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O Hai Thar!
No matter who you are, if you judge anyone, you have no excuse. When you judge another person, you condemn yourself, since you, the judge, do the same things.[Romans 2:1]
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“Keys To My Karma” is a new approach to love, relationships, life, and auras. These short reflections will elicit your mode to “true reality” hopefully becoming apart of your daily spiritual diet. I hope this blog echoes the truth to your own path and exposes a wonderful breath of fresh air. Cheers to walking with me while finding beauty in negative spaces.
……….there is no more in my body for anything else but you.
………..I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)
Eloquence is sometimes lyrical, sometimes powerful, but unless it includes love, unless the words caress the heart as well as the ear, it is a beauty that inspires but does not heal.
If love is, what is it? and uhmm….where does love begin?
Does your mind think it first and then your heart believes it too?
Or does your heart feel it first and then whisper to you mind what has happened?
Is it the rhythm of your rapidly beating heart when that “special” someone is near?
I’m lost in a fog of depression, everything I seem to hold dear crumbles like burnt paper in my hands
How can a body withstand this? Who knows how to make love stay?
The human heart is a strange vessel, it tells, listens, respects the truth and never pretends, yet the hear loves but moods have no loyalty. Only one thing is predictable about emotions: They will change.
And is it true, that the heart was made to be broken?
I was told that, when it comes to love — though it may be hard to tell the difference — seek not one who compliments you, but one who complements you.
So, *sighs*….what is love?
I was writing in my journal when I, quite without thinking, wrote this line:
What else is love but the continued acceptance of a person despite the person’s flaws?
Though it’s not the perfect definition of love, I thought it was pretty good. And if you love me, you’d agree, wouldn’t you?
We cannot change the color of our skin. What we can change is how we feel about it.
We cannot change a pain-filled past. What we can do is change how it affects us.
We cannot change how others may feel about who we are and where we’ve been.
What we can change is how we see it, how we use it and how others use it to our benefit or detriment.
So much of our time, energy and attention is wasted trying to convince other people how wrong they are about us. We spend so much time trying to show them who we are NOT, and we lose sight of who we really ARE.
It all begins with our willingness to acknowledge that we are really fine, just the way we are.
If you’ve ever doubted your ability to survive, please listen to the words of this song.
I always seem to be feeling either superior or inferior, one up or one down, better off or worse off than everyone else. The superior moments are elating, but the rare and blessed moments are when I feel equal.
There is no such thing as “best” in a world of individuals.
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Why this need to divide up,classify, and neatly package every new acquaintance?
For me to try to classify something so complex as an individual human merely demonstrates my own shallowness. A judgement of another person is an abstraction that adds qualities which are not there and leaves out what is unique. When I classify individuals I turn them into objects. The only way for me to contact other people is to exprience them, not think about them.
There are two days in every week, which we should not worry about,
two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension.
One of these days is Yesterday with all its mistakes and cares,
its faults and blunders, its aches and pains.
Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control.
All the money in the world cannot bring back Yesterday.
We cannot undo a single act we performed;
we cannot erase a single word we said.
Yesterday is gone forever.
The other day we should not worry about is Tomorrow
with all its possible adversities, its burdens,
its large promise and its poor performance;
Tomorrow is also beyond our immediate control.
Tomorrow’s sun will rise,
either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds, but it will rise.
Until it does, we have no stake in Tomorrow,
for it is yet to be born.
This leaves only one day, Today.
Any person can fight the battle of just one day.
It is when you and I add the burdens of those two awful eternities
Yesterday and Tomorrow that we break down.
It is not the experience of Today that drives a person mad,
it is the remorse or bitterness of something which happened Yesterday
and the dread of what Tomorrow may bring.
This month’s song is an elixir it’s an invitation to forget about all the hassles of adulthood, as humans we have made our life more and more complex. The solutions for these complexities are relatively more complex, resulting in a vicious circle.
The song urges its listeners to return to the simplicities of life. Remain content with who you are and what you do. When we know who we are and believe it, our greatest dreams are possible. When we doubt ourselves, question our worth and undermine our self value, our greatest victory will be worthless.
Know your values, and be guided in all things by your own conscience. If you encounter situations that threaten your personal moral code, act in ways that are consistent with your own principles. Try to thrive rather than to survive, try to flourish rather than make it and try to stand tall rather than just stand up.
Stay true to yourself and you’ll go far, affirm that “I am my greatest hero.”
I received an email from my friend Crystal this morning which had a message from George Carlin. While doing some research I found out that the excerpt that I am about to share was not written by George Carlin but by Dr. Bob Moorhead, I’m not here to blab about who wrote it, what the heck! it’s a briliant piece. If you’ve read it before please read it again, there’s something there for all of us.
I truly believe that each individual should make it a priority to be self aware. So many of us get lost protecting our fears and reputation and are not conscious of how lost we are.
I agree with his core message, it makes you stop and think…………
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but
shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more,
but have less; we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and
smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees
but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more
problems, more medicine, but less wellness.
We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little,
drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too
little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our
possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and
hate too often.
We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life. We’ve added years to
life not life to years. We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but
have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer
space but not inner space.
We’ve done larger things, but not better things. We’ve cleaned up the air,
but polluted the soul. We’ve conquered the atom, but not our prejudice.
We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less.
We’ve learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold
more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less
and less.
These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small
character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of
two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes.
These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one
night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer,
to quiet, to kill.
It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the
stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time
when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete.
Remember; spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going
to be around forever. Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to
you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your
side.
Remember to give a warm hug to the one next to you because that is the only
treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn’t cost a cent. Remember,
to say, “I love you” to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all
mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep
inside of you.
Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday
that person will not be there again. Give time to love, give time to speak
and give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.
AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
……….If our voice was a little louder, would the good Lord hear us better?
I experience something in my life that is so tangible that i’m puzzled there is no word for it. Others I have talked to also experience it, some more strongly than I. It is the feeling of “now is the the time to do it.” Often when I’m asked why I haven’t done something, the answer is I haven’t gotten this go-ahead. The astronauts receive a signal that comes close to describing it: “All systems are go.” — But they can at least tell where it’s coming from.
My intuitive sense of the natural, right thing to do under the circumstances—when I am quite enough to hear it—seems somehow to take the future circumstances into consideration. I feel like “Do this,” and it is only afterwards that I see the sense of it. The “sense” however, is not in everything working out the way I would like, but in always receiving an efficient and needed lesson in increased awareness.
To listen to my intuition is to identify my entire awareness, to be my entire experience, and not just my conscious perception. My total awareness synthesizes into a calm sense of direction that is above reason. It is only when my attention becomes fixated that I act like an unknowing part rather than a knowing whole. When I favor my conscious perception over my total awareness, I can no longer hear the guiding rhythm of one whole reality.
Calmness accompanies the whole. Fear accompanies the part. Intuition looks beyond the latest object of my concern to see the stillness of all outcomes.
People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centered;
Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives;
Be kind anyway.
If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies;
Succeed anyway.
If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you;
Be honest and frank anyway.
What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight;
Build anyway.
If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous;
Be happy anyway.
The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow;
Do good anyway.
Give the world the best you have and it may just never be enough;
Give the world the best you have anyway.
You see, in the final analysis, it’s all between you and God;
It was never between you and them anyway.
“Keys To My Karma”
