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Old 22-12-2018, 12:30 PM
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Jesus said, “Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you. For there is nothing hidden which will not become manifest”.

It's not right time for me, I'll just have to be content with hiding under the bed

I like that quote, especially "for there is nothing hidden which will not become manifest". In addition, to use your terminology (I believe that you wrote it), one doesn't know exactly how certain things happen even as they are happening ("I don't know" as my teacher would often say) since it is "knowing without thinking" (your words, I believe, but now my words as well thanks to you ).
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Old 22-12-2018, 04:01 PM
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I like that quote, especially "for there is nothing hidden which will not become manifest". In addition, to use your terminology (I believe that you wrote it), one doesn't know exactly how certain things happen even as they are happening ("I don't know" as my teacher would often say) since it is "knowing without thinking" (your words, I believe, but now my words as well thanks to you ).


Yes it is a nice quote and fits perfectly with not knowing even when things are happening.
Glad you understood my ' knowing without thinking ', some don't and think I'm strange
Thinking to much is sometimes a hindrance, as our thoughts mostly come from others anyway and get in the way of ' knowing '.

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Old 23-12-2018, 12:31 PM
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Yes it is a nice quote and fits perfectly with not knowing even when things are happening.
Glad you understood my ' knowing without thinking ', some don't and think I'm strange
Thinking to much is sometimes a hindrance, as our thoughts mostly come from others anyway and get in the way of ' knowing '.

Silence can be golden, especially when you get the nugget

I absolutely LOVE the expression that I "stole" from you and, as I mentioned before, that expression ("knowing without thinking") has become a part of me now. There are many who won't or can't understand it, but it describes that aspect of the higher pure intuitive life perfectly.
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Old 23-12-2018, 01:00 PM
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There are many who won't or can't understand it, but it describes that aspect of the higher pure intuitive life perfectly.

Good afternoon Still Waters

I think you may find that comes with trusting and letting go
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Old 24-12-2018, 12:48 PM
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Good afternoon Still Waters

I think you may find that comes with trusting and letting go

Your point is very well taken, muffin.

I have always said that faith is an important first step because, without faith, one might never get started on the pathless path. Blind faith, however, is something that does not appeal to me as I VALIDATE what resonates with me and translate that faith into ACTION. Once one discovers that the results are positive and support one's beliefs, then the faith turns to CONFIDENCE. As confidence increases, it transforms into TRUST, as you duly mentioned. Lastly, the trust turns into complete and total SURRENDER to the underlying Reality.

I also like your use of the term "letting go", as I use it frequently. People talk about "forgiveness" a lot but I notice that many people are actually irritated when some one says that they forgive them. "What are you forgiving me for? What did I do?" Forgiveness implies a judgment that there is something to forgive. Like yourself, I find it preferable to just "let go" with no judgments whatsoever. ("Judge not lest ye be judged.")
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Your point is very well taken, muffin.

I have always said that faith is an important first step because, without faith, one might never get started on the pathless path. Blind faith, however, is something that does not appeal to me as I VALIDATE what resonates with me and translate that faith into ACTION. Once one discovers that the results are positive and support one's beliefs, then the faith turns to CONFIDENCE. As confidence increases, it transforms into TRUST, as you duly mentioned. Lastly, the trust turns into complete and total SURRENDER to the underlying Reality.

I also like your use of the term "letting go", as I use it frequently. People talk about "forgiveness" a lot but I notice that many people are actually irritated when some one says that they forgive them. "What are you forgiving me for? What did I do?" Forgiveness implies a judgment that there is something to forgive. Like yourself, I find it preferable to just "let go" with no judgments whatsoever. ("Judge not lest ye be judged.")

Good afternoon Still Waters

For me more times than not I've have to go look up a word or two, just to know where another is coming from. For me there is more than one way to look at any one thing and each is valid as the last.

You say faith as a starting point on the pathless path, it's not the only way by a long shot, there are so many different ways, you could be walking along with life and get whacked upside the head with it.

May be I would fit in the irritated mood when people say sorry, "with a smile, why you never hurt me", but then again forgiveness has it's place

Hope you enjoyed Christmas and Happy new year all
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Good afternoon Still Waters

For me more times than not I've have to go look up a word or two, just to know where another is coming from. For me there is more than one way to look at any one thing and each is valid as the last.

You say faith as a starting point on the pathless path, it's not the only way by a long shot, there are so many different ways, you could be walking along with life and get whacked upside the head with it.

May be I would fit in the irritated mood when people say sorry, "with a smile, why you never hurt me", but then again forgiveness has it's place

Hope you enjoyed Christmas and Happy new year all
Once again, your points are quite valid. While faith is indeed important as a starting point for many, "there there are so many different ways, you could be walking along with life and get whacked upside the head with it", as you duly noted.

In traveling throughout the world, I got "whacked upside the head with it", as I met extraordinary beings who, among other things, materialized in the middle of an open area with no visible obstructions, demonstrated telepathic and remote viewing capabilities, were sleepless in the traditional sense, and so on. When one gets "whacked upside the head" with such happenings, it triggers reflection/meditation on how such things are possible. In addition, I had an NDE (near death experience) in my early 20s --- saw my body from afar, could see my brother and sister down the hallway (remote viewing) and could accurately describe what they were wearing even though they never entered the room, emerged symptom-free from a 3-day "irreversible coma", etc. --- which was life-transforming and pushed me headlong even deeper on the spiritual path. Yes, there are other ways than faith by which one's true nature unfolds --- many other ways. That's a very valid point.
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