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Howard McQueen's Blog – December 2009 Archive (47)

RED ROVER, RED ROVER LET [YOUR NAME HERE] COME OVER

(c) 2009 Howard McQueen

Like pre-teen children enrapt in the play of Red Rover [1]

we launch ourselves with complete abandon

into the strong, embracing arms of others.

The faces beam at us, encouraging our charge.

We find the line is strong,

it almost always holds and contains us,

while we spontaneously overflow in the pure ecstatic

joy and delight of play.

I am recalling this now, as an adult,

not merely to live in the past and… Continue

Added by Howard McQueen on December 8, 2009 at 6:30am — No Comments

Building a relationship with Surrender

(c) 2009 Howard McQueen

Our path becomes illuminated
when we show mercy to ourselves.
There are many emotions that can nudge us
closer to relationship with surrender.
Try placing surrender
in the center
of your vocabulary,
then practice experiencing a relationship
with some of surrender's closest (word) relatives.

Added by Howard McQueen on December 7, 2009 at 5:30pm — No Comments

THE EVERYTHING-OF-YOU IS TAKING PLACE INSIDE

© 2009 Howard McQueen

The outer domain

The outside world is its own domain.

Set it aside for the moment.

The inner domain

The inner domain is your closest,

most intimate

home.

Its mechanisms, the heart and the mind,

emotions and thoughts and feedback within your body.

The heart emotes.

Vibrational energies we call emotions flow,

escape, erupt, ooze out of the heart.

The mind… Continue

Added by Howard McQueen on December 7, 2009 at 9:00am — No Comments

RADIATING ONENESS

(C) 2009 Howard McQueen

A blessing for the awakening of Awareness & Presence

In this lifetime, we remember

and begin to fully realize:

- Our source is the Womb of Life

- Our true birth mother, our Earth

- Our true birth father, our Sun

- Our immediate family, the fifty trillion stars

- Our fellow humans, individuated cells in the evolving body of life,

we label humanity.

In this incarnation,

our indoctrination… Continue

Added by Howard McQueen on December 6, 2009 at 8:30pm — No Comments

Giving is Receiving

(c) 2009 Howard McQueen

What better way to learn to give love and compassion,

than to feel all the suffering

and experience the darkest dramas of the mind.

What better way to stumble into Oneness,

than to have felt the pain of seemingly being completely separate, cutoff and alone.

What better way to learn that giving is receiving,

than to have tried most of a lifetime to get,

or manipulate others to give

to fill the void of one who… Continue

Added by Howard McQueen on December 4, 2009 at 11:30pm — 1 Comment

WHAT NEEDS BEING DONE?

Writing from Lake Rousseau; Crystal River, FL

© 2009 Howard McQueen

What needs being done?

Absolutely nothing, most of the time!

There is so much surface energy in motion, swirling around us.

The world we humans have created and the news we consume is so very agitated, so full of stories of victims and perpetrators and crime, violence and judgments.

We are so activated, so charged internally with unresolved emotions.

There is so much pent up… Continue

Added by Howard McQueen on December 2, 2009 at 7:00pm — No Comments

EMBEDDED IN LIFE

Writing from Lake Rousseau; Crystal River, FL

© 2009 Howard McQueen

How embedded are you in life?

How “signed-up” are you for the full-spectrum of life?

What are you willing to relinquish to live life more fully?

Can you relinquish all pride, all arrogance, all reactivity, all resentment?

Can you be with life without manufacturing and adding any self-centeredness?

Can you put away the analyzing, fussing, worrying,… Continue

Added by Howard McQueen on December 2, 2009 at 6:19pm — No Comments