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October 29, 2013
To Be Empowered… I recognize that I am free of the past, it no longer has holds on my emotions or my life. I release the past that has caused me pain. I forgive myself my part in that pain. I embrace the memories of the past that bring me joy. I discard the attachment to the rest of my past. Every day is a new day. I am constantly moving forward.
~ Pamela J. Leavey
April 22, 2013
The great “folk singer and guitarist Richie Havens, who opened the 1969 Woodstock music festival, died Monday at age 72, his talent agency, the Roots Agency, reports.”
Havens career spaned decades but he is perhaps most remembered as being the opening act for Woodstock with a 2 hour performance that included “improvising the song “Freedom” based on the old spiritual “Motherless Child.””
Here’s one of my favorite Richie Havens tunes: (more…)
August 24, 2011
“When you find peace within, you also find that you can do without. This means simply that you no longer need the things of your outside world, and not needing is a great freedom.” ~~ Neale Donald Walsch
July 1, 2011
“Enlightenment begins with acceptance, without judgment of “what is”. This is known as moving into Isness. It is in the Isness where freedom will be found.” ~~ Neale Donald Walsch
June 30, 2011
J. Krishnamurti…
Awareness is that state of mind which takes in everything -the crows flying across the sky, the flowers on the trees, the people sitting in front, the colors they are wearing- being extensively aware which needs watching, observing, taking in the shape of the leaf, the shape of the trunk, the shape of the head of another, what he is doing. To be extensively aware and from there acting, that is to be aware of the totality of one’s own being. To have a mere sectional capacity, a fragmentation of capacity or capacity fragmented, and to pursue that capacity and derive experience through that capacity which is limited—that makes the quality of the mind mediocre, limited, narrow. But an awareness of the totality of one’s own being, understood through the awareness of every thought and every feeling, and never limiting it, letting every thought and every feeling flower, and therefore being aware—that is entirely different from action or concentration that is merely capacity and therefore limited.
To let a thought flower or a feeling flower requires attention,not concentration. I mean by the flowering of a thought giving freedom to it to see what happens, what is taking place in your thought, in your feeling. Anything that flowers must have freedom, must have light; it cannot be restricted. You cannot put any value on it, you cannot say, “That is right, that is wrong; this should be, and that should not be”, thereby, you limit the flowering of thought. And it can only flower in this awareness. Therefore, if you go into it very deeply, you will find that this flowering of thought is the ending of thought. ~~ The Book Of Life
April 18, 2011
Souls who walk in awareness choose a different path. They seek to experience all the peace and joy, limitlessness and freedom, wisdom and love that Oneness brings. ~ Neale Donald Walsch
(Painting by Claude Monet ~ Artist’s Garden at Giverny)
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