HAPPY HOLIDAYS

I want to wish all of you a most wonderful holiday season. Tis the season to love love love. May all yours be filed with lots of love, peace,joy, and time spent with family and friends.I will be back on here after the holidays. So until then my friends I bid you fond wishes in all things.

ACCEPTING CHANGE

Why is it so hard for us to embrace and accept change when it is inevitability going to come? Wish I had the answer to that one! We must learn to accept change and learn from our mistakes along the way. There was a story about a man who was convinced that he was dead.He went to see a psychiatrist but nothing the doctor told him would change his mind about him believing he was dead. Finally the doctor said to him,"You know that dead people don't bleed, don't you?" The man replied "Yes" The doctor then stuck him with a pin and he bleeds. "Well, what do you know?" said the patient. "Dead men do bleed afterall." That shows just how far we will sometimes go to keep from accepting change.But I believe if we are truly going to be happy then we must take the things that are making us miserable and "change" them. Or a t least accept that we must change our way of reacting to those things so they no longer will have power over us. One of my favorite authors Kahlil Gibran once stated :"I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind. Yet strange I am ungrateful to these teachers." I think he is trying to tell us that change is necessary but we dont necessarily have to "like" the changes or the ones who brought the changes into our lives. The only thing constant in this life is change so we may as well learn to go with the flow and do the best we can no matter what changes we are faced with. I sincerely hope all the changes in your life will be "easy" to accept and will make you a better human being.I leave you now with thoughts of perfect love, perfect peace, and perfect oneness.May your day be a good one! And please try and do something nice for someone today!

MIND'S GIFT TO US

What the greatest gift you could ever receive? Would it be lots of money? A perfect romance with your soulmate? A body that never gets sick? What would you wish for?No matter what we "could" wish for I believe the greatest gift is that of a sound mind. If we are blessed with a mind that can see clearly past all the paradoxes and illusions of this 3-D experience we call human life then that is by far the greater gift.For with this mind we can become anything we wish to become! We can have anything we wish for if we learn to use our mind in the proper way. If there is anything you desire in life first see the thing with your "mind's eye" as already being manifest, believe it without any doubt, give thanks for it, and then release the "thing" from your mind to the Universal Mind and wait patiently until it does manifest in this material world.Nothing is impossible with the mind you  now have. Learn to use it properly, love it, share it, bless it and take care of it. After all this is the only mind you got as a human being. The Science of Mind has a quote which reads:The mind must conceive before the Creative Energy can produce...Try it. See if you can get it to work for you.Remember- it is done unto you as you believe! Now what is it that you truly believe? Only you can answer that one! I will leave you now with a thought from  Henry David Thoreau who once said:"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads." May all you wonderful folks have a terrific week ahead.And if you can please try and do something nice for someone just because you can! "HUGS" to all

ONE MIND

Well as some would say--there is your mind,my mind, his mind, her mind, others mind, subconscious mind, conscious mind, rational mind, irrational mind etc etc.Wow, no wonder it can make one dizzy just trying to decide how many minds there are and how to use each one. But wait a second, What if there is only ONE mind? That's right just ONE MIND. As I see it this is the only truth of it all. One Mind that is used by each of us in the way we discern to use it. Boy, IM sure I could open up a can of worms by declaring there is only ONE MIND and that is exactly what I am saying! I truly believe ONE MIND is all we have. Now how you decide to use that Mind is entirely up to you and I would never try and tell you that my way is the "right" way or for that matter that my way means anything to you. I usually take quite a bit of flack when I say things like One Mind, One GOD in man as man is man. Or that all of us are Gods. Or anything else that goes against some religious beliefs.And I sure am not trying to convince you that your "way" is wrong or anything along those lines. All I am saying is that I personally believe there is only One Mind and that we are all a part of this Mind and the way we use this Mind is what brings each experience to us.Soren Kierkegaard once stated:"There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true." I wholeheartedly agree with that statement.And from the Science of Mind comes this quote: There is no such thing as your mind, my mind, and God's mind. There is only Mind, in which we all "live and move and have our being." This also I agree with.My hope would be that each of you beautiful people can use your mind in a way that will not only enrich your life, but also gently touch other's lives in a way that brings joy and peace to both of you.And while you are at it why not do something nice for someone just because you can! I now leave you in peace, love, and joy!
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ACCEPTING CHANGE

About the only thing I am sure of when it comes to this earthly world and life is that the only thing guaranteed is that it will change.Nature, Spirit, God, Allah,Buddha, or whatever name you give it will always change. Nothing in this material life stays the same.I agree with the poet Robert Frost who once stated the following:"The only thing Im sure of about life is that it goes on." And I might add that it changes also. Most changes are very subtle some are drastic and many others fall somewhere in between.And it is kinda ironic that most of us human beings resist change instead of embracing it. Even if the change would be "better" for us at times it still "hurts" to take the risk on change and we oft times subconsciously fight change. Seems like being comfortable with things even if they are not what we claim to want is easier for us than to accept the changes as they come along.I was talking with a friend the other day and we were discussing life in general and what it all meant. The two of us both feel that everything is one and that things are just as they are supposed to be right now. My friend did inspire me to think deeply about my own inner convictions and my choice's I've made as a human being.His question was if I believe that everything is perfect right now then why do I and what gives me the "right" to envision something 'different"? As he pointed out this was having me to "judge" that things needed to be changed and therefore were not perfect right now. Its really kinda like an endless loop question for me and I sure dont have the answers but in my journey I have chosen to accept things as they are while at the same time doing what I can to forsee a "better" world where we all walk hand in hand. Life is merely an illusion brought about by unknown truths that have yet to be discovered.At least that is the way I see it.And if this is the case I will continue to try and become the very best human being I can.And I will continue to see in my "mind's eye" a better world a more loving world a kinder world and a world where we all live  as one.This is only my "PATH" that I have chosen. Does that make it right for anyone else? I really cant say but I will say I hope that each of you wonderful folks will do your best to bring a little more love, kindness, and light into the world you find yourself in right now. I dont believe any of us have to wait til we die to find "heaven". We have it right here right now just waiting our discovery. I wish all of you a most wonderful week ahead and if you can please try and find a moment to do something nice for someone just because you can. "HUGS" to all

TRUCKIN'---GOING HOME

With the help of one of my favorite bands I want to explain how I sometimes feel. This entry could also serve as a tribute to Jerry Garcia who was the founding member(I think) of the band The Grateful Dead. This band played all over the country and had so many loyal followers who were affectionately called "Deadheads". I always loved their music but never had the opportunity to see them perform live.I think my favorite song of their's is the one titled "Truckin'. The words which are to describe the bands life on the road over the years seem to haunt me as if the song was written about my own life--not about traveling here as a person but rather as my travels as a "soul". I will be turning another year older in 3 days and as such Ive come to think more of what awaits me at the end of this earthly life. Not that I havent thought about things like that for many years now as I have always felt a little like I am in the wrong world for some reason and that one day I shall go back home to my "real" home where all is one and one is all.Guess thats why some consider me a "dreamer" I dont know. With a tip of the hat to the Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia I will now share some of the lyrics of that song with you and my own meanings will be in parentheses. I do hope you will enjoy the song and at the same time get to know me a little better also.

Truckin' got my chips cashed in, keep truckin' like the do-dah manTogether, more or less in line, just keep truckin' on
 Arrows of neon and flashing marquees out on main street.
Your typical city involved in a typical daydream
Hang it up and see what tomorrow brings

Most of the cast that you meet on the streets speak of true love(Which to me is unconditional love)
Most of the time they're sittin' and cryin' at home (Should be out attempting to spread some love)
One of these days they know they better get going
Out of the door and down the streets all alone

Truckin' like the do-dah man, Once told me,"You've got to play your hand"
Sometimes your cards aren't worth a dime, if you don't lay em down( Your love aint worth nothing til you give it away and the cards cant be better till you play the ones you are given)

Sometimes the light's all shining on me, (When Im trying to share and become the finest human being I can possibly be)
Other times I can hardly see (When I allow life to get me down)

Set up like a bowling pin knocked down(By life's troubles and cares)
Its gets to wearing thin they just wont let you be (I cant be what everybody else wants me to be)

You're sick of hanging around and you'd like to travel
Get tired of travelin' and you want to settle down
I guess they can't revoke your soul for tryin' (Thank God for that)
Get out of the door and light out and look all around

Sometimes the light's all shining on me;
Other times I can hardly see (When I forget who I really am)
Lately it occurs to me, what a long, strange trip its been (I wouldnt trade it for anything tho)

Truckin' I'm a goin' home whoa baby back to where I belong
Back home, sit down and patch my bones (Thankfully no bones in spirit)
Hey now get back to truckin' home

 To all of you wonderful folks I sure hope you and yours have a most wonderful weekend filled with much love, peace, and joy. Please try and remember to do something nice for someone today just for the heck of it. At least it will make them think you are up to something! "HUGS" to all