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Gratefulness
Complaining digs us deeper into our emotional ruts. Humor, compassion, forgiveness, and gratitude are the 4-wheel drive of the joyful heart.
An Elder came through my queue yesterday with encouraging news. She explained to me, that at 50, my life was only just beginning!
I’m hearing a lot of “. . . makes light work” references! We are beings of light. We exist within a context of light condensing into the forms of denser matter. When, indeed, people around us begin to realize just how much collaboration underpins what we think of as objective reality. . . can you even picture a simultaneous, full scale global awakening?
Imagine this window of time that we share as showing up a little early for a concert and as we listen to the orchestra tune thei...
Imagine this window of time that we share as showing up a little early for a concert and as we listen to the orchestra tune their instruments and warm up, we believe it to be the main event.
Where does everything come from? All of our precious commodities, everything crafted by the hand of man owes its origin to a natural resource. The gods of my childhood were always found under rocks and flowing with streams, on bellies of snakes and the backs of frogs. I’d be curious to learn my purpose and why I’m here. When I seek divinity now, in the evening of my life, I venture out into the mountains and deep within.
Trauma brings with it understanding through healing. Much like the rings in a tree, my growth is recorded in cycles of breakdowns and breakthroughs. All the world falls in love again to have survived and borne witness to a common catastrophic experience.
Ruthlessly and unapologetically, That’s how. . . . .
What I’m most grateful for in my life – my family, my health, and my home – will continue to be the focus of my “works” in the new sun.
Focus on the long view and keep busy! Not all defeats, not all celebrations are even our business, directly. For that much of life that we cannot ever hope to control, I believe it is enough that we are here to simply bear witness.
Diabetes is like suddenly having to learn to walk a tight rope.
This memory of a calm, clear voice that intervened at a critical point when I was about to commit to some very bad choices:
“Absolutely everyone who’s ever lived was born into uncertain circumstances and to uncertain times. Nothing you remember happened as you remember. Nothing now is as you perceive it. Nothing in what you understand to be the future, for better or worse, will culminate as expected. Oh, my beloved son, I am the way and the vessel of all that you desire. Why do you...
“Absolutely everyone who’s ever lived was born into uncertain circumstances and to uncertain times. Nothing you remember happened as you remember. Nothing now is as you perceive it. Nothing in what you understand to be the future, for better or worse, will culminate as expected. Oh, my beloved son, I am the way and the vessel of all that you desire. Why do you still resist?”
The woman yesterday to whom I offered my help with her groceries and she responded with, “just stay away from me!”. . . .
not her
Our entry to the Great Housing Swindle of 2008 (fixed 3.9% APR) and the choice to divest in 2012 where each a leap of faith. Leaving my job of fifteen years with hospice after my T1D diagnosis and moving back into my family’s home in N. Va was a leap of faith.
I’ve discovered that everything is a leap of faith. To have a child, to buy a house or a car, to change careers. . . or, simply to have eggs & toast for breakfast instead of cereal and coffee again is also a leap of faith...
I’ve discovered that everything is a leap of faith. To have a child, to buy a house or a car, to change careers. . . or, simply to have eggs & toast for breakfast instead of cereal and coffee again is also a leap of faith. It’s only a matter of how much of a gap that “leap” has to cover in order to move us from where we are to where we expect to be upon landing. At the end it is we who have to deal with the consequences of our choices and decisions.
Through practice, we can cultivate emotional and mental hygiene. All disease has energetic origins and spiritual implications; everything from cancer to a broken bone begins first in our energy fields. Unresolved emotional states precipitate into the physical tissues where they eventually express as “dis-ease”. When we emphasize susceptibility over communicability we naturally take actions toward prevention and resilience and shift the burden off of clinicians for treatments and vaccines....
Through practice, we can cultivate emotional and mental hygiene. All disease has energetic origins and spiritual implications; everything from cancer to a broken bone begins first in our energy fields. Unresolved emotional states precipitate into the physical tissues where they eventually express as “dis-ease”. When we emphasize susceptibility over communicability we naturally take actions toward prevention and resilience and shift the burden off of clinicians for treatments and vaccines. Primary among the many lessons that Covid exists as an opportunity for the human condition to learn is that the greater part of freedom is responsibility.
Transforming our world through the transformation of our very own hearts and minds; I’m grateful to see more and more of us realizing the connection between what goes on in the world around us and what’s happening within us. This is alchemy.
The discerning mind touches everything in a day with joy, appreciation, and responsibility. A man is surrounded by no more than the reflection of his own soul.
We haven’t seen anything yet!
Sahiba?
We reap what we sow, Holly. I’ll steer very clear of this one in the foreseeable future. I have other breakdowns that are ripe to transform into breakthroughs.
Thanks for the encouragement, Holly!
All the best in the new sun, Holly!
Can’t spell Christ without THC 😉
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