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"Your question is, 'Can you talk about the art of nourishing oneself with love?' There is no art because there is no need of any effort. Love is the nourishment. But humanity has been so confused by its leaders that one does not know the most inner realms of one's own being. Love is nourishment in itself. The more you love, the more you will find untrodden spaces where love goes on and on spreading around you like an aura.

"But that kind of love has not been allowed by any culture. They have forced love into a very small tunnel: you can love your wife, your wife can love you; you can love your children, you can love your parents, you can love your friends. And they have made two things so deeply rooted in every human being. One is that love is something very limited – friends, family, children, husband, wife. And the second thing they have insisted is that there are many kinds of love.

"You love in one way when you love your husband or your wife; then you have to bring another kind of love when you love your children, and another kind of love when you love your elders, your family, your teachers, and then another kind of love for your friends. But the truth is, love cannot be categorized the way it has been categorized throughout the whole history of mankind. There were reasons for them to categorize it but their reasons are ugly and inhuman, because in this categorization they killed love...

"The reason why all the cultures have insisted on categorization is because they have been very much afraid of love, is because if there is existential love, then it does not know boundaries – then you cannot put Hindus against Mohammedans, then you cannot put Protestants against Catholics. Then you cannot draw a line saying that you cannot love this person because he is Jewish, Chinese. The leaders of the world wanted to divide the world, but to divide the world they have to do the basic division which is of love."

Prem means love and pramod means joy; joy that comes out of love. That’s the only joy there is. Whenever you love, you are joyful. Whenever you cannot love, you cannot be joyful. Joy is a function of love, a shadow of love… it follows love.

So become more and more loving, and you will become more and more joyful. And don’t be bothered about whether your love is returned or not; that is not the point at all. Joy follows love automatically, whether it is returned or not, whether the other is responsive or not. If you are loving, you are joyful, and that is more than enough, more than one can expect. That is the beauty of love – that its result is intrinsic, its value is intrinsic. It does not depend on the response of the other. It is totally yours.

But people are in very much confusion. They think you become joyful only when love is returned. That’s where they miss. Their whole analysis is based on wrong presumptions and their whole life becomes a misery. Joy follows love. It has nothing to do with whether it is returned by somebody or not.

That’s why, even if there is no god, a man who prays deeply becomes joyful. There may not be any god, but that is not a necessity. The devotee loves – god is just an excuse. It triggers, that’s all. It will be difficult to love without somebody there, so you simply imagine that somebody is there in the heavens, and you become loving towards that reality that you have imagined. Joy follows; it is just a by-product of your love. It has nothing to do with the object of love. The object of love may not exist at all, still one can be joyful. The object of love may exist and you may be joyless if you are not loving.

People are continuously asking for something in return. Their love is conditional. They say, ’Make me happy, make me joyful, then I will love you.’ Their love has a condition to it, a bargain. They are completely blind. They don’t know that by loving, joy automatically arises. It is a spontaneous by-product. So just be loving.

And it makes no difference to whom you are loving – to a dog, to a cat, to a tree, to a rock. Just sit by the side of the rock and be loving. Have a little chit-chat. Kiss the rock… Lie down on the rock. Feel one with the rock, and suddenly you will see a shudder of energy, an upsurge of energy – and you are tremendously joyful. The rock may not have returned anything, or may have – but that is not the point. You became joyful because you loved. One who loves is joyful.

And once you know this key, you can be joyful for twenty-four hours – if you are loving for twenty-four hours, and you are no more dependent on objects of love. You become more and more independent, because you know more and more that you can love – even if there is nobody. You can love the very emptiness surrounding you. Sitting in your room alone, you fill the whole room with your love. You may be in a prison; you can transform it into a temple within a second. The moment you fill it with love, it is no more a prison. And a temple becomes a prison if there is no love. So love is freedom, love is joy, and in the ultimate analysis, love is god. Jesus says, ’God is love.’ I say, ’Love is god.’

I like to share with you.Because here many things is different,so it can make person's mind clear.The news of yesterday was that two old people were dead in a fire accident.But one of them can not find in the room, it cause that firemen didn't find her.And also the fire was not by nature but someone did it.This thing had happened almost one year,but no one to investigate it, just cause of they are poor family.So what is fair and respection?
To observe all natural world,like the bible says:who let universe so beatiful and has spring,summer,autumn and winter?who let people have love,passion, sorrow and sad?And who let birds fly to south in winter and back in summer?Who let daffodils be so beautiful?Who let tigers always eat other animals but sheep does not?Real battle is between righteous and evil.The battle is not only between people with people,but also self with self.Rightful soul with evil soul.Religion and belief is mind and soul.All need regular routes and law.So natural world and universe is regular and harmonious and same as human nature.Religion and belief and wisdom is like that:all of the world is designed by kind and nice routes including human nature. i think so.hei hei

I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains [just one grain; it never becomes more but lives] by itself alone. But if it dies, it produces many others and yields a rich harvest.
John 12:24 AMPC

*Man's Extremity Is God's Opportunity

Anyone who aspired to achieve anything great in this world to bring about monumental change and improvement faced enormous challenges and great opposition. Those who fought for the rights of children to receive schooling and not be in the workforce from the time they were very small faced opposition. Those who fought for racial equality faced continual opposition. Those who fought for the death of the slave trade fought the financial magnates of their day. Those who fought to make it possible for the common people to read the Bible faced opposition and persecution from the religious powers of their day. And on it goes.

Those who preach a message of salvation, faith, and truth will often stand in opposition to the world and its status quo.—Jesus, speaking in prophecy

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Philippians 2:13 says, “For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.” And 1 Thessalonians 5:24 says, “The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it.” There is wonderful liberation in these promises, because focusing on what God is doing through us takes the pressure off us and puts it on Him. Our job is to step out in faith, dependent upon God, and trusting Him to accomplish His purpose in whatever He called us to do.

That doesn’t mean everything will run smoothly. Wherever the work of God is being carried out we can expect opposition, not only on the mission fields, but in our homes and communities. There will always be pitfalls and hurdles, but when Christ is our strength, the difficulties will deepen our commitment, and we not only learn from them, but in them, experience the unlimited resources of Christ. We are never called to a task without the equipping and empowerment of Christ, and that’s where our confidence lies; not in what we are doing, but in what Christ is doing through us.—Charles Price

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Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves, as He loves us better, too. He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper. This conflict with difficulty makes us acquainted with our object and compels us to consider it in all its relations. It will not suffer us to be superficial.—Edmund Burke

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Difficulties are the admission tickets to the game of life. But, at times, we cannot help suspecting that life would be much more pleasant without the hassles. Is that what you think? Before answering, ponder the following.

In a world without hurdles, there are no champions; without suffering, there are no saints; without battles, there are no victories; without rain, no rainbows. Doesn’t it appear that a world that includes pain is more rewarding than one that doesn’t? Isn’t heat necessary to produce gold, pressure and polishing necessary to produce diamonds, and adversity necessary to produce character?

Here’s how Henry Ford expressed the same sentiment: “Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. We must learn that the setbacks … which we endure help us to march onward.”—Chuck Gallozzi






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It's with a heavy heart that I begin this blog, a very close friend of mine has passed away and the pain that I feel for her loss at times has been unbareable, I've cried a million tears, I've felt the sting of loss, it has been difficult at best to try and move foward, but rather reaching for a bottle, or joint, or anything else destructive I reached for my bible and read and listen to the voice of ALMIGHTY GOD AND HIS SON JESUS, as I said the pain of loss is a difficult one trust me on that. I don't know if anyone that's reading this has experienced the loss of a close friend or even a relative but truly it is difficult to handle, I know everyone deals with the loss of a loved one in different ways, but I'm finding out as I read the word is that JESUS is still in control of all things in this thing we experience called life. I still shed tears not so much for her loss but did she make it to GLORY or not, thats my concern, we where friends for years and CHRIST came up in many of our conversations so my hope is that she did believe and that did make it to GLORY, as we live our lives the biggest thing we have to prepare for is our eventual death and were where going to spend eternity either we have accepted the free gift of GOD or we've accepted the lie of the devil. As one reads this I hope that I haven't offended anyone, but the truth is the truth, but hope and prayers are that the either world gets saved and can spend eternity with JESUS and all the heavenly hosts that you have read about or heard about in the word because they are in GLORY as my hope is that I'll be among them when the sand in my hour glass runs out and I know that I will without a doubt. GOD loves us so much that he sent his son to die in our place so we can know him on earth, experience his love through all our painful moments in life, this painful moment in our lives help builds our character and faith, and one might say how does the loss of a loved one help build our character and faith you may ask, its our response to the situation that will determine that, as I've stated I've loss a very close friend like a sister to me, and as I stated could've done a number of things, but I choice to listen to the word of GOD, rather than doing something rash and destructive to myself or someone else or to my spirit and character. We've all heard at one time or another that life is short and precious and it surely is so the ones that we hold close and dear to us, tell them that you love them, that there appreciated and do that with our neighbors and thats anyone that maybe standing next to you, do them no harm, because love does no ill will toward there brothern. Now for me it has taken a loss like this to remind myself who I am in CHRIST, to tell the people that are close to me that I loved them and there appreciated and to my neighbor as well to do no harm to them, and respect them for who they are short comings and all, because we all have our short comings no matter what they are seen or unseen so we can pass from this life to eternal life and have every concern and tears wiped away. As I write this, this is what I have to keep in mind and hold on as I pick up my cross and keep my eyes always on the prize, that on that day when my name is called and I stand before ALMIGHTY GOD and my name is in the Lambs book of life that I'm accounted as worth to enter into the Kingdom of GOD, that when JESUS confesses my name before ALMIGHT GOD and his angles that I am worth to enter into the Kingdom of GOD, that everything I have read in the word that ALMIGHTY GOD is going to do, my white rope and my crown of gold and every tear shall be wiped away. Ladies and Gentleman take a very good look around you the signs of the times are before us, if CHRIST is not your personal savior please make him your personal savior, for those of you that are saved this is a letter of incouragement stay strong in the faith because one day you can exchange it

The pieces don’t argue with their Maker and Creator or their player; they yield and settle where He places them, and go where He sends them. Do you believe that? Well, then why worry? You’re in His hands! Think about this when you’re tempted to be anxious and worry about the future. Why worry? You’re in the hands of the Master Player, and if you let Him, He’s going to place you where He wants you to be, and you should trust your heavenly Father that He has your best interests in mind. God just has to move you or circumstances in your life around to position you where He needs you the most at any given time.

Throughout my life, I’ve served Him in all kinds of ways. You couldn’t imagine how many. I have just gone wherever His hand moved me, to whatever square He wanted me to go, and I have tried to be the piece He wanted me to be.

How many times have I made a decision to do something and the Lord stopped me? It’s really embarrassing! I wanted to do a lot of things I didn’t get to do. I wanted to go a lot of places I didn’t get to go. We’ve planned to make even more trips than we have. One of these last times God stopped me and gave me something much better and more important to do, that ended up reaching many more people. His ways are higher than our ways and His thoughts are higher than our thoughts.2

We ought to thank God for all the mistakes we don’t make! Why don’t you thank God for all the mistakes you don’t make instead of bemoaning the mistakes you do make, and saying, “Why did You let me do this, Lord? Why didn’t You stop me?” Maybe He wanted you to learn the lesson that the most important decision you have to make is to be yielded to the Master of the chess board. You can choose not to be yielded. You’re a free moral agent. It’s a free country. It’s your choice whether to place your life in the hands of the Grand Chess Master, and if you choose not to, you can do so.

Why not choose to place your life in His hands? You have chosen to follow and serve the Lord, and to seek God’s will for your plans and your future. He is the Master Chess Player, and you can trust that whatever moves He makes in your life, He will cause all things to work together for your good.—David Berg

Hear from Heaven

The book of 1 Kings includes the story of the prophet Elijah. Chapter 19 recounts the tumultuous episode when he was running for his life from wicked Queen Jezebel and hiding in the wilderness. After a while God led Elijah to go to Mount Horeb. There God told Elijah to leave the cave where he had taken refuge and stand before Him. A strong wind tore into the mountain and broke nearby rocks in pieces; then there was an earthquake; then a fire; then a “still small voice.”3 God was not in the wind, the earthquake, or the fire, but that still small voice was His.

You too can get alone with God to hear His voice and thereby receive His words of love and encouragement, answers to your questions, and solutions to your problems. Here’s how:

The following message were received from Jesus in prayer, as described above. So is the From Jesus with Love message on the back cover of each issue of Activated.

I know all the things that bother you about yourself. I know about the times that you compare yourself to others and think negatively about yourself, when your weaknesses embarrass and discourage you. I know about all these things, and I love you anyway.

When the storms of life blow around you, rest your head upon My shoulder and see how I will care for you.

How do I love you?—I love you unconditionally. I love you completely. I love you eternally. I love you like a father loves his child. I love you like a husband loves his wife. I love you tenderly. I love you perfectly.

2 Isaiah 55:9.

3 1 Kings 19:3–12






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I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity created by the past in you. Just by being a simple witness of your thought processes.

It is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness. The moment you say “this is good, this is bad,” you have already jumped onto the thought process.

It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher.

And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.

That’s the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human being.

What does your religion say about The Gog and Magog and King Zulqarnain ?

all the gods, all the heavens, all the hells are within you.

someone said it.

.....seems to have allowed the powerful homosexuals in the Vatican their way with His Holiness. No secret that celibacy, thought up entirely by old and probably faggot men, centuries ago, is a brilliant method to assure a continuing source of nubile young flesh for the large percentage of pederast degenerates in the priesthood. And for other sick men hanging around the RC Church. But don't take my word for it, thumb through the book, "In the Closet of the Vatican". Written by an out, VERY out, French Journalist, after some four years of interviewing many of these p*dophile, is in great support of what most of us former altar boys already knew. Good, sexually normal, priests do great good in the Church, but as with decent nuns, are a dying breed. The wise Brazilian proposal to allow married men to enter the priesthood, already an option in some Catholic traditions, is a BLOW to a reasonable start for fair Church reform. Leaves many reformers once again taking it up the BACK SIDE. But I digress.