Sunday, December 28, 2008
Monday, December 22, 2008
The Essence of Gratitude
Gratitude is a word that has been used a lot lately from those who are offering the "spiritual" path to others and from those looking to manifest more in their lives. The standard line is something of the order of "You just need to be grateful for everything in your life". Now, while it is true that a shift in perspective from an ungrateful state of mind to a more grateful state of mind helps one to temporarily feel more at peace, it is also true that a concept offered without the root understanding of the concept is likely to be misunderstood, be misused and lead to eventual frustration.
Gratitude is NOT a practice, it is an understanding. As a practice it is forced, as an understanding it flows. Therefore it is always the deeper nature of self-discovery and self-inquiry that leads to a deeper and more expansive self-love that results in gratitude.
This is a love that comes from the understanding that right now You are the perfection of all your past perfect choices, thoughts and actions. That if you hadn't made all those past choices you wouldn't be on the path you're on now coming to the amazing understanding that you are leading yourself towards each and every day. You would be delaying your evolution rather than expanding and evolving, asking questions, receiving answers and transforming into more of a peaceful conscious creator of your life and true master of your reality.
True gratitude comes from the realization that every situation in every moment as much as it can seem against you, is always and forever FOR YOU. For example, in this moment, who else could these words be for? How you choose to respond, react and feel, based on what you desire to create and experience in this lifetime is your "free will". You are the infinite and priceless observer and creator of life, and everything you can see, feel, touch, smell and hear is here to SUPPORT you in your creative effort. If that's not something to be infinitely grateful for right now, then maybe as you contemplate this in the days or weeks to come it will be.
When you see all persons, places and things in your daily walk as the tangible matter that gives your life its meaning and growth, your judgments will disappear and your gratitude and love for all of it will know no boundaries. This is the gratitude that sees all as perfection, feels itself as part of the perfection and manifests from the unlimited and unrestricted nature of this perfection. From this state of grace the great mirror that is the Universe has no choice but to respond in kind....
With endless love & gratitude,
Howard
Gratitude is NOT a practice, it is an understanding. As a practice it is forced, as an understanding it flows. Therefore it is always the deeper nature of self-discovery and self-inquiry that leads to a deeper and more expansive self-love that results in gratitude.
This is a love that comes from the understanding that right now You are the perfection of all your past perfect choices, thoughts and actions. That if you hadn't made all those past choices you wouldn't be on the path you're on now coming to the amazing understanding that you are leading yourself towards each and every day. You would be delaying your evolution rather than expanding and evolving, asking questions, receiving answers and transforming into more of a peaceful conscious creator of your life and true master of your reality.
True gratitude comes from the realization that every situation in every moment as much as it can seem against you, is always and forever FOR YOU. For example, in this moment, who else could these words be for? How you choose to respond, react and feel, based on what you desire to create and experience in this lifetime is your "free will". You are the infinite and priceless observer and creator of life, and everything you can see, feel, touch, smell and hear is here to SUPPORT you in your creative effort. If that's not something to be infinitely grateful for right now, then maybe as you contemplate this in the days or weeks to come it will be.
When you see all persons, places and things in your daily walk as the tangible matter that gives your life its meaning and growth, your judgments will disappear and your gratitude and love for all of it will know no boundaries. This is the gratitude that sees all as perfection, feels itself as part of the perfection and manifests from the unlimited and unrestricted nature of this perfection. From this state of grace the great mirror that is the Universe has no choice but to respond in kind....
With endless love & gratitude,
Howard
Thursday, November 20, 2008
I created and uploaded two new video blogs at youtube! watch them at IAMTHEBOOKFALCO Channel on YouTube
Your comments, questions and feedback are welcome.
Thanks
Your comments, questions and feedback are welcome.
Thanks
Friday, November 14, 2008
Answers Answers Everywhere!
Every question that you ask has an answer that is available to you right now.
Experiencing this information is simply a matter of determining if you are you ready to face the self-reflection and new way of looking at the world that the answer will bring you. What this means is that even though you may be constantly asking the why's and how's of your life, you may not necessarily at the same time be ready to accept the answer the universe will present to you. Nonetheless, the answer to your specific issue will surface as soon as you are ready for it.
To be ready for this information you must be willing to see yourself in a slightly new and different way. One that allows in a new truth about the world around you and frees you from the previous limited view of yourself or the world that caused your question. You must be ready to drop the identity or belief that isn't working for you.
Each day you are presented with answers. They show up most predominantly in the thoughts and feelings that create you state of mind. They also come through the books you read, the T.V. shows you watch, the songs you hear, nature, all of your relationships and the passing comments from strangers, Your whole world is designed to provide you with information that you ask for but must be ready and willing to let it in. As you read these words you might realize that you are bringing yourself an answer right now.
Accepting or not accepting the awareness you ask for is completely up to you. There are no obligations but the ones you create for yourself based on your desires in this world. You are pacing the expansion of your awareness in a sense of time that is tolerable to you. Just know that the universe never denies you but only provides for you in your every waking experience. No moment is wasted. What truth and answers you allow yourself to see in what is happening with your finances, relationships, family, job, health and general actions and attitude within life, is up to you.
However, acceptance is the doorway to transformation, When you are really and truly ready to experience life differently you’ll open to receive the exact message and answer that each event in life brings you. Even though you might fear what the answer means and how it will change your view of the world and of yourself, building the will and faith to step through the fear and accept the truth offered is what will liberate you to see that this expansion of mind and the peace it brings is ultimately exactly what you long for.
At the core of it all is the continual message that you can and will overcome anything.
Much Love,
Howie
Friday, October 24, 2008
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Truth = Peace
What is truth? This is a question that has been asked for ages. However, when looked at from the only perspective there ever is, yours, this question is easily answered. Truth is simply whatever works for you at each moment of your life.
Personal truth is always changing
One of the definitions in the dictionary of truth is “An obvious or accepted fact.” But it doesn’t say obvious and accepted by whom? If 5 million people all say the Beatles made great music, it is still only true to those 5 million people. To millions of others all around the world it may not be that obvious or accepted. A couple of examples that carry a little more consequence in life is that of one who believes that it is not dangerous to drive 100 miles per hour on a busy street or swim in a river with a strong undercurrent. This truth will work for them until it doesn’t by virtue of an undesired or painful outcome.
The transformative crossroad
Your world as defined by what you believe to be true is in a constant state of change. Each of the many truths you operate out of will remain true for you until challenged by an experience in your life that causes you mental or physical pain of some degree. This is the moment of choice, the moment of resistance or acceptance. You can ignore the offering of a new truth and be destined to another painful experience, or accept what the universe is offering you thereby expanding your awareness forever and freeing yourself from the undesired and many times repeating circumstances. By accepting the new truth your reality will change because you will no longer need the lesson that brings it.
Summing up the equation
Suffering is the holding on to what is not true in any moment. The truth is always “what is” right now in your life. Peace is the moment by moment acceptance of "what is". In other words, eternal peace is a state of resisting nothing and loving everything.
To begin along this path, come to always fully accept who you are (the truth), decide who you want to be (new truth), act in every moment to create or recreate it (verification), live peacefully.
Much Love,
Howie
Personal truth is always changing
One of the definitions in the dictionary of truth is “An obvious or accepted fact.” But it doesn’t say obvious and accepted by whom? If 5 million people all say the Beatles made great music, it is still only true to those 5 million people. To millions of others all around the world it may not be that obvious or accepted. A couple of examples that carry a little more consequence in life is that of one who believes that it is not dangerous to drive 100 miles per hour on a busy street or swim in a river with a strong undercurrent. This truth will work for them until it doesn’t by virtue of an undesired or painful outcome.
The transformative crossroad
Your world as defined by what you believe to be true is in a constant state of change. Each of the many truths you operate out of will remain true for you until challenged by an experience in your life that causes you mental or physical pain of some degree. This is the moment of choice, the moment of resistance or acceptance. You can ignore the offering of a new truth and be destined to another painful experience, or accept what the universe is offering you thereby expanding your awareness forever and freeing yourself from the undesired and many times repeating circumstances. By accepting the new truth your reality will change because you will no longer need the lesson that brings it.
Summing up the equation
Suffering is the holding on to what is not true in any moment. The truth is always “what is” right now in your life. Peace is the moment by moment acceptance of "what is". In other words, eternal peace is a state of resisting nothing and loving everything.
To begin along this path, come to always fully accept who you are (the truth), decide who you want to be (new truth), act in every moment to create or recreate it (verification), live peacefully.
Much Love,
Howie
Thursday, March 27, 2008
Vol. 1.1 An Introduction to a new YOU
Welcome to the inaugural Truth Serum Blog. My name is Howard Falco of http://www.truthserum.net/ and this Blog series is being developed to give you a whole new way to look at and experience your life. Along with my website truthserum.net this is another avenue of offering what has the possibility to be life changing awareness.
Life changes for each of us when we finally take new actions. New action springs forth from new thoughts. New thoughts are the result of new beliefs and these beliefs all originate from a new understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
In each of these Blogs you will be given a new way to reflect on who you are and what your truly capable of experiencing in the world. You’ll be confronted with ideas that may have you challenging the way you have been interpreting yourself or the world for years. As you will learn through out the course of this series, your life is always in your hands. So if you're looking to experience more harmony more peace and more joyful moments of desired creation, it will start with the opening to a new way of interpreting an old story. It will require you to take a look at every one of you relationships in the world. Your relationship to your job, to your possessions, to your family, your finances, your love interest and most importantly to yourself. Whether you believe it or not everything you live and experience starts and ends with YOU. How you look at yourself is how you see the world, how you see the world is how you create and experience it.
The path to lasting peace and the life you dream about living is right in front of you. All it takes is a desire to experience it and the free will to choose to open up to a whole new way of looking who you really are. Your world can change in a single instant, and the beauty is that instant can always be right NOW.
For more information, please visit http://www.truthserum.net/.
Much love and peace,
Howie
Life changes for each of us when we finally take new actions. New action springs forth from new thoughts. New thoughts are the result of new beliefs and these beliefs all originate from a new understanding of ourselves and the world around us.
In each of these Blogs you will be given a new way to reflect on who you are and what your truly capable of experiencing in the world. You’ll be confronted with ideas that may have you challenging the way you have been interpreting yourself or the world for years. As you will learn through out the course of this series, your life is always in your hands. So if you're looking to experience more harmony more peace and more joyful moments of desired creation, it will start with the opening to a new way of interpreting an old story. It will require you to take a look at every one of you relationships in the world. Your relationship to your job, to your possessions, to your family, your finances, your love interest and most importantly to yourself. Whether you believe it or not everything you live and experience starts and ends with YOU. How you look at yourself is how you see the world, how you see the world is how you create and experience it.
The path to lasting peace and the life you dream about living is right in front of you. All it takes is a desire to experience it and the free will to choose to open up to a whole new way of looking who you really are. Your world can change in a single instant, and the beauty is that instant can always be right NOW.
For more information, please visit http://www.truthserum.net/.
Much love and peace,
Howie
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