InAction is a Weapon of Mass Destruction

Inaction is your personal weapon of mass destruction, and you are it's first victim. Save yourself, then save another, and so on.

Let the music group Faithless show you, using some wonderful metaphors in this video.

We are all waiting for you.


Peace,
Mikel

Do It, Do It Now!

Whatever that goal of yours is, whatever the wish; look at it again, do it now.

Take steps toward it and toward you will it come.

Yoda says, "Do or do not! There is no try"

I attest to this experientially, with personalized caveats but essentially the message is the same.

The bottom line of the many cliche's surrounding us daily is this - time is short, everything you hold dear and love to love, is fragile and ephemeral.

When you wake up in the morning will your body wake up with you? And whether it did or not, is your work here done?

Every moment is unknown and wondrous, every breath precious to behold. Whatever your heart's desire, whatever your unfulfilled dream; begin it, move toward it, now.

Look away from the silt and heaviness of reality, the mundane. Let your heart flutter, permit your soul presence here, presence now.

Whatever that goal of yours is dear one, do it now.

The next move is yours, the reminder is here. Forgive yourself regularly. In every moment there is hope...

In peace,
M

I'm Going Through Changes

The temperature is dropping daily, we had our first snow fall during the week and it was a healthy dumping. Ozzy Osborne "I'm going through changes" echoes through my mind and I reflect. Everyday is a change, a subtle or not-so subtle shift. That which seemed small yesterday, today appears larger or vice versa.

Seasonal shifts remind me of my level of awareness to my personal consciousness. A little reminder to be detached but ever expectant. That the things I work toward are collectively being attracted to my present, through my own understandings and through powers that are beyond my human intelligence.

I'm reminded to be ever-grateful, not for things, but for experiences, states of being, changes I incur and revel in. Grateful that I usually have the mental fortitude to realize that my path is ever forward, even when I'm taken aback 3 steps.

Peace and joy forever occupy a space in my state of being, sometimes smaller, sometimes larger and at times even forgotten, but impossible to avoid for long. For that I'm grateful.

Perhaps it's time for a checkpoint, a inner touch base. The seasons are changing. Where are you headed? Are you happy with what you see within you? Can you step back from the soap opera of your daily life and see your inner divine being at work?

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The Personality Of When

I cant say exactly when or how I came to this realisation but there are some things I know for sure. One of the cornerstones as it were and there are more than 4 corners to knowing who you are, where you are and when you are; not forgetting how you are!

No matter where you find yourself, up or down, left or right, its sometimes natural to wonder how long the moment might last or 'when' it might end. It's up to you of course, but that's not always plain to see. Sometimes it's like looking in the fridge for the butter for half an hour, ultimately seeing it right in front of you.

'When' is an interesting question prefix. It almost denotes an instant attachment to the outcome of the answer, whether positive or negative. "When will this be over?", "When will this fantastic moment end?".

They key pointer in a 'when-moment', in your inner talk, is that it should reflect back at you assuming you are open to it. Asking 'when' puts things outside of your control and creates an illusion. Maybe you need that comfort in that moment or some sense of security?

Those 'when' questions, when :) they come up; should give you pause and allow you too look back within. Ask yourself "What is it that I am scared of taking control of?" "What is it that I allow to hold me back?" "Why am I giving my-self over to something else?"

So "when" when comes into the picture, relax and imagine that you are the creator of your paradigm and that you do indeed choose the actors and the script. Simply write that lack of control or perception of it out of the play altogether.

If anything, you will feel more empowered "when" you do. :)

On The Path, Or?

How was your experience of today?

Were you on the path, at least some of the time?

When did you fall off?

And when you did, did you dust yourself off, recognize the experience without beating yourself up and continue ... onward and upward?

Did you remember to pause and enjoy the wildflowers floating in the breeze while you waited patiently for that stoplight to turn?

Or, say I love you and feel it?

Did you remember to be grateful for simply being able to get out of bed, brush your teeth and wolf down that bowl of instant cereal?

Or, wonder about long lost acquaintance and actually dig out their phone number?

Did you stop to feel the appreciation of those around you for all that you are in their lives, or allow your ego to drive that conversation into the ground?

What is it in you that you are thankful for?

What will you allow tomorrow to bring?

I wonder, did you even read this far?

Love Yourself And All Your Flaws

Love yourself and all your flaws, each one
See them only as small things to overcome
In your journey each day
Grow yourself in some small way

Look inside
To decide
Where to focus your attention
With time and practice you will come to the same conclusion


Loving yourself and all your flaws
Is the beginning of opening all those inner doors
Leading and lighting your way
Is in your control each moment of the day

Practice makes perfect
Given time to reflect
Where you focus your attention
Is where you will grow your intentional comprehension


So love yourself and all your flaws
From within yourself open all those stuffy drawers
Throw out illusion
Reality in confusion

See and feel the spark of the real
That through the veils and shadows you begin to unpeel
What is inside
That warmth and love you have continued to hide


But love yourself and all your flaws
It is the start of your higher cause
To overcome your allegiance to fear
Part of the illusion that has always seemed so near

Is only something you can lose
If you take the time to believe you can choose
Break free from the flawed chains
That keep you a slave to your disdain


When all you require
To again begin to inspire
Is to love yourself and all your flaws
And again allow yourself to be at cause


With love and gratitude,
Mikel

Come Back, Come Back, All Is Forgiven

You are like the first unaware ripple, caused from the anonymous hand dropping a pebble in the pool of human consciousness.

Screaming forth from the beginning, dancing into a seemingly new world, unaware of interference or other plans.

You experience your first collisions with other ripples. You perceive some of these outcomes as positive and some not. Do you even know who you are yet?

Onward you continue somehow, in someway; charging forth. Conscious sometimes and unconscious others.

Sometime, someday you wonder at your 'progress' and conceive another way. Perhaps dim at first but causing that thirst... the one that just doesn't go away.

You search and you seek, no where do you find that drink of knowledge or taste of experience that satisfies in all ways and scratches that itch.

Yet as you roll in this pond and clash, collide and hug other ripples you cannot help but come to realize what you are.

Successfully seeing yourself as that, opens that door a little more; to let in the sense that all those accidents and things that derailed your plans, were perhaps pieces of a plan with a larger design.

As all these things gel and wash over your knowingness, you consider some routes that were not contemplated before.

If you are a ripple and running always forward in the pond, what if you go backwards to where you begun?

What if there is something to learn from a time being young, when rules were for adults and mud pies were fun?

Perhaps wisdom has a sense of humour when it chooses to hide, in the child inside? And yet here you run, run, run with that seemingly ever changing tide.

Rise above the waves, see where you've been, give your-self credit and play with your child within.