I hold hands with you.
I kiss you.
I hug you.
I caress you.
I know your sensitive spots, though not all.
I gaze into your eyes with so much love.

You hold my hands whenever we are together,
or you wrap your arms around my waist,
and I wrap my arms around your waist.

You kiss me.
You hug me.
You caress me.
You look at me with such tenderness.

We have many pet names for each other - love, beloved, sweet pea, sweetness, sweet angel, sweet heart.

Strangers who've just met us at first think we are a romantic couple. One woman even thought we're married and that I was your cute husband.

You love and admire my openness, my sweetness, my heart, my "beautiful, radiant face", my "amazing touch", me being "one of the world's best huggers."

You enjoy the fact that I taught you how to hug me, as I taught you other things. I enjoy the fact that you've taught me quite a few things yourself.

And when I told you, "You're such a sweet heart", you replied, "No, you're the sweet heart. I am just following your lead."

Yet, in your presence, my heart just opens and expands, my light shines more brightly,
and I can see the love, beauty and light of 'others' more easily, and I have the same effect on you,

and now, even in your absence, I can feel the same way.

Tagged by  Deeps

I am tagging:

Liza

Keith

Tom

Lisha


What is your idea of perfect happiness? I don't believe I understand this question.
Happiness is happiness. It can be experienced, not described.

What is your greatest fear? I don't know. Being helpless and powerless?

Which historical figure do you most identify with? Any mystic such as Sufi and Hafiz, and so, ultimately, I most identify with God, or the Beloved.

Which living person do you most admire? This is hard. So many people doing so many good things!

What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? procrastination resulting from fear.

What is the trait you most deplore in others? same. In recent weeks, I've been learning to accept myself and others.

What is your greatest extravagance? I don't know.

What is your favorite journey? Shamanic Journeys.

What do you consider the most overrated virtue? huh?

On what occasion do you lie?  I don't know.

What do you dislike most about your appearance? Nothing.

Which living person do you most despise? None.

Which words or phrases do you most overuse? Please, thank you, love, sweet pea, sweetness, wow, hmm?, I love you too!

What is your greatest regret? None.

What or who is the greatest love of your life? the Beloved.

Which talent would you most like to have? Play an instrument.

What is your current state of mind? curious

If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be? Perhaps that they start remembering New Thought principles.

What do you consider your greatest achievement? Living, becoming more Love.

If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be? Someone who remembers and applies prosperity principles at a much younger age than now.

If you could choose what to come back as, what would it be? Ditto!

What is your most treasured possession? My heart.

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? the feeling of total helplessness

Where would you like to live? In the Now.

What is your favorite occupation? Healer/Teacher

What is your most marked characteristic? Being Heart-Centered

What is the quality you most like in a man? Openness, Heart-Centeredness, Strenght, Focused, Active, Assertive

What is the quality you most like in a woman? Openness, Sweetness, Cuteness

What do you most value in your friends? Different people have different qualities to value

Who are your favorite writers? Rumi, Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, Neale Donald Walsch, Deepak Chopra, Emerson, Daphne Rose Kingma, Hafiz, Kundan Chhabra, and more

Who is your favorite hero of fiction? I have not read too much fiction. The main characters from the Celestine prophecy and from Job: A Comedy of Justice, What Dreams May Come, Field of Dreams and August Rush

Who are your heroes in real life? People who've seen beyond the veil

What are your favorite names? Kundan
What is it that you most dislike?

How would you like to die? Peacefully.

What is your motto? Be Open.

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"So if you have a house and a car and a college degree, then, yes, you should hear about global warming, or peak oil, or dying species. But poor and low-income people need to hear about opportunities. They need to hear about the expected reduction in asthma rates when we reduce greenhouse gases. They need to hear about the wealth and health benefits of moving into a sustainable economy. Otherwise, you are just telling people who are having a bad day that they should have a worse one."

~ Van Jones on green-collar jobs and the politics of inclusion.

Money supported Albert Schweitzer in the steaming jungles of Africa where he labored unselfishly for the natives. Gandhi, in his extreme poverty, going about the land of India, with his loin cloth and a little spinning wheel, giving the image of abject poverty, required a lot of money to support him and his entourage. One of his followers said, "It takes an awful lot of money to keep Gandhi living in poverty." Even Jesus and his disciples were supported by money. In the eighth chapter of Luke, there is a very revealing phrase, "Certain..... women ministered to him of their substance." (LK. 8:2-3 KJV). What could be clearer than that some of his followers were women of means who simply paid much of the expenses?

~ Eric Butterworth, "Spiritual Economics", page 153

A leaf falls in the night sky.

Sweet surrender of my heart.

Joy floats onto tender red tips,

flows down the soft petals,

seeps into the soaked sponge,

pumps bliss through all the waters of my body,

absorbed into every bit of my being,

laughter erupts all over the planet.

Oneness.

Light reflected onto his eyes

from the knife she is holding in her hands,

flipping it from side to side on her table,

playing with it.

He sits so far away.

This is how he becomes

first aware

of her existence.

Aren't you grateful

for the existence of

knifes and light?

A piece of paper keeps flying into his body.

He keeps throwing it away,

until it travels right onto his face,

offering a place to rent.

This is how he becomes

first aware

of her existence.

Aren't you grateful

for the existence of

paper and wind?

A drop of water

falls on my T-shirt,

initiating a poem

that touches so many people's hearts.

Aren't I grateful

for the existence of

T-shirts and rain?

Light reflected onto his eyes

from the knife she is holding in her hands,

flipping it from side to side on her table,

playing with it.

He sits so far away.

This is how he becomes

first aware

of her existence.

Boy! Isn't he grateful

for the existence of

knifes and light?

A piece of paper keeps flying into his body.

He keeps throwing it away,

until it travels right onto his face,

offering a place to rent.

This is how he becomes

first aware

of her existence.

Boy! Isn't he grateful

for the existence of

paper and wind?

A drop of water

falls on my T-shirt,

initiating a poem

that touches so many people's hearts.

Boy! Am I not grateful

for the existence of

T-shirts and rain?

Dear Friends,

I am currently reading "Happier than God", the new book by Neale Donald Walsch, and there is an idea in it that has inspired me so much I wish to implement it this very moment!

I quote from the book:

"People ask me, "What can I do to change the world? What can one person do?"
There is a great deal that one person can do.
And the first thing is to leverage individual intent, expanding it to globally impacting proportion. This is done by the simple use of the multiplier effect."

And he goes on to make an amazing suggestion:

"Start a Focusing Creation For All The World group. Meet once a week by telephone (this group can be worldwide!)
and spend three minutes focusing on your combined attention, with clear intention, on a particular outcome you wish to see in the world. This is the wonderful and powerful tool of focusing creation for others, rather than simply for the self. It uses the Multiplier Effect, and can produce results startlingly fast.

Collective attention with clear intention is the key. Do not just think about a problem in the world. Think about the outcome that you intend to produce.

Do not make the outcome too generic, such as "world peace", or "greater prosperity for all people." Rather, call forth a particular outcome. Say words with your thoughts that describe specific experiences. See these outcomes. Run scenes of them, like a film, on the movie screen of your mind. Invite your group to do so also.

An interesting experiment would be to actually draw pictures of the future. These can be simple images, cartoon figures. Another technique is to create a vision board, with actual photographs. cut out of newspapers or magazines or whatever you can find, of the outcomes you wish to manifest. Cut out a picture of a family feast, and beneath it write:
"Everyone in the world having ample food." These and other techniques can and do work. They are all simply tools with which to sharply focus your thoughts and to arouse your feelings, which means your spiritual energy.

Continue focusing on a single outcome for at least several sessions.

Hold a Focusing Creation class or study group in your own home twice a month."

What amazing synchronicity! How timely!

That word perfectly describes the past few days and weeks for me!