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1.16.2011

The Paradigm of Love/Joy/Life/Peace, The Paradigm of Lust/Pleasure/Death/War

PLEASE DON'T BLOW THE FOLLOWING OFF. IT MAY SAVE YOUR LIFE. IT MAY BE MY SINGLE GREATEST CONTRIBUTION.

Dr. King thought that clearly Jesus taught us that Spirit is everthing, so he wanted to understand conceptually what constituted the dimensions of Spirit. He figured that such a clear conception would enable him and others to develop that Spirit to its maximum strength / capacity, and to enable a much clearer warning indicator of when the Spirit was nonexistant or critically ill. The following depicts Dr. King's conception. Each dimension can expand or contract independant of the others. The larger the area of the rectangle, the more complete and healthy the Spirit. Jesus tried, and so far failed at making this our Religion:

The dimensions of HEART - LOVE / Spirit / UNIVERSAL LOVE / Otherishess / Brotherhood / LIFE:





















I've found Dr. Kings conception enormously helpful, but I began to wonder - is Adolf Hitler explained simply by being a small version of this cube - weak in every dimension. It became clear to me that no, this does not explain a Hitler. There are opposites for each of these dimensions. I believe that what follows is a reasonable and profoundly enlighening attempt at what this opposite, Flesh is. The U.S. and U.K. have succeeded beyond the dreams of avarice so far at making what follows the World Religion to which we enslave ourselves and eagerly sacrifice our children:

The dimensions of FLESH & MIND - LUST / Selfishness / Capitalism / DEATH
/ EMPIRE:






















Dr. King: "Life's most persistant and urgent question is, what are you doing for others."

Jesus: "What good is it if you have all of the world, but lose your Life?"
Life's central choice: BE the spirit of
A. LOVE, or
B. LUST






12.07.2010

"The problem is not the violent racist. The problem is the good people that sit and talk, not Stand and Risk All to stop Evil." MLK Jr paraphrase, with liberties. Your brother, sl

"The problem is not the violent racist.
The problem is the good people that sit and talk,
not Stand and Risk All to stop Evil."
MLK Jr paraphrase, with liberties. Your brother, sl

11.20.2010

"'I'm a HUMAN,' I joyfully replied to my sister... (read on)." SL

[A brief conversation on Facebook]

Friend:  i am one of ur biggest fans ,
my name is xxxxx i'm an egyptian muslim girl ,
and i just wanted to know that i'm so proud
to have met someone like u during my visit to
america :)

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sl: Hello sister! What an extremely kind note.
Thank you. But I must correct you. You say -
"i'm an egyptian muslim girl...." But you also
say - "i am one of ur biggest fans," and "i'm
so proud to have met someone like u during
my visit to america :)." Well, if these last two
statements are True, and I DO believe you,
then - like me, you are a HUMAN, that happens
to be Muslim and Egyptian. :-) IF I AM WORTHY
OF YOUR PRAISE, it is because I too am HUMAN,
1ST AND ABOVE ALL ELSE, and happen to have
been born in America and into the "Christian" faith.
Your brother forever, no matter what, sl

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Friend:  :D:D i knew that would be ur reply :D:D
and i rsepect u so much for this way of thinking ,
for these principles of tolerence , mercy and
equality that we lack in our world these days :)
may ur message reach the whole world , and may
everyone be touched by it , and may i humbly be
able to be one of those who can deliver it to
other fellow humans :):)

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sl:  :):) :):) :):) :):) :):) :):) :):) Your brother, sl

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11.13.2010

"Start, a dear 'Friend' just was massively cruel. Have you advice?"

"Friend, I'm honored and glad that you asked. I do feel I have a view worth sharing, but of course you'll need to decide its applicability and validity for you.

Most of my life to date I'd be deeply impacted by mean or cruel behavior directed toward me. But not, thank God, at all for 8 years or so now. Zero. My Heart hasn't hardened at all in that time, quite the opposite. But my Understanding of Life has grown ever so much.

Here's how the breakthru for me came. Someone had been just hideous to me, and the thought that came to me was - 'Uh, under what circumstances would Teresa of Calcutta (substitute your own personal hero of Humanity) have behaved that way to me?' 'UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE, EVER.' Immediately what clicked was that the behavior was clinically "sick," "ill...." I happen to be trained in psychology so understand that I mean "clinically" sick; I'm not throwing stones. Well, in seeing that I was receiving sick behavior, two things happened within me then, and since in such situations: 1. I no longer took it personally, which if I did, would paralyze me with hurt, rage, self-doubt..., and 2. It put my relationship to the inflicter in perspective - they were sufficiently unhealthy that a "healthy" relationship with them was obviously impossible, massively unlikely, unworthy of the time and effort....

Soooo, with all this did I then, and do I now in such situations respond instead with a sense of superiority? Does a good MD feel superior to a sick client? NO! But with the clarity I've just outlined to you I'm able to move on emotionally to the Life of Service where Joy is to be found, and not get bogged down. And, I've learned the humility that Jesus had, "no one comes to me except that the Father brings them." Such sickness that can be so hurtful IS NOT CURABLE DIRECTLY by us. It just isn't. AND IT FEEDS ON THE ATTEMPT BY THE WOUNDED PARTY TO HEAL IT! Sooooo, I just move on. If Our Father, Fate, Chance softens / heals the heart of the wounding party at some future date, YAHOO, I'm there to celebrate! But I leave that in Our Father's hands, and move on, realizing that by refusing to get derailed by cruelty done to me, and devoting myself to folks that desperately need, and can absorb my Loving service, I'm being the Light that could possibly lead to a regrowth of Humanity in the person that was horrible to me.

I don't know if this is helpful to you at all. If it is somewhat helpful, but provokes another question or so, please feel free.

Your brother, sl

ps: Of course, with all I've said above, of course this was enormously hurtful to you at the time, but I think it needn't be hurtful going forward.