thankful to be, page 1

posted on Nov, 14 2011 @ 07:23 AM

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Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think. - Jean De La Bruyere

we get so caught up in living our lives that i think we often forget to give thanks for life itself. i did not give myself breath. i did not create myself. so why should i not give thanks for being given this opportunity to be...to help...to love? He gave me life...who am i to not give it back to Him?

i remember the moment i realized how interconnected we were: i had this vision of a tiny little ant rejoicing at the top of his lungs...i saw him standing on what looked like a globe and i could see his tiny silhouette standing on the world, arms flailing, him jumping and celebrating. he found his place. he knew that he was just a part of it all and was so thankful to finally see that. and tool's song parabola was playing
"Twirling round with this familiar
parabole.
Spinning, weaving round each new
experience.
Recognize this as a holy gift and
celebrate this chance to be alive and
breathing, this chance to be alive and
breathing.

This body holding me reminds me of my
own mortality.
Embrace this moment. Remember. we
are eternal.
all this pain is an illusion."

i think that people spend too much time trying to define themselves outwardly. you are who you are. you are not special. you are not significant. you do not matter. you are just an ant with a sense of awareness. you still belong to the colony...do not fool yourself. but find peace in this. you don't have to live up to anyone's expectations but your own. embrace your nothingness, it's all you are. stop taking yourselves so seriously. IT DOESN'T MATTER...YOU DON'T MATTER.

whether i be the mouth of God or His pinky toe, i'm still a part of Him, here to serve a purpose. i was already given a purpose, i don't need to go and find myself...i just need to listen and my TRUE SELF will show itself. i spent a large portion of my life (i'm only 27 so not long, i know) thinking that i needed to find my place in this world. little did i know that i was born right in my place and all i had to do was embrace the divinity that God had created.

i once cared about possessions until i realized that possessions were just as fake as the money i bought them with. this is not to say that i still don't like my toys, but i don't care about material things anymore. man made money as well as the things that man buys with money. meaning...it's just a fabrication within this "existence". nothing to get carried away with/by. this computer i'm typing on...isn't real. the only things that are real, were made by Him.

as i grow older, the more and more thankful i become. i have been given life! life! the chance to experience. the opportunity to love. how could i not be thankful?

through the ups and downs...the joys and sorrows...the prosperity and poverty...the health and the sickness...the good and the bad...the right and the wrong...the love and the hate...the forest and the desert...the air and the water...the brothers and sisters...the night and the day...the life and the death...i am so thankful to be given the opportunity to experience this moment...this time...this life...this breath. so thankful that I AM able to just be. so through it all...i will remain thankful that I AM.

1littlewolf

posted on Nov, 14 2011 @ 08:27 AM

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Beautiful sentiments OP.

Society is so full of distractions from the true wonderment of life. To be able to step back from the moment and watch it all pass by is skill few posses these days.

Thanks......

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ICEKOHLD

posted on Nov, 14 2011 @ 08:51 AM

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yes my friend. we are so caught up with living that we seldom take time to appreciate the experience that is life. we thank Him for a raise and a new car or a loving relationship/family...we thank Him when things go our way...and we pray to Him when they don't go our way. yet...we rarely think about how lucky we are to just be alive. we're blessed to be able to experience sorrow. i mean...I EXIST. I AM. wow...that's simply amazing! i am so blessed. i would say that I AM unworthy but obviously that isn't the case, so, i will accept my worth and rejoice in my being!

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1littlewolf

posted on Nov, 14 2011 @ 09:41 AM

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We're blessed just to be able to experience anything. We are all meant to Be. Here. Now.

But so many get caught up with the shiny trinkets which accompany life on the physical plane. Others can't seem to wait to get off it and go chasing pipedreams of enlightenment and without realising it's an inevitable process anyway. They get a tiny glimpse of truth, but then life moves on, everything seems so ordinary[/] again. And so the distractions come back again.

But we already have it. Its always been there within, and in the faces of everyone that has ever crossed our path.

ICEKOHLD

posted on Nov, 14 2011 @ 10:52 AM
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the call is loud and strong...unmistakable to those who hear it. like a beacon in a storm...the call will guide me home. He has gone before me...all i have to do is follow Him. all the little subtle hints, the synchronicities, the "coincidences", the feelings...they're just popcorn along the trail, guiding me home. my intent is to never pick the popcorn up...but rather point the pieces out to those walking beside me...

we all feel that something big is near...what if...what if it's already here? the only thing that's coming is a higher level of awareness of our own divinity? me personally....i have been working on my trust. i try to to make things happen anymore. i try to just enjoy my life...appreciate every moment i can...and trust that as long as my intentions are pure, my path will be revealed.

the less time i spend worrying about life, the more time i have to enjoy it! this is not to say that i do not set goals...it just means that i have surrendered my life and simply await the next step to be shown to me. i'm done trying to run the show. left to my own devices, i will be my own ruin. this guise of self-importance is such a trap. you don't have to be successful or rich or powerful to make a difference. you just have to be accepting.

accept your place in this world and then enjoy it. you may never get another chance to.

ICEKOHLD

posted on Nov, 14 2011 @ 12:27 PM
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btw...very interesting avatar you have there. it stuck out to me when i saw it a couple days ago and meant to say something then.

1littlewolf

posted on Nov, 14 2011 @ 11:46 PM
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Originally posted by ICEKOHLD
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btw...very interesting avatar you have there. it stuck out to me when i saw it a couple days ago and meant to say something then.

Cheers buddy. It took me hours and eventually a post from one of the site owners just to figure out how to get it up there.

Its from a very talented painter and tattooist who lives in hippy central Australia - Byron Bay. I don't know what it is, but there's something about this image that speaks to me at a very profound unconscious level. If I could I'd buy it.

I'm hopefully gonna get some work from her one day soon.

I dig your avatar too btw. Quite a talented artist there as well. Where's it from?

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Manula

posted on Nov, 15 2011 @ 05:48 AM
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I understand that and its a beautiful feeling, to be glad to be alive, to love existence.

I truly feel that´s the way to go.

But some say that one day we will return to the source and our individuality will be over.

Does the idea of loosing yourself into the great sea of the source scares you?

Because the I AM reality ends.

ICEKOHLD

posted on Nov, 15 2011 @ 05:56 AM
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no it doesn't scare me. i cannot wait to ditch this space suit! can't wait to be back in His presence.

the part of death that scares me is possibly dying a painful death. other than that...my egoic fear of death is just that, an egoic fear. i can say that i'm ready to die...but until that moment comes, i'm not really sure how i'll act. but i do feel that i will have to undergo physical death before i can truly leave this rock so i have been trying to prepare myself for that for he past year or so.

i'm a ready for the division, the separation, to end. i am ready to be one again. i feel fairly complete. not sure what else is left for me to learn alone? i mean...i know that i don't know everything, but i don't feel that there are any voids in my life left to fill.

but alas...i am only 27, so there's no telling how i'm gonna feel in another year.

Manula

posted on Nov, 15 2011 @ 06:02 AM
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I wasn't talking about the end of this incarnation. Of course, after we die, the soul goes back home and then after some time, if it has something to do on Earth, the soul incarnates again.

I was talking about the soul merging again into the great sea of the source. Some say we will go back to the source one day, we will loose our individual soul.

Do you believe this? If you do, how do you feel about this idea?

ICEKOHLD

posted on Nov, 15 2011 @ 06:05 AM
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Originally posted by Manula

I was talking about the soul merging again into the great sea of the source. Some say we will go back to the source one day, we will loose our individual soul.

while i don't "believe it", i think it could be possible. i try not to "believe" anything anymore. i just have thoughts and possible views. while it is possible, i don't think so. i think that we will lose our egos. i think that the ego is the "devil"...the separation. so i think that we will return to one in the sense that we will lose our sense of separation. like the universe (as above, so below), i think that we, being a part of One, with never quit expanding.

Manula

posted on Nov, 15 2011 @ 06:10 AM
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Have you read Michael Newton´s books, Journey of Souls and Destiny of Souls?

He is a psychiatrist that works with hypnotherapy. His patients go to the period of life between lives. His books describe the spiritual world, our home.

They are very interesting.