prayer....................

 

     I would say yes to a prayer that reaches out over the companionable objects of our day, yes to prayers for more charity, resilience, good-naturedness, and also a listening kind of praying that is tucked somewhere always in our heart, mystically turning to ever greater reality.  What a woeful thing it would be to be denied prayer, to be numbed to its gratitude.  We can live without a great deal, but to live entirely without prayer would leave us lesser human beings.  Prayer changes our relationships with pretty much everything.  It the tribulation of night I turn the wheel of my prayer rope and steer my ship over woeful seas.  In the brightness of the longed-for dawn I stare east and am deep-rooted in the wallop of my amazement.

     In the end, prayer isn't something we do, it becomes something that we are.

-Martin Shaw, Liturgies of the Wild: Myths That Make Us

Gratitude is the key to power...........

 

If all you did was look for things to appreciate, you would live a joyously spectacular life.

-Esther Hicks, as lifted from here

My parents.....................

 

.......................and Rob's parents could have been neighbors.  The one big thing missing from his list is the command, "Go play outside."

Cultural Offering.................

 

..............introduces us to John Dabell and his 200 reasons:

121.  I’m not here to rush healing, I’m here to honour it.

122. I’m not here to be untouched, I’m here to be unbroken.

123. I’m not here to wait for hope, I’m here to practice it daily.

Think I have mastered #37

Thanks Kurt

blessed...................

 

We bless this year for all we learned,

For all we loved and lost

And for the quiet way it brought us

Nearer to our invisible destination.

-John O'Donohue

Our guiding light...................

 

...............left himself off the list?  Thank you, Michael.

Happy Thanksgiving................

 

Thankful for the Rules...................

 

...........................................especially #10.

The art .................................

 

..........................................of living well.

Win-Win..........................

 

And yet gratitude, both the possession and the giving, always matters.  Possess it and you gain perspective. Give it and you inspire.

-Michael Wade, from this edition

More wisdom...........................

 

..................................from Nicholas Bate:

essence........................

 

Perhaps, simply feeling grateful and living with a prayerful attitude are the essence of the entire spiritual journey.

-Brian W. Jones

kindling....................

 

As a rule there are in everyone all sorts of good ideas, ready like tinder. But much of this tinder catches fire, or catches it successfully, only when it meets some flame or spark from outside, i.e. from some other person. Often, too, our own light goes out, and is rekindled by some experience we go through with a fellow-man. Thus we have each of us cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flames within us.

-Albert Schweitzer

As Essential Mixes go..............................

 

......................this one will be a classic.

Loving.....................................

 

........................................................Ohio.

a product.......................

 

Material possessions can be here today and gone tomorrow, and if your happiness is tied up in them, it too can be here today and gone tomorrow.  But happiness, a product of a mindset that combines curiosity, the joy of perpetual intellectual discovery, and an appreciation of life's experiences, can be more lasting.

-Gad Saad,  The Saad Truth About Happiness

Doesn't get.......................

 

........................................better than this.

Every day...............................

 

....................should be Thanksgiving Day.

Life is good, very good..................

 

Nirvana.........................

 I want to sit here longer, to move unhurried, to glide, to breathe, to be ordered but not scheduled, to release into reverie, to let my mind wander, my shoulders loosen, my being melt and flow with curiosity, delight, warmth, ease.

-Annie Mueller, from here