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Quotes by Prince

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when doves fly

Maybe I’m just too demanding
Maybe I’m just like my father, too bold
Maybe you’re just like my mother
She’s never satisfied
Why do we scream at each other
This is what it sounds like
When doves cry

 

A strong spirit transcends rules.

Time is a mind constraint.  It’s not real.

The gatekeepers must change.

If you set your mind free, maybe you’ll understand.

The most important thing is to be true to yourself.

I’m not a woman.  I’m not a man.  I am something that you’ll never understand.

Yeah, everybody’s got a bomb.  We could all die any day.  But before I let that happen, I’ll dance my life away.

There are no accidents.  And if there are, it’s up to us to look at them as something else.  And that bravery is what creates new flowers.

To Be Free (in honor of Prince Rodgers Nelson)

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What would it be like to be free?

To define your identity.  To dress or undress according to whim.  To wear your hair as you like.  To be man, woman, something in between, or not yet imagined.  To be not black, not white, brown, red, or yellow.  To be free of color or culture.  To just be.

To not be swayed by the judgments and condemnation of others, nor by their praise.  To do what you want and, if others like it, they can join you – or not.  To be strong enough to be who and what you want, whenever you want.

To be so very empowered that you can define yourself as something indefinable or unpronounceable and, because of that audacity, everyone willingly accommodates the symbol that you create for your identity.  To control your beingness and command honor and respect from all with whom you interact and engage.

To answer only to yourself and to whatever you define as your Higher Self.  To not have a Higher Self because you may at all times function as your Highest Self.  To reach the point of no separation and, therefore, have no language for the two that is One.

To be your own boss and generate your own income.

To create beyond what seems possible because you are so very unlimited.  To inspire others to fly, to think beyond, to go where no one will ever go because you are proof that one can have a unique expansiveness.

To break through boundaries and obstacles.  To rise above bullying, teasing, racism, sexism, ageism, any-ism because none of this can touch or hold back a shooting star.

To be so confident and assured that fear does not even occur to you or, if it comes near, you swat it away like a flea and continue on your glorious path.

To make the world adjust to your terms because everyone gravitates to a Free One because we all want to be free.  To be so free that those in your presence feel that sense of freedom and remember it and the happiness that it brought for years thereafter.

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Your Perceived Self

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As we clearly sense and name our experience, we can notice what brings it about and how we can respond to it more fully and skillfully.  Jack Kornfield

Don’t take anything personally.  Nothing others do is because of you.  What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream.  When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.  Don Miguel Ruiz

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.  Oscar Wilde

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.  Edgar Allan Poe

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others.  Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval.  Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.  Lao Tzu

I believe I am in Hell; therefore, I am.  Arthur Rimbaud

Perceptions of Our Minds

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Being dependent on everything external allowed me to feel happy and fulfilled.  Being stripped of many material supports is teaching me to clearly see and comprehend the True Source of all that is; that everything that I had, have, and will have is but an expression of that Source; and that I am one with all that is – not better, not less than, but one with.

This concept is very hard for me to put into practice.  I think I’m getting better.  At least I’m aware.

We are all that we can be at this very moment.  It is good to strive to be and do more in order to move towards our promise and destiny.  However, being happy with the miracle of whatever is happening now can help create a happier tomorrow.

Temptations of the flesh are difficult to resist and overcome.  By temptations, I don’t only mean lust, greed, envy, or other such attractions.  I mean perceptions of the sense body.  We look at the material world as the source and end of everything with little or no regard to our spiritual origins, our command of energy, and our dominion.  We allow material existence (persons, places, and circumstances) to have power over us because we have forgotten the reality of our Higher Selves.  We have forgotten who and what we are.

We can become so involved with and drawn into the dramas and traumas of our loved ones, jobs, community, society, and world that we drift into negativity, forgetting that we are Spirit – clear, free, and unlimited.  In our essence, we are like air.  We forget that we are transcendent, that only the perceptions of our minds can entrap us, hold us, and imprison us.  That is the ultimate temptation of the flesh body.  We let the material world make us blind and deaf to our true nature and, thus, become bound to the earth.

The more status we give to tangible things and people, the more we forget that the Infinite even exists.  We drift further and further into anguish and hardship.  The day of reckoning always comes.  Judgment Day comes in different ways and times for each of us.  Cumulatively, all of our unhappiness makes it difficult for the great healers of the world to survive in physical form and help us through this medium.

Great joys come from being in the body.  However, the suffering of human existence becomes quicksand from which it seems impossible to emerge.  Constant struggle grounds one increasingly into the material and away from the reality and source of our being.

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Love Yourself First

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Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.  You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.  Lucille Ball

Layer by layer, I removed all I thought I was, all I thought I had to be, and in the moment I was left standing naked and vulnerable without identities and labels, I remembered . . . I AM THAT I AM.  Lenita Vangellis

I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.  Rita Mae Brown

Live your dreams, not because of what it will prove or get you, but because that is all you want to do.  People’s opinions don’t matter.  Shannon L. Alder

It is not that Spirit produces or heals or corrects matter or the physical universe, but that we rise higher in consciousness to where there is less matter and, therefore, less discord, inharmony, disease, or lack.  Joel Goldsmith

Those who wish to sing always find a song.  Swedish Proverb

Loving Me

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I was listening to Stranger in My House, sung by Tamia.  I have listened to this song countless times.  It talks about her lover who has changed so much that she no longer recognizes him.  This day, I heard words that I had not previously perceived, perhaps because my consciousness was receptive:

Could it be that the stranger is me?
Have I changed so drastically?
Is it I want more for me and you’ve remained the same?
Took awhile to figure out.

 

I started crying.  It’s me, not them!  I’ve changed.

The Universe is aligning and matching me with the value that I have placed on myself.   It is impossible for me to be involved with anything that is not compatible with my vibrational level.  I keep getting upset because some people are treating me differently.  We’re no longer as close as we used to be.  We’re having more conflict.  Maybe they’re treating me the same, but I’ve grown.  I’m new.  I’m not the person that I was.  I’m the stranger and they are behaving as they would with the former me and my new me no longer finds that acceptable.

I have begun to love myself not because of how I look or what I possess or what I’ve accomplished or because others say that they love me.  I love me because I AM ME!  I tell myself, “I love you. I love you.”  I remember how lovingly I renovated my mom’s house because I loved her.  I wanted her to be happy.  Her joy fulfilled me.  Well, I now love me.  I want me to be happy because of my joy.  How can I create love, how can I love others, how can I manifest anything positive if I don’t love me first?  As I have done for others, I need to do for me.

My love of me does not depend on whether or not others love me.  Valuing my worth has nothing to do with anyone.  It has everything to do with me.  I am going to be strong in this knowledge.  I need to shower every fear and every thought of lack and limitation with love.  I need to love all aspects of my life.

Our self-love is so dependent upon external factors: how we are raised or treated by family, friends, others; our financial status, our profession, our sense of security.  Adults commonly don’t feel self-love “just because.”  Just because we exist.  Just because we are awake.  Can we love ourselves for no reason at all?

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The Infinite Way by Joel Goldsmith

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It is our turning within that brings forth the answer already established.  Our listening attitude makes us receptive to the presence and the power within us.

It may at first appear difficult to achieve the state of consciousness wherein the laws of our inner being come into tangible expression.  We will achieve it, however, in proportion to our ability to relax mentally, to gain an inner calm and peace, and therein quietly contemplate the revelations which come to us from within.

As the realization of our dominion dawns in thought, more assurance, confidence, and certainty become evident.  We become a new being, and the world reflects back to us our own higher attitude toward it.

We can take possession of our affairs only as we consciously realize that they are the effect of our own consciousness, the image and likeness of our own being, the manifestation or expression of our divine Self.

That which we seem to be seeking is ever-present within us, and already manifested, and we need to know this truth.  All good already is, and is forever manifested.  The recognition of this truth is answered prayer.

The Infinity of God

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I have visions of a past self.  I call her “the Priestess.”  She is able to directly connect with the Source.  I don’t yet have the name she and her people used.  Once, I sensed that she was reading my written intentions that I periodically state aloud after my meditations.  She expressed irritation at the part where I affirm that all of my bills are paid and my financial obligations are met.  The Priestess abruptly disappeared.

I was confused and, thereafter, asked her to tell me what I should instead be doing.  No answer.

During the next morning’s meditation, I focused my thoughts on God and the infinity of abundance and harmony.  As I continued to meditate on this infinity that is beyond comprehension, I thought of my list of items and suddenly understood.  The Priestess thought that my specific desires were a sign that I still did not comprehend God.  I had not evolved sufficiently to interact with her.

The infinity of God cannot be limited, contained within, or guided and directed by a list.

I began to focus on Infinity and remembered my past lessons when I understood that I became too focused on yoga, swimming, bicycling, etc., as my joy, instead of seeing them as instruments to access JOY or as manifestations of the Creative Energy working in and through me.

When I focus on lack, I focus on obtaining money and jobs instead of focusing on the Infinite Abundance within me and creating from that Assurance.

During my next meditation, I asked for guidance.  I began to silently say: “I see God.  I hear God.  I understand God.  I feel God,” and feel the corresponding eyes, ears, heart, and mind.  I meditated on these self-made mantras whenever I felt my thoughts wander.  I expanded to “I understand God (consciousness).  I receive God (cells).  I give God (exhaling).  This led to visualizing God flowing in and through me, as me.  I am God manifested.

I began to say, “I see God’s abundance.  I feel God’s abundance.  I hear God’s abundance. I understand God’s abundance.  I give and receive God’s abundance.  I thought of the boy in The Alchemist who turned himself into the wind.  Initially, I thought of God as having dominion over the wind.  As I continued to contemplate, I felt God as integrated within and throughout the wind.  God is the wind.  There is no separation.  The boy became aware of himself as God unseparated, God manifested.  He, thus, became aware that he was also the wind and, by this comprehension, was able to transport himself to another location.

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Change Self

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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.   Leo Tolstoy

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.   Eckhart Tolle

You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.  Eckhart Tolle

Awareness is the greatest agent for change.  Eckhart Tolle

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.  Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow.  Let reality be reality.  Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.   Lao Tzu

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time.  We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.  We are the change that we seek.   Barack Obama

The Process of Change

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After creating through external means for years, I now want to see what happens when I instead bring forth the external through awareness and activation of my inner Resource. Committed to this experiment, I developed the following to facilitate my transformation:

Step 1.  What do I Want?

The first step is figuring out what I want.  Beyond the material things that I think will make my life easier – money, money, money – what I really want is peace.  I want less stress.   I want joy in my life.  I want to do what I want and not what I have to do to make ends meet.

I don’t want to keep repeating the same types of experiences over and over.  I want to learn the process of navigation, not simply how to handle a particular person or situation.  My goal is to externally express peace, joy, and fulfillment from my deep and abiding inner consciousness.

I now see that my anger and victim mentality, even if justified, created more stress.  By taking personal responsibility for my life, I am depending less on “them” and more on how I can bring more joy, peace, and security in my life. What can I do today to be happy? How can I better love myself?  Am I making decisions from joy or obligation?  What choices am I making that take me away from what I want?

Step 2.  Start Doing It

Start doing whatever it is that you want.  For me, I post Ancient Seeker every week.  Sometimes I’m late, but I make writing and posting a priority.  I practice yoga.  I meditate.  I swim and bicycle.  I prepare my own healthy meals.  My goals are to be more consistent; but, life intervenes, so I do at least one of these things every day.

Step 3.  Move Away From What is Not Supporting Me

Make choices about those with whom you associate, with whom you spend most of your time.  As much as possible, limit the presence of people who are determined to remain entrenched in negative thought, beliefs, behavior, and speech.  You don’t have to kick people out of your life, but you can minimize contact with those whose normality is creating tension, drama, demands, neverending rain, chaos, and neediness.  I know that some have pulled away from me because I’m not contributing to their lives and I completely understand and support their decisions.  Not everyone can hang through my metamorphosis.

If I am not strong enough to move myself upward while pulling someone else along, I have to let go and I give others the same right with regard to me.  If someone missed the boat and is stranded on an island, are you willing to jump off the departing boat knowing that you might die on the island with that person? Are you willing to jump in front of a train to save another?  Less dramatic, for what are you willing to give up your joy and peace of mind?  These are choices.  There is no right or wrong.   There is only what you want and choose to do.

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