{"id":905,"date":"2005-12-28T21:57:40","date_gmt":"2005-12-29T02:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peacefulhippo.wordpress.com\/2005\/12\/28\/905\/"},"modified":"2005-12-28T21:57:40","modified_gmt":"2005-12-29T02:57:40","slug":"905","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/2005\/12\/28\/905\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of good things happening, slowly, slowly.&nbsp; AHN is getting<br \/>\nmore donations than we planned for&#8230; not so much as to consider<br \/>\nexpanding programs, but enough to know we have a place in this<br \/>\ntown.&nbsp; Mountain Xpress, the weekly cultural paper, is doing an<br \/>\narticle on us soon&#8230; I interviewed for it on Monday.&nbsp; Pathways<br \/>\nSanctuary is near re-birth.&nbsp; Kindness Campaign is giving some<br \/>\nall-day seminars over the next two months, which I will be<br \/>\nattending.&nbsp; My nights are lonely but my days are full.&nbsp; I<br \/>\nanticipate that will be the case until I learn to not be lonely.&nbsp;<br \/>\nI have given myself 3 years to learn that.<\/p>\n<p>OK, fortune cookie time.&nbsp; Love you all.<\/p>\n<p>Hugs,<br \/>\nMe<\/p>\n<p>=====<\/p>\n<p>I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a<br \/>\nday-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my<br \/>\npast, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or<br \/>\npain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances,<br \/>\nor my position. Attitude is that &#8220;single string&#8221; that keeps me going or<br \/>\ncripples my progress. It alone fuels my fire or assaults my hope. When<br \/>\nmy attitudes are right, there&#8217;s no barrier too high, no valley too<br \/>\ndeep, no dream too extreme, no challenge too great for me.<br \/>\n&#8211; Charles R. Swindoll<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a matter of loving yourself enough to clarify and clear the<br \/>\nchannel so that your success can manifest in reality, in this lifetime,<br \/>\nfor you to have, enjoy, and share.<br \/>\n&#8211; John-Roger, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Wealth &amp; Higher Consciousness<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rather than play the victim in an attempt to control others while<br \/>\njustifying your own negative reactions, you can clean up, clear up, get<br \/>\nup, and be up with the Spirit that breathes you and prepares every<br \/>\nsingle moment with full access to the blessings.<br \/>\n&#8211; John Morton<\/p>\n<p>Whenever your mind tries to distract you with negative thoughts, or<br \/>\nself-doubt, or comparisons with other people, just tell it: &#8220;I know<br \/>\nyou&#8217;re there. You&#8217;re always there. You&#8217;re not going to go away. But<br \/>\ntoday I&#8217;m not going to let you bother me, because I want to experience<br \/>\nsomething else.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8211; John-Roger with Paul Kaye, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Momentum, Letting Love Lead &#8211; Simple Practices for Spiritual Living<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We all have forgiveness work to do. If you&#8217;re wondering if this is<br \/>\ntrue, ask yourself, &#8220;Am I breathing?&#8221;&nbsp; If the answer is yes, the<br \/>\nanswer is yes. Ask Spirit, &#8220;Who would you have me forgive today?&#8221;<br \/>\nSometimes our hardest forgiveness work is with ourselves.<br \/>\n&#8211; Mary Manin Morrissey<\/p>\n<p>Spirit has placed a dream in your heart for a better world, starting<br \/>\nwith your family, extending to your work, community, country and<br \/>\nstretching beyond your nation. Speak your truth and inspire<br \/>\nothers,&nbsp; for you are meant to make a significant and sizable<br \/>\ndifference.<br \/>\n&#8211; Mary Manin Morrissey<\/p>\n<p>Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.<br \/>\n&#8211; Jawaharlal Nehru<\/p>\n<p>The use of deceit and deception is a way of ensuring the survival of<br \/>\nthe ego. The presence of your authentic self would send the ego<br \/>\nscurrying away because it would have no purpose. When you are in tune<br \/>\nwith God, living your spiritual life, you have no need for anything<br \/>\nthat is not authentic. Your ego needs the deceptive behavior to<br \/>\nmaintain its own survival.<br \/>\n&#8211; Wayne Dyer<\/p>\n<p>When you rely upon deception, you are falling victim to the<br \/>\napproval-seeking game. Your false self is what you want others to see<br \/>\nof you, so you project an image of yourself that is based on distortion<br \/>\nrather than reality.&nbsp; This is the same as saying, &#8216;What you think<br \/>\nof me is more important than what I think of myself&#8230;&#8217; With this<br \/>\nattitude, your ego can keep you from taking any risks, including making<br \/>\nany spiritual changes in your life. The more you stay in the same skin,<br \/>\nwearing the same masks, the more ego succeeds in keeping your from your<br \/>\nhigher self.<br \/>\n&#8211; Wayne Dyer<\/p>\n<p>The art of intimacy is literally the art of the angels, for it is the art of learning to fly beyond the darkness of the world.<br \/>\n&#8211; Marianne Williamson, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">A Year of Daily Wisdom<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A person desperately searching for love is like a fish desperately searching for water.<br \/>\n&#8211; Deepak Chopra<\/p>\n<p>Love is in you. Go inward. Play with The Creator. The Creator is waiting for you with Love.<br \/>\n&#8211; Chalanda Sai Ma<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you<br \/>\ncome alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is<br \/>\npeople who have come alive.<br \/>\n&#8211; Harold Whitman<\/p>\n<p>When we take the responsibility we must then take control of our<br \/>\nthoughts.&nbsp; And, yes, in the beginning that can be hard.&nbsp; It<br \/>\nseems sometimes that it&#8217;s our nature to first think negatively. But<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s just because it&#8217;s the habit we&#8217;ve developed.&nbsp; And like any<br \/>\nhabit, it can be changed by replacing it with the habit of thinking the<br \/>\nright way.<br \/>\n&#8211; Vic Johnson<\/p>\n<p>The divine path can be called many things. But it is what it is,<br \/>\nwhether we like it or not. It will be what it will be, and we cannot<br \/>\nchange it. We do not even have the wit to change ourselves, so how<br \/>\ncould we have the wit to change the divine path? We don&#8217;t even have the<br \/>\nwit to walk upon it. We walk across it into the brambles and briers on<br \/>\neach side. The disturbance you feel comes from being off your spiritual<br \/>\npath. You can be off it physically and have great physical disturbance.<br \/>\nYou can be off it emotionally and have depressions or distress. You can<br \/>\nbe off it mentally and lose your mental balance.<\/p>\n<p>But I&#8217;ll tell you something interesting. You can&#8217;t be off it spiritually.<\/p>\n<p>If you can be off it spiritually, it isn&#8217;t a spiritual path that you&#8217;re<br \/>\non, it&#8217;s psychism. When people&#8217;s delusions are placed in front of you,<br \/>\nuse them as stepping stones, not stumbling blocks, because they&#8217;re just<br \/>\ncasting shadows in front of you. Keep your eye on them, look at them,<br \/>\nand then go through them to the Light beyond the shadow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; John-Roger, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">&#8220;Light Behind the Shadows&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Imperfection lies in your attitude, which comes from the programmed mind; that&#8217;s what stirs up the confusion.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes if you just stop thinking for a while, things can get very<br \/>\nnice for you. You can get so many things done because there are few<br \/>\nproblems when you are not saying &#8220;good&#8221; or &#8220;bad&#8221; to every situation.<br \/>\nWhen you just say, &#8220;There it is,&#8221; it&#8217;s easy.<\/p>\n<p>Now, you don&#8217;t play the fool and close your eyes to the reality of your<br \/>\nsituation. But knowing something exists, and giving energy into that,<br \/>\nhappen to be two different approaches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; John-Roger, <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The Way Out Book<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of good things happening, slowly, slowly.&nbsp; AHN is getting more donations than we planned for&#8230; not so much as to consider expanding programs, but enough to know we have a place in this town.&nbsp; Mountain Xpress, the weekly cultural paper, is doing an article on us soon&#8230; I interviewed for it on Monday.&nbsp; Pathways [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacefulhippo.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}