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#3026 - Monday, December 24, 2007 - Editor: Gloria Lee
Nonduality Highlights - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NDhighlights A
Christmas message from
Joel Goldsmith
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"A Christmas message should be a message of peace. Our
thoughts turn
from the peace the world is seeking to the true peace-"My
peace" which
when men are ready to receive it, comes with healing of mind and
body.
The world seeks a peace that can never be found while its sense
of peace
is but an absence or cessation of war."
"The world is seeking peace "out there" but peace
is to be found in
entertaining the Prince of Peace within our own individual
beings. Let
us, therefore, no longer seek the peace the world is seeking but,
rather, "The peace of God which passeth all
understanding." "Peace I
leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world
giveth, give
I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be
afraid.""
"The sun and the sunbeam are one, the sun itself -the
sunbeam is the
sun's way of appearing to us. Just so, you and I, as
individual beings,
are one with God-God appearing as your form and as mine.
You can no
more escape from God, Good, than the sunbeam can escape from the
sun."
"" No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it
with a vessel, or
putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that
they which
enter in may see the light.""
""Ye are the light of the world. A city that is
set on an hill cannot
be hid" and as you realize this Truth you become a Light in
your home
and in your community. And the moment you recognize that
Light in
friend or neighbor-wherever there is a receptive thought-you
kindle the
light in him. That makes you a lamplighter. That is what we
all
are-lamplighters-and so let us remember the gentle words of the
master:"
"Let your light so shine before men.""
Selected Excerpts from "The Infinite Way Letters
1955" Christmas 1955,
Joel S. Goldsmith
posted to Wisdom-l by Mark Scorelle
The world is no more than
the Beloved's single face;
In the desire of the One to know its own beauty, we exist.
Each place, each moment, sings its particular song of not-being
and being.
Without reason, the clear glass equally mirrors wisdom and
madness.
Those who claim knowledge are wrong; prayer just leads to
trance;
Appearance and faith are mere lees in the Unknowing Wine.
Wherever the Footprint is found,
that handful of dust holds the oneness of worlds.
This earth, burnished by hearing the Name, is so certain of Love
That the sky bends unceasingly down, to greet its own light.
- Ghalib
posted to Wisdom-l by Mark Scorelle
http://www.pbase.com/1heart/to_greet_its_own_light
photos by Bob O'Hearn
Christmas Hotei photo by Bob O'Hearn http://www.pbase.com/1heart/image/90670906/original
Moya Brennan - Lumen (Eurovision 95 interval) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4k8X3SGBXbA