There is a Reason for Everything! The
Teachings of LaoTzu, a Legendary Chinese Sage and Father
of Taoism
This story happened in the days of LaoTzu in China...
There was an old man in a village, very poor, but even kings were jealous
of him because he had a beautiful white horse. Kings offered fabulous prices 
for
the horse, but the man would say, "This horse is not a horse to me, he
is a person. And how can you sell a person, a friend?" The man was poor
but he never sold the horse.
One morning, he found that the horse was not in the stable. The whole
village gathered and they said, "You foolish old man! We knew that someday
the horse would be stolen. It would have been better to sell it. What a
misfortune."
The
old man said, "Don't go so far as to say that. Simply say that the horse
is not in t he stable. This is the fact; everything else is a judgment.
Whether it is a misfortune or a blessing I don't know, because this is
just a fragment. Who knows what is going to follow it?"
People laughed at the old man. They had always known he was a little
crazy. But after fifteen days, suddenly one night the horse returned. He
had not been stolen, he had escaped into the wild. And not only that, he
brought a dozen wild horses with him.
Again the people gathered and they said, "Old man, you were right. This
was not a misfortune, it has indeed proved to be a blessing." The old man
said, "Again you are going too far. Just say that the horse is back. Who
knows whether it is a blessing or a curse? It is only a fragment. You read
a single word in a sentence- how can you judge the whole book?". This time
the people could not say much, but inside they knew that he was wrong.
Twelve beautiful horses had come.
The
old man had a son who started to train the wild horses. Just a week later
he fell from a horse and his legs were broken. The people gathered again,
and again they judged. They said, "Again you proved right! It was a misfortune.
Your only son has lost the use of his legs, and in your old age he was
you only support. Now you are poorer than ever."
The old man said. "You are obsessed with judgment. Don't go that far.
Say only that my son has broken his legs. Nobody knows whether this is
a misfortune or a blessing. Life comes in fragments and more is never given
to you.
It happened that after a few weeks the country went to war, and all
the young men of the town were forcibly taken for the military. Only the
old man's son was left, because he was crippled. The whole town was crying
and weeping, because it was a losing fight and they knew that most of the
young men would never come back.
They came to the old man and said, "You were right, old man- this has
proved a blessing. Maybe your son is crippled, but he is still with you.
Our sons are gone forever.
The old man said again, " You go on and on judging. Nobody knows! Only
say this: that your sons have been drafted and my son has not been drafted.
But only God, the total, knows whether it is a blessing or not."
Lao
Tsu taught that all straining, all striving are not only vain but counterproductive.
One should endeavor to do nothing (wu-wei). But what does this mean? It
means not to literally do nothing, but to discern and follow the natural
forces -- to follow and shape the flow of events and not to pit oneself
against the natural order of things. First and foremost to be spontaneous
in ones actions. In this sense the Taoist doctrine of wu-wei can be understood
as a way of mastering circumstances by understanding their nature or principal,
and then shaping ones actions in accordance with these. This understanding
has also infused the approach to movement as it is developed in Tai Chi
Chuan.
The
Secret Coloring Book of Lao Tzu - Sparse wording and evocative illustrations,
presenting the startling and easygoing Way of Tao - the teachings of legendary
Chinese sage rendered in simple and direct terms. These morsels of timeless
wisdom invite coloring, decorating and personalizing. A book for all ages.
This unique rendition distills in words and pictures the Way of Tao to
its childlike essence. May you have many delightful hours savoring the
wisdon within, and coloring the beautiful b/w illustrations to make the
volume your own.
Lao
Tzu: Father of Taoism --- Selections
are from the Tao Ching, (The Book of Changes)
A Message by George Carlin:
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings
but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend
more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses
and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees
but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more
problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little,
drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read
too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk
too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.
We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years
to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back,
but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered
outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better
things.
We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the
atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more,
but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more
computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but
we communicate less and less.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small
character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days
of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These
are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night
stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to
quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window
and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter
to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or
to just hit delete...
Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not
going to be around forever.
Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in awe, because
that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.
Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is
the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent.
Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones,
but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes
from deep inside of you.
Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person
will not be there.
Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious
thoughts in your mind.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments
that take our breath away.
Create Your Own Dream List
Let your mind float freely. Imagine that you have no limitations. Imagine
that you have all the time, money, all the resources, intelligence, all
the education, all the experience and all the contacts in the world. Imagine
that you could do, be or have anything in your life.
Write down everything you would want in your life if you had no limitations
whatsoever on your potential, as if you have had no fear of failure at
all.
It is helpful to imagine that whatever you write down you are guaranteed
to receive. Be sure to decide what you want before you limit yourself in
advance by thinking of all the reasons why it is not possible. Put the
word possible aside for now and just allow yourself to dream.
You might also imagine that you had just been given a check for $10
million (tax-free). How would you change your life? What would you buy?
It might help if you also consider the following two questions:
What makes you unhappy? “In what situations in my life, and with whom,
am I not perfectly happy?” Force yourself to think about every part of
your day, from morning to night, and write down every element that makes
you unhappy or dissatisfied in any way. Remember, proper diagnosis is half
the cure. Identifying the unsatisfactory situations is the first step to
resolving them.
What makes you happy? In looking over your life, where and when have
you been the happiest? Where were you, and what were you doing?
Goal Guidelines
Here is a checklist to ensure you're using a successful framework to
set your 100 goals:
-
Your most important goals must be yours. Not your spouse's. Not your child's.
Not your employer's. Yours. When you let other people determine your definition
of success, you’re sabotaging your own future.
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Your goals must mean something to you. Your reasons for charting a new
course of action give you the drive and energy to get up every morning.
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Your goals must be specific and measurable. Vague generalizations and wishy-washy
statements aren't good enough. Be very specific! The more details and precise
adjectives and timing you insert the more likely it will occur. Please
be sure to use as many features as possible.
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Write down your goals in positive terms. Avoid saying I will not be. Your
subconscious is very specific and it filters out the negative and will
attract like a powerful magnet all the negative things you write down.
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Your goals must be present tense. Avoid saying I will have. Write down
your goals as if you had your dream today and right now. This will help
keep time from sabotaging your achievements.
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Your goals must be flexible. A flexible plan keeps you from feeling suffocated
and allows you to take advantage of genuine opportunities that walk in
your future door.
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Your goals must be challenging and exciting. Force yourself to jump out
of your comfort zone to acquire that much-needed energy and edge.
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Your goals must be in alignment with your values. Pay attention to your
intuition and your gut feelings. God gave you these feelings for a reason,
please be sure to honor them. When you set a goal that contradicts your
values, something inside will twinge.
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Your goals must be well balanced. Make sure you include areas that allow
time to relax, have fun and enjoy.
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Your goals must be realistic. Be expansive, but don't be ridiculous. If
you're four feet tall, you'll probably never play in the NBA.
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Your goals must include contribution. Unfortunately, many people get so
wrapped up in pursuing their goals that they don't have time in their lives
to give something back to society. Build this into your goals program.
The
Secret
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Now YOU will know The Secret. And it can change your life forever. Never
before has the Law of Attraction been explained so thoroughly, concisely,
and beautifully as in "The Secret." The Law of Attraction states that like
attracts like; your thoughts and feelings attract corresponding experiences.
Sounds simple but the implications are beyond imagination.
Making Your Dreams a Reality
From Dr. Mercola's
website
There is no such thing as unrealistic goals, only unrealistic time frames.
Some experts believe fully that 80 percent of all problems in personal
and business life come from a lack of clarity with regard to our objectives
and goals. The word "goals" can be intimidating--it can feel so overbearing
that it keeps people from beginning the process. This is why it is helpful
to pretend you are a kid again when you are thinking about your goals.
What kid do you know who doesn’t have a million things he or she wants
to do? Many people will tell you to write down your goals but not have
100 as your target number of goals--however you can't have too many goals.
Here's why: Goals have different gestation periods. Some are accomplished
quickly, some take many years. When we reach a goal, it loses power and
importance for us. We need plenty more to keep our conscious and subconscious
mind at work! The rule of the universe is abundance. Since you can
have almost everything you really want, why settle for less? Do your goals
have to be accomplished tomorrow? Next week? This year? Of course not!
Your goals can be added to, subtracted from and achieved as you move through
life.
The
Secret of Deliberate Creation show you how the natural
laws of Quantum Physics, the Law of Attraction and Cause and Effect can
work either FOR YOU or AGAINST YOU…Quantum Physics provides scientific
proof that you are the cause of your life ... your life is not the effect
of circumstances and actions of others. Learn How to make the “Law of Attraction”
work for you instead of against you...
Miracle" of the mind/body/spirit connection
Exerpt
Another Perspective
of ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis)
by Evy McDonald, R.N
In September of 1980 I was a successful health professional. I had a
Master's degree in Nursing and Hospital Administration plus 13 years of
professional experience. My positions ranged from Director of Education
at one of the first three hospices in the U.S. to collegiate level nursing
instructor to Director of Intensive and Coronary Care units.
Also in September 1980 I was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
(ALS) and given less than one year to live.
Today, seven years later, I am not only alive but as healthy as I've
ever been in my entire life. Since I am one of the first people to have
reversed this normally fatal disease, I have felt called to become a student
of my own process of healing, seeking to understand and articulate the
factors that reversed this death sentence. Neither the "mainstream medicine"
rationale (it was a misdiagnosis) nor the "holistic" approach (it was prayer,
visualization, diet, vitamins, etc.) come close to explaining what happened.
I have brought both my scientific and spiritual training to bear on this
apparent enigma of my healing process and have discovered in modern physics
a framework for understanding the "miracle" of the mind/body/spirit connection.
Disease, no matter how devastating it may seem, need not be viewed as
negative. I chose to use the experience of my disease to expand my horizons,
to alter the unhealthy patterns in my life and to learn to live fully in
each moment. After months of solitary introspection, a dramatic change
emerged in my process of thinking, feeling and interacting with the world.
I have been able to articulate these changes as seven key patterns or principles.
These were:
1. I went from get to give - demanding from life to giving to
life. From feeling that life owed me something to giving my all to life.
From trying to get honors, recognition, success, power, achievements to
giving my time, talents, enthusiasm to others and the world. At first,
I had no idea how one served selflessly. Then I remembered a quote: "You
can accomplish anything if you are willing to take credit for nothing."
From my wheelchair I started giving to those around me - with no expectation
of either reward or return, without trying to "take credit." Each evening
I would look back on the day and give myself a report card. Had I been
loving? Had I been of service to anyone? Really? Did I have expectations
of something in return for an action of mine? What eventually became apparent
was that this discipline was not only good for the soul - it was transforming
my body.
Research is beginning to document the power of love and serving. Schmale
and Iker, in a study of 68 women predisposed to cervical carcinoma, discovered
that they could predict, prior to biopsy, which women would have carcinomatous
changes on the basis of the presence or absence of a high hopelessness
potential and/or reported recent hopelessness. Further research revealed
a certain character pattern or quality that counteracted these feelings
of helplessness and hopelessness and thus enhanced a state of health. This
quality was the selfless devotion of giving to others. Patients reported
two feelings that created an internal state of contentment: pride of action
and the feeling of goodness that comes when people give without regard
for their own personal needs. This internal state, says Schmale, reflects
one's ability to cope with life and thus remain in a state of health.
2. I went from resentment to forgiveness. It astounded me when
I recognized how many people I still resented from some act or words they
had said to me from as long as 25 years ago. For example, I noticed that
I still resented my third grade teacher. She had told me that because I
was handicapped, I didn't need to learn to write. What did my resentment
do to her? Nothing! Nothing at all. The only one still being affected was
me.
3. I went from self-hatred to self-acceptance and unconditional love.
My body had never been right. I came in two sizes as a result of the childhood
polio. I despised my body and wished it would just disappear. Outwardly
I pretended to accept and love myself. So the problem wasn't totally in
the hating of my body, but in the mixed messages I was sending myself.
I could give up and just hate myself totally - or learn to love myself
totally. Because I longed to experience unconditional love before I died,
I chose to learn to love my body (which, thanks to the ALS, was now like
a bowl of jello in a wheelchair!). Every day I would focus on some part
of my body, praise it and love it. I also began to look at myself in a
mirror and speak words of love and affection to my reflection. This was
not an easy task. But, as a friend of mine says, "If you can fake it you
can make it." So, at first I faked it. But, gradually the self-acceptance
became real. Eventually, I found myself completely content with me and
with my physical body. And, as my experience of love for myself deepened,
I was finally able to love others as well as accept their love for me.
4. I went from wanting to escape from life to accepting life exactly
as it is. In truth, I'd been dissatisfied with my job and wanted out.
Yet I had said that I wanted to be the youngest female hospital administrator
in the USA - even if it killed me! And how could I admit that the entire
thrust of my life was wrong? What then?
5. I went from expecting and preparing for death to celebrating life
and living every moment. I had been given one year to live by the top
neurologists in the country. For me, it was a verdict. I became preoccupied
with my death and how to have it be the best death possible. One day I
asked myself, "What is my life for? To sit here dying each moment or to
celebrate the life I still have?"
6. I went from denying painful emotions to sharing them and letting
them go. Having lied for so many years about my feelings, I first had
to allow them to be, then to identify them, distinguish one from another,
and finally to share them openly with others. In the process of sharing,
I discovered those that weren't useful just disappeared.
7. I went from avoiding intimacy to opening myself to love. This
last shift was actually a product of the other six - and perhaps the most
important one. In a well-known experiment out of Ohio State University,
rabbits were given a diet high in fat and cholesterol to demonstrate atherosclerotic
changes. The results were as predicted - except for one group, where there
were 60 percent less atherosclerotic changes than in all the other groups.
The only variable discovered was that the researcher for this group regularly
took the rabbits from their cages and petted, stroked and talked to them.
This experiment was repeated many times, with the same results. The rabbits
who were stroked and cared for were healthier than those who were not.4
Intimacy at every level - emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and physical
- is the flowering of unconditional love.
Click here to read Evy's entire story
Evy McDonald, R.N., M.S., M.Div., former intensive and
coronary care director, knows what dealing with a "terminal illness" is
all about. In the 1980s she was diagnosed with ALS, which progressed until
she was a "bowl of jello in a wheelchair." After her recovery from ALS,
she conducted a medical research project on the mind-body-spirit connection
in ALS. Today she has left the health arena and is in service as a Methodist
minister, leaving behind a legacy of ALS
articles and resources that offer science and inspiration to those
dealing with serious health conditions.
Another
amazing testimonial about ALS from Jason Becker, musician
"In 1996, I could barely breathe unless I was totally reclined. Lack
of air and so much fear made me very angry much of the time. This anger
compounded because I got mad at myself for getting mad. Finally, in February
1997, I reluctantly went to get a tracheostomy (a tube through my throat
for breathing) and a gastrostomy (a tube through my abdomen into my stomach
for liquids). When I first got to the hospital I hadn't slept for three
days. I lay down and stopped breathing. Everyone was happy I was finally
resting. My girlfriend came in and started worrying because I responded
to nothing. After trying to comfort the ignorant lay people of my family,
the doctor finally looked at my chart and me and realized I needed a breathing
mask. I had carbon dioxide poisoning. I was close to being a veggie. I
am so sorry for people whose lives slip away by human mistakes. I guess
it was meant to be... One particular event in the hospital changed my life.
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The
Biology Of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter And Miracles
by Bruce Lipton, Ph.D
"Dr Lipton presents fascinating scientific findings about how what we
believe effects us on a cellular level and how we can literally change
our makeup by what we believe about ourselves. I was mesemerized by this
book, even though it was a bit "heady" at times, I found myslef eagerly
going back and re-reading the parts that I did not understand over and
over to make sure I had a firm grasp on the material. The material was
that important.
If you want to know what part "faith" and "consciousness" plays in
determining who we are and what lives we lead. Read this book!!" an amazon.com
reviewer
The Biology of Belief is a groundbreaking work in the field of New Biology.
Author Dr. Bruce Lipton is a former medical school professor and research
scientist. His experiments, and those of other leading-edge scientists,
have examined in great detail the processes by which cells receive information.
The implications of this research radically change our understanding of
life. It shows that genes and DNA do not control our biology; that instead
DNA is controlled by signals from outside the cell, including the energetic
messages emanating from our positive and negative thoughts. Dr. Lipton's
profoundly hopeful synthesis of the latest and best research in cell biology
and quantum physics is being hailed as a major breakthrough showing that
our bodies can be changed as we retrain our thinking.
"Dr. Lipton has clearly challenged what we thought we knew and opened
Pandora's box. Scientists have long stated, "If you can't prove it, it
doesn't exist." That means that we relegate our belief system to the quality
of our measuring devices. Since we couldn't measure things at biological
speeds until we got Pentium class computers, we haven't been able to measure
biological electronic function for very many years. Lipton has helped refocus
us away from the false belief that the body is Newtonian and reductionistic
to the reality that the body works at the atomic level where Newton's laws
fail and electromagnetic energy rules." Jerald Tennant M.D.
Out
of Your Mind: Essential Listening From the Alan Watts Audio Archives
"Faith is a state of openness or trust. To have faith is to trust yourself
to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if
you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. And the attitude
of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. In
other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings
to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person
who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude
of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn
out to be."
The universe is an infinite and intertwined tapestry of phenomena, yet
most of us experience only a few spare threads. Look more closely at the
“warp and weave” of creation, suggests Watts, and you may discover an astonishing
wealth of meaning. Pleasure and suffering, fear and exuberance—Watts
explores the surprising relationships among these universal experiences
and the “inevitable ecstasy” they lead to.
"Underneath the superficial self, which pays attention to this and that,
there is another self more really us than I. And the more you become aware
of the unknown self -- if you become aware of it -- the more you realize
that it is inseparably connected with everything else that is. You are
a function of this 
total
galaxy, bounded by the Milky Way, and this galaxy is a function of all
other galaxies. You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with
great telescopes. You look and look, and one day you are going to wake
up and say, "Why, that's me!" And in knowing that, you know that you never
die. You are the eternal thing that comes and goes that appears -- now
as John Jones, now as Mary Smith, now as Betty Brown -- and so it goes,
forever and ever and ever."
I don't think I could begin
to put into words how wonderful these CDs are! They have transformed
my life! His books are great, but to hear him speak puts his discourses
on a whole new level. ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL!!!!
ASCENSION
- A True Story of A Near Death Experience
The universe was created out of love, and we are all a part of that
creation. The unconditional love that I felt during my NDE was very powerful.
Instinctively we fear this kind of love by layering it with many conditions.
The greatest fear we face is, will this love I give be returned? It's as
if we all think that we only have so much to give, and that it might run
out. We tend to look at other's failures as the only reality in this world,
and become even more fearful of this powerful emotion. Somehow we have
forgotten that the giving of love is the blessing, and returns to the sender
an abundance of even more to give. This is the lesson that we all have
to learn; this is what we need to fill that big black hole with! I know
in my spirit that these lessons will be learned by all, and then we shall
all be transformed into new planes, and be given even greater gifts to
share. Read about this amazing
journey
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Don't Believe in Miracles, Depend On Them! --Max
Stein
If you are asking if all miracles involve some sort of transformation
of matter, the answer is "No." But they always have effect.
Remember, everything you perceive is an idea, so there is no difference
at all between what you define as "tangible" and what you call "intangible."
A miracle might involve a change in the way you see your world, it might
involve a physical healing, it might involve meeting exactly the right
person at exactly the right time!
There is no difference in quality or difficulty among any of these events.
Miracles are also much broader in their effect than you now understand.
One miracle may affect thousands and will always echo around your world.
What to you is a "small" miracle might be a ripple from a dramatic event
many miles away. Every miracle changes the world. You don't need an explanation
for everything. Recognize that there are such things as miracles, events
for which there are no explanations. Later, knowledge may explain those
events quite easily.
The fact that you can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a
bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive
a smile in return are common miracles. Your duty to yourself is to believe
that for which you have sufficient evidence, and to suspend your judgment
when you have not.
Any
sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Some
things have to be believed to be seen. Vision is the art of seeing invisible
things. A miracle as "an unusual or extraordinary event. . .that finds
no reasonable explanation in ordinary human abilities or in other known
forces."
RocketHealer Jim++ website
Animal
Wisdom Dogs and cats know what you are going to do long before
you do it and often will be in a room or ready before you are. They
pick up the mental pictures you broadcast (this is how you communicate
with animals by thinking in pictures). Angel Dogs:
Divine Messengers of Love
Good Karma
Farmer Fleming
His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer. One day, while
trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming
from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and ran to the bog. There, mired
to his waist in a black muck, was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling
to free himself. Farmer Fleming saved the lad from what could have been
a slow and terrifying death. The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to
the Scotsman's sparse surroundings. An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped
out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had
saved.
"I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life."
"No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer replied,
waving off the offer.
At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family
hovel.
"Is that your son?" the nobleman asked.
"Yes," the farmer replied proudly.
"I'll make you a deal. Let me take him and give him a good education.
If the lad is anything like his father, he'll grow to a man you can be
proud of."
And that he did. In time, Farmer Fleming's son graduated from St. Mary's
Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout
the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.
Years afterward, the nobleman's son was stricken with pneumonia. What saved
him? Penicillin. The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His
son's name? Sir Winston Churchill. Someone once said; what goes around
comes around
Celebrating
Changes
by Barry Sultanoff, M.D.
Breaths come and breaths go. Tens of thousands of times, every day of
your life, your breath changes its direction. The events of your life come
and go, too. Nothing stays constant. Everything is changing.
The attitude that you choose to take toward this ever-changing nature
of your life---how well you learn to let go of what was and move on with
what is---has a huge impact on your health and well-being. It is a significant
determinant of how long, and how well, you live. more
The
Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe
McTaggart, an investigative journalist (What Doctors Don't Tell You),
describes scientific discoveries that she believes point to a unifying
concept of the universe, one that reconciles mind with matter, classic
Newtonian science with quantum physics and, most importantly, science with
religion. At issue is the zero point field, the so-called "dead space"
of microscopic vibrations in outer space as well as within and between
physical objects on earth. These fields, McTaggart asserts, are a "cobweb
of energy exchange" that link everything in the universe; they control
everything from cellular communication to the workings of the mind, and
they could be harnessed for unlimited propulsion fuel, levitation, ESP,
spiritual healing and more. Physicists have been aware of the likelihood
of this field for years, McTaggart writes, but, constrained by orthodoxy,
they have ignored its effects, which she likens to "subtracting out God"
from their equations. But, McTaggart asserts, "tiny pockets of quiet rebellion"
against scientific convention are emerging, led by Ed Mitchell, an Apollo
14 astronaut and founder of the Institute for Noetic Sciences, an alternative-science
think tank. McTaggart writes well and tells a good story, but the supporting
data here is somewhat sketchy. Until it materializes, McTaggart may have
to settle for being a voice in the wilderness.
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People in our Lives
Sometimes people come into your life and you know right away that they
were meant to be there,
To serve some sort of purpose, to teach you a lesson, or to help you
figure out who you are or who you might want to become.
You never know who these people may be, possibly your roommate neighbor,
professor, long lost friend, lover or even a complete stranger you know
at the moment they will affect your life in some profound way.
Sometimes things happen to you that may seem horrible, painful, and
unfair at first but in reflection you find that without overcoming these
obstacles you would have never realized your potential, your strength,
your willpower, or heart.
Everything happens for a reason Nothing happens by chance or by means
of good luck Illness, injury, love, lost moments of true greatness, and
sheer stupidity all occur to test the limits of your soul.
Without these small tests, whatever they may be life would be like a
smoothly paved, straight flat road to nowhere It would be safe and comfortable,
but dull and utterly pointless.
The people you meet who affect your life and the success and downfalls
you experience help to create who you are and who you become.
Even the bad experiences can be learned from. In fact, they are probably
the most poignant and important ones.
If someone hurts you, betrays you or breaks your heart forgive them
for they have helped you learn about trust and the importance of being
cautious when you open your heart.
If someone loves you, love them back unconditionally not only because
they love you but because they are teaching you to love and opening your
heart and eyes to things that you would have never seen or felt without
them.
Make everyday count. Appreciate every moment and take from those moments
everything that you possibly can for you may never be able to experience
it again.
Talk to people that you have never talked to before and actually listen.
Let yourself fall in love break free, and set your sights high.
Hold your head up because you have every right to. Tell yourself you
are a great individual and believe in yourself, for if you don't believe
in yourself, no one else will believe in you either.
You can make of your life anything you wish. Create your own life, then
go out and live it.
Author Unknown
When you were born, you didn't come with an owner's
manual; these guidelines make life work better.
1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it's the
only thing you are sure to keep for the rest of your life.
2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal
school called "Life on Planet Earth". Every person or incident is the Universal
Teacher.
3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of experimentation.
"Failures" are as much a part of the process as "success."
4. A lesson is repeated until learned. It is presented to you in various
forms until you learn it: then you can go on to the next lesson.
5. If you don't learn easy lessons, they get harder. External problems
are a precise reflection of your internal state. When you clear inner obstructions,
your outside world changes. Pain is how the universe gets your attention.
6. You will know you've learned a lesson when your actions change. Wisdom
is practice. A little of something is better than a lot of nothing.
7. "There" is no better than "here". When your "there" becomes a "here"
you will simply obtain another "there" that again looks better than "here."
8. Others are only mirrors of you. You cannot love or hate something
about another unless it reflects something you love or hate in yourself.
9. Your life is up to you. Life provides the canvas; you do the painting.
Take charge of your life, or someone else will.
10. You always get what you want. Your subconscious rightfully determines
what energies, experiences, and people you attract; therefore, the only
foolproof way to know what you want is to see what you have. There are
no victims, only students.
11. There is no right or wrong, but there are consequences. Moralizing
doesn't help. Judgments only hold the patterns in place. Just do your best.
12. Your answers lie inside you. Children need guidance from others;
as we mature, we trust our hearts, where the Laws of Spirit are written.
You know more than you have heard or read or been told. All you need to
do is to look, listen, and trust.
13. You will forget all this.
14. You can remember any time you wish.
Author unknown
Happiness is the way.
So, treasure every moment that you have and treasure it more because
you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time with...and
remember that time waits for no one.
So, stop waiting....
--until your car or home is paid off
--until you get a new car or home
--until your kids leave the house
--until you go back to school
--until you finish school
--until you lose 10 lbs.
--until you gain 10 lbs.
--until you get married
--until you get a divorce
--until you have kids
--until summer
--until spring
--until winter
--until fall
--until you die
There is no better time than right now to be happy. Happiness is a journey,
not a destination. So-work like you don't need money, Love like you've
never been hurt, and dance like no one's watching. If you want to brighten
someone's day, pass this on to someone special, I just did.
author unknown - (excerpt from Tips for Better Health newsletter)---
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Thank you
Thank you for this sink of dirty dishes; we have plenty of food to eat.
Thank you for this pile of dirty, stinky laundry; we have plenty of
nice clothes to wear.
And I would like to thank you, Lord, for those unmade beds; they were
so warm and comfortable last night. I know that many have no bed.My thanks
to you, Lord, for this bathroom, complete with all the splattered mess,
soggy, grimy towels and dirty lavatory; they are so convenient.
Thank you for this finger-smudged refrigerator that needs defrosting
so badly; it has served us faithfully for many years. It is full of cold
drinks and enough leftovers for two or three meals.
Thank you, Lord, for this oven that absolutely must be cleaned today;
it has baked so many things over the years.
The whole family is grateful for that tall grass that needs mowing,the
lawn that needs raking; we all enjoy the yard.
Thank you, Lord, even for that slamming screen door. My kids are healthy
and able to run and play.
Lord, the presence of all these chores awaiting me says You have richly
blessed my family. I shall do them cheerfully and I shall do them gratefully.
And all God's people say....Amen!
Anyone can count the number of seeds in an apple, but only God knows
the number of apples in a seed.
Even though I clutch my blanket and growl when the alarm rings, Thank
you, Lord, that I can hear. There are many who are deaf.
Even though I keep my eyes closed against the morning light as long
as possible, Thank you, Lord, that I can see. Many are blind.
Even though I huddle in my bed and put off rising, Thank you, Lord,
that I have the strength to rise. There are many who are bedridden.
Even though the first hour of my day is hectic, when socks are lost,
Toast is burned and tempers are short, my children are so loud, Thank you,
Lord, for my family. There are many who are lonely.
Even though our breakfast table never looks like the pictures in magazines
and the menu is at times not balanced, Thank you, Lord, for the food we
have. There are many who are hungry.
Even though the routine of my job is often monotonous, Thank you, Lord,
for the opportunity to work. There are many who have no job.
Even though I grumble and bemoan my fate from day to day and wish my
circumstances were not so modest, Thank you, Lord, for life. If we can
pass this on to most people we know, it might help a bit to make this world
a better place to live in, right?.
If we could shrink the earth's population to a village
of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios remaining the
same, it would look something like the following: There would be:
57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere, both
north and south, 8 Africans;
52 would be female, 48 would be male;
70 would be non-white, 30 would be white;
70 would be non-Christian, 30 would be Christian;
89 would be heterosexual, 11 would be homosexual;
6 people would possess 59% of the entire world's wealth and all 6 would
be from the United States;
80 would live in substandard housing;
70 would be unable to read;
50 would suffer from malnutrition; 1 would be near death; 1 would be
near birth;
1 (yes, only 1) would have a college education; 1 would own a computer.
When one considers our world from such a compressed perspective, the
need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes glaringly apparent.
The following is also something to ponder...
If you woke up this morning with more health than illness...you are
more
blessed than the million who will not survive this week.
If you have never experienced the danger of battle, the loneliness
of
imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation...you
are
ahead of 500 million people in the world.
If you can attend a church meeting without fear of harassment, arrest,
torture, or death...you are more blessed than three billion people
in the
world.
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof
overhead
and a place to sleep...you are richer than 75% of this world.
If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in
a dish
someplace ... you are among the top 8% of the worlds wealthy.
If your parents are still alive and still married ... you are very
rare,
even in the United States and Canada.
If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in
that
someone was thinking of you, and furthermore, you are more blessed
than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.
Someone once said: What goes around comes around.
Work like you don't need the money.
Love like you've never been hurt.
Dance like nobody's watching.
Sing like nobody's listening.
Live like it's Heaven on Earth.
It's National Friendship Week.
Send this to everyone you consider a FRIEND. Pass this on, and brighten
someone’s day. Nothing will happen if you do not decide to pass it
along.
The only thing that will happen, if you DO pass it on, is that someone
might smile because of you. Happy friendship week everyone!
3.2
years Life Cycles, Time and Synchronicity Coincidences: using birthdays
and repeating circles for insight in your consciousness, course of life,
relationship, child raising, job, career, business, study and destiny.
Seeing
What You Believe, Believing What You See
Deepak Chopra 04.18.06
There is a prejudice in modern society that we need to get over. It’s
the prejudice in favor of things that are concrete, tangible and three-dimensional.
We feel that a rock is real because it is solid and heavy, and our senses
can easily locate it in time and space. So what are we to make of a reality
where seeing isn’t believing? Snails have very slow nervous systems. It
takes them several seconds to record each new visual impression. What this
means is that if someone walks by very quickly and drops a penny in front
of a snail, the person will be invisible and the penny will seem to appear
form nowhere. In reverse, if a snail is picked up and moved very quickly,
it will believe it has teleported from one place to the other.
Our senses play the same trick with reality at large. Our brains are
too slow to register that every concrete object is winking in and out of
existence at the quantum level thousands of times per second; therefore,
we see solid objects where none in fact exist.
The five senses imprison us in ways that are unconscious and invisible.
Years ago, I read accounts of congenitally blind people who were given
sight overnight thanks to innovative surgery. On being exposed to light
for the first time, they were often completely disoriented. They wondered
why people dragged black patches around with them wherever they went (we
call them shadows). If asked how big a cow was standing a hundred yards
away, they’d guess three inches tall; stairs were frightening two-dimensional
ladders climbing straight up the wall. Sometimes these bizarre perceptions
were so disturbing that the newly sighted preferred to sit in the dark
with their eyes closed. Aren’t we doing much the same by clinging to the
world of the five senses?
Can we reinvent ourselves in light of non-sensory reality, or are we
to be prisoners of the five senses as much as our ancestors were in pre-history?
Every time we repeat the words “sunrise” and “sunset” we are indulging
in a sensory deception. Here’s another: Experiments have been done in which
a group of subjects are put in front of a tape recorder; they are asked
to write down what the voice on the tape says, and the machine is started.
But the volume is so low that the voice is very difficult to decipher.
Even so, every subject writes down a reasonable set of notes. The catch
is that the machine was uttering nonsense–the ear and the brain cooperated
to create meaning where none existed, a totally unreliable version of reality.
A fact from neurology, little known to the general public, is that our
brains create the five senses and therefore everything they tell us. There
is literally no light or darkness, taste, touch, or sound “out there,”
except what we have created “in here.” Imagine two magnets approaching
each other with positive poles facing. Each magnet will feel that an invisible
force is pushing them apart against their wills, and if the magnets are
strong enough, this repulsive force will stop them from getting any closer:
It will be as solid as a cement wall. In reverse, the human body isn’t
solid to neutrinos, x-rays, and gamma radiation, and since every atom inside
us is more than 99.9999% empty space, the fact that your hand feels solid
is an illusion as much as the wall that separates two repelling magnets.
(The empty space between the nucleus of an atom and the electrons orbiting
around it is far larger, relatively, than the void between the Earth and
the sun.)
So the basic way we need to reinvent perception is to realize that the
five senses are totally illusory, the good news being that we can transcend
them. In fact we do this every day. I’m not being mystical, although it’s
true that God has managed the feat of being invisible and worshiped at
the same time. I’m thinking of something as basic as sight. We say that
seeing is believing, and yet no one knows what seeing actually is. There
is no light inside the visual cortex, which is responsible for sight–that
area of the brain, like every other, is an oatmeal-consistency semi-solid
mass that knows only perpetual darkness. There are no pictures in our brains,
only a firestorm of chemical and electrical signals. How we convert photons
striking the retina into visible reality is totally unknown, and since
the same holds true for the other four senses, reality itself is up for
grabs. Uncertainty reigns, and where there is uncertainty there’s a chance
for freedom. As one famous Indian guru once told his followers, reality
is like a net. If you want to escape it, find a hole and jump through.
In truth, the net woven by the five senses has many holes in it. Technology
jumps through them every day–photons have already been teleported from
one location in the lab to another without passing through the space in
between. Anti-gravity looms as a possibility, along with practical and
affordable superconductivity. Virtual space, called the Zero Point Field,
may contain untold energy that could be harvested cheaper and with less
hazard than nuclear energy. Nano solar cells may harness solar energy with
undreamed of efficiency in our lifetime. All these possibilities completely
defy the five senses.
Yet, I think the greatest revolution will occur when we solve the mystery
of how the brain projects reality. It’s hard to conceive of how a three-pound
organ that is primarily water and glucose has engendered the whole world.
Creatures with different brains do not inhabit the same reality (porpoises,
for example, have massive auditory centers and may literally “hear” the
tides, the Earth turning on its axis and the position of the stars–we can’t
fathom their perceptual scheme). Nor do human beings share the same brain.
So-called idiot savants exist who can name a prime number to five or six
digits, or the day of the week that Christmas will fall on in the year
2387, and yet are unable to dress themselves or make change. One savant
learned mandarin Chinese, along with several other fiendishly difficult
languages, despite having an I.Q. below 80 and in addition, was found to
be holding the textbook upside down.
My prediction is that we will see ourselves more and more connected
to the quantum field, not physically but through the mind. This “mind field”
is invisible and universal; it encompasses all living things; it weaves
the fabric of nature. As our prejudice in favor of solid, concrete things
fades away, certain fringe phenomena will become everyday. Healing without
touch will be legitimized, since the human body can be altered by altering
the field. Telepathy and clairvoyance will seem ordinary, since time and
distance are compressed to a single point in the field; Intuition and epiphanies
will be explained as subtle field interactions. The best outcome would
be that wisdom will reemerge as a vital human capacity, for there is no
doubt that our spiritual forebears were deeply in touch with the same invisible
reality that still surrounds us. We have shut out that reality in our stubborn,
rigid insistence on believing our senses, but seeing with the eyes of the
soul is possible. In the end, a new humanity is also possible once we escape
the prison we have sentenced ourselves to for far too long. The so-called
sixth sense isn’t a separate sense at all, but a new opening for human
evolution with unlimited possibilities.
Deepak Chopra is acknowledged as one of the world's greatest teachers
in the field of mind-body medicine. He is the author of more than 42 books,
including Ageless Body, Timeless Mind and, most recently, Peace Is the
Way. In the 1980s, Dr. Chopra built a successful endocrinology practice
in Boston. His Web site is www.chopra.com.
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What
Every Parent Should Know BEFORE Their Childen Are Vaccinated! Why
are a growing number of parents and health care professionals around the
world questioning vaccination? The controversy stems from the thousands
of deaths and permanent disabilities attributed to vaccination annually,
as well as the many published medical studies, government statistics, congressional
testimonies, and other credible sources that directly contradict commonly
held assumptions about vaccine safety and effectiveness.
More pictures of vaccine damage available to view at the
CDC
website
"Bart Classen, a Maryland physician, published data showing
that diabetes rates rose significantly in New Zealand following a massive
hepatitis B vaccine campaign in young children, and that diabetes rates
also went up sharply in Finland after three new childhood vaccines were
introduced." Nicholas
Regush ABCNEWS.com
In fall 1997, two influential professional magazines featured articles
asking the question: Has the decrease of infectious diseases in childhood
through the mass use of vaccines been replaced with an increase in chronic
diseases such as diabetes and asthma? The Economist, a prestigious international
magazine read by world leaders in government, business and public policy,
and Science News, a magazine read by both health care professionals and
the general public, explored the reported links between vaccines and chronic
diseases in their November 22, 1997 issues. Learn
more about vaccine and diabetes connection --- asthma and
vaccine connection --- SIDS and autism and vaccine connection
--- "Shaken Baby Syndrome": the vaccination link Law
suit One hundred years ago, children received 1 vaccine (the smallpox
vaccine). Forty years ago, children received 5 vaccines routinely (diphtheria,
pertussis, tetanus, polio, and smallpox vaccines) and as many as 8 shots
by 2 years of age. Children now receive 52 vaccines, in the form of 15
shots, by the time they are 6 months of age if they receive all the recommend
shots, including the Prevnar pediatric pneumonia shot.
Congressman is calling for criminal penalties for any government
agency that knew about the dangers of thimerosal in vaccines and did nothing
to protect American children.
Congressman Dan Burton (R-Indiana)
during Congressional Hearing: "You mean to tell me that since 1929, we've
been using Thimerosal, and the only test that you know of is from
1929, and every one of those people had mennigitis, and they all died?"
For nearly an hour, Burton repeatedly asked FDA and CDC officials what
they knew and when they knew it. (Thimerosal contains a related mercury
compound called ethyl mercury. Mercury is a toxic metal that can cause
immune, sensory, neurological, motor, and behavioral dysfunctions.)
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Homeopathy
can be used successfully to prevent and treat smallpox, measles,
whooping
cough, chickenpox, and other ailments.
Would you allow big brother to enforce vaccinations on your kids? Government
Enforced Vaccinations
Vaccination Tracking Registry - Government programs
that limit your choices -and your rights- in health care when it comes
to mandatory vaccination. These mandates last for 40 or so years
and they're impossible to repeal. Also, learn about Legal Requirements
and Exemptions
Are Vaccines Damaging Our Pets?
Routine Vaccination:
Is it really safe and effective? Most recently, an article
appeared in the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association
entitled "Are We Vaccinating Too Much?"
Inspirations:
Mind Body Spirit Connection - Words of Wisdom
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