Never Forget To Smell the Flowers

A light in the darkness is a hand stretched out in order to help a friend in need. It is giving the homeless man a coffee and a sandwich in order to get him back on his feet. A compliment given to a person one likes in order to make that person feel better. "Looking great today, Loretta!" or "You did good today, Joe!" can change someone's life. Listening to someone that is depressed can create miracles. Understanding the sad can spread light where darkness ruled. A humble word can save the day. A smile can change the world. An embrace can make someone smile. Good wishes can turn a bad day into a good one. Blessings count. Comfort is important. Care is a necessity. Christmas is more than just the celebration of the birth of Christ. It is Christ consciousness, care and concern and the ability to be there for those who need us. Being good makes your day good, too. That person will return the favor.

Whether we are Christians or not, the fact that we are celebrating the birth of a little baby boy in the middle of bleak winter is a sign of what all this is about. We might believe that Jesus really was born in the year 0 on December 25th. Whether historians agree that it probably was in the summer and 4 to 6 B.C. is relevant to history, but if it helps us make the world a better place, why not believe that Jesus was born that day? There was probably no snow to speak of and where the stable was or what kind of stable it was that they lived in or if it was a stable at all is another question. But if we believe that every word of the bible is true, if we believe that Noah built the ship and that the remainder is now resting on a mountain top in Armenia, that is fine. Who says we can't believe that? The main thing is that we believe in something good that benefits all mankind. If a light shines in us when we believe something, that light can change the world. Be the miracle. Be an angel.

A light in the darkness shines bright and really affects everyone around that light.
We know that matter is an illusion. Quantum physicists have proven that. This means that the world vibrates in frequencies. What we feel is a frequency. Good feelings are a frequency that tend to influence people in a good way. So try to feel care, feel love, feel prayer, feel admiration, feel concern, feel respect.

We can see our good feelings as little lights. If we look at the electric analysis of brain waves, that might not be far from the truth. Even plants are sentient emotional beings and that pretty girl you gaze at on the way to work every morning is a very scared soul that might need your respect in order to feel better about herself and her make-up might just be a cover-up to hide her insecurity. If you light a match in a large dark area, you might find that this lit match has a very bright light. You might even see the light from the back of a big arena. If we take this proverbially, we might really see what the birth of Christ really means. The frequency and feeling of Christian prayer is the same frequency and feeling of Buddhist meditation, a muslim ritual of introspection, hindu devotion, Shinto benediction and Native American worship. It is the ability to look beyond the confines of this world and concentrate on the internal experience. In fact, that internal experience is getting bigger and bigger. We used to think that we only spoke of people's feelings and thoughts as physical inconsistancies centred in hormonal outbursts, but now even sceintists are realizing that consciousness is a huge area purely based in the spiritual realm. Psychological researchers are now realizing that remote viewing, telepathy and positive energies are real and that not only photons can travel to parallel dimensions, but that consciousness somehow is tied to other dimensions. Quantum research has dwelved into the possibility of 11 dimensions and now psychology is taking it into account that the human psyche is linked to a huge field that links us all with the eternal consciousness. Michio Kaku spoke of the Higgs-Bozon as the "God Particle". Niels Bohr and many others after him have continuously proved that our electrons entangle and stick entangled throughout eternity. That means that anything we say or feel about anyone will have lasting repurcussions. If you say "God bless you" to someone, even if it is just when that person sneezes, it will become a blessing.

Gandhi literally hungered himself to peace, lay down on the ground to stop British troops from passing by. After Buddha had his famous awakening, he walked around the streets of his town with such radiance that people asked him if he was God. He answered: "No, I am!"

This becomes very deep and very childlike at the same time. In the movie "Christopher Robin", Ewan MacGregor remembers his innocent games with his bear Winnie the Pooh, telling his friends what he would be doing on a particular day: "Nothing. It is when you decide to do nothing and then go ahead and do it. Because nothing leads to the best something." The older Christopher Robin literally forgets his childlike self and becomes the semi-successful but rather unhappy businessman, only to meet his favorite bear, who tells him that if his boss is more important than his family, he better be extremely important.

We remember Jesus, who invited the children to sit with him. No one could ever come into the kingdom of God who didn't see life with the eyes of a child. If we look at the crucaders, who beheaded muslims and thanked God for giving them strength to obliterate false faiths, we realize that faith was never as far away from them as at that point. In order to prove my point, we remember the parable of the seven trees. Seven clerics of different religions climbed a mountain top to view a pasture with seven trees. All of the clerics clearly told the others why his faith was right and not theirs, pointing to his own tree and why it was the one with the strongest roots. Needless to say, no cleric could convince the others that he was right. So the seven men went to a innocent child who sat in the pasture. The child was asked which one of them was right. The child smiled, answering: "There is only one forest, but it has many trees. Every one of you is right. You are saved to begin with, because God is inside your soul. No one cares what you call the water or the wind, so why should you care what you call God. He is what he is. I am what I am."

We are here to be tolerant. We are here to understand that we have to have different opinions. Many of us have not yet figured out that we cannot solve this diversity by loading a gun. Paul McCartney dealt with this in his own way. During the intense quarreling he had with the rest of The Beatles, he had a dream where his deceased mother came to him, telling him to "Let It Be". We cannot solve a problem by going on the barricades and punishing people that don't agree with us. Jesus told people who wanted to stone a woman that the one without sin should cast the first stone. He sat with sinners at one table because he knew that no one was without fault. What if God was one of us? Just a stranger on a bus? What if God were a woman, a mother, a girl filled with tenderness and kisses? What if the universe were a womb and making love a portal to heaven? What if the babies we make were angels?

Don't believe your fear. It lies to you. The Aztec warrior whose nightmares kept him awake at night sent his wife to fetch him water from the well to drink. And in the bowl, he saw that his own frightened face looked like the soldiers who had tried to kill him during his last battle. He was simply filled with the fear of the battle. He kissed his wife and said good bye to battle and became a baker. Don't blame the young couple kissing in the corner. Their love will create a baby and the man is maybe a warrior happy to have survived. Some people even claim to have seen angels while they made love. And why not? Making love is just a prolonged kiss that keeps us alive and beauty is just a way to say that you love life. Even Rubens knew that.

Jesus asked us to love one another. Let us do that. Let us love even our enemies. If we hate them, we carry their anger inside us and we forget to smell the flowers.