The universe is full of magical things,
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

~ Eden Phillpotts

God is one, the Truth is one. How can there be two religions? There is one religion, the only religion. ... Yes, we are living in different lands, but under one sky. So, we have many churches, but one God; many scriptures, but one wisdom; many souls, but one spirit, the only Spirit of God.

~~~ "Religious Gathekas, by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished)

Dharmaat Artha Prabhavati
By Dharma Wealth Flows
Dharmaat Prabhavate Sukham
Well-Being Arises Through Dharma
Dharmena Labhate Sarvam
Through Dharma All Is Obtained
Dharma Saaram Idam Jagat
This Evanescent Manifestation
Has Dharma As Its Essence.

"God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out
of the night. These are the words we dimly hear: You, sent out beyond
your recall, go to the limits of your longing. Embody me."

- Rainer Maria Rilke, *Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God,*
translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy

Howard Wills’ Prayers of For Empowerment

[people have found these prayers extremely helpful in helping to release
fears, while accessing their own inner power in the present moment]

For Myself, My Spouse, All Our Family Members, All Our Relationships, All
Our Ancestors And All Their Relationships Throughout All Time
Help Us All Forgive Each Other, Forgive Ourselves, Forgive All People, And
All People Forgive Us, Completely And Totally, Now And Forever, Please
Infinite Light, Thank You
Fill Us All With Your Love And Give Us All Complete Peace Now And Forever,
Please Infinite Light, Thank You Help Us All Love Each Other And Love Ourselves,
Be At Peace With Each Other And At Peace With Ourselves, Please Infinite Light, Thank You
We Thank You For Your Love, We Thank You For Your Blessings, We Thank You
For The Gift Of Life And All The Many Gifts You Give Us Daily, Thank You
Infinite Light, Thank You

(repeat entire prayer three times)

*
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to
what lies within us.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tolerance does not come by learning, but by insight; by understanding that each one should be allowed to travel along the path which is suited to his temperament.

Every man's desire is according to his evolution; that which he is ready for, is the desirable thing for him.
Commentary by Hazrat Inayat Khan:
There are really two journeys. There is the journey from the goal to the life in the world, and there is the journey from the life in the world to the goal. And both journeys are natural. As it is natural to go forth from the eternal goal, so it is natural to go from the changing life to the life which is unchangeable.
Which is the most desirable thing in life, to seek for the goal or to dwell in this changing life? The answer is that every person's desire is according to his evolution. That for which he is ready is desirable for him. Milk is a desirable food for the infant, other foods for the grown-up person. Every stage in life has its own appropriate and desirable things. The desire to attain to a goal must be there before reaching it; when he does not feel the desire, it is not necessary for a man to seek it.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/22/9126/

interesting read!

The realization that the whole life must be "give and take" is the realization of the spiritual truth and the fact of true democracy; not until this spirit is formed in the individual can the whole world be elevated to the higher grade.

Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

"By means of all created things, without exception, the divine assails us,
penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible,
whereas in fact we live steeped in its burning layers . . . This palpable
world, which we are used to treating with the boredom and disrespect
with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association, is a
holy place."

-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, *The Divine Milieu*

“When all is said and done, once the body is no more,
all we can really take with us is the quality of a loving heart;
it is the heart which informs the
Portal through which we journey deeply
into the loving and ecstatic
dimension of forever.”
-Kaua’i OverSoul
*Kaua'i OverSoul (The Distillation of the ancient elemental forces of the
Island, older than the Presence of humans, self-reflective and
approachable, the Angel God/Dess/ Guardian of the Island known and named by
humankind as "Kaua'i")

“When all is said and done, once the body is no more,
all we can really take with us is the quality of a loving heart;
it is the heart which informs the
Portal through which we journey deeply
into the loving and ecstatic
dimension of forever.”
-Kaua’i OverSoul
*Kaua'i OverSoul (The Distillation of the ancient elemental forces of the
Island, older than the Presence of humans, self-reflective and
approachable, the Angel God/Dess/ Guardian of the Island known and named by
humankind as "Kaua'i")

Monday May 19, 2008 - The Moon enters her debilitated sign of
Scorpio Late this morning Pacific time. This afternoon you may
suddenly feel overwhelmed with emotion and perhaps feel
victimized or other such things. The sign of Scorpio is where we
are learning to protect and strengthen our emotional responses to
things.
We may focus on our real or imagined emotional wounds the next
couple of days. The Moon enters the Nakshatra of Anuradha at
approximately 6pm EST today. THis Nakshatra is ruled by the God Mitra
(friend). It is a good day to spend with friends and others that
make you feel good. Remember how we are all connected.

An Epidemic of Extinctions: Decimation of Life on Earth
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/16/8992/

Time to choose to take responsibility for our impact with the
massive non-climate destruction of the bio-sphere.

Also, I've found [http://www.realclimate.org/] RealClimate by real
scientists to be a serious authoritative source on climate issues.

[http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2008/05/global-cooling-wanna-bet/]
Global Cooling-Wanna Bet?

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Stuart Mooney, author of American Buddha, a dear friend from the Oneness
University just sent this to me.
He is now offering Miracles through gazing at his picture online. The
Oneness University have given their full blessing.

[http://americanbuddha.net/] http://americanbuddha.net/

It is free and available to all. His goal is that his unique "Receive A
Miracle" technique will reach 2.3 million Internet global family each
month... 30 million in one year.

Let's live Miraculously.

The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another,
until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be
felt. ~Frederick Buechner

Recent Shift in Discipline and Long-Term Focus
We just had a major shift of astrological energy May 6th. The
planet Mars is no longer in the sign of Gemini, he is now in
cancer, where he is weak. In fact, it is called his house of
debilitation. This is because Mars is the energy of courage and
discipline (the capacity to sacrifice our momentary comfort and
pleasure, based on our principles) - Cancer is ruled by the moon,
which is related to feeling comfortable and emotionally happy.
These lessons are at odds with each other. So, in general you may
find that you may be a little undisciplined right now. Yet, if
you let yourself slide a little bit on physical discipline, you
may find a greater reward comes through introspective and
devotional practices. Even when Mars is weak he will fight for
something. When he is in cancer he is fighting for emotional
safety and nurturing. Mars will be in cancer until June 20.
Additionally, the nodes have changed signs, moving into the
cancer/Capricorn axis. The nodes had been in the Leo/Aquarius
axis since November of 2006. With Rahu in Capricorn and Ketu in
cancer for the next year and a half we can expect conservativism
to be quite dominant in the world. This could mean a certain
amount of nationalism globally and self protectionism personally.

Note the difference in your energetic choreography - get a transit reading NOW!

In order to reach spiritual perfection the first thing is to destroy this false self. First this delusion must be destroyed. And this is done by the ways taught by the great teachers, ways of concentration and meditation, by the power of which one forgets oneself and removes one's consciousness from oneself, in other words rises from one's limited being. In this way a person effaces himself from his own consciousness, and places God in his consciousness instead of his limited self. And it is in this way that he arrives at that perfection which every soul is seeking.

Pushing the envelope too fast and too far can prove costly. After
all, Mars has just made an off-kilter, 150-degree link to Pluto
last night and those awkward vibrations are still wreaking havoc
on Spaceship Earth. Stormy emotions are more the rule than the
exception right now. Adding to the potential misery index are a
Sun-Chiron square in fixed, power signs (1:58AM PDT) along with
an abrasive Mars-Jupiter contra-parallel formation (6:19AM PDT).
While the Sun-Chiron association can coincide with spiritual
studies and learning more about holistic healing techniques, the
Mars-Jupiter encounter is a warning to slow down on the roads and
be extra sensitive to dear ones under pressure. Utilize today's
upbeat Leo Moon to galvanize recently dormant artistic projects.
Take children within your family circle under your wing and be
truly magnanimous to friends who always seem to enrich your life
one way or another. Gear up for some rising tensions this evening
during the First Quarter Sun-Moon Phase (8:48PM PDT and
energizing 22 degrees of Taurus and Leo). Cut through obstacles
in your path and manage your business interests with greater
finesse. Opportunities for mental and spiritual growth are in the
hopper later on when the Sun in Taurus makes a supportive,
60-degree link to Uranus in Pisces (9:33PM PDT). Take a great
leap forward with your scientific, mathematical, metaphysical and
astrological research. Surf the world wide web and catch up with
email correspondence. Revolutionary ideas can turn your life
around for the good.

We cover our spirit under our body, our light under a bushel; we never allow the spirit to become conscious of itself.

Commentary by Hazrat Inayat Khan:

The life one recognizes is only the mortal aspect of life. Very few have ever seen or been conscious of the immortal aspect at all. Once one has realized life, that which one has hitherto called life is found to be only a glimpse or shadow of the real life that is beyond comprehension. To understand it one will have to raise one's light high from under the cover that is hiding it like a bushel. This cover is man's mind and body; it is a cover that keeps the light active on the world of things and beings. 'Do not keep your light under a bushel' means that we are not to keep the consciousness absorbed in the study of the external world, and in its pleasures and enjoyments.

In Burma it's not just a natural disaster--it's also a catastrophe of bad
leadership.
Burma's brutal and corrupt military junta failed to warn the people,
failed to evacuate any areas, and suppressed freedom of communication so
that Burmese people didn't know the storm was coming when the rest of the
world did. Now the government is failing to respond to the disaster and
obstructing international aid organizations.

Humanitarian relief is urgently needed, but Burma's government could
easily delay, divert or misuse any aid. Today the International Burmese
Monks Organization, including many leaders of the democracy protests last
fall, launched a new effort to provide relief through Burma's powerful
grass roots network of monasteries--the most trusted institutions in the
country and currently the only source of housing and support in many
devastated communities. Click below to help the Burmese people with a
donation and see a video appeal to Avaaz from a leader of the monks:
[https://secure.avaaz.org/en/burma_cyclone/6.php?cl=86411362]
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/burma_cyclone/6.php?cl=86411362

Giving to the monks is a smart, fast way to get aid directly to Burma's
people. Governments and international aid organizations are important, but
face challenges--they may not be allowed into Burma, or they may be forced
to provide aid according to the junta's rules. And most will have to spend
large amounts of money just setting up operations in the country. The monks
are already on the front lines of the aid effort--housing, feeding, and
supporting the victims of the cyclone since the day it struck. The
International Burmese Monks Organization will send money directly to each
monastery through their own networks, bypassing regime controls.
Now, as tens of thousands die, the junta's response is slow and threatens
to divert precious aid into the corrupt regime's pockets.

The monks are unlikely to receive aid from governments or large
humanitarian organizations, but they have a stronger presence and trust
among the Burmese people than both. If we all chip in a little bit, we can
help them to make a big difference.

The birthday of Adi Sankara is celebrated this Friday, May 9. Adi Sankara was the
great reviver of Indian Hinduism 1200 years ago. He still lives in the hearts of
his devotees today. A few stories from his life are below.

For more information on Sankara, visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adi_Shankara [http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001xA_GbKq9xFz2mFSDeiKK1Vd9h2UUXUQUUjVI6R1eyna9XULVzuJN5Z_oOU_NQ_WfuHCVRDKEIDDgF5_0nsx-EeHj0-POBcZhOTdTIFJzvOq_CXKsQYuG3eJ5aW3xrSVA-s1CtV4hlvE=]
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The exact new moon occurs on Monday, May 5, at 8:19 AM EDT in
Toronto, and in Gujarat, India it will be on Apr. 5 at 5:47 PM, IST. The
new moon occurs in Taurus in Line 3 of the I Ching hexagram "Peace".
The image is one of individual strength being directed towards service
and helping others: strength expressing itself with sensitivity and
consideration. The challenge in this hexagram is to be humble and
share what one has with those who have less.
Chanting on this Taurus new moon will vitalize one's ability to appreciate
and love others. It will calm down and direct the ego into areas of
helpful consideration rather than self-centred indulgences. For the love
of God we chant and for the love of peace we give up some of our
strongest desires. The chanting will help the surrendering and calm the
mind, keeping it away from selfish thoughts.

AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA

Beloveds:

a major worldwide Language of
Light activation is happening this new moon.

[http://sunchildren.ning.com/group/planetarygridproject]
http://sunchildren.ning.com/group/planetarygridproject

Read this article on the blog of the Secret of the Crystal Skulls movie website:
[http://www.secretofthecrystalskullsmovie.com/]
http://www.secretofthecrystalskullsmovie.com/

When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world.

~B.K.S. Iyengar

You can have all good things - wealth, friends, kindness, love to give and love to receive - once you have learned not to be blinded by them, learned to escape from disappointment, and from repugnance at the idea that things are not as you want them to be. Do not expect much from friends. Why must they be as you want them to be? They are not made by you. They are as they are. You must try to be for them what they expect you to be. It matters little if your friend proves to you to be a friend. What matters is, if you prove to be a friend.

However evolved we may be with our education and experience, yet what are we really seeking? Things from which we cannot derive any lasting gain. From these false things we gain the experience that the things to which we have hitherto attached importance and which we have valued are things that do not last. We learn at length that it would be wise to remember that all these objects and ideals and aspirations which we have in life should be judged according to whether they are dependable or not, lasting or not.

After we have perceived the truth that this or that is not to be depended upon, we find that it is not necessary to renounce them all, to give up everything in life. We can be in the crowd just as well as in seclusion in the wilderness. We can have all good things, wealth, friends, kindness, love to give and love to take once we have learned not to be blinded by them, learned to escape from disappointment, leaned to escape from repugnance at the idea that the things are not as we would want them to be. A man can still attend to business, he may attain wealth, he can carry out all those things, but now his eyes are wide open; before, they were blind. This is the teaching of life. ...

It is not the actual literal renunciation which counts, it is the personal abandonment of belief in the importance of transient things. ... If there is such a thing as saintly renunciation, it is renouncing small gains for better gains; not for no gains, but seeing with open eyes what is better and what is inferior. Even if the choice has to lie between two momentary gains, one of these would always be found to be more real and lasting; that is the one that should be followed for the time. When we take the torch of wisdom to show us our path through life, we will end by realizing what is really profitable in life and what is not.

Japanese Spacecraft Records Full Earth Rising Over
the Moon

Awesome Earthrise & Earthset

[http://inventorspot.com/articles/japanese_spacecraft_records_full_earth_rising_over_moon_13000]
http://inventorspot.com/articles/japanese_spacecraft_records_full_earth_rising_over_moon_13000