When others hurt, demean, bruise your self-esteem or present any other undesirable human trait remember; you are not being attacked. They are attacking themselves. ~ Creator
https://thecreatorwritings.wordpress.com/2016/03/17/remember-this/
God said:
I have heard you cry out. I hear your words, and I hear your heart. I hear you say:
"Beloved God, You are the Prow of the Ship I ride on. You are the Bells That Toll. Yours is the Hand I hold. You make me safe. How can I fear when You are beside me? When I look away from You, I am made of nonsense and, so, foolishly, I wound myself on Earth.
"Teach me to love, God, for my heart is bare, and I am lonely. Stripped of love, I live in a deserted island of my own making. I withdraw. I don't really know what I am doing. I may be undoing.
"The question that stands out for me is:
"God, have I forsaken You?"
"Can it be that I have forsaken Your Heart and, therefore, my own heart, my imagined own heart? Do I simply flirt with life and stay all the while on shore?
"What do I chase and why? What ingredients of life do I think I must have that enrich my life further when there is You? What do I run from?
"Have I forsaken myself?"
My children, I answer you:
Every morning you set sail. You may be half-hearted about it. You dribble your fingers in the water. You may not even know where you have set sail for. Know now that you set sail for Me, for I call to you. I call to you to awaken to the Sun and follow the Stars. The Sun is a Star. Follow the Sun, and you will awaken to your Self. Your Self can hardly wait to wake up.
Kristen Gwynne, The Influence
Waking Times
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published by The Influence, and is reprinted here with permission.
In 2012, the presidents of Colombia, Guatemala, and Mexico called for a United Nations General Assembly Special Session on drugs, scheduled for 2019, to be reassigned an earlier date, given the crisis of drug trafficking and related violence in Latin America. As the session’s April 2016 date approaches, drug policy reform groups across the globe are organizing to educate and influence world leaders on the advantages of ending the criminalization of people who use drugs. Most recently, civil society groups condemned the UN for failing to acknowledge and work to resolve “the devastating consequences of punitive and repressive drug policies.”
Diversity is both a sensitive and an important word. We strive for it in the world, but we require it in order to build teams and organizations worthy of innovation. Why? Because great ideas are borne of many great minds, and those great minds cannot cover widespread ground if they all draw from similar experiences.
Diversity allows for a plethora of perspectives to come into play, which, in turn, can lead to better decision making and problem solving. It encourages discoveries and breakthroughs; simply being exposed to diversity can shift your own way of thinking and doing. And there is plenty of research to support this. Over the decades, scientists, psychologists, sociologists, economists, and demographers have weighed in, coming to the conclusion that, without a colorful community, we can only see black and white.
Like a moat around a castle; you protect yourself. To tear down the unnecessary walls, you must resist digging the moat deeper. It is a distraction to keep you from getting to the real point. ~ Creator
https://thecreatorwritings.wordpress.com/2016/03/16/the-moat/
by Alex Erickson, Collective Evolution
We are living in a day and age where the pharmaceutical companies continue to dupe us into believing we need to ingest synthetic medications in order to get better. But did you ever stop to consider that perhaps the best medicine is prevention? Eating whole, organic foods has been found to result in better overall health, keeping a variety of conditions and diseases at bay. But as we all know, sometimes, no matter how good we think we are to our bodies, situations arise that affect our health.
Plenty of foods and spices serve as powerful medicines both in terms of prevention as well as healing. Used in ancient medicine long before money became the driving force that led an industry to control our wellbeing, they are buried beneath the advertisements and marketing campaigns of pharmaceutical giants, waiting for you to realize their true, beneficial properties. And while they may not be patented, or have multi-billion dollar human clinical trials to prove they can prevent and treat your ailments, they humbly exist nonetheless.
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