Like any good mother, her desire was to have her child grow bright and bold, and to be full of good humor and wit, and to be generous and courageous and kind.
For, being such, how could anyone not have the most beautiful story?
After all, what is the code and concept of life, of living, of humanity, if it is not to find one's calling and to have that calling be greater than one's self; if it is not to pursue that calling and complete it with joyous self-respect?
Your life's bandwidth; is it structured to accommodate the victories you contemplate? What about its depth? Will it hold?
The remarkable vessel that is human - alive and thriving - is a marvel. A masterpiece. Its construct intrigues me. Though cccasionally I find its purpose baffling, being mindful of its enormous capacity delights me. Its facility for accommodating a wealth of joy is an absolute wonder. And I am continuously informed by the nature and variety of crucibles in which such vessels are churned, yet the sight of a vessel tossed, abandoned, battered and broken stills me. A vessel though it is, it is hardly that alone! Even its chips abide enriched with profitable usages, and so used. But by whom?
Breathe.
You are probably quite familiar with musical notes from the following:
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured. _Mark Twain
The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. _William Shakespeare
All the scars on my body, all the bumps and bruises, all the muscles - that is a story of everything I have done. And it's not just my story. My ancestors who came before me gave me this vessel to sculpt and mold. _Rose Namajunas
I'll never reach my destination, if I never try, so I will sail my vessel, until the river runs dry. _Garth Brooks
In this carved moment let's draw our eyes to a prism that reveals this fascinating feature of the human - vessel - seen not through a singular lens, rather by using them all: spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical, relational; yea, and the integrated whole. Use them best you know how, lest we narrow life's view precipitously.
Welcome to the seventh episode of Myth Or Mystery - genetic memory - curated by Neville DeAngelou, with a reminder: wherever the chips fall, it is still your life; only you can live it. And I mine! It is a beautiful gift - someone paid its original price!
Oxygen and hyrdrogen mashed is not water.
Enjoy actionable discoveries continuously being shared - smartly - particularly those that uplift, inspire, promote harmony, expand opportunities, exemplify beauty, and reveal wonder, in other words, those proven to strengthen our emboldened exercise of genuine love through all of its fertile dimensions, supplying those of us, who are blessed and inspired to take action, with the necessary skillsets to be awesome in our real world. Namaste. Share.
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Discover a deeper sense of self - viably interconnected - woven into the fabric of an everlasting story.
In the toss of many words few perform sweet puppetry in all of us. God utters this word and that word, and we behold wonders. So is heard. And so is said. The mind of a champion, the soul of a hero, the spirit of a believer, the will of a survivor, are swept and swooned into the realms of greatness on the wings of just a few words. Such words are like mustard seeds.
During
this series we are exploring myths and mysteries to peel away practical wisdom without asserting fact or fiction purely to glean what's usable for enriching relationships, confronting challenges, and producing outcomes worthy of the label well done.
As we share real snap stories of our search and findings (in context with our word of the moment), we will encourage each other to select gems from the scramble, thanks to exceptional creators, influencers and producers.
Occasionaly we will invite you to score a particular disclosure - myth, mystery, awesome revelation, or pure folly - then to re-examine your evaluation after a period of reflection. At the end we will ask you to put it all together. Then voila!
Enjoy.
And some are sent scurrying through rabbit holes and some are destined to dig rabbit holes. But these are not all.
Lester's Labyrinth: a mesmerizing rabbit hole - a life of contortions and conundrums - a labyrinth of limiting beliefs, incompatible beliefs, conflicting beliefs, dangling beliefs, unsubstantiated beliefs, twisted beliefs, a maze of beliefs so tightly interwoven, at times they are a great big mystery, at times they are a living hell - a cyclic mishmash of half-quarter truths where pain, shame, guilt, malice and anger live large around capricious cornerstones.
There is a place for each and everyone, and a way that is not one place, nor that alone. Let's consider carefully what we believe and how we believe; these will out through this vessel with each and all our breaths. Look. Listen. Breathe. Some may well be sent scurrying through rabbit holes. And some will spend their precious time digging rabbit holes. Let's examine our (even hidden - latent, dormant) beliefs. Honestly. Breathe.
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Belief is invaluable to a well-lived life, and it is a siamese twin - elemental belief and evidential belief - rooted in our creation, inviable left alone. Action nurtures it into blooms.
There are many kinds of actions one may undertake to substantiate any viable belief. To that end, travelers can gain insight, counsel and facilitations from many who have taken or are enjoying a life-well-lived journey. Tap into our PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT and associated playlists. You may find them helpful.
This episode's word is viable: def - "capable of working successfully; feasible; practicable; achievable; tenable." (Which of the world's four most powerful words by virtue of influence would 'viable' be considered a derivative of? 50 points.)
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Superb Realities
"An infinity of forests lies dormant in in the dream of an accorn."
Once upon a time there was a most magnificent lake from which the people flourished. When rains came it filled this great lake and when rain did not come there was plenty.
In some places plenty was not enough.
In some places gratitude was not enough.
In some places worrying was just too much.
Fissures appeared and those fissures grew.
Then tyrannies took their place.
In time this most magnificent of all lakes was soiled with blood and sewerage, and the lake was the only place from which to drink.
Some people built vats. Some built tanks. But when new rains did not come fissures grew then tyrannies took their place, and the lake was the only place from which to drink, but the lake was spoiled with sewerage and with blood and with the stench of dead fishes and other fissures grew. Tyrannies took their place, and the lake was the only place from which to drink.
One day, a father followed after his daughter who had left in tears with her bucket. He reached her at the lake where she had begun dipping bucket full after bucket full after bucket full of its soiled water, tossing each onto dry land. When he asked her why she was doing that, she said, "We'll all die if we keep drinking this water, we have to drain the lake."
The father said, "A thousand buckets will not drain this lake."
"Then we'll have to find a million buckets," she said.
And the father said, "A million buckets will not drain this lake."
"Then we'll have to find a billion buckets," she said.
"Where?"
"Dad," she said in tears, "you find a billion buckets, I will drain the lake."
And the father said, "Just as much as your tears cannot fill this lake with pure water, your buckets cannot drain this lake."
There was a woman seated under shade beneath a dying tree nearby. She saw the girl's tears and heard the father's cries, saying again to his daughter, "My child, you cannot drain this massive lake, because you cannot stop the rain. You cannot drain this massive lake, because you cannot stop the pain in heads full of blame for its stain. Fissures feed this lake. You cannot drain this massive lake with a trillion buckets and no rain for when it is fully drained, when it is clean and cleared, with what will you quench your thirst?"
"Dad," she said, "I'll die drinking from this lake. I'd rather die of thirst, for I will drain this lake."
"Well then!" he said. Then he left.
The woman came and sat beside the girl and waited until she dried her tears. When the girl saw the woman, the girl said, "Will you help me drain this lake?"
The woman answered, "Your father is wise. You are a smart girl. Your father is right. So are you. But, darling, you cannot survive the emptying of this lake; you'll only create another fissure and die neither of thirst nor this spoiled water. You'll die at the fissure, and that, much quicker."
"If my father is so wise," the girl said, "why did he leave?"
"To get a bucket to die with his daughter." The girl looked up from the lake and through her tears she saw her father coming. "Now that we are three," the woman said to the heart-broken girl, "I believe we can do this together and not die of thirst or of the fissure or of this poisoned water. You see that pier beside the dying tree. Go there. That pier is mine. That part of the lake I own. It is time for me to give it back to where it belongs. Let me talk to your father."
And so the woman did.
From the pier the daughter saw in that distance her father leaping with joy and dancing with the woman. Then the father ran to the daughter and kissed her and said, "Thank you, my child. This lake will be a most magnificent lake again. Let us begin to drain."
Before Dreamer could reveal the wonder of how this was accomplished, how this massive lake became a most magnificent lake again, Maverick, the no-nonsense member of the approving panel, was up from his chair in raw delight, shouting, "Genius. Genius. Genius. That is so genius." It took a moment for the rest of the panel to nod their understanding, but Dreamer's path was yet far from approval. And if won, there was a battle awaiting!
Fruit Is Useful To Those Who Know How To Use It
The clock chimes. Then minutes tick away. The clock chimes again. Then minutes tick away. The clock chimes again. Then minutes tick away. The clock chimes again. Then minutes tick away. The clock chimes again. Then minutes tick away. The clock chimes again. Then minutes tick away. The clock chimes again. Then minutes tick away. The clock chimes.
Viable
"Know what you own. Understand what you claim. Believe you can achieve what you conceive then call it by its name. Mine! The extent to which you have this clarity of mind, this purity of understanding, this strength of belief, you have the fire, the fuel, the impetus, the passion, the determination, the willpower you require to pursue and retrieve your truest desire. But do not claim what does not belong to you. It will not keep you . . . it will suffer you but for only so long."
You are valued. You are important. What you experience is important. Your intention matters. You are a whole being. You are a true wonder. You diminish yourself whenever you pit valued elements of who you are against vital elements of who you are: your intuitive self against your intellectual self, your rational self against your emotional self, your gut against your heart against your head. Don't be put at war against yourself: you are a masterpiece. An intricate being. Human!
How to be a Super Hero (without being self-absorbed!) Part Four
Superman!
I'm hoping one's familiarity with the character is so real, just a shout of the name lays the ground work for all that is to be revealed. Superman. Suggestive equally of kryptonite! Genetic memory!
Yes?
What is your kryptonite?
Who has possession of your kryptonite?
How do you solve that problem, or is it wiser left ignored?
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Life: it is a dance. It gets better with practice; its music is in your heart and in your soul and in your blood and in your bones. Life; it is a dance. It gets better with practice. You have a partner – your spirit. You can have a party if you like, but choose smartly who you invite, for life – your life – is a dance. It gets better with practice, unless you stop the music or so crowd your dance floor there is no space to move or be moved within it. Explore. Yes, life; it is a dance. It gets better with practice until the dance becomes the dancer and the dancer becomes the dance and life and all of existence becomes a singular flow. Yes, life; it is a dance. It gets better with practice. Dance.
Masterpiece
a work of outstanding artistry, skill, or workmanship.
tour de force
What is in your vessel? It is in a traveler's interest to be rid of toxins however they may have been assiimilated and whatever those may be. The measure of that toxicity may put us at a peculiar risk, and in our response, in our earnest efforts to sever its disease it is necessary to cut away that spoiled portion which is renewable and not that which is everlasting (our genetic memory), that is, to sever the toxin and not one's life force, to keep ourselves whole and not turn ourselves into zombies. Positive or negative - there is power in our blood, metaphorically and literally. Pause. Reflect. When did your life begin? Acknowledge. Accept. It is in our genuine interest to acknowledge whatever that truth might be authentically. And as for now, what might we grow into: superbeing, zombie, something else, or something in between? What is in your vessel? What are you carrying? Whereto?
Out beyond ideas of right doing and wrong doing there is a field. I'll meet you there.
When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about.
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live laugh love
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let your light shine
Come, let us all be friends for once,
Let us make life easy on us,
Let us be lovers and loved ones,
The earth shall be left to no one.
Across the nation and around the world there is a long rumble.
It is a rumble so loud it strikes ready ears as a distant clap of a fierce thunder. It is a rumble so low, it rides beneath the noise of a thousand human fears; it can no longer be heard. Fear of flight, fear of heights, fear of sand, fear of snow, fear of monsters in the closet, fear of bugs in the pillow, fear of cats, fear of bats, fear of strangers at the door, fear of being lost, fear of being laughed at, fear of being stuck in the toilet bowl, fear of whites, fear of blacks, fear of browns, blues and yellows, fear of nakedness, fear of the unknown, fear of being hurt.
Smile. Live. Love. Laugh. Look. Listen. Learn. Be awesome. You are powerful beyond measure. You are not alone. You can do all things. I am you. You are me. We are one. Keep Sharing.
May our light shine on sprinkled seeds along The Journey.
"Live Your Life - Live it well. You are worth it."
Listen. Learn. Lead.
Standard problem-solving steps repeated: 1) Understand the problem. 2) Devise a workable plan to solve the problem. 3) Test your plan where applicable. 4) Implement the plan. 5) Interpret the results. 6) Use that feedback.
Something else to Consider: How tethered or integrated are we to our lifeforce? Who do we honor, to whom are we grateful, for whom do we proceed, who do we empower? The manner in which we use our superb powers to uplift and progress the human family impacts the nature of our home: whatever asserts our integrity, what awakes our authenticity. - (A Place Called Ah.)
Breathe.
We are accompanied.
Balance - Focus - Rhythm
Love is alive in fertile dimensions, where it lifts you up, never puts you down, and is always real! Love heals.
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