Spiritual Superhighway

Independence Day

Dear Pop,

On this day, I hear the famous saying ringing in my ears "Freedom is Not Free."  I believe this is true for all Americans. We pay with our lives, loss of family members and friends, increasing lack of security in our homeland, our paychecks (or lack there of), our retirement, our health and the costs go on. You see, we all pay for it, but we need it. Yet, when is enough, enough? Other countries look at us glutenous and self absorbed with our so-called democracy, but they don't see we suffer. Perhaps not in the way that they do with poverty, oppression and the like, but we suffer too. I think suffering is the great lesson. Without it we would not know happiness nor would we have anything to work through to move us toward our intended purpose to reach higher. America - the land of the free and the brave provides much for us to rejoice in, but it brings sorrow as well.

All I have to say is, enjoy your holiday America - we deserve it!

MJB

Conditioning

Each traveler is the product

of their culture and environment;

shaped by a variety of forces

both hidden and overt.

Each traveler has the capacity

to break free of these every day patterns

and awaken to the under lying Truth.

Only the perfected Ones

can enable a traveler to shatter these daily cycles

and live a fuller, more complete life.

This process or Path

has been called the Science of Man (Women)

and was perfected millenia ago. SB

Arriving

In the journey there comes a point when words and desires are no longer important.  That is- there is no emotional attachment to them.  All that is important is the Beloved.  Desire for anything else has been removed.

It is at this point, the traveler arrives and the Beloved is within sight.  However, for most, this is not a static condition; the traveler fluctuates between this state and others.  This degree of fluctuation and Knowing- is in relation to the traveler's position on the Path and the work he is called to do. SB

Problems

Show me someone

whose life has been easy

and I will show you

half a person.  SB

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Problems are placed before you

so you will overcome them.   A. Hussain

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Some people create problems for them self

so they will have something to do.

These problems are a stimulant

which fills

an otherwise 'empty' existence.

O traveler, when will you learn

to fill your hours

with purposeful activity?  SB

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