Life and the scriptures have ever be been my teacher and inspiration. Below are some of the things that life has taught me.
There are many people who start down a path only latter to find that they wish they never got on the path to begin with. But, often the choice was not truly theirs. Forced on to a path where the cost of survival are bits and pieces of yourself; your dignity, your self respect and self worth, and sometimes your body and soul. Sometimes, if you can get off the path, you can get some of what you lost back. But, you can never regain the innocents you once had, and somewhere in the back of your mind there is a small bit
of doubt and anger that remain. No matter how much of yourself you can reclaim you are never the same as you were before you started down the path.
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Feel the world around you. Don't just look at it, feel it. Feel the wind, become a part of it, let it blow through you and lift you up. Feel the leaves on the trees as they rock in the wind. The animals, do you feel them as well? I am the air, the wings of a butterfly stir a part of me. In a moment, I am the butterfly riding the morning wind. I grow tired and hungry and land on a tree branch to rest and look for food. I am the tree, an old, old, old oak. I reach out to the sun with my leaves and reach deep into the earth for water. When you can tell me what the tree is thinking, then you will be a part of the Earth.
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A good dream does little good if that is all it is, a dream. A good plan does nothing if all it does is sit on the drawing table. Action by itself is of little consequence and wanders aimlessly about. But, put them all together, and the dream becomes, a plan, which in turn gives, action, a direction to go. If the dream is good, then things get built and the accomplishments of man take another step forward. If the dream is evil then people get hurt, or worst, along the way, and progress stops.
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All things come to those who wait, but you can wait too long. Procrastination, putting off today what you can do tomorrow. Tomorrow never comes. I can wait, I'll do it tomorrow, can't it wait, wait a minute, latter, etc. The world is filled with sayings to put things off. How much of life has passed us by because we put it off? How many opportunities have been lost because we waited too long? We must change the way we think, hence, all things come to those who are ready to take action. We must think, I'll do it now, or we might put off something that is really important.
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Love is a bonding of two people and an acceptance of who each of those people are right now. Love is the desire to change for the other person. Love never takes advantage. Love forgives and understands. Love is taking little steps together. Love will place the welfare of the other above your own. Love is giving of yourself, body and mind, completely, to fill the needs of the other, but not at the expense of your soul. Love is working together for a common goal, while encouraging the other to reach their personal best in whatever they endeavor to do. Love is what can happen to a man and a woman when they go beyond friendship. Anything less than this is just lust, infatuation, or desire.
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God is in everything and He is in nothing. God is the father of all things. He is a part of us and we are a part of him. He has a form like you and me, but unlike us his understanding and knowledge is complete. He has tapped the flow of the universe and bent it to do his will. He is bound by laws and works through laws which we as yet do not understand. Hampered by a physical form his mind is free to explore the eternal and swim in the flow of the universe, becoming one with all that is, has been, or will be. He sees all, hears all, and feels all. How can anyone comprehend the nature of the Father of all things? The best we can hope for is glimpses of the eternal nature of things and hope that will give us insight into certain aspects of the Father.
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You can find lessons in life everywhere, if you're willing to look. You can gain wisdom from the wind as it blows through the leaves of a tree, or in a question from a child. How much knowledge has passed us by because we weren't looking for it in our hurry to do something or to be somewhere? Move fast, but do not hurry. Take time to ponder life daily. Learn to look for all the little lessons in life. Do this and you will be surprised at all the wisdom and knowledge you can find.
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Truth an unchangeable force. You cannot go around it and it won't be stopped. You cannot change it and it will not be bent. It will stand for us and against us in the last day.
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When you have answered the question before it has been asked. When you choose right before you reach the crossroads. When you choose perfection as your path and your choices are made beforehand; the only thing left is, right actions, waiting for the proper moment to happen.
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When you can let your heart be your guide in all things. When you can feel and think with your heart. When you can judge others with your heart and see the good in them no matter the wrong. When you can see and hear with your heart. When you can give from the heart. When you can do these things you will know the meaning of true love and the world will have no hold on you.
