Cartwheeling through Life: February 2015

Going with the flow...

"Abundance flows easily and freely to me." ~ Deepak: Day 3 "Confident Me"
"Buttercup Bungalow"

https://www.facebook.com/691290627554088/photos/a.692177134132104.1073741828.691290627554088/1084962971520183/?type=1&theater

Chose words and actions that bring happiness and success to others.

Days 2 and 3 of Desire and Destiny Meditations with Oprah and Deepak Day 2 "Empowered Me"

Emanate in the world that which draws abundance and richness back to you.

Feel more deeply your powerful influence in creating ever-flowing abundance in your life.
Go with the flow and Get Elizabeth's
Haircut :) thank you Andie and Elisa
"I am a powerful creator."

Journey to meditation, practicing with our karmic resonance and cultivating equanimity in our lives, we release the past, awaken to the present, and take action to create the future we desire.

Karma: a tool to create abundance; Key to using the law of Karma or the law of cause and effect is becoming aware of the choices we make in each moment.

Metta is a multi-significant term meaning loving-kindness, friendliness, goodwill, benevolence, fellowship, amity, concord, inoffensiveness and non-violence. thank you Martha :)

Nurturing my girl's Needs...New bedroom furniture for Elizabeth is on its way.

"Om Kriyam Namah : ‘My actions are aligned with cosmic law'." ~ Deepak

Powerful law of Karma as an instrument for unlocking our potential and realizing our dreams.

eQuanimity: A Spacious Stillness of Mind by Barry H. Gillespie

Release your thoughts and expectations. Release and allow ourselves to absorb the tranquility of mind, deep awareness and acceptance of the present moment found in the absolute stillness.

Setting the intention to make choices that will bring awareness and success to others is a powerful choice.

Unlocking our potential and realizing our dreams.
Vibrantly

When we are more conscious and present, we can choose actions and thoughts that nurture rather than hurt us. When we have a decision to make, it’s useful to ask ourselves which action is likely to bring happiness and fulfillment to me and everyone affected by my choice.

eXpansive sense of freedom and hope.

"Zapier Zaps Connecting Apps"

Saturday: February 21, 2015 (mostly) :)

"Bring your angel wings." ~ Griffin

"Cotton Candy skies"

Desire and Destiny Meditations by Deepak and Oprah - my fav

Friends, Food, and Fun!! Thank you, Martha and Phil xoxo

Goal: to mix our hands in the earth...

"[H]onoring how life comes through us ... we get the most out of living... The goal is to mix our hands in the earth, not to stay clean." ~ Mark Nepo

"J'ai décidé d'être heureux parce que c'est bon pour la santé" ~ Voltaire (he was, after all, French ;)

"Keep strong." ~Sabine

"Lunchtime Walk" by Angela Góra

"My days are barren but my nights are heady with you." ~ Griffin

Nisargadatta Maharaj: "You only have a self when you're in trouble." p. 93 The Book of Secrets

"Our hidden aspirations know where we're going." p. 96 The Book of Secrets

"Please notice I’m choosing reassuring thoughts." ~ Griffin

"Quality that awareness is trying to bring to you: knowingness." ~ Deepak The Book of Secrets

"Red Wine Tree"

http://tamarrion.livejournal.com/38544.html

Someday, this will be us, Carmen :)

Today's Tea Tag wisdom: "Live through consciousness, not through emotion." ~ Yogi Ginger Tea

"Unique destiny and that destiny Unfolds with light and clarity when we are still enough to hear the whispers of our truest desires." ~ Oprah

Valentines all month long... I just gave Elizabeth hers, perhaps because I forgot where I put it and just "found" it while looking for something else. :)

"Waiting all those years to find out who you were has prepared me for this; a little more waiting will do me no harm." ~ Sabine

eXpanding Happiness quote: "To become enlightened, you stop running all the time and begin to walk. Once you’re walking, you slow down and stop. Once you stop, you see who you really are."

"You and I will heal each other." ~Sabine

"Zaps" - connections between to "apps" :)

Interesting new words...an an adorable Owl smiling :)

"Ambedo: Life for its own sake - n. a kind of melancholic trance in which you become completely absorbed in vivid sensory details-raindrops skittering down a window, tall trees leaning in the wind, clouds of cream swirling in your coffee." ~ Jack Koenig The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Blanchard Photographic Impressions' amazing photo of a snow owl warming up :)

c ontact high-five n. an innocuous touch by someone just doing their job—a barber, yoga instructor or friendly waitress—that you enjoy more than you’d like to admit, a feeling of connection so stupefyingly simple that it cheapens the power of the written word, so that by the year 2025, aspiring novelists would be better off just giving people a hug.

Exulansis: n. the tendency to give up trying to talk about an experience because people are unable to relate to it—whether through envy or pity or simple foreignness—which allows it to drift away from the rest of your life story, until the memory itself feels out of place, almost mythical, wandering restlessly in the fog, no longer even looking for a place to land.

Funkenzwangsvorstellung n. the instinctive trance of a campfire in the dark, spending hours roasting and watching as it settles and sinks into the ground like a heap of shipwrecks whose sailors raise their flickering sails trying to signal that the prevailing winds of your life are about to shift, that the edge of the Earth is real and looming just a few years ahead, and that your marshmallow is on fire.

Gong xi fa cai! Good luck and prosperity in 2015

heartworm n. a relationship or friendship that you can’t get out of your head, which you thought had faded long ago but is still somehow alive and unfinished, like an abandoned campsite whose smoldering embers still have the power to start a forest fire.

I’m here, I’m here, I’m here. (see "rubatosis" below)

John Koenig

kairosclerosis n. the moment you realize that you’re currently happy—consciously trying to savor the feeling—which prompts your intellect to identify it, pick it apart and put it in context, where it will slowly dissolve until it’s little more than an aftertaste.

lethobenthos n. the habit of forgetting how important someone is to you until you see them again in person, making you wish your day would begin with a “previously on” recap of your life’s various plot arcs, and end with “to be continued…” after those will-they-won’t-they cliffhanger episodes that air just before the show goes back into months of repeats.

mahpiohanzia n. the disappointment of being unable to fly, unable to stretch out your arms and vault into the air, having finally shrugged off the ballast of your own weight and ignited the fuel tank of unfulfilled desires you’ve been storing up since before you were born.

"Nostalgia For A Time You’ve Never Known" ~ Jack Koenig The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows

Purnamidam

rubatosis n. the unsettling awareness of your own heartbeat, whose tenuous muscular throbbing feels less like a metronome than a nervous ditty your heart is tapping to itself, the kind that people compulsively hum or sing while walking in complete darkness, as if to casually remind the outside world, I’m here, I’m here, I’m here.

Sonder - n. the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own.

sorrow, noun

1. an unspoken intensity of feeling. 2. a spark of transcendence that punctuates the flatlining banality of everyday life.
3. a healthy kind of ache—like the ache in your muscles after hard exercise—that reminds you that your body exists.

December 4, 2009 tumblr post "frequently asked questions

trumspringa n. the temptation to step off your career track and become a shepherd in the mountains, following your flock between pastures with a sheepdog and a rifle, watching storms at dusk from the doorway of a small cabin, just the kind of hypnotic diversion that allows your thoughts to make a break for it and wander back to their cubicles in the city.

"Until the heart becomes an inlet, it cannot be free." ~ Mark Nepo The Book of Awakening

https://betteryetbooks.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/february-15-in-the-book-of-awakening-by-mark-nepo/

vellichor n. the strange wistfulness of used bookstores, which are somehow infused with the passage of time—filled with thousands of old books you’ll never have time to read, each of which is itself locked in its own era, bound and dated and papered over like an old room the author abandoned years ago, a hidden annex littered with thoughts left just as they were on the day they were captured.

"Wistful foreboding of the first sign of autumn." ~ John Koenig

xeno: n. the smallest measurable unit of human connection, typically exchanged between passing strangers—a flirtatious glance, a sympathetic nod, a shared laugh about some odd coincidence—moments that are fleeting and random but still contain powerful emotional nutrients that can alleviate the symptoms of feeling alone.

"You Raise Me Up" by Josh Groban is on of my all time favorite songs. listen here

Zielschmerz n. the exhilarating dread of finally pursuing a lifelong dream, which requires you to put your true abilities out there to be tested on the open savannah, no longer protected inside the terrarium of hopes and delusions that you created in kindergarten and kept sealed as long as you could, only to break in case of emergency.

I Walk the Line... Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Black Moon: Why the New Moon on February 18th is Special

"Commitment is the only thing that gets you through the Chasm." ~ Seth Godin

"Dance with fear. Dance with Done. Dance with the resistance... Dance with art..." ~ Seth Godin

Find your Balance By losing it!!" ~ Seth Godin

Grateful for my Gloves today :)
Had a different "I" Here, but then saw the following quote/poem, so I Had to change it :)

"Is the soul solid, like iron? Or is it tender and breakable, like the wings of a moth in the beak of the owl? Who has it, and who doesn’t? I keep looking around me." Mary Oliver

https://sevenintentions.wordpress.com/2014/12/

Josh Groban on Ally McBeal. cute.

Keep smiling...
"Long Live the high tide and Long Live the Low, but above all, Long Live the difference."
Misty and I went for a slide around the block :)

"Our" Owl is actively making presence known again today
"Patience, Patience, Patience, and faith"

"Quitsa sunset last week on Martha's Vineyard. Enjoy the day - this is the last 2/12/15 you get in life."

Roots:

"Sweet Dreams... Good night my Someone Goodnight....

"True love can be whispered from heart to heart When lovers are parted they say But I must depend on a wish and a star As long as my heart doesn't know who you are."

Umbrage : shade or shadow, especially as cast by trees.

eXtra time for my own endeavors this week has been helpful

Tuesday, February 17, 2015 - Purnamidam

"Approach today with certainty, as you contemplate: forgiveness sets me free." ~ Deepak

Bubbling wave in a vast and Beautiful ocean

Commitment to the Collective Consciousness

"Essence of happiness: all will be will, no matter what. All IS well." ~ Oprah

Find balance and Fulfillment

Gratitude... Greatest fulfillment...Gentleness

Happy, vital and healthy lives
"I walk in the light of my fulfillment."

Journey toward perfect health with Oprah and Deepak
Koans - questions meant to stimulate contemplative thought

Art by Artist Pamela Zagarenski

Now is the only time that matters

“Our true nature is bliss. That bliss is like the sun that always shines.” ~ Debra Moffitt

Pi-jaw : pious or moralizing talk or cant (British)

Quiet time with my pets

Reading and Relaxing

Sanskrit mantra: Sat Chit Ananda : Existence, Consciousness, Bliss.

Take stock in a gratitude journal everyday, and don't forget to Thank yourself each day.
Unity consciousness... infinity Unbounded awareness... Upaya

We thrive in communion with others... We are all...

ineXtricably connected

Zen kōans are questions or statements (often paradoxes) that provoke and are used in Zen practice to provoke the "great doubt" and test a student's progress in Zen practice

http://images.frompo.com/fa8b9b8918986d2c569caa26c5852f7c

Monday, February 16, 2015 - Day 20...

"An Act of grace that restores the memory of wholeness." ~ Margarita Horianos

Be a Beacon of Bountiful reward of healing for our Bodies, minds and Spirits

Choosing to forgive Completely is a Courageous act of trust and Compassion

Divine wisdom, peace is always with us. Trust that and be a beacon of calm love and generosity.

Ego likes holding on to Emotional residue of the past

Finding Forgiveness you Find Freedom... liberate your own well being.

"Giving up the hope that the past could have been any different." ~ Oprah "Miraculous Forgiveness"

Health and well-being

"In pure consciousness, there is no time." ~ Deepak

Joy! Limitless Joy - Jack

Kornfield - Joy heart - iTunes

“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Meditate in the Spirit of courage and forgiveness

Nadis : energy channels of the body through which prana flows

"Owning Our age helps us step into the fullness of our lives." ~ Oprah

Pursue interests with abandon... Part of our Spiritual evolution

Quotes and images that help Quiet my mind

Release your spirit, unburden the mind. Radiate serenity

"Serenity is a centered gentleness, a trust, an inner peace." ~ Oprah

“To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.” ~ Confucius

Ultimately, forgiveness is a gift we give to ourselves.

Vibrancy and Vigor ~ Oprah

"What is aging?... nothing but a construct...We are alive to love and be loved, live our highest calling and to seek enlightenment." ~ Deepak

eXpand our ability to love and be loved

YOUTH POEM By: Samuel Ullman

Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind,
it is a temper of the will, 
a quality of the imagination, 
a vigor of the emotions, 
a predominance of courage over timidity,
of the appetite for adventure over love of ease.

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years.
People grow old only by deserting their ideals.
Years wrinkle the skin, 
but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. 
Worry, doubt, self-distrust,
fear and despair - these are the long, 
long years that bow the head and
turn the growing spirit back to dust.

Whether they are sixteen or seventy,
there is in every being's heart
the love of wonder, 
the sweet amazement at the stars 
and starlike things and thoughts,
the undaunted challenge of events,
the unfailing childlike appetite
for what is to come next, 
and the joy and the game of life.

You are as young as your faith,
as old as your doubt; 
as young as your self-confidence, 
as old as your fear, 
as young as your hope, 
as old as your despair. 
When the wires are all down 
and all the innermost core of your heart
is covered with the snows of pessimism 
and the ice of cynicism, 
then you are grown old indeed.

But so long as your heart receives messages 
of beauty, cheer, courage, grandeur
and power from the earth, 
from man and from the Infinite, 
so long you are young.

Owls, Wisdom and Wonder - Sunday, February 15, 2015

Amazing owl image from Rising Back Again

Beliefs ... Brain sends info to our cells

Centering thought: "My being is wise and knowing"

Soul2Soul blog post

Expanding Happiness on an Evolutionary path
Flora Phenomena: October 2011

Great-horned Owl: I saved this image as "Owl on Mandy Facebook Feb 2 2015" but went back looking for it so I could link to it and could not find it.

Google image search and "found" it in a 2011 blog post

with a caption that included the words:

"The Universe is amazing!" .

Honor the wholeness - Happy wisdom of the soul

“It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.” ~ Hermann Hesse

"Joyful wisdom of the awakened mind that emanates insight, happiness, and love to all." ~ Margarita Horianos

"Knowledge, wisdom, perspicacity and erudition throughout the Western world."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owl_of_Athena

“Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving” ~ Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet

Mystic Mamma's well of Wisdom