Nothing can destroy the divine consciousness that we are. The worldly evil has always been with us, but it cannot kill the Self that we all are.

I have to catch myself from believing that evil has any power. It doesn’t. It has seeming power but no real power.

Evil stalks Ukraine; it stalks America; it stalks innocence, but it has no power over love.

The Self is pure love.

We must remember that empires always topple.

Evil never scores a permanent victory.

Sit up straighter; stand up taller. Dismiss all evil as temporary. Only higher consciousness can win.

Life is a stage upon which evil is enacted. The players can be replaced, but life cannot.

Suffering has no hold over the Self.

The Self, just like “The Dude” abides.

(The dude is in the moment. He is in the now. That is why he doesn’t care about status, wealth, attachment, love, or even his own name. (That’s why he speaks in third person) Harmony is listening to music, bowling, enjoying being alive, breathing. His state of “One-ness” has more fulfillment than anything he can achieve, that is enlightenment. He only has hardships due to other peoples actions and interference, and even so it’s only temporary til he returns to his “State of Dude”, taking it easy like you know he will. “Yeah, well..The Dude Abides.”) ~A readers’s comment on “The Big Lebowski.”

Vicki Woodyard