Les & Nahid Carney
West Hills, CA 91304
Emails:
Les at: lescarney@yahoo.com
Nahid at: nahidete@yahoo.com
Come, sit a spell. Have a cup of tea. Share your vision for the world we're manifesting.
Words of wisdom worth pondering
"Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interest of others.
Have this mind among yourselves, which you have in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the
form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself,
taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
And being found in human form he humbled himself and became obedient unto death,
even death on a cross. Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name
which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven
and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord,
to the glory of God the Father.
Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence
but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation
with fear (deep reverence and respect) and trembling (awe and wonder);
for God is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure."
--Philippians 2:2-13 RSV Bible
If
you think you know it well,
only slightly do you know the form of God.
What refers to you and what refers to the gods
then is to be investigated by you.
I think it is known.
I do not think that I know it well,
nor do I think that I do not know it.
Those of us who know this know it,
and not those of us who think they do not know it.
The
one who has not thought it out has the thought of it.
The one who has thought it out does not know it.
It is not understood by those who understand it;
It is understood by those who do not understand it.
--Kena Upanishad 2
And He (God) will teach him (Jesus) the Book, the wisdom, the Torah, the Gospel
and make him a Messenger to the children of Israel saying,
“I have come to you with a sign from your Lord.
I will create for you out of clay as the likeness of a bird;
then I will breathe into it, and it will be a bird, by the power of God.
I will also heal the blind and the leper and bring to life the dead, by the power of God.
I will inform you too of the things you eat, and what you treasure up in your houses.
Surely in that is a sign for you if you are believers.
Likewise I will confirm the truth of the Torah that is before me,
and to make lawful to you certain things that before were forbidden unto you.
I have come to you with a sign from your Lord; so fear God, and obey me.
Surely God is my Lord and your Lord; so serve Him.
This is a straight path".
Qu'ran 3:45-51
"Like two birds of golden plumage, inseparable companions,
the Individual and the immortal self
are perched on the branches of the selfsame tree.
The former tastes of the sweet and bitter fruits of the tree;
the later, tasting of neither,
calmly observes."
--Mundaka Upanished
"The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes from within
the souls of men
their oneness, with the universe and all its powers,
and when they realize that at the center of the universe
dwells Wakan-Tanka [the Universal Spirit Heart - editor],
and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.
This is the real peace, and the others are but reflections of this.
The second peace is that which is made between two individuals,
and the third is that which is made between two nations.
But above all you should
until there is first known that true peace
which is within the souls of men."
~ Black Elk
"We are all connected to everyone and everything in the universe.
Therefore, everything one does as an individual affects the whole.
All thoughts, words, images, prayers, blessings, and deeds are listened to by all that is."
~Serge Kahili King
"In
my thoughts there is only one universal religion
Whose varied paths are but the fingers of the loving hand
of the Supreme Being and loving Presence of all life."
--Kahlil Gibran
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon;
Where there is doubt, faith;
Where there is despair, hope;
Where there is darkness, light;
Where there is sadness, joy.
O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
To be understood, as to understand,
To be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
It is in dying to self that we are born to eternal life.
— St. Francis of Assisi