#Transcendent Reality is a way of life.excerpted from a speech given at Houston Community College by S. Barry Hamdani.
Count your blessings and watch them grow.
If you really understood the power God has given you-if you could see God's glory within yourself -you would #fear nothing!
One: If you humbly understand your limitations - the things you cannot do - you will become empowered to do more...to become more. Humility creates focus. Who we think we are, unfortunately, is an illusion. We are much more than we can comprehend. We were created in a perfect way. Who we think we are is a form of immaturity. Who we think we are cannot possibly correspond with truth because we are not yet complete. One reality is truth the other is...
The window in which we consider truth and untruth is focus at all dimensions. This concept is expressed in detail in the book, Transcendent Reality.
Two: If we are to grow in wisdom and understanding we must allow who we think we are to shrink: the truth and a lie cannot co-exist because the light within you is greater than the darkness that sometimes clouds the outskirts of our lives. Who we think we are is a view through a window outside of self. It is a comparison to something or someone. It is a judgment of events that we have made personal, events that we have made more meaningful.
Who we really are is too great to know but is discovered, bit-by-bit as we seek to know; therefore, the presence of darkness is not necessarily a punishment; it exist to stir that which is inside us, causing us to elevate to a greater dimension. It, darkness, causes us to act, to make decisions: to create. It is our awareness of darkness coupled with our relationship with light that highlights the integrity of our beliefs through actions and words. We are honored at higher dimensions when we are consistent. This is the stuff power is made of. It is a handshake with God.
Three: Agree with God about what you see and what you do not see.
There are intersections in the roads of life that must and will challenge the content of our beliefs. This action exemplifies the integrity of the handshake. It acts as a spiritual guard that stands at the door to enlightenment. Everything in the universe is listening to your self-talk.The quality of the remainder of life will be therefore governed by that response; it will also determine who one really is. It will speak to the area of your focus. "As man speaketh..."
"To he who hath much is given but to he who hath not even that which he hath is taken away."
I think this is the greatest statement of #higher consciousness and the most profound expression of wisdom ever spoken by a living being in the body as we know it.
Why did Jesus say that? He who hath what?
In the book, you will come to understand why during the making of the world, God never considered darkness. We will describe, in detail, much of creation that is before your very own eyes. Oh, how we think we understand this concept, yet we shake in our boots at the presence of a potential reality which is opposite of what we want. Oh, how easily we succumb to fear when many things go wrong, at once. We wonder what happened to God...
God may be laughing.
God created the road, permitted the intersection and gave you and me the power to not only face fear but to continue to act on what we believe as we ignore its presence. The first punch to the face of fear is disrespect: ignore it. Ignore it while you are secretly analyzing it and questioning why you fear but whatever you do, don't speak it. To speak is to create. When God first spoke, the world took off and began forming.
Four: Remember whose image you are made in.
Fear cannot walk unless you give it legs. It cannot speak unless you give it a voice. It cannot remind you of anything unless you give it memory. It is you, not fear, that is created in the image of God; therefore it is you who create fear. Speech and memory is part of creation, so is the ability to walk. I guarantee that if you watch what you say, daily, you will grow in this knowledge and fear will no longer comfortably walk with you, talk with you or bring falsehoods (dark, incorrect perspectives of truths) to memory. Your life will have changed.
Again, a lie and truth cannot co-exist: you have to make a decision about what you believe, no matter who you are. Even acts of evil require belief...in evil. Universal laws have been established from the beginning of creation, designed to correspond to every action and every belief according to behavior - the manifestation of belief. Those laws are cast in stone.
When you read my upcoming book, Transcendent Reality, you will understand that I believe that I was made in the image of God, in God's likeness and in God's kind (or God's love). I am not the content of my mistakes and error. Those are events. The greatest event is creation. Number five: consider creation, always.
By #believing in something we invite the manifested presence of the opposite of that belief. We create this other (potential) reality simply by believing. The wonder is that this other reality (the unwanted opposite) cannot manifest a real presence without our energy and spoken word. In other words, it cannot live unless you believe in it. It is a balloon without air. Before you allow that statement to bother you, consider that all of creation is done in this manner. The earth was dark when God spoke to light. No wise person invest energy to constantly rebuke darkness when they can use the same energy to command light. Adopt God's attitude toward darkness and succeed.The objective presence of an opposite reality exist to test and strengthen us: to see what we are made of. It is NEVER anything to be afraid of. What you are experiencing is #CHANGE. How you view change is dependent upon your beliefs. Talk to yourself about what you believe in the face of opposition. The little you (the person who you think you are) will worry about what people think about hearing you talk to yourself sometimes but the real you will have already spoken from the heart. The real you will have created something.
What you really believe consumes the very content of your heart.
Change is natural but through the perspective of darkness, change is called an impending disaster; Fear, what an illusion.There is nothing pending but a decision: yours. What do you believe about what is or is not happening in your life? Listen: what are you saying to yourself? Know this: the entire universe is listening, empowered to bring those words to reality. (As man speaketh...)
You do not know that you CAN until you are at the point where you realize you cannot. In the book, I describe this moment as an awakening because humility is the engine that stirs the heart of God and exacts upon the universe a great demand that you come to know truth and understanding and prosperity. So, count your blessings and watch them grow.
Look forward to your copy of Transcendent Reality...coming soon.
https://sites.google.com/site/transcendencecom/
Monday, December 2, 2013
Friday, April 26, 2013
Poetry
excerpts from upcoming publication, Frequency (c)copyright 2013hamdani
Grateful that love passed this way again, a notion of what might have been
Frequency
I blow a kiss to the universe in honor of its obedience to God
in the gifts it has given me.
I will not blame its mirror for what I see,
nor judge what was, what is or what might have been.
Through love, I have heard what was said and embraced
truth and judgment of words unspoken to me but relayed,
as a baton with a universal ear, a graceful assignment.
I wink at the seed not yet grown, and salute the womb of earth for its carry
for the future is already known, its legs already grown,
its heartbeat already a separate entity only a moment in womb shall it tarry.
New beginnings are not new, only remnants of the past reborn,
seeds now grown from work unfinished into a plant that heals;
yet plants also transform.
Grateful that love passed this way again, a notion of what might have been
a footnote to those who seek a better stay and life...but a bulb in the universe
that they may find their way.
A mysterious frequency...a past to self-correct,
in the twinkling of an eye it pass us by;
two vehicles traveling in opposite directions
but on the same path, for life is but a circle,
and freedom a map, a gift, given not to the perfect
but to those who have pursued perfection.
Oh, how short I have fallen to the glory of its wisdom.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Excerpts from upcoming book, Ascend to The Secret Place
I first published this article in 2013 as an excerpt from my upcoming book,
Ascend to The Secret Place. The below is a newly improved version. Enjoy.
Perspective
I can see it.
I had been given directions from a trusted source; therefore, I plugged the information into my navigation system and drove for about twenty miles when I began to doubt the quality of my directions. It seemed that I should have already have reached my destination.
Something encouraged me to turn around but I said no. I trusted the source of my information. As I ventured further into the unknown, the annoyance continued, "turn around."
I refused to turn around because nothing had changed in my navigation system to convince me that the source of my information was wrong. I understood that fear of the unknown was trying to inhabit a home but I refused to accept fear and remained on the path of my course, although, I had some doubt. I also had the faith of a mustard seed which compelled me to continue.
I saw from a great distance what appeared to be the end of a road.
"See. I told you. You should have turned around."
I continued driving, telling myself that either I believed or I did not.
I believed.
As I neared the end of the road, I saw that the terrain was shaping into a steep hill. From a distance the image had appeared to be the end of the road. The image of the end sat upon the horizon and nothing seemed to exist beyond it except the elements of nature: skies, mountains or water. As I climbed the hill, reaching the top, I realized the image had not been a dead end at all, just a very high hill. From the distance, I had seen the bottom of the hill, not a dead end.
Suddenly, I realized there was a continuing road on the other side of the hill. From a far distance, I could not perceive this reality, for the hill at a distance is greater that the vision of man. Only God could have known the reality of both places: the vision of the man and the other side of the hill.
There was another path on the other side of the hill that extended for miles. I was happy to realize that I had not been lost, at all.
Much of life is this way. Every major goal we pursue in life, takes us along this narrow road. Every obstacle to every major dream is designed to challenge your faith in this way. These experiences constitute the seed of our convictions. They determine who we really are. This process of life test our beliefs by taking the Christian from the four walls of the church, removes the Buddhist from the four walls of the temple, removing theory into practice that we may do and be that which we claim to believe.
Maybe you are suffering some form of loss: divorce, loss of a job or income and feel isolated. Maybe there was a relationship you really wanted and it did not seem to work out. When we lose something we feel we need, we sometimes feel at the end of the road. When we mourn a loss we sometimes feel we have reached a dead end but I am here to bear witness that there are no dead ends with God. He has a greater perspective. He sees both the bottom of the hill and the top. He sees the hills and the valleys. He sees our limited perspective as his wisdom hovers over the center of the earth. It only seems like a dead end to us because we are at a distance, because we lack the perspective of omnipresence. God is close to everything and has always been close because he created the hills and the mountains. He remembers the mountain when it was but a grain of sand floating in water. It is he who caused the water and sand to coalesce into rock. He caused the rocks to gather to form mountains.He knows the nature of the mountain and the nature of man. He sees both the weakness of the mountain and the limited point of view of man...at once.
The next time you feel you are looking at a dead end, stop and ask #God what is it that you are really looking at. Don't trust your eyes. They can be deceiving. Your eyes are limited by the combination of your experience and your current volume of knowledge. The greater you is found in a land you have yet to experience, subject to the interpretation of knowledge you have not yet acquired. God knew it was not a dead end even when I doubted. It was he who convinced me to continue driving.
Faith works that way. It is the subjected of calculated risk, not an irresponsible shot in the dark; calculated because we are given impetus in the spirit, an impeccably accurate account of things to come.
Much of life is that way. When we see what we think is a dead end but we must call on God to describe that which we see as well as that which we cannot see. It is in this spirit of humility that we advance. Forget what is whispered in you ear if it stands against the promise of God, and is contrary to your faith. That's how we know whether what we hear is from God. Does it line up with God's promise? Is the suggestion based on fear or upon faith? Because we are made in the image of God, the greater reality is greater than that which the eye beholds and when we discover the nature of God, for the first time, we discover who we really are, a reality that compels us to fulfill our destiny. His reality is always greater. If we turn around due to doubt we will never see the path on the other side.
Ascend to The Secret Place. The below is a newly improved version. Enjoy.
Perspective
I can see it.
I had been given directions from a trusted source; therefore, I plugged the information into my navigation system and drove for about twenty miles when I began to doubt the quality of my directions. It seemed that I should have already have reached my destination.
Something encouraged me to turn around but I said no. I trusted the source of my information. As I ventured further into the unknown, the annoyance continued, "turn around."
I refused to turn around because nothing had changed in my navigation system to convince me that the source of my information was wrong. I understood that fear of the unknown was trying to inhabit a home but I refused to accept fear and remained on the path of my course, although, I had some doubt. I also had the faith of a mustard seed which compelled me to continue.
I saw from a great distance what appeared to be the end of a road.
"See. I told you. You should have turned around."
I continued driving, telling myself that either I believed or I did not.
I believed.
As I neared the end of the road, I saw that the terrain was shaping into a steep hill. From a distance the image had appeared to be the end of the road. The image of the end sat upon the horizon and nothing seemed to exist beyond it except the elements of nature: skies, mountains or water. As I climbed the hill, reaching the top, I realized the image had not been a dead end at all, just a very high hill. From the distance, I had seen the bottom of the hill, not a dead end.
Suddenly, I realized there was a continuing road on the other side of the hill. From a far distance, I could not perceive this reality, for the hill at a distance is greater that the vision of man. Only God could have known the reality of both places: the vision of the man and the other side of the hill.
There was another path on the other side of the hill that extended for miles. I was happy to realize that I had not been lost, at all.
Much of life is this way. Every major goal we pursue in life, takes us along this narrow road. Every obstacle to every major dream is designed to challenge your faith in this way. These experiences constitute the seed of our convictions. They determine who we really are. This process of life test our beliefs by taking the Christian from the four walls of the church, removes the Buddhist from the four walls of the temple, removing theory into practice that we may do and be that which we claim to believe.
Maybe you are suffering some form of loss: divorce, loss of a job or income and feel isolated. Maybe there was a relationship you really wanted and it did not seem to work out. When we lose something we feel we need, we sometimes feel at the end of the road. When we mourn a loss we sometimes feel we have reached a dead end but I am here to bear witness that there are no dead ends with God. He has a greater perspective. He sees both the bottom of the hill and the top. He sees the hills and the valleys. He sees our limited perspective as his wisdom hovers over the center of the earth. It only seems like a dead end to us because we are at a distance, because we lack the perspective of omnipresence. God is close to everything and has always been close because he created the hills and the mountains. He remembers the mountain when it was but a grain of sand floating in water. It is he who caused the water and sand to coalesce into rock. He caused the rocks to gather to form mountains.He knows the nature of the mountain and the nature of man. He sees both the weakness of the mountain and the limited point of view of man...at once.
The next time you feel you are looking at a dead end, stop and ask #God what is it that you are really looking at. Don't trust your eyes. They can be deceiving. Your eyes are limited by the combination of your experience and your current volume of knowledge. The greater you is found in a land you have yet to experience, subject to the interpretation of knowledge you have not yet acquired. God knew it was not a dead end even when I doubted. It was he who convinced me to continue driving.
Faith works that way. It is the subjected of calculated risk, not an irresponsible shot in the dark; calculated because we are given impetus in the spirit, an impeccably accurate account of things to come.
Much of life is that way. When we see what we think is a dead end but we must call on God to describe that which we see as well as that which we cannot see. It is in this spirit of humility that we advance. Forget what is whispered in you ear if it stands against the promise of God, and is contrary to your faith. That's how we know whether what we hear is from God. Does it line up with God's promise? Is the suggestion based on fear or upon faith? Because we are made in the image of God, the greater reality is greater than that which the eye beholds and when we discover the nature of God, for the first time, we discover who we really are, a reality that compels us to fulfill our destiny. His reality is always greater. If we turn around due to doubt we will never see the path on the other side.
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