Trust the greater Self

Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle (Christian D. Larson)

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Don't many blogs actually say something about this? But I am happy to go into it because it contains just about everything that the spiritual world is asking from man.

Trust, trust, trust.

Hope, hope, hope.

Lean on Us, build on Us, know that We are there.

Your Sparks of God, your souls, your guardian angels, the spiritual world, your spiritual coaches, your angels on your path, your heart, your spiritual body.

In short, trust, trust, trust.

All will be well, here or later, on earth or in the spiritual world. 

 

Endure the misery, know that it is temporary, hope for a better life. Say yes to your pain, your sadness, your unhappiness, your fears, your problems. In the end, everything is surmountable and in the spiritual world you will sigh "maybe a little more misery would have been better".

Christian Larson is blessed.  

My blessings to you all

No 562

There's always beauty around

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where others see nothing (Camille Pissaro)

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Wise, true, and oh so simple truth. And know that life would be unbearable if man could not do it naturally. Finding comfort and hope and beauty in small or "humble" things around him. Life would become unbearable, and certainly too difficult and hopeless. For the difficulties of life can fly a man like wasps a glass of lemonade. But there is always beauty to be found there. So is My comment done with these wise words?

No, certainly not, because Camille Pissaro is referring to this: a person can always see more beauty than before, in humbler places than he thought, and in places that someone else passes by. And thus experience more support and comfort and perspective than he was already used to. So the message is rather that this is an endless process and that a person can see more and more.

And this can eventually lead to a wise and spiritual person saying: oh how beautiful this is, how can it exist? And how grateful I am to the good God, in spite of my misery and difficulties.

There is much beauty in the world, and it is only meant to create a beautiful environment for man in the making.

Camille Pissaro is blessed. 

My blessings to you all

No 561

The power of a loving heart

The God of love dwells in the one who loves, not in the one who is loved (Plato)

My God, would You like to say something about this? 

My Son, one of My favourite subjects! Of course I do.

First, a necessary correction. The God of love, of course, dwells in everything and everyone, and certainly in man on earth, who is endowed with free will and in man who is loved, and certainly also in man with a heart that can love.

In short, God dwells in everything and everyone.

It is one of My favourite subjects because God comes into Its own in a person who loves. Not necessarily in a person of faith, but in a person who loves. 

Every person who loves is very close to God, and God is very close to this person. And a loving heart can do much on earth.  

But first the heart, and if it works all the way according to God's plan, a loving heart. Miraculous instrument, magical organ, glorious part of earthly existence, glorious weapon against the devil, magisterial aid to sickness and destruction, addiction and disorder. Blessed heart. Healing and living and blessing and powerful organ. How much worse would the state of the earth be without the millions of loving hearts?

A mother who cherishes her child.

A child rescuing an insect.

A policeman who protects a vulnerable person from a criminal.

A soldier defending his homeland against unreasonable enemies.

A farmer who takes care of his land.

A shop assistant who treats her customers in a friendly way.

A manufacturer that takes good care of its employees.

A politician who works hard for his ideals. 

A caregiver who takes care of the ailing body of an old person.

 

Oh man, don't stare blindly at the wars and diseases in this world, at the natural disasters and injustices in countries, at your own suffering and sorrow.

All of that is certainly there. 

But there is much more.

And above all, there is the loving heart. 

Look around you and know that the loving heart holds the world up. 

Know that the loving heart is the comfort of the unfortunate and the salvation of many. Trust in the loving heart. 

And trust that the loving heart will prevail in these uncertain times.

For God dwells in a loving heart.

God cherishes the loving heart as a temple on earth.

God works best from a loving heart, and there is no other lasting victorious power on earth. 

Blessed be Plato. 

My blessings to you all

No 560

My beloved child

My God, may I ask You. I followed a podcast in which Jan Geurtz talks about loving yourself. I was touched by it and for a few days I was so happy inside every time I thought about this. I felt the skin of my face light up, almost being pulled up to You instead of pulled down by gravity. I must have walked around with the smile of an old monkey. But in the meantime lighter, sweeter and happier, happier with and about myself. And that's for free. Everything was good and beautiful. And very doable, even all the difficulties, I looked at myself with all the acceptance and love and joy that is in me and I was surprised that what I once learned from You I now experienced so completely through the words of Jan Geurtz. Would You like to comment on this?

My beloved child, feel blessed. Be loved. Know that you are viewed with love and acceptance. Love yourself. Nurture yourself. Love yourself. Look at yourself with affection and room and know that you will be closer to God than ever. For that is how God looks at all of you, regardless of what you do and don't do, can and can't, try and don't try. Do you remember it over and over again, over and over again. And when you have forgotten it, you go there again, to that happy and loving look at yourself. And don't confuse this with the blunt selfishness of some people, because they don't love themselves at all, even if it seems that way.

Look at yourself with all that love and affection that you have in you and can muster for a small child, a sweet kitten or a flower. And then know that God rejoices because then man comes closer to God, and God gets closer to man. There is simply so much more possible in your lives with this loving attitude. The world would accelerate through its transformation, and it would be accompanied by less destruction and less suffering. Live the love for yourself.

Because it is closely linked to love for others and for the world. 

And if you forget this again, My son, remember again. It is the difference between night and day.

Jan Geurtz is blessed. 

My blessings to you all

No. 559

Stupid behaviours lead to modesty

My good God, I was recently losing myself in the small, stupid and unhealthy attachments of life. I won't go into which ones they are, because that's not really that interesting. And when I had enjoyed myself so much, I sensed a great humility in myself. I don't have an inferiority complex, and I don't call myself a measly meaningless worm, but still. My self-image was : "oh what am I worth, how much can I do, how much do all the primitive forces in life have more to say about me than You God" I sighed. “What was I worth, what a wonderful stupid monkey I am".

Well, something like that. And in doing so, I experienced a smallness, a nothingness, and a nothingness, which gave me peace and a kind of simple sensation of relief. In any case, I wasn't exactly suffering from pride or great self-importance at the time.

And I thought of You and of the spiritual world and sighed, "What patience and love and power You have all to work with us. What a job for You All".

Well, I would ask You to comment on that?

My good son, My question this time is not "Has it brought you much, this behaviour? Did it help you, did you experience any good?" We park these questions, because they have been asked in other blogs. 

(Check https://watchthegod-english.blogspot.com/2013/06/renounce-yourself-teresa-from-avila.html )

And it is through: We are Patience, Love, Power. 

The Son of Man preferred to deal with tax collectors and whores, who knew a lot about the dark side of life but did not dare to think that God was thinking of them. He preferred to hang out with them rather than with priests and Pharisees who lived oh so righteously and knew very well everything about God and holy books and rituals.

Why do you think? 

The tax collectors and whores did not find much of themselves, were infinitely open to every straw of life, and Christ was indeed a straw of life, rather a rock in the surf. 

But the priests and Pharisees had a very high self-esteem and did not wonder anything. They were filled with self-importance, and had no questions, no need for support and counsel, and certainly did not want to hear anything new and painful, except to be confirmed very loudly that they were very special.

Every word of truth and love spoken by the Christ was absorbed and loved and internalized by the whores and tax collectors, but they were doubted and discussed and rejected by the priests and Pharisees. 

This is not a plea for sin and corruption, for addictions and songliness, but it is a plea for the wonderful works of God, Who in the poor in spirit and the oppressed and gloomy and the sick, the sighing and sinners, gets a lot of power and achieves much. And in the spiritual world, a whore with a big heart is welcomed with more joy than an icy cleric with a cold mind.

You were more open to Me after all your little stupid acts than before. I'd like to see that. Because with God, you can start over every day. 

The Christ said to the tax collectors and whores after a frank conversation: "Sin no more".

And almost without exception, they stopped sinning and became half-saints in life.  And the priests and Pharisees— ahh they crucified the Christ. 

Be blessed for your honesty. 

My blessings to you all

No 558

Respect for fellow man

My God, may I ask You. I read a very nice interview with the writer Adriaan van Dis* and at one point, because he doesn't like to bump people's heads even when he is surprised about themselves, or their behaviour, he says this:

 "I like to leave people in their wonderful value"

I was very moved by this sentence and found it touching. Would You like to comment on

this ?

 

My son, this attitude towards people bears witness of a great caution but also a great amazement at the wondrous ways of man and how man views his own life. In fact, this amazement is that of the spiritual world at what man is able to do on earth, in his special evolutionary course from former ape to spiritual being. But more than that, this great  caution is that of God Itself, who views man, his free will, his gait, his self-importance, his inclinations and short-sightedness, his wrong choices and prejudices with respect and much love.

God likes to leave people in their wondrous value.

And if other things are needed in life, for the world cannot run on people and their wondrous value alone, then eventually the laws of God will correct things.

 Adriaan van Dis is blessed.  

My blessings to you all

No 557 

 

 

 

*Volkskrant, 19 augustus 2023

Frenkie visits a Sikh temple

Last week I had the opportunity to visit a temple of the Sikh's in The Hague. I have to confess to my shame that I really didn't know anything about the Sikh faith and so I went to the temple completely blank. I did know from the internet that I had to dress in such a way that my arms and legs were covered. There I would get a cloth to cover my head (hair). The men do this with a turban or simply a cloth. A very nice and helpful gentleman there showed me the way where I could take off my shoes, where I could wash my hands and then he knotted, I had to kneel before him because I am tall and he was small, an orange cloth around my head. Later I noticed that the men there either have a real Sikh turban on their head, and they happened to have a long and unshaven beard. Or there were men who went through life without a head covering in everyday life and who then wore such a headscarf tied up on the spot and these man usually did not have a beard or a short shaved beard, often young people.

    

Sikhism is a monotheistic religion. This means that one believes in one God. Sikhism originated in northern India in the early 16th century, started by the first teacher Guru Nanak Dev. It is an independent faith inspired by Hinduism and Islam but it has its own religious identity. The doctrines are laid down in the Guru Granth Sahib. This is the Holy Book for the Sikhs (Wiki).

All the men sat on one side and all the women, in the most beautiful robes and headscarves, in all the colours of the rainbow, sat on the other side. And fortunately we had a large screen in front of us where the text, sung by the Granthi (“pastor”), appeared in Punjabi (I understood later) and English. In the front of the large room was a kind of altar, under a skylight of daylight, covered with cloths and on the altar a big book with The Holy Word of God. That's all.

I found everything equally pleasant, friendly, open, hospitable and I experienced the atmosphere in the temple as incredibly serene. There seemed to be a great simplicity, with few rituals, and everything was focused on the word of God. What was that word of God then? I got a random text from the internet, which matches the many lyrics that were sung and mentioned in the temple that morning. I liked them very much, for sure actually always referring to: God is in us and we can communicate with God and try to live according to God's example. 

Well all the way to the atmosphere of the blogspot. An example:

Those who have the Lord as their Friend and Companion

tell me, what else do they need?

Those who are in love with the Lord of the Universe

pain, suffering and doubt run away from them.

 

jaa kaa meeth saajan hai sameeaa

this jan ko kahu kaa kee kameeaa|

jaa kee preeth gobi(n)dh sio laagee

dhookh dharadh bhram thaa kaa bhaagee.

 

(this Shabad is by Guru Arjan Dev Ji, in Raag Gauree, at Pannaa 186)

While I am in the service, I wonder if this religion is not one of the pure forms of religion on earth and is partly a forerunner of a time when churches and pastors have been abolished and religion is becoming a most individual communication between God (in man) and man?  I definitely hope to come back again.  

Would You like to comment on this?

My son, let us not judge whether one religion is purer and better than another, people are only going to get away with that.  

The Sikh faith is a reaction to the great richness of the Hindu faith and has adopted elements of Islam. So far. 

I would like to mention four important elements in this blog. Everyone can thinks his own.

ü  The most individual relationship between man and God in man. 

     Guru Nanak has laid the foundation for a pure tradition of seeking God, namely the living and approachable God in man.

ü  The search for the simplicity of life.

     The Sikh faith has nurtured the direct impact of religion on ordinary life and how that life should be lived all these centuries. Many cultural rituals and prejudices have been tried to be eliminated. Everything for man's individual relationship with God. Everything else is secondary. 

ü  The great respect for women and the equality of men and women.

Guru Nanak's assertion that the soul of the man and the soul of the woman are equal has meant that in everyday practice the Sikhs always went back to this core truth, when the sexes seemed to clash culturally.

ü  Room for devotion in everyday life.

Of course, every religion has the desire to inspire and influence ordinary life. That aspiration is everywhere. The Sikhs have succeeded in translating this into ordinary life in the purest way. How one deals with one's own life, with one's fellow man, with the responsibilities in society, with nature. This was and is always done with a lot of respect, a lot of attention and a lot of wisdom. 

 You have enjoyed yourself in this meeting. Go back again. 

And the aforementioned Shabad, the text of Guru Arjan Dev Ji, isn't that exactly what We have together, My son?

The Sikhs are blessed.  

 

My blessings to you all

No 556