Quotes about I am

    To love something in this world as True perception would, we have to love everything alike, meaning we grant every thing an equal right to be. Then we may have our preferences, but still evaluate all as expressions of love. This may very well be a stumbling block for many. For how can we love the unlovable? Be learning to see past the form aspect and see the form content. This learning to see the form aspect is really not a learning process. We use the word 'learning' throughout this material for convenience of expression. It is rather a remembering of one's knowledge. Rephrasing the above statement we say: by remembering our identity, we look past the form aspect as naturally as breathing. The instant we know who we really are, the unlovable are recognized as the same I AM as ours.
    To despise my left hand for being soiled would seem, at best, extremely unreasonable. Insisting on rejecting it, the day might come where I do not recognize it as my own hand. Each time now it wishes to be recognized and accepted, I either slap it or run away from it. An onlooker would, most likely, esteem me a trifle out of touch with reality. Yet this is exactly the case with our response to our brothers and sisters. However much we fear or despise, therefore flee or fight, we cannot get away from them. My brother and my sister are my left and right hand. They are my eyes - they are my heart - they are ME. To 'get rid' of them, the unlovable, I have to 'get rid' of ME, and to do that I have to tear my heart out. And this is precisely what we, as humanity, did. We tore our heart out - meaning we tore love out. Now we have non to give. So to love the unlovable is not to face him and think: 'Wow, how can I love this despicable so and so?' This leads only deeper into the mire of separation. To love these is to love ME! By discovering my BEING I discover theirs and MINE.

 

    The rise beyond judgment allows love to enter. This highest of frequencies changes our physical bodies by way of a restored DNA. Thus each individual in that position becomes a transmitter of the most powerful electromagnetic frequency, affecting everything and everyone around him.
    In summarizing this discourse on the balance of polarities, we say: God is All-There-Is, therefore God is ALL-encompassing. Whatever enters my realm of experience, must, of need, be God. How can I put different price tags on the various appearances of God? For the I AM in me is God. Thus I only judge myself by judging God. God is Pure Being, therefore innocent and so am I. Now I look 'out' into the mirror of Creation and see but myself and that is innocent, hence all of equal value. If witnessing destructive or discordant energy, I do not have to condone it, but I evaluate it as of equal worth to any other expression of Life.
    Any experience, no matter how fearful it seems, when seen as of equal validity to any other manifestation, faced and embraced as of equal right to be, shall unify and thus release this fear in to the All-There-Is. This way it shall never manifest.

Nobody needs to go anywhere else. We are all, if we only knew it, already there. If I only know who in fact I am, I should cease to behave as what I think I am; and if I stopped behaving as what I think I am, I should know who I am.
What in fact I am, if only Manichee I think I am would allow me to know it, is the reconciliation of yes and no lived out in total acceptance and the blessed experience of Not-Two.
In religion all words are dirty words. Anybody who gets eloquent about Buddha, or God, or Christ, ought to have his mouth washed out with carbolic soup. Because his aspiration to perpetuate only the "yes" in every pair of opposites can never, in the nature of things, be realized, the insulated Manichee I think I am condemns himself to endlessly repeated frustration, endlessly repeated conflicts with other sspiring and frustrated Manichees.
Conflicts and frustrations--the theme of all history and almost all biography. "I show you sorrow," said the Buddha realistically. But he also showed the ending of sorrow--self-knowledge, total acceptance, the blessed experience of Not-Two

Self, what would that be? No one exists or can exist to realize the self without defining the self that it realized, or the self that has realized the "it" that it believes itself to be.
The I-know mind that would say, "Yes, I have realized the self" is in that moment stuck in its limitedness yet again.

Look at these statements,  look closely, be with them in many ways and then be with them differently again, if it is peace that interests you. The "self" is just one more concept, one more identity the mind would cling to (and that's okay). What I experience is that I'm free (until I'm not).

The bliss of the Creator forever permeates all of creation, and it is only in the forgetting that misery exists.

Know that you have a center.
Know that you belong there.
Know that the path to the center takes no effort.

"I AM PROSPERITY."

All wrongs from the past now start to melt into a true perspective     that it all happened for a reason for my growth and nothing else.

Your belief in masters is a confession of your slavery.

Only slaves have masters.

Change your conception of yourself and you will, without aid of masters or anyone else, automatically transform your world to conform to your changed conception of yourself.

Give every man more in use value than you take from him in cash value; then you are adding life to the world by every business transaction.

If you have people working for you, you must take from them more in cash value than you pay them in wages; but you can so organize your business that it will be filled with the principle of  advancement, and so that each employee who wishes to do so may advance a little every day.

The Sea
Will be the Sea
Whatever the drop's philosophy -

Farididdin Attar

"Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness concerning all acts of initiative and creation. There is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too, all sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen events, meetings and material assistance which no one could have dreamed would have come their way. Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now!"

~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 19th century German writer and scientist

Hold The Thought Of What You Are - To Guide You Into What You Want To Be.

We carry within us the wonders we seek without us.

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure." ~ Paulo Coelho, 21st century Brazilian writer from The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream That makes it pretty simple, eh? What would you do if you weren't afraid? thinkdreams. thinkcourage.

I AM you, I AM me, I AM us.I am WE.  We are all apart of each other~not realizing the extent of just how much 'WE' depends on each individual 'I',  And 'WE' can not exist without YOU!

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

"One does not fall 'in' or 'out' of love. One grows in love."

"If a man look upon any other man and estimates that man as less than himself, then he is stealing from the other. He is stealing the other's birthright - that of equality."

Neville

“Fools exploit the world; the wise transfigure it.” — from Prayer as reprinted in Resurrection, 1966

In order to create there must be a dymanic force, and what force is more potent that love?

"No man hath seen God at any time" [John 1:18 ] or can see Him, for the simple reason that Infinitude cannot be the subject of vision. To become visible, there must be Individualisation, and therefore when Philip said "Show us the Father" [John 14:8 -], Jesus replied, "He that hath seen me hath seen the Father" [John 14:9 - ]. The Word must become flesh before St John could say, "That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, of the Word of Life" [1 John 1:1 - Ed]

"The common expression is 'I love you.' But instead of 'I love you,' it would be better to say, 'I am love — I am the embodiment of pure love.' Remove the I and you, and you will find that there is only love. It is as if love is imprisoned between the I and you. Remove the I and you, for they are unreal; they are self-imposed walls that don't exist. The gulf between I and you is the ego. When the ego is removed the distance disappears and the I and you also disappear. They merge to become one — and that is love. You lend the I and you their reality. Withdraw your support and they will disappear. Then you will realise, not that 'I love you,' but that 'I am that all-embracing love.'" ~Amma

Each individual is a temple himself, as St Paul tells us, and at the same time a single stone in the construction of the Great Temple which is the regenerated race, that "People of the I AM" which was inaugurated when Moses first pitched the tabernacle in the wilderness. But the process must always be an individual one, for a nation is nothing but an aggregation of individuals, and therefore in considering the metaphor of "the Stone" as applied to the individual, we shall realise its wider application also.

Now the Master was executed on the charge of blasphemy for asserting the identity of his own nature with that of God. The subjection of the Jews to the Roman rule placed the power of life and death in the hands of a tribunal which could not take cognisance of such an offence - "Take ye him and judge him according to your law" (John 18:31), said Pilate when the charge of blasphemy was preferred before him; and in order to bring him to execution it became necessary to substitute for the original charge of blasphemy one of high treason, so as to bring it within the jurisdiction of the court.

"Whosoever maketh himself a king speaketh against Caesar" (John 19:12) - and so the inscription fastened to the cross was "Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews" (John 19:19). But the true reason why Jesus was hunted to death was expressed by the scribes, who mocked the sufferer with the words "He trusted in God; let Him deliver him now if He will have him, for he said 'I am the son of God'." (Matt. 27:43)

The teaching of Jesus was the inversion of all that was taught by the official priesthood. Their whole teaching rested on the hypothesis that God and Man are absolutely distinct in nature, thus directly contradicting the earliest statement of their own Scriptures regarding Man, that he is the image and likeness of God. As a consequence of this false assumption, they supposed that the whole Mosaic Law and Ritual was intended to pacify God and make him favourable to the worshipper, and so in their minds the entire system tended only to emphasise the gulf that separated Man from God.

It may seem a truism to say that no statement about a thing is the thing, yet we are apt to miss this in practice. The Master pointed this out very clearly when he said to the Jews, "Search the Scriptures, for in them ye think ye have everlasting life, and they are they which testify of Me" (John 5:39). He said in effect, "You make a mistake by supposing that the reading of a book can in itself confer Life. What your Scriptures do is to make statements regarding that which I am. Realise what those statements mean, and then you will see in me the living example of the Living Truth; and seeing this, you will seek for the development of the same thing in yourselves. The disciple, when perfected, shall be as his Master".

We lose the key to the whole teaching of the Bible if we lose sight of the truth that the Universal cannot, as such, initiate a course of action on the plane of the particular. It can do so only by becoming the individual, which is precisely the production of the intellectually enlightened man we are speaking about. The failure to see this very obvious Law is the root of all the theological discordances that have retarded the work of true religion to the present time, and therefore the sooner we see through the error, the better.