The end of attack..

All attack exists in our illusion of separation...

All attack ends beyond it...


It is only in our perception of separation that there is someone who could hurt us, or be hurt by us...


The us that we make is small, separate, will attack, and be attacked...




The "us" that was created and extended by God can never be attacked...


For we are eternally one with everything in a reality beyond time...


This is a state that is beyond attack, for there is nothing that exists outside of us to attack or be attacked...




Asking the Holy Spirit to guide you to experience this state, is asking to know truth...


Every illusion we let go of, brings us closer to that "real us" beyond all illusions...


It is then, that "attack" will cease to exist...

Not a bad trade...

An eternal peace is what we can experience beyond the dream of our separateness...



Yet, we attempt a jiggling act when we try to hold onto our individuality or indivi-duality...and to experience God at the same time...


Individuality is the dream of us being separate form God to begin with...


the dream of us running off to play by ourself...


Now does it make sense why to hold onto to our dream of separateness, and to experience oneness with God at the same time is not possible...


One keeps us dreaming of being away form God...


One awakens us to the eternal peace and joy as we experience God extended though us - as this where we have never left...




We must choose between an illusionary dream of being away from God - or - letting go of the littleness that we are not and awakening to eternal peace that we are as spirit...



Where there is no more need for time...our eyes will have opened to experience sharing unconditional love, peace and joy for an eternity....


Whether we awaken from the dream of separation of sooner or later, does not really matter...


Do we choose peace now, or later is the question...


I release my individuality that kept me dreaming of being away...I give it to the dove that flies in the night...

for it takes away the darkness and loneliness of our perception of separation from God...



It brings in the golden light of love, the awakening to God...



We have given up a nightmare, for an eternity of love...



Not a bad trade...

The faith of release...

I am silent right now...

Soreness in the throat, ear hurts inside, and the voice has faded...


Yet it is only the voice of the body that has faded...


The real me is still unchanged...

No matter what happens to the body, the real you always remains unchanged...


Yes, God is perfect, and extended you in Gods own image as the timeless, eternal, unchanging, unconditional love, peace, eternal joy and bliss that the "spirit you" as alway been...


The real you was created though a pure extension of God, and is thus timeless and eternal...

It is forever unchanging as it extends eternally in all directions, without limitation...




Look around were you believe your body self to be, and you will notice nothing but limitations...

For the body you is very small, and very limited...

It is limited in knowledge...

Limited in abilities...

Limited for it seems to be separate from everything...


It even has an expiration date just like food does...even though you are not told what this expiration date is...



Yet though all these limitations so many of you insist in placing all of your identity in this little body...

Why is that?

Because that "little you" is familiar to you...


Thus it feels safe and secure to you on some level...

Because you know it...


Fear often arises when you even think or consider what is outside of this little you...



This is not amusing, as peace, love and eternal joy are what awaits...




Yet just as a first time diver - you stand, and jump up and down on the board...

Will you take the plunge?


Will you release what you have made, to embrace what God has created...that timeless eternal you that is pure unconditional love...


Deep faith is about letting go of what your not "judged, judging, just a body, not connected, conditionally loved, conditionally loving, fear, hurt, sadness, pain, suffering, loss..."



To embrace what you are - a wonderful timeless, eternal spirit that is unchanging, unconditional love, peace, eternal joy and bliss...


To give up a dream of separation - to awaken to an eternity of joy...


I want nothing more than for you to experience who you are in the deepest level...


for you to experience complete peace...complete and total love...


So will you continue to dream...

For as long as you hold onto the "nothing of separation from the unconditional love that you are..."

you will continue your dream of being away from God...you will have and lose all that you love, and then do it again - in a "groundhog day" - till you decide you will make another choice...






Where do you want to root your identity next?


or will you choose to awaken...


Do you want to choose that you that is timeless and eternal joy and bliss?


You have the power to choose joy or pain in every moment of your life...


Where do you put your faith in this moment?


Will you give up nothing, to gain everything?


Know peace, know unconditional love, know the real you...


You can chose to know this NOW...


What lies beyond the limited is the eternal you...


To experience the eternal in every moment of now...

To know God within and without in the eternal bliss of you...

Fun with shopping!

While I was grocery shopping I focused on the love in the hearts of each and every person my eyes fell upon.

I felt sadness and hurt with some people, others were very guarded...


I focus deeper beyond that hurt, beyond those wall and shields...


I focus deep inside their hearts to a love that is beyond all hurts...beyond all need for protection, for this love is timeless and eternal, and can never be taken away...



Then I met their eyes and smiled at them...

As this store was very big, and very crowded their were many people who I did this with.

People smiled back...


Some said "Hi"...


Some even stopped and talked to me as if they have known me all their life...


Some seemed busy and upset, till our eyes met...


Then they seemed to forget what they were upset about, and started smiling...


how simple it is to see the beauty in each and every person on a walk though a store...


How simple it is to bring joy by seeing the love in everyone...


Will your next shopping trip be boring, or will it be an experience to remember?


Will you experience the joy as you recognize it in others?


Will you share it with a stranger?


Will you experience that they are not really a stranger after all...


Will you smile today?

The path to one...

IN the November 17th post of Shards of Conscoiusness

If We Were One

November 17th, 2007 by Richard Cockrum

If I gave you love,
spoke the secret of my heart
would you share my dreams?
Would you...

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Rick, you do not have to do a thing,

by you simply being who you are, that is enough to awaken our one soul...


I do love your poem though (big smile)



The path to one...



If we were one I would smile right now - as I am smiling...


If we were one in this dream of life I could;


feel a tree rooted and grounded, yet who's branches sway with the caress of wind... a tree silently observing what we call life...


think of someone water skiing and feel all the sensations of water skiing...


think of someone racing a car and feel all those sensations too...


think of a mother and child and experience the love of birth...


know that I need for nothing material, as someone somewhere that we are one with has it...


take my attention to the wind flow, gently caressing all that I touch, swirling and flowing... stopping to take a breath, and flowing again...


walk down into a pyramid in Egypt...see the hieroglyphics of communication of that time...feel connected to them...


meditate with monks in Tibet...




These are all things that I have experienced on the path to peace...



These all show our connectedness, but still are but a step on your path to true oneness...



Oneness with separation, or oneness with a dream of being separate from God, is the first big experience on your path to knowing peace...


although a place of greater peace than where you perceive you currently are...it is not the final answer...do not settle till you know God within...


Till you are able to see God in every "Shard of Consciousness" or person if you will...



I could take my attention to your heart...I could go beyond all the hurt to find a love that is timeless and eternal as the very spirit that it represents...I do...Do this with every person you meet...experience what you discover...


A wise monk once said "If you can't see God in the next person you meet, you need not look any further..."


Let this be your goal...


For truth of these words is yours now...

Movie Review - Beowulf in digital 3D

OK that spear is coming and I'm moving out of the way!

A digital 3D CG movie...


Wow, Wow and Wow again!

The Digital 3D in this movie was so amazing, I was completely blown away!

It was the coolest movie watching experience ever! Everything had such amazing depth and clarity.

I am now a big fan of Digital 3D!



"Beowulf" is one of the oldest folk stories.




The spiritual meaning I got from the movie was this...


In land of physical we can have gold riches and lust...

We think it will make us happy...

We grow to find out this is not true...

We start over again...




We are back again with gold riches and lust....

We think it will make us happy...

We grow to find out this is not true...

We start over again...


That is where the movie ends...



Will this be where your movie ends?



When will you decide to make a new choice?

When will you look within, to find the love that you already have is eternal?

When will you learn that unconditional love never judges?

When will you realize that this love that never judges is within you?

When will I be patient till you find this?

As long as it takes...

One...

Stillness of the heart...

One beat...

One breath...

One brother...

One son...

One is the sound of an eternal heart...

One is the love of all...

One is the fire of all hopes and dreams...

One is the extension of the father...

One level...

One love...

One God...

Books? Yea baby!

Can You Spell Bibliophile?

November 13th, 2007 by Richard Cockrum

Do you like books. I like books. I like the smell of old paper. I like the feel of the binding as it rests in my hand while I (click here to read the rest of Ricks post)

My wife, daughter and I all love books.

My reading started when I was very young. I read mostly books on science and human behavior. Eventually my interest shifted to spirituality.

I never knew the fun and adventure you can have in fiction books. My wife turned me onto reading sci-fi and fantasy. It was a wonderful escape into a world of imagination. I read some of David Eddings books which I enjoyed.

My wife and I read the whole Harry Potter series together. Awesome character development there. Get you to care about the characters as if they were your own kids. Very enjoyable reading!

Here is my replies to Rick's Questions:

How many books do I have?

We have just over a thousand books in our home.

What’s the last book I read?

"The Biology of Belief" by Bruce Lipton on Audio book. This is a fantastic book that bridges the science of biology and our thoughts, beliefs and outer world (signals) that choose which DNA blueprints will be not only be selected, but how they will be read.

It blows the old gene theory of predetermination by our inherited genes right out of the water!

If you have ever asked the question why is the body the way that it is?

Buy, and listen to this book! This is one you really want on audio book.

What’s the last book I bought?

Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel. I have not had the chance to read it yet. So no reviews yet.

Five (plus one) Meaningful Books

1. The Celestine Prophecy - by James Redfield - This is the great adventure into beginning spiritual concepts in an Indiana Jones style of fun

2. The Power of NOW - On audio book - I highly suggest getting the audio book of this book. This is a wonderful beginning into deeper spiritual concepts. I have now recommended this book to over a thousand different people and only one out of all of them did not finish it because they did not like it.

3. The Disappearance of the Universe - by Gary Renard - If you have ever said just give me the answers. Just hit me over the head with them. Then this book is for you. Read it to the very end without judgment then go back and read it again. Then buy the audio book and listen to that too. I have recommended this book to hundreds of people who have loved it. It is a very profound - but easy read.

4. Your Immortal Reality - by Gary Renard - Go deeper into the practice of the first book. Both books are a wonderful foundation to the next book on my list of must reads. They are all about this next book.

5. A Course in Miracles - published by a Foundation for Inner Peace - Just as the bible was a spiritual guide for people many, many generations back when it was first wrote. It was of course, wrote for people of that time period in their spiritual evolution.


You know when people where young in their spirituality and thought God can be perfect and judging at the same time.


When they thought that God could be unconditionally loving yet judging and wrathful at the same time.


When you think about how God is described in the Bible its as if he was a toddler. Happy one moment, and throwing a temper tantrum the next. Jealous because he did not get his way and acting out as a result of this.


It was wrote for the people of that time period. Like most books written in the past. It still has some good things to say that apply now too.


A Course in Miracles is written for our generation. Was it divinely inspired? Just read a few pages and you be the judge.


It is the most profound spiritual work of art that I have ever had the pleasure of experiencing.


Yes, it is an actual experience in discovering who you are as spirit. It is a systematic stripping away of who you are not. To embrace who you really are and discover the true meaning of the word peace.


It addresses who your not, (your ego mind) in attempt to bring you to who you are - That timeless eternal spirit created by God in all your glory.


It is a path to awakening now.


It is by far the best book I have ever read.


I am currently sharing and teaching a class in A Course in Miracles - It is a wonderful experience beyond words.

Daddy who is God?

Our three year old Morgan asked me "Daddy who's God"

I replied "Honey you know how you snuggle with daddy and mommy and you hold us tight?"

(She nods)

"You know that feeling of love inside that is so deep that it just feels so warm and wonderful as you hug us?"

(she nods again)

"That love that we share is God in your heart..."

"That love will be there in every moment of your life..."

"Allow it to grow in you, and it will blossom as you do..."



"OK, daddy I will" she says


"Everyone has that same love within them, as everyone has God within. Only most don't know he's there yet...but they will..." I say

And with a big smile on her face I know she gets it.

I smile back...as we share this smile of peace...

Smile - as your starting to get it :-)

The laryngitis has lifted...

Whats it like not to know what your going to write as you fingers are moving?

Freedom...

Trust in the voice that knows no judgment...

Allow that voice to be yours...



For in fact, beyond all illusions...

That really is your voice...

Aren't you glad to have it back?

I am gratful...

As I was reading Shards of Consciousness Sunday Reading 11 Nov 2007. (Which BTW I really love reading)

I read about Nneka running a Season of Gratitude



The fingers begin to type as my mind goes blank...

I am grateful for my father - God...

I am thankful to be an extension of God...

Created for the purpose of sharing love, creating, and extending that love in an infinite kingdom that is beyond time...

When I am not dreaming of being away, I experience that love that is beyond words...

I experience the full meaning of my creation in infinite bliss...

I am thankful for my role as a guide in the dream of separation...

I am thankful that it is only in a nightmare that we could be separate from God...

I am thankful that only in a nightmare could we hurt one another...

In a nightmare where we forgot to laugh...

In a nightmare where we forgot who we are...

In a nightmare where we forgot God...

I am thankful for your voice gently calling...

It's OK, you were just dreaming...You've never left me...I could never forsake you...you are my extension and my love...

Peace be it that which knows "only love is real..."

I am thankful for your voice, as it is my voice...as "our voice" is but one...

I rejoice as each part of one mind finds the truth of love and awakens...

I am thankful to see Christ in each and every person, no matter how deeply they try to hide who they really are...

I am thankful for most powerful word in our language...

Surrender...

To surrender the attachment of an individual dream identity, to know the eternal spirit that you are...

I am thankful to be able to give up what is nothing, to gain what is everything...

I am thankful for this eternal moment of NOW in which peace knows no end...

I am thankful for you reading this...for as you do - Christ's eyes are reading these words, and smiling deeply within...

The infinite step...

We see our foot on the ground as we take a step...

We have taken many steps though out what we call life...


Which of these has been forward?

Which has been in reverse?



We think we know where life begins and ends...



If you think you know, then you are wrong...

For "thinking" is of the mind, and the mind has no idea where real life begins and ends...


Your spirit however, knows this well...

It knows its beginning as a "spark of extension" of a love so pure it defines the word "unconditional"...

It knows not it's ending...for it has no ending...


It is forever infinite...

Who you really are can never die...

Endings are only for dreams...


For "God" is your beginning, and your continuation...



Aren't you glad to know you can choose to be who you really are?

What if...The game of life

What if...

What if for the next seven days you challenged yourself...

Do you have what it takes?

What if you do?

What if you decided that you would say or do something nice to each and every person as soon as you see them...?

Strangers, family and friends are all included...

What if you see that person many times a day?

Yes, the rules are each time you see them you come up with something to say or do...

What if you asked your family and friends to play too?

What might you discover about people you know?

What might people learn about you?

Might people discover things that you appreciate about them that they did not know?

What if this game was very fun and up lifting to play?

What if this game was contagious and people decided to tell people about it?


How many smiles will you bring?

How many hearts can you warm?

How many can warm your heart?


What if you began to play this game on your very next breath...

The Halloween Massacre...

It is a party at Halloween...

A gathering of friends...

A time to dress up and pretend you're something that you're not...

For the other 364 days a year we usually wear a different costume...

Still pretending to be who we are not...



For if your thoughts, words, and actions are not based from the unconditional love that is in your heart...

You are wearing a costume...

You may even judge people who dress up for Halloween...

A "hypocrite" is not who you really are either...

It too, is just pretend...



When will you decide to know "who you are" beyond your costume?

When will you decide to know peace?


At Halloween dress up and party - for realizing that you are in costume all the time allows for time to ask "What is
beyond my outfit?"



For love begins when you ask "who I'm I?"

The person you see in the mirror is so small compared to the real you, it's like the very tip of a needle...





Let this Halloween be a massacre of the "need" to judge others, or yourself...

The sharing of laugher with friends is what is left - when judgment is no more...

Which teacher will you choose?

There are teachers of love, and teachers of hate...

Which you will be a student of - says a lot about who you feel you are...


We you learn peace of unity, or more pain of separation?



Which teacher will you choose?

Why will you choose them?


Know peace or know judgment...

For there is no in between...

To judge is to instantly be judged for it is a mirror that stands in front of you...

Whether you see Christ standing in front of you - or a "lonely person" depends on which teacher you have learned from...

Which teacher will you choose?

The smile of Christ is yours...

To meet one - where they feel they are...

To share in what they feel...

They are not alone...

You are there...

Christ is there - as one - in both of you...

To look into the eyes of another is to see the face of God in you...

For what you feel is "separate" is but an illusion...

What you feel as "one" - is truth...



Walk in this moment...

Two hands - with fingers intertwined...

Two palms touching with the warmth of embrace...


Love...

Union...

To know this "union" is to know truth...

For love is truth...

What is in your heart is truth...

Share the union of palms touching...

The smile of Christ is yours...

Expression of freedom...

I have ten minutes to write this post so here goes...


Expression of freedom is in your heart...


Passion to share...

For your heart knows that sharing is its purpose...

To hold prisoner your thoughts, feelings and desires, is to suffer...

To share them is to shine...

To glow the golden light of God...

How many moments will you share?

How much happiness do you desire?

To share is to grow; to grow is to love...

Love is you glowing though sharing...


But I'm not sure what this person will think about what I have to share...

Your judgment of your self is far greater than anything you will receive from another...

To punish you is to suffer needlessly...

God seeks not to punish you...

Unconditional love sees no guilt...

For guilt is of ego in a dream of separation from God...

It is just mis perception...

to release this mis perception is to experience the true expression of freedom...

only you hold yourself prisoner...

Sharing love is you're "Key" to freedom...

Will you use your Key?

An eternal smile...

Reflection...

I used to awaken in the morning to find that I had begun to daydream the moment I opened my eyes...

I would dream there were other people who did not accept me...

I would dream I was alone, different then everyone else...

I would dream that there were people arguing and fighting all around the world...

I would dream that "here was a subject and a separate object"...

I would dream that I was "off playing by my myself" - separate from God...

I would dream I was alone in this world separate from God...

all my days and nights were spent dreaming...


Till one day I woke from this dream...

I saw and felt everything as one...

Nothing was separate...

Vibrate are the colors...

Crisp are the sounds...

A love so profound that sharing is it's movement...

Eternity is it's direction...

Joy is it's voice...


All this happened on that day that I awoke...


Now I pretend to be part of this dream of separation...

So that through sharing of knowledge - all part of the mind may awaken to know the eternal peace and love within...

To know God from within...

To see God in every face...

When within and without become one...

An eternal smile is extended - as the kingdom without end...

Are you ready to begin smiling?

This is my day job...

Daily sharing of love...

To set free the trapped anger, sadness and guilt...

To guide one to know God within...

To embrace the unconditional love that one discovers they have had all along...

To glimpse peace of a love so profound that tears of joy flow...

To shift one's identity from illusion to the truth of love...

This is my day job...

the puzzle of life...

Life is like a jigsaw puzzle...

At first it seems like there are so many pieces...

so many colors and shapes...

you ask the question - where do I begin?

you match like colors as people of like color and shape hang out together...

yet as these tribes are formed there is much of the puzzle that is still incomplete..

so you reevaluate the puzzle and you notice that these shapes and colors that seemed different,
really fit too...

so you accept them too...

and their pieces fit perfectly too...

you notice that each piece fits closely to each other piece...

its a harmony of shape, color and closeness...

you place more and more pieces together...

they all fit, at times it make take some time to find out how they fit, but they all do...

until you learn to fit them all the puzzle will remain incomplete...

so you step back and observe as much of the whole puzzle as you can, now the remaining piece fall into place...

as you place them into place...

no one is excluded...

each and every piece was needed to make the "one" whole again...

you go to see what the puzzle is a picture of...

but you can not...

as the whole is a picture of you...

experiencing that picture is beyond all perception...

it is to know God from within...

the unconditional love, and acceptance of all - in one picture...

in one moment...

this moment begins now...

where will you place this next piece of the puzzle standing before you?