A prayer by A.de Saint-Exupéry


We do not ask not for miracles and visions, God, but for power in everyday life!
Teach us the art of progressing in small steps. Make us resourceful and inventive in order to recognize our knowledge and experiences, to deal with the diversity and sundries we are concerned with.

Ensure we improve in organization of timing, and give us the tact to find out what is primary and what is secondary. Let us realize that dreams do not help, neither with the past nor with the future. Help us to do the next step as good as possible, and help us to see that the current hour is the most important to recognize.

Save us from the naive belief that everything in life has to go smoothly. Give us the sober realization that difficulties, defeats, failures, and setbacks are a natural addition to life, by which we grow and mature. Remind us that the heart often strikes against the mind. Send us someone in the right moment who has the courage to tell us the truth.

We want to listen to you and our fellow human beings. The truth one does not tell himself, it is delivered by others. You know how much we need love. Give that we can cope and grow with this most beautiful, most difficult, most risky and most delicate business in our lives.

Bless us with the necessary imagination, to deliver a packet of kindness, in the right moment, with or without words, in the correct place. Make us to people who are similar to a ship with draft in order to reach out to those at the bottom. Save us from the fear that we might miss life.

Give us not what we want, God, but what we need!

Amen.

"The Invitation"

"It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for,

and if you dare to dream of meeting your heart's longing.

It doesn't interest me how old you are.

I want to know if you will risk lookinglike a fool for love,

for your dream, for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn't interest me what planets are squaring your moon.

I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow,

if you have been opened by life's betrayals

or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!

I want to know if you can sit with pain, mine or your own,

without moving to hide it or fade it, or fix it.

I want to know if you can be with joy, mine or your own,

if you can dance with wildness and let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toes

without cautioning us to be careful, to be realistic,

to remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn't interest me if the story you are telling me is true.

I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself;

if you can bear the accusation of betrayal and not betray your own soul;

if you can be faithless and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see beauty even when it's not pretty, every day,

and if you can source your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine,

and still stand on the edge of the lake and shout to the silver of the full moon, “Yes!”

It doesn't interest me to know where you live or how much money you have.

I want to know if you can get up, after the night of grief and despair,

weary and bruised to the bone, and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

It doesn't interest me who you know or how you came to be here.

I want to know if you will stand in the center of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It doesn't interest me where or what or with whom you have studied.

I want to know what sustains you, from the inside, when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself

and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments."

- Oriah Mountain Dreamer -

A Light matter of the ego

The "Ego" is the shadow cast by solidified separateness... It is not real, it has no existence of it own. We have carved ourselves these little separate selves, with our stories, with our personalities, and the time for that chapter in our evolution is coming to an end. It has hurt us as individuals, it has hurt us as a human family, and it has hurt the planet and other life-forms on it. It was a part of the play, and perfectly valid as such, but a new age, a new way to be in the world is dawning now... For everyone! The sense of separateness will vanish and become like a dream we won't believe we ever dreamed. It's seeming solidity will vanish, and with it the shadow of the ego and nothing but the light will remain!

collecting visions for our world:

http://www.recreatingfantasia.blogspot.com/ - it is also mine, please check it out and leave a blurb! thank you!

long silence

i haven't posted in such a long time... been creating a new world... been inspired no end at the beauty of this universe, this world of ours, and amazed at how carelessly we treat it... amazed at how carelessly we treat our very own selves, and as a result one another! if there were not so much wonder and light and good and love in this world, it would have been torn asunder ages ago... i hold this light, and i will ask everyone to hold it with me! busy making another blog link and then we take it from there!

life is a trip like none other! but, like death and dying, you can read all the theories about it, but you won't know it until you take that journey yourself! life is for living, in every possible way. we are here to glow, to shine, to fly - we are also here to know darkness, limitation, agony, and the rest of that... but you must know one to know the other! and then transcend... not just words, live!

you will never, never, never know how beautiful you are by looking in the mirror! never even by looking into yourself! but you may know it by recognising yourself in others! and in this world at large... night is a part of day... light belongs to darkness... let not the two fight though...

i wish you the grace to accept your dark hours, to accept the dark hour of this world! the light is always there, just on the other side... just around the corner...

shalom - salaam - namaste - peace

Dance with your Fear

Dance with your fear



Fear, out of the blue, more or less... Where does it comes from? Where does is sit? In the pit of my stomach? Small and whispered? Or loud and screamed?

I feel ME, I am the same I was yesterday, joyful, light, happy and confident. Like when you have a pain in one part of your body – it can take up all your focus, or you can still focus on other parts of you that feel no pain, even focus on the you as the person inside the body, and there is no pain. Only somewhere the body is feeling pain. You can isolate the sensation and watch it from the outside. Same with fear. I watch this sensation. A part of me like a fur-ball is part of a cat. Totally part, it sits INSIDE, physically, it is made of things that were “made” by the cat. were once an attached part of the cat. And yet it is completely separate from the cat. So this ball of fear, this energy capsule of fear, this feeling, sitting in my system. In the pit of my stomach, but is cascades through all my blood highways as well. I feel the adrenaline. I feel it closing my stomach to food. I don't stop it, I don't change it, I don't wish it away. I stand and I observe it. Neutrally. It is there, it is not threatening me. Much of it belongs to someone else, but I may not abdicate responsibility either. It is in me not by someone else putting it there...

A side pocket is a sense of dis-empowerment. Hm...

There is more I can find in there, but the rest of me is singing with joy – there is music inside me. So why not invite the fear to dance? Dance with the fear. It is a most wonderful partner to dance with. Full of energy. It wants to be loved, as all things, but it loves you too. It does not come to hurt you. Do not run from it. It is a messenger. It wishes to lead you into another, maybe new, direction. That is not always so comfortable...

It whispers questions in my ear... This fear. It is spokes-person to other fears which sit much deeper. Which I have managed to de-voice... I must listen. I may not react with fearing fear. No, this friend will not outstay his welcome if I but listen, and pay him the attention that is due him.

I am listening!

Delete "must"

I got a lecture from a man of 102 years of age two days ago about the need to delete the word "must" (incl. "to have to") from our vocabulary because apparently it messes with our brains. (Not literally speaking...) It being severely disempowering, and giving wrong signal to brain of lack of choice in our lives, which has pretty dire spin-off effects... Makes sense to me. So I'll give it a try. Or try at least to use it very consciously! Good Luck to me...