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Prosperity is not in what you have attained,
but rather in what you give away... for it is only when you become empty that you can be filled with something greater.
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There are so many things underway right now that my head is spinning! All are in varied stages of completion - many close to being finalized but just not there! I feel like I'm living in a Jackson Pollock painting!
My current situation reminds me of a theory I heard years ago about a mirror. A fraction of an inch below the surface of a mirror, everything is complete and utter chaos. Yet moving forward that minute fraction is all it takes to have everything come together with complete clarity! And I am undoubtedly moving forward! As always, everything is as it should be. The world is abundant with love and miracles, joy and bliss. Light City is the nation's only large scale light and ideas festival and it's right here in Baltimore. Don't miss it! Color, lights, community, music, bands, floats! Experience Baltimore's Brilliance!  
  This was originally posted on October 28, 2012. It seems even more appropriate now than it did then. My dear friend Ramesh Jain posted this in his newsletter. Written by Dr. Bob Moorehead, former pastor of Seattle’s Overlake Christian Church. A Paradox of Our Time . . . The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things. We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information but we communicate less and less. These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person will not be there again.
Relationships are not about holding hands while you understand each other……..! They are about having lots of misunderstanding and still holding each other’s hands…..! Ramesh Jain POORNA ANANDA (Centre for Spiritual Evolution and Joyful Living) Hyderabad, INDIA The first day of trout was the closest Saturday to April 15th when I lived in the fishing cabin. This time of year I always feel a little homesick. Maybe eventually this time of year will come and go without my looking back.    While I was at the cabin I started painting the local fish on everything that wouldn't move - clothes, rocks, walls, my business card. An ichthyologist from Penn State helped me identify all of the fish in the creek. My pumpkin seed fish landed me a job illustrating a children's book. So many magical memories.
 This is the lucky "Kiss my bass" fish. I put it by my neighbor's door in the morning and in a few hours he caught a prize winning fish!
   Recently I've been reviewing values associated with colors for my rainbow course. It's time to redo my Values map based on the appropriate colors. Creating maps is such a great way to process. My next one will be a flower garden with seeds or maybe a rainbow. Either way, I want to use more color symbolism.
In the midst of our exciting new Friendship Garden business and website, half way through my Exploring Rainbows course (now working on green), and being lost in a book one of my participants brought me - A Perfect Red - reminders like Zimmerman'z "Promise Yourself" help keep me focused. Hope you'll like this too! Promise yourself...
To be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. To talk health, happiness and prosperity to every person you meet. To make all your friends feel that there is something in them. To look at the sunny side of everything and make your optimism come true. To think only of the best, to work only for the best and to expect only the best. To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. To wear a cheerful countenance at all times and give every living creature you meet a smile. To give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others. To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear, and too happy to permit the presence of trouble. Dr. Alan Zimmerman If waters are placid, the moon will be mirrored perfectly. If we still ourselves, we can mirror the divine perfectly. But if we engage solely in the frenetic activities of our daily involvements, if we seek to impose our own schemes on the natural order, and if we allow ourselves to become absorbed in self-centered views, the surface of our waters becomes turbulent. Then we cannot be receptive to Tao.
There is no effort that we can make to still ourselves. True stillness comes naturally from moments of solitude where we allow our minds to settle. Just as water seeks its own level, the mind will gravitate toward the holy. Muddy water will become clear if allowed to stand undisturbed, and so too will the mind become clear if it is allowed to be still. - Deng Ming-Dao, from 365 Tao, Daily Meditations It seemed only fair that I join you in looking for red, so I attended the Catch a Rainbow exhibit at Rawlings Conservatory. Beautiful shades of red were in the Rainbow exhibit as well as the Mediterranean House, Tropical House, Desert House, Orchid House and Palm House. After the exhibit, the search for all things red continued with a cheese and salami platter with red wine at Birroteca.
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