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Posted on February 28th, 2007 by JonathanLIVE.
Categories: Movies.
I have not read the book. I am not sure if I will. The book ‘The Secret’ apparently is blowing everyone away and changing lives. So I thought I would share the movie at least. 
Posted on February 25th, 2007 by JonathanLIVE.
Categories: Movies.
This is definitely a video worth sharing… this had me laughing so hard I was in tears. If you want a good laugh watch this… it’s a total overload of funny. :)
Crocodile Hunter MoviesPosted on February 24th, 2007 by JonathanLIVE.
Categories: Faith.
Ouuuu, my spidey sense is tingling. We all have had a similar experience with our senses tingling in various capacities. Perhaps Spiderman and his spidey sense is closer to reality than comic book hero. At least when it comes to his spidey sense. It seems like most of the time I hear people talk about ‘Common Sense’, it is in reference to the lack of it in most people. Well, perhaps by their definition, but there is another common sense which certainly is common to us all.
The American Heritage Dictionary states the following as the definition for common sense:
n. Sound judgment not based on specialized knowledge; native good judgment.
Many times through out our lives we hear this phrase. It is often a relative term that is subject to the user of the phrase. However, in my recent study of the Baha’i Writings, I came across something that made me realize that the term common sense, might actually have a greater and more significant meaning than the ‘common’ way it has been used.
One of the most powerful books I have read is an interview with Abdu’l-Baha, one of the three central figures of the Baha’i Faith. The author of the book Laura Clifford Barney had a series of interviews with Abdu’l-Baha on a variety of subjects such as the nature of man, the meaning of life, and several mysteries relating to Christianity that have eluded humanity for centuries. All these are answered within these pages in a very simple manner. The name of this excellent book is called Some Answered Questions. I happened to reference something the other day, and recognized how a certain aspect of the nature of man actually relates to ‘common sense’.
The question that was presented to Abdu’l-Baha was the following:
Question. — What is the difference between the mind, spirit and soul?
(Abdu’l-Baha, Some Answered Questions, p. 207)
He went on to answer this, and then further went on to discuss the aspects of the physical and spiritual powers within humanity. Read it carefully:
In man five outer powers exist, which are the agents of perception — that is to say, through these five powers man perceives material beings. These are sight, which perceives visible forms; hearing, which perceives audible sounds; smell, which perceives odors; taste, which perceives foods; and feeling, which is in all parts of the body and perceives tangible things. These five powers perceive outward existences.
Man has also spiritual powers: imagination, which conceives things; thought, which reflects upon realities; comprehension, which comprehends realities; memory, which retains whatever man imagines, thinks and comprehends. The intermediary between the five outward powers and the inward powers is the sense which they possess in common — that is to say, the sense which acts between the outer and inner powers, conveys to the inward powers whatever the outer powers discern. It is termed the common faculty, because it communicates between the outward and inward powers and thus is common to the outward and inward powers.
For instance, sight is one of the outer powers; it sees and perceives this flower, and conveys this perception to the inner power — the common faculty — which transmits this perception to the power of imagination, which in its turn conceives and forms this image and transmits it to the power of thought; the power of thought reflects and, having grasped the reality, conveys it to the power of comprehension; the comprehension, when it has comprehended it, delivers the image of the object perceived to the memory, and the memory keeps it in its repository.
The outward powers are five: the power of sight, of hearing, of taste, of smell and of feeling.
The inner powers are also five: the common faculty, and the powers of imagination, thought, comprehension and memory
(Abdu’l-Baha, Some Answered Questions, p. 208)
Common sense here means a definition of a power that is within us all. The sense is a power that operates in both the inner and outer world in relation to the powers which we all possess as human and spiritual beings.
So next time you use the term common sense, remember that it took common sense for you to come up with that. 
Faith
Posted on February 23rd, 2007 by JonathanLIVE.
Categories: Thoughts.
Have you ever taken a good look around you? It doesn’t matter what part of the world you live in, or what your social circle maybe, or who your friends are; most people continue to live only in the physical world. The more enlightened few however, are continually involved with the spiritual world. The enlightened realize that it is actually the spiritual world that creates the physical world. If you really think about it, everything is made up of your thoughts, your feelings, and the things you think on that are what organize and determine your experiences. The spiritual world has all the creative power. Everything you see in the world began with an idea, or a thought, all of which are spiritual. Everything in your life right now has been created by your own spiritual state of mind whether you are aware of it or not.
…the outward is the expression of the inward; the earth is the mirror of the Kingdom; the material world corresponds to the spiritual world.
(Abdu’l-Baha, Some Answered Questions, p. 283)
The duality of the mind is often referred to as conscious and subconscious. The conscious being the you that is reading this right now, commanding all your decisions and telling your subconscious what you want. The subconscious doesn’t know right from wrong, or the truth from a lie, it just takes in what your conscious mind gives it, and does as it is told. Learning the truth of this interaction between the conscious and subconscious mind will allow you to transform EVERY aspect of your life!
To change external conditions, you must change the cause of those conditions. Most people try to change their lives by working directly on the circumstances and conditions they are in. This is really just a waste of time and effort, and leaves most just frustrated and exhausted. This comes from a failure to realize that their conditions flow from a cause. To remove whatever it is you are lacking, confused over, or limitations in your life, you must remove the cause of these things. What causes these things is the way you are using your conscious mind with thoughts and images that you continually encourage and focus on.
Change the cause, you change the effect. It is just that simple.
All of us are living in an ocean of infinite riches far beyond anything we can ever begin to understand. You have a subconscious that is EXTREMELY sensitive to your conscious thoughts. It is through your conscious thoughts that the matrix is created through which God, vital forces, wisdom, and all the other powers and energies of your subconscious mind flow. Take that conscious matrix and shape it in a more positive direction of thought, and the infinite energies within you will be redirected to change your life for the better. Baha’u’llah, the prophet founder of the Baha’i Faith, made it abundantly clear that this power is within all of us in the following quote:
This most great, this fathomless and surging Ocean is near, astonishingly near, unto you. Behold it is closer to you than your life-vein! Swift as the twinkling of an eye ye can, if ye but wish it, reach and partake of this imperishable favor, this God-given grace, this incorruptible gift, this most potent and unspeakably glorious bounty.
(Baha’u'llah, Gleanings from the Writings of Baha’u'llah, p. 326)
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Posted on February 22nd, 2007 by JonathanLIVE.
Categories: Poetry.
* The earth and the heavens
* Cannot compare
* With the sound of your voice
* And your touch, so fair.
* I cannot imagine
* My life without you
* Even though we are apart
* I am still with you
* If you could see
* Just what you have done to me
* You would have no doubts
* That our love was meant to be
* I love you more
* With every breath I take
* I promise you my heart
* Is only for yours to take
* And if all goes well
* When we meet eye to eye
* I will take you by my side
* With all my love, until we die.
* True love.
By: Jonathan Tranter
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