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, whic
h 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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