The Measure
August 2nd, 2009
“The measure of our enlightenment is the degree to which we are comfortable with ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox.”
Deepak Chopra
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Connected to the Energy Stream
August 1st, 2009
I get these emails every day from Abraham-Hicks.com. I highly recommend the teachings of Abraham to anyone who desires “enlightenment or to “wake up”. I especially like this one today…
“One who is connected to the Energy Stream is more powerful than a million who are not. And two who are harmoniously focused and connected to the Energy Stream brings about a co-creative endeavor that cannot be matched by anything else in all of the Universe.”
— Abraham
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What Am I?
July 26th, 2009
Recently I read “True Meditation” by Adyashanti. He talks about changing identification away from ego, personality and mind. And toward the consciousness or spirit that we truly are. From this new perspective he teaches that our ego, personality and mind are extensions of us as spirit or consciousness. I have heard Abraham say we are extensions of nonphysical for a very long time, but I never quite put it together until now.
As I read the words and followed along with my attention I realized that something had happened to me. I understood, but I have understood for a long time, I knew, but even that word doesn’t really reach all the way around my experience. I moved to a new place within myself. It was not so obvious at the time. Now that several days have passed I am amazed at the nature of the change for me.
Some examples are, I was talking to Ken this morning, going on and on about something I was thinking of. And I had the thought that I have had many times, “I am talking a lot”. Usually I follow this with another thought like, that’s ok or I’d rather not talk so much, or wow a lot of talking. But today I followed up with, that’s just my personality. I love to dance, and I wanted to go dancing with Ken last night. Instead of my normal thinking about this, which is sometimes wondering if that is going to be good for me. I thought, that is just part of my personality. When I watch others I see the difference between their mind or their personality and who they are.
I have given up all exclusion, all is me, some parts are extensions of me for the purpose of experienceing here. I also realize that spirit enjoys every touch of life that goes on here. If I start to feel afraid of something I no longer need to consciously find a better feeling thought, now I just immediately know that I am wonderfully whole and well and safe. How could I not be. This puts my mind at rest.
I am thankful to Adyashanti, this is the first book of his I have read. I have been doing my own work and staying on my own path. But somehow the consciousness that I am put me in touch with the words that moved me from here to there.
I feel a freedom from care, concern and worry for myself and others that I have not understood or experienced before. Also, others, when I look in their eyes I know who they are and their personality, ego and mind are secondary. Just extensions. Valuable extensions.
I have been waiting in a place of not knowing what is next for a while now. I am thankful for this shift of identification and for my beautiful friend Adyashanti.
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Jesus, Who Were You?
July 15th, 2009
When I was first stirred to find out about this God I didn’t know, (over 30 years ago now) I went to the Christian Church looking for answers. I spent six and a half years in two different Churches. I was just as serious about it as I am now so I read, studied and memorized the New and Old testaments on a daily basis.
I haven’t forgotten this first love of Jesus. And I think a lot about who he was, why he was here and why he did the things he did.
Imagine the power of having your mother and father believe that you are the one sent from God. And they believe it so strongly because an angel came to them before you were born with this information. All your life you were told that you are the Messiah, the God/Man, the One. Your parents believed it so much that you had no choice but to believe it. You test it and find that the All That Is does respond to you and support you. And your experience of yourself tells you the angel was right. Then you come to realize that every man/woman is exactly the same as you, only they don’t know it.
You feel this powerful love with you always and how can you come to any conclusion except to follow the incredible desire to share what you know. When you look at another you see the truth of their being, not intellectually, but experientially, as you have experienced the truth of your own being. You are still a human being, following this powerful, blinding love. You live in the now, you trust and allow the power that pulses through you and you allow it to be, right here on the earth as only a human being can.
I think Jesus was a very joyful person. And what an impact he had on this place, even after 2000+ years, we continue to have you as one of our most powerful and beautiful examples of who we are. Thank you for being you, I love you still.
This post is an excerpt from my book, The Path of Enlightenment
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Unconditional Love
July 9th, 2009
I’ve made a decision. I want all of my relationships to be based on unconditional love. There are a lot of people out there who understand and respond to love, in fact most of us do. Isn’t it so wonderful to relate to someone on this basis. To find the lovely aspects and to focus on these. There is so much to each one of us. We all have so much to contribute. So much love to give. It’s true, you can take the most grouchy person and begin to love them and see only the beauty in them and either they will turn and show you that side or they will move far away from you.
I saw a video on uTube a few days ago, of Amma, she was just hugging people. I don’t want to hug people all the time, but such love! We all have this within us. Some of us, at certain times, may not be able to get to it, but it is still there.
So, to all who visit this blog, whether you comment or not, it is my great desire that you feel welcome, loved and valued here. And that you know that I know how beautiful you are.
xoxo Anne
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Just A Little Joke
June 26th, 2009
A man was walking along a mountain ledge when the earth under him gave way. As he fell he grabbed onto a root that was sticking out of the mountain side. He began to yell for help, “Help, help help!” he waited….”Help, help, help!”
Finally there was a voice, “hello”.
The man was so relieved that someone answered. “Yes, please help me, I’ve fallen off the edge!”
Suddenly there was a reply from above, “Let Go!”
The poor man, hanging from the root thought about it for a minute and said, “Who are you?”
“God” said the voice.
“Oh God, please help me get out of this mess, please!”
There was a long pause and then the voice said “Let Go.”
The man thought about it for a minute, his arm was really beginning to hurt now, so he said, “Is anybody else up there?”
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Getting Clearer
June 24th, 2009
Yesterday I wrote about a new value of myself. Today I am having another new awareness. I want to write a book. I know I’ve already written a book. But now I want a book I write to be read and talked about by influential people so that many will read it. What has changed? I know why I want to write it. Before when I would think about writing and being published and well known I would have this voice saying some variation of , “you want to be famous so others will think you are valuable and you know you must think yourself valuable first.” This may seem like a harmless thought, even a true one, but it stopped me in my tracks.
As I turn the corner on a new value for myself I can see that there is much more here than I previously understood. I love, love, love to interact with others on my blog and on theirs. I love writing and others commenting and me commenting back. I love reading what others write and leaving a comment and then them commenting on what I say. I love this interaction. I really do. All the way through me.
So now I can understand a clear motive for writing a book, because I love to write and I want to interact with others. I want them to send me emails and tell me what they are thinking and I want to respond. I want to meet with my readers and commune around the ideas. It’s not about receiving value it’s about reveling in and enjoying the love.
How good it feels to allow my desire to fully come forth without any judgment, and with a pure understanding of what I want. And now……I can allow this fully allowed desire to come forth. I don’t know any details yet, and I don’t even care. I know that loving and allowing and valuing and cherishing my desire will bring it to being. I know this. I’ve experienced it too many times.
I only had this realization just a little while ago and I went into Ken’s office to tell him. (Ken is my husband and he works from home.) While I was telling him, he looked over at his computer and the clock said 11:11. I always love this number, it means alignment to me, (I got the idea from Esther Hicks). But then his eyes got big and he looked closer and right above that number was 111111, the total number of emails in his inbox. I do feel so in alignment with this awareness. I so appreciate the universe conspiring to bring my attention to this, it makes me feel so loved.
My new value is about how much I love writing and about how much I love interacting with all of you. And that I can and will take it further. Wow. Pretty good I think. xoxo Anne
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I Am A Human Being
June 17th, 2009
I live in a body, or with it, I don’t really know.
I am part of a large group of human beings
and part of a larger group of all beings
and part of an even larger One.
I eat and sleep and think and feel and Am.
These are gifts I give myself.
I am created from and am also part of a greater being.
My essence is that of my creator.
I love and enjoy and Am.
I am free to choose all that I desire,
my connection to my essence makes this possible.
Mostly I choose my connection, really.
I love being this human.
I live in a place of wonderment and beauty called earth,
my home sits in a greater place with bodies called stars and planets,
again I don’t know much about this.
I can feel myself and I can feel my immediate environment.
I feel whole and complete and yet I know I am becoming.
I feel individual and also connected.
I Am.
I experience myself in many ways.
Peaceful, joyful, appreciative, loving, friendly,
helpful, knowing, waiting, allowing, trusting, wondering.
Sometimes afraid or angry,
but not often and not for long, not any more.
But most of all, I love being—here—now—a human being.
Just me, all, pure, untangled.
This is what I came here for.
To be me, to experience me, to love me, all of me.
To see through these eyes and hear through these ears.
And live and love and enjoy.
Distinct and connected.
Alive and limited, alive and unlimited. All and nothing.
A human being, my very own creation.
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Stillness
June 11th, 2009
Within the last month or so I’ve come to a new experience in myself. There is a pervading stillness, not something I work to hold on to or meditate to bring about. Just a stillness that is there anytime I notice it. I still talk to others and watch movies, and give my attention to cleaning house or working on one of my projects. But while I am occupied and when I am done, there it is, a stillness and quietness.
I do know how I got here. I spent almost two years in personal inquiry, kind of like what Byron Katie does, kind of like the work of the Western Mystery Schools. But for sure my own private personal work of asking the hard questions and listening for the answers. Some days during the past two years I have spent 4 or more hours a day on this work. Every day, and I mean every day, at least 2 hours. Early morning, quiet hours with my journal and my tarot cards and my green tea. Writing and feeling and asking and being met by mySelf who knows. I journal this in my book and my blog. Then as abruptly as I started I knew I was finished with that work, that I had used my mind to understand and realized and know and that coupled with my desire and determination had brought me to completion. I went through my parents each of them and my children each of them and I found the projections and the forgotten decisions and I rewired myself with new ideas about my world and myself. And I cried and laughed and brought myself to anger and let go of everything you can imagine. It was my own path, a beautiful path and all the while I knew I would come to what I wanted.
And I have…… I have come to see the joy and love and beauty in everything, everything, and I have come to really love myself and I’ve become faithful to myself. And I’ve come to feel the most wonderful love flowing from me to others. But the most astonishing and wonderful and beautiful thing is this peace and stillness.
When I came to the end of my personal work, I knew it was time to let go of what I called “figuring things out”. So when I would find myself figuring I would stop and wait for the answer. This waiting for the answer is something I have done here and there over the last 30 years. But now it became something I applied to everything. Then came a knowing that i was never really doing anything, that it was always I who was at the helm of my life. So I gave up all worry and concern, and began to let go very deeply about anything that was lingering. And then this most wonderful peace came. The silence and the stillness.
I am still human, of course, and I still have some emotion, but it is nothing like it used to be and it is mostly tears of thankfulness for where I’ve come from to where I am. And I know that every day of my life has been valuable and wonderful. Even if I didn’t know it then, I know it now.
I’ve tried not to write too much about my success so that I wouldn’t engage in anything that isn’t humble and gentle. But this is the post that comes to me and I won’t be afraid to write as I know and trust that I, the One me, writes and lives and is.
Many loving thoughts of you, the greater part of me; from me, a small part of you.
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Glass Half Full
June 9th, 2009
Have you ever noticed how much we talk about problems, or about what we don’t want or about helping others (which implies they need help), or how to get more money (which implies we don’t have enough), or this or that or whatever?!
Two days ago something happened to me, I don’t know what to call it, but I know what’s different. Suddenly and without warning, I am noticing what a good day people are having. Everybody I meet has plenty to be thankful for in my eye. The server, has a job. The lady at the bank knows well what she is doing and has a comfortable job. The man at the restaurant is enjoying his food. My children are having the life of their choosing and are right on track. All that I want comes easily to me. I just know this now. No more struggle, no more judgment. Just lovely people having their day. And all really is well. There is so much to enjoy and be thankful for, so much. I can see this now. And suddenly the cup is half full. And the issues people are working with aren’t problems but opportunities to move toward that which they want. It is a kind of opening. Without fear, opening.
This has come right on the heels of another beautiful awareness I have been having. And that is one of surrendering and trusting everything, one by one, to my Greater All Knowing Self. Me, trusting me. Really trusting, no more control. No more figuring anything out. But just waiting for answers to come. And clarity to come. And it comes, easily and freely.
The surrendering has come just after ending my own personal work. Well, I guess we never really end our process of maturity, but a long chapter has closed, after almost two years of intense personal searching and questioning. I talk a lot about this in my blog posts. In fact, that is the reason I am writing this here. This blog and my book document the path I’ve taken toward awakening. Not that it has any great importance, only that I want to keep the remembrance.
Life is new, it’s not what I thought it would be. It is fresh and free and really peaceful.
I know a post like this may or may not feel so good to you. And that’s ok. But, if it’s what you want, I can show you how to get here. Either by reading and applying the ideas in my free book and blog posts or by contacting me. I won’t waste your time. I’ll work with you freely in love and freshness. Or not. I am allowing my teaching to unfold in the timing and ways of my greater nonphysical Self. And I know what I need to know, as I need to know it. And I……. am really enjoying the peace and love and joy.
I can’t imagine what might come along to knock me away from my connection. But if it does, I am trusting myself to stay aware and come back to myself.
Thanks to everybody who follows along here with me. I love and appreciate you.
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