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A Bigger Secret Than The Secret Perhaps a better secret is that we are all here to learn as indivuduals what we, as an individual, need to learn. Can we better ourselves? Sure. Can we work hard for more stuff? Sure, if you think stuff is the key to happiness. Can we attract the perfect partner? Sure, or not depending on what one is looking for what one thinks is "perfect". I know many beautiful people who can't stand each other. Pain Is Weakness Leaving The Body Pain comes in many forms. There is the pain of a headache and there are many kinds of headaches that produce various degrees and quality of pain. There is organ pain when something is wrong inside and muscle pain when they are pushed beyond the norm either by exercise or emergency. Pain can be mild and a mere annoyance, or brutal and debilitating. Let's take a look a better way to view pain. Lessons From the Beach A crowded beach is a sight to behold. Bodies everywhereprone and upright. Kids running between the blankets which protect oil slathered bodies from the grit and grind of the sand beneath them. There are is laughter and the indistinguishable sounds of conversations and yelling above the constant blowing of offshore winds. One thing is for surethe place is alive with life and the energy of lives being lived. However, it's an early walk on the beach the next morning that informs us at a deeper level very well. Make Peace or Move Over Sooner or later human beings on this beautiful blue and green planet are going to have to decide that peace is a function of one human mind at a time. Whether God is your Father, Allah, Jesus or Buddah, human minds, one after the other and in agreement have to change for the good and cooperate with a deeper knowing that if religion won't reveal it to you, quantum physics can. We are one in the same and we all belong to that same one thing. We Join and Believe What Serves Our Need.. Which is Why One Can Be Manipulated Humans tend to select the religious beliefs that suit their needs, not their beliefs. Beliefs are maintained to keep feeling that whatever need they have for that belief is fulfilled. Beliefs and practice are more often a function of personality than many would like to admit. We might think of God as being able to call, work with and maintain a group of "Chosen Personalities" easier than spiritually "Chosen People." The Bible God -Trading Up - We Can Do Better For the last 4000 years, our Western concept of God has been based on the God that evolved out of the Old Testament theocracy of ancient Israel. "I'm of Larry...I'm of Curly...Well, I"m of Moe" - How My Way or the Highway rarely works Religion is probably the most divisive thing that has ever happen to a more personal and true spirituality. It is religion that divides, not unites people, unless of course, it is ours against yours. Religion THRIVES on division or it would not thrive at all. What Is,IS How often do we say, "What is, is." While we might say that, we so often don't really believe it and then, with hard work and determination, set out to change what is to what we need it to be, rather than what is. And yet, What is....still is. Google Earthing the Ascension and Second Coming of Jesus...Try it...See What You Think! Just for fun the other day, I pretended to be Jesus in His Ascension and Second Coming. I Google Earthed my flights both from and to the Church of the Ascension.. Forgiveness-Again and With a Bit More Understanding Than the Last Time Three years ago, our collective family lost a nephew, 13 years old, to a encounter with a train. Matt was walking along an active track wearing the headphones of his CD player, ... Letting Go of What You Used to Be- Part II We all have a story. It began the day we were born and continues to this day. All too often, if not all the time, we use this story of our lives to define who we think we are. Letting Go of What You Used to Be I used to be a church pastor. I was for a very long time during my most youthful and productive years.