​The Tao is elusive and intangible.
Although formless and intangible,
it gives rise to form.
Although vague and elusive,
it gives rise to shapes.
Although dark and obscure,
it is the spirit, the essence,
the life breath of all things.
Throughout the ages, its name has been preserved
in order to recall the beginning of all things.
How do I know the ways of all things at the beginning?
I look inside myself and see what is within me.
-Lao-tzu (6th Century BC)
Inside is the Source and the Action.
Essence manifesting into Form.
How you relate to the issue IS the issue.
The Kingdom of Heaven is within
Peace inside of me and peace in Ukraine, Russia and the world.
Peace be still.
LLS
Richard Powell
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Art - Artist unknown

​"In order to get on with your life, you need to arrive at a decision. No matter what it is, it will be the right one! You will learn from whatever action you take, whatever decision you make. That attitude is the positive path." John-Roger, DSS
The universe rewards action not just thought.
Peace inside of me and peace in Ukraine, Russia and the world.
Peace be still.
LLS
Richard Powell
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Art - Sunset at Sea after a Storm by Francis Danby (c. 1824)

​“Hafiz was born in Shiraz in south-east Persia (modern Iran) in approximately 1320 A.D., twenty two years before the birth of Chaucer and a year before the death of Dante. He was named Shams-ud-din, which means ‘Sun of Faith,’ Mohammed.
Leave the familiar for a while.
Let your senses and bodies stretch out
Like a welcomed season
Onto the meadows and shores and hills.
Open up to the Roof.
Make a new water-mark on your excitement
And love.
Like a blooming night flower,
Bestow your vital fragrance of happiness
And giving
Upon our intimate assembly.
Change rooms in your mind for a day.
All the hemispheres in existence
Lie beside an equator
In your heart.
Greet Yourself
In your thousand other forms
As you mount the hidden tide and travel
Back home.
All the hemispheres in heaven
Are sitting around a fire
Chatting
While stitching themselves together
Into the Great Circle inside of
You. -Hafiz
Change rooms in your mind for a day..
.
LLS
Richard Powell
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Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904): The Carpet Merchant

​"When we define "manifestation" as "appearing physically," we are only taking into account physical forms, objects. But successful manifestation is only complete if it results in a change in consciousness. That change of consciousness, in turn, is the realization that the essence of what we sought in a physical form is actually inside of us. "Having" doesn't mean possessing a physical object. It means no longer experiencing the need." John-Roger, DSS
"Inside is the source and the action." - from my M. Blessing given in 1986.
Peace inside of me and peace in Ukraine, Russia, and the world.
Peace be still.
LLS
Richard Powell
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Art - Morskie Oko (Lake in the Tatra Mountains), 1837
Nepomucen Głowack

​"This week's challenge is to expect what you want to take place, no matter what it looks like.
Expect what you want to take place, no matter what it looks like, and go after it."
-John-Roger
"Dare to believe in the reality of your assumption and watch the world play its part relative to its fulfillment." -- Neville Goddard
"We become what we behold." - William Blake
Behold the wealthy, peaceful, joy filled being that you already are and move in the world from that place.
Peace inside of me and peace in Ukraine and Russia for the highest good.
Peace be still.
LLS
Richard Powell
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Art - Parsifal on the Way to the Grail Castle by Ferdinand Leeke

​"The secret of manifestation is expressed in one simple statement by Jesus, and that encapsulates all the books that have been written on manifestation and will ever be written on manifestation. It’s just one simple sentence. It says when you pray for something believe that you already have it or it has been given to you, and then you will receive it. "Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours." - Jesus
So the important thing is, he doesn’t say believe that you will receive it, he says believe you HAVE received it. So there the secret is hiding in that statement, belief that you have received it." - Eckhart Tolle
It is already done.
Peace inside of me and peace in Ukraine, Russia, Iran, Afghanistan and the Middle East.
Peace be still.
LLS
Richard Powell
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Art - "The North Sea", 1955
By, Patrick von Kalckreuth (German, 1898-1970)

"“One must find the source within one's own Self, one must possess it. Everything else was seeking -- a detour, an error.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
"Observing our beingness is the process that releases
us and opens us and expands us to let the Spirit flow
through us. Yes, it is a miracle, but if we try to
partake of it through our egos, we block it. And so
we have to maintain our openness. We have to say
simply, "Lord, I receive, and I am grateful."
It doesn't matter what religion you practice; we
must all surrender to the highest source we can. All
of us must ask for protection, for that is what
surrender really is -- placing ourselves into the
protecting hands of God."
- John-Roger
In a blessing given to me many years ago there is a line.. "Inside is the Source, and the Action." I was confused by that for years. Action is something to take on the outside, the world, I thought.
From where I am now I see things differently. I have spoken about the billions of bits of information that comes into us at any moment. We process about 4,000 bits from that through our filters that we have developed over our lifetime or lifetimes. Those filters are put in place by our parents, our friends, ourselves in order for the mind to try and understand the infinity of Source.
If I go in and move the filters, take action within in relation to the Source then I change my world.
Then I can realize that I am not separate from the Source, I am not separate at all from anyone or anything.
That is when Transcendence can happens.
That is when you can, "overcome the world."
Peace inside of me and peace in Ukraine, Russia and all over the world.
Peace be still.
LLS
Richard Powell
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Art - Coire-na-Faireamh, in Applecross Deer Forest, Ross-shire.
William Beattie-Brown - circa 1883-1884.
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"When you realize that your life does not unfold accidentally or randomly but with meaning and purpose, you can begin to look for the cause of the effect. As you become more responsible for your expression and behavior, you may start to choose your actions more carefully. Maybe you choose peace, though you could have expressed againstness. Maybe you choose kindness when you could have chosen sarcasm, or tolerance when you could have chosen impatience. When you choose those things that are positive in nature, you are choosing your Soul." John-Roger, DSS
My challenge to myself is to always expand into the positive. That does not mean to do a bypass of what is happening in my life that may be challenging or sad or hurtful. I put myself in the line of accepting what is present.
For me it means that whatever is happening in my life is the starting point, it is a place to expand my awareness as to what is going on. That is the entry point to the next step of upliftment and expansion.
As Hafiz said, "Wherever you are is the entry point."
Peace inside of me and peace in Ukraine, Russia and the world.
Peace be still.
LLS
Richard Powell
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Art - Buddha Art
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​"Spirit is the process of now. Spirit only exists now. If you try to attach to the past or the future, you get stuck and may feel the absence of Spirit, because it cannot exist for you outside of now. That process of attachment to past or future can become a fixation within your consciousness."
John-Roger
REMEMBER, BE HERE NOW...the Ram Dass book that was one of the first reads on my spiritual quest so many decades ago. I really didn't know what it meant...
I was so good at looking at my future and seeing the things that could go wrong, or looking at my past and doing regret, that I had a very hard time being here now. My mind would not leave me alone.
My mother use to tell me that worry was a very good thing because it made you get things done. Thanks mom Even though that sounds like good advice it had me focus on what could go wrong. Energy follows thought so my energy went into what could go wrong. Not so great.
To go in and create consciously from the inside out from a place of being present and going to the essence of joy, of wonder, of touching into the Divine has not been an easy thing. But I attempt to do it daily. I have become diligent in my conscious positive creation and coupled with that is a great amount of forgiveness in the moment when the past tries to steal my moment. I bring it into me in the now and forgive, or reframe, or just observe.
May your "now" be filled with bliss.
Peace inside of me and peace in Ukraine, Russia, Iran and the world.
Peace be still.
LLS
Richard Powell
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Art - A. Cooper

​A Necessary Autumn Inside Each
by Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī
You and I have spoken all these words, but as for the way
we have to go, words
are no preparation. There is no getting ready, other than
grace. My faults
have stayed hidden. One might call that a preparation!
I have one small drop
of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean.
There are so many threats to it.
Inside each of us, there’s continual autumn. Our leaves
fall and are blown out
over the water. A crow sits in the blackened limbs and talks
about what’s gone. Then
your generosity returns: spring, moisture, intelligence, the
scent of hyacinth and rose
and cypress. Joseph is back! And if you don’t feel in
yourself the freshness of
Joseph, be Jacob! Weep and then smile. Don’t pretend to know
something you haven’t experienced.
There’s a necessary dying, and then Jesus is breathing again.
Very little grows on jagged
rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will come up
where you are. You’ve been
stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.
Surrender
Peace inside of me and peace in Ukraine, Russia, Iran, Brazil and all over the world.
Peace be still.
LLS,
Richard Powell
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Art by Ivan Aivazovsky