What if...
What if for the next seven days you challenged yourself...
Do you have what it takes?
What if you do?
What if you decided that you would say or do something nice to each and every person as soon as you see them...?
Strangers, family and friends are all included...
What if you see that person many times a day?
Yes, the rules are each time you see them you come up with something to say or do...
What if you asked your family and friends to play too?
What might you discover about people you know?
What might people learn about you?
Might people discover things that you appreciate about them that they did not know?
What if this game was very fun and up lifting to play?
What if this game was contagious and people decided to tell people about it?
How many smiles will you bring?
How many hearts can you warm?
How many can warm your heart?
What if you began to play this game on your very next breath...
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Monday, October 29, 2007
The friendship of communication...
Trista is much happier today...
Her and her best friend Jen made time to have a heart to heart talk and all misconceptions were laid to rest...
That strong bond that is known as a single word called - friendship...
Yes, they share that bond well...
It comes to mind that finding the balance between lives that are filled with busy schedules, that are often conflicting, is not as easy as it once was...
That fact that is not easy, does not mean it is not important to do.
I find myself often wishing that I had more time to share with my friends.
Even doing my blog posts are often in the middle of the night.
However busy you are, scheduling time to communicate is so important.
To let our friends know that we very much love them.
Have you taken the time to let your friends know that they are very much loved and needed?
You can't take for granted it is just something that they know, for just like a foreign language you used to speak but now never use, it is starts to be forgotten...
But have you noticed that sharing new moments with a friend, the time you spent away from each other is almost as if it was never there?
For gaps in time of a friendship have no meaning when you allow the "C" word word to blossom once again...
Communication is that which brings together - that which only appears to be separate...
Communication is what forges friendships - it is the fire that keeps them strong...
On a larger level we in America spent trillions of dollars on defense. How much of that money could be saved if we spent just a little money on great communicators?
Why not hire Tony Robbins to be an ambassador for America? Can you imagine how many friendships we could be forging in the world?
Instead of sending professional communicators we send our children with guns - and we call ourself a higher, more advanced society...
We've traded the club and the rock for an M-16...
How far have we really come?
Is it not blatantly apparent that the need for communication needs to be taken to a larger level?
OK, let me turn on Fox news...OK, apparently no one in charge realizes this...
You can't speak to a terrorist they are beyond communicating with you argue...
Well, yes when you can't speak very intelligently to your own country how exactly is that going to work talking to someone who is not all that rational?
The walk way in front of our house looks beautiful...
Why?
Because I did not do it, a professional did it...
Professional NLP based communicators are needed as ambassadors!
Lives, money, and face would be saved if this were in practice...
Ever talk to an M16?
Very dull interaction there...
I did not feel heard, or understood and all after the conversation...
I fought a lot when I was young...You know what I learned from all that fighting?
I got absolutely no where...
In contrast, everytime I have talked with people, and really listened and heard their needs, and did my best to share my own...a bond was formed...
No you could not see it with your eyes, you just knew it was there...
Kind of like Gods unconditional love...you can't see it, but you know it's there...
Communication strengths that bond, it renews that sharing...it builds up the "F" word...
Friendship...
Who will you share with today?
Her and her best friend Jen made time to have a heart to heart talk and all misconceptions were laid to rest...
That strong bond that is known as a single word called - friendship...
Yes, they share that bond well...
It comes to mind that finding the balance between lives that are filled with busy schedules, that are often conflicting, is not as easy as it once was...
That fact that is not easy, does not mean it is not important to do.
I find myself often wishing that I had more time to share with my friends.
Even doing my blog posts are often in the middle of the night.
However busy you are, scheduling time to communicate is so important.
To let our friends know that we very much love them.
Have you taken the time to let your friends know that they are very much loved and needed?
You can't take for granted it is just something that they know, for just like a foreign language you used to speak but now never use, it is starts to be forgotten...
But have you noticed that sharing new moments with a friend, the time you spent away from each other is almost as if it was never there?
For gaps in time of a friendship have no meaning when you allow the "C" word word to blossom once again...
Communication is that which brings together - that which only appears to be separate...
Communication is what forges friendships - it is the fire that keeps them strong...
On a larger level we in America spent trillions of dollars on defense. How much of that money could be saved if we spent just a little money on great communicators?
Why not hire Tony Robbins to be an ambassador for America? Can you imagine how many friendships we could be forging in the world?
Instead of sending professional communicators we send our children with guns - and we call ourself a higher, more advanced society...
We've traded the club and the rock for an M-16...
How far have we really come?
Is it not blatantly apparent that the need for communication needs to be taken to a larger level?
OK, let me turn on Fox news...OK, apparently no one in charge realizes this...
You can't speak to a terrorist they are beyond communicating with you argue...
Well, yes when you can't speak very intelligently to your own country how exactly is that going to work talking to someone who is not all that rational?
The walk way in front of our house looks beautiful...
Why?
Because I did not do it, a professional did it...
Professional NLP based communicators are needed as ambassadors!
Lives, money, and face would be saved if this were in practice...
Ever talk to an M16?
Very dull interaction there...
I did not feel heard, or understood and all after the conversation...
I fought a lot when I was young...You know what I learned from all that fighting?
I got absolutely no where...
In contrast, everytime I have talked with people, and really listened and heard their needs, and did my best to share my own...a bond was formed...
No you could not see it with your eyes, you just knew it was there...
Kind of like Gods unconditional love...you can't see it, but you know it's there...
Communication strengths that bond, it renews that sharing...it builds up the "F" word...
Friendship...
Who will you share with today?
Friday, October 26, 2007
Last night's Loreena McKennitt Concert
Last night Trista (my wife) and I went to see Loreena McKennitt in concert at the A.J Polumbo Center.
As we walk from the parking garage to the center where the concert was we are holding hands and swinging them. As I look over Trista has a big smile. That same smile that I never get tired of seeing. My wife is fun, every moment with her is magical...
We walk though the security and in front of us is the booth were they sell the merchandise. I am scanning the merchandise quickly with my eyes. I spy a shirt that I know she will like. I point it out to her. She does like it, and we hand the cash to the vendor. Lots of ones...
I smile as I remember recently being at Costco with Trista, we paid the whole bill with ones (the change we had got from a recent garage sale) The check out clerk looks at all the ones and
I say excitedly "We're exotic dancers" - and then I bust out laughing.
The clerks says "You're bad" as she is laughing very hard too.
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We walk into the concert find where are seats are and are way up at the very top, of the top of the concert hall. We did not expect much better seats - as we just got tickets a few days before the concert. We are very spontaneous like that.
One of the ushers walks up to us and says "how would you like better seats?"
We say "that would be great!"
So we move down out of "peanut heaven" to seats that are very good. We can actually see the people on the stage and know who is who :-)
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Two rows from me is a wonderful person from our new "Course in Miracles" group. I say hello to her. A few moments later three more people from our course in miracles group show up and their seats are two rows in front of us. We say hello to them too.
Out of all those people at the concert - those people who focus on spiritually, love and lack of judgment are nearest us.
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Much further away we see more friends. We see a group of friends that are mad at us for not condemning an ex-husband - who we are also very good friends with.
To expect either Trista or myself to judge or condemn anyone - is to first: not really know us - and second: to be very disappointed because it's never going to happen.
We will not judge or condemn anyone, not because it's the right thing to do.
But because it is simply who we are...
We love everyone and that is that...
We are not sorry we are this way...
We will not ever pretend to be different...
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In case you're not familiar with Loreena's music go here
to view some videos.
Loreena has never been to Pittsburgh, PA before.
It was such a wonder to have her share the beauty of the gift of music with all of us.
As the concert begins - her voice is what you would imagine an angel would sound like...
Her skin looked like it was bathed in a golden light as her blond hair reflected the stage lights...it was as if she was an angel on stage...
She had a amazing purity about her...
I watched in amazement - as her voice gently caressed each and every person at the the concert...
The first time she spoke and explained how she got interested in this type of music - you could tell you were in the presence of a person that was so soft, so gentle, a deep and genuine caring and love was expressed in every word...
You could tell she lived this caring...
She lived this love...
She was sharing from the bottom of her heart in each breath...
The group of musicians that make the music were all equally amazing...
Each totally passionate about the music...each outstanding in not only their abilities but how they worked together as one wonderful expression...
From fast and exciting solo duals - to slow expressions of love...
Every moment was filled with a wonder that was ethereal....
From envisioning mountains with trees grounded in the observation of life....
To a single breath of love...
It was a wonderful sharing of love...
After the concert we were talking with Renee and Blake (good friends who we have not talked to since the beginning of the summer) Renee and Blake are some of the nicest people you could ever meet. Renee introduced me to Trista 10 and half years ago. Renee is one of the worlds top fantasy artists you can see here work here
While we were talking Loreena came out and started meeting people and signing autographs.
We got to meet her in person. She talked to Trista's and signed her program.
She was such a sweetheart. I gave her a hug :-)
and we were off...it was such a wonderful evening!
As we walk from the parking garage to the center where the concert was we are holding hands and swinging them. As I look over Trista has a big smile. That same smile that I never get tired of seeing. My wife is fun, every moment with her is magical...
We walk though the security and in front of us is the booth were they sell the merchandise. I am scanning the merchandise quickly with my eyes. I spy a shirt that I know she will like. I point it out to her. She does like it, and we hand the cash to the vendor. Lots of ones...
I smile as I remember recently being at Costco with Trista, we paid the whole bill with ones (the change we had got from a recent garage sale) The check out clerk looks at all the ones and
I say excitedly "We're exotic dancers" - and then I bust out laughing.
The clerks says "You're bad" as she is laughing very hard too.
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We walk into the concert find where are seats are and are way up at the very top, of the top of the concert hall. We did not expect much better seats - as we just got tickets a few days before the concert. We are very spontaneous like that.
One of the ushers walks up to us and says "how would you like better seats?"
We say "that would be great!"
So we move down out of "peanut heaven" to seats that are very good. We can actually see the people on the stage and know who is who :-)
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Two rows from me is a wonderful person from our new "Course in Miracles" group. I say hello to her. A few moments later three more people from our course in miracles group show up and their seats are two rows in front of us. We say hello to them too.
Out of all those people at the concert - those people who focus on spiritually, love and lack of judgment are nearest us.
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Much further away we see more friends. We see a group of friends that are mad at us for not condemning an ex-husband - who we are also very good friends with.
To expect either Trista or myself to judge or condemn anyone - is to first: not really know us - and second: to be very disappointed because it's never going to happen.
We will not judge or condemn anyone, not because it's the right thing to do.
But because it is simply who we are...
We love everyone and that is that...
We are not sorry we are this way...
We will not ever pretend to be different...
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
In case you're not familiar with Loreena's music go here
to view some videos.
Loreena has never been to Pittsburgh, PA before.
It was such a wonder to have her share the beauty of the gift of music with all of us.
As the concert begins - her voice is what you would imagine an angel would sound like...
Her skin looked like it was bathed in a golden light as her blond hair reflected the stage lights...it was as if she was an angel on stage...
She had a amazing purity about her...
I watched in amazement - as her voice gently caressed each and every person at the the concert...
The first time she spoke and explained how she got interested in this type of music - you could tell you were in the presence of a person that was so soft, so gentle, a deep and genuine caring and love was expressed in every word...
You could tell she lived this caring...
She lived this love...
She was sharing from the bottom of her heart in each breath...
The group of musicians that make the music were all equally amazing...
Each totally passionate about the music...each outstanding in not only their abilities but how they worked together as one wonderful expression...
From fast and exciting solo duals - to slow expressions of love...
Every moment was filled with a wonder that was ethereal....
From envisioning mountains with trees grounded in the observation of life....
To a single breath of love...
It was a wonderful sharing of love...
After the concert we were talking with Renee and Blake (good friends who we have not talked to since the beginning of the summer) Renee and Blake are some of the nicest people you could ever meet. Renee introduced me to Trista 10 and half years ago. Renee is one of the worlds top fantasy artists you can see here work here
While we were talking Loreena came out and started meeting people and signing autographs.
We got to meet her in person. She talked to Trista's and signed her program.
She was such a sweetheart. I gave her a hug :-)
and we were off...it was such a wonderful evening!
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
The peace of movement...
Rick Cockrum had an interesting post on EFT and The Placebo Effect which you can read here.
This post is dedicated to why the placebo effect occurs. It is due to a movement of stuck emotion (energy)
You leave a car in your yard for years without moving it, the car will rust in place...
When a person is bed ridden sores are common - lack of movement know as "circulation"...
When exposed the cold, hands and feet are cold when there is not enough circulation...
Once again lack of movement...
Muscles become weak and small with lack of movement...
Everyone knows these are true...
Now lets look deeper...
Lack of movement of emotion in the body is even more unhealthy....
Stuck emotion is a block of the flow of energy...
Sometimes this is a lack of oxygen to the muscles - This oxygen depervation of the muscles is often the real cause of physical pain...
Has anyone ever said "You've got to let it go" "You need to forgive and move on" ?
What are they really saying?
They are saying you have trapped emotions (trapped energy) and it's effecting you emotionally, physically or both...
Once again it is a lack of movement...
What makes you so different from an old truck rusting in a junk yard?
Your ability to allow that energy to start to move right now in this very moment...
How?
Feel where you feel that in your body more than anywhere else...
Now begin to soften it from the edges... Soften it and allow it be a liquid that is flowing...
What direction does it want to flow?
Allow it to do just this. Follow it till it exists. Now think of that situation again and feel it in your body and shrink it down faster each time you flow it out...
How peaceful do you feel in this very moment?
This is the peace of movement...
Read the book "Oceans of Energy" for much more on this...Enjoy!
This post is dedicated to why the placebo effect occurs. It is due to a movement of stuck emotion (energy)
You leave a car in your yard for years without moving it, the car will rust in place...
When a person is bed ridden sores are common - lack of movement know as "circulation"...
When exposed the cold, hands and feet are cold when there is not enough circulation...
Once again lack of movement...
Muscles become weak and small with lack of movement...
Everyone knows these are true...
Now lets look deeper...
Lack of movement of emotion in the body is even more unhealthy....
Stuck emotion is a block of the flow of energy...
Sometimes this is a lack of oxygen to the muscles - This oxygen depervation of the muscles is often the real cause of physical pain...
Has anyone ever said "You've got to let it go" "You need to forgive and move on" ?
What are they really saying?
They are saying you have trapped emotions (trapped energy) and it's effecting you emotionally, physically or both...
Once again it is a lack of movement...
What makes you so different from an old truck rusting in a junk yard?
Your ability to allow that energy to start to move right now in this very moment...
How?
Feel where you feel that in your body more than anywhere else...
Now begin to soften it from the edges... Soften it and allow it be a liquid that is flowing...
What direction does it want to flow?
Allow it to do just this. Follow it till it exists. Now think of that situation again and feel it in your body and shrink it down faster each time you flow it out...
How peaceful do you feel in this very moment?
This is the peace of movement...
Read the book "Oceans of Energy" for much more on this...Enjoy!
Friday, October 19, 2007
The Halloween Massacre...
It is a party at Halloween...
A gathering of friends...
A time to dress up and pretend you're something that you're not...
For the other 364 days a year we usually wear a different costume...
Still pretending to be who we are not...
For if your thoughts, words, and actions are not based from the unconditional love that is in your heart...
You are wearing a costume...
You may even judge people who dress up for Halloween...
A "hypocrite" is not who you really are either...
It too, is just pretend...
When will you decide to know "who you are" beyond your costume?
When will you decide to know peace?
At Halloween dress up and party - for realizing that you are in costume all the time allows for time to ask "What is
beyond my outfit?"
For love begins when you ask "who I'm I?"
The person you see in the mirror is so small compared to the real you, it's like the very tip of a needle...
Let this Halloween be a massacre of the "need" to judge others, or yourself...
The sharing of laugher with friends is what is left - when judgment is no more...
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Which teacher will you choose?
There are teachers of love, and teachers of hate...
Which you will be a student of - says a lot about who you feel you are...
We you learn peace of unity, or more pain of separation?
Which teacher will you choose?
Why will you choose them?
Know peace or know judgment...
For there is no in between...
To judge is to instantly be judged for it is a mirror that stands in front of you...
Whether you see Christ standing in front of you - or a "lonely person" depends on which teacher you have learned from...
Which teacher will you choose?
Sunday, October 14, 2007
The smile of Christ is yours...
To meet one - where they feel they are...
To share in what they feel...
They are not alone...
You are there...
Christ is there - as one - in both of you...
To look into the eyes of another is to see the face of God in you...
For what you feel is "separate" is but an illusion...
What you feel as "one" - is truth...
Walk in this moment...
Two hands - with fingers intertwined...
Two palms touching with the warmth of embrace...
Love...
Union...
To know this "union" is to know truth...
For love is truth...
What is in your heart is truth...
Share the union of palms touching...
The smile of Christ is yours...
To share in what they feel...
They are not alone...
You are there...
Christ is there - as one - in both of you...
To look into the eyes of another is to see the face of God in you...
For what you feel is "separate" is but an illusion...
What you feel as "one" - is truth...
Walk in this moment...
Two hands - with fingers intertwined...
Two palms touching with the warmth of embrace...
Love...
Union...
To know this "union" is to know truth...
For love is truth...
What is in your heart is truth...
Share the union of palms touching...
The smile of Christ is yours...
Friday, October 12, 2007
ACIM Group!
This past Wednesday night I was able to start teaching and sharing at a new "A Course in Miracles" (ACIM) Group.
It is a wonderful collection of people!
They are genuine in their search for truth of who they really are, and how to achieve eternal peace.
I am very please to share these teaching with this group.
I will post a short post on the teachings that are being shared as we go along. Next meeting is two Wednesdays from now.
Before starting ACIM - I suggest reading "The Disappearance of the Universe" by Gary Renard. Then "Your Immortal Reality" by Gary Renard
Then the course will make much more sense when you read it.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Expression of freedom...
I have ten minutes to write this post so here goes...
Expression of freedom is in your heart...
Passion to share...
For your heart knows that sharing is its purpose...
To hold prisoner your thoughts, feelings and desires, is to suffer...
To share them is to shine...
To glow the golden light of God...
How many moments will you share?
How much happiness do you desire?
To share is to grow; to grow is to love...
Love is you glowing though sharing...
But I'm not sure what this person will think about what I have to share...
Your judgment of your self is far greater than anything you will receive from another...
To punish you is to suffer needlessly...
God seeks not to punish you...
Unconditional love sees no guilt...
For guilt is of ego in a dream of separation from God...
It is just mis perception...
to release this mis perception is to experience the true expression of freedom...
only you hold yourself prisoner...
Sharing love is you're "Key" to freedom...
Will you use your Key?
Expression of freedom is in your heart...
Passion to share...
For your heart knows that sharing is its purpose...
To hold prisoner your thoughts, feelings and desires, is to suffer...
To share them is to shine...
To glow the golden light of God...
How many moments will you share?
How much happiness do you desire?
To share is to grow; to grow is to love...
Love is you glowing though sharing...
But I'm not sure what this person will think about what I have to share...
Your judgment of your self is far greater than anything you will receive from another...
To punish you is to suffer needlessly...
God seeks not to punish you...
Unconditional love sees no guilt...
For guilt is of ego in a dream of separation from God...
It is just mis perception...
to release this mis perception is to experience the true expression of freedom...
only you hold yourself prisoner...
Sharing love is you're "Key" to freedom...
Will you use your Key?
Friday, October 5, 2007
An eternal smile...
Reflection...
I used to awaken in the morning to find that I had begun to daydream the moment I opened my eyes...
I would dream there were other people who did not accept me...
I would dream I was alone, different then everyone else...
I would dream that there were people arguing and fighting all around the world...
I would dream that "here was a subject and a separate object"...
I would dream that I was "off playing by my myself" - separate from God...
I would dream I was alone in this world separate from God...
all my days and nights were spent dreaming...
Till one day I woke from this dream...
I saw and felt everything as one...
Nothing was separate...
Vibrate are the colors...
Crisp are the sounds...
A love so profound that sharing is it's movement...
Eternity is it's direction...
Joy is it's voice...
All this happened on that day that I awoke...
Now I pretend to be part of this dream of separation...
So that through sharing of knowledge - all part of the mind may awaken to know the eternal peace and love within...
To know God from within...
To see God in every face...
When within and without become one...
An eternal smile is extended - as the kingdom without end...
Are you ready to begin smiling?
I used to awaken in the morning to find that I had begun to daydream the moment I opened my eyes...
I would dream there were other people who did not accept me...
I would dream I was alone, different then everyone else...
I would dream that there were people arguing and fighting all around the world...
I would dream that "here was a subject and a separate object"...
I would dream that I was "off playing by my myself" - separate from God...
I would dream I was alone in this world separate from God...
all my days and nights were spent dreaming...
Till one day I woke from this dream...
I saw and felt everything as one...
Nothing was separate...
Vibrate are the colors...
Crisp are the sounds...
A love so profound that sharing is it's movement...
Eternity is it's direction...
Joy is it's voice...
All this happened on that day that I awoke...
Now I pretend to be part of this dream of separation...
So that through sharing of knowledge - all part of the mind may awaken to know the eternal peace and love within...
To know God from within...
To see God in every face...
When within and without become one...
An eternal smile is extended - as the kingdom without end...
Are you ready to begin smiling?
Thursday, October 4, 2007
The power of release...
As I watch the swing go out so high it nearly become even with the ground...
"Higher daddy!" Our three year old daughter (Morgan) says...
I watch as her blond hair blows back with the gentle breeze...
the temperature is as flawless as the ocean blue of Morgan's eyes...
She says - I'm not supposed to say "what the heck" at school anymore. They said that was a bad word."
I say "are you sure it was not the context you used it in?"
(This does not seem like something you would say to a three year old, but then you have not met Morgan. She completely understands this sentence)
"Maybe" she says
"Daddy, I cried today at school" she adds (she's in preschool)
"Why did you cry today?" I ask
"Because I was in time out" she says (head down now)
"What did you do that you were in timeout?" I ask
"I pushed Ore into the blue house" she admits
"Why did you push her?" I ask
"I don't know" she says
"Are you sure you don't know why?" I ask
"Yes, I don't know why I did it. I just did it." she says
"Do you understand that what you did was wrong?"
"Yes, I know" she says with her head down
" I will not do it again." She says
I am not going to add more to compound her own "self punishment" for what she did. You can see on her face that she was really sorry for what she did.
She is a very good child who rarely gets into any trouble at all.
We are doing out best to teach her to share and get along with all people...
Not every moment will be perfect...
You can but show positive examples of peace by your actions...
even this is no guarantee that your child will follow them...
My wife and I show her unconditional love...
as we show this to each other...
she has never seen us argue...as in ten years of being together, we have not found a reason to argue...
Morgan is getting this at home...
But we have no control what she will learn from society...
Think for a moment that you do have control of this, and you are causing yourself great stress...
You can but be that change that you want to see in the world...
and release your need to control the end result...
releasing your need to control what already is - is more powerful than you can imagine...
it is the first step in your path to peace...
"Higher daddy!" Our three year old daughter (Morgan) says...
I watch as her blond hair blows back with the gentle breeze...
the temperature is as flawless as the ocean blue of Morgan's eyes...
She says - I'm not supposed to say "what the heck" at school anymore. They said that was a bad word."
I say "are you sure it was not the context you used it in?"
(This does not seem like something you would say to a three year old, but then you have not met Morgan. She completely understands this sentence)
"Maybe" she says
"Daddy, I cried today at school" she adds (she's in preschool)
"Why did you cry today?" I ask
"Because I was in time out" she says (head down now)
"What did you do that you were in timeout?" I ask
"I pushed Ore into the blue house" she admits
"Why did you push her?" I ask
"I don't know" she says
"Are you sure you don't know why?" I ask
"Yes, I don't know why I did it. I just did it." she says
"Do you understand that what you did was wrong?"
"Yes, I know" she says with her head down
" I will not do it again." She says
I am not going to add more to compound her own "self punishment" for what she did. You can see on her face that she was really sorry for what she did.
She is a very good child who rarely gets into any trouble at all.
We are doing out best to teach her to share and get along with all people...
Not every moment will be perfect...
You can but show positive examples of peace by your actions...
even this is no guarantee that your child will follow them...
My wife and I show her unconditional love...
as we show this to each other...
she has never seen us argue...as in ten years of being together, we have not found a reason to argue...
Morgan is getting this at home...
But we have no control what she will learn from society...
Think for a moment that you do have control of this, and you are causing yourself great stress...
You can but be that change that you want to see in the world...
and release your need to control the end result...
releasing your need to control what already is - is more powerful than you can imagine...
it is the first step in your path to peace...
Wednesday, October 3, 2007
This is my day job...
Daily sharing of love...
To set free the trapped anger, sadness and guilt...
To guide one to know God within...
To embrace the unconditional love that one discovers they have had all along...
To glimpse peace of a love so profound that tears of joy flow...
To shift one's identity from illusion to the truth of love...
This is my day job...
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
the puzzle of life...
Life is like a jigsaw puzzle...
At first it seems like there are so many pieces...
so many colors and shapes...
you ask the question - where do I begin?
you match like colors as people of like color and shape hang out together...
yet as these tribes are formed there is much of the puzzle that is still incomplete..
so you reevaluate the puzzle and you notice that these shapes and colors that seemed different,
really fit too...
so you accept them too...
and their pieces fit perfectly too...
you notice that each piece fits closely to each other piece...
its a harmony of shape, color and closeness...
you place more and more pieces together...
they all fit, at times it make take some time to find out how they fit, but they all do...
until you learn to fit them all the puzzle will remain incomplete...
so you step back and observe as much of the whole puzzle as you can, now the remaining piece fall into place...
as you place them into place...
no one is excluded...
each and every piece was needed to make the "one" whole again...
you go to see what the puzzle is a picture of...
but you can not...
as the whole is a picture of you...
experiencing that picture is beyond all perception...
it is to know God from within...
the unconditional love, and acceptance of all - in one picture...
in one moment...
this moment begins now...
where will you place this next piece of the puzzle standing before you?
The rain of acceptance
What today have you accepted?
What today have you stopped though rejection?
Which action leads to peace?
The eyes in which I see in all others - are very familiar to me...
To see though another's eyes is to know their perception...
To feel their heart is to know their truth...
every beat like a rain drop falling in slow motion...
Can you accept this person in front of you for whom they perceive they are?
Or will you judge them based on how you wish they were?
Will you experience freedom?
Or will you know pain even deeper?
With every beat of your heart comes another moment to accept and love what is in front of you...
What will you do with this next beat of your heart?
Repost interveiw
This is a repost from Tuesday, June 12, 2007 John Craig's interview with me.
I am going to start posting all the interviews with me on this personal blog - which is a sharing of love...
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Craig Photography – Five Question Interview
Long time friend John Craig, is the owner of Craig Photography located in Pittsburgh, PA
Besides doing wonderful photography, John is also the author of a very popular, internationally read Blog called "Craig Photography"
Very interesting reading can be found cradled by the beautiful photographs that you will find on John's blog. Check it out now.
Among the reading you will find that John does five question interviews with people. These interviews make for some very interesting reading.
John recently interviewed me.
Here are his five questions and the five answers.
This is the beginning of the interactive blog - You R Infinite
Feel free to ask your questions now...
1. When did you get a first glimpse of reality?
A: I was eight years old. I can remember it as if it was is happening right now - at this very moment;
I am standing on a blacktop back road in front of my grandmother's house.
As the heat from the sun rises from the blacktop underneath my feet, I feel my hand wipe a crossed my eyebrows gently taking some of the salty sweat away before it stings my eyes.
I have the basketball in hand, I hold it against my side as I wipe the sweat from my hand, and then the other hand.
I’m now holding the ball with both hands, I bounce it off the blacktop, once, twice, and a third time. I look up at the rusty hoop that has some old red paint barely clinging to it. What is left of the net is tattered and torn. I notice backstop is a very weathered homemade board that is attached to the wooden telephone pole with rusty nails.
I can feel my legs bend and then I push up I feel the ball as is floats upward from my fingertips and it goes and goes and then it hits the front of the metal ring and come bouncing back to earth. I had missed the shot, just as I had many times before. Sometimes making it and sometimes missing it. Kind of like life;
Sometimes we hear the voice of GOD,
more often though, we hear the voice of our own individuality.
I walked over to the top of my grandmothers steps and stopped to talk a break.
At that very moment I made a statement;
A statement that would forever change my life…
I said “I will know everything there is to know about GOD, life, and why are we here, what is here? I will accept nothing less than this.”
I felt a shudder deep inside me, a shiver run down my spine, and then a sense of peace that I never felt before.
I also had a knowing that this path was not going to happen overnight but rather;
this was to be a walk...
a walk of wonderment...
a walk of peace...
a walk of a love so deep, so unconditional...
that every part of me knew GOD was our true reality…
2. How do you accept your own self honesty of what you know?
A: I know there is no individual self knowing, but a sharing that is eternal love.
Love is a meaningless word - until it is shared,
Then it is simply you…
When you choose to release “all” that you’re not,
All that remains is unconditional love…
When will you choose to awaken...to forever remember...who you truly are?
3. How do you guide somebody who is looking for answers but not sure of the question?
Excellent question!
So many want answers till they are allowed to have them.
Then they draw a blank.
For in that very moment they draw that blank, they have briefly observed their mind, and it went quiet.
Enjoy this peace of mind, for each moment you observe your mind, "the peace eternity" will you be holding…
The you that is observing your mind - is who you really are "as spirit"…
For questions to come,
Allow yourself to first watch your mind and patiently wait for your next thought to come, and shift all your attention from your thoughts to feelings, place a hand on the middle of your chest and breath into the center of your chest deeply, continue this breathing deeply into the center of your chest;
then simply allow the questions to float to the surface, and then ask them…
4. Hypnotherapy, photography, bi-polar disorder, what gifts have they given you?
A: Hey now, that's (three) more questions - you said just five!
Just messing with you! Ask as many as you want.
Hypnotherapy - 21 years as a regression Hypnotherapist,
in working with people from all over the world,
of all different spiritual, and religious beliefs, or no religious beliefs,
This work has reinforced my knowing...that we are "but love"…this is an eternal - priceless gift…
In life we are pretending to be separate from “who” we really are…
From this - does all pain come…
Photography – Symbolism of light – I know you’re not too fond of long answers, but give me some leeway on this one.
It will be worth it - I promise - (grinning)
Walk with me – as the light cradles us…sharing light has been a gift…
Light...
Light can be very symbolic.
The passion of the red light as the sun rises and spills light, erasing darkness and confusion,
Illuminating togetherness, as everything your eye sees-touches everything else,
Perfection of the dream, as the symbolism of oneness touched by the light,
The symbolism is shared by everything, as sharing is who you are as spirit,
Spirit sees only love, for love is all that is true...
The noon sun light casts harsh shadows, and raccoon eyes,
The darkness of the eyes, is symbolic of the confusion of separation,
Symbolic of living inside of the rat race of the dream,
Yet, get close to a white object and the light reflects and lightens the raccoon eyes to a beautiful blend of tone,
This is symbolic of walking the path of forgiveness and love,
This is an illuminated path to awakening,
Hold out your hand so that another can share it and remember who you are,
You are what you have always been,
You have tried to hide from who you are,
You have tried to forget who you are,
Then you have tried to remember who you are,
When you have forgotten for so long it makes remembering difficult,
So let you, help you,
You are love,
You are sharing that love that you are,
You are peace,
You are that golden light as that end of the day,
That golden glow softly caresses your skin,
It illuminates you in all your beautiful radiance,
Yes, this is symbolic of who you really are,
That warmth, that glow, that love that is you,
Remove your belief in who you’re not,
Who you are is all that is left,
That all that you are is amazing,
Just be you...
Am I really the bi polar archer?
No, I am but a spirit,
The same spirit that is you,
For we are but love, and we are one...
Bi Polar Disorder
This is symbolic of duality;
- up/ down – left /right –forward/ back- ying /yang- heads/tails - you get the picture.
Duality- a “me” here / and a “you” there.
A subject and an object.
I felt a need to experience the pain of feeling completely and totally separate from GOD for half a year.
I have repeated this exercise for many years in succession.
Understanding and feeling the pain of man, woman, child does not healing make –
I have experienced the deepest and the darkest fears that we can experience, and this too does not healing make…
Healing only comes from letting go of what you’re not,
to then embrace what you are…
All perception of separation from the unconditional love of GOD is a nightmare,
All true sharing - is a walk toward awakening from this nightmare perception of separation…
You can choose to turn on the world news right now to see evidence of this nightmare,
or choose to look eyes of a child and see the innocence of that child - to remember that the real you as spirit is “now” and will be, forever innocent…
Choose to remember that you are eternally - GOD’s only child…
You are not this small little individual self that really is away from unconditional love…
but rather the perfect spirit that you have been since before time ever seemed to be…
All bad dreams end when you awaken from them…
Love is that which is waiting for you now…
Knowing the deep pain of our perception of separation from GOD is not real – Yes, this has been a precious gift…
5. Have you transcended the illusion?
Since we have never really left the unconditional love of GOD - from which we are but an extension – eternally created, for the purpose of sharing unconditional love…
In true reality - Hasn’t “everyone” - “as one” transcended the illusion?
Time - is the buffer that “seems to exist”- but is really just there to allow you not to be startled by awakening from this “ individual separation (EGO) illusion” too fast…
So your answer is yes "you" have transcended the illusion...
Bonus Question
*. How do you live with “that everything is ok accepted what is going on around you”?
(Poverty, African, ect,ect..)
Like everything, you can look at this two ways;
The EGO way is “Finding someone to blame”
Example of projection and passing blame:
What’s wrong with the government spending billions of dollars on defense, when you can’t go into any major American city without seeing homeless people starving right here in our own country!
Here’s another EGO judgment for you;
What’s wrong with the President who says he’s a Christian but is quick to start a war and push, and push, and push even when most of a county has said enough already.
Christ taught - love your neighbor as yourself
Forgive everyone for anything they have ever done to you
EGO is that part of your mind who’s thoughts are only of the individual, but pretends to care about others – really it is focused on who you can blame for all the injustices in the world…
" If I (individual I) was in charge things would be different…If I did this, If I did that, If I….things would be better…I would be a better parent than…." - all EGO thoughts
EGO is the part of the mind that has, and wants nothing to do with GOD.
What many hear from the EGO part of their mind is something along these lines;
Since EGO has completely forgot the fact that God “is unconditional love” -
The EGO feels like GOD is a punishing tyrant – who’s wrath will smite you for all your sins, you no good sinning bastard, you undeserving low life, right now you should bow down before the white haired creator of all, and beg for forgiveness, even though your chances are slim to none you will get forgiveness because you are so bad!
The EGO is not at all sane, yet it is the voice that us usually strongest in our minds.
In truth, you are none of those above things that the EGO tells you that you are.
GOD is unconditional love –
Anything that you love in life is but a symbol of that which is true love…
It is but a symbol of GOD…
So, if you love the peace you have in your country, and feel someone is trying to take it away.
What are they really trying to take away from you?
Yes, that’s right GOD.
EGO mind’s purpose for People is for you to have someone other than your individual self to blame.
What good does this do you?
It helps you not to feel guilty.
You can’t feel guilty if it’s not your fault something bad just happening.
There are just small life plays about the real issue.
You incorrectly perceive you have really left unconditional love of GOD and are now an individual identity.
All sadness comes from this feeling of loosing unconditional love.
That guilty feeling that you have left it and now are an individual separate from GOD is so great that;
You do not want to look at it…
You do not want to feel it…
You want it gone forever, but you not sure how to do it…
So usually we project it onto a perceived someone else.
Now I am innocent because of the fact that you’re guilty.
The Holy Spirit way of looking at life
The Holy Spirit is the other voice you hear in your mind…
It is the voice that always leads to thoughts, feelings,
and actions that based on unconditional love...
The voice the always leads to sharing…
The voice that leads to caring and acting unselfishly...
The voice that leads to forgiveness - for all whom you felt had wronged you, yourself included...
This is the voice that leads you on the path to awaken to the unconditional love of GOD…
To awaken to eternal peace love and joy…
To awaken to an eternal kingdom – a kingdom that you have only left only in a dream…
The love that awaits you in this very moment is as timeless and eternal as you are…
You are a perfect spirit, dreaming of exile from perfection…
Awaken and remember who you are…Smile, the eternal smile of joy…
I will always love you… as I have always loved you…for we are one…
“When you hold onto your thoughts by believing them - you suffer…
when you question them, forgive, and release them you don’t…”
The practice is this;
Observe any and all thoughts you have in every waking moment.
Forgive any thoughts that are not of complete and total unconditional love…
Forgive those thoughts, and then simply release them from your mind - as if letting go of a dove.
Imagine those negative thoughts gently being carried away from you by a large dove.
Act upon;
Any thoughts that are of a wonderful sharing;
A simple smile at a stranger…
Saying ‘Hi”…
Letting go of being too busy to listen…
Hugging someone…and feeling the love of sharing as you do…
Making love to someone, and feeling “as if” the two of you are becoming one…
Helping someone who needs help, just because you can…
Giving away something that someone else needs more…all receiving, is done though giving…
Watching children play…then joining in the fun and feeling the freedom of the innocence… an innocence that seems familiar to you, as it’s who you really are as spirit…
Dancing…closing your eyes and letting the music into your heart…letting the beat of the music move your body…setting your inhabitations free, yes watching as you let that dove go…
Playing music…feel your spirit talking as you are making music…allow the words to flow into notes…notes that are shared…
Talking to a homeless person…sharing of thoughts…feeling your soul…
Feeling your connection to everything around you…flowing in the peace that you are connected to all that you see…
Thoughts of loving - just to love… completely and totally absent of all fear…For the real you fears nothing…
These thoughts and actions are but some of the steps to the real you…to that timeless eternal you that you are in this very moment…
if you have ever said;
“Please guide me.”
then take my hand, and walk with me…
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