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Topic: Bad day? What gives you comfort?.... (inspiration inside)


Topic Posted by: Zach
Date Posted: Fri Jul 4 21:59:49 2008
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For me, lately, it is a few verses I found in my Kinesiology text book from this year.  The quotes come from people who had near-death experiences and were approaching that white light we all hear about, but for whatever reason continued on in life and didn't die.  Their descriptions are below, exactly as I read them, with some things omitted just to be less drawn out. I think many of you might relate to at least one or two of the following.  By the way, the textbook is from 1984, and I am guessing that these quotes, though they sound modern, are probably at least 30 years old if not more.  Here they are..

 

 

*** You are shown your life - and you do the judging.

 

*** (My favorite one) >>  I remember I knew that everything, everywhere in the universe was OK, that the plan was perfect.  That whatever was happening - the wars, the famine, whatever - was OK....  The whole time I was in this state, it seemed infinite....  And love and safety and security and knowing that nothing could happen to you and you're home forever.  That you're safe forever.  And that everybody else was.

 

*** It was just pure consciousness.  This enormously bright light seemed almost to cradle me.  I just seemed to exist in it and be part of it and be nurtured by it, and the feeling just became more and more and more ecstatic and perfect.  The feeling - if you took the one thousand best things that ever happened to you in your life and multiplied by a million, maybe you could get close to this feeling.  I don't know.

 

*** I realized that there are things that every person is sent to earth to realize and to learn.  For instance, to share more love, to be more loving toward one another.  To discover that the most important thing is human relationships and love - not materialistic things.  And to realize that every single thing that you do in your life is recorded and that even though you pass it by not thinking at the time, it always comes up later.  For instance, you may be ... at a  stop light and you're in a hurry and the lady in front of you, when the light turns green, doesn't take right off and doesn't notice the light, and you get upset and start honking your horn and telling her to hurry up.  Those are the little kinds of things that are recorded that you don't realize at the time are really important.  One of the things that I discovered that is very important is patience toward other human beings and realizing that you yourself might be in that situation sometime.

 





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Posted by: SusieB
Date posted: Mon Jul 7 9:47:15 2008
Message:

Thanks for sharing this Zach, I am going to print them out.

I recently lost someone, the love of my life, by best friend so this post really hits home with me right now.

I get the most comfort at this time sitting down my by lake in the Gazebo.  I look around and appreciate GODS beauty and pray.  Its been really helping me get through this time. I have always felt closet to God when I am outside in nature, not in a church.

 

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  • thanks for your message. it is very meaningful to me that you appreciated the quotes. People learn and begin to believe, then they read more, and begin to build on their understanding of their beliefs gradually. I would like to think mine are positive. From these quotes I have the additional support that life on this earth, though difficult and sometimes seemingly long, really just goes by in the blink of an eye, and sometimes in the quiet times we sense that. Perhaps if we had more quiet times we would remember this more often. I am very sorry for your loss, but I believe that people very often knew each other before and will meet again. Because I believe this, it has made certain earthly losses for me much easier to bear. How can I despair, when soon I will be reunited.. in heaven, and again in another life? It's only a matter of time, and time has more to do with perception than we think. In the end we all have our own paths to follow. We are lucky to share the road for some time, but we all have our own exit points as they relate specifically to us~ eom/Zach
  • My belief in the after life also gives me comfort. I know he was my soul mate becuase we were literally attracted across a crowded room and from that moment we were never apart until his death///sb

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    Posted by: trkdrvrsqueen
    Date posted: Sat Jul 5 23:13:56 2008
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    I'm glad you posted these quotes. I think about 'heaven' alot and what comes next.... I sure hope it's as wonderful as I imagine it to be. There are alot of things that comfort me. Being in communion w/the God of my understanding, Music, and 'Home'....whenever I get the feeling I'm at home w/God and others. That is comforting.

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    Posted by: serialmom
    Date posted: Sat Jul 5 11:52:16 2008
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    Mine is simplistic but for me it works.  I look at an animal.  Not just a glance but really observe.  They live simple, natural, non-judgemental lives.

    There's a large pet shop near a Chinese carry-out, so whenever we wait for the food I go in. I see a cage with about 10 Parakeets. Some feeding each other, some following others or flirting and a little bickering chatter.  Always some interaction. There's a Green parrot in the next cage sleeping with his head curled over his shoulder.  So natural. no matter the surrounding noise, he sleeps because he needs it without the troubling thought, ''I've got to get some sleep'' 

    Next to that is a large glass case with Ferrets. Their long slender grey bodies in various stages of rest or sleep until I make my presence known.  One usually will get up stretching his full length to my hand.  Sometimes a little soft nip, gently looking for food.

    Then there are Guinea Pigs,  every color or mixture of colors. Some with weird fur growth patterns, going every which way.  Some sleeping, some not.

    They arent annoyed by cell phones, stop lights, relatives, co-workers or any of the other things we allow to annoy us.  They are so naturally content, a bit of it transfers over to me. 

     

     

     

     

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  • Serialmom, I'm with you! I have a yard that is sort of a sanctuary for birds and some other wild things, too. I just love watching them raise their families and feed the young ones before teaching them to fly and fend for themselves. It nourishes one's soul in a special way.

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    Posted by: DebS
    Date posted: Sat Jul 5 8:59:25 2008
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    Jimmy Buffett's music always makes me feel better:

     "If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane"

    "it takes no more time to see the good side of life than to see the bad"

    "If life gives you limes, make margaritas"

    "I gotta go where there ain't any snow,
    where there ain't any blow,
    'cause my fin sinks so low.
    I gotta go where it's warm"

    "I live on a big round ball
    I never do dream I may fall
    And even one day if I do
    Well I'll jump up and smile back at you
    I don't even know where we are
    They tell me were circling a star
    Well I'll take their word, I don't know
    But I'm dizzy so it may be so "

    "There's wind in our hair
    And there's water in our shoes
    It's been a lovely cruise"

    "But there's this one particular harbour
    So far but yet so near
    Where I see the days as they fade away
    And finally disappear"

    "The weather is here I wish you were beautiful
    The skies are too clear life's easy today
    The beer is too cold, the daquiri's too fruitiful
    There's no place like home when it's this far away
    I don't care what they say"

    "Vampires, Mummies and the Holy Ghost
    These are the things that terrify me the most"

    And my favorite quote, about religion:

    "Where's the church, who took the steeple
    Religion's in the hands of some crazy ass people
    Television preachers with bad hair and dimples
    The God's honest truth is it's not that simple.
    It's the Buddhist in you, it's the pagan in me
    It's the Muslim in him, she's Catholic ain't she?
    It's that born again look, it's the wasp and jew
    Tell me what's goin on, I ain't got a clue

    ----------------------------------------------

    Another thing that helps is watching anything with Peter Krause in it, LOL.

    Also, if you want a good book for inspiration, check out the Bagavad Gita (the "bible" of Hinduism). Very good book!

     

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  • I agree that music can be very uplifting and Jimmy Buffet is certainly one to produce that kind of music. If I get emotionally drained, Bob Marley's music seems to comfort me, a couple of lines from Redemption Song in particular, ''Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, None but ourselves can free our minds,'' Such true words. rushlan

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    Posted by: OLDTIMER
    Date posted: Fri Jul 4 23:22:25 2008
    Message:
    Good post Zach.  I have experienced being "one with the universal collective consciousness" and it was very similar to the second and third quote you posted.  It changed me forever. 

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    Posted by: misspm
    Date posted: Fri Jul 4 22:31:45 2008
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    Prayer comforts me most of all. I love to be in conversation with God.

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  • Ditto for me! - Peridot

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