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Daily Ramblings – Spiritual Saturday – The Law of Fixidity

28 Saturday Nov 2020

Posted by Dave Gardner in Spiritual Saturday

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Experience, fixidity, higher worlds, Learning, liberation, lower worlds, Negative, Neutral, Physical body, Positive, Soul

In my religious path, we believe in two realms of worlds–the lower worlds and the higher worlds. The lower worlds are bound by matter, energy, space and time and are fixed, while the higher worlds are not bound by these same characteristics, and are unlimited.

The lower worlds are designed for Soul to learn. The design gives them the appearance of completeness, spaciousness, and accommodation, yet are beset with numberless restrictions. Subsequently, everything here comes with advantages and disadvantages. Everything has a “catch”.

A person is rich, but dies from a disease money can’t cure. A person commits evil acts and gets away with it (or so he or she thinks). Bad things happen to good people, without any rhyme or reason. Change is permanent here.

When we realize we are not this body, the fixidity of this reality makes sense. We live, we die, we return to do it all over again. Only when we realize the temporal nature of this place, we will begin to search for something beyond this. When we do, we find that Soul is the real us, and these many bodies and lifetimes we experience are just that–experience, so Soul can learn and become liberated from this ever-turning wheel.

Have a great Saturday!!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Thankful Thursdays – Happy Thanksgiving

26 Thursday Nov 2020

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Celebration, family, Friends, Good Food, Gratitude, Holidays, Lydia Maria Child, poets.org, Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Day

by

Lydia Maria Child

Over the river, and through the wood,
  To grandfather’s house we go;
       The horse knows the way
       To carry the sleigh
  Through the white and drifted snow.

Over the river, and through the wood—
  Oh, how the wind does blow!
       It stings the toes
       And bites the nose
  As over the ground we go.

Over the river, and through the wood,
  To have a first-rate play.
       Hear the bells ring
       “Ting-a-ling-ding”,
  Hurrah for Thanksgiving Day!

Over the river, and through the wood
  Trot fast, my dapple-gray!
       Spring over the ground,
       Like a hunting-hound!
  For this is Thanksgiving Day.

Over the river, and through the wood,
  And straight through the barn-yard gate.
       We seem to go
       Extremely slow,—
  It is so hard to wait!

Over the river and through the wood—
  Now grandmother’s cap I spy!
       Hurrah for the fun!
       Is the pudding done?
  Hurrah for the pumpkin-pie!

Credit: https://poets.org/poem/thanksgiving-day

For those of you who celebrate Thanksgiving, Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. I love this holiday and look forward to the big meal we’ll be eating later today.

Have a great Thursday!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesday – 5 Quotes

25 Wednesday Nov 2020

Posted by Dave Gardner in Wisdom Wednesday

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Chinese, Content, Daoism, kindness, Lao Tzu, Life, Love, Nature, Philosopher

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

Lao Tzu

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao Tzu

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Lao Tzu

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Lao Tzu

Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

Lao Tzu

https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/biography/lao-tzu-biography

Lao Tzu is credited as the founder of Daoism. If you’d like to learn more about this Chineses philosopher, click the link above.

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Ted Talk Tuesday – How Do Dogs “See” With Their Noses?

24 Tuesday Nov 2020

Posted by Dave Gardner in Ted Talk, Uncategorized

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Dogs, Educational, Learning, Sight, Smell, Ted Talk, TedEd, Video

This is a terrific video short that explains a bunch about how dogs use their noses to operate in reality. It is a terrific video. Enjoy!

Have a great Tuesday!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Motivation Monday – Week of November 23, 2020.

23 Monday Nov 2020

Posted by Dave Gardner in Motivation Monday

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Friends, Holidays, lockdowns, motivation, Thanksgiving, Virus

2020 is zipping by. We are approaching Thanksgiving in the U.S. in a few days, and before you know it, 2020 will be a memory. For some, this was a tough year. For others, it was filled primarily with boredom, as one lockdown followed another.

I am neutral on the year. I’ve gotten plenty of things done the virus failed to impact. I got in a lot of reading. I also worked on me this year. Not just physical things, but mental things, spiritual things, social things. I consider myself a continuous work-in-progress. There is always one more thing to improve.

We are fast approaching the final month of the year. What will you do with these last few weeks? I’m continuing to push ahead. Many of my goals were hit a month or so ago, but I also missed quite a few, and I can’t use the virus as an excuse. I just changed priorities, adjusted to the lockdowns of the year, and adapted as best I could. This year made me realize nothing is invulnerable to change. It also taught me how nice it is to make new friends across miles and miles of distance—right here on WordPress.

We’ve only got a few weeks left folks. Stay with it! You can still get a lot done this year. Push through to the end.

Have a great week!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Workout Routine – Week of November 23, 2020.

23 Monday Nov 2020

Posted by Dave Gardner in Uncategorized, Workout Routine

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50/50 plan, Biceps, Exercise Bands, healthy living, Home Workouts, working out

This week I’m doing two-a-days, focusing on one body part – Biceps!

Monday – Sunday: 50 reps session 1 / 50 reps session 2 Biceps Curls

Have a great week, folks!

See you at the finish line!

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Spread Your Wings Sunday – Week of November 22, 2020

22 Sunday Nov 2020

Posted by Dave Gardner in Spread Your Wings

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bath, Calm, Relax, Sauna, self-care, soothing, Spread Your Wings, steam bath, Sunday

Wow, the hits just keep on coming in 2020, right?

This week, we will again focus on achieving some calm. Your challenge this week is to take a long hot bath and soak for an hour, or go to a sauna/steam bath and do any session length you can tolerate. I usually last 10-15 minutes before I’m so hot, I have to get out. Both self-care treatments will lower your stress like you’ve never been before. If you take a bath, don’t forget some relaxing music, a glass of wine, tea, or your favorite beverage.

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Spiritual Saturday – The Law of Consciousness

21 Saturday Nov 2020

Posted by Dave Gardner in Spiritual Saturday

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Awareness, Belief, consciousness, expansion, Growth, Saturday, spirituality

Have you ever created a picture, poetry, or a physical object like a table or bookshelf? When you began you stared at a blank canvas, piece of paper, or a pile of wood. What gave that life? You did.

The Law of Consciousness dictates that the thought or idea has to start from the inner, to be expressed later in the outer form. You have to have the story, poem, music, or design in your head before you can create it.

The same process occurs spiritually. You have to have an idea of what you are seeking before you can seek it. You have to realize the existence of something before you can explore it. You have to believe before you can experience something. Without the belief or awareness of something, you cannot conceive it.

To be conscious of something, you have to gain the realization or belief that what you are thinking is possible. Then it is easy to manifest.

Where do ideas come from? They come from the real self–Soul. Soul is not bound by matter, energy, space, or time. It is infinite. It is omnipresent. Subsequently, Soul sees the whole picture. When Soul tries to communicate to the mind, the mind censors it, particularly if the information that is transmitted is too much for the mind to handle. Subsequently, our spiritual progress is slow and measured. This is the way it has to be, but progress is made, regardless of your awareness of it or not.

This is the Law of Consciousness. Have a great Saturday!

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Thankful Thursdays – The Year of Thanksgiving

19 Thursday Nov 2020

Posted by Dave Gardner in Thankful Thursdays

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Awareness, consciousness, Experience, family, Friends, Karma, spiritual growth, Thankful, Thanksgiving

My religion labels every year with a theme that runs in 12-year cycles. This year’s theme is The Year of Thanksgiving. We place special emphasis on being grateful for the gifts of God. These gifts are awareness, consciousness, and spiritual freedom.

My gratitude is boundless for the blessings of this life. The people I have met, those that took the time to teach me something, and especially for those that called me friend. I’m grateful for my family, friends, and every person who has given me some of their time.

I’m also grateful for every win and loss. They are both necessary for growth. We grow when we lose. We grow when we struggle. We grow when we have to search for answers to our problems.

I’m also grateful to be an ECKist. The spiritual insights I have gained have been wondrous. It’s hard to put these things in words. It is the knowingness that is most precious.

For these things I am grateful. Life is a gift. Life is precious. Life is a privilege.

Until next time…

Dave

Daily Ramblings – Wisdom Wednesdays – 5 Quotes

18 Wednesday Nov 2020

Posted by Dave Gardner in Wisdom Wednesday

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Journalist, Learning, Newsmen, Quotes, Trivia, Walter Winchell, Wednesday, wisdom

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

Walter Winchell

An optimist is someone who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

Walter Winchell

Too many people expect wonders from democracy, when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

Walter Winchell

I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.

Walter Winchell

The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.

Walter Winchell

I hope you enjoy these quotes from Walter Winchell, American journalist. I’m going to start dropping a Wikipedia link for those of you interested in learning more about the authors of the scripts I post on Wednesday.

Walter Winchell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Winchell

Until next time…

Dave

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