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In the Pursuit of Rainbows

Friday, May 10th, 2013

This day I am inspired by the wondrous inner meaning of rainbows…

Each of us finds the significance in them that best reflects our functioning at any given time and in such a mood we find inspiration anew. Rainbows bring Hope and a fresh perspective in living. Inspired by Marc Edmund Jones, my thoughts go to the power of eternal values and having meaningful responsibilities in our pursuit of rainbows, the iridescent joys that linger to inspire all. In the everlasting joy of meaningful living all is possible….

It is always a joy to hear from you and to share in the depths of inner peace and universal harmony.

How do you share your pursuit of rainbows?

Wishing you a wonder-filled Day.

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Prayer

Tuesday, April 23rd, 2013

My beloved husband, Bob Kline and I have shared for almost three decades a joyful partnership in the wonders of the spiritual Path. I treasure our co-operation and continuous activity in our common mission for peace and harmonious living. I honor his contribution to in all the ways he knows how to make it happen so my ideas can travel around the world.

One evening during our time in Glastonbury, United Kingdom he was inspired during a Sufi Concert and later on he shared with me a powerful statement that made an impact on him.

“For saying so many prayers,

I have become a prayer.”

Rumi

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Pondering about Meaning

Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013

A golden stepping stone to the awareness of wholeness comes from living a meaningful life. Carl G. Jung said, "the ultimate essence of a universe in which man has a conscious existence is meaning." Everything in life has the potential to develop special significance when we participate in all that happens around us. Our choices make a difference.

Through experience we develop greater sensitivity to relationships with all that exists, a deeper sentiment for life's purpose and a penetrating understanding of people and situations we encounter. Each moment is filled with unsuspected meaning.

I would like to share with you some related affirmations, as a springboard to create positive statements that are significant at this stage of your own inner process:

I recognize an added overtone of significance in all that comes to me.
Each experience has a deeper meaning awaiting to be discovered.
Each situation and event has a divine purpose.

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Beauty of the Earth

Thursday, March 7th, 2013

Sometimes, a poem or song or hymn inspires us to add to it from the core of our own being as its essence touches ours. This is what happened to dear friend, Patti Hudson, who has enjoyed singing the hymn, “For the Beauty of the Earth” since she was a child. In the last few years, she has added a new verse with words of her own and I am happy to share with you her complete piece in peaceful living.

“For the beauty of the Earth, for the glory of the sky

For the love that from our birth, over and around us lies.

Lord of all to thee we raise, this our hymn of grateful praise.”

It’s beautiful, this universe of which I am a part,

It thrills me, oh it thrills me, deep down within my heart.

To think I help create it, is a wonder beyond words

I am a co-creator, I help create my world.

It ‘s beautiful this universe, it’s beautiful my world.”

She often sings this on beautiful days, taking in God’s beauty while riding a tandem bike with her husband.

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Enduring Values

Monday, January 21st, 2013

I treasure Aristotle’s enlightening philosophy and this day it becomes meaningful:

“Whatsoever that be within us that feels, thinks,

desires and animates is something celestial, divine,

and consequently, imperishable…”

Those things that we build in the depths of our being are eternal. Great masters of humanity have spoken extensively of such a reality. Each of us experiences this as we give priority to matters of enduring value.

I would like to invite you to consider the following questions, pertinent to your own everlasting values.

What are the core enduring values guiding my path?
How can I build a renewed sense of values each day?
What are some of the eternal insights in my hands?

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Mission in Life

Wednesday, October 31st, 2012

Michel Montaigne expressed that the great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose. A golden stepping stone to the awareness of wholeness comes from a dedication to the fulfillment of our deeper purpose. We are the artists of our life and shape our experiences with our own brush. When we find our unique mission, we know it with certainty from within. We attain that which we came to do by expressing the richness of our own personality, using our special talents, and sharing it all with others in everyday life.

I would like to invite you today to consider the following questions, pertinent to your own mission in life.

How does my mission in life relate to universal purpose?
What are my primordial priorities based on eternal values?
In what ways do I fulfill my social responsibilities, my unique contribution for the good of the whole?
How can I best employ my special talents for the fulfillment of my mission?

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Sharing about Life Purpose

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2012

In a presentation to the Congregation Keneseth Israel earlier this year I shared with the group the Hassidic Saying that captures the essence of my philosophy of life:

“All souls are one. Each is a spark

of the original soul, and this soul is inherent

in all souls.”

In the context of the oneness of all, this session was an opportunity to talk about the power of the wisdom that arises from within as a meaningful golden stepping stone to wholeness. When we allow the rush and pressure of our days to fall away, we are more able to discern the essential truth of what lies before us. Peace Pilgrim said, “Each of us is a cell in the body of humanity, and has the potential to make a special contribution. Alan Cohen, author of “Rising in Love – The Journey into Light” invites people to clarify their role by asking themselves: “Where does my passion call me? How can I serve others in the highest way possible? What tools can I offer that will bring them greater peace and aliveness? Regardless of what I was told about how the world is supposed to work, what do I know, from inside out, about how life really works?”

I look forward to hearing your thoughts about your own mission in life.

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Creative Manifestations

Monday, August 6th, 2012

How are you expressing your creativity? Are you inspired to share the core of your being through creative writing, poetry, music, dance or any other expanding way to unfold your imagination through inner communion with the divine?

In response to one of my earlier Musings, Carol Zengara shared some words of wisdom coming from Dane Rudhyar, which capture what resides in her heart.

“The individual who is consecrated and true to the spirit acts as the spirit, in terms of human needs. Performing thus the acts of the spirit, carrying forth the dynamic purpose of life, the individual will know fulfillment and harmony. He will know it as the cyclic linking of God and of man within the creative act. He will know it as the lightning knows the Earth, as the wind feels the sea, as light experiences the worlds it stirs out of space.”

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Walking the Talk – Part Three

Friday, July 13th, 2012

A friend in Argentina, Neestor Hugo Almagro, represents the power of acting in harmony with the universe. He was answering mail on a Sunday morning when he suddenly felt a strong desire to ascend with other people to the top of a 12,000 ft. mountain called “Lomas Blancas”. With his backpack, equipment and companions ready, they climbed.

25 years earlier he had said to himself: “I must prepare to practice medicine, even on a hilltop, doing without technology.” Finally the opportunity had come. Upon reaching the peak they found a man suffering a severe anxiety crisis, incapable of breathing. He received a conscious breathing treatment from my friend. Once out of the crisis, in about 15 minutes, he was astounded and said that such crises usually lasted 72 hours, handicapping him severely for work or the performance of even small duties. As he was feeling better they all returned happily to the city.

For my friend, this was a dramatization of what it means to live in the present doing what needs to be done and trusting the future will unfold in wondrous ways.

Works remain the proof of faith.

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Group Harmony and Cooperation

Saturday, April 21st, 2012

Yesterday I had the joy to attend an event at the Center for Community Peacemaking in my hometown whose mission is to foster peacemaking and the resolution of conflict with others through the teaching and implementation of Restorative Justice values and principles. Their resources, within others, focus on group dynamics that support and encourage harmonious relationships.

And this morning, I wonder:

· What is the value of harmony in a group?

· What does it mean to me to engage in a cooperative effort?

· How does harmony in a group relate with inner peace?

Inner peace comes when facing problems with an attitude that leads to solutions for ourselves and in our outreach to others. Following this path means more than being free of tensions, or escaping experiences that cause pain during difficult moments, as that would artificially divide life. It implies living in such a way that we continuously develop new resources to more effectively handle situations within ourselves and in our relationships with others. It is a state of dynamic harmony through which we explore and constantly realize our inner potential in expanded living.

“True harmony in a group is a vital thing,

the varying contributions of the members

achieving consonance through the co-

operative intent of each.”

Helen Rentsch, Sabian student

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