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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What is ART- Awareness Realizing Transformation

When we feel a response to art, we are experiencing an intelligence which is beyond our individual self, a sense of some unseen source, a field of information that begins a remembering of profound insights. This remembrance becomes a resonance of vibration. When it is realized it finds and connects to its source which is at the heart of all creation. With each feeling is the creation of a bond from the physical to the nonphysical allowing a new awareness into this field we cannot see. It happens in direct relationship to what it is we are seeing, experiencing or hearing.

The Greeks said music and astronomy were two sides of the same coin. They said astronomy was seen as the study of relationships between observable, permanent, external objects, and music was seen as the study of relationships between invisible, internal, and hidden objects. We know this must be true of all art. Art exists to find ways of communicating which in turn has ways of finding the unseen stirring up pieces and places deep inside our hearts and souls. Simultaneously it stirs up understandings of the infinite unseen pieces and places within the universe. Art has us feel a force which connects us to source and all that is. This force that connects us to source does so by way of the inspiration from all of to find ways to communicate profoudly with all that is. Without this agreement we would not be here and nor would we have reason to survive.

This is not esoteric and not meant to appear mysterious. Art plays its part in the survival of the life force of the human spirit. When we tap into this this field of the unseen we make sense of who we are. To interact with it, is the only way we know we are alive and that our life has meaning. As we boldly reclaim the artist, we take a stand for humanity. To feel and know our true value is to express and create in every area of our life from our unique expression, the Artist. How do we begin? We first understand art as we know it. Looking back in history and even presently we have war, loss, devistation, torture and starvation. The darkest of times have still produced poetry, music, and visual art. So much of what we now revere as Art has been given to humanity from situations of terror like concentration camps or prisons. If in the places where the only focus is on survival and the bare necessities that art lives, it must be then essential to all of life. Art in the traditional sense must be embraced as a neccessity, seen an essential vital form of unseen communication and the essence to nurture our exsistance. It is the place we go to difficult times and also what we do as an expression of the way out of the same difficult times. As we somehow instinctively reach deep within we find our self infinitely at the edge of all thought and reason. Here we find a new understanding and with each new understanding we all miraculously understand somehow.

Let us all allow Art to stand in its fullness and as we do we can begin to stand in our own. Let us all release the thought that Art is a lavish luxury, a hobby, amusement or a passed time. Let us declare that Art is a basic need of human survival and a way we make sense of our lives. Let us realise it is one of the ways in which we express feelings when we have no visible words. Let it be known as a way for us to understand things within the depths of our beings when our minds get stuck on what we can only see. Let art becomes a therapist for the human soul. What if we created Art to be a mystical version of a chiropractor, or physical therapist? As art communicates through vibrations of colour, sound and ideas it seems to find the places we need to make sense of inside. It is how we respond by feeling that we get back in balance or aligned again. Once the feeling has been felt we seem to come into harmony within ourselves. As we become harmonious or in tune with ourselves we become restored, healthy, and happy and well. Being harmonious opens us to serve others for humanities highest good and in ways we may not even have thought of yet.

The communication from art aids humanity as it focuss on the unseen, that harmonious truth that is the entire universe. We must each see ourselves within this formation of art and as that a gift to the universe through our unique expression. It also must be understood that what we give will be openend and yet it will be in divine time, cherished by the universe with whom we create, never judged for its value or for its importance. Each choice and action from each, each piece of art we tune into must be seen in perfect balance of all that is and equal in its importance. It is from here can we begin our life as artists. So let us begin to practice the practice of mastering peace. It is the peace within the self that arises from understanding our true value, beauty and purpose. What we see is in reponse to what is being called into balance. This awareness if Artistry.

We call great Artists Masters. We also call those who have astounding comprehension of the Universe Masters. Both work in the awaresness of the unseen and know as they focus on that their work has meaning and is eternal. When we focus on what is seen we will experience work and all its reflections as ephemeral. Short lived is also the happiness from the results so we keep working and working or we give up because we never end up having the awareness which holds the true meaning of life. When we begin tapping into the awareness of the unseen, our work will feel like play and its joy will have it feel urgent, important and gratifying. Awarenesses could be the hope and faith that someone's life is enriched from the service or product we are offering or creating. All of a sudden work matters as we see it through the awareness it is mattering. When work is created through awareness, also when it is loved for all it is, it really matters. As we can watch the outcome of each task take form as thoughts of purpose shape and mold it, we are true visionaries and artists. Love is the awareness that makes life matter; it literally has it take form for us to see. It is when we see from that perspective and inclusion that life makes sense. When we work and love we come to life and live know unity and eternity are one and the same as we. We are also are one and the same, our actions and thoughts are eternal. Everything we do does make a difference and changes all that is.

Now the work and play begins. We do not only expect you of master your piece, we you to expect you to remember its importance. We all know harmony, peace, mutual understanding, and equality of fairness. If we wait for government, religion or a corporation to lead us we will never see the leader within that holds the truth. The future of peace for humankind is within the understanding of how these unseen and seen pieces fit together. Artists know this to be true, that is what we do. We master the unseen and all its awarenesses. We see and know them and have everything else guide us to them. So we are all artists. Remember as we feel a melody, see an image, or allow a movement to touch us we connect to its unseen source. 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. We remember this source and force is the medium from which we all create. It is simply, easily and profoundly "Love". This is where we realize transformation.

Simply, artistry is remembering we are Love and the source of everything known 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, the unseen, and a source of infinite intelligence that lies within connecting eternity to each of us. We open to seek to 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.

Clear the slate of your mind. Snap shut the clapboard of life and slate. I am (your name). Now imagine being the playwright, the director, the actor and the audience all at the same time. Imagine no longer being cast as background or worse yet, not even getting a part. Imagine your story, your dream and you being the star. Now imagine projecting your story, your dream onto the screen of your life. See each person in your life as a character playing a role that is offered with a gift. See each part as serving and supporting your life, your story in some way. We are all in a continuous story, a story that is all about Love. When we are able to access the Artist within we restore our authority, our understanding and our power as the creator of our life. When we are able to do this… the fun begins!

We are the artists of our life. What we dream is possible. Who we are is magnificent! We are all creative, fabulous, talented Artists here to perform our grandest expression that is everything we are. You are a Master- Peace! As children we knew and remembered this. We knew each moment was all about creation, imagination and play. We can now unite work and play to reveal "way" as the way. The way is for us all to return to the playgrounds of our childhood and imagine our life as a dream. The way is playing, practicing and performing with the unseen. Wake up, and come back to life to live as love. Please come back out to play!!!!

A Gift from one amazing Unique Expression

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Possibility

All positive change in the world comes from our ideas of what we believe is possible."
~Alexandra Jamieson~


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"Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater."
~Bill Blackman~


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"An optimist expects his dreams to come true; a pessimist expects his nightmares to."
~Laurence J. Peter~


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"The power of imagination makes us infinite."
~John Muir~


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"People get what they want in life when they reach the point at which they can see themselves having what they seek."
~Thomas D. Willhite~


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"Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future."
~Charles F. Kettering~


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"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation."
~Pearl S. Buck~


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"The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good."
~Brian Tracy~


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"The future is simply infinite possibility waiting to happen. What it waits on is human imagination to crystallize its possibility."
~Leland Kaiser~


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"Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing."
~John Andrew Holmes~


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"Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
~St. Francis of Assisi~


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"When nothing is sure, everything is possible."
~Margaret Drabble~


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"All big things in this world are done by people who are naive and have an idea that is obviously impossible."
~Dr. Frank Richards~


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"Look for the opportunities in the difficulties, not the difficulties in the opportunities."
~Victor Fiorelli~


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"The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do."
~Orison Swett Marden~


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"Only as high as I reach can I grow, only as far as I seek can I go, only as deep as I look can I see, only as much as I dream can I be."
~Karen Ravn~


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"Take control now. Forget about the negative thoughts which others have told you - that you are too old or too young. Stop letting the thoughts of others rule your life; stop being weak and cowardly, blaming your lack of progress on those negative programs. If you begin now and become a do-er, you will have earned your right to remain here."
~Thomas D. Willhite~


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"Some people see things as they are and say "Why." I dream things that never were and say "Why not."
~George Bernard Shaw~


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"All of us were meant to be happy and successful. Life is more than a two week vacation once a year. It is, and can be, exactly what you want it to be. There are no limits except those you put on yourself."
~Thomas D. Willhite~


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"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
~T.S. Eliot~


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"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."
~Albert Einstein~


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"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
~John Updike~


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"Those who say it can't be done are either the ones who have never tried or who have never succeeded."
~Satish Thawani~


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