Making the most of this Moment in Time - 31 Dec 2014

A new day dawns
Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo
CENTERING THOUGHT : My love and compassion are within.
Day 4 - Finding Love
Finding Love
Generosity
Harmonizing Heal our wounds
"I see you! I am here!" ~ from Mark Nepo's Book of Awakening 
Jealousy is Just another name for fear
Ken inspires me :)
"Life of expression is the tuning fork by which we find our ways to the sacred.” ~ Mark Nepo on Oprah
“Loving yourself does not mean being self-absorbed, it means welcoming yourself as the most honored guest in your own heart.” {Margo Anand}
"My love and compassion are within" ~ Deepak Oprah Day 4
New Year's Eve - 2014
"Only when we find the spring of wisdom in our own life can it flow to future generations." ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a Quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost." ~ Martha Graham
"Reach inside, unleash the flow of love, and let the miracles begin." ~ Oprah
True love lives with in me.
"Unconditional love. At its source, love is always Unconditional" ~ Deepak day 4
Vam :  sanskrit word/sound mantra meaning: "I am love" and it helps connect us to our heart.
"Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon preserved in a museum. Only when we find the spring of Wisdom in our own life can it flow to future generations. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
"eXplore the idea that the source of all love is already within each of us, in the center of our spiritual heart." ~ Oprah day 4

December 29-30, 2014

Accepting the Art of making a pleasure of the pleasant moment
Bigger, more profound connection to Body, mind, and Spirit
Choice. Connection. Calm. Contemplation.
Day 3 of Deepak and Oprah Finding Flow 21 Day Meditation Program
Eckhart Tolle: “Acknowledging the good that you already have in your life is the foundation for all abundance.”
Finding Flow; Finding Happiness
Get still. Grow
Happiness within - Deepak and Oprah, Day 2. Humble Warrior...
Inner steadiness. Integration
Jurta Handsápa all the way from Solheimar in Iceland! "world renowned sustainable community
Love: Limitless power of all creation
Mahayana Buddhism
"Nature always wears the colors of the Spirit." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
http://www.imagesbuddy.com/nature-always-wears-the-colors-of-the-spirit-flowers-graphic/
"Our bodies are Our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners." ~ William Shakespeare, Othello
Optimistic Om
Powerful Profound Perspective
Quoting Alan Watts: "The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."
Resilience no matter what 
“Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.” ~ Bob Marley
Tapping into, over Time, the unlimited power
Upaya is a term used in  to refer to an aspect of guidance along the Buddhist Paths to liberation where a conscious, voluntary action is driven by an incomplete reasoning around its direction.
Weeding the mind #885 of 1,001 Pearls of Yoga Wisdom
ineXhaustible energy souce
“Your days pass like rainbows, like a flash of lightning, like a star at dawn. Your life is short. How can you quarrel?” ~Buddha
http://the-wanderling.com/zazen.html


Reading The Book of Life - finally...

Aubusson rug p. 35 Atta p. 38
Courage
Diana and Matthew
Equidistant from midnight and dawn
"Feathered a kiss against her bright hair." p. 30
Glimpses of his inner most thoughts p. 33
Honestly and without judgement
Intensity and Intimacy
Joy mixed with sorrow
Knights of Lazarus
Like jagged puzzle pieces p. 41
Nudging and tingling and freezing
On my skin
Philippe's faint scent of bay, figs, and rosemary tickled my nose." p, 47
Quieted...the need
Recumbent form
Styx : The river across which the souls of the dead are ferried, one of the five rivers in Hades.
Tingle of power
Um pequeno dragao : the little dragon
Vampires
Witch's kiss
Ysabeau : Matthew's mother
Zecchini : sequins

Sunday, December 28th... Align and Shine


All is well with me. Source energy is Aware of me and has my back.
Bask in the deliciousness at the Beginning of each day
Come into alignment with Clarity and Chill out with Coffee with Carmen, thank you
Details of your life will show themselves to you Deliciously
Empowerment comes in proportion to Emotional grids. Eternal treasure hunt.
"Flexible with our Flexibility" - thank you Angela and Jonathan
Gathering up data is step one. Get General
Holding a pure desire to come into alignment with who you really are
It is all there for you. It is done.
Joy. naturally and well-deserved
Know. all is well. it is done. source Knows. acKnowledge the perfection
Leverage of alignment... Layers of information... Love Life. Love self
Meditate. My desire...
Nothing is more powerful than Now
Open to joy
Pieces all fit together in this Powerful now. Power happens in the now.
Quiet your mind
Right here Right now - in this moment
Strong Steady clear and pure. Source knows everything that you have asked for 
There is nothing more exhilarating. There is great love here for you
Universe knows what I seek and knows what my treasures are
Vortex. Vibrational Vantage point
Watch the preciousness with Which the universe will proceed to deliver exactly what you desire
eXhilarating eXpansion
You tap in to who You were at the beginning and all that You have become

Saturday, December 27, 2014

"Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself." ~ Rumi
Desai, Panache : Discovering Your Soul Signature
"Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace." - May Sarton
"Free to acknowledge the preciousness of the precious things." ~ Wendell Berry
Giving of thanks for precious things
Harlem Hopscotch by Maya Angelou
Juggernaut : another fun word heard recently while watching The West Wing
Knots of Prayer: Dear God, Please untie the knots that are in my mind, my heart, and my life. Amen
 a blog post by Panache On Huffington Post
"Moving from Emptiness: The Life and Art of a Zen Dude"
Open to life, Open heart, Open to the abundance of the universe
"People will never forget how you made them feel." ~ Maya Angelou

Remove the nots: cannot, may not, will not, could not, would not, and should not
Simple? twist of faith? oh if only... but I am truly grateful

Ultimate freedom : forgiving and letting go


eXplanation by the tongue makes most things clear, but love unexplained is clearer. ~ Rumi
eXpand
With each breath, allow your heart to expand. With each breath, allow the love that you are to overflow into your life.

Yeats: "Things reveal themselves passing away."
Zen-Mama Moment
https://www.facebook.com/theZenMama/photos/a.447240194427.237062.173730509427/10153411148084428/?type=1&theater

Friday Joy - December 26, 2014

Ask for and Accept help from All who offer - my new motto
Building my Sankalpa (Sanskrit: संकल्प) for 2015. Both psychologically and philosophically, it is the first practical step by which the sensitivity and potentiality of the mind is increased.
Capacity to harness the will-power and the tool to focus and harmonise the complex body-mind apparatus. wikipedia


“Every human being has an impact on another.” ~ Patch Adams
Friday joy...
Grateful
Heart
In practical terms, the word, Sankalpa, means the one-pointed resolve to do or achieve.
Joy is my anchor this year, my sankalpa. "Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." ~ 
Marianne Williamson
Kathy Kay Benudiz : "There is no distance too far between friends, for friendship gives wings to the heart."
"Means conception or idea or notion formed in the heart or mind, solemn vow or determination to perform, desire, definite intention, volition or will." wikipedia
Obeisance to the heart ~ Yeats
Quincy, Joe is Matthew Perry on Season 4 Episode 21
"Recognizing what brings pleasure and pain to oneself, the true yogi treats others accordingly. Thus, he desires happiness for everyone, sorrow for no one." ~ The Bhagavad Gita
"Savoring the magical moments of this season ... wishing you the joy of messy hands, full hearts. xo" ~ Dandelion Seeds and Dreams
"Things reveal Themselves passing away." ~ William Butler Yeats
"The moment you have in your heart this eXtraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed." ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
"You can lead a heart to love but you can't make it fall." ~ George Strait

ZEN STORIES


Movie time... Christmas Day part 2

“All of life is a coming home... All the restless hearts of the world, all trying to find a way home.” ~ Hunter Patch Adams
"But you can't control my spirit, gentlemen." ~ Hunter Patch Adams
Christmas Day movies
Dante: "In the middle of the journey of my life, I found myself in a dark wood, for I had lost the right path. Eventually I would find the right path, but in the most unlikely place."
Fault in Our Stars
Grouplove "Let Me In" : "Gimme, Gimme that love, I'll be waitin' for ya..."
Hamartia is the protagonist’s error or flaw that leads to a chain of plot actions culminating in a reversal from his/her good fortune to bad. ~ Fault in Our Stars

"If you focus on the problem, you can't see the solution. Never focus on the problem!"~ Arthur Mendelson, Patch Adams


~。Lotus Berthelotii。~ random addition here, but very cool and very rare
https://www.facebook.com/HeavenlyGallery/photos/a.493484847451112.1073741829.417674375032160/557065034426426/?type=1&theaterfrom Garden Within The Heart
Misty got a new baby for Christmas
"No matter what they were before, no matter what happened to them, they could just hide away and turn into these beautiful creatures that could fly away completely untouched." ~ Corinne Fisher, Patch Adams
"Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death." ~ Hunter Patch Adams
image from Wikipedia
Quotes at IMDB
Responsibility to love somebody
"See what no one else sees. See what everyone chooses not to see... out of fear, conformity or laziness. See the whole world anew each day!" ~ Arthur Mendelson
The Unsettling of America by Wendell Berry, a visionary
Van Morrison "Into the Mystic"

“We start out so open and spontaneous, we’re real individuals, and then somewhere along the way we’re drawn to conform.” ~ Daniel London
eXciting morning here
Yet, surprisingly, I am not a fan of the smoke alarm wake up call and the smell of melting plastic erasing the previous day's scents of freshly baked sugar cookies and a turkey roasted to perfection.
Zanies was the original name of the group of people who founded the Gesundheit! Institute

Christmas Day - 2014 (part 1)

A very merry Christmas day recap for you...
Breakfast: Cookies and ...
Dinner spaghetti - and in the middle - TURKEY!!
Ella Fitzgerald is amazing and playing in the background
"Figgy pudding. It's made with fig... and bacon!" ;) see below
Great version of a Great song...




with BACON!
Kendall got to have some turkey
https://www.facebook.com/louiselhay/photos/np.29211855.47302456/10153032664384750/?type=1&notif_t=notify_me

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world. Do you know why? Because it's the only thing that ever has." ~ The West Wing

Okay. Perhaps "Okay" will be Our "Always" ~ Augustus


Quotes from The Fault in Our Stars, great movie, but I had to promise Elizabeth I would cry this time.


"So that just happened" ~ Augustus :) "See the whole world anew each day." ~ Arthur Mendelson
Unwrapping gifts from family and friends. Thank you
Vanilla chai candle late in the day. Thank you Shanna.
http://www.pinterest.com/pin/229683649721819415/
Xmas memories through music, movies, and photos saved and scanned
https://www.facebook.com/mevlana/photos/a.424140758184.199763.64655903184/10152990407088185/?type=1&theater
Zeal and Zest for life, are in those seeds, not in the past/

The Holiday - Christmas Eve - 2014

An Evening with Arthur Abbott
Bugger! Bullocks!!
Christmas movie I can watch again and again
"Does it look like I'm crying right now?"
Eli Wallach, Endearing, Exceptionally cool tent
For some, quite inexplicably... love fades
Graham, Gumption
"Hi Simpkey... Happy Christmas"
"I'm constantly amazed by its sheer power to alter and define our lives." ~ Iris

Jude Law, Jack Black
Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz
"Love is blind. Now that is something I know to be true"
Miles: Iris, if you were a melody... I used only the good notes.
"New Years Eve's brought in by tears an valium." ~ Iris
"Oh God, I'm so aware of it." ~ Iris
"Pretty Phenomenal" ~ Graham
"Quiet English hamlet.....just 40 minutes from exciting London."
Shakespeare said, "journeys end in lovers meeting."

Unrequited love
Vacate life, do the unexpected. And you are......definitely unexpected. Graham
What an extraordinary thought
Xmas eve
"You're supposed to be the leading lady of your own life, for God's sake." ~ Arthur
Zen on the beach

December 22 thru 24, 2014 - Merry Christmas Eve!!

Anywhere Travel Guide: 75 cards for discovering the unexpected, wherever your journey leads. ~ Thank you Liz, Brooke, and Traci!!
Baking Cinnamon French toast I found on Yellow Bliss Road's Blog - see Below
Christmas card from my Goddaughter, Kristen Marie, 1997
Dandy Blend and Dark chocolate almonds
Enough Energy for Everything
Family, Friends and Fun
Gifts of Gingerbread and Gratitude
Holiday time off is 16 days this year. wahoo!! Horologist studies time.
 thank you, Carmen, and... Isochronism, from West Wing
Joey's 21st Birthday gift album is done and in the mail

Kindness abounds, Karen and Joey sent us a very cute tin of popcorn treats
Lots of Law Love
More lovely gifts and surprises keep coming. thank you Shannon xo
New words - Natural fluidity - Numerical Idiocy
Officer Cupcake? The West Wing; educational on so many levers
Popcorn treats from family and Pirouline from friend
Respect the need for Rest. Recidivist. another great word West Wing you slay me :)
So many treats. So much SWEETNESS!!
Trader Joe's Treats and Teas
Unusual amount of rain. no walks today, and there are even puddles in my car!
Vireo of small to medium-sized passerine birds typically dull-plumaged and greenish in color, the smaller species resembling ...
Wood Warblers apart from their heavier bills. Writing and playing Words With Friends
eXpression of kindness, love, gratitude and hope
Zabaglione - a perfect word for this blog - straight from Season 4 episode 13 of The West Wing