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Journal of the Wandering Mind
I wanted to share some of the reader responses I have receive with you...
So...does this convince you to at least take a look at my proposal and chapter and see what you think? I am asking for your support and your vote...please take a look. www.nexttopauthor.com/?aid=566 UPDATE: I did not make it through to Round 3, but I thank you all, most sincerely, for your support and your votes. {I always knew it was going to be a long shot, but I am not one to back down from a challenge, and so I embraced this opportunity completely. As a New Zealander, living in a medium sized New Zealand city, I knew that getting the votes was going to be difficult ...but, hey, I gave it my best shot!}
When you are able to stand up in the morning and be in a state of divinity, we will say, Welcome, now it is time to get to work and lift the rest of humanity to this level. We have had many times of people reaching a wondrous level, and many times where groups have reached a wondrous level … but we ask you to consider: is it not time for this wondrous level to be a global phenomena? We will answer for you: Yes! It is! How? Touch as many lives as you can. We are not saying go door to door or run up to strangers on the street. It is as simple as this: you touch, truly touch, the people in your life, you touch them with your love, your energy, your very BEingness. That touch of unconditional love and unconditional acceptance affects them. It does not matter if they reciprocate, because it is unconditional. So many people are so tired of being judged and criticized, that to be openly and unconditionally loved and accepted is like being able to breathe! This is how you touch lives. Be there for the people who talk to you, be fully present and listen. If you have an understanding that may assist them, share it, in a caring and non-ego way. You are not telling them what to do, you are sharing some of your understandings so that they can make their own choices. What you are helping them to do is to understand themself and to find their own resolutions. Far too often people like to tell another person what they should do, a ‘here’s your solution, end of discussion’ kind of conversation. That tells them what you would do, but it does not help them to understand what is right for them. So, be present, listen, share, talk, and love. When your heart is open you are far more likely to receive the answers. When you help one person, you bring a heightened degree of understanding within that person and also within yourself. Each time you talk to a person this happens again. This is how the world will truly be changed. To truly touch the life of another person is not a difficult thing, but it makes the greatest difference. There is little point complaining about the state of the world when you cannot even help your own family and friends who are there, in front of you, needing to talk, needing to be loved towards finding their answers. True open communication. One person at a time. And as you do this you teach others how to do this. One person teaches another person, by example, and then that person teaches another person, by example. One by one by one, and it expands out further and further. One person can change the world, simply by beginning. When you share from the highest level of yourself, you share something sacred, something of your Soul. That touches another person in ways you cannot imagine. Connections are awakened. Impulses begin to burn. The great awakening begins to happen. This moment in which you are sitting here reading this, this is a sacred moment. We connect to you heart to heart. Soul to Soul. One person. You. Change the world and lift humankind. One person at a time until we have the global connection.
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to find true happiness.” Happiness cannot be treated as one ingredient in life, because it cannot be separated from that which is all around it. No more could you remove the vanilla essence from a fruit cake. How do we find happiness? We tend to the WHOLE of our life. This is why the spiritual journey is so rewarding, because the further we walk, the more we understand and along the journey we are able to heal issues that arise. We may not be in a position to heal problem Z today, but as we continue our path we may be able to heal it in a year. We may not even know that problem X exists until we reach a point along our path where we can recognize it and thus, heal it. We may not realize that problem Y is even a problem, until we reach a point along our path where our understandings have evolved enough to give us a clearer picture. This changing perspective is demonstrated clearly when we are able to listen to one person talking about embracing their ego as a part of themselves, and then listen to someone else saying they live as their Soul, and their ego is silent. The understandings of each comes from different positions along the path of understanding. Neither is wrong, they are each true for that person. It is hopeful that both people would continue to walk their path and gain a greater and greater degree of understanding, for the one thing that is sure is: the more we know the more we realize we don’t know. Knowing and understanding are necessary before we gain experiential understanding. For example, it is one thing to say ‘Yes, I can live like Sananda every day’, and it is another to do that with full feeling, with full energetic divinity. And yet, that understanding can only be grasped when you reach that stage of your spiritual evolution. To reach such experiential understanding is like suddenly being able to turn on a light. It changes everything. But that is also why we should always respect where another person is coming from, respect that their understandings are the pinnacle of their path thus far. It is also a reason to continue to strive for greater understanding. Happiness is a by product of the path walked and the healing achieved. The same can be said of inner peace, or serenity, these are by products of the spiritual path. They are a part of the cake. The spiritual journey can be challenging, as you will face things you would rather leave buried…but healing involves understanding and understanding achieves healing. The spiritual journey is the most amazing journey you will ever take.
Until recently I thought that my role as a writer was to write write write. Now, as I have venture into an international writing competition I realize so completely that that is only half of what is required of me. There is little point in writing these many words, if I am not prepared to send them out into the word, and support them, encourage them, fight for them if I must. Now a writer needs to be both writer and marketer. What I write is my product. If I don’t market it, no one will. As I dive into this new role, and learn how to swim, I am discovering that I like promoting my work, and that is because I so utterly believe in my work. A year ago I would not have been ready for this journey. I’m serious. A year ago I could not have done this. Now, finally, I understand why that past two years have been so spiritually difficult, so challenging, so exhausting. I needed to be ready for this journey, for this new role. And I am. I am the Soul that writes. I am the scribe who shares. I am the one I have been waiting for. Boundaries define what we believe, they give us a framework to build upon…but they also corral us. There are times when we have to look at those boundaries, see it as a low fence, and step over it. For many of us, there has been a dream that we have held tight to, a dream that we have thought about, day-dreamed about and talked about -- talked and talked and talked. We held an idea in our minds of how this dream would come about, of how it would manifest into our lives. And then something pops up in life that is NOT what we expected! We see the possibility of making that dream come true, but this is not the way we thought it would happen. Here it is, on offer, a way to make that dream come true, to achieve that goal, but not in the way that we have always day-dreamed. What we are offered is so shockingly different to what we expected that we are faced with two choices: A) Decline the offer. Do nothing with it, and go back to day-dreaming about the way we believe it should happen. Stay safe within our boundaries. B) Look long and hard at that offer and think to our self, “You know what, this is so not what I would have expected, but this is a very real opportunity for me, and if I embrace this and do absolutely everything that I can, then I could achieve my goal. This is too good an opportunity to turn down.” If we take option A, that’s fine, we just continue with our work and continue to evolve, and continue on the path we have been walking. If we take option B, then we will have to take one last look at those boundaries we know and love so well, and let them go. Let them fade away, because where we are walking, where we need to go, what we need to do is so far outside those boundaries it aint even funny! Life has presented us with a great opportunity and we seize it, we take a good firm hold and we do whatever we can. We put ourselves out there, we connect with people, we introduce ourselves to strangers, we promote ourselves, we seize every single opportunity that comes up. We stop thinking “oh, what if they don’t appreciate a stranger emailing them or writing to them?” and we just do it. We did not just use our previous boundaries to define our world and support our life structure, we hid behind those boundaries. Now they are gone, and we are standing face to face with the world, saying “Here I am and this is what I am going to do.” What about the support structure of our boundaries? This is where a misconception often lies. What we have said we believed and understood, what we have said was a part of us, were all concepts and theories that laid outside of our self. Now we BE all of those things, we BE the understandings and the knowledge, we BE the compassion and the peace, we BE everything we said we believed. And now we don’t need boundaries to hide behind. Yes, we are being pushed to ‘step up to the mark’ to take a massive step … but it is time to take all that we knew and understood, and LIVE it so that we CAN walk beyond those boundaries and do what we need to do to make this goal manifest! The opportunity that has been offered to us, that we are now pursuing with all that we are, is the greatest kick in the pants to make us give it all we have to give. Yes, there is still the fear that we will not succeed to make this goal manifest through this opportunity, but there was never any guarantee to begin with. We either gave this absolutely everything we had to give, or we did not try at all. If we did not try, would live with the question: what if I had? We all hold dreams, goals that we are constantly working towards, and we have ideas on how they will all come about. But sometimes we are presented with an opportunity that could lead to the manifestation of our goal, to the realization of our dream, and it demands that we walk far away from our boundaries and believe in our self and in our dream. The only deciding factor must surely be: how much do you want that dream?
(The above photo was taken at the Warbirds show, Mystery Creek, Hamilton, New Zealand.)
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