Sharing A Few Thoughts On Spirituality From My Notes (Part Three)

Article Title: Sharing A Few Thoughts On Spirituality From My Notes (Collected Over The Years - Part Three)
Submitted by: Craig Lock
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Sharing a Few Thoughts on Spirituality from my Notes

(collected over the years - Part Three)

INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS:

These notes form part of a new manuscript, which I may name 'A DUMMIES GUIDE TO SPIRITUALITY: HOW TO KNOW and EXPERIENCE GOD'

These are some of the notes (in point form) that I've made and collected (instead of stamps and bottle-tops) over the years (some from authors and sources unknown), which may be of interest and get you "tinking" about these "airey-fairey matters". In sharing these notes, it clarifies my thinking about the 'overlap' between the subconscious mind and the concept of a "Higher Being in another dimension", etc.). If you want to replace the word 'God' mentioned so often with 'Life', that's great! Hope it's not too "heavy heavy" and that these thoughts may be helpful, 'thought-provoking' and perhaps even inspirational to you in your spiritual growth.
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The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference.
"To remain indifferent to suffering is the greatest sin of all." - Elie Wiesel, Buchenwald concentration camp survivor

Everything happens for a reason - spiritual growth???. Everything happens to give meaning and purpose in our lives, for 'Divine Good'.??? We are born to create. We can be 'victims of change' or 'creators of change'. "T'is better to light a candle, than curse the darkness."

Life is a miracle. "What looks dead is given promise in life, when we trust in God."

Touch people in their heart to change.
Listen to your conscience, "the still quiet voice within", the "voice of the spirit".

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The Person of Jesus:

Related to all societies and peoples. The life-changing power of Jesus Christ. Expand our hearts. Jesus in not just a figure, a story from history. What we can learn, these simplest principles can change lives... for the better.
Nobody had better insight into the human personality than Jesus.

Jesus's limitless generosity of spirit. Like Nelson Mandela and many other great lives, you can make the rest of your life a noble tribute to humanity. Nelson Mandela shone a light of liberation for South Africa.
"My mission is embracing the wounds of my country..."

Jesus entered into a new form of existence through His wealth of spirit. Christ is a beacon, the "anchor of our faith".

"And you shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free." - John 8:32
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I was disillusioned, having arrived at a destination, but not knowing where. I was satiated, yet unsatisfied."
Peter Pollock, evangelist and former South African cricketer

Your belief creates your truth. You will become what you believe (about yourself). So your belief becomes your truth.
Negative thoughts produce negative results.

"All that we are is a result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become." - Buddha

Passion + zeal produces ACTION.

We need to capture, then ignite the public consciousness.

"Why good things happen to good people"

But then...
"Where was God in the holocaust?"

"But where was man?"

"The light of a lamp spreads everywhere - same as vibrations of a sage."

"Do something beautiful for God." - Mother Teresa

Hardship brings you close to God, if you let Him. A 'resilience of spirit'.

God, the Divine Source does not need to receive...
but humans need to give.

We are just ordinary people; yet God gives us special assignments. (I feel that I've been 'handed a unique task' for my life - writing, reaching out and sharing).

Touch people in their hearts.

God's greatest gift to us is to find our own truths (absolute)... through the power of choice.

DON"T LIMIT GOD.

The highest goal of life is knowing and so experiencing God.

God needs human beings in partnership, our hands at work, together with a regeneration of spirit ...to help peace become a reality for others.

Be a believe
in a God, Who believes in YOU. Plant the seeds of success in the 'soul of your being'.*

"Lord

Let me be a channel for YOUR peace, a window for Your light to shine through to everyone I meet. Lord, touch me where I need the touch the most. Let more people experience the REAL YOU, Who You really are."

Shared by Craig Lock ("Information and Inspiration Distributor, Writer for Self Empowerment, Incorrigible Encourager and People-builder")

"Faith sees the invisible,
follows the unfathomable...
and achieves the impossible."

"I'd rather attempt something great and fail, than attempt nothing and succeed."
NV Peale

"Change YOUR world and you change THE world.
Together, one mind, one soul, one life at a time, let's encourage, impact, uplift and perhaps even inspire the world."

End of Part Three

THESE THOUGHTS PIECE MAY BE FREELY PUBLISHED

* "If the Lord makes you successful, I'll keep you humble." - a wife (I won’t say whose!)

"God is a mystery, the 'mystery of life', a Creative Presence, Who/That allows me to be who I really want to be and become."

"God, the Essence of Life, is the great mystery in the vast unknown; yet He(??) is understandable."

May the light of God light your path up ahead