How relevant is the Bible? -rjs

Robin Starbuck

■ 1 Surely the LORD is in this place.

■ 2 The LORD searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts.

■ 3 You [Lord] alone know the hearts of men.

■ 4 He [God] knows the way that I take.

■ 5 His [God’s] eyes are on their ways.

■ 6 Does he [God] not see my ways and count my every step?

■ 7 His eyes are on the ways of men; he sees their every step. There is no dark place, no deep shadow, where evildoers can hide. God has no need to examine men further, that they should come before him for judgment. . . . He takes note of their deeds.

■ 8 The LORD looks down and sees all mankind; from his dwelling place he watches all who live on earth—he who forms the hearts of all, who considers everything they do.

■ 9 The LORD is close.

■ 10 He [God] knows the secrets of the heart.

■ 11 The LORD knows the thoughts of man.

■ 12 Yet you are near, O LORD. . . . All my ways are known to you.

■ 13 O LORD, you have searched me and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. Before a word is on my tongue you know it completely, O LORD. . . . Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast.

■ 14 The LORD is near.

■ 15 For a man’s ways are in full view of the LORD, and he examines all his paths.

■ 16 “Can anyone hide in secret places so that I cannot see him?”declares the LORD. “Do I not fill heaven and earth?”

■ 17 Your [God’s] eyes are open to all the ways of men.

■ 18 “The very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t be afraid.”

■ 19 “Surely I [Jesus] am with you always, to the very end of the age.”

■ 20 He [God] is not far from each one of us.

■ 21 “Never will I [God] leave you; never will I forsake you.”

-rjs

Spreading hatred …? -rjs

Robin Starbuck

When you put out hatred into the atmosphere, you are feeding the airwaves surliness, contempt, ugliness, lovelessness, sarcasm, cruelty. Can’t you see that you’re fanning the flames of hate and war?

So, should you just sit back and ignore what’s going on? NO, YOU SHOULDN’T JUST SIT BACK AND IGNORE WHAT’S GOING ON !!! . You should heal it!

Your God is huge! He’s pure Love. But can you even see that anymore? I know rolling over all the hurts and hates, fears and smears is far more titillating, but REALLY!! don’t you have something better to do?

Robin Starbuck 2015

Not timelessness but time-fullness -rjs

Robin Starbuck

NOT TIMELESSNESS BUT TIME-FULLNESS !!
It’s wonderful to know that God is where we’re ultimately going and we will hang with him through all eternity. But when the notion of timelessness becomes part of the deal, it all sounds so dull and meaningless – to say nothing of lifeless.
In God’s multi-dimensional realm, we can enjoy glories heretofore unknown.
And we get to do that forever in what we may now wistfully dub “multiple time dimensions”.

Robin Starbuck

Contemplate this! -Mooji

Mooji

No one has ever succeeded in
conveying Truth through words alone,
for Truth is beyond words, learning,
imagination and language. It is unfathomable.
Words like God, consciousness, emptiness,
the Self, the great void, the Supreme Being
inspire and evoke a contemplation, and perhaps,
herein lies their real purpose and service,
but in truth there are no words for that which alone Is.
When and where words come to an end,
It, the What Is, does not begin.
It is there in the space between two thoughts,
but it is also there during the appearing of thoughts.
Contemplate this.
~ Mooji

Just another inexplicable miracle -rjs

Robin Starbuck

JUST ANOTHER INEXPLICABLE MIRACLE !!
Years ago I had a Bible reading project to do; all the passages were written down, so I went to a library of sorts to get started. The librarian said they were closing in a few minutes – and, sure enough, the clock confirmed it. I was so “into it” that I sat down and began my 30-45 minute reading. Next thing I knew the librarian was ushering me out the door. I thanked her profusely for having kept the place open late just for me. But she insisted that she didn’t and that I should look at the clock. I couldn’t believe my eyes! I had finished the entire reading project in less than five minutes! Time had collapsed – or expanded – in an inexplicable miracle!

Robin Starbuck 2015

When miracles happen -rjs

Robin Starbuck

When miracles happen, the carnal mind is always ready to explain them away, make light of them or totally ignore them.

Miracles demonstrate the indescribably amazing and wonderful power of our God and can be perceived on a moment-by-moment basis when we ponder our Oneness with God.

Did you know even Kim Jung Un could be smitten with God’s love and all those people who have no focus would entirely miss it. They’d think it was nothing more than a ripple and go on with their terribly self-defeating lack of focus.

Would that all of us who have experienced a modicum of spiritual awakening and a handful of miracles would go completely into our own newly refreshed powerful conscious awareness where all is One!

Robin Starbuck 2017

You ARE the universe -SB many

Adams, Robert, Eckhart Tolle, Mooji, Nisargadatta Maharaj, Rumi, Simon Bartholomé

“Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
You are not just a drop in the ocean. You are the mighty ocean in a drop.”
~ Rumi

“You are the universe expressing itself as a human for a little while. Each person’s life – each lifeform, in fact – represents a unique way in which the universe experiences itself.
You are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold. That is how important you are!
You are not IN the universe, you ARE the universe. Ultimately you are not a person, but a focal point where the universe is becoming conscious of itself. What an amazing miracle.”
~ Eckhart Tolle

“Outwardly, I am one apple among many. Inwardly, I am the tree.
You are the big bang, the original force of the universe. You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
The real YOU is not a puppet which life pushes around. The real, deep down YOU is the whole universe.
You are the universe experiencing itself.”
~ Alan Watts

“The universe is but a partial manifestation of your limitless capacity to become.
You have potential powers beyond your wildest dreams. Not only is the entire universe reflected in you, but also the power to control the universe is waiting to be used.”
~ Nisargadatta Maharaj

“You are not alone as a person, you are alone as the entire universe.”
~ Mooji

“Suddenly I was thrown into this expansive amazing feeling of freedom – from myself, from my problems. I saw that I am bigger than what I do, bigger than my body. I am everything and everyone. I am no longer a fragment of the universe. I am the universe.”
~ Jim Carrey

“Though the eye is small, the consciousness which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives. In fact, it is so great that it includes all objects, however large or numerous, within itself. For it is not so much that you are within the cosmos as that the cosmos is within you.”
~ Meher Baba

“When we look at the ocean, we see that each wave has a beginning and an end. A wave can be compared with other waves, and we can call it more or less beautiful, higher or lower, longer lasting or less long lasting. But if we look more deeply, we see that a wave is made of water. While living the life of a wave, the wave also lives the life of water. It would be sad if the wave did not know that it is water. It would think, ‘Some day I will have to die. This period of time is my life span, and when I arrive at the shore, I will return to nonbeing.’ These notions will cause the wave fear and anguish. In the world of the wave, the world of relative truth, the wave feels happy as she swells, and she feels sad as she falls. She may think ‘I am high!’ or ‘I am low!’ and develop superiority or inferiority complexes, but when the wave touches her true nature – which is water – all of her complexes will cease, and she will transcend birth and death.
Enlightenment is when a wave realizes it is the ocean.”
~ Thich Nhat Hanh

“The whole universe is I-am. So whenever I say “I am choiceless, effortless, pure awareness, I am the Self”, always remember, I am not referring to Robert. I’m referring to I-am, which is pure consciousness. When I make that confession, it is all-pervading. It is omnipresence itself. Everyone of you is I-am. The whole universe is I-am.
How can you want anything when you are the whole universe?
All the answers are within you. Everything you’re looking for is within you, everything. Know who you are. You are the power. All the power of the universe is within you. All is well, exceedingly well. It has always been well, it will always be well.
I want to let you in on a little secret. There are no problems. There never were any problems, there are no problems today, and there will never be any problems. The reality in back of the universe is pure awareness. It has no problems. And you are That.”
~ Robert Adams

Thanks to Simon Bartholomé