Robert Elias Najemy

During "testing times" we need to be very much in touch with our inner power, so as to maintain our health, happiness, peace and love. This is an opportune time to develop our inner wisdom, strength and guidance.

One day a bird flew into a room in our house. (It could have just as easily been your house). We wanted to help it to get free. But it was afraid of us.

Some of us prefer to hide our problems from ourselves and others. Because it is too painful to deal with them, we lock them up in our subconscious mind and pretend that these problems or feelings do not exist and that all is fine.

And, suddenly, there it is. The Self-Creating Light which manifests itself out of the darkness, out of the unmanifest. It comes forth shining alone in the darkness. From emptiness has come forth the ONE, the absolute.

Some fear that if we accept ourselves as we are, that we will have no motive to improve ourselves.

The mind is the molder of our personal and communal world. Every event we perceive through our senses is analyzed, evaluated and registered in the mind as pleasant, unpleasant or neutral.

There is a spiritual truth which claims that everything which has occurred and which is occurring at this moment was and is perfect. The future we do not know. But once the future has become the present, then that too is perfect.

One example of a survival defense mechanism is that of thorns which many plants have. These thorns protect the beautiful flowers and sweet fruit from possible danger. These thorns say «stay away».

Elizabeth and Mark have nothing in common. They cannot communicate. Perhaps both need to remember that the other is their teacher; to approach each other with love and an open mind and open heart.

As children we tend to make many false conclusions about reality, usually burdening ourselves with the responsibility for everything including our parents' anger, absence, abandonment, unhappiness, illness, separation, death etc.