Peace is dynamism.

 

Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution of all to the good of all. Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.

ÓSCAR ROMERO

The darkest hour of the night comes...

 

It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.

PAUL COEHLO

What do happy people have in common?

 

What do happy people have in common? They appreciate what they have.

CHRIS WOODMAN

Being With My Dad, A Journal Entry by Dr. Lee Jampolsky This is one of the most beautiful words and images of living and dying, that I have ever heard and seen. For my best boss, who gave me the best job I ever had, working with life-threatened Young Adults, who taught me how to live. In the midst of gathering darkness, light becomes more evident. BONNIE BOSTROM

In the midst of gathering darkness,

 

In the midst of gathering darkness, light becomes more evident.

BONNIE BOSTROM

Racism and "Whiteness" are killers...PLus video why so many poor women die in Labor (many rural areas do not have hospitals - HMOs closing them for lack of profit))

 The Greatest White Privilege Is Life Itself. Lastly, we can view White Privilege through the eyes of the accomplished Ibram X Kendi, author of the book How to be Antiracist, in the article “What Elijah Cummings’s Death Reveals about White Privilege” where he examines his own struggle to rectify his father’s health issues

White people are “dying of whiteness,” to use Jonathan Metzl’s term. Whiteness is concurrently a privilege and a deprivation. Racist whites are supporting Republican policies that are harming white Americans at growing rates, from loosening gun laws to protect against people of color, which are leading to white male gun-related suicides; to rebuffing life-saving and fortune-saving Affordable Care Act provisions in Republican states, so that nonwhites can’t get access. “White America’s investment,” Metzl explained, “in maintaining an imagined place atop a racial hierarchy harms the aggregate well-being of U.S. whites as a demographic group, thereby making whiteness itself a negative health indicator.” If white supremacy is a mass shooter, then it is killing us all.

Summary:

Kelvin was a solution for my father, but personal trainers are not an anti-racist solution for black deprivation, to stop the premature death of black men like Cummings, to stop the premature deaths of black women, to stop the premature deaths of white people dying of whiteness. Ensuring all men, all Americans, have equal opportunities to make healthy choices is the framework for anti-racist solutions. That would mean total access to affordable, healthy food. Total access to affordable, high-quality health care. Healthy trust of medical providers across the board.

That would leave us free of toxic racism and toxic masculinity, free to be healthy. Racism would no longer deprive us of life itself.

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IBRAM X. KENDI is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and the Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and the director of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research. He is the author of several books, including the National Book Award–winning Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America and How to Be an Antiracist.

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Wanderer, there is no path...

 

Wanderer, there is no path, the path is made by walking.

ANTONIO MACHADO

The words most highly valued...

 

Where I come from, the words most highly valued are those spoken from the heart, unpremeditated and unrehearsed.

LESLIE MARMON SILKO

The Power of Connection (Starting over)

The Power of Connection

Be an agent of change

Deep and lasting peace comes when we renew and strengthen relationships of all kinds. Join us for 21 days as we focus on healing our relationship to ourselves and to others in order to bring peace to our communities and to the world we share.

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought. With our thoughts we make the world." – Gautama Buddha

ALL RELATION ARE CONNECTION

WE MUST CONNECT WITH OURSELVES FIRST

MAY THERE BE PEACE AND EARTH AND MAY IT BEGIN WITH ME. 

 MY RELATIONSHIPS BEGIN WITHIN, THROUGH LOVE AND CARING FOR MYSELF.

MY TRUE SELF IS THE SOURCE OF PEACE AND LOVE.

I MAKE TRUE CONNECTION WHEN MY HEART TOUCHES ANOTHER HEART.

The healing power of awareness.

Pure transparent awareness is my essential nature.

Give yourself the intention to heal.

My intention to heal sustains me through everything.

I invoke the archetype of a fully developed person.

Improving every relationship.

I can create positive change in my relationships.

I invoke the spirit of friendliness.

Making a good relationship better.

All my good relationships are turning into ideal relationships.

I invoke the archetype of beauty, gratitude, and 

generosity.

The Joy of an Intimate Relationship

"into me see"

I am growing into a spiritual union with my true self.

The Wholeness of the Universe is my true nature.

The Art of Awareness

Everyday my awareness brings me more insight into my relationships.

My true self is pure intelligence.

Finding out what you truly need.

I connect to fulfil my true needs.

My awareness is aligned with the creative power of the universe.

The life at the center: the core of your relationships.

I relate to others from my strong core, my center.

My true nature is perfect and complete.

The mirror of relationship tells the truth.

I rejoice into what the mirror of relationship shows me.

My true self is wide awake.

Connecting to the World

Everyday I look for ways to live my vision. (Peace on Earth and may it begin with me.)

My consciousness is blessing.

Seva, the connection of joyful service.

Today, I embrace joyful service.

I am selfless service.

Walking the Joyful path

I am walking the path of expanding awareness.

My awareness is unlimited.

Finding joyful communion.

I am uplifted by communion with others.

Let us be together in harmony.

Repairing the big disconnects.

My path lead me to be connected with everyone.

I invoke the spirit of friendliness.

Peace is the deepest connection.

I am here to be in peace consciousness.

I radiate peace, Om Shanti Om

Let there be peace earth and may it begin with me.

Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.
Let there be peace on earth, the peace that was meant to be.
With God as Creator, family all are we.
Let us walk with each other, in perfect harmony.
Let peace begin with me, let this be the moment now.
With every step I take, let this be my joyous vow.
To take each moment, and live each moment in peace eternally.
Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me.

MY RELATIONSHIP BEGINS WITH ME

LOVE IS THE ETERNAL CONNECTION

THE CONNECTIONS I MAKE ARE LOVING CONNECTIONS.

LIVING AT THE CENTER OF THE WORLD

Personal reality mine to create and cherish.

I am the wholeness of universal existence.

Today’s meditation is about this core truth of our consciousness – that our awareness moving as our thoughts, desires, feelings, and senses generates an experiential reality or world around us.

 Day 22 – Living at the Center of the World 

 
To claim to live at the center of the world is clearly a delusional statement from the standpoint of the separate self, but from the perspective of your essential being, pure awareness, it is only stating a truth latent in every awakening soul.
 
Today’s meditation is about this core truth of our consciousness – that our awareness moving as our thoughts, desires, feelings, and senses generates an experiential reality or world around us. We are the authors of this world. 

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Today’s meditation tells us that this love is the driving force of all life.

  Day 21– Love Is the Eternal Connection Oprah and Chopra

 
As consciousness continues to grow and our hearts make more and more connections to other hearts, we find that we are indeed radiating peace from the inside out. Looking more closely, we discover that these waves of peace are also waves of unconditional love, and that pure love is the spiritual heartbeat that connects us all. 
 
Today’s meditation tells us that this love is the driving force of all life. To awaken to this truth within us is our purpose and our promise.

THE CONNECTIONS I CREATE ARE LOVING ONES.

AHEM PREMA - I AM LOVE

Sometimes our light goes out...

 

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being. Each of us owes the deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this inner light.

DR. ALBERT SCHWEITZER

If history has shown us anything, it is that we cannot attain peace by fighting for it

 Day 20 – Peace Is the Deepest Connection

 
If history has shown us anything, it is that we cannot attain peace by fighting for it. But struggle and opposition is all the separate self knows how to do, even in the name of peace. To find peace, we need to go beyond our restless mind to our silent source. In the stillness of our hearts, our awareness not only finds peace, but we also recognize that we are peace itself.
 
Today’s meditation is about knowing our true nature as peace and becoming a unit of peace consciousness for the world.

OM Shanti OM

I invoke the consciousness of peace.

It takes a person of great heart to see…

 

It takes a person of great heart to see…the wisdom the elders have to offer, and so serve them out of gratitude for the life they have passed on to us.

KENT NERBURN

The main truth to gain from the mirror of relationship is self-acceptance – that you are okay right now, just as you are.

 Day 14 – The Mirror of Relationship Tells the Truth

 Oprah and Deepok

 
Today’s meditation teaches us that the strong reactions we have in different aspects of our relationships can be an indispensable tool in understanding unconscious areas of our life that need work or healing. Relationships hold up a mirror for us to see what we usually ignore or deny. The main truth to gain from the mirror of relationship is self-acceptance – that you are okay right now, just as you are.

With gratitude, treasure deeply what we have now and live more fully into what we know really matters.

 

When we embrace the poignancy and vulnerability that come with gratefulness, we’re reminded that time is limited and experiences are fleeting, so we had better treasure deeply what we have now and live more fully into what we know really matters.

KRISTI NELSON