Birth Anniversary Week

"Be Alert" by Ted Nottingham "Be dressed for action" listen and watch here
Caught between two opposites, we are ambivalent... Capacity to hold opposing sides in warmth and gentleness allows for the third possibility, a heart solution, we could not come to at the onset." 

"Deeper commitment to and embrace of the soul's need of its infinite home." p. xx Companions on the Way by Gunilla Norris

"Decoding the teaching calling every person to "be dressed for action and have your lamps lit" and revealing the powerful message of Christ to be attentive to the Presence of God. min 17 Be Alert

Each of us has an inviolate beauty of soul and place in the universe." p. 10 Companions on the Way by Gunilla Norris

 My Utmost for His Highest by Oswald Chambers

Gently place our hands over our hearts - Giving ourselves heart time.

"Here juxtaposition is revealed as the basic formal operation of synchronicity, as two apparently unrelated events or elements suddenly form a secret link that strikes, in the mind of the perceiver, an evanescent lightning bolt of meaning." ~ Erik Davis at the beginning of this Shots of Awe video

"In time, we may feel like instruments of peace." p. 13 Companions on the Way by Gunilla Norris

JASON SILVA : "How we Create Serendipity" Shots of Awe video 

Kindness Cloth essay this week pp. 14-15 Companions on the Way by Gunilla Norris

Listen to instruction and be wise; do not ignore it. ~ Proverbs 8:33 Love wrapping gives us time to regroup... lets us respond with consciousness instead of conditioned habit." p.15

Mystery which is Spirit - will commune - min 13

Netflix : The Good Place

"Open yourself to Spirit and let inspiration come through and give you what that person needs." ~ Ted Nottingham's Be Alert

Ping-ponging mind rules the roost. p. 16 Companions on the Way by Gunilla Norris
Quahog.com : Quahog County - who knew?! George Kessler for one :)

"Rest in the simplicity that what is true has been true always." min 11 The Way of Mastery, Book 3: The Way of Knowing, Lesson 25

Stewardship: 

"Unique to Christ" min 14 Be Alert video by Ted Nottingham "Unexpected relevance" Jason Silva

Van Gogh's "Pink Peach Trees"  thank you, Carmen

"We cannot kindle when we will / The fire which in the heart resides / The spirit bloweth and is still / In mystery our soul abides / But tasks in hours of insight will'd / Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd. ~ Morality by Matthew Arnold

"juXtaposition of eXtremes creates that basic formal operating space of serendipity."

Yoga with Ken and a few others at Blissworks, Tuesday early am.

Zeppole and Saint Joseph's Day article here

This week - this day - this moment in time

Appreciation of Anandamide (the "bliss" molecule)

 Roots of Development

"Creation waits upon me to become wholly committed to no other voice then truth." The Way of Mastery Lesson 18

"Don't let your story get in the way of the truth." ~ I am ... Gabriel

Ephesians 1:18 "I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance."

Forgiveness dissolves the barrier of Fear

"God's music is love..." ~ Roland Merullo, Breakfast with Buddha
"He speaks eleven languages... Really. Say something, then, in Italian, or Russian, or Greek. Or are they languages none of us might know, your eleven? ... Kindness in one language I know." ~ p. 254

“If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules and divisiveness.” ~ Roland Merullo, Breakfast with Buddha

"Jesus truly... brings inexpressibly wonderful Joy." ~ My Utmost for His Highest, March 17th 

“Love makes them run. That is not my lineage, my idea. That is a fact just like when water gets cold it ices. Like that. Some people cannot see this is a fact, but this is. They are blind in different ways but this is a fact: Love makes the atoms go where they go and stick where they stick. Everybody when they see a baby, a small boy or girl, they smile? Why? Because inside themself they know this fact. They know love made this baby, this boy, this girl. They feel this natural rising up of love in themself. Okay, yes? Before, I said to you about God’s music that is playing all the time, for everyone. God’s music is this Love. And this love that runs our world, sometimes it means that there is help coming from that love, from that . . . source you would” ~ Roland Merullo, Breakfast with Buddha

"...Maybe if you saw the creatures and objects around you as pieces of a sacred while, everything temporary, just playing out a role in a dream, then thy would be funny, a lot of the time, kaleidoscopic, comically absurd." ~ p. 288  Breakfast with Buddha

"Now up to you" ~ Conclusion of Book 2 of The Way of Mastery: Lesson 24

 from Soulprint: Discovering Your Divine Destiny by Mark Batterson

Quiet beauty  at Watch Hill Light

"Re-member: to embrace again that I might bless you." min 13:55 The Way of Mastery Lesson 18

"Telling the Truth to the higher self; the self that loves you anyway : to the mind of God that embraces all things, Transcends all things..." ~ The Way of Mastery: Lesson 22

"Unlearn. You learned already too much." p. 244 ~ Roland Merullo, Breakfast with Buddha

 Voice for love, Lesson 23 The Way of Mastery

eXciting times at Ken's class :)

“You ask a certain question again and again, in a sincere fashion, and the answer appears. But, in my experience, at least, that answer arrives according to it's own mysterious celestial timing, and often in disguise. And it comes in a way you're not prepared for, or don't want, or can't at first, accept.” ~ Roland Merullo, Breakfast with Buddha

March 2019 begins...

All Souls New London: A Unitarian Universalist Congregation visit 3/3/19

"Don't Hesitate" by Mary Oliver

"Generate joy as an act of resistance... risk delight..." part of the Sunday's sermon

"Holy Flow" min 23 of this video: "Being Our Best Recording with David Avocado Wolfe"
“If you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy, don’t hesitate. Give in to it. There are plenty of lives and whole towns destroyed or about to be. We are not wise, and not very often kind. And much can never be redeemed. Still life has some possibility left. Perhaps this is its way of fighting back, that sometimes something happened better than all the riches or power in the world. It could be anything, but very likely you notice it in the instant when love begins. Anyway, that’s often the case. Anyway, whatever it is, don’t be afraid of its plenty....
Joy is not made to be a crumb. (Don't Hesitate)” ~ by Mary Oliver
"Khichadi is a magic food, it makes your any sickness go away." p 216 Breakfast with Buddha
"Lesson 20: Vigilance for the Kingdom" ~ The Way of Mastery Book 2: The Way of Transformation

Misty Moments

Nancy said this was Nick's favorite pillow, so I sent this photo to him to cheer him.

Ortyk : obscure (fictional) branch of Siberian Tibetan Buddhism to which the Rinpoche belongs 

Pequot Trail leads to...

Quoketaug Hill, Stonington, CT

Reading:

"Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou

 Thank you, June, from Christmas many years ago

"Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain." ~ A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. 127

Valerie Lorimer Contemporary Arts   

"eXperiencing the very things which look as if they are going to overwhelm us."

"Zorba's Zest for life gets through ... Zorba, teach me to dance." ~ Recovery Devotional Bible p. 1121

Abundance in all things visible and invisible

Andie's word for me the other day was "Abundance" and it followed Susie's lovely gift

thank you for sharing this one, Mom xo

"Coffee with God" keeps Comes to mind every morning lately as something I've been doing for a 

Decade or so...  

Ephesians 6: 10-20 The Full Armour of God and Every good and perfect gift is a gift from above. James 1:17

 Thank you Meagan and Andie

 thank you for sharing this, Meghan Engstran

God at the center of every moment every situation of every thought every experience

Hydrangea in sunlight in the Borough

 thank you for sharing, Lizbeth

"Just a moment, just a flash, but it would pierce the shiny shell of my life like a sword through a seam of armor. I'd had similar moments even before my parents' ..." p.5 Breakfast with Buddha

"Love makes the water in the glass clean... Jesus said so." p. 81 Rinpoche Breakfast with Buddha

Mind organization with Sadhguru Meditation listen here
Notice this moment fully.   thank you, Susan Williams

"Once...all these four dimensions of you your physical body your mind your emotion and the fundamental life energies are Organized in one direction, Once you are like this, anything that you wish happens..." from Sadhguru meditation

"Quality sleep is absolutely essential for healthy functioning and reaching optimal levels of wellbeing. While we don't yet understand exactly why the body requires sleep, we do know that during sleep the body is actively healing and repairing itself." ~ Wild5Wellness

Reading Ephesians 6 again, as well as Romans 8:24 and Deuteronomy 6

Sadhguru meditation "Organize Your Mind And You Will Getting Anything You Want In Life" also the word "Slurry" a semiliquid mixture , typically of fine particles of manure, cement, or coal suspended in water." :)

Unmottled p. 16 Breakfast with Buddha

"Victory" was my take away from this instagram post click here

"a kind of eXistential flu" p. 4 Breakfast with Buddha eXcellent!!

Yoga class - Ken's class - of course - at Blissworks, about 3 blocks from work at 7:30am

Zen with Ken :) Amen!