Bits of reading this week April 14-17, 2014



Amazing Authenticity

"Be really whole and all things will come to you." ~ Lao Tzu
Calmly Choose Consciously
Dad's 81st Birthday, and Matt's 17th on the 17th - Golden "Birthday Buddies"
"Earth's Eye looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature." ~ Thoreau 

Feeling the rapture of being alive...

"Garden by garden, rose by rose, God's intoxicating joy is revealed." ~ Julia Cameron
"How Yoga Makes You Health, Happy, and Fit" by Cristina Pierce
Insatiable craving for wholeness... Innovative and Intrepid
 Joseph Campbell ... Just relax [the mind]
"Keep coming back..." to water, to center, to life!


“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ― Lao Tzu
"Nothing in the world is more flexible and yielding than water..." ~ Lao Tzu
"Only that day dawns to which we are awake." ~ Henry David Thoreau
Prepared for anything: "The readiness is all" ~ Shakespeare p. 80 #133/1001 Pearls
Quirky sense of humor ~ Quirky is just such a good word
Rapture... Replenish your Resources... Responsive as well as Responsible
"So the flexible over come the adamant..."
Trust, Touch the eternal
Upanishads : record of what the sages and seers perceived in thought and visions
Visualizing Vivifying Valerie on her Birthday
Willing to believe in and believe that ... "We learn from mystery as well as mastery." ~ Julia Cameron
eXperience of being alive is eXhilerating
"Yielding overcomes the forceful." ~ Lao Tzo
Zazen - seated meditation (Buddhism) p. 101 God is No Laughing Matter by Julia Cameron

List 25 things you are proud of... exercise from God is No Laughing Matter by Julia Cameron

Acceptance of the past
Being able and willing to Begin again and again, again
Creative expression through Cartwheels
Dedication to my "kid" and yoga
English degree
Fearlessness
Gratitude and Growth and
Having gone back to school in my 40s
Independence and Intelligence
Joining Joyner Joy
Keeping my sense of humor
Loyalty to family, friends and Meredith College
Newscarrier of the year, MANY years ago
Openness to life!
Positivity and Playfulness
Quest for Quality of life
Real Relationships
Sustained peace, love and friendships
Uprooting and re-rooting, repeatedly
Vivaciousness
Willingness to keep learning about me
eXercise, as in this type and physical
Years of programming (computers) and now reprogramming, me!
Zest for life!!

Awareness of Living Real

April 12, 2014
Being that open presence of receptivity, vitality, and 
Changing dance of sensation playing out in open kind awareness... Creating openness and receptivity
Editing is a skill I can use to simplify my life
Focus on Formless awareness
Happy Hands are Helping Hands
"In the garden every flower / Has its purpose and its hour ..." ~ Julia Cameron
Juggling, but can I ""work ... peacefully" and in "a way that doesn't hurt your soul" ?
My heart and my Moods
Need to be
Open and expansive
Reunion for 23+ Meredith Alumnae - Thanks to Sandra Close and Anne Dahle
Symphony of Sounds and Sensations in the Space of awareness
Tingling sensations while meditation ~ Tara Brach
Uxorious : "wife-worshiping" ~ Elizabeth Gilbert in Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage
Vital essence - Vibrant-hued foods pp. 62-63 of 1,001 Pearls of Yoga Wisdom
"Wakefully notice this changing life..." ~ Tara Brach