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CULTIVATING THE IMPROMPTU

© 2011 Howard McQueen



Slow down,

look around,

take the time to feel the rhythms of others

AND turn inside to begin establishing a center,

a source

an inlet

where what is outside

starts as an impulse, a current

flowing through whatever might be what is you.



Remember to rest within, with a steadfastness of patience.

This will allow circumstances to unfold,

instead of you rushing ahead or trying to pre-empt the unknown.

There is a… Continue

Added by Howard McQueen on January 14, 2011 at 6:00pm — No Comments

WHAT THE "i" MOST NEEDS TO SAY

Version 2.5

(C) 2010 Howard McQueen

 

Within this Wholeness that has been breathed outward,

there are a whole host of characters wanting expression.



There is you and there is me.

And, even when there is only the "me",

there is an "i" and an "I".



We are bound to become entangled and confused

in the perplexity of all these relationships

and the sheer need for expressiveness. 



I am remembering a golden rule:

In my…

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Added by Howard McQueen on January 9, 2011 at 7:30pm — No Comments

DEEP LISTENING

(C) 2011 Howard McQueen



When we bring all our awareness to bear,

when we set all expectations aside

and just inquire,

we open ourselves to deep listening.



Deep listening penetrates the myriad surface noises,

piercing through all the echoes and ghost signals bound to fear and anxiety.



Deep listening is non-linear.

It does not rest at the rational plateau to try to fix or solve problems.

Deep listening connects us to where we have… Continue

Added by Howard McQueen on January 5, 2011 at 11:00am — No Comments

HIGH FIDELITY HEART-FELT INTENT

© 2011 Howard McQueen



What feelings and intent will we fill our world with?

These are matters for the heart to help us feel,

so we may then direct our healing.



We are awakening to a constant choosing:

to live in and broadcast our heart-felt presence,

to honor, share and acknowledge this presence with all living things.

As we do this, we create a high fidelity heart-felt experience.

By consciously connecting and activating our own…

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Added by Howard McQueen on January 3, 2011 at 10:00am — No Comments

INSPIRATIONS: DON MIGUEL RUIZ

From Don Miguel Ruiz

 

Your heart can create any amount of love, not just for yourself but for the whole world. Open your heart, open your magical kitchen, and refuse to walk around the world begging for love. In your heart is all the love you need.

Added by Howard McQueen on December 28, 2010 at 10:57am — 1 Comment

THE CROWN OF COURAGE

© 2010 Howard McQueen

 

All will be well,

and as it should

in each moment,

we cease resisting

what we fear.

 

When we can actually encourage,

actualize courage

from within.

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Added by Howard McQueen on December 28, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

OUR INFECTIOUS FAMILY

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© 2010 Howard McQueen

 

We know, from our intimate experiences

with those we have loved and trusted,

and that have loved and trusted us,

that we, as one family,

have occasion to turn toward the infections of fear and confusion,

and become unconscious -…

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Added by Howard McQueen on December 24, 2010 at 9:00pm — No Comments

THE CORRIDORS OF CONDITIONING

© 2010 Howard McQueen

 

Every moment of life is gifted to us,

so why is it we find ourselves

so often reminded

of when we experienced all the conditions to love,

all the conditioning passed on down stream to us,

conditions which suggested and often dictated

we no longer believe in the unlimited flow of love,

of nurturing,

of respect,

of being appreciated,

of being so interconnected with this great big human…

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Added by Howard McQueen on December 15, 2010 at 3:30pm — No Comments

SELF IMAGE EVOLVED

(c) 2010 Howard McQueen


To remain connected-in-love with another
is to honor the constant willingness
to uncover the sacred sense of self,
the self image evolved,
no longer depending upon the courtroom of judgment
or its minions of reward and punishment.


We step off all know paths
when we learn to love - without condition.
We choose compassion over…
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Added by Howard McQueen on December 6, 2010 at 3:00pm — No Comments

WHAT IS THIS "YOU" THAT I LOVE?

(C) 2010 Howard McQueen


Each time I say "I Love You"
I sense within me
both an expansiveness
as well as the echoes of constrictions and restrictions.


This "I" that loves,
when not feeling secure,
constricts and closes down
the natural, living, abundant expansiveness.


This "I" that chooses to obsess over the experiences triggering…
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Added by Howard McQueen on December 6, 2010 at 2:30pm — No Comments

The Kaleidoscope of Life: Living Together Differently

This posting comes from the DailyOM blog…


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Added by Howard McQueen on November 24, 2010 at 6:48pm — 1 Comment

ANAHATA

Version 2.0
(C) 2010 Howard McQueen


Anahata, the heart-center of community,
the one family
united
and wounded,
all coming together
in the pressure cooker of extended family.


Sharing from the inside out
an emerging trans-personal integrity,
constantly pressing against boundaries,
threatening all personally-held senses of safety and…
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Added by Howard McQueen on November 24, 2010 at 11:00am — No Comments

SOMETHING EXTRAORDINARY

(c) 2010 Howard McQueen


Something extraordinary is happening.
You and I and others are awakening.
Realizations are blooming in a sacred space,
finding their way through personal and collective
mind numbing and heart restricting patterns.


What is alive, what allows us to tap into this sacred space
is known to us as flowing, healing, living Grace.

Faith is required to maintain…
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Added by Howard McQueen on November 23, 2010 at 1:00pm — No Comments

THE INVITATION

From The Invitation, by Orion Mountain Dreamer



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

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Added by Howard McQueen on November 21, 2010 at 6:00pm — 1 Comment

PASSIONATE AGREEMENTS THAT ENCOURAGE UNITY

This morning I sat down and began to write about a common vision for community. My sense of community is focused around inner growth and developing unity.



This draft has omitted the important financial and labor contribution components.



So, below is a very early rough draft.



I am wondering if anyone else has…

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Added by Howard McQueen on November 11, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

AUTHORING FROM OUR AUTHENTIC AUTHORITY

© 2010 Howard McQueen



We give away our power to continue dynamically authoring our life

forgetting we are always @Choice to step into and embody our innate authority.



Most of the time, we become challenged to be @Choice

over the small things,

like feeling interrupted or not feeling heard.…

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Added by Howard McQueen on November 8, 2010 at 10:30am — No Comments

UNCONDITIONAL PERSONAL REGARD

© 2010 Howard McQueen



Unconditional Personal Regard is the blanket acceptance of a person regardless of what they say or do. Without Unconditional Personal Regard (for themselves), people may come to see and imagine themselves in the negative ways that others have made them feel.



Further, those sharing their…

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Added by Howard McQueen on October 25, 2010 at 7:30pm — No Comments

CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN YANG & YANG

(C) 2010 Howard McQueen


In this posting, two friends (Yang-J) and (Yang-H) are in conversation,
seeking to find ways to uncover a center of calm where love of life can be cultivated. Both parties agreed to allow this conversation to be posted, maintaining their anonymity.


And Yang-J writes


Wow Yang-H,
I am…
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Added by Howard McQueen on October 25, 2010 at 8:00am — No Comments

OPPORTUNITY TO MOURN

(C) 2010 Howard McQueen


Preface
Yesterday, after over two months of conflicts and explosions, a member of my community made the decision to leave the community. This person suffers from deregulation, an inability to see and connect to their empathy for others. There are fond and not fond memories as all of the community tried as they might to assist this person see themselves and the dilemma, and all of us talked and mourned together this…
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Added by Howard McQueen on October 24, 2010 at 5:15pm — No Comments

CONNECTING AND COMMUNICATING: PIERCING THE VEIL OF SUFFERING

Version 1.1 2010.10.23
(C) 2010 Howard McQueen


Raw Rumblings


When we experience the visceral knowing that we are individual cells of a vast and profoundly complex living organism, we begin to hold these insights as aspects of our Wholeness. These experiences reveal the mystery of unknowable deeper truths that are not comprehensible through our personal mind. We open our core and access the vibratory space of our deeper self that…
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Added by Howard McQueen on October 22, 2010 at 9:00am — No Comments

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