Life 03 (Jun 09 - Jul 09)

[winston]

Can one die every day…?

Now, can one die every day to everything that one knows—except, of course, the technological knowledge, the direction where your home is, and so on; that is, to end, psychologically, every day, so that the mind remains fresh, young and innocent? That is death.

And to come upon that, there must be no shadow of fear. To give up without argument, without any resistance. That is dying.

Have you ever tried it? To give up without a murmur, without restraint, without resistance, the thing that gives you most pleasure (the things that are painful, of course, one wants to give up in any case). Actually to let go. Try it.

Then, if you do it, you will see that the mind becomes extraordinarily alert, alive and sensitive, free and unburdened. Old age then takes on quite a different meaning, not something to be dreaded.

You are the World, p 135

Source: jkrishnamurthi.com

[winston]

Reduce your workload by 30% and increase your fun load by 30% and you will increase your revenues by 100%.

And you will increase your productivity by 10,000%. (If there could be such a percentage.) More fun, less struggle -- more results on all fronts.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Salt Lake City, UT on Saturday, September 9th, 2000

Source: abraham-hicks.com

[winston]

Beauty by David Neagle

Do we sufficiently direct our thoughts to the subject of Beauty? I think not.

We are too apt to regard Beauty as a merely superficial thing, and do not realize all that it implies. This was not the case with the great thinkers of the ancient world -- see the place which no less a one than Plato gives to Beauty as the expression of all that is highest and greatest in the system of the universe. These great men of old were no superficial thinkers, and, therefore, would never have elevated to the supreme place that which is only superficial. Therefore, we shall do well to ask, "What it is that these great minds found in the idea of Beauty which made it thus appeal to them as the most perfect outward expression of all that lies deepest in the fundamental laws of Being?"

It is because, rightly apprehended, Beauty represents the most supreme living quality of Thought. It is the glorious overflowing of fullness of Love which indicates the presence of infinite reserves of Power behind it. It is the joyous profusion that shows the possession of inexhaustible stores of wealth which can afford to be thus lavish and yet remain as exhaustless as before. Read aright, Beauty is the index to the whole nature of Being.

Beauty is the externalization of Harmony, and Harmony is the coordinated working of all the powers of Being, both in the individual and in the relation of the individual to the Infinite from which it springs; and therefore this Harmony conducts us at once into the presence of the innermost undifferentiated Life.

Thus Beauty is in most immediate touch with the very Arcanum (secret known to few) of Life; it is the brightness of glory spreading itself over the sanctuary of the Divine Spirit. For if, viewed from without, Beauty is the province of the artist and the poet, and lays hold of our emotions and appeals directly to the innermost feelings of our heart, calling up the response of that within us which recognizes itself in the harmony perceived without, this is only because it speeds across the bridge of Reason with such quick feet that we pass from the
outmost to the inmost and back again in the twinkling of an eye; but the bridge is still there and, retracing our steps more leisurely, we shall find that, viewed from within, Beauty is no less the province of the calm reasoner and analyst.

What the poet and the artist seize upon intuitionally, he elaborates gradually, but the result is the same in both cases; for no intuition is true which does not admit of being expanded into a rational sequence of intelligible factors, and no argument is true which does not admit of being condensed into that rapid
suggestion which is intuition.

Thus the impassioned artist and the calm thinker both find that the only true Beauty proceeds naturally from the actual construction of that which it expresses. It is not something added on as an afterthought, but something pre-existing in the original idea, something to which that idea naturally leads up, and which pre-supposes that idea as affording it any raison d'être. The test of Beauty is, What does it express? Is it merely a veneer, a coat of paint laid on from without? Then it is indeed nothing but a whited sepulcher, (a sepulcher is a
burial place or container for relics. Pronounced (sepp'lker)) a covering to hide the vacuity or deformity which needs to be removed.

But is it the true and natural outcome of what is beneath the surface? Then it is the index to super abounding Life and Love and Intelligence, which is not content with mere utilitarianism hasting to escape at the earliest possible point from the labor of construction, as though from an enforced and unwelcome task, but rejoicing over its work and unwilling to quit it until it has expressed this rejoicing in every fittest touch of form and color and exquisite proportion that the material will admit of, and this without departing by a hairbreadth from the original purpose of the design.

Wherever, therefore, we find Beauty, we may infer an enormous reserve of Power behind it; in fact, we may look upon it as the visible expression of the great truth that Life-Power is infinite. And when the inner meaning of Beauty is thus revealed to us, and we learn to know it as the very fullness and overflowing of Power, we shall find that we have gained a new standard for the guidance of our own lives.

http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Beauty.html

[winston]

GOD is not helping anyone defeat anyone. The only one that can ever defeat any of you is yourself.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Los Angeles, CA on Saturday, August 4th, 2001

Source: abraham-hicks.com

[winston]

If you had only one hour to live…

“May I ask just one question?” put in one of the others.

“In what manner should one live one’s daily life?” As though one were living for that single day, for that single hour.

“How?” If you had only one hour to live, what would you do?

“I really don’t know,” he replied anxiously.

Would you not arrange what is necessary outwardly, your affairs, your will, and so on? Would you not call your family and friends together and ask their forgiveness for the harm that you might have done to them, and forgive them for whatever harm they might have done to you?

Would you not die completely to the things of the mind, to desires and to the world? And if it can be done for an hour, then it can also be done for the days and years that may remain.

“Is such a thing really possible, sir?”. Try it and you will find out.

Commentaries on Living Third Series, p 303

Source: jkrishnamurthi.com

[kennynah]

“In what manner should one live one’s daily life?” As though one were living for that single day, for that single hour.

“How?” If you had only one hour to live, what would you do?

wah liao eh..... damn depressing man, reading these lines...

[winston]

When we fill the atmosphere with hatred we too have to perforce breathe the same air, and are hated in turn.

When we saturate the air with sounds full of reverence, humility, love, courage, self-confidence and tolerance, we benefit from those qualities ourselves.

The heart is the film and the mind is the lens; turn the lens towards the world and worldly pictures fall on the heart. Turn it towards the Divine and it will transmit the pictures of the Divine.

- Divine Discourse, Nov 14, 1976.

Source: radiosai.org

[winston]

Death…may be what we call God

When death comes, it does not ask your permission; it comes and takes you; it destroys you on the spot.

In the same way, can you totally drop hate, envy, pride of possession, attachment to beliefs, to opinions, to ideas, to a particular way of thinking? Can you drop all that in an instant? There is no “how to drop it”, because that is only another form of continuity.

To drop opinion, belief, attachment, greed, or envy is to die—to die every day, every moment. If there is the coming to an end of all ambition from moment to moment, then you will know the extraordinary state of being nothing, of coming to the abyss of an eternal movement, as it were, and dropping over the edge—which is death.

I want to know all about death, because death may be reality; it may be what we call God—that most extraordinary something that lives and moves and yet has no beginning and no end.

The Collected Works vol XI, p 242

Source: jkrishnamurthi.com

[winston]

From the physical perspective, most of you believe that your beliefs are the right ones, and if you disagree with someone then they must be wrong.

But from the Nonphysical standpoint, it is not seen as right and wrong. It is seen as the powerful diversity that stimulates thought, and from the Nonphysical perspective, you enjoy that diversity.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Orlando, FL on Saturday, February 15th, 1997

Source: abraham-hicks.com

[winston]

The devotional songs you sing, saturates the atmosphere with thoughts of the Divine, and of the peace and joy that He showers.
The songs affects not only the particular area you are and the environment, but the entire atmosphere.

Continue the attitude of devotion and humility, of service and tolerance, and the atmosphere will not be polluted by hatred.

Do not contaminate the air by voices of acrimony, scandal, insult or slander. Keep silent when you feel like expressing such ideas, that itself is a service to yourself and to others.

- Divine Discourse, Nov 14, 1976.

Source: radiosai.org