tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45042526365455669632024-02-19T05:55:11.375-05:00ZafuChihandmade zafus - filled or unfilledSarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02991954729071731176noreply@blogger.comBlogger1180125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4504252636545566963.post-43997322522421610812020-09-23T17:05:00.000-04:002020-09-23T17:05:22.208-04:00being the adult - on parenting ourselves...<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" dir="auto">"Funny
thing about memories is that, as it's now known, when they surface, we
look at them with our current understanding and they get stored from the
current point of view. And that is true for every time we again have
the memory. In other words, none of our memories are intact. The good
thing is: Over time, if done consciously, we can actually deliberately
change how the memory gets stored. If we look at it with bitterness and
hatred - maybe even vengeance (God will get you for that! - just you
wait), or longing or regret, or understanding and love, etc. that's how
it gets packed away. This could be about things we ourselves have done,
or been done to by other people, or pleasant or unpleasant events.
Maybe a good thing to ask ourselves is "what is it possible to achieve
by simply re-phrasing our memories consciously?" We're the adults now.
We get to parent ourselves. For better or worse."</span></b></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>“ “I am that I am” continues to be your friend and ally, because “I am that I am” is a reminder that occupies the mind. It is helpful to keep the mind occupied with a useful reminder, because that keeps the ears perked up and listening for only Me.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Be willing to also use the mind to ask questions, such as “What am I to do?” or “What is there for me to see?” Do not [think to find] answers to your questions. Only ask, and let<br />the answers come from the wind ... If you expect nothing more distinct than the indistinctness of the wind, you shall know what to do now, and all else shall be added to<br /> you by the wind.”</b></span></div>
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<span class="_4_mf"></span>November 14th, 2019 I packed an ebay purchase of Magnetic Clay for a buyer whose address is in New Jersey. I had begun taking all my packages to the post office myself rather than wait till our carrier picks up - which is usually late in the afternoon. I don't remember whether I dropped off the package in the lobby receptacle, or inside the post office on the counter like so many people do nowadays with pre-paid packages. I assumed the packages are all being scanned by the post office workers, and sent on their merry little way to their respective destinations. </div>
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About 2 weeks later I was looking through my ebay sold items, and saw that this particular package had not been delivered yet. I messaged the buyer asking whether by chance she had received the package, because it had not been scanned at my post office, or in fact, anywhere along the way. Packages can arrive at their destinations without being scanned even once, but that is highly unusual. She replied that had not received it. Before I had finished messaging her in return that I would try to track it down, and if it was missing completely I would give her a full refund she had already left me (my very first) negative feedback - saying she had not received the package. Ouch!</div>
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I made a trip to my post office with information in hand, and they were, of course, unable to find any info on the package since they had (unbeknownst to me) not scanned it. They admitted that it was even a possibility that a post office patron had taken it off the counter and simply walked out with it. </div>
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I issued a full refund to the ebay buyer, and waited a while before requesting a "postage refund" from Stamps.com in the event the package was still somewhere out there, taking a very circuitous pathway between here and there. Refunds from Stamps.com can take weeks. A few weeks later I needed to make another refund request from Stamps.com because an etsy buyer had neglected to update their mailing address, and then requested that I use their current address - “if it's not too inconvenient, please!”. That means buying another label, and waiting weeks for a refund on the first one. A few weeks later the second refund request was fulfilled, but the first one was still in play, or so I thought. I checked in, and it appeared the request had been closed without a refund. I checked the tracking number at that point and saw that the package had NOW been delivered on December 26th, but not to my buyer in New Jersey. It had been delivered to an address in Hazelton. First though, it had been scanned in Santa Clarita California, and then made it's way to Hazelton. I went on to USPS.com and opened a “lost” claim for this mis-delivered package, which is what I thought it was at this point. For some reason I just felt like that claim was not enough. I printed out the USPS tracking path, and the paypal receipt of the initial purchase with the tracking number on it, and headed back to the post office. They remembered that I had been in before about this particular package. After 45 minutes the clerk came back with "this is a really tricky problem. We are not sure how to handle it yet, but we will try to get to the bottom of this." He said that somehow someone in California used the bar code on my package to ship a package from their location to someone in Hazelton. </div>
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What is a mystery is how that person got the bar code. The bar code was activated by a postal carrier scanner on Dec. 23rd in Santa Clarita. The local clerk was able to get photos of the package, with my package bar code on it, as it was scanned several times en-route. It was a plastic bubble mailer, and not the Medium Flat Rate Priority Mail box I had used. I did not recognize the names of either the sender or the recipient. </div>
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But wait there's more. The clerk told me that people are now stealing bar codes off packages to ship drug paraphernalia so there is no trace back to them. Usually the package is shipped to a vacant house, and after the carrier drops off the package someone comes and gets it. </div>
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Well, this is not welcome news to me. Up to that point I had been using an adhesive plastic sleeve to enclose the shipping label on the package. I had sometimes considered that those could easily be slit open and the label removed, but didn't want to be paranoid about it. Trust me, now I am taping every label onto the package so it is not easy to remove. I am also going to begin gluing the label to the package - especially the bar code area. And take photos of the package prior to dropping it at the post office. These are more steps to take for package shipping, but it seems a necessity in this day and age. </div>
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A little more information here...at the post office I was definitely made to feel as though they thought I might be an accomplice in this saga. Since they didn't do their job of scanning there is no proof that I delivered the package to the post office but, in their eyes I may have sent the label to the Ca. shipper, and was now trying to claim insurance on the package. I went back a second time armed with my Stamps.com and my USPS receipt for that particular purchase, where it's absolutely clear that the package, with this bar code, shipped from my Florida address to a New Jersey address, and that it was a USPS Flat Rate Medium package and not a plastic bubble mailer.</div>
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My contact at my post told me via phone message there is nothing they can do about this problem. All I can do is hope to get my claim acknowledged. </div>
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And there was no interest in tracking down the shipper in Ca. for mail fraud.</div>
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Last thing...I called ebay and spoke with a representative, explained the situation that resulted in the negative feedback, and asked if it was possible to remove it since I had made a full refund. She saw that the buyer and I had exchanged messages, and graciously agreed to remove the negative feedback. Lessons learned, and moving forward...<br />
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<span data-offset-key="7gmn0-0-0"><span data-text="true">1/06/20 update: USPS denied my claim since a package with my bar code (not my package) had already been delivered. I have one more hope...a friend of a friend here in Sarasota is a postal worker, and is often delivering in my area. Maybe she can help, or make suggestions... waiting for a response from her.</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="87ui5-0-0"><span data-text="true">1/17/20 update: After submitting an appeal (with irrefutable evidence) to the claim denial online as well as an appeal to their snail mail claim denial the claim has been approved. The evidence is in the tracking history, as well as my shipping label receipt, and the photo from USPS of the second package with my package’s bar code on it. I am relieved to know that one does have a chance at an appeal when evidence is provided. Faith has been partially restored. Still, I will continue to take photos of outgoing packages and file them, and make sure my outgoing packages get scanned by the postal workers - with a receipt for the more valuable packages. Once the bar code has been scanned the shipper is liable. </span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="87ui5-0-0"><span data-text="true"> <a href="https://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/abblog/blog.pl?/pl/2020/1/1578058043.html">etsy sellers drawn into package delivery scams?</a></span></span><br />
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<span class="_4yxo">“All through your life, the most precious experiences seem to vanish. Transience turns everything to air. You look behind and see no sign even of a yesterday that was so intense. Yet in truth, nothing ever disappears, nothing is lost. Everything that happened to us in the world passes into us. It all becomes part of the inner temple of the soul and it can never be lost. This is the art of the soul: to harvest your deeper life from all the seasons of your experience. This is probably why the soul never surfaces fully. The intimacy and tenderness of its light would blind us. We continue in our days to wander between the shadowing and the brightening, while all the time a more subtle brightness sustains us. If we could but realize the sureness around us, we would be much more courageous in our lives. The frames of anxiety that keep us caged would dissolve. We would live the life we love and in that way, day by day, free our future from the weight of regret.”</span></div>
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Excerpt from his books, BEAUTY: THE INVISIBLE EMBRACE (US) / DIVINE BEAUTY (Europe)</div>
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“Defense is the first act of war. When people used to say, “Katie, you don’t listen,” I would immediately bristle and respond, “Of course I listen! How dare you say that! Who do you think you are? I listen!” I didn’t realize that I was the one making war by defending myself. And I was the one who could end it. It doesn’t take two people to end war; it takes only one.</div>
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The ego hates criticism and loves agreement. Actually, for the ego, love is nothing more than agreement. A relationship is two people who agree with each other’s stories. If I agree with you, you love me. And the minute I don’t agree with you, the moment I question one of your sacred beliefs, I become your enemy; you divorce me in your mind. Then you start looking for all the reasons why you’re right, and you stay focused outside yourself. When you’re focused outside and believe that your problem is caused by someone else, rather than by your attachment to the story you’re believing in the moment, you are your own victim, and the situation appears to be hopeless.</div>
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Your partner is your mirror. Except for the way you perceive him, he doesn’t even exist for you. He is who you see he is, and ultimately it’s just you again, thinking. It’s just you, over and over and over, and in this way you remain blind to yourself and feel justified and lost. To think that your partner is anything but a mirror of you is painful. So when you see him as flawed in any way, you can be sure that that’s where your own flaw is. The flaw has to be in your thinking, because you’re the one projecting it. You are always what you judge us to be in the moment. There’s no exception. You are your own suffering; you are your own happiness.</div>
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There’s no way to truly join your partner except by getting free of your belief that you need something from him that he’s not giving. Nothing can cost you someone you love. There’s nothing your husband can possibly do to keep you from loving him. The only way you can lose him is by believing what you think. You’re one with your husband until you believe that he should look a certain way, he should give you something, he should be something other than what he is. That’s how you divorce him. Right then and there, you have lost your marriage.</div>
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Of course, sometimes it’s best to physically leave. If your husband is abusive, question your thoughts about why you stay. As you enlighten yourself to what’s true, you may come to see that the only sane choice is to leave him. You may love him with all your heart and simply know not to live with him. We don’t have to be fearful, bitter, or angry to end a marriage. Or, if you’re not ready to leave, you may stay in the marriage, but with a greater awareness of how you’re abusing yourself by allowing him to abuse you. It’s like a yard with a big sign on the gate: THIS DOG BITES. If you walk into the yard once and are bitten, the dog has bitten you. If you walk into the yard a second time and are bitten, you have bitten you. This very awareness can change everything. By questioning your mind, you begin to realize that ultimately no one can hurt you—only you can. You see that you are 100 percent responsible for your own happiness. This is very good news.</div>
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If my husband were to have an affair and that were not okay with me, I would say, “Sweetheart, I understand that you’re having an affair, and I notice that when you do that, something inside me tends to move away from you. I don’t know what that is, I only know that it’s so; it mirrors your movement away from me, and I want you to know that.” And then if he were to continue his affair, to prefer to spend his time with another woman, I might notice that I was moving away, but I wouldn’t have to leave him in anger. There is nothing I can do to stay with him, and there is nothing I can do to divorce him. I’m not running this show. I might stay with him, or I might divorce him in a state of total love, and think, This is fascinating; we promised we would be together always, and I’m divorcing him now, and I would probably laugh, love that he has what he wants, and move on, because there is no war in me.</div>
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It doesn’t take two people to end war in a marriage; it takes only one. And if two people have ended it, life can be twice as beautiful." </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Robert Allen slub linen zafus continue to be a bestseller at <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/ZafuChi?ref=seller-platform-mcnav">ZafuChi</a>,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span><span>Two inch wide copper colored pendant, with chakra colored gemstones. </span></span></b></span></div>
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<b>“There was a great delight among the trees and among the birds and the few men that passed by were not too wrapped up in
their own affairs. There was the slip of the new, young moon, just a line, just a suggestion and there was the beauty of a day that was over. A woman in a green sari was carrying a big bundle on her head, her arms swinging freely by her side. You
have to die to all things to be aware of this beauty that had no resting place; you couldn’t find it if you sought it; it was not in the museums, in books nor in faces; the smile fades and there are tears. You would never find it if you set out to capture it. </b></div>
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<b>You have to die to all things that you have pursued. You have to die not knowing; you have to die without a purpose, without
a motive, maturing in a day and dying in a day, without a past. An aeroplane droned overhead, somebody was taking flying
lessons and above the plane were the vultures, endlessly circling, without a beat of the wings; there was delight in their
movement but soon they would be coming down to be lost in the darkness of the night. You lived for something, you worked for something and your life was intended for something. You had to be useful to society; everything had its use and you of course were of the highest use—for the church, for the government, for the revolutionary. What was the use of that leaf, that flower and those birds taking their evening bath? But that beauty cannot be used; it had no value, there was no market for it and all life is travail and sorrow. Without that beauty there is no love. </b></div>
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<b>The clouds were gathering around the sun leaving the sky empty. Every bird was now silent and the trees were withdrawing for the night. The moon was too young to cast any shadow but that would come later as she grew older. Innocency and youth were always with death, with the ending of thought. And with death comes that immensity, unapproachable, measureless. And it was there.”</b></div>
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<b>"Practice listening to others in the most literal sense, believing exactly what they say without attaching a future to it, and do your best to resist falling into your own interpretations about the information they share with you. </b></div>
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<b> For example, someone might give you a compliment, and you interpret that to mean that the person has ulterior motives. Our interpretations of what we hear people say to us are often far more painful or frightening than what people actually say. We can hurt ourselves with our misconceptions and our thinking for others. </b></div>
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<b>Try trusting that what they say is exactly what they mean: not more, not less. Hear people out. </b></div>
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<b>Catch yourself when you want to finish a sentence for someone, either aloud or in your mind. </b></div>
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<b> Listen. It can be amazing to hear what comes out when we allow others to complete their thoughts without interruption. And when we are busy thinking we know what they are about to say, we often miss what they are actually saying. </b></div>
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<b>You might want to consider these questions: </b></div>
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<b>- What can be threatened if I listen and hear literally?
- Do I interrupt because I don’t want to really know what people have to say?
- Do I interrupt to convince them that I know more than they do?
- Am I attempting to convey an image of self-confidence and control?
- Who would I be without the need to possess those qualities?
- Do I fear appearing unintelligent?
- Would people leave me if I heard them literally and no longer engaged in manipulative games? "</b></div>
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<b>"Try this: Imagine you are in a situation or with a person that you
find unpleasant and that you would ordinarily avoid. Now observe how
your [mind] instinctive<span class="text_exposed_show">ly becomes
active, insisting that you avoid this situation or try to change it. And
if you stay on there and refuse to change the situation, observe how
the [mind] insists that you experience irritation or anxiety or guilt or
some other negative emotion. Now keep looking at this unpleasant
situation or person until you realize that it isn't they that are
causing the negative emotions. They are just going their way, being
themselves, doing their thing whether right or wrong, good or bad. </span></b></div>
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It is your [mind] that, thanks to your programming, insists on your
reacting with negative emotions. You will see this better if you realize
that someone with a different programming when faced with this same
situation or person or event would react quite calmly, even happily.
Don't stop till you have grasped this truth: The only reason why you too
are not reacting calmly and happily is your computer that is stubbornly
insisting that reality be reshaped to conform to its programming.
Observe all of this from the outside so to speak and see the marvelous
change that comes about in you."</b><br />
<b> ~ Anthony de Mello (20th century Indian Catholic mystic)</b><br />
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<b>"May the nourishment of the earth be yours,<br /> May the clarity of light be yours,<br /> May the fluency of the ocean be yours,<br /> May the protection of the ancestors be your<span class="text_exposed_show">s.<br /> And so may a slow<br /> Wind work these words<br /> Of love around you,<br /> An invisible cloak<br /> To mind your life."<br /> - Blessing by John O'Donohue</span></b></div>
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<b>Yesterday evening I heard a banging noise that I thought it was coming
from inside the house. More banging. So, I decided to see if someone was
at the front door, and sure enough. It was G--, one of my elderly
neighbors. (There IS a doorbell, and it works!) His wife works, and he
is often lonely. And is, or pretends to be, hard of hearing - I can't
tell which. Consequently, he likes to get in my face, and I do my best to
avoid it as inconspicuously as possible. So, yesterday I just lowered
the window on the screen door and spoke to him through the screen. He
got angry with me and ordered me, in his heavy German accent, to open the door...barking out "I have a
cheesecake pie, and I made it to give to you. Eat it, and tell me what
you think of it." Seriously, not the most courteous of people. I let him
save face by asking "Are you OK? You seem a little upset." Then he
became shame-faced, lowered his voice, and said “no, he wasn't feeling
all that well. The heat was getting to him.” </b></div>
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<b>It's July in Florida.
Tempers can flare more easily.</b></div>
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<b>~ ) 0 ( ~ </b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">"Follow your bliss."</strong></span></b></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">~ Joseph Campbell </strong></span></b></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">Hector Garcia</strong> and <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">Francesc Miralles</strong> detail the <strong class="markup--strong markup--p-strong">ten rules</strong> to help find personal ikigai.</span></b> </span></b></div>
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<a href="https://medium.com/thrive-global/ikigai-the-japanese-secret-to-a-long-and-happy-life-might-just-help-you-live-a-more-fulfilling-9871d01992b7"><b><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></b></a><b><span style="font-size: small;"><a class="markup--anchor markup--p-anchor" data-href="http://amzn.to/2CQfleA" href="https://www.blogger.com/null" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Ikigai The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life</a></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">1. Stay active and don’t retire</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">2. Leave urgency behind and </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">adopt a slower pace of life</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">3. Only eat until you are 80 per cent full</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">4. Surround yourself with good friends</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">5. Get in shape through daily, gentle exercise</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">6. Smile and acknowledge people around you</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">7. Reconnect with nature</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">8. Give thanks to anything that brightens our day </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">and makes us feel alive.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">9. Live in the moment</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">10. Follow your ikigai </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">What keeps us from feeling joy at being in this life experience? Without understanding that longevity may not be as fulfilling as it could, or can, be.</span></b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;">JOY</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>To see God in everything we must (obviously, right?!) abandon all other ideas we hold consciously or subconsciously about everything. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>‘The unavoidable choice to face everything that is not yet awake, both
within you and in the world, is the movement of awakeness. Along the
way, you may meet a <span class="text_exposed_show">huge amount of
suffering or you may meet very little; it doesn’t matter either way.
What matters is your unwavering willingness to meet this suffering all
the way. This is not feeding the suffering but, instead, allowing
consciousness to move through you according to divine will. It’s what
the Indian mystic and poet Rabindranath Tagore meant when he said, “To
find God, you must welcome everything.” In this willingness to
unconditionally welcome every single thing in the field of your
experience, you become a bodhisattva, dedicated to the illumination of
all beings, one drop at a time. It’s a choiceless choice.’<br /> -Amoda Maa</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span data-offset-key="md9d-0-0"><span data-text="true">“My grandmother saw a lot of change during her lifetime. We're seeing as much, and more, change in a much shorter period of time...like time is collapsing. Not that it is. Things seem sped up because we/humans make them happen much more quickly, and the internet is a large part of making this happen. It narrows the distance between things and that shortens time. Again, not that it does. It seems to. Go out into nature for a weekend without any digital devices and see that nature still has her own pace.” </span></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="_247o" data-offset-key="md9d-1-0" spellcheck="false" start="509"><span data-offset-key="md9d-1-0"><span data-text="true">Etsy is making changes* that affect all etsy sellers, and buyers. Change is inevitable with growth. (* etsy's increase in seller fees</span></span></span></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"><b><span class="_247o" data-offset-key="md9d-1-0" spellcheck="false" start="509"><span data-offset-key="md9d-1-0"><span data-text="true"> from 3.5% to 5%, including that 5% fee on shipping too, affects every etsy account.) Not to worry...ebay has been doing this for years. It's done to avoid seller fee avoidance, by listing an item below value and then "padding" the shipping to make up the difference.</span></span></span></b></span></div>
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“Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. </div>
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Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. </div>
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Whenever we pray
alone, study, read, write, or simply </div>
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spend quiet time away from the
places where we interact </div>
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with each other directly, we are potentially
opened </div>
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“You do too. Use your wings for health and for good. To fly away, to fly near, to fold and hide, to keep to the arduous surprising blessed journey.
This comes with love for la mariposa, the sacred butterfly in your heart.
Butterflies, these tiny creatures of mere painted paper and strength of will, fly thousands of miles in migration, can be torn easily, yet rise and rise and rise.
You too.
Dont forget.
Where there has been one, there will be another. And another, and another.
The butterflies are progenitors of life and life and life... the tiniest of the tiny ones, living bold and beautiful, even in tempest, even at rest, they are nonetheless Beauty with wings.
Deep breath.
I mean it: DEEP BREATH
Remember who you truly are.
Winged. Beautiful. Wise.
Love from my heart to your heart.”</div>
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<b>“The mystic Thomas a Kempis said that when you go out into the world, </b></div>
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<b>you return having lost some of yourself. Until you learn </b></div>
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<b>to inhabit your alone-ness, the lonely distraction and noise of society </b></div>
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<b>will seduce you into false belonging, with which you will only become empty and weary. </b></div>
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<b> When you face your alone-ness, something begins to happen. </b></div>
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<b>Gradually, the sense of bleakness changes into a sense of true belonging.”</b></div>
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<b>~John O'Donohue, </b></div>
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<b>poet, priest, intuitive mystic</b></div>
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<b>~ ~ ~ </b></div>
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"Right now, billions of neurons in your brain are working together to
generate a conscious experience -- and not just any conscious
experience, your experience of the world around you and of yourself
within it. How does this happen? According to neuroscientist Anil Seth,
we're all hallucinating all the time; when we agree about our
hallucinations, we call it "reality." Join Seth for a delightfully
<b><i>disorienting</i></b> talk that may leave you questioning the very nature of your
existence." </div>
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Kasun Liyanage</span></a>
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"This hallucination of the self is called "sakkhaya drishti" in Buddhism. And its the foundation of advaita tradition. Nothing is real, even your precious Self. Finally, science is catching up with the ancient wisdom."</div>
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"Row, row, row your boat,</div>
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gently down the stream...</div>
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..........</div>
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...life is but a dream."</div>
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"How can I stay completely present to this world—the light and the
dark—while still keeping an open loving heart: Who ever promised me the
world would be perfect...I need to set a different course by reminding
myself that humankind has always been flawed...and Love and light
continue to exist anyway. The news should simply inspire me to be extra
loving and tender...Today I resolve to balance every dose of darkness I
receive with an equal, if not greater, dose of light...I resolve to
check the balance daily and provide myself with the silence and solitude
I need to maintain it. I truly believe it does matter what energy we
put out into the world. " </div>
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- Ann O’Shaughnessy</div>
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<b>"Times are difficult globally; </b></div>
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<b>awakening is no longer a luxury or an ideal.<br />
It’s becoming critical. We don’t need to add more depression, </b></div>
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<b>more
discouragement, </b></div>
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<b>or more anger to what’s already here. </b></div>
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<b>It’s becoming
essential that we learn how to relate </b></div>
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<b>sanely with difficult times. </b></div>
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<b>The
earth seems to be beseeching us to connect with joy </b></div>
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<b>and discover our
innermost essence. </b></div>
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<b>This is the best way that we can benefit others."<br /> ~Pema Chodron</b></div>
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~ ~ ~ ~<b> </b></div>
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<b>...meditate... </b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">"It is false to speak of realization. What is there to realize? </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">The
real is as it is always. We are not creating anything new </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">or achieving
something which we did not have before. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">The illustration given in books
is this. We dig a well</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">and create a huge pit. The space in the pit or
well </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">has not been created by us. We have just removed the earth </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">which
was filling the space there. The space was there then </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">and is also there
now. Similarly we have simply to throw out </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">all the age-long samskaras
[innate tendencies] which are inside us. </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">When all of them have been
given up, </span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;">the Self will shine alone."</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: small;"> ~ Sri Ramana Maharshi</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>"There are times when beauty reveals itself slowly. </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>Human culture seems
to build its temples of meaning </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>in the wrong places, in the garish
marketplaces </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>of transient fashion and public image. Beauty tends to
avoid</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> the siren call of the obvious. Away from the blatant center, </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>it
prefers the neglected margin. Beyond the traffic of </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>voyeuristic seeing,
beauty waits until the patience </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>and depth of a gaze are refined enough
to engage </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>and discover it. In this sense, beauty is not a quality </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>externally present in something. It emerges at the threshold </b></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: small;"><b>where
reverence of mind engages the subtle presence</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b> of the other person, place
or object.” </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>~ John O’Donohue, Beauty</b></span></div>
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