Living in today’s world, death seems inescapable. Many have even accepted it for themselves and look forward to approaching that day at a future time.

However, many have not accepted it for their loved ones. When a death occurs, it can feel like nothing makes sense and that the world is unfair.

If you are a follower of this blog or my music, you know that I don’t believe in death in the way that many others do.

The intent of this article is not to change your beliefs regarding death. That’s what There Is No Death, No Pain, and No Evil is for.

This article is to show how you can be alright at this moment when the thoughts of loss seem too great.

There may be some things in this article that seem to strike a nerve, but continue to read it in its entirety. This will help you.

Let’s get into the 5 ways to easily get over the death of a loved one.

1. It’s All About You

This is going to come as a shocker, but know that I am saying this with love.

When someone dies, it’s not about you.

That person supposedly lost their life, but you didn’t lose anything.

So if you’re going to feel sad, don’t feel sad for yourself. You’re still here and get to live it up.

Instead, feel sad that they won’t get to live it up, which has nothing to do with you. And then, remember that you don’t need to feel sad at all.

I’m not suggesting that you hold back your feelings. Let them out in a huge cry if you need to.

But then celebrate and honor your memory of them by feeling good that you crossed paths and that the best parts of them are with you always.

2. A Loved One’s Purpose

There is a belief that people exist in this world only for your will. I know, it’s a hidden belief.

You lay claim to these people through your words, i.e. your friends, your family, your this, your that, etc.

Within this belief, you think you know what’s best for them all. You know their highest capabilities and even their incapabilities.

Additionally, you know that whenever you call them, it’s best for them to fulfill your request. That request could be to entertain you, make you feel better, be good company, whatever.

But do you really know this? Do you even know that you think you know this?

Everything and everyone that exists has a purpose or else they would not be here.

In terms of items, when you no longer have a purpose for one, you either throw it away or give it away to be repurposed.

Many of us still don’t even know our own purpose, let alone the purpose of another.

How To Discover Your Purpose

What does this mean?

When you perceive a person’s death, you don’t know if their purpose was fulfilled or not.

You also don’t know if the circumstances surrounding their death were a manifestation of their commonly repeated thoughts.

The person may have gotten exactly what he or she wanted out of life and was ready to transition to something else.

Again, you don’t know.

There’s no sense in being mad or sad over something that you don’t know.

Furthermore, for those that believe in God, as I do. Do you really believe that God’s Will could not be done? Trust It. Trust Him.

He knows what’s best for you and He wants to give it to you. But it’s hard to receive something when you’re denying it.

3. Closing Off Yourself From New Experiences

When you’re a kid, everything is exciting because it’s all-new.

Everything is also exciting because it stays new.

No moment is like the previous one nor do you try to make it that way.

But as you get older, you try to recreate past moments that you felt were great. You deny this moment in favor of one that already happened.

You no longer trust that exciting experiences will be brought to you so you invest in what could never be, the past.

When you live in the past, you try to hold on to everything and everyone exactly as they were in that moment.

Yet you know as well as anyone that people’s thoughts, feelings, and bodies change every second of the day.

This means that by holding on, you are essentially setting yourself up to remain disappointed at all times.

It’s almost like your thoughts of choice are, “I want what I could never again have because I know everything about the world including that everything else would suck in comparison.”

If your thoughts, feelings, and body is changing all the time, that means that what you would enjoy changes all the time as well. God and the universe are always wanting to give to you that which you would enjoy.

But by holding onto one tiny moment that happened infinity moments ago, you are choosing littleness instead of abundance.

In doing this, the only thing that can make you happy is that which could never be.

Let go of the past so that you can experience all that the present has to offer in its glory.

This is not to say to forget about your loved one. This is to say to live now for you both.

4. Communicating with Your Loved One

The loved one is still with you now. Who you are is a combination of yourself and their influences over you. So literally, you are no longer just yourself.

In addition to that, you can actually communicate with your loved ones now as if they are here because, in reality, they are.

Here’s how.

Sit in a comfortable position. Relax completely being fully grounded in the present. Feel your toes touch the floor or your shoes. Let go of any past thoughts or experiences. Make only this moment your focus.

Close your eyes and think of the love shared between you and your loved one. Now say what you would say to them either out loud or to yourself.

Listen to what you receive back from them. It may not be heard with the body’s ears, but it’s definitely felt.

You can do this any time of any day for any length of time. So have at it. Enjoy a full dialogue.

A quote from one of my favorite books A Course In Miracles (ACIM) perfectly sums up why you are able to do this.

“Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.“

And in case you want a bible quote, check out Luke 20:38.

“He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to Him all are alive.“

5. Holding Onto Form Weakens You

As I mentioned above, you are choosing littleness instead of abundance.

You already accept that your thoughts, beliefs, and body are endlessly changing. And throughout all of these changes, you’ve still always been you.

So what version of your loved one are you trying to hold? And why would you want them to be stuck in a changeless form for your benefit?

There are so many people in your physical awareness right now that would love for you to enjoy them.

But it’s impossible to experience both loss and abundance. Each denies the other and so only one can be true.

If loss was real, then you would be happy to receive it. However, since abundance is real, even the illusion of loss can be.

To believe that your loved ones are only a body is to believe that you are an insignificant speck incapable of anything real.

This is not true. You are the light of the world. Your rays extend beyond any and everything ever-flowing for eternity.

In Conclusion

In conclusion, your loved ones didn’t die. Only your perception of who they were, died.

Let go of this perception so that you can LIVE with them always.

Enjoy this beautiful selection from, IAMNOBODY, IAMSOMEONE.

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Happiness. We all want it. We all love to be it. Most importantly, we never want to be without it.

Happy people are just fun to be around unless of course, you don’t feel happy.

Happiness doesn’t mean you have to skip up and down the street singling la la la. But it does mean that you are truly content with life at this moment.

A while back I wrote How To Be Happy All The Time. That article is a very detailed look at what’s blocking your happiness and how to change it.

This checklist is a simplified version. When you’re able to complete this checklist, you’ll know that you are living the best possible life you can.

Living the best possible life does not mean you won’t have goals and new experiences you want to try. It means that whether you meet those goals or not, you’re still happy. It also means that there will be nothing stopping you from pursuing more joy.

You will be free.

I just have one question for you.

Would you complete this checklist if you knew it would lead you to ultimate happiness?

The Simple Checklist for a Happy Life

• I’ve organized my life so that my mornings are happy
• I’ve organized my life so that my afternoons are happy
• I’ve organized my life so that my evenings are happy
• I’ve organized my life so that when I sleep, I sleep well

Happiness Checklist Explained

Just so there’s no mistaking, mornings are from when you wake until noon. Afternoons are from noon until about 5 pm. Evenings are from 5 pm until bedtime. And of course, your sleep time is when you’re sleeping.

This is pretty simple, right?

Yet there are many things at play.

Your morning may be affected by how well you sleep. And your sleep may be affected by your nights.

Each part of your day seems to affect another.

By focusing on one part at a time, you can see the inconsistencies. You’ll see the patterns within your relationships, health, work, and even leisure.

You may even discover that your nights, sleep, and mornings are perfect, but your afternoons aren’t so happy.

In this case, taking action toward improving your afternoons may lead to your mornings declining in happiness.

But that’s what’s great about this. You will start to create holistic solutions so that every part of your life is filled with happiness and not just some.

How To Use This Checklist

1. 1. Write out your checklist (or use this printable Happiness Checklist)
   2. Purposefully reflect on yesterday
   3. Mark a check next to each section that you experienced total happiness
   4. Count the number of checkmarks to get your Happiness Score for yesterday

Happiness Score of 4 – I’m Happy!

If your score is 4, congratulations, you live a happy life or at least lived one yesterday.

Just in case yesterday did not represent your normal routine, repeat the checklist for a day that does. Then compare the results.

If your score is still a 4, then keep on being happy!

Happiness Score of 3 – I’m Pretty Happy

Congratulations! You may have a few things to reorder in your life, but this is still a great place to be.

Work toward being happy in that remaining area and take care to not take any away from the others.

It’s ok to take baby steps.

Happiness Score of 2 – I Want A Happier Life

Half of your days are happy and if you count weekends, you’re over 50%, which is a good start.

However, it’s time to take inventory, but don’t focus on all parts of your day at once.

Start with one and list out what you think prevented you from being happy.

Work toward being happy in that area. This might involve learning some new skills or even unlearning old behaviors.

No matter where this journey takes you, let it take you happily.

Once you reach a score of 3, follow the instructions above.

Happiness Score of 1 – I Need To Make Some Changes

A score of 1 seems bad, but it’s really a good thing because now you know. And since you know, you can do something about it.

Start by asking yourself, “Do I really want to continue living life like this? Is it worth it? How will I know if it’s worth it? How long have my days been like this?”

If you don’t like the answer to any of these questions, good. You are more aware of your needs than you ever have been.

Start small. Don’t make any big changes yet like quit your job and leave your spouse.

Choose the easiest timeframe to improve. Really go at it.

It won’t take long to improve at all.

Once you get your Happiness Score to 2, following the instructions above for that score.

Happiness Score of 0 – I Need To Make Some Immediate Changes

The good news is, your score is only going to go up from here.

Changes do need to be made. Know that you deserve happiness in your life.

Say this right now, “I’m open to the idea that I deserve more happiness in my life.”

Say it once more. “I’m open to the idea that I deserve more happiness in my life.”

Awesome! The remnants of that phrase are now echoing throughout the universe gathering allies to help you realize this.

I’m one of them. Message me here with the subject “I Got A Happiness Score of 0”. In the body of the message, let me know anything you think I need to know in order to help you.

I’ll respond shortly with some assistance.

Stay Happy

Life is meant to be lived happily. Even if your idea of happiness is not the norm, you still deserve to be happy.

Live what that is for you.

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The body seems like a fickle master always changing what it wants and needs. You serve it proudly, but it betrays you when you need it most.

To add insult to injury, the body blames you for not adhering to its ever-changing laws and creeds. Then it withers away and dies as if that was always its purpose.

This sounds like an insane master.

What if the body was never meant to be a leader but a symbol of what its host’s mind embodies?

In the 17th century, Thomas Willis, M.D. hypothesized that diabetes was caused by “sadness or long sorrow and other depressions.“^[1]

This was followed up a couple of hundred years later by Sir Henry Maudsley that published “The Physiology and Pathology of Mind“. In it, he said, “Diabetes is a disease which often shows itself in families in which insanity prevails.”

If a physical disease such as diabetes has strong ties to mental stability, do other illnesses share this trait? Is healing the body as simple as healing the mind?

Let’s explore!

The supposed leading causes of death

According to the CDC, here are the top 10 leading causes of death in the United States in 2019.

1. Heart disease
2. Cancer
3. Accidents (unintentional injuries)
4. Chronic lower respiratory diseases
5. Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases)
6. Alzheimer’s disease
7. Diabetes
8. Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis
9. Influenza and pneumonia
10. Intentional self-harm (suicide)

Many expect COVID-19 to be added to that list when the 2020 numbers are released.

Both Alzheimer’s (6) and intentional self-harm (10) are already regarded as mental illnesses, but what about the rest?

Could all of these be cured with a wellness mindset?

A Sad Heart

Have you ever thought about why being depressed is often referred to as having a sad heart?

Yes, you have a physical heart. Yet, this saying refers to thoughts and feelings of sorrow, not that of physical chest pain.

One study conducted by John Hopkins University on nearly 7,000 U.S. adults concluded that women aged 17 to 39 with depression had a significantly higher risk of ischemic heart disease death.

ischemia – an inadequate blood supply to an organ or part of the body, especially the heart muscles

These findings are backed by another study conducted by the American Heart Association that found that young women are twice as likely to suffer a heart attack or die of heart disease if they suffer from depression.

Men are not exempt.

The European Society of Cardiology recently published the findings of a Swedish study outlining how men diagnosed with anxiety in their late teens or early 20s are more than twice as likely to have heart-related diseases later in life in comparison to their more laid-back peers.

There’s more to mental wellness than meets the eye.

Cancer

Funds available to the National Cancer Institute in 2018 totaled $5.94 billion!^[2] This is a 5% increase from the previous fiscal year.

Obviously, people are serious about curing cancer.

From these dollars have come such studies as this one, which showed that cancer patients can live longer lives by getting mental health treatment.

There is also a growing belief that cancer is directly related to feelings of unforgiveness.

Dr. Michael Barry, author of the book The Forgiveness Project estimates that 61% of cancer patients have forgiveness issues. “Harboring these negative emotions, this anger and hatred, creates a state of chronic anxiety” Dr. Barry explains.

You may also like: It’s Not Hard To Forgive, It’s Hard To Keep Lying To Yourself About It

The Mind-Body Connection

There have been similar findings with stroke victims and Alzheimer’s patients.

One study by the American Stroke Association found that higher levels of optimism in stroke survivors were associated with reduced stroke severity.

Another by the Alzheimers’s Association found a link between repetitive negative thinking and Alzheimer’s disease.

The mind-body connection is one that has been explored since the beginning of mankind.

Many believe that we are spiritual beings having a temporary human experience, so the body is of no consequence.

Even those that have died and been resuscitated support this theory by expressing that they felt immense peace and unconditional love while wrapped in an endless sea of light absent a body.

So can all illness be healed through the mind?

Is mental wellness the most important thing for this seemingly physical experience?

How To Ensure Mental Well-Being

There are many ways to secure and maintain mental wellness.

One super effective way is music. It’s meditation, visualization, and affirmations all rolled into one.

Studies have shown that patients who listened to music had less anxiety and stress hormones in the body than people who took drugs.

When listening to music, your mind goes to another place (meditation). You can feel and imagine what the song invokes (visualization). When you listen, you sing or chant along (affirmations) with full confidence.

This is why it is also important to choose the music you listen to wisely.

I’ve created an album, IAMNOBODY, IAMSOMEONE, that is a thorough guide to having inner peace. By listening, you can reverse the effects of anxiety & depression without therapy or medicine.

Find out more here.

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This is a big topic, especially if you’re dealing with chronic pain, the death of a loved one, and/or a person that seems to wish you harm.

Death, pain, and evil may even be so ingrained in your life that you will not know how you can live without them.

I will not force this information upon you, especially if you are not ready to receive it.

So before you proceed with reading, do this.

1. Take a super slow deep breath.
2. Decide if you want to know the truth or if you want things to remain as they are in your life.

Yes, this situation is similar to the red-pill/blue-pill decision in the Matrix movie. However, in this version, choosing to know the truth will add to your joy, peace, and overall passion for life.

If there is a side effect to this, it would be that many things that used to interest you, simply won’t. Close friends may find it difficult to be around you. And you might even get name-called as “One of those hippie people.”

Regardless, I’m going to break down each of these for you. Once you see the truth of what death, pain, and evil are, you will be able to remove their imagined effects from your life with little effort.

And for those people that distance themselves from you…don’t worry, they’ll come back and be inspired by you.

So have you made your decision yet?

No matter what you decide, know that it’s the perfect choice for you right now.

What Is Meant By Illusion

First, congratulation on taking the first step toward ultimate healing. I’m excited for you. This will be like being born again.

Now place your attention toward The Truth Test (TTT).

What’s so great about TTT is its simplicity. There’s no way it can be argued away or debated.

Anything that changes is not real because it is not the truth. What is true does not need any extra attention or help to keep it alive.

What is true will always remain regardless of the circumstance.

When you accept this ultimate truth for yourself, many walls of illusions will instantly be broken down.

Illusions are fully useless, complicated bits of information that keeps your focus on trying to understand them. Each answer discovered leads to another question.

On the other hand, the truth is indeed simple, always. Its answer is easily accepted and understood without any further questions.

The Belief in Death

The matter of death is a matter of identity.

Who or what do you identify with?

This answer is different for everybody.

I once identified as a smart, straight, black man. Many still identify me like that. Those that do are not wrong, they are just caught up in their own identity.

Let’s take a closer look at the above example. Two of these attributes are mind-based (smart, straight), while the other two are body-based (black, man).

Some may argue that both black and man are mind-based too depending on their cultural representation.

Speaking in terms of the body, the mass of cells that you lose each year through normal cell-death is close to your entire body weight. In the process, these cells are replaced with new ones.

So every year you have a brand new body. Brand new! And your old one dies a supposed death.

Yet you are still you through all of this

What’s even more strange is that your thoughts work similarly.

Think about what you thought about 7 years ago. You were completely different back then with a different identity.

You had your own set of beliefs and goals that have nothing to do with who you are now. Those thoughts have since died out.

Yet you’re still you.

So again I ask, what exactly are you?

Perhaps you think that you’re the thoughts that you choose to keep.

Or that you are that story you tell to any person you meet, which is why you tell the story. It keeps you alive.

Take a brief moment to think about who you are in comparison to who you thought you were at a prior time.

What’s to make you think that your identity now is indeed real if your other identity could not stand the test of time?

Not only do you seem to be tied to your identity, but you are tied to the identity of others.

Is it true that you love your family/friends or do you love the identities they that wear?

Blended Realities

Throughout what you would consider life, you’ve had several realities based on who you’ve identified with.

Now let’s add another component…dreams.

Most of the time when you dream, you accept that reality no matter how absurd it is. You don’t even question it.

What makes this reality any different? Could you be dreaming now?

The reality of death is but the ending of yet another dream.

If death was able to withstand the truth test, then all things would be dead always and you would not be here to read this article.

Yet because life is real, the illusion of death seems possible.

And no matter what reality you go through, you’re always alive and you’re always you.

Do you ever remember a time when you weren’t? Do you even know who the real you is?

Let the belief of death go and enjoy what you are now, which is alive.

If someone tells you that you may die, he or she just wants you to accept his or her dream of death.

Don’t accept it. It is not of you.

And to any loved ones that you think you miss right now. Do this.

Close your eyes and fill your heart with all the love you can muster. Visualize your loved one and say what you would want to them. Listen, they will respond to you as if they are right here.

Nothing real is ever lost and nothing real can ever die.

The Belief in Pain

Pain is nothing more than a belief.

It’s a belief that you’ve associated with certain aspects of your body.

This is why you could be fine in your reality but experience pain in a dream. Or vice versa. You could be experiencing pain in your reality, but be perfectly at ease in your dream.

Pain is an acceptance of this belief.

So why does the pain seem real and where did this belief come from?

The belief in pain came from a false sense of control, which goes back to the identity we spoke of earlier.

Your True Identity

Just to give you the truth of what/who you are, you share your identity with everything real in the world.

In other words, you and your friend are the same. If the universe had a body, you would be like the index finger and your friend would be like the middle finger.

Both are needed, appreciated, and help make up the body.

If you accept your identity as this, you will always do things that serve yourself (the entire body).

However, you believe that you are a separate identity from your fellow human. And so you do things that serve what you believe to be yourself only.

Because of this separateness, you seem to experience loss when it appears that your fellow human has something you do not have that you want.

This is a misperception.

For example, if you massage your right hand with your left hand, you will be happy for the overall experience.

Yet if you believed you were just the left hand, you may feel cheated not realizing how it affects your entire world.

Similarly, when you believe that you are separate from all, you open your experience to loss, loneliness, doubt, worry, and fear.

How Does Pain Factor Into This?

This emptiness that is created by your believed separateness gets filled.

The filling or feeling is the building block of pain.

Once you experience it, you want it gone.

Again, since you share your identity with everything that is real, you attempt to share your pain with others, and sometimes you try to project it onto others without even realizing it.

Here’s where it gets a little tricky in your mind.

The pain of loss, for example, makes you feel guilty. The reason for this guilt is because deep within, you know the truth of what you are. And if you are all, there could never be any loss.

And when you share this idea of littleness with others, you make both yourself and them weak through your eyes. Since in these moments of sharing pain you become the source of suffering for many, you feel intense guilt.

So after creating such guilt and wanting no part of it, you share it with others constantly because all you know how to do is share that which you believe you are.

You say things like, “You always disrespect me even though I would never disrespect you.” or “You owe me for all I’ve done for you.”

All of your actions become a way to serve and feed your separate identity. You no longer give just as an expression of love, you give to receive something that will make you feel bigger in your separateness.

Since you’ve gone through periods of sharing emptiness with others, emptiness is now among what you witness around and within you.

This causes great discomfort, which begins to manifest itself within your body and this associated thought becomes known as pain.

Not realizing you are the cause, you seek remedies outside of yourself to heal yourself. Each time you give power to these remedies through your belief in them, you weaken yourself even more and repeat the process of guilt and pain.

The Undoing of Pain

The only way to be rid of pain once and for all is the same way you made it real.

Start by sharing ideas of abundance with all. Share only that which you would want to have so that it becomes the only witness of who and what you are.

Be the cause of joy in yourself and others by giving freely without expecting or wanting anything in return. Be the example of contentment and not of loss.

Know that by helping others, you are helping your true Self (the entire body).

The Belief in Evil

The main thing that would stop you from helping everyone in the world is that you believe some are evil.

The subject of evil is a broader topic that I discuss in this article about God and evil.

To sum it up, evil does not exist. It is another false belief that you would carry with you from moment to moment.

You attempt to speak it into existence each time you bear witness to so-called evilness making you its preacher and sustainer. Any evil that you witness is made real through you.

Use the techniques mentioned above and below to withdraw faith in such a belief.

Next Steps

To start seeing reality instead of only your beliefs here are a few things you can do.

1. Listen to Let Go twice a day for at least a month.
2. Share ONLY love with others.
3. Read this book.

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Understanding how to pray and how to manifest are one and the same. One cannot exist without the other similar to that of giving & receiving, teaching & learning, and forgiving & forgetting.

To be able to truly learn a subject, you must know it well enough to teach. In order to truly teach a subject, you must have learned all about it.

The same relationship exists between prayer and its manifestations. In order to know how to manifest properly, you must pray in the correct way. In order to know how to pray in the correct manner, you must master how to manifest.

This is not to say that you can’t manifest without knowing how to pray, and you can’t pray without knowing how to manifest. This is to say that in order to do it consciously and effectively, you must understand the relationship between both.

The Law of Attraction

We’ve all heard of the law of attraction. The law of attraction centers around the idea that whatever you focus on expands within your life.

For example, if you spend most of your time writing music, listening to music, and performing music, you are likely to attract other musicians, supporters of your music, and a deeper understanding of music into your life.

What’s special about the law of attraction is that it appears to be constant. By thinking any thought at any time, you start to attract its physical counterpart.

This realizing (manifesting) can be instant or it can take many years. It all depends on how focused the mind is that thinks the thought.

This explains why it’s important to keep your mind clear and fill it with thoughts aligned with the lifestyle you want.

The law of attraction is always at work. The more aligned your thoughts are, the quicker it is to attract or manifest that which you want.

How To Pray

Prayer is the first step to manifesting.

It comes from a French word preiere that means to ask sincerely or earnestly.

Prayer starts with a question. The answering (manifestation) of that question depends on:

• who the question is directed toward
• how capable you feel the directed source is at answering the question
• if you feel the question can even be answered
• why you think it hasn’t been answered already.

That’s a lot to “think” about.

Let’s break this down with some examples.

Example 1 – How can I be rich?

First, who is this question directed toward? Possible answers could be God, Jesus, Google, quora, yourself, a person that seems to have achieved the goal you want, or a person that hasn’t achieved this goal.

Second, how capable is this source at answering your question? Do you fully trust Google’s answer? Do you fully trust God? This can only be answered by the amount of faith you place in the source you’ve chosen.

Third, do you truly believe this question can be answered? If you do, it can be. If you don’t, there will never be an answer that satisfies you.

Fourth, why don’t you believe you’re rich already? This contains so many answers in itself. You’ve just created the separation between you and the object of your desire.

All of these questions come into play because they reveal the things that split your focus. The more singular your focus, the more time it saves in bringing you what you want.

Referring to the 4 items above, to ask a question of a source that you don’t have total faith in is to ask unanswerable questions. An unanswerable question is as purposeless as hateful love or peaceful war. These are all things that cannot be because they make no sense.

To ask an unanswerable question is to be in a state of purposelessness. Since everything that exists has a purpose and you are choosing not to have one at that moment, you’re contradicting the nature of your own existence in a way.

This is a source of great pain for many. So the question of how to pray is a question of how to manifest.

How to manifest

Many don’t realize (real eyes), but all thoughts are prayers, and all prayers are thoughts. You’re praying all day.

The flaw in thinking is that it’s the opposite of knowledge. What you know, you don’t have to think about. It’s instant and automatic.

Yet if you must pray, do it purposefully toward truth.

Example 2 – How do I realize my wealth?

This question is a more honest and answerable question than before. In it lies its answer; a fact that all questions share.

To even ask this, you are recognizing that you are of value even though you may not be conscious of it at this moment. And aligning with that value is easier than having to find and possess it, as the case with the previous question.

Yet the person you ask this question to is in a position to succeed at answering because they will also see you as valuable.

Learning how to manifest is more about learning to pray better, or ask better questions.

How To Pray & Manifest Better

There is a step beyond asking better questions.

As was stated above, “thinking” is the opposite of knowledge.

But what if your questions contained knowledge? This renders the question useless because its answer is no longer needed. You will have aligned with truth.

You now go from being a questioner to being an answerer, or from being a person that prays to a person that manifests.

These are still one and the same, except for a small shift in focus.

Naturally what follows is that you help others in their manifesting because that is your new focus. The more you help others, the more you realize your own ability to do the same for yourself.

This knowledge of ability affects how you pray. No longer will you pray from a place of separateness, you will pray from a place of belief in whom you pray to because you also believe in your self.

If you haven’t noticed by now, knowledge is total. It’s impossible to believe in another without first having belief in yourself. You are the one that gives the power (belief) to all.

Common Mistakes When Praying & Trying to Manifest

There are two common mistakes that people make when learning how to pray and how to manifest.

Contradicting Prayers

The first is contradicting prayer requests. For example, you may pray for another to “get what he or she deserves” meant in a negative way.

Remember, all things are total. To wish harm on another is to accept harm for yourself. You are giving harm power over others so it begins having power over you. Harm then becomes something for you to look out for. By looking out for it, you are focusing on it. And whatever you focus on will expand in your world.

This small action of wishing harm on another will result in you attracting harm to yourself by way of the law of attraction.

A better prayer would be to pray that this person gets the love that he or she wants. In doing so, you will too. You may even get it from each other.

Not Giving When Asked

The second common mistake people make when trying to manifest is that they don’t give when asked.

Why is this important?

Miracles and blessings don’t happen alone. There are always others involved. “Think” about it. Would you really want to have all the money in the world if you were the only person on earth? No, because it wouldn’t matter.

Everything seems to matter only because of others.

With this in mind, whenever someone asks something of you, this is your chance to be this person’s savior. You can be the answer to his or her earnest request.

I’m not saying that you have to comply each time. Just at least consider it.

Each time you give others what they ask, you believe more and more that asking will always lead to receiving.

This is great because whenever you ask for something from anyone, you will know without a doubt that your request will be fulfilled. A prayer manifested will be as sure as a prayer asked, which is how you should properly pray.

Pray without any doubt. Know that it will be answered in the way it should every time.

The Absence of Prayer

There is a higher level beyond prayer and manifestation, the absence of it.

You’re probably like … “What?”

Again, the truth is total. Praying is the same as manifesting (answering prayers).

Yet for you to focus on what was once not there and then make it real (realize), you must exist beyond what you realized.

By tapping into your self that exists beyond all things, you will remember that you were never without anything. There is no need for praying or manifesting. You have all and you are all.

Would a happy person go around telling everyone that he’s happy? Would he go around asking for happiness?

No.

He is happiness. It would be apparent. No words would be needed to see and experience his happiness.

Whatever you feel you are without, be it. Don’t pray for it and don’t try to manifest it. Be it right now.

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The God and evil question is one of those questions that’s been asked repeatedly by both believers of God and atheists. This is also one of the first major questions I remember having as a child.

Of course, I never received a straight answer that made sense.

It wouldn’t be until recently that I am able to answer this question fully and correctly so that many can benefit from this knowledge.

The answer is quite simple, but in a mind split by conflicting thoughts, it can seem difficult to isolate only what is true.

This article aims to dispel all illusions surrounding this topic so that the truth can be clearly seen.

By the end of this article, you’ll know exactly why evil seems to exist and what you have the power to do about it.

Common beliefs

There is a common belief that God created the world including angels and humans. It is also a belief that one of the angels defied God, fell from heaven, and is the father of evil.

This angel has been called many things such as the devil, Satan, and Lucifer. What’s funny is that “Lucifer” means bringer of light, but that’s another topic.

Although religious texts do not serve as concrete proof, accounts of God creating the world and mankind are outlined in many of those texts throughout numerous cultures.

However, the details surrounding angel creation and furthermore an angel falling from heaven are not found in these texts. It seems to be more speculation than fact.

Well, what is evil?

Before we dive fully into why evil exists, let’s first come to a consensus of what evil is said to be.

I’m going to breakdown the dictionary’s definition to get the most basic explanation similar to what I did with happiness in the article How To Be Happy All the Time.

Google’s dictionary defines evil as profoundly immoral and wicked.

• profoundly immoral and wicked
• (profoundly not conforming to accepted standards of morality) and (extremely unpleasant and intending to or being capable of harming someone or something)
• (using extreme force to not act in accordance with a wish or command concerning the accepted distinction between right & wrong or good & bad behavior) and (greatly causing discomfort, unhappiness, or disgust; disagreeable or physically hurting another)

It sounds like evil is one of two things:

1. Greatly going against what somebody or group feels is right
2. Causing somebody extreme physical pain or death.

Agreed?

Cool, let’s proceed.

How are right and wrong determined?

Since we know that evil is partly defined as going against what’s right, the next logical question is what exactly is right?

Just to get the definitions out of the way, right is defined as:

• morally good, justified, or acceptable
• true or correct as a fact

Most of these definitions lead to more questions, not answers. For example, justified or acceptable by whom? And shouldn’t all facts be true?

One thing I know about truth is that what is true is always true no matter what. It is also true for all without exception. If truth was not all-encompassing, then it would not be truth.

There’s a fact that 1 in 5 adults in America experiences a mental illness, but this isn’t true always depending on which 5 people you ask. It fails the truth test.

For the purpose of truly understanding the answer to the God and evil question, let’s disregard facts and focus only on truth for the remainder of this article.

This means that what’s right should be what’s true.

Yet who among us would be considered truthful enough to justify or accept someone else’s behavior?

Since the majority of beliefs are based on fact and not truth, no person can accurately judge another. Herein lies the barrier that seems to obstruct the truth from vision.

Assuming God is good, then God would be the only One to accurately say what is real and true.

God and truth

If God determines what’s good, then God must represent truth. This mean God exists always, never changes, and extends to all without exception just like truth.

Since it’s only possible to create of yourself, then what God created must follow these same rules. The rules are that God’s creations exist forever and are perfectly good.

You may be thinking, “Well I change, am I not real?” Hmmm.

Your thoughts and emotions do change. Even your body changes. However, there is one constant, you.

If you were your thoughts, you would have died with the ones you no longer think. The same with your emotions and your body. You would have died with the billions of cells that have died.

Since you have always existed unaffected by these things, you must be truth and these “things” must be false.

You have confused your identity with that which never was and so you act accordingly.

You try to create that which is not of God and so your creations seem to fade with time.

Death

Some of you may now be asking the question that, if God creates what is permanent and the body clearly isn’t, then who created the body?

We’ll come back to that. First, let’s discuss death.

What do we already believe about death?

We believe:

• it comes to everybody (every “body”)
• it cannot exist without life

This seems logical. If there is death, something must be living in order to die.

Is the opposite true; can life come from death?

It doesn’t seem so. Death cannot exist without life.

Does this mean death can exist within life?

For this to be true then you would live, you would die completely, and then you would continue living. That goes completely against what death is.

I’m sure you’ve heard many stories of people being brought back to life. They all had one thing in common. They still experienced something while they were supposedly dead.

If you’re experiencing something, you can’t be dead, right?

So if death cannot exist without life, and it also cannot exist within life, then the truth about death is that it cannot really exist.

Is your brain tingling yet? Good.

The body

I said earlier that you can only create of yourself. For example, apple trees make apple trees. Horses make horses. People make people, except people seem to make a lot more.

People make music. They make ideas come to life. They make planes, structures, love, etc.

The above is proof that people must be more than just bodies.

So if God creates of Himself, this means that God creates gods. And what makes God God is that God is unlimited in His Creations.

If being in a body means you are limited by what you can do, then either the body is misperceived, or God did not create any “body”.

What’s even more interesting about this is that evilness is defined in regards to the body.

Since it’s been confirmed that you are not a body, then where’s the threat of death or wrongdoing? Also, if there is no death, where’s the threat at all?

There is none. That means God really is good.

To put this another way, what’s happening is similar to you confusing your identity with a shirt. You immediately feel in danger because a shirt could be ripped, worn out, cut, burned, stolen, etc. So you cover it up with another shirt to “protect” it.

It’s only after the shirt seems to wither away that you realize, “I ain’t no shirt!” And you regain consciousness. Yet if you still value shirts, your focus changes from consciousness back to illusion, and the cycle repeats.

Read the parable of The Painting. It’s much better than this shirt example.

The true maker of evil

Once again, you can only create of yourself. So to even perceive evil is to perceive being evil.

I must say this again.

You can only create of yourself. So to even perceive evil is to perceive being evil.

Thus the evil you see is of you. You value evil acts because it bears witness to the false belief that you are a body.

Evil becomes your twisted idea of salvation. It attempts to hold this illusion of bodies and death in place.

You have created something so unbelievable that you literally fight for the “right” to believe it. But to fight for a right is an oxymoron. What’s right (or rather what’s true) does not need soldiers for it to remain true. Only the lies (or rather illusions) need constant attention.

The simple truth

Evil does not exist. It is a false belief that you carry with you from moment to moment.

You attempt to speak it into existence each time you bear witness to so-called evilness. You are its preacher and sustainer.

In addition, you place evil above God because you think it’s something to be feared or a mistake that God made.

Fortunately, God is Love and that which is love sees no evil. It sees only love.

Will you stop making evil and make love?

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Parables are stories that are used to illustrate spiritual lessons and truth.

Jesus was reported as using parables when he taught of God.

This particular parable that I will be presenting to you is my second one ever. The first is on the song “I Can’t Do This Without You” featured on my album IAMNOBODY, IAMSOMEONE.

The painting in the cover photo is courtesy of Kris D. of Kris D. Photography.

Without further ado, the parable of the painting.

The Painting

A painter paints a painting for a purpose.

The painting becomes conscious and starts to judge the world and thus itself.

The painting perceives negativity, wrongness, and hate.

But how could the painting know all of this? It is not the painting’s purpose to judge.

So the painting becomes miserable & unhappy. Everywhere the painting seems to look, it perceives more danger.

Yet the entire time, the painter is marveling at the painting’s beauty. The painter hangs the painting high for the world to see. The painter makes sure the painting is protected and always clean.

The painting feels guilty because it thinks it is unworthy of the painter’s praise. It tries to hide itself. It creates a world that only it sees filled with negative paintings and colors.

The painting no longer hears or sees the painter, but knows deep down that the painter is there.

Finally, the painting has enough and commits suicide. But how? The painting cannot die as that is not the painting’s purpose.

With wiped memories, the painting repeats the cycle of judgment and death over and over again until finally, it has a revelation.

The painting realizes it can only be beautiful because that is what it is made for.

The painting forgives the judgments it made about the world and realizes that the painting itself is the world. The painting began to extend its painter’s love to all and saw the world of a new color.

The painting began teaching this to other paintings and pretty soon they all noticed how masterful their gallery was. They even could interact with the painter again to influence the painter to make more.

The end.

Explanation of the parable

In The Painting parable, the painter is God. You are the painting.

In reality, you cannot do anything outside of your purpose, but in your own mind, you try.

You also cannot be harmed, but again in your own mind, you try.

In this trying, you manifest your own world in which you act out these things. You make characters to play your enemies, even among those you love.

You continue this cycle because you love what you have made just as God loves what He created, you.

Although what you have made seems to always be a slave to time, you continue to try to make what is temporary permanent.

This is a fool’s errand because what is temporary can never be permanent and what is permanent can never be temporary.

Until you realize what you have made can never last, you will be consumed by it.

By practicing forgiveness and forgetfulness of what you have made, you can be in full remembrance of both God and Yourself.

And with the knowledge of God, what is there that you could ever be without?

Nothing.

What is nothing is not real.

You are something. You are real. You are a perfect creation made by a Perfect Creator.

The Parable in Song Form

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Raise your vibration and keep it high. Well, why?

Your mind is like a tuning station. When you focus on a particular thought, all thoughts of a similar frequency will come into your awareness.

Thoughts of joy and peace are of a high frequency or vibration. Thoughts of pain are of a lower one.

The higher your vibration, the lighter you feel mentally, physically, and emotionally. You are above all perceived problems because they are no longer pulling you down. You’ve let them go.

This article is straight from the gurus / master teachers that help us to remain “high”.

1. “If you wish to find Love, don’t look for the object of love but rather for the source of love. There you will find the Beloved.” —Mooji

Yeah, Mooji! I could end this article right here. Love is the one thing everyone loves. It’s kind. Love is beautiful. It’s what you are.

People have a habit of looking for love every except where it always is, within. Love is never without because you are never without love. What is out is just a reflection of what is in.

Seek the real thing, never the reflection.

Find out more about Mooji at https://mooji.org/.

2. “Do not try to fix whatever comes in your life. Fix yourself in such a way that whatever comes, you will be fine.” —Sadhguru

Sadhguru just gave the key to happiness.

You are an abundant being in an abundant universe. If there are such things as problems, then you know that there will be an abundant amount.

Do you really want to fix an abundant list of problems? That just sounds exhausting.

Instead, you can fix this one problem of thinking that you have to fix problems.

Start to love all and accept all as it is. You will begin to ascend above all. You will be free to experience life how you intended.

Find out more about Sadhguru at https://isha.sadhguru.org/.

3. “I am not my thoughts, emotions, sense perceptions, and experiences. I am not the content of my life. I am Life. I am the space in which all things happen. I am consciousness. I am the Now. I Am.” —Eckhart Tolle

Eckhart Tolle just gave the ultimate affirmation and explained life in simple terms.

Thoughts and emotions come and go, but through it all, you remain. This means you are not these things. You exist beyond them.

To belittle yourself into believing you are your thoughts and emotions is to lower your vibration. You also lower your vibration by holding others to their thoughts and emotions as well.

You are Life. You get to experience one thing at this moment and then experience a completely different thing in another. None of it truly matters.

Never let matter keep you limited. Life knows no limits. Be Life.

Find out more about Eckhart Tolle at https://eckharttolle.com/.

4. “The people who trigger us to feel negative emotion are messengers. They are messengers for the unhealed parts of our being.” —Teal Swan

Teal Swan just exposed the role everyone plays toward each other.

You are all saviors. You get to show your fellow human his or her beliefs that they are holding onto.

When someone seems to anger you, you’re never angry at them. You are just angry at the thought you held about what they had to say.

You are not that thought and neither are they. That person is not your enemy. They have just shown you a miracle if you would but accept it.

By seeing what seems to be angering you in its true form, you can let it dissipate into the nothingness that it is.

Never be angry when others show you what needs to be healed. In it lies the key to keeping your vibration high.

Find out more about Teal Swan at https://tealswan.com/.

5. “If you pay attention to the patterns of your life you’ll realize everything always works out. Everything always takes you to a greater destination. You always grow and the things you think you can’t survive you somehow divinely make it through. That’s life. Always remember that.” —Idil Ahmed

Idil Ahmed speaks the truth.

If you must leave this moment and re-visit the past, really look at all of it. Nothing that happened to you was every permanent. Ever.

All things change, except for one. You always remained no matter the circumstances. You will always remain.

Hold this truth to heart. Know that no matter what, all will work out.

Find out more about Idil Ahmed at https://idillionaire.com/.

6. “Need nothing and then see what happens.” —Gangaji

Gangaji just gave a practical action to raising your vibration, need nothing.

“Well, how do I make myself need nothing when I need everything?”

Stop needing it.

“What?”

If you’re reading this, chances are you’ve tried to change your behavior before. This could be eating or not eating certain foods, spending less money, sticking to a workout regimen, or hanging out with different people.

What always happens as soon as you decide to change a behavior? You get enticed by many for your old behavior.

Try to stop eating candy, everyone is offering you free candy. Choose to save money, your favorite stores release deals on products you’ve always wanted. Start working out, your body says no and produces aches & pains.

You get the point. Decide to stop needing anything and watch how you’ll not only have access to it, but you’ll have access to everything.

Find out more about Gangaji at https://gangaji.org/.

7. “What we don’t recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You’ll soon start to suffocate.” —Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra gave a beautiful analogy.

Who wants to sit with their breath held all day? All things are give-and-take, even breathing. You must give of yourself to receive from others.

By holding onto anything, especially resentment, you are cutting yourself off from life.

Let go. Yes, let go.

Find out more about Deepak Chopra at https://www.deepakchopra.com/.

8. “Love is never absent – the only choice is whether to be aware of It or not.” —David Hoffmeister

David Hoffmeister is the man for this one.

It is impossible to be aware of both love and fear at the same time. The presence of one negates the other.

Where love is, fear can never be. Where fear is, love can never be. This goes with all the wonderful things synonymous with love (joy, hope, peace, abundance, gratitude, life, etc) and with fear (despair, hopelessness, scarcity, death, etc).

Hold love in your awareness always. Share it with others. Extend God’s Love as it was extended to you.

Not only will you be aware of Love’s presence, but It will also be present everywhere you look.

Find out more about David Hoffmeister at https://davidhoffmeister.com/.

9. “Love yourself and your expression, you can’t go wrong.” —KRS-One

KRS-One continues to share wisdom.

When you love yourself, nothing else matters. Despite the perceived circumstance, you are love.

You could be in the most boring of places and it would not bother you because you know what you are and you get to express it.

Everyone loves love. It’s the one thing that all things share. So it is always welcomed.

Love that about yourself and love yourself.

Find out more about KRS-One at https://www.krs-one.com/.

10. “Don’t dwell on your weaknesses, everybody else is already doing that for you.” —Gary Vaynerchuk

Gary Vee cares not for the weak; he cares for you.

You are strong. It is only your attention to the weak that makes you believe that you are part of what you consider to be weak.

You have at least one strength. It’s love. You can use that strength to birth many more.

Focus on your strengths and watch them expand. Watch it influence everything around you to become just as strong, which influences you to remain strong.

Find out more about Gary Vaynerchuk at https://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/.

11. “Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.” —Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer just cured me with this quote.

It’s tempting to look at life as a series of successes and failures, but this couldn’t be further from the truth.

What seems like failure is always part of success. You can’t learn how to walk unless you’re willing to fall. But even the act of trying to walk is a success in itself because you are just being you.

In other words, no matter what you do, you are successful. You are an expression of life. Every thought, every choice, every emotion is all a success. You are a success.

Find out more about Dr. Wayne W. Dyer at https://www.drwaynedyer.com/.

12. “Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.” —Adyashanti

Adyashanti just brought us to reality.

Enlightenment is the raising of your vibration. You become light. Nothing is holding you down. You have let go of the world that consumed you.

From the perspective of someone with a lower vibration, they don’t want to see their world end. They complain about all, but they love complaining. Conflict rules their lives, but it’s the safe space they’ve created for themselves.

When you bring things to the light of truth, you see that what you thought existed was never really there. It was an illusion made in the dark. You saw a shadow and gave it meaning. Yet in the presence of light, all things are seen as they truly are.

Are you ready for the truth? Truth is not to be feared, because truth is Love.

Love ends all conflict. It ends all hurt. Love ends all form because It exists beyond it where the beginning and end meet. It is the Alpha and Omega. God is Love.

Find out more about Adyashanti at https://www.adyashanti.org/.

It’s Your Turn

Think of the most helpful quote that you can. Bring it to the light of truth to make sure it is true. Now share with the world. Start with the comments below.

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