There are really two ways to live: You can live a life of forgiveness and be at peace, or you may live a life of anger and be at war.

To unquestioningly believe one's own thoughts is the definition of insanity.

I wonder what could be more important than reverencing all things living? For what could be more important than life?

Life mostly consists of calculated risks. So you might as well get accustomed to the risk.

New stuff will usually make people happy for awhile, the sad part is that people are usually so unhappy that it's worth it.

You can't expect other people to invest in you until you've invested in yourself.

I dwell among various me's, all reflecting who I once was.

What you are aware of IS your reality.

Not everyone takes orders from everyone, but everyone takes orders from nature.

Defining your life by what you see is always inacurate because there's always more to life than what you see.

Becoming childlike (innocent and open) is really the point of every religion, doctrine, and dogma.

"Infinite patience produces immediate results." -A Course In Miracles

Looking back, your biggest regrets may be, that during the most beautiful moments of life your mind was somewhere else.

Your life is a secret manifestation of your belief in God. Most believe in a hum-drum being.

People treat others the way they treat themselves.

"A good man is bad man's teacher. A bad man is a good man's job." -Lao Tsu

Some look at others and see a weight or gender, some see a complex or condition, and some just see themselves looking back.

"Three things cannot be long hidden: The sun, the moon, and the truth." -Buddha

In high caliber military operations obstacles are not breeched by cruelty, brut strength or aggression;but by flexibility, endurance and a disciplined mind

All art is a forgery of original creation.

You outer purpose is the lens by which your inner purpose becomes magnified.

The heart is a muscle that only grows when it is torn.

If you get depressed every time things go wrong then you'll only feel good when everything goes right.

Believe in the "unreal" you, the legandary you, the mythological you, the heroic you. This you may be more "real" than you think.

Life is not pass or fail. It's grow or die.

Sometimes success is not measured by results, but by how hard we try.

The taller the skyscraper, the deeper the foundation should plunge. The higher the aspiration, the greater the humility.

The ability to clear one's mind keeps the businessman a good father, the old man from alcohol and the young man from drugs.

"The great lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes." -Winston Churchill

~Sometimes the most important thing to do with your time is to find your Zen~

Make peace with your feelings about the past, or life will make you experience them again and again.

"The fear of loss is a path to the dark side" -Yoda

"Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering." -Yoda

There are types of people in the world: creators and consumers. Creators act without fear. Consumers react out of fear.

"But no matter how hard we try, we suspect something phony going on, that we're not who we seem to be, but something more." -The Alpha Soul

They say 80% of our life is reaction, and the other 20% is action. Try flip-flopping the formula.

Everything you do is important because YOU ARE important.

"I will take the time I have left to live, and will give all that I have left to give." -Scrooge

It's foreign to our inner nature to hate. I think we love everyone. We just hate the way we feel about some of them.

"To find peace is to find one's destiny." -The Tao Te Ching

Your life will change the moment you decide not to play the victim any more.

Life is not a race. It's a present moment.

You're never what other people think you are. You're always more than that.

Life is what happens when you're waiting for something to happen.

The greatest gift givers give life! What will you do with yours?

Stress in life comes from thinking there is something more important than inner peace, and when inner peace prevails there will finally be peace on earth

"Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal can exist. Herein lies the peace of God." -A Course In Miracles

"Seeing the small is called clarity. Keeping flexible is called strength." -Lao Tzu

Time is short, and suddenly you're not there anymore.

Where'er thou art, act well thy part. In otherwords, bloom where you're planted.

A turtle is a symbol of enlightenment because it is "at home" wherever it goes.

The more attention you pay to God the more you notice His attention to you.

What you see is not me. This is but a shadow of who I really am.

Be the stillness behind your thoughts.

I count it the duty of every man or woman whose passed through ill fortune to coach his or her neighbor.

When you give your everything to a cause greater than you, something greater than you gives you everything. This is the law of the widow's mite.

People don't usually know what they want. They just want IT to go away. And yet IT keeps showing up in a thousand forms because the IT is within them.

"Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business." -Jacob Marley (A Christmas Carol)

The greater the achievment the more attractive the humility.

It is not so much the outer, but the secret, acts that make a man or a monster.

Whenever I feel I have nothing to offer others I have to remind myself that everyone has something to give. "Even idiots offer good entertainment."

When filled with doubt, worry and resentment, try telling the mind: "Think what you like, but I won't belive you."

If you don't enjoy the journey you'll never really enjoy anything.

Its hard to do things right when you constanty dwell on what it is you do wrong.

"Funny isn't it, how one person's life effects so many others." -It's a Wonderful Life

It's hard to do anything right when you constantly dwell on what you do wrong.

Pay attention to the feeling you get with the words that you speak, the books you read, the food you eat. You can tell if they lift or drop you inside.

You weren't put on earth by accident. Your body is not a mistake. Life is meant to be embraced, not escaped.

God loves you as if you were an only child.

If you don't feel important, you can't help another feel important.

Don't think of struggles as work, think of them as training.

Count your blessings. Nothing good ever came from counting your cursings.

You can't build a great life if you're not alive. Take care of your health, it's the only thing that seperates this life from the next.

I used to be Hell's first victim. Now I'm the bountious recipient of a smotherloving God.

View every day as a process, for life is only a process.

We are so much more than our bodies, just as God is much more than His.

Are you alive today, or are you packing around a dead yesterday?

You don't have to suffer to bring peace into anothers life. . . . On the contrary.

You are a Divine prototype.

What good comes from thinking you don't deserve the best?

"Yesterday is history; tomorrow is a mystery; today is a gift, that's why they call it the present." -Kung Fu Panda

"One often meets his destiny on the path he takes to avoid it." -Kung Fu Panda

When the day is young meditation seems a bother but when the day grows old you remember why you bothered.

Sometimes aggressive people come into your life because they need you, and that's the only way they can appear.

When the meditative mind becomes first priority everything else falls into place.

I don't have any problems. My body may have problems, my life may have problems, but the "I" has no problems.

Sleep as if you die, and rise again as if you live for the first time.

The mind will forever find something to fix.

The three laws of the Tao (or way to peace) . . . non-attachment, non-resistance, non-judgement.

Relationship is more valuable than gold, and wisdom more than knowledge.

If you feel sorry for yourself there's probably someone you should forgive.

Things don't always turn out how you want them to. But they almost always turn out better in the long run.

God Himself is a servant to all.

"Love those who are deserving. Love also, and equally, those who are undeserving." -The Hua Hu Ching

Try going through your usual daily activities---relaxed. It may require more effort than you think!

Even after 2000 years its still "more blessed to give than to receive."

We treat each other fairly in life because God is fair, not because life is.

Don't judge yourself on what happens to you, but by how you react to it.

Thank You, Everyone, for so many birthday wishes. This, my 29th, has been the most enjoyable one yet!

Nature isn't near as moody as human beings.

Today the sun is still shining, the grass is still green, the birds are flying and the breeze is still blowing. Some things you can count on.

Sometimes there is gratitude in not wanting.

There's power in the phrase "I don't want anything." To not want is to be content.

To find peace one must enter a place where real life changing principles become more important than problems.

It's never too late to do what you do with a total absence of pride. Humility only improves.

Receiving judgement from others will brake down your aura if you let it. Staying in your own space (S.O.S) means keeping your energy close.

When receiving critisism, forgive yourself and stay in your own space.

People love to correct a person who is hard on themself.

A good servant is a true master.

Sometimes during the trials of life the most enlightening moments occur.

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To thoroughly enjoy what is happening now your mind can't be thinking of anything else.

Just because you think something, doesn't mean it's true.

"Pure altruism is giving without regard to reward or the benefits of recognition and need." -'Altruism' Wikipedia

Embracing difficulty can be a spiritual practice.

Of all your friendships, how friendly are you to yourself?

Practice not thinking. It stretches the mind inward.

If you don't approve of yourself it won't matter who does.

You can't need love and be love at the same time.

When our actions don't line up with our requests the Universe disregards them.

Everything but relationship is ultimately of little consequence.

The more I learn the simpler I become.

Everything and everyone pales in contrast to union with God.

More important than anything the world has to offer, lies the people within it.

Praise God for the good and bad without expecting anything in return.

Uncertainty is still hope

We all have voices speaking in our heads, only the messages differ.

Mindsets lead to tranquility and peace or error and mistake and mindsets take time to create.

We were put here to learn to love and it is through loving others that we learn to love God.

When we praise God we attract the company of angels because that's what angels do.

Whatever happens, I praise God for it! Who can defeat me now?

"Fearing not what man can do" means recognizing that there is a power greater than any man or woman and submitting our emotions to it first and foremost.

"Love until it hurts." -Mother Teresa

"When we win we'll praise Him, and when we lose we'll praise Him." -Facing The Giants

We tend to love those around us more than God, and current conditions more than unfamiliar exaltation.

Your perception constitutes your life.

If you can't control your thoughts you can't control your life. If you can't control your life in the present moment (now) you can't control it ever.

Problems only exist in our relative size. Zoom in or out far enough and they disappear.

Breath is intercourse with life, the ebb and flow of an inner tide.

When confronted with a challenging individual who spikes your resentment, try taking the person apart with your mind and finding the piece you dislike.

One secret I use, is to try and exercise more compassion for a person than they could possibly exercise hatred for me.

Because you are important, everything you do is important.

Many confuse the road to wealth as money driven, when in reality it is purpose driven.

If you're willing to commit your life to something there's no limit of opportunities.

It can seem hard, but I try to be a kind of paraoid in reverse . . . Always thinking others are preparing some sort of pleasant suprise for me!

Life never happens "out there." It only and ever happens in your head and heart.

Children seem to be the only humans around whom you may act a complete idiot and be loved the more for it!

Whenever meeting a threatening individual I always feel I have the upper-hand . . . because I know myself.

Relationships start in the home, and because they do their quality determines all future relationships.

In needing love we're never filled and in not needing love we never think of it, and always have it.

Much of the world's confusion derives from forgetting that good always conquers evil. Too much time is spent fearing evil & ignoring good.

How To Reach Fulfilment!

There is a law in the universe that the lowest valley will receive the most water. Our openness and receptivity to every experience determines how much we receive, whether it's material wealth, success, or people. The talk today was on being available for the Lord. That He doesn't worry about our capability as much as out availability.

Being open to every experience ensures the Lords greatest blessings. However we get scared sometimes because openness brings about the potential for bad experiences to happen too. There is another universal law however that there is always more good then bad experiences. If we really want blessings we can be open to everything and everyone that comes our way, and not hide. We are promised that the good experiences will always outweigh the bad experiences. We can become available for what ever the Lord would have us go through.

Another thing that's crossed my mind several times is that the goal of every human being isn't material wealth, isn't family, isn't abundance, prosperity, money, riches, love, romance. NO, this isn't what people really want. I've seen rich people that feel they are missing something, people in great relationships that feel they are missing something, people with great families that feel they are missing something. So WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? I think the word that describes it is FULFILMENT!!! I don't know what that is in Spanish, so I wonder if it's the same there too.

Fulfilment is more than relationships, family, money, houses, cars, It means to have arrived, to be complete, to be satisfied. THAT'S what you're giving people in Mexico, and what I'm trying to do here in my own way. The Gospel... Truth... Freedom... Pure Relationship With God. THAT'S fulfilment. Is anything missing in that?

From a Letter To My Missionary Brother in Mexico

I've been studying a lot about purpose in life. From LDS perspective and many other religions. I've been able to break it down to the same purpose, in every religion, to everyone. It's uncovering who we really are. Pealing back all the layers until all that's left is love. That's our purpose. So, don't ever get discouraged when people seem uninterested in the Gospel. 99% of people operate from the knowledge they've received from other people, NOT from their heart. To operate from your heart means listening to those promptings that come to our "minds and our hearts" that let us know who we are. People that listen to their hearts will listen to the gospel. The truth is many people are too afraid of what other people think and what the WORLD has to say, they don't find out for themselves.

The world is changing however, calamities, famine and poverty, are helping people to quite worrying about what others think and to try and find out why they are here. There are several teachers that are going around teaching this stuff right now in USA because they know people are desperate to find their purpose. Some are teaching stuff that's close to true, and some are helping many people. Mom and I are starting our own seminars on the subject and we'll begin next month. I believe with our LDS background and open-mindedness we'll be able to accurately explain and express to others who they truly are and why they are here.

Here are some key insights to purpose that you may find interesting:

-We are divine children of God with capability to become just like him

-We ALL have a purpose, a mission, a calling we were born to fulfill

-All the power we require to fulfill our purpose (or our mission) is already in our mission (1 Ne 3:7)

-The world will always say that something else is more important than our mission

-The truth is we ARE our mission, and our purpose. If we leave it we lose ourselves

God bless you for fulfilling your own purpose and mission RIGHT NOW in your life. Never Give Up, Never Quit. There is nothing outside YOUR PURPOSE that is more important. Fulfill your purpose and you have FOUND YOURSELF

You loving number 1 fan big little brother,

Keith

Go Get 'Um

What I've learned this week is rather deep. I was watching a conversation, a 4 hour conversation between 3 of the smartest theoretical scientists in the world the other day. A few things I found very interesting and dad and I have been discussing it. First that relationship is the most important thing in the world. Relationship with God, with others, with ourselves. Second that the only thing that comes between pure relationship is the images that we make about ourselves and others.

They talked about how people are raised to create images about themselves and others. By images I mean points of view that are not real. For example a boy is being raised by his father and is father is manly and tough (that is the image he has about himself) the boy realizes that when he acts manly and tough he gets more attention from his father (now the boy has the image). The part that doesn't work in all this is that the images aren't real. Just because I think that everyone in the world should be like me, doesn't mean it is true.

Another example is the basketball player. He has the image of himself as a basketball player. What happens when he doesn't play like he thinks he should. He fights within himself "I'm better then that" He compares himself with his image and comes up lacking.

The way I look at it, all images, about what we think things should be like, must go. We must let go of the idea that we should become like a God, when we don't know what He is like. When we let go of all images and preconceived notions, then He comes into our lives, because we're no longer telling Him what He should be like. In this way we find Him a lot sweeter, a lot gentler, a lot kinder then we ever could have imagined. By letting go of the idea that our brains know ANYTHING, we can learn EVERYTHING.

Say: I am separate from everyone and everything. How does that feel?
Say: I am a part of everyone and everything. How does that feel?
Say: I am one with everyone and everything. How does that feel?

To Feel separate from others means we aren't seeing God in others, and if not in others then how in ourselves?

The reproductive system is like the mind, it has it's own thoughts and seeks to control the body.

One Morning I awoke with the words "Breathe is intercourse with life" running over and over in my mind. My body was still and peaceful. Breathing can be so natural and feel so good. All that day everything felt soft, the ground, objects in my hands. What if the world is really a soft place and we are the ones who are harsh?

To Know God, is the purpose of Life

Pretend that time has stood still and everyone is frozen by it but you. How would you feel? What emotion comes up first. Like Dr Beckwith says: If you had to stay in your condition forever what quality would you have to learn?

Loneliness is a que that we feel we are seperate from God

Some of Myself

Dear Brother/Sister

Allow me to share some of my life with you. It all started as I was giving blood for the Red Cross. They sat me in a chair and started getting the needle ready to put in my arm. I was reading a book about a women in a hope house. She was depressed, angry, full of hatred toward herself. She lay on the floor because she felt unworthy to lay on a bed. A cockroach crawled across the floor and something happened.

They put the needle in my arm and started fishing around for the vein. I stayed calm and continued reading. The woman watched the cockroach and suddenly something shifted inside her. Suddenly she didn't care about anything. Nothing mattered. Yet everything mattered a great deal and she cared about everyone. She describes it as something woke up inside her. Something that had been asleep for a very long time. It looked through her eyes and breathed through her lungs. Everything was at peace. Everything was bright and beautiful.

The needle was really starting to hurt but I almost laughed because of the peace I felt while reading. "Are you aright?" the nurse said. "Yes I'm fine, it's just the book," I lied. It wasn't just the book. Something was happening to me, right there in the chair and my blood filled the small bag below.

I was finished and I sat down for a cookie, still reading. The woman was home with her family, away from the hope house. She was kind, and quiet. Not like she used to be. She could sit at the window, or out in the desert for hours. She could see God everywhere, in everyone.

I started to drive home and blacked out. When I awoke It was as if I could hear the tires singing on cars far ahead. I was still on the road, still driving, but everything was peaceful and still. I could almost here the objects around me talking to me. My breath was relaxed and easy, my eyesight vivid and sharp as if something else were looking out.

I haven't been the same since. Everything has changed. I sit by myself a lot. When I am with other people I never worry about what they think of me. I am open and caring. To think of anyone as anything other than my friend is impossible. Songs come and I write them down. Words come and I write them down. People feel inspired to meet with me.

Something higher has woke up in me. I think it's my connection with God. I feel Him everywhere. I see Him in others. I don't know exactly what's happened. But it's good. Only peace and love feel natural now. I want to meet everyone in the world and be their friend. 

Dear Brother/Sister, My true friend, I love you. May God bless you on your quest. You are in His hands. He is real. God is real. Let go and trust. That's all that is required. We are His. His hands are ours. Go to work and He'll be waiting.

The Diamonds of Creation

Nothing could appear more magnificent then the small diamonds of creation, experienced by a heightened awareness of space and time. The physical senses sparkling with clarity and perception. Each flower, blade of grass, bird, and tree a work of art to be admired and cherished as a part of the observer. Once the spontaneous awakening has occurred, it's as if the pineal gland has exploded within the brain and precious white light has flooded the back of the head and taken control of the subconscious senses. Breathing is effortless and beautiful, the senses alive and quickened. Each moment of awareness feels better than any worldly success or pleasure. Time is something only others are concerned with. Money and politics become silly and incomprehensible. Everything becomes interesting, from the way concrete sparkles in the city to the swirling darkness that envelopes us when we turn the lights out. Nothing seems like a problem. The idea of something being a problem seems silly. The thoughts in the physical mind become humorous, especially the ones that had been taken so seriously before. Physical pain becomes interesting instead of tormenting. Food seems inspiring. Nature becomes mesmerizing. Something beyond the mind is now in control. Something real. Something perfect and sound and pure. I think it's always been there, asleep. Now it's awake and trying to take charge. Non-resistance is the key. It's a submission to ourselves

Three Parts To Every Human

In an ancient text, penned on papyrus, an enchanting story is told: 

Now the Lord had shown unto me, Abraham, the intelligences that were organized before the world was; and among all these there were many of the noble and great ones; And God saw these souls that they were good, and he stood in the midst of them, and he said: These I will make my rulers; for he stood among those that were spirits, and he saw that they were good; and he said unto me: Abraham, thou art one of them; thou wast chosen before thou wast born.

What is an intelligence? And later Abraham describes these as spirits. There isn't much written about the intelligence, but I had a spiritual teacher tell me once that the intelligence was a light located in the middle of our brains. Shortly after our discussion I ran across this picture on the Internet:
I also ran across pictures similar to this common diagram:

Both of these pictures were found in an image search for the pineal gland which I had heard was one time called the spiritual gland because doctors didn't know what it was. Upon reading more about it I found that this gland remains dormant in most people or at least that's what one article said. I've heard this gland called the all seeing eye as well. All of this ties into what I believe the intelligence could be.

I believe that before we were created as spirits we were intelligences, a speck of light in the universe somewhere. We had the ability to understand what we were and communicate to some degree and it all felt very natural and safe because that's who we were. Then an enlightened being with a spirit and a body asked if we wanted to be like Him. We agreed and this poem I wrote describes the rest:

Once an Intelligence thought about a spirit

And It was born one

Once a Spirit thought about a Body 

And It was born one

Once an Intelligence, Spirit and Body

Thought about Godhood

And It became one

This is the only theory about "the real you" that makes sense. You can say there is something perfect in everyone but we know our bodies aren't perfect. We know that our spirits can be troubled, down, angry and evil. So what part of us is perfect, untouchable? 

Where Does God Dwell?

His human-like form, resembling the resurrected Jesus, resides at a place near Kolob, according to a Mormon Prophet. Yet many believe that He resides everywhere, in the trees, in the air, in the mountains. I believe both are true. This is why. According to Mormon doctrine, Kolob (a visible star in the sky) rotates once for every 1000 spins our plant takes around the Sun. Therefore, if God lives in the center of all creation (which I believe He does) that means that the closer you get to Him the slower time moves until you reach Him, where time stands still (all things are before Him).

2 Peter 3:8 "But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand ^ayears, and a thousand years as one day."

God can also reside everywhere, because if time stands still you can be in multiple places at once. If you can be in multiple places at the same time why not be everywhere? So does God dwell in the heavens? Yes. Does He dwell in our hearts? Yes and we have our own god there too (the real us). Does He dwell in every living thing? Yes, He is in all things and through all things.

D&C 88:41 " He ^acomprehendeth all things, and all things are before him, and all things are round about him; and he is above all things, and in all things, and is through all things, and is round about all things; and all things are by him, and of him, even God, forever and ever."

What Does God Look Like?

God (in referring to the supreme creator, the Father of our spirits) is an enlightened, exalted being of light. Jesus said: "He that seeth me hath seen the Father"(John 14:9) What do we know about Jesus' body. We know He was mortal, that he died (a very mortal thing to do) but we also have accounts of Jesus after his death appearing to people, people that He knew during His life, and they didn't even recognize Him. Something had changed, His body was different. It was not spirit, yet it did things that mortals could not do. In fact the bible says that he appeared in a room who's door was locked.

Mark 9:2-3 says that Jesus' transformation after death was preempted by a transfiguration before His disciples where He showed Himself as He really is. John said: His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his ^aeyes were as a flame of ^bfire; And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his ^avoice as the sound of many waters."

Yet, remember his own disciples didn't recognize Him later. What does this mean? God's body is as a holograph that can be changed into whatever He wants it to be. It is as John said about God's dwelling place "And I saw as it were a ^asea of ^bglass mingled with fire."

Where Did We Come From?

"When He prepared the heavens, I was there: when He set a acompass upon the face of the depth: When He established the clouds above: when He strengthened the fountains of the deep: When He gave to the sea His decree, that the waters should not pass His commandment: when He appointed the foundations of the earth: Then I was by Him, as one brought up with Him: and I was daily His delight, rejoicing always before Him;"(Prov 8:27-30)

We lived with God after we were born as spirits. Before that we were intelligences in the universe, having no form. God created us in His image, spiritually, and in his likeness, physically, through earthly parents.

So where did we come from. First, from nothing. Second, from the place where God dwells. Third, from this earth, and on to the future.

Who Are We?

We are god's, children of Gods. (John 10:34) We are an intelligence, clothed in a spirit, clothed in a body. What is an intelligence? It is light, a particle of light that has existed and will always exist. it resides in the pineal gland within the brain. It is unseen light. It has perception and logic. It is indestructible, invisible, and contains perfect intelligence and truth. It is the all-seeing eye at the top of the pyramid of your brain. This intelligence existed before you were born. This intelligence existed with other intelligences until it was called into existence as a spirit. "The Spirit itself beareth ^awitness with our ^bspirit, that we are the ^cchildren of God": Rom 8:16. God is the father of our spirits just as we have a father of our physical bodies. So when we say we are gods we are right. When we say we are complete, we are right. When we say God created us, we are right. What does create mean? To organize things that already existed into a different form.