RIPPLES...
(from Facebook posts and other talks)
Season 1. Quotes
Water Quotes
-Why does summer at the beach calm us so
much? It’s the sun for sure but it’s
also sitting with the wrestling tides that take us to serenity. We are one with the sun and moon when
we are
relaxing on the beach!
-Adults, drink 48-64 ounces every day and watch
how it changes everything inside and outside of you!
-Flow like water.
-Flow like water.
-Water ripples and
our love does the same. Be water.
-You ever watch how water adjusts to
whatever is present? That’s the secret to
living in harmony amidst tragedy.
-Like
water, remain flexible and fluid in your thinking.
-My body is mostly water. My mind is mostly spirit.
-My body is mostly water. My mind is mostly spirit.
THE DAY OF LOVE Quotes…
-It's true, look it up, 7000 people meditated and changed the world! There was a 72% reduction in violence! How much more can we do with this collective method?
-The world is hurting. We want freedom. What can we do? When an athlete is struggling they are told to get back to the basics! That's what each of us must do! Basics? Yes basics. Human relationship is simple. BE NICE and watch it come back to you.
-Everyday give thanks for your life; think happy thoughts; buy someone coffee; chat with a stranger; give away money to someone in need, hold the door for someone; march or rally for equality; meditate or pray for justice, equity and compassion in your county, city, or state; think about and pray for world peace; concentrate on good things in your life every day; listen to something that nurtures you; say your grace before eating; do a favor for someone; look a stranger in the eye and tell them you love them and mean it; say thank you. Let someone know you appreciate them…And be consistent. Let’s start a love movement in America.
-Love NOT in-spite-of rather because
of…
-Love is not violent. Never. True
love is fearless! Love is balm. Hate is poison! Why would
anyone use poison unless they do not love themselves? Fear means tearing down.
Love means building up. Face your fears because that is where growth happens.
-The opposite of love is FEAR.
FREEDOM
-Freedom is the ultimate pursuit. Real freedom means we need almost nothing externally except the
basics to be happy. Freedom means we have broken all toxic relational ties and let
go of our need to control anyone or anything. Freedom means we are aware
the ego is an illusion and love is the only thing important. You
experience a 'foretaste of glory divine' every time you have the realization
that you are love(d). When you wake up and say, "I don't need
anything except to serve/help others", then my friend, you are free! Am I free?
Not yet, I have many attachments but It's a work in process!
Holy Kingdom
Heaven / Paradise
Golden Age
Beloved Community / World Peace
-Study the Gospel of Thomas found in Egypt in 1944. Especially the verses about the Kingdom or “reign of God”. Jesus says, “The Kingdom of God (love) is spread out upon the earth and people do not see it” because they are looking outside for satisfaction instead of inside of themselves where true peace resides.
-Almost every
ancient religion believes in some type of utopia. The idea is like a
fractal pattern in the brain that moves us toward it. Don't resist it and
it will come much faster. In other words—embrace change.
-The belief in utopia/peace is something that is a real goal human beings seek. It is not a metaphor. Heaven is the realization that you are love and you can have that now and in the eternal! "As above so below."
-When a paradigm shifts, the old way will fight to stay
alive. BTW watch TV—the shift has already happened. America is browning and
most of the world is brown. The Golden Age is upon us.
-The
Egyptians were one of the first great civilizations. They are the originators of our advanced
science and religion today, including many of our architectural designs. They reined 4,000 years. Greek /Rome / Europe / America has had 2019
years of world domination. Power shifts but
the mission does not change—FREEDOM of humanity in all manner and form.
-We are balancing the imbalance. White Supremacy—Greek/Roman/European/American rule is evolving (dying and re-birthing). What you see now are the after-shocks. The evil actions and silence from many political leaders will not stop this march to freedom. The old way has completed its work and we are witnessing a crescendo/decrescendo effect of all of its evil coming out as it dies. One last hopefully not too long push before death. Don’t you see this literally and spiritually? The previous way, like in most things, is fighting to stay alive. But “Old wine does not go in to new wine skins”. The more we resist change the more we collectively suffer in the macro and micro. Let love guide us instead of fear!
Hell
-Hell is not the opposite of Heaven. There is no opposite of perfection.
Hell is a temporary state of mind. It is
a “place” in the mind. It’s a personal/internal place we go too often to suffer
and self-torture ourselves about missteps and mistakes. It’s a neurotic chamber full of fear and our
own shadow. Please stop. There are no mistakes only lessons as my
great teacher shared. Life is a school. Once we realize this through inner-knowing,
we come out of the cave and back to the light of love.
sin/karma SIN/KARMA
-What is "bad action"? It is anything that impedes on another's free will. It includes all of the basic sins you grew up learning about. It involves motive and negative thought patterns. Bad action is when you tear people, places and things down instead of build them up. This is why religions tell us to be mindful and to walk gently.
-Bad action (SIN/KARMA) leads to bad outcomes that break things inside and outside you and in the communities you serve. Bad action ripples and wrecks. Good karma (action) leads to good outcomes that last. It ripples, heals, and builds you up—as well as those around you. Karma (good & bad) exists in all people, places and things where there is gravity and motion.
-Bad action (SIN/KARMA) leads to bad outcomes that break things inside and outside you and in the communities you serve. Bad action ripples and wrecks. Good karma (action) leads to good outcomes that last. It ripples, heals, and builds you up—as well as those around you. Karma (good & bad) exists in all people, places and things where there is gravity and motion.
-We
lessen the blow (sin/karma) of
negative cause and effect by learning our lessons and by being good in the most
authentic way we can imagine. Allow your Higher-Self to lead you
toward eternity and you will get off of the Samara wheel of purgatorial abuse.
-Yes, it is possible to live in a world where our karma/sin is so gentle that life becomes an effortless adventure in learning.
-Yes, it is possible to live in a world where our karma/sin is so gentle that life becomes an effortless adventure in learning.
THOUGHTS THOUGHTS THOUGHTS THOUGHTS
-All life is thought. Thoughts are things. Oneness in thought means that you have
balanced the positive and negative polarities in your mind. This is the “Kingdom of God”.
We need many more leaders who understand that thoughts become things that can
build-up or destroy. Our greatest challenge as leaders is learning to be more
responsible for our words which hold life and death in them. We are a bruised
and bleeding society today because of our bruised and bleeding thinking. We are
not separate--rather we are one humanity with many conflicting thoughts that need
reconciliation.
UNITY
-Unity exists whenever you balance the polarities. This is Nirvana, Heaven, Paradise, and Beloved Community. Polarities? Yin and Yang, black and white, night and day, woman and man. In Taoism these opposites are not separate entities but complementary forces working for the ultimate good of you, the planet and cosmos.
POLARITY POLARITY
-Clashing and colliding realities create dichotomies that polarize.
EVIL / NEGATIVE -
-Watch the Netflix program
“The Family,” that’s a good place to start…
Evil is really personal psychosis which becomes
public like a ripple effect. And if you have corporate power, that ripple
(toxic thought) can spread to the entire country or planet! Powerful men have
to be held accountable for their traumatizing thoughts and actions—they've done
generational damage to innocence. All of us are held accountable. Karma will be
paid in this life or the next. "You reap what you sow."
-Evil is the result of many clashing and colliding realities that seek reconciliation through force instead of love.
PROJECTION
-One of
the biggest problems in society is psychological projection. We cast our fears on to other people trying
to reel them in to our toxic reality when the best thing we can do is look at
ourselves first and fix that person. We will then attract the right things we need in our lives to live in peace, individually and collectively, as a species.
-When you are
emotionally literate you have the ability to articulate your underlying
feelings and needs in non-judgmental ways to lift up your and others’ worth and
dignity. If you're not making the adjustments inside then you'll blame your life situation on things outside.
-Scripture says, “Seek first the Kingdom and its
righteousness and all the other things shall be added.” I interpret this as "seek love; be love manifested in all
you do"—that is--do the inner work in your life and watch everything else fall into
place, seamlessly.
-The
biggest problem today are not the poor and brown folk. The biggest issue is apathy among the
privileged who project their fears on to the "least of these" as a negative shadow of themselves.
GOOD / POSITIVE +
-Good is really balance in all things which can become public
into the mass consciousness like a ripple effect. And if you have power, that
ripple (good vibrations) can spread to the entire country
or planet! Powerful human beings are held accountable for their thoughts and
actions. We can do great work in
nurturing this innocence (freedom). All of us are held accountable. Karma (+/-)
will be paid in this life or the next. "Ye shall reap what ye sow" for better or worse.
-Whatever you say is true is true to you. It will shape everything you see, taste, touch, smell and hear. If you don't want life to be so random, then stop giving your power away to it. It really is just that simple. We call it faith that there's a power (God/Source/Humanity) that's got your back—especially when you know you’re taking good care of your front (inward).
-Reframe. It changes everything! Say, “I choose to be (and be it)”.
-Whatever you say is true is true to you. It will shape everything you see, taste, touch, smell and hear. If you don't want life to be so random, then stop giving your power away to it. It really is just that simple. We call it faith that there's a power (God/Source/Humanity) that's got your back—especially when you know you’re taking good care of your front (inward).
-Reframe. It changes everything! Say, “I choose to be (and be it)”.
racism
-As a person of color,
I’ve never, in 50 years in America, felt fully safe; yet I still have immense
hope in humanity. Just sayin’.
-Most people have an opinion on
systemic racism and don't understand it. Most have an opinion on personal
racism and have no informed knowledge on the subject. If you are not
engaged each day in understanding the complexities and nuanced subtleties and
how racism morphs socially, you are kidding yourself and seeking someone else
to blame. Start with yourself.
-African American History IS American History. If you don't get this you haven't been paying attention. Do your homework. Maya Angelou said that we must "listen more, read more and think more." Suspend judgment and study before you speak. Save others from your fear projection.
-African American History IS American History. If you don't get this you haven't been paying attention. Do your homework. Maya Angelou said that we must "listen more, read more and think more." Suspend judgment and study before you speak. Save others from your fear projection.
-False Evidence Appearing Real
WISDOM
-Living is a journey
in growing your soul. We attain wisdom
at many differing levels of experience.
When we attain wisdom at any level, the things we learned stay with us
forever. Knowledge is temporal
but wisdom, like love, is eternal.
SUCCESS
-I have several definitions for success I want to offer that may be different from what you’ve read. These have served me well in developing my own successes… 1. Success is not how far you go outside but how good you feel inside. 2. Success is feeling good about the passion(s) you pursue. 3. Success is the realization of a worthy goal you’ve created.
-Who you believe you are has EVERYTHING to do with
your success on and off the track and field of life. (New book is forthcoming titled Run: Lessons for on and off the Track and
Field of Life)
-You VISUALIZE in order to REALIZE so that you can MAXIMIZE your results on and off the track and field of life. (New book is forthcoming titled Run: Lessons for on and off the Track and Field of Life)
WAKING UP
-AWAKE!
Means you Actualize your Wisdom, Awakening
to your Karma, and Engaging the reconciliation process inside and
outside. You decide to be 100% responsible for how you feel and you completely
stop blaming others.
-Master
change, master life.
-Awakening means we transcend the dichotomy. Meaning we see it, feel it and know it’s there to antagonize and supplement our growth, but we understand it's just a natural process and that if we put gentle karma (action) out we will get gentle karma back in return. We really can create a peaceful life for ourselves if we understand this.
-AWAKENING is not a one-time thing, like one day you wake up and say, "Hey, I'm enlightened". Rather it is an ongoing spiritual process where you are always open to change. Look at the stories of those whom we consider sages and you will see a life-long transformation process. If you think you've reached your spiritual limit, you have--but there is always more!
-The
AWAKE CD is great! It has healing antigens! Listen to CD here
-I played the AWAKE CD while getting cancer treatment which of course created a huge discussion with the two lab technicians. I told them I was a Christian, Buddhist, Hindu, Taoist, Existentialist, Humanist—basically a mystic Unitarian Universalist. Then explained each with great joy; and they listened and believed!
MUSIC
-To get life, we have to flow with the rhythm. Like with music, you gotta feel the 2 & 4 beat and go with the flow. If you are stuck on 1 & 3 then your timing is off in life.
-Along with meditation and prayer, music is my spiritual practice to bring me back to my best self.
-Notice the patterns and beat structures in your favorite songs. That is paradise! Master the patterns master life.
-Music is religion and democracy. It is homophony and polyphony. Out of one sound comes the many.
-Rhythm and Blues says it all about life. Choose.
Protagonist
-All are CHOSEN. There is only Original
LOVE.
-Liberal means you engage with flexibility, openness, and curiosity
because you see the end goal as the “ultimate freedom for ALL human beings.” And to get there, humans need very little
restrictions/laws. A political Liberal
or Democrat like a conservative at the core contradicts by saying one thing and
doing the other. Are we creating separate
and equal, separate but unequal or just equal?
-Religiously,
liberals are spiritually and intellectually “New Age”, Humanist, and liberal
Christian which is really the totality of “Old Age” mystery teachings secularized
and modernized in society.
-You’re open to
change but change is slow because you cling to false comfort. You know all comes from Oneness. Change your thinking and that changes your
actions and outcomes in your world.
Conservative/Antagonist
-Some are chosen. Humanity is originally sinful.
-Politically, the right is currently the “anti” party. Fear guides them and progress is slowed as a result…. There is no conservative agenda that unites in 2019.
-Religiously, the Religious-Right is still the Republican representative to humanity of a story of a decaying way of life in the world (and they know it). Change your thinking from exclusive to inclusive and that changes your actions in your world.
-Conservatives are slow to change…Slow because of fear. If you are conservative, you believe that ultimate freedom is for SOME souls, especially the ones who physically look like what you prefer. You believe you are chosen. And family looks a certain way. “Some souls” instead of ALL souls is the mantra. However, I do hear you say, “Our goal is for ALL BUT THEY GOTTA EARN IT! “They” already have.
-Politically, the right is currently the “anti” party. Fear guides them and progress is slowed as a result…. There is no conservative agenda that unites in 2019.
-Religiously, the Religious-Right is still the Republican representative to humanity of a story of a decaying way of life in the world (and they know it). Change your thinking from exclusive to inclusive and that changes your actions in your world.
-Conservatives are slow to change…Slow because of fear. If you are conservative, you believe that ultimate freedom is for SOME souls, especially the ones who physically look like what you prefer. You believe you are chosen. And family looks a certain way. “Some souls” instead of ALL souls is the mantra. However, I do hear you say, “Our goal is for ALL BUT THEY GOTTA EARN IT! “They” already have.
MODERATE / MODERATION
-I grew up in Washington,
DC. near the Mason/Dixon Line. That has
defined my understanding of life. My
parents were both moderate people. I
grew up in a town of compromise. I have
always been a moderate.
-Moderation is the goal for everyone. Buddha called it the “middle way” others call it the middle pillar or middle path. Some call it homeostasis.
-Moderation is oneness, homeostasis, balance, harmony, peace in all phases of your life. You are always who you say you are. You solved your life equation. You live mostly in bliss.
Unitarian
Universalism
(my faith)
-I haven’t found a religion yet that lets you build your own belief system and honors it with support. As long as you don’t impede on another’s free will, then you’re good.-UU allows for the both/and to be present when we operate at our highest capacity as a faith community.
-UU is going through the exact same transformation that is happening in America which is happening on the planet.
-I am a first and seventh principle preacher.
-UU is 21st century ancient mysticism secularized and made available to the masses by way of Transcendentalism.
-A new transcendentalism is being born right now.
-UU is the faith of the present and future if it doesn’t get in its own way.
MATH
-I hated math growing up. Now I’m restudying it. Now, I SEE it. Now, I have found a friend. Math is symmetrical and asymmetrical. It is simple and complex. Math is life.
Math is 0 -10 and 10 is considered God.
-Numbers are eternal.
-Much of the Bible is an astrological
story about the constellation cycles of time.
-Look at a clock that is math and that is life.
-Look at a clock that is math and that is life.
-Humanity wake up! Our purpose is to balance the mathematical formula. To solve the equation that equals LOVE! That ends the cycle of suffering. Solve for X!
-My favorite numbers are 21, 12, 9, 333, and they have followed me my entire life like an angel on my shoulder.
-Study the Fibonacci sequence
SLEEP
-Fish sleep so why shouldn’t we? Sleep is where we restore our hope. It's how our brains reset.
-I have found that I need 7 hours of sleep to function at my maximum capacity. Deep meditation for 60-minutes works just as well as sleeping for an hour.
-I have found that I need 7 hours of sleep to function at my maximum capacity. Deep meditation for 60-minutes works just as well as sleeping for an hour.
-“If you enjoy sleeping then you’re lazy”. That is incorrect. That comes from that good old Protestant Work
Ethic. It has had its time. But a siesta is a sure-fire way to get your
mojo back when trying to figure something difficult out. I’ve gotten many answers while asleep.
-The body’s cells rejuvenate during sleep.
-In the beginning there was Perfection and Perfection
awakened and said, “I want to share”.
God metaphorically slept before IT created. We do what IT does. We are IT and IT is us.
-A good night’s rest puts the day to bed. We practice death and resurrection every
night.
-I think Arianna Huffington
has figured something out about sleep through here organization Thrive
Global. She’s leading the way in showing
that proper sleep makes us properly functional.
EVOLUTION
-Creationism
or intelligent design? God or Darwin? How about both/and? The
universe started with a thought; from one tiny light particle and BOOM
"Let there be light and there was light"—dualism was born in the
visible and invisible cosmos. We are made of all that stuff!
-Why does it take so long for justice to come? Because, universally, we are bringing every human along the journey. Progress is two steps forward and one back.
-Why does it take so long for justice to come? Because, universally, we are bringing every human along the journey. Progress is two steps forward and one back.
-I
am a work in process.
-Trust
the process unfolding. Have courage. “Feel the fear and do it anyway”. “The
universe will conspire in your favor!”
-Trust
is the #1 thing needed to evolve a relationship of any kind whether between yourself, people, places or things!
SCIENCE & RELIGION
-They
are compatible. One seeks to explain things materially while the other
seeks answers spiritually. Same end journey but different paths.
The new religion that will emerge to galvanize humanity will synthesize the two
seamlessly.
-Greg Brayden is
cool. He mixes science and religion and he is “fresh” and feels like a
new direction for both fields to go toward. He and others are saying we are
stuck in linear Newtonian and Darwinian paradigms that leave both fields stuck
in studying things as separate (in parts) instead of as a whole (quantum). Aligns
with 7th UU Principle. Interesting.
-All
roads lead to the ONE. Physics is the material opposite of metaphysics.
-Study physics again. It is guiding us toward a new spirituality.
-Physics is the offspring of
metaphysics. As the Hermetic text says, "As above so below."
Life on other Planets,
Extra Terrestrials, UFOs
-So, we think we are the most advanced species in the Universe? I doubt that. We are very early on this planet. There is life out there and these UFO sightings mean something. It is not a hoax. I believe one day, when we are ready, humans will experience beings from a higher dimension.
-Science fiction or science fact?
Black Lives Matter ALL LIVES MATTER Blue Lives Matter
HOW TO CHANGE THE WORLD
-Everyday give thanks
for your life; think happy thoughts; buy someone coffee; chat with a stranger;
give away money to someone in need, hold the door for someone; march or rally
for equality; meditate or pray for justice, equity and compassion in your
county, city, or state; think about and pray for world peace; concentrate on
good things in your life every day; listen to something that nurtures you; say
your grace before eating; do a favor for someone; look a stranger in the eye
and tell them you love them and mean it; say thank you. Let someone know you
appreciate them. And be consistent. Let’s start a love movement in America.
-We change the world by
changing ourselves. We move beyond the “us versus them mentality” toward
the “we are together reality" by shifting our perspective to a larger
tribe. All is one.
-Listen to the people of
color in your sphere of influence.
-Don't move out or
change schools. Stay and play! Get involved.
-Widen your circle of
privilege.
-Ask yourself, "Is
my friend circle diverse?"
-Learn to embrace instead of erase.
-We are living through Nietzsche’s anticipated ‘two centuries of nihilism’; a time in which “all higher values devalue themselves.” But this is a cycle of learning. We need it to relearn integrity and to transform the rule of law to create a just society for all.
ILLNESS ILLNESS
-My
journey of learning, surrender and growth continues with my diagnosis of
prostate cancer. Notice the word “gnosis” which means “hidden
knowledge”. I had to look inside to see what was happening outside and
the inverse is true as well. I’m choosing to see myself as a healthy and
cured man because I know this is/was a spiritual issue that must be addressed
within. We will not be sick physically when we are cured spiritually even
as we die daily. One day we will die and that is simply the accumulation
of gravity/karma on the physical body. But when freed, we can "Rise
and expand and seek God unencumbered" as Gibran puts it.
LIFE & DEATH
-Life is Maya (illusion). Life and death are ONE process.
-Some say life is a computer simulation we created to play and learn. Like a game, there are cycles and patterns, and as we master each level, we progress until we master the game. Then we buy another one and start again (we start a new journey of growth).
-Life is a simulation with sometimes painful consequences.
-Life is “what you make it” which means you create your reality.
-Death is easy and living is hard. Living is where you get to practice learning again and again and again.
-Every night I sleep I practice death. Every morning I awaken I practice rebirth.
-Death is rebirth; a natural part of evolution.
-Life is rebirth; a natural part of evolution.
-Death is not what we fear—it's suffering before we die that scares the hell out of us!
-Nothing ever dies. Life and death are in a perpetual dance. All things transmute and become. Even a sun becomes a black hole at its end. The sun has become something else as we become something else. In the end, the entire solar system will consume itself to make way for something new.
-Every meal is the end and beginning of another.
-Hinduism teaches that life is creation, preservation and destruction in a cosmic cycle. Long live Shiva! Dance with life. If you can't dance, get some lessons (find a guide).
-When we suffer and die broken it’s because of our relationship to karma. Just like the sun and moon have a relationship made of dynamic tension we too have this within us. The sun and moon are temporary—they have a life span before they transition. The same is true with humanity. However, death is the beginning of a new life. There are countless suns and when one dies it lives on in the others and new suns are always being born.
END/BEGINNING
Copyright 2019
Rev. John T. Crestwell, Jr.
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