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— Mystic Dog Ears (@MysticDogEars) May 20, 2013

"Shut Up and Go Back to the Mall That Spawned You!"

I don't walk into malls to often and one a recent trip I had the pleasure (?) of visiting a new one. When I saw people sitting down on sofas, reading the paper and watching t.v., I immediately thought of this:

"You do realize that by the year 2000 all malls will be connected. It's gonna be a sub-culture of mall people, who have never seen daylight, born, bred, and raised in the malls, sent down to the wafting tomb of Debbie Gibson to become Happy Consumers." - Bill Hicks (Sane Man-1989)

Debbie Gibson was to Bill Hicks as Pennywise was to the children of Derry. 

Inhale Love

At first I laughed and then I thought, 

"If a Jack Russell could sit still long enough to meditate, anything in life is possible."

The Ancient Heart of Forgiveness - Jack Kornfield

Non-Violence Speech - Matatma Gandhi

Slow Cooker Stew

I have to post this because I don't want to forget what I did this morning. LOL

I have a small slow cooker so:

1 Potato
1 Carrot
1 Celery Stalk
1/2 Onion
3 Garlic Cloves
2 Brussel Sprouts
1/4 Cup Quinoa
2 Tbs Bulgar
Pepper
Dill 
Parsley
Salt
Water

served with peppery Tibetan flat bread.

Yizkor - Holocaust Remembrance Day 2013

I dream of a family whom I never had the chance to meet. 

Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah) 2013 began in the evening of

Sunday, April 7

and ends in the evening of

Monday, April 8

God full of mercy who dwells on high
Grant perfect rest on the wings of Your Divine Presence
In the lofty heights of the holy and pure
who shine as the brightness of the heavens
to the souls of my relatives
both on my father's side and my mother's side
the holy and the pure
who were put to death, slain, slaughtered
burned to death or suffocated in the sanctification of God's name
as, without making a formal vow, I pledge to give charity
to commemorate their souls.
Their resting place shall be in the Garden of Eden.
Therefore, the Master of mercy will care for them
under the protection of His wings for all time
And bind their souls in the bond of everlasting life.
God is their inheritance and they will rest in peace
and let us say Amen.

<3

Lift Me Up - Bill Hicks

"Lift me up out of this illusion Lord
Heal my perception so that I may know only reality and only you
... stuff like that." - Bill Hicks

Two Child One Drop - Matisyahu

Live From Stubb's Vol. 2 version is a combination of Two Child One Drop, Dispatch the Troops, and Close My Eyes.

"I came up with two children — child soldiers in Africa, they’ve been forced to fight a war. They escape their army, and then they’re lost in a forest, like in [Rebbe Nachman's] Story of the Seven Beggars. " 
- Matisyahu

"Two Child One Drop" - 47 Minute Mark

The world is crying the world is dying
World goes blind while the boy is lying
The house is burning the children mourning their father's death
While world it keeps turning

One more day of pain has passed
While he lies in the grass on his back
Lookin' through the cracks in the sky sunsets
And all drowns in twilight

The world is cracked the earth is black
A child with no arms lying on his back
No where to go in the middle of this cold
In the middle of this earth spinning out of control

The desert stretches on for one more day
The girl pleads to him don't go away
His lips they move but got nothing to say
Stares blankly through her face
Recollection of his brothers as they played

I'm running in the desert running into the sun
Running out of blood and I'm going numb
I'm running and I'm running
And I'm running and I'm running on empty

I'm running in this maze till I reach the sea
My heart burns up inside of me
Burnt and charred from this desert heat
My heart burns up inside of me

And the pain within is the pain outside
The desert right here is a reflection of my life
Just as brutal as I am the sun me and this desert we are one
I am a murderer
I am a murderer

Only the dead souls know I'm alive
They want me to lie down by their side
These are the demons that passed through my life
That killed me over a thousand times

I don't run I don't flee I don't fight
I don't act dumb I don't shine my light
I don't act dumb I don't flex my might
I sit down on the ground till the time is right

They seek my demise and rely
On my dark side to give into the night
All those desperate ghosts stuck souls trapped in black holes
Became werewolves stolen souls they wanna see me bleed
they wanna see me bleed
they wanna see me bleed

Only the dead souls know I'm alive
They want me to lie down by their side
These are the demons that passed through my life
That killed me over a thousand times

I don't run I don't flee I don't fight
I don't act dumb I don't shine my light
I don't act dumb I don't flex my might
I sit down on the ground till the time is right

They seek my demise and rely
On my dark side to give into the night
All those desperate ghosts stuck souls trapped in black holes
Became werewolves stolen souls wanna see me bleed

**Dispatch The Troops**

Strip away the serpents skin
We came to win
Dispatch the troops
Send out the captain
My gem is held captive in the dungeon
Don't come back again until you end the mission
If it takes a long time
Don't lose the vision
If you're stuck
Check the blueprint
Look within
Reflection
Got to find the rhythm
Won't you please return child
Where you been?
She says I can't come home because he won't let me in
And besides we don't need no more friction
Used to look so nice how'd you get so thin?
With a heart of ice it's a heart of sin
Skin white like a ghost with a pale complexion
Pray to God for the dead we need resurrection
Don't you know 

**Close My Eyes**

I listened' to the wind whistle in a channel of sound
my ear like a vacuum begin to boom
glisten like the sun heats a drum,
cursing' all of them doomed rising' up from the ground
growing full like the moon

No matter where I am bless me with all your light,
I'm on the train brain vexed connected and the I feel blessed
Whether day or night I'm on the street in midtown New York City
Let me stop praise your name I need room to breath

Said I’ve been ripped into lyrics, I’ve been ripped into words
Explained like physics leaving your vision blurred
Helping the unrighteous men there is no need to worry
Crush the wicked, in away with all his fists of fury
I’m studying rhymes all day
And everyday that's what I say
I come with consciousness as my sword I slay
All of them crazy murderers are bound to be prey
knock, knock, sucking evil man with no delay
I'm dropping bombs on ya
Yeah and to your dismay
Up in every single way and in each and every day
I sit back relax and listen to the music play
With headphones on my head a yes I bump and I sway
And I've been rhyming through your house, yes I've been rhyming through your room
Explained like physics leaving your conscious doomed
Kaboom in the morning and the afternoon
Write rhymes and I shine right tearing at the moon

A Course In Miracles - Lesson 128

Lesson 128

The world I see holds nothing that I want.

The world you see holds nothing that you need to offer you; nothing that you can use in any way, nor anything at all that serves to give you joy. Believe this thought, and you are saved from years of misery, from countless disappointments, and from hopes that turn to bitter ashes of despair. No one but must accept this thought as true, if he would leave the world behind and soar beyond its petty scope and little ways.

Each thing you value here is but a chain that binds you to the world, and it will serve no other end but this. For everything must serve the purpose you have given it, until you see a different purpose there. The only purpose worthy of your mind this world contains is that you pass it by, without delaying to perceive some hope where there is none. Be you deceived no more. The world you see holds nothing that you want.

Escape today the chains you place upon your mind when you perceive salvation here. For what you value you make part of you as you perceive yourself. All things you seek to make your value greater in your sight limit you further, hide your worth from you, and add another bar across the door that leads to true awareness of your Self.

Let nothing that relates to body thoughts delay your progress to salvation, nor permit temptation to believe the world holds anything you want to hold you back. Nothing is here to cherish. Nothing here is worth one instant of delay and pain; one moment of uncertainty and doubt. The worthless offer nothing. Certainty of worth can not be found in worthlessness.

Today we practice letting go all thought of values we have given to the world. We leave it free of purposes we gave its aspects and its phases and its dreams. We hold it purposeless within our minds, and loosen it from all we wish it were. Thus do we lift the chains that bar the door to freedom from the world, and go beyond all little values and diminished goals.

Pause and be still a little while, and see how far you rise above the world, when you release your mind from chains and let it seek the level where it finds itself at home. It will be grateful to be free a while. It knows where it belongs. But free its wings, and it will fly in sureness and in joy to join its holy purpose. Let it rest in its Creator, there to be restored to sanity, to freedom and to love.

Give it ten minutes rest three times today. And when your eyes are opened afterwards, you will not value anything you see as much as when you looked at it before. Your whole perspective on the world will shift by just a little, every time you let your mind escape its chains. The world is not where it belongs. And you belong where it would be, and where it goes to rest when you release it from the world. Your Guide is sure. Open your mind to Him. Be still and rest.

Protect your mind throughout the day as well. And when you think you see some value in an aspect or an image of the world, refuse to lay this chain upon your mind, but tell yourself with quiet certainty:

This will not tempt me to delay myself.
The world I see holds nothing that I want.

I Am Another You, You Are Another Me

Agreeable Friends

Yuna and Meiko

A Course In Miracles - Lesson 151

Lesson 151

All things are echoes of the Voice for God.

No one can judge on partial evidence. That is not judgment. It is merely an opinion based on ignorance and doubt. Its seeming certainty is but a cloak for the uncertainty it would conceal. It needs irrational defense because it is irrational. And its defense seems strong, convincing, and without a doubt because of all the doubting underneath.

You do not seem to doubt the world you see. You do not really question what is shown you through the body's eyes. Nor do you ask why you believe it, even though you learned a long while since your senses do deceive. That you believe them to the last detail which they report is even stranger, when you pause to recollect how frequently they have been faulty witnesses indeed! Why would you trust them so implicitly? Why but because of underlying doubt, which you would hide with show of certainty?

How can you judge? Your judgment rests upon the witness that your senses offer you. Yet witness never falser was than this. But how else do you judge the world you see? You place pathetic faith in what your eyes and ears report. You think your fingers touch reality, and close upon the truth. This is awareness that you understand, and think more real than what is witnessed to by the eternal Voice for God Himself.

Can this be judgment? You have often been urged to refrain from judging, not because it is a right to be withheld from you. You cannot judge. You merely can believe the ego's judgments, all of which are false. It guides your senses carefully, to prove how weak you are; how helpless and afraid, how apprehensive of just punishment, how black with sin, how wretched in your guilt.

This thing it speaks of, and would yet defend, it tells you is yourself. And you believe that this is so with stubborn certainty. Yet underneath remains the hidden doubt that what it shows you as reality with such conviction it does not believe. It is itself alone that it condemns. It is within itself it sees the guilt. It is its own despair it sees in you.

Hear not its voice. The witnesses it sends to prove to you its evil is your own are false, and speak with certainty of what they do not know. Your faith in them is blind because you would not share the doubts their lord can not completely vanquish. You believe to doubt his vassals is to doubt yourself.

Yet you must learn to doubt their evidence will clear the way to recognize yourself, and let the Voice for God alone be Judge of what is worthy of your own belief. He will not tell you that your brother should be judged by what your eyes behold in him, nor what his body's mouth says to your ears, nor what your fingers' touch reports of him. He passes by such idle witnesses, which merely bear false witness to God's Son. He recognizes only what God loves, and in the holy light of what He sees do all the ego's dreams of what you are vanish before the splendor He beholds.

Let Him be Judge of what you are, for He has certainty in which there is no doubt, because it rests on Certainty so great that doubt is meaningless before Its face. Christ cannot doubt Himself. The Voice for God can only honor Him, rejoicing in His perfect, everlasting sinlessness. Whom He has judged can only laugh at guilt, unwilling now to play with toys of sin; unheeding of the body's witnesses before the rapture of Christ's holy face.

And thus He judges you. Accept His Word for what you are, for He bears witness to your beautiful creation, and the Mind Whose Thought created your reality. What can the body mean to Him Who knows the glory of the Father and the Son? What whispers of the ego can He hear? What could convince Him that your sins are real? Let Him be Judge as well of everything that seems to happen to you in this world. His lessons will enable you to bridge the gap between illusions and the truth.

He will remove all faith that you have placed in pain, disaster, suffering and loss. He gives you vision which can look beyond these grim appearances, and can behold the gentle face of Christ in all of them. You will no longer doubt that only good can come to you who are beloved of God, for He will judge all happenings, and teach the single lesson that they all contain.

He will select the elements in them which represent the truth, and disregard those aspects which reflect but idle dreams. And He will reinterpret all you see, and all occurrences, each circumstance, and every happening that seems to touch on you in any way from His one frame of reference, wholly unified and sure. And you will see the love beyond the hate, the constancy in change, the pure in sin, and only Heaven's blessing on the world.

Such is your resurrection, for your life is not a part of anything you see. It stands beyond the body and the world, past every witness for unholiness, within the Holy, holy as Itself. In everyone and everything His Voice would speak to you of nothing but your Self and your Creator, Who is One with Him. So will you see the holy face of Christ in everything, and hear in everything no sound except the echo of God's Voice.

We practice wordlessly today, except at the beginning of the time we spend with God. We introduce these times with but a single, slow repeating of the thought with which the day begins. And then we watch our thoughts, appealing silently to Him Who sees the elements of truth in them. Let Him evaluate each thought that comes to mind, remove the elements of dreams, and give them back again as clean ideas that do not contradict the Will of God.

Give Him your thoughts, and He will give them back as miracles which joyously proclaim the wholeness and the happiness God wills His Son, as proof of His eternal Love. And as each thought is thus transformed, it takes on healing power from the Mind which saw the truth in it, and failed to be deceived by what was falsely added. All the threads of fantasy are gone. And what remains is unified into a perfect Thought that offers its perfection everywhere.

Spend fifteen minutes thus when you awake, and gladly give another fifteen more before you go to sleep. Your ministry begins as all your thoughts are purified. So are you taught to teach the Son of God the holy lesson of his sanctity. No one can fail to listen, when you hear the Voice for God give honor to God's Son. And everyone will share the thoughts with you which He has retranslated in your mind.

Such is your Eastertide. And so you lay the gift of snow-white lilies on the world, replacing witnesses to sin and death. Through your transfiguration is the world redeemed, and joyfully released from guilt. Now do we lift our resurrected minds in gladness and in gratitude to Him Who has restored our sanity to us.

And we will hourly remember Him Who is salvation and deliverance. As we give thanks, the world unites with us and happily accepts our holy thoughts, which Heaven has corrected and made pure. Now has our ministry begun at last, to carry round the world the joyous news that truth has no illusions, and the peace of God, through us, belongs to everyone.

Manifesto for The Counts of the Netherworld

The time has come to air the Voice of Reason
In a world gone mad, adrift on banal seas
For all who feel that lies have had their season
And whose hearts cry out instead for honesty

For all the wary souls grown bored with dreaming
Whose thirst for knowledge and for beauty goes unslaked
For all who long to wake from what is seeming
And know what's real, and what is real to embrance

For all who've sat and watched with mounting horror
Evil's reign upon this world grow ever-clear
For all who've sought in vain, emancipators
Wielding swords of truth, and laughing without fear

-Bill Hicks

Imagine A World Without Hate

Looking at Stars - Calvin and Hobbes

Click to enlarge

INFJ - I Can Really See The Stars

How do I see the world? You wouldn't understand ;)

Thoughts - Rumi

I am so close, I may look distant. 
So completely mixed with you, I may look separate. 
So out in the open, I appear hidden. 
So silent, because I am constantly talking with you.

-Rumi

A Course In Miracles - Lesson 188

Lesson 188

The peace of God is shining in me now.

Why wait for Heaven? Those who seek the light are merely covering their eyes. The light is in them now. Enlightenment is but a recognition, not a change at all. Light is not of the world, yet you who bear the light in you are alien here as well. The light came with you from your native home, and stayed with you because it is your own. It is the only thing you bring with you from Him Who is your Source. It shines in you because it lights your home, and leads you back to where it came from and you are at home.

This light can not be lost. Why wait to find it in the future, or believe it has been lost already, or was never there? It can so easily be looked upon that arguments which prove it is not there become ridiculous. Who can deny the presence of what he beholds in him? It is not difficult to look within, for there all vision starts. There is no sight, be it of dreams or from a truer Source, that is not but the shadow of the seen through inward vision. There perception starts, and there it ends. It has no source but this.

The peace of God is shining in you now, and from your heart extends around the world. It pauses to caress each living thing, and leaves a blessing with it that remains forever and forever. What it gives must be eternal. It removes all thoughts of the ephemeral and valueless. It brings renewal to all tired hearts, and lights all vision as it passes by. All of its gifts are given everyone, and everyone unites in giving thanks to you who give, and you who have received.

The shining in your mind reminds the world of what it has forgotten, and the world restores the memory to you as well. From you salvation radiates with gifts beyond all measure, given and returned. To you, the giver of the gift, does God Himself give thanks. And in His blessing does the light in you shine brighter, adding to the gifts you have to offer to the world.

The peace of God can never be contained. Who recognizes it within himself must give it. And the means for giving it are in his understanding. He forgives because he recognized the truth in him. The peace of God is shining in you now, and in all living things. In quietness is it acknowledged universally. For what your inward vision looks upon is your perception of the universe.

Sit quietly and close your eyes. The light within you is sufficient. It alone has power to give the gift of sight to you. Exclude the outer world, and let your thoughts fly to the peace within. They know the way. For honest thoughts, untainted by the dream of worldly things outside yourself, become the holy messengers of God Himself.

These thoughts you think with Him. They recognize their home. And they point surely to their Source, Where God the Father and the Son are One. God's peace is shining on them, but they must remain with you as well, for they were born within your mind, as yours was born in God's. They lead you back to peace, from where they came but to remind you how you must return.

They heed your Father's Voice when you refuse to listen. And they urge you gently to accept His Word for what you are, instead of fantasies and shadows. They remind you that you are the co-creator of all things that live. For as the peace of God is shining in you, it must shine on them.

We practice coming nearer to the light in us today. We take our wandering thoughts, and gently bring them back to where they fall in line with all the thoughts we share with God. We will not let them stray. We let the light within our minds direct them to come home. We have betrayed them, ordering that they depart from us. But now we call them back, and wash them clean of strange desires and disordered wishes. We restore to them the holiness of their inheritance.

Thus are our minds restored with them, and we acknowledge that the peace of God still shines in us, and from us to all living things that share our life. We will forgive them all, absolving all the world from what we thought it did to us. For it is we who make the world as we would have it. Now we choose that it be innocent, devoid of sin and open to salvation. And we lay our saving blessing on it, as we say:

The peace of God is shining in me now.Let all things shine upon me in that peace,And let me bless them with the light in me.

Where's The Love - Black Eyed Peas - A Facebook Gripe

Don't support the troops! Support peace. Nobody dies when we are all peaceful.



I wish everyone could see the beautiful world that is waiting for us when we stop fighting, killing, and hating.

Peace <3

Twitter Black Eyed Peas at @bep 

Wonderful - Everclear

I don't want to meet your friends 
And I don't want to start over again 
I just want my life to be the same 
Just like it used to be 
Some days I hate everything 
I hate everything 
Everyone and everything 
Please don't tell me everything is wonderful now... 

Did you ever hear a song that sums up your anger, resentment, and loss?

When I first heard this song I cried so hard. I've come a long way since then.

I feel fortunate I can view issues from many angles.  I feel fortunate to have had so many people love me. People have come and gone but I'm thankful for an essentially happy childhood.

I am sad for those who had to leave my life through no fault of theirs or mine. You all meant so much to me. I remember so many good times and feelings. I will love you forever, wherever you are.

I still feel angry at my parents sometimes. Not for what happened between them but for the roller coaster ride afterwards. I know they were trying to find their way in the world and didn't always have the tools they needed so no matter what, I love them eternally for who they are and for who they were.

You can't change the past but you can change how you feel about it.

The Gift Of An Ordinary Day - A Facebook Video

Be Notorious - Rumi

“Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be notorious.” 
― Rumi

My Soul - Rumi

With You In Your Dreams - Hanson

Happy Birthday to my best friend!

I miss you every day.

R.I.P.

Mystic Dog Ears' Cover Photo

One on my earliest visions was of me standing, like the Vitruvian man, on a hillside while a full moon rose on the horizon. The great expanse of space was visible and at that moment I felt as one with the universe.

I didn't feel small, I didn't feel large. I was one with the universe... I was the Universe. I cannot begin to explain the deep connection I felt, or the joy, or the love. It was completely engulfing and eternal.

That moment was the big bang and I knew everything... for only that moment.

I've come to be able to express this as, and believe it to be, a revelation. A fleeting communication from the source of Oneness I will call God for all intents and purposes.

Some may argue this was a dream and yes, I was asleep at the time, but one knows the difference when it touches you.

I was blown away when I came across this photo and knew instantly I needed it for my cover photo.

This is a brief explanation of #3 from Moments in Time

ACT

Bottle - A Facebook Video

<3

Friday - Chad Vader

For all you Chad Vader fans, and because IT'S FRIDAY

Culture Is Not Your Friend - Terance McKenna

You have no idea how hard I've looked...

You have no idea how hard I've looked
for a gift to bring You.
Nothing seemed right.
What's the point of bringing gold to
the gold mine, or water to the ocean.
Everything I came up with was like
Taking spices to the Orient.
It's no good giving my heart and my
soul because you already have these.
So I've brought you a mirror.
Look at yourself and remember me.

-Rumi

If You Think You're Free...

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La Vie Dansante (The Dancing Life) - Jimmy Buffett

They can come take it all away 
          Break your heart by the light of day 
Drown your love in a distant bay 
          So lonely 
See the ships heading for the rocks 
          See the time melting off of the clocks 
There's a light shatters all the locks 
                    And saves me 
                                It saves me 

Miss the beat if you close your eyes 
            Every night wears a new disguise 
And I live when a new surprise surrenders 

Feel it all with a willing heart 
           Every stop is a place to start 
If you know how to play the part with feeling 
                        I play with feeling

Why don't you wander and follow La Vie Dansante 
     On the night wind that takes you just where you want 
          That's all you want La Vie Dansante

A Course in Miracles - Lesson 133

Lesson 133

I will not value what is valueless.

Sometimes in teaching there is benefit, particularly after you have gone through what seems theoretical and far from what the student has already learned, to bring him back to practical concerns. This we will do today. We will not speak of lofty, world-encompassing ideas, but dwell instead on benefits to you.

You do not ask too much of life, but far too little. When you let your mind be drawn to bodily concerns, to things you buy, to eminence as valued by the world, you ask for sorrow, not for happiness. This course does not attempt to take from you the little that you have. It does not try to substitute utopian ideas for satisfactions which the world contains. There are no satisfactions in the world.

Today we list the real criteria by which to test all things you think you want. Unless they meet these sound requirements, they are not worth desiring at all, for they can but replace what offers more. The laws that govern choice you cannot make, no more than you can make alternatives from which to choose. The choosing you can do; indeed, you must. But it is wise to learn the laws you set in motion when you choose, and what alternatives you choose between.

We have already stressed there are but two, however many there appear to be. The range is set, and this we cannot change. It would be most ungenerous to you to let alternatives be limitless, and thus delay your final choice until you had considered all of them in time; and not been brought so clearly to the place where there is but one choice that must be made.

Another kindly and related law is that there is no compromise in what your choice must bring. It cannot give you just a little, for there is no in between. Each choice you make brings everything to you or nothing. Therefore, if you learn the tests by which you can distinguish everything from nothing, you will make the better choice.

First, if you choose a thing that will not last forever, what you chose is valueless. A temporary value is without all value. Time can never take away a value that is real. What fades and dies was never there, and makes no offering to him who chooses it. He is deceived by nothing in a form he thinks he likes.

Next, if you choose to take a thing away from someone else, you will have nothing left. This is because, when you deny his right to everything, you have denied your own. You therefore will not recognize the things you really have, denying they are there. Who seeks to take away has been deceived by the illusion loss can offer gain. Yet loss must offer loss, and nothing more.

Your next consideration is the one on which the others rest. Why is the choice you make of value to you? What attracts your mind to it? What purpose does it serve? Here it is easiest of all to be deceived. For what the ego wants it fails to recognize. It does not even tell the truth as it perceives it, for it needs to keep the halo which it uses to protect its goals from tarnish and from rust, that you may see how "innocent" it is.

Yet is its camouflage a thin veneer, which could deceive but those who are content to be deceived. Its goals are obvious to anyone who cares to look for them. Here is deception doubled, for the one who is deceived will not perceive that he has merely failed to gain. He will believe that he has served the ego's hidden goals.

Yet though he tries to keep its halo clear within his vision, still must he perceive its tarnished edges and its rusted core. His ineffectual mistakes appear as sins to him, because he looks upon the tarnish as his own; the rust a sign of deep unworthiness within himself. He who would still preserve the ego's goals and serve them as his own makes no mistakes, according to the dictates of his guide. This guidance teaches it is error to believe that sins are but mistakes, for who would suffer for his sins if this were so?

And so we come to the criterion for choice that is the hardest to believe, because its obviousness is overlaid with many levels of obscurity. If you feel any guilt about your choice, you have allowed the ego's goals to come between the real alternatives. And thus you do not realize there are but two, and the alternative you think you chose seems fearful, and too dangerous to be the nothingness it actually is.

All things are valuable or valueless, worthy or not of being sought at all, entirely desirable or not worth the slightest effort to obtain. Choosing is easy just because of this. Complexity is nothing but a screen of smoke, which hides the very simple fact that no decision can be difficult. What is the gain to you in learning this? It is far more than merely letting you make choices easily and without pain.

Heaven itself is reached with empty hands and open minds, which come with nothing to find everything and claim it as their own. We will attempt to reach this state today, with self-deception laid aside, and with an honest willingness to value but the truly valuable and the real. Our two extended practice periods of fifteen minutes each begin with this:

I will not value what is valueless,
and only what has value do I seek,
for only that do I desire to find.

And then receive what waits for everyone who reaches, unencumbered, to the gate of Heaven, which swings open as he comes. Should you begin to let yourself collect some needless burdens, or believe you see some difficult decisions facing you, be quick to answer with this simple thought:

I will not value what is valueless,
for what is valuable belongs to me.

Welcome to My World - Jim Reeves

Welcome to my world
Won't you come on it
Miracles I guess
Still happen now and then

Step into my heart
Leave your cares behind
Welcome to my world
Built with you in mind

Knock and the door will open
Seek and you will find
Ask and you will be given
The key to this world of mine

I'll be waiting here
With my arms unfurled 
Waiting just for you
Welcome to my world

Happy Valentines Day <3