In Focus - March - Celebrating Life Through Spiritual Practice

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Two stand stronger and smarter than one. My connection to others strengthens any experience.

In Focus - Celebrating Life Through Spiritual Practice 3/1/13

Wonder

The awe of life is all around. I am open to all there is to see and do and feel and experience.

Mistakes

Opportunities to learn and grow.

Epiphany

Sometimes my brilliant ideas and realizations are hilarious. At least I’ve gotten a good laugh out of them, even if they are unexpected and not exactly on point.

Mediocrity

How many times have you settled for less than all the glorious, thrilling, and rewarding abundance that is your birthright?

Pretty

“Pretty is as pretty does.” Boy, that’s a flash back to my childhood! Today ‘pretty’ is prettier when mixed with compassion, honesty, intelligence, being funny, etc.

Reward

Everyday is our reward for being born. I affirm that it’s the best reward ever!

Despair

I look at the YouTube of “Third World People Reading First World Problems” when I feel despair over something in my life.In Focus - Celebrating Life Through Spiritual Practice

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Infuse

Orange into vodka, rosemary into olive oil, spirit into everyday life. Smush ‘em together and let ‘em meld.

Pain - Physical

In order to do things, sometimes I have to experience pain.

Pain - Mental

Only exists when I try to solve a complicated math problem.

Climate

My California Haiku: Water flows swiftly summer heat stirs life anew

Dancing in bright joy

Fallen

“I’ve fallen and I can’t get up.” Good thing the Universe lifts us up every single time!

Glossolalia (speaking in tongues)

All words and messages are heard.

Prophecy

Beware the Ides of March! Julius Caesar neglected to heed this warning.

My head seems always down…at my computer, my book, the road, a craft, on my path. There’s a lot more to see when we look up.

Alchemy

“…is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners' claims to profound powers were known from antiquity,” (Wikipedia). All the information

about this complex but interesting subject could fill a football stadium.

Funny how such a simple word can have such divergent meanings…like “…as in behind…” or “…a liberal political party,” to name a couple.

Judgment

To me, the only people who can judge are those who have ALL the information (which is usually NO one). Now when I see something I’m likely to judge, I think,

“There must be more going on than I know about.”

Nirvana

The word literally means "blown out" (as in a candle) and refers, in the Buddhist context, to the stillness of mind after the fires of desire, aversion, and delusion

have been finally extinguished. Cool!

One of my bosses cautioned me, “Never wear red as it incites anger in the client.” Where do we GET this stuff?????

Do we need to spend time proving stuff?

Worship

The object of adoring reverence or regard be it Universal God, the almighty dollar, peace on earth, or a new tricycle.

Technology

I use it to solve a problem, improve a preexisting solution to a problem, achieve a goal, handle an applied input/output relation, perform a specific function or

create the most intense brain fry.

To do, to perform either genuinely or falsely.

Really? Is there nothing to do, see, experience that can’t bring a sense of being in this world? Sometimes for me it’s creative and inspiring and sometimes it’s just to

pass the time. But I can’t remember the last time I was bored.

Really? Is there nothing to do, see, experience that can’t bring a sense of being in this world? Sometimes for me it’s creative and inspiring and sometimes it’s just to

pass the time. But I can’t remember the last time I was bored.

Be sorry and move on. Learn and let go. To stay in the ‘sorry’ place impedes progress and growth.

Transform

Transforming embraces all that changes around us.

Winner

Being a real winner is a personal event and private accolades are the best rewards.

Conduit

A person who is a bridge between events and/or people serves as a conduit and provides the map or solutions instead of roadblocks and skepticism.