Enjoying Myself and Creating Our Life

Tuesday Night, the topic is:
"I enjoy the presence of myself.
I find myself smiling and having fun, even when I am just by myself. The more I enjoy myself, the more I enjoy my life, and the more I enjoy the presence of everyone around me."
- Don Miguel Ruiz from the Voice of Knowledge

Thursday Afternoon the subject will be:
"Lies blind our faith and lead us nowhere.
When lies blind our faith, we fall into the illusion what we are separate from God, and we lose our power of creation. Real faith is having faith in life, faith in ourselves, faith for no reason. From this point of power, we can create whatever we want to create."
- Don Miguel Ruiz from the Voice of Knowledge

peace and love

Intimate with Earth

This is a series of workshops that are being held on my little acreage.
I am thrilled!
If enough people sign up, we will construct a lovely circular building with a built in bench. Perfect as a drumming/meditative/ceremonial space.
It will be down in the pasture, near the blue well house. There is a source of clay near the pond that we will use for the walls (mixed with straw and stuff)
My neighbour, Joanne has a tractor. She has offered to come over to move some rocks for the foundation.
The amazing organizations involved are Earth Masters and Mud Girls.
I have been blessed!

Imagination and Wisdom

Dear All,

This Tuesday the moderator chose the Imagining:

"Imagine living without the fear of loving and not being loved in return. You are no longer afraid to be rejected, and you don't have the need to be accepted."

On Thursday afternoon, the moderator chose a card from the Voice of Knowledge deck;

"Everything I believe about myself is just a story.
In my story, everything is about me, and it has to be that way because I am the center of my perception. The story is told from my point of view."

peace and love,

For Your Toltec Consideration

Tuesday night, the moderator picked a card from the Voice of Knowledge deck,

"You are an angel, and your life is your message.
You can be a messenger of lies, fear, and destruction, or a messenger of truth, love, and creation. But you cannot deliver lies and truth at the same time."

Thursday afternoon, a card was picked from the same deck,

"Listen to the silent voice of your integrity.
When the voice of knowledge becomes the voice of integrity, your emotional body becomes the way it was when you were a child. You return to the truth, to your own common sense. You return to love, and you live in happiness again."

quotes by Don Miguel Ruiz

Spring on Vancouver Island

The skunk cabbage is blooming in our pond. The leaves on the alder are
showing themselves. My daughter and I went for a walk without jackets.
The horses are frisky and the ornamental plum is in blossom.
The trilliums are up everywhere. I always feel like I am getting the universe's approval if a trillium blooms in my yard.

This Week's Subjects for the 4 Agreement Group

On Tuesday night. the moderator chose a card from the "Voice of Knowledge" deck:

"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."

On Thursday afternoon, we will contemplate the quotes:

"Imagine that you have permission to be happy and to really enjoy your
life.
Imagine that you love yourself just the way you are."

peace and love

Appreciation

Recently. I read in a book that the word/concept Appreciating has another side to it.
I am about to make another list of Appreciation, and I wanted to pass along the idea:..... like stocks and bonds.....what we focus on...will Appreciate.....the Value will Increase.

I Appreciate in my life right now:

My amazing talented and loving children

Courageous friends to explore the experience of transcendence with.

The opportunity to create spontaneous composed music. ( so fun!)

Being surrounded by burgeoning nature.

Thanks to my son, having an excellent computer and being connected to the vast resource called the net.

My unconditionally loving pets.

My really comfy bed.

Search Words

This is the first time I have done this....its quite fun to see. It's what search words did Google bring people to my blog?
For the past week or so, they are as follows:



"my favourite room"
my favourite room
"Oran mor" healing
Eyes of an Angel by Paul Elder
flying frenchman Lorenzo with his horses
Lorenzo and his horses
lorenzo french horses
tweetey
eckhart tolle exceprts
lyrics walkway dream mountain new life people say silence river
lorenzo the flying french man
barroom view of love i would not want my words to
"my dog licks my"
"byron katie works "
"shania" "noll"
shania noll
michael brown consciously connected breathing
michael brown consciously connected breathing
Dogs licks have healing for people?
shania noll

Wisdom Group

This coming Tuesday evening we will be contemplating the quote:
"The way to transform what you believe about yourself is to unlearn what you have learned.
When you unlearn, your faith returns to you, your personal power increases, and you can invest your faith in new beliefs."
from the book, Voice of Knowledge by Don Miguel Ruiz

Thursday afternoon, we will discuss the various responses to the question:
"How do we live our lives without expectations and at the same time, create/dream our personal dream?"

peace and love

This Week's Topics

This Tuesday evening, the moderator chose the topic, "Forgiveness";
list 5 ways/incidents in which you forgive yourself and list 5 ways/incidents in which you forgive others. One may or may not share these with the group.

On Thursday afternoon, the moderator chose a quote from the book, The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz:
"Be Impeccable With Your Word.
When you hear an opinion and believe it, you make an agreement and it becomes part of your belief system. The only thing that can break this agreement is to make a new one based on truth. Only the truth has the power to set you free."

Peace and Love

Vernal Equinox

Today is the Vernal Equinox.
I chose this as the topic of the Wisdom Group Tonight. This ties in with the weekend I just had....the Spring Celebration... a chance for renewal, for transformation.
I felt very blessed because I got to meet my very first blog friend in person. She spontaneously showed up for the Wisdom Group.
Thankyou Joy Living! You renewed my faith in Magic.
After the meeting we all went down to the Stone Table and drummed, sang songs and declared our intentions for the new Spring.

More Oran Mor

Oran Mor, The Great Song.....the sound of the universe, the song that is always singing.....and we can join in anytime.
This weekend I helped arrange a Spring Celebration. We will gather for the weekend, using music, art and sounds to communicate.
This will be an opportunity to use other means besides our words to Express.
On Friday afternoon, we are going to a cave that I "discovered" on a hike to the river. We will bring candles and blankets and our willingness to explore ourselves.

"Where I sit is Holy,
Holy is the ground.
Forest, mountain, river
Listen to the sound.
Great Spirit circling,
Circling all around"

Thoughts and Suggestions

This week, we will gather on Tuesday evening and contemplate the end of the "Circle of Fire" prayer (that Don Miguel Ruiz wrote as a tool to access the dream of heaven on earth.)

"We will respect all creation
As the symbol of our love communion with the one who created us
to the eternal happiness of humanity."

The next Wisdom Group will be held on Thursday afternoon of the following week. the moderator chose the topic:

"Imagine living your life without being afraid to take a risk and explore life.
Imagine what your life would be like if you were not afraid to lose anything."

She chose a poem to introduce the subject:

"I would not want all my words to parade around this world in pretty constumes, so I will tell you something of the barroom view of love,

Love is grabbing hold of the Great Lion's mane, and wrestling and rolling deep into existence while the Beloved gets rough and begins to maul you alive.

True love, my dear, is putting an iron clad grip upon the sore,
swollen balls of a Divine Rogue Elephant and not having the good fortune to die!"

-Hafiz (1320-1389)

The Four Agreement Wisdom Group Topics

This Tuesday , March 6th, the topic is
"In remembering not to take things personally, we are free to not believe anyone, including ourselves. Reducing personal importance is one of the most important steps on our path to freedom."

On Thursday, Margaret-Heather picked a card from the "Voice of Knowledge" deck with the quote by Don Miguel Ruiz;
"I don't take anything personally.
I am a secondary character in other people's stories. I know that whatever people say about me is just a projection of their image of me. It has nothing to do with me."

peace and love,

Thrilled to be 50

Turning 50 feels like an opportunity to declare my Self to the universe.
I believe that Anything is possible and now more than ever believe that we are ageless beings.

I am grateful for Everything that has happened in my life so far. I have been blessed with a wonderful Mother and Father and siblings to grow up with. I am SO happy that they were agnostics with a little atheism thrown in for good measure. I felt this is what got me my start on living an authentic life. I invite All That Is, to live through me, every moment so that I live life Directly as opposed through my sets of belief and practiced patterns of thought.

It was through my own direct experience that I "see" that All is Love and All is Well.

Happy Birthday to me.

Party Pictures

The beautiful teacups and the punch bowl
The table is set.
Guests arrive and are seated.
After the meal there was much drumming.

My beautiful crew who made it all possible.
I love you!

Four Agreement Wisdom

On Tuesday evening, the
moderator picked the topic:
"Let your life be transformed.
When you stop making assumptions, your word becomes impeccable, and your life is completely transformed. Magic just happens in your life. What you need comes to you easily because spirit moves freely through you."

On Thursday Afternoon, the subject will be a quote from the book,
The Voice of Knowledge by Don Miguel Ruiz;
"Our true nature is to play and explore, to live in the moment, to enjoy life.
As little children, we are completely authentic. Our actions are guided by our instinct and emotions; we listen to the silent voice of our integrity. Nobody teaches us to be that way, we are born that way."

peace and love

Happy Birthday To Me

It was my birthday on
February 17th.
I am posting this photo for
my birthday cause this was a very special night.
On the full moon this month, we gathered around a large fire and drummed and sang.
It was icey cold, -4* or so, and there were shiny icicles everywhere. My 2 youngest kids joined us,
Jesse single-handedly built the fire.
Scotia slid on the frozen creek and swung on the rope swing in the dark.

For my birthday, I am planning another gathering at my place this Saturday. I want everyone to bring a musical instrument, and dress up (whatever that means to each person) and my 2 eldest children will be here to be the hosts.
I am breaking out all my collectible china and planning on lots of wonderful food and wine!

This Week The Topics Are:

The Wisdom Group will meet this Tuesday at 7:30 to discuss the Topic:

"I am what I am. I accept myself as I am. I don't need to please other people by pretending to be what I am not. I can never be what I am not. I can only be me, and that's it."

On Thursday we will gather together to consider:

"Spirit is formless, but our minds are structured from the conditioning of our parents, school, media, and society. Following set patterns of thinking has helped us to survive and get along in life, but at the same time these structures often cause us to judge ourselves and others and retrict our communication with divine love and light."

peace and love

New 4 Agreements Topics

This week on Tuesday night, we will considering the quote:
"I create an image for every secondary character in my story. The only thing I know about the secondary characters is the story I create about them. The truth is that I don't know anyone, and nobody knows me either."
from the Voice of Knowledge by Don Miguel Ruiz


On Thursday afternoon, the quote to ponder is:
"Take your life and enjoy it. You are alive, so take your life and enjoy it. You were born with the right to be happy, to love, and to share your love. Just to be--to take a risk and enjoy your life--is all that matters."
from the 4 Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
The moderator for Thursday asked that we write down 5 ways in which we enjoy ourself and 5 ways in which we enjoy others.

peace and love