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The Truth I Heard

6/30/2013

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The Voice of Truth speaks to me. I write what I hear. Now, I share it here with you. ~ Debra Clemente

June 29, 2013 

I am the Way, the Truth, the Life. I am for you to know. I am for you to show. I am for you to be, so you may see, you may know, you may believe the Truth that Is. My Eyes see. My Eyes see all, far, wide, high, low, everywhere there is. There is nothing I do not know. I know the Way, for I Am the Way. The best Way, the only Way, the Way of Truth, the Way of Love, the Way of Compassion, the Way of Peace, the Way of Joy.

I am the Rock, the “Rock of Gibraltar,” the Rock that will not falter. On Me, with Me, as Me you must stand as you walk the land. Trust Me. Trust not the ground upon which your feet stand. Your feet touch the earth. They are of the physical world which is shaky and often so shady. Darkness conceals much which is True, which is Real. Thus, to truly see you must trust Me.


The Truth is the Rock that will not falter, although many minds of men attempt to alter. Stand on the Truth again and again. Let others go on with their stories, only their own soul will their lies destroy. It is for each to live his Truth, his own Truth, the Truth every bit of him knows through and through. It is this Truth, his Clear Conscious that will win in the end. For this Truth is what sets him free, free to be all he is, and not to cower in fear of what may be.

As clear as day, you may see life this way. But not when you look to the outside. It is only when you turn inside that you will find the Truth that does not hide. Go within and seek. Take a giant leap of faith and peek. Peek into the Truth, the Peak, the Ultimate Expression of You, this Highest, Best and Total Part of You. Ask for the Truth, the Ultimate Truth, no less, nothing else, not second best, not what someone else says, but what the Heart of you knows and wishes to show.

Take the journey inward, to go onward, past where you are, farther than you can see. Come within. Take My Hand. Walk this walk with Me. My Eyes see what you can not see. Why? Because My Eyes are everywhere, they are everything. Nothing, absolutely nothing hides from Me. So you must trust, trust in Me to see what you can not see. This is the faith Jesus said you would need.

When he said “Trust in Me.” It was I whom spoke. I spoke through the man he was. My Words arose from within him and out unto the world through his throat. I Am, whom he said would come again. I Am whom he told you to let in, to open the door and allow Me to show you how to live, live the life of no sin. I am here. I am there. I am everywhere. I am here for you now, the one writing, the one reading. I am here for each, even the ones whom do not know, whom do not believe in Me.

Do you hear it now? Did you just hear it again? Are you just now beginning to understand? Yes, it was Me, Me within him, that spoke those Words you know by heart, but had not until now understood how it could be. “Believe in Me.” You heard him say. “Believe in Me” I said through him, for I was with him and spoke to and through him as I now do you. These Words of Mine are Truth, Eternal and Internal Truth for each and all of you, for you to choose. I must be chosen and yet the choice is always up to you. You have free will to choose how you wish to see, how you wish to be. You can live small and earthly or rise up in consciousness with Me and use My Eyes to see unlimited possibilities always.

The Light I AM, filled with Me you may choose to be, you may become who you Are. The choice is yours. Yours now, not later, not someday, not wishing upon a distant star. I say, the time is Now! Start where you are to enjoy life, this life I give, this life I offer. From My Well you must drink. You must “get drunk” on Me. Drunk on the Love I shall fill you with as you come to me. Come to me so empty, not full of thought, not full of belief. But full of faith, trusting completely, trusting Me. But to trust Me, you must know Me.

How can you truly know anyone that you do not spend time with? Spend time with Me. Get to know Me. Ask Me what you wonder. Ask Me for what you need. Ask Me how you can help others, help others to see, help others as Me. And I will give you My Love, My Love to be, so others may see, may see Me within you. I will give you My Words to speak. Not to preach, but to be, be this Love I Am for all. This Love Jesus was. This Love Christ Is. Yes, I will christen you with My Love. To you, My Holy Spirit will bring My Love, so gently as if on the wings of a dove. Yes, My Love will be Heaven sent. This is what I offer, this is My Gift.

Have you received? Do you know Me and not just believe? You must know Me to show Me, to show Me to the world. When you so ask, I will come. I will come as Love. Love unto your heart. Love unto your being. This Love will change you from a “reason being” to a “heart-felt being.” You will be, you will become who you are, who I Am. In this Way, you shall know Me. In this Way they shall know you, they shall know Me within you. They shall know you by your love, Our Love.


Truth comes to me and then flees. As Truth is only in the moment, the moment of need.

The moment of Truth is only a moment indeed. And yet, as this moment is eternal, Truth is always present to be received.


I have to empty my mind to know the Way of the Divine. Only in this way, Truth I can find.

I have been reading about Sai Baba today, words he has said and what others say about him. I hear within his Words the same Truth which Jesus Christ, spoke. And within the comments of others, I hear the same confusion that still surrounds the Words of Jesus to this day. People have either placed Jesus so high above or so low below.

Hardly anyone has understood that it was Me whom spoke. For I am within all, and just as Sai Baba said, in some this Light (I Am) is quite bright and in many others quite dim. But the Light I Am was one hundred percent in him. When I spoke My Truth, the people could not see that it was Me, the “Truth I Am” speaking. All they could see was he. And they either thought that they were unworthy to be in this God/Man presence or thought the man unworthy to claim as he did.

When I said I was Great, when I spoke of how I am All to all, they couldn’t hear. They didn’t recognize My Voice, as the same Voice that calls to each within. And so as they heard My Word, they said it was absurd, that the man was a fake. But he was not. A real man, he was, God realized man indeed. This is the difference he wanted all to see. Just as Jesus Christ, he said “Follow Me.” Yes, the same Voice, the Voice of God within was speaking.

And some whom read these words will indeed think you are absurd, crazy in fact, for believing that you are Divinely receiving these Messages.  Messages of Truth repeated again and again, so they may be present in the physical world for eyes in need to see. And perhaps wonder and then desire to know for themselves, the Truth that lives within, the Truth of Me.

Many names people call me. Many incarnations I have had. But not always so fully have I been allowed to live so free as to be the Breath, the Words, the Hands, the Feet, the Christ, God manifest as man, for the world to see and thus believe I Am.

I am here now with you, with all. Waiting ever so patiently to be called, to be requested, to have my Presence felt, to have one surrender their life to Me, no matter what hand they have been dealt.

You are not going to find Me unless you look. You have to seek, seek with desire to find and know, to know Me. Each must so seek. Seek Me within themselves, for themselves, in no one else and for no one else. Seek to know yourself. I am here. I am near. Draw near. Draw near and seek. Seek to fully know Me.

When I get out of my mind, I am one with the Divine.


June 30, 2013

Whatever it is that you want to prove, you will prove. The proof will be your reality. You will see what you want to see. You can prove Me. You can prove to Me to yourself. My Truth, can be your reality. You can see, as I see, if you so believe, if you so desire this sight which is so infinitely higher. But you must first imagine it to be. You must see it now as your reality.“The proof is the pudding,” so to say. What you make of it is what it shall be. You will only get out of it what you first put into it and that means what you believe. All is created by thought first. Think about it and it shall be.

Let it go. Let it fly away with the breezes that blow. It will be gone. So gone, it will be as if it never known. Let it go, to go on. If you can not drop it and set it free, then hand it over. Give it to Me. Truly give it to Me. Don’t take it back. Think not of it again. Know when you give it to Me that you are in My care and what is done is done. Then go have fun. Rejoice, for you made the choice to let go, to no longer know whatever it was that you once knew, that kept you small and made you blue.

Thank the Lord above. Thank the Law that rules, that this is true for you. Give thanks. Humble yourself. Be full of gratitude. Joy and peace shall be your attitude. Your attitude determines your altitude. So let it be, fly free. Fly free with Me, the Divine in you. Make Me true. Believe in Me in you. And as you do, you so shall see, you shall see the Works We do. Wonders you will know. Wonders you will show.

Believe in Me, in you. This you can, this you will, do. Believe, have faith in yourself. Look to no one else. You are all that I Am. I Am all that is. You are everything My Dear, see this, see this clear. I am here for you. See Me. Make Me true. Rise up. Break free. Be who you are. Be what you can be. See unlimited possibilities with Me.

Forget doubt. That is living without knowing who you are. Live like you know it, then you shall show it. I am as good as My Word and so are you. Prove Me true. Say it so. Then let it be, be as you say. Let it come to you, come as it may, come as it will, as you allow, now that you know how.

Do not clog the stream that flows, with thoughts of that you wish not to know. Be without thought. Let no thought arise that tells you otherwise. All that you think is in reality Dear so very limiting. You think what you know and thus as your reality is continues to show. So, I say, Let is all go. Be thoughtless. Be limitless.

What is a thought anyway? It is what ever you say and you say what you see. What you have decided is or can be. You think what others have thought before. A you have been told you must know history, you must know the rules of science, you must know all that the learned/teacher say. But look my Dear, at the life these thoughts have created. Do you really want your life that way? Do these men you so revere live lives beyond reproach? Are they truly worthy to follow? Look where they lead you to. The life they lived you shall live too as you so believe, as you so repeat as they say. It is your choice to follow blindly along or open your eyes and another way.

I Am this Way. I Am the Way and I am here now for you. If you who read these words wish so to understand, then hear this Truth. I Am the One that lives in each and every one of you. You can be, who I Am, who you Are. Once you put your thoughts away that keep Me from showing, that keep your Truth at bay. Let Me shine. Let My Light shine through. Let Me show you a life that the small you never knew, but the Big You already Is.

Let Me show you who I Am. Let Me carry you now through the sands, the sands of time that shift more than you know. Let it go. Let is all go and go on. Go one with Me. See what is, what can be your reality.

If you must think, then think on Me. Think wonderfully. Think beautifully. Thank Me for the beauty you see, My creations, nature’s gifts which continually celebrate this Life I give. Celebrate Me! Chant the name of the Lord. Whatever name you call Me, call Me forth. In to your knowing, into your showing, let Me be, your reality.


One day I write what the Spirit that lives within prompts me to say. And then the next day, my eyes are drawn to a book already “on the shelf,” written with God’s help, saying again the words I hear within spoken to me so sweetly, so softly.

The Voice, the Inspiration is the same, though called by many names. What I spoke before, I speak again. And will continue to use one’s such as you until each and every so knows Me and listens and believes and trusts the Truth I Am that lives within.


Debra Clemente and Heavenly Company

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The Infinite Way by Joel Goldsmith, Modern American Mystic

6/30/2013

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Joel Goldsmith is a new discovery for me. But what he discovered in his time is exactly what I am in my own time discovering.  I am sharing now what I have found of his story so you can, if you so wish, read along with me. ~ Deb

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Excerpt from Joel Goldsmith's book "The Mystical" click on words to read full text as PDF.
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Excerpt from Joel Goldsmith's book "The Mystical" click on words to read full text as PDF.

The Infinite Way is a restatement of the message given to the world by many great revelators, but the essence of it can be summed up in this: If you achieve a realization of God by steadfastly and persistently seeking only that, then Something greater than your personal sense of self takes over and becomes your daily experience. The experience of God eludes most persons because they seek It for something other than Itself. They seek half a basket when they could have twelve baskets full left over. But the Experience is that Grace which is a sufficiency.
The Ultimate Goal. The purpose of The Infinite Way is to bring a person into complete union with That which is invisible. That Invisible is the Fourth Dimension of life, a dimension beyond height, width and depth. Out of that higher dimension come miracles of grace--healing, renewal, regeneration and a new world in which the miracle of Love holds everyone in Its embrace.

The awakening story of
Joel Goldsmith,
modern American Mystic.


The clarity and insight of Joel S. Goldsmith's teachings were captured in more than thirty-five books and in over twelve hundred hours of tape recordings that, today, perpetuate his message.
http://www.valorfoundation.com/mysticism.html

IN THIS DAY AND AGE, many persons are discovering that mysticism is a way of life that can be incorporated into their everyday experience. It is not impractical, and, as so many have thought, it is not a way reserved only for the few who can renounce all human responsibilities. Instead it is a way of fulfilling every obligation more effectively than would humanly be possible and experiencing the bliss and joy that nothing in this world can give.

Practical mysticism has been revealed to this age through one man's personal experience of God. That man, Joel Goldsmith, a successful businessman, had a God-experience which thrust him into the healing ministry. This was long before he had any awareness or understanding of the principles he later came to know as basic to the practice of spiritual healing and the living of the spiritual life. For sixteen years he sat in an office answering the many calls that came to him for help, which in the last years of this period of his life averaged 135 a day.
Then, in 1946 he passed another milestone, marked by an inner initiation that went on every day for about two hours in the early morning and lasted for two months. This lifted him into another dimension of life out of which came "The Infinite Way ." The healing aspect of his work continued, but a new phase now opened up for him as a result of this two-month long initiation. He became a teacher and lecturer with a worldwide audience, traveling throughout the United States and Canada and to New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, England and many countries in Europe, imparting the truth as it had been given to him. He traveled literally without purse and without scrip. He had no financial backers; he was entirely dependent on the Consciousness that abundantly brought forth the message to sustain the messenger.

God-Experience. Perhaps The Infinite Way can best be described in Joel Goldsmith's own words as "a God-experience." This experience is a touching of that Center within which for generations has been buried 'under a life totally centered in the outer; it is discovering that in that Invisibility within there is Something greater than anything in the visible world; it is knowing with an undeniable certainty that there is a Power and a Presence within each and every person that is the All-Power and the All-Presence.

With this conviction, it is possible to walk up and down a fear-torn world with confidence, courage and assurance, knowing that you do not walk alone, but that this indefinable Presence goes with you. It is That which cannot be described but you can feel Its tug as you turn to It--sometimes in utter helplessness--and find It within your own being.

While an extensive literature setting forth the principles of The Infinite Way has evolved, these books are not the real Infinite Way. True, they are about The Infinite Way and its principles and they serve as guides to those who earnestly desire to enter into this new-old relationship of oneness with the Source of all life. They invite those who hunger and seek after the God-experience to come to the feast, helping to lead them to the experience of God. Each person, however, must enter on his own, for this is an individual unfoldment.

This God-experience is possible to anyone. Every person, no matter who he is--the saint rolling in ecstacy or the derelict in the very depths of degradation--has this Presence within him. Then, why are so few aware of this wellspring of life within? Because they are too busy shadowboxing, making a living, seeking companionship, climbing the social ladder: empty shadows, when all the time within them awaiting their recognition is the Substance of life, fulfillment itself. As Goldsmith says in
The Art of Meditation:

Is there a path that leads to God realization, a path that can be trod here on earth? Can it be achieved here on earth? The answer is Yes. Not only is there a way of accomplishing this objective, but there is a short cut. That short cut, so simple and yet so very difficult, is to perform a bit of mental surgery on ourselves and cut away all our desires. Let us take a good sharp scalpel and cut out of ourselves all desire for a person, place, thing, circumstance, or condition. Every desire must be cut away in order that only one remains: to know Thee, whom to know aright is life eternal.

Pure Mysticism. The Infinite Way is pure mysticism, but not mysterious and not impractical. It is a complete reversal of the materialistic way of life which is based on the belief that there is only a limited amount of good and that in order to attain a portion of that good it is necessary to struggle, to wrest it from those who have it, a struggle which results in cut-throat competition and war.

To follow the mystical way is to recognize that everything you have need of is already within you, within your consciousness. Do not look outside: look within, and you will find all that makes life worthwhile. If the whole world should collapse, a conscious awareness of the Presence within could build it anew, if . . . Yes, there is an "if," and that "if" is: if you are resting in the Presence and relying on It instead of on some tangible thing out there that can so easily be swallowed up in a personal or international holocaust. The mystical way is a practical way because it puts an end to the strife that comes from trying to get something out in the world. Instead, it centers one's attention on how to release the Infinity locked up within.

It is a recognition of the essential worth and dignity of every individual, because within each and every one is this same Presence to be acknowledged and respected: God appearing as. This makes every person important, every person unique, with a special purpose and function in life--not just a cog in a machine.

Back of that acknowledgment of individual worth and dignity is the principle that man is not separate and apart from his Source, but is one with It in an eternal and irrevocable relationship because there is not God and man; there is only God, God appearing as man. God reveals and unfolds Itself as individual being. That being is the Essence Itself in individualization, possessed of all the qualities and capacities of God. How could It ever sin, die or be frustrated, disturbed or ill? Could any of these things happen to God? Then, if they cannot happen to God, they cannot be true of God individualized. God has planted Itself in the midst of every one of us, as us, and this is Grace, overflowing and abundant Grace, sufficient for every need.

Three Little Words. Joel Goldsmith had the unique ability, reserved only for those who themselves have had the deepest experiences, of giving the world the most profound truths in the simplest of terms. In fact, the principles of The Infinite Way can be summed up in three little words: "one," ''as'' and "is."

Oneness is a cardinal principle of The Infinite Way, a oneness which is so basic and all-inclusive that it cannot be side-stepped with any "ands," "ifs," or "buts." There cannot be that One and some other power, presence, cause, law, substance, or activity. Yet, how many persons are there who unquestioningly acknowledge one Power and in the same breath give power to something completely contrary to the nature of that one Power, thereby setting up a lesser power to be overcome by a greater one? But "Oneness" means what It says: One. This eliminates the possibility of anything other than that One having existence except as a mental concept. This simple principle of One is so expansive and all-inclusive that it can include life from every aspect.

Because God is the All-Power, there are no other powers. Because God is the All-Presence, there is no other presence. Because God is All-Wisdom, Infinite wisdom, It is instantly available and need not be enlightened.

Second, but equally important, is the word ''as'': God appearing as individual being and as the spiritual universe and all that is therein. There is nothing outside of or beyond that One, that One which is infinite, unlimited, pure Consciousness, the substance of all life. That One appears as the many, but always the essence and quality of the One are the essence and quality of the many.

And the final word — "is." God is; Grace is; harmony is; perfection is. How much good we shove away from us in our conviction that good was or has been our experience, but is not now present; or how often do we believe that some good may come to us in some future time or state! But all the Reality that exists, exists now. There will never be more of God than there is now, never more of good, wholeness, abundance, perfection, infinity than at this moment. As we live in this moment of is-ness, the next moment unfolds as a continuity of Grace.

The Spiritual Life. To attain the consciousness of the three little words is to have the fabric out of which life is made and to abide in that peace that nothing in this world of appearances can destroy. It is to follow the mystical path and to live the spiritual life. The spiritual life means abiding in is, and life, lived out from is, becomes a glorious experience of unfolding consciousness.

True, the steps leading to the attainment of that consciousness, while they are simple and clearly marked, are not easy. When we listen to a great artist, we seldom think of the years of arduous practice and discipline the artist has undergone to attain such heights of artistic achievement. The music flows forth effortlessly, but the apparent effortlessness comes because of the years of work that were necessary--the effort to attain the effortless.

So with us on this Path. The way is clear and simple, but not easy to follow. It would be simple if we could hug to us those three little words--"one," ''as," "is" — and leave out three other words which are the snare and the pit along the way: "I," "me," "mine."

It is this false sense of self, that personal sense of the little I, me, and mine, that is the source of all our troubles. To adhere steadfastly to one, as, and is annihilates, even though slowly at first, this false sense of self, so that the one Self, which expresses as your Self and my Self, may shine undimmed by any clouds of personal sense.

If there is no personal sense of self, who is there to have any problems? Certainly not God. We can easily prove this as we look at our own experience. Has not every problem stemmed from some thought that we have a life of our own, a selfhood to be preserved, protected, and supplied? Would there be any need for healing if there were no personal sense of self to be sick, in pain, lacking, or dying?

Healing As Revealing. Healing -- the healing of physical, financial, mental and moral ills--is one of the effects of living the mystical life. Actually, it is not really healing, but a revealing of the divine Reality hidden within every person. It is a lifting of the person who comes for help into a higher level of consciousness in which the problems of the world are seen from another perspective, and in that new perspective the problems fade away. In fact, it is seeing life whole, not merely a little segment of life. Just as the caterpillar struggles to climb over a log which looms as a great and almost insurmountable obstacle, so do we, before the mystical consciousness has taken over, see every human problem as great and often terrifying. But, through spiritual awareness we are lifted to a higher level of consciousness, and what appeared as a problem is now no longer that.

Meditation As Receptivity. This awareness is attained through meditation and the practice of the principles of spiritual living. Meditation is an essential part of The Infinite Way, it is an active state in which, through contemplation, the mind becomes a state of listening receptivity. In that silence and stillness, impartations from within come with force and with power, although they may come as quietly and gently as a still, small voice.

In The Infinite Way practice of meditation, there is no reliance on dietary restrictions, specific postures, breathing exercises, or any other external means of attaining this state of quietness. In many ways, the demands made upon us are far more stringent than anything of that nature. In the midst of appearances of every kind of condition and every type of person, there must be a consistent recognition of the one Presence and one Power. Anyone who attempts to adhere steadfastly to such a discipline knows that it requires complete one-pointedness and dedication. To consciously withdraw power from outer effects is an achievement of no small measure.

Most persons find when they sit down to meditate that they cannot be quiet at all. The whole world pushes in upon them with tremendous force, shattering whatever calm may have been felt before, and the possibility of reaching that Center within may seem even more remote. How can this inner clamor be stilled? Some have attempted to blank out the mind by an act of will and thereby attain that inner stillness which is meditation, and many have failed. The Kingdom within cannot be taken by storm.

There is another way to attain this inner stillness, which is so simple it does not seem possible that it could be of any value. But the greatest truths are the simplest and perhaps that is why so few persons are able to accept them: they lack the requisite humility. Anyone who will give this a trial may be surprised at how quickly the mind becomes quiet and peace takes over.

This method is based upon a simple statement of the great Master, Christ Jesus: "I can of mine own self do nothing." Take that same attitude that he in his elevated state of consciousness took and realize that you of yourself can do nothing--not even meditate. Notice the immediate release from all sense of strain and from that mental effort which only keeps the mind on its merry-go-round. As you sit there, remember that you are not trying to force anything; you are not trying to make something happen. You are sitting in an attitude of receptivity, letting the Father within do the meditating, waiting for that Presence to reveal Itself. You have released the responsibility to It.

This must not be a long process--a minute or two or three at the most. But it is something that should be repeated many times a day. Most people can find an odd minute every hour to retire within in an attitude of humility and receptivity. In that minute, you have opened yourself to the Presence and Power within you. If you make this a regular practice, pausing every hour or two to let the Spirit within do the meditating and communing, you will find yourself living in the rhythm of God, and one day you will live in a continuous conscious awareness of the Presence within.

Contemplation. It will be helpful, too, to take some bit of spiritual wisdom and contemplate it for a longer period of time, perhaps as long as five minutes. When I met Joel Goldsmith in 1949, I had been meditating according to a certain procedure for seven years, and meditating successfully because the meditation did bring many benefits. At that time, however, he suggested that I go in a different direction and take for my meditation, "I and my Father are one." This I did.

At first, my meditation consisted primarily of repeating thoughtfully many times, the statement, "I and my Father are one." But each time I repeated it to myself, I waited for something further to be given me, and for some time little or nothing came. The first bit of insight was given me when I fastened my attention on the word "one," asking what "one" really meant. Then later came the question, "What is the Father?", which had to take on a new connotation if it were to have any meaning in this context. And the last word on which my attention was focused was "I."

How long did this continue? An instruction had been given me, and since it was not changed, I continued--not for a day, a week, a month, or even a year, but for two years. Yes, for two years, early in the morning and late in the evening, I contemplated the meaning of "I and my Father are one." After a month or two, I found it easy to rest back in that truth in great peace, quietness and assurance, because such an inner awareness of my oneness with the Source had already come that nothing from the outside could shatter it. With the continued contemplation of it came the conviction and the realization of that eternal relationship of oneness.

Not a Mental Process. Meditation, as taught in The Infinite Way, is not a mental process. It is true that a contemplative meditation such as, "I and my Father are one," does use the mind, but pursued to its ultimate, it takes one beyond any intellectual answer the mind can conjure up. A point is reached where the mind can go no further. Its capacities for enlightenment are exhausted, and in that moment, real silence is attained. It may be for only a second or less than a second, but that second is the moment of "unknowing," and in that unknowing, truth wells up from within, that truth that is Truth, coming with the authority and force of inner revelation.

Patience and perseverance are required as in the attaining of any skill or the perfecting of any art form. The deeper you go within, the richer will be the treasure yielded, treasure not measured in terms of gold and silver, but in terms of quickened awareness.

Meditation is like exploring a forest. With each forward step, great giant trees, young saplings, or little shoots of green breaking through the ground stretch before you. So, too, in meditation new insights into facets of the One are continually whetting the appetite and taking you ever deeper within to greater awareness.

But why make the effort and take all the time necessary to turn to that Presence within? Because the promise is, "In thy presence is fullness of life" --in the presence of That which can be found only at the Center of being: yours and mine. Let that Presence interpret what that fullness of life is, and It will do so to the extent that you adopt the listening attitude and attain an inner stillness. You do not have to outline or plan what that fullness for you is to be.

Infinity Beckons. Most persons limit their present experience to what they already know, circumscribing it by the limitations of the mind, when all the while, Infinity is knocking at the door of their consciousness with new undreamed of and unthought of experiences and wisdom. They turn a deaf ear to that knocking because their attention is riveted upon their previous experience and what they have enjoyed or missed in it, what they seek to perpetuate, recapture, or eliminate. They live in that dead past which has no real existence since all of reality is now.

How are these new facets of Infinity to be recognized when they still represent that which is unknown and undreamed of? There is a way, and that way is turning in meditation from everything the mind has ever known into the unknown Sea of Consciousness. This sense of Infinity with Its immeasurable potentialities is never reached by carrying into meditation a mind image of what a person thinks life should be, but by approaching meditation with no preconceived ideas of what should be revealed and, thereby, truly entering the silence.

Always you must approach meditation in a state of not knowing, in the complete self-surrender of "I can of mine own self do nothing," realizing that the divine Consciousness that you are knows how to meditate. You let It do the meditating and contemplating, thereby releasing this personal sense of self so that the divine Consciousness may take over.

Dedication to faithful practice may at first result in days and days of no response whatsoever, when apparently nothing is taking place. Then something happens, the flow begins--not the flow from your mind but the flow from that deeper stratum of being: Consciousness. It may come as words or as an impartation of some kind. It can come as a sense of peace, but when it comes, you know that you have found the secret of life.

It brings forth a new era, a new world hinted at in the achievements of outer space. It is not the space age, however, but the spaceless age in which time and space are surmounted in the awareness of omnipresent Being.

No Organization. Because of the essentially individual nature of this work, there is no Infinite Way organization: there are no memberships and there is nothing to which anybody can belong. To engage in this study and practice, no one is required to give up membership in anything and no one is required to join or become a part of anything. Each person can go as fast or as slowly as he chooses. He can scale the mountain in one steep ascent, or he can follow many by-paths and delay the experience for one or more lifetimes. There are no restrictions and no limitations, or, in Goldsmith's words:

Illumination dissolves all material ties and binds men together with the golden chains of spiritual understanding; it acknowledges only the leadership of the Christ; it has no ritual or rule but the divine, impersonal, universal love, no other worship than the inner Flame that is ever lit at the shrine of Spirit. This union is the free state of spiritual brotherhood. The only restraint is the discipline of Soul; therefore we know liberty without license; we are a united universe without physical limits, a divine service to God without ceremony or creed.

The illumined walk without fear--by Grace.

The Infinite Way is a restatement of the message given to the world by many great revelators, but the essence of it can be summed up in this: If you achieve a realization of God by steadfastly and persistently seeking only that, then Something greater than your personal sense of self takes over and becomes your daily experience. The experience of God eludes most persons because they seek It for something other than Itself. They seek half a basket when they could have twelve baskets full left over. But the Experience is that Grace which is a sufficiency.

The Ultimate Goal. The purpose of The Infinite Way is to bring a person into complete union with That which is invisible. That Invisible is the Fourth Dimension of life, a dimension beyond height, width and depth. Out of that higher dimension come miracles of grace--healing, renewal, regeneration and a new world in which the miracle of Love holds everyone in Its embrace.

This new world can become a universal experience only as the chains that bind men are broken. And what are these chains that hold the world in bondage? Is it some enemy to freedom in the form of a ruthless dictatorship, an ideology, economic disaster, war, or the scourge of disease? One dictatorship after another has had its day; ideologies have come and gone; depressions have come in a kind of recurring cycle, only to be followed by periods of great prosperity; peace after war has been but an uneasy truce; certain diseases have worked their havoc, and then cures for them have been found, sometimes making way for new and more deadly diseases. All these phases of human bondage have been overcome many times, only to be replaced by new forms.

And so it will continue until a new Element is introduced into human consciousness that will dissolve the lust for power, the greed and the fear which constitute human consciousness. That new Element may be called by many names: "the Presence within realized," "the Messiah foretold of old," "the Christ of whose kingdom there shall be no end." The name is not important. What It really is, is an absolute realization and conviction of one Power which knows no opposites and no opposition. With Its coming, "the former things are passed away, and, behold, all things are new."

That this new Element can be introduced into human consciousness is the vision of The Infinite Way. How it can be done is the larger, broader, wider aspect of this message and its real purpose, which was never primarily to make a few thousand persons healthier, happier or wealthier. The vision of The Infinite Way is that, through the spiritual dedication of those who embrace the deepest principles of mystical teaching and reach the heights of the mystical consciousness, human consciousness may be emancipated from itself, that the Presence hidden within may come forth in Its splendor and glory universally. The way is set forth: it needs only to be followed.

http://www.valorfoundation.com/mysticism.html

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Trust Me

6/20/2013

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Notes from of my journal ~ 2010

These are some of my early inspired writings. I wrote what I heard, but I did not yet hear what I wrote. Now as I do, all is clear to me, a riddle no more. My ears can hear and my eyes can see. ~ Debra Clemente

You don’t have to be entirely awake to begin to grasp the depth of my words but your heart/soul needs to be stirring. Just as all wisdom is given, inner guidance God direction, these knowings come as whispers to our soul. To those still in deep sleep the words are lost but if one is semiconscious they have a chance of arousal. It takes quiet to hear the whispers.

The Voice of Love.


Come in peace

Inquire

Believe this

Trust me

Don’t question

Ask not

The trouble with thinking

Too much brain power

Guided by God

God in me

I AM

Hidden from view

So obvious

Always there

Tell the lies

Unwritten rules

Guide them

That’s us

Days of my youth

Now it is easy

Supposed to tell

Don’t keep it

Let me rest

Where we go from here

To there

By the book

Knowing versus believing

All along

Waiting for you

Perfection

In the moment

All here

Available now

Nothing to do

As it happens

Look back

You’ll see it

Know it

Believe it

Be it

All there is

Stop wondering

Know

Know God

Know good

Know you

Know me

In good spirit

In God spirit

Break the chains

I like it like this

This point in time

Flash forward

Love has to do with it

In love

Long live

Live long

Try not to think

The pieces come together

And you see the whole

You are whole

The whole with ease

Domesticate

Dumb as educate

Away we go

Through it all

About now

Educate the birds?

Journey home

No editing

Like it is

Prisoners like Michalago’s sculptures

Love

Beauty

Perfection

User friendly

Times change

Point of view

Open up

Let’s see

Like Jesus

Be a saint

Because who says?

They say

Who are they?

They know more than you?

Oh really?

You have the power

I have the power

Find it in here

Let it out

Free yourself

Go on

Live life

Live and be the Truth

God’s perfection

Amen

Upon refection

See me in you

So much the same

Unique view

What you see

Seemingly

Fresh start

In despair

I found God there

The easy way

I like to be used

Use me today

Happy as a clam

It all works

Works so well

Perfectly

I’m finding out

Within

All the time

No time

Timeless

Here

Now

Glimpse

No one told me

Found out within

No one can restrain me

No going back

Better each day

A sensation

Don’t name it

Know it all

Games we play

Who made the rules?

No need

Know need

Have it all

Be it all

Apparition

Anything I need

Know it all

All here

I can tell

All hear

Hear ye

It’s been said

No telling

Twisted tale

Rise up

Meet the day

Bliss

What Jesus knew

What can be

Already is

Pattern

Quilt

Woven tapestry

A little bird told me

Float along

Don’t paddle upstream

Turning point

The river gets wider and smoother

And oh the view!

I’m done with that

What’s done is done

Over and out

Consider this

All I ask

Receive much more

What’s this?

How can I think?

Nothing to wait for

I was told

I now know

I know now

Now I know

Know now

More than me

Don’t stop there

Keep it up

Boundless beauty

For all

They knew it

The signs are there

No denying

Can’t blind my eyes

I hear it

I feel it

I see it

No question

As real as real can be

Step forward with me

Come into the light

Of full life

Be a part of it all

Do you hear me?

Or are you just watching my lips move?

I want you to know

I had to tell you

Don’t let your mind limit you

So close

Doesn’t seem right

The whole truth

Full spectrum light

It all works

Gifts

How can you hear with so much noise?

It’s like a whisper to your soul

Listen and learn

Learn and live

Live and learn

We couldn’t see it

Where this comes from

Wake up

All you need

That’s what I hear

Surrender and be set free

No one could hear me

More than meets the eye

What I heard

I am moved

Where I find myself

So many stories

Just in time

Find yourself here

The way shower

Jesus

The Christ

Close your eyes

And open your heart

Done waiting

Ready now

The way I feel

Wipe your eyes

No need to get ready

As you are

Know what is

Now what is

Bring it to the surface

For all to see

Awaken me from my slumber

Because you were told

When you know the truth

It speaks so loudly

Can’t be ignored

Hidden no more

No one can give it to you

You have to find and take it yourself

Like a party-line

You have to be here

There is no where to go

Once you know you’ll understand

Sounds like a riddle

Crazy as it seems

Don’t listen to me

These are just words

Kind of like this

Feels right

Going my way

Worth exploring

Look around

It occurred to me

This is what it is

It is what it is

Just that

Funny to think

I looked again

Now it’s transparent

I don’t get that channel

What channels do you get?

Choose your programming carefully

And prayerfully.


"Painting Titles" The Voice of Love Speaks to Me, by Debra Clemente
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Can You See What I See?

6/12/2013

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From the pages of my journal
November 2007

I’m constantly studying the light.

I notice how the light falls across the land, sparkles through the trees and colors the sky. It takes me twice as long as most people to get from A to B, when I drive through the rural countryside. I can hardly drive as I am so distracted. I’m constantly pulling over and getting out of my car with my camera in hand in an attempt to make some record of what is inspiring me.

I find inspiration everywhere. It happened again today. I was just driving along minding my own business when I saw it. “Oh my”, I gasp and took a deep breath. I had to stop. Things like this can not be ignored, at least not by me. This is exactly why I keep a camera in my purse, one just never knows. I pulled my car safely to the side of the road, grabbed my keys and camera and got out. I had to walk a ways before I found the spot again. 

Tall grass and weeds brushed across my calves and as I walked a safe distance from the highway’s shoulder, remembering to watch my step so I didn’t tumble down the hillside. “I really should be more prepared. Why don’t I remember to keep better walking shoes in the car or at least bug repellent?” I berated myself. Then I saw it. “Oh yes this is wonderful!” My heart silently screamed in delight. “This is what it is all about”. Click, click, click, click went my camera. This digital stuff is great, not worried about wasting film I can shoot to my hearts content. Thinking I’ve got it, I start back to my car, yet when I have just taken a few steps it happens again. “Oh wow! Click, click, click, click. Okay now, that good.”

Time stands still, as I am engulfed in the beauty which surrounds me. Once again my heart has been lulled by nature’s love song. This time it was the way the morning light danced through a tall patch of native grasses and spindly cattails tucked between a busy highway and rural America, Kansas to be exact. Next time it might be the snaking S pattern of a young crop of soybeans, the golden glisten of a wheat field ready for harvest, or the way the evening light filters through the trees. One just never knows so I am constantly at watch. “Whish, whish, whish”, it’s the sound of cars rushing by. I wanted to yell at all the people to tell them to stop and look. “Can’t they see what I see?” I say out loud to myself.

I get back in my car and head on to my appointment in Kansas City. “Dang it”, I keep seeing things. “How am I ever going to get anywhere like this?” I ask myself as I once again pull to the shoulder. It takes me much longer than anyone else I know to get anywhere, especially, if a rural vista is involved. It really drives me crazy to ride in the car with my husband. He never stops, even when I beg him. So I have to be satisfied with clicking my camera as he whizzes along. Other times I paint. I’m not talking about propping a canvas against the front dash. I just paint with my eyes and my heart. Imagining how I could capture the scene in paint so others could understand and feel as I feel.

~ Debra Clemente


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Buried Treasure

6/11/2013

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Here it was all along, and yet I had not before ears to hear, nor eyes to see.

I keep discovering treasured Holy Scripture that so speaks to me.

Thank you my friend Joseph for uncovering this treasure so worth finding.


Second Timothy 3:16-17
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Another Listened

6/5/2013

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I just came upon this inspired writing and believe it speaks the Truth so clearly. The Words and Message is oh so familiar to me, for this is the same Voice of Love that to my own heart continually speaks. ~ Deb

Brother Mandus
(1907 - 1988) Founder of the World Healing Crusade


"In the Silence of my soul, I listened to the Lord"
The Divine Word by Brother Mandus -

"I AM your Heavenly Father, and I come to you now as the living Presence
within your own being. There comes a time in the life of all My Children when
realisation awakens. There comes a time when those who have already
experienced My Love are ready to be lifted into an even higher state of
consciousness. Because I am your Father I am forever creating ways for you
to expand your consciousness in harmony with My Own Perfection.

Turn away from the World for awhile and listen to Me! Forget yourself and
realise that I am God, the Christ Spirit within you now. You and I are one. We
never can be separated because you are of My Own Being. My Life is your
life. My Mind is your mind. My Love is your love. You are exactly as I am in
miniature, with the same eternal life and an infinite potential for increasingly
wonderful expression. You are because I am.

I have been with you from the beginning and I never cease to bathe you in My
Love. I lead you, protect and cherish you as My Own. In all My Realms of
material Worlds and spiritual heavens I have only one you. I created you that
you may grow in love, wisdom, knowledge and joy. I see for you adventures
beyond your greatest dreams. I long for you to take all the gifts which I have
prepared for you. As quickly as you learn to know Me you will realise that I
can only give you everything you desire. All I have, all I am, is your own for
you to accept.

I AM the Perfect Life within you. I am health and happiness, peace and
prosperity, love and laughter, wisdom and all knowledge. I am the abundant
life. All these things you already possess in My Spirit. My Universe has been
evolved through My Own Being. I hold it poised in My Mind. I live in the midst
of it. I am the Life that springs forth in trees and flowers and in every growing
plant and fruit. I am the Life and Beauty of the World and of Man.

Wherever your vision rests, there am I. You cannot mistake My Presence, for
I reveal Myself in countless ways. So many of My Children have become blind
to the Reality, to the evidence of My Presence. They accept themselves, and
all your wonderful World, without thought and deny My Almighty Love and
Intelligence which makes it all possible. They neither believe the evidence of
their own senses, nor the truth so obvious in their own beings.

But you I lift into My Consciousness now. I redeem you from blindness and
give you clear vision. I call you out of the World into your Kingdom within
where I can commune with you, and give you guidance, wisdom,
understanding and truth. I expand your soul in My Love and send you forth to
cultivate a greater love, a greater power, and to create with Me a more
wonderful way than you have ever known.

Every day you have your problems. But when you know I am with you there is
nothing to fear. If you will continue to be poised in My Spirit, I am
instantaneous Perfection in the midst of all seeming chaos, illness or
tribulation. You will overcome the World in My Strength.

You can live but one moment at a time. This moment is the only one that is of
any consequence to you. Therefore I charge you to fill it with simple trust in
Me, and with perfect love. That is the answer to every subsequent moment as
it dawns.

There is no difficulty, no illness, no seeming tragedy that is too great for My
Love to overcome. But when you insist on turning away from Me to dwell in
fear or worry on the difficulty, I must stand aside until you come back to Me. I
can only manifest My Perfection in you when you allow Me to do so. That is
your right of choice, the perfect freedom I give to you to think and live as you
wish.

My Law is Perfect. I know you will eventually live in complete harmony with
Me and thus enter perfect happiness and achievement. You are, as yet, but
learning how to live as a free being. The time has come when you shall really
begin to claim your spiritual freedom through a clearer, simpler understanding
of My Presence.

I want you to know that My Great Law is Love. It is the Great Law because I
am Love, and all things that are perfectly created are done through the Power
of thought expressed in Love.

Therefore to the extent you live in love, forgetting and sacrificing self in
service, you become one with Me. It is fundamental to your health and
happiness that you shall Love with all your heart and mind. You shall love
your family, friends and neighbours. More important you shall love those who
hurt you, your so-called enemies, be they individuals or nations. I love all, for I
am all.

When you are in the throes of conflict and your mind turns to anger,
resentment and bitterness, remember that you are hating Me. The bitterness
of your distorted thoughts, often translated into harmful physical action, not
only destroys the well-being of others, but produces spiritual, mental and
physical illness in you. I never will illness upon My Children.

You shall learn to love all, and through your understanding, to forgive all.
When you become aware of evil coming to you, the only answer is to see Me,
the Perfect Christ within the other. That is the Man you shall love. Then you
can forgive the outer man, and be compassionate, for if he despitefully uses
you, he does so out of ignorance of My Law. Love him, pray for him, forgive
him, then you lift him up to Me and I lift you up also.

From this moment let love be your constant companion, then I shall be with
you, too. Love your people, love your work. Do all things as a loving service
for Me. Every moment will then be filled with joy, and power and success, for I
shall sustain you in everything you do.

The other Law you need to know is the Law of Mind which insists, necessarily
that an experience can only become real to you when you recognise it. What
ever you accept in consciousness becomes real. You exercise your faith
every time you do this. You have faith in the ground you walk upon, faith in
the life within you, faith in the Sun and the rain, faith in the chairs and bed you
use, faith in your ability to come here or go there. All such experiences you
daily accept as Reality and thus they become concrete experience.

It is this Law which naturally must operate when you think of Me. I too can
only become a Reality when you consciously accept Me as Real. When you
know I am the Almighty Love, Wisdom, intelligence and all good within you,
you are free forever.

From this moment I charge YOU to fill your life with love and to trust Me in all
things. Ask and I am instantly the Perfect Answer. Give me your burdens, and
I will disperse them. Forget the ills you hold so closely by remembering Me.
Forgive yourself in loving Me, and serving all. I am your Lord, and when you
keep your mind filled with the knowledge that health, joy, Prosperity and
everything that is Perfect are now pouring into your life they become your
own."

GOD BLESS YOU!

http://brothermandus.wwwhubs.com/mandus3.htm


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Self Discovery

6/5/2013

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This just in (my heart.)

Self discovery is the only way to uncover me. Buried so deep beneath those ideas you keep. Dig deep. Seek. Discover. Dis-cover Me. Unwrap your mind from those ideas that bind your eyes and make you blind. Seek to see, see Me within Thee. Discovery Me. Self discovery.

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The Short Path

6/2/2013

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Though I had no idea at the time I was on any path at all, as I look back I can see that I was on the "Short Path" indeed. ~ Debra Clemente 
Are you familiar with the works of Paul Brunton? He has just recently been brought to my attention. He, as me, was inspired to continually write spiritually inspired sayings which came to his mind. Brunton speaks of two different paths to awakening. I have included below some of his notes which outline them to some degree the two paths to awakening, The Long Path and the Short Path.

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The basis of the Short Path is that we are always divine. It is with us already, it is no new thing, and we only have to try to recognize what is already there.

Meditation has two parts. The lower one belongs to the Long Path. Also, the religions are for the beginners and popular masses. They, too, belong to the Long Path. To the Short Path belong Christian Science, Ramana Maharshi's teachings, Vedanta, Krishnamurti's teaching, and Zen. They all say You Are GOD. The Long Path says instead: You are only a man. The one says that you are man and the other says that you are also really rooted in God.

A very important point: because the ego lives in its own darkness, it cannot give light. The light may come only from the Overself, which is the Sun and Light of human existence. With the reason we can control the ego to some extent, but it is not possible to control the Overself. As regards Enlightenment, this is not coming from self-willed effort; it is coming only by what the Overself does to him. It is a matter of Grace--unpredictable--and it is the last secret. It is like the wind that comes you do not know where from and goes you do not know where to. It is a mystery. At the end we have to be like little children and leave our Enlightenment to the Father and give up our lives to him. On the Long Path the aspirant tries to improve himself. He experiences successes and failures, ups and downs. When he is disappointed, he gets melancholy. On the Short Path such a situation cannot arise, because he has faith like a little child. He has given up all his future to Overself-God and he has enough faith to trust to it. He knows he has made the right decision and therefore is always happy. He depends on this GRACE, he knows It, that It comes from the wisest being behind the world. Whatever will come, it will be the best. He is always relying on the Overself and having the joy in it.

The Short Path is a cheerful Path, a Path of happiness. Just before this begins, the aspirant may experience the Dark Night of the Soul. He feels utterly helpless, has no feeling of spiritual Reality. It is a melancholy time--no feeling of spirituality or longing for it. He is neither worldly nor spiritual. He feels alone and abandoned and separated by a wall from his Guru. He feels God has forgotten him. This dark night may last a short time or long years. He is unable to read spiritual things, or think about them. There is no desire for ordinary things either. He feels sad and disappointed and may even try suicide. In this unhappiness even those who love him cannot bring him comfort. In both hemispheres, Western and Eastern, there is a saying: the night is darkest just before dawn. He is on the lowest point. After that, the Short Path brings back the Joy--just like clouds moving away from the Sun.

The best advice is, first, that it will not last forever; he must have patience. Second, he must have hope. Then he reaches a better level than ever before. The Dark Night of the Soul does not come to every seeker. It is like a shadow thrown by the Sun. When the Sun appears in the subconscious, the shadows arise. But it is the beginning of a great inner change. It is not a wasted time; there is a great deal of work going on--but in the subconscious--to root out the ego. It is being done by the Overself. It is a sign of Grace, but the aspirant nevertheless feels unhappy.

In the Short Path there are usually much fewer exercises to practise. It is not necessary to sit down specially to meditate, but to try to be always in meditation. When you are busy outwardly, meditation naturally takes a different form than when you sit down for it. During the active part of the day, meditation takes the form of remembrance, always to try to remember the Overself: IT IS (That is enough). In the special meditation time our object is not to improve the character. During the meditation we have to empty our mind of thoughts as quickly as possible, let the mind become still. Ordinarily we live in our thoughts, in our little selves, even if the thoughts are spiritual. Therefore we have to keep away from all thoughts. If you want to think of the Overself, which is without any form, it is not possible. We try, but any idea, form, or shape is wrong. You cannot imagine it. So better not to try but to be still. You must not remain in the ego. "Be still [let go] and know that I AM GOD," says the Bible.

~ PB ~  Paul Brunton


http://www.paulbrunton.org/index.php.
http://wisdomsgoldenrod.org/notebooks/query=long+and+short+paths
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