BlessYourHearts

Divine Love is a Rising Up of the Soul ...

2012-01-28T04:26:00.001-08:00

Subodh Kumar Misra:
Whenever we love something in this world, it is with an ulterior motive. We want to achieve something out of it, so the love is not an end in itself. It is the means to the achievement of something else and, therefore, we cannot understand the nature of that love, which is a law unto itself. Divine love is not an emotion nor merely a psychological function. It is not the mind thinking of something, or feeling in respect of an external object. It is a rising up of the soul towards a higher condition of itself. …………….Aum

Divine Love is a Rising Up of the Soul ...

2012-01-28T04:26:00.000-08:00

For A Sparkling Divine Day -

2012-01-27T13:51:00.000-08:00

Gratitude places you in the energy field of plentitude.
Perceiving life in a consciousness of gratitude is
literally stepping into another dimension of living.
Suddenly the seeming ordinariness of your days
takes on a divine sparkle.
Michael Beckwith
(Great Minister I had the privilege of listening to
at his Awesome Agape Church in L. A. - Best Chorus
I have ever heard too!)

A Sparkling Divine Night followed yesterday's Sparkling Divine Day as
the winter constellations were bright in the dark moonless sky over the
Ocean. The centerpiece was Orion, the gigantic humter with its belt pointing
upward to the equally large Taurus with the red eye of Aldeboran, the Seven
Sisters on it's shoulder. The belt pointed downwards to Sirious the brightest
star in the sky and also the head of Canis Major the Dog constellation standing
on its hindleg as if trying to get the attention of Orion. Looking upward was
Procyon the "Puppy" Canis Minor, who was close to the Gemini twins Castor &
Pollux. As I walked North the magnificent Big Dipper pointed to the North Star,
which helped creat the Little Dipper. I was so grateful to be out on such
a "Sparkling Divine Night".
Gratitude places you in the energy field of plentitude.
Perceiving life in a consciousness of gratitude is
literally stepping into another dimension of living.
Suddenly the seeming ordinariness of your days
takes on a divine sparkle.
Michael Beckwith

Individualized Expression of the Spirit

2012-01-27T08:03:00.000-08:00

I am that which I am; an individualized expression
of the Spirit of God projecting LOVE into my world. Peace.
~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

When love of SELF becomes more important than love of self is the moment we begin fulfilling our Divine purpose perfectly. ~Dean A. Banks, D.D.

Quick-witted? Slow Down to Get Sharper -witted

2012-01-26T05:40:00.000-08:00

The universe is full of magical things
patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts

Quick witted sarcastic retorts keep the brain too busy to observe the magic
of the universe. Children usually have slow wits, however they have sharper
observation powers.
Try slowing your thoughts and forget the "quick-witted response". "Come as a
child again to enter the gates of heaven." A practice of meditation helps to
slow down and become mindful being more completely in the moment slowing down
the quick-witted response and making your sense of observation more keen!
Go slow I& grow, ron

Ra Divakar:
I think this is important post, because I used to think that the quicker & funnier the answer or quip I had, would impress others with my intelligence, however, what I see is that many times it comes out sarcastic (cutting meat in Latin) that was hurtful. So now I am working on slowing down, with a more gentle response, rather than defensive reaction.

Epiphany Illustrated

2012-01-25T02:56:00.000-08:00

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -
even a proverb is not a proverb till your
life has illustrated it.
John Keats

Make peace with the universe.Take joy in it.
It will turn to gold.
Resurrection will be now.
Every moment,
a new beauty.
Rumi

Post about Celibacy and Prayer Asking for Forgiveness

2012-01-24T06:41:00.000-08:00

Ron Alexander: ‎Bunni Vaughan Healy:"This post is not about oneness. You don't need to talk about "her" like this. You can choose to, obviously, but you could just as easily state your view on celibacy without mentioning her. There is unkindness in this post."
Ron Alexander: Above, Bunni Vaughan Healy is right and I say to "her" (the woman I talked about in the post) - I am sorry, please forgive me, thank you (for I know you will). I love you. Thank you Bunni for being courageous enough to point this out. And I am grateful to "her" for givng me space to work this out within myself for we are All One!

The Huna Process of Ho'oponopono: "I am sorry, please forgive me, thank you (for I know you will). I love you!"
www.ancienthuna.com/ho-oponopono.htm
Ho'oponopono means to make right. Essentially, it means to make it right with the ancestors, or to make right with the people with whom you have relationships

Pamela Pollard Arrington I think when you have previously had a relationship but you have changed and they have not, there is expected to be some hurt and confusion. That's usually why people get divorced by the way! We all go through periods of change and I believe that is good. I have also been celibate for several years because I need to work on me. Most of my life has been doing what was expected, taking care of my child, going to work or college --anything but what I needed. Now I have a job traveling and working in hospitals. I have met many people but don't stay long enough to develop a romantic interest in anyone. Instead I have maintained some friendships but everyone I have met has enriched me in some way far beyond what any physical relationship can give you. Isn't that what separates us from other animals?
Ron Alexander: thanks Pamela Pollard Arrington, for your thoughtful long reply, and I also agree that I could have written about celibacy in a more thoughtful way, without "blaming her" in any way.
Pamela Pollard Arrington: True Ron Alexander but I didn't feel you were blaming -just speaking from the heart. Peace to you and to "her". Time will work things out.
Ron Alexander: thanks again Pamela - you are very supportive and I appreciate it!

My continuing passion is to part a curtain, that invisible veil of indifference that falls between us and that blinds us to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight.
Eudora Welty

I Celebrate Being Celibate

2012-01-23T06:38:00.000-08:00

I am not in a sexual relationship, and I am not interested in being in one, maybe ever. I really enjoy close friends and community, and being 67, I only want heaven (on earth). My testorone level is low and I am grateful for it. I feel finished with sex, and have not had any in quite a while, plus I have not slept with anyone in a while.
So please see anything I write on facebook or in person, as my attempt to be supportive and inspirational and not a come-on! It has come to my attention that one person (who is now blocked) has sent out and even blocked other people in attempt to think that she is the one in my life, and I am sorry about that. She has been in the past, and still lives with me parttime, but I am not interested in her, as well as anybody, for a romantic partnership. For some delusional reason she remains in denial about the change! I am only interested in the Divine Oneness that we All share, and supportive, inspirational friendships in that Regard!

I respect your principaled decision and bless you Ron...Travis

Beata Bohac: There is a season for everything in life, dear Ron.

I look at sex as I do at investments: The older I get the less drama & risk I'm prepared to take.
Ron Alexander: I am very grateful for your support Travis E. Duke & Beata Bohac - love -"I look at sex as I do at investments: The older I get the less drama & risk I'm prepared to take."
Oh yes - add - lady is a housemate part-time - not a "roommate" - big difference!

When one door closes it brings your attention to All the other doors that await...Shine on and have no regrets I say. Sex is in the moment a wonderful thing however when it is no longer desired or needed it can be cast aside. I do understand exactly what your saying Dear Ron. Much love sent always. ♥
Ron Alexander: Thanks for your support and inspiration Angela Martin Diggs! Especially for having "no regrets" - working on that!

Gene Yakub: Sathya Sai Baba advises to cease having sex after 60 so as to give oneself the chance to learn to detach from pleasure of the senses before passing on. So good for you, Ron!

William Mcelveen: Excellent post friend from a good man. I sometimes sense the same for me. Even more so as time takes it's toll. A saying I heard recently that stuck me like your picture button......I'm looking for soul mates not a cell mate.
Ron Alexander: Thanks Gene Yakub & William Mcelveen - I still enjoy my physical senses but not from sex. I enjoy movement, massage, touch, seeing, hearing, smelling, et al. "Soul mates not a cell mate"! - lol!

Bunni Vaughan Healy
I almost refrained from commenting on this but my ego decided to have a chat with your ego.

This post is not about oneness. You don't need to talk about "her" like this. You can choose to, obviously, but you could just as easily state your view on celibacy without mentioning her. There is unkindness in this post. I will not debate it with you I just want you to know that I see it and so do others who you will notice will not comment on this (or like it). Enjoying oneness with "some friends" while reporting on the "wrongness" of another is not the high road and is not oneness. I take issue with you on this only because I know you want enlightenment and this is not the way to it. You can do better than this. I expect more from you which is why I decided that I could post this. (Not that you ever have to meet my expectations but I find for myself that those who expect a lot from me keep me help me stay on the high road delivering a lot...and that's who I want to be.)
Ron Alexander; Thanks for your comments Bunni Vaughan Healy, and I will take them into my heart, because I know they are from yours...

Ron Alexander: ‎Bunni Vaughan Healy:"This post is not about oneness. You don't need to talk about "her" like this. You can choose to, obviously, but you could just as easily state your view on celibacy without mentioning her. There is unkindness in this post."
Ron Alexander: Above, Bunni Vaughan Healy is right and I say to "her" (the woman I talked about in the post) - I am sorry, please forgive me, thank you (for I know you will). I love you. Thank you Bunni for being courageous enough to point this out. And I am grateful to "her" for givng me space to work this out within myself for we are All One!

The Huna Process of Ho'oponopono: "I am sorry, please forgive me, thank you (for I know you will). I love you!"
www.ancienthuna.com/ho-oponopono.htm
Ho'oponopono means to make right. Essentially, it means to make it right with the ancestors, or to make right with the people with whom you have relationships

The Huna Process of Ho'oponopono
www.ancienthuna.com

This description is by no means a complete training in how to do Ho'oponopono. While appropriate to do for yourself, for yours and others safety, it should not be done with someone else without training.

Need Do Nothing - Reeelaaax!

2012-01-22T00:37:00.000-08:00

Most men (humans) lead lives of quiet desperation. Thoreau

"Need Do Nothing" is one of my fav. quotes from A Course in Miracle.
Relax, be patient, and allow your Beingness to lead the way. Be a
Human Being more than a human "doing"!

Who is it that can make muddy water clear? No one.
But left to stand, it will gradually clear of itself.
Lao-Tzu
Tao Te Ching (gratefulness.org)

Glad to read "to the best of your ability."

I need to add for myself - "take it easy, don't worry, be happy, I (Higher Power) will take care of you."

Beauty - Do Anything to See...

2012-01-21T06:29:00.000-08:00

I’d do anything to gaze at a full moon in the night sky Sometimes I’ll see a shooting star, And try to gaze from afar, All the diamonds in the night sky; I’d do anything to see All the beautiful things in the world, A breathtaking fantasy...... Not alone my love but with YOU. Moony(MNA)

Cup half-empty, half full or Overflowing?

2012-01-21T05:15:00.000-08:00

The important thing is not to think much, but to love much; and so, do that which best stirs you to love.
Saint Teresa of Avila
Ron Alexander: That quote above is from gratefulness.org and thought it went well with "cup overflowing" - "stirring" up the love over the edge of the cup!

Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves

2012-01-20T14:03:00.000-08:00

We are all in this together. So when you realize that you're talking to yourself, label it "thinking" and notice your tone of voice. Let it be compassionate and gentle and humorous. Then you'll be changing old stuck patterns that are shared by the whole human race. Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves. ~ Pema Chödrön

Let your light shine...

Accept Your Heritage of Happiness

2012-01-20T05:55:00.000-08:00

Accept your Heritage of Happiness
Buddha repeatedly stated "May All Being be Happy & Free(of suffering)." Boddhisattvas chose to stay on the earth plane to help others become free of suffering.
In the Bible - "Thou will show me the path of life: in thy presence is fullness of joy; at thy right hand are pleasures forevermore!" Psalms 16:11

What is Most Precious Today?

2012-01-20T04:21:00.000-08:00

In being with dying,
we arrive at a natural
crucible of what it means
to love and be loved.
And we can ask ourselves this:
Knowing that death is inevitable,
what is most precious today?
Roshi Joan Halifax
Interview with Wild River Review

Knowing that I cannot be seperated from Love Eternal.
The "Love" that many call "God", and Whose other
Names are Joy, Peace & Light.

Love Yourself into Well Being

2012-01-19T05:28:00.000-08:00

You can't punish yourself into change,nor whip yourself into shape, but you can love yourself into well-being. (thanks to Ida Rose)

Bunni Vaughan Healy:
I think this is a most important truth. People are most often too hard on themselves and too unforgiving. We are just people trying to do the best we can. We have way too much "law & order" and "crime and punishment" mentality. It's as if we'll go off on a killing spree if we don't keep ourselves in check. It ain't gonna happen folks. Chalk up all the mistakes to experience...this is school, that was your lesson... then move on knowing you're trying and you'll probably do better with more practice!! Love you Ron.

Laughter is the Best Medicine

2012-01-18T07:42:00.000-08:00

Laughing is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge(gratefulness.org)

Just make sure you are laughing together. lol,ron

Great Mystery

2012-01-18T05:55:00.000-08:00

The world as pure object is something that is not there.
It is not a reality outside us for which we exist....
It is a living and self-creating mystery of which
I am myself a part, to which I am myself, my own unique door.
Thomas Merton
Contemplation in a World of Action

No Mistake! Start the day guilt-free...

2012-01-16T05:26:00.000-08:00

My teacher, Byron Katy, started off with out all the spiritual/new age/psychological jargon that most of us have in California in the 80's. She had an amazing transformation from an awesome epiphany while being in a recovery house, after a career as a self-described angry real estate agent in her humble hometown of Barstow, Ca. - in the middle of the Mojave Desert on Rt. 66. She gathered a bunch of us - writers, teachers, therapists at her spacious home compound, as she was developing her effective "Turn-around Process", which she called "The Work"! Katy,
kept hear us saying the greeting "Namaste'", which means loosely "the Light in me connects with the Light in you". Innocently, she thought we were saying "no mistake", which is equally an inspiring, affirmative greeting.
Living in the moment, we can let go of all "mistakes" from the past. Even in the Bible, a verse directs us to "forgive & forget". So, I choose to start this day feeling refreshed, joyous, peaceful and grateful to Byron Katy for that particular "Katyism" - No Mistake!

Sananda Allsgood:
Loving What Is...A Tribute to Byron Katie

On the path through life
We turn corners and climb hills
There are things we consider obstacles
And also blessings

We judge our life as good and bad
We judge our life as right and wrong
People tell us we are not perfect
That we make mistakes

I believe we make no mistakes
I believe we can do no wrong or right
And I do believe we are a work of perfection
That only our learned judgements color
The decision we make, those actions we take
And the stress we live under.

If we truly desire to live free
I believe we have to shed those learned judgements
To allow everyone to walk the path that they are on
Without our colors to blind the vision of perfection
That we are all living.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. & Gandhi

2012-01-15T20:54:00.003-08:00

"...It's poetic, tragic, and prophetic that Dr. King was murdered when he began to work for basic economic justice.
The intervening years since his death have seen an increase in economic inequity, he said, drawing a link between King's Poor People's Campaign and the nascent Occupy Wall Street Movement.
Dr. King would be leading the charge among the Occupy movement right now." Zellner (Bob Zellner - one of the few Southern whites helping with Dr. King's Movement)

Their Great Spirits live on...thankfully!

Don''t Worry, Be Happy

2012-01-15T06:01:00.000-08:00

Q: How am I to stay positive and hope for things to get better, when all that is happening is disappointment? ... How can I get something positive to happen ... I am a good person, honest, trustworthy and loyal with a great work ethic. HELP!!!!!

You've got to allow yourself to let go of the criteria for success that you are presently using. Many of you have adopted a set of commonsense criteria that let you know when things are going right, or not. And the results that you receive in your day-to-day life are judged against those common sense beliefs.

And from the commonsense point of view of your world, it doesn't make any sense that you should spend your day, or even any part of your day, enjoying the ducks in the park when what you really need—from the commonsense point of view—is a job. But that is exactly what you need to do when viewed through the lens of Source Energy dynamics.

When you put forth the idea of the new job you would like to have, where you are treated with dignity and respect and worth, Source Being instantly became that vibrational request. But it flies against common sense to really believe in something that you cannot see or put in your bank account. In this commonsense world someone is bound to ask "Where is it?" And so you have been trained by your lifetime of interactions with others to judge your success by visible measures.

This is where the principle of nonattachment to results will aid you immensely. Instead of worrying what the others may think, take some time each day to allow yourself the enjoyment of all the positive things that do presently surround you. Those are the things that are in alignment with your Source of Being and the world you are asking for.

You cannot use ordinary judgment when you're asking to create miracles. What Source has created for you may not come through ordinary means, but we guarantee it will not come when you pay attention to the lack of it. That sets up an energy pattern that contradicts the presence of your new job. Finding things to appreciate and enjoy throughout your day—in spite of your apparent circumstances—and relaxing, sets up an energy pattern in you that is complementary to the presence of the new job.

Your happiness now is more important than all the commonsense in the world. There is nothing worth delaying it for. “Don't worry, be happy” is really the best mantra we can give you for these times, and it makes perfect sense when viewed from the eyes of Source.

Namaste,
Twelve
www.TwelveSpirit.net

Amazing Grace - Glimpses of The Eternal

2012-01-14T06:59:00.000-08:00

People who are awake, live in constant amazement.
Jack Kornfield

However, I think it goes along with "To enter the gates of heaven, come as a child again...". To have that sense of constant wonder is the same as "constant amazement." I can relate to that better, and still have a ways to go...

I would add that people who are awake live without attachment. I have glimpses of that but have a ways to go...
And amazing is our Reality of being Spirits - with no fear of the past, present or future, and we live forever as Spirits! And that we are One with Spirit in All!

Amazing Grace!

Spirit, the Angel of God's Presence is an invisible Guest within me and all of us.
It is the Presence of eternal Life, the Life that cannot die. And so there is no fear of the past, the present, or the future. The feelings of this Guest are Joy, Peace, Light & Love, and the actions are certainty & power! It is with me today, making my life whole and complete. (paraphrased from the writings of Ernest Holmes)

For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in thy ways.---Psalm 91:11

Own Your Power, Beauty & Uniqueness

2012-01-14T06:55:00.000-08:00

Elizabeth May Sutor:
I believe we were put here to live life, not to run from it, not to fear it, not to defer to others' opinions of how we should live and what we should do. Seize the moment: that's why it's there in front of you in the first place.

George Honn: If not me who? If not now when? My version of Rabbi Hillel's eighth century quote.

Elizabeth May Sutor: If people would just own themselves, own their power and their beauty and uniqueness and stop buying into societal myths about how we have a "good" life...

Ron Alexander: If you are in earnest? Then seize this very minute. What you can do, or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it; Begin, and then the work will be completed. Goethe

Namaste' Y'All - Southern Lights

2012-01-13T05:24:00.000-08:00

If you are into politics just a little, South Carolina looks ugly this primary season, and there are alot of dirty politics in this state. However, don't put us all in this awful stereotype, as I hear some pundits do on tv. Some of us know about being Lights of the World, and I think we are increasing. The politics are getting so bad, so extreme to the right, that more moderates are turning left to the Light. Martin Luther King and Jimmy Carter are good examples of this turn, and now some young Ones, are coming around. The ruling Republicans are even turning off the moderate Republicans, and are now realizing the difference between the greedy, power-hungry 1% as opposed to rest of us 99%. I predict a big change toward clean Light-filled politics here soon in the meantime look for the Light and forgive the extreme Right, for they "know not what they do"!

Great Southern Light! Happy Birthday Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
A Southern-sounding verse in the Bible you All:"One God and Parent of all, and through all, and in you all."-Ephesians 4:6

And in the heart of Georgia, there is a popular Buddhist Meditation "Ashram", that is popular retreat for some of us. So please hold in us the Light, peace Y'All! ron

Betty Algrim - thank you Ron Alexander: "some of us know about being Lights of the World, and I think we are increasing."

Human Beings Doing the Best We Can!

2012-01-12T07:25:00.000-08:00

Are you mostly a "human doing" or mostly a Human Being? (ron's question)
Just to be is a blessing; just to live is holy.
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (gratefulness.org)

Michael WhoDat Malik: I just got this high tech camera Ron. I set the alarm to get up for the sunrise. Instead I mediated,.and said I'll just be and listen for what God has for me instead.

Thanks for the question. Hope you are well.

Valerie Stiehl: I AM A HUMAN BEING "DOING", TO REVEAL THE SPIRITUAL BEING I AM. BLESSINGS

Ron Alexander: Oh, Dr. Michael, thanks so much - great to hear from you! I am well, and have fond memories of our communication on the other sites! And I am grateful for your positive statement Valerie! And all you likers! May we all have wonderful blessed New Years! " Human Beings "Doing" the best we can, no mistake, ron

Pema Chodron:
WHAT IT IS TO BE HUMAN "Although it is embarrassing and painful, it is very healing to stop hiding from yourself. It is healing to know all the ways that you shut down, deny, close off, criticize people, all your weird little ways. You can know all that with some sense of humor and kindness. By knowing yourself, you’re coming to know humanness altogether." (Start Where You Are) From Shambhala Heart Advice of the Week

Subodh Kumar Misra:
Reality exercises a pull over the images and since we have no control over Reality, the images change even though we desire them to remain as they are. We call the change of the images as the flow of time, and we want time to stop. It is a demand which cannot be fulfilled, and so we remain unhappy, always seeking for that which will continue for ever. Thus do we struggle in the realm of the ‘becoming’, never coming to the ‘being’. It is the function of the mind to project images, but it is psychological memory which holds on to them. It is the process of holding on that creates unhappiness. Namaste & Regards!

Ron Alexander: Thanks for your deep Wisdom, Subodh Kumar Misra! So it is attachment that creates suffering?

The Great Mystery

2012-01-11T08:38:00.000-08:00

It began in mystery and it will end in mystery,
but what a rare and beautiful country lies in between.
Diane Ackerman (gratefulness.org)

I have always enjoyed The Great Mystery as a Native American Name for God or Great Spirit. Mystery brings up an inquiring mind, which is usually a "Beginners Mind" - a sense of Wonder. Is that why "to enter heaven, come again as children."?

A Surprising Visitor to Heaven on Earth

2012-01-10T06:34:00.001-08:00

How do you live consistently in the Kingdom of Love on Earth?
This writer was not someone I expected to experience the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth.
He described "taking a solitary stroll on a seaside street in France, I suddenly lost myself coming completely into the present. I had no memory, my mind was blank except experiencing what was in front of me. Everything - people, flowers, trees and the seas was seen with complete adoration. I felt like I was observing and was invisible yet completely in love with all that I saw. I sat down at a nearby sidewalk cafe and was mesmerized with absolute wonder at the beauty and simplicity of life. I felt like I was literaly in heaven and did not want this experience to end."
This sounds like an experience of someone like Eckhart Tolle, however it was Albert Camus. Camus, to me, appeared to be a cynical writer of dark nearly nihilistic books like THE STRANGER, whose hero choose death over life. Maybe I ought to read Camus again, or did he have that Heaven on Earth experience and never incorporated it in his life?
The question is did you ever have an epiphany and then not incorporate it or just forgot it? How do you live consistently in the Heaven on Earth?

"You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you continue looking for the meaning of life."
(on photo)

Another brilliant quote from Albert Camus, and back then everybody smoked almost!

Harmony - One Love (with Lyrics)

2012-01-09T19:48:00.000-08:00

In the world we're living in
In the world we're living for
Just material & glamorous
and ego we adore.
We have more we ever want
We have more we ever need
And we're blinded by those thing we have.
ONE LOVE WE NEED
ONE LOVE WE LIVE
ONE LOVE WE SHARE..♥

Perceiving Life with Reverence

2012-01-09T09:49:00.000-08:00

If we perceived Life with reverence, we would stand in awe at the experience of physical Life and walk the Earth in a very deep sense of gratitude.
Gary Zukav
Thoughts from the Seat of the Soul (gratefulness.org)

Gary is the One who calls the ego "our Earth's guide."·

He also wrote DANCING WITH THE WU LU MASTERS - the first book to make the connection between Spirit & Quantum Physics!

In the Heart of Divine Love

2012-01-09T09:45:00.000-08:00

In the heart of divine love there is no judgment, there is no belief of separation all there is is the love and beauty. Let’s all live in our divine heart and feel and see the world of beauty... E/A (Effie Aghili)♥

Love is the Spirit Almighty!

‎"The gift of pure love allows you to bless others and accept them without condition, granting them the freedom to make their own choices and live with them, and giving your Divine Self the freedom to do the same" Neale Donald Walsch

"God is Love..." - Joyous Expectations!

2012-01-08T10:39:00.000-08:00

Whoever does not see God in every place does not see God in any place Rabbi Elimelech (gratefulness.org)
Ron Alexander - Georgia Slesinger: "God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him." - 1 John, 4:16
Ra Divakar: I would change to good Rabbi's quote above to "Whoever does not see Love in every place does not see Love in any Place."

Joyous expectations as my Divine Birthright is Joy, Peace, Light & Love! I am so grateful for all your support and especially for Reality! "With God all things possible." With Love all things are possible! We are all Blessed! ron

When you let go of trying to get more of what you don't really need,
it frees up oceans of energy to make a difference with what you have.
When you make a difference with what you have it expands.
Lynne Twist(gratefulness.org)
Energy (Life Force as opposed to the "manic or artificial type) is what
I desire more of - so this post is important to me!

When the pearl is cast down in the mud it does not become dishonoured the more, nor if it is anointed with balsam oil will it become more precious.
But it has its worth in the eyes of its owner at all times.

Philip the Gnostic, translated by R. Wilson
The Gospel of Philip (gratefulness.org)

Anger Amnesia - New Natural Drug Popular!

2012-01-05T16:20:00.000-08:00

Eric Gibson:
One of the side effects of long term exposure to love,(Aka, seeing the world through eyes of love syndrome ! is anger amnesia! a condition affecting millions of lives every day! People across the world are reporting that they are forgetting how to get angry, pissed off or resentful! they are also forgetting,what people have done in the past to make them angry!
Experts are crediting a popular drug called the spirit of forgiveness, saying the derivative of the love hormone has been around for ages,and its naturally occurring in the human body!!
The best new's is there are no negative side affects!

I love myself and i express it for,
my actions speak it.
my words claim it.
my laugh holds it.
my friends know it.
my life illuminates it.
my spirit keeps it.
my soul feels it.

I ♥ Me.

Thanks to Shamsi Yasrebi, my new friend1
~ www.EsteemYourself.com ♥

Let the Rest of Your Life be the Best of Your Life

2012-01-05T07:25:00.000-08:00

Staci Maria Housum
I think of you when I read this quote - Have an awesome day my ocean loving friend ♥♡♥ Love the Greater Love ♥♡♥
Thanks so much Staci Maria, good timing as I am presently making the transition back to the sea finally! I can't believe it has been 22 years since I lived aboard. And Sea Otters and occasional Dolphins play around my vessel!

Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.
Noam Chomsky

Let the rest of your life be the best of your life. Dabo Swinney

Bob Sampron: The thing I notice, though, is how few people can articulate what that better future looks like. They don't even allow themselves to dwell on it. I am left asking, why not?

Ron Alexander: Agree Bob, does a "better future" mean feeling the Peace, Joy & Love NOW? All is well, be at peace for you are One with Love!
Today I did not feel physically well. yet there were a few things that really essential to be done, and through prayer and meditation and support of a friend, I was able to slowly though mindfully get them done. This left me feeling with a sense of accomplishment and achievement that is peacefulness and contentment. I know that I can get things done even when not feeling well with support, and that leaves me with a more secure feeling for the future.

I know that when you feel the strong support of a partner, friends/community, that you feel more optimistic about the future. The key is to take responsibility to keep them and do what it takes individually (meditation, prayer, affirmation) in the moment.

Most Important Measure of Sanctity

2012-01-03T09:27:00.000-08:00

-"The more important measure of sanctity is one's ability to recognize goodness and beauty in another person".• Thomas Merton - (Trappist monk) shared from Anatoly Petrenko (thanks)

The future belongs to those
who give the next generation
reason for hope.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (gratefulness.org)

All is well, be at peace for you are One with Love! ron

In All Things of Nature

2012-01-02T08:07:00.000-08:00

In all things of nature
there is something of the marvelous.
Aristotle (gratefulness.org)
The Bristlewood Pine below from the White Mountains in California is one of the oldest Beings in the world - several thousand years old.
And these magnificent Beings grow 7 to 9 thousand feet high in acidic soil on the North side where nothing else can grow!

These amazing Tree Beings are vivid examples of Thriving instead of just surviving - such tenacity & perserverance despite the harshest of conditions!

Interestingly, the local community finally stopped LA water thieft (I still saw signs around some creeks declaring that it belonged to LA county) by suing them for Air Pollution, as the near empty Mono Lake sent out all kinds of toxic fumes!

From Dust to Dust to stardust to stardust!

2012-01-02T05:24:00.001-08:00

We are made up of "dust" - stardust! And it is changing all the time.

Happy New Stardust, Year, Day, Minute, Now!

Beings of Light = Bioluminescent Stardust

Creator of the One Universe With Different Paths

2012-01-01T00:21:00.000-08:00

It is a New Dawn, a New Day, a New Year and you are the Creator! in Joy, ron

There’s only one universe and you are in the middle of it with your whole being. Your whole being is that universe.

There are no parts of it that are inaccessible to you, there are no parts of it that are separate from you. You are Creator: You are not different from that One. Allow good to flow wherever you can find it, and focus your attention on nothing else. When you do this you will find it everywhere, even in those people and places that others want to write off. Nothing is written off in God’s World, Eden, Oneness — everything has a place and the place is good.
Showers of Light and Blessing,
~Twelve
www.TwelveSpirit.net

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Here is whole text of Creator:

Twelve Insight Journal: Leverage your present with the past and future.
January 1, 2012

Guest: “Sometimes I feel like I shouldn’t allow myself to feel good about things in the past: like I feel guilty, or I guess I have some resistance to remembering good old stuff because that makes me seem like I’m being an old fart or a has-been. On the other hand if it feels good I guess I should allow it.”

Twelve: Your experience has caused you to discover what feels good and what doesn’t; that is how you make the decisions, you see. If you disallow the good feeling ones then all you can possibly have left is the ones that don’t. We would value those memories highly, not because you want to go back — that’s the key. Value them because they feel good. And because they feel good, if you allow them, then you will align yourself more and more with that which feels good in your present/future experience as well.

That which was and what will be and what is, are all coincident. And if you will tap into that energy of good, no matter where you find it, and let go of your resistance to feeling good about any of it, then you will find that you can leverage your present vibration with both the past and the future.

Leveraging is what this is all about, and you should use everything you can access. In other words you cannot offer resistance to good over here, and have good appear over there. It doesn’t work that way because there really is no separation between what was and what is and what will be; there is no separation between here and there. There’s only one universe and you are in the middle of it with your whole being. Your whole being is that universe.

There are no parts of it that are inaccessible to you, there are no parts of it that are separate from you. You are Creator: You are not different from that One. Allow good to flow wherever you can find it, and focus your attention on nothing else. When you do this you will find it everywhere, even in those people and places that others want to write off. Nothing is written off in God’s World, Eden, Oneness — everything has a place and the place is good.
Showers of Light and Blessing,
~Twelve
www.TwelveSpirit.net

For a Peaceful Prosperous New Years!

2011-12-31T05:34:00.000-08:00

Gurinder Singh Choudhary (thanks)
Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.
~ G. Weatherly ~
And not taking things personally for in "defenselessness my safety lies" are my two most important vows for the New Year! May Peace, Joy, Light & Love be yours for a prosperous (helps to accept your Divine Inheritance)New Years! Thank You all - worldwide - for support and inspiration! Much Much Gratitude, ron

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman,
before which difficulties disappear and
obstacles vanish into air.
John Quincy Adams

Accepting Your Divine Inheritance

2011-12-30T02:41:00.000-08:00

Accepting Your Divine Inheritance is fully accepting Love,
Light, Joy and Peace of God. It is entering Heaven on earth.
Nothing (no thing) else matters!

Prayer and meditation and inspirational reading and people are helpful:

"Prayer is sitting in the silence until it silences us,
choosing gratitude until we are grateful, praising God
until we ourselves are a constant act of praise."

Fr. Richard Rohr, OFM
Radical Grace: Daily Meditations (gratefulness.org)

Jeeni Zucchini: May I say... that I believe your sense of loss is not just around the actual inheritance of worldly things... but the minds and hearts involved in the decision making... the disappointment in those you thought had your back. Your ability to transcend them... to transcend family and friends... while maintaining love and practicing forgiveness, can be one of life's biggest challenges. It has been for me...

Great Compassion & Global Responsibility

2011-12-29T17:39:00.000-08:00

Great compassion is the root of all forms of worship.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Dalai Lama Quote of the Week
Global Responsibility
Occasionally I notice that people are making a convenient distinction between ethics on the personal level and ethics on the wider social level. To me, such attitudes are fundamentally flawed, as they overlook the interdependence of our world.
That individual ethics--or rather their absence--can have an impact on the lives of many is powerfully demonstrated by the global financial crisis that began in 2008, the repercussions of which are still being felt around the world. It revealed the way unbridled greed on the part of a few can adversely affect the lives of millions. So, just as in the wake of the 9/11 attacks we started to take the dangers of religious extremism and intolerance seriously, so too, in the wake of the financial crisis, should we take the dangers of greed and dishonesty seriously. When greed is seen as acceptable, even praiseworthy, there is clearly something wrong with our collective value system.
In this age of globalization, the time has come for us to acknowledge that our lives are deeply interconnected and to recognize that our behavior has a global dimension. When we do so, we will see that our own interests are best served by what is in the best interests of the wider human community. By contrast, if we concentrate exclusively on our inner development and neglect the wider problems of the world, or if, having recognized these, we are apathetic about trying to solve them, then we have overlooked something fundamental. Apathy, in my view, is itself a form of selfishness. For our approach to ethics to be truly meaningful, we must of course care about the world. This is what I mean by the principle of global responsibility, which is a key part of my approach

I am grateful for Divine Inheritance (Divine Comedy?)

2011-12-29T08:44:00.000-08:00

Since I did not get my earthly inheritance, I am doubly glad to be getting my Divine Inheritance. It would be nice to get both. However, Divine Inheritance seems to cover all the bases. To me, Divine Inheritance would cover all the descriptions of God - Love, Light, Joy, & Joy. Does Inheriting from the Divine help my life become a Divine "Comedy". I hope so humor really helps!
“A merry heart does good, like medicine, but a broken spirit dries the bones.” – Proverbs 17:22 (New King James Version)

Forgiveness - letting the past go - bless everyone!

2011-12-27T10:03:00.000-08:00

If we are still holding someone’s toes to the fire for something they did in the past, we are not allowing them the same space we want for ourselves to grow and expand. We’ve all done things we would do differently now from our new place of BEing, learning, expanding… Soooo, let it go and allow others to re-create themselves and become NEW Beings too! See it all through the eyes of Love and no one gets burned! ~ ♥ Sierra Goodman ♥ ~

Most people want to have their way with you… It is about connecting with the people whose “Way” is Love… ~ ♥ Sierra Goodman ♥ ~

Gratefully blessed to be alive,
I bless everything and everybody
that I see. Bless you! Ra Divakar

Angela Martin Diggs: Bless you back and may you have the favor of God in everything you set out to accomplish. Peace Be Yours...♥ Love sent. ♥

KISS - "♥'s Love to All That Is" keep it simple Sweet (Spirit)! Lori Boatman

My Joyous Vow & Joyous Anticipation

2011-12-26T05:49:00.001-08:00

My Joyous Vow

Unity Peace Song

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 our father, family all are we
Let me walk with my family, in perfect harmony
Let there be peace on earth, let this be the moment now
With every breath 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!

(Even though not physically well yesterday - Christmas, with the support of Jeanne, I made it to Unity for their AM service. Really glad I went, and this "joyous vow sung in the circle afterwards really helped me heal! Thank you, Unity!)

Joyous Anticipation:

Living Gratefully
There are many things to be grateful "for" but, as I ripen with the seasons of life, the many reasons blend into a sacred mystery. And, most deeply, I realize that living gratefully is its own blessing.
Michael Mahoney (gratefulness.org)
Angela Martin Diggs, Ra Divakar, Effie Aghili and 5 others like this..
Ron Alexander: Thanks Friends, everyday a new New Years' affirmation - started Christmas Eve (list of vows), and they are working, as I am working them - taking things less personally really helps! in Joy, ron

Enya - We Wish You A Merry Christmas Lyrics

2011-12-25T09:53:00.000-08:00

Life and Death - Have a Peaceful Christmas!

2011-12-25T09:35:00.000-08:00

This may seem kinda of gloomy for Christmas day, but actually, not feeling well today, to me, it is reassuring. I have managed to stay peaceful, even though feeling ill and lack of vital core energy (worse than feeling tired). Usually, when I have this lack of life force, I get frustrated and anxious about "not getting thing done". Today with a lot of support of partner and forcing myself to go to Unity Church, I feel like it is a Peaceful Christmas, if not exactly Merry!

If I knew for certain that I should die next week, I would still be able to sit at my desk all week and study with perfect equanimity, for I know now that life and death make a meaningful whole.

Etty Hillesum An Interrupted Life

The mind creates the abyss,
the heart crosses it.
Sri Nisargadatta (gratefulness.org)

My Christmas/New Years Vow

2011-12-24T02:41:00.000-08:00

1. I will send love to everyone even my "enemies"!
2. I will be non-defensive no matter what!
3. I will send out healing love energy to "attacker"!
4. I will find great project to provide service possibly to soldiers with PTSD.
5. I will practice being detached from material things.
6. I will give sincere gratitude often!
7. I will have compassion for myself when I break this vow, and return to Love asap.

If there is anything I have learned about men and women, it is that there is a deeper spirit of altruism than is ever evident. Just as the rivers we see are minor compared to the underground streams, so, too, the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what people carry in their hearts unreleased or scarcely released.
Dr. Albert Schweitzer (gratefulness.org)

Meditating Santa

2011-12-22T18:07:00.000-08:00

The Paradox of "Emptiness"
It is Full of Joy, Peace & Love!
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Y'ALL!

Jeeni Zucchini
The best Santa ever!

Ron Alexander AGREE!
I will take those compliments with equanimity. Ho Ho OM!

Three Straight Christmases on a Deserted Island

2011-12-22T13:30:00.000-08:00

The Sun is my Blanket
Three Straight Christmases on a Deserted Island
Ron Alexander

With about 20 students on board for our Marine Science under Sail, we celebrated our third straight(in the late '70's) on a beautiful deserted Cay called Little San Salvador. It lies only about 25 miles South of Eleuthera in the Bahamas.
Little San Salvador has a large anchorage with turquoise clear water and a large pink sandy beach. At the Southern tip is a orange, green, red, blue coral reef loaded with a sparkling rainbow-colored marine life plus edible fish & lots of lobster and conch.
I enjoyed being away from stores and the heightened commercialization of the holiday. Our celebration was simple. The nearby reef was an abundant hunting ground, and we captains and crew caught and cooked a sumptuous feast – lobster, grouper, and the versatile conch – conch salad, conch fritters, & fried conch for the Christmas Day Dinner.
Early on Christmas day we drew names for gifts. Only one gift per person, and with nowhere to make a purchase, it would require some ingenuity and creativity. I will never forget the sweetness and humor provided by these simple gifts handed out after dinner on Christmas day. A nice little manger scene crafted from pieces of coral found on beach was my favorite gift. A funny little poem composed especially for the recipient was a welcomed frequent read during the after dinner exchange. I usually gave a nice shell I found while hunting under¬water or sometimes a specially prepared (sautéed with ginger sauce) lobster tail for an addition to the meal. Singing Carols after dinner, what could be better?

God (Love) is Everywhere

2011-12-22T10:28:00.000-08:00

Inside & outside - I have been reading about individuals who think that they have to do everything from within themselves - that there is no outside help. I do believe that both is true - inside Help & outside Help. God is everywhere!(Omniscient) Everpresent (Omnipresent) & All Powerful (Omnipotent)! Therefore: "Shower Thy grace upon us in the moment of our greatest need, protect us from ourselves, and allow us to ...be a beacon of light rather than a dark cloud for the ambience that surrounds us. Only with Thy aid can we create that peace within and harmony with the outer environment, both natural and social, for which our souls yearn."Seyyed Hossein Nasr
from Talking to God: Portrait of a World at Prayer (anthology

Elizabeth May Sutor: Thank you. I get so frustrated reading about how we "don't have bodies", how "everything is an illusion". Bullcrap. God gave us bodies. God gave us life.God gave us this world and put us in it. I agree with you.

Kristiana Owens:
All fear stems from our need to control or understand that which cannot be predicted or assured. The second we fear, we have erected a dam against the flow of Love ~ Love, in each moment as eternity, simply IS. Our duty to self is to Surrender and Trust ♥ In doing so,we are Freed, Now ~*♥*~..

Love is letting go of fear. Jerry Jampolsky *ACIM

Lisa Gonzales:The Truth, by any other name is still The Truth.
One underlying factor that IS... at the center & heart of everything & nothing. There is nowhere that it is not. It is the Stillness from which everything flows. ((( ♥ )))
Teachers are all around you all the time... the tree, the flower, the breeze, the birds... any person that comes up into your awareness... then there are some that take their roles a bit more seriously & get degrees, certificates & charge money for their services. None is any more important than the other, what matters is the what you learn from them... therein lies the importance

Ron Alexander:
God is everywhere! Omnipresent, Omnipotent & Omniscient! All Powerful & All-knowing! Inside & Outside! Some on fb preach that all we need is internal. I agree, however to me, it helps to have teachers too! Thank you for your wise comment.
..
Lisa Gonzales:
Hello Ron, Yes... agreed. I think most of the ones that "preach that all we need is internal" are seeing things from the perspective that what is outside of us is a projection of what comes through us from inside... this is why turning inward is key. Seeing our conscious world like a wakeful dream & treating it as such... that everything outside of us is symbolic as dream images are. There is Truth in that. That's not to say that what they "preach" is fully understood by them, as many are just parroting what they have heard by other teachers (grasping a concept) or telling what they have experienced from their limited knowledge. Technically, we all are to some extent... until we rest in the ground of BEing that IS God... it's difficult to navigate through all the eons of stories & perspectives of others who have gone before us... it has become a labyrinth of lies peppered with truth.

Personally, i don't see Consciousness (which we are beneath all of this) as limited to mankind... i do feel that it was prior to man, "in the beginning" and will continue to be long after the existance of mankind. God's Consciousness, no matter the form, is not limitied to mankind, his heart or his mind... however, evil may be.

It is rare to find a really good "teacher", that is, one that could be depended upon for really good truths in human form. I have found very few that i resonate with most or all of the time... this resonance comes with a teacher when he/she speaks a Truth that you also have within (whether you are conscious of it or not)... like two things resonating at the same frequency that attract each other. There is only One Truth, but it may come in through many forms or flavors.... different wording, different stories or packaging... Yoda, Dr. Seuss, Winnie the Pooh, Buddha, Ramana, Jesus, the homeless guy on the corner... doesn't matter, if it's Truth, you will know it.

Am so glad to have found Bobby, he is definately a bright light in the darkness of this world & his light

Nothing to do, No thing matters! I am grateful!

2011-12-22T06:49:00.000-08:00

I need do nothing is a favorite quote from A Course in Miracles. To me it means Being is everything - a Human Being instead of a human "doing". That our best comes from our Being not our doing. Deepak calls it "Law of least effort." produces most productive results.

"No thing matters" to me means the "best things are not things."
How does this apply to me now? I have a lawyer fighting my eviction now, yet somehow I know it is time to leave this house - I will just have more time expectantly.
Who am I without this house? Am I any less of a person? No, in fact, it may help me be into my Beingness more - less to do & more to Be! I am grateful!

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Simone Weil

Ron Alexander
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. Simone Weil (new fav. quotes)
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"The greatest generosity is non-attachment." - Atisha

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.
Simone Weil

I no longer want to have anything to do with love that forgets to be grateful. Otherwise I will only go on lying to You: and I want to be done with all insincerity for ever and ever.

Thomas Merton
The Sign of Jonas, p. 290

Merry Christmas & Happy Holy Days!

2011-12-21T09:14:00.000-08:00

Put this on the walls of people with good hearts & beautiful
souls..that make your life brighter simply because they exist
............✿•*¨`*•. (¯`v´¯) (¯`v´¯) .•*¨`*•✿............
........... . . ✿•*¨`*•.¸(¯`v´¯)¸.•´*¨`*•✿ . . ...........
..........……………… ..♥♥ •.¸.•´♥…………...................
Merry Christmas Everybody!Happy Holy Days! Happy New Year!

Healing Prayers and Positive Thoughts and Energy

2011-12-21T02:34:00.001-08:00

Prayers are working my friends - please keep sending positive thoughts/energy during this great transition time for me! I have recieved help spiritually for physical & emotional issues and I am very grateful!

Put this on the walls of people with good hearts & beautiful
souls..that make your life brighter simply because they exist
............✿•*¨`*•. (¯`v´¯) (¯`v´¯) .•*¨`*•✿............
........... . . ✿•*¨`*•.¸(¯`v´¯)¸.•´*¨`*•✿ . . ...........
..........……………… ..♥♥ •.¸.•´♥…………...................
Merry Christmas Everybody!

If you have knowledge,
let others light their candles at it.
Margaret Fuller

Quotes by Simone Weil + I Am Not a Victim(izer) of the World I Know

2011-12-20T04:31:00.001-08:00

We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.

“If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.”

“Humility is attentive patience."

“To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul.”

“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.”

“Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.”

All sins are attempts to fill voids.

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating.”

“All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void. The imagination is continually at work filling up all the fissures through which grace might pass.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

I can, therefore I am.”

“Those who love a cause are those who love the life which has to be led in order to serve it. ”

“A beautiful woman looking at her image in the mirror may very well believe the image is herself. An ugly woman knows it is not.”

“There is something else which has the power to awaken us to the truth. It is the works of writers of genius. They give us, in the guise of fiction, something equivalent to the actual density of the real, that density which life offers us every day but which we are unable to grasp because we are amusing ourselves with lies.”

“It seemed to me certain, and I still think so today, that one can never wrestle enough with God if one does so out of pure regard for the truth. Christ likes us to prefer truth to him because, before being Christ, he is truth. If one turns aside from him to go toward the truth, one will not go far before falling into his arms. ”

“Compassion directed toward oneself is true humility.”
― Simone Weil

“Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.”

“Whatever debases the intelligence degrades the entire human being.”

“Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.”

“A science which does not bring us nearer to God is worthless. ”

“Even if our efforts of attention seem for years to be producing no result, one day a light that is in exact proportion to them will flood the soul.”

“Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached”

“In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.

“He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.”

“The most important part of teaching is to teach what it is to know. ”

“To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.”

“Two forces rule the universe: light and gravity.”

“How many people have been thus led, through lack of self-confidence, to stifle their most justified doubts?”

― Simone Weil

There is a famous quote from A Course in Miracles that is "I am not a victicm of the world I know". In relationships, one can swing back in forth between being a "victim" & a "victimizer" in the name of control. Sometimes the victimizer, using passive-aggressive techniques uses playing the "victim" to attempt to control. Mostly, though the "victimizer" is just plain aggressive in order to attempt to control. Why "control"? Feeling insecure, one can overcome those feelings in order to feel secure.
What is the win-win situation here? Compassionate understanding of each others motive to feel secure, and help them feel wanted, when they are being aggressive or passive-aggressive. When one can observe the others attempt to control with compassion, knowing they are just wanting to feel secure, and help them feel wanted, respect is gained and the relationship is in a win-win situation.
In truly successively experiencing the positive results of this and being pro-active about the compassionate response, rather than an ignorant reaction, "knowledge" becomes wisdom.

10 signs of a spiritual awakening + PATIENCE

2011-12-19T19:16:00.000-08:00

"And remember you are not alone." (last sign)

Andrea Lynn:
The inner strength of a man can be directly measured by his ability to remain patient.♥

Julie Schweyer: timing is everything...patience is nothing more than the knowledge that the universe is at work..impatience occurs because we want something we don't have, want to be somewhere we are not, and want to be doing something we are not...acceptance leads to patience..letting go...i have always admired patience in others....thankyou Andrea Lynn♥ blessings of the season♥

Humility is attentive patience. Simone Weil

the House from which One cannot be evicted:

2011-12-19T06:14:00.000-08:00

"and within the heart there is a little house..." - the House from which One cannot be evicted:
Within the city of Brahman, which is the body, there is the heart, and within the heart there is a little house. This house has the shape of a lotus, and within it dwells that which is sought after, inquired about, and realized. Even so large as the universe outside is the universe within the lotus of the heart. Within it are heaven and earth, the sun, moon, the lightning and the stars. Whatever is in the macrocosm is in this microcosm also. ~ Chandogya Upanishad

The Wind of Spirit

2011-12-18T17:55:00.000-08:00

The Wind of Spirit - Universe, Life, Ego - The Spirit of Exploration

You feel the wind, you see what is carried by the wind, you know it exists. But you don't see it.

Science discovers forces, particles, forms of energy. Science pushes us beyond the limitations of the senses through the invention of new measurement systems - creating more sophisticated devices to sense ever smaller or more distant processes. Science can shed light on the structure of the universe and of life. It shows how energy becomes matter, that structures are expressions of processes - that everything comes from interactions between vast numbers of other processes.

When wind blows through a mist, you see shapes come into being, and fade into nothingness.

The universe is energy. Most of the energy is hidden from us. The vastness of that energy hints at something far beyond our comprehension. We can discover a new particle of matter, a fundamental force of nature, or higher dimensions beyond time and space. With each new discovery, we discover new possibilities, and we become aware of how much less we know about the mystery of the universe and of life.

Our distant ancestors believed the wind to be an invisible spirit.

Science has known for a long time what really makes the wind. With measurement systems you can track it's course, structure and measure it's properties - speed, temperature, pressure, density and so on. It's still difficult to exactly describe how wind can shape itself into a tornado - but in general there is some understanding of how this happens. And there is a general understanding of the overall dynamics of wind.

The idea of something unknowable exerting pressures on life - is still thought of as the wind of spirit.

Someday science may discover something that accounts for our experience of "spirit" - and also discover that there is far more to learn about "spirit" than we can currently imagine.

The basic idea of spirit is that it is something that pressures all things. It's hidden from view, perhaps it moves outside the realm of time and space, beyond the multiple dimensions speculated to exist in the relatively new physics of string theory. Perhaps Spirit moves in a timeless, spaceless existence. Each movement generates infinite universes, endless streams of space-time coming and going.

The architecture of space and time emerged from vast energy. Infinite energy pops out of the Void. The phrase "Big Bang" is misleading - it was really the emergences of a silent expansion of multiple dimensions from a dimensionless energy. Our universe condensed into dimensions, forces, particles. Each particle exists because of the existence of an infinity of other particles. Each particle is a drop of energy condensed by the processes that exist due to the existence of an infinity of other particles and energies. Our universe exists because of the existence of an infinity of other universes.

The interdependence of everything is the stuff that makes the fabric of this universe. The folds of this fabric are what we see as matter, energy, forces. The dynamics of this fabric are the endless interactions and transformations of matter and energy.

The Spirit is that which shapes the ever-transforming dance of energy and the play amongst infinite interactions.

When you're watching clouds and see shapes come and go, you get a sense of the transience of life. If you could search this entire universe and find all organic life it would still be an insignificantly small component of this universe. Organic life comes and goes just as easily as those shapes in the clouds. As matter and energy transform over time, a tiny fraction of all that stuff collapses into self-replicating molecular structures that adapt, learn, accumulate, and become capable of architecturing living creatures. A tiny fraction of this universe becomes capable of sensing, learning, and wondering. With time, and with the spirit of exploration, creatures adapt to become more complex, intelligent, discovering new kinds of awareness, new kinds of senses, new ways of seeing and learning and discovering.

This spirit of exploration is the wind of Spirit within us. Our sense of something beyond what we know - is what leads us to explore beyond what we know. As we discover more, our sense of Spirit is pushed to new dimensions.

If you could create a universe within a tiny spec of dust - how would you explore that universe? You would attempt to create some form of sensory device in that speck of dust. With some luck, you would be able to immerse yourself in that universe by connecting somehow to that sensory device.

Your existence is like a leaf blowing in the winds of Spirit. The body and mind are like that leaf - except they have sense, awareness. With time and with the constant pressure of this spirit of exploration, the reach of our senses and awareness grows.

Ego is the center of need and desire. Ego has a complex sensory network - it senses it's need and desires. Through the matrix of memory, thought, feeling - ego senses itself and shapes the inner landscape of it's own existence.

Mind and feelings are like a new universe formed within the boundaries of the body. It's a new realm for exploration. It's a place where new senses can be formed, new kinds of awareness can be created, and where imagination, creativity and new kinds of intelligence can grow.

However, in all living creatures - the senses go hand in hand with pleasure and pain. The mind is touched by pleasure and pain - with time, the mind sticks to the processes of grasping (for pleasure and comfort) and aversion (avoidance of pain, discomfort). The mind accumulates memories of pleasure and pain - grasping and aversion. The ego emerges from all this as a sense of identity - that identity being defined by the memories (conscious and unconscious) of the totality of the pains and pleasures in one's life.

Ego is awareness of one's own being. For most of us, ego is the inner sensation of the total effect of these memories, these grapsings and aversions. The feelings associated with your ego are shaped by your history of feelings and desires - your conditioning.

As a creature evolves in complexity, the processes of grasping and aversion can lead to new and troublesome forms of fear and greed. As our basic instincts encounter a spacious mind full of imagination and thought, the kinds of fear and greed that result from this encounter become more and more complex and entrenched.

With a little discipline and a willingness to let go of our graspings and aversions - we can step into a new journey - of riding with the wind. It takes compassion, kindness, gentleness, patience, generosity and caring to stay on this ride.

Succumbing to the forces of grasping and aversion, our ride takes a pause. Don't let it pause you for too long, otherwise you will become spiritually stagnant - a state of soul-lessness, lost direction, dissatisfaction, frustration and darkness - where concerns of pain and pleasure consume all your energies. With each pause - take some time to learn about this terrain of grasping-aversion-fear-greed ... this learning is part of spiritual evolution.

Compassion inspires you pass on your learnings to others - so that you can improve their chances for learning how to resume their ride on the Wind of Spirit. Try to remember not to become attached to those learnings - the ways back to that stagnant pool are many.

Soul flight - fuel for the spiritual explorer
Think of those things that bring your soul to life:

•Freedom from fear, hate, greed
•Freedom from sustained stress
•Freedom from dependency on a belief system
•A feeling of connection to an unlimited intelligence
•Inner silence
•Clear awareness
•Creative imagination
•Being centered in forgiveness, generosity, kindness, humility
•Feeling at home with the unknown and the unfamiliar
Think of those things that break the soul:

•Attachment to belief
•Addiction to greed
•Obsession with power, wealth and control
•Continuously stressing the inner animal
•Destruction of the healing emotions
•Suppressing awareness of the soul of nature
•Ignorance of the incompleteness of knowing
•Misuse of the powers of the imagination
Your human instincts include forgiveness, generosity, kindness, compassion and humility. They are as vital to our species survival as the fight-flight instincts. More important than these instincts is the instinctive intelligence that keeps your instincts in balance. The greatest instinct urges us to explore soul, imagination, consciousness and the web of life.

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Meditation - connecting with silence
Meditation and Inner healing - the art of calming, meditation, relaxation - a simple meditation method - "settle-sense-dive-let go"

A helping hand for your healing - healing sounds for your MP3 player or iPod

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Spiritual exploration - connecting with the wisdom of spirit
Threads of visions on exploration, meditation and the web of life - the soul's flight of exploration, meeting spiritual intelligence within the web of life

Fuel for the spiritual explorer - shares some insights from a spiritual explorer and his spirit companions

Contemplations on healing and meditation - insights into stress, silence, the inner animal and the spacious mind

More contemplations on healing and meditation - insights into religion, meditation, stress and healing

Explorations into spirituality - explorations into the source of spiritual wisdom

Healing the inner animal - explorations into the animal core of human nature and it's spiritual connection to the web of life

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Winds of Grace

2011-12-18T01:09:00.000-08:00

The winds of grace blow all the time.
All we need to do is set our sails.

Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Gospel of Ramakrishna

We must not wish for the disappearance
of our troubles but for the grace to transform them. Simone Weil

Old Bahamian Fishing Boat

With a little discipline and a willingness to let go of our graspings and aversions - we can step into a new journey - of sailing with the wind of Grace. It takes compassion, kindness, gentleness, patience, generosity and caring to cruise on this boat.

I Am Not Disturbed by the Passage of Time

2011-12-17T02:40:00.000-08:00

I know the Eternal lives within me. Spirit, God, Divine, Light, Love all are names of this Eternal which is the Essence of my Being. This Eternal Essence watches over me, guides me, and leads me to giving more than receiving. I am so grateful to be aware of Who I really AM! And so are ALL, in Oneness, ron

The consciousness that our being is, is infinite, essentially. It is impossible ...to divide consciousness into parts, into bits of individualities or localized existences. We are, basically, not ‘existences’ in plural, but one single existence into which we all converge at the root. There is an endlessness behind us, both in space and in time. This endlessness, spatially within us in terms of magnitude, is the reason why we cannot be satisfied by any amount of possession in this world. At the same time, we ask for endless existence. When a ripple or a wave in the ocean subsides into its base, it is entering into the base of all the waves in the entire ocean and not merely into its own little root. The little root of this one wave is the root of all the waves because the single ocean is spread out at the back of all the waves. ……..Aum!By: Subodh Kumar Misra

John Lennon - Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

2011-12-16T05:33:00.000-08:00

War over in Iraq? Yes! Another great reason to celebrate Christmas! Thank you Obama! He said he would do it and he is...

Simply Love

2011-12-14T17:58:00.001-08:00

“I love, because my love is not dependent on the object of love. My
love is dependent on my state of being. So whether the other person
changes, becomes different, friend turns into a foe, does not matter,
because my love was never dependent on the other person. My love is my
state of being. I simply love.” -Osho
Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. - Eckhart Tolle

The mind should be trained to be a servant of the heart. Logic should serve love. And then life can become a festival of lights"~ Osho ♥

Please Pray With Me Today (send me some good vibes)

2011-12-14T09:48:00.000-08:00

For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a
simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry
of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy.St. Thérèse of Lisieux
(gratefulness.org)
Please pray with me as I am sick with grief.

Annie Oakley:
Prayers sent Ron ♥
Keenan W Robinson: Bless you so Ron, you have been a quick lifter Upper I am somewhat sadden are you ok love ya bro....QQ's to my Fathers house and my soul to my mothers heart...let us together pray that you be comforted....♥ Amen.
Mary Piercy: Praying for you Ron...
Rebecca Moser: Prayers for strength to endure this transitional time.
1Dean A. Banks http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=192405147520675&set=a.170715986356258.40284.168574003237123&type=1&theaterWall Photos
Do you have a feeling of foreboding? Are you grief stricken about what you perceive is happening? Are the results of these feelings real or are they what you believe will happen?
Angela Martin Diggs: Love and prayers sent to you...♥ Be still and listen to what God speaks to you....Comfort embrace your Spirit..♥
Effie Aghili: Beautiful...Abundance of love and blessings always to you dear Ron...♥ :)3 hours ago · UnlikeLike · 1.Lisa Jones Embracing you in the energetic arms of the universe! Your grief could be your greatest blessing! Much love Ron!
Tom Nadeau: Just know that we are all made of the same stuff Ron...Don't know why you are overcome today, but I have been there, as we all have, in that place. To endure that feeling is so uncomfortable. When I am there, sometimes I just want to disappear into the ether...fade away at least until the pain subsides but I always find comfort that I ALWAYS come through to the other side stronger, grown and grateful.
Ron Alexander: I am so grateful to you all, as some of you know, I am "ambivalently fighting" for my family home, which I have been living in & renovating for 7 years. The family "trust" lawyer had an eviction notice served to me just before Thanksgiving. I have been unsuccessfully so far trying to find a lawyer who will "fight" for me. Today, I have driven to the state capitol to consult with an attorney, who was at least sympathetic on the phone. Not only have I been dealing with a lot of grief, but also alot of transitional anxiety of possibly having to leave this beautiful house around Christmas. That meeting occurs at 2pm, slo please send attorney and myself alot of positive vibes at that time, yours thankfully, ron
.Lisa Jones Ron, I know it is not easy, place your focus on your heart for the love you have for your home then keep your focus on that which you want not on the fear of what you do not want. See what you want as already done. Keep your thoughts positive. Where thoughts go energy flows. On the opposite side of the coin, the Divine Self knows what is best so don't fight it. Sometimes, unanswered prayers are the best. Much love and support to you in your time of transition.
Donna Stead: I agree with Lisa, keep positive and be proactive at the same time. Focus on what you want and then take charge! Sending love and light at the challenging time:)
Angela Martin Diggs Breath my friend and allow the Divine God to take the lead.....Through guidance and Faith may your troubles be eased. Whatever is yours can not be taken, however it can be slowed down. Never stopped. What is meant for Ron will be Ron's...Much love and do not be swept up by emotions. Make your decisions from a loving place within your heart. By all means stay positive as Lisa and Donna suggest. Tom Nadeau: Sometimes what we want doesn't come to fruition...sometimes, when we are playing director, we seem to know what is good for us and insist upon our way. I had an entire life taken away from me once and it made me very bitter and resentful. However, with time and a program of spiritual recovery, I came to see my part in all that happened to me...I learned that I was not a victim but sometimes a victimizer...at least from the perspective of those who injured me. As this process began to take root in my heart, a calmness and a love replaced the hatred I felt and was able to forgive them because in seeing my own part, I was able to forgive myself. Once that happened, the angst was gone and my emotional load was dramatically lessened.Tom Nadeau: Ron I am sorry if I am overly involved in this discussion. I realize it may seem presumptuous of me to be in this given the fact that we don't interact a lot on FB but something about your pain hit me this morning and I was moved to speak. Please do not become offended.·
Ellen M Raines: ‎"the family "trust" lawyer" ... interesting contradiction of terms ... I'm holding for you that any and all resistance dissipates - - - and that once again, you will find peace and comfort in your home..Jean Mitchell: Bless you dear ♥ Ron ♥ sending you and the situation you are in much positiveness and visualizations for a happy out come my friend, my, we are all being tested right now, love you, keep strong and look to the higher perspective Lord knows I am too, and you have always given me strength just when I needed it most in my life, bless you I hope in my way I can return a little to you my friend
Gene Yakub: Sending you love and light, Ron, and prayers that you will feel warm and comfortable in your internal home until such time in the near future when you have found your abode of peace.
Robyn Summers-Shelley: sending you love, healing, prayers and peace my friend.............xoxoxElizabeth May Sutor: You got it.
Patricia Arnold: Holding you in Light, knowing that the Divine within and surrounding you is providing the strength and peace you desire.Ron Alexander: I am so appreciative of ALL of you, you are so dear and full of loving kindness. Worldwide FB Friends! What a blessing. Had an awesome meeting with lawyer today - first time I have had felt really heard by attorney. I am going to trust the legal "fight" with him and know, with guidance of the Divine, I will be helped - a 2 hour DIALOGUE - I know we were positively supported by all of your Good Vibes and Prayers! A good listening lawyer is a good COUNSELOR in the therapeutic meaning of the word!Patricia Arnold: I affirm that this matter is resolving itself for the Highest Good of all concerned, no matter what appears to be happening on the surface. Everybody and everything in the physical world is transitory; so this, too, shall pass.

Patricia Arnold: I've had this personal experience--complete with the lawyer and bank battle. Without it, I'm not sure I would have become so trusting or willing to go wherever God sends me.

What I now know, for sure is that on some occasions, our souls' ...scripts indicate that it simply time to move on. The Divine within you knows where you're supposed to be at any moment to fulfill its mission through your body.

I've been blessed to experience the freedom and tranquility that result from allowing myself to let go and be led to the domicile that is perfectly suited for the next adventure in my physical experience.

In your case, it might be the same place. Wherever it is, know that it's the most perfect place for you.
Ron Alexander: Ah, Patricia, that is so comforting. It feels very good to finally have a lawyer I can trust to do the best he can for me - his job - not mine! Now, I can really surrender! Divine Will Be Done! ron
Ah, Patricia, that is so comforting. It feels very good to finally have a lawyer I can trust to do the best he can for me - his job - not mine! Now, I can really surrender! Divine Will Be Done! ron
26 minutes ago · LikeUnlike.Patricia Arnold LOL! That's the same way I felt. The lawyer was a brilliant young man named Barack Obama. I instinctively trusted him-- and gave up the fight. Best decision I ever made.

ONE DEGREE OF SEPARATION FROM BARACK OBAMA- Patricia Arnold! (You have heard of 6 degrees of separation? - book and movie about it)

Patricia Arnold: My pleasure. He didn't give me the news I wanted to hear, but I trusted him. As a show of gratitude, when I saw that he was signing his new book, "Dreams from my Father," I rushed to our neighborhood bookstore to support him. Today I own a first edition hard copy signed by the young man who would become president of these United States--on his birthday!

Ron Alexander: Wow! Wow! Barack Obama! I luv it! This guy is no Barack Obama, but he had great memory with terrific dialogue skills. He really heard me and laid out some awesome possible scenarios for hopefully fruitful dialogues with my "trust" lawyer ...and the 'eviction"attprmeu who he knows and is pretty sure he can work with. So I can give up my confused thinking on how I was going to try to communicate with the two opposing attorneys! Byron Katy maintains that "confusion is the basis of suffering", and I believe that in addition to the "bargaining" part of grief where one questions incessantly "why me, why did they do that, why didn't I ?????????? on and on - along with anger one of the worsts parts of grief.
Patricia Arnold: Of course, the flip side of that is "Why not me?" It would be kinda cool if all of us could see the scripts we wrote when we, as immortal souls, entered these bodies. But then, life would be one big plot-stealer.

We simply have to remember...: 1) We're here for a purpose and 2) The physical body isn't us. It is merely the spacesuit we need to navigate this plane. 3) Nothing here happens TO us, it happens FOR us--something we always see clearly in hindsight.

As @Tom Nadeau indicated, these opportunities can strengthen you if you allow them. This experience is not about keeping or losing a house. It's merely a prop on Earth's stage--and there are many more. Nothing on this planet, not even a fight, lasts forever. You are mightily blessed, my friend, that your creative soul has designed this wonderful opportunity to learn more about yourself. You're being tossed in the air. Trust that the Divine will catch you.

Right Awareness - Truth right now!

2011-12-13T06:26:00.001-08:00

Seeing things as they are not as you would like them to be.

I am sick with grief. Pain - my teeth, I must be grinding them during the night. Possibly losing this house brings up all the grief of how it got to be like this. Greed, love of things over people, insecurity, egoic thinking - competition - having nicer and more beautiful things that neighbors and friends. House, cars, and even boats - yes, now I saying it - boats - what I have been attaching myself to lately. ATTACHMENT! THAT IS WHAT BRINGS ABOUT MISERY! Even attachments to accomplishments - maybe especially attachment to accomplishments - even your sports team accomplishments.
Anxiety - lots of it - transitional?
Watching TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD last night and contrasting myself with the magnificent integrity and compassion of Atticus Finch was not good for my mental health either. As much as I admire this novel by Harper Lee, and her amazing characters. Quote from awesome movie:"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view, until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it."
THIS TOO SHALL PASS! I hope soon!

Thanks for your support Dr. Dean,
Dean A. Banks: You're welcome! Expect the best and prepare for the worst. Either way you have dealt with both possibilities and are ready for whatever comes your way. That preparedness affords you the options, the insight and the strength to handle anythi...ng. See the end result of this crisis as being over. Feel the joy of victory and go out into your community and help someone else overcome the same situation. Your blessings will abound!
Angela Martin Diggs: It is so easy to hear what the Spirit is saying...When it is a shared Truth. Beautiful and Loving streams broke from your original post. I could not pass up the chance to share the Wisdom. It is my desire that everyone receive this. How wonderful it would be to make it easy for man to see and feel this Truth.....Hugs Ron Alexander and Love sent. ♥
Ron Alexander: Wow! so good to read your supportive comments this AM. I feel like Scrooge right now, bah hum bug, however I prayed that "this would pass quickly" and some support like yours and Dr. Dean is helping alot!
Angela Martin Diggs: You know I had a few days like that last week. Just felt that I should stay to myself because I felt very cantankerous. It does pass and sometimes it is not even your own feelings. Just guard your words and only let kindness out. When you do this it smacks that bah hum bug feeling out of your space. Sending loving and calming energy to you. Peace abound and always Let there Be Light. Love sent...♥
What was Scrooge really about? Remember his nephew who would not give up on him? The ghost of Christmas Past, Present and Future... the Angel - was Scrooge really not asking for loving help in the only way he really knew how? Here is the redeemed Scrooge image with "Tiny Tim" (who would not see the bad in him either).
The Ghost of Christmas Past was the first of the three spirits (after
the visitation by Jacob Marley) that haunted the miser. Ebenezer
Scrooge in order to prompt him to repent. she showed him scenes from his past that occurred on or aroun...d Christmas, in order to demonstrate to him the necessity of changing his ways, as well as to show the reader how Scrooge came to be the person he was and his particular dislike for Christmas – most of the events which negatively affected Scrooge occurred around the Christmas holiday season.
Jeanne Porter Ashley JPA Feng Shui * Tao of Heaven and Earth

Eviction #6 - The TRUTH!

2011-12-12T07:40:00.001-08:00

The truth is that nobody can take anything away from me that is valuable. I have all I need within me. The best and most beautiful things are not things.

Within the city of Brahman, which is the body, there is the heart, and within the heart there is a little house. This house has the shape of a lotus, and within it dwells that which is sought after, inquired about, and realized. Even so large as the universe outside is the universe within the lotus of the heart. Within it are heaven and earth, the sun, moon, the lightning and the stars. Whatever is in the macrocosm is in this microcosm also. ~ Chandogya Upanishad

Ron Alexander: Beautiful with Divine Timelessness, Rob! I am very grateful!
4 minutes ago · LikeUnlike.Ron Alexander We have all we need within ourselves!

Truth: We have thousands of opportunities every day to be grateful: for having good weather, to have slept well last night, to be able to get up, to be healthy, to have enough to eat. ... There's opportunity upon opportunity to be grateful; that's what life is.
Brother David Steindl-Rast

Be the Sailor You Are...

2011-12-11T13:48:00.000-08:00

I like Lisa Jones response to me: It may just be time. Let go and see where the unknown takes, BE the sailor that you are! Set sails dear Ron feel the excitement of the ocean of unknown!

Photo is of "Kayoss" - a very fine seaworthy wooden sloop I sailed for over 12 years many with students of Marine Science! Sent to me by former student recently Sally Smith Marshall. Location is off an island in the Bahamas.

Lisa Jones: Geez Ron! That looks crazy fun! Would love to learn to sail a boat! Maybe you could give lessons to people! Thanks for sharing!
Ron Alexander: Yes, and Brian Jones told me he is interested also. Maybe, we can get together in the Spring...Jeanne would like that also!
Lisa Jones: That sounds awesome! Can't wait! Blessings to you both!
1.Mary Piercy: Lessons?!?! I would LOVE to learn to sail as well...have wanted to for a long time...a little distance from AZ...could I learn how in a week or two?
Ron Alexander: Yes, Mary in calm weather, like life, sailing is basically simple however it can be infinitely difficult in stormy weather.
Students aboard Kayoss!

Ego is a Natural Part of the Divine Plan

2011-12-11T07:31:00.001-08:00

My ego is becoming more and more involved with the eviction "fight", & am grateful for it! (Gratefully "fighting")

Your ego is part of the Plan. It’s OK that you have one. Every ego is fulfilled in Christ. That seems like it’s contrary to what you have been taught, but when you allow the Plan to be fulfilled then your ego becomes part of the Plan. Everyone has one—everyone has that limited point of view you call an ego—and every ego is essential to the fulfillment of Creation. So you can quit beating up on yourself for having one, and you can quit punishing yourself for it, or trying to make yourself pure enough, or good enough, or anything enough. It is not necessary for you to dispose of your ego in order to become enlightened and fulfilled, any more than it is necessary for you to dispose of any other body part before you become enlightened and fulfilled.

The ego is just another body part. You don’t beat up on your little finger because it doesn’t understand calculus (though secretly, it does J). So don’t beat up your ego because it doesn’t understand the Big Picture, the Plan for Divine Harmony and fulfillment of ALL Beings. Love it. Dream Big, and allow the Source of All Being to fulfill you through Oneness and Harmony.

Ego is only a problem when you refuse to let go of it and reunite with Source. It is as if you decided you were your little finger and steadfastly refused to acknowledge or utilize any other body parts. The point is you needn’t punish your ego for wanting what it wants and perceiving itself and the world in the way it does—it is just doing its job.

Your job, as the Greater Being, is to allow Connection with Source to fulfill those ego perspective dreams. Your ego is an outgrowth of your limited perspective; and in order to become the physical being that you are, you had to adopt one. That’s it. That’s all there is to it. There is no eternity of punishment or purgatory or cosmic karma associated with it. There is nothing to work out from this life or any past lives either. Just connect with your Source and Allow. It will all work itself out—it can’t not. It’s part of the Plan.

All is well. It really is. Perform Yoga of Positive Thought with your ego just as you perform Hatha or another yoga with your other body parts. Gently steer your ego back to the joyful thoughts that are in alignment with the Divine Plan and allow Source Energy to pour through your mind like sweet honey and everything—everything—will work out.
Namaste,
~Twelve
www.TwelveSpirit.net

William Mcelveen: Very interesting and enlightening. Absorbing like sweet honey into my collective
Ron Alexander: Yep, can quit beating yourself up for having an ego. This is part of us that has been really demonized in the last couple of decades or so. Freud, who invented the word. meant it to be the 'conscious" mediatior between the id (primitve instinctual part) & the Super Ego, our Higher Self.

Eviction # 5 - My Ego Is Alive & Outraged

2011-12-11T02:19:00.000-08:00
My ego is becoming more and more involved with the eviction "fight", & am grateful for it! (Gratefully "fighting")

It is becoming clearer and clearer that the family "trust" lawyer who wants me evicted just wants the property for the money. He stated, before I renovated, that he would just have this house torn down and sell the property. I asked him what for - "to pay for the defense lawyer, (and for yourself too? I asked and he nodded "yes").
He represents the elite this country, that has pretty much taken over. The rich (oligarchy), and they want to get richer and more powerful. Who are these power-grabbing elitists? 1%'s, Wall Street, bankers, republicans, tea party, corporations, "good ol' boy" lawyers, anti-tax forces (don't want to tax millionares or end bush's tax cuts yet they do want to end payroll tax cuts), hypocrites!

Well, it is time that the disappearing middle class join rank and realize we are the 99%, and start re-taking our power. The "Occupy" non-violent movement represents us!

Elizabeth May Sutor: HI -"grateful while fighting eviction". Can't wait to see this. HOW did this happen? My father and I used to have conversations in 1986(!!!)about how eventually there will be no more middle class, only the very wealthy and the poor. My father was so concerned about the direction in which this country was going. It completely eludes me how people can not see what is going on, can not be outraged, and how 99 percent are being controlled by 1 percent.

Your ego is part of the Plan. It’s OK that you have one. Every ego is fulfilled in Christ. That seems like it’s contrary to what you have been taught, but when you allow the Plan to be fulfilled then your ego becomes part of the Plan. Everyone has one—everyone has that limited point of view you call an ego—and every ego is essential to the fulfillment of Creation. So you can quit beating up on yourself for having one, and you can quit punishing yourself for it, or trying to make yourself pure enough, or good enough, or anything enough. It is not necessary for you to dispose of your ego in order to become enlightened and fulfilled, any more than it is necessary for you to dispose of any other body part before you become enlightened and fulfilled.

I was shocked when I was virtually left out of my Mom's will. It seems like my addicted & alcoholic nephew Barry (at funeral) had really smeared me, while I was renovating the beach house in N. Myrtle Beach. Being the only living son, I was expecting at least half, as I was Dad's "little co-alcholic". I was shocked when I was "shunned" at their Ruhamah Methodist church at her funeral. Now, the family "trust" lawyer is trying to evict me from this house in NMB, which I have renovated beautifully in past 7 years. He has control of all the family property, including my Aunt's property near the church in Starr on Lake Hartwell for 30 years - sickening and I am trying to get a lawyer, but no one so far, wants to touch a "trust lawyer.
Tell Your Dear Dad hello, and anything bad he has heard about me is slander, scapegoating and mostly untrue. I got my Counseling Masters Degree at Antioch in San Francisco in 1985. Practiced out there for 14 years and then came back here to help the family. Unfortunately, I was seen as "controlling" while I was the only one to take responsibility. My Aunt, Laura Jo, stuck with my nephew (on parole now) and believes everything he says. Her late husband dominated her, then my Mom and now my nephew. I was enabling him for years, now, the only person he has left is Aunt Laura Jo, who mistakenly thinks that it is my Mom's "wishes". I have a great new partner in Jeanne Ashley Porter from Columbia (not a strong coot anyway), and enjoy life otherwise. the Best of Holy Days and a Great New Year!
When do they want you out?

Well, according to the 30 day notice, it is supposed to be sometine around Christmas. It was dated Nov.16th & served on 22. I think it is because Barry wants to live down here, however he is on a parole that would not allow that, unless it is changed. The other reason the "trust" lawyer gave is "that they need money to pay for Barry's defense lawyer (& himself of course) -that they would tear down house & sell lot." I am sick with grief, and was just turned down by another lawyer. Thanks for your compassion. ron..

Another Door Opens

2011-12-10T06:29:00.001-08:00

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I know this to be true. Everything happens for a reason. All things happen in God's time, not ours! Remember as well, when one door closes another one opens.By: Famous Quotes to Inspire You.

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The Truth about Hair

2011-12-10T02:51:00.000-08:00

The Truth About Hair and Why Indians Would Keep Their Hair Long

United Truth Seekers
Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:32 CDT
© Black ElkThis information about hair has been hidden from the public since the Viet Nam War .

Our culture leads people to believe that hair style is a matter of personal preference, that hair style is a matter of fashion and/or convenience, and that how people wear their hair is simply a cosmetic issue. Back in the Vietnam war however, an entirely different picture emerged, one that has been carefully covered up and hidden from public view.

In the early nineties, Sally [name changed to protect privacy] was married to a licensed psychologist who worked at a VA Medical hospital. He worked with combat veterans with PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder. Most of them had served in Vietnam.

Sally said, "I remember clearly an evening when my husband came back to our apartment on Doctor's Circle carrying a thick official looking folder in his hands. Inside were hundreds of pages of certain studies commissioned by the government. He was in shock from the contents. What he read in those documents completely changed his life. From that moment on my conservative middle of the road husband grew his hair and beard and never cut them again. What is more, the VA Medical center let him do it, and other very conservative men in the staff followed his example.

As I read the documents, I learned why. It seems that during the Vietnam War special forces in the war department had sent undercover experts to comb American Indian Reservations looking for talented scouts, for tough young men trained to move stealthily through rough terrain. They were especially looking for men with outstanding, almost supernatural, tracking abilities. Before being approached, these carefully selected men were extensively documented as experts in tracking and survival.

With the usual enticements, the well proven smooth phrases used to enroll new recruits, some of these Indian trackers were then enlisted. Once enlisted, an amazing thing happened. Whatever talents and skills they had possessed on the reservation seemed to mysteriously disappear, as recruit after recruit failed to perform as expected in the field.

Serious causalities and failures of performance led the government to contract expensive testing of these recruits, and this is what was found.

When questioned about their failure to perform as expected, the older recruits replied consistently that when they received their required military haircuts, they could no longer 'sense' the enemy, they could no longer access a 'sixth sense', their 'intuition' no longer was reliable, they couldn't 'read' subtle signs as well or access subtle extrasensory information.

So the testing institute recruited more Indian trackers, let them keep their long hair, and tested them in multiple areas. Then they would pair two men together who had received the same scores on all the tests. They would let one man in the pair keep his hair long, and gave the other man a military haircut. Then the two men retook the tests.

Time after time the man with long hair kept making high scores. Time after time, the man with the short hair failed the tests in which he had previously scored high scores.

Here is a Typical Test:

The recruit is sleeping out in the woods. An armed 'enemy' approaches the sleeping man. The long haired man is awakened out of his sleep by a strong sense of danger and gets away long before the enemy is close, long before any sounds from the approaching enemy are audible.

In another version of this test the long haired man senses an approach and somehow intuits that the enemy will perform a physical attack. He follows his 'sixth sense' and stays still, pretending to be sleeping, but quickly grabs the attacker and 'kills' him as the attacker reaches down to strangle him.

This same man, after having passed these and other tests, then received a military haircut and consistently failed these tests, and many other tests that he had previously passed.

So the document recommended that all Indian trackers be exempt from military haircuts. In fact, it required that trackers keep their hair long."

Comment:

The mammalian body has evolved over millions of years. Survival skills of human and animal at times seem almost supernatural. Science is constantly coming up with more discoveries about the amazing abilities of man and animal to survive. Each part of the body has highly sensitive work to perform for the survival and well being of the body as a whole.The body has a reason for every part of itself.

Hair is an extension of the nervous system, it can be correctly seen as exteriorized nerves, a type of highly evolved 'feelers' or 'antennae' that transmit vast amounts of important information to the brain stem, the limbic system, and the neocortex.

Not only does hair in people, including facial hair in men, provide an information highway reaching the brain, hair also emits energy, the electromagnetic energy emitted by the brain into the outer environment. This has been seen in Kirlian photography when a person is photographed with long hair and then rephotographed after the hair is cut.

When hair is cut, receiving and sending transmissions to and from the environment are greatly hampered. This results in numbing-out .

Cutting of hair is a contributing factor to unawareness of environmental distress in local ecosystems. It is also a contributing factor to insensitivity in relationships of all kinds. It contributes to sexual frustration.

Conclusion:

In searching for solutions for the distress in our world, it may be time for us to consider that many of our most basic assumptions about reality are in error. It may be that a major part of the solution is looking at us in the face each morning when we see ourselves in the mirror.

The story of Sampson and Delilah in the Bible has a lot of encoded truth to tell us. When Delilah cut Sampson's hair, the once undefeatable Sampson was defeated.

Reported by C. Young

, I had an amazing experience with my hair once - back in the 70's my hair was like a bleached afro. One clear moonless night, all the stars appeared to send their rays into each one of my follicles. My hair was like antennas for the stars. I read some mystical literature about a similar experience - forgot it though?
Oh yea, I had never felt so secure in the Universe. I felt like ...I belonged for the first time in my life (pretty abusive childhood)! I did copy this from article:
"Hair is an extension of the nervous system, it can be correctly seen as exteriorized nerves, a type of highly evolved 'feelers' or 'antennae' that transmit vast amounts of important information to the brain stem, the limbic system, and the neocortex."
It is nice to relive the security I felt as the rays went into my individual follicles, and this occurred on the sea in the cockpit of a sailboat! Especially, since I am be going back to the sea?

Eviction #4 - My Body, Possessions But No More

2011-12-09T23:55:00.000-08:00

My Spirit is free & unlimited.
Just as my Father's Spirit is here,
Who designed and had this house built in 1972.
I have, also twice, put my heart and soul
renovating this house twice since 1994,
My Spirit will remain here even
though possibly no more?

Gene Yakub:
Ah Ron. Bless! But you know that altough I sympathise, I don't agree? Both your Father's spirit and your spirit are free and no one can tie them to a building. You will see, I'm sure, looking back exactly what the right reason is for your having to leave. Letting go allows new energies in and maybe you are stuck in a rut there instead of giving your great awareness freedom to give and a receive?Ron Alexander! Gene you are at least partially right, however, I think I could have said "part" of my Spirit and Dad's will always be here. That is probably moreaccurate, while what you said "letting go allows new energies in..." & out I may add is true. However, what the problem is with that is "the new energies" are destructive - negative - want the house just out of greed - to tear down and sell the property for lawyers or to use as a crack house, which it was before I moved in here. Hard to explain in a limited space but greedy lawyers under the auspices of an addicted/alcoholic relative (the only other heir) are the "energies" that want to take back over this house. Thanks so much for your concern, ron

Eviction part 3 - I Surrender I am Free

2011-12-09T04:33:00.000-08:00

I surrender and I am free,
I am awakened
to a greater possibility
of Allowing Spirit to
Have Its Way with me.
To be detached and
and give extravagantly!
I surrender and I am free
The Way it is supposed to be.
My eyes now really see
Spirit, I am Yours, take me!

Eviction "Fight" part 2

2011-12-08T06:08:00.000-08:00

Can I "fight" and really "win"? Can I let go and let God and "fight"? Do I have enough faith to really be non-attached? Will a good idealistic lawyer come along and "fight" the "good fight" for me? So far, none of the lawyers of the many I have talked to appear to think I have much of a chance.Can I accept the outcome, even if I am forced out? Do I want to leave before the eviction - getting rid (giving away much) of a lot of "things" and get really simple again. As a young adult, I took off and went sailing - rebelling against our materialistic society. Is that the answer again? Maybe? Younger the rebelling was a reaction, can I make sail away an intelligent conscious response instead?
Elizabeth May Sutor: Get still and go within. If you can, get away from the "fight" energy, and try to go with "allowing" instead. When we resist, we somehow only succeed in attracting more negativity since our focus is actually on that which we are resisting. ...Do what you can, call who you can, but if you can be willing to be ok with the outcome no matter what, it may help you somewhat. You never know what God/The Universe has in store for you, to bring about your good, but just maybe simpler turns out to be the answer. I wish I knew definitively, but this is what I felt I should share with you.
Elizabeth May Sutor: My friend, Rev. Dr. Kathleen Johnson,taught me an exercise to help when you are overwhelmed. When you can get the time, lie on the floor, on your back, and meditate on the word "surrender". Get up when you absolutely have to, but otherwise, lie there and meditate on the word until you feel a break-through, no matter whether it's 10 min. or 1 hour.
Ron Alexander:
like it - will share "surrender" - letting go and ALLOWING GOD, ron

Marie Corry: What an exciting place to be in. Letting go and completely trusting as I did when the Jobcentre stopped my moeny coming in. A real opportunity to let go and let God.
Marie Corry: I didn't want to sound blase Ron. It is fearful the thought of losing one's home. Home means a lot too myself. But when we truly surrender we find all turns out well in the end.
Already praying. Don't know all the details, though I feel the energy of what is happening. Will send prayer request to Unity team. Know we love you, we see the best unfolding for you, with the least amount of struggle, and huge peace and well-being, and telling one of your great stories about this chapter of deepening in your great book of awakening. Many Blessings, M.
Lydia Porter: I will continue praying for the most ositive out come. That way you will get what is truely best for you. I will also pray that your desires and your best interests become in total alignment. That way Stay or go ,you will be getting what you need/want. Fight the good fight and know what is best will happen.
..Ron Alexander:
Thanks dear Lydia, I am praying for enough faith to let go and let God! His Divine Will be done anyway! For me, I would like to have my cake and eat it too - go cruising and be able to lease out this house to finance my traveling - lol, ron
Can I publish your prayerful response - your name or anon?..

Beata Bohac: It is a shame, that the will has not been changed. However, the fact, that you have lived there & renovated it all by yourself should have lot of weight as far as the law goes. Ron, do you have any photos of "before & after" the renovations, or even some bills for materials used that would serve as a proof? Can you reason with the family members?
Ron Alexander: No reasoning with 2 remaining family members or "trust" lawyer, who really controls this house and all the family property. The two remaining family members are a 30 yr. old nephew addicted, alcoholic and deeply resentful. He dominate is great Aunt (my
Aunt, who is8 minu
Ron Alexander: thanks Beata, No reasoning with 2 remaining family members or "trust" lawyer, who really controls this house and all the family property. The two remaining family members are a 30 yr. old nephew addicted, alcoholic, on parole who has tried to kill me and will be immediatly put back in jail at any contact with me. His Great Aunt (my
Aunt, who is dominated by nephew, as she was dominated by her husband, then my Mother... they live on other side of State and have a completely different view of life that I do... like 1% vs. our 99 %. . "Trust Lawyers" have more power than they should and other lawyers don't want to oppose them. Appreciate your question though, and your obvious concern! ron

How Can I be Gratefully Peaceful While Fighting an Eviction?

2011-12-07T06:22:00.000-08:00

‎~Thank the great Spirit within for all That life brings. All is a gift; the sweet As well as the bitter. All is for your Growth, freedom and celebration. Be happy. This is blessedness.~ - Mooji -..

Elizabeth May Sutor: HI -"grateful while fighting eviction". Can't wait to see this. HOW did this happen? My father and I used to have conversations in 1986(!!!)about how eventually there will be no more middle class, only the very wealthy and the poor. My father was so concerned about the direction in which this country was going. It completely eludes me how people can not see what is going on, can not be outraged, and how 99 percent are being controlled by 1 percent.
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Hi Elizabeth, Great questions, can I use them in my article (with your name or anon)? It is a house that my Father designed and had built in 1972. I have been living in it and renovating it for 7 years at my Mother's request. However, my Mom died from an accident before she could change the will...well anyhow, the "Alexander Family Trust" got control of it with alot more (much more to the story), and I am fighting them to stay here for rest of my life. I was doing well, and then shockingly got served a 30 day eviction notice a couple of days before Thanksgiving. Lawyers (from the Establishment - 1%) have been very disappointing. I need to find a good liberal lawyer (very difficult here in South) or just accept and turn to a simple life? Or can I sue and keep my peace???? thanks so much, ron..

Akasha Desa - "The greatest generosity is non-attachment." - Atisha
- Atisha< thanks - just what I needed as I am fighting eviction...ron
Akasha Desa: Hello Ron. Love/God(whatever word you are using) takes care of you.. has it not before?
whatever you are facing, have Faith... have certainty.. the circumstance will arise to lift you up. Don't doubt or judge.. just take it.
Thank U for your mail Brother. Blessings ♥
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I can be grateful as this eviction fight can lead to being non-attached and "extravagantly generous." I can greatly simplify my life, and learn that "the most important things are not things". I can live more from my Self rather than my self. I can more realize my Inner Christ, my Inner Buddha, The Tao. Peace, Joy, Light and Love will be Right Here Now!
"I live, move, and have my being in that which is perfect, complete within Itself. That Changeless Self is my self." Ernest Holm

Dean A. Banks: Liz just told me. You and your family are in our prayers. I will contact a friend with the Occupy Movement to see if they can help. Also, I have other business associates in South Carolina who might know an attorney who could help. Expect the best and visualize it!..

Ron Alexander:
"Oh yes! The good Dr. Dean is one of my favorite inspirational supporters. I am so grateful to you and your hubby! thanks, ron And I have already been bouyed by the thought of contacting Occupy movement - yesterday and I fantasized on it last night instead of doom and gloom nightmares. Much appreciation, ron" answer to your bright wife, and thanks for referral, dear Dr. Dean!..
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Ron Alexander:
Expect the best and visualize it!
..Wow! just what I needed to hear, dear Dr.!..
Dean A. Banks: As the prayers of your friends lift you up, go within and see the best happening for you and your family. We will be diligently working to find allies for you in preventing this travesty from occurring. Trust and believe in God, your source, and your friends, the extension of source. Peace and blessings to you and your family!..

Ron, I'm sorry to hear about your problem; it appears that you have done lots of work to maintain the family home & that should give you some rights. Hope that you can resolve it in a peaceful way.
Ron Alexander: Thanks so much Beata Bohac! I have worked hard on this house for about 7 years, when Mom asked me to move in, as it was a shambles for being used as a crack house and being "vacant" for a few years. "Peaceful way" that is a key - "Fighting" for justice & righteousness keeping centered and grateful! lotsaappreciation, ron

Ida Rose: Ron have you forgotton the greatest warrior of all, you can still do what you want to do,but get silent!!
Ask holy spirit and your guiding angels to help you. You must ask, how else can they help if you don't ask?
and really appreciate your advice Ida and I Am, I AM!

Compassion - Where Does it Come From?

2011-12-06T07:46:00.000-08:00

The whole idea of compassion is
based on a keen awareness of the
interdependence of all these living beings,
which are all part of one another,
and all involved in one another.

Thomas Merton

Oh Ron, sorry sorry! You need lots of TLC and rest which I imagine are difficult during an eviction, something that can cause one to feel ones world is coming apart, disorientation and a whole lot of stress of different kinds. Do you know where you're moving to? Do you have people who can help you physically? This is such a time of hard tests, of pushing our metaphorical faces into what we say we believe in, of bringing out fear and weaknesses. It seems that the more awareness there is, the more opposites are bombarding one. I'm going through mine too, fast and furious. You are allowed to share your ongoing physical status with us, so please do. Herewith lots of virtual hugs and light Gene A.

A mind beyond judgements watches and understands. Buddha

"Many know that the drop merges into the ocean, but few know that the
ocean merges into the drop." Kabir

If you see good in people, you radiate a harmonious loving energy
which uplifts those who are around you. If you can maintain this habit,
this energy will turn into a steady flow of love. Annamalai Swami

Every single act of love releases blocked energy in your body.
Unconditional love heals the body and the mind. Keep reminding yourself
of this truth until it becomes your reality. Love is a frequency that
you can choose to tune into, just as you tune into a frequency on the
radio. ~ Nagarajan Subramanian

You are such an ocean of Love, That you have no boundary. The desire
man and woman Feel for each other, Is only a drop from that ocean...
RUMI

All is a treasure - sweet & bitter! Need do Nothing?

2011-12-05T13:03:00.000-08:00

~Thank the great Spirit within for all That life brings. All is a gift; the sweet As well as the bitter. All is for your Growth, freedom and celebration. Be happy. This is blessedness.~ - Mooji -..

em>We can only be said to be alive in those moments
when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Thornton Wilder (gratefulness.org)
Ra's add - And the best "treasures" are not things.

Ron Alexander: ‎"The best things in life are not things." anon(I think?)

I know these metaphors appear to be mixed, however I am confused right now on what to do in my life in a critical time. I am supposed to be evicted by my own family "trust" around Christmas time. I have been talking to lawyers, and they don't give me much hope except for a possible future suit against trust and other benefactor (who unjustly almost got everything).
Spiritually, probably the best "advice" "I need do nothing"!???Need do NO THING!

The Dalai Lama's 18 Rules For Living

2011-12-05T06:47:00.000-08:00

My fav. is "The best relationship is one where your love for each other exceeds your need for each other." however all 18 are great!
At the start of the new millennium the Dalai Lama issued eighteen rules for living.

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don't lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs: 1. Respect for self 2. Respect for others 3. Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.
5. Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
6. Don't let a little dispute injure a great friendship.
7. When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
8. Spend some time alone every day.
9. Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
10. Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.
11. Live a good, honourable life. Then when you get older and think back, you'll be able to enjoy it a second time.
12. A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.
13. In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don't bring up the past.
14. Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
15. Be gentle with the earth.
16. Once a year, go someplace you've never been before.
17. Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.
18. Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

You Are the Eyes and Ears of Source

2011-12-04T14:46:00.000-08:00
Twelve Insight Journal
You are closest to your source when you allow that energy to flow through you and outward into your matrix of being. There is no other purpose for which you have been designed. In the stillness, in the silence, you are at One with the core of your being—your eternal being, Greater Self.

But Source doesn't go anywhere without you. And we don't mean that in the sense that Source Being is a separate entity who might wander off and abandon you. We mean that in the sense that when you are in motion, Source Being is moving with you and when you are still, just breathing, Source Being is just breathing with you, as you, one with you.

Now we used the word "motion," and we wish to clarify. You are in motion whenever you think thoughts. We mean the motion of your mind as well as movement of your emotions and physical body.

Source Being, All That Is, is radiating outward in a joyful, expanding, circle of light; a multidimensional sphere of expansion. And you represent—as yourself—one multidimensional sphere of expansion as well. You have your own bubble of creation going on there, and it is vital to the totality of All That Is. You are unique and irreplaceable.

While you are here focused into what seems like a single point of reference, some of your ideas are ego driven—that is, driven by a limited point of reference. This too is an essential part of the process. Energy, source energy, creates nothing until it is channeled. Energy must be confined like the expanding gases that move your car, before it can go anywhere.

That's your job, focusing the energy. You are the focuser. You are the channel. It is the limitedness of your physically focused being that allows this expansion to take place. And it is your conscious choice to connect with Source Being that gets the whole thing energized in the first place. So fill yourself with love, light, and energy first each day, many times a day, and then decide where that energy should flow. You are the eyes and ears of Source.
Namaste, Powerful Creators!
~Twelve
www.TwelveSpirit.net

Does Happiness Come from Winning?

2011-12-04T05:15:00.000-08:00
Last night, my team unexpectedly won, and they won big. I was very excited, delerious with "joy". I could not sleep my adrenalin was so high. My mind played the game over and over again. I was drunk with "happiness". Fantasizing sports victories was an important coping mechanism growing up in an abusive family. However, in meditation and prayer this morning, I came to a Peaceful Place inside that was much more pleasurable. It was a feeling of equanimity, security that comes with the connection of the Eternal Within, that is so much more preferable than the fantasy games. I don't want that Internal Eternal Peace disturbed whether my team wins or not.

Joy - Infinite & Eternal -
"Joy is the realization of our oneness, our soul's oneness with the supreme love." Rabindrath Tagore

"Joy is what happens to us when we
allow ourselves to recognize how
good things really are."
Marianne Williamson

Pleasure - short-lasting - ephemeral
- addictive

Joy - from Being
"Joy does not come from what you do, it flows into what you do and thus into this from deep within you." Eckhart Tolle

Lydia Porter: Happiness is fleeting, Joy is eternal. They are not same. I celabrate happiness when it comes and remember it as it goes. Joy is what I know when I pause to appreciate , it lasts as long as I continue to value my space in the universe.
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Ron Alexander Great response Lydia.!
Ra Divakar: Here are winners: Some people have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.
Abraham H. Maslow

Now, Being of Free Will, I Choose Loving Healing Thoughts

2011-12-03T03:05:00.000-08:00
How great it is for me to get up early in AM, read some spiritual literature, meditate & pray and come up with some inspirational writing for myself and hopefully radiating outwards. May all Beings realize their Divine Freedom and choose peace and happiness. Metta, ron

Prayer of Saint Francis of Assisi

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury,pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine One, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive;
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned;
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen

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I Choose to see The Light in Every Person, Every Situation Today

2011-12-02T01:10:00.000-08:00

The heart is right to cry even when the smallest
drop of light, of love, is taken away....You
are right to do so in any fashion until God
returns to you.
---Hafiz, translated by Daniel Ladinsky
The Gift: Poems by Hafiz

I can see in the midst of darkness, light persists. Hence,
I gather that God is Life, Truth, Light. God is Love. God is the
Supreme Good.
---Gandhi

I destroy the ignorance-born darkness by shining the lamp of wisdom.
----The Bhagavad Gita

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your own path.Buddha
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Then shall thy light break forth. ---Isaiah 58:8

Lonely? - Quit Rejecting Yourself

2011-11-30T05:58:00.000-08:00
WE ALL YEARN TO FEEL THE ONENESS!

We all long for intimate relationships; we wish that we are one with people. This yearning, which every normal person has, emanates from an unconscious, but spiritual, perception that we are one with Life itself. Where there is NO SENSE OF REJECTION there will be no loneliness.

I No Longer Reject Myself:
Knowing I am one with all people in the Spirit, I receive everyone as a friend. I establish a close and intimate
relationship with everyone I meet-something goes out from me and becomes unified with them. I include all and exclude none. Higher than all differences is that union of the soul with its Source; beyond all differentiation, the Infinite Person, is enshrined in in the sanctuary of my own consciousness. One with all people, I enjoy this Divine companionship. I embrace the Infinite in everyone and in turn am embraced by it.
Ernest Holmes "Daily Wisdom"

Pamela Williams:
When we work on removing all the masks the only thing left to see is the Infinite love of Spirit, in all its forms. Thank you DIVINE. I AM THAT I AM

Bobby Hinkle:
Ignore all past teaching and verbal abuse that created feelings of unworthiness in you. Ignore it all, and love yourself, and this love will become like a wave flowing out to everyone. Love begins at home.

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2011-11-30T04:16:00.001-08:00

I No Longer Reject Myself

2011-11-28T05:30:00.000-08:00
Knowing I am one with all people in the Spirit, I receive everyone as a friend. I establish a close and intimate
relationship with everyone I meet-something goes out from me and becomes unified with them. I include all and exclude none. Higher than all differences is that union of the soul with its Source; beyond all differentiation, the Infinite Person, is enshrined in in the sanctuary of my own consciousness. One with all people, I enjoy this Divine companionship. I embrace the Infinite in everyone and in turn am embraced by it.
Ernest Holmes "Daily Wisdom"

Pamela Williams:
When we work on removing all the masks the only thing left to see is the Infinite love of Spirit, in all its forms. Thank you DIVINE. I AM THAT I AM

Owl as Totem

2011-11-27T20:06:00.000-08:00

Saw an owl tonight in a friends large magnificent backyard - Brenton & Jessica's she teaches Mindful Yoga, and works with Jeanne at Seeking Indigo in downtown Charleston. Their house is located in beautiful secluded spot on John's Island. Their backyard is adjacent to a marsh with a big natural life-filled pond. There is a view of Stono River bridge fairly close and gorgeous Cooper River bridge in the distance. The owl just stayed in the tree looking at me. I even got a good photo of it. I am in the process of moving from N. Myrtle Beach to Charleston, S. C. and Owl Totem is all about change - death and rebirth. It is very hard transition to move from family home, however I feel like it is time?

Owl sees and knows the truth. It's ability to navigate through the darkest night and bring back nourishment for itself and others is the foundation of this essence. When you have lost your way, owl essence will guide you back to your proper path and wisdom.

Expanded Definition - Death and rebirth, releasing that which has outlived it's benefit and usefulness in your life, actual physical death transition, can be placed in a bowl of water and used to help earth bound Souls find their guides and loved ones. Clearing a home or land of negative energy. Starting over in a new life or releasing the ties that kept you bound to the old one. Enhances clairvoyance, clairaudience, communication from one's Master Guides and Totems.

Owls have long been associated with both death and wisdom. In Greek mythology an Owl was sacred to Pallas Athene, the Goddess of wisdom, because it sat on her shoulder and lit up her blind side. Their association with death comes from their peerless ability as hunters of the night, they are able to navigate through the most densely forested areas in order to seek out and capture their prey. Crows will mob Owls when they are near their territory for they know that when night falls, Owl becomes a formidable predator that will return to the Crow's nesting areas in search of a tasty Crow dinner.

Yet even so, the Owl provides a vital function in keeping bird, rodent and insect populations in check; too many of any species is detrimental to the balance of all. So it is with other things in our own lives, for if we have too many possessions, too many projects, too much of anything, it limits and restricts our ability to move freely through the different areas of our lives and the resu lt is stagnation which leads to the death of joy, happiness and abundance. Owl medicine then becomes crucial in helping us to clear out that which is no longer needed or wanted. What may seem like a death to us in the giving up of something may be for another the birth and manifestation of a dream. We are most likely to lose our way when we become enmeshed in the "shoulds" and "must haves" in life, most of which come not from our inner selves but from the opinions and beliefs of those around us. We can spend so much time listening to others about what we should want ( and the commercials on the telly and radio are prime examples of this!) that we ignore what we really want. We find ourselves spiraling downwards into the darkness because we have become so busy thinking we must pursue this or hunt that, most of which provides very little, if any, real nourishment.

Think for a moment what your life would be like if you were able to jettison anything that did not speak to you on a Soul level. What would remain? What then would you "hunt" because it provided for you on all levels? That is what Owl medicine teaches us to do. We find that as we begin to move through the process of what we truly want, clearing the old to make way for the new birth of the Self that is close at hand, we find that other obstacles, limitations, fears and anxieties also begin to "die" in our lives. They no longer have the hooks to remain attached to our energy fields and without our support, they must die.

Owl knows that all apparent manner of death is in fact a liberation into a new life. Something must first be cleared away for anything new to be born. When a person moves, leaves a job or relationship, has a baby, adopts a new animal friend, something in the old way of life had to die for the new to be created. At the time it may seem incredibly painful because we have been taught that death is an ending, not a new beginning, and that what is in the process of being born is always more beneficial than the old. The pain and grief is extended and heightened when we try to hang on to what was because we believe that s the best we would ever have. The unknown can seem dreadfully forbidding, how will we cope, who will be there if we stumble, what if we fail?

Owl can take us beyond those thoughts and fears, for Owl sees far into the future and knows that even after the darkest night there is a new dawn that is approaching. It is as inevitable as babies crying and of buds bursting for th from plants in the spring. From every death something new must emerge for life is ever renewing itself. The Crow that was taken by an Owl last summer may reappear the following spring as a nestling. The Berries that were eaten by a Bear one year may reappear the next as a bird, an ant or a human being. All of life is interconnected and we are all part and parcel of the same fabric that wends its way through the stories of our own life and death. Death then becomes not a loss but a new adventure to be explored with great abandon and joy.

Chakra - Root, Crown
Essential Oil - Rosemary, Lime, Cinnamon
Chant - Ti mah su
Planet - Pluto
Other Supportive Measures - Write a letter to a loved one who has passed over or light a candle for them for 7 consecutive days. Look back at some of the "deaths" in your life, how have they helped you to become the person you are today? Join a discussion or support group for death and dying, study the planet Pluto in your natal chart and note what deaths have occurred through the house where it is found and also the house where Scorpio is found on the cusp or contained within it. Hold a releasing ceremony, symbolically burying or burning anything you no longer want or need in your own life. Make up your own ritual for this and follow your own inner knowing or call upon Owl to help show you the way.

Same owl not so close-up - in magnificent Palmetto tree!

Thanks for the feedback guys - especially "death can mean death of the ego & freedom of Self", Arji & Lisa - "about embracing the death part, that is when you really start to live!" very encouraging and supportive!

Mindfully Healing the Body - in Most Need of our Love

2011-11-26T04:19:00.000-08:00

Our attitudes toward our body can be found in meditation: ascetic practices, warrior training, and inner yogas to conquer the body. Sometimes healers will recommend consciously aggressive meditation for healing certain illnesses. For instance, in one such practice, cancer patients picture their white blood cells as little white knights who spear and destroy their cancer. For certain people this has been helpful, but for myself and others such as Stephen Levine, who has worked so extensively with healing meditation, we have found that a deeper kind of healing takes place when instead of sending aversion and aggression to wounds and illness, we bring loving kindness. Too often we have met our pain hating the afflicted area of our body. In mindful healing we direct a compassionate and loving attention to touch the innermost part of our wounds, and healing occurs. As Oscar Wilde put it, " Its not the perfect, but the imperfect that is in need of our love."
Jack Kornfield A PATH OF THE HEART

To Be Grateful -

2011-11-25T13:48:00.000-08:00
To be grateful
is to recognize
the Love of God
in everything.

Thomas Merton
Thoughts in Solitude

Bobby Hinkle
Ignore all past teaching and verbal abuse that created feelings of unworthiness in you. Ignore it all, and love yourself, and this love will become like a wave flowing out to everyone. Love begins at home.

Eric Gibson's wisdom below sounds very much like the brilliant wisdom of his profile photo - The Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Thank you so much, Eric! I we could live like that - "Loving our enemies", we would have a Peace-filled joyful life!

Eric Gibson:
When the hearts deepest desire and yearning for love is not satisfied, the mind will create a mental fantasy to satisfy the hearts desire.Many times the fantasy of choice is comparing ourselves to others,yet this is called jealousy and jealousy is dangerous stuff! the chaotic frequency akin to hatred, wreak's havoc on... the heart and causes lowliness of spirit.When we imagine another person to be lesser we subconsciously create a sudo image of ourself as better, The very act of judgement is really a reflections of insecurities The act of comparisions between the observer and the observed is a cry for love,don't hate the hater love them instead! break the cycle and set their spirit free!

Extravagantly Generous

2011-11-24T15:12:00.000-08:00
Being extravagantly generous is an
enchanting way to become holy and
Godlike, for God is awesomely extravagant
— as is revealed by even a casual glance at creation.
Edward Hays
The Great Escape Manual (gratefulness.org)

For - Giving extravagantly generously!

People often say that “beauty is in the eye of the beholder,”
and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty
is realizing that you are the beholder.
This empowers us to find beauty in places
where others have not dared to look,
including inside ourselves.
Salma Hayek

I Am Most Grateful for - Meditation & Metta Prayer

2011-11-24T02:56:00.000-08:00

Meditation has been the spiritual discipline to help me at stopping inner conflict.
"The purpose of spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by force, but organically, through understanding and gradual training.
...
When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present moment. This is the beginning and the end of spiritual practice. Only in the moment can we discover that which is timeless. Only here can we find the love that we seek. Love in the past is simply memory, and love in the future is fantasy. Only in the reality of the present can we love, can we awaken,can we find peace and understanding and connection with ourselves and the world."
Jack Kornfield (A PATH WITH HEART)

Metta (Loving Kindness) Prayer has helped me open my heart:
May all beings be happy and free.
May all beings be filled with peace & at ease.
May all beings be filled with loving kindness.
May all beings be happy and free.

You Must Be Present to Love (sign at Las Vegas Casino - ("You must be present to win")

More on Warrior Strength of the Heart

2011-11-23T07:24:00.000-08:00
We need energy, commitment, & courage not to run from our life nor cover it over with any philosophy--material or spiritual. We need a warrior's heart that lets us face our life directly, our pains, limitations, our joys and possibilities. this courage allows us to include every aspect of our life in our spiritual practice: our bodies. our families, our society, politics, our earth's ecology, art, education. Only then can spirituality be fully integrated into our lifes.
Jack Kornfield A PATH WITH HEART

The arduous difficulties we encounter are the very challenges we need in order to stretch ourselves and thereby expand our boundaries.
In the end, it is life itself which is the teacher, serving us up perfect opportunities to do the inner work of growing up in strength and wisdom.
~ Jon Kabat Zinn ~

Have a Heart by Peter Max

Love is Like a Spring

2011-11-23T03:39:00.000-08:00
Love is like a spring coming up out of the ground of our own depths. "I am gift." All that I am is something that's given, and given freely. Being doesn't cost anything. There's no price tag, no strings attached. Thomas Merton
The Springs of Contemplation: A Retreat at the Abbey of Gethsemani

love is truth's heartbeat!" Happy Thanksgiving Bobby!
Bobby Hinkle
There is no such thing as "truth" that you discover someday, like opening a can or a box and finding something good inside, and truth cannot be attached to "The" as if it can be judged against other doctrine. Truth is life, and love is truth's heartbeat..

"God is in all men, but all men are not in God; that is why we suffer."
Sanjay Gupta
I say since I believe that God is Love - "Love is in all people, but all people are not in Love, that is why we suffer."

‎"And if you but listen in the stillness of the night you shall hear them saying in silence,

Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth." Kahlil Gibran

Going Beyond Thinking, Cultivating Mindfulness

2011-11-22T20:21:00.000-08:00
Meditation does not involve trying to change your thinking by thinking some more..
It involves watching thought itself. The watching is the holding, without being drawn into them, you can learn something profoundly liberating about your thinking itself,
which may help you to be less of a prisoner of those thought patterns often so strong in us which are narrow, inaccurate, self involved, habitual to the point of being imprisoning, and also just plain wrong.

The process of thinking can be viewed as a waterfall, a continual cascading of thought.
In cultivating mindfulness, we are going beyond our thinking, much the way you might find a vantage point in a cave or a depression in the rock behind the waterfall.
We still see and hear the water, but we are out of the torrent.
~ Jon Kabat Zinn ~
in Wherever you go, there you are.

So much for the parable about getting in the river and going with the flow. There could be a waterfall just ahead, sit on the bank and observe the water flowing by.

Metta, Mercy, & Merci - Happy Thanksgiving

2011-11-22T11:00:00.000-08:00

Metta (loving Kindness), Mercy (compassion),
& Merci (thank you)
All for You for this Giving of Gratitude Day!

When Life Seems Challenging

2011-11-21T10:44:00.000-08:00
When LIFE seems challenging it is always good to generalize. We have a tendency ...to look specifically on the challenge when it doesn't seem to work, but when you lift your perspective it becomes easier to feel the JOY and happiness that brings you into the flow. Like this. If you are out of money state 'Generally I always have enough to eat'. If you have the flu state 'Generally I have a good health.' LIFE always feels easier when you generalize, and that good feeling help you create what you wish for.

Be happy. You are alive, you are breathing, you are feeling, you experience, you have food to nourish your body, and water to drink. You are educated to read and write, and you posses a computer or cellphone to be able to read this. There is so much to be grateful for, and when you feel gratitude, you are moving into the flow. See the miracles of LIFE around you. Be happy. You are LOVED.

Thank you gods and goddesses of LIGHT for blessing me with the ONEder of your precious version of me.
I LOVE you ♥♥♥
Namaste
Bent Kim Lundberg

Happy Thanksgiving Bent! Though I know this is an American holiday, I feel like you celebrate it anyway! (everyday?) Ron

Bent Kim Lundbert: Thank you my divine friend ♥ Happy Thanksgiving ♥ You are right ♥ When you remember that any day is a holy day, all days become holy days, and as gratitude keep us in the flow..., I do remind myself every day to give thanks for all the miracles of LOVE that I am bestowed with in every moment ♥ And thank you for you that is ONE of them ♥ I LOVE you ♥♥♥

Spiritual Path takes Courage from the Heart

2011-11-21T10:17:00.000-08:00
To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires,
we need tremendous courage and strength,
a kind of warrior spirit. But the place for this
warrior strength is in the heart.

To undertake a genuine spiritual journey is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them the transformative power of our heart.

Jack Kornfield
A Path with Heart (Highly recommend this book, ron)

I swear I will not dishonor my soul with hatred,
but offer myself humbly as a guardian of nature,
as a healer of misery, as a messenger of wonder,
as an architect of peace.
Diane Ackerman

In the entire ten directions of the Buddha's universe there is only one way.
When we see clearly, there is no difference in the teachings.
What is there to lose? What is there to gain?
If we gain something, it was there from the beginning.
If we lose anything, it is hidden nearby.
--Ryokan

why mystic Masters remain unperturbed in the face of the worst experiences of life!

2011-11-20T04:14:00.000-08:00

Nothing Happens by Accident
“I tell you this: There is no coincidence, and nothing happens ‘by accident.’ Each event and adventure is called to your Self by your Self in order that you might create and experience Who You Really Are. All true Masters know this. That is why mystic Masters remain unperturbed in the face of the worst experiences of life (as you would define them).

The great teachers of your Christian religion understand this. They know that Jesus was not perturbed by the crucifixion, but expected it. He could have walked away, but He did not. He could have stopped the process at any point. He had that power. Yet He did not. He allowed himself to be crucified in order that He might stand as man's eternal salvation. Look, He said, at what I can do. Look at what is true. And know that these things, and more, shall you also do. For have I not said, ye are gods? Yet you do not believe. If you cannot, then, believe in yourself, believe in me.”Conversations With God, Book 1
Neale Donald Walsch

Don't Contradict Your Own Creation

2011-11-20T04:03:00.000-08:00

Find and praise the positive aspects of your day no matter how small or insignificant they may seem—they are part of the future that you desire. You see, those things that you think are insignificant during your day are really more important than you realize. They are the soil in which your future is planted on planet Earth.

So you think that a beautiful sunrise isn’t an important part of creating, say for example, a million dollars. But once you get your million dollars in the bank what's the first thing you're going to do? You're going to get up and enjoy the beautiful sunrise as if you didn't have a care in the world! You see, those little positive things are an integral part of the world you want to come. That's why you want the million dollars in the first place, so you can enjoy the beautiful sunrise free from concern.

So one way to make yourself a vibrational match for the world you're trying to create for yourself is to spend your day identifying all those positive, delightful, lovely things and events that are happening all around you all the time. You see, those things are still going to be with you when you arrive at the world of your dreams.

You contradict your creation when you neglect to praise all the positive aspects of your day. When you are cranky and complaining, you are presently identifying with elements you don't want in your future. When you pay attention to something you identify with it; you match your vibration to that thing, person, or event. And if it's something you don't like, now you are contradicting your own desires.

So we say you should enjoy your beautiful sunrises every day. Go through your day as free from concern as you can possibly be. That is the way you make yourself into a vibrational match for the life of your dreams. Do everything you can today to make your feelings match the world of your desires. A happy today creates a happy tomorrow. Namaste powerful creators,
Twelve
www.TwelveSpirit.net

Choose for Love

2011-11-19T17:05:00.001-08:00

"Your heart is such an amazing filter. When it is closed, not even the most beautiful things in LIFE will please you. When it is open, it filters all of creation so the inherent beauty of LOVE becomes visible in everything you view through it. What a marvelous choice you have been given"~
Bent Kim Lundberg

Life is the first gift, love is the second, and understanding the third.. thanks Sanjay Gupta

Healing Power:
‎"Every time you give love, through your feelings, words or actions, you add more love to the field around you." ♥~

"For-giving" Acceptance for Yourself

2011-11-19T13:49:00.000-08:00
You don't need to be accepted by others.
You need to accept yourself." (Thich Nhat Hanh)

"Forgiveness is just that... It is 'For'-giving yourself the acceptance you were not able to give earlier." Sunie SeventhHeart

Does accepting something mean resigning yourself to believe that it will always be the way it is now and that it is wrong to hope for something different or better? Or might there be another way to look at it?

This definition overlaps with the definition of the quality tolerance. Acceptance and tolerance are not synonyms.

E. Tolle (Power of Now, etc.) defines acceptance as a "this is it" response to anything occurring in any moment of life. There, strength, peace and serenity are available when one stops struggling to resist, or hang on tightly to what is so in any given moment. What do I have right now? Now what I am I experiencing? The point is, can one be sad when one is sad, afraid when afraid, silly when silly, happy when happy, judgmental when judgmental, overthinking when overthinking, serene when serene, etc.

[edit] TypesIt should be recognised, before any breakdown to types, that acceptance is treating what happens, the actual event which is the outcome of all the combined previous events, as on balance the best outcome. Acceptance typically contains the concept of approval; it is important to note that the psychospiritual use of the term infers a non-judgmental mindset. Acceptance is contrasted with resistance, but that term has strong political and psychoanalytic connotations not applicable in many contexts. By groups and by individuals, acceptance can be of various events and conditions in the world; individuals may also accept elements of their own thoughts, feelings, and personal histories. For example, psychotherapeutic treatment of a person with depression or anxiety could involve fostering acceptance either for whatever personal circumstances may give rise to those feelings or for the feelings themselves. (Psychotherapy could also involve lessening an individual's acceptance of various situations.)

Notions of acceptance are prominent in many faiths and meditation practices. For example, Buddhism's first noble truth, "All life is suffering", invites people to accept that suffering is a natural part of life. The term "Kabbalah" means literally acceptance. Minority groups in society often describe their goal as "acceptance", wherein the majority will not challenge the minority's full participation in society. A majority may be said (at best) to "tolerate" minorities when it confines their participation to certain aspects of society. Acceptance is the fifth stage of the Kübler-Ross model (commonly known as the "stages of dying").

The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous describles the importance of acceptance in the treatment of alcoholism. It states that acceptance can be used to resolve situations where a person feels disturbed by a "person, place, thing or situation -- some fact of my life -- [which is] unacceptable to me". It claims that an alcoholic person cannot find serenity until that person accepts that "nothing happens in God's world by mistake" and that the condition of alcoholism must be accepted as a given.[1]

Accepting - Loving Yourself - The Ultimate Spiritual Practice

2011-11-16T20:34:00.000-08:00

Gene Yakub:
All peace, well-being, strength can only be found within, as I'm sure you especially actually know. In this time of enormous changes at all levels, we must do our utmost to remain self-sufficient and connected to our higher selves which, I know, is easier said than done but I know you can do it! All peace, well-being, strength can only be found within, as I'm sure you especially actually know. In this time of enormous changes at all levels, we must do our utmost to remain self-sufficient and connected to our higher selves which, I know, is easier said than done but I know you can do it! ‎"To be beautiful means to be yourself.
You don't need to be accepted by others.
You need to accept yourself." (Thich Nhat Hanh)

"Forgiveness is just that... It is 'For'-giving yourself the acceptance you were not able to give earlier." Sunie SeventhHeart

You are a holy vessel, a one-of-a-kind creation. The more you love yourself, the more energy you will have to offer our planet. You may think you have been denied opportunities or squandered opportunities or squandered chances. But, in this present moment, your breath is holy, and streams of creative energy await your cue. Still you may believe that you are not enough, or don't have everything it takes. These conventional and habitual beliefs keep you seperate from your true nature and the genius, power, and love that you have to give us. That's why self-love is the ultimate spiritual practice. Tama J. Kieves
Ra Divakar:
Can you transform your "inner critic" with an "inner soother"? If so, how?
Ron Alexander: Good question, Ra! How gentle can you be with yourself? What can you do to nurture yourself? Can you create a good supportive spiritual community? Do your regularly pray and meditate? Do you face problems with equanamity? Do you read good spiritual inspirational support. Do you take care of your body/temple?

The Art of Making Mistakes Wakefully

2011-11-16T20:27:00.001-08:00
I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything,
and that what control we can exert is not over the events
that befall us but how we address ourselves to them.Jeanne DuPrau
The Earth House (gratefulness.org)
Ra Divakar: To undertake a genuine spiritual journey is not to avoid difficulties but to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring them the transformative power of our heart. Jack Kornfield

Gene Yakub: Ron, may I comment as follows without being intrusive, judgemental? It seems as if you may be feeling unappreciated? Your earlier post asking why you should bother caring plus the last two seem to indicate that you feel let down by others and that you are hurting. Without knowing why or prying, maybe you have allowed yourself to be afflicted by a dependency on others that happens to us when we need affirmations from them about our value and for feeling good. I'm sure you really know that this is a dangerous weakness, everyone has their own baggage to carry through life and their own commitments so logically expecting those affirmations is asking for disappointment, isn't it? All peace, well-being, strength can only be found within, as I'm sure you especially actually know. In this time of enormous changes at all levels, we must do our utmost to remain self-sufficient and connected to our higher selves which, I know, is easier said than done but I know you can do it!

Whose Job is it Anyway - To Unconditionally Love You?

2011-11-15T05:34:00.000-08:00
I found an old postcard from my birthdate in 1944 with some photos of same time period. It was from Ruby Manning Hillhouse to my parents. "Bubba" was my maternal grandmother. She wrote: "Congratulations on the birth of Ronnie, I understand you don't want another boy, John(my Father). We will be glad to take him off your hands. We are driving up there soon."
That was a long hard drive then from near the mountains of Southwestern S. C. to the recessed coast of Eastern N. C. However, they made the drive and Pad, my delightful grandpa, left "Bubba" to help with me, as Mom would not let me go back to Anderson with both of them. Dad went off to war with the Marines in the deadly Pacific Islands Theatre.
The point of this story is that I felt unconditional love from Bubba until she died right after I graduated from college in 1966. She was a school teacher and helped Pad manage his dairy farm. She was a "tough lover" not sentimental, not a hugger, not very verbal, however I could feel the energy of unconditional love emanating from her to me. I don't feel that I could have survived my childhood with my WWII wounded (PTSD?)Marine Dad and injured ambivalent young Mom, who birthed three more sons to my Dad's chagrin s(and Mom's too I am sure). My older brother being a football star combined with Dad to bully me. "Only girls have curls." "Sissy". and Dad liked to use a belt, which Mom encouraged.

Well, anyway, naturally (I think) I never found a woman who could live up to Bubba. In fact, they ended up more like my Mom. Some of them managed to "unconditionally love" for a while - however usually a short while. I don't blame them, as I think there is something unhealed in me, that produced the hurtful reactions in them. Like my Mom, they learned the "hurt" buttons to push, and I am sure I led them there. What I am finally learning is that it is MY JOB to uncover the Unconditional Lover within me, and that is the process I am going through now. I have to be a "tough lover" to take care of myself. I have to not be an enabler. I have to set proper boundaries. I have to be gentle, patient and forgiving to myself. If I can't be unconditional with myself, I can't be unconditional with others. I need "tools' and knowledge in order to do that, since I was not taught growing. However, I am very grateful that I had an awesome role model - Bubba. She had a great husband in Pad, and I noticed they treated each other with that same understanding love. Unfortunately, he died when I was about ten. Thank you, Pad & Bubba!

Wisely Extend to Yourself an Unconditional Love

When you adopt the viewpoint
That all that exists within your circle of life
Is nothing but another part of you.
When you come to the conclusion
That there is no one who exists, who is not a part of you,

You will wisely extend to yourself
An unconditional love that will be
The light of your day, the light of your night
The light that lightens up this world of ours.
From Peter Makena – "Crossroads (In Love)"

May the uncovering process continue for me and all of us. Namaste' Ron
"As long as the candle burns, there is time to make repairs."
Rabbi Salanter

Kite surfing at sunset

2011-11-14T18:22:00.001-08:00
I didn't feel like walking Lil to beach but glad I did anyway - 2 kite surfers were adding beauty, grace & excitement to the nice sunset.

The surfer in the middle photo is in the air a few feet. The one on the right has the 2 kited reflected on the beach if you look closely!