Guard Your Inner Self

I wanted to ask You. I have always been so cheerful and optimistic, but I can't manage this  anymore, despite your messages. 

It seems as if mankind is regressing in everything. We already know about the demise of nature. But human civilization itself is also in decline. The level of education is decreasing. The multinationals that overrule governments. The outer civilization on the street. The lack of respect for manners, for the government, for laws. The dangers on the street. Individualism gone too far. The power of the drug world, the pharmaceutical industry, the arms trade. The gap between rich and poor. The influx of refugees.

My God, you know I'm getting more depressed, even though my private life is fine. I've seen the movie Idiocracy (from 2006, about a civilization that is seriously deteriorating in 500 years and has become very vulgar and primitive) twice now, and as backward as it is, I see it happening around me now.  So how can You comfort us?

Let me not comfort you then, but warn you. It has already been said in previous blogs that a lot is about to happen. After all, it can't go on like this, all the graphs are "banging alarmingly into the red". The only thing you can do is change your own way of life and, above all, keep the peace within. 

Guard your inner self no matter what. 

There are many hijackers in sight who want to bring you unrest and unhappiness: addictions, the pervasive presence of social media, the bombardment of negative world news, crowds, noise and opinions of other people, and so on. 

Be aware of the silent axis in the wheel that is spinning faster and faster around it.

The silent axis, the guarded silence, the protected interior, the peace within, the temple of the soul, your My God. Please mention a previously used quote.

Yes, I already know:

Save within you what can be saved (Michel Montaigne)

Take heart, take courage, be vigilant, and rest assured, every storm ends, every crisis brings new things, every disaster has positive consequences. But most of all, guard your inner self. No one else will do that for you.

And you are more depressed, My son, because you are still too open to the outside world and do not seek refuge enough in Me. Lead by example, boy. But it helps that you're overcoming your last addictions. Keep up the good work.  

My blessings for you all

No 566

From a heavy into a light state of mind

After my work I went home on my bike and I did not feel well. I was tired, I had doubts about some situations at work and how to tackle it. I felt quite gloomily about all the problems in the world and was especially worrying about the next issue. A friend of mine is rather into conspiracies and had informed me the day before how a powerful group behind the scenes is preparing the third world war with the help of the Muslim attacks, and there will be more, even nuclear ones. It apparently had hit me more than I had realized. In short, I was pretty gloomy.

I figured that I did not want to pray for strength. And I did not want to do relax exercises or some other stuff I have going for myself to reach peace and tranquility instead of worrying.

I tried a different tack.
I decided to let be all my emotions and just to start thanking God for everything I had for good in my life. I leave the details behind but it is really a lot, and that applies to everyone. It can relate from being able to see to living in a free country, from having work to having a good laugh, from hving a good intelligence to admiring the blooming hyacinth in the backyard, from having a good brother to the new fountain pen on your desk .
Everyone will have a long list.

In short, I did.

And the miraculous happened: I started getting feeling lighter, feeling much better and I made contact again with the perspective of life, with the presence of God.
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You simply stepped from the spinning wheel into the silence of the axle. And actually it happened within half an hour, very easily, very relaxedly, very naturally. How could it happen so fast, as if you had received an expensive massage or had had a short holiday, so soon as you got into the silence, in the overview, in the trust, in Me, in God! You became light again and became open again!
Every time you made contact with the gifts of God when you thanked for something. And I saw that you were sincere, even while you still felt bad, because you were attached to all the negative emotions.
Every time you felt  more the beauty of My love, every time you came closer to Me, every time you thanked for something you came closer to My truth and you went away from the issues of the day, away from the worries and fears and doubts of everyday life.

So you gave Me the opportunity to reach you with My power and My perspective , because every time you opened up more, out of free will.

So easy can it be, if man wants to.
You are blessed.
 
My blessings to you all

Nr. 327

Be still and know that I Am God

My God, may I ask you something?

Sometimes I am so terribly preoccupied that even talking to you is hard for me.

I know that You are staying in my heart.
I know that You are there.
I know that I always can come to You.
Why then, do You seem to be so far away?

My son, I am never far away. You are regularly going far away.

And then I wait. For I know that you are always coming back.
But then you have entered the world again, and you have left me again.
You are worrying then, and you forgot me again.
You are then directed to the outside world and do not feel any longer that I wait for you in your inner world.
You are dwelling then on the rotating wheel of life and I am waiting then in the axle of Your Self.

My God, I know, I know, what a dork am I.

I'd like to try to come more often to You.
I really want to try to remember more often that You are there in my heart.
I want to remember more often that you are staying there in that secret Inner Castle.
That you are waiting for me in the Rose garden, that Summerhouse of Silence.
I'd like to try to come more often to You.
Would You like to help me with it?
Maybe I'm too impertinent, if I ask You to really may feel that I'm with you, that I am experiencing You. I really need this emotional experience.

My son, come then, and come with great attention, with great confidence, with much silence.

Come and leave the world behind. You're welcome.

I go to that room in the silence of my heart.

And feel nothing.
As for a moment I tend to be impatient and think "there you are, I want too much."
But then I remember. And wait, wait in silence.
And it is silent around me. There is nothing of my ego, no thought, no feeling, no sense of ego, just an I-consciousness, and then I feel God.
I feel a great, loving presence of Space, of Silence, of intense Rust, of Being. And I'm so happy, so pleasantly surprised that I can experience this and I say to God: "Oh my God, are you there, are you still there, can I really always come to you, is it true?"

It is true, and you can experience Me, every time you are doing this. You may experience me, you may experience, that you are in My Bosom, you may trust on this.

Be assured, My son, you have tried enough, you have renounced enough, you've waited enough, you've sacrificed enough, you have let go enough.
Come,  join Me and be welcome in your, for now My heart.

And the following days, every time that I remember this, and I try it, I get touched, I experience God, I'm in the Silence of the Incarnate Love, in the Kingdom of God on earth. Simply, just in my heart. So simple, so close, so true, that I can not believe it.

Be blessed.

My blessings to you all

 

Nr. 302

One dialogue with you, my God ( Etty Hillesum )

Etty Hillesum was born 100 years ago. As jewess she 's been murdered in Auschwitz in 1943. Her books describe her way to God, despite the war and the misery of the concentration camps.
She writes in a letter from Westerbork (concentration camp), just before being deported to Auschwitz:
" You have made me so rich, my God, let me be able to share this with a lavish hand. My life has become one continuous dialogue with you, my God, one great dialogue " * .
And from her last letter:
"I open the Bible on any place and find this: The Lord is my high refuge". **

How can she life in heaven in this way, while she is dwelling in hell?
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Etty has finally let God on the throne of her inner self, under the pressure of circumstances, a good teacher, out of piety and with her free will. And she choose to dwell in God’s bosom forever, despite everything.

She is the living proof man can realize the Kingdom of God on earth.
She is dwelling in the milky-white bosom of God, she has gone all the way. She has learned to say yes to life, has stopped judging, even though she observed everything all around her: the suffering of the Jews, the hatred of the guards, the confusion and anxiety of mothers concerning their children, the despair, the lice, the hunger.
But above all she saw and felt God's presence. She lived in God's presence. She refused to be seduced to step on the rotating wheel of life, but stayed in the silence of the axle.

Etty Hillesum may be blessed, her example may be blessed, her writings may be blessed, blessed are her readers.

My blessings to you all

* Westerbork , August 18th, 1943
** Westerbork , September 7th, 1943
From : The posthumous writings of Etty Hillesum

The rotating wheel or the silence of the axle?

“You are all children of the light and the day” Jozefkerk Assen (The Netherlands)

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How true are the words, and how often are they misunderstood, not heard, not understood in your heart and mind.
These words speak of the Kingdom of God on earth, directly and immediately available and accessible and realizable when you could be aware of only this: you are with your consciousness focused on the rotating wheel of life, an completely identifying with it and thinking "this is it".
And all you have to do is focusing on the axle, where your “My God” is, where God is, where silence is, where your spiritual essence is waiting.

Just ONE step, just ONE insight, just ONE realization.

And related to your nature you become silent, or smile like the Buddha, when he got realization, or burst into laughter out of joy on the simplicity of this insight and the easiness of the step.
And you’ll taste The Milky White Stillness of your deepest being, where the All is, where your true life is, where your birthright is.
You don’t need a church, a book, yoga, struggling with the devil, philosophy, longevity, training, or an illness and misery to realize this.
Will you please consider this?

When Frenkie, the instrument of “His God”, of Me, was lifted up by Me out of his old life through a touch of Christ on Easter 7 years ago, the following happened: Frenkie was touched into the depth of his being by surprise, gratitude and happiness.
But it was not by a Christ who mourned about the mistakes or sins of mankind, not a punitive and normative Christ.

It was a sad Christ who regretted the opportunities men are denying. And regretted the wonderful promise within their reach, and their inability to see this, and their suffering as result of this.
It is about the sunny garden of their "My God" waiting for them, while they linger in the dark and damp basement of their ego. Their focusing on the rotating wheel, while the Axle is just one step away.

"You are all children of the Light and Day"

What a true words, and what a simplicity. It could be your mantra, your tool in life, your key to your “My God”, your step into your own Kingdom of God on earth. Your liberation, your enlightenment. Your right.
Please consider this and please do not respond with "yes, but" because that’s meaning “no”.
React with "okay, Frenkies “My God”, I’ll consider it as a hypothesis, I'll think about it, I'll “feel about it”, I'll give it a try, I'm doing it perhaps.

Your “My God” is waiting with joy for this step . Because it is your destiny, sooner or later. And all religions and all philosophies, all ideals must act only on this one thing, namely whether it can happen earlier, because it will certainly happen later. But realizing it earlier, will spare you much trouble and suffering. And that was and is the grief of Christ, the promise of Muhammad, the realization of Buddha, the message of Yahweh, the essence of Zen, the ideal of Krishna.

My blessings to you all

Nr. 56