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2008-05-08T17:49:00.001-07:00

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2008-03-07T15:58:00.000-08:00

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Do You Feel You Need To Control Love

2008-01-29T10:25:00.000-08:00

Love is not a thing. Yes, it is an emotion and that can call it something, however love is not shown with body nor words, love is felt only. The stems of love come from trust, safety in growth, and trust again. When trust is pierced love is injured. Injured love brings about behaviors in souls that they do not know how to account for fully, since they may not know the stems of their loss of trust that brings about second guessing love. You see, souls at times, test love to see if it will withstand us. Love is not a thing to be tested. Love simply is. When it is pushed and prodded it responds with pushes and prods. It is simply reflective of the soul who is living it in the ways in which it is understood to them. There is not a surprise that your current partner or any partner, for the partner of choice is irrelevant, you will have the same outcome as long as you are the same stimulus. You see, our love, on Earth the struggles to live in love are complex as a soul is willing to take on or as simple as a soul is willing to take on. If you are confused, you will have confusing relationships, if you are feeling at peace, you will as well have a relationship that is of peace. You will bring to your surroundings what you live within yourself. So you may at this point be asking yourself why you are making such a complex deal about simple loving.

Ego and Soul can never combine. You can not work with your ego and pretend it is your soul speaking. Love is from the soul and ego has a way of taking away from souls in ways they can not comprehend, nor do they recognize when ego is involved. You may believe you have the purest of intent, however it is not if you expect from others what YOU expect from them without considering them and their feelings. As you walk away for YOUR reasons and come back for YOUR reasons the other person will start feeling left out of the equation. And when you go back, and explain why you have done what you have done, it is for YOUR cleansing. If you did not feel the need to do that to clean YOURSELF up, you would not have gone back to ease the other persons hurts and pains. As you discover your own hurts, instead of it joining the two of you together, it is back to you not feeling like you deserve love and you start testing the person to a point that they could truly do no right and then you find yourself needing to leave, or being left. When a soul is not with you you respect them, because then you think they are right on and they did not buy what you were selling, since you were not sure what it is your selling and when they go away from you, you respect them again, want them again, for then you will feel normalized to have gained them again and you can feel like you still have it. It is not about love, it is about control, and keeping balance between your ego and your soul. On Earth there is no balance between ego and soul. It will vacillate you until you are endless with reasons why. There are not real reasons why.

Ego is not detailed in reasons, it is detailed in derailments. Your soul is your guide. Jumping in without fear of what it will mean, if you will get hurt, if you are already hurt, it is innocent in it's venture. You see pure intent is the key. One ounce of pure intent or pure love, will overcome every obstacle provided it is pure. It is when you go and seek love without needing anything in return from it. You don't need recognition. Or the other person responding to you in any way. That you are clean with your intentions. You see, when your intentions are clear to your soul, it is not the result of any action that matters, it is the process and the joy of living in the moments. Pure intent does not mind so much about time, about where anything is coming or going, it is simply the truth of the moment. Pure intended moments are the moments all humans remember throughout their lifetimes. All others are quickly forgotten or over analyzed. What you can not see, due to over thinkments of your actions and that is the clouded feeling of feeling like you are missing something. What you are missing is not a fact or that you did not figure this all out. Love is not to be figured out. Love is lived. Love is speaking and letting go. Living and letting others live as well. Not as you want them to, however as they would like to and sharing that. Love is the greatest reflection of how we all see the world and how we think it should be. However shoulds in anything means those are the things not happening, and all that is happening gets unnoticed because of the shoulds. There are not shoulds. Again and again, love is simply living in the day, in the moment in your truth with another. That is love. There is not control attributed in that sentence nor is it attributed in any other fashion of love.

Sustainable Love

2007-12-20T12:44:00.000-08:00

We expect so much from love

We want it to make us happy

We want it to take care of the rest of our lives

When....it comes

Love is always here

Yet it doesn't recognize itself

With all our conditions

It can only be love if so and so is cute

It can only be love if it is what makes me look good

It can only be love if it is what I wanted it to be,

We don't even let love surprise us anymore

We expect so much from it that when it is here we walk right by it like it wasn't there

A person tells you they love you and we even find a way to not believe them

And continue treating them as though they do not

We will believe that someone who gives us no attention loves us, because we desire them

And then someone who speaks in love to us, we discount

That alone is a lot more telling in itself

We respect those who don't love and want them too, that is the challenge

And we release those who love us because we don't respect them for loving us, because we don't love ourselves yet!

That is a no win situation

Love is love is love

Yes, I said this before

And Yes, it is worth saying again

Living in the moment allows you to love without expectation

That in this moment, I love my job, I am not waiting for another to love again

I love my spouse, I am not going to let my misunderstanding taint my love and thoughts of them

I love my children, even on days when they don't love so much themselves

Love is the challenge of our souls discovery

To say I love myself too much and others too much to want to take away from that

I don't want to hurt the "us" we have become in life to win for a moment

Our life is a series of moments

I understand that now

If someone came to me and took away from me that I came to with love, It would start to pierce our trust

I don't want to do that

Go to those you love and remember this is what love is

The way you are now with love is the way you will be in any new situation that comes along with love

Love isn't postponed or better because you do not know the recipient yet

That is a trick of the mind that the grass really is greener on the other side

The grass is already green and if you can't see that now, it is even harder to see it coming

Love is a state of mind

Love is a way of being

Love is what we turn it into

And Love is not a chore

Love breeds greater love

Since understanding love breeds greater understanding of many more things

Love is patient

Love does not compete

Love is open ended

And Love is not timed or has an expiration date

WE have taken liberty on many angles of life

Yet love is still most important to all of us

It is time to let love be what it is

A healer of us

A natural medication to our souls

The glue that bonds us together

And love doesn't just disappear, we disappear

No more fooling ourselves with love

It is too strong an emotion to say No to, yet we haven't learned how to say Yes to it all the way

We have left love in the middle of the road and sometimes it gets hit and it doesn't understand why

Yet it always comes back fighting for itself

Let Love teach us in many more ways who we are

It has a lot to teach us

And if we can just say Yes, that we will live in our moments, understand the love that is present

It will slow us down from searching so feverishly for something we are standing in front of

It will give us the will to look forward to future love as we share love in this day

And it will allow us to see future love when it arrives

It will give us more to share of ourselves rather than expect so much from it

And the rewards of the truth of love is yours

We can only attract to us, the completeness we feel

Understanding love in this way, can only attract love in this way to you

It is called recognition

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Meat and Potatoes

2007-11-30T11:40:00.000-08:00

What you have in common is your key
What you do not is your acceptance
And what you like or do not like is your tolerance
And what you are not knowing of yet is your growth

Anyone can have sex, however can anyone have a relationship
A partnership
We all know how to meet
Yet do we all know how to stay
How to stand still in compromise when things do not go our way
When we are scared to have the love of another
And we want to run away just because we do not know what else to do

A relationship is our growing ground
And in the best case scenario
In safety
To grow and still be loved

It is a very hard thing to do when you are in argument
and then rekindle the parts where we like being vulnerable
And we open ourselves to loving in the freedom of how see love rather than what love is supposed to look like

We can decide that, we can choose to stay and fight
Fight for an us
For a place to stay
for what love can mean if we let it

It is our acceptance of us,
Of each of us
And then the bigger us
It is the compromise that we miss when we are alone
And the promise we feel when we are together

Our lives are meant for many things
And one big one is getting along
With ourselves
And then with others
That is both the meat and the potatoes
It is the meal
It is the balance
It is not having to choose one or the other
It is living in love as you know it, learn it, breath it, look for it and become it

Our love already exists in us
Postponing it because we are waiting for lightning to strike
Rather than a partnership
A look rather than a person
Stuff instead of love first
Then we have found every way around love and not in it

In it, as we find over time is the only way to go
And we would give everything to know it
So know it
We would give everything to meet someone
So let yourself
Without judgment
Warmth does not have a look
Truth does not have a price tag
And love does not have one definition

Fill your plate
With all your thoughts in real life
And real life exceeding your dreams
That is when you know you found life in life
And life in heart
Warmth in soul
And balance that extends itself to your home, your relationships, your work

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Unopened Gifts

2007-11-19T15:37:00.000-08:00

Finally a day to say

To remind ourselves

To remember

To speak out loud

How do I forgive myself

That is one unopened gift

How do I have compassion for myself

Yet another unopened gift

We speak in life, I have been able to forgive....another

I can now go on

Yet what is forgiveness?

How do you forgive yourself?

To forgive is to say I have not learned

Compassion will speak that you have learned

You see, it is not about forgiveness at all

Forgiveness says that you will overlook and get over something that hurt you

Whether you did it to yourself or to someone else

It is to say, that you have not learned the lesson so you will forgive the action

And then what?

Do you just go on forgiving forever and not going further as to why you are doing it or allowing someone else to do it to you?

Compassion to yourself, to others, to say, Yes, this happened, whatever it is, and we will learn from it

Compassion to understand the motives, the reasons and to say, I understand why you did this

Is there another way to get what you need

Without hurting yourself or others

In teaching children

There are three rules of discipline to follow

Don't hurt yourself

Don't hurt others

Don't damage or destroy property

That is truth for all of us

If we don't hurt ourselves, we actually do not have a need to hurt others

Damaging or destroying property is usually a byproduct of being hurt

When we forgive ourselves or others we are acknowledging we are hurt or hurt another

Compassion is the step after, we can't just stop at forgiving

Compassion reminds us of the human part, the part where we gain self understanding and love

With words like

I know you didn't mean that

I know you are hurt already

I can see now your intentions are good for me, or maybe they are not

Is this a safe place for me to grow

Or is this teaching me this is not the place for me to stay and learn of life

Forgiveness is like a power play or relief button

Compassion finds a soulution, and landing place, a mutual caring for what results in what has happened

Compassion is the way to get past anyone having to forgive anything

It is the place where we learn why, not just what

Where we see motivation rather than action only

Where we grow within ourselves, then someone else

Self accounting, self love, growth

It all starts in the solutions, not in the answers

Anyone can say yes or no

Yet the parts that say why are the growths

The parts that say why are the teachers

The moments of discovering are when you can go on and live past those moments

There is a vast difference between forgiveness and compassion

Compassion teaches love and forgiveness gives power to someone to grant it

Compassion soothes and grows and forgiveness is saying, I have forgiven you so many times, now what?

The crutches of living in doing and forgiving

Rather than speaking and learning

Breaks the cycle of not paying attention to yourself with excuses

And brings back the questions you had as a child

Why, is one of the greatest questions any child asks and doesn't stop until they find out

It is their happiness so that they can go out and play

They already understand that full disclosure is their freedom

Quietly as we "look" so much smarter than them

Look again, there is still an unopened gift under your tree

It is called Self Love

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What A Spoon Can Tell You

2007-11-12T16:30:00.000-08:00

When you walk past the sink, and it is clean

Are you the person who drops the spoon in

Or are you the one that walks by and cleans it

Do you only wash it if someone else is there

or do you leave it for someone else to take on your work

Are we really getting away with anything when we try not to do something

We try so hard to get out of this, get out of that

It is the truth as it is

You either do or you don't

Some wait until the sink is full

And others wash and dry as they go

Some keep the Oh I have to do this, to do that, before I can relax

When cleaning up as you go along

Cleans up your mind as you think along, speak to another, or even watch a program on TV

That spoon really tells its own story

Do you hold onto your stuff

Do you let it go

Do you take things on right off

Or do you wait until you have piled up so much stuff inside

And you keep waiting for the day to clean it all up at once

Do you just eat your best everyday

Or are you the one who will diet tomorrow and eat everything in sight today?

Are you a planner or does everything all of a sudden happen to you?

Each of these types of people, they are all of us

Trying to say one thing when we are another is our biggest bluff

And the blaming of others, for who we are, has also been the bigger bluff

Once you clean up as you go along

You are just telling yourself the truth as you live your life

and those who threw it in and walk right by it

Are the pilers of everything else

They will not tell you first off what they actually mean

And they will only come clean when they are caught

And maybe not even then

Start washing the spoon in the clean sink

And you will find, you start finishing all the little things that start to take on weight much sooner

When you walk by, stop yourself and remind yourself it is your job too

No using others for you

and you will stop running from tasks and either decide to do them or not

Honesty isn't so far away

It is as simple as a dirty spoon, you either clean it or you don't

Love isn't so far away

You either share it or you don't

Truth is always around
And Purity is the cleanliness of your soul

Clean the spoon, Clear your mind, and go on to the next thing

Clutter is man made, not a natural part of us

Clean purifies as you cleanse

Cleansing is the weightlessness of our days, our thoughts, and how we are with others

Anything else is the delaying of our self love, until we finish all our tasks that we walk by

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Would You Know You?

2007-11-10T10:23:00.000-08:00

Who would you be if no one you now know knew you?

What would you say about yourself?

What would you start with?

What would you say your hobby is?

What work you do?

How much you love it?

What it means to you, to your life to do what you do?

How could you see your intentions when you feel like you will die if things don't go your way?

How flexible are you to change of heart, of mind, when you are challenged?

Do you know who you are with Money and without it?

Are you generous when you are happy?

Are you mean when you are mad?

Do you think about the other persons point of view when you are in a disagreement?

Do you go out of your way to say thank you when you are thankful?

Is expressing yourself in times of argument easy for you?

When someone speaks to you, and tells you an observation of you

Do you get defensive or do you consider that they spoke this to you for good reason?

When you speak to someone, do you consider how you would respond to be spoken to in the same way?

These are a lot of questions

Questions of self definition

Of who you are inside and what it looks like on the outside

People are not blind, and never are we within ourselves

Sometimes it is just a matter of answering your own questions, that reminds you of who you are

Where you are when it comes to dealing with yourself, your life, and if you are just passing time

Or using time to grow your soul, in your truth, without trying to be something you are not yet ready to be

Or standing still too long before you act and then feeling like you can not catch up

Define yourself and you will see better what you are looking for

Wanting that comes from heart, rather than all the other reasons that leave us feeling unfulfilled

Trust in your ability to answer such questions

And Trust the rest will come as you go along

There is not ever only one answer

Yet only one answer will lead you to the rest

Who would you be if no one you now know knew you?

Tell yourself out loud as though you were speaking to another

Hear your words and find your truth in them

It is already there, waiting for you to notice

It is simply time to take on more of you

We always know when

It is just that we can't start anything

Without actually starting

Start with the questions and your mind will do the rest

All you need to do is plant the seed

Imagine meeting you

Would you know you?

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The Music Of Love

2007-11-05T12:56:00.000-08:00

One day we wake up singing

A song to a happy tune

Without a prompt or a reason

Without music or noise

Only the excitement of seeing you

Today we are getting married

Saying Yes to each other

without further ado

Love is the trail we followed

Learned each other in safety and grew

Let our ugly find itself, showed it to you

You said, Hey that's OK

I am still here for you

I learned me through you

You told me the truth

You speak to me, it is not only you

It is you and me, and we are two

There is strength in numbers

When the two are in truth

Someone to say to you

this works for me too

Love is not a show

or does it come with a map

Love's design is to teach us

And build life without holes, without traps

It is a place of safety

To speak that I am still OK

Even when I don't feel like it

Even when I am too tired to see my way

One of us is always leading

Learned partnership that way

Each day is an open conversation

Of all we can share and build, a story page by page

Nothing comes all at once

It would leave us dry and bored

Love comes in surprises

Of all we thought it could not be

Love is the surprise of our souls

When it show me, me

The more I can see of me

The more I find in you

The treasures of us as people

And adding the love in there too

Thank you for saying

when you do this it hurts me

It made me see you

and you taught me to care

As you show me how you care for you

I have learned to care for me

I find that the more I learn

I more I understand you

The greater my challenges

that eliminate the feelings of something I can not say

You opened the door of my soul

With your openness to me

You teach me to be

Without trying to be better than me

I realize there is nothing you could want

Other than to tell me the truth

I realize there is nothing I can give

Other than my purity to you

Love is invisible

Yet it is felt in its strength

It is the bond we can not see

Yet the bond of everyday

Love is not a person, a place or a thing

Love is my emotion, that I bring to each day

Love is my compass of where I go, and where I stay

Love is the open ended answer

As many questions as it presents

It is those very questions

Whose answers are fought for

And learned of

That teaches my soul

Its one main purpose

To love, honor, and live

In today, in the present

I stand before myself in completeness

As I see it in you

No fear in growing further

No lines drawn in the sand

No more saying what if....

It is here that I stand

I stand for us

The "us" we have become

The world that we built

With those that we love

The house that we fill

With our everyday of thoughts

The home that we carry

Everywhere we go

Love is not physical

You have taught me

Thank you, my love

My love's freedom

That I have come to see

Thank you, my love

We are an "us"

And still a "you" and a "me"

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A Bottle of Hope

2007-11-02T12:32:00.000-07:00

What does it look like when we have hope?

We walk faster

We talk more

We involve others

We try new things

We wear different colors

And we insist on trying until we succeed

We sing to songs

We listen to others

It is not so important that we are “right”

We need less sleep

We don't over eat

We exercise

And we say good morning

We listen to “happy” music

We dance while we are walking

We see someone who is having a bad day and we say we are sorry

We help someone who needs it

And we accept help when we need it

Hope is the promise of our souls capacity

Hope is the reason we remember why we are alive

Hope is the person who reminds us

That Hope is always nearby

Hope reminds us that love is available

As hope is the purpose of our actions

Whatever it is that we hope for,

We are in hope when we feel promise

Promise of ourselves in our highest honor

Honor of actions and what they may mean

Hope is the rainbow after the rain

The cool drink on a hot day

The right words as you needed them

The smell of something baking while you are asleep

The bath where you actually sit in the water

The moment you walk by someone you haven't seen in years

The check that comes in the mail you didn't expect

The willingness to understand if something doesn't work out

Hope is the basis, the reason

That we have an incentive to grow on

To say I'll try

To change directions

And to know ourselves well enough to say no when we are stretching ourselves too thin

Hope is not being scared when the check is not in the mail

Someone we thought was right for us isn't and we understand why

And the love of self enough to know all of these things are simply a part of life

Hope is alive as we are alive

Hope is the possibilities of our hearts

Given a forum to test, push and pull the best of ourselves

And find the depth in which we can be

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Bring Me A Higher Love

2007-10-29T10:16:00.000-07:00

Your higher self is talking
And you speak to it that it is not possible
That you are not good enough or strong enough to be that person

Your higher self tells you you are that person
And you should at the very least try
That you have nothing to lose
That even an embarrassing moment is a story of truth to speak about in love

Your higher self is you without boundaries and limits
That only you can put in and only you can release
Your higher self is your capability
Your ability
Neither of which know the word NO

Imagine if the word NO did not exist
Boy would the freedom of our souls be happy!
There would be no answer that can not be had
There would be a way to find to do almost anything you thought of

Capability just means to know
Ability means to try
To know and To try
To see if it is yours to grow more with
Or to let it take you to something else

Your higher self is your purpose
Not broken down into smaller parts,
It is the sum of the smaller parts that build you up to it

It is a higher love to see your higher self
And a soul that says I will because I can and I can because I will
Anything less than that is because you really don't want it yet

I say yet, because the day will come to you
That you can see yourself do it
And it will find a path, an avenue or a bridge
To take you there

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Think Love, Create Love

2007-10-26T14:45:00.000-07:00

As Love starts to teach you
Who you are
When you think of sharing your home, your heart, your family
It tells you the best of you
As you present it all new
To a person that you feel love to
In a way that you always do

Love is not fantasy
Nor is it reality
Love is between both
That is the excitement of it all

When you think of love
Do you notice how you are in the best thoughts of who you are?

Some of us wait for new love to feel such open feelings towards ourselves
As though it is the only way we can feel it
Getting to the truth of things, you can feel this on your own
You see, love is love is love

There isn't one kind of love
Love is so open, it is in everything
That feeling of presenting your life to someone new
It is already present

As you build your life with love for yourself
That love, that excitement, that truth of you put out there
It gets to be present
And when it is present
It attracts those who are of love in that way too

Who understand that Love is love is love
That Love is a part of their every day
That anyone who comes to them leaves with love
That the more complete they already are
The more complete those that are attracted to them are

Everyone is attracted to a person who is already love
Already happy
Young children
Elders
Pets
And all other people

You start wondering what is different about you
And it is the new feeling of love, all the time
The belief that you are capable to have love
Simply to know it enough to feel it in heart
To live it in form
To stand within yourself
And understand it is a state of mind
And acceptance of heart
And lost ego to humble truths
That love is for all of us, even you

No one left out
Knowing Love doesn't replace challenge
It just makes it easier
That love gives answers that anger or feeling lacks of love can not see
Love is the freedom
Of your thinking and the compassion of your heart unto yourself
It is the opening of giving yourself a break
And the Love that comes with that knowing that you are OK

Even you, seems so far away at time
Love doesn't know the words, even you, even me, No to this or that
Love finds a way to say Yes
Yes to life, Yes to sharing, Yes to understanding
That love is simply life when it is understood and happy
Love is that smile you can't help
And the truth of why we are here
To learn to let go
Enough to open your heart
To follow the flow
Of love in life
That isn't meant to let go of even you!

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The Space Between You and You

2007-10-22T10:38:00.000-07:00

Believe in yourself
And don't allow yourself not to
Speak your truth
And don't allow yourself to judge you
Wear what you love
And don't allow yourself to take away the joy of it

Say you can when you think you can't
Do what you say you would never be able to
And try foods that aren't "you"

Go to a movie alone
And buy yourself some popcorn
Treat yourself to a walk
Listen to music that isn't music you would normally listen to
And you will start seeing that you can adapt
That you can take in and enjoy what is new
That you too can be new

We think our job is to stay who we are
Be who we are
Act like who we are
And whoever said how, what or who we are means?

We are who we think we are, that is who
We are the person who can try things, leave things that aren't right for us
And build things from simple thoughts in our heads

Believing in ourselves starts with the thoughts of our hearts being acknowledged
And then acted on
And then expanding out of our comfort zone

We are meant to be a little uncomfortable at times,
otherwise we have no stresses to move us along
And we are meant to not be too uncomfortable for then we know what is not right for us

We always know what we believe,
yet we need to trust what we know
and then we can see
That belief is not a trick or for someone else,
Belief is available
And once you believe one thing,
It is so much easier to find other things to believe in
It is the growth of your soul, one step at a time
One moment to another
One decision to do so at a time

How silly it is to say no
When the fight inside wants to say yes
Let the walls of very hard years of keeping them there
know they are on notice
Put your heart on notice
That you will be taking on the walls
and walking around them

We don't have to wait for a good day
To say we are going to try anything
Today is a moment that you can look in the eye
And say in this moment I want to do something about what I have been thinking
And just see what happens

Believing in yourself doesn't come easy
Nor cheap at times,
But believing in yourself does bring on an inner glow
One that stands over you, guides you,
When you start to give up or forget why you are trying
Believing in yourself
Leaves the excuses behind

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Your Soul Is Not Your Body

2007-10-19T12:38:00.000-07:00

We are trying to tell the world that our body is our soul
We found ways to fill our bodies
Change our bodies
Keep our bodies from aging
Dressing younger or older depending on what we are trying to accomplish

And then if someone is disabled we think they are less or need more help than us
And if they are sick we get scared because it could be us
And if they are dressed 'better' than us we actually think they are 'smarter' than us
And a bigger house only reminds us that we are not as 'successful'

Yet, I am writing this and if you didn't know me, you wouldn't know anything about me
All you would hear are my words,
You would feel my feelings for a moment of your life
You would share the love I feel in writing this, as I am writing it

Love doesn't look like anyone
Love isn't meant only for some
Love isn't meant to be looked for
Or "learned" how to be
Love is open and free
Love doesn't have eyes or ears
Love only has feelings and instinct
Love protects all that comes our way
When we know enough about its freedom to let it

I found by writing that my soul is not my body
My heart is my soul
My body is just the way I get around
And everyone else too
Your body is the car of your soul
It takes your intentions, your thoughts, and it drives them into action
Your body will do anything your soul will ask of it
But your soul can not do anything your body asks of it

I remember most, that I always remember, what it felt like when I left someone
More than what we looked like or where we were
We leave with the emotions
That is why at times when we are not dressed and our guard is down,
Those days, they seem to be the best days we have
We are exempt from the race to be anything
Did you notice you are least shy when you are most open?

We can take a lesson from those of us whose bodies can not do what we do,
And still they are happy
Their secret is the truth of their soul's exposed
And we too, can learn
To let the body be a part of us and include our soul
It does not have to be one or the other, we simply can understand our purpose better
When we let the truth of us show itself, rather than expecting our love from the outside in

No one can ever walk away from an open heart
Truth is a magnet for its strength
And truth wears no masks!

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Never Mind Why, Simply Do What is Right

2007-10-15T11:32:00.000-07:00

It doesn't take explanation to do what is right
To do what makes things better
To say what needs to be said

Either side of the coin
When things are tough, tell the truth
When things are not, tell the truth

There is no sense in creating stories to make things seem more exciting
The excitement is in how much you love it, telling it that way
And giving someone else a chance to live it with you too

We always think everything has to be bigger, better or worth hearing
That we have to have a punchline or a reason for saying something

It is so much simpler than that
Tell the truth from your heart
And your heart will do the rest

When there is a moment where telling the truth
Is something you do not want to do
It has nothing to do with the other person at all

Ask yourself, why is it that you feel like you can not?
Why is your safety an issue?
Is your self esteem unable to accommodate truth?
Is lying something you want to carry around?
Do you want to create distance between you and the other person?
Do you not have respect for yourself enough to simply speak and grow on?
Do you prefer the dramas of lying that cause you to not trust others?

Most who do not tell the truth
Think others are lying
Are the ones who accuse others of doing things, being things they are not
Do not like to discuss details
Nor do they enjoy the fruits of self accountability

They are the ones who fear their positions
Their posts in life
That their charminess will wear out
That their cover will be blown
That maybe they are a fraud altogether

They will claim to have everything under control,
As if they had to
They will tell you how great they are
As if you needed to hear that

When someone speaks with their heart
they even allow for those who don't
Time to speak, and hear themselves talk
Simply because they already believe they will speak from the heart
And when they find out that is not what is happening
They start feeling used, without words or actions yet

As time passes and you are in a relationship
You start to realize that the other person doesn't pay attention to you they way you do to them
That when THEY are happy you are OK, when THEY are NOT, you are in Trouble
The balance shifts to their moods and the one with heart accommodating the one who speaks in exaggerations of truth and you are left realizing that maybe you have chosen a person who lives in the illusions of their truth and it all is not so real

Getting to know another person is for these reasons alone
Is this a person you can depend on
Does this person bring you peace and joy
Warmth or comfort
Or are you more fractured with them and more whole without them

A job, a friend, a partner, a spouse
All the souls who find their way to us
Teach us who we are by what we do not accept from them
They Hone us into speaking up
Fighting for our own souls
Making our way without questions as to what is right or wrong,
however, what we are RIPE enough to learn

We can only learn what we are ready for
And others may serve as a catalyst for such learning's
Or they may be a soul we are meant to share much more of ourselves with and life with

We try to make everything "forever"
yet there is no time
There is a bigger picture
And some things are meant to teach us for a moment
And others are meant to carry us for a lifetime

Accept life for the challenges it gives you
And you will see that life will always have a challenge for you
It will always always remain and be
Your level of understanding
And your willingness to learn that will carry you
Once you can see that
The turmoil's of what to do, how to be, what to say, and what not to say are already answered

Our energy proceeds us
And we speak without speaking words
Trust in the bigger picture of our purpose can carry you through the moments of indecision
Clairty of your purpose
Knowledge of your soul
Understanding that you are not meant to be everywhere at once
Gives you the basis and understanding that you WANT to be where you at least choose to be
And the places you choose to be will allow you to experience them whole

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Choose Love

2007-10-12T15:53:00.000-07:00

Walk away from those who let you down
Walk away from those who do not care that they hurt your feelings
Walk away from those who set you up
From those you know will talk about you if you mess up

Learn to walk away, rather than prove anyone wrong
It only takes your energy into the black hole they have created for you to fall within

You are allowed to say NO
You are allowed to find Love
You are allowed to find peace
You are entitled to enjoy your time

We forget that we can say NO
To what hurts our energy and takes away our speed
That which reminds us of failure rather than our hearts success
We are all as successful as we see ourselves
We are all as weak as we believe others will speak of us

We must remember that those that talk about us
are only doing so from their own weakness and their desire to weaken others with them
So that they will not be alone in the below the radar behaviors they take on
To caste worry, fear and doubt to anothers soul

We must take part in our hearts desire to take care of ourselves
By allowing what we love to enter our thoughts rather than just the one person who keeps finding a way to challenge it
Your challenge is to challenge that energy and realize that anyone who can take you away from you, you need to take yourself away from

You can attempt, however learn from your attempts
And learn that you can run, not walk away, when you begin to understand you are depleting rather than building
That you are not of true benefit to this soul, nor are they to you
That you can learn from each other at a distance
Rather than the closeness that has come to rob you both of yourselves

Love gives
When giving is not present neither is love
Choose Love
And Love will find a way for you
Love is the can opener of every can you have stored in your cabinet
Some have been there for years
Go back and let them open and those that have expired
Accept that they have and go on
That is one of the paths of self love that opens you up to less storage and greater freedom of your soul
Choose your Soul
And there you will find your true movement
Your content
And your willingness to go forward

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Blueprint for Life

2007-10-08T09:19:00.000-07:00

What we need:

We need a political party that represents both the poor and the rich
We need credit cards that are not designed to keep you in debt
We need mortgages that are simple and clear and no fine print
I am thinking no fine print on the credit cards either

We need less pressure to have more work in a day
And more pressure to balance time to work, sleep, eat, and sit with your family
We need more pressures to complete tasks without so many steps
Be able to have a doctor to go to
Buy all the food that we need
Go to a Library to read

We need more pressure to build our neighborhoods,
Know our neighbors
Say Hello with nothing more to say

We need moments to catch up and rejuvenate
Leaders that we can depend on
Jobs we can grow in
Homes we can keep forever if we want to

We need streets that we all keep clean
Area's our children can play in without fear within the parent or the child
Homes that aren't behind iron gates

We need water we can drink
Streets without litter
People not living on streets
Care for those who can not care for themselves

We need to stop the blame
That someone who isn't ahead does not deserve time or a chance to gain ground
That people who need help are not to be walked by
That people who can help don't believe it is a choice

We need the love inside of us to not accept what is not working in our lives
We need to hear politics that makes actual sense, without explanation
Without fine print
Without loyalty to any party
However loyalty to US, people

People are a party
People are a race
People are of religion
People need food
People need homes
People need learning institutions
People need each other
People need love

There is no soul on Earth more important than another
When we can come to the thoughts that anyone is here by mistake or isn't worthy of what People need or want
Then we have lost already

There is no Them, since everyone is a them to someone
There is only an US, since we all share this same place called Earth
It includes US, Animals and Nature
And everything else is only a reflection of our needs, wants and desires

When you look around and find something to complain about
Look around again and find something you can do
That is balance
Pick up trash that you see when you can
Smile to another and remind them WE are here, there is not really a me and a you
Remember that there is no way anyone can do this alone
There is no way any leadership can work without people, nor can people find order without some kind of leadership

We each have a job to do,
We have a job to live and experience and grow
Yet we spend so much time trying not to change, to keep everything the same
Yet nothing is really meant to stay the same
It is meant to evolve and allow itself to find greater growths in each day

Most of our frustrations come when we feel we haven't done enough
Or we have done too much and no one notices

It is simply important that you notice
You see, if you notice, it can only be shared
And all the sharing of what you see, can only be felt
And feeling drives our actions
And ignites another

Anything can happen
As love finds a way to propel
That is how it is when you are thinking something
And then one day see it on TV,
Or hear another speaking about it

We are one
We hear it, we say it, and we can now learn how to be it
Everything has a blueprint and we are the blueprint of life

Life is the answer to why we are here
Living is how we do it
Awareness is how we know what to do
And love is the fuel of it all

Love is our true leadership
Love is our stem
And Love is our search
Keep loving and you have already begun the movement
The movement of living life as you can dream it
And dream it as your life gives you answers
And answers keep you thriving for more

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Emotional Detox

2007-10-05T07:38:00.000-07:00

Instead of I can't do this
I will try this new thing

Instead of I won't go there
Go and see what you were missing

Yellow doesn't look good on me?
Wear Yellow

Never gone back and said you are sorry to someone from years ago?
Call them now

Your closet need cleaning?
Don't get dressed one morning and just start cleaning it

Wanted to cook and instead are planning to grab something on the run?
Cook

Keep thinking of going for a walk?
Go and Walk

Keep thinking to plan a get together at your home?
Start making phone calls

Love to cook and never have the ingredients?
Buy them and stock them, you will always be ready

If there is someone you really love and you have never told them
Tell them and expect nothing back

You see it isn't what you are doing
It is what we are not doing to each other
It is what we are not saying
Not sharing

Cleaning ourselves from the inside out
Is to give our soul free reign as to who we are
Without shutting out the beautiful parts, always on our way to them

Wash your car
Use the bathroom before you leave
Say thank you when you normally wouldn't
And I love you to someone you do

Say you made a difference
And notice how you do too
Let the world you see be noticed by you
And the world will find a way to notice you too

Our souls are not our bodies
Our souls are our actions
Our love that we take the time to do and to share

Our love is all we have
When we are far away from love we feel far away from life
And when we are far away from life we say we want love

No more saying what we want and acting as though it is not right in our face
It is all right in front of our faces, and we are making choices to postpone, not say, not share today,
All that makes a difference to our lives

It is the invisible not eating when we are hungry
Because we have free will to have a choice
How about surprising your will
And letting it know how free it is

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Don't Be True to Me, Be True to You

2007-10-01T09:14:00.000-07:00

You tell me about yourself by what you say you do
If you ask me not to tell another something,
You ask that of someone else too

If I see you lie to another person
You most likely lie to me too

If you wash your hands before you eat
I know you wash everything else too

If you are OK with taking something that isn't yours
You will take me for what isn't yours

If you talk about others
Then you talk about me too

You see it isn't what you confide in me
Confidences need not be
Open and free is truth
Truth doesn't need an introduction
Or a premise or a thought

Truth just is
Just was
Will always be

You are not any different in front of me
Than behind me, when there is truth

We ask of each other many things
One thing I ask of myself

To tell you the truth
So that you know I am truthful
To treat you with respect,
Then you know I am respectful

To clean up after myself
So that you know to clean up after you
To leave you feeling clair
So that you know my intentions are clear

You see we learn a lot from each other
As we hear, see, and take part of each other
And we react to each other from that truth we see

Take part in your life
So that you can take part in anothers

Your children don't hear you as loud as they see you
Your friends can see you for what you have done, rather than what you say you have done
Your parents know who you are, rather than who they think you are
And your heart knows your truth no matter what you try to say

Truth is here
It waits for us to be it
We wait for us to know it
We say we are looking for it,
Yet it is here, and you already know of it

So use truth instead of using excuses to evade it
Let truth lead you rather than what you want to be truth
No need to take non truths and make them true
Stop wasting your time
Stop taking away from something that is already in front of you
And creating drama's to prove your point

With truth there is no point, there is only acknowledgment
Evading truth is like waiting for a train that is not coming
Use the clues of your life to bring you to speaking the truth for what it is
Because once you are true to you, you can be true to me

Once you start speaking with your heart
I want to be in your heart too
Once you start cleaning around yourself, I will clean with you
Once you cook a meal with clean hands, you will feed everyone

Wash your life with truth and let truth create THE PATH
There is not a path, truth is THE PATH
Anything else finds a way of leaving us feeling shortchanged and hungry
Truth is the breath of our souls
And the soul of your breaths
As you can share your heart when you feel it's purity
As your purity is the most becoming feature of any of us

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Shopping for Love

2007-09-28T09:21:00.000-07:00

What do you get when you give?
What do you give to get?
When you give it is a feeling of exhilaration that is addicting and self growing
It is like that plant that doesn't even need water to grow

I was walking into a store the other day
And a lady was on the ground dragging herself to a bag
She had fallen and she was too heavy to get up
At first she seemed like she had a method so I was just going to go into the store
Then I saw her dragging herself and I was wondering if that is just how she got out of her car and did her business

But then I was just curious so I went to her and asked her if she needed help.
she told me that her daughter was going to come out of the store in a minute, that she is in line
That she walked out of the store and was holding onto a pole to hold herself up
And that she let go of the pole and she fell

So I asked her if I can get her daughter or help her up
She told me we would have to find a big man to do that
Then her daughter came out and when she saw her mother on the floor she ran to her and asked her what happened.
She didn't seem to expect her there

The daughter and I both managed to get her to her feet again
And they were both so grateful
So I was about to leave and they asked me my name
Before I could tell them
The relief on their faces was the very relief I felt to have helped them

It was the smallest of things, yet it was bigger than me at the same time
I got tears in my eyes and I couldn't tell them my name
I was just silent and they were staring at me

It took me a minute and then I could speak my name
I walked away as though someone cleansed me
Like making this very small difference to people I would most likely never see again

It made everything I thought about my own life as new as it felt to fall into this family's circle unexpectedly
It reminded me how much we care about each other without thinking of it
And it is when we think too much that we start playing the taking away game from ourselves

So I went to the store and didn't find what I went there for
A little later that day I was thinking about not finding what I went there for
When it occurred to me that I found exactly what I went there for

That when we go to a store we are buying love of some kind to ourselves
And that lady on the sidewalk was the love that day
I left more fulfilled than anything I could have purchased
More cleansed and appreciative of people

We forget sometimes how much emotion there is when we touch each other in this way
How good it feels to share a strength we may have more than another
And accept their strength when ours is not with us
We build a wall that makes us think we are not in need

We are all needy and it has nothing to do with food or money
It has to do with our emotions catching up to the other advances in our lives
As we can balance, life looks differently and "needs" much less to fulfill it

If we step back from the wall
Only then can we see it
And walk around it

A Glimpse of Self Love

2007-09-23T11:57:00.000-07:00

Are you scared to love me?
Does it show that I am scared to love you?
Maybe it is because I don't know how to love me either?

I have been trying to figure out how to love myself
for many years now
I still am not sure what that looks like to say, I love me, I love you too

When I don't love me the most
I get scared that you won't love me either
When I love me the most
I know you will be with me forever

I use to think of loving myself as selfish
Then I use to think it was all in my ego to do that
Then I realized when I was happy inside, selfish and ego weren't an issue
That I just wanted to spend time with you because I love you
Again when I was happy

And then I wake up and I am not so sure how I feel
And I take it out on you
Accusing you of things that were OK the day before
I found out when I am not happy, you will not be happy with me either
As I try to take it out on you so I don't have to face me

How do I love me?
So that I can love you
I was sitting on the floor one morning
On my way to an important meeting
And across from me was a mirror

I took a quick glance only to see myself sitting on the floor tying my shoe
When I looked up, I didn't see me, I saw a person, sitting on the floor, tying their shoe
It was a weird moment, however I realized I WAS a person
I stared at myself from a distance
I realized I looked like the people I see, not the person I know

I started talking to myself
I told myself,
You have a big meeting today,
I wish you well

When I said that I started to cry
It felt so good to care about me
Like the words of a dear friend
I continued talking

As I cried, I said, I am going to take care of you my friend
I am your friend
I see you wake up everyday, rush to get ready,
Yet I realized I never really see you at all

I am sorry I never looked
I judge you so harshly
And you are just making a way for yourself,
What ever that is

I promise to do right by you
From this moment forward
I will understand when you don't think you have done well that you have done your best
And I also promise not to hurt you more with the words in my head that take away from me
I will remind myself that you did your best and maybe it was not meant to be for you

I also promise that when things are going great to let you enjoy those moments for what they are
A part of life that keeps you motivated to do the rest of it
And I will remind myself that every purpose has a challenge and every challenge has a purpose
And that we are a team, My Heart, My Soul and My Mind

I will do right by you,
I will not let myself forget that you care and that I care
As my Heart and Soul spoke to my Mind
I realized still that I am one, yet at times there feels like there are two of me
One that loves and one that is harder on me than anyone I know

I sat on that floor and saw myself new that day
I got up and left feeling like I have a partner within myself
That I can be whole and awake to my actions
That I can do right by myself

And with that, that I understand what it means to do right by others too
They ARE me and I AM them
Just as I have the voice in my head that either cheers me on or stops me in my tracks
Joining myself with myself,
Gives me the path to join myself with you
I can love you more when I know what it feels like to love me more

Love can only propel once it knows that it is there

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Love's Soulvation

2007-09-21T07:34:00.000-07:00

You can't know nice until you are nice
You can't know beautiful until you feel beautiful
You aren't happy for others until you feel happy yourself

You don't see the effort of others until you put forth an effort yourself
You won't acknowledge anothers success until you have felt a sense of success yourself
It's hard to have appreciation for anything if you never had to live without it

We can not know how it is to starve when we can't decide what to eat
We can not see a heart until we can feel our own
We can not extend a hand, until a hand has been extended to us

When we know something, then we can share it
We need examples from each other to see how effective it is to share who we are, what we feel
If one of us does something, someone else immediately learns, feels, understands its worth

We are one, we hear this and hear it
WE are one when it comes to respect
To dignity
To feel like someone notices
That someone really cares

It grows our belief that everything has good in it
That when we are angry and someone puts their hand on our back and says it will be OK
That is better than virtual slaps on the face with words and gestures that do nothing but give us reasons to let go

Take your initial reaction to a situation
And do the opposite
Instead of saying You did this or that, said this or that
Say, thank you for showing me what it feels like to take on your anger,
You must really be mad, although it is not obvious why
You are unkind to me, because you already feel it about somewhere else
I know you don't mean what you just said
I am sorry you are having a bad day

It sounds like a lot to say, however it is not
Think it, and it will come to the surface in your actions
All you have to say in truth is, I know you don't mean that
Sometimes that is all you need to say

And leave it to the other person to find in themselves their own motivations
and they can learn that, and have a moment to think about whatever it is in their heart
That is being a teacher
That is showing love when we don't know if we can
This is one way to do it
This is one way to care

WE think we need to wait for a good day to do better
No more wasting time
Time is not relevant when it comes to love

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Silence is a Language

2007-09-16T12:08:00.000-07:00

Once you have said your point, stop talking
When you are in an argument, and you say why, stop talking
Let the language of silence speak

When you want to tell someone how mad you are at them,
Stop yourself and walk away
Come back when you figure it out
Minus the hurtful words that are never forgotten
And the actual argument that is

It isn't time anymore to see how much you can hurt another person
It is time to realize that when that happens everyone gets hurt, not just the receiver
That everyone pays, a price that is unspoken
Since silence is the loudest language

Stop yourself and walk away
Don't participate in anger
Strength comes from finding the love
Understanding that you don't want to fail
And neither does the other person

Know that when you are angry it is when you are the most vulnerable
And there is something that you did not get or understand
Think in truth, if you are the other person and what is it that they actually want from you
What would you want if your were to do that to someone
And why

Go back with that information
The better the information
The greater the thought
The higher the level of caring comes into play
The better the exchange
The more solvable the soulution

We look for everything that can clean, wipe away, and take care of everything we don't want in life
And I know we don't want to live in anger
The cleaner for Anger is how we learn to love and accept ourselves when we are not feeling our best
Compassion is the buffer
And understanding is the shine

Know when to stop
And knowing when to stop
Can only teach you where to start

The Fear of Love is the Love of Fear

2007-09-14T10:19:00.000-07:00

When we say we fear something
What is it that we mean?
Do you use it as an excuse to not try or push yourself beyond it?
Do we let it gain greater strength than us and then blame it for being stronger?

How is it when fear wins?
When fear wins
It is telling us it beat us at our own mission
You see, we all come here to do something
Other than live, we come to grow our souls
And in that we are not on one path at a time, nor are any of us on a path that is a straight line

There are turns and corners and questions and doubts
There are confidence issues, self esteem questions, love of self, not known how to do
And to balance things, there is love, and joy and hope
Caring and trying and things looking like they did not work out as they are working out

Fear is what tells us things won't work out
Can't work out for us, but they can for other people
Fear is the culprit again

The worst fear of fear is letting fear win, that we let fear win
That is simply not Fair

We give so much power to what can happen to take away
That we don't get to what would happen if we didn't have such a fear
That we don't have to keep it around for habits sake
That we don't have to give it space so that we are left frustrated

Love is the opposite of fear
When you love life, you fear nothing
When you feel in love, you say anything
You dress freer
You are free to speak as you are when you are heightened

And then fear of losing comes in and there you are
you dry up
you fear speaking
you worry about the person you love not loving you any more
Fear, doubt and worry stagnate the soul
Love frees it

We know both sides of this coin so well
Is it a 50/50 chance for you?
Is your love strengthened within enough to stop fear when it tries to test you?

It is only a test, a push, a shove of your soul to Hone itself, to fear
When you recognize this, fear has one less leg to stand on
Which can only mean you stand stronger now
One thought at a time
One step away from taking away from yourself

In the end, as we learn that we are a person too
That we count to us
Enough for us to not let our days go by with doubt of who we are
And taking the chances that gives our soul exhilaration's and hope
Fear starts to look smaller and smaller

We always say "have no fear", and we all love the saying
Fear is not a fight it is a foe
We take on foes everyday
And Fear is not bigger than any other foe
Fear is actually weakest when we are our best

Next time you hear your mind speak to you and says "you can't do this, you don't deserve that, this is not for you, that is too great a thing to happen to you"
Talk back from your heart and say, "WHY NOT ME!"
Fight it head on
Tell it, it is not your friend
Speak loudly to it's mayham
And softly with your love

Love is the greatest strength of all
And pure in it's energy of your movements and thoughts
Turn it around and it will turn around
Stop it and it will stop talking
Tell it to be quiet and the cowardliness in it will obey

Fear has only the strength that we give it
And as we all know fear has never amounted to anything
And it is just by habit in many cases that it is even within you

We have so much love, untapped
Tap in and smile at the chance
Tap in and live in the difference
Tap in and let love show you what it can do without fear
Love really can do this, and it is one of the first things in understanding your own self love
Love gives and does not need to receive
It just finds a way to keep on growing and growing and growing
Live in the truth that fear is the illusion that it is
Love is the true leader
Let it lead

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Heartmaker Icebreaker

2007-09-10T08:54:00.000-07:00

Sometimes we don't speak to each other because we really don't know what to say
We think we have to say something important or clever
Stunning or worth hearing

Yet a simple, What's Up, would do
And then the person can tell you
And then you can tell them

We don't have to be so into what we would say
It is the interest in others that is most loving to speak about
It is the wanting to share that we are really looking for

Sometimes we are so inside our own heads
We forget others even have a head
Sometimes we are so worried of hurting our hearts
That we can't remember what it was like to just relax and speak

Everyone is to themselves what we are to us
Everyone really does want to feel another
Yet we assume they don't

We assume a lot of things when it comes to feelings and emotions
And it is usually the way that we look at things that we assume
yet we all didn't come here with the same blueprint

We all came here to teach each other
Use the knowledge's of each other
Share it
And give us reasons and purpose to interact

We have found so many ways to do everything ourselves
In fear to need another
That we don't really know how to break the ice
Once we realize we don't want to be alone

A simple, Hey, Hi, Hello, or smile
It is the interest and the attention you give
No words really needed

The only thing needed is not waiting for someone else to do what we could do
Because you have just read this and now you know
It doesn't take a class, a book or a mentor to tell you

Simple language is for use
It does get rusty when it is not exercised
And it knows just what to do once you start again

The wheels of a bicycle can only go forward
Hopping on again just takes getting on
So I say to you, Hey, how are you?
Have a great day

Tomorrow I may say more, once you tell me how you are today
And the next day, I can ask you how it all went
And the next I can say, want to get a bite to eat
And the next I will forget I never talked to you before

And the next day, I will have grown my circle of love
Of believing there is more good in the world than I thought the day before
All with a simple, Hey?

As you smile with greater ease
And your foundation of love strengthened
Pass along these moments as you accustom to who you are
Who you are when you are giving
When you feel life
And when you are able to live in the sharing of yourself

I Want To Be Mad At You...Would You Do Something

2007-09-07T10:17:00.000-07:00

You know when you are mad about something, and you can't get yourself to talk about it?
And then you are asked if something is wrong, and you want it to go away so you say nothing?
And then it doesn't go away, and it affects your mood, from being asked what do you want to eat to where do you want to go?
It becomes the big white elephant in the room and then there is no longer any room to walk around it?

You start to realize it is something you must face, and you don't know how to say it?
That you feel vulnerable and you don't want to fight with the other person or get them mad or feel like a fool?
And you feel like you handling it alone would be best

As time still goes on, you are not any happier, you didn't handle it, and you are now waiting for the other person to do something, so that you could simply blow up at them?

And pretend that that is why you are mad in the first place?

And then you feel even worse inside because that is not what you were mad at in the first place

And the other person feels horrible, since it probably didn't make sense, your anger matching his or her action

With all the negative feelings you were feeling beforehand, waiting for a reason to explode, did it really make anything better?
Did you really handle it by yourself?
Or did you single handily turn your initial hurt and anger into a war for not being understood, when it was you who assumed you could deal with it and you couldn't?

If you followed this so far, what would happen if you simply said, from the beginning:
You know I feel bad when I am upset, but I am. I want to share it with you because I don't want to feel bad about other things and then take this out on you. It is not fair to you, or to me.

Everytime this one thing happens, I feel like it is taking away from us and that you don't see that, and it makes me feel vulnerable.
I care about you so much that when I feel this way, I use to hold it in, but I am taking the chance and telling you so that I don't hurt us.

You will find that the other person listens and they listen with love and understanding
What is not understood, is trying to live as though no one can see you when they can
And having to fight about things that teach you the reason why fighting does not make sense

There is not a human on Earth who wants to feel bad, not loved or cheated by their friends, family, CO workers or boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands or wives.
I never met a child who remembered why they were angered at, but I met many who remember the humiliation of being screamed at or hit

Take the time to ask yourself, what would you respond to, and do it that way
Take the time to think about the other person, rather than what you want out of them
Ask yourself if you are setting them up to do something wrong, and then scream at them for it

The patience that you need, others need too
You are not the only one and neither are they
We are all one, look at it that way
One person, One need, One home, One family
We are most whole when we feel closest to One
We are most whole when we are not feeling desperate and alone, fragmented and scared

Speaking in the moment, of the moment, is the peace of our souls
It may not feel like it on the way there, but you have to push yourself to it to find it, to feel it
Peace doesn't come without a claim to it's understanding
Love is not known until you can see the affects of the lacks of love
Truth only has meaning when we have seen, lived in, and got hurt when it is not around

Speak in the moment and you won't have to create a moment or plan anything
Truth has a way of surfacing above all else
Next time you feel yourself unspoken when you need to speak, try something new
Speak from your heart
Speak with love
Speak with the knowing of how you want to be spoken to
The relief is unspeakable
The love ever compounding and understood

The Trail of A Happy Thought

2007-09-03T10:35:00.000-07:00

You wake up from a great dream you can not even remember
Yet you are happy from it as though you did remember
You were smiling when you woke up and that is really all that mattered

You decide very quickly what to wear for work
Without even thinking, you didn't put much time or thought into it and you felt free and confident no matter what you put on

You run through the kitchen to get to the door and you realize that you forgot to put the coffee on, and think, I don't need coffee today, I am already awake

You are driving to work, and someone cuts you off before you get to the freeway, and you think, that is too bad they are having a bad day

You get to work, and you are walking to your desk, and you pass several coworkers by, and they are complaining about the previous days happenings, and you say Good Morning and you keep going

You are lighter on your feet, freer in your mind and just plain happy about something and you don't even know what

It really shows us that anything can make us happy as long as we feel it and it energizes us in ways we couldn't even notice

And it teaches us that you can make a day happy with heart and love if we just think it, and it barely matters what it is we choose

Our mind is waiting for us to use it and put its strongest use forward

Just as easily as pushing the "wrong" button there is a "right" button too

How funny that we fight to have a choice in so many places of our lives and this is a choice given to us and we forget it is even there

Start with something you love and remind yourself that love can happen everywhere else

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Invite Love to Invite You

2007-08-31T07:45:00.000-07:00

I don't tell love what to do
I let love teach me what it is

It is chances in life

I understand that what is meant to be is meant to be

In many cases I have to trust God a lot to live it

Not just say I know it

I can't change anything about me

But I can grow my soul

Let's heal

Let's start paying attention to what that even means

Your purpose stands before you

And your internal purpose must be understood to do that

To recognize caring and selflessness

Selflessness to life on Earth

You see, you can not live without understanding

And understandings that are coming to you are of truth and love

Accept them as you would accept any other gifts or learning's in life

There is not a soul that is not a soul

There is not a soul more important than another

We all have opinions as though there is not a chance to growth, wisdom, nor the opportunity to teach

We are all one, then we are all, and then we are one again

Our healing is not so hard

It starts with love and is never ending with love

Lacks of understandings bring to us conflicts, delusions, and acts that don't look like love

And then we hurt others with our unresolved pains

Yet it is love, even if that love was hurt along the way

Love is objective

And can only be what we do to it

Let love be

Let it show you who you are

Let it lead you to sharing that with another

Love is our key

Love is our stem

Love is our name when we hear it called by another

Love is the phone call that asks us a question

That brings to us a person to share a meal with, talk about anything with

Love is the food prepared for us

Love is the thoughts that are shared unwarranted, that we can trust and learn from

There isn't enough we can say about love

And there are no boundaries of what we can do with it

Love is love is love, and when it is pure, we float in it like a baby in all its warmth and innocence

Love is the candle, and love is the light

Love is the opening of your heart unto itself

When was the last time you saw your heart?

When love was there
Love's greatest strength is it's predictablity

And it's unpredictability of what it can propel us to do

Soulgineering

2007-08-27T11:04:00.000-07:00

Imagine if there were no ego
No, me, me, me
No, I have to have this or that

Imagine if you didn't have to have a better house than your neighbor
A better car or job

Imagine if you didn't have to feel like you couldn't say what you are feeling
Shy about saying the truth
Distant when it comes to saying what you want

Imagine if you never had to lie
Cover anything up
Set something up, so no one would know it was you

Imagine if you didn't need attention to feel better about you
If you didn't need a compliment on your clothes to wear them again
Buy clothes you don't even need to look like something or someone

Imagine if you didn't have the pressures of ego
That nagging voice that pushes you in the wrong direction and then leaves you alone when you get lost
Imagine not having to feel like others didn't love you or want you to be present
That you felt love from others, with others, just because you already understand that you really do love who you are

Imagine if the encouragement of life had no restrictions and you could feel like you can do whatever you really dream you can
Imagine if you recognized Ego's weakness rather than it's strengths
Its strengths are only as strong as a false dream, a wrong road, a thought that hurts you in some way
Yet it looks like it has brains and guts, glory and stamina

Ego really only has nothing to offer
You or anyone else
Soul offers you answers, and it seems like the weaker of the two because it is silent

Yet a souls strength is its silence
A soul lets you come to it
Waits for you to learn why
Gives you a chance to catch your breath
Think about your actions
Know your intentions
Take in that someone else is involved, not just you

Your soul's language is silence and love
Caring and compassion
No races to a finish line without an answer at the end

Your soul is the loyal part of you
The part that knows better and tugs at you to do better
The part that reminds you to let go of what others do alone, and see your role in attracting it to you

Your soul is your partner and is a warrior
That battles your ego everyday
That pushes your consciousness to bother you when you forget your passion or that you have instincts

Your soul is the strength in the company you keep
The conversations you have
The love that you share

Your Ego loses you, sets you up for competition without any sport to play
Ignites you to feel as though the people you could love are against you
That the work you do is not enough
That the choices you make you should doubt
That the clothes you wear, the car you drive, that they are not enough
That you didn't take the right road, that you are not enough

As you find that your soul is your keeper and keeps those you love close
Keeps you close to who you are
Within compassion to yourself, to life, and to yourself again
Your soul is calm as you strive to be
And it reminds you it is already there
Without judgment
Without needing anything from you

It demands you to pay attention to Love
Since that is all it is
It commands your honor
And it teaches dignity
It pushes your buttons
With reward of heart
Your soul is your heart
And your hearts beating rests within your soul

It's Not A Secret

2007-08-24T08:39:00.000-07:00

How is it that if we think something it comes true
That when we are in a great mood everything seems doable, easier, and anything else is so what?
That when we can see something, anything, we most likely can do it?

How is it that when you take care of yourself that you start to take care of other things too?
That when you clean your room, you also think next to clean your car, your kitchen, your dog?
That when you get one good grade, do a great report, that you immediately begin to think about the next test, the next thing you also want to do great?

How is it that you can say one minute you can't cook at all and then someone will teach you how to make a great grilled cheese sandwich and all of a sudden you want to be Julia Child?
That when you buy something that you normally wouldn't buy and you wear it, you feel carte blanche to act cooler, different, as though you have gained a new sense of freedom?
That when you take a walk and listen to good music that you have to stop yourself from dancing or singing out loud which sounds really different without the music and your head phones?

How is it that when you are Happy already, the same thing someone may have done or said the day before when you weren't happy, could have been a whole different situation?
That is when you can learn in your heart that your feelings, your attitude, your outlook, your love, work, time you put into yourself in small ways throughout the day, really does make a difference
It is not a Secret that negative begets negative and positive begets positive

It is not a secret that Truth is understanding your own role in your own life and accounting to yourself who you really are
It is not a secret that Love grows with the knowledge of yourself and compassion to yourself
It is not a secret that Purity's sense of itself acknowledges it's existence when you discover your intentions and act upon them

We simply need to remember Truth, Love and Purity and the weight it carries within us all
And remind each other when one of us finds frustrations and challenges and forgets
The Secret is, it is not a Secret

Since You've Been Gone

2007-08-20T08:01:00.000-07:00

No Soul is Replaceable

A soul is itself no matter where it is

How many people think of a soul in a person

We think of a person and their actions

Yet as a soul

We think of them in a different light

Like what they are meant to do or be

What they think

Or act like or feel

When we lose someone we love

We think of everything they may have spoken to us and it magnifies in strength now that they are gone

We think of how they loved strawberry ice cream on a waffle cone

How they loved watching "I Love Lucy" reruns over and over again

We remember that they loved our blue sweater

And they cleaned their car once a week

We remember, and remember

We smile and cry

We want to see them and we can not replace them

We can only love them

And give their love the honor of living in us and thanking them for giving to us, them

For sharing themselves

As we share ourselves with our children

With our friends

With our families

With our coworkers

If we could think of those alive in the same appreciation as those that have passed?

Imagine how much appreciation that would be around

How little judgment is involved in our noticing the wonderful things they do

Rather than everything they do wrong

You see, we can actually see what we want to see

Both sides are always here, in front of us

Look at every person you see today in that way

Oh, they like their toast a little burnt with lots of butter

They always go for a walk at nine

They wave everytime they leave their driveways

And they always ask me how I am

No soul is replaceable

We each are a unique stamp that someone can be like

But never exactly

Nothing is exact

It is simply love

Nothing is perfect

It is just love

We are not bought, nor sold

We are simply love trying to know it

To live it and to be it

And when we recognize love and share it

Then we are souled

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Britney Broke Her Paris and Lohan is Just Richie

2007-08-17T08:08:00.000-07:00

We should no longer be allowed to report on Britney Spears
Paris Hilton

Nicole Richie

Lindsay Lohan

Even me who was a listener to their attentions and the woes

Once I would hear them speak

My interest is lost

It is weird to know so much about someone

That you listen to their every move

And I realized it isn't their every move I am listening to

I am listening to what is on the news, everywhere

Talk about no choices

You can't turn on the TV without one of them currently in rehab

Getting a ticket

Driving the wrong way

Or in jail for an accumulation of events

A nightclub they may have been too young to go to

And by 21 they appear to be much older than they are

We say it is money or fame

It is simply someone to talk about that is not us

That we can put attention to that is not us

That we can use as an example one way or the other and it is still weirder than us

These people made their way by showing up, dressing up and needing attention

And then complaining about the attention they asked for and don't know who they are without it

And we don't know if we love them or don't

Respect them or not

Care for them or not

We just know them

We hear everything about their every move

Imagine that enjoyment on your part

No privacy even when you seek it

You can't sleep in your car with your mouth open one day and wake up to the world in glitter the next

And we are amazed at the drama

So it replaces our own

WE need them in many ways

So that we don't need ourselves so much

Something to watch

Over and over again

Today I woke up hearing of restraining orders from mother to daughter or each others child

something in me changed this morning

I felt bad that we are fed this

Watching people live as they destroy themselves

And this is who we give credence to

When I hear them speak I am never impressed

And more interested in their love for the attention

It is not even beauty anymore

It is what is simply something to do

And I do not want to do it anymore

There is more to life than living in the world of appearances and furor

It seems like a joke that we do this, however I am sure we find greater things to hear if those things were allowed time on media

We have a need for release

It is medication

and Media

Drugs and Alcohol

That is the crazy thing

We all escape and their escapism is that is most interesting to us

For then we don't have to fess up to our own

The More We See, The Less We Saw

2007-08-13T08:23:00.000-07:00

It's funny how we didn't know what color we are until someone told us

It's funny how we don't know what religion we are until someone teaches us

It's even funnier how we are judged for something we come with and something we are taught, mostly before we had the choice to choose

I amaze at how we take those two things and turn them into reasons as to why:

Why that person doesn't deserve this or that

Why that person isn't worth talking to, sharing with, or getting to know

working with or understanding

I amaze at why we think so:

We don't know

It is fear of change, of life, of what could be different

It is wanting to be part of a group that is better than, deserves more, gets more public accommodations

It is fear of not being accepted and going along with the us, not them bunch

If none of us could see we would only be voices and brains

Thoughts and intellect

Work and sharing

No boundaries

Yet because we can see, we let out eyes take on the information that comes to all of us

And skew it

And use that extra bit of information to take away from us

To divide us

And distract us from paying attention to what really needs us

Like our resources

Our accommodations in life, like hospitals, schools, library's, foods, medicines and greater care of our Earth

Instead, because we can see, we have taken our energy's into sidetracks that only matter to ego

We let ego rule

And now we are basically a fear based society

Who is pressured in time, money and family

All that because we have eyes

All because we can see

One Minute Society

2007-08-10T08:58:00.000-07:00

How much worse does it have to get before we say STOP I just want to hear something nice to hear

How much take your clothes off music do we have to listen to, to remember a simple lyric about anything else

Don't sit to listen to stories of how everything is bad

Don't go to movies where you leave disturbed or had to watch many get killed to be excited about the movie

Don't go to events or share your time where it takes away from you, your family, your friends

Don't eat foods that will make you wish you didn't the rest of the day

Stop doing the stuff that we know doesn't make us feel better

Stop saying the things that you know you are saying because you are hurt and you are passing it along by hurting others with it

Stop paying to do the things that make the ills of souls more worth showing us then the best of us

We have come to pay attention to people messing up, talking about them, giving attention because we are just glad it is not us

We are better than that

Stop yourself when you find yourself ready to speak on something that you wouldn't want to speak about you

Stop yourself when you are upset at someone and you want them to know it rather than understand their point

Stop yourself when you say no to someone because you didn't want to take the time to say yes

And on the other hand, don't say yes to something that you don't want to do because you can't say no

We are putting a lot of pressures on ourselves that really don't need to be

WE are so scared to say the truth that we will say anything but the truth at times to make it go away

WE are so scared to say truth, just because we will feel like someone will then know what we want and we can't admit what we want even to ourselves let alone another person

If we give less attention to things we don't want to be and take some weird pleasure in seeing others do

And do as we want to be and not allow our energy to fill it's time with hardships

You will find that life has many things that are so much more pleasurable and less initially enticing

That life is forever for each of us, not a quick picture, gift or meal

We are us for the whole time we are here

We can fill it with a momentary "wow" that was cool, great, and then we forget it looking for something more

And the something mores live with us forever and nourishes us in our moments of quiet and calm

They excite the times we speak with others sharing our time, our meals, our interests and our music

We have to say "when" when it comes to what we accept

Whether it is the lowest grade fast food we take in our bodies

Or the lowest grade human behavior we begin to accept by allowing it space and time

Our respect for ourselves and then for others can only grow

As we learn to use different words to express ourselves

And different foods to nourish ourselves

And different stories to let into ourselves

We begin to see and feel hope

Carry and want love

For it's truth, not what we want from it

The One minute society is becoming old news, the has been of many generations

The One minute society is history, just like smoking a cigarette will make people wonder in 50 years how and why we would do such a thing

We have choices

And we have more choices

And out of all the choices we can make

We have to ask ourselves why we are too lazy to do the right things

Why our company and money makers bring out the things for money that end up being less for all of us

Our choices could only tell us who we are

And now our choices have to give us more

Who we want to be, now and tomorrow

Tomorrow really is today, stop tricking yourself into thinking then and not now

Promise you will listen to your heart and act on it's intentions

It is who you are...Stop saying, I don't know who I am

You do....we all do....we simply have to give it some airtime!

Don't Stop Believing

2007-08-06T07:35:00.000-07:00

Life is so much easier when your heart knows you are doing right by it

That you feel good no matter what, when you finish anything you started

That when you smile at people they have no power over you

That when they smile back, you bond in a quiet yet strong way

Life around you grows differently when you tell the truth and walk on

Lying never made anyone a better person

When you are happy, everything is so much more exciting

And everything that you are excited about finds a way of happening

Did you ever notice...

That when you plan something it actually happens

That every problem only has as much strength as you give it

That you attract people to you that are where you are at emotionally

That when you know what you are looking for, you find it

Life is really as simple as that

Our trust and knowledge's of ourselves are all that can grow us or take away from us

We could always trust trust a little more

And watch a lot more come our way

Seeing is believing

Feeling is our truth telling us we are on the right track

Being challenged reminds us we get to feel and do something about our feelings

Creation is just you creating

Whatever you believe in enough to learn, do and growth into it

We all know that when we are sure about anything

There is no stopping us

Don't let your beliefs go

Don't compromise your heart

Don't let your mind take you to the "I can't" place so regularly

There really is another way

And it is not just for other people

Everything really belongs to you and is already yours

Did you ever notice

When you can see something

Or you finally "get it"

No one can tell you different

Don't accept that from yourself either

Don't let yourself tell you that anything is not for you

If that anything is something you really do want and don't know how to get to

Things don't just happen

Life really is so much easier when you do right by your heart
Nothing is as strong as your intent, no matter what the outcome

Trying anything is telling yourself you are worth the fight, the love, the participation of life itself

Perfection is Love

2007-08-03T07:48:00.000-07:00

Remind each other

You need not be perfect

That we are perfect

When our intent is clair

When the air is clean

WE can move along

When there is mud we will get stuck in it

Remind each other that it is not magic

It is truth

It is magical when we live in our own lives

Teach each other in song, in love, in dance

That life is for living

Not for avoidance

It is true

We are not here alone

So we are not meant to know everything

We are meant to share what we know

And everything has a chance to be learned

We are not perfect

Perfection is love

We are not perfect

Why would we be here?

We are here to live our lives

To reach peace and understanding of ourselves

For perfection is love and love personifies itself in everything we do

And when love is present, everything feels perfect doesn't it?

So remind ourselves, and each other

That we are what is "perfect", we are love

And we are here to feel and to grow

Remind ourselves, and each other

That life is something we come to know

None of us come "ready to live"

We come "ready to learn"

And the learning creates the living

And the living teaches us love

And love is the perfection of all of us

Erase and Release

2007-07-30T09:50:00.000-07:00

It is so much easier to hold onto things

Then to let go

It is so much easier to say we let go

Then to have let go and it be gone

It is harder to actually let go

If we don't know why we are holding on

We really can't let go

Here is where you come in

You have to ask yourself why you can't release it, really

Start with Why

And you will find it is because inside you truly felt you were wronged

How do we clear a "wronged" feeling

You have to clear it with yourself first

And if it is possible with those you want to be clear with

You have to tell yourself, it made you feel vulnerable

That maybe you weren't respected, or felt loved, or cared for

And admit to yourself that you actually need those things

That none of us can live without those feelings

And if you can speak to the person,

You can say

Hey, I got to the bottom of why this or that bothered me so much

In the end, I just didn't feel cared for or about

Like I didn't matter

It wasn't your fault entirely,

My needs to feel cared for got in the way

And I just wanted you to know

It feels better to tell you

Thanks for your time

That alone clears the air

That alone clears your conscious

That alone not only releases what you were holding onto to

It erases it and it soon becomes a "remember when" story, maybe

If you can not release, erase, then you are still in it

you haven't come to terms with why

Speaking out what you believe is your truth

from your inner heart to the outside of you

Simply releases you of carrying it

That is the gift of truth

Once it is found

It never bothers you again

No U Turn

2007-07-27T09:07:00.000-07:00

So many times we go back in life

To times that we only remember the good parts

And we romanticize them

And make them so much better than they were

And then we expect everything to live up to something we have rewritten

Giving everything now no balance

Or a chance to have a chance with us

You see, it is easy to look back and forget

So think to yourself that today is like those days, only now

That you will remember only the good parts in a year or two

So live better today knowing that

Our lives are not meant to U Turn

We are meant to drive ahead and see what is in front of us, not behind us

Otherwise we would have eyes on the other side of our head

Merge onto the lanes of life

The one's that include living as you are driving

Looking around at what is beautiful

Rather than the biggest obstacle you can find to complain about

Complaining is easy

It is standing up for your happiness that is waiting for you to park

The Stems of Trust

2007-07-23T09:19:00.000-07:00

The stems of many mishaps

Stem from lacks of understanding

Of caring and what trust looks like, rather than what it feels like

You see, we see better with our ears than our eyes

When we hear something, would it make sense if we were not to see that person as well?

When we hear something we take in what we hear without what our eyes WANT to see?

When we are the people others do not want to trust

Is it because we don't trust ourselves?

When others speak of us as trustworthy

It is when we also trust ourselves?

Everything really is as it seems

When we can see

And Everything is as we want it to seem

When we are not ready to see

Trust in your instincts

They exist for a reason

We always know when we allow ourselves to do something that we know we are not meant for

Is it because we are trying to stop ourselves from the greater things we are meant for?

We all have a defining moment when we walk down a road that we know isn't our best choice

And we keep going trying to prove ourselves wrong

Wrong from what?

It is truly our fear of being right to us, to ourselves, since it brings us back to our own accountability

Accountability, Free Will, and Us not knowing how to believe we can do it!

Do it and that is truly how you can believe

Do it and trust that you can

Do it and give yourself the greatest satisfaction

That your instincts serve your truth

And your truth gives you the vision

And the vision of your heart

Leads you to a life that you ask for and are too scared to know

The stems of love can only stem if you plant the seeds

The seeds are your own love, truth and purity of your wanting to really grow on

They are the pyramid of your thoughts

And doing things are the actions of your trust

That is what trust looks like, feels like and is

Run Don't Walk Away

2007-07-20T11:06:00.000-07:00

I don't like to not like someone

It takes a lot for me to say that about anyone

I really do everything I can

Every chance to say, hey they are not that bad

Yet there are some people who will come into your life

And no matter who you are, what you do, how much you help or service them

They find a way to say the worst of life about you

So much so that you may not even recognize at first that it is you they are talking about

They will gossip about you

Say things that they knowingly slant and let others form an opinion based on that slanting.

And feel good about it

As though they accomplished something

And then they try to justify it by telling someone how bad you are and them agreeing with you

and then they don't feel so bad, since they just justified it and got someone else to say yes too

And you feel the energy of it

And by then it is already in motion

And you can't come up with anything that would change things

Only because the intentions of others is to keep it down

And for those who are talked about

I realized one day, I would rather be the one talked about then the one talking

The one talked about is doing

The one doing the talking is covering up for what they are not doing

Always know the one talking is the one not doing

To keep things as down as they feel

When you hear someone talk about you

Walk away and know that time will answer every question

And that the talkers are also the one's that walk away when you need them

It is easy to talk about anyone

The higher road is the road of love

The road of love of yourself

Enough to trust

That those that do, is who you are

And those that talk are those that you recognize, like you would anything that wasn't right

Good Love is open and Clear

And when the air is murky

Run do not walk away

And don't look back, the talkers will be there

Oversexed and Underloved

2007-07-18T09:48:00.000-07:00

As we walk around all day and all we could think of

Is who we love, if only they loved us, How we can love someone more or less

We dress to attract

We watch movies that are themed in sex even if it isn't the topic

We drive by strip clubs, bars, billboards of complete communication that you may find love because of a product

We work out our bodies, eat certain foods, stand at the sunset, go to the beach

We listen to music all in one way or another are about happy love, sad love, misguided love or lost love

We strive for love

Look for love

Dress for love

Drive for love

Our house is to show how we love

Our car is show our worth of love

Our conversations say we are alluring enough to know for love

Our loneliness tells us we must fight for love

And then we find another to love

And we are still bombarded with the stimulus to love

All around us

And as time goes on we think, now we can do better at love

Not this person or that

Not this car

Not this house

I want new, new, new

I want to feel new at love

I don't want to try at love

I already know this person

I want to start over and know another person

That special feeling of love is gone

It is not gone

It is you that is gone

It is you that stopped giving, receiving, sharing

It is you that decided you would rather start again than to learn to be on the "other" side of love

The side that takes you beyond sex

The side that says I have been here and I found out this person really is beautiful when they are loved

that I feel beautiful to be loved with calmness around me

that I don't need the drama's to prove I am loved

I don't need to flirt around to prove I am worthy of love

I don't need to Use anyone else to feel loved

That I could accept love to me

When you want to run away from another and start again

It could be you that it is meant to move on that you understand this isn't the depth of love you know you can feel

You usually know that right away and stop dating

Yet if you have been with someone for a long time and you loved them deeply

Then you do love them

It is not that they are bad because you already know them

Discover them as they are known

Live in their worth of themselves as you discover your own worth

take life on with them as though they are new

You see they are new

New to themselves

New to others

And new to you if you can see it that way

We tend to take away the beauty when we get edgy within ourselves

Sometimes we don't feel we deserve love so we look for sex to tell us we are loved

Sex and love have very little to do with each other these days

Sex is an act you can do with anyone and not even know their name

Love is a feeling that carries you in all of life, starting with first knowing your parents to everything else you know through out life

Sex is a stimulant and a beautiful thing

Yet we all find out in life if you are having sex with out love you can leave a room emptier than when you walked into it

For men sex is a notch

A proof positive that he is alive and vital

And for women sex is a proof of being loved and accepted

Sex is neither of those things

Sex is love's truth

Sex is loves sharing

Sex is the closest way to commit your intimacy to yourself and another

And we have taken sex and used it

we use sex to sell everything from gum to newspapers

We use sex to say we are worth something

We use sex to hurt others

We use sex to hurt ourselves

It is paid for

It is bought

It is sold

It is non discriminatory to children in ways most of us couldn't conceive

And we found out that sex is special when it is with someone special

It is even better when we are committed to another in a way that we don't commit anywhere else

We are meant to be partners, not alone

And yet we are not truly meant to have many at once

It is confusing at best

And the jealousy's and arguments, status of who is more important and more love would never end

Sex is the gift of love

We simply realize that sex is a gift period

We forget the love part

Yet without it sex is oversold and over rated

It is a picture or a way we are supposed to act

Sex is a part of life

A release and expression

A fast moment at times

A slow day at other times

Sex is the story of our hearts

And we write that story

And it will become what we look for

When we settle our love settles and our sex feels like nothing

And when we look for love we find that love carries sex, like the love of life carrying us

WE are free to understand other things once we can say sex is beautiful from heart

And until we can say that and understand who we are in love and sex

We will look for it until we do

that is why we have so many lookers and trying souls

they want to find it, live in it's secrets and grow to greater depths of life

that is the treasure at the end of the rainbow

And that is when you find out the glory of any rainbow is seeing the colors in it

And the treasures present themselves along the way

Sex is over sold

And we can change that in a minute

We can say, I want to know people

I want to know myself

Enough to feel that my truth is present when the rest of me is

I don't have to "present" myself

If I "present myself" then I will only meet someone else who is "presenting" themselves

If I am me, I will find someone who is them

And then I could ask for what I want and need and I can grow and learn

If I am selling, I will only find someone who is buying

And If I am buying, I will always know I can return or exchange

I no longer want to play buying and selling

I want to feel love, and learn to accept it in heart not in body a lone

I no longer want to be underloved as I have underloved myself for a long time

I want love and as I have the energy of wanting love, I am sure to know it when I see it

It is usually the love I have been passing by, as I was looking for sex

I won't stop short at sex anymore, i will only continue to look for love anyway

I will look for love and know that when I can see love in others, it is when I have found it in myself

No more waiting for someone to notice

People notice those who notice themselves

In politeness to life, to others and to life again

Everyone is attracted to the beauty of feeling loved, I don't care who they are

Attract yourself to love and love will not let you forget it is there

It will only grow you in teaching you how to work with it without fear of it

I say over and over again

It is not what YOU would do in any situation of life

Keep asking yourself

What would LOVE do?

Everything For A Reason

2007-07-16T09:18:00.000-07:00

When you don't feel included
It makes it easier to justify hurt feelings
When you don't feel included
You get to a place were you want to do everything yourself
When you don't feel included
You start to build a resentment and you do not want to include others
When you don't feel included
You learn to take care of yourself and you try not to build so much so that it doesn't hurt when you are not included

Yet you can also learn to include yourself in your own life
Make time for yourself so that you have balance in what you enjoy
Your time with yourself and your time with others

And the time with yourself will open the door to others who do what you have in common
As you are led through your desires to those who desire as you do

Nothing is as it seems
Everything really does happen for a reason
And everytime you are not included in one place
it simply means you belong somewhere else
If you are not at a place, with a certain person, at a certain job
It means it wasn't or isn't yours yet, as of yet, or maybe never

The time you have for yourself
Teaches you, you
You as you are naturally
And acceptance of who or what comes into your life

In truth it is not that you are not included
It is simply your freedom to find where you are included!

Spirited Thoughts

2007-07-09T07:55:00.000-07:00

Love is objective

The worst truth is better than the best lie

Lazy souls, wilted dreams

Superficial is the blocking of the sun

Whatever it is, just say it, even if it is only to yourself

Not understanding yourself leads you to not understanding others

Not understanding yourself leads you to glamorizing others

Not understanding yourself leads you to thinking everyone else is better than you and your goal becomes to be better than them

Taking responsibility for your actions is the best any of us could do

Living in the moment is a gift and you know it when it happens

When you trust someone or something, you really relax

Food always calms everyone

Sharing food brings people together

Saying Hi to anyone breaks the ice

Helping someone melts the ice

Fear is the plug we can pull anytime

WE spend our lives looking for love, find the love that is already in your life and live in it, all the other love will come once you recognize the love you have

Trust in life gives you the freedom to think of other things

Traveling sure makes you appreciate Home

Home is your hearts content, leave the door open, put the key in a safe place, and allow life to visit, when you need quiet lock the door, only for a day or two, and then reopen for business. Business can not thrive if you are not open!

Hearty Living

2007-07-06T09:43:00.000-07:00

Fear, Doubt and Worry will only stagnate you

The only thing between can't and can is you

Your mind is powerful enough to stop you

Why can't it be powerful enough to start you?

Maybe we got the power of the mind thing all wrong

That Our mind is supposed to be able to do anything we set it to

However we forget to include our hearts in the decision making process

Our hearts balance our minds

Our minds can easily think in ego

Who is better

I want to be better than

Setting your markers on showing someone something

Really it is you showing yourself who you are

It doesn't matter what anyone else can begin to think

If you don't think it yourself

You see, others see you even though you think they can not

Just like you can see as well what others do not want to show you

Show yourself and you will grow yourself into a someone

A someone who can stand on their own at the very least to themselves

We remember everyone we know who stands for themselves

And we learn from them without words

We are others and others are us

If we want to show anyone anything, that means that others are doing it too

However when you stop showing and start doing

All of that goes away

And then you have a gift left behind

A gift of self worth that can only expand itself

Extend itself like an open invitation

That when you wake up that day is yours

For real

And you will look back on it at the end of the day

With a satisfaction that no matter what you couldn't be talked into

It is a satisfaction in your heart that you will carry onto the next day

As you learn to look forward, and then forward again

Tomorrow no longer is far away

And today is yours to live in

So live

Simple Words

2007-07-02T09:33:00.000-07:00

When someone talks about us and we hear about it
It hurts our feelings and we react by saying we don't care what others think
And yet we try every remedy to not be or do what they said about us and at the same time say we don't care

WE do care what others say or think or feel when we are being judged by them
it is true that those who talk about others are the least happy within themselves
yet those very unhappy people can really make us mad too

They want to poke and prod at life
So that others will feel as poked and prodded as they already are
They didn't come up with misery loves company out of nowhere

Yet we remain susceptible to them
Until we can call them on their actions
And let them know that the ill intentions that they carry for others
Is just plain unkind

Yes, use the word unkind
Rude will make them defensive
Talking about them makes you them
And saying they are unkind is so true it will bring them to light
With no hiding place

The simplest words can carry the most weight
When you tell someone they are unkind
It is objective
You are not saying only that your manner hurt others
You are saying to them, it must be something in you that is causing you to want to take away from others

We all know someone who enjoys sticking their greasy tongs were they don't belong
And we all have the grease cleaning soaps
And it is time to use that soap in a cleansing for all of us
You see, when you can tell another person
"that was unkind"
You show your strength by not approaching with the anger that was expected and wanted
You can turn the situation slowly to see itself for what it is

Try it sometime, it will surprise the soul with the eyes that can not see
Just because it is something they haven't heard before and something that is to true to ignore

Life offers us a way out of anything
And those ways come with the simplest soulutions
Step life back a few paces and let it show all of us what it can be

The only way we can see the wall
Is to walk back far enough to know that we hit the wall
And then we can walk around it

Even a Broken Clock is Right Twice a Day

2007-06-29T08:07:00.000-07:00

The truth of a lie
is the lie of a truth
You can not see something until you know what it is
When we believe something that is not truth it is because we need to at that time
And when we find the lie in what we believe to be truth
Then we know truth

Sounds like a tongue twister however it is only twisted truth
Our jobs, our hearts work, our brains truth is to untwist the twisted
And speak the truth to ourselves so that we could go on

To tell ourselves that someone doesn't like us is our perception
Is it on a day we don't like ourselves
To tell ourselves we can't get this job or that car or live in that house
Is it that we do not believe we deserve to have what we love
To tell ourselves that nothing good happens to us
Is it that we don't want it to and we got use to living in the "nothing for me" mode?
The "there is nothing I can do about it" mode?

And then we turn every situation into why this or that could not happen
And we trap another soul into listening to us

What if we turned our thoughts into telling ourselves, I am doing this on purpose
I don't want myself to succeed, but why?
If I succeed then will I be accountable to live up to other goals and things I have wanted
Am I scared to fail at what I was wishing for, so I keep it away by saying I have tried, but.....

I found myself saying this many times in these past weeks,
Even a broken clock is right twice a day
Take a chance on yourself
Start with the little things first
And then build it, one thought at a time
Take what is right and do it
And take what you fear and try it
No one needs to know
Just you and your efforts
And let your efforts teach you
And have patience to teach yourself
And then share it with another
And let yourself explain it
And then you will have trust
Trust in your abilities
And as your abilities grow
You will be capable
And No will be answered with Why not?
Why not you!
Your love is your strongest emotion
Let it live in it's stride, don't accept your own lie's
The one's you have gotten used to and forgot they are lie's
They become truths that are not truth
And you know better than that
Take your lies that became truth
And live in the truth of what you lay before you
No matter what, you will never shortchange yourself in truth

Peek and Peak

2007-06-25T09:23:00.000-07:00

We are the avenue, the path, the bridge to use the knowledge that we already have
People don't so much need answers, they need means
Means of the mind to capture a method to develop our knowledge
Knowledge we already have

That is why we know things and we can not apply them to our lives
So we think we need a new book, tape, teacher
Really we are just looking for a way to get our knowledge and our actions to work together
To produce for us
To teach us we even have a way to our knowledge
It is an unleashing that never ends once a person can see themselves taking on their knowledge
Like anything we do, once we do it once, we have a path to do it twice
The old "I don't know or have time" doesn't work anymore

We get to live a lifetime building knowledge and finding a way to apply it
We already know and have heard a lifetime of answers
And we keep asking questions, trying to find a way to use our answers
Action is motivation
Once you start anything, your brain carries you the rest of the way

Trust your capabilities and your capabilities will in turn trust you
It is in your hands, your soul, your desires
To turn anything into something
Don't ask what should I do here or there,
Simply ask yourself
What would love do?

The Guessing Game of Relationships

2007-06-22T08:25:00.000-07:00

What is it about relationships that keeps us guessing?

Is it that we want them too bad?

Is it that we are not sure what to do or say?

How could we be so sure in other area's of our lives and then not in a relationship?

It stems from us simply not being sure about being loved

We are not sure how it looks or feel like we can relax in it

We feel like it takes time for us to be "ourselves" rather than just being ourselves

It is funny how we judge ourselves before anyone has a chance to judge us

We know what it is like when we meet someone

And they are relaxed and because of that, we are attracted to them

They don't have to "act" relaxed, they just are

You don't even care what they look like or what they are wearing

You are attracted to their comfort with themselves that you will love initially and grow to love more along the way

We think it is what we wear that day or circumstances, when we say, this happened and I was just...meaning you were caught off guard just being yourself

Our instincts attract us to each other when we are real

When we are not relaxed within ourselves, we try to control the outside of us

With our clothes,

Clever comments

Moments of thinking we have won something

We don't win anything for long if we are not true to our lives and live in the truth of us

I know there is so much to be said for physical appearance

At least initially

And for a great car, or home

At least until you own it

Or a wonderful job,

As long as you love it

However we tend to forget those things when we are not feeling great

And use those things when we feel on top of our game

Yet you are not a game

You are a person

Whose heart is attractable and loving

And could stand on it's own if you let it

And could bring to you all that you want, if you let it

We can not control with our things what to bring to us from others

We can simply be us and attract others who like the us of us

And we can breath in the moments that teach us it is OK to think cleanly

And greater even to live in the life with the lights on

And to feel accepted no matter what

The only time we are not accepted is when we do not accept ourselves

Compassion for yourself is the foundation of love of you

And the love of you is the love that brings others to you

Everyone loves to feel love, and when you feel it, you can see it too!

Father's Days

2007-06-18T14:04:00.000-07:00

Daddy doesn't know that I notice everything he does

His ways become mine

His thoughts are my first

His heart is open to me

Even when it closes the door to everything else

He reminds me that he cares about me

Even when he is not sure how to care for himself

Daddy doesn't know that I love him without question

We don't tell Dad's as much

It isn't what people do

Dad I love you

I love when you barbecue

I love when you give me a ride

Even when I act like you have to

I miss the moments when I really wanted to listen to you

And I thought you just didn't want me to do something, I can't remember now what it was

I thank you for the moments you took the time

To just let me know how things go

So that I would know

No credits, no accolades

Just love and caring

Thank you Dad, you are more than a man who takes care of his family

You taught me to take care of mine

I now know to keep talking

That kids are listening all the time

The foresight of knowing

What is yet to come

Is the love of a Dad

That is second to none

Love and Get It

2007-06-15T09:16:00.000-07:00

Being a couple doesn't mean you have to know everything

Agree on everything

Be the same

And never feel like you can't speak otherwise

Being a couple is a true lesson of love

It is knowing the other person is their best with you, whatever it is

Doesn't know where to begin when they are upset except with the fear that you do not care enough

Trust that the reason for your existence together is to learn to negotiate, to compromise

To enjoy and to trial

To learn the truth of you in a safe place

And to bring your best intentions forward and find out the best of intentions asks for nothing

Other than the truth of you

And in turn teaches that truth to your partner

Your children

And the rest of those who are involved

Having a partner is not just having a man or a woman

It is having a human who wants to succeed in life

Who wants to show themselves and you that hope will always be alive

And trust will always want to grow

And love is endless no matter what you do

When there is love it builds a civilization around it

It builds family and attracts those who want to believe

Who want to believe that life works and is thriving

That anyone can go to the safe place that is built and add their house and share their love

And that is called Community

The children have the foundation that love is possible

The home cooks the meals that build the foundation of their lives

It all boils down to love

Any route you take

It all reminds us that people are important

Any way you look at it

Every soul, every partner, every child, every neighbor, every friend and acquaintance

Boils down to Love

Without love we are lost

And with it we are boundless, endless, and unstoppable

Love is not a glue

Love is freedom

Stand and Deliver

2007-06-11T09:23:00.000-07:00

Notice that you speak

And take accounting for what you speak

Notice that you do

And take accounting for what you do

Notice that you work

And take accounting for your work

Notice that you thrive

Take accounting....

Your soul is the you you present to the world

The world does not shape you

It is your shaping that presents itself to the world

Do not let the traps of missions take you on

Stand in your strength

And give your soul a chance to have it's say

Stand in your truth

And let the truth lead you

You need not speak super stories that carry little truths

Nor do you need to pronounce your specialness, important or perceived self worth

All you have to do is to be truth, love and purity, without the lacks of pretending to be

And you will add to the energy of truth love and purity of the world in which you shape.

Charity's Soulstice

2007-06-04T08:08:00.000-07:00

Charity is known for it's largeness

organizations reaching out to as many people as can be reached, and helped

Charity has become the new focus

The hope of us all

Where the ones who have time and means come together

And those who have service have an outlet

And those who need help have a place

And those who want to help have a place

And then there is the charity of our souls

They are the us's that have some angers

That no one is around

And then when we need it

We can see it

When someone smiles at us

We feel loved

And when someone opens our door we feel noticed

And when someone says a simple hello

We can be turned around in a moment

The charity of us

Is knowing we can live together

And charity is proof of that

And Love can be felt in it

And reasonings aside, when we know there is a cushion, we most of the time don't even need it

It is just knowing it is there

And we are settled enough to succeed

When someone can say

A simple "you can do it"

you can

When your mind can see it

You have a path

And when you have taken the first step you stop counting steps

The first acts of charity are from us to ourselves

And then it gives to us knowledge to know what it could possibly mean

to have a cushion

And that cushion is for the success of all your idea's and thoughts

Actions and accomplishments

The greatest charity of us is to know we are the cushion

The cushions of charity give to us the springboards of life

And life can only be more interesting as we are supported by ourselves

And cheered onto the understandings of it's propellations of all of us

Giving back is the greatest act of charity

Learning to receive is the greatest way of knowing

That there has never been giving back alone

Everything we do is multifaceted and all souls win when there are thoughts of all of us succeeding

Charity is a way of thought, a mind set that is in all of us

You can do it, you have done it, and then you can do it for another

The torches are no longer for family alone

Family understands it needs the block

And the block understands it needs the community

And the community understands it needs the state

And then we get it that we matter

We see that what we do touches

And charity starts in the heart long before it becomes an action

Action is just the reminder we can take on our ideas and our ideas are not just for us

It will surprise you

that you can

And it will carry many if you do

Life's Nectar

2007-06-01T12:58:00.000-07:00

Watch your steps
Walk in peace
Listen to the heights of your mind
And react with time in your thoughts

In your moments of relaxation
take on the walking of your body
The walking of your body is the peace of your mind
Without the peace of your mind, you could not come about walking

It is an energy in itself
to breed self maintenance
and compassion's to take you to the roads of understanding love

Self love's appearance has been manipulated by the human mind
for it is giving the human mind the ego's version of self love
which is to out do anything from yourself, to all souls that you encounter

So simple is the truth
And so complicated is the mind when it wants to realign truths to convince itself of it's truth
The truth of truth settles and all the rest of it leaves us with questions

Truth in self love is to understand the value of love itself
For once a soul can feel love of itself it can offer it to others

You can not offer a meal of meat and potatoes
if you do not have meat or potato's in your possession

Fear of love does not have a place in eternity
Fear is the driver of a car with no engine
You simply can not drive the car

There is nothing to lose in love unabated
Freedom to speak from your heart so you could feel and be felt
Love enough to say, yes, that happened and I have learned
Compassion enough to tell yourself, I will do right by you
It calms the heart to know you are present
That you are there for you
Then you can share you, have meat and potatoes for dinner, and recognize love as it finds it's way to you

Ego's Friendly Fire

2007-05-29T11:33:00.000-07:00

We all hear about the bombings of Iraq, of Palestine
And we think to ourselves, it's OK because they are terrorists
We all can see their devastation and we say, it is OK, they kill people for their religion
We all see the mothers cry and we think they are different mothers
The brothers in search of survival
The sisters in search of a future
The grandparents unable to protect
And the parents unable to make a living
Education is scarce and interrupted
And it is all OK because they are Arabs
Because they are Muslims
Because they do not deserve what everyone else in the world deserves
Not even protection
Not even foods
Not even entertainment
Or shopping for clothes
Not even ovens
Not even refrigerators
Not even water in some of their regions
They should be lucky we call them people
For in our hearts we equate them to animals
Yet we do not dare to speak it in words
Instead we take it on in actions
And bombings
The Palestinians were simply living on the wrong land
That is the foundation of that issue altogether
What they have become as a result of that, is uneducated, underfed, waterless, humans
The Iraqis happen to live on an oil rich land
This is the foundation of that issue altogether
We all know if Iraq traded kumquats
They would still have their country
Uninterrupted by others greed and motivations
Afghanistan is added in to take on the footprint of doing so
Iran is a threat because they may advance in knowledge's
Yet other countries do so unabated
And we all stand by and take away their humanness
Simply so we can sleep at night believing they deserve it
We starve ourselves as we starve others
We hurt ourselves as we hurt others
We pretend that is not truth either
The real truth is that you can attract more bee's with honey than with vinegar
We simply choose the vinegar
We simply want to believe we are better than others
We want to use others for our own perceived joy
The world watches and we as people reach out to the poor
And our leaders reach out for money
The monies it takes to kill others and control them
Could repair our worlds ecology, economy, and love
And WE got to this place that speaks we do not want that
We want love on our terms, not God's
We want as much money as we can get our hands on and leave others to watch in awe
We let ego run our world
Greed motivate our decisions
And Stature giving us the power to do so
And we are finding power in our hands is not a good thing
We steal with it, we use for it, and we fear losing it
To believe there is anything good to come out of self motivation
Is the perception that speaks I am greater than you
I am better than you
Because I am able to control you with who I am
It is a reflection of not caring, being unkind and losing sight along a path that dead ends
Eternal paths bring growth to souls
And we have made decisions that it is only "some souls"
As God Almighty speaks, we are one: however, one means some in our world
We say we believe in God, in forgiveness, in truth and in trust
Yet we have not understood the meanings of love yet
Love is love is love
To think it is a game of elimination is to eliminate all of us in one way or another

What Money Has Done To Us

2007-05-25T16:34:00.000-07:00

It has caused us to require car insurance rather than health insurance

It has brought to us credit cards without any sense of prudence to teach us to desire before we can even feel

It has told us some people are better than others

It has given to us measurement that are not balanced or fair

It has made selling drugs more profitable than teaching children

Working extra rather than raising our children

It has brought out things instead of our time

It has made a car worth more than a home

It has made a home the cost it would be to feed many starving people

It has given our environment a back seat

It has turned talks into a waste of time

It has made buying things we could easily do easier

We let money take over and over it did

It makes us nervous when we are not sure if we have enough of it

When we are not sure it will make us look good, or good enough

It causes friction when we are around those who have too much of it, or not enough of it

It has caused a great line in the sand as to where you can shop, eat, sleep and what resources are available to us

It has taught us to be happy for now and not think about tomorrow

It has only brought much worry and question to our motivations

It is trying to replace happiness

Yet money is just money

It is not a person, it can not feel, nor can it give or take

Money is the energy we put into it

For a day we can put money aside and follow the flow of the day

We can bring a lunch and walk somewhere rather than drive

We can wash our clothes and clean our rooms

We can finish a job rather than going out and buying something to feel like we did something

We can cook at home, even if we eat a little later

We can prepare things that we would normally pay for

We can forget how much we have of it and think about how much we have of us

And then we can choose life over money and money will be the tool that it is

Not the medicine for every hidden aliment

Money is something for all of us to live, and it is relative to where and how we live

WE are the person we are, we came without it and we leave without it

We are here to live and it is one of the ways to accomplish our tasks

Look at it that way and it becomes logical to have it and it won't scare us so much

It will teach us all the ways people try to get it, steal it, hurt others for it and understand

That it is only a thing that has only the power we give to it

So release what you need and simply say, I need this, no waiting, no fear

And you will grow yourself out of the control of money into the flow of life

Money is money and you are you

They are separate and we all know when push comes to shove, money can not buy you love

The Lie and The Truth

2007-05-23T09:58:00.000-07:00

Lie: Hello Truth, tell me about yourself

I am The Lie

I am the opposite of you

Truth: I am here all the time

And sometimes no one can see me

I stand out in a crowd and people walk around me

I am present at every meeting

And no one talks about me

I am in every conversation

Without mention at times

I feel unloved and do not get much attention at all

To tell you the truth, at times I am jealous of you lie

People get excited when they talk about you, at least for a moment

Lie: Yes, but it makes them feel bad and then they don't like me so much

Truth: But at least you get honorable mention in political events

Lie: Yes, but then they write about me in the papers the next day and they question me

Truth: Oh...And then what?

Lie: Then the person who is found out gets in trouble

And then they say they want nothing to do with me

They say they hate me because I make them hate themselves

Truth: Hate?

Lie: Yes, I have to use that word

I hear it all the time

Truth: Well, I guess not being talked about or mentioned isn't so bad

At least when they find out about me it solves things

Lie: Yes, and you get to stay who you are, Truth

When they find out about me, they deny they ever knew me

They try to make up stories and they throw me to the wind

Some die by me, but they are fewer and fewer

since they claim their heads feel better without me

Truth: Oh...I have nothing left to say...The truth is, you can't change me

I am what I am, and I never really change

All I wanted was some recognition

Now I feel like I don't need it so much

I am already happy

I guess I just wanted to be remembered

Lie: Oh, Truth, they will remember you,

They have to

Otherwise no one would sleep or enjoy their meals

No one would have friendships or partners of any kind

A child wouldn't have anyone to talk to without you

Truth you serve a purpose

When people find out about you, they can't live without you

Being a lie is just a lie

I am not really here

I just think I am

I am not real and nothing about me is

You are stronger than me

You last longer than me

Thank you truth, now I can rest

I will try not to let others use me so much

I think it is your turn now so we can undo the troubles that I did

I think I can change my ways

I want to be like you

I love you truth

My Broken Window

2007-05-21T08:18:00.000-07:00

Today was a good day

Not everything I wanted to happen happened

My car got hit by a baseball

And now I have no back window

I couldn't believe it

I walked around and everyone in the field was looking at me

Waiting for my reaction

To see what I would do

What was I to do?

I was the owner of the lucky car

That all the kids would remember forever

That the boy who hit the foul ball

Shattered a car window

And it brought everyone together

Just to talk about it

Even the one's that don't talk so much

Out of amazement and shock

Laughing nervously thanking God it wasn't their car

And the manager of the home team ran up to me

And give me the news that they are insured and I will be taken care of

And the boy that hit my car didn't have to feel so bad

My broken window joined together two teams, all their parents and the kids memories forever

My broken window gave me the eyes to see

My broken window made the world clearer to me

What is it about you?

2007-05-14T08:01:00.000-07:00

What is it about you that you love?

What is it about you that enjoy?

What is it about you on the days you feel your highest?

What is it about you when you smile without thinking of it?

What is it about us that enjoys the happiness of others?

What is it about us that feels weightless when we feel good?

What is it about us that carries good news rather than bad when we feel better than sad?

It is us in our higher form

It is us when we know we can

It is us when we can see ourselves do something and the path feels clair

That is Clair, as in Clean Air

It is us when we take care of what we have inside enough to have space to breath

And take in a moment

And recognize that "Yes, I am happy right now"

This is what I have been working towards and planning for

It is here right now and if I don't stop and recognize it now

When will I?

It is us when we feel free enough to know some things will never be done

And we can live with that

That some things are meant to finish and that was their purpose

That change is why we are here

And growth is a good thing

It is us when we know what we know and we rest with it

That we don't know what we don't know

And that is OK too

It is us breathing and in our breaths

Feeling alive enough

To say "thank you" to ourselves

For taking care of us for so long

Through all we have been through

And trust we know enough to continue

And look forward to

And stop racing towards

however, living within

All that is in life

Without the strings of 'not now' attached to everything

It is about truth in our hearts that life is open to us

As we learn to open ourselves to what it offers

A Mama's Love

2007-05-11T08:32:00.000-07:00

My child you are a soul

A soul all your own

I thought you were mine for a long, long time

And then you began to grow

I found you had talents all your own

Different favorite colors and foods

Different ways you dance and speak

Interests I never heard of

Patience I could not conceive

That you have for me

It never occurred to me

That it is you teaching me

As I teach you forward

You bring me back

Back to simple, basic love

Back to grilled cheese sandwiches

And a renewed appreciation for peanut butter

You reminded me how good vanilla ice cream is

And that I could eat it and chase you for hours and never feel stuffed

Yet I am always satisfied

My sweet love, my child, my heart

You expanded all that I know

I live my childhood again with you, in a way I remember the best of me

Your heart loving me, when I am not so sure about how things are in the world

And I know the world has a great chance

Just because I know you, and you are part of our world

I give to you, my child, my heart

I give to you my love

My love that I could never give enough of

My love that understands it's existence with you

My love that taught me eternal love

My soul that wants to preserve your love of self, of me

Without compromising your love of learning,

Your self esteem

Your confidence

I thank God for the wisdom to know this while I have you, while you can here

Knowing the words of my love live forever in your heart

I trust life to know that love can only breed more love

My child, my heart

We are all children

As I am a child too

I understand what I yearned for

And I give to you the yearnings of support

And I live in your growth

May you live in mine

With the understanding we are on the same side

The side of life and love

May we join each other in our souls as we have joined in our journey's

Love, Mama

How Could You?

2007-05-07T09:23:00.000-07:00

How could we know something and not do it if we think we want to
Like say something we would love to speak and we do not
Eat what is better for us than other things
Do the work we want to do rather than carry the burden of 'I'll do it later"

How could we feel something and not act on it

I have been wanting to do that my whole life

My whole life I never went to, ate at, tried this

I have always loved him, her, them and never said anything

How could we live life and not do what we desire

As though someone took it away from us and told us we can't

We are the only person stopping us from doing what we think about doing

We are the only person who can say no to us

If someone else were to say no to us, that would be the very thing we would want to do

Why is it when there is something nice or rewarding that we put it off

And we live in the have to's

I have to do this because...

Let the good in, what ever your good is

Let your wants seep in without guilt

Replace guilt with love

Guilt is a manmade emotion

Love is understanding and compassion

When you are happy, those around you are happier

When you are happy you have much more to give and share

When you are not, you get angry at others much faster

When you are happy the world becomes a plate of appetizers and some huge meals

When you are happy saying yes is easier than saying no to yourself

Do what makes you happy

Take a day off to hear yourself think

Eat well, it is as easy and tasty as it is to not eat well, only you will feel better at the end of the day

Go for a drive and put on older music and live in how far you have come for a moment

Go to an ocean, mountains, open land and enjoy the vastness that puts us all in perspective

Remember the moments of your life that were big transitions to change and how you were successful

Take on that you have a life, a ticket to be on Earth and to live on Earth

That means you are a person too

And that is what people do

They take part, invent, reinvent, attempt, reattempt, have issues and solve them, have jobs and change them, have children and are changed by them

We are all in the same race

The race to grow older and complain about our age

Yet our age is our right to say

I have done that and my experiences have made me more sure to try as I understand

I say to anyone

How could you take the joy out of your own life?

Find the pockets of joy in your heart and open the paths to let them be

Slowly at first

More as you are use to it

As it will become you to live in joy

As it grows into solidity

And becomes you, your soul, who you are

Who you are is all you have and all we see

Waiting becomes a mindset

Starting is a thrill

Close Your Eyes and See

2007-05-04T15:24:00.000-07:00

There is no right time, there is only a ripe time
Hope is when you see action
Hype is when there is only talk
Start what you think of
There is no way to start anything without starting
We start so we can get what we want at the finish line
There is no finish line
Everything that ends, starts something else

We think in goals and when we achieve them
At times we don't know what else to do
Goals are simply steps to other steps
Interests are what you love to do
Goals are measurements of success
Goals are the avenues to take you there
Interests are the spark
And when the spark is lit
You no longer need goals
You gain vision
Vision is the sight of life
And the sight of life can see
What you can see is what you can do

Close your eyes and see
Open your eyes and do
Your paths are already here
And when you can see them
You can take them to destination

One Size Fits All

2007-04-30T07:43:00.000-07:00

We seem to love it when people....

Are vulnerable because then we can help them

Are telling the truth because then we can deal with them

Are having fun because then we can join them

Are talking to each other, because then we can hear life

Are anticipating since we will anticipate with them

Are healing so then we can cheer them on

Are involved in sports for then we can route for them

Are sharing an experience, as it gives us a forum

We seem to care more when people are...

Hurt

Honest

Happy

Speaking

Healing

Playing

and Sharing

Life is about involvement and we say this everyday by what we are attracted to

And when we get stuck in wanting things, we tend to forget about others and that we all want the same things

Instinctively we attract to our truth

It is not natural for us to want things first

So we are not attracted to those who do

A heart is a heart no matter who it is in

Love is a feeling we all chase

And character is something we all have

Truth is our freedom

And respect is our path

The Kid in Me Can See

2007-04-27T16:34:00.000-07:00

When we were kids we made wishes
Now we call them dreams
When we were kids we said thank you
Now it is something we get back to
When we were kids there were long summer days
And now we don't get a chance to buy summer clothes before the season ends

When we were teenagers
We thought we could change the world
Now we just say that is the way it is
There is nothing we can do
When we were teenagers
We could easily see what is wrong
even if we didn't have a solution
When we were teenagers
We want to marry the first person we fall in love with
And then we learn what it means to actually marry
When we were teenagers
We fought for our rights
Simply because it may have meant we got to do something or not

When we finish college or start working
We say we are going to buy a car, a house, a dog
We are going to get a job, get married, settle down

Then we have a job, get married, have a child, buy a house
We grow a new respect that our parents actually have done these very things
And what it meant to them, how it got there before we came along, and that they are only people too

And then we stop growing, talking about how things use to be
Yet the current moments are just as important as the "old" times we speak of
A birthday passes and we don't want to speak our age
A birthday passes and we want it not to come
WE forget that we get to be each age for one year
No matter what age it is
Let it be and take on the years
Example 17, 24, 32, 45, 53, 65, 72, 86, 95
That gives us all hope that our age is an accomplishment
That our research and growths have given back to us longevity to share
To share our wisdom's and our resilience
A soul truly does not know how old it is without the evidence of it's own body
A soul is ageless as love is endless and life is eternal
As we can see the good parts we create them
Retrain your eyes, reroute your mind and follow your heart
Create you as you see
And you will teach what you are
And live within your truth!

Soul Talking

2007-04-23T12:31:00.000-07:00

When something tells me I should walk away and I stay
When something tells me I should speak on it and I say nothing is wrong
When something tells me to do it and I don't
When something tells me to stop and I won't
When something tells me to try it and I say another time
When something tells me to say I love you and I wait
When something tells me to ask for help, I try harder to do it myself
When someone says I look great, I say no I don't
When someone says I did a wonderful job, I tell them how hard it was and what a pain it was
When someone says I am a nice person, I say Ah no!

When my soul speaks, I want to walk towards my challenges
When my soul speaks, I want to talk about everything and right or wrong doesn't matter, the truth does
When my soul speaks, I am open to try new things
When my soul speaks, I say I love you without expecting to hear it back
When my soul speaks, I ask for help and I share the growth
When my soul speaks, I say thank you for the compliment
When my soul speaks, my heart opens, my chances are clear and my will is stronger than me
When my soul speaks, I see, hear, touch and feel with a person who is my partner and that is me
When my soul speaks, I see, hear, touch and feel you
When my soul speaks, it calls us all to attention
When my soul speaks, it is attractable and attractive
When my soul speaks, it is the freedom of me
When my soul speaks, it is louder than US and we all touch it