the water in those photographs. The
inspiration
water was alive and highly respon-
sive to every one of our emotions and
thoughts.
We must think in terms of vibra-
Having, Being
tions to understand this. Everything that
exists has a vibration. Water can be im-
and Stillness by Father Paul keenan
printed with vibrations. Many individu-
als are surprised to learn that spoken
and written words also have vibrations.
For example, beautiful words like love
and gratitude have clear vibrations,
while negative words have ugly, inco-
herent vibrations, which either create
large distorted clusters or will not form
clusters at all.
How has this work affected
your life?
I am excited to see my messages about
water included in the new movie, I
have a friend whose spiritual practice relies heavily on affirmations. I ran into
him the other day, and he was completely beside himself with joy. “I was wait-
ing for the bus,” he told me. “The sun was just coming up, a huge ball of light
Water, which features other discoveries on a glorious morning. I stood there, basking in its warmth, when suddenly the
by researchers from Russia, Kazakhstan, thought crossed my mind, ‘I feel like a million dollars.’ Before I knew what hit me,
Switzerland, Israel, the United States, another thought rolled in: ‘I am a million dollars! I am a million dollars that God
Britain, Austria, Japan, Argentina, is sending into the universe today to make it a better place.’
China and Tibet. The research that led “All my life, I have thought about wealth as something that I have, not as
to many of the scientific discoveries something that I am. Perhaps, if I thought of myself as wealth that God is sharing
demonstrated in the movie suggests with the Universe, instead of thinking of my wealth as something outside of me, I
that water has phenomenal implicit and would eliminate the awareness of separation between myself and my wealth.”
explicit properties. It is even able to I could only advise my friend not to adopt his new insight for the sake of
convey messages faster than light. getting more wealth, or he would create the separation once again. His excited
Through this work, which still musings started me on a train of thought about the difference between having and
delights me, I find that although I being. Can you have what you are not?
am 65 years old, I still have the fresh Most of us don’t see any connection between being and having. It’s living out
perspective that helps me see the world of who we are, not out of what we have, that makes life worthwhile. And, unless
through the eyes of a child. we focus on being, we can never really have.
The way in to being is through stillness. “Be still, and know that I am God”—
What do you believe is the most
it is in meditation, in quiet walks in the park, when standing in awe before a
vital message that water conveys
sunrise or a sunset, and in the pause between two affirmations that there comes
the stillness that is the very heart and soul of who we are and the place of en-
to humanity?
counter with God. It is the still point between the sobs of a grieving parent. It is
The most significant messages are so in the space between the canvas and the artist’s brush, in the space between two
simple. We must all show our apprecia- heartbeats. We hear it between two notes of music and between two clangs of a
tion to water, using the powerful words church bell.
love and gratitude. It is our thoughts, In stillness, we join forces with the God of creation and declare that the
words and deeds of love and gratitude world is good and very good. Like God, we are not daunted by the power of
that will save our planet. evil—we respect it, even as we go for its Achilles’ heel, much as an electrical
repairperson handles downed wires carefully, knowing full well how to get them
up and running again.
For information on Masaru Emoto,
Stillness bestows those powers upon us all. So, here’s to my much-excited
the Emoto Peace Project and his book,
friend at his bus stop. His stillness in the sun led to insight and exuberance, which
The Message from Water: Children’s
he shared with me and I have shared with you. Stillness is contagious like that.
Version, visit Masaru-Emoto.net (click
Having caught it, we must now let it catch us, so that we can, in turn, give it to
English) or EmotoProject.org.
the world.
For information on the film, Water,
Source: Excerpted from the late Father Paul Keenan’s column for SoulfulLiving.
visit IntentionMediaInc.com/water.php.
com. For information about his writings, including his new book, If You Want to
Change Your Mind, You Have to Open Your Heart, visit FatherPaul.com.
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