It’s always a bonus when a song not only grabs you but the lyrics read like poetry. Here’s an oldie from Suzanne Vega, never made the Billboard top whatever like Luka did, but worthy in its own right. And her new album: Beauty & Crime, is one of her best in years. If language were liquid [...]
Archive for November, 2007
If Language Were Liquid
Posted in Music, Poetry on November 30, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Like A Prayer
Posted in Mindfulness, Spirituality on November 29, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I was washing the pots and pans. Something about putting any part of my body in water and something changes. I’ve noticed that in the shower how suddenly I could be singing out in pure joy or crying quietly letting the water wipe my tears. I wondered what it would be like to wash the [...]
Seth on Perfection
Posted in Seth, Spirituality on November 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Perfection is not being, for all being is in a state of becoming. This does not mean that all being is in a state of becoming perfect, but in a state of becoming more itself. Seth-Jane Roberts The Nature of Personal Reality (c) Robert F. Butts
What is a Happy Life?
Posted in Abraham Hicks, Spirituality on November 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people don’t allow the happy moment, because they’re so busy trying to get a happy life. Excerpted from Abraham-Hicks Quarterly Journal Oct, Nov, Dec 2003 – Vol 26
Only As A Child
Posted in Poetry, Rainer Maria Rilke, Spirituality on November 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Ones, Each time that I read Rainer Maria Rilke I am touched. Sometimes there are tears of joy, sometimes tears of knowing. Always I feel as if we are peering through the same window of Life and he has put what my heart feels onto paper. When I find music that I like, I [...]
A Peaceful Love
Posted in A Course in Miracles, Happiness, Inspiration, Life, Love, Marianne Williamson, Spirituality on November 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Until we get to the point where we’ve had enough of things that hurt and long more than anything for a peaceful love, we are bound to take painful roads. We are destined to play out our frivolous disasters until we declare ourselves finished and done with them. How much pain do we have to [...]
This Existence
Posted in Rumi, Spirituality on November 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain and soul. There’s no room for lack of trust, or trust. Nothing in this existence but that existence. Excerpted from The Essential Rumi/Translated by Coleman Barks
My Deepest Fear is of Rejection
Posted in Spirituality on November 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Your inner experience is holy. Why then do you look into the eyes of others who hold their own inner selves in question and ask them, “Will you please tell me who I am?” They cannot even know you. How can you give them the power to cancel or amend you? excerpted from Emmanuel’s Book [...]
The Road to Inner Joy
Posted in Carl Jung, Love, Mindfulness, Spirituality on November 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. ~Carl Jung Can you do it? Accept yourself completely? If not, why not? What do you have to lose or should I say what do you have to gain? Love, Bethie
Waves of Expansion
Posted in Abraham Hicks, Spirituality on November 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
You are not inferior Beings in need of enlightenment. You are not insignificant particles in a vast, unending Universe. You are not misguided or forgotten children trying to find your way home… You are powerful Leading-Edge creators riding the most significant wave of expansion that has ever occurred. And it is our desire that you [...]