The REAL world....

The real world..
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Category: Motivated Goals, Plans, Hopes

I have spent the holiday vacation doing all the wonderful things that I don't normally get to do.

Hang out and play with my son, play video games with him all night long, visit with friends, play cards (poker, BS and pennies) clean and purge my house, take a nap, run errands, cleaned my basement.…

But there is one thing that I indulged in during this time that was more addictive, more of a diversion, and more of a vacuum of time that anything else- and that was …the INTERNET….

Wow, it was like a drug, I lost all sense of time…

I was creating pages on MySpace and Facebook- I was looking up old clients and friends- I was reading the postings of the lost, the lonely and the bizarre…

I was adding applications that saved the rain forest- I even dressed up a little virtual dog in a pirate hat to donate money for animal rescue…I wondered what people were saying about me on "Tagged"…what presents did my friends send me? Who "bought me" as their Pet….lol

Minutes turned into hours. I realized at one point that I hadn't moved for hours..Or eaten lunch…or gone to the bathroom for that matter… I was in a vortex of illusion….

As a Pisces, this was Nirvana!!!

I am sending this blog with a Question and a Request…

How many hours do you spend diverting your life with the internet, or other things that divert your time?

Do you reach out in the community to volunteer or do random acts of kindness?

Do you belong to any groups where you have to leave the house and meet with people in person?

Can you talk to strangers while you are out and about- saying hello and how are you?

If you answered no to any of these- turn off the computer and go find something else to do..

Look for your purpose- Be of service to the less fortunate- Visit someone in a nursing home- Deliver meals to shut ins…Invite a friend to volunteer with you…Run an errand for the elderly… Volunteer at the local animal shelter.. Walk a dog for someone who can't get out…

And before you know it- you will have made new and real friends- and reconnected with your old ones in a more purpose filled way!

But for God's sake... and your own- discover the world outside your door….



Actively yours,

Marianne

A Cleveland Matriarch for Service

A Cleveland Matriarch for Service

Posted on Aug 17th, 2008 by Marianne

 

Recently here in the city of Cleveland, we experienced a loss of a great advocate for the people.

Her name is Fannie Mae Lewis.

fannie mae Lewis

She sat on the city council for the city of Cleveland since 1980 representing   one of the most infamous  of Cleveland neighborhoods, Hough.

Cleveland, and the Hough Neighborhood attracted the attention of national media in the late 1960's  due to the Hough Riots, which stemmed from racial discrimination- unfair deplorable housing conditions and poverty. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hough_Riots

Mrs.  Lewis was an advocate for the people. She was truly a spiritual warrior.

Her death and the story of her service to the people is an inspiration to me.

She was outspoken- tenacious- and determined. It has been said that she didn't take no for an answer- she walked in her truth, made sure she was informed and demanded that from others.

My thought for the day is inspired by her story.

Much of my own personal calling is about serving, I  have been inspired by the lives of many such leaders; Dr Martin Luther Kind, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Harriet Tubman to name a few.

Many people ask me ‘what is my life's purpose?".
 

To find our purpose requires us to serve.
It demands that we move our focus from ourselves to others.
It demands personal risk and investment.
It asks us to remove judgment and blame by embracing compassion and love.

Our robotically busy lives and our own problems prevent us from seeing the balance that serving provides.

It puts our own situations in perspective.

It reminds us to return to gratitude for the blessings that we take for granted.

It has us re-evaluating our existence, making changes that have us working smarter, not harder.

It removes the gluttony of materialism.

It waters the seeds of love and compassion within our hearts.

It removes the barriers of separateness.

Service shows us that there is no separation.

We are all one.

The testimony to a life is not a headstone or a monument; it is remembered by embracing the best parts of those who have gone before us and mirroring that in your own life.

To emulate those who inspire us in their greatness.

If each of us can ignite a fire within us from the spark of their blaze, we can't help but begin to change first our own lives and then the world.

Thank you to Mrs Lewis and her family for  her Service, Love and Comassionate example of what a true warrior is.

Marianne Goldweber

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What will you do?

When you embrace a spiritual path, the little happenings in life begin to take on a deeper meaning.

 

Once you embrace the idea that everything is happening for a reason- that there are no coincidences - it is hard to be a victim- or resent these life challenges when we see them as opportunities to grow or evolve or to gain another perception.

 

I used to use the word 'weird' to explain  these things- but realized it's not weird- but very interesting..

 

My son has even come to use the word 'interesting' to explain  these moments...

But whatever term you use it all means the same- unexplainable miraculous occurrences that make me think and gain a new awareness.

 

Which brings me to understand; that in these moments we are being called to make a choice- to act or not. More and more as I accept my place as leader, teacher and elder- I see there is no one other than me to act in any given moment that which is being presented to me.

 

So with that said-  Heed the call- do what is right- there is no one that can do it as well as you in that moment- but will you respond????

 

 

Here is the thought for the day-

 

If you were invited to a banquet and had to bring your own meal- and you brought a steak with baked potatoes and asparagus with Boston cream pie for desert.

 

Joining you at that table were a sampling of the human diversity from your community.

 

Across from you was a mother with children who had nothing to bring- how much would you enjoy your meal without sharing it?

 

Marianne Goldweber

Spiritualist-Minister

 

 

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My Little Gandhi

 

Through my Personal  and Spiritual awakening, I had a little shadow. He is my son.  

It's interesting how becoming a parent changes your awareness. It  makes you more keenly aware of what a damaged place this world is. I went from wanting to protecting my child- to wanting to change the world… 

A world where violence-war- hatred-apathy-anger-chaos-cruelty-slander-gossip-revenge-abuse-neglect-  runs rampant.  

We are so assaulted by this- that we have become numb to the horror- we have actually developed a TOLERANCE to this dysfunction.  

I was bullied as a child, and lack of self esteem and insecurity kept me from taking my place as a leader in my life.I was a victim.

True Leadership partners with accountability- and that for me being accountable was a lot of work- however,  I was very critical as to why NO ONE was doing anything about it.   Little did I know that I was the someone who would become powerful enough to lead.

Lots of things inspired me but none as much as the movie  Gandhi. I spent the bulk of my life avoiding rules-criticizing the establishment. Gandhi was an attorney- he knew the rules and used them against the establishment- the intruders in his country-with peaceful, lawful disobedience….He was my kind of guy.  
I realized someone has to go first- and that someone was me….

My son- my little Gandhi- has watched me rise- to stand in the conviction of my truth. He has watched me be criticized and belittled for my beliefs and my social consciousness. He has seen firsthand the power of hate and fear. But as I told him a leader;a Spiritual warrior must continue to rise.

I told him that a leader has a bulls-eye on their butt.
A Leader is a target- so you have to have the courage to stand up- not just for ourselves- but for those who cannot stand and fight- the silent majority.  

Bullying is rampant in his school. No one was willing to address such a large problem.
The inmates were running the asylum.  

On a daily basis he was having a run in with a group of boys one especially that he referred to as- 'a damaged human being'. He applied all the 'strategies' that the school provided- but no one was supporting his efforts.
They were incredibly apathetic.  

One day he had enough; he got jumped after school and was forced to defend himself.   He said 'Mom, it was like dark chocolate- sweet and bitter at the same time'. I told him that overpowering another person can be addictive, this why violence only creates more violence. He and the boy and the principal met. He told the other boy “I will not allow you to spew your hate and unhappiness on me anymore”.. and with the resolve of a Leader- he communicated to the administration.  

He and I met with the entire teaching staff. He did not relent, and it took awhile for them to take us seriously. Since then they have provided this other boy with support and the help that he needs.  

Gandhi would be proud, he followed the chain of command- we applied positive pressure for accountability to the powers at large - we used the student handbook's rules and state laws to our advantage.  

There is a new campaign against hate and bullying at his school.
We are also starting a random acts of kindness campaign.  

Jarred said "Being a leader and having to go first is hard, but staying down and suffering is harder".  

That's my boy. :)    

Namaste,
Marianne  

 

Tags: bullying, kindness, love, leader, leadership, doing the right thing, gandhi

I had received an unexpected kindness on Sunday- after an event, I was invited to dinner on Murray Hill at an Italian restaurant...(what a treat) with the great company of some new found friends....

 

As I drove home- I was so grateful for that kindness. But, it was unexpected and  I was in a bit of a hurry to get home. There was a lot of traffic because of a disabled vehicle..I was mildly annoyed..

 

By now it was dark- and I was at E 89th  and Chester- a car was blocking the right lane ..it slowly went past  the disabled vehicle so I got a chance to see who was inside....

 

The elderly driver was waiving at people as they passed by- asking for help...she and her four elderly friends were dressed to the nines from church that day- complete with matching hats....

 

as I passed I asked if I could call the police for them- she said yes, and being in the traffic- I couldn't stop..so I went up to the next block and turned around....

 

No one else had pulled over- and it was dark- in not a great neighborhood...meanwhile I called the Cleveland police and they said they would send a car- when they could fit it in- I explained it was four elderly church ladies- the dispatcher chuckled and said she will do what she can...

 

I pulled in front of the ladies and got out of the car- I let the driver use my phone to call her son- she said she was going to walk to the gas station- I told her to stay in the car- the police were on the way...

 

I had to get home- but I couldn't just leave those cute well dressed Grammies in the dark- in the 'hood' and hope it all just turned out ok..

 

So I waited- made small talk and told her she needs a cell phone...she laughed and agreed...By then the police showed up and they said they would get her on her way....

 

If not for that benevolent dinner- I would have missed being in the right place at the right time.....

 

Kindness...Pass it on.........

Marianne Goldweber

Tags: random acts of kindness, kindness, love, compassion, community,

Awakening- Messages and Messengers

For all of us- the process of awakening is just a shift in perception-

Our human perception is about the self...and the spiritual perception is outside us....

It took me a very long time to go from the human- the victim of things happening to me...to the perception that I am creating what happens to me....to how can I create what I want the world to be.....

The common denominator is me- and the thing that changed was my perception.....

Through this entire process there are backward and forward moments- a constant ebb and flow of change...three steps forward- two steps back...

I was just asleep....and the awakening is bringing the dream- the vision- into the physical world..

We are all connected-my story is your story. 

We may be seperated in different bodies, or houses or countries- but we are conncted by spirit..our differences get smaller and smaller until our awakening shows us that no one, from the highest to the lowest are the same- they are all me.... and all are looking to the other for hope, love, understanding, help, peace, joy,acceptance...

The human cannot see themselves in the beggar- the abused- the ugly-the other....the spirit sees that if one is suffering- we are all suffering- it accepts and loves without condition- that the thief needs love and compassion, just as much as the good and just..

You and I are the same- your joys are my joys- your suffering is my suffering- your hopes and dreams are mine....

Seperateness creates division and disharmony...it creates apathy and lack of understanding.

Connectedness of enlightenment creates unification, understanding, and harmony.

You who have come here to this village are awakening- you are not here accidentally- there is purpose to what you are reading- understanding and being a part of...the question for each of you is why?

Why? Because you are being called-

Called to learn- and then to teach- to heal and heal others, to accept help and to be of service...

The awakening has begun.........now what?....

 

Marianne Goldweber
Tags: awakening, messages, messengers, love, peace, connectedness,

INVISIBILITY- AN ILLUSIONARY TALE

INVISIBILITY- AN ILLUSIONARY TALE

Posted on Sep 26th, 2007 by Marianne

If 20 years ago- anyone would have told me that I would be doing what I do - a Minister- Psychic-and the owner of 2 businesses- I would have told them they were crazy…  

I saw myself on an old video from 1989 recently-I was watching it with my sister/friend/guru- Sue- and I almost didn't recognize myself..

Not just physically- but also in the way I was acting.  

We talked about that- Sue was loving enough to share that she saw how uncomfortable I was with myself then, and it showed.  

I can admit now that I was not being authentic- and it was incredibly obvious..  

We feel invisible- (a term I received from my friend Megan); Like who we are- what we do- and the existence we lead has no bearing on anyone else..that no one notices…..  

That is a lie…

A lie we tell ourselves and others when we; try to please- or not speak our truth- or speak up- or set boundaries- or live an un lived existence…or tolerate being treated badly.  

I see myself  in pictures or on film now- and I am peaceful- happy- and authentic… and in the mirror of that- I hope to inspire others to do the same…..    

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Here is the thought for the day-  

Authentic is letting go of the things in your life that are false, that really don't mean anything.

Society in general is under such a hypnotic overlay that they forget about what's really important.

They get very unauthentic, very distracted, doing everything to try to - how to say - just get by.

Doing everything to just have enough.

Doing everything to either please others or to keep others from getting upset with them - and that is not authentic.

Adamus St. Germain Source: crimsoncircle.com    
Namaste,
Marianne Goldweber

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