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Getting where you want to be

By Deborah Arndt

In our previous posts, we have been concerned to clarify where we are. Now that we are here with you, that hardly needs clarification, does it? Yet many of you are confused. There is no shame in that. You cannot conceive of a plan or a purpose that provides for you to be well-cared for and helped in everything you do. You prefer to do the hard work all yourself and then feel outside of the love and true care you really need. You ask, “Why do I have to do this all by myself? Does anyone hear my plaintiff call?”  

We think you really like to feel like you are all on your own and that no one truly understands or ‘gets’ you. In that way, you can stay engrossed in yourself, rather than move on to things that are of real value and need in our world–all those who suffer, long to be helped, and to be heard. Where are you on that register and on that scale? Are you bending your ears to listen? Do you have the ears to hear?

How can you hear the plaintiff call of others when you are always looking in the mirror or preoccupied with yourself? We do not mean to hurt your feelings or impugn what you love about yourself, and the care and attention you give to yourself. No, we are here to set you on a straight and true course that will lead you where you need to go. You cannot get what you are seeking, either for the comfort, joy and arrival of the things you have been waiting for and hoping for if you are solely preoccupied with yourself. How could that be? You must look outward at your fellow humanity and ask, “How can I be of service? In what way can I function and change the direction of my thoughts to be of service to others?”

Without this, you may as well turn to stone for all the good it will do you. You will sit there like a fat and self-indulgent rock in the sun, wondering when it will all end and when you can get on with the life you really wanted in the first place. You will soon start to cast away all that you ever acquired and built up and placed in a storage cabinets in case you would need it someday, for your someday never comes. Do you understand? It never really comes, because you are so busy waiting for it. And you are not doing much else.

Now, you can start to actualize you and what you came forth to do. That is one reason we are here with you now, as we keep saying. What does that mean? Does it mean we were here and then we weren’t? Do we really come and go like that? Well, no. We are ALWAYS HERE and EVER WILL BE, but where are you?

Now that you think we are turning the tables on this discussion and maybe on you, well we aren’t. We are trying to get across an important principle, that of transfiguration.

What would it take for you to take on a new self? What would you need? Would you need a spiritual experience? Would you need to see something new that you can relate to and even desire to be? Would you need to be uplifted and embraced so as not to fall? What would you need, my children? In other words, transfiguration is something you may have to “figure out.” Forgive our pun, but we are in deep earnest about this subject. You simply cannot change WHO you are without a lot of groundwork, and we have been laying this out in our books so far. We have completed four, and there are more coming to help you on your passage to the better self you can be and the glorious shining life you deserve and really, we are not kidding here, truly want. We just know that about you. Why don’t you? Well, we think you do.

Now, transfiguration is a broad, deep and comprehensive topic. We will not attempt to cover that range here. And that is not a way to escape from getting across this important topic. No, we will need to devote a chapter or two in our writings about this to give you a lift up to what we mean by transfiguration. You will certainly need it, as few in your culture know what we mean and even fewer have attempted it with any success. Yet it is not so difficult. No, it is not.

You may have been operating under misconceptions that no longer serve you about this concept. We are here for the purpose, at least a small part of our work is to redefine and relocate on your map, so to speak, many of these lost or misplaced ideas.

It is truly time for a redefining and a re-knowing. By that we mean a fresh and new understanding, of what you have come to lean on as truth, which perhaps does not now bear the march of time as well as you thought. There is no error here, only how you think about things and adapt to new things. And your culture is moving along at a frenetic pace with old ideas, if you will, falling hard along the way.

Now, how do you pick them all up and resuscitate them? That would be hard indeed. And then if you do, do you know what you are doing? And then do you have the confidence to interpret them to others, or teach them, yet alone reflect them in your daily life?

Well, that is what we are here to do. We are here to give you new tools and fresh new insight into old and familiar ideas that have tarnished through the passage of time and, we would like to say, along with the attendant hypocrisy of so many in your culture who merely pretend to follow or understand such principles.

So much must be restated, but also in a context that you can really understand. We hope you begin to understand what we mean. We have so much more to tell you about this, dear ones. Read on in future posts.  the teachers

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Our dream of you

By Deborah Arndt Leave a Comment

Last night, we were as if in a dream.

We dreamed that all humankind would be tolerant of each other and extend a helping hand wherever possible. That no stone would be left unturned to do a good deed, and think a good thought. That each one of you understood how connected you are to each other. When you are fed, nourished and blossom, so do others. When you starve, so do others, and vice versa, my friends. That is true, and will be true for all time. You cannot escape that.

So we dreamed of a better time and a better place, but the place we most want to enhance is where you stand now. This is where all the sweetest dreams are. They lie under your feet, so to speak, like rich greening grass that springs below your feet and wants to grow, and moves you forward softly and gently buffering your steps.

Why don’t you take advantage of all there is out there to help you in your journey? Why can’t our dreams come true? What holds you back, and what are you looking for instead?

We have witnessed far too much selfishness, grabbing at straws, hurting each other, and planning to do yet more hurt or damage to each other. So we ask, what’s in it for you? Do you think you succeed at something in circumstances where no one can truly succeed?

What is success anyway but knowing how to live, and then to live? We truly mean truly live, not in half light, and not in anxiety and worry, but truly live. That is what we offer you, if you have the ears to hear and eyes to see this.

We know that you worry, and we know that you pine. How could we not see that? Though we haven’t eyes, we are not blind. We see all that you are, and very importantly, all that you can be.

Now, why don’t you follow our few steps provided and loving advice given, and move into the life you came to experience? We just don’t get why you don’t do this. We have sent our emissaries and Deborah is one. How she walks with you! Her pain is yours, and you would resonate with her pain, we promise. She understands what is to have sadness, confusion, fear, and anxiety. Yet she stands before you ready to carry the flag of truth, and connect you to it through our messages which flow through her.

Don’t let another day pass where you don’t know how to live, or what to live for. What a waste! Let’s join hands and see what we can accomplish together. That would be worlds, my friend. Worlds, indeed!

Our simple, beautiful philosophy is given to you as a great gift, uniquely and lovingly designed to come to you in just the right way, so that you can hear and read what we mean, and how we love and care for you. We hope you will never want to stop reading it once you have started.

Bless you on this day that you came to read this. Let this light open your eyes, your heart, and your new awareness, and of coming things that will bless you yet more!  –Your teachers.

 

Filed Under: Interconnectedness Tagged With: Interconnectedness, Life transformation, Tolerance

What happens in my life now is just different

By Deborah Arndt

 

Today, it began to press upon me how important it is to share about what is going right in our lives. This is especially important where we think there are significant reasons for that. What help can I be to you, dear reader, if I don’t share what good is coming to me from living this philosophy? So it’s time to talk about how my life has changed for the better.

Then I invite you to reflect on what’s happening in your life. You are welcome to comment here, or you can open your heart to be heard and answered. You certainly will be, as our teachers promise. 

From simple things to fairly complex ones, what happens in my life now is different than before. I attribute that to a pattern of thinking that has emerged. Knowing how loved I am and how little it serves me to judge or blame others, rage, endeavor to control what’s going on, or worry quite so much, has wrought some big changes.

What I am learning to be true in this philosophy brings a needed sea change within me. These were evident immediately. Turning from negative thinking and embracing what is positive, but more important true, as I am learning from the philosophy, brings about a fresh perspective that affects every aspect of my life.

So, I have a made a start with a list: I rest more deeply. Meaning and value come out of challenges. I let go of fears. I experience happier outcomes. The hardest things become easier. 

Some items on my list appear simplistic:  I rest more deeply.  Yet, that’s a function of greater freedom from worry and feeling supported along the way, drawing needed energy and hope. What can be more important to our core experience than the ability to feel good and hopeful? Imagine how our experiences, following upon that rest, must bring improvements and benefit those who are in those moments with us.

Meaning and value come out of challenges I experience, no matter how scary or bleak they appear initially, so that I experience happier outcomes. In this way, I can let go of fears more easily. I can keep going, even in the face of perceived adversity. This is confirmation that I am heard and responded to, and that my life is truly of value.

The hardest things become easier.  I grow and my wounds are salved. This gives me courage and the faith I need to keep going and embrace new opportunities to learn and grow.

Experience-sharing is a great way for us as adults to learn, and it’s hard to compete with good practical examples. I hope you will also share with others in your daily life. Examples from our lives can be a beacon for others!  —Deborah

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The Teachers: “What Awaits You In Spring”

By Deborah Arndt

What does it take to bring something new and fresh into your world?

Deborah has been writing again … in our newest book, which we hope you will enjoy. It’s entitled: Verdant: The Greening of Your Prosperity.  That makes us think of how green everything is turning in New York where Deborah is. All is green again! You must be getting the point that there is no end. And spring signals so much more than season and weather, but how your life re-engages  … again and again! And the wheel is always turning to bring you what you need.

Now, Deborah is hoping we will write to you about gardens. She has been plunging her trowel into the soil making something lovely out of a patch of ground … turning it into a garden of visual delights. The flowers are diverse colors, and she has interspersed grasses and border plants that offset the array of colors perfectly. Can’t you do something similar in your life? What does it take to bring something new and fresh into your world? Does it take a spade and trowel, or does it happen with other tools? What if you are born with those tools? What if Mother Nature provides them at no charge, so to speak? Can you get on board with this idea that you can grow gardens upon gardens with exciting vistas and so much more? You can grow fields of things within you and let them shine out and colorize and beautify the world. So why don’t you?

Think of spring as emblematic.

We love that it is spring, and everything is renewing and on the upswing in upstate New York, but that is only a small part of the world you inhabit. There  is renewal literally everywhere! You don’t have to travel, or fret if you can’t travel, to get to places where gardens like Deborah’s abound, for there is a garden in your own back yard, my friend. You can bring yourself to the task of creating it anytime you wish. Now, we don’t like to tell you what to do, but when it comes to growth and regrowth, and marvelous opportunity to be something MORE, and to give something MORE, and receive something MORE, then why don’t you do it? It is not so hard. Think of spring as emblematic. Think of renewal as your gift for all time … an eternal wonder that you can enjoy, and feel wonder at! Why would you not want that?

As your garden grows, so shall you. 

Imagine each day is full of wonder. “How did this or that happen?” you ask. Well, you can have that feeling. You might call it living a life of miracles, or at least miraculous experience, and soon it will become intention. For you will be so good at setting forth each day the intention that your day be filled with miracles. Now wouldn’t that be wonderful? Wouldn’t that be living truly, deeply and wonderfully, just as you always wished? Will others believe that you live a life of miracles? Well, that doesn’t matter at this time, does it? It is enough to feel that something that marvelous CAN be happening to YOU! Do you understand? When something comes home like that, and you can’t deny it, and you can’t push it away, well, you must look at it. Now it is YOURS, and no one can take it away.

Each day, when Deborah writes or reviews what has been written, she knows a miracle has unfolded. Well, it has or at least that is what she feels. We would not want to take that feeling from her! For in her perspective, how can all this writing and teaching be flowing through her? But if you sat with her and felt what she feels, you would soon understand and have a similar experience. For you would be a conduit of all good things and wonderful, exciting, miraculous things, too. For there is a never ending supply. Goodness, value, understanding and teaching can flow through you, too. Why not join the crowd and get on board and live a fabulous revved up life? Why wait any longer? As your garden grows, so shall you! All that you hold dear will flourish, too. Can you wait longer for that? 

We do hope you will read our new book that will be published soon, Verdant: The Greening of Your Prosperity and drink deeply from that cup that is provided. Be so glad that this opportunity knocks, and you are not forgotten or omitted from the process that embraces you in all its glory, and selects YOU as its progeny and joyous expression of love, coming to you in love and inviting you to love others. Well, we hope this for you. Welcome spring, and all that it shows and teaches us! For we are all students of this one thing: life everlasting and joyful awakening, again and again!

With our love and hopes that you will mine or garden for new delights … new discoveries along with us. We are here on this journey with you, and we will help you. Never fear. Read on, gardeners of the soul and heart!  We, your teachers

Filed Under: Renewal Tagged With: Life transformation, miracles, Renewal

While Adventuring Away From Home

By Deborah Arndt

“You don’t know what it will be, but you know it will be great! What a pattern for living. I love that!”

 

Deb and duneFrom Deborah:  As the latest chapter in our new work (which we are currently writing) is titled: Bittersweet, I can say I found our return home from our travels to the islands of the Outer Banks to be just that, happy but redolent with that misty sense of missing something. I imagine that I missed that sense of adventure of what will happen next. I missed the freshness of a morning somewhere else so far from my home. Now, after reading what Our Teachers have posted: Returning Home,  I have learned that I carried all that with me. In the same way that I longed for change and to go adventuring, I also longed for peace and quiet in my heart … and recognition that all is well and I can have a fabulous life wherever I am. Our Teachers confirm that, and I am grateful.

Yet, so much about our experiences there seem to draw something new out of me. A view of trees and plants that don’t grow here in upstate NY, and the ocean spray and mist that we don’t get here, and more intense sunlight than we get here, and the list goes on. However, in each case, when feeling stimulated by those things, I always felt such gratitude to be where I am, at any given moment. Such thanks! I am just as happy here, back home, at my desk writing this to you and having my happy memories.   [Read more…] about While Adventuring Away From Home

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