Connected and Committed

it's her life

If you connect with your Inner Being, then you fulfill your purpose for being. If you do not connect with your Inner Being, then you just spin circles. You die feeling unfulfilled and that the life experience was for naught; there was no value from it, no growth—not any joy either. The two go hand in hand. So the happier you are, the more of that value you are fulfilling.

Abraham Hicks

I just got in from seeing The Devil Wears Prada. No, it is not on any list of spiritual films, although there are elements to it that might qualify it for a few moments. Meryl is divine in her role, and it might be summed up this way: go for what you want, because if you don't, life will pass you by. There might be some question as to what it is that one really wants. At one point, her character learns that her husband wants a divorce, and her concern is that her name will be splashed across page 6, and her daughters will suffer from yet another man leaving their lives. But she is clear about that life, the one that drove him away, being just as it is. Such clarity is admirable. I might not agree with her assessment of what it gives her, but she is the only one who gets to decide that. It is her life, and she lives it as it pleases her. I can't think of anything more valuable. 

china doll

 

joy-pullers

I'm on a campaign to collect joy-pullers.  Those things that get joy surging through me like a pull-cord starts a lawnmower.  It's my intent to surround myself with joy-pullers and gauge the effect on the quality of life meter.  I'll be posting about it here and inviting you to join in the tsunami of endorphins.

   

See this world as a free world, and see everyone in it as trying—through their individual experiences—to find their way back to that calling, back to that Source Energy. And even though there are billions of them going about it in a way that is different than you would choose, there's no right or wrong way. In other words, bless them all, and get on with the only thing you have any power about, which is opening or closing your vortex to your natural state of Well-Being.

Abraham Hicks

Oh. man. is. this. hard to do sometimes.  Allow other people their way of doing things without it triggering some baggage of yours.  Bless them on their own path while you stay out of their business.  Stay focused on your guidance system and recognizing when you need to course correct.  Making it more important that you stay on course than getting someone else's approval.

But.  Sometimes, it is easy.  Those are the times you inhale deeply, catch in a jar and hold onto the whiff as long as you can.  To make the next time even shorter to course correct. To make the next time even easier to recognize what it's REALLY about.  To make the next time, "this too shall pass," more than, "oh not this again."

Get out into the sunlight, out where everything is, with a vibration that is so dominant that those who annoy you, those who don't agree with you, those who make your life feel uncomfortable don't come into your experience, because your vibration, through your practice, has become so clear, so pure, so clean, so in keeping with what you want, that the world that revolves around you just feels like that. That's what you planned.

Abraham Hicks

self portrait in Target

worthy

We are wanting to awaken within you, your memory of how wonderful you are! How brilliant you are! How good you are! How worthy of whatever you are wanting you are!

Abraham Hicks

pollock

Watched Pollock last night, my rule for not watching or reading anything that's going to detract unnecessarily from my focus on the positive set aside temporarily. Not very interested in pursuing the  tormented artist theme. What I am interested in is, what was the motivation for Lee Krasner to stand by her man? The infidelity, the booze, the abuse - sorry if I'm ruining the plot for you :~) - why did she stay, refusing to give him a divorce? "He's a great artist," comes out of her mouth I lost track of how many times.

Don't know anything about her, haven't read anything about her side of the story. Just wondering - is there a place of transcendence where an individual is so inspired and believes in what another person is capable of, that what they see is the trait or talent or end product of that other person, and all that matters is that it is brought into the world?

from Post Secrets

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 3:58 AM

After putting three of my postcards for Postsecret in the mailbox, I wanted to see what my mail lady would think. From my hiding spot, I watched her go mechanically about her bussiness, but then stop as she glanced down at my postcards. She read them, studying each one carefully, front and back. She was concentrating so hard on my secrets, she didn't even realize that her car was slowly pulling forward. By the time she was done, she was wiping her eyes, and had accidentally moved forward two houses.

It was one of the most memoriable things in my life.

posted by postsecret at 10:49 AM

red

rich soul life

One of the disciplines of building a rich soul life seems to be the simple act, on a daily basis, of remembering what is most important to us...

Without a soulful entanglement with the world we experience a poverty that no amount of material reward or recognition will ameliorate.

~David Whyte

kelloggs best to you

The quote from Margaret Mead comes to mind - "A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has" - while I was perusing the offerings in the cereal aisle in the local super food/clothing/office supply/sporting goods purveyor with someone who prefers to shop there. I make that sort of purchase in a health food store, so when my eyes fell upon boxes of Kellogg's Organic Raisin Bran, Organic Rice Krispies, and the last one I can't quite seem to remember or find on the internet, up there on the shelf, well, I just had to stop and do a happy dance.

And honor all those who have come before, choosing to stand up to the food industry's assault on our bodies and our minds by saying no to junk, either by growing and processing unsubsidized real food themselves in the face of so much derision and resistance from industry peers, or by paying more for that food as a consumer, and doing it over and over again, so that we could collectively reach this point in time when the food/marketing/healthcare industry is finally scrambling to keep up with the demand we created and to get their cut of the organic market share.

A small group of people changing the world. Indeed.

    

curtains

my house in umbria

Not exactly qualifying as a spiritual film, I enjoyed My House in Umbria nonetheless for its ability to transport me to the magical light of Tuscany under any circumstances. The scant few phrases of reviews I glanced at in the opening lines of Google search results for the link provided above tell me that this movie was not reviewed well by those who are paid to do such things. No matter. I have different criteria. What I like - hearing Italian being spoken; watching Italian food being prepared; seeing Italian small-town/country-living architecture; a surprising, happy ending as a result of someone making a choice from the depths of their being, a difficult choice, but the right one. When we realize what's running us, these choices get easier and easier to make. 

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ceiling fan

layers

Emotion is your guidance or your response to your vibration. Your emotion does not create. Emotion is your indicator of what you are already creating. As you think, you vibrate.

Abraham Hicks

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh......

spinning

Through the magic of photo editors, this:

becomes this:

and it was good.

coffee house

self portrait

little man

first prom dress