The Terrorist Within

TERRORISM....

The only way to stop terror is by not being terrified.

The only way to not be terrified is to not think death is terrifying.

The only way to not think death is terrifying is to realize we are more than our body.

If we are more than our body, our body's demise is not terrifying.

Sound incredibly simple, and yet completely out of reach, right?

Maybe it is. But perhaps it is time for all people to begin to awaken to the idea, and believe that this just might be true.

By denying the possibility that it is true, refusing to even entertain this high spiritual understanding, we lose our ability to rise above this world, and find true and lasting peace, within....and eventually, without.

The kind of peace that body knows nothing of.

Let's entertain the thought that our body is but our own belief... a mistaken identity! It is the belief who we are is but a body that takes up space on earth. This mistaken identity is a sure way to assure we can never 'win.' Because if this is true, someone else is capable of taking our peace from us, by killing our body. And then, we could never have peace, could we?


With the belief that terrorists can truly 'kill' us, we are indeed in Hell.

THE REAL MESSAGE OF CHRIST ENDS ALL TERROR

After all, what could be worse than being but a body, vulnerable to destruction at every turn in the road? Within this mindset, life is spent just putting off our own demise, in various ways, all the while conscious the inevitability of it's end, and of the ability of anyone else to simply 'take' our very life, in a violent way; and our fears fanning hatred all around.

In such a place, we are not listening to Christ's message nor any prophet of God. Instead, we are like a ship lost at sea. We scream and kick and demand that we 'find a way!' to be safe from the violent terror, away from winds of hate, all the while a futile attempt to remain afloat on a turbulent, powerful sea.

While in the violent sea, I believe Jesus would tell us, to do what ever we will, but do it from the state of mind and understanding that the body is not where our true freedom lies, and we come from a power much greater than the earth's power. And what is true and eternal cannot be taken from us. And what is true and eternal is the only thing of value.

THE CALMING OF A VIOLENT SEA

It might do us all well, to remember one of the most famous stories about Jesus' ministry while on our Earth. It was about the time when the Apostles yelled to Jesus as he slept during a terrrible storm at sea, afraid for the lives of their bodies. He got up, and told them not to worry, because 'the Son of Man has the power to calm the sea!' He also reminded them that they were men of little faith. It was not faith in him they lacked, but in the Higher Power, within THEM.

Then, he calmed the sea with the power of his faith in Who he was. The power of the mind to NOT choose terror, NOT choose the illusion of time closing in on their lives, but instead choose the belief that we are connected to a far greater Power, our Father, God, Who is NOT a body, knows not of time, nor death, nor fear.

That 'Son of Man' is you. And me. The sea is the world where terror seems to strike us dead. It is our fear, it is our need to protect what is not eternal and thereby deny our True Identity as Sons of God, that keeps us prisoner to fear, and to terrorists acts.

PRACTICAL FAITH of WINNING A WAR

While believing we are but a body, subject to the laws of death and the illusion of time, we will believe we need to protect our country, our children, to defend, keep out, and alert others, this is true. And so we should, but from a different, more evolved state of mind, for we are not ready quite yet to rise above the fear. And so, as it has been said, 'When in Rome, do as the Roman's do.'

But, henceforth, we will be wiser, more compassionate, calm and less and less afraid of losing that which is temporary. Faith such as what Jesus spoke of, comes through internal understandings and experiences that cannot happen without a willing heart.... a heart willing to trust in the message of the one Son, who figured it all out.

A task we as ego's cannot do, but we CAN ask a Higher Power that we begin to undersand this concept, truly. And begin to live it.

Obviously, like the Apostles, we cannot always remain in the state of mind Jesus would have us be. Like the Apostles, we may fall asleep in the Garden of Gethsemany, but we can join in an effort not to!

The results 2000 years ago, of falling asleep, were the death and destruction of our very Breath of Life, but we can try, and try ...until we all remain awake, and sure that we are more than our body; without fear, without anger, without a need to 'fight back' an enemy this is fear itself.

We cannot win a war in which the 'enemy' has already won. Once one feels fear, they have been defeated. Fear not, for someone overcame the world for us, and overcame all fear and hate, and in his life and teachings we can all do the same.

DLP
7-24-05

All it is....is this

I was sitting one day when I had a ‘light bulb moment’ as I have come to call them. After one such moment, I am changed in some small way, forever. Like the darkness changes to light; no in between is possible.

I heard within, regarding the state of unhappiness….“All it is, is this: We blame others for our existence.”

And so I thought, why would we blame another for what we think is good? Existence must then not be ‘good’ in some way I do not yet understand.

And so my Self then thought to my self…. Existence is this; a huge defense against our Perfection.

Our bodies, our sickness, our world, is a world made up of many, to prove we are unique individuals. We are not. We are one. And 'One' is the definition of unique because it alone is truly One! So, that which we seek...to be unique, we already are.

Oh my!
Diane L. Perretto

Empathy can change the world, by changing you!

THE REASONING OF TRUE FORGIVNESS

Empathy and forgiveness the same thing to me. To have empathy is to be able to feel and think from another’s perspective. To forgive is not to pardon a mistake. If that were true, it would involve unfair judgment, dependent upon one’s own view, one’s unique perspective, or even mood for that day. No, forgiveness is truly divine because it does not and cannot involve a judgment as to whether or not something is worthy to be overlooked. It is to understand the behavior as the acting out of that person’s fear and pain. Jesus did not condone a ‘sinners’ behavior, telling them what they did or did not do was ‘ok’ and go right ahead and continue. I would imagine Jesus telling the person in error that doing what they were doing was not beneficial to their own, or anyone’s life, but all that needed to be changed in this situation was their mind. A mind without fear, produces actions that are loving. For to have judgment produces fear and guilt. Hold no grievance, made no judgment and you have no fear. Jesus was simply able to empathize with all of mankind. Simply? Did I say that? It is not so simple as we all know.

COME TOGETHER
This morning on my bike ride the song ‘Come Together’ came to me, by the Beatles. I am not a Beatles fan. I don’t even care for that song. And, I really have no idea what it is actually about. But, the thought occurred to me after that song played out in my head, that the saving of all mankind is when we put the puzzle back to together again, realizing we are all pieces of the same mind. So, the drug addict, the prostitute, the saint, the mother, the child, even all the murderers, and the rapists, the scientists, the teachers, the whole world of personalities…..are split off pieces of ourselves. You are not a separate you. You are part of me, and I am part of you, but we are acting out like little individual egos; some of us thinking we are ‘better’ or more healthy than others. Some of us nicer, kinder, more evil. But we aren’t . The healing of one mind will take the coming together of all minds. There is no room for judgment when it is yourself you are attempting to put back together in one piece.

There is nothing new under the sun. This phrase has new meaning for me, because there is nothing, no emotion, not a thought in your mind or mine that has not been felt collectively by all of mankind. So let’s get off our high horses, and ‘come together’ once and for all. Healing is a joint effort which occurs one way; forgiveness. There is no other way.

Diane L. Perretto