From: a_rod_777@yahoo.com   
      
   > On the other hand, I've been in the process of losing one of my best friends   
   to cancer, and I probably wound up taking it out on you.    
      
   I'm sorry about your friend Eric.   
   Visualize the light growing from your center like a sun. Use it to shine on   
   the your friend's suffering and realize that The Universe truly is mental in   
   nature and everything you do, say, think, and feel will have a ripple effect   
   in the ocean of time.    
   Understand you are not only offering your friend relief in the form of your   
   compassion but that you are also changing YOUR PERCEPTIONS of him and his   
   illness. This change in your perception of him will be a catalyst to FORM a   
   change in his perception and    
   when perceptions (plural) change, collective reality will follow suit.   
      
      
   Matthew 7:3-5 King James Version (KJV)   
      
   3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but   
   considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?   
      
   4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine   
   eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?   
      
   5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt   
   thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.   
      
   Do not be judgemental towards whatever happens next. We have to submit our   
   will to that of the Creator whether the manifestation meets our superficial   
   ego's needs or perhaps it meets the not so obvious needs of our deeper selves.   
   Simply know that the    
   choices we make and the energy we choose to manifest into this reality will   
   surely sprout into a magnificent tree of THE SEED from which it was grown. It   
   is the law of the Universe and can be no other way.   
      
   Mastering this outer reality requires us to master ourselves WITHIN first. As   
   soon as we truly understand this concept and put this understanding into   
   action we obtain "enlightenment" by recognizing and reconnecting with the   
   source of ALL LIGHT. By    
   removing the obstacles from our own perceptions, we can allow the Light to   
   shine through us uninhibited by our selfishness. We become filled with the   
   light and love of the Creator. It is then we understand the purpose of life;   
   to journey forward into the    
   uncertainties and to shine this light for others so that they can also have a   
   chance of finding their way back home to the Source and reconnecting. "Final   
   enlightenment", if there is such a thing, will only occur once all of us have   
   returned to the    
   Source and then the journey is over. But on our way to the source we can   
   surely remained "enlightened".   
      
   How does enlightenment feel you ask?   
   IMHO it's like riding a bike. You're definitely gonna fall off sometimes and   
   you will most definitely biff it hard sooner or later and it will probably   
   hurt. But if you just keep getting back you will find that the more you   
   practice the better you get.    
   Soon you will be very good at riding the bike, however, you still have to pay   
   attention to the obstacles on the road lest you fall again and injure   
   yourself... but if you can manage to stay on and stay focused, you can make   
   progress that is many many    
   miles ahead of where you would be if you were to afraid to get on the bike in   
   the first place and just kept walking.   
      
   But that is just my perspective.   
      
   You could CHOOSE to take control of yourself and conquer the negative within   
   you that limits your reality and allow your light and love TO shine forth for   
   everyone to see? Then you will REMEMBER how it makes you feel to become   
   "enlightened"?   
      
   I'm sure you will recognize the feeling of how to balance and ride the bike as   
   soon as you decide to get back on.   
      
   Please accept my blessing for your friend.    
   May we choose to focus on the good within.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)