Posts Tagged ‘truth’
What You Think, You Become
One of the things in my own personal life that I am really trying to focus on right now is awareness — awareness of each moment, awareness of what is happening in each moment, and awareness of my reactions to events of the moment. Those who teach mindfulness meditation refer to being consciousness or unconsciousness. If you are conscious in the moment, then you have the ability to be fully aware in the moment and you have the ability to consciously choose how to respond to events as they happen. If you are conscious in the moment, then you can watch your thoughts and watch your reactions to your thoughts, and change them if you wish to.
One thing that I see as vital to our happiness and fulfillment in life is awareness of our thoughts. We must become consciously aware of our thoughts, and we must learn how to control our thoughts. As Buddha pointed out:
The mind is everything, what you think, you become.
Or, as the Bible says in the Book of Proverbs:
7 For as he thinks in his heart, so is he.
“ Eat and drink!” he says to you,
But his heart is not with you.
(Proverbs 23:7, New King James Version)
Or, as Earl Nightingale put it:
You become what you think about.
Of course, this timeless truth has been stated in much the same way by other well-known historical figures as well.
What I would like to encourage you to do is to work toward becoming conscious — conscious of each moment, conscious of your thoughts in each moment, and conscious of how you can change your thoughts to react in a healthier, happier way to events of the moment.
If you have an interest in learning more about mindfulness meditation, I can wholeheartedly recommend the following two books:
What you think, you become. So think your best thoughts today! 
Be Blessed!
Namaste!
God is Love. We are One.
I believe it’s time — actually way past time — for humanity to relegate religious fundamentalism — the belief, essentially, that OUR beliefs are the only valid and correct ones and everybody else is deceived and wrong and/or “evil” — to the past. The various holy books that we revere do have a lot to offer us such as wisdom, guidance, and inspiration, but none of them is literally true. There is no such thing as a literally true holy book or a literally true religion, but the belief that there is has historically done much damage to our world.
I’m a big fan of Yanni and much of his incredible music. I also have found a great deal of value and truth in what he has had to say during his concert tours. Back in the mid-1990’s when Yanni recorded his “Tribute” concert in India and China, he made the statement that there are as many ways to live life as there are people on this planet. Within reason, of course, I fully agree with him. There is no single correct way to live life, and by extension there is no single correct way to relate to God.
I believe that there are two extremely important truths that, if realized by the majority of humanity, would change our world immensely for the better. Those truths are:
- GOD IS LOVE.
- WE ARE ONE.
Whatever our differences may be, we are all living, breathing, thinking, feeling human beings. We have the same Creator. We all share the divine spark — the soul, the atman — or whatever name you wish to call our immortal spirits by, that our Creator placed within us all. We all have similar needs and similar desires. We all share many common bonds that transcend racial, gender, religious, or political differences.
God is Love. We are One. What would our world be like if humanity as a whole realized these two great truths and lived them? What would our world be like if we chose to stop hating each other and chose to stop fighting each other over our differences? What would our world be like if we chose to live in peace and in love towards one another instead of living, as we have for much of our history, in hatred and conflict?
27 So he answered and said, “ ‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind,’ and ‘your neighbor as yourself.’”
(Luke 10:27, New King James Version)
What would our world be like if we all lived Luke 10:27? Think about it…
LOVE IS ALL
Please listen closely to what Yanni has to say in this video. I fully agree with him, and I hope you will too. I believe it’s a message that our world desperately needs to hear. He sums up perfectly the thoughts I wished to express in this post.
NIKI NANA – WE’RE ONE
This song is a celebration of life and the fact that we are one. Enjoy!
