Gaia: Love, God & Spirituality in Music, Song and Words !!!! - QUOTES

Music is .... f.z.

http://BabasBoy.gaia.com — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 02:01:58 GMT

"Music is the Best."

Frank Zappa

BECOME LIKE A CHILD AGAIN

http://BabasBoy.gaia.com — Sat, 21 Jul 2007 04:01:06 GMT

               POSITIVE DAILY INSPIRATION
                           July 20, 2007

               BECOME LIKE A CHILD AGAIN

Jesus talks to the disciples about true greatness,
in Matthew Chapter 18:1-3,

   At that time the disciples came to Jesus and
   asked, "Who is the greatest in the kingdom of
   heaven?"
   He called a child, whom he put among them,
   and said, "Truly I tell you, unless you change
   and become like children, you will never enter
   the kingdom of heaven."

   Imagine for a moment, this happening in the board
   room of a corporation, or even a church. The
   members of the board are all eagerly asking who
   is the greatest, who will be promoted, who will
   receive the largest compensation. And the CEO,
   brings a child inside, from off the street,
   and says to the entire group, "This one is the
   greatest !"

   To be like a child, is to go through life with a
   feeling of excitement and adventure.
   To be like a child is to be teachable.
   To be like a child one is no longer cynical.
   To be like a child a person is full of play.
   To be a child is to have the vision and
   perception to see the wonder in the ordinary.

   Jesus teaches that play is as important,
   in spirituality, as work. He said as strongly
   as He could, you MUST become like a little child
   again or you will NEVER enter The Kingdom of
   Heaven.

   The Kingdom of Heaven that he was talking about
   is more than an after death proposition; it is a
   state of consciousness; it is a heaven on earth,
   in your own life, in this moment of time.

   I often get a lot of concerned letters about how
   hard I work, I do work hard, harder than I've
   ever worked, and it's easy to see the evidence
   of the work in prayers, the Positive Daily
   Inspiration and Positive Written Sermons.
   But what people do not see is how hard I play.
   I play continuously and so should you. I travel,
   I ride my motorcycle, work on the cars, love to
   go to the movies, and go down an occasional slide
   in a playground.

   Life is GR8 !!!!

   This e-mail was sent on this Friday for a reason,
   because I challenge you to make this Saturday a
   play day. Follow Jesus in becoming like a little
   child again. It will recharge you to accomplish
   twice as much in half the time when you're back
   into your adult role.

   Below, is an official document that I invite you
   to copy and give to your overly serious friends:

         I TENDER MY RESIGNATION AS AN ADULT

I am hereby officially tendering my resignation as
an adult. I have decided I would like to accept the
responsibilities of an 8 year-old again.

I want to go to McDonald's and think that it's a
four star restaurant.

I want to sail sticks across a fresh mud puddle and
make a sidewalk with rocks.

I want to think M&Ms are better than money because
you can eat them.

I want to lie under a big oak tree and run a
lemonade stand with my friends on a hot summer's
day.

I want to return to a time when life was simple;
when all you knew were colors, multiplication
tables, and nursery rhymes, but that didn't
bother you, because you didn't know what you didn't
know and you didn't care.

All you knew was to be happy because you were
blissfully unaware of all the things that should
make you worried or upset.

I want to think the world is fair.

That everyone is honest and good.

I want to believe that anything is possible. I want
to be oblivious to the complexities of life and be
overly excited by the little things again.

I want to live simple again. I don't want my day to
consist of computer crashes, mountains of paperwork,
depressing news, how to survive more days in the
month than there is money in the bank, doctor bills,
gossip, illness, and loss of loved ones.

I want to believe in the power of smiles, hugs, a
kind word, truth, justice, peace, dreams, the
imagination, humankind, and making angels in
the snow.

So . . . here's my checkbook and my car-keys, my
credit card bills and my 401K statements. I am
officially resigning from adulthood.

And if you want to discuss this further, you'll
have to catch me first, cause........

       ......"Tag! You're it."

(If this Saturday is already taken by serious
adult commitments, agree with me to make an
appointment with yourself, for one full day,
within the next seven days, JUST for a play.)
The cell phone will be off. The Blackberry will
be turned off. So is the computer (I can't believe
what I just told you to do) but you will find
Positive Daily Inspiration waiting for you when
you return.

         God Bless You! Make it a GREAT day!

         Reverend Christopher Ian Chenoweth

   "O Lord, give me a place at Thy Lotus Feet.
    Keep me always in Thy company.
     Give me sincere and pure love for Thee."

The Stars (and God) Always Exist

http://BabasBoy.gaia.com — Sat, 05 May 2007 15:43:53 GMT

          The Stars (and God) Always Exist

     "You see many stars in the sky at night,
       but not when the sun rises.
       Can you therefore say that there are no
       stars in the heavens during the day?
       Because you cannot find God in the days
       of your ignorance,
       say not that there is no God."

                        Sri Ramakrishna

Beauty of an Angel's Wing

http://BabasBoy.gaia.com — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:16:04 GMT

    "Beauty...sometimes takes the form of a white
     cloud,
     and goes dancing over the green fields or the
     deep blue sea, where her misty form,
     marked out in a momentary darkness,
     looks like the passing shadow of an
     angel's wing."

                     G. A. Sala
               "Beauty of the Universe"

For THE NEW YEAR !!!!

http://BabasBoy.gaia.com — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:09:50 GMT

     "We will open the book. Its pages are blank.
      We are going to put words on them ourselves.
      The book is called Opportunity and its first
      chapter is New Year's Day."

                 Edith Lovejoy Pierce
   _________________________________________________

        "Another fresh new year is here . . .
         Another year to live!
         To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
         To love and laugh and give!

         This bright New Year is given me
         To live each day with zest . . .
         To daily grow and try to be
         My highest and my best!

         I have the opportunity
         Once more to right some wrongs,
         To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
         And sing more joyful songs!"

                 William Arthur Ward
   ________________________________________________

        "Be always at war with your vices,
         at peace with your neighbors,
         and let each New Year find you
         a better man."

                 Benjamin Franklin
   ________________________________________________

    "Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning
     but a going on,
     with all the wisdom that experience can
     instill in us."

                     Hal Borland
   ________________________________________________

     "Every man should be born again on the
      first day of January.
      Start with a fresh page.
      Take up one hole more in the buckle if
      necessary, or let down one, according to
      circumstances; but on the first of January
      let every man gird himself once more,
      with his face to the front,
      and take no interest in the things that
      were and are past."

                  Henry Ward Beecher

__________________________________________________

    Do you have a personal and professional Plan,
    Do and Review in your life?

    As we start 2007, this is a great time to Plan,
    Do and Review.
    Are you focused and on course for reaching your
    goals?
    Are you on the right track mentally, physically,
    spiritually, financially, relationally, etc.?

    As Jim Rohn would say...
   "Now is the time to fix the next 10 years!"

                Bits & Pieces editor's
__________________________________________________

    "The great thing to learn about life is,
     first,
     not to do what you don't want to do,
     and,
     second,
     to do what you do want to do."

           Margaret Anderson (1886-1973)
                       Editor
__________________________________________________

        "Live simply; love extravagantly."

                   Author unknown
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The Secret of True Love

http://BabasBoy.gaia.com — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:43:33 GMT

      "The secret of True Love is that it is
        unconquerable and irresistable.
        Even the one who resists it's approach
        is lost as he springs to plug the hole
        through which it is flowing past the
        walls of his heart.
        It races behind him and he turns only
        in time to find himself surrounded and
        born aloft on its irresistable might."

                   Avatar Meher Baba

LOVE IS ...

http://BabasBoy.gaia.com — Sun, 17 Sep 2006 16:31:32 GMT

          "Love is to the heart what summer
           is to the farmer's year - it brings
           to harvest all the loveliest flowers
           of the soul."

                         Billy Graham

A Kindly Look

http://BabasBoy.gaia.com — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 14:09:51 GMT

   What use is a melody in an unmusical song?
   What use are eyes which express no kindness?

   Other than a facial appearance, what do eyes
   With no quality of kindness really do?

   A kindly look is the ornament of the eyes.
   Without kindness the eyes are two unsightly sores.

                     Tirukkural 58: 573-575
               Excerpted from the Tirukkural
   translated by Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

I and Me

http://BabasBoy.gaia.com — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 14:59:35 GMT

                                  I and Me

          yekea dardoh yekea darman pasandat
          yekea vaslo yekea hejran pasandat
          man az darmano dardoh vaslo hejran
          pasandam oncherah johnan pasandat

       one loves the pain, and one loves the cure
       one loves union, and one loves separation
               I choose what love wants
               i want what love chooses

                     Babah Tahereh Orian

Harmony of the Soul

http://BabasBoy.gaia.com — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 03:28:08 GMT

                        Harmony of the Soul

"...I should like to say that the true harmony
     of music comes from the harmony of the soul.
     That music alone can be called real which
     comes from the harmony of the soul, its true
     source, and when it comes from there it must
     appeal to all souls...
     It would be no exaggeration if I said that
     music alone can be the means by which the
     souls of races, nations and families, which
     are today so apart, may one day be united...
     Music is not expressed through language,
     but through beauty of rhythm and tone which
     reach far beyond language."

                  Hazrat Inayat Khan
       from 'The Mysticism Of Sound and Music'

A Joyful Noise

http://BabasBoy.gaia.com — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 05:56:58 GMT

     "The chaos on this planet is due to the music
      that musicians are playing, that they are
      forced to play by some who just think of
      money and don't realize that music is a
      spiritual language and it represents the
      people of earth.
      When musicians are compelled to play anything,
      it goes straight to the throne of the Creator
      of the Universe, and that is how He sees you,
      according to your music.
      Because, see, music is a universal language
      and what you cause musicians to play, that's
      what goes straight to the Creator as your
      personal ambassador and personal nemesis."

                          Sun Ra
                     A Joyful Noise
             A Robert Mugge film, 1980

Divine Spark of Love

http://BabasBoy.gaia.com — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 06:06:37 GMT

"The greatest need of humanity today is Love --
   Love divine which is pure and selfless,
   which awakens man to the proper sense and
   understanding of his real duty in life,
   to find true happiness in giving, not receiving,
   in serving and not in being served,
   and in willingly participating in the suffering
   of others more than in their happiness.
   My mission in life is to kindle that
   divine spark of Love in all."

                         Meher Baba

Relationship Booster

http://BabasBoy.gaia.com — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 01:12:40 GMT

RELATIONSHIP BOOSTER

Here is a relationship booster
that is guaranteed to work:

Every time your spouse or lover says something stupid
make your eyes light up as if you just heard something
brilliant.

~ Rumi

(Love Poems From God: Twelve Sacred Voices from the
East and West by Daniel Ladinsky)

For the Love of God

http://BabasBoy.gaia.com — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 15:12:20 GMT

         "We ought not to be weary of doing
          little things for the love of God,
          who regards not the greatness of
          the work, but the love with which
          it is performed."

                         Brother Lawrence
          The Practice of the Presence of God

Let Go and Let God

http://BabasBoy.gaia.com — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 13:55:09 GMT

      "Since God offers to manage our affairs
        for us, let us once and for all hand
        them over to His infinite wisdom, in
        order to occupy ourselves only with
        Himself and what belongs to Him."

                      J.P. de Caussade

SHARE HAPPINESS

http://BabasBoy.gaia.com — Sat, 15 Jul 2006 13:21:52 GMT

"Thousands of candles can be lighted
from a single candle, and the life of the
candle will not be shortened.

"Happiness never decreases by being
shared."

~The Buddha

Wary of ' Religion'

http://BabasBoy.gaia.com — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:59:12 GMT

"I will always be wary of any religion
    which claims to be 'The Only Way' and
    have a monopoly on the truth."

          Nick Tuhlotteson - 2006

Escaping All Religious Definition

http://BabasBoy.gaia.com — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 23:57:20 GMT

From a letter by Thomas Merton, 4/10/65:

"The religion of our time, to be authentic, needs to be the kind that
escapes practically all religious definition. Because there has been
endless definition, endless verbalizing, and words have become gods.
There are so many words that one cannot get to God as long as He is
thought to be on the other side of the words. But when he is placed
firmly beyond the other side of the words, the words multiply like
flies and there is a great buzzing religion, very profitable, very
holy, very spurious. One tries to escape it by acts of truth that
fail. One's whole being must be an act for which there can be found
no word. This is the primary meaning of faith. On this basis, other
dimensions of belief can be made credible. Otherwise not. My whole
being must be a yes and an amen and an exclamation that is not heard.
Only after that is there any point in exclamations and even after
that there is no point in exclamations. One's acts must be part of
the same silent exclamation. . . . If only we could realize that
nothing
*has to be* uttered. Utterance makes sense only when it is
spontaneous and free."