As water molding to the pitcher

Kevin Green‏@FixedOpsGenius RT Zen and Tao: "The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher." ~Zen Proverb #quotes

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A wise man or woman adjust oneself to conditions like water is complying with the pitcher .
This adjusting is in bad odour nowadays, not everywhere , but especially in the prosperous, modern, individualized world. Adjusting is not good at all.
Standing up for oneself, opposing something, doing your own thing, anyway.

The wise man or woman is adjusting oneself to the circumstances, is meaning accepting what can not be changed, but in the meantime retaining his or her own strength and merits. Like water is doing in a pitcher.
But the own strength and merit are not affected, but are better coming to its right. Because when the time comes , there is water showing its value. Is there the wise man or woman: alert and ready and willing to show and express his/her strength and merits.

Therefore advice of this saying to mankind is: do not break your head against the hard wall . Accept what is indisputable and spend your energy to what can be changed.

And time will show what was disputable and what was changeable.

My blessings to you all

Love sees life in full colours

evelyn ‏@brownskin_4ever “Life is black and white but always Love in full colours”

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Actually , the tweet should be:

“Life seems to be black and white but Love is always in full colours”

People often experience life as black and white.
The spiritual world is considering life from the perspective of love and thus in full colours.
Man or rather the ego from man is always quite struggling with life. And finds it easy to consider life in terms of black and white.
A part of men is sympathetic and another part is unsympathetic.
A part of men is good and another part is not good at all.
One race is okay and another race not at all.
One religion is true and another religions is wrong .
One political movement is taking the good view and the other political movement is taking the wrong view.
All easy, quiet, clear, thinks the ego.
The world is black and white and the ego is of course belonging to the white part.

The spiritual world is considering life from the perspective of love and consequently always in full colours.
Man as well renouncing many of his ego and living more as a spiritual personality is considering it in this way. This human being is considering life no longer in terms of black and white but in full colours.
In all religions, in all races , in all political parties, in all countries, in all human beings he is seeing qualities and limitations, positive and negative things, advantages and disadvantages .
Everything around him is colourful , nothing really black and white .

“Life seems to be black and white but Love is always in full colours”

Everything is becoming black and white, from the perspective of hate.
Everything is becoming black and white, from the perspective of judgment.
Everything is becoming black and white, from the perspective of limitation.

Everything is blossoming in full colours, from the perspective of love.
Everything is bathed in full colours, from the perspective of tolerance.
Everything is full colored, from the perspective of openness.

It speaks for itself the spiritual world and God are considering all from the perspective of love.
And you can consider your fellowman in these terms, namely to what extent he is living life and considering life. Thus where he is on the continuum from black and white to full colourness, thus on the path from earthly limitation to spiritual love .

The tweeter may be blessed.

My blessings to you all

Nr. 203

The days of my life are in Your hands (Karl Barth)

"The days of my life are in Your hands"
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"The strong father hands, good, gentle, tender mother's hands, the faithful helping friends hands, the merciful hands of God, in which the days of our life are resting"
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"No one will snatch the days of our life out of God's hands. No one, no man, no angel, no devil, not my sin and not my death. Nobody "

My God,
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God's hands are your guarantee, your help and support, your protection against the devil, your salvation in distress, your haven in turbulent times, your base, your relief, your goal and your future, your present and your opportunity, your happiness and your salvation. God's hands are present, always, for everybody, even though it doesn’t seem to in this confusing world. Be sure you all of God's saving hands.

My blessings to you all

 

The Word of God came as a groom to my inner self (Bernard of Clairvaux)

 "I do want to admit: the Word has come to me as well. Even more often.”
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“Now you are asking how this can be, for His ways are inscrutable, yet I do know this is the Word. Well it is living and powerful; as soon as it came to me, it woke my slumbering soul, it touched me and made me soft, it wounded my heart, which was hard and made of rock.”
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“It also began to uproot and destroy. And it built up and planted. It watered which was dry, illuminated the darkness, opened what was closed, ignited what was chilly, made the crooked straight and paved the rocky slopes. Then my soul blessed the Lord and and all what is inside me His holy name.
Thus came the word as a groom into me. "

My God,
I do not want to compare myself with Bernard of Clairvaux, I think he is a great saint, and I know I'm just a simple guy, but those words!  I recognize everything of it. I have experienced everything of it. Everything is calling up in me a great amazement there is no difference in experience.
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My son, and so it is. This is meant to be for every man: talking to God and listening to the voice of God.
Did I not mention in several blogs, this is meant to be for everyone wanting this and insisting in this?

The only difference between a saint and a common man is the saint is persevering in difficult moments and the common man is cutting off and stopping, when things are getting tough.
But when you as an ordinary man just go on, always choosing for the inner world, always choosing for God, always choosing for the eternal, it can not be otherwise than what happened to Bernard of Clairvaux. That simple can it be.

I know you're embarrassed now, because people may think, oh Frenkie is comparing himself with Bernard, the saint. But, My son, what's more important: the opinion of man or the opinion of God? And are the blogs My words or yours?
You're not a saint, I do know this and do see this, My son.

But be glad and drop the subject.

You are not considering God as a distant power, but you are associating God as a dear Friend, a Comrade, a nearby Father-Mother, as a Comforter in your heart.
And this is your reality.
And this is the reality of every human being on earth.
However not everyone is realizing this.
You're no saint, My son.
But you are seeing God in your nearness, and you are knowing this together  with Bernard of Clairvaux.
That's all.
But that’s all there is.

My blessings to you all

God resides in an emptied soul (John from the Cross)

 

 

"In the soul with the least desires and own pleasures, He is remaining the most alone. The most desired and most wished as in His own house. He rules and governs it and is living the more secretly as He is more alone. From Living flame of love Stanza IV, 14 "

My God,

How can I ever overcome this?

My ego with its endless desires and wishes and frustrations and own things.
is it happening once I am still in my inner self and You are showing Yourself to me. Then there is just a slip of the pen outside or inside myself, and You're gone. Well, actually You have withdrawn Yourself, because You are giving me all freedom, over and over again, to lose myself in my petty little things. To become despondent.

My son, do not lose courage under My leadership. Feel again and again uplifted and inspired. Do not falter, do not doubt. Hold on to your intention to empty yourself before Me. Be vigilant over and over again. Put a guard at the threshold of your mind, and let the world not enter too quickly with its temptations. Choose every time again for Me, cheer up.
And know the number of times you are losing yourself in your little things will occur less. And the number of times you will voluntarily cherish yourself at My bosom will increase.
Go forth, over and over again.

And be not afraid for the moments the problems of life will jump on you like flies. It is precisely at such moments I'll carry you.

And do remember: I prefer to reign in an empty house. What should I compete with the things of the ego? I'm waiting for the surrender of your inner self. That is My wish. Always.
And know this surrender irrevocably will arrive, in everybody’s life.
Be blessed for your intention

My blessings to you all