Just keep stirring the pot, you never know what will come up. – Lee Atwater
Life is like that. It’s a huge cauldron and we are like the magicians who get to stir the contents and even become the stirred contents! Are we feeling the magic?
Magic is happening all around us and within us. Are we paying attention?
Daily Affirmation: Today I AM a stirrer of pots!
Recommendation: In Every Heartbeat… by Alisa Amor
Life can either be accepted or changed. If it is not accepted, it must be changed. If it cannot be changed, then it must be accepted. – Unknown
Change is inevitable, which is why this blog is changing… For the next week or two the week-day blogs won’t be too regular. So please bear with me…
o The Peace Within
o Erasing Fear
o Forgiving Everyone
o Letting It Be
o Connecting With God
o Discovering Our Life Purpose
o Designing Our Life
Daily Affirmation: Today I embrace change!
Recommendation: The Urantia Papers
That which is like unto itself is drawn. – Abraham
Like attracts like. This orderly Universe is run by predictable laws. Many of these laws like the one we’re discussing are ‘spiritual’ in nature. How can we live and practice this law successfully?
We must first ‘be’ what we intend to actualize in our lives. The word ‘become’ provides a clue! Be first, then allow the manifestation of that vibration into our lives, let it come! So if are to become something, we must visualize it, feel it deeply (in our mind and body) and thus stoke those vibrations into our experience. The rest is to simply allow it to manifest without investing ourselves into ‘how’ it’ll happen or any other such expectation!
Daily Affirmation: Today I AM what I intend to be!
Recommendation: The Law of Attraction by Esther Hicks
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely. – Karen Kaiser Clark
‘Change is inevitable’ was the topic of a thought-provoking motivational program I viewed last night. What does this mean? How does change impact our personal and work lives? How should we approach change or in other words how should we approach Life itself?
When we accept truth, we invite peace. There may not be peace at first but acceptance leads to a resting place from where clarity of mind emerges. With a clear mind we can assess the situation and take next steps as necessary. Once we accept the truth that ‘change is inevitable’ then we better understand that our current circumstances won’t last. When we expect change we can be less fearful. When we welcome change growth becomes possible.
Daily Affirmation: Today I AM growing while changing!
Recommendation: Life’s Little Instruction Book by H. Jackson Brown Jr.
I must through self-knowledge, be aware of the whole process of my thinking. – Krishnamurti
If we follow our own thinking we can do several things. We can understand how particular past thoughts originated. That can help us pinpoint the cause of a certain mental state we’ve experienced. We can also better understand our motivation to do certain things, which may otherwise be done unconsciously. We can comprehend how we build assumptions and entertain biases. We can finally begin to understand why we are where we are, physically, mentally as well as spiritually…
Really the best way to observe all this activity is be in the Zen moment of now. And then be the observer of self, detached from the constant barrage of mechanical thinking, stepping back and simply watching our thoughts. This does several amazing things:
All this happens because when we’re observing, we’re not thinking! In other words, asserting our control over the whole process of thinking and watching how we think moves us toward being a master of self!
Daily Affirmation: Today I AM an observer!
Recommendation: The Awakening of Intelligence by Krishnamurti
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. – Albert Einstein
Many of us live in our reasoning minds. It’s the mind that’s run by our brains. We’re conditioned that logic must be applied to every aspect of life. ‘It must make sense’ we’re told. And we buy that ‘logic’! How much time are we spending ‘thinking’ from the head vs. operating from the heart?
The power to create, the power to imagine, the power to live life fearlessly, the ability to have fun and the place from where we know where to go next, all resides in the heart. Let’s try, consciously, to operate from our hearts. Let’s notice when we’re in our heads, and then move our attention to our hearts and let go!
Daily Affirmation: Today I AM heart-focused!
Recommendation: Einstein on Cosmic Religion… by Albert Einstein
The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work. – Oprah Winfrey
There is no big secret. And that’s life’s gift to us. A lot of what we do and create is entirely up to us. We make up a bunch of this. Which also explains why this planet is in the shape it is. There are guiding principles but that’s about it. We are truly creative beings, offspring of the mighty and loving master artist!
We are invited to create. We are invited to play. We are invited to experiment. We are artists let loose. How will we approach life? With fear and apprehension or as children in a playground? We are ultimately safe. Let’s rejoice in this assurance! Let’s go out and play!
“Whatever our goal, we can get there if we’re willing to play!”
Daily Affirmation: Today I play like a child!
Recommendation: Thank You, God, For Everything by August Gold
