Cross Your Heart then Want To ...

By Revs Bil & Cher Holton

How frequently have you ever heard a person say, "Cross your heart and hope to die!" It can be used so that you can cause it to be real apparent that just what the individual is saying will be truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth! But seriously! It is definitely an awful affirmation! We would prefer to complete that statement in a handful of other ways, that may help you in your spiritual growth. This week's article will explore the first approach:

Cross your heart and hope to SEE Truth:

This means seeing past the realm of appearance, and discover the Truth of each and every situation. Maybe you have seen one of those Magic Eye images, those that have a 3-D picture concealed within an abstract geometric design? They were extremely popular about a decade back. After they first arrived on the scene, we remember discovering one in the reception area of a company. The two of us stared and stared, discovering absolutely nothing. And then somebody walked past and told us to alter our focus, and search past the image - look through the image.

We weren't really certain just what this individual meant, yet once we tried refocusing, suddenly, SNAP! It looked like everything shifted, and then there it was - a 3-D image as well-defined and as vivid as you can imagine.

Not every person is able to see these 3-D illusions - it requires some work to move beyond the appearance of the geometric design. Which is just what is required once we look past the realm of appearance to discover the vivid Truth.

* To the world, there is the appearance of health challenges, but we know the Truth of who we are is absolute health flowing through every cell and atom of our being.

* To the world, there is the appearance of lack, but we know the Truth of who we are is abundance and prosperity flowing.

* To the world, you will find the appearance of fear, but we know the Truth of who we are is greater than any illusion of fear because we are One with the Source of everything we require - in the moment of need.

Once we cross out error thinking, we start to stand in the Truth of what we know, and discover beyond that realm of appearance regardless of just how much the world, the media, and others would like to concentrate on the appearance of things.

Once we discover how to "Cross our heart and SEE Truth" we all cross out error and move a step nearer to Enlightenment. This month, practice exploring past the realm of appearance, and discovering Truth:

Any time you feel any adverse emotion or experience a predicament that seems unpleasant or even overwhelming, take the time to breathe into it. Be still and claim the Truth of who you are. Enter into a minimum of fifteen minutes of Quiet, moving lightly from the voices in your mind towards the Spirit of Truth within our heart. Then cross your heart and hope to - no, KNOW YOU WILL - see Truth!

Discover the real difference it can make in the way you undertake each day.

About the Author:

Bring together a talent for the dramatic an
in-depth comprehension of metaphysics
together with the lessons of Jesus together with a zeal for ministry and you will have described Revs. Bil Cher Holton the
dynamic couple that serve as co-ministers for Unity
Spiritual Life Center Durham NC. Where they teach you uncomplicated approaches to expand
spiritual awakening and thus
reach spiritual enlightenment.

Melissus of Samos, a Short Outline of His Eleactic Philosophy

By David Von Walland

Melissus of Samos was a Traditional Greek Thinker who lived during the fifth century B.C.E. He followed the great Parmenides and Zeno of Elea as the last of the Eleactic convention. Generally, he agreed with his predecessors, but he starkly disagreed on the limited and timeless nature of existence.

Before we look into his research, we must always survey the primary works. We all know in reality comparatively little about the last Eleactic philosopher. The majority we know about him is derived from Plutarch's Life of Pericles, in which writing we discover he led a Samian fleet as chief in 422 B.C.E. And he later brought Pericles and the Athenian navy to their downfail.

His best contribution to philosophy remains his dissertation On Nature, big slivers of which Simplicius preserved in his commentaries on Aristotle. Though we don't have all of Simplicius ' work, we do have a great bit of it. Once can read Melissus ' work in the Dielz-Kranz, an enormous collection of Pre-Socratic writings.

Like Parmenides and Zeno, the philosopher believed the world to be quite misleading. All three debated the world was unified, invariable, and motionless. However , he disagreed with Parmenides on two points.

While Parmenides argued that existence was spatially limited, Melissus counteracted that existence was unconditionally unlimited, and while Parmenides thought reality existed in a timeless present, the later Eleactic proposed instead that existence is eternal. Melissus simply built upon their argument by suggesting for a wholly unlimited reality.

The philosopher argued that whatever is must have come to be that way. Since existence to the Eleactics was unchangeable, existence would have never come to be; rather, it just. Thus, existence never had a beginning and, thus, is eternal.

Secondly, he justified existence's eternality in a slightly fallacious manner. He argues that whatever has no beginning is neither eternal nor unlimited. Since existence has no beginning and end, it must thus be eternal and unlimited.

Scholars debate this argument as it obviously expresses a logical fallacy, that has led some to conclude we are missing imperative primary resources to fill in crucial grounds. No matter the absence of resources, Melissus plays a crucial role in the history of philosophy as he made heavy contributions to Eleactic thought and because Plato and Aristotle later depended very heavily on his version of Eleactic Philosophy.

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