God's Gracious Gifts

Freedom

I know it’s nothing less than this…

And OH… how Heavenly the bliss!

You could never let me down…

Or look upon me with a frown!

I’ll be the best that I can be…

My life is yours… my soul is free…

Too short the journeys of this life…

Chock full of worry, toil and strife!

So often late… our lessons learned…

We recoil… our fingers burned!

To recognize… our immortality,

Will take our souls from jeopardy!

Please don’t wait until the end…

It’s not too late… your Love to send!

Peace shines forth for all to see…

The Love of God... will set you free!

                                                                  ...Cosma

“Freedom is the normal and natural state of the son of God.  The person who has realized his spiritual nature and identity and who lives by the Spirit cannot be limited in any way.  There is no way to confine spiritual being.” 

“Freedom comes through enlightenment, and that enlightenment comes through opening your consciousness to that which cannot be seen, heard, tasted, touched or smelled, to a Power invisible, a Power that does not war with other powers, but dissolves everything that appears in the nature of an enemy, whether without our being or within.”

Quotes from “Realization of Oneness-The Practice of Spiritual Healing” by Joel S. Goldberg.   

The Gate of the Year

 

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year:

"Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown!"

And he replied: "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God.

That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way."

 So, I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the night

And He led me toward the hills and the breaking of day in the lone East.

 So, heart, be still!  What need our little life,

Our human life, to know, If God hath comprehension?

In all the dizzy strife…of things both high and low… God hideth His intention.

The Desert 1908 by Marie Louise Haskins 1876 - 1957

“Self-realization is a knowing—in body, mind and soul—that we are one with the omnipresence of God, that we do not have to pray that it come to us, that we are not merely near it at all times, but that God’s omnipresence is our omnipresence; that we are just as much a part of him now as we ever will be.  All we have to do is improve our knowing.” Paramahansa Yogananda, “Living Fearlessly”

"This could say..."God talks to you, all the time"!  I assume you wouldn't be here if you weren't at least curious... a little bit!  When I was 24, a few years before I had my spiritual awakening, I discovered there "Really was a God"!  It came about after the death of the dearest soul I had ever known on this earth plane.  I was in deepest sorrow, but at the same time, I was beyond ecstatic, with my discovery that there really was a God!  It happened, instantly, after I said, "God, I have pretty well messed things up in my life...I want only to do your will... always in every way!"  That was when I discovered God was really there...you see most people try to make deals with God, They say, "God, if you do this, I will do this"...I am here to testify that it doesn't work that way.  God knows our hearts and minds and what we want and need, better than we do... and the moment we truly realize this and have Faith that His will is truly the best and only way, then you too will discover that God truly exists.  It is all about Faith...and having the courage to step out in that faith...sometimes we can only make the leap of faith when we get to our lowest point.  Our egos stand in the way...we think we know what is best for our selves... Until one day... Oops!  ...we discover that we are in Earth School and the Lessons have already begun!  The most important thing I can tell you, is that God talks to us all the time, through every media: books, movies, TV, a stranger, a synchronicities, children... I have come to know the meaning behind Jesus's words when he said: "Let them who have ears, listen and those who have eyes, see."  Forty years later I am still discovering and learning about God."  Love, Cosma


Welcome to a world once hidden from you....


Paramahansa Yogananda said of God:  "Yes, God is really there...I wouldn't say it was so, if it were not true!  God is very shy, but if you persist and be patient he will show you!"  (I am paraphrasing from a cassette tape I play over and over that Yogananda made before he transitioned from this Earth plane.)  His book, "Autobiography of a Yogi" is still an international best seller.  Find out more at:  http://www.writespirit.net/authors/paramahansa_yogananda/  and http://www.myspace.com/paramahansa

"God is the atmosphere where our essence clarifies, where all

falsity and pretension vanish. Here we are utterly enfolded.

No words are needed; no actions required; for everything is here.

God is the time-circle where all our possibilities unite. In God the

ultimate portraiture of the soul fills out."

John O'Donohue

 

"His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him an leaves him alone.  He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it.  He cannot cry out for help to anyone. Once he survives the night, he is a MAN. He cannot tell the other boys of this experience, because each lad must come into manhood on his own.The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be all around him. Maybe even some human might do him harm. The wind blew the grass and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be the only way he could become a man!  Finally, after a horrific night the sun appeared and he removed his blindfold. It was then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump next to him.  He had been at watch the entire night, protecting his son from harm. We, too, are never alone.  Even when we don't know it, God is watching over us, sitting on the stump beside us.  When trouble comes, all we have to do is reach out to Him.  If you liked this story, pass it on.  If not, you took off your blindfold before dawn."  Moral of the story: "Just because you can't see God, doesn't mean He is not there. For we walk by faith, not by sight."  Posted on www.fourwinds10.com

 

"Knowing the whole truth, thou shouldst beware of unsettling the minds of those not yet prepared to grasp it, as untimely teaching may drive from their work such as see only half-truths, and become unsettled thereby. When thou shalt rise beyond the plane of illusion, then shalt thou cease to disturb thyself regarding doctrines, theology, disputations concerning rites or ceremonies, and other useless trimmings upon the cloth of spiritual thought.  You will be liberated from those who would interpret that which they fail themselves to understand; but instead, shalt thou fix thy mind in earnest contemplation of the Spirit and thus reach the harmony with thy Real Self. That which seemeth real to the men of the sense-world, is known to be illusion by the Sage."

Quote From Lord Krishna from the Bhagavad Gita

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