Desire

Imagine how your life would be if you desired something, disdained it, and then got more of it. That would be a destructive cycle, would it not? If you received more of what you hated, your life would be filled with whatever you hated. It would be unpleasant to say the least. But if your life fills only with what you are grateful to receive, then that would be a joyous existence — assuming you eventually learn to enjoy what you want...

Good Night

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Metta

You can begin by sitting down in a comfortable position, closing your eyes. Sit with your back erect, without being strained or overarched.

Take a few deep breaths, relax your body. Feel your energy settle into your body and into the moment.

See if certain phrases emerge from your heart that express what you wish most deeply for yourself, not just for today, but in an enduring way. Phrases that are big enough and general enough that you can ultimately wish them for all of life, for all beings everywhere.

Classical phrases are things like, "May I live in safety. May I be happy. May I be healthy. May I live with ease."You can gently repeat these phrases over and over again, have your mind rest in the phrases and whenever you find your attention has wandered, don't worry about it. When you recognize you've lost touch with the moment, see if you can gently let go and begin again.

May I live in safety, be happy, be healthy, live with ease.

Call to mind somebody that you care about--a good friend, or someone who's helped you in your life, someone who inspires you. You can visualize them, say their name to yourself. Get a feeling for their presence, and then direct the phrases of lovingkindness to them. May you live in safety, be happy, be healthy, live with ease.

Call to mind someone you know who's having a difficult time right now. They've experienced a loss, painful feeling, a difficult situation. If somebody like that comes to mind, bring them here.

Imagine them sitting in front of you. Say their name. Get a feeling for their presence and offer the phrases of lovingkindness to them."May you live in safety. Be happy. Be healthy, live with ease."Think of someone who plays some role in your life, some function that you don't know very well, that you don't have a particular feeling for, or against. Maybe the checkout person at the supermarket where you shop, the gas-station attendant, somebody that you see periodically. If someone like that comes to mind, imagine them sitting in front of you, and offer these same phrases of lovingkindness to them.

May you live in safety. Be happy. Be healthy, live with ease.

We connect into these phrases, aiming the heart in this way, we're opening ourselves to the possibility of including, rather than excluding, of connecting, rather than overlooking, of caring, rather than being indifferent. And ultimately, we open in this way to all beings everywhere, without distinction, without separation.

May all beings live in safety, be happy, be healthy, live with ease.

All people, all animals, all creatures, all those in existence, near and far, known to us and unknown to us. All beings on the earth, in the air, in the water. Those being born, those dying.

May all beings everywhere live in safety, be happy, be healthy, live with ease.

You feel the energy of this aspiration extending infinitely in front of you, to either side, behind you, above and below. As the heart extends in a boundless way, leaving no one out, may all beings live in safety, be happy, be healthy, live with ease.

And when you feel ready, you can open your eyes and see if you can bring this energy with you throughout the day.

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Angels

Do not search for us, we will find you.

Do not wait for us, we are here...all ready.

Do not whisper your name, we know it well.

We have loved you forever, time will tell...

We Are Angels


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Saturday

The Moon will slip into dreamy Pisces tonight, activating our fantasies and increasing our need for meaningful spiritual connection. Mercury the Messenger joins shadowy Pluto on Saturday, sending our thoughts deep into the unconscious to uncover buried metaphysical treasure...

You see we cannot know in advance what lurks in the dark, yet the exploration can prove transformational. We need not be afraid, for increasing the light of awareness can help us find our way...

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I Love

* I am a radiant being filled with light and love*
* I love and accept myself exactly as I am*
* I now express love to all those I meet*
* I am a radiating center of divine love*
* Divine love is working through me now*
* I bathe in the unconditional love of my Creator*
* Love radiates from me at all times*
* I love myself completely*
* Love comes to me easily and effortlessly*
* I give and receive love easily and joyfully*
* Others love me easily and joyfully*
* I now feel loved and appreciated by my parents, my friends*
* I express love freely*
* As I give love, I am instantly supplied with more*
* I radiate love to all persons and places and things*
* People are just waiting to love me, and I allow them*
* I breathe in universal love*
* I attract loving, beautiful people into my life*
* I always deserve love*
* I am attracting loving relationships into my life*
* I project love to everyone I meet*
* I love and approve of myself*
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Hope

HopeIt's magic and it's free
It's not in a prescription
It's not in an IV.

It punctuates laughter,
It sparkles in our tears,
It simmers under sorrows,
And dissipates our fears.

Do you know what Hope is?
It's reaching past today,
It's dreaming of tomorrow,
It's trying a new way,

It's pushing past impossible
It's pounding on the door,
It's questioning the Answers,
It's always seeking more.

It's rumors of a breakthrough,
It's whispers of a cure,
A roller coaster ride
Of remedies, unsure.

Do you know what Hope is?
It's candy for the soul,
It's perfume for the spirit,
To share it, makes you Whole.
Hope...

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12 Gifts

Once upon a time, a long time ago, when princes and princesses lived in far away kingdoms, royal children were given twelve special gifts when they were born.

Twelve wise women of the kingdom, or fairy godmothers as they were often called, traveled swiftly to the castle whenever a new prince or princess came into the world. Each fairy godmother pronounced a noble gift upon the royal baby.

As time went on, the wise women came to understand that the twelve royal gifts of birth belong to every child, born anywhere at anytime. They yearned to proclaim the gifts to all children, but the customs of the land did not allow that.

One day when the wise women gathered together they made this prophecy: Some day, all the children of the world will learn the truth about their noble inheritance. When that happens a miracle will unfold on the kingdom of Earth.

Here is the secret they want you to know.

At the wondrous moment you were born, as you took your first breath, a great celebration was held in the heavens and twelve magnificent gifts were granted to you.

The first gift is STRENGTH. May you remember to call upon it whenever you need it.

The second gift is BEAUTY. May your deeds reflect its depth.

The third gift is COURAGE. May you speak and act with confidence and use courage to follow your own path.

The fourth gift is COMPASSION. May you be gentle with yourself and others. May you forgive those who hurt you and yourself when you make mistakes.

The fifth gift is HOPE. Through each passage and season, may you trust the goodness of life.

The sixth gift is JOY. May it keep your heart open and filled with light.

The seventh gift is TALENT. May you discover your own special abilities and contribute them toward a better world.

The eighth gift is IMAGINATION. May it nourish your visions and dreams.

The ninth gift is REVERENCE. May you appreciate the wonder that you are, and the miracle of all creation.

The tenth gift is WISDOM. Guiding your way, wisdom will lead you through knowledge to understanding. May you hear its soft voice.

The eleventh gift is LOVE. It will grow each time you give it away.

The twelfth gift is FAITH. May you believe.

Now you know about your twelve gifts of birth.

But there is more to the secret that the wise women knew.

Use your gifts well and you will discover others, among them a gift that is uniquely you.

May you see these noble gifts in other people.

Share the truth and be ready for the miracle to unfold as the prophecy of the wise women comes true.

Delaney Marie Angel

If everything about her is delightful
Her sparkling eyes and special little smile
If shes a charmer in a little dress or diaper
You see she has her own endearing style

If she's an angel with a little hint of mischief
Exploring her small world in her own way
If she can steal your heart with hugs and kisses
And bring a touch of laughter to your day

If she grows even dearer every minute
And fills your thoughts with joy your whole day through
If she grows faster than you can imagine
But always stays a little girl to you

If she's an extra-special ray of sunshine
Who warms your life and brightens up your world
Its know wonder, for there isn't any treasure
More precious than our own, sweet baby girl

Delaney Marie Angel

Beauty is truth's smile

when she beholds her own face

in a perfect mirror.


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May You Be

May you be generous in prosperity, and thankful in adversity. May you be fair in thy judgment, and guarded in thy speech. May you be a lamp unto those who walk in darkness, and a home to the stranger. May you be eyes to the blind, and a guiding light unto the feet of the erring. May you be a breath of life to the body of humankind, a dew to the soil of the human heart, and a fruit upon the tree of humility...

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Bunn's

1) Do not bottle up emotions. When you are happy, run and jump and dance! When you are angry, growl and grunt and snap at the people around you! Bunn finds that a swift, hard chomp on someone else's ankle, leg, or arm is therapeutic for relieving anger, regardless of whether that particular person was at fault for your bad mood. Don't worry; they'll forgive you, since you're so darned cute. Don't worry about hurting their feelings. Your feelings are much more important.

2) Live in the moment. Do not hold simmering grudges. If the person you're angry with comes with a peace offering of fresh cilantro, by all means go for it with gusto! This is easier for Bunn than for us humans, since he has a four-minute memory span, but we can try. Forgetting and forgiving is much easier than resisting fresh cilantro to be spiteful!

3) Don't worry about your looks. While it is important to keep clean and fresh-smelling (groom, groom, groom!), it is not important to make sure that you only sit in graceful positions, and that people only see your "good" side. Feel free to flop out on the floor and let your belly hang out.

4) Don't worry about what other people think of you or your habits. Feel free to inhale your food instead of eating it neatly. Also, feel free to take naps in your litterbox.

5) If you want attention, don't pout that you're being ignored. Just walk up to the person in question and shove your cute nose in his or her face.

Remember--you are irresistable!

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What Is Metta?

Metta is an attitude of recognizing that all sentient beings (that is, all beings that are capable of feeling), can feel good or feel bad, and that all, given the choice, will choose the former over the latter.

Metta is a recognition of the most basic solidarity that we have with others, this sharing of a common aspiration to find fulfillment and escape suffering.

Metta is empathy. It's the willingness to see the world from another's point of view: to walk a mile in another person's shoes.

Metta is the desire that all sentient beings be well, or at least the ones we're currently thinking about or in contact with. It's wishing others well.

Metta is friendliness, consideration, kindness, generosity.

Metta is an attitude rather than just a feeling. It's an attitude of friendliness.

Metta is the basis for compassion. When our Metta meets another's suffering, then our Metta transforms into compassion.

Metta is the basis for shared joy. When our Metta meets with another's happiness or good fortune, then it transmutes into an empathetic joyfulness.

Metta is boundless. We can feel Metta for any sentient being, regardless of gender, race, or nationality.

Metta is the most fulfilling emotional state that we can know. It's the fulfillment of the emotional development of every being.

It's our inherent potential. To wish another well is to wish that they be in a state of experiencing Metta.

Metta is the answer to almost every problem the world faces today.
Money won't do it.
Technology won't do it.
Metta will.

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The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature..

I Am Passion

I am consumed with wanting but for what it is uncertain. I am still alive but a fire demon lives within me. The demon is scratching and screaming, trying to claw its way out. My blood is poisoned with its passion. I am restless, confined in my cage, with just enough space to pace. Back and forth, back and forth, it plans to escape this world. I know it will come, the day will come when it will run free...

Only one thing will bring peace and cease its torturing pleas. I have told you the name. It roars in the dark void of my mind, beckoning come find me. I look inside to search for the meaning of my existence. I demand definition of my destiny. Please tell me now...

I am a living torch one cannot extinguish. I will not be incinerated by the worlds tempestuous flames of hate. The only relief from its wrath, is found in your arms. In your presence, it eases, the longing subsides. Dare you let me close to scorch you with desire. Dare you be my brave knight and quench the fire of my soul....

I Am Passion

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Death Song

Live your life that the fear of death

Can never enter your heart.

Trouble no one about his religion.

Respect others in their views

And demand that they respect yours.

Love your life, perfect your life,

Beautify all things in your life.

Seek to make your life long

And of service to your people.

Prepare a noble death song for the day

When you go over the great divide.

Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting

Or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place

Show respect to all people, but grovel to none.

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light,

For your life, for your strength.

Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living.

If you see no reason to give thanks,

The fault lies in yourself.

Touch not the poisonous firewater
That makes wise ones turn to fools

And robs the spirit of its vision.

When your time comes to die, be not like those

Whose hearts are filled with fear of death,

So that when their time comes they weep and pray

For a little more time to live their lives over again

In a different way.

Sing your death song,

And may you die like a hero going home.

Curse

May those who love us, love us.

And those who don't love us,

May God turn their hearts;

And if He doesn't turn their hearts,

May He turn their ankles,

So we will know them by their limping.

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Intuition

Intuition is the ability to know without rational interference.

It speaks to the heart of the matter.

It is your birthright, truth detector,

buried treasure,

life guide and messenger...

Close your eyes...

Listen

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The Waken Circle

Treat the Earth and all that dwell thereon with respect.

Remain close to the Great Spirit.

Show great respect for your fellow beings.

Work together for the benefit of all Mankind.

Give assistance and kindness wherever needed.

Do what you know to be right.

Look after the well being of mind and body.

Dedicate a share of your efforts to the greater good.

Be truthful and honest at all times.

Take full responsibility for your actions.

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We are the result of our own past actions

and our own present doings.

We ourselves are responsible for our own happiness and misery.

We create our own Heaven.

We create our own Hell.

We are the architects of our own fate.

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Love

L is for Light.

The truth that you are a divine being of Light.

Perfect now.

O is for Obedience.

Obeying the laws of nature and understanding the laws of karma.

V is for Victory.

I am a victorious soul and success is my birthright.

E is for Eternity.

It has no time.

Love is Eternal.

Love is energy,

a force so powerful

that all the darkness of the mind melts away.