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“To smile at an enemy is to disarm
him.”
- The Mother (Seeds of Light).
Keep your mood light and humorous -
be detached from your life and all its poison. Don’t let it touch you or
penetrate to your blood/soul.
Then you can be free from its
illusion and you can afford to be gentle and divine.
‘Those who look outwards dream, but
those who look inwards awake.’ - Carl Jung.
“If it is not right do not do it; if
it is not true do not say it.” - Marcus Aurelius.
It is like living with a wild cat,
like a lion, upstairs. (Wild cats: animals like to fight to feel their power as
the only power they know). His aggression, and all anger/violence is nothing
more than an expression of the beast, the animal within. He is very physical
and relies on drink to summon forth the power of the beast which human
form/society inhibits. He has not developed his mind because he has not had
time to evolve that far. It is a reminder that all life is evolving at a
different pace depending on its stage of evolution. All fundamentally one. You
must show understanding and tolerance. You must be patient with the beast in
yourself and patient with the beast in others, and not expect everyone to
display the same level of respect and self-control. Forgive and sympathise.
Plus, you have to be responsible, for you cannot be trusted with divine power
if you have not laid your tiger down to rest - if you cannot control the animal
part of yourself totally. The two do not mix. Evolve from one to the other;
never mix the two for you will pollute the divine and lose it. Nourish the
light and let the darkness fall away.
Plus, whatever violence is shown by
others is but a reflection of your own violence in previous lifetimes (and the
remnants or fear of abusing power again hidden in your unconscious). The
economy of nature (Edgar Cayce’s reference to the human loss of memory
regarding past lives). Whether you caused harm to the individual concerned or
not, you were once like that yourself, and terrorised those who had evolved to
greater sensitivity (and, through your ignorant behaviour, they evolved further
too, towards ascension). Just as they had to put up with your volatile nature,
so you must show forbearance with that of those who are as you were. You must
pass these tests before you can grow truly in divine power. Do not react to
animals with the animal in yourself. For then neither of you grows. Respond
with all the Light - the love, understanding and patience - that you can find
within yourself. This ensures your own growth as well as having a positive
effect on the aggressor.
The caterpillar is thick-skinned and
insensitive and it does not appreciate the butterfly’s delicate nature. It does
not comprehend the dame it can cause and regards all life as caterpillars
because that is the only level of existence that it knows. In fact, it views
the butterfly as a caterpillar, as a reflection of itself. There is a
caterpillar within every butterfly, but it is a dead, lifeless, discarded
creature. The caterpillar beast detects slight traces of it and it is these
which it relates to, he only signs of life it recognises, even though they are
no longer expressed and belong to previous lifetimes. The caterpillar wants the
butterfly to react the same way as itself. It can only trust ego, for ego is
all it knows. It desires to bring you down to its level so it can relate to you
and also prove it own power and feel secure as a beast. A mere beast that
refuses fearfully and stubbornly to grow. It is jealous of humans in whom
exists the divine element which is difficult to attain and which takes many
lifetimes to sense and develop.
The ultra-masculine ego which
respects the mother’s caring nature lives its caring side through them without
suffering the conflict of developing over feelings in oneself. He may imitate
his mother in some ways, but he expects everyone to be like his mother.
Otherwise, they could be like his violent father, and that is impossible for
him to deal with. It is a potential threat. Hence, severe paranoia! A lion
which has not long been in human form continues to depend on the mother. It
learns about human feelings and values from its mother, even though it finds
them alien and difficult to express when away from her. Plus, he probably has
few other companions because he has a drink problem and because he views
everyone as a potential threat to his own security, his mother’s and partner’s.
“I
owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe
even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better
than under a caress.” - Andre Gide.
Retrospective
inserts.
“We as humans are not that far above
the animals in following our impulses. It is only by coming into tune with your
Higher Self that you begin to draw away from the animal aspect of your human
self. You are in fact growing up.” (In
Touch with Raynor C. Johnson by Sheila Gwillam, Light Publishing, London,
U.K., 1996, p.186).
“The Higher Self is the space within
each and every one of us that is filled with all nourishing qualities such as
joy, creativity, intuition, peace, power, love, compassion and all good things.
I’m sure there have been moments, however fleeting, when you have been able to
access this transcendent place within. At those times, all seemed right with
the world. The fear and struggle were replaced by a sense of ‘All is well,’ but
the feeling never lasts. Why? Because it is our tendency to revert to a more
familiar part of ourselves which I call the ‘Lower Self.’ - Susan Jeffers (Feel the Fear...and Beyond, Rider Books,
London, U.K., 1998, p.11).
In Search of the Miraculous. Volume
1 by Osho (Chapter
4, ‘Meditation is Death and Resurrection,’ 3 May 1970, Rajneesh Foundation, Pune,
India, 1984).
If coal is to turn into diamond, it
must die as coal. So the danger is great enough. But it is a danger for the coal
as such. If it is to become a diamond, it can do so only if it disappears as
coal. Perhaps you don't know that there is no generic difference between
diamond and coal. Essentially they are of the same element. Coal turns into
diamond in the course of a very long period of time. Chemically there is no
basic difference between diamond and coal. But the coal cannot remain coal if
it wants to become diamond. So the coal faces a great danger.
The
same way a man faces a danger if he is on his way to find God. He will die as
man. If a river is running to meet the sea, it is facing a great danger. It
will disappear, it cannot escape it. But what do we mean by danger? It means to
disappear. They alone can go on a journey to God who are prepared to disappear,
to die.
Death
does not erase us as completely as does meditation, because death only severs
us from one body and joins us with another. You don't change in death; only
your clothes change. You remain as you are. So death is not so great a danger
as we all take it to be. Meditation is a greater danger than death, because
while death only snatches your clothes away from you, meditation snatches you
away from you.
Meditation
is absolute death.
In
the past, those who knew said that meditation is death, total death. In
meditation not only clothes, but everything changes. But if a river wants to
become the sea, it has to risk its life. In fact the river does not lose
anything when it falls into the sea; it loses nothing at all, it grows to
become the sea itself. And when coal turns into diamond, it loses nothing; it
grows to become diamond. But so long as coal is coal it is afraid of losing
itself. And so long as a river is a river it is afraid of getting lost. How
does it know that on meeting the sea, it will not lose anything, it will turn
into sea itself.
...If
you want to save yourselves, you will have to lose God. And if you want to find
God, you will have to lose yourselves.
One
night someone asked Jesus, ‘What should I do so that I find this God you always
talk about?’ Jesus said, ‘You don't have to do a thing except that you lose
yourself. Don't save yourself.’ The man said, ‘What are you talking about? What
will I gain if I lose myself?’ And Jesus answered, ‘He who loses finds himself,
and he who saves, loses himself forever.’
Interviewer: are your kids interested in drawing?
Tim Burton: Yeah. My son has a monster book and I'll draw a shape and he'll draw some of it and we go back and forth. It's fun. You know, you kind of learn a lot from them because you kind of go back to the roots of why you like drawing. It's great; it's creativity and therapy and exploration.
Tim Burton: Yeah. My son has a monster book and I'll draw a shape and he'll draw some of it and we go back and forth. It's fun. You know, you kind of learn a lot from them because you kind of go back to the roots of why you like drawing. It's great; it's creativity and therapy and exploration.
If
a child
"If a child lives with
criticism, he learns to condemn.
If a child lives with hostility, he
learns to fight.
If a child lives with ridicule, he
learns to be shy.
If a child lives with shame, he
learns to feel guilty.
If a child lives with tolerance, he
learns to be patient.
If a child lives with encouragement,
he learns confidence.
If a child lives with praise, he
learns to appreciate.
If a child lives with fairness, he
learns justice.
If a child lives with security, he
learns to have faith.
If a child lives with approval, he
learns to like himself.
If a child lives with acceptance and
friendship, he learns to find love in the world."
- Dorothy Law Nolte (1957).
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“A child of five would understand
this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.” - Groucho Marx.
“Most of what is happening to you on a personal
level is known subconsciously, as you planned for this time and the opportunity
to ascend. Regardless of your experiences, if you feel that somehow progress is
being made then you may be sure you are heading for fulfilment. When you
reflect on them you might admit to needing the lessons involved. Many revolve
around personal relationships, and it is wise to leave the Earth having
resolved any differences. More importantly, in making your peace with others
remember that forgiveness also involves yourself.” - SaLuSa (channelled
through Mike Quinsey, 12 March 2010, www.gfbymikequinsey.blogspot.com).
Baldrick (Tony Robinson): I'm
glad to say, I don't think you'll be needing those pills, Mr. B.
Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson): Am I
jumping the gun, Baldrick, or are the words ‘I have a cunning plan’ marching
with ill-deserved confidence in the direction of this conversation?
Baldrick: They
certainly are!
Blackadder: Well,
forgive me if I don't jump up and down with glee; your record in this
department is not exactly a hundred percent. So, what's the plan?
Baldrick: We
do...nothing.
Blackadder: Yep,
that's another world-beater.
Baldrick: Wait,
I haven't finished. We do nothing until our heads have actually been cut off...
Blackadder:
...and then we spring into action?
Baldrick:
Exactly! You know how, when you cut a chicken's head off, it runs round and
round the farmyard?
Blackadder: Yyyyyyyeah...
Baldrick: Well,
we wait until our heads have been cut off, then we run round and round the
farmyard, out the farm gate, and escape. What do you think?
Blackadder: Yes...My
opinions are rather difficult to express in words, so perhaps I can put it this
way... [Tweaks Baldrick's nose]
Baldrick: It
doesn't really matter, 'cause the Scarlet Pimpernel will save us, anyway.
Blackadder: No he
won't, Baldrick. Either I think up an idea, or, tomorrow, we die - which,
Baldrick, I have to tell you, I have no intention of doing, because I want to
be young and wild, and then I want to be middle-aged and rich, and then I want
to be old and annoy people by pretending that I'm deaf. Just be quiet and let
me think.
- Blackadder the Third (Series 3, Episode 3, ‘Nob and Nobility,’ written by Ben Elton and Richard
Curtis, BBC TV, 1987).
Passionate Despair by Jérémie Fleury
