MIND AWAKE~ I LOVE IT!

I love this book "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj

I highly recommend it. 

Here are a few yummy quotes about being awake, I think you'll love. 

"To see clearly, your mind must be pure and unattached. 

Unless you know yourself well, how can you know another? 

And when you know yourself-~ you are the other". 

"You are the Self, here and now. Leave the mind alone, stand aware and

unconcerned and you will realize that to stand alert but detached,

watching events come and go, is an aspect of your real nature".

"Past and future are in the mind only - I am now".

~Nisaragadatta Maharaj

I LOVE YOU.

Only Love is Real~All the rest is just so much silly noise...

Gosh, it’s been a while since I posted on this blog.

Vacation was perfect. While in Salt Lake, holy encounters ruled the day. Many old friends and new showed up for luscious communion, delightful gatherings and miracles all around. We laughed a lot. One friend shared the following poem:

Hokusai says Hokusai says look carefully. He says pay attention, notice. He says keep looking, stay curious. He says there is no end to seeing He says look forward to getting old. He says keep changing, you just get more who you really are. He says get stuck, accept it, repeat yourself as long as it is interesting. He says keep doing what you love. He says keep praying. He says every one of us is a child, every one of us is ancient every one of us has a body. He says every one of us is frightened. He says every one of us has to find a way to live with fear. He says everything is alive -- shells, buildings, people, fish, mountains, trees, wood is alive. Water is alive. Everything has its own life. Everything lives inside us. He says live with the world inside you. He says it doesn't matter if you draw, or write books. It doesn't matter if you saw wood, or catch fish. It doesn't matter if you sit at home and stare at the ants on your veranda or the shadows of the trees and grasses in your garden. It matters that you care. It matters that you feel. It matters that you notice. It matters that life lives through you. Contentment is life living through you. Joy is life living through you. Satisfaction and strength is life living through you. He says don't be afraid. Don't be afraid. Love, feel, let life take you by the hand. Let life live through you.

Words to live by, yes?

How absolutely blessed I am! Thank you, all my holy companions.  

  I have felt inspired to play with my new blog. It is about the addiction to the body. I am using a different blogging system, so there is a lot for me to learn. And I am loving learning about it. Here’s the link if you want to check it out. 

THE LOVE DIET MIRACLE BLOG

 HEALING THE BODY/FOOD GAME LOVE’S WAYI 

“The Holy Spirit, ever practical in His wisdom, accepts your dreams and uses them as a means for waking. You would have used them to remain asleep. I said before that the first change, before dreams disappear, is that your dreams of fear are changed to happy dreams.” ~Chapter 18

Love and gratitude over-flowing…

 

 

  

 

ROAD TRIP~MIRACLES' STYLE

Parker and I are on an adventure. We had a plan. Then, yesterday, seemingly out of the blue, I thought ROAD-TRIP, right now. Off we went. A super yummy thing about the practice of turning ones mind to the Holy Spirit for direction, and then giving up the reins, is that you have sudden shifts into adventurousness, unforeseen till right at the instant it shows up. I try to go with it.

We had this awesome ‘lost in the dark, don’t know where we’re going…itzybit scary moment’ last night~ Then, loud and clear, I thought to call Randi.

 Now, for those of you that don’t know, Randi is the Holy Spirit personal assistant incarnate. Turns out, she can find me clear over near Flagstaff Arizona (going the wrong way) and pick my car up, metaphorically speaking, and deliver it to the Hotel in Flagstaff to stay for the night.

Yep! She’s that good.

We had a totally holy encounter with Sky, the yummy hotel attendant gal, when we checked in. She was a riot. Plus she is reading the fourth Twilight book “Breaking Dawn”. Parker noticed and triggered a great conversation about letting go of old beliefs and ideas about what’s “right or wrong” and trusting that if Love is guiding, we need to shift around it or we will miss the gifts it’s bringing.

So yeah, that was that holy encounter.

I’m writing this from a hotel room in Flagstaff Arizona.~~~

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Another day with another view~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

We spent the most awesome evening with my father and his beautiful wife. They are amazing. They are real and holy and honest and engaging~ totally present and available. We shared and experienced each other and the miracles our lives have become.

Catch this! They are alive in the practice of A Course in Miracles. I am lifted up in their presence and the union of our purpose in God’s plan for the salvation of the world.

How lucky am I to have a forgiven and healed holy relationship with this beautiful man, my father. His journey has been as my own. And his humble willingness to share his healing and miracles blesses me with his holiness.

Does it get any better than that? To have your dad healed and forgive you and love you… And, also be in love with A Course in Miracles?

It totally rocks.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Now we are at my mother’s Bed & Breakfast.

Have I mentioned how everything goes my way? Everything, is happening for me… And everyone else…

So, we arrive and there is a boy so much like Parker, they could be twins, bell-hopping for Mama. They totally hit it off. And are having a ball. Which totally leaves me available to hang out with my Mama and sister. It has been an evening of rich sharing, massage and anointing with love. I have burst at the seams with the light of love… It’s awesome.

~So, yeah, I keeps being the most perfect moment ever. That’s just how miracle-living works.

Thank you.

I love you.

MY SALVATION~ AMAZING GRACE

A friend sent this gorgeous film out (thanks Brian). I remembered it while doing the lesson this morning so please click on the link below and join me in celebrating our salvation:

http://link.brightcove.com/services/link/bcpid271552717/bctid1913313052

I love you.

MIRACLE IMPULSES

Your distorted perceptions produce a dense cover over miracle impulses, making it hard for them to reach your own awareness. The confusion of miracle impulses with physical impulses is a major perceptual distortion. Physical impulses are misdirected miracle impulses. All real pleasure comes from doing God's Will. This is because not doing it is a denial of Self. Denial of Self results in illusions, while correction of the error brings release from it. Do not deceive yourself into believing that you can relate in peace to God or to your brothers with anything external. (ACIM~ T-1.1)

You know what is so fun? I have been playing in the yummy freshness of this moment now. Old insights are circling back up in my mind and life with renewed aliveness and much more depth.

Let me give an example. Recently, I have been corresponding with an amazing woman; teacher of God and all around inspiring being. We’ve been addressing addiction and food/body addiction in particular. Years ago, in the beginning of my healing with A Course in Miracles, I was graced with freedom the insanity of an upside-down relationship with my body, eating and food. And actually with yours as well, I compared myself with everyone I met. That craziness was lifted and I was able to focus on the business of healing my mind.

Finding what did work for me was, at times, an absolute miracle. I would walk into a book store and find myself picking up a book that I hadn’t known I came for and no recollection as to what I had come there for in the first place. I had a sense of being in the right place at the right time that was poignant and I would buy the book without question.

Or I would meet someone that would lead to a conversation about freedom and addiction and food and weight and I would hear myself speaking from a place of true gratitude. Often in those times, if there was a particular struggle I was having with my body or cravings, as we began communicating, in that sincere request for a true answer, a specific one to my specific issue would unfold during the conversation.

I discovered quite rapidly that the more I shared my experience with healing and freedom from the body/food monkey around my neck, the less I had experienced cravings and body judgments.

So, being the junky I am, I started facilitating groups and individuals in upholding a single-pointed spiritual foundation as core sustenance, as a replacement for the obsessive focus of a body/food addiction.

I saw how my unhealed mind, having obsessed about my problems with food and weight and how to get the perfect body and what to eat, how to keep from eating too much, what combination of foods, how to work out and how often, accompanied with a commitment to feeling ashamed and guilty and deserving of punishment, yet feeling like a total victim, helpless to change, hopeless in the face of societal requirement of lovability, had kept me exactly where I was. My judgments and beliefs had made me the person I saw myself as: weak, unlovable, unworthy, a waste of skin, taking up room that a more deserving person should have.  I was wrong… that is all.

A fundamental principle in A Course in Miracles is that ideas leave not their source and that ideas increase when they are given away. We, being God’s Idea, remain in Him as He extends His love as Son. We are that Son; that very same Love. We therefore must allow our love to extend creation in order to know our Self.

We’ve all had so much appreciation for some miracle in our life that we couldn’t wait to share with everyone.

That’s how I felt. That’s how I feel, now. It’s the reason I blog.

I love God. I love Jesus. I love A Course in Miracles. I love you, my one Self.

 So anyway, I am again finding myself with this awesome opportunity to share the miracle down the body/food addiction avenue.

You know we all come to A Course in Miracles with body addictions. We mistake them for ourselves. We are wrong. That is all.

The course turns us around and points us smack in front of our mind.  We see without question that it is or identification with a false identity, in a life/death, duality based world in our mind that is the source of our pain. It trains us in a systematic way to dispel every belief you ever believed to be true, as false.

We see that our world is one of perception, but that everything that feel good comes from somewhere beyond perception, never from the thing or circumstance itself.

We come to see that learning to forgive is our most treasured tool in the reversal of a thought system based in fear back to the source of our being~ love.

Peace is the result of emptying our entire arsenal of fear thoughts onto the touchstone of forgiveness. 

We are born anew.

“Let us be still an instant, and forget all things we ever learned, all thoughts we had, and every preconception that we hold of what things mean, and what their purpose is. Let us remember not our own ideas of what the world is for. We do not know. Let every image held of anyone be loosened from our minds and swept away. Be innocent of judgment, unaware of any thoughts of evil or of good that ever crossed your mind of anyone. Now do you know him not. But you are free to learn of him, and learn of him anew. Now is he born again to you, and you are born again to him, without the past that sentenced him to die, and you with him. Now is he free to live, as you are free, because an ancient learning passed away, and left a place for truth to be reborn.” (T-31.1)

  I am going to be writing more about the healing of body appetites. It might be with this yummy woman, Lisa, I was talking about. A site about this is her idea. I am interested to see what comes forward. Grace has shown me that body appetites are misdirected miracle impulses. That in recognition of this fact, I open to act miraculously instead of ‘feed the need’,and look for magic soulions; to enliven and inspire rather than shut-off and separate into the dirge of the pleasure-pain syndrome.

I'll keep you posted as it unfolds. Thank you.

I love you! 

HIGH BEAM~ ON! ~ MIRACLES ARE SEEN IN LIGHT...

I am surrounded by miracles.

Today was one of those days where gorgeous people around me, were calling me to share their miracle; epiphanies, insights, breakthroughs… Like I said~ MIRACLES.

One fabulous brother, a man of pure integrity, called to tell me that in the midst of his wife telling him she was moving out, he was moved inwardly. Rather than resist, ask for explanations, or whatever defense might want to arise, he rose up, above the battlefield. He simply asked the Holy Spirit to take over. He said, “This is it. This is what it is all about. In an instant when the possibility of defense right in hand, I was able to choose peace instead. I was able remain the truth of who I am and truly be actually helpful. I listened and remembered neither she nor I were the story, but kept my focus on the love we are instead.

Isn’t that awesome?

Miracles are natural. When we aren’t experiencing them, something has gone wrong.

Another dazzling brother, a dedicated and devoted women called to tell me of her recognition of her guiltlessness while recognizing it in her ex… She told me she had two amazing epiphanies.

1.      I can’t do it wrong. I’ve never done it wrong. What is, is what is.

2.      I am not alone. I have never been alone. I could never be alone. There are always others along the path to help along the way.

These are the lights the Holy Spirit turns on in our minds that reveal the path before us… the path before us. Just that, too; just this we find before us now. And that is just perfect; just enough to keep our focus on God: to keep our eye single, and shine our light.

MIRACLE!

I just got off the phone with a brother, a dynamic and stunning, vividly alive friend whom I haven’t seen or spoken with for several years.

I knew to call her.  Miracle-prompt.

Yet, we had an absolutely astonishing conversation about truth, living in true integrity, thinking in honestly and not mistaking ‘appropriate’ emotion-for-circumstance, but rather turn inward and allow the peace of God to spread the warm blanket from heart to hand…

What appeared to be a lover’s death by overdose, turned out to be a story; that when undone, left only the love that was exchanged ~Spirit in a state of grace forever.

See, MIRACLES!!!

Ah, bright and shiny beam… I’ve had the brights on all day… Miracles are seen in light… I see smiles and miracles everywhere I look.

 I love it!

I love you!