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It is so important when we realize we are eternal beings, that we can let our awareness to live in the moment with a positive attitude happen---when life comes along, (as it does with each beat of our heart) it has a way of taking turns we didn't plan ourselves or want--they could be job, family, health, anything related; sometimes, it's very hard to always live with a positive attitude--again, LIFE interferes---BUT,what if we didn't even exist? Yes, I know, we wouldn't be aware of anything:)...… Continue

This first day of 2010, I find myself looking back at my life and it seems like I'm watching a "conveyor belt" of actions, thoughts, belief systems, even my "world view" on life in general----all the things I see on my "belt" changed from year to year, some degree, here and there; wish I could have "picked and choosed" those "belt" choices, views, deeds, with much longer thought, consideration of others given to it/them---life could, and perhaps would, have turned out differently for me-----BUT,… Continue

"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body.,but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out and loudly proclaiming---WOW... What a Ride!!!" For me, these words are so true--as for us all, we have our own "life stories"--it is how we faced and lived them that counts----The Maya have a tree called "The LaCeiba" or the Kapok Tree; when it loses its leaves, the tree looks like it is upside down--with the… Continue

"To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude." Albert Schweitzer "Who does not thank for little, will not thank for much". Estonian Proverb On this Thanksgiving day of 09', my… Continue

"Memories of rejection, shame, guilt cannot be converted to love. These images are what they are. Accept them and move to a higher sense of Self, which is unconnected with memory". Deepak Chopra----How true this statment is---how many years do we go on with thinking about things that happened years ago to us or even to others in our lives that keep holding us back in so many situations....we MUST let them go into our past and look at our future--if we don't, those memories are an anchor in our m… Continue