I've been involved in many conversations of late,
about the events in the world. A lot of people are disenchanted, fearful, and confused as to why so many clusters of catastrophic and negative events are bombarding the planet at this time.
It could be a very frightening time if you choose to look at the surface and buy into the fear. I personally don't.
When the Bible states that a man cannot serve two masters, it really means that our consciousness can't occupy two thoughts at the same time. We can't say we believe in a Higher Power and also be fearful. It doesn't work that way. If there is any disparity in our thinking then that is what the Universe picks up on.
I remember reading the following definition many years ago and it has stuck with me:
The
Devil's Dictionary
was a newspaper weekly first collected as a book in 1906. While the
book represents diabolical appetites, and derides pretense, it should be
noted that Bierce generally reserved his severest ridicule for those
who benefit most from the status quo. It's easy to imagine him a century
later relying less on casual political incorrectness, to pay better
tribute to those who couldn't overindulge enough on the prosperity that
took place. Minor edits have been made here under that consideration.
If you wish to copy and paste large excerpts from the
Devil's Dictionary, HTML-only drafts of the book are
listed at yahoo.com.
My fancy scroll-display adaptation of Swift's classic
A Modest Proposal.
Except for the book adapted, this entire site uses less code than a typical wired.com front page.
M
MYTHOLOGY, n. The
body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early
history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true
accounts which it invents later.
MYRMIDON, n. A follower of Achilles — particularly when he didn't lead.
MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.
MUMMY, n. An
ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized
nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent
pigment. He is handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity
that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.
By means of the Mummy, mankind, it is said,
Attests to the gods its respect for the dead.
We plunder his tomb, be he sinner or saint,
Distil him for physic and grind him for paint,
Exhibit for money his poor, shrunken frame,
And with levity flock to the scene of the shame.
O, tell me, ye gods, for the use of my rhyme:
For respecting the dead what's the limit of time?
—Scopas Brune
MULTITUDE, n. A
crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the
object of the statesman's adoration. "In a multitude of consellors there
is wisdom," saith the proverb. If many men of equal individual wisdom
are wiser than any one of them, it must be that they acquire the excess
of wisdom by the mere act of getting together. Whence comes it?
Obviously from nowhere — as well say that a range of mountains is higher
than the single mountains composing it. A multitude is as wise as its
wisest member if it obey him; if not, it is no wiser than its most
foolish.
MULATTO, n. A child of two races, ashamed of both.
MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.
MOUTH, n. In man, the gateway to the soul; in woman, the outlet of the heart.
MOUSQUETAIRE, n. A long glove covering a part of the arm. Worn in New Jersey. But "mousquetaire" is a might poor way to spell musketeer.
MOUSE, n. An
animal which strews its path with fainting women. As in Rome Christians
were thrown to the lions, so centuries earlier in Otumwee, the most
ancient and famous city of the world, female heretics were thrown to the
mice. Jakak-Zotp, the historian, the only Otumwump whose writings have
descended to us, says that these martyrs met their death with little
dignity and much exertion. He even attempts to exculpate the mice (such
is the malice of bigotry) by declaring that the unfortunate women
perished, some from exhaustion, some of broken necks from falling over
their own feet, and some from lack of restoratives. The mice, he avers,
enjoyed the pleasures of the chase with composure. But if "Roman history
is nine-tenths lying," we can hardly expect a smaller proportion of
that rhetorical figure in the annals of a people capable of so
incredible cruelty to a lovely women; for a hard heart has a false
tongue.
MORE, adj. The comparative degree of too much.
MORAL, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.
It
is sayd there be a raunge of mountaynes in the Easte, on one syde of
the which certayn conducts are immorall, yet on the other syde they are
holden in good esteeme; wherebye the mountayneer is much conveenyenced,
for it is given to him to goe downe eyther way and act as it shall suite
his moode, withouten offence.
—Gooke's Meditations
MONUMENT, n. A structure intended to commemorate something which either needs no commemoration or cannot be commemorated.
The bones of Agammemnon are a show,
And ruined is his royal monument,
but Agammemnon's fame suffers no diminution in consequence. The monument custom has its reductiones ad absurdum in monuments "to the unknown dead" — that is to say, monuments to perpetuate the memory of those who have left no memory.
MONSIGNOR, n. A high ecclesiastical title, of which the Founder of our religion overlooked the advantages.
MONOSYLLABIC, adj. Composed
of words of one syllable, for literary babes who never tire of
testifying their delight in the vapid compound by appropriate
googoogling. The words are commonly Saxon — that is to say, words of a
barbarous people destitute of ideas and incapable of any but the most
elementary sentiments and emotions.
The man who writes in Saxon
Is the man to use an ax on
—Judibras
MONKEY, n. An arboreal animal which makes itself at home in genealogical trees.
MONEY, n. A
blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
An evidence of culture and a passport to polite society. Supportable
property.
MONDAY, n. In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game.
MONARCHICAL GOVERNMENT, n. Government.
MONARCH, n. A
person engaged in reigning. Formerly the monarch ruled, as the
derivation of the word attests, and as many subjects have had occasion
to learn. In Russia and the Orient the monarch has still a considerable
influence in public affairs and in the disposition of the human head,
but in western Europe political administration is mostly entrusted to
his ministers, he being somewhat preoccupied with reflections relating
to the status of his own head.
MONAD, n. The
ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. (See MOLECULE.) According to
Leibnitz, as nearly as he seems willing to be understood, the monad has
body without bulk, and mind without manifestation — Leibnitz knows him
by the innate power of considering. He has founded upon him a theory of
the universe, which the creature bears without resentment, for the monad
is a gentleman. Small as he is, the monad contains all the powers and
possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher of the
first class — altogether a very capable little fellow. He is not to be
confounded with the microbe, or bacillus; by its inability to discern
him, a good microscope shows him to be of an entirely distinct species.
MOLECULE, n. The
ultimate, indivisible unit of matter. It is distinguished from the
corpuscle, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter, by a closer
resemblance to the atom, also the ultimate, indivisible unit of matter.
Three great scientific theories of the structure of the universe are the
molecular, the corpuscular and the atomic. A fourth affirms, with
Haeckel, the condensation of precipitation of matter from ether — whose
existence is proved by the condensation of precipitation. The present
trend of scientific thought is toward the theory of ions. The ion
differs from the molecule, the corpuscle and the atom in that it is an
ion. A fifth theory is held by idiots, but it is doubtful if they know
any more about the matter than the others.
MISS, n. The
title with which we brand unmarried women to indicate that they are in
the market. Miss, Missis (Mrs.) and Mister (Mr.) are the three most
distinctly disagreeable words in the language, in sound and sense. Two
are corruptions of Mistress, the other of Master. In the general
abolition of social titles in this our country they miraculously escaped
to plague us. If we must have them let us be consistent and give one to
the unmarried man. I venture to suggest Mush, abbreviated to Mh.
MISFORTUNE, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.
MISERICORDE, n. A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.
MISDEMEANOR, n. An
infraction of the law having less dignity than a felony and
constituting no claim to admittance into the best criminal society.
By misdemeanors he essays to climb
Into the aristocracy of crime.
O, woe was him! — with manner chill and grand
"Captains of industry" refused his hand,
"Kings of finance" denied him recognition
And "railway magnates" jeered his low condition.
He robbed a bank to make himself respected.
They still rebuffed him, for he was detected.
—S.V. Hanipur
MISCREANT, n. A
person of the highest degree of unworth. Etymologically, the word means
unbeliever, and its present signification may be regarded as theology's
noblest contribution to the development of our language.
MIRACLE, n. An
act or event out of the order of nature and unaccountable, as beating a
normal hand of four kings and an ace with four aces and a king.
MINSTREL, adj. Formerly
a poet, singer or musician; now a [deleted expletive] with a color less
than skin deep and a humor more than flesh and blood can bear.
MINOR, adj. Less objectionable.
MINISTER, n. An
agent of a higher power with a lower responsibility. In diplomacy and
officer sent into a foreign country as the visible embodiment of his
sovereign's hostility. His principal qualification is a degree of
plausible inveracity next below that of an ambassador.
MINE, adj. Belonging to me if I can hold or seize it.
MIND,
n. A
mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity
consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of
the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know
itself with.
Ambrose Pierce, the Devils Dictionary
Our brains and minds are two distinct entities. To me, the mind is the essence of Prime Creator which moves, breathes, lives and has It's being throughout my being. It is what connects me to Source and allows me to "Hear that still small voice" The mind resonates everywhere in my body, especially the Heart center.
The brain can be our biggest obstacle in preventing us from connecting to Source. We can get sensory overload, THINK too much, and ultimately use only our heads to discern and evaluate our world. Too much head and not enough heart is one of the major causes that creates fear. Individually and collectively.
It has been said that a problem can't be solved at the level of consciousness that created it. How true.
It is simple in my MIND. The separation from the belief that we are connected to a Higher Source is in and of itself the reason for the disparity and unrest in our hearts, and in the world at large. There is no separation. The world is a reflection of mass consciousness. I choose to believe that there is a bigger picture and I know in my Sacred Heart that humanity will evolve and awaken.
Whatever you persistently and habitually impress on your subconscious mind will ultimately be expressed in your external world through experiences and events.
The goal is to balance and tap into the gifts of both and to discern the head knowledge with Heart knowledge. It is simple, but not always easy.
I AM ONE WITH THE INFINITE RICHES OF MY SUBCONSCIOUS MIND.THE LAW OF HARMONY OPERATES IN MY MIND AND BODY.BEAUTY, LOVE, PEACE AND ABUNDANCE ARE MINE.
And so it is.
