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Medical/Science Quote Week. Thursday

My doctors told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

--Olympic gold medalist Wilma Rudolph

Medical/Science Quote Week. Tuesday

Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

--Norman Cousins

Medical/Science Quote Week

Formerly when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake science for magic.

--Thomas Szasz

Shakespeare on Dreams

From the Tempest

Prospero:

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits, and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on; and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

Our Deepest Fear

My favorite quote by the incomparable Marianne Williamson.

    “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

Tom Kenyon on Prophecies

Prophecies are strange animals. Their purpose is to alert us to possible future outcomes, but they are not written in stone. I sometimes use the metaphor of a nearly flat tire to describe what happens with prophecy.

If you are driving your car and someone brings to your attention that you have very low tire pressure and are on the verge of a flat tire, they are giving you a prophecy. Now if you were to respond to this the way some persons respond to prophecy, you might say “Oh, my God, I am going to have a flat tire and there is nothing I can do about it.”

The truth is that you would then be limiting yourself to a very narrow view of possibility. Another more resourceful possibility would be to go get your freaking tire fixed (or at the very least re-inflated). Then you would have changed the prophecy.

Prophecies are, by their nature, meant to be altered. And the power to change a prophecy (no matter how dire it may be) is through our ability to make choices.

But first of all, we have to know that we even have the possibility to make choices.

This is the crux, I think, of what the Hathors are saying here. We have the ability (whether we realize it or not) to choose different vibratory fields than the collective might choose. And higher vibratory fields such as joy, appreciation and gratitude will lead us to different destinies (outcomes) than will fear, anger and hostility.

-Tom Kenyon

Considering Materialism

A certain young philosophy student and I had a very long and wonderful conversation yesterday discussing the difference between Relativism, Constructivism and Materialism. Whereas the merits of the first two were obvious neither of us could stomach the mere mentioning of the concept of the third.

Why is this so? I thought on that for a long while as I did my outside chores. I asked for a distilled answer from the universe about why Materialism was so uncomfortable to even consider as a point in a debatable subject or intellectual riddle and then waited to see how my question would be answered.

And then, as synchronicities happen, this quote by C S Lewis appeared in the banner of a blog called Riddles , I happened to be reading later that evening.

"If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?"

--Encounter with Light

That was the perfect answer to my question, and, even more synchronistic, the author Lewis was very recently suggested to me by a friend, giving even more credence to both the information, and the Source from which it was given. 

David Hawkins Quote

The doorway to Divinity is located and available as a direct experience in the exact split second of 'now' which is discernible between two thoughts.

On Delusions, Spiritual and Political

From David R. Hawkins' seminal work, "I, Reality and Subjectivity"

The world is relatively sophisticated in determining spiritual delusions but still extremely blind to political ones.

Why is that do you suppose? For instance, we pity those few souls deluded by Jim Jones but we scratch our heads at how Hitler managed to manipulate millions.

Overheard on local Radio #2

In an ad marketing mutual funds and stock market advice I heard the following phrase:

"Don't let your emotions get in the way of making important decisions."

Uh...wait just a darn second there.

Emotions are to humans like barometers are to weather. How often do you get "gut feelings"? How often are you intensely sorry when you have ignored them? Your emotions are there to serve you in balance with your logical self. To eliminate your emotions in any situation and bow completely to logic is to eliminate important information you may very well need to make the best decision possible.

To be utterly logical without acknowledging the insight provided by your emotions is, in itself, utter foolishness.