Prupose

"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." ~Friedrich Nietzsche

Affirmation: I accept my divine assignment to be everything God intends me to be.

Higher Power, In this moment, we are aware of our oneness. We share one life and one love, with and in You. We know in our hearts that we have a purpose in Your unfolding pattern, though our intellect may not yet detect or comprehend Your plans. It is for this very moment that we have traveled the path of our past. We join in wrapping a blanket of light around everyone and everything. You are the love and the energy we call life, expressing Itself everywhere. We feel Your presence and power moving in us, as the beating of our hearts and the gentle rhythms of breathing. We move forward confidently, trusting that all is in perfect order. Infuse our consciousness with passion and compassion for our purpose. Thank You for this divine assignment. So mote it be!

Charity

"If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens." ~Ashleigh Brilliant

Affirmation: Guided by Spirit and centered in charity, I act with love.

Meditation:

Dear God,
Help us to act upon what we believe. All over the world, people are praying: for peace; enough food to eat and clean water to drink; increased love in their lives; cures for diseases of every kind; an end to loneliness and despair; and joy to fill our hearts. Help us awaken to the truth that You work through us and in us. Teach us that love is a verb. Amen

What do You see?

See everyone as Buddha. This purifies the mind of ignorance and arrogance.

-Master Baek, "Polishing The Diamond"


See God in everyone but lock your car.

-Rose Kopp " A Little Humor Never Hurts"

Buddhist Wisdom

"I, without grasping, will pass beyond sorrow,
And I will attain nirvana," one says.
Whoever grasps like this Has great grasping.


-Nagarjuna; Mulamadhyamaka-Karika

I just love this stuff! ~R

Expand

"Things are only impossible until they're not." ~Jean-Luc Picard

Affirmation: My mind and world are constantly expanding at the urging of Spirit.

Meditation:

Great Spirit, We know that there is so much more to Your creation than we have seen. The more our knowledge expands, the more clearly we see Your handiwork. We invite our collective imagination to soar on wings of Love, lifting our thinking to higher realms. Help us look both heavenward and inward with eyes of wonder. Help us grow into Your highest idea of humanity. Everyday of our lives brings new possibilities and experiences. Thank You for making life so very interesting. Amen

New Relationship

HAPPY NEW YEAR, ROSE!

I am so looking forward to my NEW me in the NEW year with the overflow of blessings to come. I pray that all is well with you and yours and that your friend overseas is well, too.

ly 8-24-66, how far will he and I get in our relationship? We are really enjoying each other but I know that he wants to move desperately from NY to GA to help out his family. I just want to know where I stand in his life.

Mahalo and Namaste,
Mobet
dlc 4-22-66

Optimism

"Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only of the best, work only for the best, and expect only the best. Be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your won.

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
Give everyone a smile.

Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others.

Be too big for worry and too noble for anger."

~Christian D. Larson

Buddhist Wisdom

Actions motivated by attachment, aversion, or ignorance, regardless of any external appearances, are simply not Buddhist practices.


-Lorne Ladner, "Wheel Of Great Compassion"

New Begginings

Hi Everyone! Sorry I am late... Happy New Year! Go Capricorns...I just turned 41 Jan 3rd. I pray that this will be a good year.

Jennifer

Prayer Chain - Immediate

Aloha Boardies

Please pray for Kaye's son who has disappeared voluntarily. Pray that he contacts a friend or family member asap or what ever your heart guides you to pray for.


Thanks
~R

Positive Affirmation Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia5nAojCFGM&feature=related

Hi kids,

I found this on youtube this morning and wanted to share it with you. I love the music.


peace,
~R

Thoughts Manifest

Happiness and suffering come from your own mind, not from outside. Your own mind is the cause of happiness; your own mind is the cause of suffering. To obtain happiness and pacify suffering, you have to work within your own mind.

-Lama Zopa Rinpoche, "The Door To Satisfaction"

Begin Anew

It’s a new year – and with it, new opportunities. But for most people, it will not be a new year at all, but rather a time much like the past. Because, if you want a new year, you must develop a new you, a spiritual you. This means giving birth to the spiritual self of you. This requires placing yourself in alignment with the your Higest Power– so that you can take direction from a “Higher Source.” As you do, so, you discover that you can rely on inner-dependence, and your life begins a process of transformation.~Ron Scott

Affirmation: I make a conscious decision to live from the Perfect Self that lives within me.

We all have an Inner Voice. In order to hear the directions from There we need to be relaxed enough to listen. One of my resolutions is to relax when a situation arises and tell myself "You know it's going to be okay" and then listen to what I'm being told. ~R

Thank You Higher Power

"If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, 'thank you,' that would suffice."
~Meister Eckhart

Affirmation: I am filled with gratitude and thank You

Meditation:

Dearest Mother/Father/God,
We come to You with grateful hearts for the many ways we have been blessed. We raise our thoughts and give You praise not because You need it, but because we want to. For each experience of life, for all our joys and sorrows, for our successes and seeming failures, we say, "Thank You, God." And we let it be. Amen

No news on my son ...

Aloha, Rose ~~~

Still no news on my son, but my sister will be driving to his house this weekend and looking through his room/belongings, trying to find whatever information she can.

I'm doing my best to send out positive energy, hoping that he'll find peace and comfort and -- if possible -- quickly return to us.

Please continue to hold us in your thoughts and prayers.


Kaye

Plenty

"Invite me to prosper you. It is my pleasure. I am an expansive energy. Allow me to expand through you, invite me to become more large. I am the great giver. Allow me to gift you."

~Julie Cameron

God is the limitless source of my good.

Dear God,We open our hearts and minds to You in invitation and worship; Come, fill us with Your presence.Your lights dispels the shadows of self-doubt and worry. Your love is a salve for our wounded places.I n You there is plenty for everyone. Through Your example we learn to receive and to give. So it is. Amen

Buddhist Wisdom

Most people fail to see this reality, for they are attached to what they cling to, to pleasures and delights. Since all the world is so attached to material things, it's very difficult for people to grasp how everything originates in conditions and causes. It's a hard job for them to see the meaning of the fact that everything, including ourselves, depends on everything else and has no permanent self-existence.

-Majjhima Nikaya


From "Buddha Speaks," edited by Anne Bancroft, 2000. Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala Publications, Boston, www.shambhala.com.

New Year's Day

"We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day."

~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Guided by Spirit and encouraged by Love, I am writing a brand new story.

Dear God, I invite You to move in me today, shining a bright light in all of the corners of my mind and heart. It is my intention to be as awake to and aware of Your presence of as I am capable of being. This New Year seems filled with a renewed sense of possibility and hope for I surrender my life to You, God. In this moment, I am filled with an awesome awareness of Your life expressing as me. I know that together, we are creating a brand new story centered in joy and based on Love. Write Your truth in my heart and illumine my steps that I might walk in Your ways. Have Your way in me. Amen