Subj : Commentaries on The Meditation Tip of the Day and Week - June/16/2001
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From : Rachel L. Akers
Date : Sun Jun 17 2001 11:24 pm

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         The Meditation Tip of the Day - June 16, 2001
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                 Right now,
                 from this moment on,
                 I am free
                 I am unbounded
                 by limitations
                 I'm leaving
                 safety
                 For the sake
                 of Love
 
                         Steinar Almelid
 
 Robin:     We can embrace 'safety.' Or we can choose love. Love is not safe. 
        It is the single most misunderstood word in the English language, in 
        my opinion, save possibly for the word, 'God.'
            If our life is about protecting ourselves, then we will be 
        protected. But is that to live at all? It is but to stay 'safe' till 
        one dies. Is that a life?
            Love means to chance the wounds and scorn that others will give 
        us. Love is to be open, not cynical but vulnerable, and let the 
        universe penetrate us, enter into what we are, and take the chance.
            Is it frightening? Yes, it is. But do we throw away the very
        meaning of life for safety?
 
    "Teach only Love, for That is What You Are." (A Course in Miracles)
 

          The Meditation Tip of the Week - June/16/2001
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  Meaning to get a way from intellectualization and avoid word traps, I 
sailed across the sea to search for the transmission beyond the teachings; 
went on pilgrimages till my sandals broke ƒÕÿ and found water in the clear 
stream, the moon in the sky.
  
  Kakua  
 
 Robin:     Too do we not get caught in our 'thinking?' We have been told we 
        can 'understand' Reality....
            The joy that is our very nature, we overlook in our quest for 
        understanding. But we give up so much for so little...
            To 'wake up' is just to stop being lost in the dream, so simple, so 

        hard to convey.
            If our dream is a nightmare, is there any sense at all in
        clinging to it? Or does awakening have the appeal for which our 
        dream-selves have yearned, often in despair?
            It is not our senses, but the ONE who is behind and beyond all 

        senses, that very ONE who will let us out of the snares of dream and 
        into the glory of a new daybreak, one where we stand together as equal 
        children of Infinity..
            Doctrines and dogmas count for nothing. It is the coming to 
        wakefulness that lends wings to our feet and joy to our minds.
 

--- Msged/2 4.00
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