Archive for June, 2020
Life
“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.” ~Soren Kierkegaard
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.” ~Marie Curie
“Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.” ~Lou Holtz
Quotes to ponder as we move through retrogrades, planetary as well as in our collective consciousness.
Continued Blessings!
Love
‘What the World Needs Now is Love’….a popular song from 1995, is resonating strongly with me. Our world desperately needs love!
The following is a beautiful and powerful message of love.
“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrong. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.” ~1 Corinthians 13
As we struggle to make sense of our rapidly changing world, love is a barometer we can trust to measure and guide us through these tumultuous times.
Blessings of love and peace to you all!
Freedom
“The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free.” ~John F. Kennedy
“I value freedom above anything else. Freedom to do what I want, freedom from not doing what I don’t want to do, and freedom from my reactions and emotions…things that may disturb my peace.” ~Naval Ravikant
“Freedom has its life in the hearts, the actions, the spirit of men and so it must be daily earned and refreshed–else like a flower cut from its life-giving roots, it will wither and die.” ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
I chose these three quotes about freedom as I feel they represent its essence. This week I invite you to celebrate your inner and outer freedom.
Many Blessings!
Melannie
Viruses
Virus [L. venom, poisonous emanation].
Viruses come in three forms: 1. a large group of submicroscopic infectious agents that can only grow and multiply in living cells, e.g. covid-19. 2. a corrupting influence that poisons the mind and the spirit, e.g. debasement of ethics and morals. 3. an agent hidden in a computer program that reproduces, inserting itself into it’s host, then maliciously spreading into other programs to destroy data, e.g. malware.
Humanity diligently pursues defenses against malware and submicroscopic organisms, whilst relegating defense against ethical and moral perversions to religion and politics, thereby externalizing an internal process.
All viruses are predominately unseen; not receiving main stream attention until they create a massive disruption in the social fabric. Two of these viruses are doing just that at this very moment.
Woefully, humanity is unprepared, impotent, paralyzed by fear, seduced by arrogance, and reeling with disbelief, sadness and uncertainty.
Practicing patience, compassion, and authentic self-reflection are the strategies, the behaviors, that guide humanity through turmoil. It has been done before.
“If peace comes from seeing the whole
then misery stems from a loss of perspective.”
~Mark Nepo
Carl Jung said, “The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.”
This week I invite you into further exploration of your authentic self…the royal road to maturity.
Blessings!
Melannie
