Musings and Such

How could anyone ever tell you
you were anything less than beautiful?

How could anyone ever tell you
you were less than whole?

How could anyone fail to notice
that your loving is a miracle;
how deeply you're connected to my soul?

When the child was a child,
it didn’t know that it was a child,
everything was soulful,
and all souls were one.....

When the child was a child,
It was the time for these questions:
Why am I me, and why not you?
Why am I here, and why not there?

When did time begin, and where does space end?
Is life under the sun not just a dream?
Is what I see and hear and smell
not just an illusion of a world before the world?

Given the facts of evil and people.
does evil really exist?

How can it be that I, who I am,
didn’t exist before I came to be,
and that, someday, I, who I am,
will no longer be who I am?

(excerpt from Song of Childhood - Peter Handke)

Archangel Michael calls us to Truth, Integrity and Power. He demands that we develop and rely upon our inner knowing and the spiritual worlds, to develop this within us he will strip away all that which belongs to the old, and anything that is ‘no longer true' for us. Michael's energy is very powerful and mistakenly fiery! He uses his sword to cut and bless. Archangel Michael and his blue lightning angels protect instantly. Michael calls us to speak our truth and stand in our power as an IAMness. Archangel Michael is very close in our consciousness at this time heralding the new age – an age of resurrection, of joy.

(I dont know the origin of this quote, but I thank my friend John for sharing it with me)

Words To Live By

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us.

We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant,

Gorgeous, talented and fabulous?

Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.

Your playing small doesn’t serve the world.

There’s nothing enlightened about shrinking

So that other people won’t feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest

The Glory of God that is within us.

It’s not just in some of us; it’s in everyone.

And as we let our own light shine,

We unconsciously give other people

Permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our own fear,

Our presence automatically liberates others.

~Nelson Mandela, 1994 Inaugural Speech

First, keep peace within yourself,
then you can also bring peace to others.
~Thomas a Kempis~

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
~Desiderius Erasmus~

Let no one ever come to you
without leaving better and happier.
~Mother Teresa~

Forgiveness
Forgive yourself, and everyone around you.
When you judge others, YOU are the one who feels pain.
Through forgiveness, all pain disappears.

The weak can never forgive.
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
~Mohandas Gandhi~

Courage

Find the courage to hold on to your beliefs, even if the world around you chooses to believe differently.

Have the courage to change those beliefs that no longer fit the person you have become.

In doing so, you truly become yourself.

Butterflies are a symbol of change, joy, and color. (There is also an association of Faerie folklore with butterflies.) Their flight appears as dancing, and a reminder not to take things so seriously. They have a sense of lightness and joy. They are reminders to get up and move, for if you can move you can dance, and dance brings joy.

A Native American legend that says, - If you have a secret wish, capture a butterfly and whisper your wish to it. Since butterflies cannot speak, your secret is ever safe in their keeping. Release the butterfly, and it will carry your wish to the Great Spirit, who alone knows the thoughts of butterflies. By setting the butterfly free, you are helping to restore the balance of nature, and your wish will surely be granted.-

Not one day in anyone's life is an uneventful day, no day without profound meaning, no matter how dull and boring it might seem, no matter whether you are a seamstress or a queen, a shoeshine boy or movie star, a renowned philosopher or Down's-syndrome child.

Because, every day of your life, there are opportunities to perform little kindnesses for each other, both by conscious acts of will and unconscious example. Each smallest act of kindness -- even just words of hope when they are needed, the remembrance of a birthday, a compliment that engenders a smile -- reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away.

Likewise, each small meanness, each thoughtless expression of hatred, each envious and bitter act, regardless of how petty, can inspire others, and is therefore the seed that ultimately produces evil fruit, poisoning people whom you have never met and never will.

All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined -- those dead, those living, those generations yet to come -- that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.

Therefore, after every failure, we are obliged to strive again for success, and when faced with the end of one thing, we must build something new and better in the ashes, just as from pain and grief, we must weave hope, for each of us is a thread critical to the strength -- to the very survival -- of the human tapestry.

"Brighten the corner where you are, and you will light the world."

Dean Koontz
From the Corner of his Eye