Accepting Frustrations

I don’t know why my side bar has gone “hide-y” down at the end of my blog.
My posts are also looking messy, there doesn’t seem to be any linebreak or paragraph breaks. This is all very perplexing! And annoying.
No matter what I do, I can’t fix it. Maybe its time to try another template.

This is the latest on a mounting pile of things I am feeling frustrated and annoyed about.
Eckhart Tolle says that peace can only come in the letting go of wanting this moment to be different.
I drew an angel oracle card last night about something else I am frustrated with and the message was this:

Blessing In Disguise
“What appears to be a problem is actually part of your answered prayer.”

Seen from another angle, the universe is giving me lots of opportunity to practice acceptance which I now remember creating as a possibility as I was doing the New Earth Webminar. Sometimes ...LOL...taking responsibility for how my life is turning out is not as fun as I thought it would be.

War and Peace

A lot is going on at work and I woke up literally ‘buzzing’ from the spinning thoughts in my head. Ideas, scraps of thoughts, worries, concerns, schedules, expectations.

My head feels heavy and cramped. I am disconnected to my center, and I can’t access peace.

Taking a cue from The New Earth, I took deep breaths and brought myself back to this pinpoint of time, this moment.

This moment looks like this.

At the sink.....Water under the tap.....Water cupped in my hand.....Awash over my face.

This moment..... This one breath..... This pinpoint of attention is my life.

Waiting in my inbox, a gift.... A poem name War and Peace.

How apt. Life feeding life a needed dose of loving inspiration.

Here it is.

If you stumble across this, you too must have been calling forth for Peace.

War and Peace

Man invents war. Man discovers peace.
He invents war from without.
He discovers peace from within.
War man throws. Peace man sows.
The smile of war is the flood of human blood.
The smile of peace is the love, below, above. Peace is the whole truth that wishes to enrapture humanity.
War is the whole falsehood that wants to capture humanity.
Peace begins in the soul and ends in the heart.
War begins in the mind and ends in the body. War forgets peace. Peace forgives war.
War is the death of the life human. Peace is the birth of the Life Divine.
Our vital passions want war.
Our psychic emotions desire peace.
War is clear futility in dire spear-stupidity.
Peace is flowing infinity in glowing eternity. Man seeks war when he thinks that the world is not his.
Man invites war when he feels that he can conquer the world.
Man proclaims war when he dreams
That the world has already surrendered to him. Man seeks peace because his earthly existence desperately needs it.
Man welcomes peace because he feels
that in peace alone is his life of achievement and fulfilment.
Man spreads peace because he wants to transcend death. The animal in man wars against peace in the outer world,
in the world of conflicting ideas.
The divine in man wars against ignorance in the inner world,
in the world of mounting ideals. The animal in man wants war for the sake of war,
war to devour the snoring world.
The divine in man wants peace for the sake of peace,
peace to feed the hungry world.

By:Sri Chinmoy From: Songs of The Soul

Small Thrill

Life has been so full lately and blogging seems to get relegated to the “it can wait till later” pile of things to handle.

A lovely friend told me about posting via email and this could possibly be the deal maker of me growing as a blogger!

Oh happy day!

Wondering in India Part 1

R and I went to India over Easter. We spent the week in New Delhi, Agra and Jaipur which is the Golden Triangle in Rajasthan. India is at once beautiful, ugly, magnificient yet shabby, ancient yet young.

In India, I felt uncomfortable amidsts the dirt, dust, insects and the rubbish. I worried incessantly about falling sick from drinking tainted water or eating contaminated food. All my physical concerns disconnected me from the spirit of India especially during the first couple of days when we got from New Delhi to Agra in a car after being told it was not possible for us to get train tix without booking. So we had a nice ride in a car where we experienced India with a Guide whilst driven around in a sedan. It was the “bubble” India experience.

As we got into the groove of India, R and I told our driver we didn’t want a guide and he can have the day off. He was shocked! We arranged for a meeting time and place and we set off on foot to ‘wonder’. That was the first of a few wonders.

This gave us a true taste of India and we happily ‘got lost’ and by doing so experienced some of our best India moments:

- Meeting the snake charmer

- Wondered into the Sari bazaar

- Given a flower from a flower merchant

- Palm reading by a supposedly famous astrologer/palmist

- Being taken by tuk tuk driver to a ‘shopping mall’ which was another souvenir emporium where we

-Admiring Indian arts and crafts

-Wondering around one of the biggest bazaar in Asia and buying lots of lovely Kurtas (flowy soft Indian shirts)

-Bringing home some lovely pashminas and hand madebedspreads in a sari shop

-Walking in the electronic districts where there are shops upon shops selling mobile phones with not a tourist in sight

-Smiles of random strangers who allowed me to take their pictures

R and I always travel with a part of the trip unplanned. During our honeymoon, we had the first 3 day planned and just decided to just flow with the rest of the two weeks. We invited a couple of wedding crashers and it was so much fun to have company. We even ended up spending a night at the tiny Split airport in Croatia. I love the freedom to just figure it out as we go.

Before we left for India, R asked me if I cared that he has only booked accommodation for our first and second night. We just flowed with it and it felt like life always meet us half way because we were always at the right place at the right time.

In this I should trust even more so when I return to the routine of the everyday.