TREASURES FROM THE LION'S DEN #1
The following were selected by lion on 7 Apr 98 from more recent sources than the Best of Quotes pages to date. There are so many gems tucked away throughout the various writings and works at the Beyond Imagination site that it still blows us away. Everywhere that we look we find magnificent gems, beautiful and brilliant, literally SPARKLING with the Light of Spirit!
Hopefully, these will stir your soul as they do ours. ENJOY! And, feel free to explore and create such collections of your own. We ask only that you share them with others when you create them. In so doing, you provide a service as well for you permit spirit to work through you in creating and arranging such selections.
Further, we benefit as well, by being able to see the reflection of what has been brought forth here, through your unique consciousness.
| Spirit
ever seeks to be of SERVICE;
wherever she can, in whatever manner is needed. Such is her nature, such
is where Love can be expressed unconditionally
. . . the only way in which
true Love can see the Light of day in our world.
Whatever you are moved to do, do it with LOVE . . . for such is the only power that can truly make a difference! |
I came away assured that my ideas for reforming/reinventing society are sound and that this indeed is what my occupation will involve very soon. I have no clue as to how this will be made so, yet I have no doubt that it will indeed come to pass. Interesting.
It's as if I no longer need to know how or why.
I trust that what is needed will indeed
be provided, either directly
or via opportunity that I will not be able to avoid taking.
Yes, I trust consciousness (or God) that much. Further, I trust my own knowingness and awareness not to lead me astray in such matters, Though, I do have direct experience, only two years ago that says even these have their ability to deceive, if one has not foresworn my will for Thy Will. This is the key that removes all doubt and assures that the Plan is fulfilled.
Each person has a role to play
in helping consciousness to more fully enflesh itself,
and in doing so rise to awareness levels that it has not yet reached.
How can I talk of this in this way? What is the source? Why does it matter? What comes through, comes through. It is as simple as that. Judge it based on its content and not it's source or method of delivery. And remember, when you really think about it, you don't even know where your own thoughts come from, so don't be too judgemental of the source of these. Find that place in your heart, not your head, that is able to distinguish the true from the false for you. Yes, for you -- nearly all truth is relative in this illusion that we call reality. So, don't hold onto your dogma's too tightly. Allow them to change as necessary when their utility starts to dwindle.
| Believe firmly, while
you hold any belief, yet be flexible and open to change in an instant should
a more powerful belief be brought into your vacinity.
Remember, beliefs are the playground of reality creation. Play with them joyfully, observing their results and modifying those that bring displeasure. |
By the end of the week, Beyond Imagination will be a reality on the Internet, and not just as a home page, but as a whole set of ideas and experiences reachable from that page. I feel as if I'm truly giving birth to something grand, something noble, something ideal. Yet, at the same time, it seems that this is the crucial first step in making it real. This endeavor, however, is so engrossing that my work pales by comparison. [6 Sep 95]
Wow! That was exactly 31 months ago. My, what a long way we have come since then.
I can feel a strong shiver running through me. Another validation that I am indeed moving on the right path. As yet, I know not where I will end up, but I trust consciousness to get me there. Further, as The Fool Completed, I know that there is always room for one more step. And, with each step I am moved to where I need to go in that moment. That's the key, one step at a time. We've reached a point where there are no maps anymore.
You might think that I can manipulate the numbers to get any meaning I want out of them. But, I assure you that is not the case. I don't consciously know what is involved in this process. I allow the other than conscious parts within me to take control and show me what meaning is there while I observe and read what comes through just as you do. You don't have the benefit of seeing the process happen in realtime. I do.
Through over two years of notes amounting to over 1200 pages,
| I've seen consciousness express in ways that
I would not have thought possible.
Time after time I've had to
alter my belief system |
As you can imagine, they consume a lot of my free time. Yet, at some level, I sense that I have no choice in the matter. I must do exactly as I am doing to gain the experience and the awareness needed for the positions that I am destined to fill. Yes destined. I believe the bulk of my choices were made by me as Higher Self before I incarnated. Can I prove this? No. I wouldn't even care to try. Believe what you will.
|
It
helps if your beliefs are aligned with truth |
However, beware, for the illusion is thick while the truth hangs by a mere thread. Follow the thread inward -- it is there that you will find all that you seek and more.
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Know Thyself. Everything else is secondary. Until
you've accomplished this first step |
However, it is up to you to seek and find. The processes and methods used by others may help, but ultimately you must find your own way to the ONE. One brief hint, all the thinking in the world won't get you there.
True awareness lies beyond thought, and beyond mind as J. Krishnamurti said.
Here I am on this holiday, once again alone doing what I have been moved to do for over three years now. I sit here in front of the keyboard and screen allowing consciousness to express as she would through me once more. I do this willingly ... yet, from another perspective, I have no real choice in the matter.
Expressing in this manner is that important to me. It is WHOM THAT I AM, in the only way that I know to be. I came to be a WAYSHOWER, and that is indeed what I AM ... and further, there is NO THING that I would rather be. Every fiber of my being vibrates to this same vibration
... expressing SPIRIT as fully as possible in flesh NOW and HERE.
| My reality
conforms exactly to
the I AM statements that I am moved to make. |
So which comes first? Do my "I AM" statements create the reality that I experience ... OR ... do the "I AM" statements that I am moved to make confirm the reality that is already so for me?
Hmm ... interesting. Is it that "I AM THAT -- I AM" and I am simply discovering this fact? Or, is there a greater truth pertaining to the process of reality creation "I AM -- THAT I AM".
Some might say that like many others, I simply do not care ... that I am apathetic (?) ... but is this really true? I think NOT! My writings clearly show that I care deeply about society and about building the foundations for a better world in which SPIRIT can more fully express in flesh. Further, I take action in accord with what I DREAM and what I believe ... action that is far more important in the long run than my vote on anything that anyone has asked me to vote for to date.
| You might say, I choose
to SERVE my fellow beings, my country, and my world in a more direct
manner than my vote could ever do. I choose to do things that no
one asks of me except my SELF, and the ONE, Spirit herself.
I
feel no obligation to country, My obligation is directly to SPIRIT, though it may manifest in ways that benefit any aspect of the world in which we live. My "civic duty" is to be a wayshower ... demonstrating first hand what it means to walk my talk and LIVE as I believe. |
This is no easy task. Yet, I truly have no choice in the matter. This is how my soul must express. I can live no other way. LIFE for me is the expression of SPIRIT, the expression of the I AM that I truly AM. Such is my choice ... such is my destiny. I would have it no other way.
I am amazed at the LIFE I now lead. It seems that I have indeed become the Philosopher King that I so longed to be ... not because the position was offered to me by anyone, rather because I chose to start ACTING AS IF. It is simply amazing what happens when you choose to do this. You literally become THE CREATOR of your life.
| When we act with knowingness
and authority, it is simply amazing. It is as if an
invisible communication takes place and
people start acting in accord with our new knowingness and reality. |
I am a wayshower NOW, in every respect. I have every confidence that what SPIRIT has done through me at work, SHE can do for the WORLD ... in the blink of an eye.
When TEAM WORLD is finally born, the fireworks will be spectacular, and the manifestation that results will indeed be BEYOND IMAGINATION.
"Know Thyself" remains the key, thus it has always been and evermore shall be.
INTUITION and KNOWINGNESS too are the tools that awareness brings into one's life. And with these, all manner of miracles are possible.
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Manifestation becomes childs play when we allow spirit to work through us to do her works. |
Choosing to create interdependent, cooperative "extended families" is crucial as well. It will take the synergy of many cooperating together to even survive in the days ahead; even more to truly LIVE WELL as spirit would wish all of her children to live. Yet it is our choice. However, unless self grows to directly include others, much of the magic is lost.
I preach not, nor do I argue. What is expressed through me is what can be expressed by spirit through me at this particular time given the state of awareness that I experience and allow to manifest in my life.
Do with it as you will. There is no hidden agenda. I have no need to hide what I know ... rather I choose to share it freely as the gift from spirit that I experience it to be. Use those concepts that empower you to make better decisions in your life. Judge them not by what others might say ... rather trust firsthand in your own experience. In so doing you enable spirit to more fully express in your own life.
Though I may appear to be looney tunes at times, everything that I presently believe that I consider to be important is indeed validated in my direct experience.
| Here is
where we are most FREE.
We can believe whatsoever we choose. Utility is the key. Do our beliefs result in the ability to create a true masterpiece of our lives ... something that makes a real difference to others, whether it be one or one hundred million. |
In the end, ALL are ONE ... so the results of our endeavors will indeed reach those whom they are meant to reach, when the time is right.
Beliefs are still the most FUN and FASCINATING playground around.
By all means available to you, give your imagination free reign to take advantage of all that this playground has to offer.
Play the game to its fullest and create the reality of your dreams.
Further, do so NOW and HERE. What better time and place?
You have to go beyond thinking to find awareness. It is not something that one "thinks about". It is awareness that performs the act of thinking.
I am WHAT I AM. What I believe that I am is just my present picture or understanding of what I am. It is incomplete, and in many cases downright incorrect ... yet it is ever changing.
| I cannot "control"
intuition.
I cannot "control" the expression of spirit through me. I can only "choose to allow" them to flow forth. |
How we reward people is extremely important if we want to guide them to make choices that are in the best interest of the collective. The natural tendency seems to be that self-interest comes first.
But, to create a society,
self-interest must in some ways be subordinated to the collective interest.
We can objectively and subjectively weigh the impact that any individual has on the collective. Those with greater positive impact, those that do more with their abilities to help others do SERVE society better. That does not make them "better" in any absolute sense but it does make their overall VALUE greater.
Why bother?
We bother because that is how complex systems grow in directions of greater collective utility.
| Unless feedback mechanisms
operate to guide the system to greater and greater
collective expression of spirit ...
there is simply no hope that society will ever improve. |
We are ALL living within our own illusions. But this is the "reality" that we experience daily. The fact is that this is different for each of us ...
sometimes so different that our "individual worlds" have little to nothing in common.
If our experience is that we are not in control of most of our behavior at a personal level
etc ... then, why would we begin to think that we can control higher level behavior that extends beyond us?
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A better
world will be created when
we as individuals make better
choices concerning where we
SPIRIT drives us to such expression via the natural functioning of UNIVERSAL LAWS OF EXPRESSION. |
Happy 40th Birthday WAYNE!