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This is the weblog of
Raymond Powers.
Here I will be sharing what I find of import, humor, concern, inspiration and on the transformational edge
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4 Jan 2008 @ 08:58
I recently updated my Photography Website. All of the images are from the area I live, Matilija Sanctuary in Ojai,Ca. Enjoy!
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| Friday, May 12, 2006 | |
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12 May 2006 @ 06:51
This was circulated a few years ago, but I'm glad someone sent it to me again. Inspires my compassion and gratitude. May it do the same for you.
The World at Glance
If we could reduce the worlds population to a village of precisely
100 people, with all existing human ratios remaining the same, the demographics would look something like this:
60 Asians 12 Europeans 5 US Americans and Canadians 8 Latin Americans 14 Africans
49 would be female 51 would be male
82 would be non-white 18 white
89 heterosexual 11 homosexual
33 would be Christian 67 would be non-Christian
* 5 would control 32% of the entire worlds wealth, and all of them would be US citizens
* 80 would live in substandard housing
* 24 would not have any electricity
* (And of the 76% that do have electricity, most would only use it for light at night.)
* 67 would be unable to read
* 1 (only one) would have a college education.
* 50 would be malnourished and 1 dying of starvation
* 33 would be without access to a safe water supply
* 1 would have HIV
* 1 near death
* 2 would be near birth
* 7 people would have access to the Internet
If to take a look at the world from this condensed perspective, the need for acceptance, understanding and education becomes evident.
Think of it!
If you woke up this morning with more health than sickness, you are luckier than the million that will not survive this week.
If you have never experienced a war,
a loneliness of an imprisonment,
an agony of tortures
or a famine
You are happier, than 500 million persons in this world.
If you are able to go to church, mosque or synagogue without fear of harassment, arrest, torture or death, you are happier, than 3 billion persons in this world.
* If there is a meal in your refrigerator,
* if you are dressed and have got shoes,
* if you have a bed and a roof above your head,
you are better off, than 75% of people in this world.
If your parents are still alive and still married, then you are a rarity.
* If you have a bank account,
* money in your purse
* and there is some trifle in your coin box,
you belong to 8% of well-provided people in this world.
If you read this text, you are blessed three times as much, because
1. Someone has thought of you;
1. You do not belong to those 2 billion people who cannot read
1. and... you have your computer
Someone said once:
* Work like you don't need money,
* Love like you've never been hurt,
* Dance like nobody's watching,
* Sing like nobody's listening,
* Be surprised, like you were born yesterday,
* Tell the truth and you don't have to remember anything,
* Live like it's Heaven on Earth.
This is your World!
And you are able to make changes!
Hasten to do good works!
Think of it! More >
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| Saturday, April 29, 2006 | |
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 29 Apr 2006 @ 08:34
the Goddess Re-Awakening
an introduction to the Goddess Religion
Presented by Letecia Layson
According to Demetra George, Feminist Astrologer and Author, the Goddess is awakening from a 5,000 year cycle of sleep. Hear Her-Story as we trace the roots of the Goddess Religion, the contemporary Goddess Movement and how these are both affecting and contributing to a sustainable future.
Join us for an lively afternoon of sharing, guided visualization, and ending with a short ritual. The content includes insights and information from Letecia's travels. Through sound, we will merge our voices with hers in celebration of ourselves, the season and our commitment to personal and planetary transformation.
Date/Time: Sunday, April 30th, 2006 ~ from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Location: The Goddess Temple of Orange County
17905 Sky Park Circle, Suite A, Irvine, CA 92614
Directions: San Diego/405 freeway (Irvine) exit MacArthur (north/inland)
on MacArthur go two streets, past Main to Sky Park East
Left on Sky Park East one street to Sky Park Circle
Right on Sky Park Circle about two blocks to building 17905 on right
Temple at end of building. Abundant free parking all around.
Cost: $30.00 at the door ($20 pre-registration by April 20th)
What to Bring: journal/note-taking materials and a candle in a holder
About the Presenter: Letecia Layson is a Filipina, Feminist, Futurist, Priestess of Morphogenesis (Form Coming Into Being), Priestess of Isis and High Priestess of Diana, ordained in the Dianic Tradition, The Fellowship of Isis (FOI) and TheTemple of Isis. Letecia was the recipient of the 2003 Catherine Wright Award for Equality and Justice in Alternative Spiritual Awareness by Feas2t. In 2005 Letecia's activism has brought her to the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil and 13th Commission of Sustainable Development at the UN in New York.
Dedicated to a path of service to She of Ten Thousand Names, Letecia is committed to embodying the principle, 'personal is political' by healing and transforming civilization through her words, voice, dance, art and rituals. She works with her communities, Circle of Aradia and The Temple of Isis in Los Angeles, CA. She cultivates Life and land through permaculture in Ojai, CA with her new cat who has not shared her name, three housemates, their two cats and Kalu a Tibetan Mastiff.
Additional Info / Questions – leave a message for Bridget at 949-589-7236 More >
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| Tuesday, March 14, 2006 | |
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14 Mar 2006 @ 09:01
Another sublime day in Ojai. The Topa Topa mountains are in the distance.
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14 Mar 2006 @ 07:28
I took this photo just after the rain stopped in Ojai, CA, the town where I live. More >
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| Thursday, November 24, 2005 | |
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 24 Nov 2005 @ 16:50
If you've had an inspiring wild animal story please post it here. Our communion with nature is something to be grateful for. So goes my story.......
I had an incredible experience yesterday. I felt like St. Francis of Assisi. A Canyon Wren had found its' way into my cabin. I tried to escort it out but it kept buzzing around the top ceiling beams and such. Finally it knocked it self out, slamming into a window up on a indoor ledge by the roof. I climbed on a chair and picked it up with a t-shirt. I thought it might be dead because it wasn't moving, the inner eyelids were closed and it's beak was frozen open. It was very still. I brought it outside and started stroking it's back and blowing on it's body and down it's beak. I also wrapped my hand around it and did the sort of energy mojo I do. After about five minutes, (it seemed longer than that), it's eyelids pulled back, but it's legs, feet, body and beak were all still frozen. I didn't know if it had a broken wing or had internal damage. It never fluttered but it closed it's beak after I blew more resusitation (spl?) air into it and hopped up on its' legs, even though it's feet were still paralyzed and curled under. I walked into the yard, more onto a grassy area and bathed it in sunlight and energy work and then it perked up and started walking up my arm and back down and very cool, check this out, perched itself on my finger and started singing and chirping. I thought it would fly off once it realized, oh no I'm on a human, but, again a beautiful gift, it stayed perched on my hand for like 10-15 minutes as I walked around the yard with it and listened to it's song. I felt so blessed to have a free, wild bird be in such fearlessness of me and I in connection with it. I was in this altered zone paying rapt (not raptor {-:) attention to it and then felt a Oneness with the land and everything around me that was sublime. I walked back to my cabin with it still on my finger and when I reached it, it fluttered up to the roof and hung out awhile looking at me, singing and then flew up into the pine tree that hovers over my home. More >
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| Thursday, October 6, 2005 | |
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6 Oct 2005 @ 01:59
No matter how different we all are and whether we have four legs or
none, we can always look past the differences and love each other... More >
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| Monday, July 18, 2005 | |
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18 Jul 2005 @ 19:24
It's All About Perspective......
Julian Beever is an english artist who’s famous for his art on the pavement of england, France, germany, usa, australia and belgium. It’s particularity ? Beever gives to his drawing an anamorphose, his images are drawn completly diforms which give a 3D image when viewing on the righ angle … see for yourself it’s amazing !!! More >
   
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| Sunday, July 10, 2005 | |
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10 Jul 2005 @ 15:17
Though at times it may feel like we simply blend in and are lost in the machinations of modern culture, we are all Divine sparks of illumination, individuated seeds of potential yearning to be realized. Our innate gifts, our passionate expressions, are a creative force constantly manifesting the world we live in and the future we willl behold. More >
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| Friday, July 1, 2005 | |
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1 Jul 2005 @ 21:02
"STOP" -- By John Sherman
Let me give you the short version of my story, and what brings me here
in this meeting with you this evening. I come to you in a life of abject
failure and foolishness. I failed as a child; I was a miserable,
self-centered, greedy, grasping, spoiled child. I failed as a student in
school; I was thrown out of school in the tenth grade. I failed as a soldier
and then as a machinist. I failed as a gambler, as a fraudulent credit card
manipulator, as a check writer, as a revolutionary. And, finally, I failed
at failure. In this life I have spent eighteen and a half years in federal
prison.
I have been in gun fights, bank robberies, property bombings, escapes -
a couple of years on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list - and then, in 1994,
when I had been in prison for about fourteen and a half years, I failed again.
By that time I had gotten kind of accustomed to the fact that I had a failure
as a life, and it was okay. I think I had come to terms with the fact that
my life was a failure, and that there seemed to be nothing I could do about
it.
And then, in the most unbelievable, most amazing, most miraculous stroke
of luck that is imaginable, Gangaji appeared in the prison in which I was
spending time. And I failed at failure. In the meeting with Gangaji, the
whole life was revealed to be redeemed.
Now, for a while, I have been traveling around wherever people will
sit still long enough to hear me, and speaking to them from my experience
in this meeting with Gangaji. Everything I speak of is what I have
discovered in this meeting with her. What I have discovered in listening to
her, and following her guidance and instruction. Sometimes the things
that I speak about are unrecognizable as having come from her, but that's
mostly because it comes through this strange, bizarre and crooked form.
What I have discovered in this meeting with Gangaji is that you are perfect.
You are absolutely free. Now, in this moment, you are without problems.
You are without suffering, without ignorance and without clarity.
You are perfect, empty, openhearted consciousness, aware of itself
as you. And everything whatsoever that we do with the purpose of
finding fulfillment and satisfaction in these lives only postpones
the moment when we can discover that there's absolutely nothing to get.
Nowhere to go. Nothing to do. Nothing to understand.
Everything whatsoever that you have ever wanted, no matter what
you might think you have wanted, you already have. Actually, it's less
than that. You already are. It's so much closer than having.
And all of the practices, all the philosophies, all of the teachings that
we fall in love with and imagine will give us what we're looking for
have no meaning. You are free. You are absolute, openhearted
consciousness itself playing as you. Any discussion that we have
as to what might be done to resolve whatever issues or problems
or short-comings that you might imagine to be present, any
discussion that we have to that end, also is an absolute waste of time.
There's nothing for you to do. It really is this simple.
There's nothing to get. There's nothing to understand. Therefore,
stop trying. All of the great teachers, all of them, have told us the
same thing. They have told us we are what we seek. And for the
most part, what we say is something on the order of "Oh, I get it.
It's you." And then we get busy trying to be what we imagine
"you" to be like.
This is so simple. Ramana made this startling assertion that I first read,
and puzzled over, and was perplexed about, when I was in prison.
Ramana said, "The only thing standing between you and
Self-realization is the belief that you are not already fully realized."
Now, just as you are. Nothing changed. Nothing fixed. Nothing
straightened out. Nothing made to go away. Nothing made
to come or stay. Just as you are. Unconditionally realized,
perfection itself. Just as you are.
And this is where it gets to the "tricky" part. Because we say, and
I say, "Stop." Stop doing whatever you're doing to get what you think
you need. And the tricky part is that there is absolutely no way
to tell that any stopping has taken place. The activity goes on
just as it always has. You didn't start it, you can't bring it to an end.
The mind in its madness, in its conversation with itself, in
its monitoring of its behavior, that too can very well continue.
Playing. Meaning nothing. You didn't start that, you can't stop that.
The negative emotions, the greediness, the lust, the grasping,
the wanting…That too may never stop. It may play for the
rest of this life. You didn't start that; you can't bring it to an end.
The truth is, so far as I can tell, we didn't have anything to
do with "leela," none of this play, none of this amazing manifestation.
So far as I can tell, we arrive in these lives like plopped down into
a virtual reality video game. We don't know what the rules are;
we don't know who or what we are; we don't know what the object is;
we don't know what pitfalls and obscurations may lay in our path.
We have only this impetus, this energy to move, to do, to become,
to figure it out, knowing all the time that there's something missing,
something wrong. That there is some purpose for me being here,
some object to this game.
Click her to read More >
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| Sunday, March 27, 2005 | |
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27 Mar 2005 @ 03:55
Really fun graphical interactive journey. About 1.6 megs
ZoomQuilt More >
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| Thursday, October 14, 2004 | |
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14 Oct 2004 @ 17:56
Jack Turns 90
Happy Birthday to Jack LaLanne, the father of virtually everything to do with fitness in America. By Steve Edwards Showing no signs that there is any exaggeration in his slogan, "I can't die. It would ruin my image," Jack LaLanne celebrated his 90th birthday on September 26th, looking as spry and fit as a man half his age. And if you were to ask him how old he feels, his response would be "29," the prime age of a man in terms of fitness.
LaLanne, as most of you probably know, was the person that almost single-handedly popularized weight training as a means of general conditioning. He also opened the first gym in America in 1936. In 1951, he brought fitness into American homes with The Jack LaLanne Show, which remained on the air for more than 30 years. On his show, LaLanne showed viewers how to exercise using items found in any household.
Since you can find general information on LaLanne on many Web sites, we'll celebrate his birthday by listing some of what I consider to be the more entertaining highlights of his iconoclastic career.
Explaining the age estimation mentioned above, LaLanne once devised a scale where you could compute your "fitness age." Since this scale topped out at 29, he always claimed he was really 29. A few years back on the Larry King Show, Jack could barely sit still for the interview (giving the impression that he rarely sits still) and prodded—literally—King to ask him his fitness age. When King finally took the bait, Jack exclaimed, "Twenty-nine!"
When he first started out, LaLanne had a very hard time getting anyone to pay attention to him and was referred to as a "muscle-bound charlatan." Desperate for work, he made a deal with the coach of a local college football team that if he could impress the coach, he'd be allowed to train the players. Meeting up at a steep sandy bluff, LaLanne put the team's largest player on his back and sprinted straight up the hill. He got the job, and the rest is history.
A proponent of supplementation, LaLanne takes hundreds of vitamins and supplements daily. Though one of these is desiccated liver, his diet is mainly vegetarian, and on his Web site you can purchase a juicer along with various recipes for natural concoctions. Jack's diet advice is, "If man makes it, don't eat it."
His birthday challenges are legendary and almost none of them have been repeated. My favorite is the one on his 70th birthday, where he pulled 70 people in 70 boats across Long Beach Harbor (around 2 miles), while swimming with his hands and feet shackled. Responding to one interviewer who seemed incredulous, he said, "[I swam] like a dolphin [showing a dolphin motion]. They don't have hands or feet."
He also pulled a barge loaded with 2,000 pounds the length of the Golden Gate Bridge while swimming underwater. It's very hard to generate force this way—unless you are a dolphin. He wanted to top this off by swimming entirely underwater from Catalina Island to Los Angeles, about 26 miles, but had to call it off because, he said, "My wife told me she'd leave me if I tried it."
In an edgy Outside magazine article written by Donald Katz, the always-quotable LaLanne pooh-poohed a lot of modern training "knowledge" with some gems, including saying Suzanne Somers "should have been thrown in jail" for peddling the ThighMaster as a fitness solution and that Tony Little was an embarrassment: ". . . the guy who screams on TV. He's like an imbecile!" But my favorite was his critique of modern sports medicine that included, "Fifteen minutes to warm up! Does a lion warm up when he's hungry? 'Uh-oh, here comes an antelope. Better warm up.' No! He just goes out and eats the sucker. You gotta get the blood circulating, but s#%t, does the lion cool down? No, he eats the sucker and goes to sleep."
For years, he offered up $10,000 to anyone who could keep up with him for a one-hour workout. In his mid-eighties, he allowed a fitness magazine writer to take him up on the challenge, even though he no longer publicly offered it. When the author first saw him, as he stated in the article, he thought it would be easy money, noting that Jack resembled his grandfather. The next line was something like, "We're not quite done with the warm-up, less than five minutes in, and I'm about to puke." LaLanne then went on to outlift him by an average of 50 pounds on each exercise. At the end of the workout, they got into Jack's 55-degree pool where the writer was harnessed to the wall and told to butterfly. He stopped after about a minute, totally out of breath, only to hear, "I used to do that for an hour every morning."
Now 90, LaLanne isn't about to slow down and you still hear scuttlebutt around the fitness world of the Catalina-to-LA swim. He calls retirement "a death knell."
"You've got to work at living," he always says. "99.9% of Americans work at dying!" More >
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| Saturday, September 25, 2004 | |
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25 Sep 2004 @ 15:45
I was searching the net for factual, non-reactive writing about sovereign citizenship, the history of the US, taxation etc. so I can have an intelligent conversation with my housemate and I came across all these quotes from one of the websites.
I'm a collector of quotes, sometimes, I like the short hand brilliance that can be so inspiring.
QUOTES ON FREEDOM:
* "In America, disagreement is patriotic. That's how we stay free. This was a nation founded on dissent, on the proud notion that all people are free to speak and believe what they choose." Joe Eastman
* "By the blessing of God, may our country become a vast and splendid monument, not of oppression and terror, but of wisdom, of peace, and of liberty, upon which the world may gaze with admiration forever." Daniel Webster, First Bunker Hill Oration, Engraved on a plaque on the quarterdeck of the USS Bunker Hill, CG-52
* "Take charge of your attitude. Don't let someone else choose it for you."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Take care of your reputation. It's your most valuable asset."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, 'Gee, if I'd only spent more time at the office.'"--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Don't flaunt your success, but don't apologize for it either."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Every day look for some small way to improve the way you do your job."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Instead of using the word PROBLEM, try substituting the word OPPORTUNITY."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Don't delay acting on a good idea. Chances are someone else has just thought of it, too. Success comes to the one who acts first."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Helen Keller, Leonardpo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Remember that the deal's not done until the check has cleared the bank."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Don't spread yourself too thin. Learn to say no politely and quickly."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Discipline yourself to save money. It's essential to success."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Remember that overnight success usually takes about fifteen years."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Never ask a lawyer or accountant for business advice. They are trained to find problems, not solutions."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Hire people smarter than you."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Show respect for others' time. Call whenever you're going to be more than ten minutes late for an appointment."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Never pay for work before it's completed."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Never waste an opportunity to tell good employees how much they mean to the company."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Be a good loser."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Don't discuss business in elevators. You never know who may overhear you."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Commit yourself to constant self-improvement."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Choose work that is in harmony with your values."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Don't quit a job until you've lined up another."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember that the big print giveth and the small print taketh away."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Never encourage anyone to become a lawyer."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "When someone wants to hire you, even if it's for a job you have little interest in, talk to them. Never close the door on an opportunity until you've had a chance to hear the offer in person."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Don't waste time learning the "tricks of the trade." Instead, learn the trade."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "If in a fight, hit first and hit hard."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "Ask for a raise when you feel you've earned it."--Life's Little Instruction Book; H Jackson Brown
* "A diamond is a chunk of coal that made good under pressure."--Anonymous
* "There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can."--Mark Twain
* "Work well done is art."--A Father's Book of Wisdom, H. Jackson Brown
* "If you work for a man, in Heaven's name work for him! If he pays you wages that supply your bread and butter, work for him, stand by him, and stand by the institution he represents."--Elbert Hubbard
* "God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them."--Old Proverb
* "The biggest mistake you can make is to believe that you work for someone else."--Unknown
* "More people rust out than wear out."--A Father's Book of Wisdom, H. Jackson Brown
* "Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life."--Confucius
* "I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position."--Mark Twain
* "The true measure of success is not what you have, but what you can do without."--A Father's Book of Wisdom, H. Jackson Brown
* "There is never a wrong time to do the right thing."--A Father's Book of Wisdom, H. Jackson Brown
* "We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."--Norman MacEwan
* "Success comes before work only in the dictionary."--Anonymous
* "Behind every successful man stands a proud wife and surprised mother-in-law."--Brooks Hays
* "The road to success is not doing one thing 100 percent better, but doing 100 things one percent better."--A Father's Book of Wisdom, H. Jackson Brown
* "Success is best measured by how far you've come with the talents you've been given."--A Father's Book of Wisdom, H. Jackson Brown
* "Failure is success if we learn from it."--Malcom Forbes
* "He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much."--Bessie Anderson Stanley
* "Not in time, place, or circumstance, but in the man lies success." -- Charles Rouce
* "When an archer misses the mark, he turns and looks for the fault within himself. Failure to hit the buss-eye is never the fault of the target. To improve your aim-improve yourself."--Gilbert Arland
* "Don't be surprised to discover that luck favors those who are prepared."--H. Jackson Brown
* "Every now and then, bite off more than you can chew. This is how you grow and improve."--H. Jackson Brown
* "America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. On the road to tyranny, we've gone so far that polite political action is about as useless as a miniskirt in a convent." Claire Wolfe
* "Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character."--Booker T. Washington More >
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| Tuesday, July 27, 2004 | |
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27 Jul 2004 @ 18:05
It is our desire that what you have gathered from this above all other things is:
"It is time for me to just relax and chill out and let the wellbeing that is natural to me play a bigger part in my life."
You are magnificent beings who are powerful in your creating...
And friends, YOU ARE TRYING TOO HARD!!!
Life is supposed to be good and it is supposed to be fun.
Let more of your moments be about things that interest you. Let more of your moments be about things that feel good while you are focused on them. Let more of your moments be about things that make your heart sing. Or things that taste good, or things that look good, or things that smell good.
Just relax more of the time!
Be the selfishly oriented GENIUS that you were born to be and insist that you feel good more of the time.
And it is our promise to you that blessings beyond anything that you have lived will flow into your experience...AND FAST! There is great love here for you. We are complete.
Boston, 5/15/04 More >
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| Sunday, July 18, 2004 | |
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18 Jul 2004 @ 10:21
I really enjoyed (and needed) this affirmation Letecia sent to me.
July 18: The Modern Mystic
I become a modern mystic when I know that the source of self-nurturing comes from within. Discipline can be seen as arising out of awareness. Once I am willing to be conscious of the effect of my actions on both myself and those around me, I know that to hurt myself is to hurt another, and to hurt another is to hurt myself. This is how I can use my relationships to perceive the infinite. By allowing myself to feel truly connected to another person, I help to create a sort of dwelling place for the holy spirit. We carve out of the object-worship atmosphere of modern culture, a sacred space where, for a brief time, we contain and invite the presence of soul.
We create a space for soul.
O Lord, the veils of matter conceal Thee from me. How long wilt Thou remain invisible behind the lovely screens of lilies and roses, the clouds of burning gold, and the silent star-decked night? Though they hide Thee, I love them because they hint at Thy presence. Yet I yearn to see Thee as Thou truly art, Thy robes of creation laid aside. Paramahanse Yogananda More >
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| Tuesday, April 27, 2004 | |
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27 Apr 2004 @ 14:35
Thanks to my friend Patricia Fourstar-Sullivan who sent me this. It is material from Esther Hicks who is an inspirational speaker who dialogs with a group of spiritual teachers who call themselves Abraham.
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In all the time space realities we have ever focused, the only species that we know of in all of that that believes in lack is the human physical beings....
If you step back into the broader view, you understand that everything that is physical is an extension of nonphysical energy. And as you understand that the nonphysical energy is continuous. In other words, everything is moving forward. Everything is becoming more. Law of attraction says that it must. So when you understand that there is this endless source and that the only thing that even remotely relates to the feeling that you call waste is the disallowance of this energy...
When the energy does not flow, the absence of the light exists. Now that absence of the light you could call lack, but it has been imposed by the physical human who stopped it from flowing or who didn't summon it to begin with, but it's existence, it's potential is always there for you. So the only thing that even remotely resembles this feeling of lack, shortage, in other words not enough time, not enough money, all this not enoughness is the very resistance we've been talking about. It's the contradictory thought that disallows the energy from flowing but it does not mean that the source was not there.
If you were standing at Niagara Falls and someone explained to you that this is your source of abundance. Wellness flows in this amazing flow. Wellness, clarity, dollars, is all flowing to you in this Niagara Falls, and these falls are yours and yours alone to use in whatever way you are wanting in this lifetime. Oh wait, there is one other... see way over there in the distant bank, and you look way over there and you see a tiny little figure of a thing there in the mist and you are told that other one person and you share all this abundance and energy and you say "Oh! There is more than enough than either of the two of us could ever use." You would not find yourself worrying about what he did with it. You can barely see him anyway. You would not worry about what he would do with it or what he wouldn't do with it because the abundance is so enormous. Instead you would get focused on how you would utilize it, and you would begin to understand that even if you gave it every waking moment in this physical experience, you could not even begin to make the slightest difference in this stream... so finally when you get it, that the stream is enormous and eternal and ever present and always flowing, finally once you get that, then you stop worrying about what anyone else is doing with it or about it and you just develop your relationship with the stream.
Abraham - 3/4/98 More >
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13 Apr 2004 @ 17:00
In Jai Uttal's recent Bhakti Files newsletter he had this to say:
Recently, some friends and I have been discussing the subject of 'grace': god's grace, guru's grace......... Of course, everyone has their own ideas. Some think grace is a result of effort. Some say it's a matter of karma. To me it seems that grace is an expression of the unconditional, causeless love of the guru or god for his/her children. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with karma. Guru's grace can eradicate karma in an instant. It is beyond cause and effect. Nor does it seem to have much to do with effort. We read about great yogis with supernatural powers falling into the endless mire of ego. Grace is god's gift to us, regardless of who we are or what we've done. It is a gift that brings us closer to him. It is an unending stream of blessings coming from the great heart of the universe. It is the glance of the guru. It is a smile from the beloved. Perhaps all that is asked of us is to be grateful, to simply say "thankyou", to appreciate the blessings in our own lives........ Of course, this is just my opinion. The only one who really knows what grace is is the one who bestows it. Only the sun truly knows it's own radiance, it's own heat. Only the moon truly knows the gentleness of it's rays. But through grace, we get little tastes, little reflections of the infinite splendor of god...... More >
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26 Jan 2004 @ 19:00
Letecia sent me this beautiful quote.
January 26: Controlling the Outcome
I live with the illusion that if I try hard enough, think hard enough, work hard enough and plan well enough, I will be able to control the outcome of a given situation. Soul tells me to take the action and let go of the results. When I feel that I can control the outcome, I live in the result rather than the process. "Life is what happens when you are making other plans." Trying to control results dams up the waters within me. My energy is spent on managing rather than living. When I feel that I am somehow responsible for the outcome of a situation, I get tangled up in a tedious maze of micro-management. I try to determine other people's feelings, perceptions and actions in an attempt to anticipate all the possibilities, so that I can better manage them. Living in the outcome is a way to avoid the present; consequently, it becomes living away from soul.
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13 Jan 2004 @ 16:42
I was inspired and moved by Ming's blog entry about his personal journey and "coming to balance' in the "New Age".
I feel similar. As I become more related and "embodied" all the paranormal, metaphysical, multi-dimensional, intergalactic holographic experiences become a foundation rather than the focus in my life. The "real" challenge of communicating, intimacy, expressing life purpose, navigating the cultural precepts and earth rules becomes my intent; to learn to fully dwell here, now, so I can know love, so I can give love without preconceptions, expectations, fantasies.
Thank you Flemming for sharing your heart.
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13 Jan 2004 @ 16:42
I was inspired and moved by Ming's blog entry about his personal journey and "coming to balance' in the "New Age".
I feel similar. As I become more related and "embodied" all the paranormal, metaphysical, multi-dimensional, intergalactic holographic experiences become a foundation rather than the focus in my life. The "real" challenge of communicating, intimacy, expressing life purpose, navigating the cultural precepts and earth rules becomes my intent; to learn to fully dwell here, now, so I can know love, so I can give love without preconceptions, expectations, fantasies.
Thank you Flemming for sharing your heart.
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