Good Will..2010

HOWEVER MANY HOLY WORDS YOU READ, however many you speak, what good will they do if you do not act upon them?

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BUDDHA

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HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

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Merry Christmas

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Heads or Tails...

ALBERT EINSTEIN: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.ellerochelle.blogspot.com/

Thanksgiving...

HAPPY THANKSGIVING ! x God be in my head, and in my understanding,xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx God be in my eyes and in my looking,x xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx God be in my mouth, and in my speaking, x xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx God be in my heart, and in my thinking,xx xx God be in my end, and at my departing. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sarum Primer, 16th Century x http://www.ellerochelle.blogspot.com/

Thinking

WE ARE WHAT WE THINK. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world.

Budddhax

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Theory...

ALBERT EINSTEIN : x The theory says a lot, but it does not bring us any closer to the secret of the Old One. I, at any rate, am convinced that he doesn't throw dice. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that is old enough to know better.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xAnonymousxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.ellerochelle.blogspot.com/

Gift

HEALTH IS the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

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Buddha

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Question...

from: TWO GHOSTS/poems xx THE NEXT PLACE xxx Was this the next place for me? x To be delivered by the redeemer, x kneel in a pew on a velvet cushion, x lean my head forward, and come to rest on wood, dare to talk to God x in another way? xx Take a wafer on my tongue x to chew or melt, I know not which, x and then become intoxicated by the holy wine? xx x TWO GHOSTS/ poems xx http://www.amazon.com/ xx http://www.ellerochelle.blogspot.com/ x

Single Candle..

THOUSANDS OF CANDLES can be lit

from a single candle, and the life of the candle

will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases

by being shared.

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BUDDHA

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Two Ghosts

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Love in Bloom

Apollo in Love with Daphne, 1664/ Nicolas Poussin x xxxxxPERHAPS the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be. x Anton Chekhov

Awakening

ALL WRONGDOING ARISES because of mind. If mind is transformed, can wrongdoing remain? x BUDDHA

Perspective.

WHEREVER YOU GO FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE,

you're always in the middle of the universe and the circle is always around you. Everyone who walks up to you has entered that sacred space, and it's not an accident. Whatever comes into that space is there to teach you.

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from......Awakening Loving-Kindness/ Pema Chodron

Grace

HE WHO FINDS A THOUGHT that enables him to obtain a slightly deeper glimpse into the eternal secrets of nature has been given great grace. x x Albert Einstein

The Stream

A MYRIAD OF BUBBLES WERE FLOATING ON THE SURFACE

of a stream.

"What are you?" I cried to them as they drifted by.

"I am a bubble, of course", a myriad of bubbles

answered, and there was surprise and indignation

in their voices as they passed by.

But here and there, a lonely bubble answered,

"We are this stream", and there was neither surprise

or indignation in their voices, but just a quiet certitude.

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Wei Wu Wei/ from " Ask the Awakened".

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Rest in peace, Mom. July 18, 2008

Reat in peace, C. July 19, 2008

Freedom!

Paraphrasing Wei Wu Wei : x LET US LIVE GLADLY. We are free to do it. Maybe it is our only freedom, but it is ours and it is a freedom. Can you do it now? Can you not do it? In fact, it is not a "doing", it is being who we are. All else is bondage; it is living by other's way. x July 4th, 2009

The Road

"ENLIGHTENMENT, FOR A WAVE,

is the moment the wave realizes it is water."

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Thich Nhat Hanh

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"THERE ARE TWO MISTAKES

one can make along the road to

the truth..not going all the way,

and not starting.

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Buddha

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A Pearl

"A PEARL IS A BEAUTIFUL THING THAT IS PRODUCED BY AN INJURED LIFE. It is the tear that results from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl." x Stephan Hoeller

I Ching

PI/ HOLDING TOGETHER/ Union

x x x xxxxxxxxxx What is required is that we unite with others, in order that all may compliment and aid one another through holding together. What is required is greatness of spirit, consistency, and strength. x

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xx x x x Relationships are formed and established according to definite inner laws. Common experiences strengthen these ties, and those who come too late to share in these basic experiences must suffer for it if, as a straggler, one finds the door locked. x

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x x Human society holds together through a community of interests that allow each individual to feel a member of the whole. x

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If we cultivate within the purity and strength that are necessary to be at the center of a fellowship, those who are meant for one come of their own accord. x

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Proof

xxx YOU ARE PLACED ON THE PLANET with everything you need already inside you.

You can't be upset unless you allow it.

You can't be controlled unless you allow it.

This puts you in a unique position.

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You are a creator.

You can create discord or harmony,

despair or happiness,

depression or joy,

lack or productiveness.

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Spirituality is not science, not a

technology, does not have to "prove"

anything. Spirituality cannot provide

technical answers. It is like dancing,

swirling around the floor, improvising

a ballet to Mozart, while singing a

Shakespeare Sonnet.

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Spirituality is the music of truth.

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Prove it.

Psalm

PSALM 0f PROTECTION

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HaShem is my light and my salvation,

whom shall I fear? HaShem is the stronghold

of my life, of whom shall I be afraid?

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When evil-doers came upon me to eat my

flesh, even mine adversaries and my foes,

they stumbled and fell.

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Though a host shall encamp against me, my

heart shall not fear, though war should rise

up against me, even then will I be confident.

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Psalms 27. 1-3

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To Mom...

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY, MOM.xx IT'S A WONDER TO ME THAT IT FINALLY CAME TO PASS

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Not yet a year gone, asleep beneath blossoms, your high clear song joined to the breeze, rustling verdant leaves. x Did you know, I bet you did, that I would call to you every day, my sentences would end with the phrase, "Well, what do you think Mom"? Or just, "Did you see that, Mom"? x I never cry because you are here by my side. Even more than when the rain tapped on your green umbrella as we huddled and skipped over puddles. Did you know that would be so? xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I think you did. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx c copyright all rights reserved

Reflections

CEASE TO BE YOUR OWN PUNISHMENT!

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Spiritual unfoldment is really an increasing

awareness of what you can do without.

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WE ARE NOT BEATEN IF WE CAN CREATE!

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I 've got a million of them!!!!! Usually jotted down

on scraps of paper, looking like shopping lists. But

then, I am in the market for enlightenment!

Metta Prayer

ACCORDING TO LAMA DAS, YOU WILL "Sleep easily, wake easily, have pleasant dreams, people will love you, celestial beings will love you and protect you.....you will die unconfused, and be reborn in the happy realms." With the help of: x x xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxMETTA PRAYER Xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx May all beings be peaceful. May all beings be happy. May all beings be safe. May all beings awaken to the light of their true nature. May all beings be free. xxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The Buddha said, recite and meditate on this.

Nirvana

MAHATMA GANDHI : x x Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal. x x x xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing." xxxxxxxxxxxxStephen R. Covey

There Was A Child

xCfrom: Leaves of Grass (1891) x x x xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x THERE WAS A CHILD WENT FORTH By Walt Whitman xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx There was a child went forth each day; And the first object he looked upon, that object he became; And that object became part of him for the day, or a certain part of the day, or for many years, or stretching cycles of years. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x The early lilacs became part of this child, And grass, and white and red morning-glories, and white and red clover, and the song of the phoebe-bird, And the Third-month lambs, and the sow's pink-faint litter, and the mare's foal, and the cow's calf, And the noisy brood of the barnyard.......... xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx x x ..................His own parents, He that father'd him, and she that had conceiv'd him in her womb, and birth'd him, They gave this child more of themselves than that; They gave him afterward every day.......

Minny

MINNY BLUE AND LINNY AND LYNxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Minny was my Russian grandmother. I was named after her in the way that immigrant families name their children. You take the first initial of Minny/Menya.xThen decide that's too old fashioned, so you change it into Linny/Lyn. Somehow a name emerges that sort of connects up.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Minny came from Roshkov, Ukraine/Russia. She was my father's mother, married my grandfather, the happy-go- lucky fellow who joined the Czars army, deserted it, came to AMERICA, left Minny with four sons under the age of ten. My father, at the age of ten, became the little man of the family when his mother Minny died at the age of thirty-two. Legend says it was of a broken heart. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx .xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx My father came to New York when he was twelve and when he saw The Statue of Liberty he thought she was his mother. For all of his ninety-five years he loved and respected America, because he felt that his mother stood guard over the Harbor. Before he died, he gave me a large white linen table cloth that Minny had embroidered in 1909. Exactly one hundred years ago. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Minny Blue. Blue, why? Well, the stitches on the white cloth were blue, her name in Russian, and the date, 1909. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Minny. Linny. Lyn. x xx xx Cherish your gifts... let the light within you shine forever. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Spiritual Warriors

SPIRITUAL WARRIORS find what they are looking for by doing. xxxxxx We possess the essence of what we are looking for within ourselves. xxxxx Your Spirit comes alive through your emotions, body, and intellect. xxxxx Meditation is part of doing. When you see your true essence, you can share it with others.

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You must be the change you want to see in the world. xxxxxxxxxxx Mahatma Gandhi

Greetings #1

OOPS! YOU FOUND ME!

I WAS TRYING VERY HARD

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to establish a new Blog, one in

which I would be another me!

But technology has confounded

me once more, and when all is

said and done, this blog surprised

me by installing my very own profile

from my other Blog. Don't laugh.

You knew it all along, I didn't.

Therefore, there's nowhere to hide.

Anything I write here has to be

true in the context of TWO GHOSTS.

I didn't plan to lie, just to veer off a bit.

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A dichotomy runs through me.

I am, like all of you, split into

various selves. This blog is intended

to move forward as a reflection of the

spiritual me. That's what I want it to be.

I'll try very hard to keep it so.

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I've been involved for a long time as

a spiritual adviser, a Reiki healer,

a student of mysticism and Eastern

philosophy. I teach meditation and

even read cards. I'm attracted to

people who toss salt over their

shoulder. I myself have never

met a ghost I didn't like.

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So what's this going to be like?

Well, I'll come up with prayers

from time to time and I favor

snippets of soulfull sayings that

I come across. I'll just add them

in. I hope that I will offend

no one. I can honestly say,

there's hardly a religion that I

haven't converted to. Everything

is a stepping stone to enlightenment.

I love Buddha, Jesus, all those

who've received arrows, been

martyred. All those who keep going

in love, in kindness.

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Buddha said: We exist as an

eternal reality and "life" is

part of our place in time.

I will send you blessings.

Over and over again.

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And the picture of the mannequin?

It's that dichotomy thing.

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