For so long, so many of our beliefs have been tied to insulating us from Life. Most especially the parts of life that are um….err….unpleasant. The “dark side”, the parts we label “negative”. But we were in ‘denial’ then. That was the name of the game.

Now the board may look the same but “denial” is no longer the name of the game. For it is in embracing our “dark”, that we discover our Divinity.

“Power” isn’t about control, as you well know. “Power” comes from knowing the ability and capacity is within us, to rise above anything.

Like Solomon once said:

Straight stick, crooked stick, a stick is still a stick.

Happy moment, sad moment, a moment is always a Present.

It’s not perfection that counts. It’s our ability to embrace imperfection that does. Now you know why I have claimed being a “Complete Idiot”.

Life isn’t about always being up, it’s about learning to accept the ebb and the flow.. It would be ridiculous to think we could ever stop the changing tides of the ocean, yet it seems like some of us are trying so hard to stop the changing tides of our self.

I’m also learning that self-acceptance means accepting that sometimes I don’t accept myself It’s all part of the ebb and flow…and only human.

I am familiar with World of Warcraft. My son plays it. I don’t have the hardware to play. Not yet, anyway. But I’ll most likely get it this year.

My son is a “rogue”. It’s his character’s talent to inflict damage.

Inspired by an idea I shared with him, he created another character, this one a “druid”, for my idea was that while most players were trying to be fighters, I was going to choose to be a ‘healer’ myself. So he beat me to it and lo and behold, the game comes out with a new expansion pack with “druids” the only ones able to access the *new* ~power~.

I’ll be there sometime!

{{{{{hugs}}}}}

{{{{HUGS!!!!}}}}}

You’re no sheep! Never have been either!

You were simply told you had to dress up in a sheep’s costume. So you did.

While everyone has been looking for wolves in sheep’s clothing, no one bothered to look for the goats in sheep’s clothing.

And after all that time running around buried under layers of the sheep’s costume, it takes a while to relax to the feeling of running around in your birthday suit.

Love,
Bopeep
(“Uh oh, there’s goes another one.”)

(trying to imitate the sound of a lone sheep).

Ah yes, it is no time to be one, but having been raised as same, I’m having a hard time raising the shears to my own wool!

Blessings, thanks for the kick in the pants!!!!!!!!!

It’s because as we ‘climb’, the more of our fragmented self we claim, the more ‘parts’ we love and the Whole-ier we get. *smiling*

{{{Paul}}} I understand your questions and they are very good ones! I am not proposing we *magically* change and start liking things that are unpleasant and/or painful.

What I Am saying, is that we change our approaches, our initial perspectives. 1st, we cease our knee jerk reactions to judge and condemn a person for the act itself. For once I’ve decided to judge, then I have rejected ‘it’ whatever ‘it’ may be. From this state of rejection, I have cut myself off from understanding, for my own rejection stands in my way.

I have to desire to understand before I ever will.

We often question “what was that person thinking?”, when what we need to ask is “what was that person feeling?” Putting ourselves in the other person’s place.

What are the feelings of that rapist? What are the feelings of that terrorist? What are the feelings of that white supremacist?

From there, we can go deeper into understanding our human condition. Why does he/she feel that way?

It is in asking these kind of questions, that leads us to a DEPTH of Understanding. For if we ever would like to see such acts vanish, then we must endeavor to find their cause, rather then just using rejection and judgment to “cast thee out”.

Simply put, who ever it is, whatever ‘they’ are doing, we ask ourselves “How would I like to be treated if that were me?”

For what ever we sow, is what we shall reap.

Instead of ‘walking a mile in their moccasins’, we ‘live that mile in their skin’.

You may be interested in these posts:

http://sueannedwards.wordpress.com/living-light/understanding/

http://sueannedwards.wordpress.com/living-light/knowing/

In your example of MLK, since we still live with discrimination and prejudice, the cause behind this prejudice and discrimination has yet to be addressed. All Social condemnation has achieved is suppression.

If we looked deeper into the matter, we’d find that issues of Self Worth and Self Esteem are at the root of the trouble. By imagining anyone lower then ourselves, it elevates us in the confines of our own minds. In order to feel ‘good’ about ourselves, we cite others as ‘bad’.

This is a parasitic relationship, where the elevation of one group is achieved at the expense of another.

What I Am suggesting, is we find some other way to feel ‘good’ about ourselves, BESIDES delegating others as ‘bad’. Once we find this means, then we have found a way to elevate ourselves while elevating everyone else along with us.

I’ll use the Hebrew idea of a “chosen”. This idea is not ‘wrong’ in and of itself. It’s the unstated part, that there is an “unchosen” that forms the basis of prejudice and ideas of supremacy.

Much Clarity can be gleaned if we substitute the word “life” or the phrase “unified quantum field”, in place of the word ‘God’. For the perspective of Unity is the same no matter which word or phrase we use.

Having read your blog, I’ll save you some time and simply share that physical hardships have been a part of my life experience, too. 2 strokes, which I know call my ’strokes of luck’ for ever since I’ve had an awareness of Eternal reality in my head. I wake up with it and live with it every moment of my life and it hasn’t been easy! Within the past year and a half, I’ve also had 4 surgeries repairing arteries that have collapsed.

I’ve gone from my left side being numbed and paralyzed, being unable to see, unable to talk and unable to walk, to being *fine*. So fine, no one can tell I’ve had any troubles or problems at all. I can also walk without pain, for the 1st time in years. Where I used to fear pain, I’ve since discovered within me is the resilience to “rise above” it. I’ve also recognized and realized: persistence, determination, versatility and flexibility of heart and mind, as well as resilence.

Medical issues, especially those that are difficult to diagnose, are ones where there is something *else* going on besides “unwellness”.

There has been a shift in the quantum field itself and if we’re alive on planet earth at this time, then we’re all shifting with it.

{{{tobeme}}} ABsolutely! Through the very act of embracing, we discover what’s within us! It is a part of Self Discovery, Self Realization and Self Recognition.

I’d say being ‘gullible’ has been one of our main issues.

For what is NOT being told right now in our media, is that last year we saw the GREATEST number of NEW business starts on record! It’s not corporations that will be pulling us out of our current mess.

I like my husband’s idea. Why not give every single man, woman and child in our country $26,000 and let us go spend it or bury it or deposit it where we Will, rather then bailing out all the failing businesses. Then we’d see where the REAL demand for goods and services lies, rather then continuing to create false demands for services that aren’t what is genuinely needed.

Since this is not what is being done, there is a *hole* in our market serving what has become the needs of our People. I suspect in 2009 the number of new small business start-ups will be phenomenal, as we discover that if we don’t have a job, we can sure make one. All it takes is to fulfill a “need” of our People. However much “value” people find in it, that’s make life ease-ier and more bearable, is its Worth.

I sense you could use a {{{{HUG}}}}

Just seething over such things in impotent internal monologs – that’s negative. But simply recognizing unwellness as unwellness seems to me has to be positive. If, say, MLK had thought discrimination was OK we’d still have Jim Crow.