TIDBITS OF GENTLE WISDOM

Many of these thoughts were initiated when these message resonated with me and was inspired by their truth. These books were the trilogy of Conversations with God, (CwG) Friendship with God, (FwG) and Communion with God (CmwG). Also The New Revelations (TNR) and  Home with God (HwG) co-authored by N. Walsch. The Power of Now (PON) by Eckhart Tolle.

I feel that a tidbit of wisdom just may create a ‘light bulb’ moment, a different way of looking at something and in so doing, create a better world. These tidbits are arranged in alphabetical order. Enjoy!

We have used the word God, only as a substitute for the God-Energy, or word of your choosing, that is your experience of a higher being. There are many paths to the top of the mountain. The God in me, honours the God in you.

ADDICTIONS

Your life proceeds out of your intentions for it. Have intentions, but don’t have expectations, and certainly not requirements. Do not become addicted to a specific result. Do not even prefer one. Elevate your Addictions to Preferences, and your Preferences to Acceptances. This is the way to peace.

From E. Tolle, A New Earth, pg 247. A long standing compulsive behaviour may be called an addiction. The voice in your head takes over your mind, which then becomes the voice of your addiction. This is what you can do: When you notice the compulsive need rising in you, stop and take three consecutive breaths. This creates awareness. Then for a few minutes be aware of the compulsive urge itself as an energy field inside you. Consciously feel the need to physically or mentally ingest or consume a certain substance or act out some of the compulsive behaviour. You then take a few more compulsive breaths. After that you may find that the compulsive urge has disappeared. FwG pg 108

ANIMALS

An animal acts with more integrity and greater consistency than humans and respond to people who love them far better to those who couldn’t care less.
CwG bk1 pg 54

ANGER

Anger is fear expressed. Listen with compassion and understanding, not with anger returned. It is not the release of negative energy, but the failing to release it. Learning to release anger in a non-violent way, is a mark of maturity.
TNR pg. 391

AFTERLIFE

Our experience in what we call the afterlife, is a reflection of our consciousness at the time you enter it.
CwG bk 3 pg 146

ATONEMENT

The opportunity for atonement comes to you automatically at what we call death. Atonement is just that ‘at-one-ment’. It is the awareness that you and all others are One with everything, even God. This experience happens immediately after death, that you depart from your body. All souls are allowed to move through every moment and experience of their life, not only from their viewpoint but from everyone’s viewpoint that was affected by that moment. You relive and redo every deed, moment and experience its effect as if you were that other person, which you are. (we are all One)
FwG pg 92-3.

BEING GOD

The act, or free will experience is the act of God being God. It is me (God), being me, through you. This is the point of all life. Through you, I experience being Who and What I am. Without you, I could know it, but not experience it. Knowing and experiencing are two different things. I’ll choose experiencing, every time.
CwG bk2 pg 159

CLARIFICATION

Once you clarify Who You Really Are - and Who You Are Not, you’ll fall in love with yourself and then you’ll fall in love with me (God). FwG -pg84

CONFLICT
The way you handle conflict is an indicator of how long your relationships will last. Learn how to negotiate a graceful out for the other person.

CONFUSION

Confusion is the first step toward wisdom. Folly is thinking you have all the answers.
FwG pg 77

DEATH

Death is never an end, but always a beginning. A death is a door opening, not a door closing. When we understand that life is eternal, we understand that death is our illusion.
CwG bk 3 pg 143 Death is defined as the end of one experience and the beginning of another. CmwG pg 74 Once you are away from your body, that is once you have ‘died’, you will realize immediately, that it is an experience of glorious wonder. CmwG pg 134
You are different from the God-Energy, but are not divided from the God-Energy and why you can never die. HwG pg 73. There is no such thing as 'not choosing'. Everything is chosen. pg 79 HwG.

DESIRES

All people on earth desire the same thing; peace, prosperity, joy, fulfillment, satisfaction and self expression in our work, love in our life and health in our body.
CwG bk3 pg 80

DIVINE DICHOTOMY

Everything that ever was, is now and everything that will be, is now. And so, all that is......is. Yet all that IS, is constantly changing, for life is an ongoing process of creation. Therefore, in a very real sense, That which IS....IS NOT. Which means that ISNESS is NEVER THE SAME. Which means that the ISNESS is NOT.
CwG bk 2 pg 246

DIVINE FORCE

There is a divine force in the universe, made up of creative energy, gentle wisdom, pure love. When you use God. you are simply using this divine force.
FwG pg 228

EDUCATION

Wisdom is knowledge applied. We are ignoring wisdom in favour of knowledge. We are teaching young minds what to think, not how to think. Let the child discover for itself. Knowledge is lost. Wisdom is never forgotten. Children are taught to remember facts and the fictions each society has set up about itself, rather than given the ability to discover and create their own truths. What about the basic facts of life, like how the body functions, or about AIDS, etc.
CwG bk 2 pgs 112 -4

ENVY

Envy is the bi -product of the ego, which feels diminished if something good happens to someone else, or someone has more, knows more, or can do more than you. By Tolle pg 33, Stillness Speaks.

EUTHANASIA

This is when a person realizes that his or her life is already over in every practical way and that there is nothing left to experience except unremitting physical pain or total loss of dignity in the death process. Euthanasia cannot be equated with suicide. Every soul has an answer that is right for it. Each soul will havean answer that is right for it and no soul will answer the question in correctly - because there is no such thing as 'incorrectly'. pg 68-69 HwG.

FEAR

Fear attracts like energy. What you most fear the most, is what will plaque you. Fear will draw it to you like a magnet. All our holy scriptures, of every religious persuasion and tradition which we have created, clearly say - fear not. This is not by accident! CwG bk 1 pg 56

FEELINGS

Feelings are the language of the soul. They will back up in your heart if you have a closed mind. Let your feelings flow. FwG pg 264

FORGIVENESS

Forgiveness is not saying that one party is right and one is wrong. It is releasing yourself from what the other party may do or say in order to control your thoughts. Dr. Phil says that forgiveness is what you do for yourself, not for other people. When you forgive, it doesn't mean that you approve of what's happened; instead, it means that you're giving yourself permission to move on with your life.

FREEDOM

Freedom is the very essence of what God is, and free will, which is God’s greatest gift, is nearly always severely restricted by those governments that are controlled by religions. TNR pg 174

GUILT

Guilt is important. It tells us when we have done wrong. You will not grow through guilt, but only shrivel and die. Guilt is the feeling that keeps you stuck in who you are not Fear and guilt, are our only enemies. To remedy this, you simply change your mind about yourself and how you choose to be. CwG bk 3 pg 4 FwG pg 91

HATE

"Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

HEALING

You are surrounded in this very moment by a hundred thousand angels. Accept now there ministrations. And then pass their gifts on to others. For it is in the giving that you shall receive and it is in healing that you shall be healed. pg 88 HwG.

HELPING

When our help is offered in such a way that it creates continued dependence, rather than independence. This is not compassion, but compulsion. CwG bk 2 pg 161

HUMILIATION

Our greatest fear is to be humiliated. Much like humiliation, bullying can also break your spirit. Adults are better equipped to handle this than juveniles.

INNER PROCESS

The Inner Process produces changes in the world around you, for the world that you touch is affected by how you touch it. TNR pg. 317

JOY AND SADNESS

Joy is life, expressing. The free flow of life energy is what we call joy. Sadness is the opposite of joy. They are different levels of the same word and can exist at the same time. The same thing at different levels. For example, one may feel very, very sad and have a broken heart, or one may feel very, very joyful with a heart that is bursting.
FwG pg 264-5

LAW OF ATTRACTION

This is what Archangel Michael says about the universal law of attraction - you attract unto yourself that which you vibrationally send out to the universe. So if expect good things to come to you, then they do.

LAWS

1) Thought is creative
2) Fear attracts like energy
3) Love is all there is
CwG bk 1 pg 56

LIFE

Life is the Process by which everything is being created. God is the energy - the pure, raw energy - which we call life. God is not a process, but The Process, by which God is created. CwG bk 3 pg 144-5 Life is God interpreted. CmwG pg 11.
Life is a process which the soul turns Knowing into Experiencing, which with time becomes a felt reality. pg 28 HwG.

LIVING

Most humans are so afraid of dying that they have become afraid of living. They surrender their living to suicide bombers, nations with the biggest armies and most bombs. Your world cannot sustain itself with fear as the guiding principle. Love must be the guiding principle. TNR pg. 325

LOVE

Perfect love is compared to the perfect colour of white. Some think of white as the absence of colour, in fact it is in the inclusion of every colour. In the same way, love is not the absence of an emotion, but the inclusion of all emotions. It is the sum total. All to often, unfortunately, when one emotion dominates the others, love falls apart. CwG bk 1 pg 83 Love is God expressed FwG pg 156 Love lets go, need holds on

LOVE AND FEAR

All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by one of two emotions - fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions.- only two words in the language of the soul. These are the opposite ends of the great polarity, which God created in the universe and our world..
CwG bk1 pg15

MAN AND WOMAN

One is not better than the other, they are just different. CwG bk 2

MAGIC QUESTIONS

These questions when asked at the right time, can propel you forward in your own evolution. The questions are - Is this who I am? and What would love do now?
FwG pg 90

MEDITATION

As Thom Hartmann writes of his book The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight, the moment you have a thought, you’ve popped out of the present into the thought. We should never count higher than four breaths, because most people cannot sustain their attention for the time span of four breaths. So, count four breaths and start all over again at one.

He also writes; find the path that works best for you and learn to experience the ‘Now-ness’. Sit quietly and find the path that works best for you - listen, see or feel. Maybe it is repeating and listening to a mantra, visualizing or seeing a flame, or feeling a breathe. The objective is to enter the ’Here and Now'. We are each different Beings that chooses a tool that works for us best and that we feel comfortable with. Sit quietly and let the internal chatter dissipate, for 10 -20 minutes daily.

The internal headspace of consciousness is where we spend most of our lives. The way we react to the world around us, the type of internal conversation we have with ourselves, the stories we tell ourselves about ‘reality‘ as we interpret it. By turning off the chatter, the evaluations, the judgements, we can let the stories slip away and experience a moment of reality, a moment of the sacred Now.

MIND GAMES

You are cut off from Being as long as your mind takes up all your attention. When this happens - and it happens continuously for most people - you are not in your body. The mind absorbs all your consciousness and transforms it into mind stuff.

To become conscious of Being you need to reclaim consciousness from the mind. This is one of the most essential tasks on your spiritual journey. A very effective way of doing this is simply take the focus of your attention away from thinking and direct it into the body. Focus on your breathing. PON pg 94-5

NAMESTE

The God in me honours the God in you.
CmG pg 91

NEW WORLD ORDER

Two shifts are necessary. One in the political paradigm and one in our spiritual. The movement to a unified world, would include a greatly empowered world court to resolve international disputes and a peacekeeping force to give power to the laws, by which we choose to govern ourselves.

The world government would include a Congress of Nations with two representatives from every nation. The people’s assembly would have representation in direct proportion to a nation’s population.

All national armies and navies would be disbanded. Such a unified world federation would produce
1) an end to disputes between nations and the settling of disputes by killing.
2) An end to abject poverty.
3) An end to the systematic environmental destruction of the earth.
4) An escape from the endless struggle for bigger, better, more.
5) An equal opportunity or all people, to rise to the highest expression of Self.
6)
An end to all limitations holding people back.
CwG bk 2 pg 205-7

ONENESS

Not everyONE, but everyTHING else is made of the identical substance. We are all ONE. TNR pg 188 Nothing is composed of anything except differing combinations and concentration of the only substance there is. We are all one. TNR pg 191

OPPOSITES

If you chose to be a thing, something or someone opposite to that has to show up somewhere in our universe to make that thing possible. We do it all by agreement, so that each of us may experience ourselves as The Grandest Part of God.
CwG bk 3 pg 348

PAIN

Pain results from a judgement that you have made about a thing. Remove the judgement and the pain disappears.
CwG bk 1 pg 37

PRAYING

To pray for something, confirms a lacking of it. Your request for something, is a statement of lack and produces the experience of wanting. The correct prayer is never one of wanting or supplementation, but a prayer of gratitude. Thankfulness is the most powerful statement to God; an affirmation that even before you ask, God has answered. God knows everything. Therefore never supplicate. Appreciate. CwG bk 1 pg 11

PROTECTION

Be with the idea of it actually being a 3D triangle - a pyramid that is together with an upside down pyramid - together forming a star tetrahedron.

Then go with the idea of three star tetrahedrons - one super imposed over the other. One rotates to the left - male, electric and one rotates to the right - female, magnetic and the third is stationary. See what that brings you.

PURPOSE

We are not here to learn anything. Life is not a school and our purpose here, is not to learn; it is to re-member. CwG bk 2 pg37 Our purpose is not only to know and experience Who You Really Are, but to create Who You Next Will Be. It is our function to re-create ourselves anew in every single Moment of Now. CmwG pg 112

REGRET

Don’t confuse regret with guilt. Regret is an announcement that you did not demonstrate your highest idea of who you are. Guilt is your decision that you are not worthy of doing so, ever again. FwG pg 223

RELATIONSHIPS

Many people feel, that if the other person loves me, then I must be loveable and can then love myself. Seeking love of Self, through love of another. This is wrong! You must first see your Self as worthy, before you can see another as blessed. Acknowledge your Self first.

Two people join in partnership, hoping that the whole will be greater than the sum of the parts, only to find that it‘s less. It is less, because they have given up who they are, in order to be and stay in that relationship.

The soul has come to the body, and the body to life, for the purpose of evolution. You are evolving, you are becoming. You are using your relationship with everything, to decide who you are becoming. CwG bk 1 pgs 125-6

RELEASING

As for your past events & memories, don't try to block them out. When they come to your attention, notice them and give them acknowledgement, then breathe them out. To get caught up in them - to get caught up in the drama of them again - will replant them further and further within. Notice the memory, any emotions or bodily responses, then breathe them out. Breathing puts you in the present and allows you to release - to clean, clear, organize and reorganize. Breathe.

RELIGIONS

Many religions base their primary appeal on the idea that theirs is the one true path and to believe any other is to risk eternal damnation. This is a use of fear, not love to attract people. The truth is - OURS IS NOT A BETTER WAY, OURS IS MERELY ANOTHER WAY. FwG pg 153-4

RESISTING

When you resist an energy, you place it there. The more you resist, the more you make it real. You cannot resist something, if you give it no reality. CwG bk 1 pg 103

RETRIBUTION

God is not interested in getting you back. God is interested in moving you forward along the path of evolution. The goal is awareness, not retribution. FwG pg 94

REVELATION

You don’t have to keep calling forth the opposite in order to create and experience of who I am. We can change life on our planet right now, who we are not, without endangering who we are. CwG bk 3 pg 357

SECRET OF LIFE

The secret of life, is not to have everything you want, but want everything you have. FwG pg 109

SOCIETY

The problem with our society, is that we seek ‘justice’ after an ‘injustice’ has occurred, rather than ‘doing justice’ in the first place. CwG bk 3 pg 275

SOUL

There is no place where one soul ends and another begins, they all mix and blend. There is no individual soul and every soul is just One Soul, locally and individually expressed. The One Soul is the Soul of God, manifesting Itself as All That Is. This means that what you do for another, you do for you, and what you fail to do for another, you fail to do for you.
TNR pg 278 and 280

SLEEP

The soul leaves the body all the time. This is why We invented sleep. CwG bk 3 pg 159

SPIRITUALITY AND RELIGION

One is an institution and the other is an experience. Religions are institutions built around a particular idea of how things are. When those ideas become hardened and set in stone, they are called dogmas and doctrines, and become largely unchallengeable. Organized religions require you to believe in their teachings.

Spirituality does not require you to believe anything. Rather it invites you to notice your experience. Your personal experience becomes your authority, rather than something that someone else has told you.
TNR pg 129

STATE OF MIND AT THE TIME OF DEATH

The state of mind a person has at the moment of death is the experience that what their soul will experience on 'the other side'. pg 117 HwG.

SUICIDE

Suicide is the use of death to escape, but it creates the same life all over again, with the same challenges and experiences. pg 64 HwG.

SUPERCONSCIOUS

A soul can know at the superconscious level that is Complete for this lifetime, but not be 'aware' of that at the subconscious or conscious level. pg 50 HwG.

SUPERIORITY

Humans think they are superior to each other, and so they seek to subdue each other. In so doing they destroy the fabric of the world’s family. CnwG pg 90

THOUGHT

We are the creator of our reality and life can show up in no other way than the way in which you think it will. You think it into reality and life can show up in no other way for you, than that way you think it will. Your thought is the parent which gives birth to all things. CwG bk 1 pg 53 In this way we can prevent hunger and cease to kill people etc., as the world’s level of consciousness determine events.

VIBRATION

Notice when you are in a reactive state to yourself, your feelings, your symptoms, other people, situations. When we react, we lower our vibratory state and hold / pull things to us. When we come from a place of allowing, from the perspective of a supportive observer, it raises the vibratory state of that which is held in our field and allows it to change state. Notice and allow. Notice when you react / get caught up in the drama / push other people's buttons / let other people push your buttons - these are all reactive states - step back and notice and allow...support the raising of everyone's and everything's vibratory state through your non reactive, non judgemental presence.

VIOLENCE

Violence will never end until we ask or say to each other, ‘what hurts you so bad, that you have to hurt me to heal it?’ This is because all attack is seen by the attacker as a defence. Understanding this is the basis of all healing. TNR pg 163.

WANTING

What we want and the harder we want it, the farther we push it away. This is how the universe works. For example, pour some water in the palm of your hand. You want to keep the water and therefore make a fist out of your relaxed hand. See what happens to what you desired to keep. Your wanting to keep the water, has driven it from your hand. Relationships can be like that! Just let it happen. Relax and be yourself. If it is meant to be, it will be in its own time.

WORLD’S PROBLEM

The problem is of crisis proportion, is not economic, not political, not military, but a spiritual one. Our ideas about spirituality are killing us. It is a problem we don’t seem to know how to solve. There are many holy writings and we interpret the scripture our way. The problem is that we think we are right. The answer is to transcend them, to go past them, to go beyond, to have a ‘larger’ belief that combines the old and new. TNR pgs 4-8

 


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