“No one who is trying to be themselves will be free from tragedy. External circumstances will forever continue to frustrate us on our way. We are so conditioned to the expectation of the worst that we have become suspicious of peace, joy and love and are certain that when we experience joy, horror must be just around the corner. We cannot stop a hurricane, silence a storm or keep a loved one from leaving us. But it is our response and reaction to these catastrophic experiences that will determine whether we will continue to survive and grow toward becoming a fully functioning person. This is another way of saying that fully functioning persons use pain and joy equally in determining themselves. They can either relinquish the responsibility for their lives to outside forces such as society, family, friends, or lovers, or they can assume the bittersweet responsibility of their own self-creation.”
For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn’t decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside. ~ Furuzanfar #77
Take someone who doesn’t keep score, who’s not looking to be richer, or afraid of losing, who has not the slightest interest even in his own personality: he’s free. ~ Furuzanfar #116
Stay in the company of lovers. Those other kinds of people, they each want to show you something. A crow will lead you to an empty barn, a parrot to sugar. ~ Furuzanfar #630
For awhile we lived with people, but we saw no sign in them of the faithfulness we wanted. It’s better to hide completely within as water hides in metal, as fire hides in a rock. ~ Furuzanfar #1082
Inside the Great Mystery that is, we don’t really own anything. What is this competition we feel then, before we go, one at a time, through the same gate? ~ Furuzanfar #1616
Now is the time to know that all you do is sacred.
Now, why not consider a lasting truce with yourself and God?
Now is the time to understand that all your ideas of right and wrong were just a child’s training wheels to be laid aside when you can finally live with veracity and love.
Hafiz is a divine envoy whom the beloved has written a holy message upon.
My dear, please tell me, why do you still throw sticks at your heart and God?
What is it in that sweet voice inside that incites you to fear?
Now is the time for the world to know that every thought and action is sacred. This is the time for you to deeply compute the impossibility that there is anything but Grace.
Now is the season to know that everything you do is sacred.
When you see a homeless person, who is scraping to get by, still able to smile … or a prostitute, or a mentally, or otherwise, incarcerated person … be wary of how you treat them. Many of them are God’s chosen people.
They insert themselves into the lowliest places, the roughest and toughest and dimmest places, to bring the light, to gather authentic information, to write their testimony. How do you suppose they will describe the world? You and me?
When the polar shift happens and suddenly they receive their divine inheritance, what testimony will they give the Most High? About you? About me?
If you’ve ever had hardship, you added the experience, all of the experiences, and who did and said what, who stood for you and who couldn’t care less, to your personal testimony. This really needs to be considered when we think of others if we are to be so bold as to be in this world as some sort of authority.
The testimonies of the so-called undesirables will be very intense, unbelievable stories of how they experienced people in this world.
They will not sugar coat their testimony. They’ll describe the truth of the experience, the truth of the state of the collective, as a whole.
Will the Most High be lenient when he receives these testimonies? When he reads the Akashic of his hidden warriors?
Cut off that supply of lush for desperate entities.
Stay grounded, calm focused. Especially now with influx of pure light, they are running wild trying to pick fights to feed on energy like anger, fear etc… nope!
We’d rather feed light n love to Angels 🥰🕊️✨
Beautiful family of light. Look after your aura.
Cleanse it, heal it, protect it… Restore full spectrum divine light in your Body Mind Soul.
Cut all energy cords and vampires feeding on your energy and life force.
We do not give permission to anyone to harvest our energy!
I am grateful, and give thanks for the many lessons and teachings along the way in this life. During the past near six decades, I’ve gained experience in many areas, today I’d like to discuss dressing for success.
As a young girl and lady, I lived in the wilderness. The only real appropriate clothes for a tree climbing Tom boy were Levi’s and t-shirts. Tromping around in the wilderness all day wasn’t really a place to be thinking about fashion and “style”.
At school we were treated as we were … poor. We couldn’t afford the clothing or fun games and toys and things the popular kids and their friends had.
As a young woman, I worked in the ship yard. The attire there was steel toed boots, hard hats, Levi’s, and t-shirts. After a couple years I was laid off and got an indoor job.
I began sewing my own clothes. I chose skirts and blouses, back then pantyhose was a thing. I got the looks, oh yes … lust from the masculine and ire from the feminine. It was intense! The perceptions and personas that hit the energy body are sometimes so powerful it’s cringe worthy.
As I aged I gained weight. I began wearing comfortable clothes, clothes that went well with a heavier frame, dress for work casual for home. I felt heavy, sluggish, and thankfully all the lust and ire stopped.
I lost the weight. I still wore the larger clothes, at least until they fell off and I had no choice but to buy smaller. I was invisible, hidden in the folds of extra fabric.
I decided to purchase “going to church” clothes which double as work clothes. I began to get the side-eye from the masculine again … and the ire, the stealy knife glare coming off the feminine. It’s wild.
In the past (middle past) I tried to hide in the shadows. Saying no to a date request and managing the backlash of hurt from that became too much … this isn’t ego, it’s a real thing. Feelings are fragile. When you’re attractive, people want to date you, even if you don’t want to, not looking for it, and have to tell them so. They take it personal, and if too many get rejected then sometimes the energy of multiple rejections can get really heavy and dangerous feeling.
That being said, I like to look pretty. I feel a certain way about self when I look in the mirror and see myself looking good. When I get compliments, it makes me feel good that I took the time, made the effort. Admiration is nice, energetic or physical pawing, not so nice. Can it be any other way?
I once dated a biker who was also a baker for Fred Meyer. He wore all white by night, and black leather by day. With him it was a Gemini life, swapping personas frequently, and it is true, the attire makes the attitude.
If I don’t wish attention, I wear overalls, Levi’s, stained jeans and t-shirts. If I wish to look nice for church, and taking myself out to breakfast later, I will … if I want to show my tattoos, if I choose to cover them … the whole of every occasion, I experience life and it’s various perceptions of Self, surrounding me, poking me with its attention, drilling me with its emotion … sometimes subtle, sometimes intense, sometimes seducing, sometimes causing a quick removal of self … stranger danger!
I love people, and the way folks dress affect their perceptions and responses and characteristics.
Hair styles are really wonderful ways to gain varying responses from life which surrounds us too.
Every so often I’ll nearly shave my head. People are strange, in that the majority automatically treat me like a gay woman, a punk, or whatever … they shun me, speak softly behind hands while side-eyeing me.
I’ll let it grow and curl it, make it sensual, flowing, and the energy I receive is much different.
I encourage people to try on different attire, different hair styles, go to different arenas, partake in a variety of activity.
Learn as much as you can about as much as you can.
Not just by wearing the persona and partaking in the activities, but by becoming something for a time and watching the worlds response. Not because you don’t like self and want to become someone else, but because by doing so you gain valuable information about the sociodynamics of a society and the workings of the collective mind.
When we dress for success … overalls on the farm, long wool skirts and blouses at work, gym clothes at the gym, evening gowns at the opera … enjoy being in these spaces, not pretending to “fit in” but to gain experience and wisdom by simply being present with the collective in these spaces.
The information in the collective field will attach itself to you and whatever persona, experience, you’re wishing to create for self. The experience already exists, you’re just tapping in. It’s why switching up attitudes while in different attire is so easy, we become the field of collective awareness, we tap in to the experience.
Could potentially be the truest meaning of living vicariously … through the awareness of the collective field.
When I wake up in the morning I decide, what energy do I want to wear today? What responses or reactions do I wish to receive from the people in my surroundings? How can I best achieve this by my choice in presentation?
I must create a System or be enslav’d by another Man’s. I will not Reason and Compare. My business is to Create. ~ William Blake
The afternoon of life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning. ~ Carl Jung
Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day. ~ Dylan Thomas
Post-mortem life: Everything gets doubly precious, gets piercingly important. You get stabbed by flowers and by babies and by beautiful things. ~ Maslow
If name be needed, wonder names them both; From wonder into wonder Existence opens. ~ The Way of Life, Lao Tzu
Confucius said: … When a man carries out the principals of conscientiousness and reciprocity he is not far from the universal law. What you do not wish others should do unto you, do not do unto them. ~ From The Golden Mean of Tsesze XIII
A wicked man who reproaches a virtuous one is like one who looks up and spits at heaven; the spittle soils not the heaven, but comes back and defiles his own person. ~ Buddha, The Sutra of Forty-Two Sections
This is the sum of all — righteousness. In causing pleasure or in giving pain In doing good or injury to others A man obtains a proper rule of action By looking at his neighbor as himself. ~ The Mahabharata
More flesh, more worms; More wealth, more worry; More women, more witchcraft; More concubines, more lechery; More slaves, more thievery. (But) More Law, more life; More study, more wisdom; More counsel, more enlightenment, More righteousness, more peace. ~ The Talmud (from Mishna)
We do not exist for ourselves (as the center of the universe), and it is only when we are fully convinced of this fact that we begin to love ourselves properly and thus also love others. What do I mean by loving ourselves properly? I mean, first of all, desiring to live, accepting life as a very great gift and a great good, not because of what it gives us, but because of what it enables us to give others. ~ Thomas Merton
The safest thing to do when you encounter a honey badger is to stay calm don’t provoke the animal, and if you get a chance to escape from the honey badger, run fast and hide somewhere.
Honey badgers, known for their fearlessness and tenacity, carry a unique spiritual message. They represent courage and the ability to take on adversaries many times their size. They teach us that size and appearance don’t dictate our ability to face life’s battles.
Moreover, honey badgers embody the spirit of perseverance and endurance. They remind us that regardless of the odds, we can achieve our goals through determination and an indomitable spirit. Therefore, their spiritual significance revolves around the themes of relentless pursuit, courage, and resilience.
Superficially Badger people appear unalarming. However, they have an extraordinarily strong core; this becomes apparent when they speak truth. There is no buttering up here – rather, cutting through the BS right to the heart of the matter. That can be harsh, but it can also be very positive, supportive, and uplifting.
Badger Medicine instills strength, self-reliance, and a fresh, bold outlook. Badger helps you be ready for everything, although sometimes his approach to a situation is a tad unconventional. If you’re in a rut, you won’t stay there long when working with Badger.
Badger … portends that you are about to achieve some victory or a turnaround of ill-fortune.
There’s a difference between seeing an other, admiring them, then copying them trying to imitate their existence in every way, shedding any sense of self … and … incorporating into the neural highways of one’s own mind, character and Self., those qualities which instill a greatness being birthed and expanded into an ever increasing “big bang” development of personal awareness.
You are a master at studying your environment. You take on the good qualities of those around you, and you leave the negative behind. When you’ve learned all you are able, you extract yourself. Then you implant self into another environment, and glean those new-found qualities in others, examples which can assist personal growth and expansion.
If people are unwilling to present self transparently, there’s nothing to embody, nothing of truth being presented as an offering, of a particular life. There’s nothing offered to present a growth opportunity in the environment.
So you go to another source, another meet-up, church, social function. Over and over again, you flow into situations and groupings, absorbing everything your discover that sits right with your soul … learning as much as you can, about as much as you can.
People are fascinating! There are so many unique ways of approaching life, and a never-ending example of greatness … all one needs do is pay attention, and learn.
We don’t have to take on every characteristic of those in our environment at any given time. We get to choose the building blocks from the examples we fill our environment with.
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