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Gregg Braden
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May 21 - September 7, 2020
Principle 4: Pray for an Unlimited Duration
In the context of God’s kingdom, and in the presence of God’s will, the divine nature described in these statements replaces any darkness and danger that may confront us.
there are no precise word-for-word correspondences between Aramaic and English,
released Prayers of the Cosmos, a short book that included the original Aramaic text of selected biblical texts that include the Lord’s Prayer along with multiple possible translations and reinterpretations.
O Birther! Father-Mother of the Cosmos / you create all that moves in light.
Focus your light within us—make it useful: as the rays of a beacon show the way.
Like a light house. Thank you, God!
Create your reign of unity now—through our fiery hearts and willing hands.
Your one desire then acts with ours, as in all light so in all forms.
Grant what we need each day in bread and insight; subsistence for the call of growing life.
Loose the cords of mistakes binding us, as we release the strands we hold of others’ guilt.
Don’t let us enter forgetfulness
But break the hold of ...
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From you is born all ruling will, the power and the life to do, the song that beautifies all, from age to age it renews.
Truly—power to these statements—may they be the source from which all my actions grow. Sealed in trust and faith. Amen.
from skin rashes, colds, and allergies to hypertension and dysfunction of the organs that we subconsciously associate with unresolved trauma, are examples of the myriad of signals that can reveal an underlying fear.
fear-related neuropeptides—can be stored indefinitely in the tissues, glands, and organs of the body until our fear response has been resolved and the chemicals can be metabolized.
typically subconscious fear: the fear of annihilation and nonexistence.
An example of a subconscious fear is commonly expressed by adults who grew up in alcoholic families: the fear of not being heard.
Within the context of alcoholic dysfunction, children and spouses frequently report feelings of being ignored, criticized, and discounted.
the fear of abandonment, the fear of not being worthy of living, and the fear of annihilation.
a fundamental principle of physics first described by Julius Robert von Mayer in 1842, tells us that energy in an isolated system, such as earth’s biosphere, can be neither created nor destroyed.
it’s literally impossible for our deepest fear of annihilation to materialize.
our favorite late-night café may seem insignificant as it occurs, when we put those changes together and look backward in time, we find that the way we remember our neighborhood is barely recognizable
In our culture, we’re expected to just “go with the flow” and embrace the transformation. The truth is, however, that we need time to adjust. We need time to acclimate to the void that the loss of familiar things leaves in our lives and in our hearts.
Even when we know in advance that our loved one is imminently leaving this world and we’ve prepared ourselves for the loss, all the preparation in the world does not stop the pain. Loss hurts. The pain is very real, and the reason for the pain is what makes this group of wisdom codes so powerful.
It’s literally impossible for us to ever be the same, because our loved one was the catalyst for a way of being that can no longer exist.
nature does not allow anything to be empty for long.
feel what the absence of something or someone we love means in our lives.
It’s through our grief that we discover a deeper, and sometimes surprising, capacity to love.
There is a strength that can only be known in the presence of loss and grief. And with that strength comes the reward of life’s deepest levels of personal mastery.
As part of all that we know and experience, it’s impossible to really lose anything.
Either we can remain stuck in our feelings of the wrongness, failure, and the tragedy of what we’ve lost, or we can accept our loss and allow for the healing that’s necessary to fill the void.
free will as our capacity to select from the myriad possibilities that exist in a given situation, and to then implement what we’ve chosen.
Once we acknowledge the existence of choice and free will and the roles they play in our lives, the question becomes, how do we make use of such powers?
beauty is more than simply a pleasurable aesthetic; it’s a transformative power.
seeking beauty within the experiences of our everyday lives.
we must choose to look beyond the hurt, suffering, and pain that we’re presented with in the moment and recognize the beauty that already exists in all things.
base our life upon the principle of beauty and allow it to become the foundation of our worldview, we are changed as people. Our choice to do so replaces our hurt, hopelessness, and fear with the transformative power that beauty makes possible.
In beauty I walk With beauty before me I walk With beauty behind me I walk With beauty above me I walk With beauty around me I walk It has become beauty again
“but we’re wondering if you’d like to talk with us today about the Bible?” They obviously had no way of knowing that as a writer of science and spirituality, one of my great passions was researching the discoveries, as well as the translations, of ancient biblical texts.
“The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing.” This translation reads as something more than a command that is to be followed. It reveals the declaration of a possibility regarding our present state of existence. Due to the Lord’s role as our shepherd, and to his fulfillment of that role, our present state of being is without want—we have someone watching over us who provides what we need when it comes to the basics of life.
Our shepherd provides our world with food in verse 2 (green pastures were the source of food for David’s sheep), restoration and guidance in verse 3, protection in verse 4, strength as we face life’s challenges in verse 5, and eternal love and life in verse 6.
The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, he refreshes my soul. He guides me along the right paths for his name’s sake.
Even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely your goodness and love will follow me all the days of my life, a...
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Strive to make your love greater than your need and let love be the most powerful force in your life. Then nothing can overcome you.
“That which you have will save you if you bring it forth from yourselves.” In this single, concise, and powerful statement, we are reminded that our love is the source of all healing that we may experience.
to feel our love, we must be vulnerable to our pain.
as we allow ourselves to feel, rather than trying to mask or deny our feelings, we disco...
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Simply put, hurt is the price that we sometimes pay to discover that we already have the love...
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