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  Ara September 7, 2013 at 2:33am

  i would say yes everything is possible ;) why would i limit God, with my limited concept of possibilities as impossibilities ...

  "Argue your limitations and sure enough they are yours"

  
  
  
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    Ara > Ara September 7, 2013 at 7:21am

    this is Zen ... ;) i did left a comment ... ;)

    
    

    The

    original sin is to

    limit the Is.

    Don’t.

    It was an easy warm afternoon between rain-showers, sidewalks wet on our way out of town.

    “You can walk through walls, can’t you, Don?”

    “No.”

    “When you say no to something I know is yes, that means you don’t like the way I said the question.”

    “We certainly are observant, aren’t we?” he said.

    “Is the problem with walk or with walls?”

    “Yes, and worse. Your question presumes that I exist in one limited place-time and move to another place-time. Today I’m not in the mood to accept your presumptions about me.”

    I frowned. He knew what I was asking. Why didn’t he just answer me straight “That’s my little way of helping you be precise in your thinking,” he said mildly.

    “OK. You can make it appear that you can walk through walls, if you want. Is that a better question?”

    “Yes. Better. But if you want to be precise...”

    “Don’t tell me. I know how to say what I mean. Here is my question. How is it that you can move the illusion of a limited sense of identity, expressed in this belief of a space-time continuum as your ‘body,’ through the illusion of material restriction that is called a ‘wall’?”

    “Well done!” he said. “When you ask the question properly it answers itself, doesn’t it?”

    “No, the question hasn’t answered itself. How do you walk through walls?”

    “RICHARD! You had it nearly right and then blew it all to pieces! I cannot walk through walls... when you say that, you’re assuming things I don’t assume at all, and if I do assume them, the answer is, ‘I can’t.’”

    “But it’s so hard to put everything so precisely, Don. Don’t you know what I mean?”

    “So just because something is hard, you don’t try to do it?

    Walking was hard at first, but you practiced at it and now you make it look easy.”

    I sighed. “Yeah. OK. Forget the question.”

    “I’ll forget it. My question is, can you?” He looked at me as though he hadn’t a care in the world.

    “So you’re saying that body is illusion and wall is illusion but identity is real and that can’t be hemmed by illusions.”

    “I’m not saying that. You’re saying that.”

    “But it’s true.”

    “Naturally,” he said.

    “How do you do it?”

    “Richard, you don’t do anything. You see it done already, and it is.”

    “Gee, that sounds easy.”

    “It’s like walking. You wonder how it ever came hard for you to learn.”

    “Don, walking through walls, it isn’t hard for me now; it is impossible.”

    “Do you think that maybe if you say impossible over and over again a thousand times that suddenly hard things will come easy for you?”

    “I’m sorry. It is possible, and I’ll do it when it is right for me to do it.”

     “Argue for your limitations and sure enough they are yours” he sang.
    

    “And is not wall just vertical earth? Does it matter that much to you which direction the illusion runs? Horizontal illusions are conquerable, but vertical illusions aren’t?”

    ~ Richard Bach Illusions
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  Peter Panayiotis Karanikas September 6, 2013 at 7:49pm

  Thats exactly what I think avatar.

  Must be true.
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  Peter Panayiotis Karanikas September 6, 2013 at 5:23pm

  Perseverance...

  We do ok.
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  Peter Panayiotis Karanikas September 6, 2013 at 5:03pm

  http://www.ashtarcommandcrew.net/forum/topics/dreamer?xg_source=act...
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  Peter Panayiotis Karanikas September 6, 2013 at 3:15pm

  HALLELUJIAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
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  Bonnie September 6, 2013 at 3:04pm

  Feather and Roaring you are both right. The creator and creation are one and the same. And without the ripple, all of space would be empty with no life forms whatsoever. Just a void. I'm grateful for the ripple. So thin you can't see it. So strong you can't break it. ONE. And we are all parts of It.
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  Bonnie September 6, 2013 at 2:58pm

  I learned a mantra some years back that I like a lot:

  ECK oong kar. Sat Nam Sri. Wah he guru.

  The translation (I think) is ONE. Creator and creation. True Name. I honor you. How wonderful to go from darkness to light.

  Does anyone know the translation? I just pieced it together asking other people online, since I could not find an adequate translation in the translator.
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    Marique > Bonnie September 6, 2013 at 3:05pm

    This a link to the meaning.

    http://www.spiritvoyage.com/mantra/Ek-Ong-Kar-Sat-Nam-Siri-Wahe-Gur...

    • Language: Gurmukhi
    • Translation:

    • The Creator and the Creation are One. This is our True Identity. The ecstasy of the experience of this wisdom is beyond all words and brings indescribable bliss.

    Hope this helps Bonnie
    
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      Bonnie > Marique September 7, 2013 at 3:14am

      Thank you Marique. This is totally awesome. Will be my mantra every morning. Thank you so much.