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?
Inspired.Arise with morning. Inspired. Sweating through a sticky day. Inspired. Dumped in the pouring rain. Inspired. Blessed by a golden sunset. Inspired. Floating on a bed of dreams. Inspired. All of inspiration from breath and breeze, sweet as scented daisies, we need, but it is the motivated who keep getting up; it is the motivated who reshape our world, ploughing through boisterous inertia to change our scenes; it is the motivated who create the difference. Motivation comes from inside out - always - and is ever personal. What's more, motivation tops motivation. Word!
Motivated?
Inspiration keeps us going. Passion! Purpose! Preparation! Pulse! It is why we tell each other stories - inspiration - and not that reason alone, but a reason sturdy enough. Penetrating. Inspiration comes from outside in, touching our tender parts, tapping our oiled wicks, awaking us. One lit candle can light a thousand and not be left one bit dimmer for all of its lighting. Word! One wild toss can set a forest on fire. But getting out of bed; that takes some doing.
Stuck?
Stalled on a plateau? Dangling at the edge of a ledge? Lurking? Shirking? You may have been struck by one of these plucky perennial dilemmas:
you don't know what to do next
you know what to do but lack the skillset
you are afraid of doing what you know you must do now
you are waiting for a burning bush
you are roped and tied to a shelf
Identify the culprit. Dial your 911. Here comes your help - siren strong.
Welcome to the eighth episode of Myth Or Mystery - ambrosia - curated by Neville DeAngelou, fetching lamp, light pole, lit candle stick, golden invitation, and a meal you wont regret. Hmm? But you gotta get up!
Do what you can. Use what you have.
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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Unbelievable sights. Indescribable feelings. New horizons to pursue. A whole new world. A new fantastic point of view.
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!
A most egregious harm some parents, teachers, preachers, leaders, and the like, inflict on their charge (children, students, followers, acolytes, mentees), so often in earnest efforts to guide these tender sweeties away from fatal calamities (this sordid record is large). The harm is this: they tell them a lie (a mortal twist; a sanitized flicker of truth), expecting good intention to bridle these loved ones onto safer streets. Alas (having not appreciated the immaculate power of story), they hobble these dear ones for life, infecting some with bionic compulsions and others with cancerous kryptonite. What is this mortal twist?
They tell well-meaning lies. They tell lies about money. They tell lies about sex. They tell lies about drugs. They tell lies about others they've never known nor met. They tell lies they've been told. Well-meaning lies! They tell lies about what they know not much about. Itty-itty-bitty lies strewn like pearls over itchy eyes. Truth washed so clean they are pure lies. And these sweet souls pay the price - a hefty price - with troubled legacies propheted upon the whole, sad souls ushered naked through rains of horror and drizzling strife, lost trust fraught with fatal disbelief when in shock the farther side of the moon they begin to see, for these were told lies, not an empowering story.
Oooh! If only the well-intentioned "liars" had considered it safe enough, worthy enough, valued enough during their many tellings to embrace a simple truth: the 'I don't know' truth, the 'this much I know' truth, the 'this is what I was told' truth, the 'this is what works for me' truth, or that plain old faithful 'can we talk' - if only! If only it was wise to NEVER perpetrate the biggest fraud of all: using God's name to annoint their stain! In vain! If only. If only this is the truth that is being told: "I am learning as I go; this is my story. Tell me yours, if you wish; we will learn some more." If only well-meaning ones, now knowing better, would rather not invoke so called "authority" but share readied bits of their fertile story, holding their liar's version for midnight dreams and campfire connections where monsters are free to do any damn thing they deem! Wouldn't that be nice? And never shove aside that most necessary of diviners: CONTEXT. But they mean no harm; we know! At times, far too late we discover.
Who among us is not guilty?
Oops! Nothing this far has yet spelt of that profitable telling intended purely for trouble-making and raising the devil's hell - frivolity, futiltiy, fatality - lies spun like fun, lies loaded like guns, lies that make some toss their treasures and run - oh dear - arrogant lies, self-righteous lies, purty little winky-winky lies to amuse beady-brained burdies with pure wickedness inside, shame and blame lies, lies so customary keen and frilly, so brilliant and shiny, truth to all and sundry has become nothing more than whatever hurl is of maximum currency upon receipt; there where devils giggle and angels try not to cry. Ooops! They don't call these lies; they think themselves utterly clever and marvelously tricky. Revelation? Myth? Mystery? Or fatal stupidity?
Aha, all may yet still not be lost to grown children, to student, to follower, to acolyte, to mentee, to those of us who are reborn, who are alerted, who are awakened, who are arisen. Perhaps these are enlivening stories readied precisely for us, and perhaps too we also are invited to that fabled meal served to gods and for a reveal of its mystery. Ambrosia. Perhaps, better still, now that we have all the ingredients, it is time for us to create the recipe, and to cook the meal - ambrosia - and to serve it so healthy, so fragrant, so full of love, immortals will choose to dine with us.
Then again, whosoever will is free to simply tap into our PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT and associated playlists and there choose whatever help fits the bill.
This episode's word is divine: def - "of God, from God, like God; excellent, delightful, delicious, appealing, lovely, handsome." (Which of the world's four most powerful words by virtue of influence would 'divine' be considered a derivative of? 50 points.)
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Divine Awareness
"An infinity of forests lies dormant in in the dream of an accorn."
Then Dreamer began to tell those that had gathered about the seven who recieved the golden invitation, for some were excited, and some were perplexed by what they had learned about others who had recieved such a noble invitation. And some had grand visions of their meeting with Destiny and The Dream. And some had real concerns about facing The Decider, wondering aloud: are they ready, should they wait, what if they are defeated, what if they are rejected, what if they lose every thing? And Dreamer said, "A fruit is only 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.
Delightful
"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 Five
Ambrosia, according to ancient Greek myths, is the food, drink, fragrance of the gods, storied variously with power to cleanse all flesh of defilement, to confer unmatched beauty, to imbue immortality.
Alas, the gods have spoken. You are invited to their ceremonial feast, during which you are being offered their ambrosia under condition you first choose one of these three powers, the which will become your unchangeable reality upon your first taste:
Immortality: but you will remain forever in every manner, fashion, form, ability, propensity and inclination exactly as you are at this very moment
Unparalleled Beauty: in every manner pleasing, excellent, delightful, but your life will end right on time as currently scheduled, no matter what you do with it.
A super being: translated in all ways exactly into the mythological god of your choosing for a period twice the length of life you would normally have lived.
Would you choose and eat of the meal or step away from the table? Your decision.
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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
Pressure is a privilege: Billy Jean King reminds us of this repeatedly. "Pressure is a privilege." Again, we are not talking here of oppression, coercion, or abuse of any kind, systemic or otherwise, nor imply that the affected has to suck that up and just deal with it. Not at all. That situation has a by far 'more' superor solution than sucking-it-up. We are definitely talking about the pressure conferred upon achievers, uplifters, positive life-shapers. To have stepped into the arena, to have taken on the fight, to have embraced the battle: it makes for an enormous difference in the face of inevitable challenges to regard each pressure as a privilege - to remind oneself of why one is in the arena. Right there one is able to take a deep full-of-life breath and get ready for the privilege. Yes! It is worth taking this in at every instance, for at every turn one is likely to run into forceful opposition. Be prepared. Develop the mental, physical and spiritual capacity and wherewithal to fully engage the task and its challenges. Remind yourself why you are in the game and what you intend out of it. It's a privilege. Yours!
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 do you feed your mind, body and spirit? With what? What are the empowering ingredients in your special pot of ambrosia. We are in every way what we eat. Who and what we are will impact the manner we uplift and progress the human family and the nature of the home we create: whatever within keeps us healthy, whatever without awakes us for more. - (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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