Heaven to Earth or Hell to Earth it is Our Choice

“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it --- always.”  

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I had a friend remind me of this quote. I think of Gandhi and he was just one good person who changed the world. He despaired many times of getting results but kept fighting to do what he thought was right. I think of all the brave people of the world who have done what they thought were right. None of what they did was easy. It was the biggest challenges of their lives.

They always had people lying about them and being an adversary. They were shamed and humiliated and every imperfection exposed in Gandhi's case to millions of people. They did the same thing to Nelson Mandela and there are always people who have to destroy anyone to make themselves feel better. I consider this part of the human condition. People who try to work upon themselves and do better always have others around who say they are doing the same thing but their method is to make others look worse so they look better.

Every religion and every person in the world has others who are trying to do what they are doing with making others look worse so they are special. Yet they do not do the work but want to be perceived as a person just like the great people of this world. It starts when we are children and we want our Mother to love us better. That is known to everyone when you watch children manipulate every one to try to get all of Mommy's attention. Insecure people do it when they have never received enough love so if the man or woman they love actually loves someone else as a family member, friend, or loves to do something they do not love. The insecure person will make it so they put them through Hell. 

So if you look at the big picture then you can see this is done through all levels of life. The insecure people of the world who feel so inferior they have to make everyone else look bad that live in shaming and disgracing everyone different and the people who enjoy the different people and try to make life better.

You can experience this sort of person in every religion, every movement, every cult, and every entertainment medium in the world. Just listen to them and if they have to talk bad, slander everyone else, and never bring you to thought about the blessings in life. The joy you can bring to life or the difference you can make. If they never inspire you but just try to get money and make you do what they want you to do. Do not listen to them and try to be like the great people of this world who enjoy the difference in others and try to bring about positive change. Good change is never easy because jealous envious people always want to be the important ones but being important or well known is not the purpose of positive change. Positive change is to bring heaven down to earth where we have goodness live here. Not bringing Hell to earth where everyone suffers.

Invaluable Opportunities

“Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience.”

- Dalai Lama XIV

I remember this quote every day. It is because of the fact that no day is perfect. Practicing loving kindness as a meditation is a benefit to me. I like to walk now and use the walking to meditate on loving kindness and send it to the people around me. I mentioned this before but to make a day beautiful for someone can just be from receiving an act of kindness. Someone going to an extra effort to show they care.

I know that anger is easy to do. I was shocked when I found out that frustration is a form of anger. I always said I am not angry just frustrated. Troublemakers and life just do not make sense at times. So I had a frustration about things that did not seem to make sense. Why do I fill out three forms for a credit card and they make me sign the one they give back to me. Why does it seem the mail never arrives when you want it to do so? The questions of life that you can never figure out.

I found that many of the things that happen in life can be a help to others. It can also be a blessing to the other people. Helping others to have solutions to problems and being kind to others is always such a nice experience. Acting silly where I can get people to laugh is something I consider a blessing. Laughter can keep someone going through sorrow, grief and pain.

All the people I do work for build their inner strength with the unusual problems that happen to them. It helps them to perceive life differently. It teaches them strength and the knowledge that the only thing we can control is our own actions and what we do in our life. Taking responsibility and doing the right actions is not easy. Yet it feels life with deep caring, and appreciation.

It is a way for me to work upon my life and give me thought through the words of others which is why I enjoy quotes so much.

Mission Impossible: Living Life

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.

Freeman, Tzvi (2013-01-31). The Book of Purpose (Kindle Locations 107-110).  . Kindle Edition.

I enjoy the quotes from Rabbi Freeman's books. They make me think and Mission Impossible means communications and love to many people. All of our memories are contained in our own physical brain but also something called the morphic field. It means we have selective memory. We are able to ignore reality and ignore the bad things to focus on the good thoughts. It also means we can do it the other way where we remember the bad and are not grateful for the good.

I have been shown recently through my life that to ignore the bad things is an advantage. Cruelty and trying to harm others brings about an attitude that cuts you off from God. You can be manipulated by others to feel badly about yourself or to feel shame. You can also do the wrong things and wonder how you can ever correct what was done.  No one can control these circumstances in their lives. People absorb these energies from others including the energies being inserted into the morphic field which influences our mind and emotions. It is why some people never live their lives. They listen to others and are fearful and upset over what others believe and think about them and their lives.

Yet the tricks we are meant to show the world is to bring the divine down to this Earth. To make the darkness shine and turn it into a film over the things we can not comprehend. We have to work to remove the film and illuminate the divine in our lives. We can also work to bring darkness into this world instead of light. To make the darkness thicker and impenetrable where we can find no good or light in this world. The choice is up to each person.

It is liberating to know that we can appreciate each day of life. I try to remember the good each day but some times it is a struggle to do this. The reason for me is what happens to everyone. I have others trying to shame me and make me feel less through their actions. I have worries and upsets where nothing seems to go correctly or things just do not work. Everyone else can make them work but sometimes it seems impossible to make the improvements in my life that I want to do. I get upset at myself because I used to be able to do something I can not do now. We can also look at people who abuse others and when we abuse ourselves and realize that we do this because we do not feel perfect. The people who talk badly about others and shame others do this because they can not find the good in themselves. They have to be cruel and abusive so they can try to get their own way. They have a bad example to hide what they themselves do in their lives. The person who abuses his or her choices in life does it because they know they are imperfect and believes they are able to do better in their lives.

I want to be the person who listens to the divine instead of humankind. Who tries to bring the impossible into existence by doing the right things. I do not want to have to talk badly to people or respond to cruelty with insults. I want to be the person who does not abuse herself or believe the abuse of others. I do not want to compete with every one else but be happy with being myself. Yet I do hurtful things because I am human. I think for me the impossible is to bring my divine self alive and keep working on bringing heaven down to earth in my own life. I try to do this in my work and everything I do. I do this by competing with myself and enjoying others.

Everyone who has a bad day should remember it is not what others think of you that matters. It is whether or not you will be able to stand before the divine and say you are not ashamed of yourself and what you have done. It is also not allowing others to use their actions to limit you and make it so you feel badly about yourself. The only way people do that is by actions of slandering, shaming, blaming, lying and abuse to others. They can block you from the internet, from being with family or friends, and do all these things to prevent you from living your life. Yet you also help them through letting them block you through fear or upset. Instead rising above this and not doing these actions is the mission impossible but possible at the same time. Love yourself for by every obstacle you overcome and every mission impossible that you achieve you bring goodness and love into this world.