posted July 12, 2007 01:56 PM         

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Be kind anyway.

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Be good anyway.

Honesty and frankness will make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People need help, but may attack you if you try to help them.
Help them anyway.

posted July 12, 2007 02:26 PM         

People
need reminders.

posted July 12, 2007 02:55 PM         

...what about out of your life?

He wouldnt understand and take it as being shut out of my heart and i dont want to cause him any more pain than he already deals with.

posted July 12, 2007 04:28 PM         

this is a book i think that you would love...great stuff ~

Living on Love
Klaus J. Joehle

posted July 12, 2007 04:48 PM         

Mel, I hope you feel bettah soon.

naiad, You've been so beautiful to people lately,
or maybe I just started noticing your gentle posts.
It does all of us good.

posted July 13, 2007 02:08 PM         

Hope you are feeling better today, Melody.
I wasnt on top of my game yesterday either.

posted July 13, 2007 07:45 PM         

I think somebody turned me into a newt. I'm still waiting to git bettah...

The Universe provided me with over a thousand sticks of incense today. The good stuff. A lady who closed her store was selling it but wanted to "get rid of it" so I asked her how much $5 would get me and I left with a plastic grocery sack filled with boxes and envelopes full of different kinds, some familiar, most that I can't pronounce...
It was a nice balance on the way home from paying taxes. And I'm sure it will help me git bettah.

posted July 13, 2007 09:03 PM         

hsc ~ that was such a kind thing to say. thank you.

26taurus ~ the book is so awesome....here's some of the good stuff from the book ~

love is very magnetic. it attracts more love and joy to it. i've watched people change right in front of my eyes and become happier, more joyful, relaxed and peaceful. it's a wonderful feeling to be able to help others, considering how easy it is...

in order to send love to other people, animals, plants or the world, you need to open your heart and let the love flow. not only is it as easy as breathing, but each time you send love you receive more love yourself because the love comes from within you and must travel through you before it is sent out. and that is an indescribable bonus.

...when i learned to send love, it became the joy of my life. for the first time in my life i really felt i could make a difference. what a difference that has made to my life! as i radiate out more love, i attract more good things and good experiences to myself. the more i work with love, the more everything just seems to click for me and work out perfectly.

...even though i am able to send love virtually anywhere, like while riding a bus or driving a car, i still spend 15 to 20 minutes a day where i lay down and totally focus on opening my heart and radiating love. this seems to dramatically increase my ability every time.

...sometimes people tell me that they don't have an extra 20 minutes a day for this. i can understand that because they seem to be spending most of their day trying to starighten out all the crap that seems to happen to them. i wonder why so much crap happens to them while my days go by like a lucky charm? maybe it's that twenty minutes i spend every day sending love. what do you think?

...my life has changed so much that whenever i think back, all i can do is shake my head. in the past, nothing ever really worked out for me. it seemed like everything i touched turned to dust. now it's exactly the opposite. i couldn't make a mistake if i tried. everything i touch works out perfectly; my timing is perfect.

...in case you're wondering why you have never heard of sending love, or read anything about it, that's not an easy story to tell and it really is a long one. i'm still working out some of the details. the amount of effort and energy that has been expended in order to keep this information secret is mind-boggling, and in many ways even disgusting. normally i would be concerned that this book would never make it to the open market, but for as long as i have lived i have had the feeling that i am not alone. as i write this, i can feel something looking over my shoulder. i have no idea what it is, but i feel safe and unstoppable, at least as far as this material is concerned.

and so it is. accept what you like and leave the rest.

all my love to you on your journey. why not do it with love? we have nothing to lose, and everything to gain.

and the game goes on.....

posted July 14, 2007 12:41 AM         

quote:

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each time you send love you receive more love yourself because the love comes from within you and must travel through you before it is sent out.

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posted July 16, 2007 04:02 PM         

I wanted to tell you about a synchronistic event that occurred right before I discovered the incense. OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
THAT'S WHY I GOT THE INCENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I DID THE RIGHT THING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

OH, I SO PSYCHED NOW.

Ok, here it is... I had been thinking about this old friend... (Steve, you have GOT to hear this too, I hope you are listening hehe) anyway, a little background... he is a Gemini and he has delved into some pretty serious stuff and he has paid the price. A couple days before this I was thinking A LOT about him and how much he had really given to me (knowledge) THAT HE HAD PAID FOR. It was back in our early twenties and he always owed me ten or twenty bucks and I always always reminding him that he said he would pay me back (in an annoying responsibility Saturnian way) and although I have always acknowledged in my mind that he is intelligent and that he is one of the 6 or so guys in my life I have "looked up to" in some area or another, I had never thought of it quite the way I did that day/night (a couple days before incense day).
It suddenly came to me that no wonder he never seemed that concerned that he owed me ten dollars. He didn't really. If I would have had the money, I would have paid ten dollars for a book that gave even a fraction of the information he had shared with me. And to receive this kind of information without having to pay the Extreme price he paid was worth MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH more.

So, I go in to pay my taxes, blah blah blahing to my daughter as we walk up to the line and his best friend says, "Hi!" and is standing right next to me. I am startled and surprised in a happy way and say an enthusiastic Hi and we blah blah blah and then I ask if he has seen Gemini and he says yeah, we still work at the same place but he isn't happy about it, "a disgruntled worker" hehe (they work at a fast food type restaurant and I didn't know they still worked there after all of these years so I never went by to say Hey) so I say, "listen, P., will you do me a favor and tell (my buddy) something for me?" He says "yeah, sure" with some interest so I am sure my message will get through.
I say,
Tell him I have just begun to understand just how much he taught me and gave to me.

His friends eyes light up here. He is listening.

Tears involuntarily start to form in my eyes, my voice hints and P. looks immediately closer into my eyes and sees.

I say with some difficulty in containing my emotion,
Tell him that that I understand now why he didn't always feel like he had to pay me back when he borrowed ten bucks...

P. is momentarily confused and fear flits across his features so I giggle and say,
and you know I nagged him to death about it

All is well again and I say with more emotion and tears coming, making it difficult to talk,
he really gave me so much and didn't owe me anything

P.'s companions who paid their taxes are leaving and he is stretched away slowly still looking at me and nodding and gesturing he has to go.

Tell him, I say.
P. says, I will.

Then I paid taxes, left and cut across a lane to turn at a sign for a yard sale on the way back and... *see incense story*.

The Universe provides very well for me, but it is so nice to get extra special presents when I have been extra good.

posted July 16, 2007 04:09 PM         

26T, where did you go? Hope all is well.

posted July 21, 2007 10:18 PM         

I did not intend to disappear like that and thought you all might think me rude.

I had some family matters to take care of and then some travelling to do, and no internet access. Geez, you'd think i'd was a Sagittarius with all the miles i've put on my car over the past couple of months.

Thank you for posting that naiad. Beautiful truth.
And yes, the game does go on....and on....&..

Mystic Melody, that's a great story.
Glad things are going well for you.

posted July 21, 2007 10:25 PM         

if any of you have any inspirational stories, poems etc that might be uplifting to a person who doesnt always see things so clearly or positively sometimes, i would be greatful if you could post them or provide a link.
i'd like to periodically send my dad some uplifting words of wisdom to brighten up his life & days.