The Army Navy Store

Before leaving the U.S.A - I am out shopping for a long list of items I need to travel to India. I will be in the cold weather for a while and the hot weather for another while. Money is an issue and some of the stuff I need is extremely expensive. So I thought I might as well start where I know there are better prices: the Army Navy Store. Well, as I am loving their prices for certain items. But you have to be ready for the smell, chaotic organization and overwhelming stacks of things, and the homeless looking fellows that roam around the store. As the smell of the store is already a slightly challenging experience for your senses, the body odors of some of the people in the store just add to your already stressed self. So I got out of the store feeling like the more I try to get ready for this, the less I feel ready.

Transitions and Following your Dream

Transitions are never too easy but they are simple: you watch, you choose and you take action all in the moment, with love for yourself and others. The main block to change is usually that we don't let it happen or we don't recognize that, really, we need to change cause we are not paying attention. Imagine yourself on a sailboat. You are the sailboat and the equipage. If you don't recognize that the weather has changed and the cap has changed, how can you choose the next manoeuver to sail your boat? So the boat will get into funky places and may be even crash. In our lives, because we are not mindful, not in the present, not loving ourselves enough, we create aches and pain and blockages - we crash, we get miserable - until we don't have a choice but to change. Of course, a change can be very small or very big but the creative process or the process of change must start with:

1- recognize that you or something in your life (relationship for example) are in a transition, a change, a metamorphosis.

2 - Not be afraid to step into the unknown and let the transition happens while making new choices.

3 - Stay aware of where you steer the boat depending on where you are going, watch the weather and circumstances and be responsible (ie: respond with love (not judgement, not fear) and care for yourself and others) in the moment, in the now.

At least, this is what I have tried to do in my life. Sometime I am right on, sometime I am tired to have to steer the boat, to have to change the sail, to have to sail big waves or no waves...but in the end I know that if I keep on doing it with love and care and in the moment, I will get where I chose to go! ...My Dream!

What do we know about anything?

I read a quote today that I love: " Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." For many reasons, some that are just coming to pass, I have felt like my life has been an unfolding of who I am truly, from the inside and out, and what I have to really show are my creations.  Do I really know the impact I have had on life itself? Do I really know when I actually am finding myself, finding others, creating myself, creating others? No I don't because nothing is truly knowable. But to be the one who knows is a creative action in itself.  The being and the action coming together is the life creating ourselves. And, if I don't know, then it is the unknown: a space where life creates us, and where we are creating from the perspective of the Knower, the Soul - not the mind and yet the mind being part of the Soul - the one who we are but really don't know quite the magnificence of it and therefore, we create ourselves to discover who we are. Isn't that what many religions and spiritual traditions are about. Isn't that the quote "know thyself and you will know God" means. So life is about creating in order to realize who we are (ie: in order to know the knower, the soul). We need both creation and finding ourselves to know that we are the one who Knows....It is a cycle, a circle, an ever evolving spiral of evolution and expansion. The one who knows, the knower, the soul knows it is evolving, it is progressing and is constantly present guiding us to create in order to live and discover who it/we are as one. This phenomenon might be something completely obvious and known for many minds (many people) on a spiritual journey and it might be completely new for others.  And yet, time is irrelevant. What is new for you and old for others is just an illusion of time. What  is real is when we have the experience and then the understanding that Life is really about creating ourselves first and then finding ourselves.  And what matters is that we know we are the knower, the soul. 

Annissa, upon a stream of consciousness.

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I was introduced to Master Sha's "Soul Masters" documentary movie thru a dear teacher Delphi Amritam . I saw the movie 4 times. I just could not believe how incredible and dedicated Master Guo and Master Sha, two incredibly and extraordinary healers, are in the world and how their message was so simple. Heal the soul first, then the mind and the body will follow. The other message Master Sha talks about in his book: Living a Divine Relationship is that we are all universal servant. And in essence, we are the universe! The soul can heal and transform the universe. It’s about the soul over matter, not mind over matter. I had heard this from my very first blessed teacher Dan Daughtery, and I knew what he meant. And I had never seen the application of this simple truth in such a powerful way. The movie's idea started in itself by the healing of the father of the filmmaker, who I met recently and who is so dedicated to the mission of transforming consciousness. After Master Sha healed her father miraculously, she decided to follow him to China and meet his teacher. Little by little, you realize that the movie is not just about Chinese Traditional Medicine but about the Divine work of two great spiritual Masters. The truth, the knowledge, the upliftmment and the wisdom permeates the movies and is quite uplifting. I strongly suggest to anyone to see this movie.