My first thought was of the movie "Michael."  Add a little inspiration, with ability to help others find the joy within while finding the wisdom and the truth within. Hmmmm, I have this sudden craving for pie!

Living in La La Land, we only get our rain in the winter and early spring, so I am hoping for rain in abundance with snow at resort level.

I'm working on getting past the "musts" and "must nots."  I like the joys in what IS, no matter what should have been.

busy bee slowing down to BE

My koi fish have been symbols and teachers of mindfulness and playfulness.

I used to think they were on different planets.  One from the sun, the other from that planet next to Neptune.  Being a visceral processor, my creativity and inner voice felt like they came from the heart or just below it, and my intellect and the noise of incessant thoughts clearly emanated from my head.  I once associated mind with only head and truth with the wisdom of the body, but know I have opened up my perception of mind to be all that is in my head and heart and I feel more complete.

What I most liked about school was leaving it.  My most meaningful learning has taken place since I have started a more personal journey to learning, wisdom and truth.

divine consciousness

I wonder what the questions and reflections question is ? 

:) 
just kidding. 

Today being the day to spring forward, I opened my eyes to look through my open window and thought, "there is a lot of light today."  I hope with each passing day I am aware of even more light!

My time capsule would contain a mirror and a note. The note would say "for that in my life which resonates in your heart and mind, see yourself, love yourself.  I pursued and lived my hopes and dreams, go follow your hopes and dreams with passion."

You know who you are, no need to prove it to yourself or anyone.  BE who you are, believe you are no less than the most magnificent creations.  Love yourself so you can love others.  Enjoy the moment!

I used to call myself a recovering Catholic, and one time a jock and one time a musician. I guess I would call myself now a being that loves to share in many forms of expression, loves to love, and wants to always be in the clear and joyful state of awareness and being where we were all meant to be and share this with all who want to be here too.

in warmth beyond the waves of light from a sun rising higher in the sky, in beauty beyond the verdant seas of grass and glorious wildflower hues that leap from the soil with joy, in the abundance of new life that once died to itself in the winter and now dances in the light.

It is our fear and judgement, our resistance to awareness that creates our perception of darkness.  All is light and we see this when we can be aware without fear and step into the darkness only to see the light from the other side that we could not see before.  To not acknowledge our apparent darkness is to not embrace all the light of who we are.

Love and Blessings to All
May we all have the courage to embrace all that we are
Sings to Eagles
Sajan

Why do we look without?  Because we are taught from the time we were very young that there are experts and authorities that know the right way and we must learn from them and follow them to be successful or even worthwhile.  Why do we look within?  Because, when we hear what we regard as truth from a well trained person or a person in the street, we feel something resonate within us.  And as we feel "yes, that is right, " it feels like remembering.  And if we are remembering what we did not know, then maybe we know a whole lot more at another level of awareness.  And if we can access this at anytime and not just when someone jogs our remembering, it seems worthwhile to look within and discover the way to access the wealth of truth that is our gift within; to approach with the eager joy of a child unwrapping a birthday present.

To be loved, to be accepted, to be appreciated.  And I am not sure if most people really know this, but they foremost want to be loved, accepted and appreciated by themselves.

More and more, and at the same time, less and less.  When I launched into my engineering career, I had the great fortune to work with many gifted and brilliant people.  And I could tell these were brilliant people because they were humbled by the fact that the more they learned, the more they realized they did not know.  So as I become more aware, I find more layers of systems of beliefs that operated previously below my consciousness.  I no longer dig through the layers, in my stillness these are revealed to me.  But at the same time unaware of less and less, because with every day, I am feeling, I am believing that the truth and the light are simple, that they are within, and the practice of awareness in the now, flowing with life, is bringing me home.