Divine Messages - 424 : Poem by Hazrat Rabia Al Basri

Poem by Hazrat Rabia Al Basri

God,

In love, nothing exists between heart and heart.
Speech is born out of longing,
True description from the real taste.
The one who tastes, knows; the one who explains, lies.
How can you describe the true form of Something
In whose presence you are blotted out?
And in whose being you still exist?
And who lives as a sign for your journey?

Divine Messages - 423 : Some Spiritual Quotes ...

Some Spiritual Quotes ...

• When life makes no sense, you must withdraw to the sanctuary within. Only in a state of peace will you know what you must do.
• You will understand why when you look back...that the answers are rarely given in the middle of the lesson.
• Deal with issues from a place of peace and love.
• You don't find happiness at the end of the road. You find it along the way.
• When the dust settles and the smoke clears, you will know exactly who will still be there for you.
• Harsh words can hurt a person more than physical pain. Taste your own words before you say them. Words hurt and scar more than you think, so THINK before you speak. And remember, what you say about others, also says a whole lot about you.
• Count your blessings, not your troubles.
• The winds of time carry us through life. Nothing stays the same way forever on this journey, your situation will always constantly change.
• Don't waste your time stressing about things you can't change.
• You deserve a day where worries don't get in the way of anything. A day where, even if some people are insensitive or unkind, you're not going to mind, because the blessings you received are far greater than the burdens you experience.
• Don't rush anything... When the time is right it'll happen.

Divine Messages - 422 : Some Words of Wisdom by Eileen Caddy

Some words of wisdom by Eileen Caddy

Be Very Still, Feel Your Whole Being Expand In The Wonder of Life

I AM in every atom. Realise this. I AM in the tiniest grain of sand, in the highest mountain. I AM in the wind and the rain, the flowers, the birds, the bees. I AM in each one of you. Breathe Me in and breathe Me out. I AM all in all. With Me there is no beginning and no end. I AM the same yesterday, today and forever. Ponder on this. Absorb it into your being. Expand your consciousness and take time to realise the wonder of this Truth. Let it become part of you. Never be too busy to take this in. Be very still and feel your whole being expand in the wonder of it. Do not wait until another time when you are less busy and have time to sit down and think about all this. Right here in this ever present moment of time become one with Me in that raised state of consciousness. Never make excuses about yourself and say when things are different you will be different, when conditions change you will change. You do not have to wait for any outer circumstances for that change to take place. All you have to do is to go deep within here and now and in that peace and stillness find Me, love Me and become One with Me.

You Must Learn Patience, Persistence And Perseverance In Life
Learn to fly blind at times, simply satisfied that you are giving of your best even when you are unable to see immediate results. There will be many things at times, which will have to be done in faith, but go ahead and do them when I tell you to do so and then wait patiently for the results. Each one of you must learn patience, persistence and perseverance in life and never be faint-hearted and give up easily. Try to understand I have to work in and through many souls to bring forth the perfect and some work more slowly than others and cannot be hurried, for I never force My Will upon anyone but wait with infinite patience until each soul is ready to give up their own will and follow Mine. Never try to force your will upon anyone or you will find this will cause a setback in the work. Be very patient, very loving and very tolerant and know that everything will work out.

Let Your Motive Be That Of Purest Love, Of A Deep Desire To Give
Never allow anything to be an effort, do everything because you really enjoy doing it and are doing it for Me and to My honour and glory. Let your motive be that of purest love, of a deep desire to give and give willingly and joyously without a thought of the cost or what you will get out of it. Take no thought of the self. The more you think of others the happier you will be and the better your life will become. Love expands, hate and self-concern contracts. Whenever you find life becoming dull and dreary and uninteresting, start looking around and see what you can do for someone else – it may be a letter of 
cheer or a word of encouragement or a little act of love, which will spark something off in you, and before you know what has happened, you will find a new 
joy and zest in life, and it will take on a new meaning and purpose, and all dullness will vanish away into nothingness.

Eileen Caddy's Web Site - http://www.findhorn.org/

Divine Messages - 421 : Some Spiritual Quotes ...

Some Spiritual Quotes ...

• Don't always trust words, trust actions.
• Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start thinking about what could go right.
• Sometimes the people we've known for only a short amount of time have a bigger impact on us than those we've known forever.
• It is your mind which makes your body sick. Let the spirit within yourself demand health, hope and happiness.
• Forget the money you have lost, the mistakes you have made, the injuries you have received, the disappointments you have experienced.
• Real sorrow, the sorrow which comes from the death of dear ones, you need not forget. But think of these things as sent to enrich your nature, and to make you more human and sympathetic. You are missing them if you permit yourself instead to grow sad and irritable.
• Do not tell me you are too old. Age is all imagination. Ignore years and they will ignore you. Be alive, from head to toe. Breathe deeply, filling every cell of the lungs for at least five minutes, morning, noon and night, and when you draw in long full breaths, believe you are inhaling health, wisdom and success.
• Anticipate good health. If it does not come at once, consider it a mere temporary delay, and continue to expect it.
• Every situation in our lives has a lesson to teach us. Some of these lessons include: To become stronger. To communicate more clearly. To trust your instincts. To express your love. To forgive. To know when to let go. To try something new. Things change, but the sun always rises the next day. The bad news: nothing is permanent. The good news: nothing is permanent.
• You are your worst enemy, it is your negative thoughts that hold you back, nothing else.
• It's a journey. No one is ahead of you or behind you. You are not more "advanced" or less enlightened. You are exactly where you need to be. It's not a contest. It's life. We are all teachers and we are all students.

Divine Messages - 420 : Some Spiritual Quotes ...

Some Spiritual Quotes ...

• Don’t let anyone ever break your Soul. You have to stand on your own two feet and stand up for yourself. There are those that would give anything to see you fail, but you must never give them the satisfaction. Hold your head up high, smile and stand your own ground. – Unknown
• People can twist your words and intentions to mean something so completely different, if so, let your creator be your judge, not them.
• You will never be good enough for everybody, but you will always be the best for someone who really appreciates you.
• In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
• Don't take anything for granted.
• If someone you have shared so much of your life with truly loves and cares about you, they would be there for you every moment...not only in the time of wellness. Because when we are unwell our focus is on wellness and trying to make each new day the best we possibly can, while someone who has wellness sees life through a materialistic vision; and their focus is on what pleases them and what to do to increase their good time. Those close to us someday may realize this when it happens to them.
• Most people don't notice the things we do for them, until we stop doing them.
• The most memorable moments in life, are the ones you never planned.
• Focus on where you're going, and how it will be when you get there.
• When you're hurt, take all the time you need to heal emotionally. Moving on doesn't take a day, it takes a lot of little steps to break free of your broken self.
• Have patience, you cannot expect everything to happen at once, the world does not work that way... It unfolds naturally.

Divine Messages - 419 : Christ And The Cross

Christ and The Cross - Ruzben Bharucha

Lord Christ allowed Himself to be crucified and took on the Cosmic Karma of all those in the physical state, Spirit state and those in between. He is The One who was given this responsibility of taking on Himself the sins of one and all, to pay the exorbitant and heartless price and thus He is known as The Son of God.

Most people seem to be under the false impression that just because He being the Son of God, He had the power of endurance to go through the entire horrid and gruesome process of being crucified. If He could give sight to the blind, cure the lame and the physically challenged, walk on water, He could thus go through the horror of crucifixion too without truly feeling the pain.

The fact is that He felt not only the pain and humiliation of being crucified but He felt the cumulative pain of all beings and took on the Karmic pain through Karmic cleansing of all beings. We can barely lift our own Karmic cross and go through the pain of our own journey of give and take and here was This Man who carried the cross which had the burden of all of us and suffered the pain of our misdeeds.

The fact that He looked at the sky and searched for His Father and whispered as to why had His Father forsaken Him, should give each one enough indication as to how truly unbearable the pain must have been. I believe that when Lord Christ went into isolation and walked through the spiritual desert for forty days which is now known as The Lent, He not only was preparing Himself for that final day of pain, suffering and humiliation but He was also shedding away all His Powers, so that no matter what, on the final day of being crucified, He would have no Powers to allow Him to perform any miracles to ease the pain or help Him in any manner to go through the suffering. He knew that though He being The Son of God, that day, He would have to bear the cross like a normal mortal and simultaneously still go through the suffering meant for all beings.

Thus, one can only imagine, to have all the Powers in the Cosmos, here and beyond and still have no recourse to those Powers, as God wanted His Son to go through the angst, excruciating pain, the unimaginable suffering, feel each and every moment of that inhuman process, walk into hell for the most heavenly cause.

He was stripped naked, spat on, slapped, hit, kicked, abused, laughed at, whipped, nailed, bones broken, rib cage cracked, and He was told by The One, that go through the entire process with compassion and understanding, not only for all beings but also those who were tormenting Him, abusing Him, laughing and mocking at Him, spitting on Him, whipping and beating Him up. He was to love all those who were the cause of His suffering and forgive them first as they too were a part of the Cosmic Plan and had a role in putting this strange Plan into play.

And God, Mother Mary, the legion of Arch Angels and Angels stood by the side, watching this Man, This Son of God, This Prince of Heaven, being mauled by one and all, and They could do nothing. How truly sad must that be to watch Your Son not be able to show one and all that He truly was Your Son, by resorting to magic and miracles. But no, Son and Father and Mother had Their hands tied.

Jesus was trying to tell us all something. Sometimes one has to go through one's Karmic lot, or the Karmic lot of one's loved Ones and do so quietly, no matter if life and all those around were kicking the shit out of you. That sometimes even God was helpless as He too was caught up in one of the Cosmic Plans.

If Lord Jesus, The Christ, could only look at the sky and wonder why had His Father forsaken Him, one can well imagine how truly horrifyingly gruesome the pain must have been. But I believe that it was only for these few seconds that Lord The Christ, gave way to Jesus The Man; as a man all one can do is call out to God and wonder aloud why this sudden desertion. But it was for a few seconds and then Jesus The Man, went within and once again Lord The Christ resurfaced and said softly, Forgive them Father for they known not what they do.

So you have Jesus, as a normal man wondering why His Father had forsaken Him, and you have Jesus The Christ forgiving one and all.

When Jesus operated from the body He questioned God and when Jesus operated from the spirit, His Christ Energy, He prayed to God for forgiveness of all those who were tormenting Him.

When we are going through our internal crucifixion, we can either operate from the body or we can operate from the spirit. As the body, everything is going to be questioned, doubts will rule, hate and anger will reign supreme. But when we operate from the Spirit within the body, then love, compassion and Oneness will be absolute.

Jesus The Christ, only operated from the Spirit and that is why He could go through the entire process with selfless love and Oneness and compassion for one and all. We all have The Christ Energy within us. I know life can be cruel. Life can be hurtful, deceitful, heartless....but remember God is Just and Merciful. God is never partial or unjust. If we are going through something unpleasant, either we are being cleansed of our Karmic sludge or we have decided to take on the Karmic cleansing of our loved ones too. Thus, no matter what, if we are to operate from the body, the entire process will be negated as we shall operate from the lower energies of hate, anger, bitterness, negativity and playing the victim. But if we operate from the Christ Energy, the entire process will be embraced in the spirit of Oneness and compassion.

Yes, it is going to pain and hurt. Whether Jesus the Man or Jesus The Christ, the pain was real and the agony was soul numbing. But when you operate from the Spirit, you will not have to carry the weight of anger, hate, revenge, negativity any further, and trust me, that weight is crippling.

We are normal, phenomenally screwed up individuals, at least I am, and the only way we can show Jesus The Christ and The Man, that His final hours in the physical body has not gone to waste, that His suffering has not gone unnoticed and unshared, that we deeply and reverently bow down to Him and say, sorry for all the pain, is by carrying one's cross with the same dignity, Oneness and compassion and that will be possible only if we operate from the Spirit within.

Be blessed.

Ruzbeh N Bharucha is the author of Devi’s Emerald, The Last Marathon, The Aum of All Things, The Fakir Trilogy and The Ramblings of The 110th, RABDA My  Sai..My sigh, and ANANDA - Musings of the Fakir.

http://www.ruzbehbharucha.net/

Divine Messages - 418 : Words of Wisdom by Dada J P Vaswani

Some words of wisdom by Dada J P Vaswani

• Let the day be full of little prayers to the Lord, little turnings towards Him.
• In God there is a solution to every problem.
• Seek not to please men: seek only to please God.
• Every fall is but a rise, to know this is to be truly wise!
• To be honest is to be truly beautiful.
• The spark of compassion takes us closer to God.
• Nothing lasts forever. The present moment - of joy or sorrow will soon pass away!
• If a man has not learnt to be patient, he has learnt very little.
• Fear nothing! Fear only to do wrong!
• Thought has magnetic power. We draw to ourselves that which we think of consistently and continuously.
• Everything in nature proclaims God. What about you, O man?

Sadhu Vaswani Mission Web Site - http://www.sadhuvaswani.org/

Divine Messages - 417 : Poem by Hazrat Rabia Al Basri

Poem by Hazrat Rabia Al Basri

In
my soul
there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque, a church
where I kneel.

Prayer should bring us to an altar where no walls or names exist.

Is there not a region of love where the sovereignty is
illumined nothing,

where ecstasy gets poured into itself
and becomes
lost,

where the wing is fully alive
but has no mind or
body?

In
my soul
there is a temple, a shrine, a mosque,
a church

that dissolve, that
dissolve in

God. 

Divine Messages - 416 : Some Spiritual Quotes ...

Some Spiritual Quotes ...

• Be guided by Spirit, not the voices of humans who haven't woken up to their own divine nature. If they don't know it is within them, how could they see it in you? Don't let them blind you to who you truly are.
• It is never to late to recover our treasures!
• Believe in yourself. Take control of your life. Your life is not behind you, your memories are behind you. Your life is always right here, right now. Think only of the best and expect only the best, you are worth it. Look always at the positive side of everything, train yourself to do that, it is up to you. Remember the amount of energy is the same. Invest it in getting what you want instead of what you do not want in your life.
• People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.
• No matter how unbearable a person’s situation appears - we are not capable of judging it since we can’t possibly know all the factors involved. Nor can we measure another’s emotional pain by our own experiences and feelings. But we can offer comfort, hope, and healing.
• Learn to face things as they come, and when they come... with calm deliberation. We may not be able to control events, but we can control our attitudes toward them.
• In a world of people who couldn't care less, Be someone who could care more.
• Spirituality is not something you "get" once and for all. It is an ongoing experience of the sacred in daily life - that's why it's often referred to as the spiritual journey. You may feel more connected at certain times than at others, and that is normal. Everyday spirituality requires a certain kind of attention and a desire to walk your talk. But what helps you live a spiritual life every day is to stay on the path of practice.
• The truth hurts, doesn’t it? Yes, when someone tells us something about ourselves that we do not want to know, the truth does hurt, but the purpose of speaking the hard truth is to help. Sometimes, we need that little nudge, accept what it is, learn from it and move on.
• The things you take for granted, someone else is praying for.
• Work for a cause, not for applause. Live life to express, and not for impress. Don't strive to make your presence noticed, just make your absence felt.

Divine Messages - 415 : Some Words of Wisdom by Eileen Caddy

Some words of wisdom by Eileen Caddy

Keep Life Very Simple And Very Real

Always do what has to be done wholeheartedly, never be half-hearted or lukewarm about anything. I need souls wholly dedicated to Me and to My work, souls willing to sacrifice all for Me and for My sake, with never a thought of the self or what you are going to get out of it, simply a giving all, never counting the cost. You all have much to learn, learn quickly and never waste time bemoaning your many faults and failings. Learn to accept My divine love and forgiveness like a very small child. Keep life very simple and very real, by keeping in constant communion with Me. It matters not what you are doing, you can always be in touch with Me.

There Is No Blueprint To Follow In The Spiritual Life

Absorb My peace and love in the silence, so you can go out into the world taking them with you. A fire needs replenishing from time to time otherwise it will go out. Every soul needs replenishing with the fruits of the Spirit to enable it to go on moving ever forward and upwards. Never imagine for one moment you can live a spiritual life without spending much time in peace and stillness alone with Me the Lord your God. I tell you, you need these times, and no matter how busy a person you may be, you cannot do without them. Some souls need to spend more time with Me than others. There is no blueprint to follow in the spiritual life. Each individual must seek within and will know what their need is and then it is up to them to answer that need and never to neglect it. Some souls need more sleep than others, or more food - so with the fruits of the Spirit. Some need far more than others. Therefore let each individual seek and find their own deep inner need and never try to follow in someone else's footsteps or feel that because so and so does such and such a thing, they must try and do the same.

Never Be Afraid Of The Unknown, The Unseen
The old must die so the new may live and increase and multiply. When a potato is planted the old potato rots and withers away so more and more potatoes can be brought forth. When a grain of corn is planted in the ground the original seed disappears so the new can spring forth in greater profusion: so with man. The old must be surrendered and die so the new may spring forth in all its glory. Therefore never resist change. Accept it as a vitally important process of life. Never be satisfied to sit around and vegetate, content with old ways, old forms. There is so much in life waiting for you when you learn to let go of all the old and move forward into the glorious new. Never be afraid of the unknown, the unseen. Simply know that as you move forward into it, it is going to be wonderful. Expect the very best to come out of it and it will. So many of you have sat around dreading what tomorrow may bring instead of enjoying to the full what this moment has in store for you. Cease worrying about the tomorrow; today is what matters, what you do right now in this moment of time.

Eileen Caddy's Web Site - http://www.findhorn.org/

Divine Messages - 414 : Some Spiritual Quotes ...

Some Spiritual Quotes ...

• Anything that annoys you is teaching you patience. Anyone who abandons you is teaching you how to stand up on your own two feet. Anything that angers you is teaching you forgiveness and compassion. Anything that has power over you is teaching you how to take your power back. Anything you hate is teaching you unconditional love. Anything you fear is teaching you courage to overcome your fear. Anything you can can’t control is teaching you how to let go. - Jackson Kiddard
• Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives, put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us.
• If it doesn't challenge you, it probably won't change you.
• Sometimes you have to stop worrying, wondering and doubting, and just have faith that everything will work out.
• Never forget who was there for you when no one else was.
• Humility is often found in people who have bounced back, but still remember how much it hurt when they fell.
• Don't chase people. Be you, do your own thing and work hard. The right people who belong in your life will come to you, appreciate you, and stay.
• Only the selfish never see the light within all these beautiful things around us... To just be stopped in our tracks by the sounds of rain, or silence... or just hearing the whispers of life in all and everything as well as feeling the heartbeat of another that we are so deeply connected too. If only they could see these things. - Mike Nelson
• The blocks along the way have a purpose; they give us a moment to get our breath back, to learn from what's happened and to reassess the best path to go forward... and to realize again why we are on this path. Our vision renewed will inspire and energize us.
• Often, we seek validation in the places we were once injured. We feel in order to heal it, someone has to see it, because in the past it was mistreated, abused, neglected or belittled. Rather than looking for something outside of yourself to heal or feel loved and accepted - go deep within to where the Truth resides that knows you and sees you. Remember that often we are insulted and harmed in the places where our greatest gifts, strengths and abilities lie. The pattern will continue if you hold on to the mistake, and expect flattery or validation to heal it. Those voices come and go, as the voices that insult do as well. It is up to us to own our power, truth, inner-beauty and strength, regardless of outside opinion.
• We have nothing to lose anymore - but the need to get rid of the veils, obstacles and afflictions that came from outside of ourselves. Maybe we attracted it to ourselves to know the human condition and where transformation is needed most in order to change the game and be senior to the lower forces of cruelty, ignorance and deceit.