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I believe in all

Posted on Feb 1st, 2008 by victoria : B* R* E* A* T* H* E, you are Alive! victoria
 
I believe in all that has never yet been spoken.
I want to free what waits within me
so that what no one has dared to wish for
 
may for once spring clear
without my contriving.
 
If this is arrogant, God, forgive me,
but this is what I need to say.
May what I do flow from me like a river,
no forcing and no holding back,
the way it is with children.
 
Then in these swelling and ebbing currents,
these deepening tides moving out, returning,
I will sing to you as no one ever has,
 
streaming through widening channels
into the open sea.
 
 
~ Rainer Maria Rilke ~
 
 
(Rilke’s Book of Hours:Love Poems to God, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy)
 
 
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CHALLENGE DAY

Posted on Feb 1st, 2008 by victoria : B* R* E* A* T* H* E, you are Alive! victoria
Challenge day . . .  Transformation possibilities for all of our schools !
Challenge Day: Powerful Transformation in Action



I find this is THE most inspiring example of real-life, hands-on, here & now, Powerful Transformation in Action I have been blessed with discovering for a long time...it's absolutely marvelous seeing this technique travel with lightning speed across the globe !  I am so grateful to be able to help spread this message by passing  it on to you  . . .

ONELOVE/ONEHEART !



 
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What have you been thinking about recently?

Posted on Feb 1st, 2008 by victoria : B* R* E* A* T* H* E, you are Alive! victoria
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for February 01, 2008:

about the inevitability of BE-coming what I think about recently :-D
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What have you been thinking about recently?

Posted on Feb 2nd, 2008 by victoria : B* R* E* A* T* H* E, you are Alive! victoria
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for February 02, 2008:

Well, now I was just thinking about how lucky we are to have the brilliant warmth & wit of Siona tirlessly supplying us with fresh daily tidbits to wrap our consciousness around, providing the opportunity & stimulation to be present here with each other for awhile, sharing some pieces of our respective realities.

Of course the symbolism of today's date is now causing me to think about the repetitive character of unconscious thought itself, how we re-create our lives each day anew (moment by moment ) & how fun it is to consciously choose positive, constructive thoughts-- experiencing life fresh & new in each moment.

Happy Groundhog Day  :-D
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poetry of kanwar dinesh singh

Posted on Feb 2nd, 2008 by victoria : B* R* E* A* T* H* E, you are Alive! victoria
Here are some of Singh's poems, from http://sawf.org/bin/tips.dll/getcontributions?user=Sawf&contributor=Kanwar+Dinesh+Singh&class=Poetry&subclass=Original&pn=Contributors



love me more . . .

love me more
and love me
to an extent that
i die out and
the i in me
remains no more.

~ ~ ~

OCEAN

I was at an ostium
I thought I was
An ocean. I set out
And found myself
Flowing I was
A river

And the ocean was
Where I fell. . .

~ ~ ~

free haiku

be detached
from the world
and be god

~ ~ ~

WORLD

My vision of the world
Is puerile.

I open my eyes
And the world exists,
I close my eyes
And the world packs up.
The myth of creation
Alters with a blink.

Those who chime in
With me they relish;
Those who do not,
They perish

Finding out a resolve
For a never-ending query.

~ ~ ~

POLYMORPHIC SHADOW

My shadow
sometimes long
sometimes short
and sometimes disappearing altogether
as the light vanishes;

My shadow
being my aliquot
speaks of the verity
as if my existence lies
in the light, and
vanishes in the dark
as the light vanishes
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mind your own business !

Posted on Feb 5th, 2008 by victoria : B* R* E* A* T* H* E, you are Alive! victoria
Mind Your Own Business...

from Loving What Is
by Byron Katie

I can find only three kinds of business in the universe: mine, yours, and God's. (For me, the word God means "reality." Reality is God, because it rules. Anything that's out of my control, your control, and everyone else's control - I call that God's business.)

Much of our stress comes from mentally living out of our own business. When I think, "You need to get a job, I want you to be happy, you should be on time, you need to take better care of yourself," I am in your business. When I'm worried about earthquakes, floods, war, or when I will die, I am in God's business. If I am mentally in your business or in God's business, the effect is separation. Being mentally in your business keeps me from being present in my own. To think that I know what's best for anyone else is to be out of my business and is the cause of stress, anxiety and fear.

If you understand the three kinds of business enough to stay in your own business, it could free your life in a way that you can't even imagine. The next time you're feeling stress, ask yourself whose business you're in mentally, and you may burst out laughing!"

- Byron Katie

Loving What Is
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Posted on Feb 7th, 2008 by victoria : B* R* E* A* T* H* E, you are Alive! victoria

The Beatles guru Maharishi dies aged 91

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the man who taught the Beatles transcendental meditation, has died. He was 91.

The Indian mystic became famous in 1968 when the Beatles travelled to the foothills of the Himalayas to learn his techniques and he was also filmed with Mike Love of the Beach Boys, the singer Donovan and actress Mia Farrow.

Love said: "His passing is profoundly sad. But I for one, am among the millions who are grateful for what he shared with us. We will miss you, but your great light will shine on."

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi moved to the village of Vlodrop in Holland in 1990 and died there last night.
The Maharishi built a business empire worth billions, including property dealing and a company selling ayurvedic medicine and cosmetics.

He set up universities and schools all over the world and his Natural Law Party has campaigned in elections in dozens of countries around the world.

Story from RTÉ Entertainment:
http://www.rte.ie/arts/2008/0206/maharashi.html

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Song: The Inner Light
Duration: 2.35
Track No.: 6
Composer: Harrison
Vocals: George Harrison
Year: 1968

Lyrics:

Without going out of my door
I can know all things on earth
Without looking out of my window
I could know the ways of heaven

The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows

Without going out of your door
You can know all things on earth
Without looking out of your window
You can know the ways of heaven

The farther one travels
The less one knows
The less one really knows

Arrive without travelling
See all without looking
Do all without doing

Instruments & additional info.:

The B-side of 'Lady Madonna', and the first George Harrison composition to
appear on a Beatles single. The instrumental track was recorded in five takes
by Indian musicians, under George's direction, at the EMI studio in Bombay on
12 January 1968. George's lead vocal and John and Paul's brief backing vocals
were overdubbed at Abbey Road on 6 and 8 February.

[*1:]

Harrison: vocal
Lennon: backing vocal
McCartney: backing vocal
Sharad Gosh or Hanuman Jadex: shehnai
Hariprasad Chaurasia or S. R. Kenkare: flute
Ashish Khan: sarod
Mahapurush Misra: tabla, pakavaj
Rij Ram Desad: harmonium

Rec.: 12th January, 6th/8th February 1968
Rel. UK: 15th March 1968 (B single / Lady Madonna)
Rel. US: 18th March 1968 (B single / Lady Madonna)
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What has altered your life most dramatically?

Posted on Feb 8th, 2008 by victoria : B* R* E* A* T* H* E, you are Alive! victoria
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for February 08, 2008:

. . a sudden onslaught of  accute dis-ability which I most times dare not even speak about let alone put into such concrete a form as this-- today's written word. It is what I personally  refer to as "a temporary energetic imbalance" while the medical world is astounded that I was not  long ago confined to a wheelchair.  Though  offering me full-force the undeniable lessons of  embracing & acceptence & letting go, this loss of mobility was indeed quite a dramatic life-alteration for a full-time mother of 5 & life-long yoga/dance teacher. .  .people who know me still cannot believe this has happened to such a "health & life-style freak" .

 Blessings in disguise. . . myriads of them ! Besides teaching me to live intensely in the NOW  it has sharpened my instincts for research & study,  deepened intuative channels of zelf/global healing plus, on an indescribably ultimate level has also shown me that , verily,  EVERY step is peace. . .

Daily, my excitement & gratitude expands with offers of even more & greater  life-fulfilling   experiences...lately, along with evolving new forms of heal/whole-ing dance & movement, I have been traveling (vaga-BONDing) around the world  from one bubble of ONELOVE to the next. . .& who knows, maybe even one day soon  to a city or village near you ? ? ?  :-D
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What's the most useful class you've ever taken?

Posted on Feb 9th, 2008 by victoria : B* R* E* A* T* H* E, you are Alive! victoria
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for February 09, 2008:

So far, the school of LIFE has never offered me a useless class !
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When in your life have you felt most out of control?

Posted on Feb 10th, 2008 by victoria : B* R* E* A* T* H* E, you are Alive! victoria
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for February 10, 2008:

no-brainer...see my Q&R from Feb. 8  :-D
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Diamond in Your Pocket !

Posted on Feb 11th, 2008 by victoria : B* R* E* A* T* H* E, you are Alive! victoria
Sliding softly into this week's Valentine vibe. . . here is a true jewel on ONELOVE from Gangaji


A Diamond in Your Pocket


And yet, love is what we crave. There is often a love/hate relationship
with the idea of love, most likely stemming from our experiences as
children where we loved helplessly. We projected love out onto our loved
ones - our mothers, fathers, brothers, or sisters - and at some point
found our loved ones to be unreliable. We confused their actions with
love and concluded that love was not trustworthy.

People are definitely not trustworthy, because in general, they are very
busy protecting their story of who they think they are. Since they are
mostly involved in their story, they can only give a certain amount of
love before they start wondering, 'Well, when do I get mine?' And since
love has been identified as being connected with another person, this
sets up a whole continuation of distrust around love. But love is not a
person. Love is the individual, collective, and universal soul. Love is
God. Love is truth. Love is beauty. Love is peace. Love is self. To know
yourself, to surrender to the truth of yourself, is to surrender to
love.

Many people are aware of their resistance, and they want to surrender,
but they don't know how. The only actual barrier to surrender is in not
seeing the underlying story you are telling yourself about the danger of
surrendering everything to love. And the degree to which you hold back
surrendering everything to love is the degree to which you suffer. The
degree to which you try to maintain the story about who you think you
are is the degree to which you feel isolated from love. Until you
realize, 'I want truth, which is love, more than anything,' you will
experience yourself as separate from love. Love is the constant. Love is
not an aspect of truth. Truth, God, and self are aspects of love.

What is the worst that could happen if you surrender to love? What we
seem to fear the most is the broken heart. Yet the very unwillingness
for the heart to be broken is the broken heart. The tragedy and the
irony is that in order to avoid a broken heart, people live in a state
of broken-heartedness. In the willingness to have the heart be broken a
million, trillion, zillion times, true love is revealed.

Let the whole world break your heart every instant of the remainder of
your life. Then this life can be lived in service to love. It does not
mean you stay in abusive relationships. It means only to stay true to
that which is always true to you, and that is love. Anything else is a
story. If the story is never investigated, your whole life is lived on
the assumption that the story is real, and that your heart, your soul,
and your love need to be protected. But that assumption is actually a
denial of your heart, your soul, your love. It is the denial of
self-love.

The great good news is that love is free and it has not gone anywhere.
In all of these aeons that you have been hiding from love, love is still
here, it is still open, it is still waiting for your commitment, still
waiting for you to say, 'Yes, I give my life to the truth of love. I vow
to let love live this life as it will, for better or worse, for richer
or poorer.'

Through honest self-investigation, it is possible to see why you may not
be surrendering to love, and to see that you actually have the choice to
surrender. It is a way to let the unconscious storylines become
conscious, the unknown become known. Ask yourself this question: Why is
it dangerous to surrender to love? Not why is it right to surrender to
love, or why is it good to surrender to love, but why is it dangerous to
surrender to love?

Let your individual consciousness drop down into the source of
consciousness, into the space where all of the reasons and
justifications for resisting surrender are seen simply as stories, as
something made up that you can very easily let go of. Allow all of the
stories, all of the defences, be seen for what they are. Are any of
these stories worth keeping? What is the cost to your life?

The love that you search for everywhere is already present within you.
It may be evoked by any number of people or events. A mountain can evoke
this love. A sunset can evoke this love. But finally, you must realize
that you are this love. The source of all love is within you.

From The Diamond In Your Pocket, by Gangaji
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just close the door

Posted on Feb 13th, 2008 by victoria : B* R* E* A* T* H* E, you are Alive! victoria
OK, we all know about The Secret & we all love Abraham and Esther ,but one of my all time favorite LOA biggies is Neville Goddard, interpreted here today by Indoma who offers some amazing gems.  This simple technique  works so perfectly--I'm having so much FUN ! ! !

Just Close the Door

Perhaps you'd heard the expression of being as happy as a kid in a candy store. Well, that's what happened with me when I realized this little concept from Neville - close the door of the senses against your problems. He mentioned closing the door of the senses against lack. Well, who wants to close the door of the senses against limitation. What about against intimidation or difficulties? What about against disappointment or inadequacy? How about closing the door of the senses against threats or failure or hurts? Would you dare to close the door of your senses against cruelty or retaliation?

These are just a few. I'd say it applies to anything that might cause you to operate in LVF (low vibrational frequency). IOW, if a situation could cause you to react with some sort of negative feeling, you can know the door of the senses was open to this or that problem. What is it worth to you to have that door closed?

Well, it's worth the world to me. Since I am the only one who knows what might cause me to go into LVF, then I am the one who must close the door of the senses against problems I'd seen. Only you can close that door for yourself. And you can do it as in an imaginal act.

Blissing!
Indoma
Insider Coaching & Private Workshops
Programs for "Educating the Imagination" COMING SOON!
Visit Indoma's Place (www.indoma-neeta.net)
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What do you love?

Posted on Feb 14th, 2008 by victoria : B* R* E* A* T* H* E, you are Alive! victoria
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for February 14, 2008:

THAT which arises in each & every ding-dong-hot-diggity-ONELOVIN' moment...I can only ever love WHAT IS !
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What do you already know, but need to hear again?

Posted on Feb 16th, 2008 by victoria : B* R* E* A* T* H* E, you are Alive! victoria
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for February 15, 2008:

The sound of silence.
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One, One, One

Posted on Feb 17th, 2008 by victoria : B* R* E* A* T* H* E, you are Alive! victoria




'One, One, One'

The lamps are different,
but the Light is the same.
So many garish lamps in the dying brain's lamp-shop,
Forget about them.
Concentrate on essence, concentrate on Light.
In lucid bliss, calmly smoking off its own holy fire,
The Light streams towards you from all things,
All people, all possible permutation of good, evil, thought, passion.
The lamps are different,
But the Light is the same.
One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind,
Endlessly emanating all things
One turning and burning diamond,
One, one, one.
Ground yourself, strip yourself down,
To blind loving silence.
Stay there, until you see
You are gazing at the Light
With its own ageless eyes.



From: "The Rumi Collection" - Andrew Harvey

Artist of 'Buddha Face' unknown.
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matin

Posted on Feb 25th, 2008 by victoria : B* R* E* A* T* H* E, you are Alive! victoria
Matins
 
II (excerpt)
 
 
I arise today
 
Blessed by all things,
Wings of breath,
Delight of eyes,
Wonder of whisper,
Intimacy of touch,
Eternity of soul,
Urgency of thought,
Miracle of health,
Embrace of God.
 
May I live this day.
 

~ John O"Donohue ~
 
(Eternal Echoes)
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How can I help?

Posted on Feb 26th, 2008 by victoria : B* R* E* A* T* H* E, you are Alive! victoria
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for February 26, 2008:

Really ? ? ? Wow! Gee, thanks. . .a backrub would be GREAT right now ! (& after that, let's all go help Owais fulfill his request)
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When did you last feel silly?

Posted on Feb 27th, 2008 by victoria : B* R* E* A* T* H* E, you are Alive! victoria
This is in Response to the Questions and Reflections for February 27, 2008:

                      heee-heee-tee-heee-tee-hee-ha-ha-ha
                     . * . ~~+ *. silly is a way of life * +~~ . *. .
                          ha-ha-ha-ha-hee-hee-hee-tee-hee ! ! !

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