Quotes #1

The love of money is the root of all evil.

Time is the fire in which we burn.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

A man’s fate is a man’s fate and life is but an illusion.

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

The Three Filters Test:
Socrates used these three filters when communicating.
1)Is it True?
2)Is it Good?
3)Is it Useful?

"If at all you want to worry let your only worry be how to remember
Me constantly. This is worthwhile worrying because it is the antidote
for worry." -Meher Baba

Whether one does this depends on His Will. So why worry about it? Just do what seems right to you.

"God alone is Real; all else is a vain and empty
pursuit of transitory values." -Avatar Meher Baba

Baba said that in loving and holding onto him, the path follows us.

I DARE NOT NEGLECT YOU
-Meher Baba

It is natural that at times you feel 100% miserable. Be
sure that I know everything. When everything goes
wrong, the mind becomes helpless and has to rely on
the heart. These are the moments when you resign to
my will and rely solely on my help. When you leave all
to Me, I dare not neglect you, and you get relief from
your predicament. I am the Ocean of Love and
Compassion.-Meher Baba

I will not serve God like a laborer, in expectation of
my wages.-Rabia el-Adawia

How to Love God
i) To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings.
ii) If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear
ones, we love God.
iii) If, instead of seeing faults in others we look within ourselves we
are loving God.
iv) If, instead of robbing others to help ourselves, we rob ourselves to
help others, we are loving God.
v) If we suffer in the suffering of others and feel happy in the
happiness of others, we are loving God.
vi) If, instead of worrying over our own misfortunes, we think of
ourselves more fortunate than many, many others, we are loving God.
vii) If we endure our lot with patience and contentment, accepting it as
His Will, we are loving God.
viii) If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and
worship to God is not to hurt or harm any of His beings, we are
loving God.
ix) To love God as He ought to be loved, we must live for God and die for
God, knowing that the goal of life is to love God, and find Him as
our own Self.
-- Avatar Meher Baba


"It is only Love that matters. And to have Love one must cross over
the threshold of the intellect."

So far in my life I have been trying to become something. I am not OK the way I am, but if I get good at things...I realize now I have the game wrong. The game is to find out what I already am...a powerful, a beautiful, and an extraordinary being.

There is no other, it is all One.

An organism at war with itself is doomed.

Life is just an amusement park ride. We can change it anytime we want. Its only a choice right now between fear and love.

Tear down the mosque and temple too, break all that divides
But do not break the human heart as it is there that God resides. -Bulleh Shah

Jacob said, "For I have seen God face to face and my life is preserved." Bible, Genesis 32.30

Jesus said, "That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us; that the world may believe that thou hast sent me." Bible, John 18.21

"The TRUTH is that the Reality must be realized and the divinity of God must be attained and lived." God Speaks, Meher Baba

"If he is on God's side he is one of us, and it does not matter in the least whether he calls himself a Hindu, or a Buddhist, a Christian or a Mohammedan, nor whether his is an Indian or an Englishman, a Chinaman or a Russian. Those who are on His side know why they are here and what they should do, and they are trying to do it." At the Feet of the Master, J. Krishnamurti

ONENESS
In the Name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful
Say: 'God is One, the Eternal God. He begot none, nor was he begotten. None is equal to Him.'
The Koran

Tzu-kung said, "Not to tire of learning is wisdom; not to weary of teaching is benevolence." Mencius

"The moment the mind becomes concentrated, the answers will just fall into place." Handbook for Humanity, Buddhadasa Bhikkhu

"And indeed all things that are known have number. For without this nothing whatever could possibly be thought of or known." Pythagoras

"The most beautiful arrangement is a pile of things poured out at random." Heraclitus

"One does not worry about the fact that other people do not appreciate one. One worries about not appreciating other people." Confucius

"O Lord, give me a place at Thy Lotus Feet.
Keep me always in Thy company.
Give me sincere and pure love for Thee."

Nothing is Real but God.
Nothing matters but Love for God.
- Meher Baba.

"We are not human beings
having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having
a human experience."
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

"Everything you cherish will be destroyed.
Everything you worked for will be uprooted, and
your very existence will be crushed out.
Thy utter ruination shall be."
- Meher Baba in a note to Padri
(who happily showed everyone)

Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me-- and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.

So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!
I spare you not, I love you from my very heart, my brethren in war!
--Thus spake Zarathustra.

 From the beginning of all beginnings I have been saying, I say it
now, and to the end of ends I will say it, that HE WHO LOVES GOD
BECOMES GOD - Meher Baba

Who is

Who is
shoock out of one reason yet
Calm
one sees images telling a story on
Screen
about daily scarcity and siege and waring and starving and
Death
one reads words with pictures and lives
Peaceful
having others say
Baba
otherwise one might forget to
Love
and surrender all that is
Me
who is
Avatar Meher Baba

My Beloved

Avatar Meher Baba

When I awake I see you
When I sleep I dream you

In my ignorance of you I do suffer
In my knowledge of you I find bliss

You are my everything
I am your nothing

My beloved how you tease me
My beloved how you bless me

You give me fractals to study your way
You give me fractals to beguile my day

In fractals you are hiding
In fractals you are seen

You have shown me your fingerprint
I am entrapped by its freedom

If only I could give them up
If only you would let me

To leave understanding behind me is what I want
Only then would I Know
Just how much you really love me

KBJ

September 2001

human experience

"We are not human beings
having a spiritual experience.
We are spiritual beings having
a human experience."

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

silly dance

-beginning
to Love with wild abandon
I am a fool's fool
jumping off cliffs
like they were cracks
in my skull split
to show the stupidity of
my intellect functioning
without a zipper to conclude
the silly dance that is now
-over

sleeping awake

time changing maya
streaming thoughts through consciousness
stop by sleeping awake

Wish

Is
Stillness moving through
Forever temporary momentary eternity.
Reality resisting acceptance,
Creates chaotic order.
Bubble forming separated self,
An illusion.
In loving evil, light is
Extinguishing darkness.
Desireless motivation of obedience to unchanging
Wish transforms me.
I am joyously suffering victorious
Surrender.
Same direction returning, infinite
Circle is completed.
Everything living death now, annihilating
Nothing.
Is one.


Baba Jacob
8/3/98

How to Love God

To love God in the most practical way is to love our fellow beings.

If we feel for others in the same way as we feel for our own dear
ones, we love God.

If, instead of seeing faults in others we look within ourselves we
are loving God.

If, instead of robbing others to help ourselves, we rob ourselves to
help others, we are loving God.

If we suffer in the suffering of others and feel happy in the
happiness of others, we are loving God.

If, instead of worrying over our own misfortunes, we think of
ourselves more fortunate than many, many others, we are loving God.

If we endure our lot with patience and contentment, accepting it as
His Will, we are loving God.

If we understand and feel that the greatest act of devotion and
worship to God is not to hurt or harm any of His beings, we are
loving God.

To love God as He ought to be loved, we must live for God and die for
God, knowing that the goal of life is to love God, and find Him as
our own Self.

-- Avatar Meher Baba

Math Rap-Poem

I am a teacher walkin’, facilitator talkin’
King of my classroom, just a Math-man stalkin’
Teaching math like a firecracker, quick is my fuse
The real answers are solutions to the numbers you choose
X or Y‘re just symbols, they don’t really matters
They give the same solution once you've determined the patterns
Our learning of Math will never die…just multiply…
Numbers! (6 times)

I’m to set the goal, fool…my expectation high, cool

I am teachin’ you persistence, dividin’ all resistance
Any quotient we find, we turn on our mind
Math is beautiful and beautiful is math
Apathy is a dream, hard work is the path
Growing numbers…exponential, your calculations of all
With your numbers behind you, a mathematician stands tall
Tell me what is the pattern, what shapes do you find
Open up to the possible, don't become be blind
Let us all subtract; we can all make a difference...
Math is my sect, guess my religion…
Numbers! (6 times)

You wants some more?....Well here is the score!

My rules are quite simple, they sum up to five
I add consistent consequences so the class becomes alive
My game is knowledge, my taxonomy high
I show lots of emotion to encourage kids to try
Committed to my mission which is totally right
If you are in my class, then you are in my sight
By using correct numbers, your answers will tap....
Because calculation is my favorite rap….
Numbers! (6 times)

One more thing that I gotta say...

So I teach like a giant, calculator defiant
You say it is hard, I say you can find it!
Achievement is the mantra, it is all that I care
You’re a star on the wall with work beyond compare
As you reach new heights and fly with the wind
Your love for Math will most certainly begin
Now it is time, so let me define
What Math is, do not cross the line
It's all about patterns that we feel with our senses
We start by counting and then create number sentences
Don’t try to act lazy, your tired eyes do not faze me
When you succeed like a life-long learner, it will not amaze me
Because our numbers…our life, with them you will pass...
So study up hard so you can take my Physics class!…
Numbers! (6 times)

Sitting in a room

A kink in my neck tells me
To surrender to the acceptance
of my denial of my true self
Hiding in the shadows of illusion.

The wind flowing over my face
Marking time in waves
Splashing on the rocks
Of my form temporal.

Music playing the beat in my brain
With sharp spears of sound
Giving my thoughts sleep
And filling the void eternal with song.

( Summer 1997)

love

temporal feeling
Love is not a come and gone
nor a sometimes friend

physical paining
Love is not wounding my heart
by perceived absence

turbulence and calm
Love allows these to ride in
its constant being

an ocean of life
Love fills and is filled formless
a suffrage of truth

dust

crushing me to dust
His Love sets me free to float
the wind of His Will

meditate

first pilates train
early morning meditate
finish with yoga

goodnight

goodnight katy, good-
night kylen, goodnight mommy,
and goodnight Baba

water

brewing only green tea
fizzy drink, coffee be gone
drinking clean water

divine wine

new road traveled sober
only divine wine will touch
these longing heart lips

work hard

work hard all day long
no more TV, games to waste
actions sing love God

poison smokes

poison smokes no more
lungs are beginning to heal
breathe clean air only

sugar

sugar, wheat refine
no longer in body mine
eat sugar divine

morning

new pattern forming
wake up four in the morning
love Meher soaring