I Believe in God

I Believe in God

In order to answer the question, "How do you perceive yourself in this great scheme of life?" I would first have to identify who I am and how I define myself.    

Who am I?  I am a lot of things. Am I my job, my body, and I my thoughts?  I can't be anything that I can observe.  Therefore I am not my job, body, or thoughts as I can observe those things.  My true self is the consciousness that is observing everything.  I am my spirit and my spirit is part of God.  I believe we are all part of one spirit.  God is in all of us and connects us all together. God is everything and anything.  God is all that is seen and unseen.  God is love.  We are God's creation and our true self is part of God's spirit.  

Quantum Mechanics has proven that there are subatomic particles that do not exist until they are observed.  What's even more interesting is that this particle actually is in up to 4000 locations at the same time and only manifests into physical matter in one specific location when it is observed.  With this theory in mind you could conclude that the act of observing is the act of creation.  One way to explain the creation of our universe would be the big bang (creation of physical matter) was brought about by God's observation and in this act there was creation.

I believe my true self to be the observer and the physical manifestation of the creator, the ultimate observer, God.  The same way that energy connects all things together in our physical world, our spirits connect us together to God.  By defining myself at the highest level of consciousness I'm aware I am my spirit, the observer, which in turn is part of God.  If I'm part of God and you are part of God, then we are one in the same.   Do onto others as you would want them to do into you because we are all one.  

This is obviously easier said than to put into practice.  In reality society tells me that I am a 30 year old male, New Age Catholic, who works in sales, engaged to a beautiful women, who enjoys reading and teaching.  I am an emotional being who feels happiness, anger, fear, jealousy, resentment, love, and many other emotions.  Myself, my fiancée, family, and friends come first over someone I don't know and I'm plagued by social conditioning, stereotypes, and quick judgments.  I am taught to mind my own business and to not get involved in other people's problems.  

I wish I could completely embrace my understanding of reality in my everyday life, but I am not that enlightened.  I think very few have reached such an achievement.  To truly understand that we are all one is to let go of everything society says is true.  To completely accept others and treat a stranger as I would treat myself, or someone I truly loved.  To give up my pursuit of material possessions and take it upon myself to feed the starving and care for the less fortunate.  I have the understanding, but at this point am not that enlightened.

How I see myself in the great scheme of life is to experience life for God.  The more I follow the oneness philosophy and love unconditionally the more I feel connected to God.  I'm meant to cherish the ups and downs.  To be grateful for my health, family, and friends. To appreciate everything I have and to recognize how fortunate I am.  To practice the Golden Rule and be there for people in their time of need.  To lead by example and practice what I preach. To be honest, to love, to forgive, to learn, and to teach.   To give thanks to you, me, God, and recognize we are all connected as observers by the Holy Spirit.   

-Mario Scampoli 

4/19/13

After writing this I ran across this quote: 

 “A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” — Albert Einstein

Raise the debt ceiling rap!

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A great visual on where gun violence actually falls in relation to other risks.

http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/americas-biggest-killers-the-chart-anti-gunners-dont-want-you-to-see_01052013

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http://www.silverdoctors.com/the-forces-that-will-push-silver-over-100-2/

Ron Paul's Farewell Speech to Congress Nov 14

Everyone should watch this.  A true patriot.  

The story of Dr. JOSEPH MOSHE

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http://donttrack.us/

What you need to know before you buy a safe.

The old saying holds true.  You get what you pay for...  

In an emergency the Government will take your guns.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina The New Orleans Police issued a statement that no one would be allowed to have guns.  They then sent the National Guard in to search door to door and take EVERYONE's firearms.  These are the videos showing exactly what happened.  It proves that the government will use the military to overpower the people and our "rights" mean nothing.  

  

A collection of my favorite quotes.

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - Shakespeare 

"Never argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience." -Unkown

"Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for... tomorrow."
- Melody Beattie

"Man sacrifices his health in order to make money. Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health. And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived." -The Dalai Lama

“What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.” ~ Buddha

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude." -Thomas Jefferson

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” -Winston Churchill

"(Natural Talent + Opportunity)Hard Work = Success" - Michael Johnson

"People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily." -Zig Ziglar

“Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach.” -Tom Robbins

"What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not do." -Aristotle

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby

"Winning is not everything, but the effort to win is."
Zig Ziglar

"'Tis better to be alone than in bad company.'" -George Washington

"Free will and determinism are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism. The way you play your hand is free will." -Norman Cousins

"One-half of life is luck; the other half is discipline — and that’s the important half, for without discipline you wouldn’t know what to do with luck." -Carl Zuckmeyer

"The important thing is to dare to dream big, then take action to make it come true." -Joe Girard

"The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail." -Napoleon Hill

"Money will buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag it's tail." -Richard Friedman

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -Albert Einstein

"Many of life's failures are men who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up." -Anonymous

"Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used." Richard E. Byrd

"If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results." -Jack Dixon

"No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy - unless you let him." -Napoleon Hill

"The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus." -Bruce Lee

"If people like you they'll listen to you, but if they trust you they'll do business with you." -Zig Ziglar

"I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen." –Frank Lloyd Wright

"Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted." -Alfred Adler

"People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be." -Abraham Lincoln

"Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door." -Anonymous

"Warriors take chances. Like everyone else, they fear failing, but they refuse to let fear control them." -Ancient Samurai saying

"You already have every characteristic necessary for success if you recognize, claim, develop and use them." -Zig Ziglar

"For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness." -Unknown

"Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of." -Unknown

"The highest form of ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about." -Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want." -Jim Rohn

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishments." -Jim Rohn

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -Aristotle

"I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward." -Thomas Alva Edison

"The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances." -Victor E. Frankl

"Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." -Albert Einstein

"There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations." -Zig Ziglar

"The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials." –– Chinese proverb

"There's no such things as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it." -Pat Riley

"Make a game of finding something positive in every situation.Ninety-five percent of your emotions are determined by how you interpret events to yourself." -Brian Tracy

"Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open." Thomas Dewar

"The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore." -Dale Carnegie

"The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity." -Winston Churchill

"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." -Buddha

"The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind." Dr. Wayne W. Dyer

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it." Lou Holtz

"I'ts not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life ;it is how you handle what happens to you." -Zig Ziglar

"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks." Phillips Brooks

"You don't become enormously successful without encountering and overcoming a number of extremely challenging problems." Mark Victor Hansen

"It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect it’s successful outcome.” –William James

"Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was." Richard L. Evans

"In order to get from what was to what will be, you must go through what is." -Anonymous

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts." Winston Churchill

"If we are basically positive in attitude, expecting and envisioning pleasure, satisfaction and happiness, we will attract and create people, situations, and events which conform to our positive expectations."
-Shakti Gawain

"There is never any traffic when you go the extra mile." -unknown