Re: Not Just Any Feeling Will Do

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This is beautiful it goes right along with Ghandi's lines of

we are what we think....it's a mental state of oneness in all aspects.

Thankyou for all your compassion in heart

--- In , " " <knightsintention@...>

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> Recent translations of ancient prayers recorded in Aramaic, the language

> of the Essenes (the scribes of the Dead Sea Scrolls) seem to support

> precisely what the monk was sharing as the secrets of reality making.

> These new interpretations also offer fresh clues as to why such

> instructions often appear to be so vague. By retranslating the original

> New Testament documents, it's clear that tremendous liberties were taken

> over the centuries with the ancient authors' words and intent. As the

> saying goes, a lot was " lost in the translation. " (I described this-and

> other examples that I share in these pages-in my last book, Secrets of

> the Lost Mode of Prayer, but they're so relevant that I decided to

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> Relating to our ability to participate in the events of

> life, health, and family, a comparison of the modern biblical version of

> " Ask and you shall receive, " for example, with its original text gives

> us an idea of just how much can be lost! The modern and condensed King

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> " Whatsoever ye ask the Father in my name,

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> he will give it to you. Hitherto have ye asked

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> nothing in my name: Ask and ye shall

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> receive, that your joy may be full. "

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> When we compare this with the original text, we see the key

> that's left out. In the following paragraph, I've emphasized the

> missing part by underlining it.

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> " All things that you ask strightly, directly…

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> from inside My name-

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> you will be given. So far you haven't done this….

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> So ask without hidden motive and

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> Be surrounded by your answer

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> Be enveloped by what you desire, that your gladness be full. "

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> With these words, we're reminded of the quantum principle

> telling us that feeling is a language to direct and focus our

> consciousness. It's a state of being that we're in, rather than

> something that we do at a certain time of day.

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> While it's clear that emotion is the language that the

> Divine Matrix recognizes, it's also apparent that not just any feeling

> will do. If it did, then the world would be a very confusing place,

> with one person's idea of what should be overlapping with someone else's

> very different conception. The monk stated that compassion is both a

> force of creation and the experience that accesses it. The deepest

> elements of teaching suggest that in order to achieve compassion, we

> must approach a circumstance without a strong expectation of the

> rightness or wrongness of that situation's outcome. In other words, we

> must perceive it without judgment or ego. And it appears to be

> precisely this quality of emotion that's the key to speaking to the

> Divine Matrix in a way that's meaningful and effective.

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> As the physicist Amit Goswami suggests, it takes more than a regular

> state of consciousness to make a quantum possibility a present reality.

> In fact, to do so he indicates that we must be in what he describes as a

> " non-ordinary state of consciousness. "

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> To get to this point, the Aramaic translation states that we must " ask

> without hidden motive. " Another way of clarifying this very important

> part of the instruction is to say in modern terms that we must make our

> decisions from a desire that's not based in our ego. The great secret

> to bringing the focus of our imagination, beliefs, healing, and peace

> into a present reality is that we must do so without a strong attachment

> to the outcome of our choice. In other words, we're invited to pray

> without our judgments of what should or shouldn't be happening.

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> Key 10: Not just any feeling will do. The ones that create

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> Perhaps one of the best descriptions of how we experience

> this neutral place is found in the work of the great Sufi poet Rumi.

> With words that are simple and powerful, he states, " Out beyond ideas of

> wrong-doing and right-doing there is a field. I'll meet you there. "

> How often can we truly say that we're in Rumi's field of non-judgment at

> any time in our lives-especially when the fate of our loved ones is

> hanging in the balance? Yet this appears to be precisely the greatest

> lesson of our pwer, the biggest challenge of our lives, and the enormous

> iron of our abilty to create in a participatory universe.

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> It seems that the stronger our desire is to change our

> world, the more elusive our power to do so becomes. This is because

> what we want is so often ego based. If it weren't, the change wouldn't

> hold such significance for us. As we mature into the state of

> consciousness where we know that we can alter our reality, however, it

> also seems that it becomes less important for us to do so.

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> Similar to the way our desire to drive a car, for example,

> wanes after we actually begin to do so, in having the ability to work

> miracles of healing and peace, the urgency to make them happen seems to

> disappear. This may be because along with knowing that we can change

> things comes an acceptance of the world just the way it is.

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> It's this freedom of possessing power without attaching so

> much importance to it that allows us to be even more effective in our

> prayers. And herein may lie the answer to the question asked by those

> who meditated, chanted, omed, danced, and prayed for the recovery of

> their loved ones.

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> Although every act was undoubtedly well intentioned, it

> often involved a strong attachment to having or making the healing of

> our loved ones happen. It entailed a belief that a miraculous recovery

> was necessary. And if the healing still needed to occur, the

> implication was that it hadn't taken place yet-if it had, we wouldn't be

> asking for it in our prayers. It's as if by wanting the outcome of

> healing, the efforts to create it actually reinforced the reality that

> the disease was present! This leads to the second part of the ancient

> instruction, something that's often overlooked in our attempts to bring

> miracles into our lives.

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> The next part of the translation invites us to " be

> surrounded " by our answer and " be enveloped " by what we desire so that

> our joy may come to pass. This passage reminds us in words of precisely

> what the experiments and the ancient traditions suggest in their shared

> wisdom. We must first have the feeling of healing, abundance, peace,

> and the answers to our prayers of well-being in our hearts as if they've

> already happened before they become the reality of our lives.

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> haven't done that. Just like my friends with the powerful medicine of

> prayer and good intentions, while they may have believed that they asked

> for their prayers to be answered, if their request was simply the words

> Please let this healing happen, then he says that this isn't a language

> that the universal field of the Divine matrix recognizes. Jesus reminds

> his disciples that they must " speak " to the universe in a way that's

> meaningful. When we feel as though we're surrounded by healing in our

> loved ones and enveloped by peace in our world, that's both the language

> and the code that opens the door to all possibilities.

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> In this feeling, we move from the viewpoint that suspects

> we're simply experiencing whatever comes our way to the perspective that

> knows we're part of all that is. Thus, we create a shift of energy that

> may be described as the classic " quantum leap. " In much the same way

> that an atom's electron jumps from one energy level to another without

> moving through the space between, when we really know that we're

> speaking the quantum language of choice and not simply thinking that we

> might be, we're in another state of consciousness. It's this state that

> becomes the pure space where dreams, prayers, and miracles begin.

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