bernie
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Power of Prayer
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3/25/2009 9:59 AM
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'The power of prayer transcends all other energy for mankind. This is direct approach to the Creative Force, and melds with the universal power of love. Prayer goes to the source of all energy and all power.
When I wish to bless someone, I let flow a stream of energies from somewhere beyond me, out to and around and through the person blessed. It happens in the twinkling of an eye, with no words. It is rather like surrounding them with love. I now do the same with my work.'
...all seemingly proving that plants thrive on love or prayer, but may wither and die if hate is directed their way. Just as our thoughts can affect people, pets, clouds, and inanimate objects, so do they affect living plants...When a plant is loved and appreciated and when we visualize it as healthy and productive, it will thrive... when we picture our body as working in health and inner harmony, we improve our attitude and attract the healing energies that are all about us. Some feel that cancer is the result of unhealthy or unhappy attitudes toward life.
Time is infinite, and as each of us began as sparks from our Creator, so our ultimate goal is reunion with Him. We are surrounded by life energies and healing forces that we can learn to use by moving with the Universal Flow and accepting our occasional setbacks with good grace... There is no such thing as a 'bad' experience, but only opportunities to learn and grow in inner understanding. As the Guides succinctly phrase it: 'Our stumbling blocks are stepping stones.'
(Ruth Montgomery, Strangers Among Us)
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buttington
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RE: Power of Prayer
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3/25/2009 1:51 PM
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When I wish to bless someone, I let flow a stream of energies from somewhere beyond me, out to and around and through the person blessed. It happens in the twinkling of an eye, with no words. It is rather like surrounding them with love. I now do the same with my work.'
This is so true, and we should be extra careful with our thoughts because of this. Jude
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RE: Power of Prayer
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3/25/2009 2:23 PM
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Last night, I went into a violent persons room to help calm them. I called to them, and he looked directly into my eyes with fear and pain. I didn't feel the need to look away, but only felt I was looking at myself. He calmed right down, even smiled and went to sleep.
The power of prayer follows us even where we cannot speak, into the unspoken, forgotten past. There is no time limit in the action, or inaction of prayer, but just life giving, through it.
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bernie
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RE: Power of Prayer
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3/26/2009 10:38 AM
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They (lacking well-being) look from down up and explain the higher lights by the lower obscurities; but the foundation of these things is above and not below, upari budhna esam. The superconscient, not the subconscient, is the true foundation of things. The significance of the lotus is not to be found by analyzing the secrets of the mud from which it grows here; its secret is to be found in the heavenly archetype of the lotus that blooms forever in the Light above... you must know the whole before you can know the part and the highest before you can truly understand the lowest. That is the promise of the greater psychology awaiting its hour before which these poor gropings will disappear and come to nothing.
(Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga) Well-being means, finally, to drop one's Ego, to give up greed, to cease chasing after the preservation and the aggrandizement of the Ego, to be and to experience one's self in the act of being, not in having, preserving, coveting, using... No matter how often he thinks of God or goes to church, or how much he believes in religious ideas, if he, the whole man, is deaf to the question of existence, if he does not have an answer to it, he is marking time, and he lives and dies like one of the million things he produces. He thinks of God, instead of experiencing being God. (Erich Fromm et al., Zen Buddhism and Psychoanalysis)
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