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STRIVE TO ASCEND

Today, in all things, we must strive

    to ascend, moving through and beyond

what threatens to impede our progress,

    to mute our thriving, understanding

our role is not to wallow in the dismal,

    but instead, transcend and flourish.

 

Today, with every thought and action,

    let us find a higher frame of reference,

a more tenable perspective, knowing

    even at the heart of our deepest regrets

and unfathomable losses exist away

    around, beyond, and onward.

 

Today, let us set our sights towards

    the essential elements of life truly

worth living, stretching our hearts

    and souls to encompass the magnitude

of the joy, peace, love, and happiness

    that is ours for the giving and the

receiving, now and forever more.

AT G. 3.17.2014

 

WITH LOVE, G. 

ALL CONNECTED - NOTE ON ENLIGHTENMENT INSPIRED BY THE FINDING GOD ON THE TRAIN STORY - QUEST FOR A POSITIVE, PERSONAL, AND CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY

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As I was reading the Upanishads, I received this

Meditative Guidance titled All Connected that

I would like to share this with you. As you read you

will see that I was certainly impacted by my

Hindu spiritual reading. But I feel this guidance

went on to help me better understand the

teachings of the Hindu mystics who wrote

the Upanishads over two thousand years ago.

 

ALL CONSIDERED 

I see myself in a million selves, all one and connected.

All connected. All one. All God. This is the essence

of the Divine connection with God within the self –

connected to the God selves living now or

transitioned. It is this connection of self-force

that creates the power and energy of the divine – 

the divine self – the divine soul. 

 

Only the ego or the false self-made up of the

fears and indoctrination of a lifetime of separate

self-training sees our self as separate and not

part of the whole divine soul.

 

In God, we are alive and connected to the divine

soul or self and all selves. We can connect to this

energy and force and easily travel through this

connection – via the Heartlight into the hopes

and dreams, desires, and creation of selves –

all living kind and experience the essence of the

divine connection.

 

Connect to your divine self and connect to the selves

of all life connected – the Divine self of God. Travel

through this connection and explore the mysteries

of life and all existence – explore the Divine within

you and all existence – One In God. 

NOE G 7.5.2010

 

WITH LOVE, G.

 

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VISION OF WHOLENESS

Healing begins in the mind with a vision

    of wholeness, a recollection, a remembrance

        of a state of full functioning – an inner

        reliving a time when the vibrant, robust

    capacity energized every cell, no thought of

limitation or restriction imagined.

Healing is the essence of life – its own

    recapturing of a reflection once enjoyed –

        a paradigm gently followed to mend

        and smooth and reshape, allowing each

    miraculous maneuver to render a clearer

countenance. 

So, in this, our role is to provide mental

    and spiritual support to fully remember,

        in both thought and emotion, the time

            before, when all was one and whole,

    using the energy of this conception

        to fuel the healing work underway,

bolstering its every rendering.

AT G. 5.17.2014

 

WITH LOVE, G. 

 

MIRRORED SOUL - NOTE ON ENLIGHTENMENT INSPIRED BY THE FINDING GOD ON THE TRAIN STORY - QUEST FOR A POSITIVE, PERSONAL, AND CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY

 

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I find myself intrigued by the Meditation Guidance

below titled The Mirrored Soul, which indicates

that our authentic self exists fully formed within

God-consciousness, works to guide us toward

the full realization of our potential. If this is

accurate, then it is plausible we do come into 

this world with a "soul mission" or "calling"

that we must in some way ascertain and 

somehow reflect through living.  

 

THE MIRRORED SOUL 

Within God-consciousness resides the Divine image

of you, reflected and conceived in perfect oneness –

the Divine you, the concept of you in full potential,

the God you, the final and complete design of you –

the sincere soul of pure God identity,  the blueprint,

the model, the destination of authentic, purposeful

being.

 

Our Divinity – our God self – our atman resides in

the total and universal consciousness of God – fully

aware of the past, actively working with us in the

present, knowledgeable of the potential and

possibilities resulting from present choice points.

 

This Divine reflection has and will always exist and

is ever present and active in our lives, moving us

through our separation and limited perspective, our

ego desires and indoctrination toward a connection

with the true potential of our existence. We move

towards and connect with our Divine image – our

reflection of a perfect life – our God nature through

prayer and deep meditation – through envisioning,

dreaming, and clairvoyance.

 

Work to connect with and be guided by your Divine

based self within God-consciousness, knowing this

is the road to enlightenment – true heaven on earth.    

NOE G. 2.23.2012  9:24 AM

 

WITH LOVE, G. 

 

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MERELY A REFLECTION

Today, now, stop and realize that your life is

merely a reflection of your own mind created

by your thoughts and emotional energy. Your

desires – through thought, are manifested 

for you in creative union with God.

 

Understand God does not override free will,

and in the infinite goodness of spirit, only wants

to give you what you reflect on – God does not

judge the creative process but cooperates.

 

Know now, today you are both the author and

protagonist of this drama unfolding before you.

God has no vested interest in the story other

than to assist in its creation. Change the script

erupting from your thoughts – redirect the plot

and the reflection will change. You and only you

have this power – this central force.

 

You may ask why am I suffering, and I would

say you are thinking, feeling, and living suffering

and God - with the infinite spirit of God and grace -

is cocreating with you. God has given you the Law

of Mind Action – the Creative Mind - the Law of

Attraction without editorial  control – without 

censorship since you have and have been based 

in free will. So ask and truly believe – God is

giving thought by thought – interpretation

by interpretation – unedited – uncensored.

 

Look at the reflection of your mind as portrayed

in your life and ask why this story may be important

to you. What does it reflect about the vision of your

life – what theme does it suggest?  In the plot

and subplots, you may find the answer.

 

You must work to recapture your mind

and control your ego and your fears that are

preparing you for the worse and, as a result

helping to manifest it in your story. Fear – 

lack of faith in positive outcomes – or belief

in a negative one must be understood and

reframed.

 

Today, sit and think and draft the reflection

you would like to be manifesting – build the

affirmations to support this reflection and 

think of a new life!

NOE G. 1.30.2010 10:00AM

 

WITH LOVE,  G. 

 

 

 

NEW GROUND/FREE THE FIREFLIES - A NOTE ON ENLIGHTENMENT AND A SPIRITUAL POEM INSPIRED BY THE FINDING GOD ON THE TRAIN STORY - QUEST FOR A POSITIVE, PERSONAL, AND CONTEMPLATIVE SPIRITUALITY

 

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Much of my spiritual life is spent listening,

and then it is occupied with interpreting

and understanding what is being conveyed.

At times, there appears to be a theme or

concept connecting what I am inspired to

write and record.

 

I received the Meditation Guidance

below titled New Ground.

 

NEW GROUND

We attach ourselves to the function of things,

to the sequence of things, to the process,

following the ritual required, hoping

to find structure, concreteness, and order

where only fluid change exists – eternity,

where only impermanence abides; today

let us release our grasp and allow the fiction

of control to ease, moving toward looser,

more spontaneous paradigms; mindful,

aware, stretching each moment by truly

being in it, engaged and ultimately unscripted,

a free-range being without role, egoless,

forsaking the comfortable for new ground,

virgin, fertile - requiring the shedding

of repetitive being.

NOE G. 3.29.2017

 

I rarely ever receive guidance that

is not in some way personal and related

to my life. When I received this guidance,

I was drowning in my output, still

going strong writing the Finding God On

The Train Story - Notes On Enlightenment –

with well over seven hundred pages, still

seeing no end in sight.

 

I needed to step back and seek new ground.

This new ground, if fully embraced, would

require a radical shift in my consciousness:

most notable; the desire for permanence;

the need for control, the ability to just let go –

and the most difficult, at least for me,

choosing spontaneity over preparation. 

 

Being spontaneous rather than prepared,

almost beyond graduate business school

and professional conditioning to comprehend,

let alone actually do. My favorite phrase

underscores the challenge of this note

for me to live -

 

“ultimately unscripted,

                  a free-range being.”

 

The second offering below, Free The

Fireflies is an inspired poem from

a Sunday morning meditation.

 

FREE THE FIREFLIES

It is the ramifications of fierce expectations,

formed in off moments with fleeting desires

that limit and spoil our possibilities;

forever taking infinite possibility,

truncating it, squeezing it

into our preconceived containers,

our goal-directed edict, our years

of misguided conditioning –

like fireflies jarred

on a summer night,

these bits of magnificence

lose illumination and darken,

only to fade from existence

and our grasp.

Let us endeavor to shed our forethought,

expecting less of ourselves, others,

life itself -  learning to live, to be again.

POEM G. 4.30.2017

 

Again, a plea for more spontaneity,

as well as the elimination of expectation

and forethought, moving toward

the “shedding of repetitive being.”

Offering, for me, a rather radical

approach:

 

“expecting less of ourselves, others,

            and life itself.”

 

What I like most about these two notes,

is that they convey what has been

the spiritual wisdom of the ages for those

seeking enlightenment – expressed in

a more soul-catching garb, difficult

for me to ignore or dismiss.    

 

In all of this, I was able to see a fresh

approach for my book with too many

pages.

 

WITH LOVE, G.