Sometimes what you want isn’t always what you get, but in the end what you get is so much better than what you wanted.

Once we let go of negative people around us, positive ones will appear.

As I drove across the causeway this morning, I checked voice mail and was delighted my best buds Trish and Doug Cobb were in town, just blocks away.  I drove over and spent a few hours visiting with them at Linda Sands’.  It turned out to be old home week when Susan Rizzo, and Debbie and Brian Jeffries showed up.   I was a witness to Doug and Trish falling in love and I married them a dozen years ago when they were next door neighbors.  Special friends for sure.  Trish at age 80 last summer, did some standing paddle boarding on the Suwannee River. Granted, she is a tiny thing, (Oh she was a rare thing, fine as a bee’s wing, So fine a breath of wind might blow her away) very low to the ground, but — yikes — that was pretty adventurous. Continue reading →

Spiritual brother Wayne Wirs is a modern RV nomad now in NM.  His spiritual practice focuses on transparency, as does mine, and his focus is on the mystical aspects of enlightenment. He sees God—what he calls Her (his Beloved)—in everything. “I have come to realize the importance of the Soul as a stepping-stone to Mystical Oneness.”  At Setting a Bad Example he writes, “Forget demonstrating or teaching an ideal, and instead live your practice—your spirituality. In other words, make the living it the focus rather than the teaching it.”

I love to see when someone I’ve spent time working with can pass along information I think is so vital for everyone to know. A friend reminded me of an earlier post, Sexuality on the Spiritual Path. “(A good exercise is) knowing that cultivating the feeling of “being in love” without expectation of end result creates fuel to power the attraction process. If we stay mindful, it can be a powerful learning tool. It’s rare and beautiful to find someone in the work who has enough control over their emotional body to understand that. “

…”A man chooses a great woman as part of a Spiritual journey to bump up to a higher level. A great woman is the inspiration. If a man chooses a lesser woman for lower chakra reasons–i.e. casual sex for example, he does not want to do the work required to shift his consciousness into being a great man. You can always see the character of the man by the woman he chooses. We live in a throw away society. Most don’t want to work hard to grow when the grass is greener…” ~ John Dean

If you have  time for Facebook, you have time for yoga, for meditation, for creative visualization, for making a list of future events you want to pre-pave some intention for. If your life isn’t going exactly the way you’d like, if you have time for Facebook, you have time to create a business plan, set some goals, seek a better job, a better life.   Imagine that.  No really, IMAGINE that.

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If you love the sacred and despise the ordinary, you are still bobbling in the ocean of delusion…~Linji Yixnan

If I made my being in love be attached to any one individual, then the love would go when the individual did. I’m in love with the Ever Present Reality that is Now, and many people can flow by on that river. I don’t need to drag them onto the bank with me and rub molecules to feel supreme satisfaction on all levels. That’s all perception and I’m the one in control of that.