“Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life – think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success, that is way great spiritual giants are produced.”  Swami Vivekananda

Why did I un-friend you? If I don’t know you, it may just be that you haven’t made yourself visible to me, so I don’t yet know how interesting and cool you are and how relevant and important you might be to my life.  If so, send me a msg and I’m glad to re-friend you.  If I DO know you and I have un-friended you, one reason I’ll do that is when you consciously choose to repeat a past error and pretend you don’t know it, then want me to counsel with you about it when you clearly didn’t listen the first twenty times.  Domino poured her heart out to me a year ago over someone who she said played her, ripped her heart out, jeopardized her marriage and made her suicidal.  After months of back and forth talking her off the ledge several times and repeatedly telling her to put it behind her, I thought it finally was.  Now she’s chosen to re-engage this person.  She can do what she wants, bless her,  bless all of us, I just no longer want a ringside seat to it.

Why are you knocking at every other door?
Go, knock at the door of your own heart.
—Rumi

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Recognizing when someone is a sacred step on your journey.

A good indicator of a person’s character is how they handled past relationships, and how they handle unsettled finances or responsibilities from those relationships.

To the ones who complain to me when their mate engages in texts and late night phone calls with an ex who is trying to lure him back: Not to worry. He’s at your place while he’s doing it and he tells you all about it. If he wanted to be with them, he’d be with them. Meantime, feel free to text and call whomever you wish if you feel you’re lacking attention.   Nothing moves you on to a better feeling thought like a new flirtation.   After reading Wiki and Merriam Webster definitions (which differ) of flirtation, I will say that when I use the word, there is no romantic or sexual promise in it. Merely interest in and appreciation of who and what someone is and does.  My point is we each, regardless of conventional relationship obligations, must make it a point to spend time with those who uplift us and inspire us and add a pleasant experience to our life. Don’t expect to get it all from one person, because when that person leaves, you will then have nothing. Have a collection of friends who make you happy, and a variety of sources that stimulate and inspire you.  Then when your world and everything in it morphs and changes, you’ve got a big support team to draw encouragement and inspiration from.

You must un-learn what you have been programmed to believe since birth.  That software no longer serves you if you want to live in a world where all things are possible.  Jacqueline E. Purcell

I just revised 44 blog posts where I had the email address incorrect. Sheesh…

We are all Vibrational Beings. You’re like a receiving mechanism that when you set your tuner to the station, you’re going to hear what’s playing. Whatever you are focused upon is the way you set your tuner, and when you focus there for as little as 17 seconds, you activate that vibration within you. Once you activate a vibration within you, Law of Attraction begins responding to that vibration, and you’re off and running–whether it’s something wanted or unwanted ~ Abraham~Hicks

Q: Robert, when you say, “Sit in the silence” to find the Self, naturally a river of thoughts flow, but it’s okay to sit in those thoughts and just watch?

R: When you observe your thoughts, you are sitting in the silence.

S: Even if you sit day after day and the thoughts may not even slow or anything. But that’s okay because you’re still sitting by yourself?

I wrote on Facebook last night:  “I just noticed I have no quarterly property tax bills for 9/30/12 – I have notices of proposed taxes and new valuations saying tax bills will be sent out on Nov. 1. Does this mean no 9/30 payment or shall I go down to the tax office tomorrow with the 6/30/12 paid bills and pay on them anyway? The values and taxes appear to be the same…”  Then I got the idea to go to the Property Appraiser’s website and see if they said something there about it.  Upon inspection, I learned I could find and pay my taxes online there also.   I went to the website and did a search, then clicked on the link for “Tax Collector Info” and the bill showed there.   This happened because I got so used to having them sending me paper bills and return envelopes a month ahead of time, but I know it’s my responsibility to be aware of what I owe and when it is due, regardless of what “they” do.  So I really have nothing to complain about.  I paid the property taxes online on the spot.

Afterward:  Two days later I found the property tax bills in my chair where I’d been sitting on them.  I place things in my chair so I see them as soon as I go into the office.  Unless I go in while it’s dark….

I do not want to step so quickly over a beautiful line on God’s palm
as I move through the earth’s marketplace today.
I do not want to touch any object in this world
without my eyes testifying to the truth
that everything is
My Beloved.

Something has happened to my understanding of existence
that now makes my heart always full of wonder
and kindness.
I do not want to step so quickly over this sacred place on God’s body
that is right beneath your own foot.
As I dance with precious life today.
~Hafiz