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1:10 p.m. - 2008-02-18
catching up
Yes, it IS a new day!

Ok, I am still a few days behind in the Simple Abundance essays so I am going to just list the titles and make some comments on some of them to clarify the messages.

A FRESH CANVAS EVERY 24 HOURS....Take the time every day to prepare yourself to create a new opportunity to "set down a piece of your soul on life's canvas."

CREATING AN AUTHENTIC LIFESTYLE. "When you learn what you can live without...you develop patience, you wait gracefully and gratefully....because you know the best of life will come."

DIVINE DISCONTENT. "Discontent and disorder are signs of energy and hope, not despair." You are learning what you need to feel satisfaction. You are working on finding the power of the energy you need to feel right.

ONCE UPON A TIME YOU TRUSTED YOURSELF. Think back to a time when you felt you knew what was best for yourself. Probably you were still a child. You were not afraid to try new things, take a risk, wear what you wanted, sing the songs you loved, act foolish, jump and run and fall down. Remember how good it was to get up in the morning and just .....be...! Try to recapture that feeling, find a picture of yourself smiling and put it somewhere where you see it every morning. Just a reminder of how happy you can be.

YOU HAVE A UNIQUE POINT OF VIEW. Here's a fun challenge. Find about $25 in $5 bills ...or $5 in $1 bills if that is all you can spare. Put each bill into a jacket or coat pocket and forget about them. Then every few days, wear one of the jackets, remove the money and spend it on something to treat yourself. Smile and laugh and think about how you are honoring yourself with that treat.

BURIED DREAMS. Remember when you felt you could do anything? You had so many wonderful plans. Don't be a "Would-be-if-I-could-be" or a "could-be-if-I-would be" any more. JUST BE! "learn that dreams need doing as much as they need being...." "being - always comes first."

AT THE END OF OUR EXPLORING. We may find our dragons are lurking in the darkness of our thoughts.

"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near it".
J. R. R. Tolkein.

"Our dragons are our fears, our day stalkers, night sweats, fear of the unknown, of failing....starting something new and not finishing...again. But the real fear is that we might succeed and then what?

T.S. Eliot believed there was nothing to fear about self-awareness because at the end we might arrive back where we started and know in our hearts that we finally belong there.

A SAFARI OF SELF AND SPIRIT. The Swahili word "safari" means Journey. "...to leave the comfort and safety of civilization to go into the wilderness." "you have to leave the civilization of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.". Alan Alda said...."what you discover will be wonderful; what you discover will be your self."

To be on safari is to be alone, to listen to your own thoughts, to feel what you really feel inside. It can feel lonely. It is necessary to find the Mystery.....of you. Expect many things as you "sit around the campfire" of your life.

Someone is listening' someone is talking.....it's YOU.


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