Category: Aloha Spirit

Peace And Aloha To You All!

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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

— Helen Keller

Carry the Magic of Yule throughout 2016:  Take a moment each day to do a small act of kindness, and reflect on the effect that action has on you.  Be the Aloha you wish to see in your world now.

Each one of you has noticed how quickly Time seems to be passing … minutes suddenly turn into hours and then it’s tomorrow. As these moments pass through you, you feel the draw … the Calling … the Awakening … to deeper levels of Knowledge that suddenly give way to joyful moments of Understanding … Many of you are now beginning to enjoy more Clarity in recognizing, re-membering, wisdoms you’ve already known reside deep within your hearts.
This process is not finite because Wisdom is an ever-evolving, infinite state of being. It is the Quintessence of Living. You now express a very high degree of intelligence in desiring to understand the laws of life. When you discover some part of these laws, you’ll ascend the scale of intelligence as you make use of your knowledge. A person who perseveres through difficulties and emerges successful manifests higher form of intelligence than the one who gives up and limits … no ,condemns … him-/herself to live a miserable existence. Intelligence is present in all human beings, but it can only increase by being challenged. A developed will is the tool for manifesting intelligence.
The more intelligent you are, the more things you can do for love. A stupid person with love may only have two options to help a loved one because s/he can’t think of a third option. However, an intelligent person with love is more able to save or empower the person s/he loves because s/he has more choices and no lack, or limits. Knowledge is power of Sight, and all sought is meant to serve love. Therefore, being insightful or intelligent is the most loving thing you can do. Those who are intelligent can be truly loving with knowledgeable decisions.
The secret of secrets is the consciousness of secrets.
All the truths about life are not secrets, but they are hidden from us due to our willful ignorance. By framing the discovery of truths as a search for the secrets, we motivate our conscious mind to unite with our subconscious mind to go on a treasure hunt. In other words, we dream our subconscious dreams into conscious reality. This Unity of Mind yields the greatest treasure in this world: Wisdom … Thus, the Secret, the Key you seek, is that life is to be played as a joyful, treasure-hunting game. Treasures are meant to be appreciated … not coveted as pirate’s booty or a trophy to be won in a competitive race. When you think of truths as secrets, your United Mind, as guided by your Heart (because the superior brain cells reside in your heart), resonates an appreciative mindset that will draw Wisdom to you. That Light is the intangible treasure called Wisdom.
This is The MOST Life Changing Information in the world … and it is our Yule present to each and every one of you.
May you and your dearest families and friends celebrate in Aloha, Unity and Peace from this Time forward so that the Spirit of this season extends and propagates throughout the coming New Year.

Thoughts on Love of Life and the Art of Awareness

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CHANGE-INEVITABLE

Acclaimed Nobel Peace Prize author, Albert Camus, once said, “Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness.”

Indeed, our principles tend to harden into habits and although habits give shape to our inner lives, they can mutate into the rigidity of routine and create a kind of momentum that, rather than expanding our capacity for happiness, contracts it. In the trance of routine and principled productivity, we end up showing up for our daily lives while being absent from them.

And, like my friend RevDruanna Johnston has shown us on FB, few things break us out of our routines and awaken us to the living substance of happiness more powerfully than travel. What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have created through our “daily grind” of work and remaining in familiar surroundings. One can no longer cheat — hide behind the hours spent at the office or at the plant (those hours we protest so loudly, which protect us so well from the pain of being alone). Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props, deprived of our masks (one doesn’t know the fare on the streetcars, or anything else), we are completely on the surface of ourselves. But also, soul-sick, we restore to every being and every object its miraculous value.

For my part, my entire life has been undergirded by the ethos that happiness is our moral obligation. My love of life also carries with it a silent passion for what would perhaps escape me, a bitterness beneath a flame. Each day I leave this cloister I call home … like a woman lifted from herself, inscribed for a brief moment in the continuance of the world … and have come to realize that there is no love of life without despair of life. Absolute bliss necessitates an equal capacity for contact with absolute despair.

Where am I going with this? My emotions are not just the fuel that powers the psychological mechanism of a reasoning creature: they are parts, highly complex and messy parts, of this creature’s reasoning itself.

What counts is to be human and simple. No, what counts is to be true, and then everything fits in, humanity and simplicity. When am I truer than when I am the world? My cup brims over before I have time to desire. Eternity is there and I was hoping for it. What I wish for now is no longer happiness but simply awareness.

Have a great week, Everyone. I love you … Aloha! heart emoticon

For The Homeless ~ Blessing Bags, Created by YOU!

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BLESSING-BAGS

Have you ever heard of a Blessing Bag? Read below and make a few. Keep them in your car and when you see someone on the street corner, give them one. I know there are lot people who panhandle for a living but there are also those who are really down on their luck and could use a few necessities and a huge Blessing. Give it a try…….you will love the feeling it gives you just knowing you made someone very happy.

 

STUFFING YOUR BLESSING BAGS

Gallon Size Ziploc Bag – This is key for several reasons:

Helps to keep everything together & in one place so they can easily access the supplies in their bags/backpacks
Keeps the items from spilling/leaking onto their personal items in their bags
The bags can later be used for other storage options within their bags – storing toiletries, snacks, etc

Hand-Warmers – we put a couple packs in, especially during the winter, but even for those chilly evenings in the spring/summer/fall these would be very welcome. We buy a pack of 40 at Costco for around $15 ($.38/pk) & then we have these on hand for blessing bags as well as camping, winter sports, etc.

Bag of Quarters – These are nice to include for washing clothes at the laundromat (we just put them in a snack-size Ziploc bag to keep them contained in a smaller area

Bottle of Water – Mini water bottles work great so they don’t take up too much space or if you can fit a regular size water bottle

Band-Aids – these are something that may often be needed but may not be something they would be able to spend money on or think about having.

Baby Wipes – a small pack of baby wipes would be a great one to include to help with feeling clean & fresh

Hand Sanitizer – another great option to help them feel cleaner

Wash Cloth – buy an inexpensive wash cloth to include

Toiletries:
*If you have a lot of items to include in your bags, travel-size toiletries work great

Toothbrush
Toothpaste (travel size if you have a lot of items to put into your bag)
Floss
Soap (we bring home soaps from hotels if we don’t end up using all of them)
Deodorant
Shampoo/conditioner (these are also great products to save from hotels if you don’t use them as they’re the perfect size for these bags)
Comb
Personal hygiene items if you’re making a kit for a woman (tampons, pantiliners, pads, etc)
Sunscreen (depending on time of year)
Chapstick
Personal Items:
New Socks
New Underwear
Inexpensive gloves
Non-Perishable Foods:
Granola Bars
Energy Bars
Tuna/cracker packs
Trail mix
Raisins
Peanuts
Fruit cup/ applesauce cup (& include a spoon)
Gum/hard candy
Hot Cocoa/Spiced Cider Mixes or on-the-go coffee mixes
Courtesy http://www.thriftynorthwestmom.com/blessing-bags-assemble-…/

WHAT IS A MYSTIC?

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A mystic is not a magician or a crystal-ball-gazer. A mystic is rather a person who has had an experience of God’s love so unmistakable that it changes him or her forever, imparting a confidence that cannot be shaken, a humility that cannot be doubted, a freedom that exudes love and gentleness and authenticity. A mystic knows from experience, not books, that we are each beautiful beyond our understanding, loved beyond our capacity to love, united beyond our perceptions of difference and division.