... you've been waiting for... May you FIND YOURSELF this year! And that, of course, will bring you more JOY and PEACE than you've ever known..
Love & Blessings,
Kiki ;-)
www.theradiantself.com
P.S. My request to those who 'borrow' from this blog is to please give adequate credit to the source of the borrowed information - whether me, or books and people I quote from. Thank you.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
My wish for you as...
...we sit on the edge of a fading year, and are filled with hope and anticipation from a new one, is ALL that you wish for yourself...because therein lie dreams and hopes, and these are the very things that'll keep you filled with expectation, keep you moving on.. completing old karma and creating some new karma -- and through it all my hope is that your choices will heal and not hurt anyone, including yourself, in any way at all.
Much love, and many blessings,
Kiki ;-)
www.theradiantself.com
P.S. My request to those who 'borrow' from this blog is to please give adequate credit to the source of the borrowed information - whether me, or books and people I quote from. Thank you.
Much love, and many blessings,
Kiki ;-)
www.theradiantself.com
P.S. My request to those who 'borrow' from this blog is to please give adequate credit to the source of the borrowed information - whether me, or books and people I quote from. Thank you.
Monday, December 29, 2008
More HAFIZ
Here are some lines from another one of Daniel Ladinsky's translations of Hafiz...in the book 'I Heard God Laughing' - one of my most favorite books:
SKINNING YOUR KNEES ON GOD
Little by little,
You will turn into stars.
Even then, my dear,
You will only be
A crawling infant,
Still skinning your knees on God.
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When your soul begins
To Ever bloom and laugh
And spin in Eternal Ecstasy--
O little by little,
You will turn into God.
- HAFIZ, by Daniel Ladinsky
Adding to Hafiz... we already HAVE godhood in us -- all we need to do is to remember that, and lift the veils of fear and simply OWN who we are...
Bowing to the Divine in you,
Kiki ;-)
www.theradiantself.com
P.S. My request to those who 'borrow' from this blog is to please give adequate credit to the source of the borrowed information - whether me, or books and people I quote from. Thank you.
SKINNING YOUR KNEES ON GOD
Little by little,
You will turn into stars.
Even then, my dear,
You will only be
A crawling infant,
Still skinning your knees on God.
*****************
When your soul begins
To Ever bloom and laugh
And spin in Eternal Ecstasy--
O little by little,
You will turn into God.
- HAFIZ, by Daniel Ladinsky
Adding to Hafiz... we already HAVE godhood in us -- all we need to do is to remember that, and lift the veils of fear and simply OWN who we are...
Bowing to the Divine in you,
Kiki ;-)
www.theradiantself.com
P.S. My request to those who 'borrow' from this blog is to please give adequate credit to the source of the borrowed information - whether me, or books and people I quote from. Thank you.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
I have been musing...
We all love to say there's ONE God... and then why do we get all tangled up in WHOSE God is that one God???
And also, how come we get SO identified with our religions, when we don't know what our religion was in the previous birth, and what it will be in the next one???
Just wondering...
Kiki ;-)
www.theradiantself.com
P.S. My request to those who 'borrow' from this blog is to please give adequate credit to the source of the borrowed information - whether me, or books and people I quote from. Thank you.
And also, how come we get SO identified with our religions, when we don't know what our religion was in the previous birth, and what it will be in the next one???
Just wondering...
Kiki ;-)
www.theradiantself.com
P.S. My request to those who 'borrow' from this blog is to please give adequate credit to the source of the borrowed information - whether me, or books and people I quote from. Thank you.
Friday, December 26, 2008
Turn a meal into a feast, and a house into a home...
Author Melody Beattie has further described the gains of gratitude thus:
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melodie Beattie
If there is one resolution you're going to make for the New Year, let it be the writing of a Gratitude Journal - five things that you are grateful for on each day.
Kiki ;-)
www.theradiantself.com
P.S. My request to those who 'borrow' from this blog is to please give adequate credit to the source of the borrowed information - whether me, or books and people I quote from. Thank you.
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
- Melodie Beattie
If there is one resolution you're going to make for the New Year, let it be the writing of a Gratitude Journal - five things that you are grateful for on each day.
Kiki ;-)
www.theradiantself.com
P.S. My request to those who 'borrow' from this blog is to please give adequate credit to the source of the borrowed information - whether me, or books and people I quote from. Thank you.
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Merry Christmas to all... to honor the birth of a great man
This beautiful analogy is courtesy of my Facebook friend Cliff Shaft's message to the Ramana Maharishi Facebook group. Thanks Cliff, for sending such a profound message today.
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Subject: Christmas Message
The Master gave the true significance of the Christian faith thusly:
Christ is the ego.
The Cross is the body.
When the ego is crucified, and it perishes,
what survives is the Absolute Being (God),
(“I and my Father are one”) and this glorious survival
is called Resurrection.
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Kiki ;-)
www.theradiantself.com
P.S. My request to those who 'borrow' from this blog is to please give adequate credit to the source of the borrowed information - whether me, or books and people I quote from. Thank you.
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Subject: Christmas Message
The Master gave the true significance of the Christian faith thusly:
Christ is the ego.
The Cross is the body.
When the ego is crucified, and it perishes,
what survives is the Absolute Being (God),
(“I and my Father are one”) and this glorious survival
is called Resurrection.
******************************
Kiki ;-)
www.theradiantself.com
P.S. My request to those who 'borrow' from this blog is to please give adequate credit to the source of the borrowed information - whether me, or books and people I quote from. Thank you.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Only gratitude
On my way to San Francisco yesterday, my seatmate was a very open-minded and spiritual Jewish person and so it was natural for us to engage in the most interesting of conversations :-) - issues of spirituality and personal growth... always my favorite subjects to discuss, debate, and share insights about.
At one point this person suddenly turned to me and said: "If you had advice to give to the Jewish and the Palestinians in the Middle-East, what would you say to them?"
Before this we had been discussing anger issues, and how anger breeds more anger, and extreme anger exposes the person experiencing it to still more extreme anger and its many unsavory and downright dangerous expressions - and we both agreed that there was tons of anger in the minds and hearts of the people in the Middle-East, two communities that both felt tht their very survival was threatened by the other. And this is what I told my co-passenger:
"The issues there have been complicated immensely with generations of negativity. Therefore, I would ask them simply for a time-out of forty days (the number just apperaed in my mind, as a lot of informtion does...also, a period of 40 days has much significance in most faith-based communities) -- I would tell everyone to STOP looking at each other... just turn to themselves and or forty days simply write their Gratitude Journals. If people in the Middle-East would listen to me, this is what I'd tell them."
And no, I can't predict the result of this exercise in exact terms, but I have NO DOUBT WHATSOEVER that saner voices will rise to the surface on both sides, and insist on being heard - and these will be voices of reason, of humaneness, and most importantly, voices that come from a lack of fear (remember, anger is a result of fear - always, always!) and would be a start to something new and wonderful!
In gratitude, always,
Kiki ;-)
www.theradiantself.com
P.S. My request to those who 'borrow' from this blog is to please give adequate credit to the source of the borrowed information - whether me, or books and people I quote from. Thank you.
At one point this person suddenly turned to me and said: "If you had advice to give to the Jewish and the Palestinians in the Middle-East, what would you say to them?"
Before this we had been discussing anger issues, and how anger breeds more anger, and extreme anger exposes the person experiencing it to still more extreme anger and its many unsavory and downright dangerous expressions - and we both agreed that there was tons of anger in the minds and hearts of the people in the Middle-East, two communities that both felt tht their very survival was threatened by the other. And this is what I told my co-passenger:
"The issues there have been complicated immensely with generations of negativity. Therefore, I would ask them simply for a time-out of forty days (the number just apperaed in my mind, as a lot of informtion does...also, a period of 40 days has much significance in most faith-based communities) -- I would tell everyone to STOP looking at each other... just turn to themselves and or forty days simply write their Gratitude Journals. If people in the Middle-East would listen to me, this is what I'd tell them."
And no, I can't predict the result of this exercise in exact terms, but I have NO DOUBT WHATSOEVER that saner voices will rise to the surface on both sides, and insist on being heard - and these will be voices of reason, of humaneness, and most importantly, voices that come from a lack of fear (remember, anger is a result of fear - always, always!) and would be a start to something new and wonderful!
In gratitude, always,
Kiki ;-)
www.theradiantself.com
P.S. My request to those who 'borrow' from this blog is to please give adequate credit to the source of the borrowed information - whether me, or books and people I quote from. Thank you.
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