Whole Living Today

I had already started working on my post for today when I received this very appropriate email from Doreen Virtue’s Angel Therapy Newsletter:

“2008’s energy is gentle, loving, and compassionate. 2008 embraces us with love, even as it teaches us how to use the power of our mind and emotions.

Adding together all of the digits in 2+0+0+8, we receive the sum of 10. Add these two digits together 1+0, and you have a 1. The number 1 means: “Your thoughts are instantly manifesting into form.”

As a 1 year, 2008 promises adventures in getting immediate reactions to your thoughts and emotions. Everything you think about will instantly appear in your life. So the key to enjoying a blissful 2008 is to keep your thoughts dialed on Love.”…

“I ask that you open my heart to Divine Love, and help me to feel safe, protected, and energized. Please help me to adjust my life so that it is in alignment with my truth and integrity. Help me to release any emotional energy drains, now and completely. Help me to release any old anger, unforgiveness, resentment, or other emotional toxins, now and forever. Help me to have the courage to be my true self in all ways. Thank you, Amen.”

2007 appears to have been a year of transformation and rebuilding for many of us. We need to take a little time to reflect and let go. This will provide space for the new to enter into our lives. You might also want to visit this blog post by Molly Brogan, The Sacred Space of Relationships. Guess this post is a little more personal than I usually expose but I think many can relate. One of my favorite books of all time is The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. I’d like to share this beautiful quote on love, trust and dreams from his book…

“At that moment, it seemed to him that time stood still, and the Soul of the World surged within him. When he looked into her dark eyes, and saw that her lips were poised between an laugh and silence, he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke–the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. It was love. Something older than humanity, more ancient than the desert. Something that exerted the same force whenever two pairs of eyes met, as had theirs here at the well. She smiled, and that was ceertainly an omen–the omen he had been awaiting, without even knowing he was, for all his life….

It was the pure Language of the World. It required no explanation, just as the universe needs none as it travels through endless time. What the boy felt at that moment was that he was in the presence of the only woman in his life, and that, with no needs for words, she recognized the same thing. He was more certain of it than anything in the world. He had been told by his parents and grandparents that he must fall in love and really know a person before becoming committed. But maybe people who felt that way had never learned the universal language. Because, when you know that language, it’s easy to understand that someone in the world awaits you, whether it’s in the middle of the desert or in some great city. And when two such people encounter each other, and their eyes meet, the past and the future become unimportant. There is only that moment, and the incredible cretainty that everything under the sun has been written by one hand only. It is the hand that evokes love, and creates a twin soul for every person in the world. Without such love, one’s dreams would have no meaning.”

A Love Song For No One - John Mayer

With love & blessings for the New Year,
Tania

“What is wrong with feeling joy in this clout of cold? When something is over, it’s over–no doubt, no turning back, no illusion. Winter’s big hit is a kind of liberation. It’s a chance to stop, to turn our backs on effort. We can let ourselves rest. We can turn within.

This is true for great losses in life. A clean acceptance of them is finally freedom. The slow recovery from grief is a winter season of sleep, of rest and allowing things to be. It is trusting, rather, that “what is” just now will move us to “what can be.” Joy and loss are together. Loss cauterizes, and grief, when fully accepted, opens us to new life, to a mysterious, inexplicable joy.” ~ ‘A Mystic Garden’ by Gunilla Norris 

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, no longer marvel, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed. It was the experience of mystery — even if mixed with fear — that engendered religion. A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, our perceptions of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty, which only in their most primitive forms are accessible to our minds: it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute true religiosity. In this sense, and only this sense, I am a deeply religious man… I am satisfied with the mystery of life’s eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence — as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature.”  ~Albert Einstein

“There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” ~Anais Nin

The hibiscus tree was always prolific with producing buds; vibrant, healthy buds. Yet over and over again, the buds refused to open. They stayed tightly closed until eventually they would shrivel and fall from the tree, never opening. This disappointed the tree greatly, the beauty of itself never reaching fruition.

Then one day the tree spoke to one of it’s buds.

“Bud, why do you stay so tight within yourself, never allowing yourself to blossom, never sharing your beauty?”

“I’m comfortable this way, safe. Besides, I’m just a bud, why would I want to change?”

“You have much beauty to offer.”

“But I can’t be sure of that. Change is scarey. What if I don’t like it?”

“Trust and believe in who you are.”

The bud thought long and hard for days, unaware that a gentle change was already taking place. A releasing of fear mixed with a little curiousity of what change would feel like. An opening. It happened during the night, without notice. The bud blossomed. Reaching it’s potential, sharing it’s beauty.

Thank you Jodi, it was great to run across the quote from Anais Nin again. Visit Jodi’s Journal.

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds;

Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world.

Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.” ~Patanjali