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Increase The Light


 

Welcome-

This space is
for you, as well as us,

to share joys and sorrows,
insights and inspirations.

Please feel free to share your thoughts.

—George & Mary Ann Johnston
  • love

    "Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character that determines the relatedness of a person to the world as a whole, not toward one ‘object’ of love. If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to the rest of his fellow men, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism. Yet, most people believe that love is constituted by the object, not by the faculty. In fact, they even believe that it is proof of the intensity of their love when they do not love anybody except the ‘loved’ person. This is the same fallacy, which we have already mentioned above. Because one does not see that love is an activity, a power of the soul, one believes that all that is necessary to find is the right object, and that everything goes by itself afterward. This attitude can be compared to that of a man who wants to paint but who, instead of learning the art, claims that he has just to wait for the right object, and that he will paint beautifully when he finds it. If I can say to somebody else, ‘I love you,’ I must be able to say, ‘I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself.’ "

     Erich Fromm, in his book, "The Art of Living."

  • Oneness

    In the warm embrace of nature,
    I find my own true self.
    Dwelling in eternal love,
    The earth, the sky, the stars, and I
    Are One.  George

  • fast life

    Do not run through life so fast that you forget not only where you have been, but also where you are going. Life is not a race, but a journey to be savored each step of the way. 
  • intentions/actions

    Good intentions alone will not do. They must be backed up by good actions.

  • working with spirit

    Each of you has a level of gift to work with spirits. They want to be acknowledged and will work with those who ask.  Never thirst for evil action, for it erases all your ability to do good.  Thus spirit will not want to work with you.

  • The Self

    To celebrate the Self is to cherish your very present life in love and joy. For when you are loving toward your Self, you will give little mind to suffering from the pains of dualism, and the light of your Self will shine brighter and farther. -- Jesus

  • Essence of God

    All of us are created in the image of God, an essence of God, and each of us can be likened unto a beautiful crystal, shining, unblemished, which becomes, over time, covered up with layer upon layer of dust, diminishing the luster; and yet the crystal is still inside

  • Essence of a Godly Life

    You might think meditation always means to be still. But there is an active meditation also—one I practice with all my heart—walking, working, while at One in the presence of God, just knowing God is within. Everyone can learn to do these things. Our life on earth has endless opportunities for growing spiritually if we are open. The essence of a Godly life lies in the everyday living of life—how you live your life.

  • Pure Religion

    In the Bible, James 1:27,  we read that pure religion is to visit the afflicted and to keep oneself unstained from the world. There is hardly any other mention of religion in the Bible.  Pure religion is love in action.

  • Positive Thoughts

    We can create many manifestations of a given situation; we can make it a positive or negative situation just by the way we perceive it.

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