Alone together

You're human me too

Alone together today

I'm assuming it

Knowing I am alone together keeps me centered and peaceful. Solitude with and solitude alone.

As you take two minutes to consider peace for our world today, remember you are alone together and feel peace flood in.

“Peace does not mean just to stop wars, but also to stop oppression and injustice.”

- Nobel Laureate توكل كرمان Tawakkol Karman of Yemen

Life As An Adventure

The ideal would be to own a business or work in a job that fulfills every desire we have, and to have this business or job allow perfect balance in your life. How do we decide what trumps what? Live to work or work to live? Are you just following the money, so the 9 - 5 ; Monday to Friday grind is fine for you?  I think making a living goes way beyond accumulating a large bank account.   But what about joy, peace, freedom, satisfaction and happiness? I have found the answer in a very simple mind shift. I have habitually viewed what I do in my life, whether that be business, work or personal as hard. No fun. Just must do whatever is required.  Not a prescription for joy, peace,  freedom, satisfaction and happiness. So, here's what I do now. I regard what I am doing as an adventure. If I am doing laundry, looking for a parking spot, talking to a client or spending time with my grandkids...it is an adventure.  I approach it with huge curiosity. What's going to happen? How will I feel? What will I learn? How can I make this fun? And this makes ALL the difference. The mundane is now spectacular.
As you take two minutes to consider peace for our world, think about your life as an adventure.

Thank Goodness It's Friday

“Human beings are the only animals who have to work, and I think that is the most ridiculous thing in the world. Other animals make their livings by living, but people work like crazy, thinking that they have to in order to stay alive. The bigger the job, the greater the challenge, the more wonderful they think it is. It would be good to give up that way of thinking and live an easy, comfortable life with plenty of free time. I think that the way animals live in the tropics, stepping outside in the morning and evening to see if there is something to eat, and taking a long nap in the afternoon, must be a wonderful life. For human beings, a life of such simplicity would be possible if one worked to produce directly his daily necessities. In such a life, work is not work as people generally think of it, but simply doing what needs to be done.” by Masanobu Fukuoka

What do you think? Is it possible to make a living by living or do we have no choice but to make a living by working?  One of my mentors is teaching me that it is possible to design your "work" around your lifestyle. I do not have this all figured out, but I am committed to this path and am finding harmony and peace at a deeper level between my inner and outer worlds.  I hear people say."Thank goodness it's Friday."  Breaks my heart. This is spirit crushing, not living. I do know when you begin to be curious about possibilities, change happens.

As you take two minutes to consider peace for our world today, think about how you can make a living by living and create more peace in your inner and outer world.

"When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive."   Author unknown