Imagination is the normal manifestation of our higher inner stirrings and speaks of our creative power within.

         My dear friend, Maria Talis, born in the Netherlands, has shared the fruits of her inspiration in her poems for peace and harmony. To listen to a glorious interpretation of this idea, visit her website about Music and Peace.

   This Growing Imagination

Can you imagine how it would be

If we could see the Beauty

In every existing form

That is known to us?

Could we express the harmony

Of all this Beauty?

How would it be if we could reflect

- In every glance, in every breath –

The Love which causes

All this harmony

And causes this Beauty?

Can you imagine how it would be

If we would try, just try to do this?

email: maria.talis(a)angelaprodeo.org

(words: © Maria Talis)

• How am I contributing to the well–being of others in the present?
  

• How can I better use my special talents?
  

• What fields of potentially broader service to society would I like to explore?
  

Joyful thoughts as we embrace 2012!!!

• Look at the patterns that emerge.  Are your days balanced?

• Are there some things you can delegate, eliminate, or otherwise simplify?

• Is there anything missing from your life?

• Can you make room for it by scaling down your involvement in other areas?

• Think of yourself as an architect designing a beautiful living structure.
  

     Carol Zengara wrote, “Relinquishments in your Musings made me think of needs/wants. A friend of mine brought this to mind years ago. He suggested asking yourself: Do I "need" this or that or do I "want" this or that. Here speaking just from a material point of view. But taking the need/want a bit further: Why am I holding on to a particular destructive concept/reaction? Why do I "seem" to need/want to hold on?” She suggests, “relinquish what is no longer serving a viable/constructive purpose in our lives, when we can, and replace it with a fresh/positive/forward-growth-moving concept or affirmation. Easy to say but at times difficult to do.”

     Brian Donley, who has become a good friend through our mutual author’s activities for years, highlights, in connection with my previous notes about relinquishments, a powerful sentence that is still reverberating in my mind, heart and soul…

     "What I Want and What I Need are Exactly the Same THING."            

                                                   Peace Pilgrim

     Living in the present gives intensity to all experience!!!

     I would like to share with you today some of my core commitments as I rejoice in the wonders of the present moment, a time that is one with all.

     I embrace and become one with this moment.  When in need to concentrate temporarily on a past instance perhaps to find deeper meaning, to assimilate the consequences of my actions, to learn to live without the presence of a beloved one, to appreciate and be thankful for all that has been or to bring new events into a wider perspective, I enter into the experience with the whole of myself and then return in a joyous embrace of the present and complete acceptance in the moment.  I breathe in the beauty around me.  In all circumstances, I experience the present as a glorious gift from the universe.

     This is an invitation to share your impressions and own commitments with me as you feel inspired to do so.

     A Happy Day to You.

            Another question in an interview by Charito Calvachi-Mateyko for radio WLCH 91.3 FM in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.

           True success, independent of our economic resources, is to dedicate our life to activities that encourage and support the spirit, independent of isolated profits. Truly successful people have profits that involve all their being and obtain a style of life that benefits, in addition to the individual, all those around him. As David R. Hawkins says in his book, Power vs. Force, truly successful people are courteous and considerate with everyone, treating all as equals. "Truly successful people see their position as a responsibility, an obligation to exert their influence for the greater benefit of all". He explains, "Success elevates us or destroys us, depending on how we integrate success in our personalities. If we are proud or humble; if we are egotistical or thankful; if we consider ourselves better than others because of our talents or we consider our talents a gift, and for them we are thankful — these are the determining factors.”