We were all babies once!

People are interesting, we are unique, we have different faces, bodies, colors, beliefs, thoughts and perceptions.  We are more different then you think. Most people view the world around them through their past experiences, from their families, culture, religion and environment. We form these ideas what the world looks like and how things should be. I use to see the world as hell and I hated people, all people, including myself. That is what I had learn from my past experiences. One day after questioning my beliefs, and perception of my world, I started to see thing differently, things I never noticed before; a hawk flying through the air, the wind blowing through the trees, the smiles from strangers, even the colors seem brighter. What changed? My perception changed, I remember a quote, I love quotes, that said "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change" The world changed for me. Through all the horrors in this world, there is good. It is in us all, we just can't see it sometimes. One day while driving home, I saw an old, dirty homeless man talking to himself, the thoughts that popped in my head was, "he was once a baby". Was he loved? What was his life like that lead him to this point in time? We all started out with a clean slate, did we not? So, here we are judging, hating, thinking we are better than them, whoever they are. I hope you realize if you were born a Muslim women in Iraq, for example, you wouldn't remotely be who you are today. Do you realize that we created this world, your beliefs affect the world around you. It is your beliefs and ideologies that created hate. We were all born the same, and the only reason our skin colors are different is because where we were born. I now, don't hate the world we live in, I just want to make it better, one day at a time. So, my unique friends, how about we start by looking at our own beliefs and how that affects our world.

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PLEASE Take Responsibility!

I haven't posted anything in over three years. Facebook did that "here's a memory" thing that it does and I started reading over a few of my posts and thought they were awesome. I haven't read them all yet, but will soon enough. I just wanted to say that I have been seeing so much "evil" in the world lately, I mean it has always been there, but it seems so overwhelming to me, lately. I am angry, but I realize that there is no one to blame but ourselves. Why can't we take responsibility, not only for our actions, but our perceptions on how we view the world around us. Don't you see that we, every single person, has made this world what it is today. So, those of you that just thought "I did not do anything" or blaming others, don't you see that you are part of the problem? We all are! Our words, our actions, the way we view the world as separate races, when in reality there is only one race, the human race. The way Republicans blame the Democrats and visa versa, the Christians blame the Muslims, the Muslims blame the Jews and so on and so on. Every person, politicians, religious organizations, the people that segregate race from the human race to black, white, red, etc. don't you see what we are doing to ourselves? No one person is better than another, but by thinking that, we become the cause of hate and suffering in the world. By thinking that my religion is the "right" religion that is one of the greatest causes of war and murder. Why, because that is saying everyone else is wrong, so that is Ok to murder on the behalf of God. Please look at your self, at what you think, and say, how you feel about everything I have said. Remember "Blaming" is one of the greatest sign that you are not looking in the mirror at who you really are. PLEASE, for all the people in this world, Please take a look at yourselves. I am begging you!!

A touch on the shoulder: "Along The Way"

A touch on the shoulder: "Along The Way": I haven't blogged in a long time. Crazy! Things have been great, with a few hang ups along the way. Funny, that saying "along the w...

"Along The Way"

I haven't blogged in a long time. Crazy! Things have been great, with a few hang ups along the way. Funny, that saying "along the way...." to where? That is the question. Where are we going? I have been a seeker for most of my life. There is a drive in me, a force, leading the way. Actually, it has been an amazing adventure. I have learned so much "along the way." but I realized that no matter where life takes us, "we are already there!" that means in spite of everything, your physical, your thoughts, your personality, your fears, and your everyday life, underneath it all you are already "enlightened", your already the light. YOU, are what you are searching for. I have read so many books, seen so many amazing speakers, events, and been to many groups. Even though most people know that the answer lies within, they still seem to be searching, trying to figure out what that means. What is the truth? Why, as human beings, do we feel the need to search for answers. I believe the truth is bigger than we can possibly imagine and we will never really understand what that means. My experiences of the truth is just a piece of an ongoing puzzle forever growing.
So.....................what I want from you is your piece of the puzzle, what do you believe?

"Hero of the Dream"

The "Hero" of the Dream(February 14, 1968)
The body is the central figure in the dreaming of the world. There IS no dream without it, nor does it exist without the dream, in which it acts as if it were a person, to be seen and be believed. It takes the central place in every dream, which tells the story of how it was made by OTHER bodies, born into the world OUTSIDE the body, lives a little while, and dies, to be united in the dust with other bodies, dying like itself. In the brief time allotted it to live, it seeks for other bodies as its friends and enemies. Its safety is its main concern. Its comfort is its guiding rule. It tries to look for pleasure, and avoid the things that would be hurtful. Above all, it tries to teach itself its pains and joys are different, and CAN be told apart.
The dreaming of the world takes many forms, because the body seeks in many ways to PROVE it is autonomous and real. It puts things on itself that it has bought with little metal discs or paper strips the world proclaims as valuable and good. It works to get them, doing senseless things, and tosses them away for senseless things it does not NEED, and does not even WANT. It hires OTHER bodies, that they may protect it, and collect more senseless things that it can call its own. It looks about for special bodies which can SHARE its dream. Sometimes it dreams it is a conqueror of bodies weaker than itself. But in some phases of the dream, it is the slave of bodies which would hurt and torture it.
The body's serial adventures, from the time of birth to dying is the theme of every dream the world has ever had. The "hero" of this dream will never change, nor will its purpose. Though the dream itself takes many forms, and SEEMS to show a great variety of places and events wherein its "hero" finds itself, the dream has but ONE purpose, taught in many ways. This single lesson does it try to teach again, and still again, and yet once more; - that it is CAUSE and NOT effect. And YOU are ITS effect, and CANNOT be its cause. Thus are you NOT the dreamer, but the DREAM. And so you wander idly in and out of places and events that IT contrives.
That this is all the BODY does is true, for it IS but a figure in a dream. But who REACTS to figures in a dream UNLESS he sees them as if they were real? The INSTANT that he sees them as they are, they HAVE no more effects on him BECAUSE he understands he GAVE them their effects BY CAUSING THEM, and MAKING them seem real.


"A Course in Miricles"

"Seeing my body in the mirror"

Life, Life, Life! I go back and forth from ego to spirit and back again. There are 2 things I have learned: see God in everything and everyone, and forgive when you don't. I have been practicing forgiveness. Not an easy task. I have realize that we are all one and that when I judge others I am ultimately judging myself. I have been working on forgiving others and the world around me, but, for me, the ultimate challenge is forgiving myself. At first, I thought to myself, what do I have to forgive? I haven't done anything. But later I realize I feel guilty all the time, guilty that I did not do this right, or that I was hard on myself, or forgetting to do something I was suppose to do. I saw guilt everywhere. I have gained back the weight I lost. For those of you who do not know, I lost 68 pounds and was 7 pound from my goal, a size 14. I have gained 65 pounds back. So, of course I have been judging myself. Telling myself that I am a failure, and then guilt! But what I have learned that I needed to gain the weight back. I have been working liking crazy to lose it that I forgot that I am not this body. I have been putting to much importance in my body. But, now as I look at myself in the mirror, I am grateful for this strange figure I see before me, I mean so far I have been healthy, it has carried me for 45 years without a hitch. But, I know the truth that this oddly shape in front of me is not me. I knew that, but I have never experienced that before. I actually forgave myself. Forgave myself for hating my body and being attached to it, forgave myself in thinking I was a failure and putting so much energy into that body in the mirror. Our bodies are ego's biggest distraction in keeping us from the truth. I believe if I truly forgive myself for creating this 265 pound body, and truly experience that it is not real, and that I am spirit first, than eventually I don't need to even try to lose the weight the pounds will eventually come off on there own. Sounds like fantasy? or that I am delusional, we shall see. I still have a lot more forgiving to do. But I am on my way!!

"Who are we?"

I haven't written anything for a long time. I have been diving into the depths of "who am I", who we all are. When I wrote my book, "A Touch on the Shoulder" it talked about my journey of discovery. I had learned so much over that year in writing about my life's adventures, the darkness I faced, and all the wonders I discovered along the way. I realized a while ago that I wasn't just this body, I wasn't a name that someone gave me, or the job I did, or even just a wife or daughter. Who was I? I, like most people, fell into the trap of searching outside my self for answers. I faced everything outside myself, I forgave the two men who molested me, I forgave my mom and realized that I had to ask for her forgiveness as well. I forgave all those who I thought offended me in some way, I faced the children within, and I stopped judging my co-workers and excepted them for who they were. So, what incredible insight I have to share with the world? That when you have no one else to blame, you have only yourself left. Then you realize that happiness is fleeting at best and comes and goes like the whims of emotions. What we are all searching for, which we don't really realize, is true peace with in, a kind of peace, of joy that you cannot find in what you see through the ego's eyes, this man made ego's world. You cannot find it in relationships, or in material things, you cannot find it in susses, and you definitely cannot find it by being thin, NOTHING you can "see", or you can "get" can give you this peace. It only comes from within, a place where most people do not want to go. The question is how can I get this peace? By not buying into the illusions of this world, and seeking the truth which lies behind the eyes of everything you ever knew or think you know. It's peeling away the layers, like an onion, and leaving the past and all it's perceptions behind. It lies beneath the judgements, assumptions and only found through forgiveness. It is who you truly are!