Short, and some longer, Thoughts

Remembrance

It is not about what you do or did or what you leave behind when you go. It is about who you are, were, who you love, loved and who loved you. That is Remembrance.

Free Will and Power

No Limits is an idea seen in many places but it's not a good idea. Everything is limited in some way, even the power of the gods. Even Creator is limited by His self-imposed love bound limits. A completely unlimited being would be capable of absolutely anything, both good and bad, and the Father will not do bad.

In all Creation there is one apparently most powerless being which actually holds the greatest power of all to render the Father powerless. That is the lowest form of conscious being, the mortal, us, when we choose not to cooperate. All the power in the universes cannot overcome that free will decision. It's a decision that ultimately can lead to a mortal's ruin but yet is still allowed because that's the powerful gift of free will choice the Father gave. A power He will never undermine,  limit or remove. How far that power is explored is completely in our own hands.

The power of free will non-cooperation is actually quite evident on our own level. The only power that can be had is power that are freely given. Coerced power is not real power. Only free will power is real power. Only given power is real. Strange sometimes to think that it's so easy to render the Almighty mightless but that's the power he gave us by giving us free will. The gift of free will is actually the ultimate genius from the Father because it absolves Him from all responsibility for our actions. God can't ever be blamed for anything because it's all our own choice...as  are the consequences.

Then, on the flip side, is free will also the greatest opportunity we can ever have. An opportunity to learn through experience and make the ultimate choice of eternal life for ourselves. That's the real gift of free will, to become gods on our own terms as long as we choose to honor, love and obey the First God. Choose the First God, then become one with the First God, and see your existence blossom. All because He has rendered himself powerless by giving you free will so you could become powerful by using that gift to choose Him. Each one that choose to serve the Father not only make themselves powerful but also the Father because we enhance each other. It's the ultimate powersharing deal and one that is eternal with an ever increasing return of investment. There's no other deal like it! Nothing else that can compare even remotely!

None that become one with the Father will ever desert Him because the Father doesn't meld with those who don't want Him. Nothing is ever forced. In all this then the Father shows His one unlimited power. The power of His love for there is no greater love than letting your children choose their own path while giving them the power of choice of joining or rejecting you. What an awesome responsibility rests on the mere mortal and what awesome power he really holds. Creator only has as much power as we give Him but if we give Him the power over our lives, and willingly surrender ourselves, which is the returning of the investment of the gift of free will by Him to Him, then we can become just like Him. Greatness itself limited only by the volition of Ultimate Love. How wonderful our Father is...and what a genius!!

Performance

It is often asked "How can we make people perform better?" Performance is measured by the accomplishment of goals, by how much has been done and produced. Millions in money are spent to try and increase performance and create motivation. These methods work, temporarily, before motivation starts to sag again and performance starts to lag again. This is false performance because it only has temporary motivation and temporary incentive. It is false inspiration.

Motivational incentives are a big part of trying to motivate people to perform, to give their extra and best but many times it lacks a crucial aspect...happiness and love. Endless resources can be spent on incentives to motivate in hopes of increasing performance but without happiness and love it will inevitably bear less fruit than hoped for or even none.

There is a saying "Love what you do and do what you love". This expression is 50% false. Nobody will always love what they do. There are many tasks that you will never love to do no matter how hard you try. Inevitably then too you will underperform in these tasks because will, motivation, care, love and happiness is not part of your unwilling actions. Achievement and a sense of satisfaction will never come from such tasks. If your activitites should consist of such tasks you would constantly underperform, never reach you true potential and never deliver quality anything.

The second part of the expression - ... do what you love - is where the true capability to perform rest. Everyone has something they like to do. Something that endless hours can be spent on without it ever feeling like effort. Something that just seems to have endless motivation behind it and driven performance to do it as excellent as possible. Something you do not mind pouring endless resources and time into not just because you like it but love it and it brings you great happiness. The world around you can go to pot but as long as you are loving what you're doing time and effort doesn't exist. At the end you may be tired but it would be a good tired. A happy, satisfied tired and a fulfilling rest.

Performance stemming from doing what you love transcends anything that any motivational incentive program could ever achieve because it brings out your real best. A best you didn't even think you were capable of. One of the greatest aspects of love and happiness driven performance is the striving towards quality. When someone bases their entire activity on the premise of extracting the maximum level of love and happiness from it then the end product or service will inevitably be of a very high quality. Love and happiness in one's activities can only give the best and bring the best.

When a society is based on the principle of not working for material reward but for happiness, love and joy then all work will disappear. Nobody will ever work again because doing what you love is not work. It is spending every moment in a state of fulfilled joy. There is a term for that - Heaven. Heaven is a state of fulfilled joy and always endless love and happiness. You need not die to go to heaven. It can be life now if everything is done in love and happiness. Heaven can be within anyone's grasp and peak performance can be a permanent state of life. Just find what you love to do and do it. A world of such people will always deliver the highest and best of and from themselves and never will an incentive or motivational anything be needed again. Inspiration will be endless because love is there and happiness is flowing every moment. And that is the simple key to "job" fulfillment...Do what you love and heaven will be yours.

Power

Power is not an isolated absolute. None can have power unless it is shared. Power can only be gifted. One can only receive as much power as another agrees to give. Power requires permission. Power requires support. Power requires free will choice. Real power is freely gifted and freely returned. False power is forcibly taken and never freely returned.

The true powerful only give in love and receive with gratitude but not expectance. Expectance of power leads to force and force leads to false power. This is the power of Fear. Fear leads to Hate and Hate to death and destruction of the false power seeker. Genuine love based power receivers always rise. False fear based power seekers always fall.

True power is Love and Love is True power. True power is a gift. Receive and use it wisely.

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Worship and Gratitude

How do you worship God? By making His Will your will.

How do you find God's Will? Ask Him.

How do you thank God? "I love you Father".

Expectation

An expectation is an idea. It is an idea of what you think should be but which will not necessarily be. It's an effort to predict the unpredictable. Life. You expect this or that to happen or this or that person to be what you think they should be. When it then doesn't pan out that way you're disappointed, disappointed in the circumstances and disappointed in the people that didn't manifest your idea of what you wanted from it or them. To have an expectation is to limit yourself to probabilities that you can foresee while ignoring greater, and perhaps more beneficial, ones that you can't. Life can have grand plans for you but when you force it into the expectation box you actively diminish that possible grandeur and cut yourself off from possible life enhancing, if unexpected, experiences.

Life can be a surprise around every corner but when it is not the surprise you expected you're disappointed and thus don't see the benefits of what may be on offer for you. It's natural to expect what is always nice but life gives you what you need to grow and not always what you think and expect you need to grow. All surprises don't always come in a pretty wrapped box with a pink bow. Sometimes it's a nasty box. Free yourself from expectation, from what you think should be in the box and what the box should look like, and from the limitation to see and experience all that life, and Spirit, has to offer for your benefit.

God has no expectation from you other than to just be who you are meant to be and become what you couldn't yet even dream you could become. The saying "expect the unexpected" is a truth of spiritual growth as the unexpected is all that can be realistically expected. Embrace the freedom of unexpected and the release from subsequent disappointment and experience the magnificent diversity and fluidity which Spirit wants to give. Life is more fun with surprises. More fun without expectation. Expectation is just another form of waiting. Don't wait for expected life...LIVE UNEXPECTED LIFE!

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Talent

Talent is not a special ability one has and another doesn't have. Talent is only a single well honed skill over a long time period, often many lifetimes. The prodigy and genius is not above or better than anyone else, just better practiced in their chosen skill. A genius in one area can be a total novice in another's genius area. Everyone can have great ability for everything if they only choose to diligently practice at that everything. That is the nature of talent. Nothing special, just practice.

All are created equal with the same potential latent abilities (the "talent") and everyone has a free choice of which of those abilities they will develop. Those that choose to specialise in certain ones are the stand-outs in their fields, the perceived genius and master, but put them in another unpracticed field and they become bumbling fools. "Natural" has nothing to do with it. It's all level in potential. It's all about choice and the diligent practice of that choice to perfection. "Jack of all trades but master of none" makes for a much more versatile and self-sufficient being than Master of one but knowing jack about the rest.

Multi-talented (multi-practiced) versatility is encouraged. A perfected trade in a natural feeling direction may be comfortable and may yield spectacular results in its field but could also make for a lopsided and overspecialised personality in the end.

Diversity is the spice of Life, as the expression goes, and growth and learning comes trough practicing the unpracticed. That is what should be natural and even if it doesn't feel so initially it will eventually and make for a well balanced, well rounded personality.

You'll never be a true master, genius and prodigy until you've mastered all your latent potential abilities and that is what eternity is for. To do everything...and master it! Then your natural talent will be everything and you'll be Jack of all trades and master of all with "Sure I can" being your standard answer to every challenge.

Craziness and Mirrors

"People are crazy..."

We say that a lot these days about various peoples but from other perspectives we that call them crazy would seem like the crazy ones. Personal truth is a highly subjective, and potentially dangerous, thing. We certainly know that many will kill to protect what they consider the only truth at the exclusion of all other viewpoints (which is essentially the definition of religion). It's that old forest for the trees thing (which is an expression I never could quite understand). I would prefer "You can't see the whole building when in just one room".

To view the whole picture you need to be outside it and we aren't, so can't. We all just see our little bit and when we don't understand the other bit we call it "crazy". However, "crazy" is right when you're aware of cosmic and spiritual principles of what should be right, as we are. But defining something as "crazy" can also mean a feeling, or subconscious knowing, that this is definitely not right in any way. I guess that would be called the moral, ethical and spiritual consciousness.

Although personal truth can be subjective, this spiritual consciousness is the objective. So then, I suppose, the truth can be seen from outside when looking from a certain place inside where a reflection of the outside can be seen from, like seeing a reflection of your building in an outside mirror. The spiritual consciousness could then be viewed from the one room as a mirror held up from a roof with a view of another building and only then, in and through that mirror, can the greater picture be seen. Seems we need more mirrors.

Love - Let it Rain - East 17 - Lyric Video

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Who do you follow? Is it this joyful? If not...perhaps it's time then to re-evaluate.

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You have to lose

You have to lose your mind to find your Mind.

You have to lose your truth to find your Truth

You have to lose your self to find your Self

You have to lose your god to find your God

What you don't know

What you don't know, you can't know.
What you can't know you can't understand and so can't act on.

True Leaders

True leaders are leaders of Self and no true leader want followers. A true leader only want to guide others to become true leaders of their Self. When all are leaders of Self then there can be no followers.

If you're feeling a bit down. A lift.

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Anticipation

Anticipation is not living in now. It is living in tomorrow.
Tomorrow will take care of itself. You take care of today.

Excellence

Rod Stewart - Faith of the Heart.

This song is for each one of us fighting this good fight and has carried me many-a-time

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WhiteFly.. I just looked at your karma.. please know I never gave you a red thumb.. somebody else used my name. I wonder now if my name has been falsely used against others too..:I has a sad:

I know you didn't KD. I think that was Baloney because I mentioned your name in a post to him/her in the UB is pigshit thread where I was chased. Don't worry about it.

What you want

What you want is not always what you'll get but what you'll get is always what you'll need. You may not recognise that right now but the universe cares for you and will take care of you. You're far from being alone.

Finding Truth

Truth is limitless. Look for truth everywhere. It may not always be where you expect it to be.

To OP

1 - Your target group will never in a lifetime read your textwall.

2 - See 1

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Some walls of text are intentionally disruptive, such as when an editor attempts to overwhelm a discussion with a mass of irrelevant kilobytes. Other walls are due to lack of awareness of good practices, such as when an editor tries to cram every one of their cogent points into a single comprehensive response that is roughly the length of a short novel. Not all long posts are walls of text; some can be nuanced and thoughtful. Just remember: the longer it is, the less of it people will read.

This thread's name is "Short, and some Longer, Thoughts" with emphasis on "some Longer". I'll write my way in my thread and that's it. Get it?

This was a longer response but I decided to redo. This'll do fine.

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Love always returns

Return to Love (Jazz Version)- Geila Zilkha from the anime Solty Rei. A beautiful song.

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Life, Love and Kindness

It's not about how life treats you. It's about how you treat life. Love and kindness are words thrown around a lot but practiced not nearly enough. The expression "Life is what you make it" is very true. A kind heart will make a kind life. A loving heart will make a loving life. It's about what you choose.

Oh sure, there will be "those days" but "those days" don't need to be everyday. "Those days" are just part of living and loving and growing. What remains the most important is where you choose to take your heart...to love and kindness...or the other way...Life can be so loving if you want it to be. It can also be so angry if you want it to be. Left...or Right...It's up to you.

some thoughts take more than 3 lines ok... if one needs 3 lines and cannot read more.. the issue is with the reader.. not the OP:happy 2020:

And I am looking forward to that one you have written recently and hope you choose to post it... then I will copy it to my Light and Life thread. :hugs 1:

Thank you KAN DAEK

Principles of Civilized Man

1) The first duty is always to the Truth

2) Never pronounce judgment or draw conclusions without sufficient evidence. Always be fair.

3) Love all equally and unconditionally, friend and foe alike.

4) Understand, accept and do not try to change another to match your opinion of what they should be. They are as they are for their own reasons of which you may not be aware.

5) Never allow any to live in ignorance if you can help it, including yourself. Educate others, and yourself, in truth whenever possible but do not force your ways and views onto another if they prove not ready. Have patience, including with yourself. All in due time if due diligence, insight and wisdom is applied.

6) Allow for variety. Monotony is poison for the soul.

7) Be open minded and explore. Do not make speculative assumptions. Investigate and confirm. Use your mind for good. Be as objective as possible and never intervene where you have not been asked to intervene. You may not be as welcome as you hoped or thought.

8) Respect Sovereignty, Freedom, Free Will and Peace.

9) Do not tolerate hatred. Do not harbor hatred. Do not be be vengeful. Be Forgiving and accept Forgiveness. Mercy is for the strong.

10) Do not tolerate what is clearly wrong and harmful. Use good reason and discernment in everything you encounter. Measure all by best standards.

11) Allow life to unfold naturally. Do not attempt to force it to conform to your ideas of how it should be. What you think should be and what should actually be may not coincide.

12) It's not about what life gives you. It's about what you give life.

13) Leave no life joyless. Play a little every day and have a party once in a while.

14) Cry when you must. Laugh when you must. Give a hug. Get a hug. Give a kiss. Get a kiss...and always remember..."What we've done in life is less important than how we've lived".

15) Have Faith and always honor Creator.

In conclusion then...I See You. Namaste. Many Blessings to you. May the Force be with you and may you Live Long and Prosper.

Life and Free Will

Life is the ultimate expression of free will. It can be directed but never truly controlled. To attempt such would only bring failure. Despite your best laid plans you must just sometimes go with it to where not even your wildest imaginations have ever gone.