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Ravenheart

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last updated 01/08/09
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Raven as Totem

Raven holds a unique place in many native myths. Raven is a creator - he is mankind's protector and sometimes saviour. He brought light and fire to the early people so they would not die. He gave them salmon so they wouldn't starve. In some stories, he even brough water to break a terrible drought. He is a cultural hero.

He is also a Trickster. Raven steals from man, and from other spirits. He plays jokes on us, and he laughs at mankind's expense. Sometimes his tricks go awry and he ends up the butt of his own joke, but even then, there is humor.

Raven is a juxtaposition of opposites: A provider and a thief. A hero and a fool. He brought light out of darkness, but he is himself cloaked in midnight black. He is a symbol of dark brooding sadness, and of death, yet he brings life, and unrivalled joy. He is credited with creating the earth and all its mysteries, but even the smallest secret attracts his attention. He is a silent spy, and an unstoppable chatterbox. He is many things.... And sometimes he is nothing.

That is Raven.

Raven's children must understand the value of humor. They need to see the joy which pervades all living things, and bring that joy to others. They also need to develop their sense of curiosity. So many fascinating things happen around us all the time - and raven's children want to know about all of them. They also want to bring things into the light. Some people might not want to see what Raven's brood expose to the bright light of day, though... since many people have secrets which they'd prefer to keep hidden. Those who follow Raven aren't always appreciated for what they do, but they still share a certain satisfaction at a job well done when they make someone stop and reevaluate themselves or the world around them.

Does Raven call to you?

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Reflections of Honor:

June 30, 2008
Dear friend & sister, I am so blessed to know you. I believe we knew each other from a past life after our first few mails. You are sweet, exceptional, silly and so lovable!

Thank you for being a part of my life!

I love you, my sister!
February 28, 2008
Ahhh... Beautiful Goddess Ravenheart! You glow so brightly that I want to hug you my sister.
I can only pray that I will meet you in person in this lifetime again... through drowning, burning..
and I am sure of many other lives that we shared good times and hardships and learning and healing and growing together. You are my sister, my mother, my child, my friend.. I feel closer to you than most humans. You are amazing, so full of SPIRIT, a brilliant HEALER and COUNSELLER and TEACHER... I am just so blessed and honoured to have you in my life again.. this lifetime.. even with the many many many miles that separate us. Thank you .. Thank you.. Thank you!!!
Unsu...
 
December 17, 2007
i can feel the love vibrating off of this goddess all the way across the us. ravenheart, i am so grateful to have you in my circle.

i love you!
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My Blog

let's begin with the facts:
>I am a powerful manifestor
>the Universe does not distinguish between 'good' or 'bad' thoughts
>I am a germaphobe, and one of my biggest pet peeves is people wearing shoes in my home...just drop them at the door, it's not too hard!
>two days ago I was perusing a tribe friend's photos of India. India is a place I have long wanted to visit, but the idea of raw sewage and people walking barefoot through it creeps me out
>am hosting a combination going-away/quadr... read more
Fri, February 6, 2009 - 9:23 AM permalink - 7 comments
 
Peace is perfected activity; that is perfect which is complete in all its aspects, balanced in each direction and under complete control of the will.

Bowl of Saki, by Hazrat Inayat Khan

Commentary by Pir-o-Murshid Inayat Khan:

It is useless to discuss the peace of the world. What is necessary just now is to create peace in ourselves that we, ourselves, become examples of love, harmony and peace. That is the only way of saving the world and ourselves.

... read more
Mon, January 12, 2009 - 5:04 AM permalink - 3 comments
 
my other-mother, in her hundred-pound frame she carried a ninety pound heart......fly freely now, peacefully, gently...
This is love:
to fly toward a secret sky,
to cause a hundred veils
to fall each moment.
First to let go of life.
Finally, to take a step
without feet.
~Rumi
Fri, January 9, 2009 - 7:07 AM permalink - 9 comments
 
...my most magical girl-child, my daughter, my friend, my student, my teacher, my love, my love, my love......may this year bring you even more magic and endless love.....
I celebrate YOU!!!~ox


photo: Melanie on her 2nd birthday...she already had her own unique, future-burner style!~ox
Wed, January 7, 2009 - 7:30 AM permalink - 5 comments
 
"Einen guten Rutsch ins Neue Jahr!"

(that means a good ride/slide into the new year ;-)
Many Blessings of Love being sent to all of you, my dear tribe friends....~ox


image: Flickr
Wed, December 31, 2008 - 9:13 AM permalink - 6 comments
 
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White Electric Wizard

White Electric Wizard





Tone 3: Electric - Rhythm & Change



White Wizard is your Conscious Self - who you are and who you are becoming.

White Wizard is the Magician, whose powers are activated by wisdom that emanates from the heart. Such wisdom is not the intellectual understanding known in Western culture; it is the wisdom that comes from an alignment of mind and heart. An open, trusting heart is a refined tool of perception. Allowing yourself to 'not know' opens the door of the mind to a deeper understanding of the universe. White Wizard asks you to fully utilize this aligned mind to participate in magic.

White Wizard invites you to step into self-empowerment. Empowerment comes from self-acceptance, integrity, and commitment to your evolution. Self-empowerment is not to be found outside oneself. Anything outside that brings you empowerment also has a divine foundation within you. If you feel a need for the approval of others, look to self-empowerment. When you feel effectively engaged, doing what gives you joy, your energy naturally expands to inlcude more of who you are, and magic flows synchronistically into your life. Claim your alignment with the highest wisdom. Call forth divine action in all that you do!

Align your own will with divine will and your Essence Self. Be transparent, innocently allowing magic to come through you rather than needing to create it. Open to heart-knowing and limitless possibilties.

White Wizard is a tool of the light, a conduit for the work of Spirit. A wise magician is spontaneous and transparent, allowing magic to come in rather than trying to control it or make it happen. A magician dances the dance of love through offering gifts of freedom to others. This is real magic. Freed from the need to use power to manipulate or control, a magician uses wisdom to manifest liberation and love.

The harmonic wisdom of White Wizard is melody, the progression of signle tones within a composition. White Wizard symbolizes the sacred journey of your individual life. As a harmonic magician, you are a novel yet universal container for the expression of the Divine. While you play the melody of your journey's spirit song, the Creator provides the harmony.

Melody is to music what story line is to story. Utilize the elements you have chosen for exploration in your life - your gifts, talents, abilities, motivations, circumstances, and the other characters in your play. Orchestrate the most interesting and growth-engendering story line from this combination of possibilities. Understand that you are the player and the played in the melody in your life.


White Mirror is your Higher Self & Guide.

White Mirror represents the Hall of Mirrors, where you can face your own reflection and see the truth about yourself. As a mirror, White Mirror merely reflects what is, whether truth, beauty or illusion. Here you can face unfinished business, the dissonance of difficulties, or charged issues that would keep you from the full expression of your Divinity. Become aware of any illusions or distortions within yourself; your clarity of perception will transform them. Take a moment to see yourself as you actually are, shadow and all, freed from the maze of mental illusion.

Sometimes you may find yourself reacting rather than freely responding to a situation or person. If you have charged reactions such as frustration, anger, fear, judgement or jealousy, look at how you might be projecting these issues onto someone else. The world is the mirror for you to truly see. Any strong reaction to a person or event signals an issue to work on in yourself. Be willing to examine and utilize what you see in your mirrors, in order to transform dysfunctional belief systems, negative thoughtforms, and fixed patterns.

In the Hall of Mirrors there is no good or bad, no right or wrong - there is only the reflection of what is. As you learn to see yourself, you begin to see your emotional reactions as signs indicating where to focus your awareness for growth.

On this quest, come prepared to face White Mirror's sword of truth and purification. The wisdom of this sword penetrates, exposes, and ultimately heals your illusions. Discrimination is tempered with love cleanly cuts away everything that does not serve your evolution. To the Maya, White Mirror is the flint that hones your sword.

The greatest gift of the sword is the power of forgiveness. A profound freedom emerges from forgiveness, the releasing of the illusion of cause and effect. Use the great gifts offered in this blad of truth and light to forgive and release anything you may judge or see as imperfect.

You are already an Enlightened Being!

White Mirror's are able to clearly reflect others back to themselves once their own mirror is clear.


Blue Hand is your Subconscious Self and Hidden Helper.

Blue Hand is a gateway, an opening, a portal from one understanding to another. A clue to the meaning of Blue Hand is found in the meditation, "I am, by thinly veiled design, the threshold to other dimensions. In my ending is my beginning. The initatory gateway awaits." Blue Hand is the seventh or last archetype in the cycle of development of primary being. It represents the power found in completion. Blue Hand is seen as a closure, which is really an opening to another level of being.

Like the fluidity of moving water, Blue Hand is associated with the process of dance, mudra, and beauty. This movement is a metaphor for the ebb and flow of life. In meditation with Manik, experience the flowing quality that is the beauty of the cosmic dance. Remember this essence and this fluidity at times when your life feels most inflexible or lacking in beauty.

Blue Hand represents the 'beauty way', the ability to see intrinsic beauty within yourself and in all things. Living the beauty way requires being in your full beauty and power. From this place, your self-authority naturally flows. This is the position where your ego is aligned with divine will. When you are standing in your full beauty and power, your very presence invites others to be all that they are. To the Maya, Blue Hand represents the deer, the gentle, serenely aware guide who walks in fluid beauty and grace, opening and revealing.

The energy of Blue Hand will also help you to manifest spiritual skills - especially those intuitive gifts such as oracular divination. In each incarnation, you bring certain gifts. Each path - from priest and priestess to shaman and dancer to artist and gardener - carries varied tools and skills. You have chosen certain gifts and tools that offer you a way to interact with others and your life process. This may be as simple as calling on your innate wisdom and insight in order to see clearly the gifts and tools that you carry.


Yellow Seed represents your Challenge and Gift. With maturity and awareness this challenge will turn into a Focus. This is what you desire to learn in this lifetime.

One of the shadows of Yellow Seed is acting as the unawakened seed, the sleeper who wants to remain protected and invulnerable. In this shadow you may think you are serving yourself through this illusion of safety and security. Yet if you maintain distance from the world of possibilities outside your shell, your new horizons are kept at a distance. Take a risk, and reveal all that you are! Beyond the confines of definitions and self-concepts and the security of everyday patterns, the excitement of unknown possibilities beckons.

Examine how protective limitations affect your natural growth. Such issues are reflected in phrases like, "My world works just the way it is"; "I can't do that"; "I'm just fine the way I am"; or "I feel too inadequate." The sae wall that is intended to create safety and security also builds a barrier that limits Spirit from creating new possibilities in your life.

One way to access the transformation offered in the shadow of Yellow Seed is to realize that the seeds - your dreams, desires, and destiny - lie waiting within you to be awakened. In accepting that you are the fertile ground, you feel the authentic safety and security within, and the outside world becomes ripe with new possibilities.


Red Serpent is your Compliment - something that comes naturally to you.

"I am the flint and tinder of the sacred fire," reads the meditation for Red Serpent. In the Great Mystery, flint and tinder represent the instinctive combustion that initiates movement in the physical body toward union with Spirit. When flint and tinder are brought together, the spark of divinity awakens and ignites the fire of your essence. Red Serpent invites the purifying spark of the sacred fire, the kundalini, to align and integrate your body, mind and spirit. Red Serpent can help you uncover apparent blockages in specific chakras to clear an align them. If you are working on a process of purification, invite Red Serpent to assist you.
Red Serpent's symbol is the serpent, representing healing and wholeness. This Mayan medicine can remove toxins, rejuvenate and transform dis-ease. Red Serpent is also known by the Maya as the kultanlilni, or kundalini, the energy that moves up from the base of the spine and out through the crown chakra. There are two aspects of this force, the ida and the pingala, representing its male and female polarities. One of the ancient secrets of Red Serpent is the activation of higher states of consciousness through balancing these two polarities so that they dance within us as one. Another metaphor for this serpent energy comes from the Mayan words luk umen tun ben can, or "those absorbed by the serpent of the sacred knowledge." When the seven chakras are fully activated, one experiences an enlightened state.

Red Serpent represents the basic structural apparatus of your motivations, instincts, desires, and your innate movement toward wholeness. Red Serpent asks you to shed the skin of your past and step into the fires of alchemical transmutation. In this, rebirth is revealed. This desire is an innate response encoded in the depths of your being.

With the energy of Red Serpent, you learn to use the innate intelligence of the body. In this culture you may have become separated from this wisdom. It works like this: when you suppress and ignore your issues, your body receives and retains the unconscious metaphors of that which is ignored. This may be expressed through physical symptoms that bring your unconscious issues to conscious awareness. When this happens, work toward a more conscious relatonship with your body - and work with the physical metaphors in order to heal yourself on all levels.

The body has a specific kind of consciousness through which messages are clearly delivered. In fact, the body itself is a living metaphor that mirrors your mind, emotions and spirit. However, the body also remembers all it has experienced, and consequently holds the consciousness of the past within it, including past wounds and traumas. In healing these, remember the innocence of your body. Treat it with love and respect. Open yourself to be aware of its messages and metaphors rather than storing them. Be willing to look at the positive intent beneath any symptoms or physical process your body is using to communicate. Explore whatever it may be asking you to see.

In this alignment process, you can use images or energies that come to you in meditation or dreams. Journey through your body to catalyze and explore any sensations, colors, shapes, or images. In these times we have a profound opportunity to transcend both our physical and our spiritual genetics. The body's integration provides an unparalleled opportunity for personal evolution. Learn to expand and utilize your senses to access your body's wisdom and vitality. Don't 'think' about it; simply allow your body to sense intuitively the solutions necessary for change and growth.

Red Serpent also represents the connection between powerful physical/ecstatic experiences and the light of higher consciousness. This is an initiation of awakening through the body and senses, rather than in negation of them. As Jose Arguelles says in The Mayan Factor, "Like the Maya, we shall understand that the path to the stars is through the senses." Within the body are held the keys to fully awakening our consciousness. This deeper understanding is expressed in tantric practices, where spirituality and sexuality are integrated and honoured as a means to enlightenment. Red Serpent represents the integration of mind, body and spirit.

Red Serpent is associated with the sacred tools of the drum and the rattle. Drums and rattles can break down old patterns or bring energy into alignment.


Your Tone is Tone 3 - Electric

Movement, change, flow, current, creativity, integration, sacred trinity.

Three is the ray of Rhythm, the galactic heartbeat of natural flow. This universal river offers you movement, and all possibilities flow within its pulse. Open yourself to its current of change!

The Electric Tone of 3 suggests that there is something you desire to change or integrate into the natural flow of your life. Become the 'third point of light,' created from the integration of polarity. Feel the pulse of the sacred trinity within you, revealing a new creation. Allow it to integrate that which has seemingly been lost, separated, or obscured from your sight.

If you have a tendency to be scattered in your creativity, make an extra effort to focus your energy. Align with your intention to express the truth. Now is the time for the Great Mystery to reveal itself through you. Know yourself as the capstone of light. Allow your creativity to express your spiritual journey.

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Sacred Beads...~ox

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generating ecstasy:

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~This is love~

This is love:
to fly toward a secret sky,
to cause a hundred veils
to fall each moment.

First to let go of life.

Finally, to take a step
without feet.

~Rumi

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Mother Earth rhythms.....

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Miracles...

I like to walk alone on country paths, rice plants and wild grasses on both sides, putting each foot down on the earth in mindfulness, knowing that I walk on the wondrous earth.
In such moments, existence is a miraculous and mysterious reality.
People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle.
But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth.
Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child--our own two eyes.
All is a miracle.

~Thich Nhat Hanh, "Miracle of Mindfulness"

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P.P.'s magic.....

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Please Call Me by My True Names

Don't say that I will depart tomorrow --
even today I am still arriving.

Look deeply: every second I am arriving
to be a bud on a Spring branch,
to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings,
learning to sing in my new nest,
to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower,
to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.

I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry,
to fear and to hope.

The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death
of all that is alive.

I am the mayfly metamorphosing
on the surface of the river.
And I am the bird
that swoops down to swallow the mayfly.

I am the frog swimming happily
in the clear water of a pond.
And I am the grass-snake
that silently feeds itself on the frog.

I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones,
my legs as thin as bamboo sticks.
And I am the arms merchant,
selling deadly weapons to Uganda.

I am the twelve-year-old girl,
refugee on a small boat,
who throws herself into the ocean
after being raped by a sea pirate.
And I am the pirate,
my heart not yet capable
of seeing and loving.

I am a member of the politburo,
with plenty of power in my hands.
And I am the man who has to pay
his "debt of blood" to my people
dying slowly in a forced-labor camp.

My joy is like Spring, so warm
it makes flowers bloom all over the Earth.
My pain is like a river of tears,
so vast it fills the four oceans.

Please call me by my true names,
so I can hear all my cries and my laughter at once,
so I can see that my joy and pain are one.

Please call me by my true names,
so I can wake up,
and so the door of my heart
can be left open,
the door of compassion.

from this website:
www.poetry-chaikhana.com/H/Han...Me.htm
(from Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems of Thich Nhat Hanh, by Thich Nhat Hanh)

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~when Spirit enfolds~

.photo magic of anne geddes.
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Lemurian symbol for Scorpio

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(((The Image of the Beloved)))~~~Rumi

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~oxo

"Your task is not to seek for love, But merely to seek and find All the barriers within yourself That you have built against it."
Rumi

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Jap Man Sat Nam...Snatum Kaur <3

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Long Time Sun...Snatum Kaur

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~<3~ox

"I honor the place in you in which the entire Universe dwells,
I honor the place in you which is of Love,
of Integrity, of Wisdom and of Peace.
When you are in that place in you, and I
am in that place in me, we are One."

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5th dimensional heart activation

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~Divine Mother~

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~hamid mosadegh~

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...dream, in all colors of the rainbow..

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Somos Uno~We Are One...Mul Mantra

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~Gayatri Mantra: Devi, the Goddess

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Om Bhur Buvaha Suvaha
Thath Savithur Varenyam
Bhargo Devasya Dheemahi
Dhiyo Yonaha Prachodayath

The meaning of the Gayatri mantra is as follows:

We contemplate the glory of Light illuminating the three worlds: gross, subtle, and causal.

I am that vivifying power, love, radiant illumination, and divine grace of universal initelligence.

We pray for the divine light to illumine our minds.


Meaning of the individual words:

Om: The primeval sound
Bhur: the physical world
Bhuvah: the mental world
Suvah: the celestial, spiritual world
Thath: That; God; transcendental Paramatma
Savithur: the Sun, Creator, Preserver
Varenyam: most adorable, enchanting
Bhargo: luster, effulgence
Devasya: resplendent,supreme Lord
Dheemahi: we meditate upon
Dhiyo: the intellect,understanding
Yo: May this light
Nah: our
Prachodayath: enlighten,guide,inspire

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~Gayatri Mantra~

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Dusty Roades and the Last Pythoness

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by Matty, starring 2 of my Beloveds~ox

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oxoxox

Amor saca amor.
– Saint Teresa of Avila

"Love begets love"

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Winter's Clouds

Night peals back her layers,
one by one,
in a luminous striptease
revealing a world encased in ice, but enshrouded with light.
It has been said, that in the gathering dark,
Ravens children come together,
So closely their wings touch, tip to tip
blanketing the sky with their crys
Only the lark is sweeter.
Tongues of rust, paint the sky with new shades
and in the gathering darkness,
the light makes ready for return.

-Ciaran Gwyn a' glen-

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~AHA~

"When thy mind leaves behind its dark forest of delusion, thou shalt go beyond the scriptures of times past."

-Bhagavad Gita, 6th cent. B.C.

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~SOME~

Some Kiss We Want

There is some kiss we want with
our whole lives, the touch of
spirit on the body.

Seawater
begs the pearl to break its shell.

And the lily, how passionately
it needs some wild darling!

At night, I open the window and ask
the moon to come and press its
face against mine.

Breathe into me.

Close the language-door and
open the love window.
The moon
won't use the door, only the window.
--Rumi. Translator: Coleman Barks

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DNA Ascension

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Somewhere Over the Rainbow

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Angel meditation

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Yulunga

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Voyage Voyage

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Universal Mother

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words of wisdom...

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Carefree shared:

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Wave of Love

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Fly, Jay-bird...

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heeheehee :-)...this makes me HAPPY!

Two Giant Fat People

God
And I have become
Like two giant fat people
Living in a tiny boat.
We
Keep
Bumping into each other and
L
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h
i
n
g
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Hafiz

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Raven by Julia White

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***spiral***

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~~~Trinity~~~

Triple Goddess: Maiden~Mother~Crone
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Lakota Woman's Power Song

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Goddess Chant

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Arachne weaves spiral dance

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Tidbits to share::::

“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”
--Vincent van Gogh
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"To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart, and to sing it to them when they have forgotten."
-Unknown
-with thanks to Iodha for sharing :-)
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"If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it. And it is within thy power to wipe out this judgment now."
- Marcus Aurelius
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“Any transformation of one person invites accommodating transformations in others.”
-R.D. Laing (1927-1989)
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Perfection:

“Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt
at being told that it is a fragment
awaiting perfection.”
-Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

Imagine that moon, shining so brightly and proudly,
knowing that it is what it is and that it is absolutely perfect just the way it is.
Bring this into your life---we are perfect as we are :-)
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"Everyone is quick to blame the alien."
-Aeschylus (524 B.C.-456 B.C.)--Greek poet and dramatist
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Tao Te Ching 62

Within, within
This is where the world's treasure has
always been
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A mind once expanded cannot regain its original shape.
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“Passion is what the sun feels for the earth
When harvests ripen into golden birth.”
-Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1888)
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Gnothi se auton (know thyself)
-ancient Greek aphorism
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"We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart."
-Blaise Pascal (1723-1662)
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"Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety."
-PLATO
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"Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine so that I may wet my brain and say something clever."
-Aristophanes
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"Problems can never be solved by using the same pattern of thought which created them."
-Albert Einstein
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"Better by far you should forget and smile
Than that you should remember and be sad."
-Christina Rosetti (1830-1874)
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"Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable."
-Mohandas K. Gandhi
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“A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.”
-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894)
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“Serve self you serve society
Serve society serve yourself.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
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EXPERIENCE defined:
“We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
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"There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his."
-Helen Keller (1880-1968)
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AUTHENTICITY defined:
“The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is.”
-John Lancaster Spalding
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“This above all: to thine own self be true.”
-William Shakespeare
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“Any path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you.”
-Carlos Castaneda
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"Not all who wander are lost."
- Tolkein
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When The Moon Walks On The Land
At The Calling Of The Cuckoo
The Shining Ones Will Return
~Ancient Scottish Prophecy
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"There was once a wise woman traveling in the mountains who found a precious stone in a stream. The next day she met another traveler who was hungry, and she opened her bag to share her food. The hungry traveler saw the precious stone and asked if she might give it to him. She did so without hesitation. The traveler left, rejoicing in his good fortune. He knew the stone was worth enough to give him security for a lifetime. But only a few days later he came back to return the stone to the woman who had given it to him.
"I've been thinking," he said, "I know how valuable the stone is, but I'm giving it back in the hope that you can give me something even more precious. I want you to give me what you have within you that enabled you to give me the stone."
-Author Unknown
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Whoosh Heart:

When you motion your hands
In the shape of a heart
Or the shape of Angel wings
If you think or say "Whoosh"
From your heart
You are sending love energy
To every person, place or thing
That you so desire
Wrapping them in endless love
And heartfully lifting them higher
Send a "Whoosh" near or far
Love truly knows no bounds
Secretly or right up front
Your goal will always be found
It's a one word prayer
It's a vibrational lift
It's the remote control
For a positive shift
Think it, say it, or motion a heart
And bless everyone
As you practice the art
Of the "Whoosh"
-� Sharon Elaine Porter
November 19, 2006
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Urantia, November 15, 2006.
Divine Self (Thought Adjuster).
Subject: “Begin Within.”

Received by Twila.

Divine Self: “Your path is clear, so fear not. Although it unfolds but a little at a time, all is in good stead and the future is assured. Have faith and lay back in the arms of your Mother. Here you can find the peaceful assurances that will comfort and guide you through the coming years.
“Find your Center and spiral inward towards the One. There you will find the everlasting Peace and Harmony that you so desire to experience in your outer world.
“Begin within, to make changes without.”
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From The Code ~ Intentions in Action::
Your joy walks with you every step of the way. You need look no further than that which is your own being. The world would have you think otherwise, and yet, what you do, how you think, and what you feel is entirely up to you. You are truly a magnificent entity with powers lying dormant and feelings, so sublime, ready to burst forth like a young flower which spreads its petals for the first time to greet the morning summer sun.
How long will you wait before you see yourself in your highest light and do what makes you truly happy? What will it take for you to open your heart and radiate outward the ocean of love which lies within you? You have been bound up too long, shackled to your fear, imprisoned by ghosts who are not real unless you make them so. The world needs you to be happy, to shine your light on all that you see, to laugh without limit, to touch the hearts and minds of every man, woman, and child who come your way.
Take a chance now and live life like you've always wanted. Envision yourself throwing off the fetters of fear, and calling unto you the glory that is yours by right of birth. Let your joy blaze like a fire in the night. That's what the world needs from you.
And, more than that, that's what you need from you.
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REACHING CRITICAL MASS
by Patricia Diane Cota-Robles
In addition to the negative thoughtforms we are receiving from the media, there is another phenomenon that is causing Humanity to feel frustrated and powerless. When we awaken and begin to understand the power of our creative faculties, we attempt to control our behavior patterns. We put forth the effort to think positively, and we strive to focus our attention on what we want to manifest in our lives. Daily we envision the lives we aspire to, and we work to empower our visions of Heaven on Earth with positive thoughts and affirmations.
But often, after what seems like a valiant effort, we continue to experience many of our old problems. This causes us to become discouraged and to lose trust in our ability to change our lives. At this point, we feel like our efforts are futile, and we usually give up on trying to improve our situations. We let go of our visions and regress back into our old, negative thinking patterns. We dwell on our fears, problems and challenges instead of empowering our goals, hopes and dreams. As a result of that relapse, things get worse, and our situations appear even more hopeless. If we understand the Universal Law governing that particular phenomenon, it will give us the courage to persevere in the illusion of apparent failure.
Everything is comprised of energy, vibration and consciousness. When we explore a portion of the vast science of quantum physics, we learn that when something reaches critical mass, there is an unstoppable shift that takes place. For instance, when an electron is increasing in vibration, the moment it reaches critical mass, the entire electron is pulled up into the higher frequency, and nothing can stop it.
Critical mass is 51 percent. When 51 percent of an electron is vibrating at a higher frequency, the remaining 49 percent is instantly absorbed into the new vibration. So, how does this facet of quantum physics affect our ability to take charge of our own lives?
As we strive to improve our lives, the same laws of quantum physics apply. When empowering a vision or thoughtform, the moment 51 percent of our energy, vibration and consciousness is in alignment with our vision, it reaches critical mass, and nothing can stop it from manifesting. The problem is that we never know just when we are going to reach that magical moment of critical mass. There are often no outer-world signs, and it may even look as if we are very far away from that instant of transformation. This is when we usually feel our efforts are failing, and we give up. Sometimes we may be just a breath away from reaching critical mass, but we don’t realize that, so we get discouraged and stop working toward our goal. Then we end up never reaching our goal.
In very practical terms, critical mass means that when we are striving to create prosperity in our lives, the moment our thoughts, words, actions and feelings are vibrating with 51 percent prosperity consciousness instead of poverty consciousness, our life circumstances will shift, and we will begin to experience prosperity. The moment 51 percent of our energy is aligned with self-esteem and love, we will magnetize positive relationships into our lives. The moment 51 percent of our energy is aligned with peace, harmony and balance, we will manifest those Divine Qualities tangibly in our life experiences.
The key to our success is that we must keep on keeping on, even in the face of adversity. It is vital for us to understand that the Light of God is infinitely more powerful than any fragmented human miscreation we may have inadvertently created. Poverty has no power over the limitless Abundance of God. Our Divine Potential is infinitely more powerful than disease, failure, dysfunctional relationships, hatred, greed, corruption, war or any of the other humanly-created maladies appearing on the screen of life.
As long as we choose the Light and consecrate our energy to empower only the positive experiences we want to create in our lives and not the negative experiences we don’t want, we will manifest our visions and dreams faster than we can possibly imagine.
This information is being given to us by the Beings of Light in the Realms of Illumined Truth during this critical moment on Earth to help us remember that if we don't like what is happening in our lives, we have the option to do something about it. This is true for each of us individually, and it is true for all of us collectively as a global family.
It is important that we put things back into perspective and accept responsibility for turning our lives around. When we deliberately focus on cocreating our highest Divine Potential, our efforts are empowered by the unfathomable Light of our God Selves, and our success is assured.
We don’t have to believe in the various Universal Laws in order to exist on Earth, but since we are ALL subject to them, it is just common sense for us to try and accept them. We don't have to believe that every single thought, word, action and feeling we have will go out and affect the world and then return to us to affect our personal lives, but this is happening scientifically, to the letter, in spite of any disbelief.
It doesn't matter whether we believe in reincarnation or whether we understand that we have an accumulation of experiences from other time frames and dimensions that are influencing our present lives; it is happening anyway. If we stop resisting this Truth and just accept it as a possibility, it will certainly be to our advantage. Even if we just say to ourselves, “Maybe it is true. Maybe I can turn things around in my life by accepting the Law of the Circle and working with that principle instead of fighting against it.” If we do this, we will experience a positive shift in our lives. When we are willing to take this first step and genuinely put forth the effort to correct our behavior, the floodgates of Heaven will open to assist us in accomplishing our goals.

~~~~~~~Peace is just a thought away~~~~~~~~~
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From The Highest Light Teachings::::::::::::::::::~
There are three subjects which seem to monopolize much of our thoughts today and they are defense, money, and health. In the spirit of helping us to understand how we are sabotaging ourselves in these areas by holding onto our old ways of thinking, the next three steps across The Bridge will address these highly charged topics.
Let's start with our defense mindset. When you're thinking that someone else is going to attack you, you are actually helping to create that attack. A defensive position always invites an attack. It works like this: In your mind, you're picturing someone - perhaps it's an enemy footsoldier, a renegade terrorist, or a drugged-out street criminal - coming to get you. This is a thought, just like all other thoughts. With enough attention put on it, it will work its way toward the surface of your experience, just like the thought that you're going to go to Disneyland next month.
Fortunately, we can pick any thought we want. Thoughts that serve us and those that don't are equally available to us. If a person envisions attackers, then he will be attacked. If a person envisions Disneyland , then he'd better get his E tickets ready. The question is: What kind of world do we want to live in? If we keep envisioning the same old us vs. them separation scenarios as propagated by the media, then we'll never live in peace. But, if we shed our victim mentality and begin to picture our world in its highest light, then things will change. Thousands of years of man killing his fellowman will come to an end and be replaced by the expression of a deep and abiding respect for one another. All it takes is a little deeper thinking.
We must stop letting those with their own personal agendas tell us who our enemies are. We must investigate a little further to discover who the true perpetrators of violence on this planet are. And we must reject their manipulative suggestions and begin to discern in favor of that which is for the highest good of all.
For those who want to live in true freedom (not the kind of freedom offered by most present-day patriotic movements), peace needs to take the highest precedence. We must, in fact, demand peace because freedom requires a peaceful environment in which to grow and thrive. As of yet, not enough of us have been able to garner the inner strength needed to create a lasting peace. There are a few - and more are seeing the light every day - but it takes a larger number of people to stop supporting a social reality that doesn't serve them before a shift into true collective sovereignty will occur.
The time will come, in our very near future, when one more person envisions a peaceful world and, with that seemingly tiny action, the scales are tipped. The storm clouds disappear and a new world, the world that we deserve to live in as our right of birth, opens up before us.
It will be like a miracle ... but it's not really a miracle. It's only us having changed our thoughts.

~~~~~~~Peace is just a thought away~~~~~~~~~~

"By renouncing everything, even wisdom and consciousness, thou wert able to prepare thy heart for the role assigned to it: apparently the most unrewarding role, that of the spring which always lets its waters flow abundantly for all, but towards which no waters can ever run back; it draws its inexhaustible strength from the depths and expects nothing from outside. But thou canst already sense the sublime felicity that accompanies this inexhaustible expansion of love; for love is sufficient unto itself and needs no reciprocity; this is true even of individual love, how much more true then of divine love which so nobly reflects the infinite. "Be this love in all things and everywhere, ever more widely, ever more intensely, and the whole world will become at the same time thy work and thy wealth, thy field of action and thy conquest. Fight with persistence to break down the last limits which are only frail barriers before the expansion of the being, to vanquish the last obscurities already being lit up by the Illuminating Power. Fight in order to conquer and triumph; fight to overcome everything that was till today, to make the new Light spring forth, the new Example the world needs. Fight stubbornly against all obstacles, inner or outer. It is the pearl of great price which is offered for
thy Realisation."
--- The Mother [CW.Vol.I] ~~~gracious thanks to SHIVA for sharing~~~
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"Go towards the high growing Trees,
And before one of them
Which is beautiful, high growing and mighty,
Say thou these words:
Hail be unto Thee!
O good living Tree,
Made by the Creator.


In the days of old, when the Creation was young,
The earth was filled with giant trees,
Whose branches soared above the clouds,
And in them dwelled our Ancient Fathers,
They who walked with the Angels,
And who lived by the Holy Law.
In the shadow of their branches all men lived in peace,
And wisdom and knowledge was theirs,
And the revelation of the Endless Light.
Through their forests flowed the Eternal River,
And in the center stood the Tree of Life,
And it was not hidden from them.
They ate from the table of the Earthly Mother,
And slept in the arms of the Heavenly Father,
And their covenant was for eternity with the Holy Law.
In that time the trees were the brothers of men,
And their span on the earth was very long,
As long as the Eternal River,
Which-flowed without ceasing
From the Unknown Spring.
Now the desert sweeps the earth with burning sand,
The giant trees are dust and ashes,
And the wide river is a pool of mud.
For the sacred covenant with the Creator
Was broken by the sons of men,
And they were banished from their home of trees.
Now the path leading to the Tree of Life
Is hidden from the eyes of men,
And sorrow fills the empty sky
Where once the lofty branches soared.
Now into the buming desert
Come the Children of Light,
To, labor in the Garden of the Brotherhood.
The seed they plant in the barren soil
Will become a mighty forest,
And trees shall multiply
And spread their wings of green
Until the whole earth be covered once again.
The whole earth shall be a garden,
And the tall trees shall cover the land
In that day shall sing the Children of Light a new song:
My brother, Tree!
Let me not hide myselffrom thee,
But let us share the breath of life
Which our Earthly Mother hath given to us.
More beautiful than the finest jewel
Of the rugmaker's art,
Is the carpet of green leaves under my bare feet;
More majestic than the silken canopy of the rich merchant,
Is the tent of branches above my head,
Through which the bright stars give light.
The wind among the leaves of the cypress
Maketh a sound like unto a chorus of angels.
Through the rugged oak and royal cedar
The Earthly Mother hath sent a message of Eternal Life
To the Heavenly Father.
My prayer goeth forth unto the tall trees:
And their branches reaching skyward
Shall carry my voice to the Heavenly Father.
For each child thou shalt plant a tree,
Tthat the womb of thy Earthly Mother
Shall bring forth life,
As the womb of woman doth bring forth life.
He who doth destroy a tree
Hath cut off his own limbs.
Thus shall sing the Children of Light,
When the earth again shall be a garden:
Holy Tree, divine gift of the Law!
Thy majesty reunites all those
Who have strayed from their true home,
Which is the Garden of the Brotherhood.
All men will become brothers once again
Under thy spreading branches.
As the Heavenly Father hath loved all his children,
So shall we love and care for the trees
That grow in our land,
So shall we keep and protect them,
That they may grow tall and strong,
And fill the earth again with their beauty.
For the trees are our brothers,
And as brothers,
We shall guard and love one another."
- Jesus of Nazareth
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OUT OF GOD'S HAT
The stars got poured into the sky
Out of a Magician's hat last night,
And all of them have fallen into my hair.
Some have even tangled my eyelashes
Into luminous, playful knots.
Wayfarer,
You are welcome to cut a radiant tress
That lays upon my shoulders.
Wrap it around your trembling heart and body
That craves divine comfort and warmth.
I am like a pitcher of milk
In the hands of a mother who loves you.
All of my contents now
Have been churned into dancing suns and moons.
Lean your sweet neck and mouth
Out of that dark nest where you hide,
I will pour effulgence into your mind.
Come spring
You can find me rolling in fields
That are exploding in
Holy battles
Of scents, of sounds---everything is
A brilliant colored nova on a stem.
Forest animals hear me laughing
And surrender their deepest instincts and fears,
They come charging into meadows
To lick my hands and face,
This makes me so happy,
I become so happy.
That my rising wink turns into a magic baton.
When my soft-eyed creatures see that wonderful signal
We all burst into singing
And make strange and primal beautiful sounds!
My only regret in this world then becomes:
That your shyness keeps you from placing
Your starving body against God
And seeing the Beloved become so pleased
With your courage
That his belly begins to rock and rock,
Then more planets get to leap
Onto the welcome mat of existence
All because
Of your precious love.
The Friend has turned my verse into sacred pollen. When a breeze comes by
Falcons and butterflies
And playful gangs of young angels
Mounted on emerald spears
Take flight from me like a great sandstorm
That can blind you to all but the Truth!
-Hafiz
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Uncharted Territory
Feeling Lost
When we are lost, we typically look at a map to figure out where we are and how to get to our chosen destination. This works well, assuming that there is a map of the territory in which we find ourselves, and assuming that we know our destination. However, this is not always the case. At this time in human history, we are all venturing into uncharted territory, whether we know it or not. And as individuals, we may find ourselves covering ground that our predecessors never even knew existed. When we look to them for guidance, they often come up short. Not knowing exactly where we are, we find ourselves unsure of which way to go, and eventually the uneasy feeling that we are lost presents itself.

The beauty of being lost is the same thing that makes it scary—it asks us to look within ourselves to find the way. If we have no map, we must go on instinct, relying on our inner compass to show us which way to go. This can be scary because so much seems to be riding on it. We fear we might go too far in the wrong direction, or become paralyzed and make no progress at all. And yet, this is the very challenge we need to develop our ability to trust ourselves. We are also learning to trust that the universe will support and guide us. We may believe this intellectually, but it is only through experience that it becomes knowledge of the heart. Learning to be okay with being lost and trusting that we will be guided, we begin our journey.

We can support ourselves by confirming that we don’t need to know exactly where we are going in order to take our first steps. We are learning to feel our own way, rather than following an established path, and in doing so we learn to trust ourselves. It is this trust that connects us to the universe and reminds us that no matter how lost we feel, and even as we journey, on the inner level we are already home.
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1 interpretation of many: White Electric Wizard
White/North
Purifiers, shine light into darkness, the light of truth. Will assist in the calibration of others, and grounding. Truth, clarity, unification, timelessness, order, spirit Electric
Bond Activate Service
Sees connections and possibility where many don't. You are the activator. Electrics are often of service to others, valued and make contribution. Wizard
Timelessness, Enchantment, Receptivity

2nd interpretation of many (quite apropos and very true!): You are a gentle, sensitive person with a deep understanding of people and a very tolerant, accepting, nonjudgmental approach towards life. In a noisy, competitive atmosphere you are often receding and withdrawn for you are not an aggressive, forceful person, and you intensely dislike conflict. In fact you tend to be somewhat passive, to wait, watch, observe, feel and know much - but to act little. Letting things resolve or work themselves out in their own way, rather than directing or forcing your will upon them, is often your way of dealing with problems.
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