Namaste;
 
Recently I have trying to read up on a few things.....on Tibetan Buddhism. This talk of Chogyam Trungpa was in 1974 at the Naropa Institute in Colorado. This was never published then, but they have now after 30 years. Being totally ignorant of Tibetan Buddhist philosophy I found it very interesting and enlightening. So here I have some some high lights about `nowness`. I quoted part of his talk., the more important parts.....all His words!
 
Beyond, Present, Past and Future is The 4th moment...
Chogyam Trungpa on meditation, the spiritual path, and sense of time beyond relative time.
 
We talk of stages on the path, in relationship to meditative practice, there is a problem here with the terminology. Meditation is more like a process of growing up and aging, it is not stage after stage...but a process of evolution, of development. You don`t become suddenly grown up. Meditation is a process takes place in you. Such a process takes place in accordance with one`s life situation. All spiritual development in an evolutionary process, that takes place constantly.
 
Sudden enlightenment, sudden glimpse, satori and other kinds of spiritual attainments ...needs enough preparation to be be sudden, need to be in the right frame of mind  for such experience. Otherwise it can`t  happen at all. When we talk of suddenness and sudden flashes of all kinds, we are talking of in terms of conditional suddenness, conditional sudden enlightenment. Sudden enlightenment is dependent on the slow growth of the spiritual process....the growth of commitment, discipline, and experience.This takes place not only in the sitting practice of meditation alone, but also through the lifelong experience of dealing with people, things in your life. And to work and learn from those experiences.
 
Scholastically and experientialy there is no such thing as sudden enlightenment in Buddhism. So-called sudden enlightenment is simple insight, or understanding, on what we already have experienced. Its like `suddenly I saw a sunset`...What you are seeing is the situation that already exists, but making it sound dramatic, The sun dosn`t suddenly set.  It depends on your experience.
The point here is that there is continuity in the spiritual path. You begin solidly, progress solidly, and you evolve solidly. Don`t expect super normal-magic of any kind on the spiritual path.
 
 
NO ONE CAN SAVE US from the state of chaos or samsara unless we understand the meaning of chaos and confusion, unless we have experienced it, suffered from it. Otherwise we don`t notice it. You begin to feel uncomfortable , something bugging you constantly, when you realise this you are already making the journey.This spiritual journey  here discussed, nothing to do with the spirit, but self existing healthiness that everyone of us posses. The spiritual journey can onll take place if we make ourselves available to the path. The path is you.You exist, so the path exists. It`s personal as well as impersonal. You discover the path, you are the maker of the path. Many others can tread your path. That`s the meaning of shanga, or community.....so others use that path.
 
The shamatha experience, the slow process of mindfulness that takes place on the beginner`s level, allows us to be available to ourselves. The starting point of shamatha practice of meditation, in which we begin to catch ourselves being a nuisance to ourselves. We find all kinds of problems, emotional hang-ups, physical problems ....with meditation.
 
First step is to make friends with yourself, accepting and acknowledging yourself. Work with subconscious gossip, fantasies...everything. And everything that you learn about yourself you bring back to the technique, to the awareness of the breathing, which was taught by the Buddha. Having made friends with yourself , you feel sense of relief and excitement.
 
NEXT IS THE EXPERIENCE of vipashyana, which is a sense of fundamental awareness. Such awareness acknowledge the boundaries of non-awareness, the boundaries of the wandering mind.You accept the whole situation as part of basic awareness.
Not only are you aware of your breath, posture, and you thought processes, but you are fundamentally mindful and aware. There is a sense of totality....you are aware of everything in the room...cushion, furniture, rugs, aware about yourself...color of your hair, eyes,, what you did that day. You are constantly aware of all things. Beyond that there is non-conceptual awareness that does not talk in terms of facts and figures. You have a fundamental abstract level of awareness and of being. There is a sense that `this is taking place. Something is happening right here`. A sense of being...experience without words, without terms, without concepts, without visualisation...takes place. It is unnamable. We can`t call it `consciousness` because that implies you are evaluating or conscious of sensory input. We can`t even call it `awareness`which could be mis understood. It`s a state of being.
 
Being what? It is just being without any qualifications. This may sound vague, but not at all.There is a very strong energy . A powerful thing that is taking place. There is a shock, the electricity of being pulled back into the present constantly; here, here, here. It`s happening. It`s taking place. Interesting dichotomy, one hand we don`t know what is happening, on the other hand an enormous understanding. That is the state of vipashyana, the state of realization or insight.You begin to see inside you mind on the level of non verbal awareness. Non verbal cognitive mind is functioning. You hear, see all, but you don`t hear , don`t see all at the same time.... many things happening .That`s totallity taking place. A very precise something or other is happening. That is the sate of vipashyana.It`s nonverbal and non conceptual and electric.. It`s neither ecstasy or state of dullness. Rather a state of `hereness` is taking place...in Tibetan Buddhist literature it`s know as `nowness`.
 
Nowness is referred to as the 4th moment. You have past, present, future...these are 3 moments Then there is the 4th moment...a state of experience that does not belong to the `now`. It belongs to a non-category. That is the state of vipashyana or the state of non-ego...the term in Tibetan term, `ihakthong dagme tokpe sherap`...which means `the knowledge of egoless insight`. It is a very real experience in which nothing can be misunderstood, an overwhelming experience.The experience comes at you. You experience it precisely and in great detail.
 
With that point of view , you are able to work with yourself and your life situations because there are constant reminders that are taking place in your life...all kinds of hassles arise......family, bills, health commitments that demand attention.You can`t afford to forget about them....all kinds of past and present are happening. There is a constant state of turmoil. Problems happening constantly. If you look closely at where the problem came from and and what it is all about, you begin to experience the 4th moment. Problems come, problems go but still remain problematic. That is the state of the 4th moment. It`s not that the devil is against you, trying to destroy you. Rather the world is very powerful , and in  its subtle way trying to remind you that you should remember your 4th moment- the fourth moment.  That what is happening in vipashyana experience. Experience becomes so real and precise that it transcends any reference.
You are practicing life, in fact ironically you feel that life is practicing you.
 
EXPERIENCING THE 4TH MOMENT is an important point in the process of spiritual development. You actually realize that you are on the path, and everything in you path begins to haunt you. Sometimes pleasurable, sometimes painful. A ghost haunting you all the time, you can`t get rid of it. That state of insight and the state of being simultaneously is the  experience of the 4th moment.
 
The state of hauntedness is the state of the ego, actually. Somebody in your family, some parts of your being, is beginning to complain that they are getting uncomfortable messages. In other words the vipashyana awareness of the 4th moment cannot materialize unless there is a slight tinge of being haunted by your own ego. The hauntedness and the sense of insight work together. That is what creates the experience. The experience cannot happen unless there is a black and white, sweet and sour working together. Otherwise you are just absorbed into the black, or into the sweet, and there is no experience. You have no way of working with yourself at all.
 
When we talk of the  experience of the 4th moment, we are not talking about a programmed predictable experience as such. We are talking about an experience that comes from the unconscious mind. In terms of the underlying consciousness or the unconscious, we are referring to an abstract state of mind, a state of literal thinking that dosn`t have logic formulated yet. You just have a sense of ape instinct or radar instinct. In fact we don`t know where the experience comes from. It just comes. Maybe from God, Adam....or as in Buddhism.....You are just you. So it dosn`t come from anywhere.  No point in trying to trace it back. It simply exists. 
 
The present is the 3rd moment...it has a sense of presence...I can feel the presence. The 4th moment is the sense of totality. Basic awareness is taking place that dosn`t need any particular reassurance as such. It is happening. It is there. You feel the totality.The 4th moment is a much larger version of the 3rd moment. Without the experience of the 4th moment, there isn`t enough intelligence taking place. You are just accepting naively, and that naivete may become the basis for spiritual materialism. Naivete is believing in something that dosn`t exist, which means that is becomes a sense of ignorance or stupidity.
 
Whenever there is a reminder, it is part of the 4th moment. If there is a reminder everything becomes very real. If you don`t have a reminder , you are just at the mercy of chaos, samsara. That is why the sitting practice of meditation is so important. It all boils down to that. 

love and light!
 
 
 
 
 
 

I wish this was all my idea...but it comes from someone very blessed...his name is Wumpy!  His words are so wonderful from an Indigo web site..he dosn`t even know I posted this. I do thank Him for this beautiful metaphor! I know he dosn`t mind! For his purpose was to share with the world!

"WILDFLOWERS"

We all have ideas and beliefs we live by. Some were taught to us and
others we picked up along the way. Some we have no clue as to where
they came from and yet we still accept them as a part of us. And
still others seem to come from out of the blue, as if a gift from
the heavens. This little story is about one of those. A belief I
hold dear that had to have been shipped from some other place and
planted in my heart. It was taught to me in the central plains on an
early fall day.

I was driving westward thru what can only be called Gods
country. Flat lands of rich soil that had bumper crops of every
vegetable you can imagine. Sometimes it seemed the roads went on
forever as I drove. Just myself on the highway, cruising along in
my old beat up Pontiac and trying to identify the crops along side
the road. I could make most of them out. Like Corn. Nice even rows
that stretched off as far as the eye could see. Others I wasn't so
sure about. There was this type of grain that I'd never seen and
so I finally decided it must be Barley. Another I had trouble with
was some sort of lettuce, or was it cabbage? I settled for cabbage
since I wasn't sure. Field after endless field I passed until
finally I got tired of the name game.

It was then that a little question seemed to pop into my head.


The question went like this:

"If those crops in the field had a spiritual belief, what would
it be?"

Now that's an odd question. Still, I had nothing better to
do with my time so I decided to play along. I was again passing some
corn and as I looked it over I figured that Corn has got to be
Christian. Standing in nice neat rows just waiting to march into
those pearly gates.

Next came the Barley looking grain and I pegged it as
Muslim. You see, I know very little about Islam and even less about
Barley so the two just seemed to go together. Muslim Barley it was.

As I waited for the next veggie to appear I went ahead and
decided that Tomatoes were Pagan. As much as I love the taste of
vine ripened tomatoes they just had to be a sin of some sort. Now
I'm not equating paganism with sin here. It just seemed to fit in
my shallow little brain at the time.

Then those cabbage things showed up again. I had to think
a second on that one. Well, they sit close to the ground and are
roundish and plump. Kind `a like Buddha. That's it. They were
meditating Buddhist Cabbage.

I was really getting the hang of this. After naming a few
others I came across a wheat field with a scarecrow still up.
That's Catholic wheat for sure with the Pope giving his blessings
from the Vatican portico. This was actually a fun little diversion.

It finally got a little tired  and I decided to put a tape in the deck


and get lost in some music. As I fumbled around looking for the
right tape another little questioned popped into my head. To this
day I have no idea where it came from. This time it went like this:

"And what is the Sunshine and the Rain?"

I was still looking for the right tape and answered without
even thinking about it. "The sunshine and the rain is the love of
God that makes them all grow." Settling on the Pink Floyd I turned
to put it in when my mind balked. The answer I had just given was
impossible.

I mean, The Christian Corn knew and taught that only it was
on Gods good side. That meant it should be getting ALL the sunlight
and all the rain. The Muslim Barley believed the same thing. So did
the Catholic wheat and all those other damn vegetables. But that was
not what was happening. The sunshine and the rain fell upon each and
everyone one of them the same, as if it didn't give a tinkers damn
what they believed. The sunshine and the rain was giving to each and
everyone of the vegetables just what they needed to grow strong and
tall in both spirit and in life.

No, no, no, no, no!! It is not my place in this world to
turn over ten thousand years of religious dogma by assigning beliefs
to vegetables. I'm a simple man with a simple life and thinking like
this was way, way over my head. I decided to just send the thought
on its happy way and I'll keep driving mine.

It wouldn't go away. I sat there in the driver's seat. And
the thought sat right there beside me. I have no idea where the
original questions came from but I was sure that whoever asked them
was laughing at me.

Finally I decided to accept it. The love of God is the
sunshine and the rain that makes all of gods creations grow strong
and tall. Regardless of what field they are born in or what roots
they grow from.

With that done I gave thanks to the heavens for the insight,
even though I had my doubts about how it would affect me, and
promised to hold it dear. I also said thank you for the little
lesson and now that it was over I'd just be getting on down the
highway.

Finally letting it go I realized I'd been driving on
autopilot. Just watching the road while my brain whirred with the
ideas and their implications. I blinked my eyes a few times and
looked around. What I saw shocked me. I actually had to pull the car
over and stop. I felt inside that in no uncertain terms the heavens
had just informed me that its not the pupils place to say when the
lesson was over

On both sides of the road the fields were covered with
wildflowers. Now this didn't make allot of sense either. Who in
their right mind would let some of the best growing soil in the
world be over run with flowers? No sooner had I asked then I knew
the answer.God would.

Is a wildflower any less a creation of God then the corn? Or
the cabbage? Should it not also get its sunlight and its rain? Are
the free spirits of the world any less then the most dedicated? I
then knew that the wildflowers are the spiritual beings that could
never live and thrive in the strait and tall rows of the corn. And
the very fertilizer and plant food that makes the barley strong
would shrivel the spirit of the wildflower. And so out here, in soil
as good as all other soil, the wildflower has its own place to grow.
That the one that had created all things had made sure all things
had a place to grow, so the sunlight and rain of his love would let
them become the best that they could be.

The crops and the flowers were at their best. They had been
raised and had grown strong in the sunlight and the rain. I realized
that soon this generation would be harvested so that a new
generation could take its place. A sad thought. But just another
fact of our existence.

Somehow I couldn't help but pray a bit. In hope that when all
the crops are in and its time to rejoice in the end of the season,
The feast will have all of them there.

The Christian corn with the Catholic Wheat and the Muslim
Barley. All joining in the celebration. And the centerpiece on the
master's table will hold the brightest and most beautiful bunch
of wildflowers that heaven has ever seen.

It was a lesson I learned that day that has changed my life
and my perspective on all things.

If you ever find yourself out in Gods country or any country
for that matter, Don't forget to keep an eye out for the
wildflowers. They seem to be able to grow anywhere that the main
cash crops aren't. And If by chance you come across a whole field of
them then by all means stop and take a long look. You might just
catch a glimpse of someone you know, or maybe even a reflection of
yourself. And if you notice a big gangly flower out near the middle,
just growing this way and that and blooming in all the wrong places,
Don't worry about it too much. Its finally growing up to be just
what it was meant to be. I should know. It's me.

love and light!

Everything is based on the mind, is led by the mind.

 

Today I begin a new life!
Today I shed my old skin. Today I am born a new. Today I pluck grapes of wisdom from the tallest, fullest vines and swallow the seed of success buried in each. And a new life will sprout within me I will make a solemn oath that nothing will retard my new life`s growth!

I will greet this day with love in my heart!
Henceforth I will look on all things with love. I will be born again. I  will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart. I will endure saddness as it opens my soul.
Most of all I will love myself.
I will greet the day and I will succeed!

I will persist until I succeed!
I was not delivered into this world in defeat. Nor does failure course in my veins. Failure is not my destiny. I will never consider defeat. I will remove it from my vocabulary. I will try, try, try again. I will persist, I will win!

I am nature`s greatest miracle!
I am a unique creature of nature. I am rare. I am valuable. I am different. I am not on this earth by chance. I am here for a purpose to grow into a mountain not to shrink to a grain of sand. I will increase my knowlege of mankind, and myself. I was conceived in love, brought forth with purpose.
I am  the pinnacle of creation!

I will live this day as it were my last!
What will I do with this precious day?  This is the only day I have, the hours are my eternity. I will forget yesterday, not think of tomorrow. Why should I throw NOW after MAYBE. I will make this day the best day of my life. I will live this day as if it was my last.
And if it is not, I shall fall to my knees and give thanks!

Today I will be master of my emotions!
I will recognize the mysteries of moods of all mankind, including myself. I will be prepared to control whatever personality awakens in me each day. I will master my moods through positive actions. I will master my moods and my destiny is to become the best I can ever be!

I will laugh at the world!
I will laugh at the world, most of all laugh at my self. I will paint the world with laughter. As long as I can laugh I will never be poor! Four words will always carry me through all adversity.....THIS TOO SHALL PASS!
For all wordly things shall pass.

Today I will multiply my values a hundredfold!
I will set goals. The height of my goals will not hold me in awe. I will not commit the terrible crime of aiming too low. As I stumble I will rise. To surpass the deed of others is unimportant, to surpass my own deeds is all.


I will act now!
My dreams are worthless. My plans are dust. My goals are impossible....All are of no value unless followed by action. Procrastination has held me back, that was born out of fear. I will remember the lesson of the firefly who gives of its light when it`s on the wings, only when it`s in action. I will not avoid the tasks of today

Never will I pray for material things!
Only for guidance will I pray for,  so I shall be shown the way.
Let me become all You planned me for when my seed was planted and selected by You to sprout in the vineyard of the world.
Every moment of life will be a prayer of gratitude to God!
Guide me, God!

Well Easter came and went........And is is a season of re-newal, rebirth . And I was thinking what to do....and then the universe answered in the form of Awen.

Well I`m sure  many of You are friends with him...I thought if he dosn`t mind I shall borrow, or rather make his idea my own as well....and put it out here. But I think I shall call it AWEN WEEK. 

He thought that it would be a great idea to make this whole week love and kindness week.....well I suppose every week should be that, but that pesky ego often gets in the way and we so easily forget.

Actually I have no plan how to go about it, but  being conscious of the idea makes the wheels turn. And I think every little thing counts....the ocean is made up of drops of water, the desert is of individual grains of sand, the univeres of individual light energy crystalized into matter......

How I shall go about this is to make a list at the end of each day...no matter how absurd, small.....as long as it`s in the spirit of love and kindness. And I shall, make this a habit for always.
 
It`s a good idea anyway for my B/day is on the 19th...and I have a lot to be thankful for.......so to return some of the love and kindness I was blessed with.

Well, life isn`t a rose garden, I do have my days...but my garden is filled with forget-me-nots...for my loved ones  friends;  impatients, well I always need more of that: bleeding hearts...compassion is a must; little violets of humility;  Lilly of the Valley...it`s purity, honesty, authenticity, justice; little uncomplicated Daisies; the sensitive, emotional Mimosa; the wild and free Cosmos;  Japanes lanterns for light; Passion Flower of forgiveness, mercy and the reminder of God; roses...well they have their own message! but roses often have thorns as well, otherwise they would`t be roses.

Lets not forget the weeds, they too have their purpose, for without them there would be no progression!
 
.....but then there are so many more that I`m just starting to learn about! some from many of You....Ah yes, the beautiful Lotus!

love , light, peace.....

Generally I have always lived, or tried to live my life being very conscious of the present...being immeresed in the NOW. I take mental photographs of moments in my life!

My favourite quote is `Nothing is permanent but change`....so this below is very appropriate!

~Right now a moment of time is fleeting by! Capture its reality in paint! To do that we must pull all else from our minds. We must become that moment, make ourselves a sensitive recording plate...give the image of what we actually see, forgetting everything that has been before our time.~

Namaste.....

I would like to share this with You on this day......not written by me of course!

By today`s standards we will live approximately 30,000 days. That is a limited number, a very small number. If I add up the hours I will have spent probably a week or so writing since the beginning of the year. I will spend a number of those weeks with family and those close to me.

I will spend everyone of those days learning conciously or unconsciously about love, about life that is. I will spend everyone of those prescious days on sacred mother earth, held in the infinite silence and stillness of father space.

When I die, as when I was born, it will be NOW, and I WILL be consciousness.
When I struggle with problems in life that I create in my life, through denying the present moment and identifying with the insanities of modern life I  will not be held in the bosom of life.

When I rise in state of love and mystic awareness traveling through the heavens in vision and bringing it to earth, I will be held in the bosom of life.

Each precious day, each hour, minute, second is unique, once only and profoundly perfect. Each a part of the universes divine purpose. Each a part of the authentic process of each soul and the path to learn to love life within.

There is not a second to waste.

No egoic , mental or emotional violence to self or others that is worth living out unconsciously and in reactive pain.

Life is so special, so prescious, so delightfully profoud and perfect, blissful and wise.

There is no need to complicate this in our minds. No need to move from the very nature that we are......for we ARE loving kindness!

You are presence, awareness,
This is what Your soul is.
Do You have one?
No You do not.
You are soul!
You do not have a life.
You are life!

Being a romanic of sorts. I thought I might post this.......a little reminder is always good to myself.

The Rose....

Some say love , it is a river, that drowns the tender reed,
Some say love , is a rasor , that leads your soul to bleed,
Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need,
I say love , it is a flower, and  you, its only seed.

Its the heart afraid of breaking, that never learns to dance,
Its the dream afraid of waking, that never takes the chance,
It`s the one who won`t be taken, the one who can`t seem to give.
And the soul afraid of dying, that never learns to live.

When the night has been too lonely and the road has been too long,
And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong,
Just remember that in the winter, far beneath the bitter snow,
Lies the seed, that in the sun`s love becomes the rose.


love always...
Suzanne

It is so funny......people tend to profess to spread love, light, peace....yet when it comes to really living it it seldom  happens. Many love to be called spiritual, enlightened....makes them feel good; write a lot of soul moving stuff....that lifts them up;  give very profound dissertations....through which they are given recognition,  accolades....yet they fall short in demonstrating it. They miss little things, things that really count in one`s life.

Or they live it , but only unto themselves....is that love?...is that light?That to me is more of living from the ego, not the higher self, ....yet that is what they think. Sound like selfishness to me, and pride.

This sort thing of reminds me of the Pharasees in the Bible...and of the one`s that Jesus chased out of the Temple. Sad....
 
Rather  have simple ideas, not lofty ones but live them. And....not just live it but share it...because  no man is an island!.......one has to share it....and that means being conscious, sensitive, feeling the others need! ....kindness , love come in many forms.
Do unto others as You would unto You! 

This is very appropriate....One has to remember  that spirituality does not always come with a high IQ...on the contrary! So those who think that they are in the super duper IQ catergory, and think that they are more spiritually advanced will have a rude awakening.

......and as Jesus said`` Do all Your praying in secret as well as all Your good deeds!``

It`s an other rant from me!.....Please forgive me!

.....for I`m rather disappointed with some 190+ IQ people today.

I just see sometimes things that bother me...especially if they are  done by people I love deeply!


love & light...
Suzanne

Confucius says;




Famous Quote of all of us;
``I want to learn from my own experience!``

I was wondering why as humans we find it so difficult to learn from the experience of others. Looking back at my own life.....had I taken advice given, learnt from the experiences of others I would have prevented, spared myself so much heartache.

The sad thing is I still keep doing it in spite of....so why? Maybe life is pre-determined and it is already written in the big book. Maybe karma....we certainly can`t fight against that, only accept.

.....or maybe as
Beethoven said; ``Must it Be? ....It must be!``......perhaps he was right!

love always....
Suzanne

By..Tulku Thonduo Rinpoche/from The Shambhala Sun/May 06


~~``There are many ways to make merit, or positive karma. The most comprehensive are the 6 perfections that the Mhayana Buddhism prescribes as the path of enlightenment.

giving (generosity),
discipline (morality),
patience (fearlessness),
diligence (eagerness),
tranquility (contemplation)
and
wisdom.

The first 5 perfections, collectively referred to as ``skillful means`` are especially for accumulating merit.The 6th , wisdom involves realizing the true nature of mind, which is wisdom-emptyness.

The purpose is to refine, transform our mind. Devotion opens our hearts. Compassion dissolves ego. Prayer unites us with our enlightened qualities. Pure perception transforms our awareness. Serving others especially those that rely on us, is the purpose of dharma.

There is no such thing as a Buddha who dosn`t help others

So the more we open our hearts to skillful means, the more quickly and surely we reach buddhahood. We should never abandon these practices, for the path of skillful means is perfected in the goal of enlightenment, just as brick becomes a finished house.

Our ego is like solid rock. The more we generate compassion and devotion and make merit, the softer it gets. Eventually, it dissolves!``~~

Namaste,
Suzanne

I am the heaven I seek . Heaven is within me.

Heaven is here on earth walking, talking, laughing and loving.....as me and  as You! Embodying love and gratitude  through all kinds of earthly tools....prayer, music, words, actions...... creates a gateway to this love, to flow through, becoming a guide for all others as well .


This insight is reflected always in all ways in our waking world as long as we choose to see it. Along the way earthly  guides shine  the light of their works for the benefit for those who seek.......Jesus, Mother Teresa, John Paul ll, St.Francis, Dalai Lama,  Buddha, Gandhi, Rumi, Lao-Tse, Og Mandino and so many more ...and  



 For we are all part of the divine, ....we are Divine! WE are LOVE and LIGHT manifesting.

As our collective consciousness continues raising its vibration to one of

LOVE and GRATITUDE 

We are now within that time-frame.....when so many are conscious of this and we all seek enlightenment.

We are guided, inspired and conforted in all our waking lives by this thought ,  so we can be the heaven we seek.

Ancient Hopi prophesy states


Born out of love and gratitude and  returning to it  to maybe our gatewayto this merging world, this that we so seek.

love & light,
Suzanne

............ One of my favourite books of inspiration for me has been Illusions.....

WEll, isn`t that the universal truth...all is just illusion!

``Every person all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there....What we choose to do with them is up to us``.

Funny...because this is so meaningful to me.....all persons that have truly touched my life are always with me in love. Always in my heart!  Even where the end was not as pleasant, I have never ever wanted to forget them. Never would I throw the experience into the fire.... any experiece that I have had, in love, in sincerity, in authenticity...no matter the outcome. It is always cherished.........in love, with love.

Would I do anything differently? No, for I am the person I am because of those experiences...so no regrets whatsoever!!  And I am truly grateful, and blessed.

We are all parts of the people who have touched us and us them....

I was just musing....

love & light,
 Suzanne