There is good in us all

There is good in us all. So why is it that sometimes I assume the bad? I know someone that always sees the good in people and never assumes a bad motive or that someone would deliberately make an action to hurt someone else or create ill intent. I wondered at first if it was naivety, but then I realised that it was just a genuine ability to see the good in people. Its a rare and beautiful gift. When I asked this person what made them this way, they said nothing had ever happened that made them see things differently. This person may have lived half a century on this earth without one person crossing them, but I should think its very unlikely. I think to be able to see every other fellow human being and always see the good is a very special gift that says something very special about their soul and where there soul is on its journey. This quality radiates an inner peace and tranquility, it radiates a trust in her fellow humans and has a knock on effect to the people in contact. But who can you change to have this gift, clearly its one of a nature that to have naturally is quite rare, so the task is about changing your nature, thinking before you respond to anything, reinforcing the message that, how you would like to think you are, which is a good person, you must have this belief that others are also acting with best intent and for a greater good. It comes down to trusting others and dealing with people with an open and honest heart, and believing that in treating others this way they will also treat you the same. This therefore will be my weekly prayer this week, to meditate and focus my soul on believing that intrinsically, there is good in us all, and that most people have a lot of good in them.

Acceptance

I love the quote "God give me the serenity to accept things which cannot be changed;Give me courage to change things which must be changed;And the wisdom to distinguish one from the other." living by it is another matter. I think acceptance is a really difficult thing to come to terms with when you think you are infallible. If I don't like something, I am determined to change it and put an awful lot of effort into doing everything I can to change the situation. I realise that the wisdom in this quote is asking "God" or as I prefer, a heavenly being for the serenity to be able to accept things. It also asks for the courage to change things that can be changes and the wisdom to know the difference. This is more powerful on contemplation than it first seems as if I, you, anyone had this, our life would be so much calmer, worry free and less traumatic. I think of all the things that I desire most is to be able to live life with these three gifts in place. I guess one can only keep repeating the request to the heavenly being for this gift. I see no logical way of learning it other than by experience. I see a few people in life who are so calm and who have lovely souls and I realise one thing they have above all is this gift and I see how being able to have the serenity to accept things which cannot be changed the courage to change things which must be changed and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other enriches their life so much for the better.

Someone asked me today about sexuality. Needless to say over 16 years of being married to my true love, my darling husband, its odd to need to revisit or explain. But it fits in nicely so why not. The soul, I believe is sexless. So therefore it is probable and possible for one soul to fall in love or want to be loved by another soul. But from time to time in our earthly disguise I guess we are attracted to people of the same human gender. I believe this in all sincerity. The only difference in the love is sex - which as this is a human desire is possibly irrespective. I suppose that depends on whether you can separate love from sex. You see, I can. To me there is a HUGE difference.

And the point was?

The reason I posted the Desiderata is this is the philosophy that I try to put into my day to day living. But, I think sometimes we can think to much about everything, but there has to be something more and something else. I am quite sure we are not meant to know the answers to the universe - not yet - but there is certainly more out there than most people think. Why for instance do we only use a small fraction of our brain - what else is it capable of? I do believe in the power of being psychic, telepathic, There is no such thing as a co-incidence, I believe in fate...and in believing this you have to believe that we are only just scratching the surface of our existence. But how do we develop these abilities, the powers of the mind, and will this help us become more in tune with our soul - the very point of existence. I mentioned this to someone today and they laughed - they said they firmly believed that when you are dead you are dead and my thoughts were a comfort blanket to help me deal with death. Interesting. But its the only easy to take this view if you don't want to contemplate the rest of it - because once you start to look at the journey of the soul and its ultimate aim - you open doors to challenge lots of other thinking. You start to challenge or agree with religious teaching and have to contemplate something that we will never know, or believe in things we may never see.

DESIDERATA

GO PLACIDLY AMID THE NOISE AND HASTE,
AND REMEMBER WHAT PEACE THERE MAY BE IN SILENCE.
AS FAR AS POSSIBLE WITHOUT
surrender be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery.

But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full heroism.

Be yourself, especially, do not feign affection.

Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.

But do not distress yourself with imaginings.

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be, and whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul

With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

Be careful.
Strive to be happy.

The thought process

So, fact is we are here. Living breathing, repopulating and existing. The world, whilst seemingly quite small is massive and the population of the planet huge. Cosseted in the UK in what must seem like exuberant luxury compared to other areas of the world. Was it luck that made my birth in the UK - or something else? Why was I not born a starving orphan in Africa? What if I had been? What is me? Who put my spirit, my soul in that little set of cells that fused my first heartbeat at 6.2 weeks in my mothers womb? All these circumstances before I was born were a set of events to my soul that as far as I know I had no control over. So it is clear to me that there is something bigger in the universe at work here. I guess this is where you look for answers in the scriptures, the first man and woman, God, because here is a huge book full of stories that to all intent and purpose explain the begining and the power. I can see why many are content with that. But then, when things go wrong there is the one person we can blame - God! And I hve heard many do this. I don't want to get into religion, not here and now, we can revisit this. For the record, I am not "religious" I am not assisgned to any faith - but I do believe in one great almighty "light" one being of goodness spiritualism and enlightment. Now I could call this person God, but in my mind I call this being my "Heavenly guide". Now I belive that our soul are all fragments of this one divine being and we are all seeking to return back, but we need to be complete spiritually to do this. So, our time here - on this planet - is a time that is slowed down to give us time to analyse and experience and develop our spiritual being through day to day life, with its many choices and difficulties. For all I know we may com here several earth lifetimes over, we may go elsewhere, but our soul exists, I believe, long after our earthly body dies. So - whilst we are here - what is my task? What are the ideal set of rules to live by? I like the 10 commandments - these are some good solid rules. I love the desidrata - this makes lots of sence. I will post it. Read it - what do you think?

in the begining.

I was not sure how to begin. All I want to do is express myself, my life and what this life means to me. Which is not, incidently, what I thought it meant 10 years ago. There was a time I thought that age and beauty meant everything. I would have died to be thin - and incidently neally did. A time when I thought being young was everything and a time when I thought this was all it was ever going to be. So blinded in the state of now and all its unhappiness there was a time that if this was all it was going to be I would opt out and in my youth I tried this too. How shallow. I now realise that not only is there a pattern emerging, but also we are not just a 100 year life expectancy of cells that live and die, we are part of a univeral eternal being that is on a journey. Thats what I want to explore.....the why we are here, the rules for living, the journey and the what happens next. There is a greater purpose to being and to why we are here living...what jusifys our existance and what is it all for, and if there is a greater being then there are lots of questions about why bad things happen to good people.