Soul of an Immigrant

America, America




Elia Kazan

Panic in the Streets

Spiritual Compass

Find YOUR own meaning in life

He who has a "why to live', can bear with almost any "how"....
Nietzeche

 

In these times of global uncertainties, it's good to think about your spiritual compass and know where you stand.  When you know your "why to live", all these uncertainties will not seem like uncertainties but just another sign to ponder our spiritual goal.

"Woe to him who saw no more sense in his life, no aim, no purpose, and therfore no point in carrying on. He will be lost. "  Victor Frankl

Adversity elicits Talents

The beautiful part about having problems

is whom you become because of them. The

 ancient philosopher Horace said it best:

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents

which, in prosperous circumstances, would have

lain dormant."

 Holiday Mathis is not your usual horoscope writer, she has daily wisdom for everyone.  Check yours here.

The Soul

 

Even though Freud and Jung disagreed on many points, one thing that emerges from twentieth century psychoanalysis is the fact that dreams go beyond their individual dreamers and often show patterns that are common to all cultures. Indeed, dreams are only partially rooted in consciousness and tend to reveal deeper parts of the human psyche.

One of the eldest books on dreams - the Oneirocritica «The Interpretation of dreams” - was written by the Greek thinker Artemidorus in the second century AD. In it he distinguishes between dreams that forecast the future and “allegorical dreams” that need interpretation.

Unlike Freud that reduced dreams to repression of infantile sexual experiences, Jung stated that besides these personal dreams, there was an unconscious collective dream, the very backbone of imagination. He saw then in dreams the manifestation of a certain truth that went beyond the dreamer, as if planted by a higher consciousness that he calls “the soul”.

Borrowed from Paulo Coelho's Blog

Power of Expectation

 Charles Fillmor's book on Prosperity:  

You can conjure up in your mind a thousand imaginary things that will seem real to you. This shows that the mind creates by forming things according to its ideas. The world is awakening in a wonderful way to the truth about the creative power of the mind.  Everywhere people are studying psychology or soul culture. The imagination builds things out of the one substance. If you will associate with in its creative work, the things you make will be just as real that God makes.  Whatever you make in mind and really put faith in will become substantial. Then you must be constantly on your guard as to what you believe, in order that you may bring what is for your good into manifestation.

Ego And Bliss

If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It's very important to be aware of them every time the...y come up--Deepak Chopra

Words are seeds!

"Every man of courage is a man of his word."

-Pierre Corneille

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.   Farmers and gardeners choose their seed with the greatest care. They reject every defective seed they find and in this way make sure of the coming crop.  To have prosperity in you home you will have to exercise the same intelligent discrimination in the choice of your seed words.

Excerpts from Prosperty written by Charles Fillmore

Next time I open my mouth I will think twice if that is the seed which I want to plant!  

The Painting by Peter Szumowski

On Power

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.” --Theodore Roosevelt

Silence

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."
Henri Nouwen

The Knowing Heart

The Knowing Heart

September 21, 2010

Salaam and Greetings of Peace:

“The Sufis have been the educators of hearts for at least fourteen centuries. Their teaching and methods are based neither upon dogma nor conjecture, but upon a divine and objective foundation which is the primordial religion of humanity.
“Sufism does not offer salvation in the sense of a guarantee of heaven in the afterlife. Sufism offers a path to complete humanness, a state in which the spiritual and the human are unified, in which the world of spiritual qualities and material existence are seen as one.

“This education is empirical, practical, and integrated with daily life. At the same time it is attuned to the most transcendent Truth. This education is a unified whole, but it touches on so many areas of experience: individual psychology, relationships, marriage, family, community, livelihood, creativity, and worship.”



By M. Farschian



We are the mirror as well as the face in it.

We are drunk on this life of God.

We are both the pain and its cure.

We are the fresh, cool water

and the jar that pours.

-  Rumi (Quatrain 1652)

From The Knowing Heart: A Sufi Path of Transformation by Kabir Helminski

The Moon is Always Full

The Moon is Always Full

The moon is always full
Our human eyes

See only its phases
Love is always here
Our human heart

Sees only its shadow
Joy is always present
Our human mind
Reasons it away

God is always near
Our human spirit
Knows this without words

O Moon, display your full beauty
to my inner eye
O Love, come into the light that casts
no shadow

O Joy, overflow my cup of reason
with your wine

O God, fill me, fill me, fill me
with Your knowing

That my heart may rejoice in You
My eyes may be filled with You
My reason overcome by You
My spirit abound in You

Ameen!
- Irving Karchmar, November 2007

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Review of Meister der Jinn – the German Translation

Meister der Jinn, the German translation of Master of the Jinn, from the magazine Spirit Connection. To order the book, click HERE.

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Quotes from the Book Eat Love Pray

" Learning how to discipline your speech is a way of preventing your energies from spilling out of you through the rupture of your mouth, exhausting you and filling the world with words, words, words instead of serenity, peace and bliss. Swamji, my Guru's master, was a stickler about silence in the Ashram, heavily enforcing it as a devotional practice. He called silence the only true religion. It's ridiculous how much I've been talking at this Ashram, the one place in the world where silence should-and can-reign."

Here is another one I liked:

"Prayer is a relationship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I am aiming for, how will it ever occur? Half the benefit of prayer is the asking itself, in the offering of a clearly posed and well-considered intention. If you don't have this, all your pleas and desires are boneless, floppy, inert; they swirl at your feet in a clod fog and never lift."

Friends

"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
- Unknown

Who is the Boss?? Conflict, Glenn Gould & Leonard Bernstein (Brahms)

Composing Beauty

"Beauty can be seen in all things,

seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph."~Matt Hardy~

On Forgiveness and love

"There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love."

~Bryant H. McGill~

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"To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love.

In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness."

~Robert Muller~

     “I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed”~~Robert Frost

Thought of the Day

It's appears that there is no break in people killing people over their religious belief. People fight over doctrine and dogma, we don't see people being murdered over attaining divine Union!

Love

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

 

Jean Anouilh

My Horo-scope

Daily Extended for October 3, 2010 (Today)

Overview

Risk has always been your middle name, applicable in most, if not all life departments. In many ways, that's a plus. Right now, however, if you're feeling the urge to risk making a brief relationship permanent, you really should be kidnapped by friends and held at a secure, undisclosed location for at least 72 hours. At that point, whatever happens will happen. In the meantime, a bit of perspective couldn't hurt.

Is it October, yet?

It's October but we've been having a heatwave, with high humidity. Feels like we are living on the Equator. Though, this is normal for Arizona weather. Can't wait for mother nature to finally get the memo...lol

The Vault

"The box became a vault, collecting in darkness, always collecting, pictures, words, my parents' glances, becoming loaded with weight. It sank deeper as I grew older, so packed with undigested things that finally it became impossible to ignore. I knew the iron box would some day have to be dredged up into the light, opened, its contents sorted our, but I had built such fortifications that it had become inaccessible.

I needed tricks to get near it, strategies to cut through the belt of numbness that formed each time I made a move toward it...

The End?




Flowers, c. 1903. Odilon Redon.



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