SAY NO TO TEMPTING FEAR AND YES TO LOVE

How important it is that we know when not to Fear!

When we know we are all one Earth, connected to the same field as our brothers and sisters, a part of Earth's Heart Beat, then sharing gets a whole new meaning. Not quite sure what I am talking about? Then example will be good:
Say you stand opposite of your friend, she is fully dressed like she always is, her make-up is perfect like it always is, but you know something is wrong, you ask she says nothing, you ask again sure that something is wrong, and she tells you.
Or you are walking alone at night on a dark street something tells you to go into a store, you feel you are not safe, it is so strong of a feeling you do it.
It is not just your intuition it is much more, You can read people, You can pick up on their energy field around them, You can feel their emotions - Can you? If you answered "yes" then read along.

You can feel others fear, you can feel it as this static noise, disturbing electric buzz OR a sticky goo like feeling weighing you down - depending on you preference and skills it is one of those or perhaps you have a better description to share.

Do you like this feeling? Do you like it within you or coming from others?
Do you enjoy its influence on your heart and body, and your Light?
No?
I do not either.

Now I would like you to imagine a natural disaster.
Go ahead go wild, draw from memory or make up something absolutely horrendous!

I will use a flood, horrible flood crushing little houses and huts, leaving in its tracks crying families stripped from absolutely all of their possessions, they are hurt, cold, grieving for lost family members.

Now what do you think will make them feel better... giving them solace, give them a hope, a shining light of grace and hope for a future where their house is rebuilt, there is food on their table, hand in hand with love and family, a place where they can remember the love of their passed family members and honor their goodness, remember their joyous moments together?

Perhaps Unconditional Love, being bathed it Light and Grace, their bodies being cradled with pure love in the arms of us, beating with their hearts in harmony in complete security that life will provide for them what they need as this lesson came to pass. Us giving them from our endless resources of Love and Happiness.

Or Fear? Do you think we should watch news, be horrified for weeks, Fear for thei lives and nutrition, read magazines and add add add to their situation more despair?

No - we know better!

We are better - what I recommend next time you see or hear of a horrid event, close you eyes and ears, silence you inner turmoil that rises and calm yourself down...

Now as you are calm and quiet, your mind at ease imagine your light rising, swelling from the center of your chest, your heart. Let it grow in steady flow or in a rapid burst to cover a whole earth.  

Feel your Unconditional Love that is tied to no being, no emotion, no body, no person, spread to those who you witnessed to be in need. Cradle their bodies in your Light in your arms covered in your Peace - Love - Harmony - Truth. Wipe their tears and replace them with The Truth that you love them and you will provide them with what they need the most - Love and Light, Happiness and Joy.

Know that you have done you part.

This is what we are being trained to do so that we can change Earth, change the course of events stop the cycle of Fear and Sadness.

If you believe that Love replaces Fear and Pity every time - then imagine us... US as a United Front of Love and Truth!

Who wants fear when they can have what we offer?

So next time you lose your temper, Laugh!
Next time you raise you voice in anger, Stop, quiet and Love!
Next time you beat yourself down, stop, quiet and Feel my Love for You.
Say it, Feel it, Enjoy it - I Love!

MUSIC - JEWEL, SPIRIT

I rarely do album reviews, and trust me this isn't really one.

I simply wanted to let anyone who is in their life spiritual to know few things recarding this album.

The album is Jewel's Spirit.

Even the title gives promise, that is also delivered.
If you have read some Course in Miracles and Ekchart Tolle's Power Now & New Earth, you will love this album.

Why?

Well-- I have gathered some bits of lyrics on each song and added youtube links as well.
So read on and decide if you find it as beautiful and spiritual as well.

   1. "Deep Water" (Kilcher) – 4:16
we've compromised our pride
and sacrificed our health
we have to demand more
not of each other
but more from ourselves

   2. "What's Simple Is True" (Kilcher) – 3:34
'cause the more i live
the more i know
what's simple is true
i love, i love you

   3. "Hands" (Kilcher, Patrick Leonard) – 3:54

If I could tell the world just one thing
It would be that we're all OK
and not to worry 'cause worry is wasteful
and useless in times like these
I won't be made useless
I won't be idle with despair
I will gather myself around my faith
For light does the darkness most fear

My hands are small, I know
But they're not yours, they are my own
But they're not yours, they are my own
and I am never broken
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFLPwv6b3lI
 
4. "Kiss The Flame" - 3:16

there are nightmares on the sidewalks
there are jokes on tv
there are people selling thoughtlessness
with such casualty
but wherefore art thou, romeo
where have all the brave men gone?
show me one man who knows his own heart
to him i shall belong
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEIadjAFrfw

   5. "Down So Long" (Kilcher) – 4:13
i take a trip, i catch a train, i catch a plane
i got a ticket in my hand
and then a man takes my money
and like cattle we all stand

   6. "Innocence Maintained" (Kilcher) – 4:08
a small town in ohio
two boys are filled with violence
and darkness spreads its legs for hate and ignorance
we are given to a god to put our faith therein
but to be forgiven, we must first believe in sin
we've made houses for hatred
it's time we made a place
where people's souls may be seen and made safe
be careful with each other
these fragile flames
for innocence can't be lost
it just needs to be maintained

   7. "Jupiter" (Kilcher) – 4:18
oh, oh jupiter
oh, oh be still my little heart
oh, oh love is a flame neither timid nor tame
take these stars from my crown
let the years fall down
lay me out in firelight
let my skin feel the night
fasten me to your side
say it will be soon
you make me so crazy, baby
could swallow the moon

   8. "Fat Boy" (Kilcher) – 2:54

   9. "Enter from the East" (Kilcher) – 4:02
i went out a-wandering
beneath an unknown sky
the heavens all shook violently
he caught my eye
strange fruit fell
it struck me to the core
my heart became a single flame
it wanted nothing more

  10. "Barcelona" (Kilcher) – 3:53
but if you could hear the voice in my heart it would tell you
i'm afraid i am alone
won't somebody please hold me, release me
show me the meaning of mercy
let me loose
fly, let me fly, let me fly

  11. "Life Uncommon" (Kilcher) – 4:56
lend your voices only to sounds of freedom
no longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from
fill your lives with love and bravery
and you shall lead a life uncommon
i've heard your anguish,
i've heard your hearts cry out
we are tired, we are weary, but we aren't worn out 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYjFJQ_AIRc



  12. "Do You" (Kilcher) – 4:21
we shake our fists and say,
"well good golly, we're mad
that god kills children with our very own hands."
we claim innocence and not to understand
or do you, do we?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOVzkz9cLwI

  13. "Absence of Fear" (Kilcher) – 7:25
I am wanting, and...
I am needing you
To be here
Inside the absence of fear
There is this hunger
This restlessness inside of me
And it knows that you're no stranger,
You're my gravity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkmNNyOYbSU

ON FEAR AND CONFLICT

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ACIM 

Chapter 2 VI.Fear and Conflict - 2.

2You would not excuse insane behavior on your part by saying you couldn't help it. 3Why should you condone insane thinking? 4There is a confusion here that you would do well to look at clearly.

A Course in Miracles doesn't ever leave me out cold. I love how simply things are said, with such profound effect. The quote above was from the first thing I read this morning. I had ACIM on my computer table and opened it. The whole passages 1 and 2 state that Fear seems involuntary, even though it is not (according to ACIM) and that fear shows that you have taken thoughts of the body trying to infuse them to your being. Which doesn't work, creating fear. Fear of shame, fear of violence, fear of hurt feelings. So it is insane to cause this to yourself once you know of it, right?

As much as you wouldn't go on an insane rodent killing spree - you should be aware of your thoughts.
Woody Allen said it well at end credits of Vicky Cristina Barcelona, 'Cristina continued searching... certain only, of what she didn't want.'

If you do not want to feel hurt, angry, jealous, timid, burned, then it is up to you to see what causes it, and is that valid.  Many people say yes it is valid it is a human emotion - lets look at that... Human emotions, part of your human existence - if you are nothing more than the body and brain impulses, neutrons in your wave length then perhaps fear is part of you. But if you believe that there is more to you than this body, that there is existance beyond the physical body then ask your self if that existence feels fear?
If you answered no, then perhaps it is time to start body training period to let go of the illusion that you have to be afraid of various emotional of physical dangers.
Know that people aren't out to get you, each and every human being is your brother or sister going through this same human experience. One being not above another, but on a different place from you.
When this is realized, it is so easy to love one another as the sister or brother that they are to you.

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