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(C) 2011 Howard McQueen

It is seemingly but a flicker,

Many of you may already know of the photo of the day site, which awards one photo each day.  Here is today's photo.

Enjoy!

http://www.earthshots.org/2011/05/world-from-above-by-pranabesh-das/

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(C) 2011 Howard McQueen

You and I, we have an evolutionary opportunity to learn to intentionally over-ride and re-interpret our fear-based survival programming.

When we are terrified, we can be so closed down as to be petrified.  No doubt, this is an ancient self-preservation technique - staying hunkered down in the presence of great danger.

Test pilots develop a level of split focus, staying cool enough to report the reality…

© 2011 Howard McQueen

Being firm and gentle,

 being fierce and at peace,

 being Yin and Yang.

When facing a choice between OR & AND,

 seek the wisdom and liberation of AND 

If you hold the paradoxes of the world within,

 you will grow your perspectives

 to encompass all of the human condition.

Then, there is no longer judgment

 AND there becomes understanding,…

From the Don Miguel Ruiz Daily Email Archives

Miracles happen when you forgive. You are born with the capacity to forgive, but you learn the opposite behavior. You learn not to forgive, you practice not to forgive. When you learn to let go of your pride and ask for forgiveness, miracles start to happen in your life.

(c) 2011 Howard McQueen

When sex is chased after as an intoxicant,

 the practicing of sex energies self-inflicted addictions.

When sex is expressed as a celebration of union,

 body, mind and spirit are reunited

 as an expression of healing and integration.

The physical, emotional and energetic bodies,

 are flushed, rinsed and washed clear.

Sex can be practiced in so many ways,

with so many…

(C) 2011 Howard McQueen

Yesterday afternoon I crawled into bed

 feeling like all my friends and family had died.

Not quite knowing it, I came to realize

that I felt, deeply, situationally depressed.

I felt this in my eyes,

as a deeply draining vacuum,

sucking the life out of my vision for a future,

without any room or possibility

for any joie de vivre.

Back into this moment,

this time…

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Self organizing,

self deluding,

self destructing,

and sometimes,

self clarifying.

Consciousness churning and mutating,

the relics of a survival-based operating system.

We as a species are running old, corrupted code.

It is up to each of us to reprogram,

to birth new pathways

responsive to a love for self,

knowing that all that…

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Sweet stream that runs through this valley, 

 and all life living upon this forest floor,

 this small band of brethren do bow and honor you.

You who whisper and gently caress,

 and call out to humans 

  “come in peace and learn again how I can sustain you”.

Let go most of your modern ways,

 for they do not serve you, or me.

I, GAIA, mother of all life, will show you the…

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We seek safety in our delusions.

We are simply offered a chance to live.

No warranties while we are embodied in form.

What is now within your reach of experience

 is everything

 and,

 but a drop  of the infinite now-ness

 alive in this moment. 

Drink and breathe in what you can.

Exhale your moans, groans and ecstatic cries.

This is your opportunity…

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Resisting action,

 without being in resistance.

Allowing the mind to be in service

 to what most desires to unfold.

Not being hooked into anyone else’s business,

 including that of the personal and shared ego.

What we most deeply focus on becomes manifest.

The juggernaut-minions of our societies,

 showered with our worship,

 continue on, due to…

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Our inner space,

 perhaps we can agree,

 momentarily,

 to call it psychic space.

Tending to this space:

  Does it shape us

   or do we shape it?

What is this space?

Ahhh.

The portal, the gateway of

 and to

   life itself.

Open your eyes, anew.

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I hear your words.

When your words land on me,

 this is what I feel:

     [I express my feelings with “I am feeling ...” statements]

Then, I agree to hold the space for you and your words,

 without any judgments,

 without any assumptions,

 as we inquire, together,

 into the nature of your feelings

and then, switch turns,

and inquire into the nature of my…

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When we are connected to values that transcend

 our sense of survival,

 we encounter the possibility to become connected to caring, compassion, generosity, ...

Our intimacy with these trans-personal values 

 is put to the test when others we are connected to

 trigger in us, our own survival instincts.

We often discover we want to meddle in the affairs of others,

 thinking we are…

From the Ruiz daily email subscription feed:

"I am dreaming my life in this moment. I live in a world of illusion made by images of light. The story I create is a virtual reality that is only true for me, the one who creates it."

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Reading this reminds me not to take anything or anyone too seriously, or too personally.

Today's message from Ruiz

"I co-create with God, and with life. Life creates what is real, and I create a story about what is real. The story is how I qualify, justify, and explain what I perceive. My story is my creation, and it's a masterpiece of art."

To have a daily message sent to you via email: …

© 2011 Howard McQueen

Consciousness is this soup of preferences, expectations, desires and needs.

When not centered, there is confusion and anxiety.

When centered, there is an ability to shape all this raw,

often charged and competing energy into intention.

Is our intention reactive and coming from an unexplored and tumultuous inner place?

Is our intention responsive and conscious, coming from a well-explored inner place?

Often, our…

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We are unable to speak or write what is ultimately true.

And yet, words and actions can convey us, inwardly,

 so we may experience close encounters with our source.

Our rational mind,

 when drawn into the many sensations of separation,

 constructs and replays all the many stories of our vulnerability.

Lacking a culture that supports the telling and interpreting

 of these often harrowing…

© 2011 Howard McQueen

We are on this journey

  of awakening from our ignorance.

So much of what we hold within to be true

  has been corrupted.

We are, before, after and beyond anything knowable,

  born from a source of pure innocence.

We are born into a world and culture bred and fed

  an abundance of beliefs which seem so sincere

  and which, upon a deeper inspection,

  hold but limited and conditional…

(c) 2011 Howard McQueen

Don't try to convince us,

don't even condense the message into sound bytes.

Stop all this putting lipstick on the pig.

Let us, together,

speak of our own shared values,

our heritage,

our legacy

and what we most desire to consciously

manifest - together.