Sparkler for the Day: Relish Wonder
Here is the Sparkler for the Day – relish wonder.
We live in a small, yet infinite, mysterious and miraculous world. May you always relish the wonder.
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Sparkler for the Day: Love Gives
Here is the Sparkler for the Day: Love Gives
Love gives because it is its nature. It has no expectations of a return.
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Sparkler for the Day: Smile at Me
Here is today’s Sparkler for the Day: Smile.
“If you smile at me I will understand
‘cause that is something everyone everywhere
does in the same language…”
CSN/”Wooden Ships”
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Report From The Back 40 (Out & About Edition) Winter Solstice Day 4
Here is my Report From The Back 40, Out & About Edition form Winter Solstice, Day 4
Wow ~ I have met people from all over the globe here. We are 770 strong and hail from Ukraine, Japan, Taiwan, India, Great Britain, Sweden, all over the United States, Canada, Russia, Argentina, Venezuela, Mexico, South Africa, and Australia, to name just a few. Bright and radiant souls every one.
A little about why I am here and what it is that we are all doing. We are in a practice called white tantra – it is a sacred practice done as a group, meditation and chanting in partners and everyone wears white, including covering the head. “The other is you”~ a sutra of the Aquarian Age is driven home here. We deepen the awareness of our connection to each other and the Infinite. Beloved yogi and spiritual teacher, Yogi Bhajan, said “I promised you happy, healthy, and holy. I never said it would be easy.” Kundalini yoga is the yoga of awareness, and as such, the path is not necessarily smooth and easy. Why are we doing all of this anyway? To gain a deeper understanding of ourselves, God, and earth. We clear out the clutter in our subconscious so that we can then be more present and have better clarity. This first of 3 days of white tantra were challenging indeed. We did 4 meditations, holding a specific pose for 62 minutes each, and then 2 more that were 31 minutes long. For me, time had its own rhythm during these meditations, ebbing and flowing, and even the whole concept of time dropping away altogether. My partner and the whole group brought such energy to the day. We held each other up the whole way, and especially when the work became the most challenging. Practice within a group consciousness is a powerful experience indeed. I found I was much stronger that I had imagined going into this day. I leave you with some images of the day, including SatInder Kaur Khalsa turban wrapping for the head coverings and a group of us preparing for the day.
May the golden light of Guru Ram Das shine on you and each one of us everywhere, and may love and peace reign supreme in the world. Sat Nam, my friends.
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Sparkler for the Day
“Tired of trying to cram her sparkly star-born self into society’s beigey square holes, she chose to embrace her ridiculous awesomeness and shine like the freaking supernova she was meant to be.” ~Unknown
#GetYourSparkOn #FeelTheRapture #WaheGuru #kippinitreal
With gratitude to artist Ashley Christudason@Jungle Eye and dna-activation.webs.com for the image
Sparkler for the Day
Then she got curious about the soft spots within her…the easily triggered, vulnerable corners hidden away, quietly but urgently beckoning for a voice. The dark, gooey center of an old wound just waiting for recognition, acknowledgement, healing. She asked for and was granted the courage to face this place. This was where the Land of Transformation lived. She gathered and set the intention to embrace and nurture the soft center. She found a fierceness about her conviction to heal that she never realized was there before this moment. She said ‘yes’ to presencing herself to what she found in this old wound, and in these actions, it was shifted and heard, morphing into and ultimately unfolding to compassion and love.
#GetYourSparkOn #FeelTheRapture #WaheGuru #kippinitreal with gratitude to the Westin Bonaventure Hotel and the Divine for this beautiful sunrise view of Los Angeles from center city.
Then she got curious about the soft spots within her…
Sparkler for the Day
…and she finally owned all of who she was. She just stopped hiding parts of herself from anyone. She chose to no longer bend, fold, twist, or otherwise manipulate herself to adjust to what she perceived as the standards others required of her. She had discovered that all the old wounded places in her had grown strong and deep in compassion – for others, and most especially for herself. She set her own standards and stood firmly in them. She gave herself permission to take up space in the world. She walked gently in the world, but carried a walking stick…just in case. She joyfully kept evolving into however she unfolded in the moment. She came into her own and made her stand there.
#GetYourSparkOn #FeelTheRapture #WaheGuru #kippinitreal with gratitude www.animewallpapers.com for the base image
…and she finally owned who she was…
Sparkler for the Day
“The subject tonight is love. And for tomorrow night as well. As a matter of fact, I know of no better topic for us to discuss until we all die.” ~ #Hafiz
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with gratitude to pensamientos-de-una-lectora.tumblr.com for the image
Sparkler for the Day
Today I remind myself to stay with the breath and the Flow, for it is here that all is revealed. Today I will not try to push the Universe. Today I relinquish my ego’s imagined and insistent role of being general manager of the Universe. I will shine my brilliance as I breathe into the Flow. May this be my practice today and always. Anyone want to join me?
#GetYourSparkOn #FeelTheRapture #PatiencePays #WaheGuru #kippinitreal
Today I remind myself to stay with the breath and the Flow, for it is here that all is revealed.
Sparkler for the Day
She finally woke up – for real. She was done with talking tough and mean to herself. She was done with worry, about what people would think of her, about what she looked like, about the future. She was just done with the struggle of it all. She chose to embrace who she was, all of who she had been. She chose to make peace within herself for once and for all. She made a choice and chose herSelf.
#GetYourSparkOn #FeelTheRapture #WaheGuru #kippinitreal
She made a choice and she chose herself.