Tuesday, February 26, 2008

In the Light of Your Self

I absolutely love her channelings/messages, especially this one:

HEAVEN #2650 In the Light of Your Self

channeled by Gloria Wendroff


What secrets are there between Us? There is nothing to hide. I am your Upholder. Think of what I just said. There is nothing to hide. You have nothing to hide. There is nothing that needs to be hidden. There is nothing worth hiding. I abolish secrets. Keeping a secret is like keeping a shoot of a flower in the shade. A flower must have sunshine in order to grow. In the case of a secret, the shade makes it grow, and the sun will erase it. Secrets come from fear, and fear grows in the cavernous darkness. There is no percentage in having fear nor secrets. I abolish fear, and I abolish secrets.

Besides, everything is known. Nothing is secret. The details may be, of course, but you are not a detail. Remember you are a vibration. No matter how subtly, your vibration is known. You cannot hide your vibration, beloveds. And where does your vibration come from but from your thoughts? Your consciousness expands or contracts with your thoughts. Your vibration is set in tune with your thoughts. A drum beats in pantomime, or a flute plays so silently that you do not hear, and yet the drum and flute send out a stream of vibration. All is a vibration. Light waves are a vibration. And so your thoughts twang, and if they twang what you see as a deep dark secret, you are laid low, beloveds, shrouded in an equivalent vibration.

You hide behind a little shrub, and all the time you are seen.

I choose you to sail along on a beautiful sea, so shining and blue that you can only shine and take delight in your voyage.

Tear up your secrets now. Flip them away. Keep them no longer. Let them see the light of day so they may leave you forever. Hiding is more tortuous than anything you might hide. Hiding is a parasite that rides on your back. Hiding is an ogre that won't let go of you. He holds on to your secrets. Give the ogre nothing hidden to hold on to, and he will be gone.

So long as you hold on to secrets, you are bound to the past. And you know what I think of the past and what you associate with it.

You know all your secrets. I tell you now that they are nothing at all. I tell you to say goodbye to them now. Once unhidden, beloveds, you have nothing to hide. Acknowledge to yourself what you have tried to hide. Absolve yourself of it now so that you may be free and love the world and not hide from it.

I do not tell you to find someone to confess to. I release you now from the idea that there is anything you must hide. Hiding is a prison of your own making. I tell you to step out of it now. I tell you to take off the shackles. They never were real! The shackles were all in your imagination. You sold yourself a bill of goods. You cheated yourself. You heard words like sin and guilt, and you took them to heart.

That you were ignorant, We already know. You are guilty of ignorance. You are guilty of having forgotten your worth. You are guilty of having offended yourself. Come out of this self-imposed darkness and declare yourself free. Free yourself from the past, beloveds. Once and for all, be done with it. Let the past be gone, and come with Me now in the light of your True Self, as a Divine Human Being who stands tall in the full realization of My love. You are just as much Mine as any King on Earth.

Already Fulfilled

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Already Fulfilled

When you don't need anything, then you truly have everything. When you know that you already have enough, that you already are enough, that everything is as it should be, then your life will be rich indeed.

Get past the need to possess and you'll discover that the whole world is yours. Abandon the need to be right and you'll find real truth.

Let go of the need to impress others and you'll have their sincere respect. Move beyond the need to control every detail, and your influence will grow stronger.

As long as you feel you need something, it cannot possibly be yours. The more you focus on the need for anything, the more you deny it to yourself.

Why would you want to do that? Instead, realize that whatever you desire is already available to you, and enjoy the process of expressing it more fully as you move through each moment.

Appreciate, understand and focus your energy on the good and valuable things in your life. And you'll know that your most authentic desires are already fulfilled.

-- Ralph Marston

Friday, February 22, 2008

Veiled

The veiled will remain so ... as I would rather keep it to myself. I will not post for some time now ...

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

My dream

My dream is to live a life full of color, textures and vibrancy.... to live effervescently ... to live in harmony with my beliefs ... to live and make the most of my personal limitations ... and to be spiritually connected, always.

My dream is to live a life filled with exploration and adventure.

My dream is to become the best version of myself there is.


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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Life is what you choose The choices you've made have brought you to this point. Where do you choose to go next?

You have learned many things from the journey that you've taken. What do you wish to learn now?

From a vast array of possibilities, you have selected certain specific ones and successfully followed through with them. What are the possibilities that most interest you now?

It may sometimes seem that life is what happens to you. In truth, it is exactly the other way around.

Life is what you choose, what you do, what you think and what you create in each moment. All the other things going on provide the space and circumstances in which you make your life happen.

What do you choose to do with this day? Now is when you can bring your favorite dreams to life.

-- Ralph Marston

Ambrosia

Today,

I want to play with the young at heart ...

I want to pick fruit, and eat it right there, with the sun shining on my face ...

I want to try on flouncy hats and buy one ...

I want to play hopscotch ...

I want to run through a field of flowers ...

I want to hug a tree, climb it, and hang out with the birds and squirrels ...

I want to laugh so hard my stomach hurts and my eyes tear ...

I want to drive around, capturing stills of the wild and crazy to the most mundane ...

I want to hold and kiss a baby tiger ...

I want to run free, with the breeze flowing through my hair ...

I want to dance disco to Disco Duck, and just laugh at myself ...

I want to fall asleep in a hammock ...

I want to take a train ride and pretend I'm a tourist ...

I want to exchange golden moments, followed by appreciative silence ...

I want a taste of ambrosia ...

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Affirmation

I’m thinking of all my goals and am wondering how I can implement them in a life filled with little free time. I pondered, and am still pondering whether I should trim a couple out so I could fully focus on those that occupy most of my time.

For some reason, a blurb I wrote down some time ago popped into my head: "Success is an identity process. If you surround yourself with it, you become it. If you don’t, you won’t." It also reminded me about what Sandra Bullock said:

"I've learned that success comes in a very prickly package. Whether you choose to accept it or not is up to you. It's what you choose to do with it, the people you choose to surround yourself with. Always choose people that are better than you. Always choose people that challenge you and are smarter than you. Always be the student. Once you find yourself to be the teacher, you've lost it."

This all ties into my goals. There’s no doubt successful people juggle several goals all the time; they just know how to do it successfully – I should find keys for doing the same ... That, or seriously consider cutting a couple of them out, or at least one of them.

I came across this, this morning and liked it enough to add here.

"Courage charms us because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, not his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Late last night, before my prior post, I purged myself of base thoughts and feelings via a poem. A poem I briefly posted but then omitted. Upon completing the last line, I was released from its taint. Interesting how that works ...

At the moment though, I would really love to laugh. That will put the glimmer back into my eyes. What I *am* feeling is steady, serene, and motivated, despite having slept little... I believe a lot of it has to do with the "purge," and with the gift of passion.

I hereby make the following affirmation. Perhaps I can add to it in time.

"I lead a charmed, simple and easy-going life filled with humor, high spirits, love, affection, abundance, integrity and anything in between that nourishes the heart and quickens the soul."

Monday, February 18, 2008

Painted Bunting

Yesterday (an hour ago) was a good shooting day. I captured Painted Bunting shots of both genders. I'm pretty proud of that considering I never thought I'd come across them, especially out in the wild.

I've been spreading myself too thin with my varied interests and need to learn to find balance in my life. This balance includes keeping up with my goals, as they're all equally important to me.

I guess I've just been so caught up with nature photography ... it has been all-consuming. No complaints ... just happy to have something that moves me to such an extent.

It's so late now and I have to go to work tomorrow, so I shall sign off for now.