Still Life- You are ART

Life is a mysterious adventure and our greatest teacher. We also hear, with this life experience, you will get from it what you put into it. We are requesting nothing be more important than you at this time. So please be generous, enthusiastic and eager for the miracles that are about to unfold. Be eager and excited because the secret and system are about to unfold to you.


Become quiet within yourself. Allow a pure stillness to envelop you. Restore a calm deep from within you. Breathe. Feel awareness and begin and know what you feel, is you. You are the system, you are success and you are the secret to life. The more time you spend in the space of this awareness the more you will know this to be true. The more truth you allow the more present you become. Truth resides now. The truth is your life is to teach, remind and show you your magnificence and purpose. Your life is exactly designed for you to be the one you are now. You are the one that is here to help and make a difference. Your purpose is to do your way. So if what you put into life you get out, put you in your life fully, and watch miracles unfold.



You are creating every moment. Most are creating from what they believe themselves to be based on what has happened in the past. The past is a great resource. If our life is to allow our magnificence, the past must be accepted and seen as experiences that are simply saying to us, in the form of events and circumstances, “You are greater than you know”. So be great, be excited and be you. Be inspired that you are the one you will look up to, and you are the only one you should aspire to be. Set your intention for more clarity on your unique talents. Watch for them to surface as a reminder to you. Begin to integrate these into your work and life. You will begin to stop the need to compare and start fulfilling a need to stay aware.



In 2001 we were working with Deepak Chopra in a very small Mastermind meeting. He asked us to get a partner and to go through these three simple questions. The purpose was to deepen our understanding of ourselves. Each question was to be asked 10 times in a row. We sat facing each other and when he said begin, the one asking the question would lean in and whisper into the partners ear, “Who are you?.” When we answered they would ask it again. Each response became more defining and more specific. It is like the person asking the question is playing the role of the universe. Remember, ask and it is given. The ultimate response is “So be it”... as in so it is done and be that which you say.


This is fun to do. Here are the questions.




Who are you?


What do you want?


What is your gift?

Live not in a Yes or No world.Live Yes or NOW!!

All we have is choice in each moment. The choice to take action, create, listen, share, or feel becomes the communication and our unique expression. These choices take on a certain quality based on the moment we are in. When the quality is felt as a negative expression the moment has linked itself to other moments in the past not yet cleared or understood. Energetically the expression slows down so much it almost stops which prevents all solutions from revealing themselves. This stuck feeling is meant to reflect on the source or root thought causing the feeling. It is not meant to fuel the current situation.


When here we must stop, breathe and realize new energy from the present moment is what is required to resolve and shift the situation to a positive outcome. There is always time to later review what triggered the emotion and why. We are all looking for agreement and to be validated. Hearing no as disagreement or rejection can stop all possibility. Some live in a yes no black and white world. If so what if no could be now heard as know. Let that shift open the door to the next possibility; a yes or now world.


Yes is enthusiasm, excitement and a win-win. Energetically it is quick and full of possibility and miracles. So quite simply to stay in the flow of solutions and a positive expression give yourself only two choices yes or now. 'Yes' to answer “is my expression inspiring actions that are in alignment with my goals and values?" 'Now' to answer “where do solutions and greatness exists?" Now is action. Actions that take place from a conscious choice in the present moment are inspired actions. Now accesses what you already know and to already know the solution.


Stay present to stay in the power of choice. Here make a new choice, from yes or now.


Here,
Sandra

The Land of Possiblity is found in Art!

Our lives are masterpieces within the masterpiece that is the Universe. Art in the traditional sense takes a moment created from thought, an idea, or the imagination to communicate something. This something finds its way to a place of feeling. It is within this place that resides the space which allows us all to respond to music, sculpture, painting, dance, theatre and film.  Art touches and speaks to us in a Universal language, a form of expression and understanding without limits. We are each living forms of art, a continuous manifestation of art, each sharing this same space within. In each moment we are the creation, the inspiration, or in appreciation of living forms of art. Therefore being alive can be seen as Artistry in motion. Art becomes our life as its form affects the buildings we live with, clothes we choose to wear and all we do.


When we feel a response to art, we are experiencing something greater than our individual self. As it resonates within it finds its source, which is at the heart of all creation. When we feel a melody, see from an image, or allow a movement to touch us, the source we feel is the source of all that is. As we connect to this source we remember we are a medley, a vibrational being of color and sound. In this place we truly are the artists and visionaries of our world. Our movements and the way we touch become a dance, an expression which is pure and unique. This source, the medium from which we all create, is simply and profoundly…Love.


The Artistry is remembering we are Love and the source of everything we know to be is Love. When we remember this, we see life clearly and know that all is well. When we are able to visit life with neutrality, each experience can be seen as an expression of Love. It is in these moments, when we feel and remember Love; we resonate and know its’ truth. When we deny Love’s presence we lose our ability to access or feel what is real. To create our life as a masterpiece, as the artists, we simply surrender to the unknown and unseen. We open to see and understand the purpose of all things. Even in the contrasts of life there is purpose. Artists know of contrast, they utilize and accept this. It is why there is black and white, loud and soft, high and low, fast and slow, up and down, dark and light, more and less, movement and motionlessness, despair and joy, fear and love and also solitude and solidarity. It is all available for us to utilize.


The place where all is available is the l-and of full possibility. It is a world where a word invites the extra-ordinary. Adding the source of love combing with the awareness of and invites more to be known and a new world and playground reveal it self. When we land here we stand in awareness to expand to a grandness. Adding and, has us experince, know and access a greater perspective and greater perception. Add and we add to our awareness. We have access to see what is right now and our as our life is complete, happily ever after, we are the hero, and the one that transformed the world. Know there is access to the full picture as we stay in our true state of love and as we w-ork as our pl-ay as the way.

From the leaders of tommorrow- written by 15-17 year olds

Courage is the discovery that you may not win.
And trying when you know you can lose.


Honor is standing for what you believe-
Not for what you know.


Life isn't about living without problems.
Life is about solving problems.


If you plow the field everyday-
The only thing that grows is resentment.


Compassion is passion with a heart.


The only thing in the whole universe people need to
Control are their attitudes.


How a person wins and loses is much more important
Than how much a person wins and loses.


If you only do what you know you can do-
You never do very much.


There are no failures-
Just experiences and your reactions to them.


Getting what you want is not nearly as important
As giving what you have.


Going on a journey with a map requires following
Directions-Going on a journey without a map requires following
Your heart.


Talent without humility is wasted.


If you don't want it bad enough to risk losing it-
You don't want it bad enough.


When life knocks you down you have two choices-
Stay down or get up.

Let Go

As we let go, we let go of the EGO. As we do that the EGO can also be. In this space of letting go the unknow becomes known.

Listen to the instructions as if your true self was speaking to you. Let go. Without a word, let go. Let go of fear. Let go of judgments. Let go of the confluence of opinions swarming around the head. Let go of the committee of indecision within. Let go of all the "right" reasons. Wholly and completely, without hesitation or worry, just let go to hear our voice, the voice of our divine self clear without the chatter of the EGO.

Don't ask anyone for advice, don't search the scriptures, just let go. Let go of all the memories that hold us back. Let go of the anxiety that keeps us from moving forward. Let go of the planning and all the calculations about how to do it just right. Don't promise to let go. Don't journal about it. Don't write the projected date in a Day-Timer. Make no public announcement and put no ad in the paper. Don't check the weather report or read the daily horoscope. Just let go. Don't analyze whether we should let go. Don't call friends to discuss the matter.

Don't utter one word. Just let go. No one will be around when it happens. There will be no applause or congratulations. No thanks or praise. No one will notice a thing. Like a leaf falling from a tree, just let go. There will be no effort. There will be no struggle. It isn't good. It isn't bad. It is what it is, and it is just that.

In the space of letting go, let it all be. Allow a small smile. Let go to let all be known and felt. The unknown holds the space of creation. The unknown is the space for our authority and voice to declare what is. Here in the unknown we know our self, see our self and here we hear what is true. Within the sacred unknown, we are known and met with love. The sacred unknown is a sanctuary of wisdom and truth. Let go, let it all go. Release what grips and what is in our grips. Open our hands and feel the space of the unknown. Let these same hands be of creation, free to create, open always to the unlimited and possible. Let go of impossible and feel I'm possible. Let go. Now stop. Notice. Feel our selves as miracle.

UNCOVERED- the Masterpiece YOU!

Love uncovers the truth by simply illuminating it. The truth is love is a stream of brilliant thought that will dissolve the veils to reveal the masterpiece we and our life have always been. Love is an unbridled artist that distracts our attention from the everyday to show us we have a purpose. It has been a long journey to discover this. Many rocks were turned over before we remembered what Michelangelo did to create David. He lifted nothing in search of his masterpiece; he simply liberated that which was already there. How much time do we waste actually under the rock justifying our search of self, only to forget what we’re searching for and then just stay there? This is about getting the lessons from the rock and freeing the masterpiece. We are here to remember we are the finest form of art, an original, an absolute divine creation. We are that which inspires the art we have become awestruck by. We need to see ourselves as the source, the light of love, masterfully achieving brilliance, with dimension and clarity, in our own life.

 

Michelangelo worked knowing the image of David was already in the block of stone. Our pure essence is also found within a block of stone called our life. Chipping away the layers of stone, freeing what he knew to be already there, is how we must free ourselves from the darkness created by our mind’s own perception. As we become free, our hearts will begin to radiate so completely that we will finally see our full selves for our self…once and for all. And it will be for all, as just one realization will begin a cosmic cascading of fully aware dominos, illuminating the closest student to become the next teacher… and so on.

 

Michelangelo chose the subject of this work from the Old Testament story of David and Goliath, in which the young David, future king of Israel, flings a stone from his slingshot to kill the giant Goliath. In his success he then saves his nation. The statue represents not only the daring spirit of the young hero but also of Michelangelo himself. He established himself as a master and hero with this work. When art imitates life and lives imitate art, love is at work. Our goal is now to be at work, committed to love. Love will once again transcend itself, to become the dedication of taking one determined step after another away from our Ego to move in the direction of our true self. It is on this path we will heroically stand and face the memory of our divinity and dare our selves to realize the truth of who we are.

When Michelangelo worked he would naturally sweat. The mind’s thinking has also become hard work because of its requirement to arduously gather evidence to support our Ego. In the past our natural state has been sustained by the work of the Ego and we would develop a similar condition to attract. While Michelangelo created, the marble dust would mix to become mire that would splatter all over his face and body. As dust would continue to cover him, he would begin to resemble that which he was creating. Just like Michelangelo, the Ego’s work creates as each thought acts and exists as a vibration. Each thought we have is literally a magnet to then stick to us, creating who we are in each moment. As Ego finds more evidence, we experience the old emotion which attracts more of the same result. Are you a replicated version of an illusion of thoughts from the past, or a unique creation honored by present moment awareness for your immense magnitude and purpose?

We know his method was to chip away to reveal the greatness of David. Imagine each day as he would honor that which was chipped away by seeing it, understanding it and at the same time knowing it was to reveal the greatness of David. It may have been a momentary illusion that the dust of David he was covered in created the greatness of Michelangelo. We believe he could see for himself as he would clean up for the day, pieces of stone covering his own greatness that he also needed to cast away. We are here to realize that exact same process. Our tools will be the mind and our intention. Our creation will be ourselves as awe-inspiring. We will become masters of controlling the only stream of thought that holds the truth. This stream of thought with its own intention is love.

What were the intentions Michelangelo used each day to achieve his masterpiece? Let’s trust, while he was working, his single minded focus was seeing David explicated by thoughts and beliefs of who he was as his highest or pure self. How often do we do this for ourselves and for others? What would David have looked like if he was thought of for all the trite miscommunications, wrong doings, should haves, or didn’ts? We must adopt this same single minded focus to retrain our brain to remember its brilliance as it radiates exacting thoughts of love towards ourselves and others. What would our life look like if you wiped everyone’s slate clean? Who would we become? The slate while in this presence of now, now free of all judgments would become a sparkling frame to mirror the light of love back to us, as us.

The challenge will be to reclaim the parts of our selves that fear and pain have in their grips, by seeing all experiences for what they have truly been. We will do this by revisiting significant memories in the presence of love. By moving fear and pain into the presence of love we will see each experience as it was intended. Each experience will transform itself from an energetic block to a free flowing force that will ultimately have us choose to take a stand or not, for love. We will release the experiences, no longer our destiny but our way of deciding, to allow our true essence to be fully restored. We will not only become dazzlingly lit but will reveal a beauty reserved for our personal and universal elation.

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