The Two Awful Eternities

Posted on April 30, 2016 by Phil Simkins

On a daily basis, I review a “Thought,” “Meditation,” and “Prayer” for the day provided in a small book entitled 24 Hours A Day (Daily Readings for Alcoholics. Available on Amazon and other book stores.) In my course, Living @5, I review The Meditations for July 29, 30, and 31st as support to the Living @5 Model. This model is provided by a simple photo I took yesterday of my whiteboard presentation. Spend a moment thinking about this simple concept. I offer them to you with love.

July 29: There are two days in every week about which we should not worry; two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday, with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot undo a single act we performed: we cannot erase a single word said–Yesterday is Gone!

July 30: The other day we should not worry about is Tomorrow with its possible burdens, its large promise and poor performance. Tomorrow is also beyond our immediate control. Tomorrow’s sun will rise, either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds–but it will rise. Until it does, we have no stake in tomorrow, for it is yet unborn .

July 31: This leaves only one day–Today! Any man or woman can fight the battle of just one day. It is only when you and I have the burdens in those two awful eternities’–Yesterday and Tomorrow–that we break down. It is not the experience of Today that drives men and women mad–it is the remorse or bitterness for something which happened yesterday and the dread of what tomorrow may bring. Let us, therefore, live but One Day At A Time. [24 Hours A Day. Meditations For the Day: July 29, 30th and 31st.]

(ps. My sweet wife Vickie Lee provided the sketches of the 3 sets of eyes in the photo.)

Namaste, Phil

Progress is Impossible Without Change

Posted on April 28, 2016 by Phil Simkins

As you may know, I routinely teach inmates at a county jail. My course, “Living @5: A Spiritual Course in Thought and Time,” focuses on the key tenet that “our mind controls our body.” In the best-selling audio of all time, “The Strangest Secret,” Earl Nightingale proposed a profound idea: What we think about, we bring about. Most of us are unaware of what we are thinking about in any given moment. But the law of creation does not cease because we are unaware. We are creating in every second, many of us without power or direction. In two most wonderful books, the late Wayne Dyer teaches about power and direction: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life, and There is a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem. The preface to the first book has a short line by George Bernard Shaw which sums it ALL up: “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” ( PS, Take an hour for Peace and watch Dyer’s movie “The Shift.” on YouTub犀利士
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Peace and happiness are always just a thought away! Namaste, Phil

Blackberries

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Phil Simkins

Earth is crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God.

Those who see, take off their shoes, While the remainder sit and eat blackberries.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The Mind is Satan’s Lawyer

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Phil Simkins

“THE MIND DOES NOTHING BUT TALK, AND ASK QUESTIONS, AND SEARCH FOR MEANING. THE💓HEART DOES NOT TALK, DOES NOT ASK QUESTIONS, DOES NOT SEARCH FOR MEANING. IT SILENTLY, SILENTLY MOVES TOWARD GOD, AND SURRENDERS ITSELF TO HIM. THE MIND IS SATAN’S LAWYER. THE HEART IS GOD’S SERVANT.” (“There Is a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem,” Wayne Dyer)
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