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The Winter of Listening ~ David Whyte

 

No one but me by the fire,
my hands burning
red in the palms while
the night wind carries
everything away outside.

All this petty worry
while the great cloak
of the sky grows dark
and intense
round every living thing.

What is precious
inside us does not
care to be known
by the mind
in ways that diminish
its presence.

Quote of the Day--Creative Incubation

  "You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers this morning, you don’t know who your friends are, you don’t know what you owe anybody, you don’t know what anybody owes you. This is a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be. This is the place of creative incubation." -- Joseph Campbell 

 

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Quantum Light Breath--Jeru Kabbal

 

WHAT IS THE QUANTUM LIGHT BREATH?

The Quantum Light Breath created by Jeru Kabbal is a highly focused breathing meditation process that greatly accelerates the user’s personal transformation by bypassing the conscious mind and releasing old programs directly from the subconscious. It basically eliminates the need for analysis, painful emotional experiences, years of therapy or growth groups and unfruitful meditations. It usually takes the user into an expanded state of consciousness. Universal love is experienced as a reality and not as an unreachable concept. There is a deep connection to the Universal Intelligence.

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February 2009 -- Self Love

You cannot have love for anything outside of yourself if you do not feel that same love for yourself. Your life is a mirror of relationships. Every person in your life is a mirror of you. Every love in your life is a reflection of your ability to love. In essence, your life only has meaning in proportion to the love you will allow in your own heart. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was known to say, "I love you. But that's no concern of yours." 

True, real, innocent love flows from a fountain within your heart – fill your heart with love and the world outside you sees it and feels it. Your love showers upon everyone you touch, but only if the fountain is filling you up. Constrict that fountain to a trickle and there's nothing left for the rest of the world. Is filling your car with gas selfish? Is filling your lungs with air self-centered? Actually, quite the contrary . . . you breathe so you can live. 

Loving yourself is no different. Close your eyes and repeat the affirmation: My life only has meaning in proportion to the love I allow in my heart. Now that you believe you are indeed pure love, let's make a difference. With all the commitments, intentions, and vows going on in the world right now, we have the ability to ACT right now and transform the planet. 

So TODAY PERFORM ONE ACT OF LOVE. Kiss someone, give a gift to someone, smile at someone, call someone, give an extra tip to someone, wink at someone, hug someone, praise someone, email someone, give a piece of chocolate to someone, help someone grieve, text someone a kind word, forgive someone. 

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Excerpt from Namaste Newsletter, Chopra Center 

2008 Year In Review

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

As we end the year I want to share this set of questions for us to reflect upon.

This last year --In myself, my relationships, my work, and my community:

1. Where have I been strengthened this year?

2. What has softened in me this year?

3. What has deepened (integrated or fallen into place) this year?

4. What has opened (what's new, what have I learned, where am I being stretched) in my nature this year?

Source: Angeles Arrien 

Winter Solstice Open Coaching Call:

Sunday, December 21st, 9:00 - 10:00 AM

CANCELED

Call in Number: 646 444 5502
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All are welcome. Drop me an email  ann@badillo.com and let me know you are coming. We will reflect on these valuable questions as a community of practice.

Planting Lettuce

When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet if we have problems with our friends or family, we blame the other person. But if we know how to take care of them, they will grow well, like the lettuce. Blaming has no positive effect at all, nor does trying to persuade using reason and argument. That is my experience. No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

—Thich Nhat Hanh —

The Day's Closing

The Day's Closing
Evenings

From the beginning of time, a richly colored twinge of dusk touching the eastern horizon, the lengthening of shadows, and the appearance of the evening’s first star have let us know that it was time to rest, relax, and retire from the pressures of the day. For human beings and other living things that tend to be most active in daylight, evenings can be less hectic and more relaxing, as we prepare for sleep and spend quality time with our loved ones. But evenings are about much more than dinner and the feel of a cool, soft pillow. Evenings are a wonderful time to catalog the events of the day without distraction, to revel in gentle solitude or silence, to end the day in serenity, and to commune with your inner self. 

Thought for the Day

"While I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw. For I was seeing in a sacred manner the shape of all things in the spirit and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being."

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