“You and I sip a cup of tea. That act is apparently alike to us both, but who can tell what a wide gap there is subjectively between your drinking and my drinking? In your drinking there may be no Zen, while mine is brim-full of it. The reason for it is : you move in a logical circle and I am out of it.” ~ Introduction-Zen-Buddhism, D.T. Suzuki

In Zen Buddhism, Satori is ‘a glimpse of truth’ or a sudden moment of awakening. Unlike what many believe, Satori is just a natural state of human mind, which is lost in the pursuit of materialistic desires and following the status quo. We, as souls, are infinite beings of light and live in the present moment, connected to cosmos at all times. But with everyday, mundane complications, we tend to lose our natural state of being i.e. Satori.

I know there has been pain. Circumstances in your life may have made you doubt the flow of The Universe, scream, cry and curse at the wind. Those moments may have made you doubt the existence of your Higher Power. It would be easy to say, “I have always been with you”, but truly hard to understand when you were in the throes of your deep hurt.
The Universe has always waited silently and patiently for you to end your trials, supporting and loving you unconditionally…..always ready, always willing to give to you what you feel you have lost. You may not always believe it, but I am here forevermore. ~ Creator

https://thecreatorwritings.wordpress.com/2015/07/10/waiting-for-you/

By Sayer Ji
Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

Could beet juice provide you a brain boost superior to coffee or tea?

Recently, Deanna Minich, PhD, founder of Food and Spirit, brought to my attention an amazing new study on beets and their role in promoting cognitive health. She summarized the study as follows:

“One recent study in 40 healthy people showed that they were able to better perform on cognitive tests 90 minutes after drinking 450 mL beetroot juice compared with placebo (apple/blackcurrant juice, which is low in nitrates). What I really like about this study is that brain performance can be improved fairly rapidly in healthy people with a simple activity like drinking beetroot juice (high in dietary nitrates, which leads to more nitric oxide to open up oxygen flow in the brain).”

Dear Ones, what if you knew that you really couldn’t get it wrong? You would begin to live according to what your heart truly desires, which would allow you to fully embrace stepping into your truth and purpose. From opening to that potential you would finally give yourself the freedom to truly experience and self express, and would expand and grow exponentially from there. You are mindful and caring beings! If something is not in line with your being, you will very quickly get uncomfortable and choose again. It is through having a myriad of experiences you can energetically sort what is a match to you and what is not, which allows you to discover the beauty of your unique, truest expression of self, which adds to the immeasurably to the whole. ~Archangel Gabriel

http://trinityesoterics.com/2015/07/10/daily-message-friday-july-10-2015/

God said:

You may have been seeking a panacea for life. You would like a cure. You might like to be on the sidelines, someone wise and wonderful who looks on life as if from a distance and nods sagely without being as affected by life as you presently are. Yes, somewhat above it all. Out of the fray. Out of the worry and concern. Simply a researcher doing research. “Ah, that’s how it is,” you say.

In a way you are an observer. You observe life going on right in front of you. You may feel that life hammers you, pulls you up and pulls you down. You don’t know what to expect of life. Life treats you as it wills, and you don’t quite grasp how to treat life as yet. You can’t quite get the hang of it. You’ve tried everything, yet you get flummoxed one way or another each time. You shake hands with life. You jump into life. You meet life half way. You run away from life, and you do the same things over and over again, yet life is always at least one step ahead of you. Sometimes you give up on life.

You may say to yourself: “Okay, I quit. I give up. I will expect nothing from life,” yet you keep on expecting right and left, and you are disappointed, disheartened, and aggrieved. You have an ax to grind with life, and you grind it. You grit your teeth. You just can’t seem to get a handle on life. Life outsmarts you with not so much as a by- your-leave.