Sunday, May 6, 2012

Here's to a wonderful Year!

The beginning of a new year for me. I'm looking forward to all the gifts coming my way!!

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Awakening to Your Inner Light


AWAKENING TO YOU INNER LIGHT Class 
with Nancy R. Griffin
www.griffinpublishing.org

A simple technique to help you reach your highest spiritual connection including:
     ·       Develop your intuitive abilities
     ·       Balance your chakras
     ·       Heal your mind, body and spirit
     ·       Align with your inner peace
     ·       Connect to your divine telephone line to your higher power



Sunday, June 24, 2012
3:30-4:30pm
$25
Free Angel Channeling Crystal
(for the first 75 people)

Temple of Light Spiritual Community
23832 Rockfield Blvd, Suite 195
Lake Forest, CA 92630

Thursday, May 3, 2012

The Destination Method Convictions Model


From Dr. Robert Dee McDonald of the Telos Healing Center:
Spiritual:
  1. People are beings, not actions, nor things, nor systems of things. “I am I, not my body, my emotions nor my mind.” 
  1. People are Innocent, incomparably good.  “I am Innocent, incomparably good.”
  2. When people are convinced that Innocence is Infinite, they lean toward fearlessness and virtue. – “When I am convinced that Innocence is Infinite, I lean toward fearlessness and virtue.”
  3. People do not have inner enemies.  “I have no inner enemy. I have only inner friends.”
  4. People contain a body-mind reciprocal system.  “I contain a body-mind reciprocal system.”
  5. People are loved by every part of their body-mind system.  “I am loved by every part of my system.”
  6. People create the world by thinking the Infinite into maps and maps into territories. – “I create the world by thinking the Infinite into maps and maps into territories.
  7. The Infinite is people: an intelligible sphere whose circumference is nowhere and whose center is everywhere – “The Infinite is me: an intelligible sphere whose circumference is nowhere and whose center is everywhere”
  8. The Soul is people: an intelligible sphere whose circumference is nowhere and whose center is in their bodies – “The Soul is me: an intelligible sphere whose circumference is nowhere and whose center is in my body.”
Mental:
  1. People’s minds are like map makers of reality.  My mind makes representations of my experience.
  1. People’s mental maps are made of pictures, sounds, feelings, smells and taste.  My mental maps are made of inner pictures, sounds, feelings, smells and tastes.
  2. The mental maps people make are not the territory.  My mental maps are not the territory it represents.
  3. When people create a mental map of a mental map, the first mental map becomes the territory. – “When I create a mental map of a mental map, the first mental map becomes the territory.”
  4. People respond to their maps of reality, not to reality.  “I respond to my maps of reality, not to reality.”
  5. If people change their mental maps, they’ll change their emotional state.  “If I change my mental maps, I’ll change my emotional state.”
  6. People are unaware of some of their mental maps.  “I am unaware of some of my mental maps.”
  7. People’s minds always sit in judgment of their maps.  “My mind always judges its maps.”
  8. People’s mind invariably seek and create meaning.  My mind invariably seeks and creates meaning.
Intentional:
  1. People always have positive intentions, irrespective of their behavior - "I always intend to produce something good, irrespective of my physical and mental behavior."
  2. People construe another's actions and act accordingly, regardless of the other's positive intention.  "Regardless of their positive intentions, I respond to others by how I construe their behavior."
Practical:
  1. People work perfectly to produce the results they're getting - "I work perfectly to produce the results I'm getting."
  2. People never fail, they only get feedback - "I never fail; I just get feedback." 
  3. Anything people do is useful in some context. "Every one of my behaviors is useful in some context." 
  4. People always make the best choices available to them - "I always make the best choices available to me, given the information I have."
  5. It is better for people to have choice than to have no choice - "I am better off having choice than having no choice."
Potential:
  1. People are more resourceful when imagining they can do anything - "I become more resourceful when I imagine that I can do anything."
  2. People already have all the resources they need - "I already have all the resources I need to reach my destination."
  3. People make positive changes by using their resources to add, not eliminate, even more resources.  "I make positive changes in myself by using my resources to add to my resources."
  4. The most resourceful people in any system can most influence that system - "The more resources I have, the more I can influence the system in which I live."
Developmental:
1.      People evolve Ontologically, Epistemologically, & Axiologically - "I evolve in Being, Awareness & Virtue."


Just reading these will change your life. Once you really believe them, your life will have changed more than you can imagine.

Kally, You're a Car

Matt, age 6, came in the house crying hysterically. Tears flowed down his cheeks and he couldn't catch his breath. I put him on my lap and held him close. His breathing slowed as I rubbed his back, but the stream of tears continued.

"What's wrong?" I asked as I continued to rub him.

"Randy," he blurted out between sobs.

"Randy hit you?" I asked.

"No."

I tired, "Randy knocked you down?"

"No."

"What?"

"Randy," sob, sob, "called me stupid!" (Randy was Matt's twelve year old brother and occasionally he chose behaviors like calling Matt stupid.)

"Randy called you stupid?" I repeated.

"Yes."

I turned Matt around and looked him straight in the eye and launched into some unusual Parent Talk. "You're a car!" I told him.

"What?"

"You're a car!" I repeated.

"Dad, what are you doing?"

"I'm calling you a car. Car, car, car, car, car!"

By this time Matt had stopped crying. I had his full attention. "Matt, there's something interesting going on here." I told him. "I'm calling you a car and you're not crying."

"Yeah." he admitted.

"Would you mind explaining that to me?" I asked.

"What do you mean?"

"I mean, I'm calling you a car and you're not crying. How come?"

"Dad," he offered with a disgusted look on his face, "I'm not a car!"

Then I had him. "Well, you know what, Matt, you're not stupid either."

"Oh," I heard him say and I could see the wheels beginning to turn in his head. Matt was having his first encounter with a concept that could positively affect the rest of his life. It is this...

More important than what somebody says to you, is what you say to yourself about what they say to you.

"When my parent talk was, "You are a car," Matt said to himself, "No, I am not." or "What is my dad doing!" or "He sure doesn't know me."

When Randy called him stupid, he could have said to himself, "No I'm not." or What's the matter with Randy?" or "He sure doesn't know me."

You can't control the entire world and get everyone to talk to you just the way you want to be talked to. But you can always control how you talk to yourself about how others talk to you. Making your talk more important than their talk is a sign of maturity and self responsibility and a skill we can help our children learn.

Teach your children where their power really is. Help them appreciate their power is not in controlling what others say to them. Their power lies within and is regulated by how they chose to talk to themselves.

---Author Unknown---

The Magical Kitchen

The Magical Kitchen
by Don Miguel Ruiz, from The Mastery of Love


Imagine that you have a magical kitchen in your home. In that magical kitchen, you can have any food you want from any place in the world in any quantity. You never worry about what to eat; whatever you wish for, you can have at your table. You are very generous with your food; you give your food unconditionally to others, not because you want something in return from them. Whoever comes to your home, you feed jut for the pleasure of sharing your good, and your house is always full of people who come to eat the food from your magical kitchen.

Then one day someone knocks at your door, and it’s a person with a pizza. You open the door, and the person looks at you and says, “Hey, do you see this pizza? I’ll give you this pizza if you let me control your life, if you just do whatever I want you to do. You are never going to starve because I can bring pizza every day. You just have to be good to me.”

Can you imagine your reaction? In your kitchen you can have the same pizza- even better. Yet this person comes to you and offers you food, if you just do whatever he wants you to do. You are going to laugh and say, “No, thank you! I don’t need your food; I have plenty of food. You can come into my house and eat whatever you want, and you don’t have to do anything. Don’t believe I’m going to do whatever you want me to do. No one will manipulate me with food.”

Now imagine exactly the opposite. Several weeks have gone by, and you haven’t eaten. Yu are starving, and you have no money in your pocket to buy food. The person comes with the pizza and says, “Hey, there’s food here. You can have this food if you just do what I want you to do.” You can smell the food, and you are starving. You decide to accept the food and do whatever the person asks of you. You eat some food, and he says, “If you want more, you can have more, but you have to keep doing what I want you to do.”

You have food today, but tomorrow you may not have food, so you agree to do whatever you can for food. You can become a slave because of food, because you need food, because you don’t have it. Then after a certain time you have doubts. You say, “What am I going to do without my pizza? I cannot live without my pizza. What if my partner decides to give the pizza to someone else- MY pizza?”

Now imagine that instead of food, we are talking abut love. You have an abundance of love in your heart. You have love not just for yourself, but for the whole world. You love so much that you don’t need anyone’s love. You share your love without condition; you don’t love IF. You are a millionaire in love, and someone knocks on your door and says, “Hey, I have love for you here. You can have my love, if you just do whatever I want you to do.”

When you are full of love, what is going to be your reaction? You will laugh and say, “Thank you, but I don’t need your love. I have the same love here in my heart, even bigger and better, and I share my love without condition.”

But what is going to happen if you are starving for love, if you don’t have that love in your heart, and someone comes and says, “You want a little love? You can have my love if you just do what I want you to do.” If you are starving for love, and you taste that love, you are going to do whatever you can for that love. You can even be so needy that you give your whole soul for just a little attention.

Your heart is like that magical kitchen. If you open your heart, you already have all the love you need. There’s no need to go around the world begging for love: “Please, someone love me. I’m so lonely. I’m not good enough for love; I need someone to love me, to prove that I am worthy of love.” We have love right here inside of us, but we don’t see this love.

Can you see the drama humans create when they believe they don’t have love? They are starving for love, and when they taste a little love from someone else, that creates a big need. They become needy and obsessive about that love. Then comes the big drama: “What am I going to do if he leaves me?” “How can I live without her?” They cannot live without the provider, the one who provides them with the everyday doses. And for that little piece of love, because they are starving, they allow other people to control their lives. They let others tell them what to do, what not to do, how to dress, how not to dress, how to behave, what to believe, what not to believe. “I love you if you behave this way. I love you if you let me control your life. I love you only if you are good to me. If not, then forget it.”

The problem with humans is that they don’t know they have a magical kitchen in their heart. All this suffering begins because long ago we closed our hearts and we no longer feel the love that is there. At some point, we became afraid to love, because we believed love isn’t fair. Love hurts. We tried to be good enough for someone else, we tried to be accepted by someone else, and we failed. We have already had to or three lovers and a few broken hearts. To love again is to risk too much.

Of course, we have so many self-judgments that we can’t possibly have any self-love. And if there’s no love for ourselves, how can we even pretend that we share love with someone else?

When we go into a relationship, we become selfish because we are needy. It’s all about me. We are so selfish that we want the person with whom we are sharing our life to be as needy as we are. We want “someone who needs me” in order to justify our existence, in order to feel that we have a reason to be alive. We think we are searching for love, but we are searching for “someone who needs me,” someone we can control and manipulate.

There is a way of control in human relationships because we are domesticated to compete for the control of the attention. What we call love- someone who needs me, someone who cares about me- isn’t love; it is selfishness. How can that work? Selfishness doesn’t work because there is no love there. Both people are starving for love. In the sex they have, they taste a little love and it becomes addictive because they are starving for love. But then all the judgments are there. All the fear. All the blame. All the drama.

Then we search for advice on love and sex. So many books are written about it, and just about all these books could be called “How to Be Sexually Selfish.” The intent is good, but where is love? They are not about learning to love; there is nothing to learn about love. Everything is already there in our genes, in our nature. We don’t have to learn anything, except what we invent in this world of illusion. We search for love outside ourselves when love is all around us. Love is everywhere, but we don’t have the eyes to see. Our emotional body is no longer tuned to love.

We are so afraid to love because it isn’t safe to love. The fear of rejection frightens us. We have to pretend to be what we are not; we try to be accepted by our partner when we don’t accept ourselves. But the problem is not that our partner rejects us. The problem is that we reject ourselves, because we are not good enough, because that is what we BELIEVE.

Self-rejection is the main problem. You are never going to be good enough for yourself when the idea of perfection is completely wrong. It’s a false concept; it’s not even real. But you believe it. Not being perfect, you reject yourself, and the level of self-rejection depends on upon how strong the adults were in breaking down your integrity.

After domestication, it is no longer about being good enough for anyone else. You are not longer good enough for yourself, because the big Judge is always there, reminding you that you are not perfect. As I said before, you can never forgive yourself for not being what you wish to be, and that’s the real problem. If you can change that, you take care of your half of the relationship. The other half is not your problem.

If you tell someone you love him, and that person says, “Well, I don’t love you,” is that a reason for you to suffer? Just because someone rejects you doesn’t mean you have to reject yourself. If one person doesn’t love you, someone else will love you. There is always someone else. And it’s better to be with someone who WANTS to be with you than to be with someone who HAS to be with you.

You have to focus on the most wonderful relationship you can have: the relationship with yourself. It is not about being selfish; it is about self-love. These are not the same. You are selfish with yourself because there is no love there. You need to love yourself, and the love with grow more and more. Then, when you enter a relationship, you don’t go into it because you need to be loved. It becomes a choice. You can choose someone if want to, and you can see who he really is. When you don’t need his love, you don’t have to lie to yourself.

You are complete. When love is coming out of you, you are not searching for love because you are afraid to be alone. When you have all that love for yourself, you can be alone and there’s no problem. You are happy to be alone, and to share is also fun.

If I like you and we go out together, is it because we want to be jealous, because I have a need to control you, or you have the need to control me? If it’s going to be that way, it isn’t fun. If I’m going to be criticized or judged, if I am going to feel bad, the no thank you. If I am going to suffer, maybe it’s better to be alone. Do people get together to have a drama, to possess each other, to punish each other, to be saved? Is it really why they get together? Of course, we have all those choices. But what are we really looking for?

When we are children- five, six, or seven years old – we are attracted to each other because we want to play, we want to have fun. We don’t spend time with another child because we want to fight and have a big drama. That can happen, but it’s going to be short-lived. We just keep playing and playing. When we get bored, we change the game, we change the rules, but we are exploring all the time.

If you go into a partnership to have drama, because you want to be jealous, because you want to be possessive, because you want to control your partner’s life, you are not looking for fun, you are looking for pain, and that is what you are going to find. If you go into a relationship with selfishness, expecting that your partner is going to make you happy, it will not happen. And it’s not that person’s fault, it’s your own.

When we go into a relationship of any kind, it is because we want to share, we want to enjoy, we want to have fun, we don’t want to be bored. If we look for a partner, it is because we want to play, we want to be happy and enjoy what we are. We don’t choose a partner to give that person we claim to love all our garbage, to put all our jealousy all our anger, all our selfishness onto that person. How can someone tell you, “I love you,” and then mistreat you and abuse you, humiliate you and disrespect you? That person may claim to love you, but is it really love? If we love, we want the best for those we love. Why put our garbage on our own children? Why abuse them because we are full of fear and emotional poison? Why blame our parents for our own garbage?

People learn to become selfish and to close their hearts so tightly. They are starving for love, not knowing that the heart is a magical kitchen. YOUR heart is a magical kitchen. Open your heart. Open your magical kitchen, and refuse to walk around the world begging for love. In your hear is all the love you need. Your heart can create any amount of love, not just for yourself, but for the whole world. You can give your love with no conditions; you can be generous with your love because you have a magical kitchen in your heart. Then all those starving people who believe the heart is closed will always want to be near you for your love.

What makes you happy is love coming out of you. And if you are generous with your love, everyone is going to love you. You are never going to be alone if you are generous. If you are selfish, you are always going to be alone, and there is no one to blame but you. Your generosity will open all the doors, not your selfishness.

Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant. We become selfish when we believe that maybe tomorrow we won’t have any pizza. But when we know that our heart is a magical kitchen, we are always generous, and our love is completely unconditional.

Recommended Reading

Since I love to read, I thought I would post my book recommendations. I didn't realize there were so many.....

Fantasy/Sci-Fi:
Harry Potter,by JK Rowling
The Inheritance Cycle by Christopher Paolini
The Hunger Games, Catching Fire & Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Shatter Me,Tahereh Mafi
Divergent, Victoria Roth
Legend by Marie Lu
The Giver, by Lois Lowry
The Host by Stephenie Meyer
Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card (love this series)
Lightning Thief, Rick Riordan
Heir Chronicles - Warrior Heir, Wizard Heir, Dragon Heir - by Cinda Williams Chima
The Narnia Chronicles, CS Lewis
The Mysterious Benedict Society, Trenton Lee Stewart
Nomadin & NiDemon by Shawn P. Cormier
Elfshadow (Forgotten Realms: Songs and Swords, Book 1)  Elaine Cunningham
Dark Tower/Gunslinger series, Stephen King

Classics:
A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier
The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck
Middlemarch, George Eliot
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
Any by Jane Austen

Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell
The Thorn Birds, by Colleen McCullough

Adult:
The Sparrow, then Children of God, by Mary Doria Russell
Under the Beetle's Cellar by Mary Willis Walker
A Maiden's Grave by Jeffery Deaver
Dune, Frank Herbert
The Last Day, Glenn Kleier

Arcane Society series by Jayne Ann Krentz (paranormal thriller and romance)

The Adept Series, Katherine Kurtz and Deborah Turner Harris (The Adept, Lodge of the Lynx, The Templar Treasure, Dagger Magic, Death of an Adept)


Time Travel Favorites:


Outlander Series, by Diana Gabaldon – best romance, time travel series

Reflections in the Nile, Shadows on the Aegean, Sunrise on the Mediterranean, Twilight in Babylon by J. Suzanne Frank (time travel, history, romance)

Her Majesty's Wizard, Christopher Stasheff (magic, time travel, romance)

Time of My Life, by Allison Winn Scotch – time travel romance, for me she used the F word about a dozen times too many, but what the heck


A bunch I really liked, in no particular order:


Great Lion of God, Taylor Caldwell (love, love, love this book, it was like being there)

Ride the Wind, Lucia St. Clair Robson – Based on the life of Cynthia Ann Parker and her life with Indians in 1836

The Eight, Katherine Neville - mystery, a little romance and tells the story in two different time periods

Love in the Present Tense, Catherine Ryan Hyde – What a Gem!

Nefertiti, The Heretic Queen and Cleopatra’s Daughter, by Michelle Moran – Cleopatra’s Daughter was my favorite of the three

The Mystery of Grace by Charles de Lint (Grace falls in love after she dies, interesting)

Stephanie Plum Series, by Janet Evanovich
Dr. Delaware Series, by Jonathan Kellerman
Very Valentine, by Adriana Trigiani (book 1)
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson (book 1)
The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
Water for Elephants, by Sara Gruen
The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein
Moloka'i by Alan Brennert
Rush Home Road, by Lori Lansens
The Honk and Holler Opening Soon by Billie Letts
Rainwater, by Sandra Brown
The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak
Garden Spells, by Sara Addison Allen
Mudbound, by Hillary Jordan
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet, by Jamie Ford
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, by M. Shaffer
The Shack, by William P. Young
The Lace Reader by Brunonia Barry
Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay
The Blood of Flowers, by Anita Amirrezvani
The Help, Kathryn Stockett

The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next series), Jasper Fforde - fun and funny

Sorcery and Cecelia, or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot,then The Grand Tour, then The Mislaid Magician by Patricia Wrede and Caroline Stevermer (magic, romance, told through letter writing, adorable)

Munch Mancini Series by Barbara Seranella (former drug user cleans up her act, is a mechanic and helps her detective friend solve crimes)

Deadman's Switch, by Barbara Seranella (about a woman with OCD)


Non-Fiction:
The Sex Lives of Cannibals, by J. Maarten Troost
Eat. Pray. Love. By Elizabeth Gilbert
The Good Women of China, By Xinran Xinran
Tattoos on the Heart, Greg Boyle
Any by Mitch Albon

 
Christian Chick-Lit:
Laura Jensen Walker - 'Getaway Girls'
Claire Everett Series, by Tracey Victoria Bateman

Eryan Mangum
Miss Match
ReMatch
MatchPoint

Sandra Byrd
Let Them Eat Cake
Bon Appetit
Piece de Resistance


Young Adult/Teen:
Dairy Queen, Catherine Gilbert Murdock
The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things, by Carolyn Mackler
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Self-Help:

Are You The One For Me? Barbara DeAngelis
Relationship Rescue by Phil McGraw
Five Love Languages, Gary Chapman
His Needs, Her Needs by Dr. Willard F. Harley Jr
Getting the Love You Want, Harville Hendrix
The Last Word on the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense by Susan Elgin
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy – David D. Burns, MD
Forgiveness – The Greatest Healer of All – Gerald G. Jampolsky MD
Love is Letting Go of Fear, Gerald G. Jampolsky

Books I read at the beginning of my spiritual path:
In the Meantime, Iyanla Vanzant
The Four Agreements, Miguel Ruiz
Simple Abundance – Sarah Ban Breathnach
Who Moved My Cheese? Spencer Johnson
Women Who Run with the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes

More Spiritual Books:
Out on a Limb, Shirley MacLaine
Conversations with God, Neale Donald Walsch
Seat of the Soul, Gary Zukav
The Celestine Prophecy, James Redfield
The Tenth Insight, James Redfield
The Essene Gospel of Peace
The Game of Life and How to Play it – Florence Scovel Shin
The Secret Door to Success – Florence Scovel Shin
Conversations Beyond the Light – Dr. Pat Kubis & Mark Macey
Conversations with God – Neale Donald Walsch
Embraced by the Light – Betty J. Eadie
Emissary of the Light – James F. Twyman
ET 101
Many Lives, Many Masters, Brian Weiss
Mutant Message Down Under, Marla Morgan
Saved by the Light, Dannion Brinkley
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah by Richard Bach

What goes around, comes around


Karma "act, action, performance" and is the concept of "action" or "deed", understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect.

According to Paramhans Swami Maheshwarananda, we produce Karma in four ways:

* through thoughts
* through words
* through actions that we perform ourselves
* through actions others do under our instructions

Everything that we have ever thought, spoken, done or caused is Karma; as is also that which we think, speak or do this very moment.

Go every thought, word, action or deed is karma, both good (positive) and bad (negative). For me, the good karma is all good and my focus isn't there. When I refer to karma, I am personally, specifically referring to past life cell memory, limited, negative karma. Every action, deed, word, thought we experience or express now is a reaction to something we have done in the past, either in this life or a previous one. Also by our actions, thoughts, words and deeds now, we are creating our karma for the future.

Simply: What goes around comes around. What you sow, so shall you reap.

My focus isn't on whether or not it is something I did in this life time or a previous one, as for me, my experience has been that it gets played out the same. Most people on this planet at this time are either, paying off a karmic debt, playing it out, or clearing it. Which means we are all doing all three all the time, accept those that a specifically taking steps to clear it. I'd rather clear it than live it repeatedly.

If you recognize a pattern in your life, it's karma. When trying to deal with it, you can

1. Accept - bad karma is a kind of self inflicted penance...so accept that things aren't going your way - accept with an open heart. Pray. Say 'thank you', go with the flow and then:

2. Learn - karma is a self-inflicted teaching tool, - so look deeply to find any lessons you can. Look for the pattern, examine it, see what the message is and look for a reason...what are you to know, to learn?

3. Be good and forgiving - to others, as well as yourself. Bad karma is somewhat unavoidable in the immediate future since it is already programmed (by your higher self) to go through. But good deeds and FORGIVING others will help clear the future karmic road.

4. Remember - karma is an opportunity for increased personal growth. Try to see it as a positive challenge. Be open to lessons, open to growth, open to change.... Most of us do not change willingly, so of course things have to happen or come up in order to shift our perspective, our life, our thinking, etc. Don't fight it. :)

Also, think of this: any time you are angry, frustrated, hurt, etc. It's karma.

I highly recommend the movie Illusion with Kirk Douglas that shows patterns and talks about the Akashic Records.

A Fixer


A Fixer

A fixer has the illusions of being casual
A server knows he/she is being used in the service
of something greater and essentially unknown.

We fix something specific.
We serve always THE SOMETHING:
the wholeness and the mystery of life.

Fixing and helping are the
work of the ego.
Serving is the work of the soul.

When you help, you see life as weak.
When you fix, you see life as broken.
When you serve, you see life as whole.
Fixing and helping may cure.
Service heals.

When I help, I feel satisfied.
When I serve, I feel gratitude.
Fixing is a form of judgment.
Serving is a form of connection.


I don't remember where I got this from or who wrote it. But I saved it and I'm sharing it today. Serve today.

Quotes

Some of my favorites:

"Behold the One beholding you and smiling." It is precisely because we have such an overactive disapproval gland ourselves that we tend to create God in our own image. It is truly hard for us to see the truth that disapproval does not seem to be part of God's DNA. God is just too busy loving us to have any time left for disappointment. - From Tattoos on the Heart by Greg Boyle

"Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world, but people capable of giving them their attention." ~ Simone Weil

"Divine love is incessantly restless until it turns all woundedness into health, all deformity into beauty and all embarrassment into laughter." ~ Beldon Lane

"Find the real world, give it endlessly away, grow rich flinging gold to all who ask. Live at the empty heart of paradox. I'll dance there with you--cheek to cheek."  ~ Rumi

Admit something:
Everyone you see, you say to them,
"Love me."
Of course you do not do this out loud;
Otherwise,
Someone would call the cops.
Still though, think about this,
This great pull in us to connect.
Why not become the one
Who lives with a full moon in each eye
That is always saying
With that sweet moon
Language
What every other eye in this world
Is dying to
Hear

--Hafez 


Rumi

"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing,
there is a field. I’ll meet you there.



When the soul lies down in that grass,
the world is too full to talk about.
Ideas, language, even the phrase each other
doesn’t make any sense."

~Rumi

As

After trying to sing this song at a 2011 Christmas Singing Party, I decided these are lyrics worth learning.

As around the sun the earth knows she's revolving
And the rosebuds know to bloom in early May
Just as hate knows love's the cure
You can rest your mind assure
That I'll be loving you always
As now can't reveal the mystery of tomorrow
But in passing will grow older every day
Just as all is born is new
Do know what I say is true
That I'll be loving you always

Until the rainbow burns the stars out in the sky---ALWAYS
Until the ocean covers every mountain high---ALWAYS
Until the dolphin flies and parrots live at sea---ALWAYS
Until we dream of life and life becomes a dream

Did you know that true love asks for nothing
Her acceptance is the way we pay
Did you know that life has given love a guarantee
To last through forever and another day
Just as time knew to move on since the beginning
And the seasons know exactly when to change
Just as kindness knows no shame
Know through all your joy and pain
That I'll be loving you always
As today I know I'm living but tomorrow
Could make me the past but that I mustn't fear
For I'll know deep in my mind
The love of me I've left behind Cause I'll be loving you always

Until the day is night and night becomes the day---ALWAYS
Until the trees and seas just up and fly away---ALWAYS
Until the day that 8x8x8 is 4---ALWAYS
Until the day that is the day that are no more
Did you know that you're loved by somebody?
Until the day the earth starts turning right to left---ALWAYS
Until the earth just for the sun denies itself
I'll be loving you forever
Until dear Mother Nature says her work is through---ALWAYS
Until the day that you are me and I am you---AL~~~~~~WA~~
~~~~~AA~~~~~~~AA~~~~
Until the rainbow burns the stars out in the sky~~~~~AA~~~~
~~~~AA~~~~~~~AA~~~~~~~~~AA~~~~~~~YS~~ALWAYS

We all know sometimes life's hates and troubles
Can make you wish you were born in another time and space
But you can bet you life times that and twice its double
That God knew exactly where he wanted you to be placed
so make sure when you say you're in it but not of it
You're not helping to make this earth a place sometimes called Hell
Change your words into truths and then change that truth into love
And maybe our children's grandchildren
And their great-great grandchildren will tell
I'll be loving you

Until the rainbow burns the stars out in the sky--Loving you
Until the ocean covers every mountain high--Loving you
Until the dolphin flies and parrots live at sea--Loving you
Until we dream of life and life becomes a dream--Be loving you
Until the day is night and night becomes the day--Loving you
Until the trees and seas up, up and fly away--Loving you
Until the day that 8x8x8x8 is 4--Loving you
Until the day that is the day that are no more--Loving you
Until the day the earth starts turning right to left--Be loving you
Until the earth just for the sun denies itself--Loving you
Until dear Mother Nature says her work is through--Loving you
Until the day that you are me and I am you--
Now ain't that loving you
Until the rainbow burns the stars out in the sky
Ain't that loving you
Until the ocean covers every mountain high
And I've got to say always
Until the dolphin flies and parrots live at sea~~AL~~~WA~~~AYS
Until we dream of life and life becomes a dream-Um AL~~WA~~AYS
Until the day is night and night becomes the day-AL~~~~WA~~AYS
Until the trees and seas just up and fly away-AL~~WA~~~AA~~~~~
Until the day that 8x8x8 is 4~~~~~AA~~~~~~~AA~~~~~~~AA
Until the day that is the day that are no more-AA~~~~AA~~AA~~~AYS
Until the day the earth starts turning right to left-AL~~~WA~~~A~~~AA
Until the earth just for the sun denies itself-~~AA~~~AA~~~AA~~~AYS
Until dear Mother Nature says her work is through-AL~~~WAYS
Until the day that you are me and I am you
Until the rainbow burns the stars out in the sky
Until the ocean covers every mountain high
Until the dolphin flies and parrots live at sea
Until we dream of life and life becomes a dream
Until the day is night and night becomes the day
Until the trees and seas just up and fly away
Until the day that 8x8x8 is 4
Until the day that is the day that are no more
Until the day the earth starts turning right to left
Until the earth just for the sun denies itself
Until dear Mother Nature says her work is through
Until the day that you are me and I am you