“To pray means to stop expecting from God the same small-mindedness which you discover in yourself.” - Henri J.M. Nouwen-
Easter is a reminder to each one of us that the Christ in us, the Spirit, is deathless and what ever the challenge and deathlike situations we have the power to resurrect. We can always assert our soul power to connect to God within and manifest collective consciousness of love and mutuality and survive together as one humanity, one world, one family of all species of life. The unprecedented situations created by Corona can go provided we evoke the Spirit of Christ consciousness in us and resurrect to a new world of love and peace.
Happy Easter!
~~Bodhi
“To be truly human is to walk the path of compassion, to breathe with the rhythms of nature, and to recognize our kinship with all forms of life.”—Joy Mills, One True Adventure
“Jesus doesn’t give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and takes it upon himself. Jesus doesn’t explain why there is suffering, illness, and death in the world. He brings healing and hope. He doesn’t allow the problem of evil to be the subject of a seminar. He allows evil to do its worst to him. He exhausts it, drains its power, and emerges with new life.” -N. T. Wright-
“The reason the very concept of God has become at once so impoverished, so thoroughly mythical, and ultimately so incredible for so many modern persons is not because of all the interesting things we have learned over the past few centuries, but because of all the vital things we have forgotten.” -David Bentley Hart-
“Times of stress are also times that are signals for growth, and if we use adversity properly, we can grow through adversity.”-- Abraham Twerski
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The immense difference that exists between hope and wishfulness is revealed in the remarks of a student who wrote:
"'I see hope as an attitude where everything stays open before me. Not that I don’t think of my future in those moments, but I think of it in an entirely different way. Daring to stay open to whatever will come to me today, tomorrow, two months from now, or a year from now—that is hope. To go fearlessly into things without knowing how they’ll turn out, to keep on going, even when something doesn’t work the first time, to have trust in whatever you’re doing—that is living with hope.” - Henri J.M. Nouwen-
“One who has been touched by grace will no longer look on those who stray as “those evil people” or “those poor people who need our help.” Nor must we search for signs of “loveworthiness.” Grace teaches us that God loves because of who God is, not because of who we are.” - Phillips Brooks-
“I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.”-- Richard Feynman
Each day is auspicious. Each moment awaits our attention to see the ocean in a drop. Each breath awaits our love and gratitude for that is our life line and it is abundant and free. Everything is calling our attention to drown ourselves in gratitude for life is neither negative nor positive, it is what meaning we give to it. Live only to celebrate each moment as a gift and the universe is impartial when giving. Receive with heart filled with love and gratitude and share and share and share .~ Bodhi
“When we live with hope we do not get tangled up with concerns for how our wishes will be fulfilled. So, too, our prayers are not directed toward the gift, but toward the one who gives it. Our prayers might still contain just as many desires, but ultimately it is not a question of having a wish come true but of expressing an unlimited faith in the giver of all good things. You wish that…but you hope in….” - Henri J.M. Nouwen-
“Don’t try to change people. Make a realistic decision about where they fit in your life based on who they are, not who you want them to be.”-- Author Unknown
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“There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love.” -Hans Urs von Balthasar-
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" I believe that it is impossible to set limits to the grace of God. I believe that not only in this world, but in any other world there may be, the grace of God is still effective, still operative, still at work. I do not believe that the operation of the grace of God is limited to this world. I believe that the grace of God is as wide as the universe." -Dr. Wm. Barclay-
“God is not only King and Judge, God is Father – he is indeed Father more than anything else. No father could be happy while there were members of his family for ever in agony. No father would count it a triumph to obliterate the disobedient members of his family.”
“The only triumph a father can know is to have all his family back home. The only victory love can enjoy is the day when its offer of love is answered by the return of love. The only possible final triumph is a universe loved by and in love with God.” -Dr. Wm. Barclay-
“Sometimes I punish myself for having unproductive days but then I’m reminded that I’m only human and breaks are necessary. Don’t feel guilty for putting something on pause temporarily while you reconnect with yourself and find a balance. Remember, your mental health comes first.”-- Meggan Roxanne
During this locked down period create more pauses, do not waste time discussing about the fear and future. Time wasted is time lost. Time is God.
Stop, sit quietly and don’t move. Peel the layers of mind’s chatter and allow the mud to settle. You are not here to be a slave of your mind and karma. You are here to realize that you are inseparable from peace and bliss. Meditate upon your peaceful beingness. Worship time and closeness to your peaceful Self.
Unlock the treasure of Self during this lockdown!
~~Bodhi
“Christianity has from its beginning portrayed itself as a gospel of peace, a way of reconciliation (with God, with other creatures), and a new model of human community, offering the ‘peace which passes understanding’ to a world enmeshed in sin and violence.” -David Bentley Hart-
"That action will always be right which flows from love, from the heart. "—Joy Mills, From Inner to Outer Transformation
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“Every Christian sect or denomination has doctrines so dearly held that the Bible cannot be allowed to damage them.” - Brother Buford-
