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“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
~Jalal ad-Din Rumi ~

Kalagiya!

Come to Shamballa. At this time there are many who are on the road to Shamballa. Those who strive for unity of mankind, Those who do not exploit other beings, but serve and sacrifice, Those who adore each flame in every heart, Those who do not any more have the interest to possess, to enslave, Those who are not anymore burdened by the vanity of their race, nation and religion, but are open to the values of mankind, to the interests of one humanity, They are on the road to Shamballa.

~Torkom Saraydarian~

"One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light."

-- Joseph Campbell~

"The soul doesn't care at all what price we have to pay to follow our calls. Our happiness and security and status simply don't matter to it, although our courage, faith, and aliveness do. "

-- Gregg Levoy~

"Truth can be found anywhere. We are part of the universe, as a Whole. But each of our viewpoints is that of a distinct, dynamic space-time coordinate. Imagination is the memory of that connection."

~Redshift

"I am satisfied . . . . I see, dance, laugh, sing; Trippers and askers surround me, People I meet . . . . . My dinner, dress, associates, looks, business, compliments, dues, The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love, The sickness of one of my folks -- or of myself . . . . or ill-doing . . . . or loss or lack of money . . . . or depressions or exaltations, They come to me days and nights and go from me again, But they are not the Me myself. Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am, Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary, Looks down, is erect, bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest, Looks with its side-curved head curious what will come next, Both in and out of the game, and watching and wondering at it."

~Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass~

"This is not the time to stay at home, But to go out and give yourself to the garden. The dawn of joy has arisen, And this is the moment of union, of vision."

~ Rumi ~

"For as long as I can remember, people have liked to talk to me. You.......kind of how somebody says something to you...........it doesn't have to mean so much. It's just that it opens a door for you, and you can see into a room that you couldn't see into before. It doesn't really matter how you got there. The important part is...you're seeing something new and different."

That’s all you need to feel when you want to create something new. That’s the only affirmation that truly frees you to go with the flow, and to have fun while you’re doing it. Use your desire to set up your intent, ask, affirm that it is yours already and have a cup of tea, or go play! Lighten up. Leave it to gestate. Stop pulling up the shoots to look at the roots. Stop opening the oven. Stop standing in front of an empty shelf at the supermarket waiting for the Tim Tams to materialize. It’s NOT HELPING! In fact it’s hindering! Many of you have done plenty of asking, but are not making space to receive effectively. To keep noticing from a place of lack that you don’t have something you want keeps it away from you!

~Shelly Te'An~

What is needed, during this powerful time, is for humankind to let go of pre-existing concepts of what this new world will be, or what all of this is going to look like. There are no "veterans" or "professionals" for where humanity is now going. Even though you have made several ragged attempts at achieving what it is you are now seeking in your society, the peoples of the Earth have never come close to where it is you are heading now. You need to go forth into this blinding energy as babes..........playmates in a sandbox of reformation and expansion. You must love each other and your planet unconditionally...............as true reflections of self. Only in this is the hope of ascension for your world, and infinite expansion for your species!

~The Reconnections~

"On the Morning of Creation, you will recognize the Unified Collective Consciousness of all Humankind as your own true identity. You will know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are the bridge between Spirit and Matter, between Creator and Creation, between Life and the forms through which Life flows. If you release the definitions that Matter has set upon you, this is the definition that the Creator will bestow, the definition of Christ Himself. Can you see yourself as we of the distant stars do, from the objective vantage point of the ages, with the eyes of the Star-Maker Himself? To us, your entire history appears as but a gesture. We see in your passage through the vibrational field of Earth a gesture that you make, a salute almost, to the energy-retention systems of this particular heavenly body. This is how you express yourself on this beautiful blue and white world whirling through space. We have come to remind you who you are."

~The Starseed Transmissions, through Ken Carey 1982.

"The imagination is not a state: it is human existence itself."

~William Blake~

Do not ponder......DO.

Do not think……KNOW.

Do not hesitate…….DECLINE.

Do not desire…….POSSESS.

If in doubt, leave it out. Things do not have to be physical to be real. They only need to be believed and received, AS SELF.
~The Reconnections~

"There is no anti-depressant that will cure a depression that's spiritually based, for the malaise doesn't originate from brain dysfunction, but from an accurate response to the desecration of life."

~David R. Hawkins, Power Vs. Force~

"There are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in your Philosophy....."

~William Shakespeare~

'If desire causes suffering it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we desire. Instead of hiding our heads in a prayer cloth and building walls against temptation, why not get better at fulfilling desire? Salvation is for the feeble, that's what I think. I don't want salvation I want life, all of life ............. I will have tasted the banquet that they have before me on this rich, round planet, rather than recoiling from it like a toothless bunny. I cannot believe that the most delicious things were placed here merely to test us to capture the grand prize: the safety of the void. To fashion of life such a petty game is unworthy of both men and gods.'

~From "Jitterbug Perfume," by Tom Robbins ~

I died from minerality and became vegetable; And from vegetativeness I died and became animal. I died from animality and became man. Then why fear disappearance through death? Next time I shall die, bringing forth wings and feathers like angels; After that, soaring higher than angels - What you cannot imagine, I shall be that.

~Jalal Al-Din Rumi~

"For those who know, no explanation is necessary. . . for those who do not, no explanation will suffice."

~Anonymous~

Activation Invitation *1~28~2008*2~06~2008*2~11~2008* from Blue Star Vision on Vimeo.

'The truth is that enlightenment is neither remote nor unattainable. It is closer than your skin and more immediate than your next breath. If we wonder why so few seem able to find that which can never be lost, we might recall the child who was looking in the light for a coin he dropped in the dark because "the light is better over here." Mankind has spent ages looking in the light for a coin that awaits us not in light and not in dark, but beyond all opposites.'

~ Jed McKenna ~

"There is a difference between Tough and Strong. "Tough" means you have armor on, and cannot feel. "Strong" means that you're available to be touched, and are willing to deal with the manifold sensations that go along with letting others come into close proximity with your tender parts."

~The Reconnections~

I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

~Helen Keller~

"Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it."

~ Mark Twain ~

Some we hold in our eyes and they are gone in a blink Some we hold in our mind and they are gone when we think Some very few we hold in our heart and they stay with every beat. But the rarest are those we hold in our soul and they stay forever.

~The Gingerman ~

“If the last 50,000 years of humanity’s existence were divided into lifetimes of approximately 62 years each, there have been about 800 such lifetimes. Of these 800 lifetimes, fully 650 were spent in caves.”

~Alvin Toffler, “Future Shock~

"Modern physics has debunked the notion that knowing requires, or even allows, a separation of the knower from the known. Physicists cannot study subatomic particles without altering them in the act of knowing, so we cannot maintain the objectivist gap between the world "out there" and the observer "in here." as posited by pre-modern science. Knower and known are joined, and any claim about the nature of the known reflects the nature of the knower as well."

~Parker Palmer~

"Come, come, whoever you are- Wanderer, idolater, worshipper of fire, Come even though you have broken your vows a thousand times, Come, and come yet again- Ours is not a caravan of despair"

~ Jalaluddin Rumi~

"Attempts to wake before our time are often punished, especially by those who love us most. Because they, bless them, are asleep. They think anyone who wakes up, or who, still asleep, realizes that what is taken to be real is a 'dream,' is going crazy."

~R.D. Laing~

"A civilization that lives unpartnered with the Earth can reproduce the human species but cannot make a real human being. A language that lives unpartnered with the silence can give voice to an ego, but cannot give voice to a human soul, cannot call a human soul forward....so an ego will start taking form like a tumor to fill the place where a human soul would rather be."

~Michael Bridge~

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."

~William S. Burroughs~

"The best thing for being sad........." replied Merlyn........."is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins....you may see the world around you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewer of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then--to learn! Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you.........."

~T.H. White: "The Once and Future King"~

I want to beg you to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves."

~Rainer Maria Rilke~

Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.

~ William Dement ~

"Reality forever is. It's all there. Always was, always will be. It is PERSONAL EXPERIENCE which unfolds itself in a sequential, linear order. Personal Expansion begins when we stop trying to control or censor reality, and begin consciously navigating our own Personal Experience of Reality---our very own Life Journey."

~ Daniel Jacob ~

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift The rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant But has forgotten the gift.”

~ Albert Einstein ~

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."

--Horace Walpole (English Novelist)

"Imagination is more important than knowledge, for while knowledge defines everything we know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create"

~ Einstein ~

"Many people are beginning to report going into a void place that I perceive is a bridge between this world and the next. When there, you may feel disconnected from most of life as it is now. You might lose your motivation, inspiration, passion, your Mo-Jo and feel fuzzed out. At first glance, we might think this is a negative. As many people are going through this at the same time, we begin to realize the awesome truth; we are heading through that prophesied doorway into a new world. It's happening. We are not just practicing non-permanence. We are actually living it by letting go of our worldly attachments. The more we let go of our attachments, the easier it will be to enter that New World. The Star Elders say that what we're about to do has never been done before. We have had dress rehearsals in ages past, but this is the time that we will actually shift into a New Age in a physical body and become spiritually aware. The Star Elders say this is why the Earth is so crowded with so many souls at this time. Not only is this the most amazing time that Earth has ever experienced, but it is also an unparalleled evolutionary jump for the soul, for those that choose to shift with the planet. Nearing the time of the final shift, the Star Elders will be with us once again. They tell me that they are not going to let us have all the fun!"

~Aluna Joy~

"I am happy even before I have a reason. I am full of Light even before the sky Can greet the sun or the moon. Dear companion..... We have been in love with the Divine For so very, very long. What can we now do but Forever Dance!

--- Hafiz --

"How should we act in order not to trouble others? Is that what you want to know? I am afraid then we should not be acting at all. If you live completely, your actions may cause trouble; but what is more important: finding out what is true, or not disturbing others? This seems so simple that it hardly needs to be answered. Why do you want to respect other people's feelings and points of view? Are you afraid of having your own feelings hurt, your point of view being changed? If people have opinions that differ from yours, you can find out if they are true only by questioning them, by coming into active contact with them. And if you find that those opinions and feelings are not true, your discovery may cause disturbance to those who cherish them. Then what should you do? Should you comply with them, or compromise with them in order not to hurt your friends?”

~J. Krishnamurti~

"The process of running wild is only a PHASE of liberation. Re-Creation always consolidates one's Being into new levels of idealism and sincerity."

~Anais Nin~

"The Master sees things as they are, Without trying to control them. He lets them go their own way, And resides at the center of the circle. He or She understands that the Universe is forever out of control, And that trying to dominate events Goes against the current of the Tao. Be content with what you have; Rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, The whole world belongs to you.”

~ Tao Te Ching~

"Miracles come from your love - they are synchronistic events that usually occur when you let go of attachment and trust your inner guidance."

~Sanaya Roman~

"In this way......in increments both measurable and not, our childhood is stolen from us---not always in one momentous event but in a series of small robberies, which add up to the same loss."

~John Irving~

"And the Master said to me: "Come Home, My Son." And I asked: "Where is that?" He did not blink. But simply looked up and said: "Home is wherever you truly want to be."

~Daniel Jacob~

"The Soul is crying for a reality experience which only physical life can give to it. The body is crying for an immortality experience which only the soul can give to it. As you permit this union to fulfill itself, you will directly know what it feels like to be the love that you are."

~"Love Without End " by Glenda Green~

Religion is for those who are afraid of Hell. Spirituality is for those who have been there.

~Anonymous~

It is not blood that makes a Native American... It is the soul.... Too many... with fire of Native blood... walk ignored. Do not say I am Apache or Kickapoo.. Do not say I am Sioux or Cherokee. Say.... I am of the Mother Tribe... This is the pain of our children... To return from the stars without a home or community... A tribe lost returns... scattered in the wind. Those who hear must unite and reap the seed of this return. ONE tribe...ONE Earth...ONE Heart...ONE People. Those with ears must build a fire and give thanks this night. Be united with ONE soul. Oh, my Children come home... Teachers step forward without fear... You are real.

~Author Unknown~

"Listening is an art not easily come by, but in it there is beauty and great understanding. We listen with the various depths of our being, but our listening is always with a preconception or from a particular point of view. We do not listen simply; there is always the intervening screen of our own thoughts, conclusions, and prejudices. To listen there must be an inward quietness, a freedom from the strain of acquiring, a relaxed attention. This alert yet passive state is able to hear what is beyond the verbal conclusion. Words confuse; they are only the outward means of communication; but to commune beyond the noise of words, there must be in listening, an alert passivity. Those who love may listen, but it is extremely rare to find a listener. Most of us are after results, achieving goals; we are forever overcoming and conquering, and so there is no listening. It is only in listening that one hears the song of the words.

< ~Jiddu Krishnamurti~

"Tragedy blows through your life like a tornado, uprooting everything, creating chaos. You wait for the dust to settle, and then you choose. You can live in the wreckage and pretend it's still the mansion you remember. Or you can crawl from the rubble and slowly rebuild."

~ Kristen Bell, as "Veronica Mars" ~

The world you see is a stage you have constructed with your thoughts, and everyone you meet is an actor you have hired to play out the script you have written.

~ Alan Cohen ~

"Earth is a smooth pond which is imprinted by and reflects the web of planetary influences, as soft putty carries the imprint of a gently-pressed finger. We humans are as water spiders on the surface of the pond, weaving into physical form the web that we see and feel reflected from above. There are reflections also from the sand on the bottom of the pond which are felt and woven on the surface, and in this way the stars hear not only their own echo from earth, but the music of Gaia's own sphere intermingled with their sweet symphony. Incarnate humans thus can be the creators of a heavenly web on the spherical surface of the earth, attuned simultaneously to the above and below, swimming in the ecstacy of creation. Number is archetype. Number expressed in space is geometry. Number expressed in time is music. Number expressed in space-time is astronomy / astrology. Number expressed in space-time also is geomancy. Human form is created in phi proportion, the proportion of harmonious interaction and of mutually-enhancing relationship. We are the weavers. Ours is the web. This is our birthright and our destiny."

---Patrick MacManaway---

"On the other hand there is still much mysterious in the relation for inner and outer. One will only find out about it if one stays nicely with one's nose complementarily in the middle...."

Wolfgang Pauli

" All men should strive to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why".

~James Thurber~

Guilt is…… The disparity between the perfection that you are, and the perfection you have told yourself that you should be. The whole experience is fed by a belief in separation, which is the foundation stone of a 3D journey. In truth, you are neither "this" nor "that." You are ALL OF IT...............which is nearly impossible for a 3D mind to absorb. This makes it possible to focus intensely on one or more things........to the exclusion of others. Thus, you gain the ability to solidify certain things and banish others from perception entirely. Guilt is one of the prices you pay for this ability.

~The Reconnections ~

"Integrity is one of several paths. It distinguishes itself from all the others, because it is the right path--and the only one upon which you will never get lost."

~B.H. McKee~

Time you enjoy wasting is NOT wasted time!

~Anonymous~

"You never enjoy the world alright, until the Sea itself flows in your veins, until you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and perceive yourself as the sole heir of the whole world, and more than that, because people are in it who are every one sole heirs as well as you. Until you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and Kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world..."

- Thomas Traherne (1637-74), England~

"To smash the simple atom, all mankind was intent. Now any day the atom may return the compliment!"

-Ogden Nash-

As the individual becomes more collective, the collective becomes more individual.

~Fey Lynn~

Come, my friends, 'T is not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are; One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

~Alfred Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses"~

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.

~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart~

"You didn't come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here."

~Alan Watts~

"A medicine man shouldn't be a saint. He should experience and feel all the ups and downs, the despair and joy, the magic and the reality, the courage and the fear, of his people. He should be able to sink as low as a bug, or soar as high as an eagle. Unless he can experience both, s/he is no good as a medicine man."

---- John Fire Lame Deer ---

"Many people ask me why I don't get more involved in political discussions or issues. I must admit, I have my eyes on other things. What we're about, at this time, is being midwives for the New Paradigm, even as we are also being hospice workers for the Old."

--James O'Dea--

"When we walk to the edge of all the light we have, and take the step into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe that one of two things will happen; there will be something solid for us to stand on..... or we will be taught to fly."

~Patrick Overton ~

"There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other."

(Douglas Everett)

"Go ahead now. Play the Game. The Board is right in front of you. It's everything you see, think, or feel. To play the Game you must BECOME the Game. Anything less will not work. If you back up, turn off, or disconnect in any way........ down you'll go.......tumbling back into 3D illusion. But then, it is no matter. Just pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and begin playing all over again........."

--The Reconnections--

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

- Mahatma Gandhi-

"All we see and seem is but a dream within a dream."

~Edgar Allan Poe~

"When I was younger I was told on countless occasions that I am weird/crazy/abnormal.........yada yada yada. It used to offend me until I realized that most of the people making such remarks were very unremarkable people! Since then I wear my badge of weird with pride!"

-Darren, Recon Forum Member-

"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt. But If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake."

--Thomas Jefferson, June 4, 1798, in a letter to John Taylor after passage of the Alien and Sedition Act--

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest person with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest person with the smallest mind. Think big anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack if you help them. Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you might get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.

Bishop Abel Muzorewa African Spiritual and Political Leader

When I do good, I feel good.

When I do bad, I feel bad.

And that's my Religion.

--Abraham Lincoln--

out of the lie of no rises a truth of yes (only herself and who illimitably is)

making fools understand (like wintry me) that not all matterings of mind equal one violet

e.e. cummings

"There are conditions on Earth which are generally viewed as catastrophes. For example, when hurricanes and tornadoes devastate various places, it is considered to be a disaster. That is true, but such calamities, especially when caused by hurricanes and tornadoes, kindle the head center in man and create a new, spiritual orientation in the masses.

"Hurricanes and tornadoes also open up the Chalice of people, allowing many gifts to drop into the consciousness of the masses. Though a hurricane causes devastation, it also brings a new opportunity to those who survive. Such people surprisingly witness a great change in their consciousness. This change allows the psychic energy and fire to be accumulated in their nature.

"Man sees the outer effects, but fails to observe the inner changes brought in by certain conditions of life. Nature knows by what method to quicken and kindle the consciousness and help people advance to a new outlook on life."

-from PSYCHIC ENERGY by Torkom Saraydarian-

The Brain - is wider than the Sky -
For - put them side by side -
The one the other will contain
With ease - and You - beside-

The Brain is deeper than the sea -
For - hold them - Blue to Bue -
The one the other will absorb -
As sponges - Buckets - do

The Brain is just the weight of God -
For - Heft them - Pound for Pound -
And they will differ - if they do -
As syllable from Sound -

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

I leaned from the low-hung crescent moon and grasping
the west pointing horn of it, looked down. Against the
other horn reclined, motionless, a Shining One who looked
at me, but I was unafraid. Below me the hills and valleys were thick
with humans, and the moon swung low that I might see what
they did.

"Who are they?" I
asked the Shining One. For I was unafraid. And the
Shining One made answer: "They are the Sons of
God and the Daughters of God."

I looked again , and saw that they
beat and trampled each other. Sometimes they seemed
not to know that the fellow-creature they pushed from
their path fell under
their feet. But sometimes they looked as he fell and
kicked him brutally.

And I said to the Shining One: "Are they ALL the
Sons and Daughters of God?"
And the Shining One said: "ALL"

As I leaned and watched them, it grew clear to me that
each was frantically seeking something, and that it was
because they sought
what they sought with such singleness of purpose that they
were so inhuman to
all who hindered them.

And I said to the Shining One: "What do they
seek?"
And the Shining One made answer: "Happiness"
"Are they all seeking Happiness?"
"All"
"Have any of them found it?"
"None of those have found it"
"Do they ever think they have found it?"
"Sometimes they think they have found it"

My eyes filled, for at that moment I caught a glimpse
of a woman with a babe at her breast, and I saw the babe
torn from her and the
woman cast into a deep pit by a man with his eyes fixed on
a shining lamp that
he believed to be (or perchance to contain, I know not)
Happiness.

And I turned to the Shining One, my eyes blinded.
"Will they ever find it?"
And He said: "They will find it"
"All of them?"
"All of them"
"Those who are
trampled?"
"Those who are trampled"
"And those who
trample?"
"And those who trample"

I looked again, a long time, at what they were doing
on the hills and in the
valleys, and again my eyes went blind with tears, and
I sobbed out to the
Shining One:
"Is it God's will, or
the work of the Devil, that men seek Happiness"?
"It is God's will"
"And it looks so like the work of the
Devil!"
"It does look like the work of the Devil."
When I had looked a little longer, I cried out,
protesting: "Why has he put
them down there to seek Happiness and to cause each
other immeasurable
misery?"
Again the Shining One smiled inscrutably: "They
are learning"
"What are they learning?"
"They are learning Life. And
they are learning Love."

I said nothing. One man in
the herd below me held me breathless, fascinated. He
walked proudly, and others ran and
laid the bound struggling bodies of living men before him
that he might tread
upon them and never touch foot to earth. But suddenly
a whirlwind seized him and tore his purple from him and
set him down, naked
among strangers. And they fell upon him and maltreated
him sorely.
I clapped my hands.
"Good! Good!" I cried, exultantly. "He
got what he deserved!"
Then I looked up suddenly, and saw again the
inscrutable smile of the Shining
One.
And the Shining One spoke quietly. "They
all get what they deserve."
"And no worse?"
"And no worse."
"And no
better?"
"How can there be any better? They
each deserve whatever shall teach them
the true way to Happiness."

I was silenced.
And still the people went on seeking, and trampling
each other in their
eagerness to find. And I
perceived what I had not fully grasped before, that the
whirlwind caught them
up from time to time and set them down elsewhere to
continue the Search.
And I said to the Shining One: "Does the
Whirlwind always set them down again on these hills and in
these valleys?"
And the Shining One made answer: "Not always on
these hills or in these
valleys."
"Where then?"
"Look above you."
And I looked up. Above me stretched the Milky Way and
gleamed the stars.
And I breathed "Oh" and fell silent, awed by
what was given to me to
comprehend.

Below me they still trampled one another.
And I asked the Shining One: "But no matter where
the Whirlwind sets them
down, they go on seeking Happiness?"
"They go on seeking Happiness."
"And the Whirlwind makes no mistakes?"
"The Whirlwind makes no mistakes."
"It puts them sooner or later, where they will
get what they deserve?"
"It puts them sooner or later, where they will
get what they deserve."
Then the load crushing my heart lightened, and I found
I could look at the
brutal cruelties that went on below me with pity for
the cruel. And the
longer I looked the stronger the compassion grew.
And I said to the Shining One:
"They act like men goaded."
"They are goaded"
"What goads them?"
"The name of the goad is Desire"
Then, when I had looked a little longer, I cried out
passionately: "Desire
is an evil thing!"
But the face of the Shining One grew stern and his
voice rang out, dismaying me.
"Desire is not an evil thing."

I trembled and thought withdrew myself into the
innermost chamber of my
heart. Till at last I said:
"It is Desire that nerves men on to learn the
lessons that God has set."
"It is Desire that nerves them."
"The lessons of Life and Love?"
"The lessons of Life and Love!!"
Then I could no longer see that they were cruel.
I could only see that they were learning.
I watched them with deep love and compassion,
as one by one
the Whirlwind carried them out of sight.

~Isabell Hickey~

Your Life Path Number is 8

Your purpose in life is to help others succeed You are both a natural leader and a natural success. You are also a great judge of character. You have a head for business and finance. You know how to make money. A great visionary, you can see gold where other people see nothing. In love, you are very generous - with gifts, time, and guidance. You love to inspire people, but it can be frustrating when they don't understand your vision. Great success comes easily for you. But so does great failure, as you are very reckless. You are confident, and sometimes this confidence borders on arrogance.