Paint your day

Every day is like a canvas. In the morning it is empty, waiting for you to paint it. By the end of the day, the painting is done, irrevocably done.

So, on this day, use this canvas and let your actions, behaviors and decisions paint a beautiful picture.

All your Day Paintings will become your legacy you will be remembered by. Your best, significant and influential work can start today. Paint your painting and bring smiles to this world.

Montpellier

After being with our friend Maria Teresa in Antibes for one week, we are currently close to Montpellier with Oshun and Gilles, friends of Raylene from the bay area who also have a house here. It is located in the middle of a forest, very quiet and beautiful.

It is like a retreat heaven and for the first time in a while I have been able to practice meditation again for 5-6 hours a day which is charging up the batteries.

Oshun and Gilles are intending their house to be a spiritual center, aiming to host many different types of spiritual activities and I foresee a great unfolding here in the future for their work.

Words again

The word is powerful.

To use a word, to explore its full force, you have to repeat it until it reaches the critical mass of its full manifestation. It is like heating water. You have to increase the heat until it reaches boiling point.

Use the words that decribe the life you wish and activate them in your mind until they become your reality. They will become real. Guaranteed. Don't stop until the reality ... has become real. Be gentle in the process.

The Center of the Universe.

Every sentient being before us exists as the center of the Universe. From its view, that is the reality. Therefore, every sentient being we look at, emanates this quality. It draws our attention -- to it. This is what the world before us does. Through all its appearances it seeks to take our attention away from our own inner center to the core of the appearances before us.

It is an absolute necessety to learn to not get lost in the play of these electro-magnetic currents of the world of appearances and retain the focus on the center within our own being.

Bring your attention into the center of your own being. Again and again and again.

Picture permission by Neil Cohen from http://www.eemedia.org

And the Work Goes On...

So much has happened in the last week.

With Oliver(truly a man of the sea) and Albine we saw fireworks at midnight in his boat -BE HAPPY- in the middle of the gulf. That was amazing and the most astounding fireworks I have seen in my life. Plus the songs of Edith Piaf resoundig across the gulf. I cannot even imagine what sound system it took to do that. The day also was the anniversary of Raylene and Andreas and also the Assumption of Mary, August 15, which is celebrated hugely here in France.

We were part of a boat blessing that spontaneously extended to its owners, Frederic and Martine, who we came to make friends with as they were Olivier's neighbors.

The experience of the sea, boating and swimming here felt very healing to me. I have never been much of a water person, so this was a first time for me to experience all these aspects and Olivier was greatly instrumental in introducing to me the healing power of the sea. Thanks Olivier! (See top picture)

To go out in a boat into the Gulf of St. Tropez is a beautiful experience. It is very exhilarating and the many sailing boats and yachts one encounters – one can feel the sea covered in the joy of the many people participating in the experience of sailing and boating. There is a sense of freedom the sea bestows in this way. It washes us clean.

Then we were invited to a wedding with Nadir and Estelle. During this dinner, as in some others that we were invited to, we took the liberty to invite everybody around the table to function as souls, not as minds, to be authentic and real … as souls. As before, this invitation caused shock waves around the table, but soon was accepted and the existential quality was shifted. Silence arose, harmony arose.

The Work continues, even in situations that are potentially trivial and superficial. In the end, there is no distinction between a workshop and a dinner. One has to operate as a soul, wherever one goes. If others do not, one has to extend the invitation. It is difficult to function any other way.

Universal Citizen

Be kind. Be loving. The Universe wants you to be.

From soul to soul

When you know how to let words arise from deep within your soul, you have found the secret of reaching deep into the soul of another.

Mistral

The Mistral is blowing forcefully across the harbor, invoking a surprising symphony of sounds from the boats which restlessly pull at the ropes that restrain them.

Wisdom

A wise being knows the difference between what s/he does and does not have, between what s/he does and does not know. This is most difficult to achieve.

More words on words

© 2007 Andreas Mamet

Let us continue our exploration into the nature of words.

As said before, words are keys into the dimensions of power and creation. We are generally asleep to this reality because we are deeply programmed to use words in ways that are trivial or in a context of navigating life – where is the Eiffel Tower, how much are the croissants… Furthermore, during the course of living life we have many opportunities to observe words being used falsely, which causes the erosion and the lessening of our faith in the power of words.

But let us test further to experience how powerful words really are. Take a sheet of paper and write down a list of words that for you represent desirable values or experiences. Let the list be between 30 and 50 words. You will find it easy to come up with that many positive words.

For example :

Joy, happiness, fulfillment, comfort, peace, appreciation, success, support, compassion, wisdom, impact, serenity, creativity, inspiration, brilliance, radiance, networking, cooperation, flowering, discernment, communication power, unity, strength, insight, depth, harmony, love, dawn, newness, generosity, discovery, horizon, vista, flight, height, effortlessness, ease, satisfaction, infinity, opening, matrix, expansion…

Reading the above words has created a feeling for you, and in all likelihood a positive feeling. If you read such a list repeatedly, this positive feeling will expand and begin to anchor in your body.

So, try this : Create your own list of positive and powerful words as a representation of what you wish to experience in your life. Read the list (preferably out loud) every morning and evening for 10 minutes. Reading your list will be like absorbing spiritual food. It will make you feel wonderful. But not only that : Reading this list every day will begin to change and rearrange the very atoms of your life situations in ways you will greatly enjoy. I guarantee.

See for yourself. Do it. Do it for 40 days and see what happens.

I love you

Very few people actually understand what words really are and what they do.

Words are keys into dimensions of power and creation.

If you were to take a word like LOVE and gently repeat it inside yourself, you would  begin to actually activate that very vibe inside and all around you.

Let us try an experiment. Whoever you meet today, quietly think inside "I love you." Don't worry about whether you feel it or not. Just try it and see what happens.

(Please take note how you felt when you saw the title to today's post.)

The Awakened Heart

Compassion is the highest and most essential expression of spirituality. If you see yourself as existing in some form of spiritual context, however you may define this for yourself, and there is no form of compassionate expression in your life, the seed simply has not sprouted yet and the lofty state you may believe yourself to  be occupying is just your dream. 

Compassionate behavior, at the same time is truly just a by-product of an awakened heart. Therefore, compassionate behavior cannot and should not be forced. However, it is possible to open a dialogue with a heart and say: "I invite you. Why not open?"

And even if nothing is said, if a contracted heart comes close to an awakened heart, the very meeting constitutes an existential invitation of silent, yet potentially powerful impact.

6 Billion acts of kindness?

We have six billion people on earth. If every person would engage in one kind act per day, we would have heaven on earth.

Invitation

If you want to live on a beautiful planet, do something about it.

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Hey, Hey, I'm Okay...

As I have mentioned in previous teachings, the mind-ego structure is primarily interested in the continuation of its existence and overriding control.

It will fight and resist anything it sees as a threat to its dominating position. Situations, highly potent techniques of prayer and meditation that could cause an opening into the Vast Silence ... - the mind-ego structuree will seek to cleverly circumnavigate them. 

One of the most clever ways, admirable in a way, is to use Advaita statements, especially well-suited for people who claim to be steeped in spirituality and in contact with the Masters, so much, they don't have to work on themselves. Their spirituality is merely one of conceptual acrobatic, not of transformative experience.

It is to say: I am already it. I am okay in this moment. There is nothing to do. This is the statement of Awakened Consciousness. If used by unawakened consciousness, it will guarentee the continuation of its sleep. That is what the mind ego-structure wants. It is the convenient way to to protect all the investments (and resulting perks and rewards) we may have in continuing our sleep-based life structures.

Basically, such stances are mostly unbreakable by human influence, since we are facing the soul's powerful determination to continue sleeping.

I have found it advisable to let such people sleep. Only the Universe itself will know to create the necessary, irrefutable and non-negotiable life-shocks to trigger shifts that will succeed in stirring the sleeper.

Therefore, I  feel especially grateful for meeting increasing numbers of individuals in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Japan who feel inside a powerful drive and longing for awakening. 

To me, meeting such individuals is such a joy and gives rise to the feeling of existing inside a very special matrix: the matrix of the Soul Family.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

The Gulf of St. Tropez

This area is truly beautiful, and well suited to heal. For us it is a wonderful opportunity to meditate and recharge ourselves.