I was going to say "ice cream" :-D . . .To me, money is simply another form of energy exchange & since I am intent on vibrating only Joy, I always en-Joy spending money on everything & everybody that radiates a positive vibration! Like all energy, money is not stagnent--it's gotta ROLL in my life & I find the more $Joy I spread around, the more returns to me to increase the Joy I'm extatic to keep handing out, etc., etc . . .The main kick for me is observing & utilizing the ways in which energies collide to manifest "things" on the material plane---unlimited possibilities ! (another great take on this & more can be found in Samme's blog Collective Souls )

Considering this perspective, I might also add that altho I feel myself to be wealthy beyond limits & perpetually surrounded by riches, I don't necessarily need to have/use any particular government currency to spread my wealth of Joy around---my lifestyle abundantly revolves around barter on a heart level. . .but that's prolly a whole different Q&R, hey Siona?

ONELOVIN' . . .

I've discovered that being a good traveler mostly depends on being a happy camper :-D

Advaita Vedanta. . .here is a repost from March  "LOOSING MY MARBLES"

Q: How can I better understand this?

A: Well, it's not a matter of taking up a new theory, but there is a conceptual structure at play here making you think you are separate and walled off. Without this structure in the mix, there would be no presumption or experience of separation. Let me ask—to you right now, what is the difference between you and me?

Q: You're sitting over there, and I'm right here.

A: And this couldn't make any sense unless you thought of yourself, as well as me, as bodies with awareness inside them. The great Advaitin, Krishna Menon, said, "What we take ourselves to be is what we seem to see." If you take yourself to be a body, then the world seems to be made up of physical objects. If you take yourself to be a mind, then the world seems to be made of subtle essences including minds. And if you take yourself to be awareness, then the world is experienced as nothing but awareness.

Q: But I know I'm not the body. The body changes over time, and I am what watches it, and I have remained unchanged.

A: Yet you feel like you are "inside" the body?

Q: Yes, I can see things only from this angle. If I were not inside this body, I would be able to travel anywhere, and see anything from any angle.

A: Do you feel like you are in any specific location inside the body?

Q: Umm, let me see....

A: Do you feel that you are above the waist or below the waist?

Q: Above, definitely.

A: Okay, do you feel you are above the neck or below the neck?

Q: Above the neck.

A: Okay, above the nose or below?

Q: Above.

A: Can you narrow it down any more?

Q: I feel like I am behind the eyes.



A: How big are you? What shape?

Q: Oh, about an inch wide, maybe round.

A: Behind the forehead? On the left, right, or in the center?

Q: I feel like I'm in the center behind the eyes.

A: How far back from the eyes?

Q: Oh, about an inch.

A: Okay, we've found you!! A marble-sized ball about an inch behind the center of the forehead!

Q: I guess so (smiling).

A: Now, what is it that this marble appears to?

Q: What?

A: Well, as we talk about this, does the little marble seem to appear as an image?

Q: Yes it does!

A: So if this image is appearing, what is it appearing to? That is, it doesn't seem like the marble is doing the seeing; it seems like the marble is being seen.

Q: Yes, I understand. The little marble isn't the seer, it is being seen. I guess it's just an idea I have of myself.

A: Yes, based on a few habitual things, such as the prominence of the visual sense over hearing, taste and smell. It’s also based on the association that arises over time between thinking of one's self and the subtle muscular contractions in the forehead region. It makes us think that this is where we are.
    But now think of the marble image, and that which is aware of the marble image. If you had to place your true self on one side or the other, would you be on the side that is seeing? Or the side that is being seen?

Q: The seeing side, definitely. I feel that I'm looking at this marble. So how can I be over there inside the marble?

A: Okay, the seeing of the marble; think about this seeing. As the seeing arises, does the seeing have a location?

Q: No, it isn't experienced as being in a location. I can say it must be in the brain, but that's just an idea. The experience itself doesn't have any location at all. Aha!

A: That's it! Nothing else has a location either. And that awareness in which experience arises is your Self. It is the non-separate Self of all.

Photo: Art.com

thanking Stephen Wingate

thru the windows of my world, from behind white curtains, the cinema of life passes by. . .  family & friends coming & going/ nite & day,  blessing me with their presence---it's a good base, for now.

loving You like there's no tomorrow. . .

i'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony . . .

I'd like to build a world a home
and furnish it with love.
Grow apple trees and honey bees
and snow white turtle doves.

I'd like to teach the world to sing
in perfect harmony.
I'd like to hold it in my arms,
and keep it company

I'd like to see the world for once
all standing hand in hand.
And hear them echo through the hills
for peace throughout the land.

It's the real thing
what the world wants today,
That's the way it'll stay
with the real thing.

I'd like to teach the world to sing
in perfect harmony.
A song of peace that echoes on
and never goes away.

Put your hand in my hand
let's begin today,
With your hand in my hand
help me find a way.

I'd like to see the world for once
all standing hand in hand.
And hear them echo through the hills
for peace throughout the land.

I'd like to teach the world to sing,
in perfect harmony.
A song of peace that echos on,
and never goes away.

ab-"soul"-ute trust & surrender within the ONELOVE vibration. . .

                            "well, here's something you can DO nothing about"

(which then opens up the space for me to BE without condition & in synch once again)

a little extra oestrogen would be nice :-D

anticipating meditative ritual @ "The Church of  the Healing Bubbles"  a soothing, herbal/aromatherapy bubblebath (with the sunny windows wide open listening to Sunday morning cathedral bells) . . . ooops gotta go before the tub overflows !

breathing in , i know that i am alive . . .
 
breathing out, i open my heart to the world

(repost from march 2008)

The Self We Share

Thirst is angry with water. Hunger bitter
with bread.The cave wants nothing to do

with the sun. This is dumb, the self-
defeating way we've been. A gold mine is

calling us into its temple. Instead, we
bend and keep picking up rocks from the

ground. Every thing has a shine like gold,
but we should turn to the source! The

origin is what we truly are. I add a little
vinegar to the honey I give. The bite of

scolding makes ecstasy more familiar. But
look, fish, you're already in the ocean:

just swimming there makes you friends with
glory. What are these grudges about? You

are Benjamin. Joseph has put a gold cup
in your grain sack and accused you of being

a thief. Now he draws you aside and says,
"You are my brother. I am a prayer. You're

the amen." We move in eternal regions, yet
worry about property here. This is the

prayer of each: You are the source of my
life. You separate essence from mud. You

honor my soul. You bring rivers from the
mountain springs. You brighten my eyes. The

wine you offer takes me out of myself into
the self we share. Doing that is religion.

- Rumi. . .translated by Coleman Barks

. . . three scoops w/ organic hot chocolate sauce :-D