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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.
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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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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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
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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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