...To say you don't know isn't always easy.

Mike McConnell, former Director of National Intelligence, described the principles of how to arrive at good intelligence 17 years ago while serving under Colin Powell.“I have a rule,” General Powell told him. “As an intelligence officer, your responsibility is to tell me what you know; tell me what you don’t know; then you’re allowed to tell me what you think. But always keep those three things separate. ”This was a profound concept to me. Most of us take what we think and turn it into what we know.When we give out information, it’s important to separate it into what we know, what we don’t know, and what we think. Sometimes it’s hard to say what we don’t know. Our egos don’t like us to be in the dark. It takes a very smart, very responsible person to distinguish between these three areas.We need to know our strengths, weaknesses, and what we think we can do. One reason for botched communication is we don’t separate between these three things. You’ve got to keep them separate from the beginning. Then you’ll be a more valuable leader, follower, and friend. No matter who is working with you, under you, or above you - as long as you have someone who needs to report to you and/or you to them - be sure to share what’s known, what’s unknown, and what’s perceived. It will help alleviate expectations and allow the flow of communication to be clearer.Ideas don’t make us experts. Awareness does. The work may seem difficult, but the point is simple. To say you don’t know isn’t always easy. But it can solve the big problems that happen when people make what they think into what they know.

Y. Berg

Why are people in ancient spiritual stories always going somewhere?

Why are people in ancient spiritual stories always going somewhere? The message for humanity is that when we go out of ourselves, our comfort, our nature, our selfish desires - we begin our true spiritual journey. We go out in order to get into our greatness.

Y. Berg

The Highest Happiness

True happiness is the highest form of self-sacrifice. There, in that state, there is no sense of self —not even awareness that you are happy. True happiness is somewhere beyond "knowing". Beyond self.

All the more so when you bring joy to others.

T. Freeman

"Do you have to change your vibration on a particular subject in order to let it in?"

"Do you have to change your vibration on a particular subject in order to let it in?" No, you don't. You could pet your pet and let it in. You could sit with your feet dangling in the bay, and let it in. If it is a subject that you often think of in an attitude of resistance, it is really worthwhile reaching for some thoughts that feel better. You could launch an intention and never think about it again, and the Universe would yield it to you. You don't have to clean up your vibration relative to anything, if you can just not think about it any more. That's why we teach meditation. It's easier to teach you to have no thought than to have pure positive thought. When you quiet your mind you stop thought; when you stop thought you stop resistance; when you stop resistance--then you are in a state of allowing.

--- Abraham

L'écriture est comme la parole

« L'écriture est comme la parole : un moyen puissant de transmettre une idée, une conviction, une beauté. Elle permet de toucher l'autre, d'entrer en son être pour y déposer un présent. L'écriture est magique. Elle déclenche des forces, agit sur les influences gouvernant les destinées. C'est pourquoi l'écriture doit être consciente et s'inscrire dans un ordre, une harmonie, une discipline transcendant le simple fait de contrôler son geste pour former des caractères. Il est utile de redonner à l'écriture sa noblesse et d'explorer sa dimension sacrée. Alors c'est l'homme lui-même qui connaîtra une nouvelle dignité dans sa vie. » 

Olivier Manitara

The tree is found in most spiritual traditions as a symbol for the universe

"The tree is found in most spiritual traditions as a symbol for

the universe. All creatures have a role to play on this tree,

anywhere from the roots to the fruits, including the trunk, the

branches, the leaves and the flowers. Everything that exists, all

activities, all realms find their place on the tree of life.

At different times of the year, the leaves, flowers and fruits

fall from the tree; they decompose and become humus, which is

gradually absorbed by the roots. It is the same with beings. When

human beings die, they return to the primeval earth, but soon

they reappear in some part of the tree. Nothing is lost, beings

are forever disappearing and reappearing on the cosmic tree of

life. "

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

If you intend to be of assistance

f you intend to be of assistance, your eye is not upon the trouble but upon the assistance, and that is quite different. When you are looking for a solution, you are feeling positive emotion— but when you are looking at a problem, you are feeling negative emotion.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from "The Law of Attraction, The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham" #366

Completion

At a certain point, each of us, through all our many journeys through life, will have found and redeemed all the Divine sparks in our share of the world. Then the darkness that holds such mastery, such cruelty, such irrational evil that it cannot be elevated—all this will simply vanish from its place, like a puff of steam in the midday air.

All that we salvaged and used for good, on the other hand, will shine with a tremendous light beyond even the light of the Godly realm. The world will have arrived.


T. Freeman

Desire summons Life Force

Desire summons Life Force. If we must continue to be alive, we must continue to have new desire. You are not willing to let yourself outrageously want because when you outrageously want something that you haven't found a way of getting, it is too uncomfortable, and the risk feels too great. We're wanting you to hear that there is no risk at all! Fantasize and watch what happens.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Chicago, IL on Saturday, April 24th, 1999 #368

Fear

Captivity begins by believing that you are small and the world is big.

Once you believe that, next you are likely to believe it will step on you, and you fear it.

And then you come to obey it, then to run after it. And then you are it’s slave, thirsting for water for the soul but not even able to remember where to look for it.

To fear the world is to deny the Oneness of its Creator.

T.Freeman

Excuses

One who really cares is not placated by the fact that he has a good excuse.

If the goal was not achieved, it was not achieved --regardless of the excuse.

T.Freeman

The Soul Grows Up

Ultimately, she finds there is something

even more momentous than herself.

There is her purpose.

To accomplish, to heal, to make better

—these, she discovers, take precedent over her very being.

And in that moment of discovery, she graduates

from being God's little child

to being God Himself.

T. Freeman

The spoken word gives human beings such power!

"The spoken word gives human beings such power! They need only

speak to obtain results comparable to those obtained by any other

material means: they can build or destroy, they can bring

together or divide, they can restore peace or start a war, they

can heal or bring about death. The power of the spoken word comes

from the fact that it is produced by the mouth, where both

principles - the masculine (the tongue) and the feminine (the two

lips) - work together to create a child (the spoken word). 

According to tradition, when the primitive androgyne was split

in two, in symbolic terms it could be said that the woman kept

the lips, the feminine principle, and the man the tongue, the

masculine principle. This is why, in order to find their original

power, they now endlessly seek each other so that they can be

united. Yes, this is the distant origin of the impulse that

causes men and women to seek each other out. In spite of the fact

that this search often takes the form of pleasure and

distraction, its deeper meaning is to return to the oneness of

the Word, the oneness of the creative principle, which is male

and female."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

Parce que l’être humain se manifeste à travers un seul corps

"Parce que l’être humain se manifeste à travers un seul corps, son

corps physique, on a tendance à croire qu’il est habité par une

seule entité, et pourtant l’existence quotidienne ne cesse de

prouver le contraire. À tour de rôle viennent se manifester à

travers lui des entités totalement différentes, et c’est pourquoi

il peut apparaître successivement intelligent ou stupide,

bienveillant ou cruel, généreux ou avare, modeste ou

vaniteux, etc. Ce mélange d’éléments tellement disparates qui

constituent chaque être humain reste une énigme même pour les

philosophes et les psychologues. Et pourtant, cela s’explique

très simplement par le fait que dans cette existence, ou dans des

existences antérieures, c’est l’être humain lui-même qui a attiré

ces différentes entités.

Il ne faut donc pas vous étonner lorsque vous voyez quelqu’un

manifester des tendances ou avoir des réactions contradictoires.

Et en ce qui vous concerne, vous devez vous observer

attentivement pour bien discerner chaque fois quelle est l’entité

qui parle ou qui agit à travers vous. Ce n’est pas parce que vous

savez, à certains moments, vous conduire avec bonté ou sagesse

que vous êtes impeccable tout le reste du temps et que les autres

doivent toujours vous approuver."

Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov

World peace

World peace, means one mindset big enough to make the decisions about what everybody else wants, and the rest of the world conforming. That is the ultimate definition of world peace. You say, "Oh, let's get along!" And what each of you mean is, "You do what I want." A peaceful world means, "Everybody wanting what I want. Going along with what I want." And the only problem with that is, there are more than one of you, and you have endless desires that are born within you. The ultimate experience is, everyone having their experience and launching their individual rockets of desire, and the Universe yielding to all of them simultaneously. And everybody not worrying about what anybody else created, and so, then allowing what they are wanting. What a world that is, when there are endless desirers, who are allowing the fulfillment of their own desires.

--- Abraham

Excerpted from the workshop in Los Angeles, CA on Saturday, March 10th, 2001 #369

Mission Impossible

We were not placed here to do the possible. Let the heavenly beings bring cause into effect, potential into actual. He did not breathe from His innermost depths into flesh and blood to achieve the facile and the ordinary.

We are here to achieve the impossible: To teach the world tricks it thinks it cannot do. To bring into its boundaries that which it cannot contain. To make the blind see, the deaf hear, darkness shine. To make everyday business into mystic union. To rip away the façade of the world and cause it to confess its conspiracy with the Divine.

T.Freeman

Hiding Destiny

How did He make a world?

First, He thought to Himself, "I desire light. I desire love. I desire acts of kindness and beauty." And He saw that this was good.

Then, He made Himself forget that entire vision, blocked it from His mind, so to speak, as though it never was. And He made a world. As though that was the whole point, a world for the sake of being a world.

Only much later did He whisper in someone's ear, "Do you know the real purpose for which I made this world?"

Now you know why reality is hard and love is soft,

apathy flows with ease while kindness must climb mountains,

why light is always the intruder upon the boundless empire of darkness.

Yet, in the end, light is the hidden destiny of all that is.

T. Freeman

"divine madness."

The world is absurd. Ugly absurd.

To repair ugly absurdity, you can't just be normal. You need an alternative absurdity. A beautiful absurdity.

We call it "divine madness."

T. Freeman

Duets

On the other side of ecstasy lies a painful emptiness. On the other side of bitterness lies joy. Where one goes the other must follow.

In the ecstasy of understanding lies the gnawing pain of a new frontier of ignorance.

In the agony of yearning lies the ecstasy of love.

In the ecstasy of prayer lies the agony of smallness and distance before the infinite light.

There is no sweet song that is not equally bitter, save that which is shallow and meaningless.

He formed His world from delight and so must share in its bitterness. Until the time when darkness will shine.

T. Freeman

A child learns to walk by falling down and standing up again

A child learns to walk by falling down and standing up again. Measured against a lifetime of walking, this period of continual stumbling is relatively short.Today, see your hardships and afflictions in this light, as God teaching you how to walk. The duration of your challenges, no matter how painful, is short compared to a lifetime of spiritual fulfillment.

Y. Berg