“Most people are in love with their particular life drama. Their story is their identity. The ego runs their life. They have their whole sense of self invested in it. Even their — usually unsuccessful — search for an answer, a solution, or for healing becomes part of it. What they fear and resist most is the end of their drama. As long as they ARE their mind, what they fear and resist most is their own awakening.” ~ Eckhart Tolle, from The Power of Now
Author Archives: Andrea
A Prayer for Oklahoma
Heavenly Father/Mother God: Allow the flood waters to flow through your loving hands and bring comfort and hope to those impacted. Bring those communities together in love and mutual assistance.
“In the end only kindness matters. We are God’s hands” – Jewel
“Perhaps this is the best we can do; to help when we can, to witness each other with kindness, to offer our presence, to show the trust we have in life. Spiritual life is not about knowing much, but about loving much.” Jack Kornfield
Oh nice, beginning to sprinkle off and on. I can’t believe how much the bamboo and the loquat saplings grew overnight in the rain. I am tickled that it’s mid-May and the weather this week has temps of a high of 84 and down to 63 at night, 75% humidity. I love windows open to the yard and Paradise right outside my window as I work. When I’m inside with a/c on (usually May through October,) I can feel confined and stifled. This is heavenly, and a day off to boot!
Two perfect gardenias
two gardenias side by side
one new blossom, one fading bloom
one happy for its time in the sun
the other content to rest in gentler shade
both beautiful and perfect
there is no competition in God’s garden
Andrea de Michaelis
Tarot Card of the Day: Five of Coins
Meditate upon the meaning this card might have for you since it showed up for you at this exact moment.
MEANING: The 5 of Coins can point to a time when life is feeling less than secure. The important thing to remember is that there is always help available when we need it, from forces both seen and unseen. You may feel alone, but you have the capacity to change that. Reach out. This card points to a feeling of being left out in the cold, as though everyone else in the world has everything and you are the only one that is suffering. Realize that this is not the case. Do the best you can, with what you have, but remember that the wise thing to do, if one needs help, is to go out and ask for it. The help you need will come. Continue reading
I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance. Jon Stewart, Daily Show
I cancel paying clients just to step out of a particular vibe
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I just cancelled $450 worth of appointments with particular (and fave!) clients just so I can stay off a particular topic and get out of a particular vibe. I love helping friends who help themselves, but it’s not my job to fix anyone who doesn’t want to be fixed. Wait, it’s not my job to fix anyone, period. You know what my job is? My job is fixing me. So am I losing $450 income? No. It just won’t come from those particular clients. It will instead come from, well, from wherever it is right now. When I let go of what’s no longer fun, I leave that vibe and step into another. That new vibe will be my new source of income. Everyone wins.
To the newly hurt, disillusioned and reconciled
No one knows who or what we’ve talked about unless YOU tell them. You want the matter dropped? Then drop it and it will be, no one the wiser. Your choice. Reconciliation will halt your probing further into your partner’s history. Perhaps that was the point.
Godspeed is the only speed there is
Learning to forgive and dying again have the same purpose, only to awaken. But just one of them saves significant time and therefore makes sense, when one has come to understand and value nothing more than what Peace is. Godspeed is the only speed there is. Neil McGregor