EMBODY ILLUMINATI

I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you. - John 14:18 Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit dwells in your midst? - 1 Corinthians 3:16 Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. - Ephesians 4:29 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness. - Galatians 5:22 We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. - Hebrews 2:1 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter. - Isaiah 5:20 My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry. - James 1:19 Flesh gives birth to flesh, but the Spirit gives birth to spirit. - John 3:6 Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance. - Jude 1:2

Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin. - Matthew 6:28 The laborer is worthy of his reward. - 1 Timothy 5:18 I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. - 1 Corinthians 3:6 Love is the fulfilling of the law. - Romans 13:10 He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. - Psalm 23:2 The price of wisdom is above rubies. - Job 28:18 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places, surely I have a delightful inheritance. - Psalm 16:6

Your journey never ends. Life has a way of changing things in incredible ways. - Alexander Volkov Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, So what. That’s one of my favorite things to say. So what. - Andy Warhol If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise. - Anaïs Nin If it is right, it happens — The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. - John Steinbeck With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. - Wayne Dyer You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. - Steve Jobs Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain. - Jack Kerouac

Wisdom from Mouni Sadhu (Mieczyslaw Demetriusz Sudowski): Everything is flowing. The Great River of Time takes everything with it, and nothing in this world remains unchanged or stabilized. Man creates the link between Nature and Archetype. Saints and mystics have developed considerable degrees of concentration and ability to exclude the mind’s activities from the field of awareness. There are signs which indicate that our meditation is really leading us to samadhi, when we are free from all thought of the body and of the ‘ego’, and when thoughts and feelings are stilled. Although all kinds of mental and emotional vibrations are present around us at all times, men usually respond to those most familiar to them, just as different radio receivers have varying ranges of reception. Whoever has made peace in himself thereby possesses power. The power that allows us to reach one-pointedness in our mind is called: attention, or interest in a particular subject.

Wisdom from Mr. Miyagi: Fighting always the last answer to the problem. Ambition without knowledge is like a boat on dry land. Whole life have a balance. Everything be better. Lesson not just karate only. Lesson for whole life. If come from inside you, always right one. Because sometimes what heart know, head forget. Not everything is as looks, you know. To make honey, a young bee needs a young flower, not an old prune. If the root is strong, the tree will survive.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. - Henry Ward Beecher My admiration still lies there somewhere, a fossil in my memory. - Frank O'Connor Laughter... the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life. - Abraham Lincoln Hitch your wagon to a star. - Ralph Waldo Emerson No bird soars too high who soars with his own wing. - William Blake Liberty is the bread of man's spirit. - Salvador de Madariaga If I could only put one drop into the long river of human progress, then my purpose would be fulfilled. - Sidney Rittenberg

O LORD, how manifold are thy works! In wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches. - Psalms 104:24 Just as the physical sun lightens and warms the universe, so, in the human body, there is in the heart a sunlike arcanum from which life and warmth stream forth. - Carl Jung Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sunlike, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful. Therefore let each become godlike and beautiful who cares to see God and Beauty. The Primal Good and the Primal Beauty have one dwelling place, and thus, always, Beauty's seat is There. - Plotinus "The Enneads" At the centre of all things resides the sun. Could we find a better place in this most beautiful of all temples, from whence this light illuminates all things at once? Rightly is it called the lamp, the spirit, the ruler of the universe. For Hermes Trismegistus it is the invisible god. Sophocles' Elektra calls it the all-seeing. Thus, the sun sits on its royal throne and guides its children, which circle it. - Nicolas Copernicus But God is the archetype on which laws are modelled: He is the Sun behind the sun, in the realm of mind what that is in the realm of sense, and from invisible fountains He supplies the visible beams to the sun which our eyes behold. - Philo of Alexandria The sun ... not only furnishes to visible the power of visibility but it also provides for their generation and growth and nurture though it is not itself generation. ... In like manner, then ... the objects of knowledge not only receive from the presence of the good their being known, but their very existence and essence is derived to them from it, though the good itself is not essence but still transcends essence in dignity and surpassing power. - Plato "Republic" The sun casts light on things, and one can see things that are of no use. The real sun is that which casts light on things that are of use; the sun in the sky is metaphoric and secondary to the real sun. You too, in proportion to your own partial intellect, have your heart set on the real sun and seek its light of knowledge in order to see something intangible and in order for your knowledge to increase. You have expectations of understanding and comprehending something from every master and every friend. So we realize that the sun is something other than the physical sun: it is something from which revelation of realities and truths comes. We realize too that this partial knowledge in which you take refuge and pleasure is secondary to the great knowledge of which your partial knowledge is but a 'ray'. This 'ray' calls you to the original sun of great knowledge. These are they who are called unto from a distant place. - Rumi There is this first benefit from myths, that we have to search and do not have our minds idle. That the myths are divine can be seen from those who have used them. Myths have been used by inspired poets, by the best of philosophers, by those who established the mysteries, and by the Gods themselves in oracles. But why the myths are divine, it is the duty of philosophy to inquire. Since all existing things rejoice in that which is like them and reject that which is unlike, the stories about the Gods ought to be like the Gods, so that they may both be worthy of the divine essence and make the Gods well disposed to those who speak of them: which could only be done by means of myths. - Sallustius

All writings, both of secular and of divine wisdom, yield instruction when effort is applied. - Olympiodorus We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing, a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use. - Plotinus The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time. - Marsilio Ficino Sometimes even if he has to do it alone, and his conduct seems to be crazy, a man must set an example, and so draw men's souls out of their solitude and spur them to some act of brotherly love, that the great idea may not die. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky Soul is an essence without magnitude, immaterial, incorruptible, possessing its existence in life, and having life from itself. - Porphyry The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled. - Plutarch Genius is eternal patience. - Michelangelo

Wisdom from Dr. Joseph Murphy: Busy your mind with the concepts of harmony, health, peace, and good will, and wonders will happen in your life. Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy of the answered. As you sow in your subconscious mind, so shall you reap in your body and environment. You grow old when you lose interest in life, when you cease to dream, to hunger after new truths, and to search for new worlds to conquer. When your mind is open to new ideas, new interests, and when you raise the curtain and let in the sunshine and inspiration of new truths of life and the universe, you will be young and vital. Every cell, nerve, tissue, and muscle of my lungs are now being made whole, pure, and perfect. My whole body is being restored to health and harmony. Know that in your deeper mind are Infinite Intelligence and Infinite Power. Remember, you are spiritually recharged during sleep, and adequate sleep is essential to produce joy and vitality in life. If you have indulged in fear, worry, and other destructive forms of thinking, the remedy is to recognize the omnipotence of your subconscious mind and decree freedom, happiness, and perfect health. Your subconscious mind, being creative and one with your divine source, will proceed to create the freedom and happiness, which you have earnestly decreed. Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. MARK 11:23.

Wisdom from Earl Nightengale: One hour per day of study in your chosen field is all it takes. One hour per day of study will put you at the top of your field within three years. Within five years you'll be a national authority. In seven years, you can be one of the best people in the world at what you do. Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored. People don't have great attitudes because of great success, they have great success largely because of great attitudes. Successful people are dreamers who have found a dream too exciting, too important, to remain in the realm of fantasy. Day by day, hour by hour, they toil in the service of their dream until they can see it with their eyes and touch it with their hands. Watch what everyone else does--do the opposite. The majority is always wrong. Visualization is the human being's vehicle to the future - good, bad, or indifferent. It's strictly in our control. If the average person realized the power he wields over his life and destiny, he would live in a perpetual state of wonder and thanksgiving.

Wisdom from Neville Goddard: Assume the feeling of your wish fulfilled and observe the route that your attention follows. Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption and watch the world play its part relative to its fulfillment. An awakened imagination works with a purpose. It creates and conserves the desirable, and transforms or destroys the undesirable. For life makes no mistakes and always gives man that which man first gives himself. Man fails to do the works of Jesus Christ because he attempts to accomplish them from his present level of consciousness. You will never transcend your present accomplishments through sacrifice and struggle. Your present level of consciousness will only be transcended as you drop the present state and rise to a higher level. You rise to a higher level of consciousness by taking your attention away from your present limitations and placing it upon that which you desire to be. Do not attempt this in day-dreaming or wishful thinking but in a positive manner. Claim yourself to be the thing desired. I AM that; no sacrifice, no diet, no human tricks. All that is asked of you is to accept your desire. If you dare claim it, you will express it. Imagination and faith are the secrets of creation. To desire a state is to have it.

I am one with the Yuletide, know what I mean? - Ernest P. Worrell For Christmas this year, try giving less. Start with less attitude. There’s more than enough of that in the world as it is – and people will usually just give it back anyway! - Anne Bristow He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. - Roy L. Smith I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending. - Fred Rogers How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts! - Benjamin Franklin I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach. - Charles Dickens Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone. - Charles M. Schulz Our hearts grow tender with childhood memories and love of kindred, and we are better throughout the year for having, in spirit, become a child again at Christmastime. - Laura Ingalls Wilder My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that? - Bob Hope Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful. - Norman Vincent Peale

Wisdom from Claude Bernard: It is what we know already that often prevents us from learning. The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds. When we meet a fact which contradicts a prevailing theory, we must accept the fact and abandon the theory, even when the theory is supported by great names and generally accepted. Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown. All the vital mechanisms, varied as they are, have only one object, that of preserving constant the conditions of life in the internal environment. We achieve more than we know. We know more than we understand. We understand more than we can explain. Those who do not know the torment of the unknown cannot have the joy of discovery. Men who have excessive faith in their theories or ideas are not only ill prepared for making discoveries; they also make very poor observations. Of necessity, they observe with a preconceived idea, and when they devise an experiment, they can see, in its results,only a confirmation of their theory. In this way they distort observation and often neglect very important facts because they do not further their aim. We must keep our freedom of mind, ... and must believe that in nature what is absurd, according to our theories, is not always impossible. The science of life is a superb and dazzlingly lighted hall which may be reached only by passing through a long and ghastly kitchen. Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.

Wisdom from Osho: Be realistic: Plan for a miracle. Each person comes into this world with a specific destiny--he has something to fulfill, some message has to be delivered, some work has to be completed. You are not here accidentally--you are here meaningfully. There is a purpose behind you. The whole intends to do something through you. To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it. Intelligence is dangerous. Intelligence means you will start thinking on your own; you will start looking around on your own. You will not believe in the scriptures; you will believe only in your own experience. Many people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some space for better people. It is a strange experience, that those who have left me have always left places for a better quality of people. I have never been a loser. I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that’s why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection. I would like you to remember again and again, I am imperfect, the whole universe is imperfect, and to love this imperfection, to rejoice in this imperfection is my whole message. That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don’t let past move your mind; don’t let future disturb you. Because the past is no more, and the future is not yet. To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in the non-existential, you are missing that which is existential. Naturally you will be miserable, because you will miss your whole life.

On this Thanksgiving, thank God for the greatest blessing…. his love and for freedom under God for all people. Not what we have to say about our blessings, but how we use them is the true measure of our Thanksgiving. May we think especially about our country and give thanks for it. LINCOLN’S THANKSGIVING PROCLAMATION (condensed version) The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. We so constantly enjoy these bounties that we are prone to forget the source from which they come. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that these gifts should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend we fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union. HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Some men return to their past, so that new forces may arise for the reconquest - Julius Evola Through space, the universe understands me and engulfs me like a point; by thought, I understand it. - Blaise Pascal A common man marvels at uncommon things; a wise man marvels at the commonplace. - Confucius Do not go outside, return to yourself: truth dwells in the inner man. - Saint Augustine A man of talent is like a marksman who hits a target others cannot hit, but the man of genius is like a marksman who hits a target others cannot see. - Arthur Schopenhauer To live is to change, to be perfect is to have changed often. - John Henry Cardinal Newman I believe in being free, acquiring knowledge, and telling the truth. - H. L. Mencken We tire of thinking, and even of acting; we never tire of loving. - Auguste Comte The divine sleeps in the rock, breathes in the plant, dreams in the animal, and wakes in man. - Ancient Nordic adage