Don't feed the geese

There is a reservoir near my home and on the gate that gates this man made body of water away from the rest of us there is a sign. This sign reads as follows, “do not feed the geese” then it goes on to explain the reason why. It says that in feeding the geese our drinking water will be affect in mutable ways but you know what? I bet you people still do feed the geese, I’ve seen them do it. This is something that humans are good at doing, making decision that causes us hardships but yet when the hardship hits home they blame it on others. I see people every day dropping trash on the ground like the ground is a big trashcan acting like this act won’t affect them personality. They don’t see the bigger picture and as the humans who aren’t as conscious, they feel that when hardships come their way its ether someone else’s fault or just the way it is. Some people think that they couldn’t help it because they are overweight and having multiple health issues. They think that it’s just like that because that’s the way it is. Humans gain all of these different cancers and diseases and they think it’s just circumstance and on top of that they want everyone to feel bad for them because they feel they are being made to go through there hardships. Bills pile up, companies threaten to shut off services, things get back up and it is just a stoke of bad luck. Our economy goes down the gutter and it’s the fault of the politicians in office. We lose our homes and it’s the fault of the people who are taking them from us, our jobs aren’t paying us enough money and it’s the people who we work for faults, they should just give us more money or else. Or we find ourselves in relationships that seem to do more harm than good and it’s the faults of the people who we are in the relationships with, if only they would do right, if only they would do better then everything would turn out as it should but for some reason they simply don’t so now we have to suffer. The blame game is played so much that it becomes the norm and as this occurs our lives go deeper and deeper into that harsh, dark place and then it get so harsh and dark that it gets nearly impossible to see the light of day anymore.

“So I fed the geese so what” he says as he hears on the news then because stuff was thrown in the reservoir it’s been jammed and now we aren’t able to get drinking water. “They should do better, those people who are in charge of making the running water work” he continues and not ones did he even look at a part that he may have played in the whole mess. Never take yourselves out of the equation because there is always a reason why something in YOUR life is happening whether good or bad and even if you weren’t conscious enough to realize this, you did play a part in it and I don’t care what it was. I am by no means saying that everything that happens bad to everyone is happening because that person brought it on themselves. I would never do that because in doing that I would have to say that kids who get sexually abused or children who get cancer and suffer are to blame. But even in the harshest of situations, even if we weren’t conscious of our part in situations unfolding for us, we still need to realize that we did play a part in it happening. We truly may not deserve some of the harsh things we go through but to throw the events in the wind is to allow the wind to control it and that is like claiming a victim mentality. Once that occurs all bets are off. We may not have control over what happens to us but we can control the outcome, we can turn so called bad situations into opportunities for growth, we can turn them into strengthening lessons but in order to do this we need to claim some type of responsibility for the action. Don’t blame yourselves for harsh situations but say to yourselves that you will gain strength and learn from these events so that these things won’t happen to you or anyone that you love and that is willing to hear you out when you attempt to enlighten them. So if it is to be, and we want to live a life within that happy place that we were meant to live in we need to claim our lives to ourselves, own what we go and are going through with pride, not blame and place it in a place of positivity and growth. If we mindlessly continue to do things that hurt us and our planet we won’t have a planet to live on or even a life to experience and that is all to it. We are all One. This planet and everyone on it is a part of us, this is our home, this universe in itself is our home and we should take care of it just as it is. Our economic situations is our doing, not the man sitting in office and if we are to change it we need to first look at ourselves and see what can be done with the decisions we make, and then we need to back up those people in office with efforts to help gain freedom from the situations. We need to come together and take care, we need to be more conscious, know that it doesn’t take much to recycle but recycling does so much for the planet. It’s not the same as throwing the recyclable on the ground or in the trash, not at all. Stop playing the victim in life, STOP FEELING THE GEESE AND TAKE CONTROL!

Namaste

The Next Chapter

It’s been a crazy ride for me and at times I’ve felt as if I’ve come off track of what I am about within my life thus far. But if that is the case then I am as if now making a return trip or better yet I’m not returning but I’m moving forward. It’s been a while since I’ve written on this blog and within that time that I wasn’t present in blog posting I’ve experienced fears and woes, I’ve been through hurts and hardships and also I’ve made blatant decisions on what this life will be for me from here on out and there is no turning back from this point. Now as I write this post I feel that I am now taking a step and I am moving forward to the next chapter of my life. God still lives within me and He shines like never before. My purpose is still happiness and that is achieved by love. It would be a just thing for us all to not allow the fear that we create to be a hindrance to us in any shape, size or form that would be a great gift that we all could give to ourselves and a gift that I am giving to myself right now. Inspiration lives all around us, it lives in books and in life events, in other people and in nature, in science, in philosophy and in religion, it lives in all and everything and I tend to come back to this blog expressing all that inspiration may dictate to me. To simply be aware of all the inspiration that I am surrounded by and to express it in the only way that my level of consciousness will allow me then in doing that to also gain something which I myself will be able to us as a strengthening tool within and for my own life. So here we are; this is the next chapter of the way things will pan out for me and this time I’m really not going to hold back. I’ve taken a long enough break from my writings on here to gather myself and to ask all of the questions of me and life but I question myself or this life no longer and neither should you. The purpose of life is happiness. For God to express all of Her perfections and joys through you, to be an all-out expression of that happiness that we were all meant to have and I mean all of us and all of  the time too. Right and wrong don’t exist; up and down are only here from perception and that is a truth the most have a hard time accepting but once it is accepted and we can let go of all of our judgmental ways and dogmas even though it may seem scary at first, we will gain a freedom that we never thought possible and it will be a joyous time for us all. All we really need to realize is that there is only Love and also fear and fear is what keeps us down and fear in itself doesn’t even exist really. So as I growth within my writings on this blog I will grow within this life and I hope that whoever reads what I write is heading in that direction as well. Only love exists and it is due to all of us because all and all, we are love. The next chapter begins now. The past and the future are not the main concern, only the now and to remain it that now space as we make our decisions from here on out.

Namaste

Love is the beauty of the soul

"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is? Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Love is having roots that grow towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom have fallen from our branches we find that we are one tree and not two.

"Love is the beauty of the soul." --St. Augustine

That everlasting bliss that seems to connect and make us one, in a relationship as it unfolds and as the newness arrives, all of that passion and bliss, all of that not getting to be around each other enough and simply wanting to be around each other all of the time, to be with each other, to be within each other and touching each other none stop. When she is seen it’s like just wanting to take her at that moment, wanting to do all and everything to her and never wanting to stop. Wanting to just have her as one would a delectable meal which is there for the devouring. All of these feelings, they seem as if it’s the reason you breath, it’s the reason you do anything; so that you may have her forever and ever, it’s like a high that can’t truly be explained. But then as the clouds of your lust begin to subside something else occurs that you just may not have been expecting.

She is still who she is but something has changed, that touch, it’s something that I’ve had so many times already. It’s starting to feel like a meal that I simply am getting sick of because I eat it every damn day. Her voice, that sound which at one time was like a heavenly instrument is starting to sound like a song that I’ve heard on the radio one time too many. It still sounds nice but it just isn’t the same as it was when I first heard it. Her touch, her smell, her presence, these aren’t things that I lust for as I once did because I am accustom to them. It is feeling like a car that was once new but now is just a car; that new car smell has vanished along with that new feeling of it all. It’s simply just the same old thing that I am use to and I have seen every day. Is the lust gone and is it done? Am I ready to move on to something new so that I may gain that feeling back that I once had? That feeling that felt as if I could never get enough? Is this it or am I on the road to something that I in fact have never felt or witnessed before?

But now something new has been revealed. It’s like a new beauty has been released and with this, it is something more permanent then what I witnessed before bare nude for me to bask in; this new light with its warmth and comfort for me to bask in is the shine which emanates from her soul. This is something that is even more euphoric then the passion, more breathtaking then the beauty and more intimate then that new touch. This is what it is about, the beauty of the soul and once this buried treasure is discovered a newness that can never be run down is born and a new passion has manifests itself to my light and my life. The beauty of the soul is what it is about and until it’s discovered no matter how much passion there was I will never know what this thing call love with another truly is. Don’t give up or give in simply because it’s feeling and gets familiar, now is your time and now is your chance. Open up your eyes so that you may see that beauty of the soul and once it is discovered that temporary passion that you felt in the beginning will seem like a distant child’s play thing and you won’t ever want to go back. Live, love and allow the beauty of the soul to show you what you thought might have been something that is no more. The beauty of the soul is there and now it is time to gaze, look upon it and discover the real and true treasure of this thing called love within your love and within this shining light which you have discovered so that it may stay and strengthen that joyous part of your life.

Namaste

Within this year 2011

Within this year I’ve seen folks try and hurt each other not knowing that all they were doing was appeasing a demon that lurks within. I’ve have my ups and downs and I’ve wished for situations that have not yet occurred. I’ve looked towards the sky and I’ve asked the questions that I thought I would never ask. But even so and with all of my dilemmas and situations I have something that keeps me going and keeps hope a live and it only grows stronger with each day. This something that I hold dearly and that gives me that hope is God and within me I maintain my faith. It may seem that this God character doesn’t exist and I do have a love and a strong belief in the sciences but when push comes to shove who cares. What I consider God is something that can never be disproven because I don’t believe in a man that sits in the clouds and judges us. I simply believe in the power of Love which to me is the road to all that is good and all that is joyous. I love the fact that life is a mystery and my belief in God isn’t for reassurance. It’s not there to give me a comforting feeling about death; it’s not there so that I can feel good about myself because I feel that those who have died whom I care about and love are in a “better” place. My belief is about life and living, about strength and faith and most of all it’s about Love. It’s about knowing that life is on purpose and that everything that occurs in life was meant and has happened for the benefit of life. It’s about living because I think that God and life are one in the same. It’s about oneness as well because in order to truly want greatness for all is to see oneself in that all itself. It’s about happiness, the sheer feeling of it and when I say happiness I mean the type that is everlasting. It’s not about attaching myself to an outside belief for more reassurance on life and the way things will turn out for me, like I said, I enjoy that fact that life and everything in it is a mystery. This way I am able to grow more freely then I would if I simply knew it all. I feel that my enlightenment began when I realized that God isn’t something that is separate and apart from me and then it got stronger when I accepted the mystery called life. So as this year comes to a close I say that I enjoy and revel in the mystery. I don’t need to believe in some super man who lives in the sky with promises that would be revealed to me when I die if I happen to pick the right religion. To me death is something that is just as important to the universe as life and they are in a way one. You can’t have one without the other and if death was a bad thing then it would only happen to bad people. I do have my beliefs about what may happen to us after we die but if someone was to come to me with cold hard facts that all of my beliefs about death were wrong I wouldn’t be upset because I don’t claim any attachments to my beliefs. They are what they are and I will continue to learn about them and grow within them. But let’s say that there really is no type of consciousness after life just as the atheist say, so what is what I say to that. So all that means is the worst thing that could happen to me after I die is that I feel nothing, what’s so bad about that? I mean if you feel nothing you won’t have to go through hard times and you won’t have to feel pain anymore so why is it so bad? Is it bad because the nothingness that we may feel after we die is something of the unknown? As if you “know” what will occur in your life tomorrow or even within the next moment. Some terrorist could drop a bomb on your house and this bomb could maybe not be enough to kill you but it may just burn you so bad that you may have to go through the rest of your life disfigured. Poison gas could be leaking out of some pipe under your house right now slowly killing brain cells and you may wake up tomorrow not knowing who you are. Anything could happen within even the next moment and the next moment just like life will always be unknown. Do you fear the next moment? Do you fear the next year to come? So why fear something that is going to happen to you one day simply because it may entail the unknown? There you go, nothing to it and with this year I will go in to the next one holding God within my heart and radiating what I feel he stands for. I will live for him which means I will live for Love and I will growth within that space within my very own mysterious life. I will maintain faith in good and I will maintain and believe in the goodness that dwells in everyone. I will continue to grow and gain strength within myself and I invite everyone else to do the same. I feel that we are all one still, its call the universe not the multiverse so let’s start acting like it and make this happiness that we all crave for a reality. What a year it’s been and we all are going to go into the next one in mystery whether we accept it or not and man what a beautiful feeling it is going to be!

Namaste

Own it to change it

“I have learned from experience that happiness is an acquired skill. There is always something to complain about, even in the best of times. And there is always something to celebrate, even in the worst of times. Happiness is not an objective reality so much as a subjective decision. Chronic complainers miss the boat.”(Marianne Williamson)

If I decide to claim being a victim I am submitting my situation to chance in other words I am taking the easy way out which tends to lead to roads of suffering. If I wallow in a pool of regret and I blame everything that happens in my life on me how can I move forward from the situation? How can I move at all if I am living in a place to blame, that my friend would be me living in a place that doesn't exist. In order for me to even consider my blameful situation I would have to use my mind and place the siuation in the now, why would I do that? But if I am not to blame myself and if I am to take full responsiblities for my action how is this to be done. By owning my situaiton and also by letting it go. If I own my siutation I am able to make a change whether for better or worst. To say, "yes I did cause this and I don't like this so now I will change this to a more preferable outcome" would work in everyone's benefit. So in closing I want to just say that we are only victims if we claim to be as such. We are able to preceive a situation any way we chose to. I chose to preceive every situation an oppurtunity for growth and growth in life is always for my benefit. Why sit and complain? Learn, grow stronger and move forward to that place which always dictates joy.

Namaste

Remain childlike

Adults kill dreams and believe they are doing it for the best interest of another because the other person isn’t being “realistic”. Adults think they know everything because they’re “grown” so you can’t tell them anything because if you do they will say, “don’t talk to me that way I’m a grown man/woman”. Adults spend over half the day almost every day working at jobs they don’t like then they give half the money they earn away to bill collectors then lie to themselves and say things like, “I work hard to support myself and my family”. The only reason they spend over half their lives doing something they despise is because they are afraid to stop because they don’t know what will happen if they do. Adults stay in dead end relationships and keep people around them that bring them down simply because it’s what they “know” and what they are used to. Adults are afraid to step out of their comfort zone no matter how bad their comfort zone may be. They work too much and don’t play enough. In other words adults SUCK!

A child knows that having fun and being happy is the most important thing in the world and will always dream. Life was meant to be enjoyed and children know this, Einstein once said that the reason he made all of his discoveries was because he never stopped thinking like a child. Being humble, smiling, laughing these are all things that children embrace. I don’t see myself ever “growing up” from any of this. I will always dream and follow my heart, I will do things I enjoy, things that truly helps my soul expand and I still am trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. I will humbly remain in the mystery of life because I know I don’t know everything and I will embrace that as fact in a childlike and mature manner. I won’t whine about people or relationships that I chose to be in and around, what since does that make? And I don’t mind stepping out of my comfort zone because I know that outside of it is where my growth occurs. Your opinion about me is not my concern and never will be, as a 33 year old child I will simply be truthful to myself and remain in that positive place. I say join me and never grow up!

Namaste

The optical delusion of separation

"A human being is a part of the whole called the “universe,” a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of…consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affections for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in all its beauty, Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security."  (Albert Einstein)

For me this quote by Einstein really hit home because it makes a point to speak on what life should have within it for everyone. It’s too often that yea, we help our family and friends when they are in need but if someone who we don’t know asks us for a favor we turn our noises up. I remember an incident that occurred in front of a 7 11 which is a quickie market for all of you who may not know. This gentleman whom was dressed in kind of dirty clothes asked another person who was entering the story could he have any change that the person who was entering the store could offer. Do you know what? The man who got asked the question said in a very rude tone, “No man go away.” As the man whom asked the question started to go the other man quickly said, “hey man, why don’t you go get a job and stop asking people for money? It’s because you are too lazy to work huh?” Then man whom asked the question in the first place replied, “Hey, I have been trying to find work” then the other man simply uttered quietly to himself, “yea right you bum” and walked into the store. Now was all of that necessary? I mean if he didn’t want to give the man any money he should have just said no and left it at that. Who knows what the man who was begging had gone through in his life? Who knows what type of upbringing he had, who knows what wrong doing may have occurred within his life. It’s a wonder that people are so judgmental to others when the truth of the matter may be that if they would have gone through half of the things that the person who they are judging went though they may be in a worst off condition.

When I look at a person whether it is someone I know or not I can always see a spark of myself within them. I know that they have good in them and if they are in a messed up situation they didn’t consciously choose it. At times in life we all do walk down the wrong roads and then we tend to find ourselves in a slump. When I was around 26 years old or so I made some horrible decisions with my money and because of those decisions I nearly got evicted from my apartment. There was a time when I fell behind on my electric bill payments and it got shut off for a day. Times when I have done things in the pass that may have caused hurt and pain to others. I have been in slumps plenty of times in my life and I’ve been in that sad place. These situations do tend to make us stronger once we get through them but they do occur for all of us. You can’t judge someone in a way that you aren’t judging yourself anyway because we really can’t give out what we don’t have within ourselves.

To come to a realization that we all are One in this world is to come to a freeing insight. Some people hang around only people that they have known for a long time. Some people never leave there neighborhoods, they never venture out so that they may broaden their horizon and to me this is ashame. They never give to a person who looks as if they are in need, instead they judge, assuming that the person is just going to go and use the money that they may give them for drugs. How can anyone make a judgment on what the person will use the money for? I say if you have it and someone asks, if giving a person a little money isn’t going to hurt you financially you should give to them every single time no matter how the person may look. You have no right to judge anyone, you don’t know what they have gone through or if they are going to use the money for food or not, if you were in their shoes you may be the one who would be on the drugs. Plus even if they are on drugs who gave you the right to tell them that it is wrong for them to do the drugs. I say this, at lease this person won’t break in someone’s car or house looking for something to sell so that they may appease their drug habit. My house and car has been broken into before and for the things that were taken I am assuming a person simply did the act so they would have something to sell for money for drugs, or maybe for food who knows but imagine what would have happened if when that very person asked a stranger for some money and they would’ve just given it to them? That person may not have broken into my car (the repairs cost more money than what the person took) or my house. Think about it that way.

Again (this statement needs to be repeated plenty of times) we all are One. Yes I do love certain people who are in my life but I have love for everyone to whom I meet and even those that I don’t. This light of love is bright enough to shine on everyone, not just the people that I know on a personal level. We are all One with the universe because we are made of the same stuff as the universe is. We are made of energy just as the universe and even the particles which make up our bodies can be found in space. We are One with each other, with all of the plants and animals. We are One with people who live in a way that we may not understand, that aspect of them does live in us and remember, if we were to have gone through whatever that person went through then we probably would be similar to that person if not the same. We are all One, One universe One Love and One light and we all need to start acting that way. Animals like that ants who come together as One and live in harmony have been around a lot longer than animals who don’t live in this way because it is all of our true natures and it is the way of things. So remember, every time you make a negative judgment on a person you are simply calling out an aspect of yourself that you simply don’t like. Why not give away a smile or a little cash, some food and some insight that is worth getting. Why not be love, share love and look at everyone to whom you meet as a part of yourself. If everyone thought this way there would be no wars, no robbing, no murders and no issues in this world. This Oneness thing is the answer to all of the issue that we are having and it is a spiritual thing; it’s an inner thing so let’s get it started. Remember, we are all One. ONE LOVE!!!

Namaste