitions to God said in prayer are received.’ The place was very busy with a great many Angels sorting the requests that had been received from people all over the world.

Leaving it, we walked down a long corridor until we reached another section and the Angel explained: ‘This is the Packaging and Delivery Section where the graces and blessings those on the Earth plane ask for are processed. If they are worthy of having their wish granted, it is despatched from here to the recipient.’ What a busy place it was! Many Angels were working extremely hard, as so many requests are constantly received.

Finally, we went to the farthest end of the long corridor. We stopped at the door of a very small room where, to my great surprise, only one Angel was seated who was doing nothing.

‘This is the Acknowledgment Section,’ my Angel friend murmured, seeming very embarrassed.

‘Why is no-one working here?’ I asked.

‘Ah, it’s sad,’ sighed the Angel . ‘When people have received the gifts and blessings they asked for, very few think of sending us an acknowledgments.’

‘Well, what is the right way of acknowledging God’s blessings?’ I asked.

‘It’s very simple,’ the Angel replied. Just say, ‘Thank you, Great Spirit, Father/Mother Creator and Your Angels.’

‘What are the blessings we should give thanks for?’ I queried.

‘First of all give thanks and praise to your Creator for the gift of your life and everything that is in it. For example, if there is food on your table, in your larder and/or refrigerator, and if you have clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep you are richer than seventy-five percent of your spiritual brothers and sisters on your present plane of existence. If you have money in the bank, in your wallet and maybe a bit of spare change somewhere, you are among the top eight percent of the world’s wealthy, and if you get this on your own computer, you are part of the one percent in your world who can do so.’

‘If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the many who will not survive this day. If you have never experienced the fear of being involved in a battle, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture or the hunger pangs of starvation, you are ahead of about seven hundred million people in your world. If you can attend a church without the fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death you are envied by, and more blessed than, three billion people in your world. And if you can hold your head up and smile, you are not the norm, you’re an exception compared to the millions who live in doubt and despair in your world.’

‘Ok,’ I said. ‘I promise to do better in future. How do I start?’

The Angel replied: ‘If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing because someone was thinking of you as very special. On top of that you are more blessed than over two billion people in your world who cannot see and/or read at all. Begin by giving thanks for that.’

Great Spirit, Father/Mother Creator of all life,
May all who read this find rest, peace and healing in You.
Thank you for each one of them being part of my life.

Recommended Reading:
• ‘Reflections On Prayer’
• ‘On The Wings Of Prayer’

Created by Anon.
Edited by Aquarius

From ‘Words & Prayers of Wisdom From The Tree Of Life’
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Truly Caring Friends

Truly Caring Friends​

When we honestly ask ourselves which people in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, offering solutions or cures, chose to share our pain and touch our wounds with warm and tender hearts and hands.

Truly caring friends are the ones who know how be silent with us in moments of despair or confusion. They stay with us in hours of grief and bereavement, content with not knowing, not curing, not healing. Their presence helps us to face the reality of the human predicament of our basic powerlessness.

Henri J.M. Nouwen
‘The Road to Daybreak – A Spiritual Journey’
Edited by Aquarius

From ‘Words & Prayers For Healing Friendships’

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Changing The World

Changing The World
Do not try to change the world.
You will fail.
Try to love the world.
And lo, the world is changed,
Changed forever.

Sri Chinmoy

If we try to change our world
Without first changing ourselves, we are sure to fail.
But when we come to terms with its true purpose
And perceive it in a new light, we learn to love it and
For us, quite magically, the world changes forever.

As our inner eyes open, we begin to recognise
The good in all people and situations.
Our heart and soul then fills with compassion and love
For those who, trapped in the darkness of
Their ignorance and greed, still insist on creating suffering,
Maybe for millions, and therefore negative Karma for themselves.
We no longer sit in judgement over anyone
And that helps us to create ever more positive Karma
For ourselves and our world.

Aquarius

From ‘Healers and Healing’

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Freedom Of Choice

Is There Such A Thing As Freedom Of Choice?​

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I believe that humankind’s much cherished freedom is comparable to a dog going for a walk on a lead. We are the dog and our Karma is the lead which our Highest or God Self holds in its loving yet stern, undeviating and unrelenting hands. It alone knows our true needs and whatever is the right thing for us in any given moment. It constantly guides us into our next adventures on the Earth plane. For each one of us it is the only one who knows which lessons still have to be integrated and which experiences gone through, until we all eventually find our way home into our true nature.

If during our meditations and healing journeys, an inner urge of an evil nature surfaces into our conscious awareness, we are free to decide whether we follow it and act this desire out in our environment. The more highly evolved we become, the more likely it is that we wish to merely acknowledge and accept that it belongs to a part of our lower animal nature, which by now has outlived its usefulness. Realising this, wise ones reach for the hand of their Highest Self and requests its help to change and transmute the no longer wanted energies into something that serves the highest good and the greatest joy of all life.

From ‘Don’t Quit!’ ​

 

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Courage

‘Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave. It is merely a loose misapplication of the word.’ Mark Twain

 

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The Joy Of Being Yourself

The Joy Of Being Yourself

To truly be myself and you yourself,
It is essential that I do my thing and you do yours.
We are not in this world
To live up to each other’s expectations.

You are you and I am I.
If, whenever we meet, we can love and accept each other,
Just the way we are,
We truly are friends and that is beautiful.

Anon.
Edited by Aquarius​

• ‘In a world that is trying to make you like everyone else, being yourself is the greatest challenge of all.’ Anon.

• ‘If you don’t like my words, don’t listen. If you don’t like my appearance, don’t look. If you don’t like my actions, turn your head. It’s as simple as that.’ Anon.

• ‘You were born an original. Don’t become a copy.’ Anon.

• ‘If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me that way.’ Goethe

• ‘This is who I am. Nobody said you had to like it.’

• ‘Live your life the way you want to live it. Don’t allow others to live it for you.’ Anon.

• ‘It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.’ Herman Melville

• ‘I was once afraid of people saying: ‘Who does she think she is?’ Now I have the courage to stand and say: ‘This is who I am.’ Oprah Winfrey

• ‘I never wanted to be different. I just wanted to be me.’ Anon.

• ‘Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.’ Judy Garland

• ‘The only freedom in our world lies in being yourself.’ Anon.

• ‘Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.’ Lao Tzu

• ‘If we cannot be ourselves, what’s the point in having a mirror?’ Anon.

• ‘Enjoy who you are. Do not hate yourself for what you are not.’ Anon.

• ‘You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realised how seldom they do.’ Eleanor Roosevelt

• ‘Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.’ Oscar Wilde

• ‘Few are those who know how to see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.’ Albert Einstein

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‘Words & Prayers For Healing Friendships’​

 

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The Road To Bethlehem

The road to Bethlehem is long.
Through the deepest, darkest and coldest night of the soul
Of failing to understand who we truly are,
And through the labyrinth of false beliefs and prejudices,
Every soul must eventually find its own way back
Into the comfort, warmth and light of recognising
Once again its own true nature and origin.
That, to me, is the road to Bethlehem.

From ‘The Road To Bethlehem’

With love and light,
Aquarius
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Re: The Road To Bethlehem

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All Of Life Is Flowingness

All Of Life Is Flowingness
And in this flowing, there is meaning and law.
I cannot lose, what is my own;
I need not seek, what is my own,
For what belongs to me, will come.
Whatever goes does not belong to me.
Only what I am has power.
I now give up all personal struggle and ambition,
Knowing that all that is rightfully mine
Will then be drawn to me.

So, I now let go,
And trust my Highest Self and the Universe,
To run my life for me
And to always show me the way.

Anon.

From ‘Words Of Wisdom For Hope & Encouragement’

With love and light,
Aquarius
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Recipe For A Happy Home

Recipe For A Happy Home
Take two loving hearts and
Melt them into one.
Add lots of love.
Mix well with respect.
Add gentleness, laughter, joy,
Faith, hope and self-control.

Pour in gallons of understanding
And don’t forget patience.
Blend in ears that know how to listen.
Allow each other to grow and share.
Sprinkle generously with
Smiles, hugs, and kisses.
Bake for a lifetime.

Yield: One Happy Home

Anon.​

 

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The Young And The Old

The very young and the very old can be excellent friends. In spite of looking at life from opposite ends, they share notions and perceptions that both of them do not consider in the least strange. Listening to them one frequently finds that they have the same view of matters that the rest of us can no longer perceive and understand.

Anon.​

 

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Mercy

White Eagle teaching from a letter to friends of the Lodge October 2005: ‘We remind you once again that even in cases of catastrophe and when terrible problems arise in human life – when loved ones are snatched from each other – or maybe there are all kinds of afflictions, you need to remember that God is merciful, as well as just, and that you can only ever see one side of the picture. You do not know the compensations that are waiting on the other side. You cannot know, because you have no idea of the wonderful love that comes to souls called upon to go through the depths of the shadows. It is through these experiences that the affected souls find and feel their loving Father/Mother.

How true is the parable of the Master going forth in search of the lost sheep which he took on his shoulders and carried safely home. So, whenever you look upon humankind’s sufferings, remember in your heart the compensation of love and the mercy of God, who sends His/Her ministering Angels to every soul who is in pain and suffering. Each one of them is compensated, loved and cared for.’

From ‘Mercy’

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Who Cares For The Carer?

Who Cares For The Carer?
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This tale contains a poignant message for all those loving and caring souls everywhere, who are in danger of forgetting their own needs whilst attending to those of others.

A woman of saintly generosity spent her life feeding and educating impoverished children. Despite her heroic efforts, the task seemed endless and like a bottomless pit. One fine day, she became so discouraged that she decided to visit a famous guru in the hope that he might help her find a solution to she could improve her situation. Pouring out her heart, she told him: ‘In view of the countless needy children and people in our world everything I do seems like a mere drop in the ocean. No matter how many of them I attend to, there will always be thousands and millions more who are just as needy. Besides, there are times when I could do with a bit of help myself. What should I do?’

The teacher replied: ‘Don’t come to me in search for the answer to this problem or any other. Instead, learn to pay attention to your inner guidance, look inside your heart and listen to the wise one within. It’s the only place where trustworthy answers to all our questions can be found. That’s where you will in some way perceive the voice of God, the living God within, who is waiting to come fully alive in you, the same as in everybody. Since time immemorial it has been known as the small still voice of conscience in everybody. Meditate and listen carefully to what it has to say, then do not hesitate to follow it’s advice.’

For an hour the woman sat in deep meditation, until eventually her inner voice said: ‘Attend to the voice of your loudest and deepest longing.’ Thanking the wise man, as well as her inner guidance for their advice, she went to town. There she treated herself to a big bunch of flowers, a box of her favourite chocolates and a dress she had long admired in one of the shop windows. Then she made a resolution to regularly take time out for attending to her own needs, especially the inner ones.

Anon.
Edited by Aquarius

From ‘Words Of Wisdom & Healing From The Tree Of Life’

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The Sailing Ship – An Allegory

The Sailing Ship – An Allegory​

Imagine in your mind’s eye, if you will, a sailing ship. After a long break on dry land it is getting ready to once again enter into the freedom of the high seas. The ship shows great beauty and strength, as it joyfully opens its snowy white sails and offers them to the morning breeze. You are one of those left behind at the shore. Sadly, you watch the ship’s departure until you can see no more of it than a speck of white cloud on the horizon where the ocean meets the sky. A mournful voice close by says: ‘Ah, it’s gone!’

During the coming days, you keep wondering to yourself: ‘Where did the ship go?’ Finally, you come to the conclusion that this does not really matter because you know that wherever it may be now, it will be still as beautiful as it ever was, and that its mast and hull will be just as strong as when it left your shore. At that moment, as if in a dream, you sense a voice calling to you from some distant shore: ‘It’s arrived safely. It’s here!’

The death of the physical body is similar. Nothing changes, we remain the same one we always were. Our feelings and desires remain unchanged. All we have done is shedding our outer shell like a worn out overcoat. Eternity is here and now and everywhere. Each moment we spend on the Earth plane and all other worlds is an integral part of Eternity. Any loss on our present level of life is the spirit world’s gain. On the other side of the veil of consciousness each death in our world is always a happy event, because one of us is reborn into the full awareness of their true reality and is therefore coming home. We are eternal beings of light. There is no death and we cannot die. It’s just that from time to time we have to gather our experiences, so that we may learn from them and grow, on different levels of life – that’s all.

Roger Carswell
Edited by Aquarius

From ‘Comfort for the Bereaved’​

 

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Reflections On Life

Everyone is valuable and worthy of love, because we all are God’s children of the Earth and part of Creation. The identity of those who still mistake themselves for mere earthlings is in need of healing.

From ‘Reflections On Life’​

 

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Re: Reflections On Life

It has been said that because two people argue does not mean they do not love each other and that because some folks refuse to argue is a sign that they do. I find it childish to fall out with each other because of a difference of opinion. When a situation has been duly considered from all angles, in all our relationships it is all right to come to the conclusion that it is better to agree to disagree than falling out. Wise ones bear in mind that whenever disputes arise, two persons can be confronted with exactly the same things and perceive them in a totally different way.

Depending on one’s point of view, all participants in any argument can be right and wrong, at the same time. That’s the way it has to be for human beings, because of the different lessons we all have to participate in on the Earth plane. With a bit of goodwill any dispute can be settled peacefully, simply by accepting each other’s views, even though they differ. The level of someone’s spiritual maturity reveals itself in nothing more clearly than in the ability and willingness – or otherwise – to agree to disagree with others in times of conflict.

From ‘Reflections On Life’​

 

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Doing The Right Things

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centred.
You don’t have to like them, but love them anyway!

They are all part of your own family.
They are part of you and you are part of them.
They may not yet know it, but you being wiser,
Love them anyway!

People may project their own ulterior motives onto you,
And accuse you of having them.
Rest safe in the knowledge that the Universe
Knows their hearts as well as yours.
Do good anyway!

If being successful means that we can only win
False friends and real enemies.
Succeed anyway!

The good we do today may be forgotten tomorrow.
Do it anyway!

What could have taken years of building up,
Can be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway!

People who are in need of our help,
May attack us whilst we are trying to help them.
Help anyway!

Give the world the best that is within you,
And should it be rejected, do not stop giving.
Give anyway!

The Universal Law of Karma ensures that what we send
Into the world, has to return to us.
Give of your best and only the best is sure to return!

Bishop Abel Muzorewa
African Spiritual and Political Leader
Edited by Aquarius

From ‘Relationship Healing’

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