treasures

old is beautiful.

Taken in an antique/junk shop in Singapore.

so simple. so pretty. so hopeful.

a random treasure found as i trawled blogspot

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Spring of hope Winter of dispair

My favourite Dickens Quote

"It was the best of times,
it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom,
it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief,
it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light,
it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope,
it was the winter of despair,
we had everything before us,
we had nothing before us,
we were all going direct to heaven,
we were all going direct the other way..."
Charles Dickens - 1859

Seems incredulously apt for the present.
Certainly food for thoughts about universal truths which threads one generation to the next, connecting our humanity.

The power of language

Headlines, the news, radio talk shows are all repeating the heavy drag of a world in financial crisis, eager to taint our world in the same hallows shades of doom.

As a budding entrepreneur who gave up the security of my career last Nov at a time when the rising tide of dis-ease about security, I work hard to keep myself positive, energized in the quiet rebellion against the fear and uncertainty. I firmly believe my disempowerment will not benefiting anyone.

A few days ago I was listening to a rebroadcast podcast by Sonia Choquette and heard this.

“These are not bad times, these are challenging times.”

A simple choice of different words cast such a different light on reality.

The word bad brings with it a life long baggage of every negative circumstances and emotions we have experienced.
The word challenging calls out and appeals us to rise above circumstances with courage, dignity, creativity and invites us to defy whatever is challenging us.

5 years ago I did the Landmark Forum and from it I learnt about the transformational power of language. The Sonia quote above is a powerful demonstration of this.

Thank you Sonia. This entry is dedicated to you and your wisdom.

God's Gift

I just watched the youtube vid of Susan Boyle from the UK show Britain's Got Talent. What a performance.

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY)

It was such a wonderful reminder for us all not to judging a book by its cover.
And to, never say never about realising your dream.

When we get to see people share their god given gift, I am touched and moved at the level of the heart and soul. It really feels as if the gift takes over and I/we are all humbled in its presence.

My teacher, Blair Singer said (at his Sales and Leadership Workshop), to hold back from giving the gift we have to give, we are being greedy.

My take on it is that, when we stop our gift from manifesting into this world, we stifle the flow of God force that is being channelled through us. My theory is when this energy builds over time as we pushed away, repressed, denied the expression of this gift, the energy discombobulates our equilibrium and causes malaise in the forms of illness, dissatisfaction, restlessness. When I stop my own creativity from manifesting because of a deep seated sense of unworthiness, I usually starts to feel nausuous, restless sleep, waking at odd hours and a sense of unshakable heaviness or actual weight-gain.

I can see that one of my personal spiritual mission is about liberating the human spirit from the shackles of inadequacy for them to feel the joy from their full self-expression. The how I not yet know. That's why I take it one inspired step at a time.

Stuie Wilde - Mister Radical

Stuart Wilde is a mystic, visionary, new age thinker and all round reality challenger/breaker. I love his books and CDs on Meditation, on Money or the smallest yet most magical book on Miracles.

I love fringe thinking which cast such a different light upon the agreed paradigm of reality. Stuie is one that really pushes the boundaries. He talks about time travel and portals of dimension, transcendent beings. His perspective of the world is so radical and fantastical. I love how there are lots of Stuie students who share this view of this world. I never did believe the world only consists of what our 5 senses can detect.

He just started a new blog www.stuartwildeblog.com in addition to his very interesting website www.stuartwilde.com

Always Bet On Yourself

I lost my dad to a brain tumour when I was 18. I remember being 17, visiting hospitals after school and fantasizing to become a nurse to serve the sick as I was so grateful for the wonderful nurses at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney. I remember wishing I could get married to anyone, just so I can say my father was at my wedding. I wished I did better at school so he would be more proud. I wish I could have a baby somehow, so he would get to hold my child, his grand-child. So many crazy thoughts during those hazy days of his brain surgery, chemo and gradual decline. Funny now looking back, I never did wish for him to be cured. Back then my paradigm didn’t consist of miracles.

My father’s death was in many ways new beginnings for me. His death led me to question the nature of life and death, spirit, God and purpose. It was the beginning of growing up and facing the world. It was the beginning of self-enquiry and self-discovery.

Yesterday as I was watching Brothers and Sisters, the Walker kids shared a piece of advice which the dead patriarch of the Walker family had for his kids. The advice was “Always bet on yourself”. It felt like something my dad would say to us. I believe spirit speaks to us in so many ways, in songs lyrics, through a random comment on the radio, from a cab driver. When Y and I see butterflies, we feel him close. This feels like a message for me and C as we set out this year, to follow in dad’s entrepreneurial footsteps.