Independence Day Includes Freedom To Practice, Believe And Serve Our Views And Thoughts

With great respect and love I welcome you with all my heart, Namasté.

A 21-month old boys painting and interpretation about the 4th of July.

Well, a hardy and humbling “Happy Birthday to our country.”  Some interesting facts I’d like to share here.  Our founding Fathers of this country, America, were not the Bible-thumping religious people they are sometimes purported to be.  They in fact were if anything religious skeptics, the children of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment that questioned all forms of intellectual dogma, including religion.  In fact, the finest thinker and writer among these individuals, was Thomas Jefferson who was a Unitarian and a professed deist.  In fact my friend, in the year 1840, Mr. Jefferson began editing the Gospels to extract the essence of Jesus’ teachings.  With the reassembled key passages, a little book called, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth, came into print, although now long out of print.  Good news however, Beacon Press recently republished the book as The Jefferson Bible. This edition enhanced by historic commentary, reveals Jefferson’s desire to identify universal spiritual principles.  The fact is that the passages that Jefferson selected demonstrated that Jesus’ message of love and service did not require what is called as “artificial props of creed, dogma and liturgy.”  So here we have this man who is called Thomas Jefferson who is said to have the Bill for Establishing Religious Freedom, be regarded as one of his most finest achievements passed by Virginia’s General Assembly in 1786, which is a forerunner of the religious freedom clause in the United States Constitution.  For Thomas Jefferson, religious freedom meant freedom from religious practices one finds objectionable every bit as much as the capacity to practice religion without interference.  In conclusion, his legacy to the tradition of freedom that we so many times take for granted is truly immeasurable.  Today, celebrate your own Freedom and Independence to practice, believe and serve your own religion, faith or dogma, whatever it is to you.  My dearest sweet friend, have a safe and happy Independence Day and a fabulous fun weekend!

With my Faith, Love and Magik

Blessed be you…

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“Today I absolutely and humbly celebrate my freedom, our freedom, which I recognize absolutely as a quality of mind.  I do know that whatever my outer conditions – whatever appearances of lack or limitations in my life now, this is false and not true.  I am without any doubt and know that I am made free and abundant by the Divine Truth.  I now choose independence from these false ideas and beliefs.  I celebrate today our nations Freedom and my own inner freedom and it is so very good!  And so it is, Amen.”

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“Life is not the way it’s supposed to be.  It’s the way it is.  The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.”
~ Virgina Satir, Social worker

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“Our freedom is not in being saved troubles, but is the freedom to take trouble for our own good, and make the trouble an element in our joy.”
~ Rabindranath Tagore, Hindu Wisdom

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Life is insecure – That means life is free.  If there is security, then there will be bondage; if everything is certain, then there will be no freedom.

“If tomorrow is fixed, then there can be security, but you have no freedom.  Then you are just like a robot.  You have to fulfill certain things that are already predestined.  But tomorrow is beautiful, because tomorrow is total freedom.  Nobody knows what is going to happen.  Whether you will be breathing, whether you will be alive at all, nobody knows.  Hence there is beauty, because everything is in a chaos, everything is a challenge, and everything exists as a possibility.

Don’t ask for consolations.  If you go on asking, you will remain insecure.  Accept insecurity, and insecurity will disappear.  This is not a paradox, it is a simple truth – paradoxical, but absolutely true.  Up to now you have existed, so why be worried about tomorrow?  If you could exist today, if you could exist yesterday, tomorrow will take care of itself too.

Don’t think of the morrow, and move freely.  A chaos at ease – that’s how a person should be.  When you carry a revolution within you, every moment brings a new world, a new life … every moment becomes a new birth.”
~ Osho

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Questions In The Journey of Life. Be Silent, Listen And Know.

With great respect and love I welcome you with all my heart, Namasté.

It has been an interesting week and some very interesting questions came to my attention from a young relative of mine who I believe is finding that the journey in life holds many questions.  Often times those questions about what we believe in, what we wish we could be, what others may think of us and who we are as a person, are quite deep issues.  However being young is not the point here in asking these questions basically about life, but we may find ourselves asking these same questions anytime of our life’s journey.  It is sometimes difficult to explain to another person the answers they are looking for.  You see everyone of us are on our own unique path with our own unique qualities and the stuff that makes us, us.  I can only say that whatever your heart desires to know, it will seek out to know and the answers will come in ways that may not be so clear to us at the time.  So, it is best to be open and ready to receive the Universe’s responses in the Universe’s own time.  You may never know how it can come, a person you meet, a book you are reading or a clip from any source of media.  Even as much as a conversation you may over hear.  So many ways that Spirit will  reveal itself to us.  I also believe that in order to receive, one must feel within their own heart what is right for them at the time.  Be the master of your own decisions and thoughts, refrain from what others try to impose on you if it does not resonate with your soul at the time.  As God/Spirit created us, we are blessed with the freedom of free will.  One thing no one can do is take away your thoughts, your beliefs and your desires.  Don’t conform to what others may think.  They are not you and will not live as you do and experience and feel as you do.  You are you and you are part of the Great Mind of God/Spirit.  Whole, Unique, Well and Spiritual.  Yes, it is good to hear other opinions and listen to other objections, but again what is your heart feeling?  If it is not feeling in sync with your inner God self, then bless it, bless them that may be voicing their opinions and be humbled by it and know, in the end you answer to you and God/Spirit alone.  These questions we all sometime think about are all just part of the great mysteries of life.  But the mysteries are only for those who don’t pay attention to their own inner guidance system, and listen closely.  Be patient, be grateful and just be willing to be silent and then the mysteries will slowly open as a book.  The answers are already within.  Keep on the path you are on for you and know it is okay and right.  Others have their own that is right for them.  You alone are the master, the traveler and the prophet of your own destination in life.  And for my young relative, stay on the path that is yours, others as parents may want to guide you for the natural instinct of protection, but in the end, life, this life is all a great school in which to learn from.  It is good and it is grand.  My fellow readers, have a wonderful day, stay on the journey that is yours and the path that feels warm with love.

With my Faith, Love and Magik

Blessed be you…

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“As I walk and run in this great journey and the path of my own mystery.  I stop many times along the way and open up the doors that are calling me in to learn and listen.  I know as I step back out of these doors with a humbled heart, and a grateful attitude, I am reminded that I am the Master, the Traveler and the Prophet of my own life.  The life that which is in sync with the Great Mind of God/Spirit and I know it is good.  I bless all that I have learned and will learn on this life’s mission with thanksgiving.  I am open and ready to receive what and when the Universe is ready to reveal.  I too know this is God/Spirit in action and it is indeed wonderful.  And so it is.  Amen.”

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“In all things it is a good idea to hang a question mark now and then on the things we have taken for granted.”
~ Bertrand Russell

Car?  Appliances?  Clothes?  House?  Money?  Pets?  Health?  Food?  Friends?  Lovers?  Family?  Nature?  Living?  God?

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