"As empathic people, we talk a lot about how receptive (or sometimes overly-receptive) we are to others' energy, but keep in mind that you are just as PROJECTIVE. Empathic people have the ability to project emotions just as strongly as we receive them...." Kyra Mesich, Psy.D.

"Humanity had to go through dualism, to learn the difference between right and wrong, good and evil, truth and error. It is necessary to go through that stage of separating and dividing, but then you have to transcend it. The Old Testament generally reflects this duality..........
but the idea of advaita, nonduality, is fundamental to Christian understanding today."

"Bede Griffiths Essential Writings"

"... the more you pray, the more time you spend in meditation and spiritual treatment, the more sensitive you become. And if you spend a great deal of time working on your soul in the right way, you will become very sensitive. This is excellent; but like everything in the universe, it works both ways. The more sensitive and spiritual you become, the more powerful and effective are your prayers, you do better healing, and you advance rapidly...."

From "Power Through Constructive Thinking", by Emmet Fox

"Silence releases the power of God in our heart."

John Main OSB

If you don't know how to meditate and want to learn , here is a good web site all about Christian meditation:

www.wccm-usa.org

Oh, I like this!

´A New Creation´(From The Joy of Being - John Main OSB)

"The great conviction of the New Testament is that by giving us his Spirit, Jesus has dramatically transformed the fabric of human consciousness. Our redemption by Jesus Christ has opened up for us leveles of consciousness that can be described by St. Paul only in terms of a totally new creation.
God became man so that man might become God, as the early Fathers of the Church expressed it. It is our destiny to be divinized by becoming one with the Spirit of God. Divinization is utterly beyond our imagination and our own powers of understanding to comprehend. But it is not beyond our capacity to experience it in love.

Staggering as this revelation is and feeble though our capacity may be to receive it, it is worked out through the ordinariness of our humanity and the ordinariness of our human life.

The big problem in Christianity is to believe it".

Believe It!

Ella Wheeler Wilcox:

So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind
Is all the sad world needs.

I have registered and am looking forward to the class.  And I will probably be blogging about it right here.   The class starts March 3rd.

Katy

An INVITATION from Eckhart Tolle

“Why write another book?” a friend of mine commented when I told him I had just started writing A New Earth. “What else can you possibly say that you haven’t said already in The Power of Now?”

I could see his point. Countless people from all over the globe had been writing in to tell me that reading The Power of Now had been a life changing experience for them. So why was I writing another book?

The process began in the same way as it had done with The Power of Now: a strong sense that there was a book that wanted to be written. It felt almost as if the book already existed in the unmanifested realm and wanted me to bring it into this world. Many times in my life it has been my experience that the most powerful starting point for any endeavor is not the question what do I want, but what does Life (God, Consciousness) want from me? How do I serve the whole?

Already in the early stages of writing A New Earth I realized that, although the same essential truth was being expressed (or rather pointed to) as in The Power of Now, this truth was being approached in a very different way. It was pointed to through narrative rather than dialogue, and although it was expressed powerfully, it was approached less forcefully, somewhat more gently. And the teaching had been evolving. Some of the new perspectives and helpful pointers that had spontaneously arisen in hundreds of talks and teaching sessions I had given all over the world during the seven years after The Power of Now was first published, became incorporated into the new book. But there was also an added sense of urgency, a realization that what the planet and humanity need most is a shift in consciousness, a spiritual awakening. Without it, we perpetuate the insanity of the past (which we can see most clearly in the history of the 20th century) or at best we only treat the symptoms of the disease, not the underlying cause. The disease, of course, is the collective dysfunction of the egoic mind.

Although The Power of Now reached far more people than I ever thought possible, I realized, even as I was writing A New Earth, that the new book would make the teaching, without diluting it, accessible to an even wider audience, including the many people who perhaps would not have dreamt of reading a spiritual book, but have within them an unrecognized longing for spiritual awakening. With Oprah’s support and blessings, this wider audience is now being reached. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Oprah for her enormous contribution to the awakening of humanity and the arising of a new earth.

Read more:     http://www.oprah.com/obc_classic/webcast/begin/eckharttolle_invitation.jsp

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the supernatural world."

Ephesians 1:3

Comment: We have everything we need. We only need to believe it and receive it. How do we receive it? By reading, affirming, meditating on the truth of it; by not thinking, nor speaking anything contrary to this truth.

"Arise, my people! Let your light shine for all the nations to see! For the glory of the Lord is streaming from you. Darkness as black as night shall cover all the people of the earth, but the glory of the Lord will shine from you. All nations will come to your light; mighty kings will come to see the glory of the Lord upon you."

Isaiah 60:1-3 (The Living Bible)

From Dr. Elaine Aron's recent HSP Newsletter:

The Problem of Overload

Because sensitive humans are so aware of all the small things in a situation and all the possibilities of what could occur, their brains are very busy. If they are in a situation with many, many things happening, their brains are extremely busy. This can lead to serious overload.

This tendency to overload is the only major problem with being highly sensitive. It has many effects. One is that we do not usually like to have as much going on as others do.

There is an exception to this. Actually, it is not an exception at all, but it looks like one. Some highly sensitive people are also "high sensation seekers." This is another genetic trait. People high in sensation seeking are easily bored. They are curious. They like to try new foods, travel, and they rarely see the same movie twice.

While the two traits could seem to be opposites, they are not. When you have the two, you do new things constantly, but you think carefully and plan before doing them. You like to travel, and plan the trip well. You like new and even daring sports, but you pay close attention to safety.

 Read Entire Article:

http://www.hsperson.com/pages/3Feb08.htm

 Don't give up,  You are Loved:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ls7ila3srzI

 Recently there has been heart disease in my (extended) family.  This has really motivated me to take better care of myself, and especially to prepare more  heart healthy meals.   Also I will begin a new exercise program.  For me, Biking!!!  Bicycle riding, that is..  Going to start training today, using our stationary bike. 

Remember the three "biggies" are diet, exercise, and stress reduction. 

 Anyway here is a good website all about  heart disease prevention and treatment:

http://www.drsinatra.com/index.asp

Katy