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| ISBN-13: | 9781532000492 |
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| Publisher: | iUniverse, Incorporated |
| Publication date: | 11/14/2016 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 228 |
| File size: | 802 KB |
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Laws of Life
By Donna Duffield
iUniverse
Copyright © 2016 Donna DuffieldAll rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-5320-0048-5
CHAPTER 1
God and Religion
Some followers of religion get so caught up with following their
religion
They forget God
Judgment
If you judge yourself
You will have no love
To love others
Non-Judgment starts with you first
Freedom from judgment
Comes with understanding....
Why you do what you do
Then you know why others do as they do
We behave bad because we feel bad
Not because we are bad
Knowing this brings compassion
Compassion transforms bad to good
Old Habits Die Hard ...
Let your heart decide
What's right for you
Not the people around You
Caring too much about what people think
Is an old habit
That destroys the freedom
To be as you are
And live the life you want
When your time Is up
Will you wish you had of pleased more people?
Or had the courage to please yourself?
Inner Peace ...
All we want in life is peace!
Without peace we cannot feel love
Without peace we cannot see beauty
Without peace we cannot be content
Peace comes not from changing all that surrounds you
It comes from changing that which is within you
Self-condemnation breeds guilt and destroys peace
Understanding breeds compassion and creates peace
Where are you?
In peace or conflict?
Habits
Do you feel stuck - going round in circles?
Do you keep suffering with the same -
Pain, condition, situation or person?
You may see the truth
But yet it continues ...?
Old habits die hard my friend
Some are as old as your birth
But many are from generations before
Put unto you to resolve
Too difficult for them to face
See the situation clearly
Go into it deeply
See your ignorance - more than theirs
Do not run - face yourself
The truth will eventually set you free
More than anything else
Be kind to yourself
This takes great courage
Compassion
You are doing the best you can ...
Do you continue to fall?
You are supposed to....
That's how we learn
No one is born perfect
Our greatest teachers faced internal battles
They too fell many times
Great teachers ...
Get back up
Feel no pity
And no guilt
To get back up and grow
You must understand that you are destined to fall
To get back up and grow
You must know - life is tough!
Bigger Picture
If you think about the particulars of your life
You will find problems and suffering
If you think about why you are here
You will find, mystery, beauty, truth and God
What do you think about?
Heaven Is Within You....
But you have to go through hell first, to get there
Hell is all of your conditioning, past pain, ignorance and ego
Let all your situations reveal to you your ignorance
And all that you have been searching for
Will be revealed!
Life's Greatest Gift
Lessons are life's greatest gift....
They teach wisdom
Without wisdom there is no..
Peace, compassion, contentment and joy
The biggest gift wisdom taught me was..
Living without fear of the future
And guilt of the past
Without wisdom life was not worth living
Wisdom comes from your life situations
Particularly painful ones
You are not a victim of life
You are a student of existence
Look, listen and learn
And life will reveal its beautiful mystery
The True Meaning
Of Karma....
Doing something good
Does not create good karma
Unless it is done without....
'The desire to gain'
Doing something bad
Does not create bad karma
Unless it is done with....
'The intent to harm'
Karma is your internal energy
Manifesting everyday as your life circumstances
If you hold and create anger energy
You will create destructive circumstances
If you hold and create peaceful energy
You will create harmonious circumstances
You have to attract according to
Your internal energy
Past and what you create now with your mind
This isn't punishment
Its divine evolution
Karma is your mirror
You can only change that which you can see
Your Suffering Is
Your Teaching ...
Whatever you resist - persists!
Why?
Because in resistance to the situation
You also resist the teaching
You cannot by pass your divine destiny to learn
Without learning the human race could not exist
The rule is this....
As you change from within your life changes from without
Thus before you seek to change a painful situation
Seek to understand its teaching
If you change the situation before learning
The situation will simply repeat itself
Are you going round in circles?
Understand Suffering
To pass through the grips of suffering
You must understand....
Suffering comes from within
Not without
Circumstances are bringing your past pain to conscious awareness
Not causing it
Hidden in this pain
Is wisdom, depth, joy and divine connection
But....
First you must understand your suffering
Or....
You simply make more of it
Suffering Is Oxygen
At certain stages of your evolutionary growth
Suffering is as vital as oxygen
Without it you are....
Shallow, ignorant, a coward, blind, selfish and most of all without
knowledge of the divine Nature of life
You are here on earth to learn
When You Realize This, Your Suffering becomes your greatest gift
And your key to the greatest joy you have ever known
Suffering Is Your
Divine Gift
Freedom from suffering is in understanding suffering
Your greatest lessons are always in your greatest pain
Freedom from suffering is knowing how to deal with suffering
Understand, accept, feel and let go
Our greatest teachers, Jesus, Buddha, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela etc
Have often suffered the greatest pain
Their suffering was their teaching
Now It's our turn and mine
What is the teaching hidden in your suffering?
Do you know how to access it?
What are your circumstances trying to tell you?
When you know this your suffering will pass
Leaving only wisdom behind
Evolving Pains
Only when your suffering Is acute
Are you close to dissolving it
This is the process of evolving
To evolve you need experience and knowledge
Suffering will naturally attract your experience
And the sincere desire to see the truth
Will attract the right knowledge
Not Mad Or Bad
You suffer not because you are mad, bad or guilty
You suffer because its your time to grow
Belief in God or not makes no difference
To be happy, at peace and content
Man has to evolve out of this stage of ignorance
If you suffer consistently with....
Anger, hatred, jealousy, insecurity, fear, anxiety, depression and
addictions -
Then you are in the stage of growth not insanity
Desire Is Growth
Desire is an essential part of mans spiritual growth....
All desire is only man searching
To quench the relentless thirst for contentment
Such contentment cannot be found in the world
Only in returning back to his divine nature
Man must first search the world, however
In the form of his desires
When he satisfies all desire and still feels empty
Then he is ready to go in search
Of the divine
Thus ...
Leave man to his desires
He must see the truth for himself
Peace Starts With You
Man who is not at war within himself
Will not be at war outside himself
To create peace
You must first be at peace with yourself
To love another
You must feel love for within yourself
To stop judging another
You must first accept yourself
Self-condemnation for any reason
Creates anger and pain within War against the self
And conflict with another
Stop Running
Alcohol, drugs, cigarettes,
Food, sex, gambling, masturbation etc....
Regardless of your addiction type
All can be transcended with true understanding
Your compulsion to obsessively engage in any behavior
Without the ability to stop - is an addiction
In truth however it is your body and mind trying
To tell you something important
But you are not listening
You are running
You are running from
Emptiness, boredom, pain, problems, stress
Stop running
And your addictions will stop too
A Quiet Mind
When you quiet the mind
Suffering is not painful
It is felt as a little discomfort in the stomach
When you quiet the mind
Difficult situations
Are resolved easily
When you quiet the mind
You feel all is well regardless
Understand your
Suffering ...
If no matter what you achieve in your life
There is still a desire for more
If each desire once satisfied
Still leaves you empty inside
If the material world has lost its appeal
And you feel somewhat depressed
You are suffering from a spiritual thirst
That cannot be quenched by the world
But only by the spiritual dimension
It is your time to go within
Find the truth
Join your divine being
And return home
Suffering Comes From
Inability to deal with emotions
Ignorance of how the mind works
Inability to read situations properly
This is not a weakness - such fundamental things were not taught
Once you understand these things life becomes....
A joy despite and because of challenges
Peace becomes your natural state regardless
You find divine meaning to existence
Happiness
Self-Knowledge is seeing without judgment
Seeing that happiness
That is dependent
Is merely unhappiness woven in ignorance
Ignorance of once i have this i will be happy
Only to gain it and return to unhappiness and seeking again
Happiness dependent upon conditions remaining same
Is illusion
It is merely a comfort zone
Woven in fear
Leading to control and anxiety of change
True happiness is self-knowledge
Seeing through illusion
That happiness is your natural state
Not a dependent one
Can you see yet?
Pain Is Natural
A response to the present moment
Training the being in wisdom, strength and depth
Adding to the richness of life and being
Passes easily with acceptance
Suffering is man-made
Created by resistance to present circumstances
Or dwelling on what has past
Accumulates with time
Rendering the being to weakness and sickness
Understanding is key
Letting go is vital
All Are Divinely Equal
Only man and his ego places one man above another....
Every child is special, not just yours
Every prophet is equal to every man - only his stage in evolution
which separates him
Every life is important in the evolution of consciousness - not just
those that changed history
Every being is divine - behavior is not a measure of his being only
his consciousness
Me and mine is you trapped in ego - all is divinely one!
You Get What You Need
Life doesn't bring you what you want
It brings you what you need
When that is painful or challenging
It is only trying to free you from your own ignorance
It is mirroring you through your reactions
Stop blaming and justifying
And you will see and be free
Always ask 'what is life trying to teach me'?
Inner Conditions Create
Or destroy Happiness
You do not need to change the world
To be happy
You need to change how you see the world
Happiness is an internal experience created every moment
Not by outer circumstances
But by inner conditions
You are in control of your happiness
Once you learn to control your mind
What are you creating right now?
Belief Systems Are False
They are ideas without evidence
Their calling card is fear
Fear that essentially you know you do not know
Knowledge is seen directly
And thus requires no belief
Its calling card is authority
Authority which cannot be shaken
One will set you free from suffering
As only the realization of truth can
The other will keep you trapped
Offering only momentary release in the form of hope
Challenge your belief systems
Admit you do not know
Only then can the power of knowledge enter
Pain vs Suffering
When i finally came out of the darkness
I realized it was my greatest gift ...
If you learn to understand suffering
Suffering comes to an end
If you learn to face pain
You will experience the utter joy of being alive
Suffering is in the mind - understand it
Pain is in the body - face it
Then you will know 'the peace that passeth all understanding'
(Philippians 4:7)
Endless Desire
As long as man seeks an orgasm
He will only ever be able to make sex, not love
This will only happen when man
Has outlived the pleasure principle
And thus seen the truth....
Pleasure is man's endless desire for fulfillment
Pleasure always leads to pain as emptiness returns
Pain of pleasure will eventually drive man to truth
Truth will take him home
His divine home is what he is searching for
Heart Vs Mind
Follow your hearts calling -
Its nature is divine
Its intention is to serve you
Follow your mind
Its nature is fear
Its intention is to people please
Follow your heart
Its nature is love
Its intention is to bring you peace
Follow your mind
Its nature is conditioning
Its intention is empty pleasure
The calling of heart is silent 'knowing'
The calling of mind is obsessive noise
What is your heart saying?
Live Your Desires Fully!
Guilt and regret serve only....
To suffocate the life in you
Preventing the seeing of truth and personal growth
Each desire is governed by the erroneous belief of fulfillment
Not until you have lived the desire fully can you see the truth
That is its divine purpose
Live each desire without guilt
You will see the truth and drop them
Eventually tiring of worldly desires
Seeking the only fulfillment, of the spiritual way
Depression
Depression is not cured by ...
Adding worldly pleasures
Or by taking tablets
Depression is cured by ...
Releasing the sadness of the past in you
And challenging negative thought patterns
Live And Let Live
The true meaning of respect is to ...
Live and let Live
Some may behave in one way
And you in another
Others may follow one religion
And you another or none
Live your own beliefs, that is your birth right
Let others live theirs, it is their birth right
Thus, live and let live
All else is control
You Are Perfect As You Are
Your flaws and imperfections were divinely created
They are the drive to take you home
We are each given a cross to carry
That serves as our resurrection to be reborn
Learn to accept yourself
And you will go home to your divine beautiful being
Learn to carry your cross
And you will transcend all suffering and be reborn into peace
and joy
You are a divine being living a human existence
The Real Law Of Attraction
What you play with in your mind
You create In your body
You manifest in your life
This is as real as it gets ...
Understand the law
And you consciously create your life
(Continues...)
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