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“Strength shows not only in the ability to persist, but the ability to start over.” ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
I read this today, and it really struck me as how appropriate and well it fits for our current time, so much so that I wanted to share this with the other folks here at GAoG. If others know or come across some wise words, please feel free to share them here. I think it’d be fun to keep this thread perpetual.
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Hi Thomas, what a wonderful idea! I’ll be posting regularly to this thread (not “threat”…I changed that word, you may have noticed, as I assumed you meant thread, and didn’t want readers to misinterpret!).
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From the Paradise Found store newsletter.
The most important thing each of us can know is our unique gift and how to use it in the world. Individuality is cherished and nurtured, because, in order for the whole to flourish, each of us has to be strong in who we are and carry our gifts with conviction, so they can be shared with others.
~Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Another from the Paradise Found newsletter. This seems especially for Thomas and Lori, you Earth-workers.
People often ask me what one thing I would recommend to restore relationship between land and people. My answer is almost always, “Plant a garden.” It’s good for the health of the earth and it’s good for the health of people.
A garden is a nursery for nurturing connection, the soil for cultivation of practical reverence. And its power goes far beyond the garden gate—once you develop a relationship with a little patch of earth, it becomes a seed itself. Something essential happens in a vegetable garden.
It’s a place where if you can’t say “I love you” out loud, you can say it in seeds. And the land will reciprocate, in beans.
~Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Catherine, thanks for sharing the wisdom. I have Robin’s book Braiding Sweetgrass and it really resonated with my heart and left an impression on me. I have yet to read Gathering Moss but it is on my wishlist.
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“You’ve got a good, strong pair of legs, Rose; you should get up and use ‘em.”
– Edward Elric, Fullmetal Alchemist
I would like to give some context to this quote that has a lot of meaning to me.
Fullmetal Alchemist is an anime that I hold very dear to my heart. If you don’t know what anime is, it’s Japanese cartoons, essentially, but there is probably 100 times more variety with Japanese cartoons than American ones, and they are for all age ranges, rather than just for kids. I know there is adult animation in America, but it’s quite honestly pathetic compared to anime. Imagine a thrilling and morally controversial detective show with fantasy elements and the villain as the main character. That’s an anime called Death Note. It’s not for kids, but it’s also not a one dimensional adult comedy cartoon like Family Guy (yuck).
I will do my best to summarize the bare minimum that you need to know in order to understand the quote. I warn you that this is going to be very long despite this being the least amount of information that I can share, so if you just want to see what the quote means and why it’s important to me, then scroll to the bottom of the post.
Fullmetal Alchemist is an anime about two brothers, Edward Elric, aged 15; and Alphonse Elric, aged 14. They live in a world similar to ours, but the event in history that changed the course of human development for them was that alchemy is a widely practiced science, and the way it is expressed in their world looks like magic compared to how far we got with alchemy in our world.
The political geography of their world is also different, with the country in which the story takes place being called Amestris, similar to Germany in ethnicity of the citizens. Aside from that, the setting is in the 1910’s, so they still don’t have much advanced technology, except for one miraculous invention: Automail.
Automail is what we would call artificial limbs, but they make them out of metal, and the magical thing about them is that they have mechanisms that link up directly to one’s nervous system, so aside from a lack of sense of touch, it’s like getting your lost limb back. This piece of information is very important, we’ll be coming back to it later.
Edward and Alphonse’s father was an alchemy prodigy who left his family for unknown reasons when they were very young. Their mother did her best to raise them on her own, but she eventually fell sick from grief and passed away when the boys were 6-years-old and 5-year-old, respectively. Ed and Al, now parentless, were at a loss as to how to survive, but Edward came up with a plan, a very dangerous plan to bring their mother back to life using the power of alchemy.
Any form of alchemy performed upon humans, labeled Human Transmutation, is forbidden because of its gruesome consequences, yet the boys forged on, using their father’s alchemy textbooks to study, and eventually training under a teacher. At ages 10 and 9, Edward and Alphonse finally had the knowledge to perform Human Transmutation on their mother’s soul to bring her back from the dead. Or so they thought.
Alchemy’s golden rule in their world is the Law of Equivalent Exchange, which states that any output of mass and energy must be equal to the input. Edward and Alphonse learned this the hard way.
The alchemical reaction spirals violently out of control, and creates a dimensional rift right in front of them. Out of the portal come dozens of ribbon-like black hands that pull Alphonse into it, deconstructing him completely as Edward desperately tries to save him. The reaction then cleanly cuts off and deconstructs Edward’s left leg, leaving only the upper half of his thigh. The transmutation is a complete failure, leaving a hideous mangled creature in place of their mother, which dies shortly after.
In a desperate attempt to save his brother’s life, Edward sacrifices his right arm as material for another Human Transmutation. He attaches Alphonse’s soul to a suit of armor in a corner of the room, and Al rushes to their childhood friend’s house, carrying Ed in his arms. Their friend Winry, also a young girl around their age, is part of a family of Automail engineers and doctors, so she and her grandmother are able to save Edward’s life.
Months pass, and Edward is confined to a wheelchair. His eyes are empty and lifeless, and he spends all his time grieving his terrible mistake, and feeling tremendous guilt over resigning his brother to a meaningless life in a cold metal shell with his sense of touch, taste and smell taken from him. Winry and her grandmother Pinako do their best to care for the boys and help them move on from their tragic accident.
One day, two officers from the military, named Roy Mustang and Riza Hawkeye, arrive at Winry’s house, looking for Edward and Alphonse’s father. They had intercepted a letter that Ed and Al had wrote to their father years ago in an attempt to bring him home. Upon inspecting their now abandoned home, Roy and Riza find the failed Human Transmutation and the dead creature in the basement. Roy’s initial reaction is to threaten the boys with prison time, but when he sees their remorseful faces, he calms down and asks Pinako what happened.
After hearing the story, Roy gives Edward an offer. He says that he can either wallow in self pity for the rest of his life, or try to fix things by joining the military. He tells Edward about all the cutting edge science that the military has access to, and something therein may have a way to get their bodies back to normal.
This lights a fire in Edward’s soul, and after Roy and Riza leave, Ed asks Winry and Pinako to outfit him with a new arm and leg. The surgery and recovery take a year, much much shorter than most patients, and Edward sets off to the Amestris military headquarters. Since Edward is only 12 years old, Roy uses his connections and his cleverness to get him into the State Alchemy Exam, a multi layered test to become a State Alchemist, which is usually reserved for legal adults.
Edward passes the exam with flying colors, and is given the title “Fullmetal” as his unique monicker. After a very rocky adjustment period to life as a soldier, Edward makes an agreement with Roy, his now commanding officer, that in between completing all his duties, he will be allowed to travel and search for the Philosopher’s Stone, an all powerful alchemical tool that allows one to bypass the Law of Equivalent Exchange, which Edward learned about after gaining access to the military’s library.
Fast forward three years; Edward is now 15, and Alphonse is 14. They travel together to a desert town called Liore. They have heard rumors that a priest in town is creating miraculous things, like turning the water fountains into wine, and making things out of thin air. Ed and Al suspect that the man may have the Philosopher’s Stone in his possession.
They cross paths with a young woman named Rose, who is a devout worshiper of the town’s religion, Letoism. She offers to bring them to their head priest, Father Cornello, the same man who has been performing supposed miracles. They learn that she serves the church of Leto because she believes that Cornello can bring her dead fiancée back to life.
Ed and Al confront Cornello about his obvious use of alchemy to perform “miracles,” and call out his use of the Philosopher’s Stone, while Rose stands by in horror. Cornello, showing his true colors as a man with no reverence for life, unleashes monstrous chimeras upon Edward and Alphonse in an attempt to kill them. Thanks to their martial arts training and ability to craft weapons with alchemy, the boys are able to defend themselves. One beast bites onto Edward’s right arm, and to Cornello’s utter shock, Ed rips off his long sleeved jacket to expose his Automail.
Cornello then makes the connection that Ed and Al must have performed Human Transmutation in order for their bodies to look the way they do. Edward looks at Rose and says, “This is what happens when you try to bring a human back to life. Do you really wanna go through with that?”
Cornello then makes a machine gun with alchemy and fires on the boys. They narrowly escape the bullets and flee the church.
Later that night, Edward allows himself to be caught by Cornello, while Alphonse hides from the riled up and brainwashed townsfolk who learned of the assault on their beloved priest.
The next day, Al finds where Ed is being held prisoner, and fashions a microphone and a loudspeaker using alchemy. Edward tricks Cornello into revealing his true plans to create a brainwashed army with a holy cause and storm their country’s capital, as this information is relayed to the entire town via the loudspeaker.
The townsfolk are whipped into a frenzy, some of them rushing to confront Cornello, as Edward starts a fight with him to take his Philosopher’s Stone. Edward defeats the priest and demands the stone, only to see it shatter and turn to dust in front of him. He realizes that Cornello’s supposed Philosopher’s Stone must have been a fake.
The priest runs away, and Edward is left feeling cheated, as he is now back to square one with looking for the real Philosopher’s Stone.
He and Alphonse prepare to leave town, as the citizens are in a state of shock, trying to come to terms with their fraud of a savior. Rose approaches Ed and Al. She yells at them, saying they should have never come. She cries, “We’re a desert village, we had nothing before that!”
Edward replies, “So you would’ve just let things stay as they were?”
Rose says, “Well why not…? What do I have to live for now that I know Kane won’t come back?! You tell me THAT, Ed!”
Rose slumps onto the ground in despair, and Edward says, “You’ve got a good, strong pair of legs, Rose; you should get up and use ‘em.”
I do apologize for how much I needed to explain in order for the full impact of that quote to be felt. That quote, and really the entire show, is such an inspiration to me.
I also wanna say that the show has a happy ending despite such a dark beginning. I only shared with you the plot points from the first 3 or 4 episodes, and that show is 64 episodes long.
The message of the quote is “pick yourself up and keep moving forward.” It has helped me tremendously throughout my spiritual journey. I don’t always remember that exact line from the show, but if I just remember Edward and Alphonse, and what they went through, I feel inspired to keep going. They have taught me that if I just keep on moving, and keep on living, I can overcome any hardship, any tragedy, and find happiness.
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A story! Thank you, Alex! I will read it at my leisure but first I want to post something I just read.
The funny thing about hearts is that the more you use them, the bigger they get. You can’t fill them up… They just keep expanding.
~~ Nancy Atherton, Aunt Dimity and the Next Of Kin
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I just remembered something that I think you’ll find interesting about Fullmetal Alchemist. That show actually red-pilled me about secret government conspiracies that involve killing unfathomable amounts of people in order to empower the elite. It’s not a perfect 1 to 1 with the cabal, but that idea of evil lurking in the shadows and corrupting people in positions of power was seeded into my mind because of that show, and it was the first anime that I ever watched.
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Wow, Alex! You are a tremendously gifted writer. The ability to tell the story of someone else’s story like you just did, and do it so grippingly, is rare…you could probably make a mint writing book jacket copy. I’ve done that, and it’s one of the most difficult forms of marketing writing.
I’m inspired to check out these “cartoons.” I’ve never watched, or wanted to watch, Family Guy or Simpsons. But THIS…this sounds like high fantasy writing made visible.
Love all!
Catherine 💞💓💞💓🌈
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Hi Alex,
I join the WOW. You have a gift with words, writing and telling. You go beyond explaining! You put in emotions, life and Truth in it. You explain both the “powerless” dark illusion as the whole higher spiritual truth message, hidden inside.
You have a gift my dear friend. Don’t you ever doubt yourself or allow others to think otherwise.
You inspired me to go check this anime out myself.
Thank you so much Alex
Love you
Ralph
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I am so happy that you guys are actually interested in watching the show! It’s one of the greatest stories I’ve ever seen. If you are serious about checking it out, then I need to give you some important information.
Fullmetal Alchemist was originally a manga, which is Japan’s word for comic book. Then the manga got adapted into an anime, but there are actually two animes that go by the title Fullmetal Alchemist.
The first show that was made, around 2003, was made when the manga wasn’t finished, so the director of the anime took the story in his own direction.
The second show, made around 2010, was created after the manga was complete, and faithfully follows the manga’s plot. It was given the subtitle “Brotherhood” in order to differentiate it from the old series.
Both versions of the story are fantastic, but they are also quite different in a number of ways.
The old series is much darker, sadder, more serious, with lots of moral ambiguity and controversy. The ending of that one, without spoiling anything, is very bittersweet.
The newer one, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, is a lot happier in tone, with a lot more comedy, and there are fewer moral gray areas, but the biggest moral questions are still present. This one has the happy ending that I talked about in the other post.
I personally recommend watching both shows if you want the best experience. The old show gives a lot more character development in the early stages of the plot because they had so few manga chapters to work with. Brotherhood glosses over a lot of early character development because the writers thought, “well they already saw this stuff, let’s just get through it quickly so we can get to the new plot points.”
If you really just want to watch one show only, then I highly recommend watching Brotherhood, simply for the fact that it is the true story of Edward and Alphonse.
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I forgot to say that I think the shows should be watched in order of old series to new series, that way you get the sad stuff done first.
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Thanks Alex, I’ll look forward to it. Keep you posted on any progress and personal experience … please be warned I lack your “transcribing” talent 😅😉
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullmetal_Alchemist
I’ll go for the 2009 version, interpreting your advise as the expert. Let’s see if Kodi can come to the rescue 😜😘
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The company who dubbed Fullmetal Alchemist in english has its own live streaming service. It’s called Funimation. If you don’t mind paying for a streaming service, both versions of the show are on there.
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Hi Alex. Started the series currently the ones I have easy access to. I like it and appreciate pointing it out. It’s very easy to confuse these creations to only for kids. They hold much truth, everyone can learn from.
My first impression was related to the animation series “Avatar, The last Airbender, story of Aang
When my daughter was young I watched the whole series with her. Sometimes many parts over. It also holds spiritual lessons.
Anyway. Very grateful always for your contributions and suggestions.
Much Love 💕
Ralph
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Thanks for all the nitty gritty detail, you two! I simply don’t watch videos, movies, TV for “fun,” at this point anyway, so I’ll hold off for now. (I read constantly, that’s my entertainment)
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Hahahahaha Catherine 🤣😂🤣
You many times make me smile and/or laugh. Do you know you hold a very “funny” energy in an almost polite sense of presence (in no way disregarding all your other energy you reflect btw).
As I said, I am redefining “observations” and subtle feelings I sense nowadays hahahahaha 😜😂
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Thanks for sharing the story Alex! I’ll also echo others, and I think you have a gift with writing. It’s clear to me you have a broad lexicon and a unique ability to put words together. 🙂
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Thank you, I take pride in my writing skills, although I never really knew I was above average until I started making posts on this forum. I never had an interest in writing despite getting A’s in english class, but I love that I have this talent because being able to effectively articulate my thoughts and feelings is very important to me.
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I feel like sharing two today 🙂
I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word. ~ Martin Luther King
The bit about “unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word” really defines for me this current stage of the ascension process that we (lightanchors/lightworkers at a minimum) find ourselves in.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. ~ Margaret Mead
Another nugget 🙂
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Stuart Chase (an American economist and engineer born in 1888) on subject of faith
“For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don’t believe, no proof is possible.”I appreciated all the great quotes others have contributed above –
Wonderful theme for a thread, thanks.
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“To Be or Not to Be (that is the question)?”
~ William Shakespeare“A presumed error, opens space for improvement.”
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I have a quote from my husband. “Don’t date a project, date a person.”
This quote really encompasses any voluntary relationships. Don’t choose to be around people to try to fix them, or mould them to your liking, choose to be around people who are already whole and aren’t looking for someone to complete them.
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Hi again, Alex, I remember from the intro thread you’re 25 in earth years, and I’m not sure of your husband’s Raven’s age, but am figuring he too must be a wise wise advanced older soul like you : )
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Two to share along today :
Confucius once said: I instruct only the passionate. I enlighten only the fervent. If a student cannot return with the other three corners of the square after I have shown them the first one, I will not repeat the lesson.
(and, along the same theme : )
“I’d always end up broken down on the highway. When I stood there trying to flag someone down, nobody stopped. But when I pushed my own car, other drivers would get out and push with me. If you want help, help yourself – people like to see that.”
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It is never too late to be what you might have been. ~George Eliot
I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. ~Thomas A. Edison
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring. ~Marilyn Monroe
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ~William Durant
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. ~Mother Teresa
Faith is taking the first step even when you can’t see the whole staircase. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. ~Hal Borland
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“And the winner is ….” Hahahahaha 😂😂😂 what happened Catherine?
Struck by quotables lightning hahahahaha. You gathered some great ones.
Thank you 💕💕😊
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I was actually catching up with several days from my daily cat calendar. It has great quotes every day but I never got around to posting them one at a time.😃
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If you gotta ask what jazz is, you ain’t never gonna know. ~Fats Waller
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one. ~Neil Gaiman
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. ~Sigmund Freud
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Oooh, fun 🙂 My third post. This forum has a very gentle feel to me and I like it.
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence. – Nikola Tesla
Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation. – Rumi
Last one for today…
Love without wisdom leads to insanity; wisdom without love leads to cruelty. – my guides <3
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Muppets! Oh, I love Muppets and everything Jim Henson! During a press conference about Muppets Most Wanted, Kermit was asked a very odd question (considering they’re all actors)–have you ever tried to be someone who is not true to who you really are. Kermit says:
I think that’s what we do for a living, isn’t it? Turned a very strange psychological disorder into a lucrative career.
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I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen. ~John Steinbeck
There are two means of refuge from the misery of life—music and cats. ~Albert Schweitzer
Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready. ~Ernest Hemingway
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I saw this and it completely resonates with me for describing the current widespread prevaricate message about the so called “vaccine”.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd;
indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
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Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
~ Maxim GorkyA man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.We are not trapped or locked up in those bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.
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I think this is important to share as I believe others here may glean something from this, or make a cog in their head turn so to speak. So the following two quotes aren’t inspiring or uplifting, which was my intent in starting this thread, but these quotes below, I believe, show history repeating itself and where the Deep State is taking from their own playbook written by one of their own evil ones about 80 or so years ago. It worked so well then, I imagine they think it will work again, but the reality is it isn’t. Since we of The Light live in the 3D world, but are not of the 3D world, I found this helpful for me to bring awareness, without dwelling on it or letting it bring me down.
“Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated are confident they are acting on their own free will.”
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.” ~Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda for Hitler and the Nazi Party
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When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.
C. S. Lewis
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You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
C. S. Lewis
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You can’t go back and change the beginning but you can start where you are and change the ending.
C.S. Lewis
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There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis
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The greatest evils in the world will not be carried out by men with guns, but by men in suits sitting behind desks
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Today’s Note from the Universe:
There’s a name for the magic, Catherine, which transforms lives, connects dots, moves mountains, and orchestrates coincidences that shock and astound.
Imagination.
And there’s a name for all that stops you in your tracks, stirs fear, spins wheels, and leaves you wondering, “Hey, what’s up with that?”
Imagination.
Careful where you point that thing,
The Universe(Website: https://www.tut.com/)
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Hello back, Catherine, and thanks – always grand to ‘see you ‘ too !
I am very very much appreciating your articles on the website, as well as your contributions in the forums .
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And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the wind longs to play with your hair
~Khalil GibranShe turned to the sunlight
And shook her yellow head
And whispered to her neighbor:
“Winter is dead.”
~A.A. MilneOften, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.
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One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
~ Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere are no facts, only interpretations.
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Hey, Thomas.
Just wanting you to know I found you. Thanks to your brother Jim.
I put all my quotes in my databases and now I’m left a poor pauper.
But I sure am enjoying the quotes other folks are putting up here.
Let me “create” one maybe. That’d be fun:
I think the human race is primarily motivated by how we feel. Seeking pleasure and avoiding pain is not far off. The question then becomes why do we not take responsibility for our feelings and do what we can, short of creating new issues and barriers, to ensure that the ones we have are ones we’ll enjoy? Like drawing love up from our hearts and sending it out to the world. Love must flow and so we get to enjoy it as it arises and flows through us. At some future date, when it grows from a trickle to a tsunami, we’ll find that the love we’ve been drawing up from our hearts is what we’ve always been looking for.
See you on 8 at 8!
Steve
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When your mother asks, “Do you want a piece of advice?” it’s a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway. ~~ Erma Bombeck
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays. ~~Soren Kierkegaard
That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a marvelous discovery. ~~Ernest Hemingway
Some people stand by you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends. ~~Jeffrey Archer
Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure – they can be turned into wisdom. ~~Cat Cora
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. ~~Albert Einstein
My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations. ~~John Green
If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. ~~Frances Hodgson Burnett
Peace begins with a smile. ~~Mother Teresa
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These are beautiful Catherine. This thread holds some true pearls.
Just wanted to express my gratitude. While doing so I got a memory of something a friend told me, which made me ponder and smile. Not great wisdom perhaps, but anyway worth sharing.
“Please be aware, I can close my eyes but am unable to close my ears”
~ E. MoonenWandering if the same works for “shutting of senses” and “closing your heart”? Possibly not. Even darkness needs the Light heart connection to exist within the Divine.
Anyway, thanks to all contributing here.
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Forget driving around with a Biden/Harris bumper sticker on your car. Just wear a mask while driving alone and everyone will know who you voted for.
~~ Catherine Viel😂🤣😘🤗
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Gee, thanks, Ralph! However, although I posted that article, I did not write it. It was from the website the American thinker and the author is Brian C. Joondeph, MD. 😁
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To me it seemed something you could have said. Anyway made me lol the same. Still makes me laugh when I notice people wearing masks while alone in the car. Yes I know it’s sad too, but can’t change the way I feel … so better accept the humor side of it then.
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Thanks, Ralph! Yes, I could’ve said it but probably wouldn’t – I try not to be very snarky in my published articles.
I absolutely agree that humor is essential. Which reminds me, I just got an email with a new JP Sears satire video in which he pokes fun at Dr. Fauci. In the email he says he’s been waiting a year to do this video.
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I thought up a phrase that means a lot to me: “Never let fear or pride get in the way of love.” I see those two things as the most common reasons why relationships fail. Either someone is too scared to look their shadow in the face, or they are too prideful to admit they’re wrong. I’m sure we could boil pride down to some form of fear, but most average folks don’t see them as the same thing, so this is more digestible for them.
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Never let fear or pride get in the way of love
Wonderful Alex and very practical as you describe for a relationship … towards outside brothers and sisters. Probably even in a relationship with your current, former, lower and higher self!?
Isn’t it strange we know we are learning, but dislike making mistakes all the way up to a level of shame and fear? Anyway, pride isn’t something negative in itself, but false pride isn’t really helping no one … probably only delaying the inevitable exposure for the ego.
Thank you 💕💞💓🌈🙏
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Oh, I just know. I can’t explain how.
Since that’s how I live much of my life—I just know, I don’t know how I know—I can hardly fault this explanation.
~ Catherine VielA very sharp observation. It made me smile … as I Feel this Knowing holds much Truth 😉😘
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“Perhaps at the end of this journey we are met with a mirror, in that mirror we see the reflection of god, and in that moment we realize we never needed to take the journey because we have always been god, but the journey had to be taken to experience the reflection and the realization……” – by Sri Swami Satchidananda
“Life experiences reflect how one interacts with God. Those who are asleep are those of little faith in terms of their interaction with the creation. Some people think that the world exists for them to overcome or ignore or shut out. For those individuals, the worlds will cease. They will become exactly what they give to life. They will become merely a dream in the past. People who pay strict attention to objective reality right and left, become the reality of the Future.” – The Wave Series Transcripts
“Time is an Illusion with a Purpose” – Edger Cayce
“Everything in the universe exists at one time simultaneously. The first words ever spoken still ring throughout the universe, and in your terms, the last words ever spoken have already been said.” – Seth
The Master P’taah: “Know that you are not – and never have been separate from your Source. You truly have never been separate from each other. You have never really been separate from all of the Brothers and Sisters you have on countless Planets throughout your Galaxies. You have never been separate from any creature of your Planet. Not separate from your Sun and your Moon; not separate from any leaf, or blade of grass, or flower that blossoms in your garden. You have forgotten, that is all, and in your pain and in your judgment of who you are, you have closed down. You have forgotten that who you are is God/Goddess, smelling the rose of the vibrancy and excitement of this Dimension of Reality.”
Be in peace and with Love always
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The Serenity Prayer
“God (as you understand such a concept) grant me the serenity to accept the things I can not change. Give me the courage to change the things I can, and give me the wisdom to know the difference.”“I fiddle with my ego’s and they fiddle with me. I see what my ego’s see and my ego’s be free” – Capes
“Your must honor yourselves and see within yourselves the spirit of eternal validity. You must honor all other individuals, because within each is the spark of this validity. Do not fall into the old ways that will lead you precisely into the world that you fear. There is no man who hates but that hatred is reflected outward and made physical, and there is no man who loves but that love is reflected outward and made physical.
Now, if you realize that you create your physical reality through your own thoughts and desires, then you have learned the most important aspects of reality. This is what you have been setting out to do in your other lives, in your past existences. The realization of these truths nullifies any so-called “debts” from other lives. When you realize this and act upon it, there is no reason for you to come back here again unless you want to.
Any of your difficulties in past lives were caused because you did not realize these basic truths. Your reincarnational pasts can help you if you know of them. . .only if they make these truths evident to you, only if you learn from them. Otherwise, they exist within you subconsciously–and unconsciously, in any case.” – SethBe in peace and with Love always
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