Rest until you remember what you love.
Debora Seidman
When I’m smiling I know I’m doing something right.
Alicia
August 6th, 2011 | filed in Uncategorized
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July 31st, 2011 | filed in Uncategorized
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The silliest thing brought me soooooooo much joy today.
Our thoughts (energy patterns/ vibrations) create our experiences and our perceptions of our experiences. Our experiences seem real. Yet our thoughts are malleable. So what remains as real is the subtle energy of creation that comprises all things, thought and material. -alicia
June 19th, 2011 | filed in Uncategorized
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Release…
It is to breathe.
It is to relax and believe that there is a way out, or a different way, or a better life out there, for you.
It is to know that it won’t happen all at once. What is correct for you, true to you and your spirit and your desires, is still present within you and will resurface. All that is not you, you will let go of. Sometimes as peacefully as a snake sheds its’ old skin. Other times with you actively chipping away at calcified hurts and thoughts like a sculptor removing the rock that covers a masterpiece. It will happen in stages- with each stage allowing you to breathe deeper and experience expansive and freeing love within you longer.
The true you has always been with you- now is the time to stop and listen. Make this your most passionate drive. Stay dedicated to this for at least a few years, anything less is just like peering out of a window and never stepping outside. Put this process, and your faith in guidance, before everything else.
Be open to sensing what you enjoy and what you are drawn to, not what is drawn to you. Stored in your body and higher self is the knowledge of you- your callings and desires. It is up to you to hand guidance over to this side of you. Release what you think is “your” hold on life- and let the truer you begin to lead.
And trust that this unfolding has already begun.
I wrote this to myself years ago when I was in the midst of big challenges, change, and a lot of uncertainty. I just found this again today and it stills rings so true. My life now is a dream- because it fits me. Because I have been true to me I experience so much peacefulness, calm, joy, and inspiration. My outer life is an expression of my inner happiness and acceptance.
March 9th, 2011 | filed in Inspiration, Musings
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Alicia
July 4th, 2010 | filed in Uncategorized
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Every day and in every way spirit is guiding me back to myself.
Alicia
The world doesn’t need what you do, it needs your energy of aliveness, of joy. The world needs people who are alive. So look within, come alive and live your joy. Be who you are and be amazed at how this harmoniously serves the whole.
June 4th, 2010 | filed in Inspiration, Uncategorized
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In the west…they show us the “on” switch, but they never show us the “off” switch. And so you’re left, especially at the end of a university degree, as a thinking machine at the mercy of only one faculty in the way of getting knowledge. The other faculty, that quiet listening (self hypnosis) and the trust that out of the deeper mind profound answers come, is not taught.
Ajahn Sona in Your Soul’s Compass
Fortunately many people in the west now do teach self hypnosis and meditation. Self hypnosis is the result of the western study of what key components guide a person into a meditative trance state. (Meditation and hypnosis are the same in that the brain waves and relaxation response in the body are identical) This western study of the meditative experience has brought forth trance inducing techniques that are fast, effective, and easy to learn. My boyfriend studied as a monk for seven years and meditated every day. Years later after only weeks of studying hypnosis in Santa Fe he was able to go deeper into meditation (theta and delta brain waves) than he did during all his years of study and practice as a monk.
April 6th, 2010 | filed in Uncategorized
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Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius
March 31st, 2010 | filed in Uncategorized
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I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be one.
Chief Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux, 1877
March 27th, 2010 | filed in Uncategorized
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I heard a quote while watching The National Parks: Americas Best Idea
“Gentlemen, why in heaven’s name this haste? You have time enough. [...] Ages and ages lie before you. Why sacrifice the present to the future, fancying that you will be happier when your fields teem with wealth and your cities with people? In Europe we have cities wealthier and more populous than yours, and we are not happy. You dream of your posterity; but your posterity will look back to yours as the golden age, and envy those who first burst into this silent, splendid nature, who first lifted up their axes upon these tall trees, and lined these waters with busy wharves. Why, then, seek to complete in a few decades what the other nations of the world took thousands of years over in the older continents? [...] Why, in your hurry to subdue and utilize nature, squander her splendid gifts? [...] Why hasten the advent of that threatening day when the vacant spaces of the continent shall all have been filled, and the poverty or discontent of the older States shall find no outlet? You have opportunities such as mankind has never had before, and may never have again. Your work is great and noble; it is done for a future longer and vaster than our conceptions can embrace. Why not make its outlines and beginnings worthy of these destinies, the thought of which gilds your hopes and elevates your purposes?”
The full text is below in context of the whole chapter.
chapter 121: The Temper of the West – Viscount James Bryce, The American Commonwealth, vol. 2 [1888]
March 24th, 2010 | filed in Inspiration, Musings, Uncategorized
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i focus on what i love.