Inspiration: The Power to Choose Joy

[GenoNess1@...]

Well said Lesley. The part about money wanting to be played with, but should
not be taken seriously...
---I think that money does want to be played with, that
it should not be taken seriously, as it is only a
concept meant to serve our highest good [experiencing
joy.] But first things first. ----

I think you hit upon a deep truth here.if we can detach ourselves from the
material monetary gains money is inclined to bring out in us, then we can use
money simply for what it is to us - an externalization of our power, in the most
innocent sense. my *two cents* bwahahahah Love, me!


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[akashar3000]

Hi everyone,

I wanted to share this article that I wrote recently called 'The
Power to Choose Joy'. It can be found at:
http://www.limitlessness.com/seed/power4joy.cfm

It is about how we can come to the power to choose joy for ourselves
through coming to take complete responsibility for our state of
being. It also talks about how this can be applied to bringing
abundance. The article includes both and channeled and non-channeled
section. I hope it empowers and inspires you. Please share in around
in any forums you are a member of. All comments and feedback
welcome :-)

with love.
Story Waters

[Lesley Schultz]

Dear Story, L/L & Peace to All:

I looked over this article, and there is a lot of good
stuff in it, I must admit. But I thought it contained
some stuff in it that maybe should be reframed in view
of the transitional times in which we live.

1. I thought the section about money was interesting,
especially the idea that if you can learn to play
without money then money will come to you because it
wants to be played with. For someone like me, that
despises the whole concept of money and treats it in a
manner akin to holding a wolf by the ears [in spite of
my best efforts to change this aspect of myself], this
had some important elements of wisdom. Money is an
externalization of personal power. It's commonly
thought that the more of it you have, the more power
you have. But the converse is much more true. Money
can bring the opportunity to bring *things* into your
life, but can never bring into your life the things
that make life worth living-- like love, knowledge,
compassion, intimacy, friendship, etc. etc. Money can
make it possible to go to school, but you still have
to do the learning. Money can buy you a ticket to a
far away land but you are the one that has the
experience of travel and new places.

If you internalize the idea that the only thing of
value is money, then the experience of travel and the
acquisition of knowledge can't penetrate into the
areas of heart and mind and spirit that they are
intended to enter for growth and change.

Yet, money has permeated the world to such a degree
that it is almost the exclusive mode of exchange
around the globe. Money is tightening its grip on us
even as we speak, trying to exert the power *we gave
it* to control how we live. Ultimately, the entire
concept of money as externalized power needs to be
abandoned, and we need to take our power back.

I think that money does want to be played with, that
it should not be taken seriously, as it is only a
concept meant to serve our highest good [experiencing
joy.] But first things first.

2. The chapter on suffering was interesting. I liked
the idea of abandoning the idea that suffering is a
mistake, and that the choice to experience suffering
is not an optimal choice. This is completely untrue,
and I'm glad that someone's saying this clearly and
unmistakably. Suffering in 3D, which is where we
still are, is a valuable catalyst for transformation
and evolution. There are some lessons that experience
teaches better than anything else, and these are often
painful lessons. Suffering also, once we permit
ourselves to recognize and experience it, helps us
have empathy for another person who experiences it
also, and this births compassion. Compassion builds
the highway to understanding and the perfection of the
love experience.

Think of the dreadful acts of American servicemen and
women against the detainees in Iraq. This coming to
light is a tremendous awakening opportunity for
Americans to crawl out of their
fast-food-reality-TV-video-game self-dug holes and
realize that they live in the world too. Also that
Americans are doing unspeakable things in other
countries, against people that have not harmed them,
in highly illegal fashions. They are *waking up*.
The pain and anguish of these Iraqis are becoming our
pain and anguish.

Although we look at it now with compassion and regret,
there is an opportunity opening up for us to create
joy out of this also. If we of the West could join
hands the East and say that we renounce the darkness
that makes us expect to suffer in the experience of
division, and will help to rebuild in the light of
unity and compassion, we could ascend tomorrow. Will
we do it? We have the power to.

The suffering is intended to teach compassion and
empathy, and the two together entwine to uplift into
joy. That was the piece that I wish was clearer.

Only MHO, of course.

Blessings and peace,
~lesley







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"The one thing money cannot buy is....poverty."

"The best thing you can do for the poor is ....not be one of them.

Jim

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Dear Story, L/L & Peace to All:

I looked over this article, and there is a lot of good
stuff in it, I must admit. But I thought it contained
some stuff in it that maybe should be reframed in view
of the transitional times in which we live.

1. I thought the section about money was interesting,
especially the idea that if you can learn to play
without money then money will come to you because it
wants to be played with. For someone like me, that
despises the whole concept of money and treats it in a
manner akin to holding a wolf by the ears [in spite of
my best efforts to change this aspect of myself], this
had some important elements of wisdom. Money is an
externalization of personal power. It's commonly
thought that the more of it you have, the more power
you have. But the converse is much more true. Money
can bring the opportunity to bring *things* into your
life, but can never bring into your life the things
that make life worth living-- like love, knowledge,
compassion, intimacy, friendship, etc. etc. Money can
make it possible to go to school, but you still have
to do the learning. Money can buy you a ticket to a
far away land but you are the one that has the
experience of travel and new places.

If you internalize the idea that the only thing of
value is money, then the experience of travel and the
acquisition of knowledge can't penetrate into the
areas of heart and mind and spirit that they are
intended to enter for growth and change.

Yet, money has permeated the world to such a degree
that it is almost the exclusive mode of exchange
around the globe. Money is tightening its grip on us
even as we speak, trying to exert the power *we gave
it* to control how we live. Ultimately, the entire
concept of money as externalized power needs to be
abandoned, and we need to take our power back.

I think that money does want to be played with, that
it should not be taken seriously, as it is only a
concept meant to serve our highest good [experiencing
joy.] But first things first.

2. The chapter on suffering was interesting. I liked
the idea of abandoning the idea that suffering is a
mistake, and that the choice to experience suffering
is not an optimal choice. This is completely untrue,
and I'm glad that someone's saying this clearly and
unmistakably. Suffering in 3D, which is where we
still are, is a valuable catalyst for transformation
and evolution. There are some lessons that experience
teaches better than anything else, and these are often
painful lessons. Suffering also, once we permit
ourselves to recognize and experience it, helps us
have empathy for another person who experiences it
also, and this births compassion. Compassion builds
the highway to understanding and the perfection of the
love experience.

Think of the dreadful acts of American servicemen and
women against the detainees in Iraq. This coming to
light is a tremendous awakening opportunity for
Americans to crawl out of their
fast-food-reality-TV-video-game self-dug holes and
realize that they live in the world too. Also that
Americans are doing unspeakable things in other
countries, against people that have not harmed them,
in highly illegal fashions. They are *waking up*.
The pain and anguish of these Iraqis are becoming our
pain and anguish.

Although we look at it now with compassion and regret,
there is an opportunity opening up for us to create
joy out of this also. If we of the West could join
hands the East and say that we renounce the darkness
that makes us expect to suffer in the experience of
division, and will help to rebuild in the light of
unity and compassion, we could ascend tomorrow. Will
we do it? We have the power to.

The suffering is intended to teach compassion and
empathy, and the two together entwine to uplift into
joy. That was the piece that I wish was clearer.

Only MHO, of course.

Blessings and peace,
~lesley







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[HappyYoga@...]

Lesley,

I think you are right about the money thing. We need to evolve past our
relationship with cash and come to sharing our natural abundance with one
another.
I dream of the day!

I think the way big business has pretty much taken over the world is giving
us a real perspective as to beginning to ask ourselves if this is how we want
to live.

Glenna


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[Lesley Schultz]

Hi Glenna, L/L & Peace to All:

<<snip>> I think the way big business has pretty much
taken over the world is giving us a real perspective
as to beginning to ask ourselves if this is how we
want to live.

LS: The concept of Money and how it has evolved from a
facilitator for the exchange of goods and services
into Finance, which determines so many factors that
greatly influence how people live around the world, is
an interesting study. Big business is a creation of
Finance, and government a creation of big business.
Especially ours, right here and right now. Think
about it: our Founding Fathers fought for independence
from Great Britian because they didn't feel they owed
taxes to a government across the sea that never did
anything for them- not for high-minded principals of
life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Our
Founding Fathers were all wealthy businessmen or
landowners/rich farmers, the educated and moneyed
upper crust, who created a Republic-- not a Democracy.


But this is not a political forum or a poli-sci class.
My point is that we use money to obtain the goods and
services that we want or need. If every piece of
currency on the face of the earth vanished tomorrow,
how would we get what we need? Easy- we would band
together and bargin with our neighbors. On the
downside, we would instantly be back in Feudal or
Medieval times. There would be no such thing as
leisure time, because trying to say clothed, fed, warm
and housed would occupy all our waking hours. Human
beings in 3D being what they are, there would again be
roving bands of thieves and brigands roaming the
streets of our cities. This is 3rd density reality.
Ascension, which would energize our bodies and minds
to a higher level, would change our requirements for
living and augment our abilites to maintain ourselves
in health, would change the equation enough to make us
less dependant on formal trade. We look forward to
Ascension as the way we can make our physicality match
our spirituality.

If you have money and/or time to invest, invest it at
this time in creating the best environment possible
for you to go through the Ascension process. In the
end, as we come to remember and recapture our identity
as ONE, what needs to be done will become clearer.
Ascension will not solve all of our problems, just
make some of them recede or greatly diminish, and
create new ones. Life lived in love/light is
difficult in any density, with new challenges to be
faced. 4D and 5D still have duality in polarity. But
in our chosen environment in 4D we will have more
visible help.

Joy and Love will be our currency in the new age. It
will be interesting to see how the new program rolls
out.

Blessings,
~lesley




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[HappyYoga@...]

In a message dated 5/20/2004 2:30:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,
msthoth@... (/group/asc2k/post?postID=3PHtRvmOmWzKzOSIzCNCmQEm2S2-XIenFG5tmSQvbvOvsvry9weM6VS2M8jGjbIOViuYcNtEAF0) writes:
Joy and Love will be our currency in the new age. It
will be interesting to see how the new program rolls
out.

Blessings,
~lesley


Oh yes Lesley! I do believe that is so. There are communities now that do
things like get all the perfectly good items that are tossed into trash bins
and put them into "free shops". My two youngest children are involved with many
such projects including "Food Not Bombs" where donated food is cooked with
donated time and given freely in city squares or parks. Many communities are
initiating community gardens which are enriching so many in so many ways.

Recently I visited a community garden. These beautiful folk network with the
elderly and others in the community with their garden in which they have also
made a unique and beautiful cob-house-composting toilet and also a wood
burning bread oven, which has been fixed so that anyone who wishes to can come
and
get freely available grains and yeast to make bread right there.

One can see this type of cooperation going on at such things as Rainbow
Gatherings as well, where people are sharing everything communally and money is
not
even exchanged at camp.

Mostly these are the folks that the mainstream see as "odd". Every once in a
while, even in her alternative community, my youngest has heard people
screaming out their trucks "damned hippies"... but they are the ones teaching me
so
much about cooperative living and how to be kinder to my environment. They
have shown me how to live without fear too. It is all very wonderful and
interesting to me.

Blissings! Glenna


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