Today's Reminder is:
"It is said: "Manure happens." This is not so.
Manure is the result of a natural process. We all create manure.
It is important
for you to realize: manure is a useful substance. It is a natural fertilizer
which helps things grow. Our purpose as spiritual beings is to Grow. Are you
using yours?"
Living things are self-organizing energy transformation systems. What does that mean?They take from their environment the raw materials and energy they need for their own well being. They build relationships with others and their environment. What they can not used is excreted.
Yet that 'manure' can provide the basis of new life, more materials, and more complex organization, and,yes, sometimes new ideas and new frontiers. Your manure is an important resource. If you don't use it then some one else will.
Today's Reminder is:
"You will never know the price of freedom... Until
you lose it."
We all give up our freedom to a certain degree to have a job, maintain a relationship, or fulfill legal or contractual obligations. Sometimes certain choices we make have a great impact on our ability to make choices for future action. One morning we might wake up to find we do not have control over our present or our future. Why?
"Teachable Moments" sometimes come at horrific costs. Experiential wisdom is usually 20-20 hindsight. Looking back at past events and learning from them is not as wise as looking at current or possible future events. Being aware of the present is a safer way to learn what is a wise course of action. This is not to say one should ignore history but one should not focus only on what was. Remember -- If you are facing backwards it is certain you'll learn the lesson that is coming at you "in the end"-- That might be painful.
We occasionally have people or events that appear in our lives that are "toxic". While it might be comforting to say "Karma will get them." Isn't it better to take action to move away from people or events that do not bring you Joy? Or is your lack of motion a sign that you feel you deserve to suffer at the hands of others?
This reminder should make you ask yourself: "How have I given up my freedom? To Whom? Why?" Then act as maybe appropriate to regain your freedom of choice.
Today's Reminder is:
"Life is like a litterbox. It stinks when it is left
untended."
Life, like a litterbox, seems to collect garbage, trash, refuse, left-overs and toxins from daily use. If you fail to keep your life clean of these "left-overs", it will eventually become a toxic place[if it hasn't already!].
Learn to let go of the past: Old feelings, hurts, angers, judgments are just garbage. You don't need them.
Clean the litterbox and have a better life
Today's Reminder is:
"We serve what we deserve."
Consider this reminder for a moment... break it into thought filled pieces.
We Serve?
If we serve we are taking action... but to serve also means that we are in the service of "some one or some thing.
What?
What? What is it we serve? Our belief! How do we serve this What?
We deserve.
What do you deserve? Really?
The interesting thing here for you to consider is: If we change our belief what we deserve changes as well.
Today's Reminder is:
"It is not a question whether you win or lose. The
question is: Why are you playing the Game at all... or is that Et al?"
Some people are obsessed with "winning". Winning what?Winning at the expense of someone else? Being better? Being better than who?
To"play a game" means you must accept the rules. If you assume that others are nothing more that a "game piece" or a "game opponent" then that is what you are -- a game piece or an opponent in someone else's game.
Yet the meaning of life has nothing to do with a game or winning or losing. If you believe it does then you should reconsider that belief because it is a belief that will limit your opportunities to help others and help your self.
Today's Reminder is:
"You are playing Fetch with the Infinite: Who is
throwing? Who is Fetching?"
You give to Life. Life gives to you. The pattern of that giving weaves and floats like an intricate dance. Sometimes fast. Some times slow. Sometimes like the fall of a brick or the floating leaf. Giving images and memories. Taking words and songs. That is the game we play with life and circumstance. Does it matter who is throwing? Does it matter who is fetching?
Even if you do not want to play, you cannot refuse. The rules of this place do not allow it.
Life always responds to you.
Today's Reminder is:
"The problems you have with others, are in fact the problems
you have not been able to resolve within your own self. The biggest problem in your life more often than not is You."
How often have you said "If they only would..." or "How can they be so selfish?" or "Why do they act that way?" or even "Why are these evil people in my life?" The answer is you my friend. The world we see and experience is mostly seen and experienced through the "filter" of our own beliefs. Change your beliefs and the world changes.
"If only they would..." is actually "If only I could...."
"How can they be so selfish?" is actually "How can I be so selfish?
"Why do they act that way?" is actually "Why do I act this way when I am with them?"
"Why are these evil people in my life?" is actually "Why do I stay in this place?
Change is always an option. No one is stopping you from making changes in who you are or the way you act or the way you see the world.
I am not saying that evil people or life threatening health issues can be changed or suddenly "go away". What you can change is how you see these things in your life. In seeing things differently, you have the opportunity to choose a new path which is more healthy for you. Your problem is your solution: You.
Today's reminder is:
"Whether you want to be or not, you are a father, mother, and
mid-wife to the Truth. For every act of creation is the Truth born of your
heart. Just don't insist your truth is the only truth."
All of us create. Some of us are better at it than others. Like it or not you will create things, feelings, events, memories, hurts, healing, and all of the other possibilities. Some erroneously insist their way is the "only way" or their truth is the "only truth". This is not so...
The rule of thumb one should apply to their own truth to measure its validity is: Does it bring joy and life? Does it lift the fallen? Free the oppressed? Feed the hungry or house the homeless? Heal the hurt of the orphan or widowed?
Does your Truth make the heart sing with the joy of being alive and make you willing to give that joy without strings?
