Meditation in Writing!

Listening to the wind, the trees rustling, the sounds of birds and other life; I listen with intent.
I listen for those things I do not have words for all of the time. Not that the above words won't suffice,
Just that those words describe things with words I have used my whole life.
I wonder about others. Both here and afar.
Then I focus on the things at hand.


I look to the north. Those trees are my friends. They speak to me everyday. Saying lately things like; it's winter, the atmosphere is blowing, it is very still. It is very cold, it is warming up.
The ground tells me that life is starting to wake up from it's slumber. Earlier and might take some naps before spring, but the little shoots are showing their little green beautiful heads, saying hello, kiss your babies and your other ones too, we just wanted to see what was going on outside!. I say, Me too!
The sky is infinite! Sky tells me that the sun is too far away for me to really want to play, although my bones love the cold and rain, I don't go out too long today! I, in my mind, walk the river, the glen, the beaches and mountains anytime, but my world, our earth and all of her elements tells me who I am. I will go out soon. Just to take the garbage out, I guess, will have to do.
And I get to go out too, as I work in new horizons. As the days are getting longer and tell me of their story, and I will tell them of mine. So then, we converge together sharing our lives in love and what ever the measure....I treasure....In LOVE<3
The sky is my friend! I have always been in love with the sky! The earth, as well, with all of her elements,
the sky's wind, and weather, the earth's waters, shores, hill, dales, mountains and inhabitants. How they, and we all connect and converge together, that is my key to know who I am too and it lifts me to the mountains and moves me to the oceans and uplifts me to the sky. I meditate here and here I am. In this season, I am. And so are you! God Bless you, one and all! Tiny Tim was on to something, yes?
I am magnificently grateful to be one.
I am magnificently grateful for my family!
And for you all. I am in love!
1000Thanks to God for my blessings and my trials and my tribulations!

Blessings to you and yours'


©Allisonians This IS my favorite photo of God's earth that I have ever taken! Enjoy~~~fellow inhabitants...
Ciao for now,
Alli McD

The Color Purple; to use the phrase lightly

When purple come to mind;

Here is a link that I looked at when looking up color meaning;
Purple and indigo
Purple crown
Purple at the sixth energy center; note 'a', wise

http://crystal-cure.com/purple.html


and another site with color meaning information;

http://www.magicalfreedom.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=9&Itemid=13

Sensitive; listen in sensitive astonishment

When you pick up on the feelings around you
And they carry you away to another place
If it aggravates you and you don't know why
Wait.

If you spiral on the feeling
And you cannot let it go
Listen.

If you know that something is not right
Or something is a miss
Converge.

Wait and wait
Listen and listen
Converge and converge

Knowing and doing are good measures
Waiting and listening are brilliance.
Sensitive people all over the place
may wait and may ignore
Don't negate your feelings
just wait.

Have a happy weekend and may the blessed moon be yours to confer
And comfort you always,
In full moon bliss and extreme gratitude,
Your friendship is my honor,
Allison

©Allisonians

Intro Please; Excerpt of...C. M. Woodhouse; The Times Literary Supplement, London, August 6, 1954

Why it was called a fairy story;
"...In fact Orwell was a deep lover of words who never consciously misused them. If he said he had written a fairy-srory with a political purpose, we cannot lightly suppose he spoke lightly. A political purpose suggests some kind of moral, and that suggests rather the fable, the medium of Aesop or la Fontaine or even Thurber. There have been fairy-stories purporting to have morals before now: Rimsky-Korsakov called Le Coq d'Or "a fairy-tale with a moral," though no one except possibly the Russian Imperial Censor (who objected to the original version of the opera as subversive) has ever been able to detect what it was. There is something freakish about the idea, anyway, which makes it seem unlikely to stir the emotions of the common reader; and it is impossible to attach a moral to any familiar sense to Animal Farm, where wickedness ends in triumph and virtue is utterly crushed. There is perhaps a moral for farmers: don't take to drink and let your animals get out of hand; but even so the villains will be comforted to find that everything comes out all right for them in the end. For the downtrodden animals there is nothing but misery, cruelty, and injustice; and in place of a moral there is only the tragic chorus of the donkey Benjamin, who held that "life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly." This is not like the kind of moral that tells us to look before we leap or not to count our boobies before they are hatched. For the animals never had a chance to choose, and if they had it would have made no difference.
It is just the sense of purposeless cruelty, though, that gives the clue to Orwell's purpose, as well as to his deadly serious reason for calling Animal Farm a fairy-story. The point about fairy-stories is that they are written not merely without a moral but without a morality. They take place in a world beyond good and evil, where people (or animals) suffer or prosper for reasons unconnected with ethical merit--for being ugly or beautiful respectively, for instance, or for even more unsatisfactory reasons. A little girl sets out to do a good deed for her grandmother and gets gobbled up by a wolf; a young rogue escapes the gallows (and gets an old Jew hanged instead) by his talent on the fiddle; dozens of young princes die horrible deaths trying to get through the thorn-hedge that surrounds the Sleeping Beauty, just because they had the bad luck to be born before her hundred-year curse expired; and one young prince, no better or worse, no handsomer or uglier than the rest gets through merely because he has the good luck to arrive just as the hundred years are up; and so on and so on. Even when Grimm's stepmothers are called "wicked," it is well to remember that in German their Bosheit is viciousness and bad temper, not moral guilt. For all this is related by the fairy-story tellers without approval or disapproval, without a glimmer of subjective feeling, as though their pens were dipped in surgical spirit to sterilize the microbes of emotion. They never seek to criticize or moralize, to protest or plead or persuade; and if they have an emotional impact on the reader, as the greatest of them do, that is not intrinsic to the stories. They would indeed only weaken that impact to achieve it. They move by not seeking to move; almost, it seems, by seeking not to move.".
C. M. Woodhouse

aka ~~~ end quote.
Thank you for your insights Mr. Woodhouse

I have said throughout the blogsphere that my posts are sometimes, if not, mosttimes just for my reference(and in our era, blogshperically~publicly so), and merely for my journal and with that I will now add that they are entering the league of fairy-story. If you are so moved, please join me.

I would like to clarify; this excerpt spoke mountains to me about six months or a year ago. Just as Don Miguel Ruiz did.
Namesta!

Excerpt From one of Robert Fulghum's books 1988

Somewhere out there in the world is a young woman who, if she reads the letter that follows,, will sing out, “Hey, that’s me—that’s my story!” This letter is written out of gratitude—from me and all those who have heard her story from me. Out of one person’s moment of comic despair has come perspective for all.

Dear Fellow Pilgrim:
There you were, Hong Kong airport, end of the summer of 1984, tensely occupying a chair next to mine. Everything about you said “Young American Traveler Going Home.” You had by then exchanged jean and T-shirt for a sarong and sandals. Sensible short hair had given way to hair long and loose. The backpack beside you bore the scars and dirt of some hard traveling, and it bulged with mysterious souvenirs of seeing the world. Lucky kid, I thought.
When the tears began to drip from your chin, I imagined some lost love or the sorrow of giving up adventure for college classes. But when you began to sob, you drew me into your sadness. Guess you had been very alone and very brave for some time. A good cry was in order. And weep you did. All over me. A monsoon of grievous angst. My handkerchief and your handkerchief and most of a box of tissues and both your sleeves were needed to dry up the flood before you finally got it out.
Indeed, you were not quite ready to go home; you wanted to go further on. But you had run out of money and your friends had run out of money, and so here you were having spent two days waiting in the airport standby with little to eat and too much pride to beg. And your plane was about to go. And you had lost your ticket. You cried all over me again. You had been sitting in this one spot for three hours, sinking into the cold set of despair like some torpedoed freighter. At moments you thought you would sit there until you died.
After we dried you off, I and a nice older couple from Chicago who were also swept away in the tide of you tears, offered to take you to lunch and to talk to the powers that be at the airlines about some remedy. You stood up to go with us, turned around to pick up your belongings. And SCREAMED. I thought you had been shot. But no…it was your ticket. You found your ticket. You had been sitting on it. For three hours.
Like a sinner saved from the very jaws of hell, you laughed and cried and hugged us all and were suddenly gone. Off to catch a plane for home and what next. Leaving most of the passenger lounge deliriously limp from being part of your drama.
I’ve told the story countless times. “She was sitting on her own ticket,” I conclude, and the listeners always laugh in painful self-recognition.
Often when I have been sitting on my own ticket in some what—sitting on whatever it is I have that will get me up and on to what comes next—I think of you and grin at both of us and get moving.
So, thanks. You have become, in a special way, my travel agent. My you find your tickets and arrive wherever it is you want to go, now and always.
From his book;
'It was on Fire When I Lay Down on It'

Europe, Australia and New Zealand ~ Living in Process; by Anne Wilson Schaef

“Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.” Anne Wilson Schaef

Intensives are also being offered in Europe, Australia and New Zealand
For further information about these overseas Intensives, please contact one of the following Living in Process representatives:


EUROPE
Michaela Bogner
40627 Dusseldorf
Am Langenfeldsbusch 49
0211-9252475
email: michaela.boegner@web.de
www.leben-im-prozess.de

SOUTH PACIFIC
Australia
Glenda Patterson
Phone: 61-2-9970-7898
email: livinginprocess@dodo.com.au

New Zealand
Tiffany Thornley
Phone/fax: 64-3-980-7673
email: paultiff@clear.net.nz


Some Wise Quotes
"It is not necessary to deny another's reality in order to affirm your own.”

“Since the Addictive System defines itself as reality, everything else is unreal by definition. Since its referent is the external referent, the internal referent is unreal and nonexistent by definition. The process of invalidating that which the system does not know, understand, cannot measure, and cannot thereby control is so extreme that large areas of perception and knowledge are lost. We give the system the power to make the known unknown.”

"We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.”

“Good health is not something we can buy. However, it can be an extremely valuable savings account.”

Anne Wilson Schaef

Living in Process; by Anne Wilson Schaef

Living in Process

The purpose of Living in Process® retreats is to learn about a way of life that focuses on healing and offers a path for spiritual growth. We have an opportunity to live in process and in community while learning to confront our addictive processes and behaviors. Our focus is on holistic healing.

Anyone involved in their own life journey who wants to participate in a supportive learning and healing environment is welcome. Recovering addicts, their friends and families, survivors of incest and abuse, healthcare professionals, ministers, addiction counselors, and other individuals involved in personal growth may find Intensive Workshops helpful in their choice and ability to feel and to live more fully and joyfully.

Participants often comment on the respectful, non-controlling, non-judgmental environment they experience and the network of support they have developed from participating in Intensives. Healing and transformation are possible!

Living in Process® work is not therapy, nor is it based on the scientific model out of which therapy comes. It is a way of living that is based on holistic science, rather than the limited technological model of western culture. Connected with traditions of native cultures, it is community-based, participatory, safe, respectful, and spiritually-grounded.

Facilitators have worked active 12-Step recovery programs and have participated in Living in Process work with Anne Wilson Schaef for a number of years. Additional support is provided by individuals participating in Living Process work and their own recovery programs.
Registration for Intensive Workshops and other information is available by contacting the primary facilitator listed below. Costs vary depending on the location and facilities and the length of the Intensive.

Background Resources: We suggest the following books by Anne Wilson Schaef:

Meditations for Living in Balance: Daily Solutions for People Who Do Too Much
Living in Process: Basic Truths for Living the Path of the Soul
Beyond Therapy, Beyond Science: A New Model For Healing the Whole Person
Women's Reality: An Emerging Female System in a White Male Society
When Society Becomes an Addict
Escape From Intimacy: Untangling the "Love" Addictions
Codependence: Misunderstood/Mistreated
The Addictive Organization (with D. Fassel)
Native Wisdom for White Minds
Meditations for Women Who Do Too Much
Meditations for People Who (May) Worry Too Much.
INTENSIVES & TRAINING INFORMATION

We appreciate your interest in our work. Below is a list of North American Intensives which are being offered and facilitated by people who have been involved for some time with and are currently participating in the Living in Process® Training program with Anne Wilson Schaef. Dr. Schaef accepts participants from these Trainee-facilitated Intensives, upon recommendation of one of the facilitators, into the year-long Living in Process® Training program. If Living in Process Training is of interest to you, please talk to the facilitators at an Intensive.

The North Amercian 2010 intensive schedule is as follows:

DATE LOCATION CONTACT PHONE/EMAIL
May 6 - 9 Lancaster, Ontario, Canada Kathy O'Brien 416-924-0027
katherineo62@yahoo.ca
July 24 - 30 Boulder Hot Springs, Boulder, MT Wilson Schaef Associates 406-225-9171
wsa@gte.net
October 13 - 17 Alfred, Maine Doug Brown OR

Barb Reiter

773-561-7824
brownd@metrofamily.org
406-225-3304
barbekt@jeffbb.net
October 27 - 31 Stony Point, NY Wilson Schaef Associates 406-225-9171
wsa@gte.net
November 6 - 12 Boulder Hot Springs, Boulder, MT Wilson Schaef Associates 406-225-9171
wsa@gte.net

To download a PDF version of the above schedule, click here: 2010 Intensive schedule

Please note: Intensives are also being planned for other locations. Please call our office at 406-225-9171 or continue to check our web-site for the most up-to-date information.

Thursday Quote

"I'm beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all."
--Laura Ingalls Wilder

...Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts... -johnathan edwards-

When a country is rebellious, it has many rulers, but a man of understanding and knowledge maitains order. Prov. 28:02

Late Night Sayings I just read from my friend Angela

We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.- Woodrow Wilson

In Memory of Dixie Carter

I don't usually comment on actors,
But I have to say that my Father must be a happy camper!
Along with a half a million others up there in heaven
Now that they are welcoming Dixie there today or so,
She's been a favorite among the men and women elders that I know.
Her southern charm, lady like nature and soul went a long way,
And I am sorry to see her go, but happy for those that will greet her in heaven!
Rest and in loving memory of a kind stranger, really, one
with feminine character that I aspired to. She was kindred to many that way.

The night they called ol Dixie down
And the people were singing
La-la la, la, la, la-la-la-la, la, la-la la,, la!

God bless Dixie and receive her in your arms
Actor, lady, respecter of de feminine ways.
Her character spoke mountains, even when she act' better than.
God bless Dixie Carter

©Allisonians

Free Water Spirit

Let it flow? Let it go? Always the answer;
You know you'll know.
Daily Nourishment for a Woman's Spirit by Nancy Blair, 2002.

From Me for my interpretation for me and you, if you like it. Won't hurt, but it can be a long road if you wait for authority to approve of you or to allow you. Don't wait.

New cycles
Permiss yourself
Be
Sacred
Whole
Empowered

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Gratitude and Lofn walked throughout the world one day.
Lofn asked of Graditude, "what is on the way?"
Graditude told Lofn, "you know this for yourself!"
Lofn smiled remembering she had the answer right!
Happy Graditude!
Good Morning World!
©Allisonians

Waking up grateful! Lof--Thanks LS

What if tonight when you go to sleep, you think of the gift of tomorrow as just that- a great big present that is just waiting for you to unwrap it. Close your eyes and picture a perfectly wrapped present, complete with a beautiful bow. Now picture yourself unwrapping it with joy and see what you want to appear inside this package as you unwrap this gift. Imagine your day unfolding in the perfect way and focus on what’s right in your world. Be grateful.
Chances are, if you fall asleep with a prayer of gratitude on your lips, you’ll wake with a song of joy in your heart. Just changing that simple thought can change your day, and can change your life.
From Gail at Inspire me Today!
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John Lindow says that scholars have generally followed Snorri's etymological connection with the the root lof-, meaning "praise." Lindow says that, along with many other goddess, some scholars theorize that Lofn may simply be another name for the goddess Frigg. Rudolf Simek theorizes that Snorri used skaldic kennings to produce his Gylfaginning commentary about the goddess, while combining several etymologies with the Old Norse personal name Lofn.

from Lynn Spirit{Ticking the title redirects you there}
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Gratitude and Lofn walked throughout the world one day.
Lofn asked of Graditude, "what is on the way?"
Graditude told Lofn, "you know this for yourself!"
Lofn smiled remembering she had the answer right!
Happy Graditude!
Good Morning World!
©Allisonians
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Photo courtesy of Lynnspirit@blogspot.com

Two Witches; A Modern Craft Fairy-Tale

By Mike Nichols

Once upon a time, there were two Witches. One was a Feminist Witch and the other was a Traditionalist Witch. And, although both of them were deeply religious, they had rather different ideas about what their religion meant. The Feminist Witch tended to believe that Witchcraft was a religion especially suited to women because the image of the Goddess was empowering and a strong weapon against patriarchal tyranny. And there was distrust in the heart of the Feminist Witch for the Traditionalist Witch because, from the Feminist perspective, the Traditionalist Witch seemed subversive and a threat to "the Cause".

The Traditionalist Witch tended to believe that Witchcraft was a religion for both men and women because anything less would be divisive. And although the Goddess was worshipped, care was taken to give equal stress to the God-force in nature, the Horned One. And there was distrust in the heart of the Traditionalist Witch for the Feminist Witch because, from the Traditionalist viewpoint, the Feminist Witch seemed like a late-comer and a threat to "Tradition". These two Witches lived in the same community but each belonged to a different Coven, so they did not often run into one another. Strange to say, the few times they did meet, they felt an odd sort of mutual attraction, at least on the physical level. But both recognized the folly of this attraction, for their ideologies were worlds apart, and nothing, it seemed, could ever bridge them.

Then one year the community decided to hold a Grand Coven, and all the Covens in the area were invited to attend. After the rituals, the singing, the magicks, the feasting, the poetry, and dancing were concluded, all retired to their tents and sleeping bags. All but these two. For they were troubled by their differences and couldn't sleep. They alone remained sitting by the campfire while all others around them dreamed. And before long, they began to talk about their differing views of the Goddess. And, since they were both relatively inexperienced Witches, they soon began to argue about what was the "true" image of the Goddess....

Sound like anyone you know? Tick the title for the rest of the story~~
In peace and practicality please prospect~~~
I haven't read the end just yet, or know if this is just not a solicitation/excerpt. Heaven knows~.
(later, I finished the tale and it is indeed an interesting read. I am a wise one, in that I think and I am, but I am only one woman and only look for the next of life's lessons for me)(and that hand to hold)
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And this from the page I found the little ones
"There are no facts, only interpretations." Friedrich Nietzsche

The Dalai Lama

Cosmic Happiness from Dalai Lama

What is enlightenment? What is that state of Cosmic Consciousness, the ultimate awareness called variously - enlightenment, nirvana, satori, samadhi, self-realization, rapture, salvation, ascension, unity consciousness, voidness, and many other terms by many various religions? It is the goal of life, the ultimate destination of every individualized being. It is brought about when the individual personality ascends beyond the illusionary perception of self separateness to merge in the Universal Self from which it originated so very long ago. Spiritual evolution towards this goal takes place over ages but the final ascent of Spirit can happen in an instant of time.
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Our true nature is not limited ... it is like the vast ocean. ... When we touch Supreme Consciousness through meditation, then we are boundless, we are everywhere, we are eternal. (Amma Karunamayi)
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To the enlightened one, the world as he knew it ceases to be, and everything now stands enmantled (shrouded) by a shining vesture of divine effulgence, hitherto invisible to his normal vision.(Swami Chidananda, Light Fountain Divine Life Society)
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Everything that occurred to me while I was in this state of consciousness was vastly beyond anything that I had ever experienced and yet at the same time it was familiar - as if I had always known of its existence. Even now when I try to describe something so beautiful I am mute with awe. There are no words in any language to describe such grandeur.
(Anonymous, Unbounded Light)
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How to Achieve the Goal ???

How does one proceed from the normal human condition to the goal of enlightenment? The easiest way to achieve this Ultimate Goal is to follow in the footsteps of those who have passed this way already. The sages, saints and ascended masters of all times have found this path - sometimes through their own unaided efforts but more often by following the written or spoken guidance of a previous Teacher or Guru. The enlightened master sees the grand achievement and encourages others to find the immense treasure within the reach of every sincere seeker. They point out the path, warn of dangers, offer encouragement, and elucidate the methods of advancing on the way.

Short of direct guidance by a living enlightened one (a rare piece of good fortune), there is no better way than to read the lives of saints and pay close attention to their words. These powerful beings are alert on the other side, watching for the seekers, waiting to help and remove hindrances in the path of all those aspiring to the higher life in spirit.

Read their stories. Draw forth their grace. Create that subtle link of consciousness with them. Their photographs are full of power; their words highly instructive; their stories saturated with the essence of enlightenment. Meditate on their actions and you will approach their subtle perfection.

This is a very special time during which spiritual evolution is being immensely accelerated. Powerful beings are working behind the veil with all who are consciously cooperating to change Earth and bring us into a radically new pattern of human attainment. Never before have even small efforts on the spiritual path been so greatly rewarded. So do not miss this rare opportunity - it may not come again for a long time. As it says in the Upanishads, Arise! Awake! From this very day vow to become the Self that you really are and join the army of lightworkers that are even now transforming the planet.


Cosmic Happiness link
http://www.cosmicharmony.com/index.htm#Tibet

Forgiveness; Fr. EHow. Tick the title to be redirected there.

Forgiveness is one of those concepts that most people have difficulty grasping. While we all have a mental image of what forgiveness "should" look like when others forgive us, knowing how to forgive ourselves or someone else isn't as easy to understand.

When someone else causes us emotional harm, whether unintentional or intentional, learning to let go of this pain can be one of the most difficult transitions we go through. Social workers in the prison system work with families on the process of forgiveness to help ease the transition between incarceration and life on the outside. Similar to restorative justice programs which involve the victim of a crime and the offender, these prison programs seek to develop an understanding of the offenders act(s) and come to terms with the eventual return to society.

The families involved tend to view forgiveness as an admission that the past is completely forgotten and life can return to normal as if nothing happened. As you can imagine, this effort at denying the behavior has a negative effect.

Carrying emotional pain, anger, anxiety, and other distressing thoughts about a situation or someone often is easier for us than beginning the forgiveness process. Cognitive-behavioral therapists often stress positive thoughts since it can be easier to invest more time in negative thoughts and redirect energy toward positive change. The more we concentrate our emotional energy on carrying a grudge and not forgiving someone, the more likely we are to become anxious, depressed and negative about the general situation.

Since it is often easy to think of forgiveness in terms of forgetting, we need to examine how we forget. Human memory does not work like computer memory. There is no way to reformat the past. Instead, we look at situations through different lenses. Psychologists often refer to these lenses as perspective. Reality of our situation is how we view it at the time that the impression or memory was formed.

Forgetting a past hurt refers to relearning the circumstances surround the situation, reprocess it through a fresh perspective, and move toward forgiveness. When we look at the outcome of what happened, we can either become bitter and angry or view the end result as an opportunity for personal growth and change.


5 Steps
1. The first and most important step is allowing yourself permission to forgive. When we focus more on the consequences of not forgiving ourselves, we shift the focus to ourselves and how we can move beyond the past hurt and blame. The situation becomes less about the person who wronged you and more about how you are able to heal and develop a sense of peace.

2. Forgiving someone else first involves recognizing that forgiving is not giving that person absolution for a previous wrong. Forgiveness is often confused with absolution since the terms are used almost interchangeably in most religions. What if the person who wronged you is not living? What if the person is someone who caused you extreme embarrassement during school 20 or 30 years ago? These people are not available to you to discuss the situation, nor do they have to be. Letting go of emotional pain does not mean that nothing happened; it means that you no longer want to be controlled by it.

3. Recognize that forgiveness is not denial. Whatever caused the pain was a real incident. Denying that it happened and calling it forgiveness means that it is too painful to work through the emotions. There is no timeline on forgiveness. Some steps take longer to get through, and it is acceptable to work through some of it and set it aside for a period of time. Part of forgiveness is understanding that whether or not someone takes responsibility for it (and may even demonstrate remorse), does not control whether or not you intend to continue investing emotional pain and distress each time you revisit what happened.

4. Understand that not everyone who forgives reconciles with the person who caused the pain. There are relationships that are toxic and even physically dangerous. While it is possible to forgive the past and move beyond it, it may also mean that the person who was involved no longer can play an active role in your life. If a person or situation is not safe, it may be best not to reconcile the relationship and then work on forgiveness at a time when you are emotionally healthy and physically safe.

5. Make a conscious decision to forgive someone. Even if they never apologize for what happened, determine within yourself that it is fine to proceed without this apology. Apologies should not be about permission to us to forgive someone. Apologies should be offered as an effort of true remorse and acknowledgement that taking personal responsibility for the situation is important. Even without that apology, make up your mind to forgive, forget, and eventually let go.


Sounds a bit like the 12 steps program developed by Bill W. Food for thought thought.
I allow myself to forgive myself, the people in my sphere of influence, and to forgive our government. Now I have to go work on the next steps.
Namesta

Begin Reading Agni Light Here! From Deepak Chopra Center

"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. The past is closed and limited, the future is open and free." ~ Deepak Chopra


Namesta!

Tick to be redirected to the Agni Light site.
See you there!


©Allisonians
Please ask me for permission to use my photos so you won't(plagiarize) yourself. silly silly

Xenophanes by Ralph Waldo Emerson and Other of his Works refferences

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Xenophanes(p.174)

By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave
One scent to hyson and to wall-flower,
One sound to pine-groves and to waterfalls,
One aspect to the desert and the lake.
It was her stern necessity: all things
Are of one pattern made; bird, beast and flower,
Song, picture, form, space, thought and character
Deceive us, seeming to be many things,
And are but one. Beheld far off, they part
As God and devil; bring them to the mind,
They dull its edge with their monotony.
To know one element, explore another,
And in the second reappears the first.
The specious panorama of a year
But multiplies the image of a day,—
A belt of mirrors round a taper's flame;
And universal Nature, through her vast
And crowded whole, an infinite paroquet,
Repeats one note.

from my old Emerson's Poems book (I don't know the date because the title page is missing,

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An Introduction to Nature

Excerpt from Lewis Leary's Ralph Waldo Emerson: An Interpretive Essay.

"The best way to get at Emerson is to come at him all at once, in the ninety-five pages of his little book called Nature, issued anonymously in 1836, which contains the compressed totality of all that he would subsequently patiently reveal. Revelation rather than logic was the instrument used by Emerson to delve toward truth. It was not his intention to create a philosophy or to codify thought. He distrusted logical arguments as man-made, and therefore inadequate because they are imperfect as man is imperfect. Neither philosopher nor conventional moralist, Emerson, it cannot be said too often, was first and last an artist who attempted to create a vision of the world and man's place in it. What is the world? What is nature which lies all about us? What is the refulgent beauty of nature that draws man out of himself, to quietness and calm, or to resolution? What are the mysteries of nature that inspired men resolve by conquering time or space through the discovery of such things as the telegraph, or the harnessing of waterpower and steam, or rocketing to the moon?

For the rest the Great site just below here on Emerson's Nature
tick here;
http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/authors/emerson/nature.html
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Additionally there is a great reprint; tick the link below. I didn't see the above poem 'Xenophanes' when I briefly checked the contents.
It is a book of Emerson's Poems, but not exactly like mine. It may just be a bit rearranged (this is basically for my reference)excuse moi. I will have to research to be sure.

The link below is an entire Google ebook on Emerson Poems!

http://books.google.com/books?id=sM7iAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=emerson's+poems&source=bl&ots=OScyEFC-jr&sig=0RcsXP8wOM1PyDCuI_hr88bQr1o&hl=en&ei=AQlZS-7QCpDgsQO2jdTFBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CCAQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=emerson's%20poems&f=false

EFT

HEllo, hello
I have attached the website to the title, as usual.
There is a free, with free subscription to her site, ebook on the webpage. By simply clicking on the above title, EFT, you will be redirected there and the ebook link is there that Karen Lewis includes as her service. She is from the UK and even includes her phone number. I discovered her through my Luna Yoga book. EFT is interesting; and is becoming more notable, and was effective for me. I think it is worth a look.

Namesta,
Allisonian

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