Is free will really free?

Happy Thursday!

In our every day existence, without even realizing it, we are interacting and influencing other paths and existence's.

It is very important, that we understand how much influence we have on others, so that we can catch ourselves, giving our opinion, butting in, influencing another's decision with our will.

Each one of us has a way in which we do things. 

We have goals and a vision.
When someone else, even with the best of intentions, comes along and interrupts that process, it causes confusion, and the direction and energy is lost. 

We begin to doubt our decisions, and go off course, sometimes, permanently. Sometimes for a lifetime.

She is going to hate this, but this is a small example.
(I love you!)

My sister and I were going somewhere. she went to the car, and I was locking up the house. I got my planner, my keys, checked the stove, went for my purse and it was not there.
I got a little panicked. (I must say!) I looked all over the house, even in the bathroom, I was starting to doubt that I even brought it home, I must have left it somewhere on my errands that day. I was making a mental list of where I had been, I was actually sweating.
My sister came back in, wondering where I was, seeing my frenzy, she says, what's wrong?
I said, I lost my purse! 

She said, no you didn't I put it in the car for you..................

She was just being helpful.

But how many times are we just trying to be helpful, without realizing, that there is a method to everyone's madness. Just not the same madness that you comfortably (or not) exist in.

It causes others to doubt their own process and it disrupts their routine.
Even when someone asks for our help, we need to be helpful and not take them off their direction, even if we would not agree or do it in the same way.

Someone asking for help does not give us permission to give them our opinion, insight, input as well.
We have a responsibly to use our will to alter no other course than our own.

We are more powerful than we know.

Use that power to make changes in Your life

Here is the Thought for the day!
We don't always know what makes us happy. We know, instead, what we think should. We are baffled and confused when our attempts at happiness fail... We are mute when it comes to naming accurately our own preferences, delights, gifts, talents. The voice of our original self if often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people's expectations. The tongue of the original self is the language of the heart.

Author: Julie Cameron
Source: The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart by Julia Cameron    
Namaste,
Marianne Goldweber
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Here is a link to my journal page: Walking the Red Road
 

Rumi- Poet and Prophet

Greetings everyone!! Happy Tuesday!  

I want this blog to enlighten as well as inspire. I will usually highlight with a hyperlink interesting things we discuss in order to take you on a journey of discovery.  

With that said, one of the most fascinating people to me has been the Persian poet Rumi.  

There have been great thinkers, visionaries and Spiritualists throughout time.

This is not a new way of thinking, we are just being enlightened to new ideas and thought.

Step outside the fence line, explore your world, it is not just your backyard.   Poems by Rumi       

 I am part of the load
Not rightly balanced
I drop off in the grass,
like the old Cave-sleepers, to browse wherever I fall.

For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains
floating and flying in the will of the air,
often forgetting ever being in that state, but in sleep I migrate back.

I spring loosefrom the four-branched, time -and-space cross,
this waiting room.

I walk into a huge pasture
I nurse the milk of millennia

Everyone does this in different ways.
Knowing that conscious decisions and personal memory
are much too small a place to live,
every human being streams at night
into the loving nowhere, or during the day,
in some absorbing work.

Rumi

 
Namaste,
Marianne Goldweber
Here is the web page:http://hometown.aol.com/blueroadspirit/myhomepage/business.html
Here is a link to my journal page: Walking the Red Road
 

The Universal Family

Good Morning!! Happy Monday!  

The Source, Creator, God, Goddess.....  

Many names, but whatever the path that speaks to you, the same light  is in everyone.  

You and I, the homeless man on the corner, the single Mother, the bank executive, the bag boy at the grocery.The elderly Widow across the street. The teenagers in the street.  

All with the same blood flowing in our veins.   

All with dreams, hopes, sorrows.  

All looking for Peace, Love, Acceptance.  

So whatever your path, allow it to unite you in unconditional Love to the Universal Family.

Here is the thought for the day!

Let us pray to the One who holds us in the hollow of
  His hands, 
To the One who holds us in the curve of Her arms, 
To the One whose flesh is the flesh of hills and  
  hummingbirds and angleworms, 
Whose skin is the color of an old Black woman and 
  a young white man; and the color of the leopard 
  and the grizzly bear and the green grass snake, 
Whose hair is like the aurora borealis, rainbows,
  nebulae, waterfalls, and a spider's web, 
Whose eyes sometime shine like the Evening Star,
  and then like fireflies, and then again like an 
  open wound, 
Whose touch is both the touch of life and the touch
  of death, 
And whose name is everyone's, but mostly mine. 
And what shall we pray? 
Let us say, "thank you."

Max Coots
Minister Emeritus of the Canton,N.Y. 
Unitarian Universalist Church

   
Namaste,
Marianne Goldweber
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What the $##%^# do we know?

Good Morning, Happy Thursday!  

Good Morning!! I finally saw, the movie "What the bleep do we know" and what I gained from it was a new perception.We are in this (life) for the experience, that we are just observers, gathering information.  

The confirmation that; This existence is an illusion, and every single thing that is happening to you is because you are causing it.  

We must "believe" that everything is possible, with the core of our being, that fear and doubt ground us to the humanness that is this existence. That we can transcend this and create exactly what we "believe".  

We are Spirit, Energy, and we are only limited by our mind.  

With that said, as you look around you, what is it that you have created, and since you can change it at will, where would you like to be?  

Here is the thought for the day;  

Sister, there were people who went to sleep last night, poor and rich and white and black, but they will never wake again.  And those dead folks would give anything at all for just five minutes of this weather or ten minutes of plowing. So you watch yourself about complaining. What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

Maya Angelou, (Quoting Her Grandmother)
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You cannot be truthful if you are not courageous.
You cannot be loving if you are not courageous.
You cannot be trusting if you are not courageous.
You cannot enter into reality if you are not courageous.
Hence courage comes first... and everything else follows.

Osho
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Celebrating coming of age

Good Morning!!!  

 We are in the full moon, so for those of you who are new, go to the web log and look up full moon entries. The Miscommunications with Mercury going retrograde have begun, plus the full moon is making for some emotionally charged miscommunications!! Remember to be ULTRA clear in your dialogs for the next three weeks, beginning July 23...  

Life is filled with Transition, and how we approach them makes all the difference in the world.  

Take for instance our going from child to young adult.  

Remembering our own coming of age stories offer us an opportunity to see how being informed, guided, supported and nurtured during this time of life changes our perception of ourselves, our bodies and our gender for a lifetime.  

 Gently entering this new phase, long before the actual events surfaced, allows parts of our childhood to be released.

It prepares us, not shocks us, into the reality of change.  

 Embracing the new responsibilities of what it means to be a young woman, or a young man, means understanding the sacredness and ownership that is required from us, and the sacredness and differences between us.  

Many of us were under informed, misinformed, ashamed, anxious, or alone during this stage....

Our elders were ill prepared to deliver us into our changes, depending on their upbringing.  

We were ashamed of the changes, the natural evolution of our bodies, rather than being excited and honored to begin a new chapter in life.  

So much is assumed, there is little honest open dialog because we are not comfortable with our own bodies, or the cycles that make up our existence.  

In order to honestly communicate the beauty that separates the genders, the purposefulness of these rhythms of life, we must learn to celebrate our own, honor our own, become informed about our own.  

 These are times of creating rituals or Rites of Passage, not to only celebrate the new initiate into the group, but to honor and remember our own place in the web, and celebrate the joys that each phase bring...  

Knowing that others who have gone before you are there to share, celebrate and instruct..That we are not alone....  

We would love to hear your coming of age stories. Post them to the blog Walking the Red Road .  

 I can help you develop a personal coming of age, or other life transition ritual. Contact me for more information.    

Here is the Thought for the Day!  

The butterfly becomes only when it's entirely ready.

Chinese proverb

Namaste,

Marianne Goldweber

Self Love

Good Morning! If you were your own best friend, what advise would you give?  

Let's live today in the third person, in order to give us a new point of view on ourselves.

What observations would we make?  

 Look for the beauty in our "friend" and let them know. 

When we Walk in Beauty, the Universe reveals to us all that is Beautiful. Apologize for past cruelty, and criticism.  

In order to heal relationships, the relationship with ourself must first be healed.  

If we cannot learn to speak to ourselves with Unconditional Love, we will learn to tolerate bad treatment from others.  

Here is the thought for the day!    

 If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

Author: John Steinbeck  

 
Namaste,
Marianne Goldweber
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Here is a link to my journal page: Walking the Red Road
 

Faith

Faith.....Most of us would like to believe we have Faith, that we believe that he higher order directs the current.  

Sometimes, difficulties create a conflict with our willful human self.   This conflict within tests our "Faith" and places us in a dilemma of reacting in order to manipulate a desired outcome.  

It is important to see that these conflicts are  not manifested  to just get "through".  

There are lessons and messages about our growth, hidden in every one.  

Faith is knowing and trusting that there is a purpose to it all.  

Going within; asking for guidance, and allowing the process of Faith to gently guide us to a higher solution.   

In most cases, just knowing that the higher purpose is what is best, takes the drama and angst out of our conflicts.  

It allows us to look at these situations more objectively, without all of the fever of Anger, Guilt and Rage. We don't take it so personally.  

These conflicts are a personal test that we orchestrated before we even entered this life.  

 Just for the lessons.  

Faith can remove us from the chains of slavery that bind us, because when we choose to Believe, Fear and Suffering disappear.  

Regardless of your Spiritual path, all of them require Faith in the Source, centering of the Self, and Trust that everything is as it should be.  

It sure makes Life more Peaceful.  

Here is the thought for the day!!  

Lord, I don't ask for a faith that would move yonder mountain.

I can take enough dynamite and move it, if it needs movin'.

I pray, Lord, for enough faith to move me.

Norman Allen 

 Namaste,
Marianne Goldweber
Here is the web page:http://hometown.aol.com/blueroadspirit/myhomepage/business.html
Here is a link to my journal page: Walking the Red Road