You can run...but you can't hide!!!!

Good Morning!!!

Hope the Thanksgiving holiday left you full Physically, Spiritually and Emotionally! New class listings are coming this week!  

Have you ever wanted to forget and run from your current situation, and the harder you try to get away, the more stuck you become?  

Well, you may want it done and over with, ready to have a "do over" somewhere else, but the Universe may have other plans for you!  

Because the lessons aren't always pleasant, we want to run away from the reminders, the emotional pain, guilt.   

Needing to change, wanting to change, but not wanting to do the "leg work" that gets us there.  

Now.... there is a finishing that has to occur before we are gifted with closure.....Lessons to be learned...Things to be released.....Ownership to be had........  

Then, we are free to see what the Universe has planned that is the reward for coming through the darkness.  

The more we run from the lesson, the longer we remain there....it follows us like a cloud....the messages getting bigger and more unavoidable.  

Everything that is happening to you is by your own choosing, on some level.     The trick is to separate ego and will from what is necessary and purposeful.

  Setting down the baggage, going through it, taking with us only what we really need, leaving the rest behind.  

Lighten your load, face the lesson...That is living on purpose.  

Here is the thought for the day;  

I am responsible.

Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life. Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life.

I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

Author: Walter Anderson

 Namaste,
Marianne Goldweber
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Mirror Mirror on the wall.....

Good Morning,

The finger that points out, points three back.  

Many Indigenous peoples feel that there are many lifetimes that we will experience. Like a giant wheel, with spokes.  

As we journey from one lifetime to another, we will eventually stand on every spoke. Gaining experience from every life. Taking lessons and a change of perception with us when we cross over.  

To stand on wealth means eventually you will stand on poverty. To stand on happiness, we will eventually have sorrow etc..  

Therefore, we cannot harshly judge the man across from us, because he is us, and you him. It is judging yourself eventually.  

Depending on where you have been who you are and the experiences that you have had up until now, will determine how you will perceive something.  

For instance, many of us have never been homeless, or hungry, and cannot fathom the plight of the poor or homeless. Most of us do know however, how hard it is to ask for help... We don't want to be judged, or criticized for mistakes.  

Many of us will never know the level of need that our path and our circumstances can create in which we have to steal or look for food in the discards of others. Drowning the pain and memories with drugs or alcohol. Over and over, going to the system, a system without compassion, unable to ask for help. Where it's easier to ask a stranger for a buck.

That paints a very different picture?  

That will be me...somewhere, sometime..Maybe even next week.

What would I want to happen?  

It makes it real for us, it makes uscompassionate, because we can better understand.  

Look in the Mirror of those you meet, for the light of the Supreme that lives in you, lives in them also. 

Here is the thought for the day! "Mother Nature is the most brilliant of all artists... A mudpuddle reflects a piece of sky marvelously."
-Marcel Proust

 Namaste,
Marianne Goldweber
Here is the web page:MARIANNE GOLDWEBER WEB PAGE
Here is a link to my journal page: Walking the Red Road
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Good Morning!  

Change begins with me! Let's get invested!  

When we're in a relationship, whether it's a marriage, a relationship with our children, career or job; we can get caught in the familiarity, and start to take it for granted.   Then, we don't tend to it with the same vigor as when it was new. Eventually we may find ourselves criticizing our relationship, and the people in it.  

Any relationship is like a plant, it needs attention, investment, love, nurturing. 

 We usually become aware of our own lack of these elements first. Waiting for these things to be done for us.  

We become critical, and begin to withdraw, "separating" ourselves emotionally. Then looking for reasons to confirm our feelings.

We become a victim.  

Lets change our perspective; if we aren't having these things done for us, it also means that we're probably not doing them for the others in our relationships.  

We have also taken the situation for granted, we may not be fully invested or loyal.  

Since most of you are at work, lets start with that relationship. You can then try this at home, with kids, wife, husband,or partner later.  

Lets write down the things that we are dissatisfied with (I'm sure that will be hard!).

Are you doing all of these things for the others in your space, unconditionally? 

 Next, lets change perspective; how are you contributing to this? Be honest;   Are you non compliant?

Do you have a bad attitude or passive aggressive with you're boss or coworkers?

Are you negative, or usually complaining?

Do you turn in projects in the nick of time? Or procreastinate, scrambling to complete them?

Does everyone know you are unhappy?

Do you work through lunch, work long hours hoping someone will notice your dedication, as you suffer, silently fuming?

Have you stopped getting dressed up, or stopped putting your best foot forward?

Are you coming in late?

 Do you gossip?  

This is sabatoge, it is destructive. Not only to your own situation, but it spreads your unhappiness like a virus to everyone you "share" it with.

Do you have clear dialogs about your issues/conflicts with the person directly, or do you tell everyone but them?

Lack of Loyalty can be the undoing of any relationship.

It can be the unraveling of any business and can cost jobs.  

People and companies can't change what they are doing if they don't know it is an issue.

Clear communication, mature dialog, taking ownership, and apologizing can clear the air.  

Let's get honest, and be invested by keeping a positive attitude and speaking our truth.

Maybe we've just not been part of the team. Or,  if after setting boundaries, and doing our personal best  we are not satisfied, then maybe it is time to find something that will bring you joy.  

You can't change people or businesses.

Find a place that brings you fulfillment.  

From the Janitor, to the CEO; we all want validation, appreciation and thoughtfulness.  

When we get it, we are willing to give it...

No one wants to do a good job when they aren't appreciated.  

You go first and start a chain reaction.  

Oh and by the way, feel free to share this with your coworkers.

Have an Awesome Day!  

Here is the thought for the day!  

The Guy in the Glass by Dale Wimbrow

When you get what you want in your struggle for self
And the world makes you king for a day
Just go to the mirror and look at yourself
And see what that man has to say.

For it isn't your Father or Mother or wife
Whose judgement upon you must pass.
The fellow whose verdict counts most in your life
Is the one staring back from the glass.

Some people may call you a straight shooting chum
And call you a wonderful guy,
but the man in the glass says you're only a bum
If you can't look him straight in the eye.

He's the fellow to please, never mind all the rest
For he's with you clear to the end,
And you have passed your most dangerous test
If the man in the glass is your friend.

You may face the whole world down the pathway of life
And get pats on the back when you pass,
But your final reward will be heartache and strife
If you've cheated the man in the glass.

- Dale Wimbrow, 1895-1954

Learn more about the author by visiting his son's site.

 Namaste,
Marianne Goldweber
Here is the web page:MARIANNE GOLDWEBER WEB PAGE
Here is a link to my journal page: Walking the Red Road
 CALENDAR OF CLASSES!! CLICK HERE
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Do your part

Good Morning Everyone!  

Well, today is the first day of mercury retrograde, the full Moon and Monday!!!    

 Whew!!!!!

I am taking this opportunity to welcome some new Villagers to our daily thought. Welcome everyone!!  

Coming into a spiritual awakening can be like gently awakening from a long sleep, or it can be a shock, like someone blowing an air horn to get us up.

  The awakening process is constant, every day, two steps forward one step back, an unraveling of old thinking, applying the knowledge as the opportunities arise.  

To be "conscious" that the changes in me change the world. To bring that consciousness to the physical world.  

Imagine if all of us had compassion, for one other person, there would be no war, no hunger, no loneliness, no fighting.  

 It truly would be a beautiful place.   

Do your part.  

Don't worry about what the other guy is doing, what are you doing to bring peace, to share love, to bring hope?  

Here is the thought for the day!!  

We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen.

AUTHOR: Thomas Merton
BIOGRAPHY: American and Trappist Monk t Our Lady of Gethsemani Abbey in Trappist, Kentucky, 1915-1968

 Namaste,
Marianne Goldweber
Here is the web page:MARIANNE GOLDWEBER WEB PAGE
Here is a link to my journal page: Walking the Red Road
 CALENDAR OF CLASSES!! CLICK HERE
Serenity Sunday class descriptions CLICK HERE

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Wishes

 

Happy Friday!!!!

This is my wish for you:

Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendships to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, Love to complete your life.

 

 

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Good Morning, what a beautiful autumn day!!  

 The burning question for humans is;  What is my purpose in this life.

What Divine purpose do I serve?  

We are so busy wondering what our purpose is, that we miss the opportunities to be of service every day. It takes the focus off ourselves and turns our attention to others.  

It isn't one big thing, our purpose presents itself in little ways.  

Are you living each day in Peace? Love?  

Applying this to your own life first?  

Are you reaching, growing evolving?  

Bringing hope, peace and love to everyone you meet?  

If not, try applying these exercises to your day;  

Lets see our crabby coworker as an oportunity to smile,in spite of the response.  

Find one opportunity to be kind, and thoughtful, even if you don't get a thank you, or found out.  

Just Listen.  

Give hope to someone who is hopeless.  

Take your own advice.  

Hug one person today that you don't know well.    

 If we can try to apply this today, it will get easier tomorrow, and may open a whole new world to the burning question, what ismy purpose in life.

    Here is the thought for the day!  

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can 
do something about its width and depth.

Shira Tehrani   

 Namaste,
Marianne Goldweber
Here is the web page:MARIANNE GOLDWEBER WEB PAGE
Here is a link to my journal page: Walking the Red Road
 CALENDAR OF CLASSES!! CLICK HERE
Serenity sunday class descriptions CLICK HERE