Frank T. Maiello, an early on mentor of mine who was a cruical stepping stone to to my awakening in consciousness

“Know that wherever you have problems in your life, there the ego is found. and where the problems have their depth, find there the weight of that ego.  What’s less understood for newbies on the razor’s edged path of return, is where would we be without this ego?  One must befriend bewilderment; it makes certainty look like our *true* enemy.  For, isn’t it out of certainty we find our deepest trap… our prison of treacherous opinion… our cause of social alienation… our death of *true* freedom?”
Frank T. Maiello

This started out to be a post about how I scored an art set at a friend’s garage sale today but I think getting lost and found was the greater victory.  Galpal Shannon Gronich was part of a community garage sale and I wanted to see her.  I’d been there before, I knew it was in a popular subdivision, I figured my muscle memory would take me there. Wrong.  First, the phone kept ringing and texting in, taking my map off the screen. Second, being a community garage sale, every few blocks had lines of cars stopped or stopping all over the  street.  Then I kept driving straight when I should have made my first left.   Five minutes later I pulled over and text her for the address.  I enter it into my cell phone’s GPS and voila, on the screen appears where I am, where I want to go and how to get there.  Back on the road, I keep glancing at the map but suddenly I am blocks away from where I thought I was, and going in the wrong direction.  WTF?   Continue reading →

Don't let their words burn you

Let no one disturb your peace. Especially if it’s someone who doesn’t know you anymore, like Domino‘s hateful ex.  He knows her appearance right now means he’s attracting everything that is unresolved in his life in order to settle it once and for all and move past it to the next level.  She’s lambasting him for his new lifestyle and beliefs.  His new happy, purposeful, substance-free lifestyle with friends who support and add to his ideas and his creativity and his spiritual growth.  Friends who encourage him to move forward in his dreams, who cheerlead him every step of the way.  When you have a good flow of happy people, events and circumstances coming into your life and suddenly feel you’ve hit a wall, you have. On the other side of that wall is the next level of what you’ve been wanting.  Right now, everything that is unresolved in your life is coming up in order to be addressed once and for all and move onto the next level.  How fast or slow that happens is up to you.  I always begin with the Ho’oponopono Hawaiian forgiveness process. Let no one disturb your peace. Resolve old issues as they come up. You don’t vibe in that place anymore.  Your happier life awaits you on the other side of resolution.  You’ve got new heights to soar to. It’s time.

Normal is an illusion.  What’s normal for the spider, is chaos for the fly.  Morticia Addams

This morning while I was Waiting On Daybreak, I began vacuuming and ended up once again moving all the living room furniture around. Now the couch and 2 easy chairs are in the public sitting area.  The daybed, recliner and tv remain in the private area behind the drape. The reading table now separates the two areas, with the drape above it. The meditation altar remains on the south wall.  I’ll keep you posted.

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As my own boss, I keep odd hours.  I work early and late.  I find myself many mornings waiting for businesses to open so I may begin calls and errands.  I usually fill the time doing administrative work and balancing the checkboooks.  Like now, I’m waiting on delivery of the February Horizons Magazine, but I’m really waiting for daylight.  As soon as the sun comes up, I’m going to move my car out of the garage to prepare for the mailing process. I always seem to be waiting on daybreak.  The metaphor is not lost on me.  Yes, I do appreciate being in The Now and I make the most of it, but I’ve always got my third eye open seeking a brighter way.

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I was watching Millionaire Matchmaker last night.   Matchmaker Patti Stanger has the women change their look (why does everyone have to straighten their hair??) and dress skin tight.  That’s kinda false advertising. No politics or religion talk, she has the men go overboard impressing with gifts and extravagant first dates. Well, who wouldn’t be swept away being Cinderella for a day? To my mind, that starts things off in a disingenuous way.  Let her like you for you.  If she likes who you are, then bring out some toys.  Why change anything for a first meeting? How about a walk in a park talking about whatever is most important to you as a first get together? Imagine that.

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I had a boss years ago who loved to tell a joke to all the sassy new young secretaries that he liked to cut down to size.  I paraphrase, but you’ll get the drift:  A man takes his first trip out to Las Vegas, it’s his first trip anywhere out of his hometown.  It’s also his first flight.  he’s got a window seat, a pretty flight attendant is serving his lunch and drinks, “There’s sure nothing like this in Hoboken,” he thinks. He gets into Las Vegas and asks the cabby to take a drive down the strip and take him to a casino.  “There’s nothing like this in Hoboken.” he says.  He gambles all night, he wins lots of money, he’s got girls hanging all over him.  “There’s sure nothing like this in Hoboken.” He choses the best looking girl, they go drinking and dancing and end up at his hotel room.  She’s beautiful.  “There’s nothing like this in Hoboken,” he says. The entire trip has been a surprise and delight, so many new experiences.  He can hardly wait for what’s to come.  She undresses.  The lights go out. “Ah,” he says, “just like Hoboken.”

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