Showing posts with label self-empowerment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label self-empowerment. Show all posts

Monday, April 12, 2010

Abundance at the Library


I have a trick for changing the view of my circumstances when the perspective needs a boost in the direction of clarity and abundance.

The trick is to go visit my public library.  

Yup, that regular old-fashioned bastion of wisdom and knowledge stuffed to the brim with most anything you might want to explore.

Do any of you over the age of 10 still actually go there?  

Too busy you say? Pshaw...

It is an amazing experience when viewed from the perspective of the Mystic. Books of all sorts are available to feed mind, body and spirit - fiction,  non-fiction, biographies, art, travel, food, periodicals, and music galore!    

On my recent visit I sat in one of the big red leather high back chairs that face the fireplace in this old library building of mine, and read, and scanned, and looked, and absorbed, and enjoyed the diversity of opportunity there. In several hours I hit only the tiniest tip of the iceberg of what is actually available. 

I wonder how often we can see the wide open sky of opportunity and choice - of options and availabilities when we are in the midst of strife and struggle...?  

Go to the library - you'll feel better

When I was done noodling around, I chose two full armfuls of great stuff to bring home with me.

(These are the bonus points - my nose has been buried all week in the lushness of it all.)

And my ears!

Piano and cello and voices soar from the CDs I collected just because - and if I don't love what I hear?  Click! Time to change to another.

The thing about the library is you get to experience what you love without owning it...

Yes, without owning it.

You know at the outset that in a month you'll have to return all your new "friends."

Go ahead and love what you are reading, feeling, seeing and hearing - but don't get too attached to the box it comes in!

And even better - no clutter - the sworn enemy of productivity and clarity.

What a wonderful reminder of what abundance actually is, for we know there will be many more books to greet us and call out to us from the shelves again and again once we return.

The lessons of abundance tell us there is always more - if perhaps different in shape and size and content.

And truthfully - there is no "owning" anything at all - not really.  We use that little human illusion to make us feel safe in the face of the more enduring knowledge that no matter how hard we hang on, "this too shall pass."

May all of you open your eyes wide and see the lushness around you.

May all of you experience the fullness of your life.

Namaste

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Are You Ready for Fun?


I have enjoyed the beginning of this year like no other.
Something is in the air that feels like new beginnings.
Do you feel it too? I notice the sense of real ability being demonstrated with an "I can do this!" attitude.

Call it hope, or self-empowerment, I have heard many say "this is my time" and I agree. This IS your time!

Use it well and you will be lifted on unseen wings of grace if you only say "YES!"  That is the beginning.
The Mystic knows that once the commitment is made, all manner of unforeseen opportunity will follow.

Check out this video - it is one of the best New Years messages I've seen!
Sassy and soulful, it's 5 minutes well spent.

Let me know what you think...and Happy New Year in the truest sense!
 
Are You Ready for Fun

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