by meredith murphy
This morning as I started my day to a mocking bird orchestra-in-one, and then a flock of naturalized parrots took flight, soaring overhead and squawking with such exuberance that all the dogs including our new puppy Lily stopped, turned and looked up, I began to ponder my song.
As a non-native speaker of these early morning songs, I can only marvel at their lyrical beauty. Birds to me and to many of us have long symbolized freedom. Their innate rapport with the sky alone is enough to create a sense of awe. Their consistent singing, though is what really moves me. It feels to me like the same commitment to being that trees and flowers demonstrate; a devotion to embodying the essence of each aspect regardless of location, weather, or any other mitigating circumstance.
Birds, I've noticed, sing even in the rain. They sing when the local city workers are drilling and putting in new traffic lights, like this morning. They sing when it's cold and when it's scaldingly hot and hasn't rained in months. They just sing.
I love to sing and although I typically don't start my day that way, I actually used to. I typically start my day in quiet, listening, which I also love. But I have not been singing much these last few years after giving my piano away when it lost it's tune and although I intended to buy a new one, I haven't and slowly as it often happens, music a great passion of my early days, just faded out of my daily experience.
I remember being in college and going to choir after lunch while a student a Michigan State. The incredible joy of making such beautiful sounds, breathing deeply and doing so with others, was pretty heavenly.
Considering all the themes in life lately that have been urging us to tune into our heart's desires, I am wondering if perhaps it's time to take a hint from the birds and begin to do so--meaning to sing more, consciously and with the kind of simple enthusiasm for dawn, another day, for being alive and aware, to articulate my own affinity with the sky by wafting my own sounds on the breeze and letting my heart flow into song.
I think there's a connection between music, the spheres, birds and harmony which is potentially the root of happiness: a no holds barred expressing of one's essence in the dance of life.
Singing is often associated with the breath, and there are all kinds of feelings about if one sings well, or not and who is a singer. But in truth the birds songs I loved so much this morning were more about the innate ability we each have to just let our heart-felt participation in this amazing expansion loose!
These songs were just sung. No rehersal. These beautiful birds are being, not performing. It was sharing, communicating, expressing perhaps, but there was no evaluation or judgment, just letting it rip with no thoughts--second or otherwise.
I can see where in the midst of this is some sort of cosmic clue: a recipe for happiness. Something about love for everything and just being part of the game. The birds don't have some idea of who they are or how they should sing that interferes or narrates the experience. They just do it. They do it their own way. It's their thing.
When I sing with this kind of release, I feel great. I am entirely extravagantly relaxed (all that breath pouring in and out) and happy. It all becomes effortless and like the bird, I am free. In a moment like this we just flow with sound and breath in a Oneness that's ancient and emblamatic of the nature of our being and all being. Sound is, after all, vibration. Vibration is the essence of life and light. While singing we potentially release our identity as one being and become One with that moment of focus, with the harmony of other singers, the instrument, the dogs barking, the sound of the lawn mower, the tune on the radio, or even, sometimes a counterpoint to the silence.
Our life is song as there is vibration created by our energy, from our intentions which take vibrational structure and although we don't often hear them, we emanate their themes. We are continually, in essence, singing!
Singing has always given me joy and as I awaken I feel the longing for more of it again. I sing to my dogs when I feed them. I sing in my car. And I can feel that this desire to sing is expanding. It is I suspect a conscious, reliable pathway to the essence of my being, which is innately happy. It's a way to dip into my connection with everything, to flow the energy of breath from my heart into sound and to allow my melody to take the essence of me to the sky. The resurfacing of my desire to sing, however, is more than that--it's a sign that my whole being is longing for release beyond story and purpose into just expressing the essence I am.
It's a reflection of the changes within and the transformation that is flowing within all of us. It's becoming self-evident that my song is vital and important as is yours. And that each of us choosing to be our own undistorted melody is the essence of the new song...the song of harmony, peace, love and happiness on the inner planes, mirrored in the manifest reality.
I may not be able to fly, but as I realize that I am consistently singing, I can own my ability to tune the air to my song. I consciously realize that I am continually broadcasting, and everything that is, hear's everything I transmit.
With this in mind, I choose to be the essence of me: an enthusiastic sharer. A joy-filled being who loves to translate into words, paintings, stories, experiences, or sounds, what I've felt, discovered, know and love. That's me. That's my song. And there is no end...there's more where that came from, I am infinite and limitlessly expanding with everything that is.
Each day that I let myself just be myself, without judgment or concern, I sing my true song. There is the ultimate alignment of being as essence. There is ease. Life opens up as I do. I become one with the morning with creation and claim my own connection to the sky. And instead of pondering my song, I simply close the gap by being me: I AM my song.
by Meredith Murphy
It's Christmas Eve and my day feels and looks quite a bit like this photo...
Like many of us, I have had very full days since late October/early November and after the Solstice, I shifted into days with no readings, or events, and a lot less time writing/and online.
In this life, for me, Christmas-time has always been about connection--within and with others and nature, energy, the vastness of being. I knew this long ago as there were different ways of spending time during these holidays--some of it about silence and light, other moments nourishing with delicious special meals and sharing with others and always, time being outdoors, enjoying nature and relaxing. There has typically been lots of music and singing, and silliness. Kids running through the house, dogs barking and laughter. I had very abundant, fun holidays as a kid, and spent these times with a large group of people, everyone doing their own thing, together sometimes, alone enjoying ourselves or napping when we wished, and so generally have enjoyed the playfulness and ease of the time, while also feeling the deeper opening available.
This year, I am pretty low key. I did almost no shopping (and this happened totally organically! how amazing is that...). I also reassured people I was in need of nothing, so I gave others permission to not feel the pressure of shopping/spending money. My body is welcoming the sunny cool days and lots of leisure after a full couple of months of readings, teaching and writing/channeling. I am entirely unscheduled for today and tomorrow! And so...I approach this whole weekend free, available, light and happy.
I am tired, so instead of cooking a lot, I am eating light--my regular foods-- rather then rich special things, and today scuffing around at almost noon, still in my PJ's! I even had a nap already today after waking up early, reading a bit, and just sitting doing nothing...soaking up/in the energy.
I suspect I'll be sharing food and dog walks, movies and conversation with family/friends, and yet there is no real agenda. For me what is MOST different this year is that it feels like a regular day! I have no expectations and no needs. I am just present. I am my own present!
Divine light flows within us all the time, not just now!
Increasingly we not just know this, we feel it.
This holiday my only intention is to extend these blessings to everyone and everything.
I intend and be aware that as I AM I contribute to the whole that is, and in giving to myself rest and peace, nourishment and joy, ease and happiness, connection and harmonious ways of being and a pace fitting for my own state right here right now, I bring everything that is, into greater harmony and peace. And so, I will be experiencing this holiday and entering the new year, In-joy. And wishing for this to flow in abundance to all. I release this intention into the crystalline grid, letting it flow to all, and knowing that the Earth and the planetary energies amplify all that enters this collective flow.
I feel happy. Like I do on most days, and this is how I intend to experience each day of this beautiful life on this beautiful planet with ALL OF YOU Beautiful Beings of Love and Light.
Joy to the world! I open my heart to imagine and trust I will see more and more people opening to their own light...knowing happiness, abundance, well-being and joy.
I conjure up the possibility that life can change faster and more remarkbly then I am even capable of dreaming. I realize what is coming forth is more fabulous then I can even imagine and I choose to pay attention to all signs and experiences that demonstrate this, thus being part of this tide of the new creation.
Dear One, beautiful soul, precious presence of divine light and love; may all your days be merry and bright! and may all beings experience wonder and happiness.
Namaste!
Meredith
by meredith murphy
Well, if you're feeling this, congratuations. Your feedback system, your amazingly perfect inner compass is attuned and working well. This kind of feeling is the emotional equivalent of a siren, or a flashing red light: it's a alert! It's USEFUL. It's telling you something like: you're disoriented. You're out of sync with you. Like maybe you've let THE authority on all this slip into the background and are listening to other people's guidance and advice?
Realize my lovely ones, there are many paths.
It's increasingly important that we learn to use our heart--to drop out of mental/thinking modes of "figuring things out" and use our heart and a sense of knowing that we feel in our whole energy body to discern what's true and useful for each of us.
And to do this as the ultimate authority on everything. EVERYTHING.
Got it? NO ONE knows more about what's right for you than YOU. I think that bears repeating...
NO ONE KNOWS MORE ABOUT WHAT'S RIGHT FOR YOU THAN YOU.
Now I'm not knocking the great gift of encouragement, validation, or even using a guide or a person you trust to help you connect with expanded knowing. These are all useful and valid tools on your path. I use them. Many of us do. But again, you would use your own sense of what's right for you to choose this person and to evaluate what you experience when working with them. That is discernment. And if you agree with what guidance or insight comes forth, and any ideas for healing or growth you're offered, then you apply them again, with discernment. Do they work? Do you see a difference? Does life get better? More joyful? More clear? It ought to. Guidance is supposed to work and improve your experience. To support you in feeling great and becoming more empowered.
And it's becoming more and more important as the diverse paths to ascension become articulated and sometimes are talked about with such wording and seeming authority as to make you wonder, "OMG--I'm not doing it this way? Did I miss something? Am I on the wrong path? This isn't what I'm experiencing, am I out of it somehow? Did I miss the chance to be part of this."
Ouch.
All of this is tough to feel, but again, it points to a fundamental mistake in orientation. YOU have within you everything you need to find your way. This is true for everyone, and actually so much of this path is about realizing this and then growing our own capacity to find what we need within. So if you're listening and following your heart, using your focus and energy to grow in this inward clarity and connection, asking for inner guidance and listening, choosing experiences and people who amplify your inner clarity, expand your perspective in ways that feel right and useful to you, and support you believing in yourself, you are perfectly fine and actually doing and being exactly as you need to be to wake up and not just join, but help CREATE the party!
I wrote this today, because once again, I have gotten a lot of emails from readers asking questions about stuff being published and shared. I too have noticed some pretty wild stuff being circulated following 11-11-11. Emails messages that say they're all about the new Earth but are still speaking duality talk as though some things are bad for us and we cannot possibly kid ourselves thinking we will ascend if we participate in them. Nothing is inherently bad. These are just labels and judgements. Please follow your inner guidance. It may validate what you're reading or hearing, but it may not. It may be true in this moment, but not in another. Life is dynamic and changing as are you, and what you need evolves and cycles, is fluid and changing in perfect harmony with the leading edge of you!
Trust that what uplifts and inspires you is perfect for you. It's about our own unique energy field and what will support us moving into wholeness and embodied divinity. There is not one path. So if you're wondering what's "good for you" and "what might get in the way of your ascension," ask yourself and listen. Pay attention to how things make you feel. THAT is your answer.
Things and activities are not good/bad...they're just different options.
Choose what makes you feel expansive, filled with love, hopeful, harmonious, balanced and gives you more joy. Listen to your heart. And if you find that challenging, make time to be in silence. Nature is so helpful in aligning me energetically...but what works for you? Use what works for you. Be YOU. You are the authority for everything, for you. Do not be distracted by what feels right for others, or what other Lightworkers even advocate passionately.
Bless everyone on their own perfect and wonderful path. But live your own life. That's how you eliminate the conflicting feelings about what's true and what's right for you. You become your own authority on everything. And amazingly, life from this inner orientation becomes increasingly clear.
Trust yourself. Claim what you know.
Inspired by American poet, Walt Whitman, from his iconic book "Leaves of Grass," I celebrate you today as I offer you this song based on that poem, with my gratitude and my love--for all that you are, for all that we are creating.
For many years of my life I had no conscious memory of this vast purpose we now so glorious share...and yet even before then, this song made my soul sing.
So you see, all that we are and all that we need to know, comes to us with ease and glory, effortlessly...and we recognize and resonate to the truth, even when we do not yet fully understand the enormity of it's meaning...as Archangel Michael would say {smile}...
I Sing The Body Electric - Fame Songwriters: Michael Gore, Dean Pitchford I sing the body electric I celebrate the me yet to come I toast to my own reunion When I become one with the sun And I'll look back on Venus I'll look back on Mars And I'll burn with the fire of ten million stars And in time And in time We will all be stars I sing the body electric I glory in the glow of rebirth Creating my own tomorrow When I shall embody the earth And I'll serenade Venus I'll serenade Mars And I'll burn with the fire of ten million stars And in time And in time We will all be stars We are the emperors now And we are the czars And in time And in time We will all be stars Together we are making beautiful music. The symphony of the stars. No less. I celebrate your sovereign glory!
And so it is. I give you my thanks. Happy thanks-giving, to all sources of joy in your life, may they feel your songs of praise.
Love,
Meredith
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by meredith murphy
Love is deeply available everywhere. The momentum of peace is accelerating. Can you feel it?
The capacity of knowing the loving sentience of All-That-Is, is increasingly felt. Once one connects and knows this profound sea of limitless appreciation, one then increasingly expresses this through presence as love.
Many of us bring forth contributions to the evolution of collective perspectives. My lineage through Naeshira and the Pleiades is one of many experiences of creating peace momentum in civilization and culture. Others of you too carry this mantle.
Our wise and ancient lineage wisdom flows through us into this NOW moment of divine unfolding and the capacity for multidimensional in-form is expanding daily as we receive new solar codes.
The 5th World Prophecy is Fulfilled
This message from infinite time unfolds from the future and looks at what we're creating. I found it wonderful to revisit this today and so offer it to you.
May it ignite your hope, your realization, your memory and your joyous participation.
Beyond time, in spherical infinite nowness, love abundantly IS. Aho!
I AM...
Joyous. Energetic. Bright. Spreading out and feeling fine.
I AM well within an experience of expansion.
Meaning and context are expanding and as such, evolving.
The expanded knowing of Self initiates revised presence.
Presence in dynamic re-contextualization and my Avatar, while all this is happening, enjoys the lull, trusting in the recommencement of informed activity and expression.
Taking in the ever changing and perfect view.
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(pic is the view from the Esalen baths in Big Sur, CA by sarea)
by meredith murphy
Pioneers of the New Earth!
Today is a day to celebrate an ideal enormously dear to us: alignment of the personal, the planetary, the galactic and ultimately the cosmic.
Reflecting on this today I thought of the astonishing, inspiring, kaleidoscopic shapes of the Pilobolus Dancers. Having seen them live, I am well aware of the crackling and vigorous energy of their work, and their impeccable focus. I thought it would be fun to share some images of their work with some observations about alignment and balance.
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Balance is not something I do separate from the world or other people. But I can be in balance regardless of the world or other people.
We are all interconnected. So me being in balance reflects my tuning within to the vastness of being in a quantum informed fashion. I don't have to understand how I do this, it's not a mental things--it's more a sensation of poise, of equanimity, of ease and harmony. It's something I feel my way into.
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Life exists in movement and my experiences and how I "roll" with them, or not, determines my balance, my alignment. My flexibility, my attitude, my attunement to my own joy, can keep my in balance regardless of what seems to poke me or interrupt my joyous state of being.
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When I am in alignment amazing things are possible. I can be held and supported by forces beyond my physical form and rest in innocence and trust as I feel the strength and support this alignment allows.
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Harmony and balance are like a kaleidoscope; continually created. In movement. And like the images in a kaleidoscope I can create balance in complex or simple ways. I can exist in balance when I am with others, when I am with my dog, when I am alone and when I am in the most intimate of love relationships. My balance remains within my command regardless of the setting.
I can sense when tension or discord appear and recognize this as a fire alarm from my very being: HEY!!!!!!! Your attention is taking you out of your safe place, your true place, your connection! I can know that my body my sensations are always right and listen. I can find my place of alignment again, releasing and coming into harmony and balance once more.
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As I tune in this way, I organically exist in harmony with everything! I don't pay attention to other people--in fact, it's important that I not use others to find my balance. What if they're not in balance? I just have to stay in my own inner alignment, in that groove, creating balance and stability within me, then everything else works.
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When I create my own inner state of equanimity, on an ongoing basis, my energy field distills and elevates, vibrates peace and harmony and I create heaven on earth. Alignment and balance allow beauty to emerge.
The Equinox is a day we specifically attune to our alignment and balance. May we see the unexpected potential in doing this continually. Imagine the creative collaboration possible with such elements involved.
Equinox blessings to you. Love, light and much appreciation,
-Meredith
by meredith murphy
This morning I was very inspired by an observation Nancy Ward made in her monthly Soul Transitions Vibe Report for September. I didn't even read the whole message, because once I read the first few paragraphs, I knew that the message for me was held therein. Nancy writes:
I’ve noticed in myself – and heard reports from other people – that there’s a feeling of ennui that many are experiencing. Feeling unmotivated, as if we’re swirling around in an eddy of energy, not going anywhere, just spinning in the same spot. To move out of this, I am receiving messages to do what is fun, what makes me feel good.
Yes! I thought. I feel it. That's what I'm noodling over and prodding within myself--attempting to get a firm glimpse of this morning.
I was grateful for this mirror of my experience which tuned me in further to my own current. I reminded myself that an eddy is not stagnant water. When we find ourselves there we're not really doing nothing.
Looking for a photo of an eddy, I found this description on a site about kayaking:
An eddy is part of a river where there is no water flow (or in some cases there is a tiny whirlpool where the water spins in a circle). They are generally set off to the side and created by a small creek flowing into the main river in the opposite direction or there could be a blockage that forces the main flow of the water in a different direction – like a massive rock or downed tree.
A river eddy can be a lifesaver for a paddler. They offer a place to rest, relax and scout the perfect line ahead. When you’re in an eddy you shouldn’t have to paddle at all, or at least, very little because there is no water flow.
What a great reminder of the purpose of this energy I am in!
I felt this energy in August too.
There is a profound sense of some kind of groundwork being underway. Things being set in order, arranged. I myself often feeling I'm stretching and warming up for re-entry into the flow of things, and sense the river will have expanded when I do so. That what I'll enter will be the current of aliveness which flows from the leading edge of me, informed, accelerated and expanded by this time of seemingly doing very little. It also feels like things I see and vision in my life will unfold with ease...and yet right now, there is often big-time-quiet in my inner landscape...and if I'm not appreciative of what's taking place, I can slip out of relaxation and ease and into self-judgment, feel irritated or impatient.
Oh that desire to be DOING is so strong when one is in a human body! :)
I am so appreciative of being shown again, how much I can blunder into a perspective where I measure and evaluate ME with a sense of how much I am doing. I am grateful to release even more of this and embrace myself and my life with unconditional appreciation.
Then I find leisure and joyous effortlessness open up even more fully. After all, when we envision paradise, doesn't it certainly include lots of free time, a relaxing pace and the ability to flow as we like?
I love that life is teaching me the ways of the new earth.
I have to let go and let a new vision continually expand and arise to realize what life in paradise might actually be like. I think there is a reason sometimes people win the lottery and then don't know what to do with themselves. Getting all that freedom requires us to enlarge our sense of what's possible and to really listen to what will give us joy!
To let go of doing and working toward this all the time--which we're SO steeped in--and shift to allowing ourselves to receive the gift of expanding freedom which we're creating and allow ourselves and our life to change.
In my life I see more and more the invitation to give myself MORE FUN. To allow play and seemingly "un-productive" aspects of life to expand. To see once more the straightforwardness of claiming my own divinity, and being gifted with abundant time and space as a pathway to bliss.
One of the things you don't know until it's yours, is HOW all this time and space, and ease will feel to you. After the initial awe wore off, I find myself surprised at how often I realize I am not sure what I want or what would be the most fun. I am being invited to continually up the ante in terms of clarifying and learning what gives me joy, and choosing that moment to moment for myself. I am also realizing that to remove all limits to my sense of what's possible is a progressive process. I gradually discover ways I scale down on my largest vision of joy and remove those limits. Cultivating a new expectation which knows I can create anything I desire.
I am also being invited to deepen my trust in the moments of not-doing, in the moments of stillness, and to lean back into the energy of life allowing my patterns of being to be as dynamic as they need to be to harmonize with the flow within me. Some months I channel and write and teach a lot. Some months I am very quiet in this way. I am learning that I'm always able to continue to live well and that there is always what I need day to day, moment to moment--regardless of my activity level. My level of experience is not dependent on my activity--it's created by my expectations. This is fun and invogorating, as well as for me takes some practice. As my basic wonderful needs get met with reliability...a doorway of possibility opens and I find myself sometimes a bit bored, and wondering, "What my dear Meredith one, would have you soaring and open you to even greater aliveness and self-expression?" It pulls me out of old patterns and can be answered with the simplest of things--like lying in the front yard enjoying the sunshine--to remembering how much I liked water skiing and contemplating do I want to create this in my life once more? This endless eternal powerful creator stuff of life, calls forth a fullness of dynamic experience of permission, creativity and stillness in ways that I am still learning to spread out into, to takefull advantage of.
It's interesting to deepen my abilities to create in collaboration with Gaia. To feel the patterns and cycles of our planet and water--the pervasive and common element of our experience--and take clues from them as to what is also going on within me and allow myself to do so. To know that all of life is ONE and that wherever I find myself is really deeply perfect. To know this in a practical way--like in terms of how much money I make this month--not to separate this from my life. Like my spiritual life is one thing and my practical wordly life is another. They are one and the same.
The more deeply I allow myself to lean into this, the more spacious life becomes. Then the more my old paradigm distrust of this surfaces for release and I find myself being even more awed and delighted by the newness of life that is MOST obviously being created.
Water, clearly is reshaping things. It's the avenue that Gaia can use to alter landmasses. In collaboration with the lunar sentience to create rhythms and cycles that are our life pulse. With intention and choice we can replicate energy forms, or qualities of energy in water. (As Masuro Emoto reminds us.)
This weekend I was speaking to a friend who lives in the Pacific Northwest, and she shared with me the way the abundant water there affects her--how she often feels as though she IS the water and flowing, moving, peaceful. And yet--she finds it hard to tap into motivation to do things.
Later in the weekend, I remembered my own hindsight observation after living in Seattle in the mid 80's. I recalled the sense I had that had I stayed there I would have been happy, but I would likely have never accomplished anything.
What IS this about water that had this effect on me, and perhaps my friend? Or more accurately, why was I so concerned about this? Isn't happiness the point? Apparently for me then, it wasn't--I had gotten my priorities out of order a bit. I cared more about doing certain things then being happy. I think this happens more then we may realize.
Nancy shares in her post that water is rearranging us, inside and out. I agree. I can see now, that it is teaching us to un-learn all of the old paradigm ways of effort. I am being guided to let go of that internal alarm which goes off and my inner voice that says, "hello there--you're not really being very productive lately." I am getting used to just smiling at this and instead of worrying I re-assure myself that I create using my focus. I do something fun and let the current to carry me into a convergence with my life and to trust and enjoy the spinning and languid lull of those times when I'm seemingly out of the main stream. Recognizing the gift of these times, rather then resisting them with impatience and self-criticism.
Years ago, I was hiking in the Canadian Rockies and one day visited Johnston's Canyon in Banff. Rushing water carves through limestone, creating amazing landforms in the relentless powerful way, only water can.
We were walking through the canyon reading the trail signs and laughing at the repetition. The signs kept saying, "water carving rock, rock carving water." Over and over again throughout the trail was this refrain, "water carving rock, rock carving water." Whoever wrote this was wise and humble. Wise to realize it's this persistent humble quality of water which is able to cut through rock, and humble to tell the story like it is and trust us to notice the truth in the repetition, not read it as a limited ability to narrate our hike.
I see that I missed this a bit before. Water actually IS a huge part of the life force within ME. Relentlessly eternal. Love filled and persistent. Clearing, clearing, clearing. Making way. Opening. This water flowing through the Bow River Valley, formed this canyon over thousands of years. It's actually even called a "creek." A pretty soft term for something that altered the landscape and rock, so significantly. I am not nearly so hard as rock, imagine the effect it might have on me, especially if I yield and go with the flow.
Water is closely related to Turtle energy; slow and steady. Turtles in Native American teaching are the oldest symbols for the planet Earth. Turtle perspective reminds us to flow harmoniously with our situation, to not push things and to allow things to ripen. That is the message I was reminded of by Nancy's post today.
The Turtle buries its eggs in the sand and allows the sun to hatch them. It reminds us of the allies we have in the Sun and the Earth, and the water.
I am thankful for my confusion this morning about what was happening within me. I love that I seek understanding when I am confused, and am appreciative of discovering more to release of the old paradigm that associates doing with happy outcomes.
I know happiness is a fundamental. It's not dependent on anything. It, like love, just IS. It's everywhere and available always. And as resting is not doing nothing. Things are not always what they seem. More and more I see beyond the old paradigm collective beliefs and past the veil of the illusion, is a slowly materializing memory of paradise, and an evolving vision of my own new, modern paradise. Life at the Ideafrontier! Expect wonderful.
