Human body and soul

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Human body and soul

“The human body is in reality very weak; there is no physical body more delicately constituted. One mosquito will distress it; the smallest quantity of poison will destroy it; if respiration ceases for a moment, it will die. What instrument could be weaker and more delicate? A blade of grass severed from the root may live an hour, whereas a human body deprived of its forces may die in one minute. But in the proportion that the human body is weak, the spirit of man is strong. It can control natural phenomena; it is a supernatural power which transcends all contingent beings. It has immortal life, which nothing can destroy or pervert. If all the kingdoms of life arise against the immortal spirit of man and seek its destruction, this immortal spirit, singly and alone, can withstand their attacks in fearless firmness and resolution because it is indestructible and empowered with supreme natural virtues. For this reason we say that the spirit of man can penetrate and discover the realities of all things, can solve the secrets and mysteries of all created objects. While living upon the earth, it discovers the stars and their satellites; it travels underground, finds the metals in their hidden depths and unlocks the secrets of geological ages. It can cross the abysses of interstellar space and discover the motion of inconceivably distant suns. How wonderful it is! It can attain to the Kingdom of God. It can penetrate the mysteries of the divine Kingdom and attain to everlasting life. It receives illumination from the light of God and reflects it to the whole universe. How wonderful it is! How powerful the spirit of man, while his body is so weak! If the susceptibilities of the spirit control him, there is no created being more heroic, more undaunted than man; but if physical forces dominate, you cannot find a more cowardly or fearful object because the body is so weak and incapable. Therefore, it is divinely intended that the spiritual susceptibilities of man should gain precedence and overrule his physical forces. In this way he becomes fitted to dominate the human world by his nobility and stand forth fearless and free, endowed with the attributes of eternal life.” ~Abdu’l-Baha

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The Promulgation of Universal Peace
pages 263-264

Life after death

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As to thy question regarding discoveries made by the soul after it hath put off its human form: certainly, that world is a world of perceptions and discoveries, for the interposed veil will be lifted away and the human spirit will gaze upon souls that are above, below, and on a par with itself.
It is similar to the condition of a human being in the womb, where his eyes are veiled, and all things are hidden away from him. Once he is born out of the uterine world and entereth this life, he findeth it, with relation to that of the womb, to be a place of perceptions and discoveries, and he observeth all things through his outer eye.
In the same way, once he hath departed this life, he will behold, in that world whatsoever was hidden from him here: but there he will look upon and comprehend all things with his inner eye. -Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá

HOW THE LAW OF ATTRACTION WORKS

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HOW THE LAW OF ATTRACTION WORKS

HOW THE LAW OF ATTRACTION WORKS

The great secrets of the Universe will be revealed to you only if you are ready for them. There’s a saying that when the scholar is ready, the teacher appears before them. This Secret will fulfill every single wish of yours and every single command.Law-of-AttractionHumans are constantly asking questions, some are direct and some are rhetorical. It’s in our nature to seek for answers about the surroundings, meaning of life, love, unexpected things or unwanted events.

But while searching for answers, we unconsciously attract situations that are offering possibilities to learn and experience the exact thing we are looking for. This also applies to the very own understanding of the Secret and its real meaning. The Secret will be understood only by those who are ready of it!

Some might think that the Secret is an instrument for gaining material things. Actually, the Secret can primary help us penetrate deeper truths and find out the meaning of our existence. If you want to gain worldly wealth and status, you can use the Secret, but beware, by failing to comply other Universal laws you can also lose that wealth.

law-of-attraction-and-quantum-physicsLaws of attraction is the Secret of success and happiness but it’s not the only factor for gaining those two things. There are a lot of Universal laws that we should follow in order to get nearer to our Ideal and achieve our goal in life.

It’s hard to find the objective of our existence and that’s why most of us take material goods, status, money and power as a starting point to happiness.

Right beneath the goal of gaining wealth and power lies our wish to feel good. That wish is immanent for all of us.

That same wish should be the starting point of our spiritual evolution. The Secret requires a lot of mental effort while following the Universal Truth. Only then the Secret will no longer be a secret but a way of life.

The 3 steps of the creative process:

1. Searching

2. Believing

3. Receiving

The act of asking the Universe to give you something you want is actually a good opportunity to clarify to yourself what exactly do you want. The moment you answer this question to yourself in a clear way, is the moment you send the request.

Belief means that you have to behave, talk, and think like you already have the thing you have asked for. The moment you are switched on the same frequency with the thing you have asked for, the Law of attraction starts launching events, circumstances and people that are bringing you (closer to) the desired thing.

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The acceptance covers the feeling that appears when your wish is coming true. The present ‘feel good’ moment is switching you on the same frequency with the desired thing.

Here’s a simple example: If you want to have a lean body, don’t get obsessed with losing pounds. Instead, start thinking about how you are already experiencing the benefits of the perfect body weight. By doing this you’ll invoke the desired goal.

Now, get ready for a tiny but very important fact: The Universe doesn’t need time to receive your message. It is equally easy to gain one dollar and one million dollars. Try to start with the little things (such as finding a parking space) and soon you’ll experience how the Laws of attraction work.

By putting your power into the wishes for small and simple things at first, you’ll experience the way the Laws of attraction work and then you’ll be able to create bigger things in life. You can even create your whole day to be exactly the way you want it by thinking about the things you wish would happen to you. By gaining the experience, you’ll end up intentionally creating your whole life.

By: Renne Caf

When one is released from the prison of self, that is indeed release, for that is the greater prison

“Unless one accepts dire vicissitudes, he will not attain. To me prison is freedom, troubles rest me, death is life, and to be despised is honour. Therefore, I was happy all that time in prison. When one is released from the prison of self, that is indeed release, for that is the greater prison. When this release takes place, then one cannot be outwardly imprisoned. When they put my feet in stocks, I would say to the guard, ‘You cannot imprison me, for here I have light and air and bread and water. There will come a time when my body will be in the ground, and I shall have neither light nor air nor food nor water, but even then I shall not be imprisoned.’ The afflictions which come to humanity sometimes tend to centre the consciousness upon the limitations, and this is a veritable prison. Release comes by making of the will a Door through which the confirmations of the Spirit come.”

(Abdu’l-Baha, Abdu’l-Baha in London, p. 120)

This sounded so like the old theology that the modern in me rose doubting if the discipline could be compensated for by the effort. “What do you mean by the confirmations of the Spirit?”

“The confirmations of the Spirit are all those powers and gifts which some are born with (and which men sometimes call genius), but for which others have to strive with infinite pains. They come to that man or woman who accepts his life with radiant acquiescence.”

Radiant acquiescence — that was the quality with which we all suddenly seemed inspired as ‘Abdu’l-Bahá bade us good-bye.

It was a remarkable experience, hearing one who had passed along the prison path for forty years declare “There is no prison but the prison self;” and it drove conviction to one’s mind as this white-robed messenger from the East pointed the way out, — not by the path called “Renunciation,” but “Unattachment;” Radiant Acquiescence — the Shining Pathway out of the “greater prison of self” as ‘Abdu’l-Bahá so beautifully terms those bars that keep us from our fulfillment.

(Abdu’l-Baha, Abdu’l-Baha in London, p. 120)

Thank you Tricia Hague-Barrett

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