Conscious Playground
I'm still on a high from my retreat, as I've been running into retreat participants here and there around town.
In fact, I saw some last night at the well-attended Conscious Playground gathering at the Epoxybox in Venice. There I mingled with old and new acquaintances and rediscovered my passion to stay focused on refining myself in order to help change the world.
As I laid in bed this morning, I started running a diatribe in my head about maintaining my connection to my body and my environment, thereby receiving the electrical current that allows me to shine and radiate my light. And the more consistently I can be in that space, the more I can be an example of what's possible. And that thought inspires me.
My meditation teacher likes to remind us that in order for the forest to be green, all of the trees have to be green.
It's a simple concept, yet in action it can go against everything we've learned about living a "successful" existence.
And it's an interesting contrast to this book I've been reading called The 48 Laws of Power, which talks about (in a very interesting and well-written way) how to squash your enemies and have power over people.
However, I think it's important to know about all perspectives as long as one embodies what one feels is right to him or her. And even that will change with experience, growth and understanding of life and all of her trappings.
The nutshell is that in this moment, I'm happy to be alive, to be blessed with good health, and to have the ability to see what's good in just about everything and everyone. And at the end of the day (no pun intended), that's all that we have is this moment. So to all of my fellow light soldiers....
Onward and Upward.
In fact, I saw some last night at the well-attended Conscious Playground gathering at the Epoxybox in Venice. There I mingled with old and new acquaintances and rediscovered my passion to stay focused on refining myself in order to help change the world.
As I laid in bed this morning, I started running a diatribe in my head about maintaining my connection to my body and my environment, thereby receiving the electrical current that allows me to shine and radiate my light. And the more consistently I can be in that space, the more I can be an example of what's possible. And that thought inspires me.
My meditation teacher likes to remind us that in order for the forest to be green, all of the trees have to be green.
It's a simple concept, yet in action it can go against everything we've learned about living a "successful" existence.
And it's an interesting contrast to this book I've been reading called The 48 Laws of Power, which talks about (in a very interesting and well-written way) how to squash your enemies and have power over people.
However, I think it's important to know about all perspectives as long as one embodies what one feels is right to him or her. And even that will change with experience, growth and understanding of life and all of her trappings.
The nutshell is that in this moment, I'm happy to be alive, to be blessed with good health, and to have the ability to see what's good in just about everything and everyone. And at the end of the day (no pun intended), that's all that we have is this moment. So to all of my fellow light soldiers....
Onward and Upward.
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"However, I think it's important to know about all perspectives as long as one embodies what one feels is right to him or her. And even that will change with experience, growth and understanding of life and all of her trappings."
Very True....nevertheless, it's so challenging to feel what's "right" at one moment, and at the next, it could be wrong, or was it even "right" from the start?.....and although with experience we become wiser, how do we really ever know, or base the true meaning of "right" on?
When asked his religion, Abraham Lincoln said, "When I do good, I feel good, and when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."
I think what we do is we listen to our hearts and we follow the wisdom of our feelings.
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