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It’s Not Enough

It’s Not Enough…

 

 

It’s not enough just to live,

rather live and love.

It’s not enough just to know,

rather know and share your knowing.

It’s not enough to make your own way for your own good,

Rather make your way with all in mind.

You see life can only be lived to the fullest,

when we see that it is far beyond us.

That we are here to give without condition and in return we will receive.

That we are here to love without condition and in turn we will be loved.

That we all have a genius to share in the world,

and by not sharing it we negate ourselves.

So search your heart and acknowledge your soul,

It can only mean a life that is beautiful and whole.

Money is Just Energy

Join Patrick in 2 mornings of interactive teaching and learning about the concept of money being energy and how to attract abundance in our lives.  It all starts with knowing ourselves, having an abundance consciousness and matching our values with our dreams.  There will always be enough for everyone but most of us cannot accept this and so we try to control the “enough-ness.” And as with any energy, when we create unnatural pressure we strangle our flow of abundance.

Social Wisdom

“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.”

 

~~~~ Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931

Judgement

 

Question 1:

If you knew a woman who was pregnant, who had 8 kids already, three who
were deaf, two who were blind, one mentally retarded, and she had
syphilis, would you recommend that she have an abortion?

Read the next question before looking at the response for this one.

Question 2:

It is time to elect a new world leader, and only your vote counts.
Here are the facts about the three candidates. Who would you vote for?

Candidate A.

Associates with crooked politicians, and consults with astrologist.
He’s had two mistresses. He also chain smokes and drinks 8 to 10 martinis a day.

Candidate B.

He was kicked out of office twice, sleeps until noon, used opium in
college and drinks a quart of whiskey every evening.

 

Candidate C.

He is a decorated war hero. He’s a vegetarian, doesn’t smoke, drinks an
occasional beer and never cheated on his wife.

 

Which of these candidates would be your choice?

Decide first… no peeking, then scroll down for the response.

Candidate A is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Candidate B is Winston Churchill.
Candidate C is Adolph Hitler.

And, by the way, on your answer to the abortion question: If you said YES, you just killed Beethoven.

Pretty interesting isn’t it? Makes a person think before judging someone. In fact, when judging anything or anyone we always start with ourselves.  To judge anyone else or anything else means we are judgemental of ourselves.

Meditate Daily

Practising Gratitude

Gratitude 

To start the day with an attitude of gratitude is truly a wonderful way to be.  To learn to be grateful in every moment of the day is something we all have to practise.  Gratitude is a practise.  Not because we are not inherently grateful because we are in our purest form.  But mostly because we have forgotten and need to be reminded of how good it feels to be grateful.  

There is so much to be grateful for.  I want each and every one of you to say out loud one thing that you are grateful for right now.  The interesting thing about gratitude is that we tend to be grateful for the “good’ things only.  When you express your gratitude remember to includ the challenging things about yourself, your life – especially those things that are so painful because they teach us so much.  

An excellent way to practise gratitude as a discipline is to keep a Gratitude Journal.  At the end of every day sit down and write down those things you are grateful for in the day starting with the words: 

1.  “I am grateful for…..”

2.  “I am grateful for….”

 

Head each day with the date and go for it.  And remember to be grateful for all occurrences, not just the “good” ones.  You will find that by practising this in writing it down and appreciating what happens within you and around you, you start looking for reasons to be grateful and this helps to keep you positive and change any patterns in your thinking which keep you away from patterns of ego – fear and guilt.  It also helps you to receive and give with much more ease and consciously.  By bringing gratitude to people, situations and circumstances around you, you will attract gratitude. Practise, practise, practise.

 Another form of gratitude if you are in a relationship is to have a gratitude journal between spouses.  Every evening spend time completing what you are grateful for that your spouse has done that day.  It is truly beautiful to tell someone you love how much you appreciate them and to be fed with what is appreciated in you.  And it is very positive because it keeps you relationship developing consciously.  It keeps you looking for the positives even when you are challenged by each other which we all know happens from time to time.  We will look at relationships and boundaries in a later teaching but gratitude forms a big part of taking a relationship from being an unconscious one to a conscious one.

 I encourage you to go out and buy an A4 exercise book for yourself and one for your relationship and get going with this practise.  It is one of the most important areas of developing ones consciousness because from a spiritual point of view, everything that happens is given in love and when we are grateful for this we start to see these events, thoughts etc for what they truly are – gifts to grow from.  We step out of our egos and into our hearts. 

This practise also starts bringing us back to our true nature – a one of giving and receiving with love and detachment.  By noticing all that is as it is – a gift -rather then placing a judgement on it, we find a quieter place to exist internally.

Find Yourself

We spend everyday immersed in our thoughts which are based on our perceptions and result in our emotions and behaviour. We need to “re- member” that we have about 50000 thoughts a day and most of them are illusionary and do not serve us.  We need to learn to choose to pay attention only to those thoughts that are inspiration and to quieten the impact of those that do not serve us. We have the choice as we are the Masters of our thoughts, emotions and feelings – they are not our master.