shaman's thoughts

What is the best thing I can do with my life? What is it I am suppose to be doing with this "Gift" of life? I am learning more and more that this gift is to be given away not held on to. That is one tough act. I happen to like the gift and want to keep it. Evident as it may seem that I cannot hold on to liquid Mercury, I keep trying like the fool that I am anyway.

The Sparrows will come again next spring. The rivers still run to the Sea, and night turns to day every twelve hours. I write these lines to tell my future self what he most needs to hear.

We must start with this old head that has been on top of our body for however many years as we know it. To try to change not having fully known how this old head works, is like getting a new machine and having to start all over again without any user guide material! Accept yourself as you are now my child, change comes much easier using the old head itself to direct the changes.

Happy reunion with the family every one! All is well that end well aey? Be patient with the young ones and graceful with the elders. Let life teach you what you need to learn by bieng willing!

Tomorrow I will cook for about 400 people my anual thanksgiving meal at a 4 star resturant. The cooking and the serving and the cleaning afterwards takes about 11 hours. God bless the day and help me get through it without anamosity or pain.

Soon we will all wake up and realize that we have the wrong leadership in DC and it will be too late to try to fix the mess this administration has attached to our image in the world. Does it matter in the long run? In the big picture of things? No, not really

We actually have to use the same head which got us in any given mess, to get us out of it! As you know, resolving a problem with the same perception which created it is impossible. So what is one to do, can a adict who is on dope find his own way of freeing himself from the addictionf? Not until he is sober! Yes my goo one, we must learn to change the way we look at things in order to change them. It is all about Preceptions and Intentions.

PRACTICE RADICAL HUMILITY! AND KEEP IN MIND YOU CANNOT RESOLVE A PROBLEM BY CONDEMING IT OR ITS PERCEIVED CAUSES.

It seems that we all can learn a bit more about being quiet. As the Chinese put it; "good speech maybe silver, but silence is pure gold!" In fact most old wise sages and teachers have all recomanded a period of silence on a regular basis.

It is so easy to be a bum, or is it? If the person has enough awareness to realize that he is a bum, a parasite in the eyes of the society then he is in much more internal suffering than others could ever put upon him. It is not so easy being a awakened bum!

Try to sit up straight, walk with your entire back at a right angle to the ground. Be aware of your posture and in doing so, you have awakened the sleepy head my child. Any daily deciplined act of self improvement is indeed a fine religion.

Serendipity has not been a factor in most my life's achievements, many were put at the doorsteps of a college all paid for by one source or another, but very few actually got the degree. My greatfulness then is to God for making me an stuburn old fool!

Bring thou thine sweet wine, bring it on! Let the crowd of masses be merry and durnk with thine nectar. But let me stay with mine own Earthan wine, deep in sorrow and self pitty. For a while, this too is for a while until light shines again and soberiety sets in. And thus we go hether and yonder and no matter where you go in the world to get away, oops there you are!!

Death only comes once. It never announces its arrival nor do we get to choose its timing. I ask you then my child, why all the fuss over the killing? An action always produces reactions, you hit me I'll hit you back, and if was with a gun, well, here is mine! We do the shooting and the choosing, yet we blame death for the dying.

We will wake up someday soon and realize it is too late! Alas I do not see any resolution beyond acceptance for the hacoc the politicians and power mongers of the world are about to unleash upon the EARTHANS.

It seems the older one gets the more it becomes evident that the need to go home is instinctive. A part of (the spirit) too, needs to go home instictively. HOME IS WHERE I CAN REST AND NEVER BE WEARY AGAIN.

building trust sometimes requires taking risks. Being ready and willing to lose something dear in order to gain the possible trust for having the courage to let go.

They asked vice president Dick Chaney how are you so sure you're gonna find the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? "I am certain we will because we still have the receipts" He replied without blinking an eye and quite seriously too!

I was reminded again evers so gently by my LORD that it is best to give without any expectations. Give because it feels good, be the first to greet another human and want more peace for others than you do for your self. In this manner my child you will reach Nirvana most certainly.

There is much to be greatful for when things are going well. My LOVE teach me how to love you when I am bitter,sad and nothing is going my way. Hold my hands when I am blinded by the pains of this world and my own ignorance and arrogance.

It is the easiest thing to do physically, have a smile on our faces. Yet, it has become the hardest task in the face of growing fears and anxieties created mainly by the politicians of the world. Good LORD help me keep my smile of kindness painted on my face.

An attitude of gratitude will make for more abundance in my life; No doubt about it! The opposite too is true, the more I moan and groan, the more I'll have to moan and groan about.

Depression is just anger without enthusiasm. Anger on the other hand is depression run amock! Find your balance my child.

If I sit idle long enough feeling sorry for my self about the things I do not have, I will most certaily, lose the things I do have.

If we only knew how our words and thoughts effect the world around us, how interactive indeed our energies are with our environment; We'd be a lot more careful of them. I choose to not let other's negativity stain my mind with darkness. Thank you my Love for showing me how to be accepting and flowing in times of hardship and in face of arrogance and uncaring souls around me.