lion: /topic I AM THAT I AM THAT YOU ARE!

lion: Namaste All! I'd like to share the response to an e-mail that just I was moved to make a few minutes ago.

lion: Namaste MoonShadow!

lion: MoonShadow: Sometimes we are so busy eking out an existance, raising kids, fixing dinner, washing clothes, going to work everyday, that we don't feel that we have the energy to take on another fight and leave it to "them" or "someone else" to do what we know we should be doing.

lion: We CHOOSE what we feel. When we choose to feel differently enough to TAKE ACTION we will be surprised by how much energy we really have, and more importantly how much energy the Universe or SPIRIT kick in as a result of our taking action. It is not enough to think about something. We must decide to act, and more importantly ... follow up and TAKE ACTION.

lion: MoonShadow: But we are such a lonely voice, does anyone listen, or hear our cries.

lion: We are an expression of SPIRIT, of the ONE ... loneliness has no place in our true reality. The universe, or SPIRIT hears our cries clearly ... but it waits for us to choose which cries we are serious about by seeing our ACTIONS. These are what get magnified by spiritual law.

lion: MoonShadow: The rain forrest is still being destroyed, we are still paving the earth with concrete and pollutents. And we are still using innocent, helpless animals for cruel research.

lion: And this will continue to happen so long as we collectively chose to DO NOTHING to CHANGE them. Until we choose to consciously make purchases in a manner that provides the proper feedback to the people and companies that do these things, nothing will change. Collectively, this can occur ... we have "Dolphin-free" tuna now because some people choose to take action to expose what was happening in a manner that outraged people. The result of that outrage changed how the industry does business worldwide.

lion: MoonShadow: Can we fight all the fights? Or should we just try to make a difference in one thing?? I don't have an answer.

lion: We are SPIRIT enfleshed. We CREATE our REALITY completely! Our collective energy is INEXHAUSTIBLE. It is our CHOICE to make the world what we want it to be. It is within our collective power to do so. All it requires is that we ACT in accord with what we KNOW inside to be right.

lion: I AM THAT I AM THAT YOU ARE! [www.redshift.com/~beyond/fav-lion.htm]

Lotek: "I am" is not what I am.... "I am" is what I THINK I am.

Lotek: We become so identified with CONCEPTS of "self" that we fail to notice THAT in which all concepts arise (including the(mere) concept "I am").

Lotek: So much of our "sense" of self is caught up in the maze of compulsive thinking and feeling; that we over-look or "forget" what we are without ego definitions.

lion: Namaste Lotek! Such is true only so long as you THINK that it is. I AM THAT I AM! Period. What I think is but a small subset of the I AM, the ONE, Consciousness Herself.

lion: I know not where the thoughts that cross my mind originate. I AM the awareness that sees these thoughts, and chooses what they mean and what I will do as a result. I AM the awareness seeking to know whom that I AM. This is far BEYOND MIND and BEYOND THOUGHT.

Lotek: THAT which is "TRUE" remains TRUE irrespective of mere thinking.

lion: I AM is a concept until you awaken to the deeper aspects of your true nature. Then, it becomes a living reality ... not something that one conceptualizes or "thinks" about anymore ... something that one simply "IS", HERE and NOW.

Lotek: AMEN Lion.

lion: Indeed! Thinking alone doesn't make anything true. Though, it can provide an indication of where one is in terms of awareness and knowledge of self. It is not the only indicator ... and perhaps not even a good indicator. Further, it is not so much what one thinks, but WHAT ONE DOES, that makes the difference.

lion: Have you had a chance to visit BEYOND IMAGINATION? I think you'll enjoy what you find there. It is what SPIRIT has been able to express through me since March 1993.

Lotek: Lion, what are "differences"?

lion: The biggest difference is in what one "owns" to be self and the responsibility one takes for being a vehicle for the expression of SPIRIT in this world.

Lotek: The Cosmos owns "me", how can "I" own anything?

lion: There is a great difference in the meaning one places on what one experiences. There is an "observer" consciousness within that comes to awareness on a more and more frequent basis ... even to the point that it can become the primary point of awareness where the identity resides.

lion: The Cosmos "IS YOU", it does not "own you". There is a BIG DIFFERENCE in this perspective. :)

lion: There is only ONE CONSCIOUSNESS that animates everything. One finds that ONE CONSCIOUSNESS by going within to find SOURCE.

lion: It is within all of us. In many ways, it is the only TRUE REALITY.

lion: Namaste Apprentice!

Lotek: Differences, meanings, experiences, they are all superficial passing phantoms.

Apprentice: Hello..Seekers

lion: Only if you choose to experience them as such. :) The key is what one learns of the ONE, of the very nature of self/Self/SELF from these "passing phantoms".

lion: Namaste Akeeah!

Lotek: apprentice..greetings...this evening this 'one' is also a passing phantom...LOVE to you!

Lotek: lion...Good evening and very well stated as always! Love and Light to YOU!

Apprentice: Lotec, learn about yourself, first and find the gateway to ultimate freedom,,, you do not have to travel to the ends of the earth, only within the Key is there, but you must break free of conventional thinking, which is illusion brought forth by the Devil to keep you a lamb in a flock, instead of an Eagle, that can Soar with no shepherd,, Faith is for the meek afraid to discover what is their birthright as the fathers children..

lion: Well said, Apprentice. :)

lion: Namaste All! Sorry, but I must depart.