Re: Creating Your Divine Love Focus List

Posted on Aug 11th, 2009 by Marcella in Power of Success through Divine Love Experiment

Hi Leslie! That is great!  Most of my list is names. Plus I have listed business situations and stuff I would normally put on my vision board (as taught in the Secret)...really anything that I... More »

Re: Creating Your Divine Love Focus List

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by Leslie in Power of Success through Divine Love Experiment

Marcella, My list is mostly a list of names with the exception of myself where I have listed personal healing for past relationships.  Should I go back and add to the names a sentence?  And... More »

Re: The natural state?

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by Tom in Integral Archipelago

David, oops, I meant to ask what you meant by saying experiences are but a "product" of the UR or of structure.  On a similar note, can you expand on what you mean by "effects... More »

Re: What makes your heart SING ?

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by Liza in Questions & Reflections: The Group

Greetings I just joined this group!  Love the question! What makes my heart sing?  Being respected and appreciated. Selling my work, networking. Making new friends. Laughing. I love nature and wildlife. Painting/creating.  Photography and writing!... More »

Re: Where I write

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by quietlaughter in DIVING DEEPER: A Writing Workshop

I just love this space you've created here to work in. It's just wonderful! I showed my daughters, and Gabriele just said "now she can say her head really is in the clouds!" hehehe big... More »

Re: Wilber's Post-Metaphysical Spirit (God)

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by james in Integral Post-metaphysical Spirituality

Great question Bruce:  "Does contemplative experience prove that Empty Spirit caused the Big Bang and created the physical universe? )" To which my own answer is: "Contemplative experience indicates that human beings have very similar... More »

Re: Creating Your Divine Love Focus List

Posted on Aug 10th, 2009 by Vandy in Power of Success through Divine Love Experiment

Thank you Gaile and Marcella Love Vanda

Re: Respect all faiths and scriptures

Posted on Jul 3rd, 2009 by Meenakshi in One Light Many Windows

Baha'i [1] More than a century ago, Bahá'u'lláh told Bahá'ís to “Consort with the followers of all religions in a spirit of friendliness and fellowship.” Source [2] O CHILDREN OF MEN! Know ye not why... More »

Re: July Birthdays - Alluvja / Lucienne

Posted on Jul 2nd, 2009 by sandy in Living Metaphysics

For all members who also belong to Facebook- we are also having an event there for Lucienne on her Birthday- the 3rd July !! We hope to catch up live with her and visit in... More »

Re: Cafe Discussions: Artists & Happiness

Posted on Jun 11th, 2009 by Siona in Gaia Lounge

Can you have a 'Tortured non-artist'? I think all non-artists must be tortured in some way; for me, at least, that drive to create, and the need to create or express, is as powerful and... More »

What do you expect from life?

Posted on Aug 11th, 2009 by Jaguar Peaceful Warrior

I don't expect anything that I do not create myself. I am my story. I live in love, learning and bliss and that's my NOW always. My path is towards more light.

What helps you be creative?

Posted on Jul 24th, 2009 by KreaShine!

Children, family, and dear friends. And of course that little whisper in my ear. :) My friends Michael and Linnie Grove and their grandchildren in England, helped co-create this image with me, here in America. The vesica... More »

What new ideas are bubbling in you these days?

Posted on Jun 9th, 2009 by Alexa

Isn't it wonderful that we as people can not only adopt old ideas into our lives, but also create and adapt new ideas that fit specifically into today and its needs? As far as putting an old... More »

EVERY CONSCIOUS DEEP BREATH THAT WE TAKE IS OUR CAPITAL TO INVEST

Posted on May 18th, 2009 by Desmond

Every conscious deep breath that we take is our capital to invest and share, As generously and freely as we are inspired to roll out with passionate care, And turn our lives into wonderful houses... More »

New website!

Posted on May 17th, 2009 by White Rose

Last couple of weeks we've been doing a LOT of work on the new LightSource website and creating a new place to play. Check it out at www.lightsourcemovement.com and sign up for our newsletter updates.

beliefs

Posted on May 14th, 2009 by neverness

  how far should one go to live ones beliefs- are beliefs arbitrary - are they created by ones life - what happens when they conflict???

Free Clipart

Posted on May 11th, 2009 by TeresaSilverthorn

  Believe it or not, this was created on an IPhone... More free clipart at my other website.  Click here and take all you want...

Do you use relationships as your mirror?

Posted on May 10th, 2009 by Heartseed

Sometimes, when things aren't going well- at least what you/ego think would be well, it really pays to take a moment to see what lesson is being presented/created in this situation. The Aha! realization from that... More »

Where are you most comfortable?

Posted on May 9th, 2009 by Satya-Seer

I am most comfortable when I am creating art, jewelry, playing flute, cooking, around those those allow me to be myself with condition, when I am giving fully of myself. So, there is always the... More »

Where are you most comfortable?

Posted on May 9th, 2009 by ~KES

On the set for film helping to create new universes and home.  I adore actors.

The search has no end: the knowledge of God has no end. He can not be known. He can only be known by that which proceeds from Him, as effects of His names, not His ipseity*. This is why the following order was given even to the Prophet, although he possessed the knowledge of the First and the Last: "Say, 'Lord, increase me in knowledge!'" (Koran 20:114). And he does not stop saying this, in every state, every station, every degree; in this world, in the intermediate world and in the beyond. *ipseity: The quality of God as a wholly independent being who is complete in Himself. The term gives emphasis to the paradox that God, without any need to do so, creates and draws creatures to Him through love and knowledge. (Definition courtesy G. Thursby)

If the divine Mercy grants him the knowledge of himself, then his adoration will be pure; and, for him, paradise and hell, recompense, spiritual degrees and all created things will be as though God had never created them. He will not accord them any importance, nor will he take them into consideration, except to the extent that it is prescribed by the divine Law and Wisdom. For then he will know Who is the sole Agent.

But, in conformity to His wisdom it was right that afterwards the Prophet should be sent back from the vision of pure Unity and that he should return . . . toward the separative vision. For, He created man and jinn only that they should worship Him and know Him - and, if they remained at the degree of pure Unity, there would be none to worship Him. In this separative vision, the Worshipped and the worshipper, the Lord and the servant, the Creator and the creature are again perceived.

The first "station of separation" corresponds to the state of the ordinary man who perceives the universe as distinct from God. Starting from here, the initiatic itinerary leads the being first to extinction in the divine Unity, which abolishes all perception of created things. But spiritual realization, if it is complete, arrives afterwards at the "second station of separation" where the being perceives simultaneously the one in the multiple and the multiple in the one.

Turn your face toward the sacred Mosque (Koran 2:144,149,150) Commentary: The word "sacred" means that a heart which has not disengaged itself from the sphere of the soul and the sphere of created beings is forbidden to penetrate into this place. . . . "Wherever you are, turn your face" [toward the sacred Mosque] means, "Wherever you are, in the accomplishment of works of worship or in the ordinary acts of life, contemplate Him - in what you eat, in what you drink, in him or her whom you marry, always knowing that He is at once the Contemplator and the Contemplated. . . .

"O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators." (Koran 6:78-79)

Turn your face toward the sacred Mosque (Koran 2:144,149,150) Commentary: This means: "Turn the [divine] face which is particular to you. . . ." This face is the secret (sirr) through which your spirit subsists. . . . It is the source of man's being and the command [formulated in the verse] is in reality concerned with this. God . . . does not consider your exterior form but only your heart - which is the "divine face" proper to each of you, and it is this "divine face" which, in you, "contains" God even though His sky and His earth cannot contain Him. . . . He who turns (toward the sacred Mosque} with his body alone, without also turning this face, has not truly turned. . . . He who looks with his finite eye only sees finite things - bodies, colors or surfaces. He who looks with the eye of his hidden spirit sees the hidden things - spiritual beings, forms of the world of the absolute Imagination, jinns - all of which are still only created beings and therefore veils. But he who looks with his face, that is to say, his secret (sirr), sees the face which God has in each thing; for, in truth, only Allah sees Allah, only Allah knows Allah. . . . As for the "sacred Mosque" . . . , although this term applies literally to the Mosque perceived by the senses, it should be understood as designating the degree which totalizes all the divine Names, that is to say the degree of the divinity which is the "place of the prostration" - of the prostration of the heart, not of the body.

His light spreads out and this operation expresses nothing other than the ordered unfolding of His attributes over the non-being. What is called "the possibles" are those things which show themselves capable of receiving that light and those which are called "the impossibles" are those which are unable to receive the light. It is to just this that the Prophet - upon Him be Grace and Peace! - alluded when He said, "Allah created the creatures in the darkness, then He sprinkled them with His light. Those who were touched by some of this light are on the good way; and those who failed to be touched by it are astray."

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate - we cannot consecrate - we cannot hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far nobly so advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.

Surely God would not have created such a being as man . . . to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality.

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