Message for May 2, 2016

http://www.theclearandsimpleway.com/
The Clear and Simple Way School
°☆★°★●*
The next time you find yourself frustrated by anything at all, by something that isn’t working, something that is not going your way or the way it usually goes, stop, pause, take a breath. Calm yourself. Feel yourself in your body, touching the chair or the floor or the ground, and ask yourself, “What am I supposed to be learning right now? Is there a message here for me? Am I trying to force my will? How do I feel? Am I stressed and full of tension? Am I putting unnecessary strain upon my body, my mind, my heart? Am I supposed to be going another way, trying something new, letting go, or should I persevere?” And do your best to open to what you are not open to. Let yourself open to newness, and the moment will be new. Stress will vanish.

Much love from your friendly teacher and classmate

on angel wings message

Why do you try so hard to control the next moment? Then you have no energy to live this moment. An endless cascade of light flows through you. You are a brook flowing merrily down a mountainside. Why think you are the rocks you pass over? 

Peanuts

Wisdom

The law of gravitation is only half known to the world of science, which believes that the earth attracts all that belongs to it. This is true. But the spirit also attracts all that belongs to it, and that other side to the law of gravitation has always been known to the mystics. - Hazrat Inayat Khan

School of Angels

http://www.theclearandsimpleway.com/
The Clear and Simple Way School
°☆★°★●*
There was once a School of True Wisdom. An angel stood on guard before it, blocking entrance at the front gate. One morning a seeker approached the gate and asked admittance. The angel told him, ‘If I step aside and you enter here, you will see that you have been a shameless faker all your life.’

The seeker answered, ‘I wish to enter. Please step aside.' The angel then said to the seeker, ‘If I step aside and you enter here, you must abandon all your usual and beloved hopes and ambitions.' The seeker said, ‘I wish to come in. Please step aside.'

The angel continued, ‘If I step aside and you enter here, you will come face to face with every evil and secret thought you have ever thought.’ The seeker replied, ‘I wish to go inside. Please step aside.' The angel smiled and stepped aside.”

Quote from Vernon Howard which sums up the spiritual path and The Clear and Simple Way School of Angels. It is not for the weak hearted. The only way to the Light is through the dark forest of ego. Do you wish to journey there?

°☆★°★●*

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Freedom is freedom from worry. Having realized that you cannot influence the results, pay no attention to your desires and fears. Let them come and go. Don't give them the nourishment of interest and attention. -Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

How sweet for our eyes

The Mind

I saw this and couldn't resist posting it here. Yes, an undisciplined, uncared for mind can be like cobwebs in our heads! There is really nothing wrong with the brain. The brain works fine in the rain, in the pain, keeping us safe and sane. (I feel like rhyming today). The practical mind serves us well, when we let it. There IS a space between each thought. You may have heard this before. But you may not have listened to it. Please keep this in mind. There IS a space between each thought!

Tibetan Proverb

"The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure." Tibetan Proverb

I saw this and liked it very much. Loving without measure -- such a beautiful thought. Even more beautiful -- Being Love Without Measure. Love has no measure. Hate, violence, anger, greed, competition, revenge. They all have a measure. We measure ourselves against other people. We measure what we get, what we give, what we have. Love without measure -- and there is peace.

Angels Surround You

°☆★°★●*
Angels around you, angels surround you in the healing light of peace and understanding now and forever. Now is the only forever. Past and future exist in the mind’s misunderstandings. Now exists in the perfect understanding of your true Self. Angels around you, angels surround you in the  clear light of Truth. -

This is Snowball Rapunzel Martinez

Have you read Lao Tzu?

---

One of my favorite Teachers from long ago. Born 601 BC, Died at Age 70 - 531 BC, Founder/Co-Founder of the Chinese philosophical ‘School of the Tao’ or ‘Taoism’ Lao Tzu created one of the most important Chinese texts, the Tao Te Ching.

• If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

• He who defines himself can’t know who he really is.

• Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

• Give evil nothing to oppose and it will disappear by itself.

• Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself?

• Express yourself completely, then keep quiet. Be like the forces of nature: when it blows, there is only wind; when it rains, there is only rain; when the clouds pass, the sun shines through.

• Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner.

• New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.

• If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.     

Habits

https://www.facebook.com/AnderssenLuc/videos/1688239314762554/?fref=nf
I have written 3 lessons about habits, Parts I, II, and III -- which some of you have read by now. This is a very interesting video on how human beings are socialized. It is more comfortable to "follow the crowd" then to think for one's self. It is uncomfortable to be different from the crowd.

Kind Words

“Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel’s song which had lost its way and come to earth.” -Frederick William Faber (1814-1863)

your true nature is heaven

God is within you. So is heaven. Your true nature is heaven. It is peaceful. It is everything that is. It is why you are here. You are born with everything you need to know to get where you want to go. Where do you want to go?(Lesson 88)

I loved this part in our lesson: 
it seems we all are deeply touched by all the messages to have already the key to work on our  own journey.Thank you Indira for all our lessons.ursula

Grace and control..

"Just do your work. And if the world needs your work it will come and get you. And if it doesn't, do your work anyway. You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision."
— Kiki Smith

Success

“Creating a life that reflects your values and satisfies your soul is a rare achievement. In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive. 

Ambition is only understood if it’s to rise to the top of some imaginary ladder of success. Someone who takes an undemanding job because it affords him the time to pursue other interests and activities is considered a flake. A person who abandons a career in order to stay home and raise children is considered not to be living up to his potential — as if a job title and salary are the sole measure of human worth. 

You’ll be told in a hundred ways, some subtle and some not, to keep climbing, and never be satisfied with where you are, who you are, and what you’re doing. There are a million ways to sell yourself out, and I guarantee you’ll hear about them. To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble." -Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin & Hobbs 

© Universal Press Syndicate

April Showers Bring May Flowers

Archived Post: Spring Message on my Website. Find it here:

http://www.theclearandsimpleway.com/aprilmessage2009.htm

In imagination you can travel everywhere you want to be. We often use imagination for unimaginative things - like remembering an unhappy past or a frightening future. Why not use imagination for useful things? You will be happier when you do! And so will the people around you. Just as people are pulled toward a warm spring day or a beautiful flower, so are they pulled to a sunny, happy nature.

Rainbow in Austin, Texas

Healing Angels

Dear Students, In our classmate, Ron's, post below (which I published for him) several comments have been added, which you might like to read. Two of them I posted, but they are from Anne and Hannelore, not me. Here is a poem that Ron sent me this morning.  He says he also received it, in response to his angel story:

A Blessing of Angels,
by John O’Donohue

Being Breathed

Hello Classmates,
I've just read the comment "Being Breathed.  At least concerning myself I came over time to the conclusion that it all lies in the breath. As said you start life with a first breath and you end life with a last breath.
Personally I have to work with my breath, especially with the issue of not holding it. Allowing it to let go and breath deeply.
Best regards, Monika

Peaceful Chant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC-n4HyeYRA

Good Morning Everyone, it is not yet 6:00 am in Austin and still dark outside. A few raindrops are falling. I have fed the cats (all 3) and have a cuppa hot green tea to sip.  Oh, and the tiny dog who also lives here just joined me. The link above is to a soothing chant I just came across, which I thought I would share with you, just because it is peaceful. And this is hanging on my wall. I used to have pink walls, now I have blue walls.