Johnny C. Gold Nuggets
Authenticate
One
Joy
Freedom
Create
Game
Power
Expansion
Contrast
Relationships
Emotions
Intuition
Energy
Purpose
Truth
lies in the Mind of the Beholder.
Johnny C. Gold
If you’re not experimenting with your truth, you’re wasting your time,
your
life, your energy, and you are betraying your purpose.
Johnny C. Gold
There
is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it
steadily.
George Washington
"Our own life is an instrument
with which we experiment with the truth."
Thich Nhat Hanh
One
of the greatest paradoxes of your physical senses is that your eyes
actually
show you what you believe, not what you see. TUT.com
"Whoever undertakes to set
himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the
laughter of
the gods." - Albert Einstein
“Truth has no path. Truth is
living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without
demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To
know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.
Awareness
has not frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion.”
–
Bruce Lee
“Again, let me remind you Jeet Kune
Do is just a name used, a boat to get
one across, and once across it is to be discarded and not to be carried
on
one’s back.” – Bruce Lee
“All fixed set patterns are
incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all
fixed patterns.” – Bruce Lee
“I maintain that Truth is a pathless
land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any
religion, by
any sect. Truth, being limitless,
unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be
organized; nor
should any organization be formed to lead or to coerce people along any
particular path. You must climb towards the Truth. It cannot be 'stepped
down'
or organized for you.” -
Krishnamurti
“To seek reality requires immense energy; and if man is not doing that, he dissipates his energy in ways that create mischief, and therefore society has to control him. Now, is it possible to liberate energy in seeking God or truth and, in the process of discovering what is true, to be a citizen who understands the fundamental issues of life and whom society cannot destroy? You see, man is energy, and if man does not seek truth, this energy becomes destructive; therefore society controls and shapes the individual, which smothers energy… And perhaps you have noticed another interesting and very simple fact: energy to do it…. That very energy becomes the means of controlling itself, so you don’t need outside discipline. In the search for reality, energy creates its own discipline. The man who is seeking reality spontaneously becomes the right kind of citizen, which is not according to the pattern of any particular society or government.” - Krishnamurti from “The Book of Life”
One
It's been a battle among humans, for a very long time, trying to get this
picture of God
into a place that is pleasing for them. And the debate about "Is it
evolution? Is it creation? Is it God-inspired, or is it scientifically
inspired…?" And we say, why does it have to be one or the other? Why can't
everything that is wrapped up in science and vibration be the true essence of
that which you call God? It is all one and the same.--- Abraham Excerpted from the workshop in Chicago, IL on Saturday,
September 18th, 2004 #405
"Science without
religion is lame. Religion without science is blind." - Albert
Einstein
Is
Harmony one note that everybody is singing or is it a whole lot of notes that
are in vibrational harmony with each other?
When you give your attention to anything, the Universe responds to
it. When two of you are giving your
attention to it, and there is no contradiction, it is a powerful vortex. That’s why a gathering such as this can achieve
a great deal as you come together in greater and greater harmony and take
thought beyond that which it has never been before. Abraham
April 25, 1999 #399
It doesn't really matter what religion anybody believes. If their life is working (and there are many different approaches to life that are working very well) then why not let them believe whatever they want to believe? It's all working in the way that it is supposed to be. There are religions that you wouldn't want anything to do with, that are perfect mechanisms for the people who are involved in them. And therefore, they are a very good thing. --- Abraham Excerpted from the workshop in Asheville, NC on Sunday, April 25th, 2004 #424
" It does me no injury for my
neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God." - Thomas Jefferson
Joy
Be easy about this. Be playful about it. Don't work so hard at it. Let your dominant intent to be to feel good, and if you don't feel good, then let your dominant intent be to feel relief. Feel your way through it. If you think your way through it, you can get off on all kinds of tangents. If you feel your way through it, you can come quickly to your Core Energy, and when you do that only good can then flow to you.--- Abraham Excerpted from the workshop in Rye, NY on Sunday, October 12th, 1997 #412
Freedom
There are only two doors in life. The door marked “security” and the door marked “freedom”. If you choose the door marked “security” you lose both. The one minute millionaire p. 323
Create
There is not much satisfaction in attracting by default. The true joy of life is in Deliberate Creation. Law of Attraction p. 163
The point of life is therefore to create – who and what you are and then to experience that. Conversations with God p. 94
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." - Albert Einstein
You
are not the illusion, but the creator of it.
Conversations
with God p. 534
If
your dominant intent is to feel joy while you are doing work, your triad of
intentions, freedom, growth, joy, will come quickly and easily into
alignment. See your “career” as one of
creating a joyful life experience. You
are not a creator of things or a regulator of what someone else has created or
a gatherer of stuff. You are a creator,
and the subject of your creation is your joyful life experience. That is your mission. That is your quest. That is why you are here. Abraham
#396 email
The
deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of
creation. You are not learning who you
are, you are recreating who you are by remembering all that you have always
known, and choosing what you wish to experience for yourself. Conversations with God
Game
Life must be lived as play – Plato
A Profound life experience (The Game)
It’s a game (The Game)
We provide what’s lacking (The Game)
Admit it. It sounds intriguing (The Game)
You can drop out any time. (The Game)
If everybody is in on it, I’d have to be in on it too. (The Truman show)
Why
do you think that Truman has never come close to discovering the true nature of
his world until now?
We
accept the reality of the world with which we’re presented. It is as simple as that. (The Truman Show)
He
could leave at any time. If his was just
more than just a vague ambition. If he
was absolutely determined to discover the truth,
there’s no way we could prevent him. (the Truman show)
I
am the creator of a television show that gives hope and joy and inspiration to
millions.
Then
who am I?
You
are the star
Was
nothing real?
You
were real. (The Truman Show)
In
case I don’t see you, good afternoon, good evening, and good night. (The Truman Show)
Power
Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope. Maya Angelou
Act as if you are separate from nothing, and no one, and you will heal the world tomorrow….
Understand that it is about power with, not power over. Conversations with God p. 453
“And the Grinch, with his
Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be
so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages,
boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the
Grinch thought of something he hadn't before.
What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if
Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.” – Dr. Seuss
After
millennia of brutality to one another, individual to individual and group to
group, it is now clear that the insecurity which underlies the perception of
power as external cannot be healed by the accumulation of external power. It is evident for all to see, not only with
each newscast and evening paper, but also through each of our countless
sufferings as individuals and as a species, that perception of power as
external brings only pain, violence and destruction. This is how we have evolved until now, and
this is what we are leaving behind.
Our
deeper understanding leads us to another kind of power, a power that loves life
in every from that it appears, a power that does not judge what it encounters,
a power that perceives meaningfulness and purpose in the smallest details upon
the Earth. This is authentic power. When we align our thoughts, emotions, and
actions with the highest part of ourselves, we are filled with enthusiasm,
purpose, and meaning. Life is rich and
full. We have no thoughts of
bitterness. We have no memory of
fear. We are joyously and intimately
engaged with our world. This is the
experience of authentic power.
Authentic
power has its roots in the deepest source of our being. Authentic power cannot be bought, inherited
or hoarded. An authentically empowered
person is incapable of making anyone or anything a victim. An authentically empowered person is one who
is so strong, so empowered, that the idea of using force against another is not
a part of his or her consciousness.
No
understanding of evolution is adequate that does not have at its core that we are on a journey
toward authentic power, and that authentic empowerment is the goal of our
evolutionary process and the purpose of our being. We are evolving from a species that pursues
external power into a species that pursues authentic power. We are leaving behind exploration of the
physical world as our soul means of evolution.
This means of evolution, and the consciousness that results from an
awareness that is limited to the five sensory modality, are no longer adequate
to what we must become. Zukav,
Seat of the Soul, p. 26-27
“Be like water making its way
through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object,
and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within your
stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.” – Bruce Lee
“Our deepest fear is not that we are
inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we
are powerful beyond measure. It is our
light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented,
fabulous? Actually, who are you not
to be? You are a child of God. Your
playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't
feel insecure around you. We are all
meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in
everyone. And as we let our own light
shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our
presence automatically liberates others.”
- Marianne Williamson
Expansion
Your mind is like a parachute.
It only works if it’s open.” - Anthony
J. D’Angelo
“It is the mark of an intelligent mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.” (Aristotle)
"The important thing is to not
stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity;
of life; of the marvelous structure of reality..." - Albert Einstein
You're not ever going to get it done. Every time you evaluate contrast and conclude and then line up your Energy and allow it into your experience... at the same time you are achieving the result that you intended, you also achieve a new perspective from which to intend. You can't stand still. In every moment, there is a whole new set of stuff... new ideas, new desires being born. --- Abraham Excerpted from the workshop in Detroit, MI on Saturday, April 25th, 1998 #409
"The most beautiful experience
we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion which stands at
the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no
longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are
dimmed." - Albert Einstein
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats
“The more that you read, the more
things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll
go.” – Dr. Seuss
“A martial artist who drills exclusively to a set pattern of combat is losing his freedom. He is actually becoming a slave to a choice pattern and feels that the pattern is the real thing. It leads to stagnation because of the way of combat is never based on personal choice and fancies, but constantly changes from moment to moment, and the disappointed combatant will soon find out that his “choice routine” lacks pliability. There must be a “being” instead of a “doing” in training. One must be free. Instead of complexity of form, there should be simplicity of expression.” – Bruce Lee
"Imagination is more
important than knowledge.” - Albert Einstein
Contrast
“When we discover in this world no
earth or rock to stand or walk upon but only shifting sea and sky and wind, the
mature response is not to lament the loss of fixity, but to learn to sail.” – James Boyd White
Relationships
What
we mean by that Art of Allowing is: I
am that which I am, and am pleased with it, joyful in it. And you are that which you are, and while it
is different perhaps from that which I am, it is also good…. Because I am able
to focus upon that which I want, even if there are those differences between us
that are dramatic. I do not suffer
negative emotion because I am wise enough not to focus upon that which brings
me discomfort. I have come to
understand, as I am one who is applying the Art of Allowing, that I have not
come forth into this physical world to get everyone to follow the “truth” that
I think is the truth. I have not come
forth to encourage conformity and sameness – for I am wise enough to understand
that in sameness, in conformity, there is not the diversity that stimulates
creativity. In focusing on bringing
about conformity, I am pointed toward an ending rather than a continuing of
creation. Law
of Attraction p. 120
“Peace is not the absence of conflict, it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.” - Ronald Reagan
Emotions
We
are amused as we watch the majority spending most of their life seeking a set
of rules against which they can measure
their life experience , looking outside of self for those who tell them
what is right or wrong, when all along they have within themselves a Guidance
System that is so sophisticated, so intricate, so precise, and so readily
available. Law
of Attraction p. 71.
Intuition
"My religion consists of a
humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the
slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." - Albert Einstein
Religion
asks you to learn from the experience of others. Spirituality urges you to seek your own. (Neal Donald Walsch)
Your
soul is not a passive or a theoretical entity that occupies a space in the
vicinity of your chest cavity. It is a
positive, purposeful force at the core of your being. It is the part of you that understands the
impersonal nature of the energy dynamics in which your are involved, that loves
without restriction and accepts without judgment.
If
you desire to know your soul, the first step is to recognize that you have a
soul. The next step is to allow
yourself to consider, “If I have a soul, what is my soul? What does my soul want? What is the relationship between my soul and
me? How does my soul affect my life?”
When the energy of the soul is recognized, acknowledged, and valued, it begins to infuse the life of the personality. When the personality comes fully to serve the energy of its soul, that is authentic empowerment. This is the evolutionary process in which we are involved and the reason for our being. Every experience that you have and will have upon the Earth encourages the alignment of your personality with your soul. Every circumstance and situation gives you the opportunity to choose this path, to allow your soul to shine through you, to bring into the physical world through you its unending and unfathomable reverence for and love of Life. Zukav, Seat of the Soul, p. 31
The
fearful and violent emotions that have come to characterize human existence can
be experienced only by the personality.
Only the personality can feel anger, fear, hatred, vengeance, sorrow,
shame, regret, indifference, frustration, cynicism, and loneliness. Only the personality can judge, manipulate,
and exploit. Only the personality can
pursue external power. The personality
can also be loving, compassionate, and wise in its relations with others, but
love, compassion, and wisdom do not come from the personality. They are experiences of the soul.
Your
soul is the part of you that is immortal.
Every person has a soul, but a personality that is limited in its
perception to the five senses is not aware of its soul, and, therefore, cannot
recognize the influences of its soul. As
a personality becomes multisensory, its intuitions – its hunches and subtle
feelings – become important to it. It
senses things about itself, other people, and the situations in which it finds
itself that it cannot justify on the basis of the information that its five
senses can provide. It comes to
recognize intentions, and to respond to them rather than to the actions and the
words that it encounters. It can
recognize, for example, a warm heart beneath a harsh and angry manner, and a
cold heart beneath polished and pleasing words.
Zukav,
Seat of the Soul, p. 29-30
Energy
What
does it feel like to remember your soul’s task?
When
the deepest part of you becomes engaged in what you are doing, when your
activities and actions become gratifying and purposeful, when what your do
serves both yourself and others, when
you do not tire within but seek the sweet satisfaction of your life and
your work, you are doing what your were meant to be doing. The personality that is engaged in the work
of its soul is buoyant. It is not
burdened with negativity. It does not
fear. It experiences purposefulness and
meaning. It delights in its work and in
others. It is fulfilled and
fulfilling. Zukav,
Seat of the Soul, p. 236
Purpose
"Always be yourself, express
yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful
personality and duplicate it." –
Bruce Lee
“Today you are You, that is truer
than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” – Dr. Seuss
"Why do you want to read
others´ books when there is the book of yourself?" – Krishnamurti
“We are the ones we have been
waiting for.” - June Jordon, also
attributed to a Hopi Elder
“Don’t
worry about what the world needs. Ask
what makes you come alive and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” (Robert
Thurman)
The snow melt on the mountains
An the water runs down to the spring,
An the spring in a turbulent fountain,
With a song of
youth to sing,
Runs down to the riotous river,
And the river flows to the sea,
And the water again
Goes back in rain
To the hills where it used to be.
And I wonder if life’s deep mystery
Isn’t much like the rain and the snow
Returning through all eternity
To the place it used to know
For life was born on the lofty heights
And flows in a laughing stream
To the river below
Whose onward flow
Ends in a peaceful dream
And so a last
When our life has passed
And the river has run its course
It again goes back
O’er the selfsame track,
To the mountains which was its source
So why prize life
Or why fear death
Or dread what is to be
The river ran
Its allotted span
Till it reached the silent sea
Then the water harked back
To the mountain-top
To begin its course once more
Se we shall run
The course begun
Till we reach the silent shore
Then revisit earth
In a pure rebirth
From the heart of the virgin snow. (William
Randolph Hearst)
