A Birth Certificate shows that we were born.
A Death Certificate shows that we died.
Pictures show that we lived!
I Believe....
That just because two people argue, that doesn't mean they don't love each other.
And just because they don't argue, that doesn't mean they do love each other.
I Believe...
That sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry,but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.
I Believe...
That we don't have to change friends if we understand that friends change.
I Believe...
That no matter how good a friend is, they're going to hurt you every once in a while and you must forgive them for that.
I Believe...
That true friendship continues to grow, even over the longest distance.
Same goes for true love.
I Believe...
That you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.
I Believe...
That it's taking me a long time to become the person I want to be.
I Believe....
That you should always leave loved ones with loving words. It may be the last time you see them.
I Believe...
That you can keep going long after you think you can't.
I Believe...
That we are responsible for what we do, no matter how we feel.
I Believe...
That either you control your attitude or it controls you.
I Believe...
That heroes are the people who do what has to be done when it needs to be done, regardless of the consequences.
I Believe...
That money is a lousy way of keeping score.
I Believe...
That my best friend and I can do anything, or nothing, and have the best time.
I Believe....
That sometimes the people you expect to kick you when you're down will be the ones to help you get back up.
I Believe...
That maturity has more to do with what types of experiences you've had,and what you've learned from them and less to do with how many birthdays you've celebrated.
I Believe...
That it isn't always enough to be forgiven by others. Sometimes, you have to learn to forgive yourself.
I Believe...
That no matter how badly your heart is broken the world doesn't stop for your grief.
I Believe...
That our background and circumstances may have influenced who we are,but we are responsible for who we become.
I Believe...
That you shouldn't be so eager to find out a secret. It could change your life forever.
I Believe...
Two people can look at the exact same thing and see something totally different.
I Believe...
That your life can be changed in a matter of hours by people who don't even know you.
I Believe...
That even when you think you have no more to give, if a friend cries out to you,you will find the strength to help.
I Believe...
That credentials on the wall do not make you a decent human being.
I Believe...
That the people you care about most in life are taken from you too soon.
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything;
They just make the most of everything.
Friday, November 6, 2009
143 - ego vs spirit
TODAY'S CONTEMPLATION
The ego looks for peace / the spirit rests in it
The ego looks for love / the spirit gives it freely
The ego is in constant search for happiness / the spirit is absorbed in joy
The ego looks for control / the spirit is totally free
The ego looks for longevity / the spirit is immortal
The ego accumulates information / the spirit is Supreme Wisdom
The ego is limited by space and time / the spirit is boundless
The ego is only a player in a show / the spirit is life itself
The ego is false / the spirit is real
The ego wants more and more / the spirit has it all!
-Bob Gottfried-
(Shortcut to Spirituality: Mastering the Art of Inner Peace)
The ego looks for peace / the spirit rests in it
The ego looks for love / the spirit gives it freely
The ego is in constant search for happiness / the spirit is absorbed in joy
The ego looks for control / the spirit is totally free
The ego looks for longevity / the spirit is immortal
The ego accumulates information / the spirit is Supreme Wisdom
The ego is limited by space and time / the spirit is boundless
The ego is only a player in a show / the spirit is life itself
The ego is false / the spirit is real
The ego wants more and more / the spirit has it all!
-Bob Gottfried-
(Shortcut to Spirituality: Mastering the Art of Inner Peace)
Monday, October 12, 2009
142: Difference between Interest & Commitment
Interest and Commitment....the difference....
There’s a difference between interest and commitment.
When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstances permit.
When you’re committed to something, you will do it regardless of circumstances. You accept no excuses, only results.
There’s a difference between interest and commitment.
When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstances permit.
When you’re committed to something, you will do it regardless of circumstances. You accept no excuses, only results.
Friday, October 9, 2009
141: Acim Year 4 KL wef Oct 2009
IT’S TIME TO WAKE UP!
A One-Year Study Program of A Course In Miracles (ACIM)
Guided by Dr T. Aaron Lim
ACIM is a complete self-study spiritual thought system that teaches the way to Love and Inner Peace. Its only purpose is to provide a way in which we will be able to find our own Internal Teacher. Being able to access that "Internal Teacher" is central to allowing forgiveness to guide our life in the world, hence to be at peace and of service.
The Course is not about making a better world, but it is about making a more peaceful human being through the agency of spirit and the memory of the Love of God that the "Internal Teacher" holds for all in that part of spirit called "mind." A better world will occur when minds are healed of their ego beliefs in separation and competing interests.
As a 3-volume curriculum consisting of a Text, Workbook for Students, and Manual for Teachers, it teaches that the way to universal love and peace — or remembering God — is by undoing guilt through forgiving others. The Course thus focuses on the healing of relationships and making them holy.
ACIM also emphasizes that it is but one version of the universal curriculum, of which there are "many thousands". Consequently, it expresses a non-sectarian, non-denominational spirituality. ACIM therefore is a universal spiritual teaching, not a religion.
The "Text" presents the theory of the Course and has built into its study the development of the experience of forgiveness that is the Course's goal for the student. In this regard, ACIM states that "its goal for you is happiness and peace." The Text also explains the basis for fear and guilt, and how they can be overcome through miracles, which are defined as maximal "expressions of love." Miracles are also defined as the shift in perception from fear to love.
The "Workbook for Students" consists of 365 lessons, an exercise for each day of the year. This one-year training program begins the process of changing the student's mind and perception, though it is not intended to bring one's learning to completion. As stated in the Preface to the Course,"At the end,the reader is left in the hands of his or her own Internal Teacher,Who will direct all subsequent learning as He sees fit."
The "Manual for Teachers" is written in question-and-answer form and provides answers to some of the more likely questions a student might ask. It also includes clarification of a number of terms the Course uses, explaining them within the theoretical framework of the Text and for their practical application through the Workbook.
What exactly, then, is A Course in Miracles? The summary introduction, which appears in its Text, is quite succinct and brief. It reads:
"This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time. The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite".
This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:
"Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God."
__________________________________________________________________
About The Facilitator
DR T. AARON LIM
Dr T. Aaron Lim, a Fulbright-Hays Scholar, is a graduate of St. Francis’ Institution, Malaysia; College of Agriculture, Malaysia (now Universiti Putra Malaysia); Louisiana State University, USA; University of Hawaii, USA and Chaminade University of Honolulu, USA. He is a former professor at Brigham Young University-Hawaii, USA.
Born and raised in the ancient philosophies of the Orient and trained in the modern sciences of the West, Dr. Aaron has a unique talent of bridging the traditions of East and West. He has been serving and teaching health, personal development and spiritual growth for over 30 years. As a dynamic speaker and educator, he uses his multiple talents to help others reach their fullest potential.
Along with his wife,Dehyana Lee Lim(www.anchoringthelight.org),
he co - founded and co-directs “Bodhi Fellowship/Center For Inner Peace”
(www.bodhifellowship.org)a nonprofit,spiritual organization dedicated to teaching unconditional,universallove and selfless service based in the Historic Heritage City of Malacca,Malaysia.
ALL surplus arising from this Course will be donated to “Bodhi Fellowship Miracle Children’s Home” as its donation to support orphaned/underprivileged children.
A One-Year Study Program of A Course In Miracles (ACIM)
Guided by Dr T. Aaron Lim
ACIM is a complete self-study spiritual thought system that teaches the way to Love and Inner Peace. Its only purpose is to provide a way in which we will be able to find our own Internal Teacher. Being able to access that "Internal Teacher" is central to allowing forgiveness to guide our life in the world, hence to be at peace and of service.
The Course is not about making a better world, but it is about making a more peaceful human being through the agency of spirit and the memory of the Love of God that the "Internal Teacher" holds for all in that part of spirit called "mind." A better world will occur when minds are healed of their ego beliefs in separation and competing interests.
As a 3-volume curriculum consisting of a Text, Workbook for Students, and Manual for Teachers, it teaches that the way to universal love and peace — or remembering God — is by undoing guilt through forgiving others. The Course thus focuses on the healing of relationships and making them holy.
ACIM also emphasizes that it is but one version of the universal curriculum, of which there are "many thousands". Consequently, it expresses a non-sectarian, non-denominational spirituality. ACIM therefore is a universal spiritual teaching, not a religion.
The "Text" presents the theory of the Course and has built into its study the development of the experience of forgiveness that is the Course's goal for the student. In this regard, ACIM states that "its goal for you is happiness and peace." The Text also explains the basis for fear and guilt, and how they can be overcome through miracles, which are defined as maximal "expressions of love." Miracles are also defined as the shift in perception from fear to love.
The "Workbook for Students" consists of 365 lessons, an exercise for each day of the year. This one-year training program begins the process of changing the student's mind and perception, though it is not intended to bring one's learning to completion. As stated in the Preface to the Course,"At the end,the reader is left in the hands of his or her own Internal Teacher,Who will direct all subsequent learning as He sees fit."
The "Manual for Teachers" is written in question-and-answer form and provides answers to some of the more likely questions a student might ask. It also includes clarification of a number of terms the Course uses, explaining them within the theoretical framework of the Text and for their practical application through the Workbook.
What exactly, then, is A Course in Miracles? The summary introduction, which appears in its Text, is quite succinct and brief. It reads:
"This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time. The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite".
This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:
"Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God."
__________________________________________________________________
About The Facilitator
DR T. AARON LIM
Dr T. Aaron Lim, a Fulbright-Hays Scholar, is a graduate of St. Francis’ Institution, Malaysia; College of Agriculture, Malaysia (now Universiti Putra Malaysia); Louisiana State University, USA; University of Hawaii, USA and Chaminade University of Honolulu, USA. He is a former professor at Brigham Young University-Hawaii, USA.
Born and raised in the ancient philosophies of the Orient and trained in the modern sciences of the West, Dr. Aaron has a unique talent of bridging the traditions of East and West. He has been serving and teaching health, personal development and spiritual growth for over 30 years. As a dynamic speaker and educator, he uses his multiple talents to help others reach their fullest potential.
Along with his wife,Dehyana Lee Lim(www.anchoringthelight.org),
he co - founded and co-directs “Bodhi Fellowship/Center For Inner Peace”
(www.bodhifellowship.org)a nonprofit,spiritual organization dedicated to teaching unconditional,universallove and selfless service based in the Historic Heritage City of Malacca,Malaysia.
ALL surplus arising from this Course will be donated to “Bodhi Fellowship Miracle Children’s Home” as its donation to support orphaned/underprivileged children.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
140: ACIM 4th year @KL
A COURSE IN MIRACLES (ACIM) - 4TH YEAR - SUNDAY OCTOBER 11, 2009 - KUALA LUMPUR
Saturday, 3 October, 2009 3:45 PM
From: "bodhi@bodhifellowship.org"
* ACIM - Study - It Is Time To Wake Up.docACIM - Study - It Is Time To Wake Up
An Invitation To You, Your Family & Friends
To Join Us...
The Values We Live By Are Worth More
When We Pass Them On.
From The Desk of KL ACIM Committee
A Course In Miracles "ACIM"
4th Year Registration
Dear friends,
Did you ever wonder what is the relationship between you and your world?
Are you just an insignificant fragment within your world?
Or is there a link between you and everything in your world?
Did your world happen by chance and you are a victim of it?
Or could it be that some infinite powers within you, unknown to you,
created your world?
Are you living within your world?
Or is your world living within you?
Is your world commanding you? Or, unknown to you?
Is your world actually waiting for your commands?
'A Course In Miracles' is about psychological and spiritual wisdom.
It speaks directly to your heart.
It will bring to you new awareness of the Truth.
Though it is always with you, in you and all around you.
You will have completely new thoughts, perceptions, visions and reality.
It is like awakening from a deep sleep.
It is a one year course and requires your willingness and commitment.
Attached is a write up on the course.
We are open for registration for the 4th year.
Your early confirmation will help the committee to book the venue and other logistics.
Here are The Course Details:
Date : Sunday, 11th October 2009
Time : 10.00 am to 5.00 pm
Breakfast starts at 9:00 am
Subsequent sessions : 8th November 2009 (2nd Sunday) &
13th December 2009 (2nd Sunday)
*Tentatively will be held on every 2nd Sunday
of the month for year 2010
Venue : 1st floor, Bangunan Getah Asli (Menara)
Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur.
(In front of KLCC)
Dress code: Casual (Please bring extra clothing to keep
warm)
Cost per session per participant: RM60
Meals provided : Light breakfast and lunch.
*(Food contributions are welcome)
All excess funds will be donated to orphanage homes.
“A Course In Miracles” Textbook is available in major bookstores.
ACIM format: Dr. Aaron will share from various parts of the
ACIM book.
All questions within the context of ACIM are welcome.
Please help to forward this email to all your beloved friends.
All are welcome.
For further information, please contact:
JC Quah @ 012-336 2636 or email: jcquah.acim@gmail.com
Thank you and Have an Awesome Day
Saturday, 3 October, 2009 3:45 PM
From: "bodhi@bodhifellowship.org"
* ACIM - Study - It Is Time To Wake Up.docACIM - Study - It Is Time To Wake Up
An Invitation To You, Your Family & Friends
To Join Us...
The Values We Live By Are Worth More
When We Pass Them On.
From The Desk of KL ACIM Committee
A Course In Miracles "ACIM"
4th Year Registration
Dear friends,
Did you ever wonder what is the relationship between you and your world?
Are you just an insignificant fragment within your world?
Or is there a link between you and everything in your world?
Did your world happen by chance and you are a victim of it?
Or could it be that some infinite powers within you, unknown to you,
created your world?
Are you living within your world?
Or is your world living within you?
Is your world commanding you? Or, unknown to you?
Is your world actually waiting for your commands?
'A Course In Miracles' is about psychological and spiritual wisdom.
It speaks directly to your heart.
It will bring to you new awareness of the Truth.
Though it is always with you, in you and all around you.
You will have completely new thoughts, perceptions, visions and reality.
It is like awakening from a deep sleep.
It is a one year course and requires your willingness and commitment.
Attached is a write up on the course.
We are open for registration for the 4th year.
Your early confirmation will help the committee to book the venue and other logistics.
Here are The Course Details:
Date : Sunday, 11th October 2009
Time : 10.00 am to 5.00 pm
Breakfast starts at 9:00 am
Subsequent sessions : 8th November 2009 (2nd Sunday) &
13th December 2009 (2nd Sunday)
*Tentatively will be held on every 2nd Sunday
of the month for year 2010
Venue : 1st floor, Bangunan Getah Asli (Menara)
Jalan Ampang, Kuala Lumpur.
(In front of KLCC)
Dress code: Casual (Please bring extra clothing to keep
warm)
Cost per session per participant: RM60
Meals provided : Light breakfast and lunch.
*(Food contributions are welcome)
All excess funds will be donated to orphanage homes.
“A Course In Miracles” Textbook is available in major bookstores.
ACIM format: Dr. Aaron will share from various parts of the
ACIM book.
All questions within the context of ACIM are welcome.
Please help to forward this email to all your beloved friends.
All are welcome.
For further information, please contact:
JC Quah @ 012-336 2636 or email: jcquah.acim@gmail.com
Thank you and Have an Awesome Day
Monday, September 28, 2009
139: What is Compassion?
Compassion consists of feeling of empathy (instead of emotional feeling of deep sympathy, pity, sadness or sorrow). We must exercise our "wisdom" whenever we feel compassionate. Disasters/misfortune are merely wake up calls for mankind to remember pure love, compassion, gratitude and forgiveness. This is Nature's way to remind all of us that we have forgotten who we are.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
138: IT’S TIME TO WAKE UP!
A One-Year Study Program of A Course In Miracles (ACIM)
Guided by Dr T. Aaron Lim
ACIM is a complete self-study spiritual thought system that teaches the way to Love and Inner Peace. Its only purpose is to provide a way in which we will be able to find our own Internal Teacher. Being able to access that "Internal Teacher" is central to allowing forgiveness to guide our life in the world, hence to be at peace and of service.
The Course is not about making a better world, but it is about making a more peaceful human being through the agency of spirit and the memory of the Love of God that the "Internal Teacher" holds for all in that part of spirit called "mind." A better world will occur when minds are healed of their ego beliefs in separation and competing interests.
As a 3-volume curriculum consisting of a Text, Workbook for Students, and Manual for Teachers, it teaches that the way to universal love and peace — or remembering God — is by undoing guilt through forgiving others. The Course thus focuses on the healing of relationships and making them holy.
ACIM also emphasizes that it is but one version of the universal curriculum, of which there are "many thousands." Consequently, it expresses a non-sectarian, non-denominational spirituality. ACIM therefore is a universal spiritual teaching, not a religion.
The "Text" presents the theory of the Course and has built into its study the development of the experience of forgiveness that is the Course's goal for the student. In this regard, ACIM states that "its goal for you is happiness and peace." The Text also explains the basis for fear and guilt, and how they can be overcome through miracles, which are defined as maximal "expressions of love." Miracles are also defined as the shift in perception from fear to love.
The "Workbook for Students" consists of 365 lessons, an exercise for each day of the year. This one-year training program begins the process of changing the student's mind and perception, though it is not intended to bring one's learning to completion. As stated in the Preface to the Course, "At the end, the reader is left in the hands of his or her own Internal Teacher, Who will direct all subsequent learning as He sees fit."
The "Manual for Teachers" is written in question-and-answer form and provides answers to some of the more likely questions a student might ask. It also includes clarification of a number of terms the Course uses, explaining them within the theoretical framework of the Text and for their practical application through the Workbook.
What exactly, then, is A Course in Miracles? The summary introduction, which appears in its Text, is quite succinct and brief. It reads:
"This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time. The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.
This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God." ___________________________________________________________________
About The Facilitator
DR T. AARON LIM
Dr T. Aaron Lim, a Fulbright-Hays Scholar, is a graduate of St. Francis’ Institution, Malaysia; College of Agriculture, Malaysia (now Universiti Putra Malaysia); Louisiana State University, USA; University of Hawaii, USA and Chaminade University of Honolulu, USA. He is a former professor at Brigham Young University-Hawaii, USA.
Born and raised in the ancient philosophies of the Orient and trained in the modern sciences of the West, Dr. Aaron has a unique talent of bridging the traditions of East and West. He has been serving and teaching health, personal development and spiritual growth for over 30 years. As a dynamic speaker and educator, he uses his multiple talents to help others reach their fullest potential.
Along with his wife, Dehyana Lee Lim ( www.anchoringthelight.org)
he co - founded and co-directs “Bodhi Fellowship / Center For Inner Peace”
( www.bodhifellowship.org )a nonprofit, spiritual organization dedicated to teaching unconditional, universal love and selfless service based in the Historic Heritage City of Malacca, Malaysia.
( ALL surplus arising from this Course will be donated to “Bodhi Fellowship Miracle Children’s Home” as its donation to support orphaned / underprivileged children)
Guided by Dr T. Aaron Lim
ACIM is a complete self-study spiritual thought system that teaches the way to Love and Inner Peace. Its only purpose is to provide a way in which we will be able to find our own Internal Teacher. Being able to access that "Internal Teacher" is central to allowing forgiveness to guide our life in the world, hence to be at peace and of service.
The Course is not about making a better world, but it is about making a more peaceful human being through the agency of spirit and the memory of the Love of God that the "Internal Teacher" holds for all in that part of spirit called "mind." A better world will occur when minds are healed of their ego beliefs in separation and competing interests.
As a 3-volume curriculum consisting of a Text, Workbook for Students, and Manual for Teachers, it teaches that the way to universal love and peace — or remembering God — is by undoing guilt through forgiving others. The Course thus focuses on the healing of relationships and making them holy.
ACIM also emphasizes that it is but one version of the universal curriculum, of which there are "many thousands." Consequently, it expresses a non-sectarian, non-denominational spirituality. ACIM therefore is a universal spiritual teaching, not a religion.
The "Text" presents the theory of the Course and has built into its study the development of the experience of forgiveness that is the Course's goal for the student. In this regard, ACIM states that "its goal for you is happiness and peace." The Text also explains the basis for fear and guilt, and how they can be overcome through miracles, which are defined as maximal "expressions of love." Miracles are also defined as the shift in perception from fear to love.
The "Workbook for Students" consists of 365 lessons, an exercise for each day of the year. This one-year training program begins the process of changing the student's mind and perception, though it is not intended to bring one's learning to completion. As stated in the Preface to the Course, "At the end, the reader is left in the hands of his or her own Internal Teacher, Who will direct all subsequent learning as He sees fit."
The "Manual for Teachers" is written in question-and-answer form and provides answers to some of the more likely questions a student might ask. It also includes clarification of a number of terms the Course uses, explaining them within the theoretical framework of the Text and for their practical application through the Workbook.
What exactly, then, is A Course in Miracles? The summary introduction, which appears in its Text, is quite succinct and brief. It reads:
"This is a course in miracles. It is a required course. Only the time you take it is voluntary. Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum. It means only that you can elect what you want to take at a given time. The course does not aim at teaching the meaning of love, for that is beyond what can be taught. It does aim, however, at removing the blocks to the awareness of love's presence, which is your natural inheritance. The opposite of love is fear, but what is all-encompassing can have no opposite.
This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way:
Nothing real can be threatened.
Nothing unreal exists.
Herein lies the peace of God." ___________________________________________________________________
About The Facilitator
DR T. AARON LIM
Dr T. Aaron Lim, a Fulbright-Hays Scholar, is a graduate of St. Francis’ Institution, Malaysia; College of Agriculture, Malaysia (now Universiti Putra Malaysia); Louisiana State University, USA; University of Hawaii, USA and Chaminade University of Honolulu, USA. He is a former professor at Brigham Young University-Hawaii, USA.
Born and raised in the ancient philosophies of the Orient and trained in the modern sciences of the West, Dr. Aaron has a unique talent of bridging the traditions of East and West. He has been serving and teaching health, personal development and spiritual growth for over 30 years. As a dynamic speaker and educator, he uses his multiple talents to help others reach their fullest potential.
Along with his wife, Dehyana Lee Lim ( www.anchoringthelight.org)
he co - founded and co-directs “Bodhi Fellowship / Center For Inner Peace”
( www.bodhifellowship.org )a nonprofit, spiritual organization dedicated to teaching unconditional, universal love and selfless service based in the Historic Heritage City of Malacca, Malaysia.
( ALL surplus arising from this Course will be donated to “Bodhi Fellowship Miracle Children’s Home” as its donation to support orphaned / underprivileged children)
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