Pebbles of Wisdom Magnets

"Pebbles of Wisdom" Magnets
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Wisdom
Is not attained
by
the intellect
alone.

Life

is a Journey

Unknowing.

When I finally

get my light out

from under the bushel

for all to see and share,

anyone seated atop it

will be upset.

Every Attack

A Cry for Help.

The Answers

are all around me;

It’s the right Questions

I don’t know.

If I could only see

everything and everybody

as if

I were seeing them for

the first time.

Forgiveness:

Giving up

my need for

A Perfect Past

Beware

of Shepherds

wearing

Mitres!

I don’t try to

make the best of

my situation;

I let my situation

make the Best of me.

There are

no bad Feelings;

No feeling is as bad

the stuffing of it.

Unhappiness:

Wishing things were

other than

they are.

The Greatest Gift

given me

by God:

The Precious

Present

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I heal

and reach

the fullness of

my humanity

in Relationships.

Everything

I will ever need

is available to me

The Present Moment.

My soul,

this moment,

is closer to Heaven

than my body

is to earth.

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I no longer

seek boundaries

for security;

I Quest for

Horizons.

Jesus:

Non-bureaucratic,

Inclusive,

Disruptive.

Church?

I am not

a human being

having an occasional

spiritual experience;

I am an Eternal Spirit

having a very brief

human experience.

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Every

Breath

A Gift

Jesus

did not call us

a smaller purer

exclusive church.

Conversation

takes place with words.

Dialogue,

in the Silence

between the words.

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Prayer:

Talking with God

Meditation:

Listening

All I have,

I’ll leave behind;

All I am,

I’ll take with me.

Stumbling Blocks
or
Stepping Stones,

Only difference,
How I use them.

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Grief:

Gateway

The Sacred

God loves me

not IF I change;

God loves me

so I CAN change

On the path to Contentment,

there are many bystanders

thinking me

foolhardy

and

a bit crazy

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If I don’t

Speak and Write

My Truth,

I chip away

at my own

Integrity.

I cannot look

directly

at That

by whose Light

I see everything.

Faith:

not a set of dogmas

cast in concrete, but

simply being

Comfortable in Uncertainty

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The Holy Spirit

calls me

out of

my comfort zone.

In order to partake of

Mother’s Milk,

A babe’s mouth

must be

Empty.

Happiness

is an inside job;

Why do I keep giving

others

the power to make me

Unhappy?

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Everything

Belongs

I Strive

to name my losses

while not letting

my losses

name me.

I prefer

A Living (growing) Faith

of the dead

to a

dead (unchanging) faith

of the living.

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When I live in Love

I live

In God

And

God in me.

The Holy Spirit

Reveals to me

Uncertainty after

Uncertainty.

My True Self

already exists;

I don’t need to

earn or attain it,

only to Discover it.

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Spirituality:

Awareness

A job tires me;
I tire of it.
A Vocation
energizes me,
nourishes me.

We need
Real Eyes
to Realize
where the
Real Lies.

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Dare
Great Things
for
God

Sexuality
is
Sacred
and
Spiritual

When
our sense of Time
overcomes
our sense of Place,
We Lose.

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Wisdom
is
Love of Life

HAPPINESS
is
An Inside Job.

One Cannot be
Right,
Self-righteous,
and
Truthful
all at the same time.

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Work in Process:
Me!

Stumbling Blocks
or
Stepping Stones
Only difference:
How I use them

A Morning Prayer
Dear God
Please give me the courage and strength to do Your will today.
Help me to Love.
Help me to Heal in Your name.
Help me to grow in faith and
Help me to help others find You.

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Intuition:
How the Holy Spirit
speaks to us

The Past is unchangeable, so
Enjoy the Precious Present
for the Future does not exist.

Be at Peace
with What Was,
so that What Is
can become
What Will Be.

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Forgiveness:
Giving Up
My Need for
A Perfect Past

Black and White principles
about ethical decisions
sidestep
The Divine Mandate
for
Compassion

We are gifted
by our Creator
to be who we were uniquely created to be:
Gift to the world

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OBEY
does not mean
“Do what I say.”
OBEY
simply means, “Listen.”

Church
Seems focused on morality
and boundaries;
Church should be about
The Mystical and
Transformation.

Church is not about laws, doctrines, morals, or politics.
These are secondary, as are rubrics, popes, and priests.
Church is about Life,
Ours and God’s focused
in US.

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Don’t exit this life
without
Having Loved
and
Been Loved.

In Commerce,
Mind and Mouth
are keys to success.
In Life,
Heart and Ears
are important.

We must shed
our masks
to begin learning
about our True Selves,
who we are, really.

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I know you do not wish to hurt or upset me,
but
I need to talk about my loss.

Creator (Father),
Savior (Son),
Sanctifier (Holy Spirit)
TRINITY
my Mind, my Heart,
my Intuition

Now that I finally moved
my Light out
from under the bushel,
Please do not
try and hide it again.

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Forgiveness:
Giving Up
My Need for
A Perfect Past

God Loves me,
Not IF I Change,
But
So I CAN Change.

A Mystic:
One who has discovered
through Experience that
there is a touch of the
Divine in all of us.

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Human Experience
is
The Very Stuff of
Spirituality.

You may not be able
to add days
to your life,
so strive to add Life
to your days.

That which is
the deepest and
most personal in us
seems to be
the most universal.

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Strive
to name your losses
while not letting
your losses
name you.

Religions
tend to divide us;
True Spirituality
Unites us.

Please Just
Listen!
Don’t try to explain.
Don’t try to resolve.
Don’t try to fix.

Just LISTEN to me, please.

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Spiritual Growth
does not require withdrawal from life,
rather simply
Living Life Fully.

Not a single healing
by Jesus
involved a checklist
of pre-conditions.

I am Not a Human Being
occasionally having
A Spiritual Experience;
I am an Eternal Spirit
having a very brief
Human Experience.

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God
Is perfectly hidden
and
perfectly revealed
in all things.

Try to remain
rooted in Tradition without being
stuck in it.

Learn to stop asking God
to change the plan
for the cosmos to suit us;
Learn to ask God
to change us to accept
God’s plan as it is.

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In order to find
what we do not have,
we must go
by a way
we do not know.

Move your Light out from under
the bushel for all
to see and share.

Hierarchical Oppression
will be overcome when
Experience and Intuition
are Valued.

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Wisdom
is
not
Intelligence.

Don’t try to
solve the mystery of
Suffering;
One cannot solve it,
just simply Live it.

Immanence and Transcendence
come together,
not in clear principles,
but in
Right Relationships

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Symbolic:
to Put Together
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Diabolic:
to take apart

Conventional Religion says,
“Rely on External Sources.”
Holy Spirit calls us to,
“Rely on Inner Authority”

Immanence and Transcendence
come together,
not in my Head,
but in my HEART.

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Know God
by loving,
by Trusting
by Hoping in God.
God cannot
be thought.

Don’t worry so much
about believing in the right Theology;
Believe in the
God of your Theology.

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