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Practical Balance

Mayte Picco-Kline — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:00:11 +0000

Every once in a while I like to share with you some of the pearls of wisdom from Diane Dreher's “The Tao of Inner Peace.” Take a look at this perspective of balance…

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.

What I Want/What I Need

Mayte Picco-Kline — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:00:14 +0000

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

A Wedding Blessing

Mayte Picco-Kline — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 11:00:28 +0000

My husband, Robert A. Kline, and I have enjoyed over two decades of a very happy and harmonious marriage, based on our mutual love, respect, trust and understanding. When we celebrated our Silver Anniversary with dear family, we asked them all to sign a paper for us, as witness of our everlasting commitment. This special document was written by my dear friend, Rusty Smith Carnarius, for other friends on the day of their wedding. She has given me permission to share it with other people and I am joyful to post it for you today.

A Wedding Blessing, by Rusty Smith Carnarius

Health is Well Being

May your bodies always be the dwelling place of the love and the joy that you each feel today as, hand in hand, you look fearlessly towards your future together. Remember this sense of vibrant energy and bring it to the service of your daily living

Radiate well being.

Wealth is Endless Resource

May you always have EVERYTHING you need in each moment of your specific need for it. And may this day with its wealth of love and good wishes, which are given unstintingly by your families and your friends to surround you and support you, stand forever as a personal definition of richness.

Use your resources generously.

Happiness is Sharing

May you continuously cherish one another so that each of you, feeling fulfilled and filled full, can walk your individual paths bringing to others that which you have found of gentleness, humor, and security through your marriage.

Continue sharing.

Understanding is the Wellspring of Hope

Everything about us is always in a state of becoming. Help it to become better than it was when you found it and your relationship will, in its turn, bless your world.

Embrace the hopeful.

I ask this in the name of All That Is, in which we as children of all faiths and persuasions live and move and have our Beingness. Amen.

The Awe of What can Be

Mayte Picco-Kline — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:10:37 +0000

One of our joys in life is to create our dreams of the future, a vision, our ideals, that whenever possible we focus on manifesting in the here and now. In this context, every once in a while I find meaningful sharing with you one of the powerful ideas emanated from my participation in the teachings of Marc Edmund Jones that relate with the topic at hand. Marc talked in myriad ways about the everlasting potential we explore throughout life.

Here’s my interpretation of one of his thoughts: “When the soul quickens to the Presence within and finds expression in some act of special creativeness, we find consummation in fulfillment of our potential.”

Creativity resides within each one of us. How do you express yours?

I look forward to our communications.

In the Midst of Pain

Mayte Picco-Kline — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:00:30 +0000

When life becomes extremely challenging, when it is difficult to understand what is happening in the world, when physical and/or psychological pain goes beyond imagination and compassion expands to each suffering soul, Confucius said,

"There are people who cry knowing roses have thorns.

Others smile because thorns have roses”.

Shared by Guillermo Calderón

Our Hearts go to Japan

Mayte Picco-Kline — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:24:25 +0000

The Wholeness in Living network joins the whole world in our prayers and light to all beings that live in Japan.

May the Light and Love,

The Peace and Harmony

that we discovered in the Japanese soul

during the two weeks my husband and I

visited there during the autumn of 2009

continue to bring Strength and Resilience

to all our Brothers and Sisters in the land of the rising sun.

Our hearts are with you.

Photo by: Bob Kline

Prayer for Peace

Mayte Picco-Kline — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 22:22:55 +0000

We are having the privilege of witnessing history today through the power of peaceful social transformation as group consciousness rises in need of social change conducive to facilitate the exploration of inner potential, a renewed sense of individual and group balance, an expansion of individual responsibility and commitment, and the opportunity for more fulfilling lives in pursuit of ideals.

Mahatma Gandhi’s Prayer for Peace comes to mind in the context of recent social events, “I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.”

Manifesting Ideals

Mayte Picco-Kline — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 11:00:00 +0000

Today I am reflecting on the meaning of manifesting our most cherished ideals throughout life as we strive toward intentional living.

For many of us, this is a lifetime process filled with great moments of accomplishment, times of challenge to clarify our mission and still other dreams to be fulfilled in time. What a fascinating process this can potentially be! I would invite you to ponder on your own, personal commitments in this area.

What do you see happening in the future? Ideals have the power to create energy to direct our efforts to attain ever-higher goals.

I would like to share with you some of my own commitments as we speak: I align my life with my deepest understanding and act out of my highest realization. Living up to my ideals, I find opportunities to manifest them in the realm of everyday. I acknowledge that by having an experience of oneness with one being I can know it with the world. This day I saturate myself in the ideals of a group I admire in a joyous outreach to a broader vision.

Ah! I am now inspired to continue working in this direction.

Let me know your ideas in this regard as you wish!

Adjustment is Intelligence

Mayte Picco-Kline — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:00:22 +0000

Through my review of Sabian materials today, I find of personal relevance the following sentence: “The sensible man utilizes the interweaving of the potentialities of his inner ideals and his outer situation, each for the other.”

Marc Edmund Jones

Founder of the Sabian Assembly

www.sabian.org

Discovering a Challenge

Mayte Picco-Kline — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:00:04 +0000

A book I have been recommending for years is “The Tao of Inner Peace” by Dianne Dreher. I find her approach most practical as we strive to embrace a state of dynamic harmony within ourselves. One of her suggestions is to find a meaningful challenge that makes any life an adventure.

Here are some of her suggestions in such exploration:

Can you see each day as a chance to practice what you believe?
Can you do something each day to renew your sense of challenge?
Could you benefit from more conscious discipline in following your goals?

Close your eyes and see yourself doing these things, living with greater joy, energy and adventure. How do you feel?