A like for the New Year's Message

Dear classmates,

have you read the New Year's Message for 2015:
http://www.theclearandsimpleway.com/monthlymessages.htm ?

I like it and I'm glad I came across it, better said it came across me... (thanks Judy for writing it!)

As around most New Year's, I think around things... and so I couldn't help thinking about how my life should be like, how I or even we as couple or family should be like... I realized that in my questioning, I'm looking at others, comparing... and I did some writing about it. Actually I was asking questions and the pen had some answers. Basically I learned that almost all of my questions were based on judgement - of myself. Even when I felt sad about that it was another judgement.
I tried to understand how "things should be"? How can it matter (what I do) and at the same time be a matter of unimportance (no judgement, nor good nor bad, just be)?
I cannot comprehend now. When I try, my mind soon gets confused. But when I go into the silence of my heart... or into the universe, which might be the same, I know it is true. And the silence is comforting. And even when I can't find the silence at one time, remembering the silence is also comforting and a good way to come out of trying to understand with my mind.

So, happy silent new year :-)
Petra

Happy New Year 2015

I wish all my classmates a really spectacular year. Thank you for sharing this path with me. I feel a special love here and for each of you, even if we have not met, I know you are there, even if we have never communicated. I feel the communication in my heart.

I like how the Classroom keeps changing, just like life does. This background, which I recognize as our teacher's artwork, is full of life and color and enthusiasm.

I am only so sorry for the loss of Penny. There are no words to say and so I will not try. Only that her picture always brought a smile to my heart. She was/is a true being of light and love and innocence and wisdom all at once. Thank you Penny for making my heart lighter. Dear teacher, may your heart be comforted in God's love.

In gratitude, Kevin

Happy New Year 2015!

 

Happy New Year 2015! May you be open and receptive to the abundance of God's love. I wish you the softness of your heart to Guide you each moment. I wish for you kindness towards all beings. Thank you for being here in the school. May you feel the love of the angels that surrounds you now and forever.

Merry Christmas

I wish you all a Merry Christmas. Stay kind. Stay loving. Keep those small everyday deeds of everyday kindness going. That is what can save us. My deepest love goes with you now and always. And that of the angels whose only desire is God's desire.

New Student Enthusiasm!!!

Here is an email I just received from a new student, who begins her lessons January 8. It is nice to know that a new student is going through the archives here in Your Open Classroom and that the constant effort I put into the classroom is serving someone in a positive way. Be sure to welcome any new students, should they stop by to say hello! (This one will recognize herself when she sees herself here.) If she can keep up this same level of enthusiasm she will reap many benefits.

Email:   

"Thank you for sending the introduction. I am so eager to receive your Angel Lessons! Also, I visit the Classroom practically every day. I am reading myself through all the Messages/Lessons starting 2009...there is such a concentration of angel wisdom, so much to meditate about, that I only manage to advance very slowly. Thank you for being there for me!"

Mother Teresa

Prayers for Penny

Dear Classmates!

Judy's dog Penny is missing! Let us all pray for her that she returns safe and sound!
… and also for your teacher to be supported in this difficult situation.
All Love!

Are you a nemophilist?

How beautiful to be a nemophilist!

The mind

It is only if there is a mind that the question of making it one pointed will arise. When you investigate by turning inwards, you find there is no such thing as the mind. ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

Deep peace of the running wave to you…

Deep peace of the running wave to you…
This poem comes from The Dominion of Dreams: Under The Dark Star by Fiona MacLeod (1895).  Fiona MacLeod was a 19th century romantic and Celtic visionary and also, apparently the female pen name of William Sharp. This is a prayer is taken from the longer poem that follows:

Deep peace of the running wave to you.
Deep peace of the flowing air to you.
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you.
Deep peace of the shining stars to you.
Deep peace of the infinite peace to you.

And the full poem:

Nice to know...

Today I had this email from a student who'd had trouble opening her lesson. I sent her it again and everything is fine. She wrote this to me after: "It is so nice to know, you are on the other side of the words you send......"

and I wrote back to her that it is also nice to know that she is on the other end of what I write.

That is what is special about our school and the lessons. You are not reading a book written by someone you have no possibility of ever seeing or having a personal communication with. I love knowing each of you are there, and I mean it when I say I think about each and everyone of you as I write and rewrite the lessons and send them off to you. Sometimes I am thinking about one of you in particular when I write something. Thanks for being there!

This picture is of baby owls with a stuffed toy owl "mother"--after they lost their mother, they needed a new mother to cuddle with and feel safe. So they were given this soft new mother owl. May you all feel just as safe and protected in the arms of the angels.  Your devoted teacher

Why Do We Shout In Anger?

-Anonymous (probably a dog wrote it. Dogs really don't like shouting)

A saint who was once visiting a river to take a bath found a group of family members on the banks, shouting in anger at each other. He turned to his disciples, smiled and asked.

'Why do people in anger shout at each other?'

The disciples thought for a while, then one of them said, 'Because we lose our calm, we shout.'

'But, why should you shout when the other person is just next to you? You can as well tell him what you have to say in a soft manner,' asked the saint.

The disciples gave some other answers but none satisfied the other disciples. 

Finally the saint explained, 'When two people are angry at each other, their hearts distance a lot. To cover that distance they must shout to be able to hear each other. The angrier they are, the stronger they will have to shout to hear each other to cover that great distance.

What happens when two people fall in love? They don't shout at each other but talk softly, because their hearts are very close. The distance between them is either nonexistent or very small...'

The saint continued, 'When they love each other even more, what happens? They do not speak, only whisper and they get even closer to each other in their love. Finally they need not even whisper, they only look at each other and that's all. That is how close two people are when they love each other.'

He looked at his disciples and said, 'So when you argue do not let your hearts get distant, do not say words that distance each other more, or else there will come a day when the distance is so great that you will not find the path to return.'

Fear Not!

Thanks for the new lesson, Indira! I am grateful that I am in the 1st class, one of the first students to sign up, and so sometimes I get to receive an "old" lesson made new-when you revise and update it. And you are right, I get so much out of re-reading an older lesson. It is like I never read it before. This lesson is Fear Not! 

This lesson is so deep I am flabbergasted. This paragraph astounded me:

"You must come to understand that there is something running your life that isn't you. Something that does not want you to be free and happy. Something that wants to destroy you, just as that something is destroying this man's health, keeping him in the darkness of unconsciousness, thinking he is winning, when he is losing."

You had been writing about a man who was choosing pain because he was listening to the false voice of fear. I am finally hearing what you are saying, have been saying all along, that there is something running my life that isn't me. The false self. 

This is incredible, Indira. I must begin to see what is false about myself before I can begin to see what is true. 

Thank you for this deep and mind blowing lesson, my teacher. 

something to think about

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvDKTRgoSS8

Your are the Face of God

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-URNIBi55Y&sns=fb

Created by: Michelle Sherliza, OP Words by: Karen Drucker and Rev. Karyl Huntley Music by: Karen Drucker CTayToones Music BMI

Wishing you a bright and beautiful day with so much love...

abundance and fulfillment at every level. May you know God in each moment. May you know that you are not separate from God. With gratitude to you for being here.

The Heart...

The Heart is the only Reality. The mind is only a transient phase. To remain as one's Self is to enter the Heart ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi

3 Questions

1. Have you loved with all your being today? 
2. Have you lived with all your energy today? 
3. Have you laughed with all your heart today?

Spiritual Shamanism

"In many shamanic societies, if you came to a medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions: "When did you stop dancing? When did you stop singing? When did you stop being enchanted by stories? When did you stop being comforted by the sweet territory of silence?" -Gabrielle Roth

The Angels

Just signing on for a moment before I go to sleep to remind you that the angels are with you now and always to bless you, protect you, and guide you in all your ways. You can know this for yourself as you continue along your spiritual path. The angels can be experienced as an actual energy, even when you cannot see them. It is not everyone's destiny to see angels while in an earthly body. Be open and discover how your particular connection with angels manifests. 

This is Christel's husband, Rudi. He did see an angel once, during an angel seminar several years ago. While on break, he went into the basement to get something and he saw an angel there!