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Sometimes it's hard to come straight out and tell our friends how much we love and appreciate them. We might feel awkward expressing deep feelings, even to our nearest and dearest, because it is not a common practice. We might get choked up or embarrassed in the process, or we might fear we will embarrass them. Still, we all have those moments when we realize how fortunate we are to have the friends we have, and we may long to express our gratitude. Moreover, it may be of tremendous benefit to our friends to be at the receiving end of our appreciation. At times like these, writing a letter can help us say what we want to say without feeling self-conscious. Additionally, a letter gives your friend the space to really take in your expression of love and the gift of being able to return to it time and again.
As you sit down to write to your friend, take a moment to consider the qualities you most value in your friendship. It might be the fact that you always laugh when you talk or that you feel safe enough to confess your worst problems and always leave feeling better about everything. It might be the new ideas and experiences you've been exposed to throughout the course of your friendship. Whatever it is, really take the time to express to your friend their unique impact on your life. You don't have to use big words or fancy metaphors; all you need to do is write from your heart and your friend will feel the love in the words.
Letters, which used to be somewhat common, are now rare. A handwritten letter makes a wonderful gift to be treasured always. You might simply send it or hand deliver it out of the blue. Whatever you choose, your letter will no doubt be received and treasured with a grateful heart.
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Proud parent, a sister,friend,lover, listener, kisser =) , giver, caring, sharing love & Light. I enjoy my career, up for a challange till I reach my limit in doing the best that I can, and knowing when to say I did my best in doing something that was not meant for me.
West- Changing Woman
Changing Woman -shapeshifter who changes to maiden mother crone and back again. She went to live in the western sea on an island made of rock crystal. Her home was made of the four sacred stones: Abalone, White Shell, Turquoise, and Black Jet. During the day she became lonely and decided to make her own people. She made four clans from the flakes of her skin. These were known as the Near Water People, Mud People, Salt Water People, and Bitter Water People. When these newly formed clans heard that there were humans to the east who shared their heritage, they wanted to go meet them.
Changing Woman gave her permission for them to travel from the western sea to the San Francisco Peaks. They then traveled through the Hopi mesas where they left porcupine, still commonly found there today. Then they traveled toward the Chuska Mountains and on to Mt. Taylor. Finally, the people arrived at Dinetah, the DinE traditional homeland, and joined the other clans already living there. Dinetah is located in the many canyons that drain the San Juan
As gifts, she gave them shells, which became corn and other food bearing plants. She gave them the animals, and the gifts of rain and beautiful flowers.
Sat, August 9, 2008 - 10:50 AM
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Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs and dirty words, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday, a spokesman said. He was 71.
Carlin, who had a history of heart and drug-dependency problems, died at Saint John's Health Center in Santa Monica about 6 p.m. PDT (9 p.m. EDT) after being admitted earlier in the afternoon for chest pains, spokesman Jeff Abraham told Reuters.
Known for his edgy, provocative material, Carli...
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Sun, June 22, 2008 - 11:28 PM
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Nibbana and the Paradox of Happiness
Ajahn Jagaro
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I think that all of us here this evening would share, with every other human being, the aspiration to happiness. Even a masochist wants to be happy - it's just that his or her idea of happiness is rather different. But how difficult it is for us to achieve happiness!
We have moments of happiness - or at least we th...
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Thu, May 15, 2008 - 11:38 PM
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Some esoterists (with tendencies to oriental esotericism) who traveled in the east investigated the Asian continent and arrived at the conclusion that in Tibet as well as in India, Tantra is the only truly practical school.
Many ashrams exist in the sacred land of the Vedas. They practice and study Yoga within these ashrams; however, the most serious ashrams are exclusively those where the Tantric teaching is abundant.
In the Hindustani markets, studious travelers can find marvelous ...
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Sun, March 30, 2008 - 12:33 PM
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Healing and Celebrating Relationship:
We have all experienced disconnect, disharmony, or emotional pain in relationship. And when we do, it typically causes us to feel stress, and our ingrained and primitive response is to "fight or flee." To move against the other with irritation, defensiveness, impatience, anger, judgement, or aggression. Or, to move away from the other with withdrawal, armoring, numbness, denial, repression, resignation, shutting down, and turning off. Unfortunately, th...
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Thu, March 27, 2008 - 8:14 PM
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Americans' attitude about sex represents the ultimate in contradiction. On one hand, we think about sex all the time, we crave intimacy, are fascinated by the erotic, and even equate a "healthy" sex life with personal happiness and fulfillment. On the other hand, we live in an "anti-ecstatic" culture, in which puritanical values and patriarchal ideals repress and distort our perceptions of sexuality and ecstasy.
As a result, many of us experience frustration, pain, confusion, even anger,...
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Thu, March 27, 2008 - 2:34 PM
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We live in a culture that reinforces and even rewards being invulnerable. From the competition of the toughest athletes to the cutthroat edge in corporations and businesses, we have grown up with "more is better"… "win at all cost"… "no pain, no gain." Our very sense of self may be based on what we achieve, what we have, or how others see us, rather than on our own sense of our inherent self worth.
Unfortunately, our ability to truly open to our deepest sense of self, to fully enable ou...
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Thu, March 27, 2008 - 7:32 AM
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Open Heart
Spiritual teachers have always pointed to the heart as the seat of consciousness, and recently Western science has found evidence to support this realization. It turns out that the heart has its own central nervous system and is not simply under the rule of the brain as formerly believed. Anyone who has taken the time to explore the heart knows this and, more important, has realized that the heart is the source of our connection to a consciousness greater than the ego. Approach...
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Sat, September 1, 2007 - 7:16 PM
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At the end of the every evening the Sun gives an illusion that it kisses the ocean surface just before it surrenders to it's fears, diving into the deepest darkest part of the ocean knowing that it soothes it's soul for a moment in time "Calmness" then Rising again engulfed with Flames for the desires that burns within...
By ~YvY~
I love this the smile upon your face.
Morning sunlight gracing your skin. So blessed to be in this moment in time. We walked thru the Gates of Eden as it was once before. We Mirror Love.
Top of the Temple I see, Feel, Smell & Bask in the Beauty creating our Sacred Space "Ohm" ~=)
****Many Blessing for gracing my page **** Before requesting to be added as a friend lets exchange messages. To get to know eachother and if we share the same interest, or maybe to learn what interest that you may have that I would like to know more about****
~Should we connect in what ever it might be it would be for the higher good for the both of us~
I don't believe in adding someone as a friend just to have a higher number on my list. Should you take any offense to this that was not my intensions...
~My heart is open~
~Y~
~Remove the veil of forgetfulness~
...Become awakened to awareness.
...Open to self-remembrance, then divine guidance will freely come.
...Surround yourself with others who support you to the fullest .
If I were a magician and could perform one magic act for all the world it would be: Show them what they hold in there hand of many different grains of sand, when put together you see and feel the beauty and love. What we can create together when we see.
If I were a magician and I could perform one magic act for myself it would be: Enlightenment & I have found my soulmate in this light and many lights after.....
As tears of love roll down my face the ocean fills with my prayers and wishes to the heavens above all around the world to be answered. My soul stands on top of the highest mountain with my arms open wide saying how much I love you.......Yvonne
Oneness has no size, shape, or weight. Oneness is essence, creativity, purity, love, unlimited, unbounded energy.
Lover and The Beloved are one
What Is Love?
In this thoughtful, provocative work, Osho-one of the most revolutionary thinkers of our time-challenges us to question what we think we know about love and opens us to the possibility of a love that is natural, fulfilling, and free of possessiveness and jealousy.
With his characteristic wit, humor, and understanding, Osho dares us to resist the unhealthy relationship patterns we've learned from those around us, and to rediscover the meaning of love for ourselves. "By the time you are ready to explore the world of love, you are filled with so much rubbish about love that there is not much hope for you to be able to find the authentic and discard the false."
By answering the questions that so many lovers face, Osho shares new ways to love that will forever change how you relate to others, including how to:
Love without clinging
Let go of expectations, rules, and demands
Free yourself from the fear of being alone
Be fully present in your relationships
Keep your love fresh and alive
Become a life partner with whom someone could continue to grow and change
Surrender your ego so you can surrender to love
Being in Love will inspire you to welcome love into your life anew and experience the joy of being truly alive by sharing it.
Experiential growth
Evolution is basically a continuing growth through learning in many forms. This growth comes about through greater spiritual wisdom, compassion, tolerance, integrity, true understanding and such qualities that lead us to Unconditional Love.
Energy and vibrations
Each person has their own unique energy vibration and it is this we are recognising when we feel someone is instantly familiar or we are immediately comfortable with someone. Whilst each being always holds this special energy, the overall vibrational field of a being alters - depending on the current level of evolution he or she is at. Our individual vibrational band as a being decides the world we see. All dimensions exist Now but we can only see things that lay within the vibrational band of Light that we resonate with - that matches us. Wisdom and love raise ones vibration, taking it from dense, slower moving frequencies to faster finer frequencies.
An evolutionary stage
Ascension is merely a stage in this evolutionary process and involves reaching a place where one is ready to raise oneself to the frequency of Light, whereby the fifth dimension becomes accessible and visible.
It is not something for the chosen few but is available to every being in the entire universe. It is obtained on an individual basis, within the time frame that being chooses to experience his or her growth. It is inevitably gained by everyone at some point or another.
A natural transition
One does not need to understand the process or to have ever heard the word Ascension in order to ascend. It is simply a word that is used by some to define this particular step of ones growth.
All stages of evolution are wonder-ful and contain their own special beauty and wisdom. However, it is felt by many that Ascension is a special stage as it involves the transition from a third dimensional reality of duality and its relevant learning, to an awareness of oneness, harmony and love.
Moving to the fifth dimension, one passes through the fourth and releases all buried emotion and thought that has too dense a vibration to permit the being to raise him or herself and his lower subtle bodies, into the higher frequencies of Light.
Universal manifestation
Those attaining Ascension in past times, have allowed the physical body to dieÇ and having increased the vibration of the subtle bodies, raised themselves into the fifth dimension. There is now an opportunity to change this universal pattern and ascend all our lower bodies, bringing a new pattern of ascension into Universal Manifestation. For the first time in this universe, there is a possibility for those choosing it, to increase the vibratory rate of the molecular structure of the physical body. As in all new things presented to humanity, the idea may well seem `way out' and impossible. Not so long ago, talking to someone thousands of miles away or walking on the moon, would have seemed impossible.
Earth attaining Ascension
The planet Earth is currently attaining a state of ascension. The Being who has Earth as her body (much the same as humans have theirs) has reached a point where she is choosing this major step in her evolution. She is currently releasing all condensed and negative energy and raising her entire physical form and its surrounding subtle bodies (which she has just the same as the human beings). All that which is part of the Earth and identifies itself with her such as the flora and fauna operating in the natural flow of the universe, simply moves with her. Any life stream that has separated or is not a natural part of that Earth, who has evolved to a point of free will and choiceÇ to decide its own movement - may or may not choose to Ascend. Human beings and some animals are definitely in this category.
Evolutionary opportunity
At this special time of planetary evolution an opportunity exists for every individual within the entire Earth structure, currently incarnated or not, to choose to release all the lower levels of density and move from a reality based on materialism and separation to one based within the heart centre and oneness of all life.
This opportunity is available on such a broad scale to all humanity, because the Earth is ascending. Usually Ascension is obtained by the individual without being able to use the planetÇs increasing frequency to assist their own momentum towards Ascension. Everything is in Divine order and those on Earth at this time are destined to be able to tune into this assistance. Other planets in the universe have previously attained ascension and now it is our Earth that is doing so.
Linking with the Divine
Anyone may choose at this time to re-link with their Divine source, release their patterns of limitation, release judgement and separation and move into the loving place of the heart. It does require a real commitment and a discipline and determination. It is achieved by following spirit in any given moment. This means following the heart and moving only with what feels right, usually accompanied by interest or excitement. If one continues to move in patterns dictated by the mind, often out of fear and need for security and all of the shouldsÇ and mustsÇ contained within its belief patterns, you will not be allowing yourself to feel in the heart that which resonates as true and in the Divine flow of the universe.
The Earth was once a perfect ball of evenly distributed energy. She agreed to share a learning process with mankind, as he began a learning through limitationÇ. In carrying out this learning man has caused an uneven distribution of this energy, through various means such as negative thought, rainforest destruction, pollution, etc.
Learning through limitation
The process of learning through limitation has reached deep levels of restriction. Many now, no longer remember that they are a spiritual being and child of God, part of a Divine source and connected to all living things with all being brother and sister. Man also no longer realises that he creates his own reality and hence his own world. This pattern has been taken to its greatest learning potential and its learning could be considered by many to be complete.
Earth's agreement
Earth agreed to this joint learning with man and had a deep understanding of the various possibilities that could happen. This Being operates from a place of love and does not feel she is a victimÇ or feels anger about the apparent destruction of areas upon her form. Everything in the universe is done by agreement. Everything. She watches with love and perceives the struggle within man to overcome all the barriers he has set himself.
The Earth now needs to bring all the energy within her structure back into a perfect ball and raised in frequency in order to make her Ascension. She is quite capable of doing this. The way she does it is dependant on the amount of Light she receives in. She tries to release these areas as gently as possible and we can assist this by focusing Light in and across the Earth, creating positive and healing patterns around the world.
The power of unified prayer
Prayer also has always been a form of connection to the Divine Source of all and we know this links to the power of God.
Some feel they wish to help the Earth in a more practical way and this is also helping greatly. She is grateful for all these forms of help.
If sufficient Light is taken into help this transmutation, she does not then need to correct the energy imbalance in a geophysical manner, such as through earthquakes, floods, etc.
In her love and compassion for all life upon Earth and for her own comfort, she would naturally prefer to have a pain and trauma free transition. As we know most mothers would choose the gentlest birth possible. She is no exception and doesnÇt enjoy the pain of cracks and upheavals in her structure or the added trauma of human suffering.
Let go and let God
Everyone on Earth is special and unique and each has their own role to play in the overall scheme of things. If each one follows that which feels right to say or do, then each will be carrying out their part in that plan. If instead, you permit yourself to do that which you should doÇ often through guilt, you are quite liable to be stepping outside of your agreements. It is time to Let Go And Let God. By doing this, you will be truly taking responsibility.
If it feels right for you to help the dolphins, save the rainforests, increase awareness of child abuse, or do nothing...the range is endless...understand that because this is right for you, it does not have to mean that it is right for others also. Each has their own task to do and if you permit yourself to be talked into what you should be doingÇ you will not therefore carry out what you are really meant to be doing in that moment. If you do what feels right in the heart from a place of love and not from fear or guilt then you can trust that you are in the flow of Divinity. From that place you can intuitively sense the next move.
The power of positivity
Another way to assist the Earth is by keeping our own auric field (aura) clear and free of negativity. We can then allow Light to pass through the energy centres (chakras) of the body, down into The Earth. You can keep this field clear through a discipline of only permitting positive thought, pure intent, use of affirmations, non judgement, moving from the `head' to the heart realising that all are brother and sister and becoming more loving. There are various products available that assist in raising vibration and help clear the lower bodies. There are colour, sound, crystals, oils and many natural essences in use for these purposes such as Bach Flower remedies, Aura Light and Avatara Harmony essences. As regards any assistance via products or indeed from any source, take only that which resonates and feels right for you. Each of us have different needs and whereas one may find that Aromatherapy produces miracles, another may simply need more peace or to look at the area of self love. Many paths are available for there are many different people with as many different needs. By following our intuition we can lead ourselves to increased awareness and higher levels of evolution.
A time of choice
It is time on this planet for everyone to make a choice about the sort of world they wish to live in. One of peace and love or the current world we see now upon the Earth.
In the current third dimensional reality on Earth, one learns compassion, understanding and love through experiencing every conceivable situation in life, ranging from poverty and struggle to wealth and power. This involves learning to rise above the limitations set by ourselves prior to the incarnation, thereby gaining strength and wisdom. Finally, as one ceases to judge and realises I am my brothersÇ keeperÇ and that in truth, everyone is a brother - he or she moves to a place of peace and unconditional love.
Many now feel that they have learnt sufficiently in this realm and would choose to release the various patterns belonging to limitational learning and move on up to higher levels of learning. Learning goes on through higher dimensions, but it is through greater harmony and less solid types of experience. Whilst joy and peace are obtainable on the third dimension, these things are a matter of course on the higher dimensions.
The Golden Age
Choices are being made across the Earth by everyone. As the planetary vibrations continue to increase; all old rigid structures and systems across the Earth either change their basis of operation to one of love, or they crumble and cease to be. All buried thought and emotion is being released individually - nationally - internationally and planetary. All remaining karma is being balanced out across the face of the Earth and everyone who chooses Love, is Light-ening up, as their vibration moves into higher frequencies.
It is time to step free of fears and the myriad of belief patterns that keep us so boxed in our world of structure and control. Time to move forward in trust and faith knowing there are worlds beyond that which we can see with our eyes.
We now approach the new millennia, the Golden Age of peace and love, predicted by so many philosophies and religions for so long. It is shown on the ancient Mayan Calendar and known deep within the heart of many, many millions working in the Light of God.
A wonderful new world dawns on the horizon, bathed in the splendour of the Gold Ray of the Christ Consciousness, as we who choose it so, come home.
Unconditional Love,
Sandy Stevenson
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