Guidance without Interferenceht

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It is the calling of any person whom the interior Spirit of Love calls to teach to share some unobtrusive guidance with her friends. But she must do so in a Way in harmony with the great Tao, or Spirit. Not only that, but it is one of the greatest pleasures on earth!:)

But a good teacher never sees, or presents, herself as "above" anyone else. She honestly sees all people as both "teachers" and "students." So, she too is a disciple of Love and a student of life, learning new things each and every day.

So, the true teacher never highlights or draws attention to her ego. She does not love to see, or to support, the exhibition of her ego-face, for example, in brochures or on books. She might, if sincere, choose not even to use her egoname in public. At any rate, she will never be the egocentric type so commonly found among so many so-called "spiritual" or "metaphysical teachers." In short, she will do everything possible to remain in the background, and to keep her egoname from public display.
For the sage, says the masterteacher Lao Tzu, "does not practice selfdisplay." Jesus also warned against this real spiritual danger-- spiritual pride. (Mt. 6:1)

The genuine teacher is selfeffacing and even selfabnegating. She always practices gentleness to the point of being non-invasive and non-intrusive.

She always follows this principle:
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It is never the job of one adult to tell another adult what to do, or what not to do.
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So, the genuine spiritual teacher will never see, or present, herself as anyone's "mommy" or "daddy." For she knows that all spiritual adults must grow to become their own "internal parents," and recognize only the cosmic Mind as both "Father" and "Mother." This is why Jesus said, "Call no one on earth 'father.'..." This means not only not to call other adults "father," but also, to act as if none were your "father." For when grown-up, people do not need guiding "parents."
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The Poorest People in the World

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Dearest Friends of the Heart,

Recently, you, our dearest friends, have responded with the Love of God to a request to give aid to the poorest people on our planet-- orphans in the third world, made homeless and hopeless by the horrific violence of wars based on greed. The gross evil that these kids have seen is partly compensated by your Love for them. This is how God (Love) gains victory over fear on our tiny nanoplanet.

We are personally and deeply, sincerely grateful for whatever aid that you have been able to give. Please keep in mind that donations as small as three dollars can make a real difference. In order to keep you posted, we plan a public acknowledgment of our givers, periodically, in the "Universal Love Digest."

By this generosity, you prove that your Love is genuine. For kindness is a real form of Love. This is a great way to help real people, and to give yoursjavascript:void(0)
Publish Postelf the only gift that really counts-- good karma! So, in alphabetical order, we wish to acknowledge our dear friends; we have received the following funds, as of 051308:

Anonymous $20
Stephen Doran $150
lmiusa $25
Tim McConnell $30
Kathy Moulton
and Boone Posey: $100
Alice Phillips: $25
Diann Proffitt $50

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Total, 052808: $400.

This fund was received at

Love Ministries
5100 Liberty-Fairfield Rd.
Hamilton, OH 45011.

It will be evenly distributed, one hundred percent of it, to our affiliates: Love Ministries of India, Love Ministries of Kenya, Love Ministries of Pakistan, Love Ministries of Tanzania, and Love Ministries of Uganda. This is the gift of bread, of life, to people who otherwise might have perished without hope in total desperation.

Again, thanks, dear friends. We will keep you alerted as the fund grows, by God's (Love's) working in and through you.

Love,

the Staff of Love Ministries USA

The Poorest People in the World

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Dearest Friends of the Heart,

Recently, you, our dearest friends, have responded with the Love of God to a request to give aid to the poorest people on our planet-- orphans in the third world, made homeless and hopeless by the horrific violence of wars based on greed. The gross evil that these kids have seen is partly compensated by your Love for them. This is how God (Love) gains victory over fear on our tiny nanoplanet.

We are personally and deeply, sincerely grateful for whatever aid that you have been able to give. Please keep in mind that donations as small as three dollars can make a real difference. In order to keep you posted, we plan a public acknowledgment of our givers, periodically, in the "Universal Love Digest."

By this generosity, you prove that your Love is genuine. For kindness is a real form of Love. This is a great way to help real people, and to give yourself the only gift that really counts-- good karma! So, in alphabetical order, we wish to acknowledge our dear friends; we have received the following funds:

Stephen Doran $150
lmiusa $25
Tim McConnell $30
Kathy Moulton and Boone Posey: $100
Alice Phillips: $25
Diann Proffitt $50

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Total, 052408: $380.

This fund was received at"

Love Ministries
5100 Liberty-Fairfield Rd.
Hamilton, OH 45011.

It will be evenly distributed, one hundred percent of it, to our
affiliates: Love Ministries of India, Love Ministries of Kenya, Love Ministries of Pakistan, Love Ministries of Tanzania., and Love Ministries of Uganda. This is the gift of bread, of life, to people who otherwise might have perished without hope in total desperation.

Again, thanks, dear friends. We will keep you alerted as the fund grows, by God's (Love's) working in and through you.

Love,

the Staff of Love Ministries USA

Silly and dangerous fantasies

This is one of the most pitiful examples of "science-fiction theology" of pure fear, "based upon" distortions and fantasies regarding the Book of Revelation, the last book of the Bible. This Biblical book does not mention, even a single time, the phrase "end of the world." This ignorance promotes only fearmongering and warmongering.

Thanks to Mick Gallagher.

Some influential evangelical leaders are lobbying for an attack on Iran. But it's not about geopolitics -- it's about bringing about the End Times.

Read more

To: Love Ministries of Tanzania

To: Love Ministries of Tanzania
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Dear Brothers,

We continue to dance in our Souls in the celebration of the illimitable, infinite Love of our sweet Lord.:) We hope to be able to send a small donation for your orphans soon, via snailmail.

Thank you for joining hands and hearts with us as we teach the immeasurable Love of God to aid his children on our poor little planet.

Love and Joy,


Love Ministries, USA

Art or Animal Cruelty? Take Action

Thanks to Chris Finer.

In 2007, the ‘artist’ Guillermo Vargas Habacuc, took a dog from the street, tied him to a rope in an art gallery, and starved him to death.

For several days, the ‘artist’ and the visitors of the exhibition have watched emotionless the shameful ‘masterpiece’ based on the dog’s agony, until eventually he died. Does it look like art to you? But this is not all… the prestigious Visual Arts Biennial of the Central American decided that the ‘installation’ was actually art, so that Guillermo Vargas Habacuc has been invited to repeat his cruel action for the biennial of 2008. PLEASE HELP STOP HIM. It takes a second to help put a stop to animal abuse sign the petition to stop this by going to

http://www.petitiononline.com/ea6gk/petition.html


If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in
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The Poorest People in the World

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Dearest Friends of the Heart,

Recently, you, our dearest friends, have responded with the Love of God to a request to give aid to the poorest people on our planet-- orphans in the third world, made homeless and hopeless by the horrific violence of wars based on greed. The gross evil that these kids have seen is partly compensated by your Love for them. This is how God (Love) gains victory over fear on our tiny nanoplanet.

We are personally and deeply, sincerely grateful for whatever aid that you have been able to give. Please keep in mind that donations as small as three dollars can make a real difference. In order to keep you posted, we plan a public acknowledgment of our givers, periodically, in the "Universal Love Digest."

By this generosity, you prove that your Love is genuine. For kindness is a real form of Love. This is a great way to help real people, and to give yourself the only gift that really counts-- good karma! So, in alphabetical order, we wish to acknowledge our dear friends; we have received the following funds, as of 051308:

lmiusa $25
Tim McConnell $30
Kathy Moulton and Boone Posey: $100
Alice Phillips: $25
Diann Proffitt $50

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Total, 052108: $230.

This fund was received at"

Love Ministries
5100 Liberty-Fairfield Rd.
Hamilton, OH 45011.

It will be evenly distributed, one hundred percent of it, to our affiliates: Love Ministries of India, Love Ministries of Kenya, Love Ministries of Pakistan, Love Ministries of Tanzania., and Love Ministries of Uganda. This is the gift of bread, of life, to people who otherwise might have perished without hope in total desperation.

Again, thanks, dear friends. We will keep you alerted as the fund grows, by God's (Love's) working in and through you.

Love,

the Staff of Love Ministries USA

Welcome

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A quick note to welcome you to our "efamily." Our extended family contains people of all backgrounds and faiths. We are united by a desire to improve our world through personal transformation, healing the planet through personal healing and personal education. One of our important efforts is the "Universal Love Digest," an infosheet that we produce two or three times a week. This contains from one to five messages, of one to five paragraphs in length. These are thoughts about how we can improve life spiritually. Usually, these messages concern spirituality rather than religion. For we have found that religion is not always helpful, but positive spirituality is. Good and effective spirituality always contains something of compassion, or a call to action. The uld ("Universal Love Digest") is a free service that we provide to our subscribers as an aid to our readers. If you have any questions or thoughts that you wish to express, we welcome your feedback.
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Fun!

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One impulse that is very important in life, that we often ignore, is the quest to make this life as enjoyable (fun) as possible, out of selflove.:):)

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Psychological Disorders and Love

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Some bipolar conditions, especially the "bipolar psychosis," do have genetic roots. It is certainly psychologically arguable and viable that perhaps no human being can ever be "happy and content" one hundred percent of the time. Even Jesus and all the great masterteachers and mysticsaints had their "off" days. So, setting the limit this high is idealism in the extreme, and can do harm to those who are recovering from a serious metabolic or neurotransmitter-based disorder. So, let us set the bar down a bit, more moderately, lovingly, and reasonably.:)

It is true, and verifiable, that the kind of thoughts that we choose to think repeatedly can and do affect the quality of our lives. This simple and observable fact is the basis of all cognitive psychology. But a few stray or even "negative" thoughts cannot and will not hurt us. We can, perhaps, be even grateful that the conscious mind has the power to change nothing in the "outer, molecular" world. Otherwise, our worst fears and nightmares would all come true!:) The "monster in the closet," imagined with vivid childhood imagination, would be real!

No, the function and purpose of the conscious, cognitive (thinking) mind is to experience reality, not "magically" to transform it. It is the kkarma-creator,so it influences our daily lives as well as future destiny. But to believe that the conscious mind is God, or that it has unlimited Power, is to practice "magical thinking." This is recognized by psychology as marking very primitive or very childish thinking.

A little girl, for example, feels "responsible" when her aunt dies; she thinks that, somehow, she has "magically" caused the death. This is unhealthy. It is fearbased, and fear is the conceptual opposite (there is no real opposite) of Love. Happily, most people outgrow this thinking in the course of natural maturation, by about age six. But some, wishing to control the entire cosmos, out of fear, return to it as adults, and label it a "great new discovery," or a "spiritual principle." It is neither, but simple regression.

So, my advice is to continue to love and support Michael [pseudonym], and to let him know this fact. Let him know that your Love is unconditional (otherwise, not Love). It does not depend, iow, on his "getting well," or "recovery." The sick are those who most need the medicine of Love, including the bipolar and the chronically depressed and/or confused.

There is a megaton or two of more material relevant to the wide spectrum of human psychophysiological disorders, but, instead of writing a book, and boring you to death, this message will be mercifully ended here.:)
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Introduction to the Love Ministries Federation

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We have recently begun a cooperative effort of small and independent ministries such as yours that we are calling the Love Ministries Federation. If you would like to join our Federation as Love Ministries of Uganda, we would rejoice and welcome you. You would then be joining, in alphabetical order, Love Ministries of India, Love Ministries of Kenya, Love Ministries of Pakistan, Love Ministries of Tanzania, and Love Ministries USA. It is our intention to send small but regular donations to the members of our Federation, to support efforts to help and to aid the poor people of our world. To aid us to do this, please send us your land-address (snailmail address). That way, we can send you donations as our readers send them to us. We will add your name to our free subscriptionlist to two email magazines, the "Universal Love Digest," an infosheet containing from one to five spiritual articles of from one to five paragraphs. It comes out two or three times each week. And we also want to send you Lovelight magazine, a monthly email magazine of about twenty pages. It is designed to encourage and uplift our readers with humor, positivity, and education. You will start to receive both onyour inboxscreen during the month of May.
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Flogoing, not Control

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It has been a very longstanding fantasy in the metaphysical community that ALL illness can be ascribed to psychological causes. If only the complex issue of etiology (causes) were that simple! Then, we could all change our thinking, and be healthy forever! This is the fantasy offered by some.

But etiology is not quite that simple. Of course, we can choose to alter the contents of our conscious minds, but, even though this is therapeutic to the point where it can actually eliminate disorders of the hypochondriacal variety, not all disorders are hypochondriacal or "psychosomatic." There are much deeper causal factors at work here, including many deeply subconscious (unconscious) ones. These include karma, suggestion, negativity, and, as you imply, repeated negative suggestions to our own minds-- always harmful.

Nature does not allow us simply to shrug off biochemical or physiological conditions with the "change your mind" simplisms. Life, joyfully, is much more challenging than that!

Hypochondriasis is, for that matter, a good example of the limitations of the "power" of the conscious (aware) mind. For it has been repeatedly documented in medical history that a person can tell herself that she has a disease; she can do this for many years, and even become an "expert" on the disorder, reading and learning everything that she can about it-- again, for many years. Every day, hundreds or dozens of times, she tells herself that she has the disease, and pictures it with horrifying clarity.

Then, a doc professionally examines her, and she has no trace of the disease. But, if the conscious mind were as powerful as the "magical thinking" of some pseudospiritual systems claim, she should be riddled with the disease. The fact that she is not implies the limitations built into the conscious mind.

For the conscious mind is designed to experience, not to control, the molecular world. It makes choices and creates karma.

But "magical thinking" is a childish and/or primitive phase of psychology which a healthy adult usually outgrows by about age five. For example, the little four-year-old believes that she is "responsible" somehow for the death of her dearly beloved aunt. This is "magical thinking." It is also present in some backwards and isolated tribes still on earth. But with science and observation, the Western world has found that objective analysis is a much more valuable tool for exploring reality-- what the ancients called "truth."

Of course, it would be wonderful to believe that everything in your life were caused/created by the conscious mind. Then, all that you would have to do is change your conscious mind and you could "protect" yourself from anything "bad." (You might recognize this as the matrixteaching of the cult Christian Science.)

Here's a practical example: How long do you think that you would have to "affirm" that you have a ten-carat diamond before it would actually "appear" in your hand? You could do this for decades, with zero results.

In the practical (real) world, for example, many winners of giant lotteries have never even heard of positive affirmation, and many who "affirm themselves" winners each and every day still fail to win!

Unfortunately for all of us, a little experience, and just a little observation, soon convince us that the conscious mind is not God. Just because we consciously will a condition or change does not automatically, simplistically imply that God also wills that same thing. The great masterteachers and mysticsaints have always emphasized that the "will of God" (Love) should always be master, the human will, the servant.

Jesus said that you could not change the color of a single hair. If "positive thinkers" deny this, challenge them to change the color of a single hair on their own heads. You will discover that Jesus told the truth; they cannot.

Of course, it is wonderfully exciting to believe that you can control, change, or influence the world by your conscious thought. And you can indeed live a much happier and more productive life by thinking positively rather than negatively. You can improve even the functions of your biological body. But you cannot do everything or anything. The "power of positive thinking," as healthy as it is, is limited.

When they mistake the conscious mind for the Mind of God, this is where metaphysical speculators veer off-track. It is just so very comfortable to believe that, "If I want it, God must also want it." But this is simply not always so.

So, we are challenged spiritually, every day, by living in a rather complex world guided by laws that can be anything but simple. But instead of trying to wrest control of the cosmos, and making the world the way that we want it to be, Jesus recommends a very much more "Taoist" Way: Live, he says, like nursing infants, like flowers, and like birds.

What do all three examples have in common? Their absence of the desire to control. Jesus knew how seductive was this desire, rooted in fear of "bad" events. (And fear is the conceptual opposite of Love.)

So, it follows that a life based in Love cannot be based on fear, however subtle. And people long for control because they are terrified of the world. The enlightened do not seek control, but faith: If perfect Love already controls all events, then it becomes our task, our assignment, to cultivate faith in this Love-- the same faith that a nursing infant has that her mother knows where she is going and what she is doing. This faith, when cultivated, results in total relaxation: Complete faith is complete relaxation. The goal of Taoism is an "effortless" life, as the great sages taught.

That is why Jesus, and the other masters, did not outline ways to control the cosmos. Instead, emphasizing faith, they told us to cultivate a Love for all sentient beings (selfaware creatures). For that much, we can do.

And it is Love, not fearful control, that fills our lives with the richest blessings.
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"Pervasive Meditation"

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The method that I would recommend to give Michael [pseudonym] a "clean mental slate" is called "pervasive meditation." You start by choosing a four-syllable phrase that is healthy and healing, such as, "I am at peace," or, "God is Love and..."

Then, using this as a "trm," or "thought-replacement mechanism," you begin to turn it over and over in your mind. This we call "running your trm." All during the day, instead of "wasting" timenergy in unproductive or harmful thoughts, you "run your trm." This you do if you have only five or ten seconds, a couple of minutes, or ten minutes or longer.

This is a thought-eraser that tends to clear out all the clutter and "garbage," as well as irrational thought. It arises from the logical principle that, If thinking is the problem, you cannot think your way out of the problem.

This practice creates a "clear interior space" in the mind. You pray for the Spirit of mental wellness and healing Love to fill this part of the mind. Sufis liken this to cleaning a room for a Guest.:)
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Healing and Love

Healing and Love
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Sally [pseudonym] has been practicing a lot of talk-therapy since visiting here during the last couple of days. She is definitely improving, as she was able to bring up her husband who passed away several times without bursting or melting into tears. Time truly is the great healer for all of us, and for all conditions. It is the balm of Love that puts distance between us and our own interior dragons.

So, there is fullest agreement with your definition of a healer. The best healer is she who can become transparent and allow the Light to shine forth through her, without casting egoshadows in Its way.

A Love lost cannot immediately regrow. It will take time, and it will take time for Sally's Love for her husband to be mended by other forms and types of Love in her heart. For Love continuously mutates into different, sometimes interchangeable, forms. But, even as you and I speak about the matter, the miracle of Love (God) is being healed and re-created in her heart, and she is healing.

For psychospiritual healing is much like physical healing, in that no person can ever "heal" another. In physical medicine, a doc does not heal; she only prepares the environment so that it can support the body's own internal healing processes. Also, spiritually, no ego can heal another; we can only help the healee prepare her mind to be open to the natural processes of healing. Exposure to positive ideas, and positive thinking generally, is a good and powerful therapy.

We can combine this with deliberate relaxation, healing music, good nutrition, humor, light, and other therapies. Each can be a factor in allowing for the Flow of natural mindhealing energy.

Please "send" her healing energy and Love; now, she has progressed to where she can talk about her husband without bursting into tears, and that is real accomplishment.:)
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Uniting with the Interior Lovespirit

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Having wrestled with a fairly serious bout of depression as part of my psychospiritual training (several years ago), I now spend most of the time in "pervasive meditation." This is different from the various forms of "structured" meditation, for you carry your mantra wherever you go, and you "run" it at any time during the day when you have a spare five seconds, two minutes, ten minutes, or whatever. This tends, with practice, to quiet the conscious mind, which, as you know, can be quite boisterous, noisy, all-consuming, and negative. This practice creates an "empty space" in your heartmind, into which the Holy Spirit of Love is invited. And if invited, It will invariably, dependably come into the heart; then God (Love) will begin to think, act, and speak through your human form on earth. There is no greater pleasure or delight.

In the ancient gnostic Christian classic called the Gospel of Phillip, it says that those who were converted to early Christianity became not only "Christians," but "Christs." And while it might, and perhaps should, sound bizarre to our ears to hear about "Kevin Christ" or "Jessica Christ," this is the highest goal to which any person can ever aspire, both here and in the afterlife Homeworld.
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The Poorest People in the World

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Dearest Friends of the Heart,

Recently, you, our dearest friends, have responded with the Love of God to a request to give aid to the poorest people on our planet-- orphans in the third world, made homeless and hopeless by the horrific violence of wars based on greed. The gross evil that these kids have seen is partly compensated by your Love for them. This is how God (Love) gains victory over fear on our tiny nanoplanet.

We are personally and deeply, sincerely grateful for whatever aid that you have been able to give. Please keep in mind that donations as small as three dollars can make a real difference. In order to keep you posted, we plan a public acknowledgment of our givers, periodically, in the "Universal Love Digest."

By this generosity, you prove that your Love is genuine. For kindness is a real form of Love. This is a great way to help real people, and to give yourself the only gift that really counts-- good karma! So, in alphabetical order, we wish to acknowledge our dear friends; we have received the following funds, as of 051308:

lmiusa $25
Kathy Moulton and Boone Posey: $100
Alice Phillips: $Diann Proffitt $50
Diann Proffitt: $50
___________
Total, 051308: $200.

This fund will be evenly distributed, one hundred percent of it, to our
affiliates: Love Ministries of India, Love Ministries of Kenya, Love Ministries of Pakistan, and Love Ministries of Tanzania. This is the gift of bread, of life, to people who otherwise might have perished without hope in total desperation.

Again, thanks, dear friends. We will keep you alerted as the fund grows, by God's (Love's) working in and through you.

Love,

the Staff of Love Ministries USA

The Poorest People in the World

The Poorest People in the World
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Dearest Friends of the Heart,

Recently, you, our dearest friends, have responded with the Love of God to a request to give aid to the poorest people on our planet-- orphans in the third world, made homeless and hopeless by the horrific violence of wars based on greed. The gross evil that these kids have seen is partly compensated by your Love for them. This is how God (Love) gains victory over fear on our tiny nanoplanet.

We are personally and deeply, sincerely grateful for whatever aid that you have been able to give. Please keep in mind that donations as small as three dollars can make a real difference. In order to keep you posted, we plan a public acknowledgment of our givers, periodically, in the "Universal Love Digest."

By this generosity, you prove that your Love is genuine. For kindness is a real form of Love. This is a great way to help real people, and to give yourself the only gift that really counts-- good karma! So, in alphabetical order, we wish to acknowledge our dear friends; we have received the following funds, as of 051308:

lmiusa $25
Kathy Moulton and Boone Posey: $100
Alice Phillips: $Diann Proffitt $50
Diann Proffitt: $50
___________
Total, 051308: $200.

This fund will be evenly distributed, one hundred percent of it, to our
affiliates: Love Ministries of India, Love Ministries of Kenya, Love Ministries of Pakistan, and Love Ministries of Tanzania. This is the gift of bread, of life, to people who otherwise might have perished without hope in total desperation.

Again, thanks, dear friends. We will keep you alerted as the fund grows, by God's (Love's) working in and through you.

Love,

the Staff of Love Ministries USA

The Poorest People in the World

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Dearest Friends of the Heart,

Recently, you, our dearest friends, have responded with the Love of God to a request to give aid to the poorest people on our planet-- orphans in the third world, made homeless and hopeless by the horrific violence of wars based on greed. The gross evil that these kids have seen is partly compensated by your Love for them. This is how God (Love) gains victory over fear on our tiny nanoplanet.

We are personally and deeply, sincerely grateful for whatever aid that you have been able to give. Please keep in mind that donations as small as three dollars can make a real difference. In order to keep you posted, we plan a public acknowledgment of our givers, periodically, in the "Universal Love Digest." This is the first, we hope, of many reports.

This is a great way to help real people, and to give yourself the only gift that really counts-- good karma! So, in alphabetical order, we have received the following funds, as of 050608:

Kathy Moulton and Boone Posey: $100
Alice Phillips: $25
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Total, 050608: $125.

This fund will be evenly distributed, one hundred percent of it, to our
affiliates: Love Ministries of India, Love Ministries of Kenya, Love Ministries of Pakistan, and Love Ministries of Tanzania. This is the gift of bread, of life, to people who otherwise might have perished without hope in total desperation.

Again, thanks, dear friends. We will keep you alerted as the fund grows, by God's (Love's) working in and through you.

Love,

the Staff of Love Ministries USA

The Passing of a Friend

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The passing of our friend Frank occurred just the way he had always prayed, and sincerely hoped, that it would. He exited painlessly, in his sleep. We had often discussed the subject of exiting in general, and he had always said what so many say: "I do not fear death; but it is what precedes death that can be uncomfortable. I'd really like to leave painlessly, in my sleep, if possible." So, his exit, although sad for those left behind, was the answer to a prayer-- his.:)
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Love-poem to the Infinite

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In llamalove is also the Love of the One, The dear Beloved looking back through those great brown orbs, So filled with innocent tenderness.

I am lost in their great depths,
In the ocean of limitless Love,
And remember with ecstasy the sweet joy of the One, My Beloved, Her Beloved.
It is sheerest mutuality, reciprocity, and interflow, She into me and I into Her.
Just remembering creates the joy,
Just recalling recreates the ecstasy
That is immeasurable.
When once you are "there,"
You never want to return "here,"
To this normal, average, ordinary world.
You want to bask in that delicious Light Forever.
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"Timeless" life and Afterlife

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We are big, big believers in the timeless life taught by Jesus. Although most translators insist vaguely on translating the Greek adjective aionian as "everlasting," I do not believe that Jesus promised us "everlasting" life. There is a very good reason for this: All life is already "everlasting," and he knew this. What he offered his disciples, as any good gnostic will assure you, was the "timeless" life. That is life lived in only the "eternal now" of the mystic. And that means now, and now, and ... Well, you get the idea.:)
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Giving to Charity with Wisdom

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We think you very wise to seek out small, and more honorable and honest, charities. We also try to do the same. There was a time, a few years ago, when we just gave to every telephone-solicitor who called. Ten bucks here, fifteen there, even these tiny donations added up! Happily, before going broke, we wised up a little. Now, with every call, our first question is, "What percentage of any donation goes for administration?" We have been stunned to learn that it is often as high as eighty percent! So, out of ten dollars, only two actually go to the needy, and the rest goes for office-rental, telephones, and salaries of solicitors, etc. While we do love charities, we cannot afford to "support" the vast business-enterprises that often are built around the charity.
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No Fame, Thank You

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After having read Jesus' warning in Matthew 6:1, where he plainly declared that the one who receives "earthly reward" (clearly talking about fame) would receive no "reward from the Father"-- the afterlife reward of good karma, there is zero interest in obtaining any personal fame. Of course, this is just the opposite of almost every spiritual teacher; they often seem desperate to get their names in the headlines.
They long for fame, lust after it. But this passion is backwards and upside-down. Becoming wellknown is, according to the Christ, the worst possible outcome for a spiritual person! I prefer to follow Jesus rather than those selfstyled "gurus" and "teachers," the "reverends" and "fathers" who are receiving their reward in full, right now, on earth.
This is similar to trading in gold for lumps of mud.:)
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The Joy of Death

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It is not for nothing that there is a very popular and common saying, "The good die young." In so many ways, it is a great blessing to leave this world fairly early, instead of agonizingly dying a few cells at a time, from "old age." In many ways, that is the easier way out!

The bottom line is, We all have to get out of here! No one lives on earth; we are all "jvtp"-- just visiting this planet."! And, in the vast and immense universe, earth is considerably smaller than a molecule!

Early Christians were believed "nuts" because they welcomed death, with genuine smiles and open arms! This was so very alien to their culture, as it is to ours! But if we keep in mind the deeper, spiritual meaning and results of "death," we can see that those who leave earth behind are losing nothing, and gaining everything!

Jesus came to prove that death was a survivable experience!
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