When you remember truth in the face of illusion, you gain far more than when you remember truth in the presence of truth.
-- Alan Cohen
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When you can pull that off, when you can remind yourself that this isn't real and it's crazy and it will be over in a minute if you can just hang on and not give in to thinking that it's in control of your life--then you're free. You feel that shift in your body and fabulousness reigns.
At least, that's what it feels like to me.
"There’s too much emotion, too much negative emotion: frustration, hatred, anger. I think that’s the greatest obstacle. So I think as a first step this should be cooled down. Reduced. Forget these things. And I think for the time being, we need more festivals, more picinics. Let us forget these difficult things, these emotions, and make personal friends. Then we can start to talk about these serious matters.”
-- Dalai Lama
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I remember thinking, just a few years ago, how that kind of head-in-the-sand thinking was, well, head in the sand thinking. But now, having lived for a period of time in which taking my focus away from one thing and purposefully shifting it to something else a lot less evocative, a lot less provoking, a lot more soul satisfying, I can attest to how that thinking works. The Dalai Lama's admonition to let us forget these difficult things is so simple, yet so hard to practice if you're out of practice. But hey - picnics help, festivals help, personal friends help. Anything that feels better than frustration, hatred and anger helps.
ANYthing.
If all you did was just look for things to appreciate you would live a joyous, spectacular life. If there was nothing else that you ever came to understand other than just look for things to appreciate, it’s the only tool you would ever need to predominantly hook you up with who you really are. That’s all you’d need.
--Abraham
Actually, Debra, if you understood the extraordinary gifts every single challenge in your life makes possible, even inevitable, you'd celebrate your challenges, new and old alike, as the omens that they are of new beginnings, spectacular change, and enhanced super-powers.
Perfect for where you are, huh?
The Universe
The difference between successful people and those less successful, is that successful people keep moving ahead even when voice of self-doubt chides them to stop or go back.
-- Alan Cohen
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Yes. Yes. Yes.
But what makes us keep moving ahead?
That is the question with on answer, other than, thank the universe that I do keep moving, keep asking, keep on keepin' on.
Cuz the alternative just ain't happenin' for me, ya know?
You're never going to get to any final place. And so, we want to remind you to relax and start having fun on the way.
-- Abraham
Where there once was cacophony, there now is an eerie silence.
It's the sound of a tree falling in a forest when there's no one around, or the sound of one hand clapping.
I noticed it the other day while reading someone else's description of what it feels like waiting for the other shoe to drop.
I expected to feel some empathic response and have my body shift to take on that emotion, since I've lived that way for most of my life.
But it didn't.
I scoured the limits of my known universe, and I couldn't locate that nebulous nagging worry.
Holy crap.
What is up with that?!
I knew that my days lately have been filled with mostly sunshine and lollipops, but I hadn't noticed the demise of this particular trickster until now.
Among all of the baby step triumphs that one can accumulate on their way along The Path, this lose-the-shoe success is among the most satisfying self-restraints to shed that I've come across, so far.
That vague dread that follows you like a little black cloud all day long, its debilitation factor is ridiculously high. And with it missing in action, the flow of vitality that's unleashed is off the charts.
I don't know when my little cloud dissipated, and it really doesn't matter.
What matters is that I burn the sensation of its absence on my body-mind-spirit meld so that if it attempts to storm the gates again, its imprint won't be recognized at the hologram password-guarded entryway to my soul.
I also need to take a moment and acknowledge the gift of its presence, even if the gift didn't register as such until the contrast of its absence made it so.
Because now that the shoe is more securely on the other foot and there's little to no chance of it dropping, I can feel gratitude for what was, since it got me to where I am, right now.
Like they say, if the shoe fits, wear it.
At first it scared me in its intensity and I could only take it in small doses. Then I would build up strength and take a little more, but I could never really get away from it, and in the end, it spoiled me for anything else.
--Eric Clapton, on the music of Robert Johnson
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Seems like we all need to be scared, like this, about something.
Q: Just a couple of random thoughts. Are we a rocket of desire of our Inner Being?
Abe: Yes.
(Pause. Murmurs from audience.)
Q: It sounds so cool when you say that. It felt like it was true.
Abe: And in the same way that we’re encouraging you in this personality to give birth to a rocket of desire and then follow the idea of it, that’s what your Inner Being has done with you.
Q: Oh, boy.
Abe: Big, isn’t it? That’s why when you’re in alignment the ripples of goosebumps never stop, that’s why when you’re in alignment the clarity never stops, the enthusiasm never stops, the passion never stops. In other words, those feelings are your Inner Being saying, “Yes! Yes! Yes! Yes! This is what we planned, this is what we knew, this is who we are, this is how it is!” It is true that your Inner Being, before you came forth into this body, had joyous ideas about what life would be like. And understood that your leading edge, nitty-gritty experience would be the data collection that would foster the specifics of those rockets. And so when you align with one of those rockets, that sensation that you are attempting to describe is what it feels like when Source Energy joins the idea that you gave birth to.
Q: Right.
Abe: In other words, it was born out of your intellect, it was born out of your deciphering, it was born out of your experience. And while we are never wanting to separate you from the Inner You, it’s your game. In other words….
Q: It’s like a partnership. I mean, when you say, “When your Inner Beings,” that group, shoots out an aspect of itself and that’s us, right? It’s a desire for that aspect to be larger, right? Or to….
Abe: But for what? In other words, why do you think your Inner Being….
Q: For fun!
Abe: Exactly. For the exposure to the moment, for the joy-giving factor, for the expression of life. And so when you are having an emotion that is satisfying - one of love or one of passion - that feeling of that emotion is the resonance of your Inner Being within you. That’s what that is. That’s why…
Q: I feel it right now.
--Abraham
"So let’s control the conditions so that we can all feel good.” It’s impossible, have you noticed? It’s an attempt in futility. It’s a life-waster.
--Abraham
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Have you noticed?
I am selfishly practicing the art of devouring the beauty that is life.
--Abraham's elevator speech, with my spin on it
There are things you do because they feel right & they may make no sense & they may make no money & it may be the real reason we are here: to love each other & to eat each other's cooking & say it was good.
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Ahhhhhhhhhhh...the Secret to Living Well.
Never create rules, Debra. Not ever.
Not for others. And especially not for yourself.
Unless, of course, this is your rule.
Born free,
The Universe
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Don't you love simple, Debra?
The greatest blessing you can make on food is to enjoy it.
-- Alan Cohen
why do I try to pinpoint
anything more than where I know myself to be
when there are hardly any words better than "I am here"?
FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
Week beginning October 25
Copyright 2007 by Rob Brezsny
http://FreeWillAstrology.com
ARIES (March 21-April 19): For all we know, in your past life you were a
virgin who was thrown into a volcano to appease a fire deity. But whether or not that's an actual fact, we can say this with certainty: At some time in your current life, you made a great sacrifice in an effort to pacify a person whose anger or violence or manipulativeness you were intimidated by. Now I say unto you, Aries, that it's an excellent time to fix any distortions that were unleashed in your life because of that sacrifice.
You've got the personal power and insight you need to set the healing in motion. Halloween costume suggestions: the mythical phoenix; a virgin-turned-warrior carrying the severed head of the fire deity; a fireman, firewoman, or firedancer.
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A resistance charmer works for me.
Life is the only school where the exam comes before the lesson.
-- Source unknown
Don't do anything that you don't really want to do. Keep yourself in a place of feeling good. Reach for the thought that feels better -- and watch what happens.
-- Abraham
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Seriously. It will blow. your. mind.
When you become your own greatest lover, you will have lots of competition for the position.
-- Alan Cohen
What you do is miniscule in comparison with what you choose to think, because your vibration is so much more powerful and so much more important.
-- Abraham
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Feelin' this today. A lot. And wondering, what if I'm in some of the wrong movies? What if my casting director had me sneak in the back door, and I'm not really supposed to be there? What if I'm messing up someone else's script with my presence? What if, what if, what if......
But these are upstream thoughts. It's none of my business whose movie I'm in. I'm in charge of mine and mine alone. And I do no one any favors by dropping my vibration below the Mason-Dixon line of, say, slight irritation, by contemplating this.
I'm holding the space for everyone else's plot line cork to bob up there too, eventually. My former overacheiver role would like to jump in and fix things, but I know that's just hot air blowin' in the face of Source's super nova combustion engine. Maybe it will get a giggle out of it for a minute. What I can contribute is maintaining the status quo of joy incarnate. And who am I to deprive someone of a juicy dark night of the soul, of staring down ol' Resistance until it blinks?
Tough love, with a twist.
this is a magical beast that holds the secret of light & shadow in a safe place in her heart & when it has been too long grey, she starts to dance & laugh & cry & sing & the sunlight fills her up & spills in wild abandon back into the world again
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My magical beast has always been the obscure, the absurd, the mundane. a random reference to some insanity that reminds me to laugh. That's when the sunshine fills me up.
How about you?
Lead me not into temptation. I can find the way myself.
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I found this quote on a list of 300 one-liners, and it made me laugh out loud. I guess the word temptation has a different connotation in my brain than in the marketplace. I see temptation more as a drawing towards something that one might not regularly allow oneself to be drawn because of some misguided cultural expectations of behavior. It's a siren call to come home and enjoy yourself already, will ya? Cuz the laugh-o-meter is running out of quarters and we need some fun around here.
Lots of celebrations lately with the people in my life. Births, marriages, discoveries. Watching the circle of life loop in and around itself continuously, doing its thing, over and over again, not caring if we catch on or not.
But it's sooooo cool when we do.
Celebrate.
Start taking pleasure from your inner reality. Most people are approaching this backwards. Most people are saying, "Okay, I want that, and I am not fulfilled until I get that manifestation." The reason for that promise of manifestation out there, to begin with, is that it gives you the reason to play the game in the inner reality. It is your imagination, it is the feeling of Energy flowing through you that is life.
-- Abraham
I'm at the intersection of so many trails. Adventuresome, wild, exciting trails that have looped around and meandered awhile, taking their own sweet time to evolve from blips on the radar into full-blown experiences, revealing how they would eventually intersect and complete a map for me to trace their commonalities and marvel at yet another fabulous casting job done by the universe. How does it weave everything together in such perfection? A rhetorical question, one that I don't really want or need an answer for. Just professing my awe and admiration for what is.
Someone was supposed to call me last night and didn't. And I am so OK with that, the path that will be forever abandoned, so that others, and more appropriate ones on all kinds of levels, could be pursued. As well as taking a meter read on what conspired just before, to get a sense for what isn't welcome in my experience.
Putting together a personalized curriculum on a topic, I've been reading and internalizing and wondering where in the world I might apply it all. Yesterday, an idea floated to me. I could almost see it before it got there fully in my consciousness, like a cell from a movie thread that was coming closer and closer until lifesize and ready to pop.
Relationships with people who are fully alive and inhaling their lives with pleasure and a demand for quality and quantity and delight keep appearing on my plate, and that is sooooooooo gratifying. Finding others who want to play too - it just doesn't get any better than this.
Those that are succeeding and are thrilled and joyful in the unfolding will often tell you, "I've dreamed this since I was little. I imagined it, I pretended it, I used to practice with the hairbrush pretending it was a microphone." Purity is the alignment of energy. Doesn't matter what anybody else thinks about anything. It only matters what you think about it.
-- Abraham
Our message to you is: You are a visionary. And of course it is lovely to be an actionary too. But if you will let your vision be real and full and you find full alignment with it before you take action — then the effort that you offer is always joyful, fulfilling, satisfying effort.
--Abraham
[questioner is having difficult interactions with his stepdaughter]
Abraham:
… and you gather up this new resolve that it is going to be different in your experience and then you walk right into the face of that. We want you to understand what it is that you're bumping up against that's making you so nuts.
It isn't her choosing things that disagree with your choices. That's not what's making you so uncomfortable. It is her own personal discord that you are bumping up against that is making you uncomfortable... So. What we're suggesting to you - and we are certainly understanding how it came about - your dominate vibration about this girl - is bringing you nothing but grief. And somebody should do something about it — and it's not her.
“….. we wonder, when there’s so much that one might think about, why one would choose a problem? Or when there’s so much to think about, why one would cause a dilemma, or why one would remember an insult? Or why one would focus upon an injury or an illness? When there’s SO MUCH that you could be using to activate vibrations within you that could serve you so much better.”
--Abraham
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Why, indeed. We are taught that focusing all our attention on a problem is the only way to make it submit to our will and say Uncle.
Not so much. That's not even close to what's really going on. What's REALLY going on is a huge boulder is put in place in your vibration, and you make it heavier and heavier every time you push against this "problem;" you add to the burden, add to the delay in arrival of what it is that would serve you.
And you make it really hard for those of us who are suoposed to be in your movie, having a good time and playing with you, to show up, cuz the cosmic choreographers have to keep yanking back out of your reach those good things that you could have were you to just focus on something else, ANYTHING else that made you feel good. A peanut butter cookie. The beautiful weather. A smile from a four year old. Your favorite song playing on the radio.
Anything else.
What are the rules? I said & she said, Do exactly what I want whenever I want, make no demands of me whatsoever & love me forever, no questions asked & I said, how do you win? & she said, you don't understand. I'm the only one who wins & then she laughed & clapped her hands. Isn't it a great game? she said.
Story People
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She gets it.
I've been working on a project for quite some time now, wondering how it would turn out in the end, since it wasn't as effortless and fun as I thought it should be. One night recently I sat down and asked Resistance what the hell it was doing here, showing up for my project? I kept looking for the way in, the way a dog circles and circles and circles before it finally lies down in the perfect spot.
I realized that I was struggling with the voice of the piece, and so far hadn't been honoring mine. Once that clicked, it felt like magic, and the writing since then has been a joy. I can't wait each night to see what's going to show up next on the screen and in the narrative.
This is what I was born to do.
Honor your voice.
Down at the ver-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-y bottom of an online article, the result of some random Google search engine the newspaper employs, I'm sure. But it's pretty cool.
The faster you rush, the farther you push yourself from what you are truly trying to reach.
-- Alan Cohen
If you decide to make someone the enemy and you're pushing very hard against them, you don't affect them at all, but you disconnect yourself from the Stream. If someone cheats you, they cannot diminish your experience. They only diminish their experience. You cannot be diminished by someone cheating you unless you get all upset about being cheated and push against them and use that as your excuse to disconnect from the Stream.
-- Abraham
Questioner has just graduated from college and says she doesn’t know what to do with her life.
Abraham: When we hear someone say they don’t know what they want… which is a little different… or “I don’t know what I want to do”, we want to argue with you just a little bit and say, "Well, we think you know what you want. We think that you know that you want it to be stimulating. You want to be fascinated. You want to be of value. You want to contribute, you want to make a difference. You want to move forward. You want financial remuneration. You want to be interested in what you’re doing… we’re repeating, but that’s a big part of it. You want it to be something that is satisfying."
--Abraham
The universe does not know if the way you are offering your vibration is because of what you are living or because of what you are imagining. In either case the universe matches it.
--Abraham
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Freedom, pure and simple.
Let’s say you have a friend. Whether it is a mate, a former mate, a son, a friend, doesn’t matter. Somebody in your experience, and they have 10 predominant characteristics.
7 of the characteristics are delightful, and 3 of these characteristics are abhorrent. And being an observer, like most humans are, you are observing all 10 of them, so you are experiencing some of all 10 of them. But you for the most part appreciate the relationship, because 7 of them are wonderful, and only 3 of them are abhorrent. And so you would call it basically a good relationship.
So then you decide that rather than just be an observer, you are going to be a more selective sifter of data, and you are going to use your power of imagination. And so the 3 things that are sort of abhorrent to you, you notice and you feel the negative response to them. And little by little, as we have demonstrated a bit here today, you feel the negative emotion, you identify what you would like to exclude. Then you identify what you want to include. Now, earlier we said to you that the formulae for creating anything that you want is simple. Identify the desire and then vibrationally match it.
If you can't match it through what you are observing, and often you cant...as in these 3 abhorrent qualities that don’t match your desire. No problem! Match your desire through your imagination.
So now here you are. A person who has identified desire really keenly because you have observed things you don’t want which helps you to identify what you do want. So your desires out here pulsing sort of loud and very real. And much of your desire you can match just through observation. Those 7 qualities, you observed those 7 qualities, you match your desire. Three of them you can’t match through observation.
No problem. You don’t observe those, you just imagine the other 3. So now you are vibrating purely in harmony with your desire. When that happens, you evoke from those around you that which matches your desire. And if they are really vibrationally opposed to you, they vibrate right out of your experience.
--Abraham
You see a confusing point that so many human friends have is that there is this source of bad and this source of good and that I’ve got to really focus hard upon everything that I want and I have to keep talking about what I want and if I want something that I don’t have I have to be focused upon it realy really really really steadily in order to bring it about. NOW, I’ve got to set a goal and I’ve got to keep fixated on that goal or I won’t bring it about. And that’s just not true. You launched those goals. Source Energy is answering those goals or those desires, and what you’ve got to do is just be in a place where you’re not in the way, where you’re not vibrationally in the way. You hear in your physical environment, “Let go and let God”. And what they are talking about is relaxing that resistance and allowing the well-being that is natural to flow into your experience.
--Abraham
And what will happen is, as you do this for 30 seconds, you set a tone in your vibration. Does it immediately become your dominant tone or your dominant vibration? No. But it begins to dilute what is. So then you do it again and you do it again and you do it again and you do it again, and you *don’t* do it because there’s something broken that you want to fix, because if you do it because there’s something broken that you want to fix, you just practice the one that’s already dominant. This is *only* to feel good, *only* to feel good. And with a few weeks of dabbling at this, you will readjust what is dominant within your vibration.
--Abraham
We tease that someday we think your Webster’s Dictionary will define “money” as “not enough”, because that is the usual feeling that we feel from most of you when you use the word. And so, if you are wanting to change that, what you are wanting to do is replace the word with a word that is less resistant in nature. Replace it with a word like “Energy” or make up a new word. Begin calling money “nachos” or something like that. “If I can gather enough nachos, I’ll go to the ball game this weekend.” Because usually there is not so much resistance. Make up some word that you have fun with. Some word that is fulfilling to you, you see. And as you are finding a new vibration that is less resistant, the money will flow to you.
Most of you are not short on wanting money, you are just tall on resisting it, and so, goosing up wanting only amplifies resistance. Sometimes we teach: “Well, just talk about what you’ll do with the money. Imagine spending it. Imagine all of things that you’ll do with it.” But if you’ve already developed quite a bit of resistance about money, that can be a quite an aggravating, annoying game, and most of you don’t stick with it very long.
Deliberately try to reduce your resistance around the word “money”, and one way of doing it is to recognize that everything is flowing to you on this Energy Stream. We’ve watched Jerry and Esther who are, and have been for many years, very comfortable with dollars. The dollars that flow to them are abundant and flow easily, and what Esther is beginning to notice is that there are many things that are of a wonderful nature that are happening in their life that don’t have anything to do with dollars.
The abundance flows in many more avenues than dollars. And so, if you could focus upon the gifts that the Universe gives you: When you say “abundance”, think about it in the abundance of health, the abundance of vitality, the abundance of clarity, the abundance of enthusiasm, the abundance of delicious people in your life, the abundance of loving letters in your life. The abundance of free- flowing traffic in your life. The abundance of wonderful experiences in your life… As you start thinking in terms of this abundance that doesn’t have anything to do with dollars — the abundance relative to the dollars starts flowing, too.
--Abraham
If you understand that as you set forth thought in advance, with emotion, that you have launched your creation, and then you walk through space and time toward that time in the future expecting that it will be there, then we say to you from that joyful creation that you’ve launched into the future, you will be inspired to the action which is action in joy. And that is our point. When you are taking action in your now and it is not action in joy it is our absolute promise to you that it will not lead to a happy ending. It cannot. It defies law.
And so we say rather than being so ready to jump into action to do, to go and get, the things that you are wanting, we say ‘think them into being, see them, visualize them and expect them and they will be’. And you will be guided, or inspired or led to the perfect action that will bring about the process that will lead you to that which you seek.
And there is a great difference between that which we have spoken and the way most of the world is going about it.
-- Abraham
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