DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO?

Do you know where you're going to?

Do you like the things that life is showing you

Where are you going to?

Do you know...?

Do you getWhat you're hoping for

When you look behind you

There's no open door

What are you hoping for?

Do you know...?

Once we were standing still in time

Chasing the fantasies

That filled our minds

You knew how

I loved you

But my spirit was free

Laughin' at the questions

That you once asked of me

Do you know where you're going to?

Do you like the things that life is showing you

Where are you going to?

Do you know...?

Now looking back at all we've planned

We let so many dreams

Just slip through our hands

Why must we wait so long

Before we'll see

How sad the answers

To those questions can be

Do you know where you're going to?

Do you like the things that life is showing you

Where are you going to?

Do you know...?

Do you get

What you're hoping for

When you look behind you

There's no open door

What are you hoping for?

Do you know...?

MY SECRET GARDEN

In my room I have a secret garden

The skies are always blue

And the sun fills the horizon

In my garden you will find

Love & happiness

Along with peace of mind

Only if your soul is pure and true

You can take my hand

And I'll lead you to this land

No words will be spoken

No hearts will be broken

Just love and passion

Will be our main attraction

This is not a fantasy this is our reality

Welcome to my secret garden

A place that will never be forgotten

Look into your heart

When you feel sad and betrayedWho can you count on every single day?When you feel lost and aloneWho will be there for youin every way?When you've made mistakes and bad decisionsWho can you count on to tell you you're wrong?When you feel you can't go onWho will be there with a feel-better song?Look into your heart andyou will findThat person you can trustis not far away.Look deep into yourself,don't give up,For if you do, it's yourselfyou'll betray.When you're looking for answersTo all your questions and dreams,There is one person you can count on,It's impossible, I know,it seems.But take a few moments to look deeper inside.Look into your heart and there you will see.You'll be surprised when you find outThat you've been looking

AT ME.

~Trudy Starling~

SECRET PLACE!

Secret Place!

There's a secret place in the center of my soul A place where every feeling is recorded A place where the emotions take control Here lies my attachment to the essence of you Knowing here in the depth of my soul That I could never survive without you. There's a secret place in my heart A place where I love you so true A place where the attraction first started This is where it lives and blooms and grows Cherishing our every memory, every feeling I will love you forever, this I know. But are these really secret places? Unknown corners of my very being Hidden without the slightest traces? To you they are open, you have the key These places are just as much yours as they are mine For without you these secret places would never be.

The Life Is

But, life is about who you love and who you hurt. It's about who you make happy or unhappy purposefully. It's about keeping or betraying trust. It's about friendship, used as a sanctity or a weapon. It's about what you say and mean, maybe hurtful,maybe heartening. It's about what judgments you pass and why. And who your judgments are spread to. It's about who you've ignored with full control and intention. It's about jealousy, fear, ignorance, and revenge. It's about carrying inner hate and love, letting it grow and spreading it. But most of all, it's about using your life to touch or poison other people's hearts in such a way that could have never occurred alone. Only you choose the way those hearts are affected,and those choices are what life's all about

A DOZEN THINGS TO DO TODAY

A DOZEN THINGS TO DO TODAY

Remember that some of the world's nicest joys are its most special people, and that you are definitely one of them
Take care of that special person
Enjoy the ride
When the world is too busy, slow it down
Climb one rung higher on the ladder to your stars
Imagine what the view will look like when you get where you're going
Stay in touch with your inner voice; it always speaks the truth
When you've been working too hard, give your batteries time to recharge
Remember that you are someone who is thought of - with friendship and with love
Keep a smile on that wonderful face of yours
Have a great day And be happy!


by Collin McCarty

YOU!!!

There's no special reason for sending this to you,except that...I was feeling a little lonely,and when I asked myselfwhat I seemed to be missing the most,the answer turned out to be ...you.

There are many peoplethat we meet in our livesbut only a very fewwill make a lasting impressionon our minds and heartsIt is these people that we willthink of oftenand who will always remainimportant to usas true friends

-Poem by Susan Polis Schutz -

FORGIVENESS

Forgiveness is letting go of the painand accepting what has happened,because it will not change.
Forgiveness is dismissing the blame.Choices were made that caused the hurt;we each could have chosen differently,but we didn't.
Forgiveness is looking at the pain,learning the lessons it has produced,and understanding what we have learned.
Forgiveness allows us to move ontowards a better understandingof universal loveand our true purpose.
Forgiveness is knowing that loveis the answer to all questions,and that we allare in some way connected. Forgiveness is starting overwith the knowledgethat we have gained.I forgive you, and I forgive myself.I hope you can do the same.

-Poem by Judith Mammay

TO. MY BROTHER

Brother, You Are the Best
There are years lost behind us, full of words we never spoke, and now we have our separate lives and less time to share together. But in my heart I have always felt the love we have, and neither distance nor time can take away the bond we forged as children... Growing up, we played and fought, talked and laughed. Beyond the fun and games, beyond the battles we waged, we found in each other unending support and a lifelong friend. Through thick and thin, and difficult times, we emerged together as one, protecting each other from the world. I know that if either of us ever need anything, we can count on the other to give our all and help in every way possible. Perhaps words are not always necessary in our relationship, because we both know what's there. But today I want to take the time to remind you how much I really care and thank you for all that you have been to me. I could never ask for, want, or need a better brother, because I have the best in you. I love you!

-- Erin N. Himelrick

I love you brother!

MY SISTERS

My feelings for you wander backthrough sunny days whenit felt like we used to have the whole world to ourselves.We shared so much, and we cared more than our heartscould begin to realize. At the time, there was so muchjoy I took for granted and so many things I didn't evenstop to think of. But I began to learn how important youwere to my happiness, and that is what sisters are all about...love.As we grew, and time passed by, we had to begin tochoose the paths our lives would take. It wasn't easy toknow which way to go and what things to do, but I wasreassured because of the treasure I held in my heart:By being my sister, you gave me the quiet comfort ofknowing I could always turn to you. That's what sistersare all about... sweetness and support to see you through.All through our years, you have been a source of somany smiles and so much inspiration for me. There hasnever been a time when the miles that came between ushave not been bridged by the closeness of our hearts.I want to thank you for giving me the special kind of feelingsthat only sisters like you and I could comprehend. That'swhat sisters are all about... being the very best of friends.

- Marin McKay -

A POEM ABOUT OUR GIRLFRIENDS

Someone will always be prettier.Someone will always be smarter.Some of their houses will be bigger.Some will drive a better car.Their children will do better in school.And their husband will fix more things around the house.So let it go, and love you and your circumstances.Think about it!The prettiest woman in the world can have hell in her heart.And the most highly favoredwoman on your job may be unable to have children.And the richest woman you know,she's got the car, the house, the clothes~~~~might be lonely.And the word says, 'If I have not Love, I am nothing.'So, again, love you.Love who you are.Look in the mirror in the morning and smile and say,'I am tooBlessedtobeStressedandtooAnointed­,tobeDisappointed!''Winners make things happen~~ Losers let things happen.'Be 'Blessed' Ladies~~~~~andpassthisontoencouragea­notherwoman.'To the world you might be one person,but to the one person you just sent this to,it could mean so much.'

THINKING SPIRITUAL

The human mind is capable of extraordinary mental skills including sensory perception, conceptualizing, language comprehension and generation, quantitative computations, deductive analysis, inductive generalizations, adaptation, problem solving, scientific and technical knowledge, holistic synthesis, evaluation, judgment, and wisdom. This chapter will focus on the mental skills involved in the practical art of gentle living.
We have discussed how understanding our feelings and emotions can tell us much about what is going on in our consciousness and life. Yet we also need to be careful not to let our feelings distort rational thinking. To understand ourselves and the world clearly we need to see things as they are. In using the various forms of logic and intuition we can detect and be aware of how feelings and motives may affect our thought processes. The mind is an excellent tool for understanding concepts and various logical relationships, but that tool can also be used to find reasons for or rationalize conclusions we may have jumped toward without objective and adequate thought. Using reason correctly helps us to organize what we learn by perceptions and concepts into useful knowledge. When decisions are needed, we can apply our values in mature judgments with the wisdom of the divine principles.

HIGHER SELF

Each soul is assigned a master consciousness that is always "higher" or more spiritually aware than the self-consciousness of the physical person. Some might refer to this higher self as a guardian angel. With the assistance of the higher self, the soul consults with the karmic board about planning the life experience. In most cases the soul is reincarnating and has karmic patterns to be taken into consideration. Many factors come together in choosing a fertilized egg within the mother.Causality is not simple nor linear but rather multiple and holistic. The soul's past experience determines the karma that it needs to work out, but the soul has many choices in deciding how to resolve that karma and forever to do it. The soul also chooses new experiences and situations to face. In choosing the body, some of the important considerations are the hereditary pattern in the genes, the probable environment of nurturing and upbringing, and the likely relationships with other souls. Since all spirits in the universe are free, most of these factors can only be calculated in probabilities. Nevertheless the omniscient intelligence of Spirit that guides the heavenly counselors can know so much more than our feeble little conscious minds. While recognizing the freedom of all souls, they still can focus probabilities more precisely. Also the soul itself can freely influence the situation. For example, the genetic pattern of the mother's monthly ovum can be known by Spirit. Although there are millions of sperm competing to fertilize the ovum, Spirit could influence one to be successful. Or, once fertilization has occurred, at least Spirit would know the exact genetic pattern of the embryo. Thus the heavenly counselors and the higher self could consider the genetic pattern along with the karmic patterns of the parents and all other persons, institutions, and circumstances likely to influence this child. These karmic relationships extend all the way to national destinies and the world situation. Suppose, for example, Spirit knew that in a certain number of years a flood was going to destroy the home of the family and that it was the karma of the parents that the father would die but that the mother and the child would survive. This circumstance would be part of the life plan of the soul born into that family.The higher self is aware of the life plan that has been chosen by the soul, the karma that needs to be released, and all the latent abilities and tendencies based on the past experience of the soul. During a lifetime, millions of conscious choices are made which alter and define the person's life. Thus the life plan allows for many contingencies and branches of expression within an overall spiritual scope.During life on earth the function of the higher self is to guide the consciousness of the individual toward the fulfilling of the spiritual destiny chosen before birth. The higher self may protect the person from any untoward events that are not part of its karmic destiny by subtly influencing the behavior. However, the higher self does not command, direct, or even choose for the individual; that is the role of the conscious self. Yet the conscious self can seek the guidance of the higher self by spiritual attunement, introspection, contemplation, striving for ideals, etc. The higher self is not concerned with trivial day-to-day concerns. Because it always must be "higher" than the conscious awareness, as the person's consciousness develops and evolves, the higher self may be replaced by another master consciousness that is more evolved. I have heard that some of these masters are able to assist many individuals at the same time.
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THE SOUL

The soul is a spark of divine fire, being the essence of God and expressing all of the divine attributes, qualities, and principles that were described in the first chapter. The soul is eternal, infinite, perfect, etc. Individual souls are formed out of the divine essence, are one with God, and can return and merge again with God by dissolving their individuality. The soul can express itself in an infinite number of ways. I will try to conceptualize and describe, in ways that we can relate to our experience, some of the vehicles and faculties of consciousness that the soul uses when it incarnates in the human form on earth.Perhaps one of the greatest exercises of its free will is when the soul decides to enter a physical body for the first time. The soul knows that to be born in an earthly body can be the beginning of a cycle of karma and reincarnation that may involve it for eons of time. Yet this involution offers the opportunity for the evolution of consciousness through the gaining of diverse experience.The soul is assisted in selecting a suitable body by "heavenly counselors" who are masters of consciousness in charge of facilitating the entry of souls into human forms, their departure at death, and their education in between death and birth as well as between birth and death. They could be thought of as angels of God, divine administration, or a karmic board.

by beck
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