My intent is to walk in peace and love, feeling that love, spreading that love, by BEING that love.
My intent is to forgive and have compassion for those who have hurt me, including myself.
My intent is to exist in each moment, with no attachment to outcomes. To observe what IS, while also affirming what I want to create.
My intent is to see every person in this Earth as a brother or a sister and as a being of the light for we are all ONE and so it is.
To recognize the higher self/good in each person, no matter what their external projection is.
My intent is to feel joy when I look out onto this world, and to let that love well up inside me like a raging river, flowing out onto everything I touch.
My intent is to feel all that I feel. Honor all feelings, but CHOOSE to move forward anyway, not being held back by anything.
My intent is to stay open to my intuition and to the messages from my higher self. To trust that I am taken care of and provided for in all moments and all situations. To trust that I will know what to do in each moment to care for myself and those that I love.
My intent is to be a soul, one of many, that works in this world to lead others into the light, to stay until the very end, however that end may come, to be a beacon of light for others to follow Home.
My intent is to tell the truth in all situations, to myself and to others.
My intent is to connect to nature and see the beauty that is all around me, with new eyes full of love...to love the Earth, my Mother, and let her nurturing love heal me completely.
My intent is to count my blessings every day and give thanks for all that I have. To thank MYSELF, for I am the creator of my own reality.
My intent is to stand brave and strong in the face of fear and darkness. To feel my fears, but continue anyway. To break out of the barriers and limitations I have put on myself.
My intent is to fully remember my power of love. To fully remember my power to create.
My intent is to affirm daily to myself and the Great Spirit:
I AM light
I AM love
I AM peace
I AM forgiveness
I AM compassion
I AM God
All that is around me is my creation.
All that is around me is as it should be.
All that is around me is right and perfect.
All that is around me is balanced and whole.
All that is around me is love....
As I AM love,
Eternally,
Never ending,
And so it is.
BLESSED BE
Saturday, December 09, 2006
strange corners
wisdom comes from strange corners.....
If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both."
~ Bodhidharma
If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both."
~ Bodhidharma
strange corners
wisdom comes from strange corners.....
If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both."
~ Bodhidharma
If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both."
~ Bodhidharma
Saturday, December 02, 2006
Why Keep Up With the Joneses?
from my MySpace site.....
Why Keep Up with the Joneses?
Category: News and Politics
A friend sent this to me. I was immediately reminded of a tee shirt I saw recently" "Poor.Ugly.Happy".
I have said it for years: this is Rome, and Rome is BURNING. The level of decadence (and I am not simply refering to the sexual extremes of the world) that pervades this country can only be a precursor to an end. What kind of end that will be will be up to us. The mega empire of Rome, which managed to last over 1000 years, had to go through some extreme changes. Perhaps, trying to be hopeful of this country's fate, I can see that we will wise up and learn that conservation, not just of natural resources, but of monetary and possessional (is that a word? Well, it is now!) ones, is vital to our sense of wellbeing. There is going to a ceiling, a point where we can go no further up, and then all we can do is fall.
This country, supposedly the richest and most powerful in the world, shares much with the history of Rome. they managed, not easily, to make it through ten centuries. I have to wonder, when we are only about 30 years into our third, where we will find the stamina, the levelheadedness, the courage, to make it for another seven.
And if we don't, what will the archeologists a millienia down the line find of us? Better yet, what will they say about what we have done?
Editorial
When the Joneses Can't Keep Up
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Published: December 1, 2006
An article in yesterday's Times about obstetricians who prefer working in Botox boutiques is a reminder that the growing gap between the rich and superrich has an impact on those of us who are neither. The article, by Natasha Singer, reported that family practitioners and emergency room physicians have also jumped over into the cosmetic treatment business because the money is so much better.
As The Times has noted in a series of recent articles, the very richest earners are increasing their earnings at twice the rate of their onetime peers, and the average-rich are taking resentful note. Investment bankers are jealous of hedge-fund wunderkinds and, from the sound of it, almost every last person in Silicon Valley is envious of the founders of YouTube (with the likely exception of the Google billionaires who bought their company).
It's hard for people flying in coach to have much patience with those in first class bemoaning their lack of a personal jet. Neither policymakers nor society at large need sympathize with the longing of millionaires to become billionaires. But we do need to worry about the effects on society as a whole when members of the educated elite think they are grossly underpaid. The more they feel as if they are losing ground against their peers, the more likely they are to ditch professions in which the pay is only good — like delivering babies — in favor of less useful careers in which the compensation is off the charts — like eliminating lines from wealthy people's foreheads.
America has long had a problem attracting enough well-trained people to important but not particularly well-compensated positions, like public defender, social worker or teacher. But an era in which a cancer researcher moves over into health-care management consulting because the pay is better — as Louis Uchitelle reported in The Times this week — is something else entirely.
Part of the explanation is undoubtedly a tax code that has sent the incomes of the wealthiest sliver of the nation into hyperdrive. Another might be the spike in education costs, which send many new doctors, lawyers and scientists out into the world armed with a diploma and a six-figure debt. But the bottom line seems to be that in 21st-century America, more people can't feel successful unless they're making a killing.
Why Keep Up with the Joneses?
Category: News and Politics
A friend sent this to me. I was immediately reminded of a tee shirt I saw recently" "Poor.Ugly.Happy".
I have said it for years: this is Rome, and Rome is BURNING. The level of decadence (and I am not simply refering to the sexual extremes of the world) that pervades this country can only be a precursor to an end. What kind of end that will be will be up to us. The mega empire of Rome, which managed to last over 1000 years, had to go through some extreme changes. Perhaps, trying to be hopeful of this country's fate, I can see that we will wise up and learn that conservation, not just of natural resources, but of monetary and possessional (is that a word? Well, it is now!) ones, is vital to our sense of wellbeing. There is going to a ceiling, a point where we can go no further up, and then all we can do is fall.
This country, supposedly the richest and most powerful in the world, shares much with the history of Rome. they managed, not easily, to make it through ten centuries. I have to wonder, when we are only about 30 years into our third, where we will find the stamina, the levelheadedness, the courage, to make it for another seven.
And if we don't, what will the archeologists a millienia down the line find of us? Better yet, what will they say about what we have done?
Editorial
When the Joneses Can't Keep Up
--> ADXINFO classification="button" campaign="foxsearch2006-emailtools13a-nyt5"-->
Published: December 1, 2006
An article in yesterday's Times about obstetricians who prefer working in Botox boutiques is a reminder that the growing gap between the rich and superrich has an impact on those of us who are neither. The article, by Natasha Singer, reported that family practitioners and emergency room physicians have also jumped over into the cosmetic treatment business because the money is so much better.
As The Times has noted in a series of recent articles, the very richest earners are increasing their earnings at twice the rate of their onetime peers, and the average-rich are taking resentful note. Investment bankers are jealous of hedge-fund wunderkinds and, from the sound of it, almost every last person in Silicon Valley is envious of the founders of YouTube (with the likely exception of the Google billionaires who bought their company).
It's hard for people flying in coach to have much patience with those in first class bemoaning their lack of a personal jet. Neither policymakers nor society at large need sympathize with the longing of millionaires to become billionaires. But we do need to worry about the effects on society as a whole when members of the educated elite think they are grossly underpaid. The more they feel as if they are losing ground against their peers, the more likely they are to ditch professions in which the pay is only good — like delivering babies — in favor of less useful careers in which the compensation is off the charts — like eliminating lines from wealthy people's foreheads.
America has long had a problem attracting enough well-trained people to important but not particularly well-compensated positions, like public defender, social worker or teacher. But an era in which a cancer researcher moves over into health-care management consulting because the pay is better — as Louis Uchitelle reported in The Times this week — is something else entirely.
Part of the explanation is undoubtedly a tax code that has sent the incomes of the wealthiest sliver of the nation into hyperdrive. Another might be the spike in education costs, which send many new doctors, lawyers and scientists out into the world armed with a diploma and a six-figure debt. But the bottom line seems to be that in 21st-century America, more people can't feel successful unless they're making a killing.
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