The Power of Love

This morning as I read through some of my favorite sites, a common theme is emerging. Everything is focusing on the second aspect of my mantra....Love. And also on connections with other people.

I found this on facebook via my friend Lana on PEACEBOOK - a place for peace, love, & healing, of Humanity and the Earth.  It is a a video Aloha: A Special Blessing on youtube, which is nice, but what caught my attention was the comment:

"As you continue to send out love, the energy returns to you in a regenerating spiral... As love accumulates, it keeps your system in balance and harmony. Love is the tool, and more love is the end product." ~ Sara Paddison, Hidden Power of the Heart
And this was the daily affirmation on scienceofmind.com:


This is my choice: I am living from my heart.


deshan.com has had a meditation up the last couple of days regarding the same principle:

Nobody has the right to judge anybody,

negatively or positively.
These are the ways of dominating people.
When you judge someone
you are trying to interfere in his life,
which is not your business.
A real, authentic man simply
allows people to be themselves.
- Dharma

Here are two more quotes I recently read which relate to this concept.

When someone asks you a question, answer him or her sincerely, and when you are not asked, do not force your teaching upon others.  -Jae Woong Kim, "Polishing the Diamond"


You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.   -Dale Carnegie
 
I do believe the universe is trying to tell me something...maybe get out and spent time with some humans....course even going a block takes money and money is so scarce these days.  I have to chose my trips carefully and plan far ahead.  I suppose I will have to start practicing some of these ideals at work and see what happens.

Meditation

I have been slowly working my way through a book called, Meditation: A Simple 8-point Program for Translating Spritiual Ideals into Daily Life by Eknath Easwaran since about the time I last posted on this blog.


He included a quote from the great spiritual thinker Albert Einstein early on that really summed up a lot of the conclusions I have come to in life:


A human being is part of the whole, called by us "Universe," a part limited in time and space.  He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something seperated from the rest - a kind of delusion of his consciousness.  This delusion is a kind of prison for us, rstricting us to our personal desires and to affections for a few persons nearest to us.  Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in beauty.

Morning thoughts

I have begun my morning rituals again.  I am trying to find a little peace and serenity before my day starts.  Today's thought that I am focusing on is one I have only begun to practice in the  last 7 years and only to varying degrees of success, though I still try.

I look for the meaning of life within myself.



If you want to find a deeper meaning in your life, you can't find it in the opinions or the beliefs that have been handed to you. You have to go to that place within yourself.

-Wayne Dyer

Time for change?

Everything I am hearing and seeing lately points toward change, but I am not sure from what I am seeing and hearing if change is coming or if I need to seek change.  Some thoughts I am pondering:

“After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.”  —Sophia Loren (1934-); actress 

“Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.”   —Vernon Sanders Law (1930-); Major League Baseball pitcher

“To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.”   —William James (1842-1910); Psychologist, Philosopher, Author

“Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.”   —Sir Winston Churchill  (1874-1965); British Statesman, Prime Minister, Author, Nobel Prize Winner



The joy is in the journey, so enjoy the ride.