"There is nothing noble about being superior to your fellow man, True nobility is being superior to your former Self".

~ Ernest Hemingway ~

Its alright if you didn't care before... a lot of people didn't know.  Now, there is no excuse.

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What should we have ready at hand in difficult situations? Simply the knowledge of what is under my control and what is not.

~  Epictetus ~

Everyday I give thanks that Montana is not suffering
like her older sister Matilda is.
Matilda came into this world fighting .. 

What is not under my control as yet is my innate ability to seemingly make things worse.  It just gets to a point where I can't hold it in when I see certain things.  

I was looking for a photograph of Montana I could use in a blog post and I saw Matilda's birthday shot and I was flooded with emotion.

What do you do?  You tell me, its not like I have read a manual or anything. Hell, have you?


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"The Sky is the daily bread of the Eyes".

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

The symbol of the sun is a circle with a dot in the middle.  The shield of a certain solar deity had a boss or knob in the middle similar to the astrological sun symbol.

The sun does wonderful almost miraculous things for the human body.  Too much is not good and not enough is also not good.  But a balance once again is what the human body requires for optimum health.  I can advocate this because I sun-gazed each day over a year give or take those days that were raining.   Manly Hall says, "Even a virtue over worked becomes a vice".

I estimated I had completed a cycle of nine months. That was the outcome I wanted to ensue.   I performed this ritualistic approach to the sun at dawn each day when the UV level is non existent. 

The rule is to Sun Gazing is to note  with great respect, that your shadow is three times longer than your normal height (no less).  Any less length and one should not attempt this ritual.  

The results of this could be seen as obscure.  I can say honestly that I was far less hungry and my body doesn't  appear to contract the flu.  As I write this it is eight years since I was stricken with such an ailment.

I was overcome with the most massive ideas.  I could barely keep up with them in my logical state.  I spent literally hours painting the images I was seeing in my minds eye.   I began to craft plastic to utilize this horrid waste product and came up with amazing things to make.  I would like to say the sun helped me - what you think is up to you.

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If you can look into the seeds of time and say, which grain will grow, and which will not, speak then to me!

~ William Shakespeare

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There is nothing great and there is nothing small in the mind that causeth all...

~ Kybalion ~

Gleniffer magic causeth joy.

This axiom is one of my favorite ones throughout the entire Kybalion.  I reap from this, wisdom and peace - This is a confirmation that I am apart of the mind of the All.  

My part in the All is as good and as useful as any other creation if I have the highest attitude I can.  I seek truth as the mind of God sees it and I speak truth to the highest reason I have.  

We are but a universe of our own, as there are representations of everything in the universes and beyond displayed inside our human form within this Plane of existence and confirmation of who we are.

CHAPTER XII - Kybalion

The Principal of "CAUSATION"

"Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is but a name for Law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the Law."~ The Kybalion ~

 The great Sixth Hermetic Principle...... the Principle of Cause and Effect :

• embodies the truth that Law pervades the Universe; 
• that nothing happens by Chance; 
• that Chance is merely a term indicating cause existing but not recognized or perceived; 
• that phenomena is continuous, without break or exception
  The Kybalion, by Three Initiates, [1912], at sacred-texts.com

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What is not made conscious often comes to us as fate.

~ Carl Jung ~

One of Montana's awards for her felted vest.

Montana's major work was a large felt piece made into a vest that was double sided and awe inspiring to gaze upon.  It is such a beautiful piece of work.  I don't think she felt that happy with it no matter how much we said it was beautiful.  I put it in the "CWA National Handicraft Competition".  She won first prize.  I guess it was fated that she would get such a wonderful confirmation as this.

While making the work it appears there were strange things going on for her with the person who was her tutor.  Montana is very sensitive and found discussing such things as the tutor wanted to discuss very disconcerting.  I found just knowing this very uncomfortable and I was at a loss to know what to say or do.  I agreed with Montana that is was weird behaviour as I felt it was left field stuff that was unnecessary to her learning.

These things are sent to try us along the way. Its about how we respond to what happens to us not what happens to us that matters in the long run... in the very long run.


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"Everything in nature is resurrection."

~ Voltaire ~

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Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

~ Thomas Aquinas ~

 

"Gnosis is the understanding that you are here as part of God's experience and in that understanding you are humbled and accept your role here to serve all Creation".  

 
ThyAlwaysSeek.

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"Is it a crime to fight for what is Mine?"

~ Tupac Shakur ~

Mining is stealing from us all across the world.  It has to stop!

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"Caffeine - The Gateway Drug"

~ Eddie Vedder ~

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There for awhile my coffee cup was used for an awful lot of bourbon... meh! It looked like black coffee - didn't it?

Coffee or Bourbon?

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"It's a bittersweet symphony, that's Life"

~ The Verve ~

Tryin to make it - then you die!

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"I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it."

~ Eminem ~

Fernmount Cemetery

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"Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends."

~ Eminem ~

Me too Em... me too.
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"You need power only when you want to do something harmful, Otherwise Love is enough to get everything done."

~ Charlie Chaplin ~

Dallas Green has an attitude of Love like Charlie speaks of.  Good guy and great band.

Everyday... in as many ways as possible I continually reaffirm to myself that nature will deal with the ugly situation of being made fun of by my own two older children because they have losers for friends who play games with people for fun and amusement.   What Karma they face - that is a novel thought at least.

I must have patience and I can because I understand Karmic consequence and soul contracts.  Around this entire situation is a huge Karmic consequence for all those involved. I often say I feel like JB was my father in another life...

I miss my kids like air - And to think I wanted children  and wanted to be a mother and all of those years being on IVF and trying everything and then gaining success and now this.. Kinda ironic - but for whom in the end hey?  

This is very clear to me - there was situations set in motion a very long time ago and back then I knew that one day it would cause problems.  I just do not understand why I am the bad guy here because clearly I am not.

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"Not what we have but what we enjoy is what constitutes our abundance."

~ Epicurus ~

I often say I could sleep on a dirt floor, it would not matter if I was happy.   To be happy would be more important to me always.  I would never forgo my happiness again to hide the impacts of abuse.   I have almost everything that makes me happy.  I haven't seen my older two children for years and I miss them but still I must adapt and be happy regardless.

I have all but proven this lately.  Recently we moved to a fairly cold area on the map and having no floor coverings can be a tad chilly.   The plumber thinks we are rather crazy because of the level of cold. We will remedy this but for now we will simply be happy regardless.

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"We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away."

~ Plutarch ~

Emporium full of things to throw away.

Animals would not do such a thing.  Animals don't kill for fun. Humans are supposed to be more evolved than animals.  Its not the case when you look at life this way.  So evolution means we can hurt others if this is the case.    I don't think this is ideal or helpful.

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"Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity."

~ Plutarch ~

From Forbes
The wealth of the one percent richest people in the world amounts to $110 trillion. That's 65 times the total wealth of the bottom half of the world's population. The bottom half of the world's population owns the same as the richest 85 people in the world.

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"Quality is not an act, it is a habit."

~ Aristotle ~

I take a lot of care with my craft and so I have made quality a habit.  I often pull  my work undone and start again if I am not happy with what I have done and I don't sweat it either as its better to produce a quality product than a shabby product.
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Little Lamb who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee? Gave thee life & bid thee feed?

~ William Blake ~

Montana was always known as "Lamb" to me.

"The Lamb" is a poem by William Blake, published in Songs of Innocence in 1789. "The Lamb" is the counterpart poem to Blake's poem: "The Tyger" in Songs of Experience. Wikipedia

"LAMB"

Little Lamb who made thee
         Dost thou know who made thee
Gave thee life & bid thee feed.
By the stream & o'er the mead;
Gave thee clothing of delight,
Softest clothing wooly bright;
Gave thee such a tender voice,
Making all the vales rejoice!
         Little Lamb who made thee
         Dost thou know who made thee

         Little Lamb I'll tell thee,
         Little Lamb I'll tell thee!
He is called by thy name,
For he calls himself a Lamb:
He is meek & he is mild,
He became a little child:
I a child & thou a lamb,
We are called by his name.
         Little Lamb God bless thee.
         Little Lamb God bless thee.

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"To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand and Eternity in an hour."

~ William Blake ~

Hibiscus Flower

"To See a World..."

(Fragments from "Auguries of Innocence"

To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand 
And Eternity in an hour.

A Robin Redbreast in a Cage
Puts all Heaven in a Rage.
A dove house fill’d with doves and pigeons
Shudders Hell thro’ all its regions.
A Dog starv’d at his Master’s Gate
Predicts the ruin of the State.
A Horse misus’d upon the Road
Calls to Heaven for Human blood.
Each outcry of the hunted Hare
A fiber from the Brain does tear.

He who shall train the Horse to War
Shall never pass the Polar Bar.
The Beggar’s Dog and Widow’s Cat,
Feed them and thou wilt grow fat.
The Gnat that sings his Summer song 
Poison gets from Slander’s tongue.
The poison of the Snake and Newt
Is the sweat of Envy’s Foot.

A truth that’s told with bad intent
Beats all the Lies you can invent.
It is right it should be so;
Man was made for Joy and Woe;
And when this we rightly know
Thro’ the World we safely go.

Every Night and every Morn
Some to Misery are Born.
Every Morn and every Night
Some are Born to sweet delight.
Some are Born to sweet delight,
Some are Born to Endless Night.  

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"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite."

~ William Blake ~

We are held here on this Earth planet by magical forces such as gravity and magnetism and this also has a way of holding back our perception of the infinite. 

There is another element called aether. This is what is returning now and this raises our consciousness level to a place where seeing the infinite may well be possible.  When this returns we will have to adapt in our mortality to the divinity returning and other parts of our body will assume processes not before used in our life for thousands of years.  

When the light changes and the resonance changes this is responsible for turning off and on the switches in our bodies via the hormones and our DNA.  The moon and other planets do exhibit magnetic effects over all fluids in our bodies and this will be markedly effected as this element flows back in. 

Food for instance may not play the role it does today or in our past knowledge.  We may be nourished by different means.  By light perhaps like plants are.  We will see as no one can escape this inevitable occurrence.   Its all food for your thoughts.

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There are things you know about, and things you don’t, the known and the unknown, and in between are the doors, that’s us.

~ Ray Manzarek ~

             On the history of this quote... please go to this website to read the full story. 

QUOTE INVESTIGATOR

This quote has been misquoted countless times as Jim's quote but it appears that it is actually Manzarek who was the one who said this.

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Numbers are not concepts consciously invented by men for purpose of calculation. They are spontaneous and autonomous products of the unconscious - as are other archetypal symbols..

~ Carl Jung ~

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Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood by the masses.

~ Plato ~

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"It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings.'

~ Ann Landers ~

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"The world wants to be deceived, so let it be deceived"

~  Petronius ~

In order to be fully awake one must undertake to study the ancient wisdom and the path which history has taken to be so deceived as it is today.  There are definite markers throughout history that show the erroneous behaviour of the Romans is responsible for the shaping of the world we live in today. 

The Court System, Law, Banking, Education, Religion, Child Rearing, Commerce is all based on Roman Law.  They sort to completely change the landscape of the world from a generative perspective and bind people up with the emotion of fear with the benefits of being able to pay in coin to the church for any and all transgressions to receive absolution.  The wrought is still going on today.

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This above all, To thine own self be True!

~ William Shakespeare ~

I love this image because I am true...... true to the Water always.  Water is an endless concatenation of solid things that we sense as wet and nice.  To me that is the magic of the divine to which I will always remain true.

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"An Adventurous Spirit finds a measure of Joy in everyday"

~ Mary-Ellen Peters ~

The Rocky River

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"Birthdays are a reward for having turned up 365 days in a row. It is like getting a badge for Attendance!"

~ Gina Barreca  ~

Birthday Cake

Its my birthday and at last these days I can say I am happy.  Never forgetting either that there is always great joy knowing there are birthdays which I have yet to have! 

Its so awesome to be alive to enjoy this and to be able to say this and mean it.  Brice has given me security. His love and his attentiveness to the important things makes all the difference in my life.  I think most people call it Trust.

Enjoy the day along with me celebrating this birthday of mine.  I'm cooking today, helping Brice make my birthday cake for this year. 

I like decorating cakes and making one for myself is an honour to myself and that part is fun. 

I  should honour myself!   I am a part of the Divine mind that is the All and the All should always be celebrated because this is the true God and we are all apart of this great pantheistic deity.

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"Life is Best when you are in Love"

~  Michael Moriarty ~

Life is beautiful when you are in love and this man pictured is the love that makes me feel so happy ... this is Bricee and he is the best - its hard to find a man with such great heart energy that just eeks of trust to stand beside me in my life.  I am a lucky girl!

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