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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