I send my love to you all, Sisters and Brothers! And may all Being find light, hope and love today. I hope you're happy, and healthy. And if you're only the one, or the other - or neither - why not make a new beginning? Yes, right now!
In my own fashion, that's exactly what I'm doing. In this moment, and with the launch of my new blog. We all of us get "down", discouraged or discombobulated. But consider: what's keeping us from deliberately getting "up", en-couraged and re-combobulated?
Note the word "deliberately" - first of all, like lots of words we use everyday, without really thinking about them, that's just the one that leapt up onto the page as I was typing along. Honest! But look what "deliberate" can do for us, now we're looking at it!
Deliberate, in its verb form, means to consider carefully, right? (of course it does - I just cut and pasted it out of Wiktionary!). If you like, then, carefully consider what (or whom?) is keeping you there, where you're not feeling wonderful, as you should be. No, I can't tell you what, or whom to carefully deliberate upon - that's up to you. But mind the breath, first. For just a few minutes, breathe in, breathe out.
Honestly, you don't really need me or anyone else to tell you "what" or "how". The answer's already right there, in your heart. What attention to the breath does, is help us to open to the heart, and the answers it holds for us.
But, OK, if you want a hint, look at "deliberate" as an adjective: done on purpose; intentional. Yeah that really caught my eye, "intentional". Before I even got really started blogging here, I wanted to be quite clear about my intention. Its important. Some even say its powerful, is intention.
I'm actually sort of betting on that, with starting this new blog, I mean. The power of intention - Wayne Dyer did a great program on this, a couple of years back. I take my wisdom wherever it pops up! I'm betting on my attention toward bringing more light, hope and love into the world, to also bring more light, hope and love into my own life. Like, deliberately!
You're already feeling better, huh? "Honey, you ought to hear this nut, 'Brother Charlie', he just rambles on and on!" No, its okay - go on ahead, laugh it up - I remember one of my favorite parts of Reader's Digest, growing up, was the jokes pages. Especially "Laughter is the Best Medicine"!
I'll tell you a wonderful thing, happened to me about an hour ago: I was outside, enjoying a smoke, and I finally saw the bat! Mind you, I can always hear the bat, beeping his sonar-beeps as (she?) orbits around, over the pools of light thrown out by the street-lamps, 'cuz as all bats know, the light attracts the bugs, and bugs is food! Never - well, very seldom - did I ever before get a good look at it.
Oh, another important thing I've left out: I'm terrified of bats! But I've heard some people like riding roller-coasters 'cuz it terrifies 'em. People! So then, tonite - BOOM! I can see the bat, going round and round between these three street lamps, beeping and beeping. Hardly ever seen more than a brief flash of one wing. Tonite, I must have watched that bat go around ten times!
I found myself doing pirouettes, in the middle of the street, my head cocked back to look up and keep grooving on watching this bat fly in circles. On the way back indoors, it hit me: always before I missed seeing the bat because I always stand in one particular spot, across the street. Tonite, when the bat came out, I wasn't in my accustomed spot - so the angle of the street-lamp was just right to illuminate the bat's wings.
So, my Sisters and Brothers - these are my closing words of wisdom: stand in a different spot tomorrow; walk a different way to the bus stop; do something that scares you, at least a little; deliberately make some kind of change; tell someone you love them. Simple stuff.
Or, honestly, maybe none of the above! What do I know?
Peace,
Bro. Charlie
In my own fashion, that's exactly what I'm doing. In this moment, and with the launch of my new blog. We all of us get "down", discouraged or discombobulated. But consider: what's keeping us from deliberately getting "up", en-couraged and re-combobulated?
Note the word "deliberately" - first of all, like lots of words we use everyday, without really thinking about them, that's just the one that leapt up onto the page as I was typing along. Honest! But look what "deliberate" can do for us, now we're looking at it!
Deliberate, in its verb form, means to consider carefully, right? (of course it does - I just cut and pasted it out of Wiktionary!). If you like, then, carefully consider what (or whom?) is keeping you there, where you're not feeling wonderful, as you should be. No, I can't tell you what, or whom to carefully deliberate upon - that's up to you. But mind the breath, first. For just a few minutes, breathe in, breathe out.
Honestly, you don't really need me or anyone else to tell you "what" or "how". The answer's already right there, in your heart. What attention to the breath does, is help us to open to the heart, and the answers it holds for us.
But, OK, if you want a hint, look at "deliberate" as an adjective: done on purpose; intentional. Yeah that really caught my eye, "intentional". Before I even got really started blogging here, I wanted to be quite clear about my intention. Its important. Some even say its powerful, is intention.
I'm actually sort of betting on that, with starting this new blog, I mean. The power of intention - Wayne Dyer did a great program on this, a couple of years back. I take my wisdom wherever it pops up! I'm betting on my attention toward bringing more light, hope and love into the world, to also bring more light, hope and love into my own life. Like, deliberately!
You're already feeling better, huh? "Honey, you ought to hear this nut, 'Brother Charlie', he just rambles on and on!" No, its okay - go on ahead, laugh it up - I remember one of my favorite parts of Reader's Digest, growing up, was the jokes pages. Especially "Laughter is the Best Medicine"!
I'll tell you a wonderful thing, happened to me about an hour ago: I was outside, enjoying a smoke, and I finally saw the bat! Mind you, I can always hear the bat, beeping his sonar-beeps as (she?) orbits around, over the pools of light thrown out by the street-lamps, 'cuz as all bats know, the light attracts the bugs, and bugs is food! Never - well, very seldom - did I ever before get a good look at it.
Oh, another important thing I've left out: I'm terrified of bats! But I've heard some people like riding roller-coasters 'cuz it terrifies 'em. People! So then, tonite - BOOM! I can see the bat, going round and round between these three street lamps, beeping and beeping. Hardly ever seen more than a brief flash of one wing. Tonite, I must have watched that bat go around ten times!
I found myself doing pirouettes, in the middle of the street, my head cocked back to look up and keep grooving on watching this bat fly in circles. On the way back indoors, it hit me: always before I missed seeing the bat because I always stand in one particular spot, across the street. Tonite, when the bat came out, I wasn't in my accustomed spot - so the angle of the street-lamp was just right to illuminate the bat's wings.
So, my Sisters and Brothers - these are my closing words of wisdom: stand in a different spot tomorrow; walk a different way to the bus stop; do something that scares you, at least a little; deliberately make some kind of change; tell someone you love them. Simple stuff.
Or, honestly, maybe none of the above! What do I know?
Peace,
Bro. Charlie
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