The topics for this week's Wisdom Groups are:
For Tuesday evening:
"I am dreaming my life in this moment.
I live in a world of illusion made be images of light. The story I create is a virtual reality that Is only true for me, the one who creates it."
~ Quote from Voice of Knowledge by Don Miguel Ruiz
"Love is the medicine that accelerates healing.
Love yourself, love you neighbour, love your enemies, but begin with self-love. You cannot love others until you love yourself. You cannot share what you do not have. If you do not love yourself, you cannot love anyone else either."
~ Quote from Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz
peace and love
Next week, on Tuesday evening we will consider the quote:
"Don't make assumptions. Eliminate gossip. Making assumptions is a setup for suffering because usually we gossip about our assumptions. We make assumptions and believe we are right, then we defend our assumptions and try to make others wrong."
~Don Miguel Ruiz from The Four Agreements
On Thursday afternoon, the moderator chose the topic:
"Reducing personal importance is one of the most important steps on our path to freedom."
~from the Living the Four Agreement Wisdom Group ethics.
peace and love
For this Tuesday evenings discussion, we are looking at:
"Create the perfect relationship between you and your body.
Treat your body with all your love, honor, gratitude, and respect.
When you make it your goal to adore your own body and accept yourself completely, you are learning to have a perfect relationship with anyone else you are with."
~ Don Miguel Ruiz, from The Mastery of Love
On Thursday afternoon, the Wisdom Group will be contemplating;
"One way to change your beliefs is to focus your attention on all those agreements and beliefs, and change the agreements with yourself. In doing this, you are using your attention for the second time, thus creating the dream of the second attention or the new dream."
~ Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreement Companion Book
peace and love
I thought that this bears repeating.
Here is the link for a Intro to what its about: Fire The Grid
Enjoy!
This is a wonderful idea.
And worthwhile checking out.
A Nova Scotian woman had an incredible experience and is sharing her truth with all that will listen.
I watched her Youtube presentation (all 8 parts) and I feel richer for having taken the time.
Her name is Shelley Yates and she is a true hero.
The website is Fire The Grid
or just go to You Tube and type in her name or Fire The Grid.
This is not just Canadian....it is a worldwide event for July 17, 2007.
Its possible to do this kind of stuff because of this medium.......The Internet!!
I LOVE IT.
The Four Agreement Wisdom group on Tuesday night, the moderator picked a card from the Voice of Knowledge deck:
"Respect is one of the greatest expression of love. If other people try to write your story, it means they don't respect you. They consider that you're not a good artist who can write your own story, even though you were born to write your own story."
~Don Miguel Ruiz
On Thursday afternoon, the moderator chose the topic:
"Love is unconditional. In love, there are no conditions; you love for no reason, with no justification. You are free to be what you are, and you allow others to be what they are."
~Don Miguel Ruiz
peace and love
The Four Agreement Wisdom Group on Tuesday evening will considering the quote;
"Our emotions tell us how we are doing in our life. If we don't like our emotional reaction, we need to clean up the lies that we believe. By following our emotions, we change our beliefs, and our circumstances change."
~from The Voice of Knowledge by Don Miguel Ruiz
On Thursday afternoon, the group will be invited to contemplate the following:
"Love and honor your physical body. To create a relationship that takes you all the way to heaven, you have to accept your body completely. You have to love your body and allow it to be free to give, free to receive, without being shy.....because "shy" is nothing but fear."
~ from the Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz
peace and love
On Tuesday Evening we will be considering the quote from The Four Agreements:
"Don't take anything personally.
Refuse to eat emotional poison. Taking things personally makes you prey for predators. They can hook your attention with one little opinion, and feed you whatever poison they want.
Refuse to eat poison."
~Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreement Wisdom Group will meet again on Thursday afternoon with focus on part of the Circle of Fire prayer:
"We will live our lives with gratitude, love. loyalty. and justice
beginning with ourselves."
~Don Miguel Ruiz
peace and love
Tuesday evening we will be considering the quote;
"You are an artist of the spirit. Find yourself and express yourself in your own particular way. Express your love openly. Life is nothing but a dream, and if you create your life with love, your dream becomes a masterpiece of art."
~ Don Miguel Ruiz from Mastery of Love
Thursday afternoon, the card was picked from the "Voice of Knowledge" deck:
"We are born with silent knowledge. When we are born, our body knows what it is, and it knows what to do. We can feel silent knowledge every time we breathe."
~Don Miguel Ruiz
peace and love
Here are some of the Mudgirls mulling over the details of the workshop.
I got more information in this meeting that made me realise that this was not going to work for me.
So I took care of myself and cancelled my offer to host the workshop on my property.
22 participants were coming but they pared my project down to a 10' diameter, not enough room for my drumming group or my meditiation group. :>(
22 people plus young children would be using my bathroom and the clincher was that they are taking no responsibilty for anything that may happen. 100% responsibilty and liablity was to be mine.
It worked out ok, they found another host property fairly close to here and I wish them well.
This Tuesday evening, the Wisdom Group will be discussing the 4th Agreement;
"Always Do Your Best
Under any circumstances, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgement, self-abuse and regret."
Then on Thursday afternoon, we will consider the quote:
"Forgive Others. Forgiveness is the only way to heal your emotional wounds. Forgive those who hurt you no matter what they've done because you don't want to hurt yourself every time you remember what they did. When you can touch a wound and it doesn't hurt, then you know you have truly forgiven."
~Don Miguel Ruiz from the Mastery of Love
peace and love
The Four Agreement Wisdom Group will be considering the following quote for this coming Tuesday night:
"Imagine that the message of Love is possible and you will find that it is yours."
On Thursday afternoon, the topic for consideration will be,
"Create the perfect relationship between you and your body. Treat your body with all your love, honor. gratitude. and respect.
When you make it your goal to adore your own body and accept yourself completely, you are learning to have a perfect relationship with anyone else you are with."
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
peace and love
On Tuesday night's group,
the topic is:
"When I am absorbed in what I'm doing, the voice of knowledge hardly
speaks.
When there is inaction, my mind has to have action, and that is an open invitation for the voice of knowledge
to talk to me." - Don Miguel Ruiz
The Thursday afternoon group will
discuss:
"Always do your best.
Practice makes the master. By doing your best over and over, you can master the art of transformation. By doing your best, the habits of misusing your word, taking things personally, and making assumptions will become weaker and less frequent with time." - Dom Miguel Ruiz
peace and love
Here are my lucky lucky kids who got to go skiing in May.
Their thoughtful Aunt and Uncle, who run The Mountain School
invited them to join them for a weekend at Whistler Blackcomb.
They look so beautiful.
And the mountains are so beautiful.
Amazing.
I stayed home for the Cob workshop and then it got postponed at the last minute. Oh well.
I did enjoy a very quiet introspective weekend.
Look at these incredible peonies!!!
This lovely friend of mine grew them herself. And she cooked me a fabulous Mother's Day lunch that took us all day to enjoy.
Bless you, Sweetie!
This coming Tuesday evening, we will consider the quote from Don Miguel Ruiz's book , "The Voice of Knowledge":
"I co-create with God and with life.
Life creates what is real, and I create a story about what is real. The story is how I qualify, justify, and explain what I perceive. My story is my creation, and it's a masterpiece of art."
On Thursday the moderator chose a card from the "Voice Of Knowledge" deck that reads:
"I choose to write my story wih love.
Love is the material that comes directly from my integrity, from what I really am. In my story, what is real is my love."
peace and love
The workshop got postponed til June 9th.
But this article came out in our local paper and it explains what is going to happen here much better:
Local Earth Building Series Empowers Both Women & Men
Using soils and rock from the earth, wood from nearby beaches and forests, and by recycling materials like coloured bottles, broken pottery and tiles, car tires and windshields, the MudGirls Natural Building Collective have rediscovered the home building alternative that many people are searching for.
Looking back towards tradition and forward to a sustainable future they have been building beautiful, unique, energy-efficient and inexpensive homes for themselves and with others. The effects of current day construction methods and development are beginning to be felt by many people the world over, both intellectually and in the form of chemical sensitivities and environmental pollution. Many habe been left wondering if there is an alternative to the harsh materials and resource depletion that go hand-in-hand with modern housing.
Jen Gobby, founder and co-ordinator of the MudGirls, says she “believes strongly in keeping the learning of [natural building] skills financially accessible, as well as a very inexpensive form of building for the owner-builders that we assist. We build with gifts from the generosity of the earth, and want to honour that generosity."
The MudGirls have been facilitating workshops for two years, during which students trade their labour for the skills they gain, which makes it both a cost-effective and communal experience for all involved. “I must say, cob is the most fun, back-to-the-earth, down-to-earth way I’ve ever built,” says Amber Hieb, a MudGirls member. “For me, coming from a long line of builders—all of them being men: my brother, my uncles, father and grandfather—to be able to reclaim building for myself, in a way that is using what is readily available and accessible around me is rewarding on many levels.”
Although there are workshops offered for both women and men, there is an emphasis on women for this very reason: to change not only what is built but also how. “Where presently we have a more rigid, square, hierarchical model of construction, the MudGirls represents a shift towards a more fluid, feminine, cooperative way of building—from the bottom up,” says Julie Chadwick, a new MudGirls recruit.
Until now, the MudGirls have used cob—a mud made of clay, sand and straw that one sculpts into form—for their main building medium. However, this summer they will be expanding their horizons by offering their labour in the creation of hybrid projects that can include elements of building with adobe, strawbale, wattle and daub and earthbags.
“The Mud Girls aim to empower women and men with the skills and confidence for building both shelter and community,” says Gobby. “We want to seek new and ancient ways to live in harmony with the earth and to also have a singing dancing laughing good time while doing it.”
They will be working as crews to help people who are embarking on their own natural building adventures, offering services from basic eco-renovations of an existing home to helping build small structures such as cob ovens, outhouses or garden walls, to assisting with the construction of cottages and homes.
This summer season the collective is also offering some of the most extensive and exciting natural building workshops to date. Each one is tailored to include aspects of both hands-on skill sharing and building, and an emphasis on subjects such as Social Activism, Alternative Technology and Alternative Transport. Through the workshops. Participants will get the opportunity to experience true communal lifestyle, with group camping, childcare and home-cooked meals.
Workshops are happening in the Nanaimo area this summer! The Earth Masters Program has teamed up with the MudGirls to offer a series of affordable weekend hands-on opportunities to get to know cob from the ground up. The adventure begins with learning how to scout out just the right site, to finding ingenious ways to incorporate recycled and scavenged treasures into your home. Participants will learn how to sculpt walls out of the earth beneath their feet, split cedar to shingle a roof, and make non-toxic paints from little more than household items.
For more information about the upcoming Nanaimo area, five-weekend workshop series, starting June 9th and 10th please contact: Earth Masters at 250-753-5605; or communityassets@telus.net .
On Tuesday Evening, the moderator chose the subject:
"Faith is the power of creation that all humans have.
I we invest our faith in a lie, that lie becomes truth for us. If we believe we are not good enough, then thy will be done--we are not good enough. If we believe we will fail, we will fail, because that is the power and magic of our faith."
-from The Voice of Knowledge by Don Miguel Ruiz
On Thursday afternoon, we are asking ourselves the question;
"How can we support each other in overcoming blocks to changing old beliefs?"
peace and love
The topics for this week's Wisdom Groups are:
