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I started to exercise Qigong for about a year ago. First 6-8 min once a day, gradually increasing to 15-20 min twice a day.

This method produced a handsome revenue: this very morning - lo and behold - I've won 10 SEK in lottery. For the first time in my life! And it wasn't even I who bought the ticket!!!

Yay!

Some people believe that when we die, that's it. No afterlife. But if that's the case, what's the point?

On the other hand, what point would there be to life if not for an afterlife?

And, how did we get here to even have a life? The big bang theory is the most rediculous idea I've ever heard, because where did the first matter come from to explode?

The theory of creation makes the most sense to me, because of the complexity and intricacy of things, from the simple to the most complex -- the human brain. And mans ability to think, reason, feel emotion.

Discuss.

Thank You to All of You for That Warm Welcome.
My Relatives Is Not About Been Lakota, Is About Been Part Of One Human Race.
I believe that everything as it moves now and them, here and there makes stop, in that sense
I have stop here at CS, as a bird flies and make stop to make his nest on a tree and other place
to rest from its flight. we as men move forward and stop as will so we can pray to Creator that
has stop the Sun which so bright and beautiful, the moon , the stars , the wind that has been with ,
the trees, the animal, as Indigenous of the America I send my Prayers to reach all the places and
people where the Creator has Stopped and to win health and blessings to all of you
Eagle

be happy to any situation your going through..be happy just wait for day because GOD knows u.ur day is tomorrow en u gonna testify to the lord

Thought....The realm of consciousness is much vaster than thought can grasp. When you no longer believe everything you think, you step out of thought and see clearly that the thinker is not who you are.
Eckart Tolle...from Stillness Speaks..

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away. Matthew 24:35 KJV

A compilation Jul 09, 2015

What does an omnipotent God mean to us? “Omnipotent” is defined as being all-powerful, having great and limitless power or infinite power. We will agree that God is all-powerful. He merely spoke the universe into existence and all life within it. But what effect does God’s omnipotence have individually upon us?

When we talk about the omnipotence of God, we are tempted to think it is an undisciplined attribute, which is to say everything that happens is the will of God. God can do anything He wants, and our praying is usually an appeal to His omnipotence. Will He get us out of a hardship we are facing? Will He heal a loved one? Will He intervene in all the war, suffering, and loss taking place in our world?

There is a well-known argument that God cannot be all-powerful and at the same time, all-loving. If He is all-powerful, then the very existence of suffering and devastation indicates that He cannot be all-loving. And if God is all-loving and desires the best for us, then He cannot be all-powerful, because He seems unable to resist the pain and turmoil taking place in our lives and in the world. This raises the question: What is God doing?

Galatians 3:22 says, “The Scripture declares that the whole world is a prisoner of sin.” On three occasions, Jesus spoke of Satan as being the prince of this world, and 1 John 5:19 says, “We know that we are children of God and that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.” These are verses we cannot sweep under the carpet, yet many of us feel justified in accusing God of inaction. But God does not simply look around the world, click His fingers and zap things into place. Though He is totally capable of intervening this way, He does not for the reason that His purpose for every one of us is that we come to know Him. And this is an absolute disciplined attribute of God. …

But where there is prayer, where there is faith and love for God through Jesus Christ, His intervention is assured.

We are never closer to God than in our suffering and hardships. As we come to live in dependence upon Him, He places His agenda in our hearts and fills us with His peace. He may or may not heal our loved one or zap our hardships away, but we rest in the fact that we have an all-powerful God who works to the good in every situation.—Charles Price

Omnipotent grace

God’s power is infinite, meaning that it is without any limits, immeasurable. As such, He not only has the power to do those things He has done, but also the power to do things He could do but hasn’t done. Some examples of such things mentioned in the Bible are raising up children of Abraham from stones, or sending legions of angels to deliver Jesus. While He has unlimited power and thus the ability to do these things, He didn’t do them.

While Scripture affirms that God can do all things, it also states there are some things God cannot do. He can’t deny Himself by going against His nature and character.1 He can’t lie.2 He can’t be tempted with evil, or tempt others with evil.3 He can’t do wickedly or pervert justice. He won’t violate His righteousness.

When the Bible says God is Almighty and can do anything, it should be understood that God can do anything which is consistent with His nature and character.—Peter Amsterdam

1 2 Timothy 2:13.
2 Titus 1:2.
3 James 1:13.
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Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live... Ezekiel 37:5 KJV




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Aloneness and silence are two aspects of one experience, two sides of the same coin. If one wants to experience silence one has to go into one´s total aloneness. It is there.

We are born alone, we die alone. Between these two realities we create a thousand and one illusions of being together - all kinds of relationships, friends and enemies, loves and hates, nations, races, religions. We create all kinds of hallucinations just to avoid one fact: that we are alone. But whatsoever we do, the truth cannot be changed. It is so, and rather than trying to escape from it, the best way is to rejoice in it.

Rejoicing in your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. The meditator is one who dives deep into one´s aloneness, knowing that we are born alone, we will be dying alone, and deep down we are living alone. So why not experience what this aloneness is? It is our very nature, our very being.

During my whole life, I always thought that I loved somebody. Now, being here for the first time with you, I ask myself: have I ever really been in love? Am I even able to love? Am I able to love you? Or has life brought me to a point where happiness in love does not happen any more?

The basic fallacy that you are carrying within you is that you always loved somebody.

This is one of the most significant things about all human beings; their love is always for somebody, it is addressed – and the moment you address your love, you destroy it. It is as if you are saying, “I will breathe only for you – and when you are not there, then how can I breathe?”

Love should be like breathing. It should be just a quality in you – wherever you are, with whomsoever you are, or even if you are alone, love goes on overflowing from you. It is not a question of being in love with someone – it is a question of being love.

People are frustrated in their love experiences, not because something is wrong with love…they narrow down love to such a point that the ocean of love cannot remain there. You cannot contain the ocean – it is not a small stream; love is your whole being – love is your godliness. One should think in terms of whether one is loving or not. The question of the object of love does not arise. With your wife, you love your wife; with your children, you love your children; with your servants, you love your servants; with your friends, you love your friends; with the trees, you love the trees; with the ocean, you love the ocean.

"Love needs no reference – that's the beauty of love and the freedom of love. Hate is a bondage. Hate is imprisonment – imposed by you upon yourself. And hate creates hate, hate provokes hate. If you hate somebody you are creating hate in that person's heart for yourself. And the whole world exists in hate, in destructiveness, in violence, in jealousy, in competitiveness. People are at each other's throats either in reality, actuality, in action, or at least in their minds; in their thoughts, everybody is murdering, killing. That's why we have created a hell out of this beautiful earth – which could have become a paradise.

"Love, and the earth becomes a paradise again. And the immense beauty of love is that it has no reference. Love comes from you for no reason at all. It is your outpouring bliss, it is your sharing of your heart. It is the sharing of the song of your being. And sharing is so joyful – hence one shares. Sharing for sharing's sake, for no other motive.

"But the love you have known in the past is not the love Buddha is talking about or I am talking about. Your love is nothing but the other side of hate. Hence, your love has reference: somebody has been beautiful to you yesterday, he was so nice that you feel great love for him. This is not love; this is the other side of hate – the reference proves it. Or somebody is going to be nice to you tomorrow: the way he smiled at you, the way he talked to you, the way he invited you to his house tomorrow – he is going to be loving to you. And great love arises.

"This is not the love buddhas talk about. This is hate disguised as love – that's why your love can turn into hate any moment. Scratch a person just a little bit, and the love disappears and hate arises. It is not even skin-deep. Even so-called great lovers are continuously fighting, continuously at each other's throats – nagging, destructive. And people think this is love…

"Your love is not really love: it is its very opposite. It is hate disguised as love, camouflaged as love, parading as love. True love has no reference. It thinks not of the yesterdays, it thinks not of the tomorrows. True love is a spontaneous welling up of joy in you, and the sharing of it, and the showering of it – for no other reason, for no other motive, than just the joy of sharing it."