SOUL MATES

I am going in a little more unusual direction with today's entry and I hope you will bear with me as I share a bit more personal information with you.But as always my entry is one that I hope will serve to help at least one person find some tidbit of info that they can use to help make their life better. Today I want to dedicate this entry to my wonderful best friend, wife, and true soulmate, Susan Marie. You see, I feel that if I was going to find the very best of things in this human experience I had to find that "special someone" who would accept me as I am , and would  help me to grow into a better person. Not to say that one can't find total fulfillment by living alone for their entire life because I'm sure there are some folks who are completely happy and fulfilled while being alone. But for me I think I knew at an early age there was that special woman out there who was looking for me as I was her.And I wont bore you with all my futile attempts to find her and all the events that led to us finding each other.That in itself would be a long story and probably wouldn't hold your attention very long anyway.But I will tell you that ever since Susan came into my life each year, each day, each moment, has been so very rewarding and precious.My quality of life has improved so much and I am blessed to have found my soul mate after all those years. I waited until I was 42 years old before I found her.And I had never married until then.But when I first met her we both just knew we were meant to be together. We recently celebrated our 17th year together and those years have flown by so quickly. Every day we find many little ways to let each other know how much we love and appreciate each other.She allows me to be the person I am even when she may not fully understand where I am coming from. We allow each other the room to grow into our own personal spiritual enlightenment and we share so many things that we both love and also we are free to explore our own interest but we always stay together and respect each other. Most importantly we make sure we are doing our best to make sure the other one is happy. And if we do happen to come upon a disagreement we are sure to work it out right then. We try to never end the day if either of us is angry.I could spend hours telling you just what a sweet, beautiful, and loving soul Susan Marie is and it still wouldn't do justice for her.No One has come up with the words that are beautiful enough to describe my lovely soulmate.My hope and wish for each of you folks is that you have already found that special someone and are enjoying a relationship that makes you both better people.But if you are still looking for them I would say to you just dont ever give up,dont ever stop believing, and keep an open mind, so that one day soon you may find them. I know for me it took so many years of searching, so many heart breaks that weren't even funny, and my making so many mistakes until at last we did find each other. So if I was to make my transition from this world tonite I would be able to say I did find and did experience the highest form of love there is. And that is an "unconditional" love from one person to another.Thank you Susan Marie I love you darling and that love will be eternal. I leave all you folks with thoughts of peace, love, joy, and with a reminder to try and do something nice for someone today!

DID CURIOSITY REALLY KILL THE CAT?

I don't know about you but if not for curiosity this would be a much more drab and unexciting life as far as I'm concerned. I think most of us are curious by nature but oft times we tend to hide that curiosity for fear that we may "look" silly or uninformed. When I was a child just about everything raised my curiosity but I know that even then I was fearful of expressing that to others lest it made me look ignorant.But thankfully I have manage to hang on to that curiosity thur adulthood and at long last Im no longer "afraid" to show my "ignorance" by asking why. Dont expect me to just blindly accept anything as "true" until I have satisified my curiosity as to why it is true.I think I may at last know what Jesus meant when he said that for one to enter the Kingdom of Heaven they must first become again as little children. I hope you can recall all those things that ignited your own curiosity when you were a child.And even more so I hope you still have that "childlike" curiosity when it comes to everything.I would like to share with you the following statement from  Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev: "If you destroy "I do not know" you destroy all possibilities of knowing." I love that statement dont you? I truly believe that in order for me or anyone else to comprehend the meaning of this life it is utterly important to always ask yourself questions as to "why" instead of just believing anything just because someone else says it is so. In closing I want to share another quote which comes from the Science of Mind Textbook:Peace is the power at the heart of God. It is through the revelation of the self, to the self, that one understands life. Please reread that once again and just let it soak in til you realize exactly what it says to you. I now leave you in peace, in love, in joy, in friendship, and in curiosity.

A CHARMED LIFE

Im sure you have known people who seem to have lived a "charmed" life in which almost everything they touch turns into gold.These folks seem to just be blessed with a special "something" that most of us only wish we had.I used to wonder a lot about people like that.Most of them were what I considered "nice" folks but there were some who seemed to be rather selfish and snobbish. I often wondered why some of us seemed to have the knack to live this charmed life and others didnt. I think I always knew it was just a matter of learning to live with the "Universal Laws'' and using them in a way to bring the "good" stuff into our lives. In my readings I came across the following statement from a Victoria Moran who said:"People who seem to lead charmed lives do not have a magical assistant, and they're no better or brighter than anybody else. They have simply put into practice, knowingly or not, the attitudes, aptitudes, and propensities that orchestrate harmonious circumstances." Now I am just a simple guy and that statement has a lot of big words in it but to me at least it just says that the "charmed" folks are just living by abiding and adhering to those Universal Laws I previously mentioned. Simply put I would say this: Try to live your life to the fullest while expecting everything you desire to come about in its own perfect time and place.And dont ever give up and remember that Life has no choice but to give you those things which are the ones you believe in the most.And try not to escape the fact that lots of times we just think we need something when in the long run life knows better what it is we need. So if things dont go as planned try to see it not as a failure but rather a life lesson which will pay bigger dividens in the future.I leave you now with a quote from the Science of Mind which states---Every hour we are meeting the eternal realities of life, and in such degree as we cooperate with these eternal realities in love, in peace, in wisdom, and in joy--believing and receiving---we are automatically blessed. I agree wholeheartedly with that statement. So in signing off I will say this to you, go in peace, go in love, and go with confidence that this one eternal moment belongs to you and you can do ANYTHING with it you so desire. My hope is that you will take this moment and try and do something nice for someone else. The greatest gift any of us have is the ability to help make someone elses life a little better.Enjoy the Moment, for it is truly all any of us have!

REMAINING CENTERED

How do we remain calm and self assured when all hell's breaking loose around us? I know for me it does take quite a bit of adjusting at times just to remain at peace on the inside as well as the outer.But I do believe at the same time that there is a place within my innermost being that cannot ever be roiled up by anything that is going on in this 3 dimesional world. And it remains my burden to see that I always keep this sacred place unsoiled by any one or anything.And this is a burden I gladly bear! One of my favorite authors Kahlil Gibran, AKA The Prophet, has stated the following:"We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them." How true he is, how true! And from the Science of Mind comes this jewel:No matter what our emotional storm, or what our objective situation may be, there is always a something hidden in the inner being that has never been violated. Now that is a very reassuring statement. My hope for each of you kind folks is that you have discovered this "inner" place of your own and that you can always turn to it at any given time to remind yourself that all is well in your life now and forever! And please remember to try and do at least one good thing for someone today just because you can and that you wish to!

THE IMPULSE OF LOVE

Everything good created has risen from the state of love.Simply put pure and perfect love is the cornerstone of all that is right with us and the world we are now in.George Sand has stated the following:" There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." I agree completely. And in the Science of Mind textbook comes this quote:Love is the sole impulse for creation..... So whatever your condition, your status in life, or whatever anything, whatever you do, do it with love and out of love, and then it will be a gift to all of us!

YOU ARE A STAR IN MY WORLD

As human beings I think we are often guilty of thinking we are the center of everything that is going on. At least it feels that way to us.I mean its human nature to feel our problems are the "biggest" our ideas are the "grandest" and our stories should be front and center.But I think in reality we must realize that we are all a part of everything that is, and no more nor no less important than anyone or anything else.From the Science of Mind comes this quote: Man(woman) already has, within himself, the key to freedom, But he must come to realize his relation to the Whole. This relationship is one of complete Unity. So my hope is that today all of us can see and truly feel our relationship to ALL and start to treat things as the treasures they really are. I will leave you with another quote that I absolutely love. It comes from Joan Borysenko who states the following:"When we begin to think more about the interdependence of things, we take our place as one more star in a magnificent universe, rather than as the sun around  which the universe revolves. Our heart grows peaceful." I now leave all of you with thoughts of love peace and joy. If you can then right now try to do something nice for someone and I guarantee that will make you feel more like the bright shining star that you truly are!

LESS MAY BE MORE

As human beings we seem to be tied to our possessions and find that we spend a lot of our time trying to make more money so we can get more possessions.Then we find our possessions are not really making us happy so waht do we do? Yeah, we go and amass more stuff thinking it will surely make us happy this time.And no matter how much money we have we seem to always want more. Not that there is anything wrong with wanting to be wealthy but we must be careful so that we dont spend all our precious time working harder to just have more money. I will leave you with a quote from George Santayana who stated: "I like to walk among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty." I leave all of you with thoughts of love , peace, and happiness to you and yours. And please try and do something nice for someone today just for the heck of it!