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I Am Reading: Excuses Begone!
I began reading Wayne Dyer’s book “Excuses Begone!” today. The book teaches readers how to change the thinking and belief patterns that restrict us and prevent us form living and becoming our true potential.
I am intrigued by what the book has to offer. I have integrated as a central concept in my life the idea that I create my reality through my beliefs, my expectations and my internal mind chatter. I live a life relatively free of self-defeating sabotages. However, I know that there are still a few limiting beliefs, or excuses as Wayne Dyer calls them, that I have allowed to hang on to me for much longer than what they really should have.
There was a moment of hesitation in me before I committed to the book. As you can imagine, letting a book into my life means that I will be allowing for concepts centered around a topic to claim my attention and provide a new prism through which I will be looking at the world. I will be committing myself to examining and untangling my limiting mental webs. And to be honest with you that seems like work to me. I would have preferred a book that inspires me and encourages me to create the life I want, which always seems so easy, so joyful and playful to me. But then reason settled in. I asked myself, “How could I build a dream without having first cleared away any and all debris?” Therefore, I welcome the opportunity to work on those mental paradigms that no longer serve me.
Here are a preview of the PBS special that Wayne Dyer based on his book and an excerpt from the same program.
If you want to learn more about the book and get a feel of what the process of creating the book and applying the concepts to his life felt like for Wayne Dyer you can read an interview with him here.
Have you already read “Excuses Begone!”? Was there something about the book that you particularly liked? Did you find passages in it that encouraged you to shake off your old story and allow yourself to become the glorious you? Please let me know.
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Love
St_Luke’s question “What is True Love?” when commenting on the post describing The Real Story of the Mona Lisa made me ponder about love. What is love? Love has so many faces – motherly love, love for your child, romantic love, love shared between good friends, love for your pet, etc. There are also so many ways in which love can be expressed – sharing giggles with a little baby, making love to your partner in a tantric, mindful way, being kind to a stranger or feeding your neighbor’s cats while they are away. However, despite the multiple faces of love and the endless ways to express it, there is just one love. Love is an expression of oneness, a way to connect to your own divinity by recognizing the sacredness of another.
Here is how Emmanuel, a being of light, describes love:
Love requires no practice.
Love is.
One cannot practice is-ness.
One can, however,
practice the decision to love.
The path to love is found
by experiencing what it is like without love
just as the path of Light
is to be aware of darkness.
You make the supreme choice.
Love is not mastered.
It is allowed.
Love comes in many containers.
It can come through the flowing work of an artist.
It can be the magnificent send-sacrifice of a martyr.
It can be the firm resolution of a leader.
It can be the touch of a parent.
Something as simple
as taking the hand of a child crossing the street
is a monumental act of love.
Every act of kindness and love
adds more Light and more power
to God’s Truth in your world.
To bring the concept of love
into your physical reality,
to live it as richly as you can,
is to answer the calling of the God within
that has decided to incarnate.
Everyone in your world is yearning
for that fulfillment.
This is not a substitute for God love,
but is a nourishing, energizing, freeing aspect
of the Universal Plan made physical.
There may be fear of dividing love
between God and one’s mate.
I wish to say that there is no conflict.
The nurturing that you receive
on a physical level
is, in fact, beneficial
to your spiritual growth.
You yearn for love
as the flower yearns for the sun,
and you have as much right to it.
Does love survive death?
Love is eternal
It passes through every illusory barrier
such as time and space.
Love is an unbreakable connection.
Your consciousness weaves through the physical
to the non-physical and back again
even while you are all walking around
busily engaged in your daily tasks.
As you carry within you the love
and the yearning to return to God,
the sacrament of homecoming
is a constantly renewed reality within your life.
Your heart is returning you Home.
This poem is from Emmanuel’s Book: A Manual for Living Comfortably in the Cosmos. Emanuel is channeled by Pat Rodegast.
Image: .....discovery.....,a Creative Commons Attribution photo from Tony the Misfit’s Flickr stream
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The Real Story of the Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa is believed to be the most famous painting in the world. Yesterday’s incident of a woman throwing a teacup at the portrait reminded me of the intriguing story of how Leonardo created this masterpiece.
Leonardo da Vinci began painting the Mona Lisa in 1503. It is thought that he continued to work on it for years and to have finished it shortly before he died in 1519. There are speculations who does the small portrait depict. The most accepted theory is that it portrays Lisa del Giocondo, a member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany and the wife of wealthy Florentine silk merchant Francesco del Giocondo. Mona is an abbreviation of ma donna (or my lady) and a polite form of address, similar to Ma’am.
But there is a lot more to the origin of this picture than what we know nowadays. The secrets are revealed to us by Slava Sevrukova, one of the world’s most gifted psychics, as told by Hristo Nanev in his book “Visions.”
It was a summer day in 1503. Leonardo was strolling on a country road winding through vineyards spread on the hills of a mountainous area. Towards him was coming a carriage with freshly cut hay piled high. Next to the carriage was walking a peasant who was accompanied by his young wife. She was not an exceptional beauty but there was a sort of a heavenly charm in her that was flowing through her. The perceptive eye of the painter was instantly grabbed by her magnetic glow. He was greatly attracted to her, mesmerized by her enigmatic smile.
Intrigued by the peasant woman, Leonardo struck a conversation with the couple, which he prolonged for as long as he could. The woman was a charming Italian peasant who was partially paralyzed. The smile created by the lift in the upper left corner of her lips was caused by the slight paralysis of a facial nerve. Her left arm was also paralyzed and she was carefully holding it with her right hand. Yet, Leonardo was instantly under the spell of the woman. It was a love at first sight.
That was the only encounter Leonardo ever had with the woman. She never posed for him, however, her image was permanently imprinted on his mind. Inspired by the spiritual might of the suffering woman, seeing her as a symbol of humanity withstanding its plight with a smile, Leonardo continued for years to work on her portrait. The maestro shadowed the corners of her mouth, retouching the initial portray of the light paralysis to create her enigmatic smile. He maintained the characteristic pose of the woman, just like he remembered her -- her right hand carefully holding on to her paralyzed left hand.
He carried her portrait with him everywhere he went. He continued to work on it for the rest of his life trying to faithfully express her magnetism and mesmerizing charm.
What caused the initial moment of awe? Leonardo’s spirit recognized the spirit of the woman and the great love they shared in a previous lifetime.
The woman that Leonardo met that faithful summer day was the one true love of his life. Her portrait, the Mona Lisa, was his greatest masterpiece.
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