Loving obstacles into non-existence - how do we do that?

Gandhi did it. He held to the truth that was the injustice of occupation and to the conviction that people would be able to have the strength of will to remain non-violent and he swayed an empire. He didn't do it through hate. He did it through love. Love of the individuals involved even though they were ignorant. He grieved for their ignorance - he pointed it out, he fought against it and his own.
We ALL of us have ignorance, it is on so many levels. It is the cause of such sadness and anguish and suffering. But it's OK, because as much as everyone of us has such ignorance we also share truth and awareness and we are undeniably connected one to another.
Therefore our obstacles, be they those that prevent us from our daily bread, or our own self doubt, or the oppression of others, these obstacles are not set in stone, they are impermanent like everything. Like everything can be moved by love, they can. Like everyone can be moved at the plight of others, we recognise our shared struggles. Let's not fight each other for bread or space, or position.
I don't have a lot of money, that's one of my obstacles I'm learning to love. But I have enormous faith and conviction. Moneylessness has taught me to rely on an intelligence greater than mine; to listen to the small, quiet voice within, to move when it says move and stay still when it says stay - even if this is contrary to all outer appearances that may be screaming 'MOVE'. It has never been wrong. When you can trust that voice, you can truly move mountains. There is nothing like fearlessness to bring down an injustice of any proportion.

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Wiki-good leak quotes

There has been a secret giant love spill - and it's coming your way...:-

Where there's a wikileak there's a way
English Proverb

Wikileaked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love.
Aristotle

If the Lord should bring a wikileaked man to heaven, heaven would be hell to him; for he who loves not grace upon earth will never love it in heaven”
Christopher Love

To deny the freedom of the wikileak is to make morality impossible.
Orig. 'will' James Anthony Froude

I never wonder to see men wikileaked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed
Jonathan Swift

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wikileaked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.
Niccolo Machiavelli

All theory is against the freedom of the wikileaks, all experience for it.
Samuel Johnson

To see and listen to the wikileak is already the beginning of wikileakedness.
Confucious!

As long as war is regarded as wikileaked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular...
Oscar Wilde

The star of the unconquered wikileak, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We sought therefore to amend our wikileak, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)

I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wikileaked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.
Oscar Wilde

All things truly wikileaked start from an innocence.
Ernest Hemingway

The wikileaked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu

And now am I, if a man should speak truly, little better than one of the wikileaked.”
William Shakespeare

And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human wikileak.
Alexander Pope

The sun also shines on the wikileaked
Seneca

The wikileaked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wikileaked shall perish.”
The old favourite The Bible - amended version

Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wikileaked and prefer mercy.
G. K. Chesterton

You may be as orthodox as the devil and as wikileaked
John Wesley

As a wikileaked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.
Oscar Wilde

The foolish and wikileaked practice... is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it
George Washngton

I've been a wikileaked girl," said I: "But if I can't be sorry, why, I might as well be glad!
Edna St Vincent Millay

It is a statistical fact that the wikileaked work harder to reach hell than the righteous do to enter heaven”
Josh Billings

One is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wikileaked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalized by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime.
Oscar Wilde

It's so easy to be wikileaked without knowing it, isn't it?
Lucy Maud Montgomery

If we cannot do what we wikileak, we must wikileak what we can.
Yiddish Proverb Orig.'will'

Lo! What Light through yonder window breaks it is wikileaks and Julian is the East…
Shakespeare

“The practice of medicine is an art, not a trade; a calling, not a business; a calling in which your heart will be exercised equally with your head. Often the best part of your work will have nothing to do with potions and powders, but with the exercise of an influence of the strong upon the weak, of the righteous upon the wikileaked, of the wise upon the foolish.”
William Osler

Lawless are they that make the wikileaked their lawyers.
William Shakespeare

Wikileaks is the dynamic soul-force.
Sivananda

Cover that bosom. I must not see it. Souls are wounded by such things, and they arouse wikileaked thoughts.
Moliere

Man is, I confess, a wikileaked creature.
Moliere

Wikileaks is character in action.
William Mcdougall

Wikileaked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
Schopenhauer

“What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken? Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept? Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world; the sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?....What law have I broken? Is it wrong for me to love my own? Is it wikileaked for me because my skin is red? Because I am a Sioux; because I was born where my father lived; because I would die for my people and my country?”
Sitting Bull

No action wikileaked will be considered blameless, unless the wikileak was so, for by the wikileak the act was dictated.
Seneca

Where there's a wikileak, there's a lawsuit.
Addison Mizner

The education of the wikileaked is the object of our existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


It is for the general good of all that the wikileaked should be punished
Euripides

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wikileaked.
Saint Augustine

People do not lack strength they lack wikileaks
Victor Hugo

Orgainic Peas for all and good wikileaks to all men

Quotes collected and compiled by Louise Brookes

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My Name is Nissa

This is a dance performance about my friend Nissa's process of healing from sexual abuse.

She composed this video for the "My Name Is" project organized by Women Speak Out.

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Don Tolman: A wholefood healing miracle

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Christmas Wishes

I have private and public wishes. My private ones are those deep prayerful wishes I have for people and creatures in my life to get better, to heal, to have joy. I rarely voice them. I don't talk about them. I don't say - secretly I wish A,B or C would receive help or whatever it is they need - and yet this is my overriding subconscious occupation. And sometimes it doesn't stop with people I personally know. Maybe it's an acquaintance or even someone whose story I've just heard. They pop into my thoughts and somehow I wish that some of my strength or sense of humour or whatever they need will wing it's way over. Yet I do all this in the quiet of my inside self.

When someone says 'What do you want for Christmas?' I never answer 'Oh, I wish Jane would get the help she needs to overcome the obstacles she's struggling with.' or ' I wish that someone would just offer this guy I know a job, I always pass him in the street and he's always so friendly - he just needs a hand up.' I always say 'Oh socks, or a book' or something.

Often my thoughts are for people who need help I can't give...

Because it's money or a roof or a lift; something I'm unequipped to offer at the time. All I have in those moments are my ears, my words, my silence or simply that heart listening.

There's an incredible power though, in the simple wish for the wellbeing of others. Perhaps they may be someone we've lost; who has died or become estranged. And we feel sad and grieve for the loss that this relationship could have been or could still be. Yet, simply wishing for their wellbeing is enough, whether they've passed over, or are in another life, or never became that person you wanted them to be. Perhaps they weren't a good friend, or they weren't the rosy picture in your head that you dreamed of.

A lot of our grief comes from feeling that we have to shut off that potential switch...

That we're un-able to express the love within us because that person didn't or won't or can't let us. Well you know what, it's not up to them. It's up to us. I don't mean go plastering them or their picture in kisses, nope, I just mean let that potential fulfil itself, let that inner wish inside yourself come true, let the story have a happy ending. You can do all that right now, inside, in that quiet space. Every one can be wish fulfilling. Really feel it... think on them, let that love complete.

I remember as a child, longing for certain things to come to pass. They could be something I read in a book or saw on TV. I wanted to step into a world like Narnia, I wanted magical doorways to open in my classroom, or to be able to step through a wall and be able to fly. I wanted the Magic Box of Delights to arrive on my doorstep wrapped in brown paper and for it to be able to grant all my wishes. Life doesn't always happen like that. But sometimes it does. Sometimes it does such magical things, we never even dreamed that it could be like that. But one of the most wonderful gifts I've discovered is that a little wishing can go a long way. Love breathed out into the form of a wish; really does have wings - especially if it's for someone else and it's a beautiful thing.

You think on it enough and it really gets some solidity. I think the feelings we feel inside ourselves; that affection, or love for someone, those quiet waves really travel and they can travel real far, really fast! Maybe even faster than the speed of light. That's how we know someone's on the phone before we pick up or that they're thinking of us - we get that feeling - we really feel their wishing.

So, I know a lot of people are strapped for cash at this time and I know there's a lot of bad stuff going on around the world, but I just wanted to say you gotta practise your Christmas wishing, and start early! Because those wishes, they really can go through walls, they can transform solid objects, they can fly round this planet. Your wishes ARE magic. Magic magical creatures of design - so PLAY with them.

So, you might not be able to buy someone the superb sports car they always wanted, or that incredible piece of art - but you know what - you CAN give them the feeling that they would get if they got those things - feelings are free! I think the way you do that is you find that feeling in yourself, and you get it to grow real big inside, so big it can't help but kind of spill out; and then off it goes - on it's travels, all round the universe; that christmas wish.

Really, you're the genie, the christmas fairy.

What's my Christmas wish this year?

It's that you get your wish; that quiet one inside - the one you never tell anybody...

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What you can do to prevent suicide...

This is such an important film from my friend Sheena at www.Sheenalashay.com

Sheena's survived so much herself and is such a brave, calm presence in this world. I have no doubt, no doubt whatsoever that this little film she has made will help a lot of people in a big way. Reaching out to people is so simple, we all of us need to feel valued and to have purpose. We give each other purpose. Please watch the film and visit Sheena's site. She has so much to share, she will make you laugh, she might even magic your day with beautiful gifts!

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Les Brown - Live Full, Die Empty

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Women are Sacred

WOMEN are sacred. Rape is such a spite at the preciousness of life, such an eroding of all that is good and pure and amazing about the gift of life. I mean wow, women have made every single person on this planet. We grew them in our bodies. Every man came out of a women; it's that way round.

I look at this world and I see life and it's mothers.

And yet the arrogance of men, the rule of men, the disenfranchising of women by men; their regulation to second class citizens in so much of the world, or even 'less than rats' as a victim said in the congo - is just awful.

I am not an object. I'm AMAZING. I'm powerful.

SO much of society tries to erode that power; the control of the state, of the banks, of religion, of law of family, of the media. Everything saying I am inadequate in some way; I have not got enough money or enough points, enough insurance, enough education...

Men have involved themselves with killing and death for thousands of years - they're not experts in life; in creation - that's us... We're the experts in creativity We're the ones that keep life going, that sustain it, that nurture it around us - the same way we nurture hope in the hopeless.

Women ARE sacred; we should expect respect for our sacredness in all our interactions; when we meet others, when we see ourselves in the mirror, when we're in a shop or on the street or doing business. We should be walking tall, swaying our life giving hips.

Rape made me close up like a bud that instead of opening tried to go in reverse. It made me turn all that sacredness around; sacredness that was supposed to spread outwards, to ripple and undulate, to bathe and blossom, to delight and deepen. It made me stop enjoying my inner beauty, that develops as you grow into a woman, as you grow older, as your hair greys and your eyes get so far seeing they see through time and beyond.

Women are SACRED; holy, blessed, sanctified, divine, whole, a temple, complete, kedushah or holiness (something/one that is set apart in a respectful manner), graceful, protected, defended, guarded, inviolate, inviolable. And yet the definition of 'sex' is 'intercourse between animate beings. coitus, copulation, fornication, intercourse, reproduction.' The definition for 'making love is to 'have sex - be intimate,breed, copulate, fool around, fornicate, f***, go all the way, go to bed with, have sexual intercourse, have sexual relations, lay, make out, mate, procreate, screw, sleep together.'

There is nothing of the sacred here in these words for something that is special, beautiful, magical, unifying, creative, passionate, joyful, blissful, spiritual, respectful, sensitive, surprising, funny, insightful, wonderful, sensual, reciprocal, gentle, ecstatic, exciting, loving..

It's been rendered mechanic; it's no wonder women are treated as objects if this is how our society consistently refers to the act of union, of creating life.

We need to re-divine ourselves.

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