Universal Presence Research Paper

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Universal Presence and the Tragically Events on Earth Why do people get cancer? Why are there earthquakes that destroy entire cities? Why do people have to work so hard just to have enough money to barely feed their families? Subconsciously, we probably ask ourselves questions like these quite often. But consciously we rarely do. We're so busy living our lives we rarely stop and wonder WHY? But then something happens to wake us up. Our parents get divorced. The girl down the street gets abducted. An aunt gets cancer. That wakes us up for a while. But then we can often sink back into the denial. That is, until another tragedy hits, another incongruence. I found myself doing this, questioning everything I had ever learned about God,…show more content…
I bought books on Astrology and Natal Charts. I began to research people like Gandhi and the Dali Lama, Mother Teresa, and Edgar Cayce. Although they were all very different and came from different time they all had a similar and profound message. There are just two emotions in the entire universe: love and fear. Each and every one of our thoughts, actions or feelings can be traced back to these two root emotions. Another way to say this is that everything, which is not an expression of love, is an expression of fear. Neale Donald Walsh writes in one of his books that "All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by one of two emotions... fear or love... "Every human thought, and every human action, is based in either love or fear... Yet if you knew Who You Are - that you are the most magnificent, the most remarkable, the most splendid being God ever created - you would never fear." Gandhi preached that Perfect love casts out fear... it is a lifelong challenge, a lifelong battle within oneself, full of challenges and trials so severe that those who tread the path of love in every religious tradition have called it sharper than a razor's edge. Everything he did was an experiment in expanding the human being's capacity to love. I’ve come across one of his most powerful quotes quite often recently, be the change you want to see in the

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