What Has Been Stolen is not Wealth: It is Our Joy of Living

The world we face today is one of anguish, suffering, and a whole lot of sadness. We all feel things are not right, but we cannot quite express what is happening. We know the world of economic hope is missing on a global basis. We know that politics and economies are rigged against us, but we have no idea what to do about it. In fact, we are resigned to a degree as to the current state of affairs.

However, if we really can understand what we could do “about it”, we most certainly would do so collectively.  We contend that what has really been systematically stolen from us is JOY!

Joy, defined as, a feeling or state of well-being and contentment <the inexpressible joy that the couple are feeling upon the birth of their first child> Synonyms beatitude, blessedness, bliss, blissfulness, felicity, gladness, happiness, warm fuzzies

Related Words elatedness, elation, exhilaration, exultation, high, intoxication; ecstasy, euphoria, glory, heaven, nirvana, paradise, rapture, rapturousness, ravishment, seventh heaven, transport; delectation, delight, enjoyment, pleasure; cheer, cheerfulness, comfort, exuberance, gaiety, gladsomeness, glee, gleefulness, jocundity, jollity, joyfulness, joyousness, jubilance, jubilation, lightheartedness, merriness, mirth; content, contentedness, gratification, satisfaction, triumph

Look up any of these related words. In fact, look them all up. We need to re-enforce what it is that we need to understand; what that “thing” is that has been stolen from our lives, from our consciousness. When we look at how we currently feel the Near Antonyms agony, anguish, desolation, joylessness, sorrow, sufferance, woe, woefulness; blues, cheerlessness, dejection, depression, desolateness, despondency, disheartenment, dispiritedness, doldrums, downheartedness, gloom, gloominess, melancholy, mournfulness, plaintiveness; Gehenna, hell, purgatory of joy go a long way in expressing how we, on a global basis, are feeling.

Ask yourself a quiet reflective question. When was the last time you really experienced joy?  Sad huh? It is time we again found joy in our lives. Then ponder why it is that joy is so elusive being that it is after all just a state of mind. If we approach this in a scientific manner, then consider a study of true science is a study of God. Angels are organizations natural in accordance with God’s laws. They appear superhuman, because of our ignorance concerning the higher natural forces. They exist in exact accordance with the laws that govern the universe; but as yet the attraction between clay and clay-bound spirit is so great as to prevent the enthralled soul of man from communicating with them. The faith of the religionist is an example of the unquenchable feeling that creates a belief as well as a hope that there is a self-existence separate from earthy substances. The scoffing scientific agnostic, working for other objects, will yet astonish himself by elaborating a method that will practically demonstrate these facts, and then empirical religion, as exemplified by the unquestioning faithful believer, and systematic science, as typified in the experimental materialist, will meet on common ground.

The next several weeks and months will be fraught with much anxiety and bring great revelations that will astonish us all. Information that will makes us angry and create within us a state of disbelief. Every thing we thought we knew will be undone. It has already started. As these incredible events unfold, remember it is simply a sudden and dramatic expansion of our understanding of how the universe is really organized. Therefore, accept this knowledge with joy, knowing it is now time to understand truths that are universal and timeless. It is now time to open our eyes and for all of us a time to truly wake up!


A Little Wonderful Food For Thought and a Little Wave of Peace

The American writer Max Ehrmann (1872–1945) wrote this beautiful prose poem “Desiderata” in 1927.


Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they also have their story.

Silence usually is understood to be something negative, something empty, an absence of sound, of noises. This misunderstanding is prevalent because very few people have ever experienced silence. All that they have experienced in the name of silence is noiselessness. But silence is a totally different phenomenon. It is utterly positive. It is existential, it is not empty. It is overflowing with a music that you have never heard before, with a fragrance that is unfamiliar to you, with a light that can only be seen by the inner eyes. It is not something fictitious; it is a reality, and a reality which is already present in everyone — just we never look in. All our senses are extrovert. Our eyes open outside, our ears open outside, our hands move outside, our legs… all our senses are meant to explore the outside world.
But there is a sixth sense also, which is asleep because we have never used it. And no society, no culture, no educational system helps people to make the sixth sense active. That sixth sense, in the East, is called “the third eye”. It looks inwards. And just as there is a way of looking in, so there is a way of hearing in, so there is a way of smelling in. Just as there are five senses moving outward, there are five counter-senses moving inward. In all, man has ten senses, but the first sense that starts the inner journey is the third eye, and then other senses start opening up.

Are you on an awakening path for yourself in this moment of time? And have you identified yourself as an entrepreneur my friend? If so, you might feel already all your life like many of society’s rules, are just not right for you. As if the structures given are not there to help and protect, but to suffocate your life. You probably could not accept people’s usual ways of working simply for money, building relationships without meaning, and boring creations of a monotonous life. Entrepreneurs are usually quite self-driven people, they are comfortable with taking risks, and quite hard-working people.

Here are 7 signs that you are called to consciously transform Human Consciousness:
1.) Do you sense that something is out of balance and alignment in the world right now? Do you feel a burning desire to be a part of the solution? Do you receive visions of the Golden Age of Aquarius, a more beautiful, authentic and collectively happy time for all humanity? Do you feel like it is your sacred purpose or divine calling, to help bring it into being?

2.) Have you ever had an experience of life-altering impact that completely changed the direction of your life, and transformed you forever? Do you feel like this event maybe even only happened to you, so you can use that experience to help others? Do you sense already how this help possible could look like?

3.) While you feel drawn to support the human collective evolution and feel capable to do so, you can get very easily drained by too much social contact or in general by bigger groups of people. Especially to listen to superficial communication, feels like it takes the life out of you. You need regular periods of solitude to “charge up the batteries” your inner connection with “SELF”.

4.) You might also be born with the gifts of a visionary, and receive advice from your spirit guides for innovative ideas that could make the world collectively a better place. Often these innovative visions are circling around human health, the development of medical tools, social improvement, the preservation of the earth and community building.

5.) You are in a mysterious love affair with the abundant colors of life, and the way they make you feel. Especially violet, royal blue, baby pink, gold and green are attractive for you. You might even have an inner picture or an inner feeling for a violet or internal golden light, whenever you use your mind to create transformation for the world.

6.) You feel an intense connection with certain types of natural environments, such as the ocean, mountains, or forest. You have a deep love for plants and love spending time with gardening, to the point that you can feel empty or depressed without the chance to be among nature. You might even feel the urge to prevent plants from suffering and pain.

7.) Over the last years, especially since the end of the Mayan Calendar, you constantly feel that the mission you are sensing, is getting closer and closer to be unveiled. We are a very big collective in this moment of time and the transformation of us, this massive mass, is limited to a certain time-frame. That is the reason why people with such a calling, are feeling time pressuring them to evolve. It is true, the “team change” needs every member that can possible manage to awaken!! So get up!!!




Buddhist Master Thích Nhất Hạnh and his spiritual quotes, teachings and reports from life experiences, are all over the internet, social media and other places where spiritual awakened ones and seekers come together. He is a Zen Master, a global spiritual leader, a poet, an international peace activist and in his tradition he is considered a Living Buddha or Living Christ. Born in 1926, he started teaching in his twenties and ever since, his life has since been dedicated to the work of inner transformation for the benefit of individuals and society. His teachings on mindfulness, on peace-making, on community-building in schools, workplaces, businesses and even prisons, have inspired millions of people by now.

Here are 20 of his famous quotes you might have heard before:
1.) “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
2.) “Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”

“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything like – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.”
9.) “Because you are alive, everything is possible.”
10.) “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
11.) “Smile, breathe and go slowly.”
16.) “If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love.”
17.) “You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.”
19.) “My actions are my only true belongings.”
20.) “Our own life has to be our message.”

Wishing you a peaceful and silent day. Thanks Edith Boyer-Telmer for reminding me of these important peaceful thoughts.