“With awareness truth shines forth.”

Compassionately and gently remind yourself;

-laugh first

-neutral, amused

-consistently throughout the day check your grounding cord, give yourself permission to be just as you are at this moment

-be in the center of your head, we are bigger than this body, but be aware you have this body, remind yourself to be in this body

-KISS keep it simple spirit, do things effortlessly

-communication is healing, when you say hello to everyone and everything the barriers come down and you start to restore wholeness

-Give yourself a deep breath, give yourself permission to be in the body right now approach everything in life from a place of giving

-Check protection rose when moving from task to task, observe reactions 

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.Where there is hatred, let me sow love.Where there is injury, pardon.Where there is doubt, faith.Where there is despair, hope.Where there is darkness, light.Where there is sadness, joy.O Divine Master,grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console;to be understood, as to understand;to be loved, as to love.For it is in giving that we receive.It is in pardoning that we are pardoned,and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.Amen.

“…Second, the ego is used to thinking in terms of “I,” or the separate self. But let’s set the ego aside for a moment. Your soul is your deepest consciousness, the source of your awareness. To me, consciousness is a singular that has no plural. One gold can be made into many ornaments, one fire makes many flames, one ocean many waves. Souls are patterns of movement and behavior in a single consciousness. Call it the mind of God or the womb of creation, this single source can give rise to as many souls as the universe calls forth, just as the ocean can have a few waves or many.”

Read more: http://www.oprah.com/spirit/Ask-Deepak-Reincarnation-and-Awareness-of-the-Soul#ixzz1s1dG81mu

My heart’s a stereo
It beats for you, so listen close
Hear my thoughts in every no-o-o-te
Make me your radio
And turn me up when you feel low
This melody was meant for you
Just sing along to my stereo

Oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh to my stereo
Oh oh oh oh so sing along to my stereo

BY JUAN RAMÓN JIMÉNEZ

I am not I.

 I am this one

walking beside me whom I do not see,

I have a bit of a grudge against any book packaged as chick-lit, the literary equivalent of low-cal fast food. However… and understand that genuinely good fiction is sometimes whored out with candy-colored covers so they’ll sell, and I’m always happy to be taken by surprise when that’s the case. Not so with this book. 

Alot is not a word.

Joy expresses itself most beautifully in shared laughter. When people laugh together, they’re actually commiserating with each other, acknowledging just how difficult and baffling life can be. Joyous laughter is never embittered or sneering or derisive. To the contrary, it’s a ritual of solidarity, a reaffirmation that we’re all in this together.  

-Mark Leyner

I often wonder if other people read book reviews for the sheer enjoyment of it. This made me laugh

…Not to be outdone, the illustrations of Cortés unapologetically illuminate each notion, grasping out from the page, with a combination of photo-realism and post-Dadaist abstraction that jangle the nerves in a way that jolts and reassures in equal measure. With each color and stroke, the artist bares his soul: clearly he is a happy clown, crying inside. Pain is encapsulated in red skies, an overburdened picnic stands-forth, turning Zeus’s microscope across the petri-dish of humanity, taking no prisoners, denying no deniers. Happiness has a location: within these pages… 

Reverence is a fundamental respect and empathy for the world around us, along with a sense of awe at its mystery. Intuition taps in to this and reminds us that we as individuals aren’t the center of the universe… something greater and more profound than we’re capable of fully understanding flows through life both in and around us. When we experience reverence, we recognize the divine power of the creative pulse in all things as we take our place within the diversity of life.

Collette Baron Reid