Thank you. I was wondering how I was conditioning myself, by the voice inside my head. The sounds of words. The revalation that truth is individualistic, came as a Shock when I first ‘imagined’ it. Each of us holds a truth, does that mean communally we are truth composed of all? There is no view from nowhere, so I will stand on my own shoulders. I was wondering how to respond in a most dignified way to the violence of intent in peoples words, the bricolage of their truth which I respect, with the malice of a superior conception of what is right, according to them. I resist the homogeneity of power constructed knowledge, because material quantity is so often accorded notice of superiorority. You have added some extra strength to my thought, I like this particular truth. Its a truth of love and it is clear and intention free. Thank you again for this clear place.
i had to go to a palapa in mexico to get away from “time” as others know it. after a month or so, i start to tell time by the sun, with amazing accuracy. i also learn the meaning of manana, the ultimate traditional mexican timepiece.
Thanks Wendy for your thoughts. Ten years ago I read On Mexican Time by Tony Cohan. I found the rhythm of life he depicted more natural to my own. Two months in Mexico last year allowed me to connect to my natural rhythm in a new way because I was living in a culture that flowed differently than the one I was accustomed to. Thank you for the reminder of how sometimes all we need is a new location to allow ourselves to connect with our own nature. Love, Susan
Thank you! David and Susan,
I now have a new mantra:
“Freedom is just a thought away.”
So true So true So true
Just need to remember that in every moment.
Wow!!! No wonder I am so full of life. Spontaneous combustion explains what happens and through experience of the process comes true or radical transformation. What a gift.
HI you two,
Many blessings and love blasting your way from my heart to yours. I was in Phoenix for the first time this year and the sunsets are stunning. Look forward to hearing about your wondrous adventure as it unfolds.
love love love you both, Kim
Oh ye es I’m the Great Pre etender.
Magic Touch, The Treasure of Love., Oh what a night. Goodnight My Love,
Johnny Otis on the radio.
Huggie Boy. Wolfman Jack.
Oh what a blessed time was that.
It’s utterly delightful to see your photos again, David. Especially in the context of a conversation about Health. Thank you both for all you’re doing with this blog. It nourishes me.
Personally, when I’m trying to be really nice to one of my inner voices, I offer it a martini rather than a glass of water… Agreement is unilateral and all of them are much happier that way…
What a provocative reminder of the power of words and how we can use them for our good or manipulate them to cover our wounds. The Ghost In Our Words should be a book…or a documentary. Its such a rich field for needed exploration. Let’s talk more……
Calls me back to something i feel my way into all the time, the belief that language is expressing truth about our world and our experience, when in fact it is creating our world. and our experience.
I just LOVE this video, you two!! “Words that are too little for us to live in…” graphically realized. Brilliant!
I’m getting deeper and deeper involved with using The Work to help people break open the boxes that words and thoughts are trapping them in. It makes me happy to see you two using your massive creativity to make this powerful possibility make sense.
David and Susan
This is so good! As a coach and teacher, I have been amazed, over the last five years, at how many people are no longer able to sleep well.
This is one of the most beautiful offerings I have read yet, about our collective incapacity to let go and rest in the arms of our Mother..
i personally enjoy those occasional times when i wake up in the middle of the night to “discuss” an issue that i have been ignoring or back burning. with no distractions and complexities, the answer is often right there for me and i can wake up in the morning and deal with it. so it would say it’s not all bad. AND the anxiety about insomnia only feeds it: celebrate the clarity of mid-night gifts!
well as i was scrolling down, reading your essay, i thought: i’ve got to forward them the verguesse talk that esalen just blasted to all their members. i scrolled a bit farther and found, delightfully, that i was one step behind you, again. (that thrills me!) loved breakfast in arizona……
What if there are some questions that aren’t supposed to go away?
Who am I?
Do I like myself?
Who is most important to me?
My values may change based on new information: What is most important to me now?
What if the first answer isn’t always the right answer? AMEN!
What if part of the foundation of a rich, loving life is having some questions that stick around? See above. Add your own. Be blessed.
Many people’s breathing gets stuck.
They may not think of it that way but on further reflection realize they hold their breath a lot or cannot take a deep satisfying deepest calm producing in-breath. Shallow breathing sets in like concrete and often stays for a lifetime. Nor can many speak out a protest or rebuttal or even an accolade.
The cause for these for many is in the way they breathe.
Thinking or reading about breathing will not change it.
Like chocolate it must be tasted.
It can not be taught but it can be learned.
Yes, our sense of what is most important is better mellowed or aged with time.
“The man who has a watch knows what time it is.
The man who has more than one watch is never sure.”
Stanley R. White.
My father.
As Mother Teresa loved to say, “The only real success is faithfulness.” To be faithful to this inner love is in itself the greatest success. It is of itself the possibility. No outer successes are necessary to be happy.
Thanks you two, great message. I have been transformed by my new level and awareness of breathing just in the last few weeks. It has been life changing. Once again on the same page with seeming miles between us, yet no distance.
Sure do love dancing with you Sweeties,
Love,
Tashina
Hi David
Another piece about breathing. A shallow breath or breaths, i call Pigeon Breathing, does not supply the amount of oxygen to fuel the brain. When this occurs we automatically and unconsciously move into a fight or flight reaction that is based in safety and survival in our reptilian brain. This ancient reaction to oxygen depletion worked well in the days of the Saber tooth Tiger or when I had to take the NYC subway at rush hour. Unfortunately, most of us learned safety and survival breathing as a consequence of our childhood experience and continue that breathing patten as adults.
A great bit of Wisdom! Thank you both, I am breathing you both in. It reminds me of the house we shared in Mexico on Calle ‘Suspiros.’ This is a real gift. I am so proud of the work you do.
I love this post, you two!! I am sooooo pregnant with my future right now and it’s really helpful to have that metaphoric lens to view things with. There’s a move, a big turn in the road, and a whole new relationship with myself right in my face. Feels just like it did when I was pregnant for the 9th time (after 8 miscarriages) with my son and terrified that I’d lose him before he could be born…
I could change that story, couldn’t I? Thanks for the lens!!
David and Susan;
This is great stuff! That small quiet voice that, more often than not, reminds us after the fact that we should have listened. Intuition grows by being attended to — it will dissolve from lack of attention, and then we are a captive of our ego mind, all of our conditioning, and worst of app, susceptible to ‘advice’ and opinion, and suggestion. Nobody can know what is best for us nor do our healing for us.
How do we learn to listen to “the right, true” voice? This is the learning, isn’t it?
Another route is “tracking” where we follow what the message and results are over a sustained time. I have noticed that my ‘intuition’ will announce itself through encountering repetitive patterns and experiences in both my thoughts and my outer world. For example, I will be thinking of a certain person, and the thought reoccurs. A little later, I will be led to a particular coffee shop, and minutes later, that person walks in the door, and we have a generative evolutionary conversation that stays with me for days. Oddly enough, the content of that conversation has been washing around in my mind, unfocused, and I now have the clarity that was missing. Our intuition works in many mysterious ways, always to our greater benefit. Isn’t that good news?
Thank you Jonathan. The intuitive voice we all have will show up in mysterious ways. And as you stated where our attention goes energy flows, so it’s time to listen to that valuable soul voice. Thank you for that great example. Your wisdom is a gift to us all.
I learned about my intuition in India. I was learning how to read tarot cards. I would look at them, and wait until I knew what to say. I soon learned that if I wait like this, the tarot reading would be hundred percent accurate. since then I have learned to trust my intuition. It shows up in unexpected ways, but if I obey it, it is always leads me correctly. Thus I now trust it completely, even though it may seem counter to what I “think” I should do. Where does it come from? I think it’s my higher power reaching me and helping me, guiding me, loving me.
I find intuition is a lot like mushroom hunting — the more I acknowledge each mushroom I encounter, the more show up! Its as if the ‘mushroom’ is showing itself because it is being seen. Which comes first doesn’t matter — it works. Our rational mind can have a similar dialogue with our intuition — complete with respect and deep mutual listening. Intuition thrives on this tender, nurturing care; being met with loving presence. When you take it seriously, intuition thrives and grows, but you cannot make it do ‘your’ bidding. Do your intuition a favor: buy it flowers, take it out to dinner and make love to it tonight!
“The Way Of The Samurai Is Found In Death, Be Determined And Advance”, having died 7 times to date, and going into a situation, where just the other day I was faced with my potential and possible last death, all I could say was “What A Wonderful Day To Die” !!!
Thank you for your wonderful perspective on making friends with death. Thinking about your provocative questions brought me into a feeling of freedom and ecstasy.
Oh my gosh – what a great piece on living in the present! I personally had never thought of living in the present as a concept affecting BMR. This is fabulous and hopefully it is okay to share with my readers at Backdoor Survival.
Hi Susan and David,
This is fabulous. I can get so daunted by what I think I have to do to lose weight that I don’t do much of anything. What a great way to work on not procrastinating, even if I don’t know exactly where to start. This made my day. I, too, never thought of time wharps as impacting my metabolic rate, and yet, it makes perfect sense.
Thank you.
David…I just love that “Why do we over-eat? We are starving for our hearts and our spirits to come present and bring forth the change that we are longing for…” so true! I like the way you said that! Thanks. Andie
Sometimes we’re running a set of values that aren’t true to our core values. When that happens things get noisy inside and we can get lost in how we want to direct our lives. Life is living us and we can make ourselves physically sick.
speak powerfully to me and have created a profound awareness of too many important things in my life that i have not been attending to. Thank you for this expandable insight and invitation to pay attention…
Core values are the principals I choose to live by.
They are not the stories I tell myself in-order to control, manipulate and justify not being who I really am. They are not the wishes, waiting for’s and what if’s that serve the purpose of distracting me from the path of my souls journey.
They are foundation for love, integrity and connection to all things. They are the home base for the development of respect for self and the core values of others in order to develop functional interconnected relationships.
Thank you on this most auspicious day, for the clear love and wisdom.
“The alchemy (italicize) of a changing life is the only truth.”(Rumi)
Big Love to you both.
So happy for you both in your new way of life and living. We miss you both. Happy to have the opportunity to celebrate 12/21/12 with you both. Happy holidays to you and all the best for the year to come.
We love you guys!
We, your new friends in San Miguel, feel blessed that you have chosen to make our town your home. You bring a richness to our lives that is palpable and it is with open arms that we look forward to knowing you even better as time go by
Much love
Ruth
Beautiful essay! I love the idea of the heartbeat as a strange attractor. And your comment about “focusing into the space between the heartbeats and feeling his life there” reminds me of Bernstein (I think) saying that the most important part of music is the silence between the notes.
Dear Susan and David,
Oh es, changes do that to our hearts. I have had major arrhythmia of my heart last summer when I traveled to Germany, 3 month of Bronchitis and both scared me so much. Now that I changed my life completely by moving from Telluride to San Anselmo my heart is fine again and I feel so healthy and fit as never before in my life. I lifted out of a deep depression by just changing my whole life. I still don’t know where I will live for the rest of my life and sometimes that unsettles me but most of the time I can relax into the Here Now knowing all I have to do is being open to where life takes me.
How is the Community living where you are?
Love, Ulli
It is sometimes easy to forget that we are all being impacted by the New Earth Frequency we are blessed to be in. How then could our hearts, the very core of who we are, not feel this? My heart also is shifting and skipping around, rather like a child after a long winter recluse, at last outside in the sun and delighted to be playing and alive! I can hear it saying, “Wow, what now?” How am I to be? All this light! Then I remember . ..all I have to do is listen, and ride the wave…You both are looking ever more radiant. Yahooooo!!
I Love this article !
It gives us great insight to the changes that are occurring all around us.
The Heart is an amazing organ that is the center of our being. I believe
it has direct contact to our Soul and has the ability to Lift Our Spirits and Guide
us to that which fulfills our new collective Soul’s Agenda in our present space and time.
Abrazos de Luz,
Roger
Hello David and Susan
Hope this finds you both well, enjoying the sun, and mellower existence.
So when I was 20, in college at Michigan State, a major party school I started to experience heart palpitations . Let’s see no sleep, drinking enough beer to float a boat, smoking enough pot to float the Hindenburg , I was incredulous that my heart would behave so, scared the shit out of me. I wondered if it had anything to do with my life style, ya think?
So a couple of months past and I was at home for summer break, dragging my ass around, depressed, freaked out, and my Cousin came up to me at the sink and said, ” what the hell’s wrong with you?” WTF do you think, my f@$king heart isn’t working right! To which he asked, ” well what’s the worst that could happen?” I stood slack jawed long enough that he answered his own question,” I’ll tell the worst that could happen, YOU COULD DIE, so what! you look like your dead already! ” And walked away.
I finished washing the dishes and decided I’d show him, I was going get on my bike and just end it all . A good hard ride ought to do it,. My heart was jumping all over the place, but miraculously I made home. Disappointed I got up the next day and decided to try again, still I didn’t die. Alright, I must not be riding hard enough, again and again I tried, but all that happened was my heart quite palpitating. I’ve been riding ever since and if someday I die on a ride it will be a great way/ day to leave. I know I would died a long time ago with the bike in my life. I thank my cousin for that lesson often.
And thank you both for all the great work you do!
Miss you guys
Much love,
Michael
Thanks Martin for the evolutionary feedback. We’ve added a new ending. “How about using our thoughts to evolve ourselves into greater health well being and vibrant joy.”
Do we make our thoughts, do they make themselves, or do they arise in awareness, like swans that fly over a still lake with no intention of creating the reflection in the waters below? What is it that perceives these ‘thoughts and then assumes these thought forms belong to us? Is any thought ‘true?’ I have found that all my suffering is borne on the belief that a thought is true. Yet, we know that thoughts have their role in neuroplasticity, etc. Does this make them true? When we are truly at peace with what is, wellness can arise irresistibly from such clarity.
hummmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Sigh! ….breath ….oh my …and I guess you have always been “irregular”. Rememebr you have seen my heart so you already know what an “irregular” heart looks like.
Great set of tips, David (and Susan). Useful synopsis. I loved best the tip to “go blank”… oh how hard that is in our culture (especially as we age). And you’re right, something useful always comes after that conscious space. Thanks for sharing!!
Thanks for your wisdom always nice to hear what is coming through the two of you. I have to admit I am always wanting to see a beautiful pic of the two of you.. I miss your smiling hearts. Love to you both…
Tashina
yes, Susan…It is so good to be able to ask for assistance, and to know that loving friends( and even many times just strangers) are open to be of help! I enjoyed your tale of the visa project, and I’m so happy that you were able to sigh and say “O.K., good,that’s wonderful”! I look forward to hugging you very soon…June 14!
Lola
We Are Not Hear To See Through Each Other.
We Are Hear To See Each Other Through.
The above was a saying from a close friends Quaker Grandmother. Things blooming in the Mountains, and patches of green are in Webber Canyon, need moisture. Life goes on in a Yogimbo state of mind.
Beautiful, Susan! Thank you for your courageous vulnerability. Interesting that your Beloved, David, prompted you to ask for assistance. I teach my students to always ask assistance, and from their peers as well. Yet, I don’t even realize when I need the assistance. Thank you, Susan (and David).. This opens up my trusting heart even more. Now, honk of all the possibilities…!
So enlightening to read your story. We have just been wandered thru a similar “sharing” in our relationship and come to a realization that it’s OK to accept help when it’s offered. I love the analogy of ” assisted living”
Thank you so much for recording the sweet heart-based details of the “beginning to the end” of your expedition. So beautifully written and beautifully honored.
And I’m remembering the times that you’ve assisted me in holding the support system that ensured the best outcome in my ever-evolving story.
How very beautiful! Congratulations for navigating your challenging situation so brilliantly! I love living in assisted living! I love assisting and being assisted. It makes me feel so grateful for all the assists in my life and all the assisters, and especially for YOU beloveds!!!
Susan, what a journey it was to obtain your permanent visa. And your dear and understanding friend, Nancy, to be there for you and assist you in another live and living experience. I am so excited to see you and David this summer in San Miguel. Lots of love to you both! Kai
Hi Susan, and David. Thanks for your sharing. I love the context. It’s so very true that we are to live in assisted living with others. We sure have discovered that over the last year with our life journey through foreclosure and all that has entailed. Sure showed me how ‘alone’ I live. Working on this one each day now. Sounds like you are really enjoying Mexico. All the best, Barb and John, too.
Many thank yous’s for a great breakfast read this morning. Can I have this every morning? It’s the best news for a morning read!
She I read your first Assisted living post, I thought “how great!” And I felt more expansive. Now, I am also finding relationships here (SMA) in assistance AND as friends I thought I could never have. I always thought it was one or the other, but never both. I am excited to create this when I gat back to Boulder as well. Thank you for bringing this to my awareness again.
Thanks for this lovely story. For many years when we lived in Michigan, we had a lovely “assisted living community”. We had a ‘garage raising’ where the neighbors helped us build a 2 car garage. When our daughter had to go to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy, a friend and neighbor took our son, it was 2 AM. These lovely experiences have been less frequent in more recent years. Thanks for bringing it back to consciousness. It would be great to build this again.
What doesn’t kill us only makes us stronger!! How wonderful to have a platoon of friends to help out. And on the bright side – the floors are clean!! hope you are enjoying your new home
Love – Tena & Fred
Beautifully spoken, your wisdom allays what has been left in me and my heart is singing! I am honored and thankful to know you, especially as a connected, creative, heartfilled, compassionate man!
I was labeled as well, held back in kindergarten and creativity was just plugged. It has taken a long time to unplug bit-by-bit the cork to allowing my creativity to flow. I am thankful I was not given drugs as well. Both “labels” have gifted me two obvious things: a keener sense of awareness of the more subtle and little things and scrambled words that come out as my soul shining it’s truth through. (Example: I had friends named Larry and Toni, but the names came out as Tarry and Lonely-absolute truths about them!)
Anyhow, thank you David and Susan for continually putting your wizdom(s) out there!
Having been your neighbor, and observed your behavior and thought processes, I can only say that your ADD helped to form you as the wonderful and gentle soul you are.
Susan my sister,
You are the perfect compliment to David. Your voice of reason provides balance to the relationship and your youthful enthusiasm is a joy to behold.
I love your writing and the amazing photograph! Funny, I was just reading about “roots” in the “Untethered Soul”. Thank you for this entry and the next book I will read!
wonderful post and photos. one of my few regrets is that i never learned to play a musical instrument, because i see the deep connection of people who play together, and the joy of people who come together to play
Loved your story and wish I had known about the concert. I am sending your link to my brother who certainly bridged worlds here in SMA with his music last winter and is returning for a longer gig this year.
Ruth
Thank you for sharing a stirring story and wonderful photos. Even though I don’t respond much, believe me, I am reading your stories and am inspired by them. Please send your healing energy to my husband Don. In addition to his Alzheimers, he just had cancer surgery on his right side face and neck. If his skin heals enough he will have radiation to give us more time. Love to you, Maria
Dear David and Susan,
With Sacha nearing 2 years now, It’s all about music. In his eyes, in our hearts, rhythms to move with and ebb and flow. I loved the story and it reminded me of something you had once told me about a music man visiting you when you where in and around Ashland (I think). The story is so inspiring that it emboldens me to move closer to learning an instrument so that I too may express and share in the delight of sound with other kindred spirits. Atuning alters alchemy. With Love and gratitude to your both, xoxo Carina
Thank you ever-present allies of healing, allies in love.
Wisdom Bits showers rays of blessings on all you reach out to touch.
I will move through this day filled with the energy of your blessing
Ruth
Those of us brought up in the North American culture of “Work ethics” need to read this, perhaps every day!
Thank you for the wisdom of sharing this.
Ruth
True words and thoughts!! We all need to be reminded of what we know in our hearts and souls to be true. We plan to take a day of sailing this weekend – put off way tto long. Miss you both.
this is the lesson one receives living in mexico. manana can make one crazy, but eventually we all succumb to the glory of saying that word from deep down inside 🙂
So true and a great reminder for both those who work outside the home as well as those who toil inside the home. Whether they are tele-workers or the stay-at-home parent in particular 🙂
Note to self: Paste David’s note on the fridge to remember to “freeze-frame” and breath once in a while, no matter what.
I think of you both often.
x
Carina from Nelson, BC
Ahh… so happy for you guys. And I didnt know that when my cat squints at me it is a sign of love!
Enjoy the new member of your family, I love the colour
Ruth
JohnGray, says MEOW! Me,too! What a cutie. Welcome to your live little Budah! Have great fun! Much love, mutual feline lovers, Mignon and Dene and the gang.
That was an awesome share, thank you. I feel the soft breeze on my face, the warm sun on my body and the sweetest ocean smells all around me. Fear is being loved here.
Hello my dears –There are no coincidences! Have just come back from vacation where I repeatedly exceeded my fear boundaries and was grateful every second. Now, back sitting at my desk, your message has reminded me to keep pressing on the fear-based limits in my “everyday” life in Philly. Love you, xxxxx Ka
What a relief, and a moment of calm to read your words! Such a blessing to be reminded of the truly important things in life. There will ALWAYS be more to do …. but one day you will no longer have a chance to BE.
Thankyou for the reminder !
A loving hello to everyone who’s given way to fear and felt Stupid.
You are not alone! LOL Judgement of ourselves creates a sense of fear of not being accepted or possibly even rejected, or negatively judged by others of how we look, or what it is we have said, done or ???? A state of mind that is “earthbound,” (limited), and usually kept within to fester and rob of of our true nature. Thanks to Susan and David bringing “Stupid” to light allows us to understand that love of self and the innate and eternal knowing of unconditional love, sheds this dark negativity of a learned/taught “earth bound” thought. We are all unique let’s rejoice in our awakening to unconditional love and acceptance. Thanks to the both of you for bringing this into the light. Always in Light and Love, C
Love this. I felt a warm bubble of something loving birthing in my heart as I was reading and as I write these words to you both in gratitude. What is this mysterious feeling gripping my center. It feels both painful (like a stretch that releases something that is ready to leave) and freeing. Yes, this feels deeply loving and non judging on the inside. I also feel peaceful. This wisdom prescription brings peace to my heart. Aaaaah! I do not need to have “all the answers” at “all times”. I am not responsible for all solution finding. Not holding the space for all these “have to do things” does not make me stupid or lazy. I now have a renewed permission to “be” instead of just “do”. Time for space to bring in light. Hugs to you both. C in Nelson
Yep! My thoughts, too! Trained that I “should know”. “Not knowing” was “stupid”. Yes, it keeps one down into shame. No, this N. American culture does not allow for wisdom to enter in each “not knowing” moment. Yes, it trains us to enslave ourselves getting logical answers from someone else rather than allowing of our own timing. Thank you for this. Wonderful. Much Live to you 3. Mignon
I am most alive when I venture into the unknown. There is so much to discover on our magnificant Mother Earth……that I often can’t wait to wake up and see what life has in store for me. It does get scary at times, but you can never go back….at least for long.
Thanks for venturing into such a great topic. Wandering Wayne
Oh darlings, you’ve done it again! Touched my heart with unutterable bliss! As I read every line, I think, “Yes, yes, YES! Thank you for your fiber optic cable of light transmitting a blast of love right to me! xoxoxoxo
Good one. Very true. It takes a lot of energy to sustain a lie or deception. The hardest part of it for me is to be true to myself, and not try to talk myself into things the way they “should” be. So I’ll make the commitment to watch for this with myself
Thanks David and Susan.
Oh, so wonderful to see your pictures of Chiapas! I explored Chiapas, Oaxaca and so many amazing places in Mexico back in the early ’70s. Your pictures bring that magical time back into present-time awareness!
i enjoy were you two point me each month. It is a treat to get your new waves of thought and inspiration, they are so creative and offer the opportunity to change my game …fun!
Tony Robbins taught 7 basic human needs. One was uncertainty and another of the 7 was certainty. This moment I am certain of my love for you two.
Love sailing on this earth ship together.
In gratitude,
Tashina
How wonderful, you two! This is my favorite picture of you. You are so sparkly, smiley and alive here. I love your sharings! How perfect! How many people really know there is a choice out there? Or they have the power? Great for you! And have fun!
Hola! Susan and David!
We must be riding tandem, here! Thank you for revisiting the word “ignorant”. It was used as a judgement to shame people in my family and still is by one member. Anyhow, I have been working hard to not let agendas and “shoulds” take over my healing since my fall. In this process I have had to release all the hats I have worn that defined me. In the untangling I lay vulnerable, open and allowing of the unfoldment of my heart’s truth. Up until now, the “I should know”, “I should or have to”, often took me away from my hearts’ wisdom and what is true for me. I thank you so much for this reflection. It deepens my work and frees me more! Looking forward to your declaration!
Love,
Blanca
Yes indeed. I believe you are at “the heart of the matter” in clarifying true wisdom. We are so much more than our intellectual functioning, for we have a number of “centers of intelligence” within our human body and our larger energetic body. To embrace uncertainty or not knowing is to release the belief that knowing exists between the ears. To trust the non-rational in us as a source of deep understanding is to come into our wisdom. Thank you both for illuminating something so simple yet so profound.
Ah! Love these pieces. What a beautiful job you two have done here! Please keep going! I sent this on to family who will be coming to San Miguel and friends as well. I received appreciative comments of how valuable this is for them, especially before they come. I had heard Warren in his class, but to see it again in your video, opens my heart and appreciation more for the people here. I feel like it is an invitation to be “in” and “a part of” the culture, not just “visiting”. Much Love and hank you, again!
Blanca
This video will be such a gift to anyone living in Mexico or planning to visit this wonderful country that is so different from the US. The message is simple, yet profound… and learning and using these few wonderful phrases when in Mexico will enhance not only the expat or visitors experience, but honor our Mexican neighbors as well. I will be forwarding the video to many of my friends, both in Mexico and in the states.
Bravo Susan and David.
I think in words, which causes me to struggle with concepts that those who think with their feelings easily embrace. Speaking for those poor schmucks like me who are constrained by this limitation, I say Thank You for wrapping the concept in words for us. With your help, I Get It.
Great job packing!!! ‘m amazed at what you did pack on the bike. Looks like a gloreous trip so far. We’ve been reflecting on all of the many wonderful meals and friendships of our Mexico adventure. David – one of the most memorable “flavors” for me were your roasted portobellas..when you have your next free moment would love your recipe.
We hope your US adventure continues to be successful and fulfilling for everyone, and that it might include Phoenix.
Our best to you and the journey- Love -Fred & Tena
WOW!!! I love your new bike…..even gave me a thrill chill. It is so wonderful seeing you…as David says, “Living life broadly, deeply……” I am looking forward to the next exciting episode of ‘The Living Adventures of Susan and David’. Thanks for including me……….Well-Meaning Wayne
Lovely to get your first posting and the pictures. You two look like you are ready for a trip to Mars with all that gear on. Missing your vibrations in San Miguel
Ruth
Hey, you two! Loved hearing from you! what an amazing adventure! My heart “sings” to your sharing. Unraveling from the spin cycle, coming to my intuitive body timing here in San Miguel. Remembering and “great-filled” with the whole being that resides in this “miraculous” body machine. Your words are profound to me as the energy penetrates my being. Thank you and more…
What a beast of a traveling machine! You too look awesome and Alive!
Have great joy and fun travels!
I breathed in the fragrance of your words. . A true fragrance filled my senses. This inspirational message came to me in synchronicity and love. Thank you to all.
Thank you for naming the blessing that is death and our potential to embrace it in new and “unreasonable” ways. I come to you via Susan and Grace. Connected Im sure in the field that holds us all.
The every day chores, the business of wanting to accomplish to much, some times makes me forget to be aware about the beauty, the love, the compassion, the kindness and the small wonderful things that makes this a wonderful wold.
You got me back on track. Thank you for the reminder and the love. I receive it and send it back to where it came from,multiplied.
How beautiful and perfect this message is! My old me went into terror of being “left behind” when my partner left on a visit. This is so comforting. Thank you!
The Source of All that Is constantly brings me messages like this at times I really need to hear them. It is great knowing I am not alone. thank you for allowing Spirit to work through you.
Dear Ones. As always, the timing of the message could not have been more perfect. I am reminded of a line from a David Whyte poem, ‘Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.’ Amen. I deeply embrace these words and the invitation from allies seen and unseen. So much gratitude for the inspiration. Much love to you!
Beloveds, this is who you are and who we are, living in the delight of Spirit moving in and through us, Being Us! Thank you for this beautiful inspiring message.
I was reminded of my invisible allies just the other day while visiting a friend. We were sitting in her garden filled with large leaf, low to the ground, shrubs that moved without a hint of wind. “Ahhh, I said to my friend, the nature spirits are playful today. The gnomes sure love to run in and out from underneath those large leaves.”
Oh, thank you, dears. I watch this mind alternate between courage-ing and cowering…as I “plan” for my upcoming journey to Tanzania. No-thing is clear about it. All I can “pack” is love, light and courage.
Dear beloveds, we are taking in a deep breath of LOVE and FREEDOM! Thank you for blessing our home for five spectacular days! We were delighted to be the place of culmination of your U.S. journey. Blessings upon blessings to you both! Eternal love, K&W
Thank You Both! Thank You; Thank you! There are just NO words to appropriately express how heart felt your presence Is; and how it resenaited so deeply into my Being! I heard every word and felt them even more. Bless you both for hearing the call and following with such open hearts and grace giving us all so much hope for our future. These blessings bring tears of joy, acknowledgement, knowing and motivation to BE and Bring forth! I am forever grateful I took the time that night to BE right there! Thank You Akiva! Blessings to each of you ~ Ah Ho ~ Namaste
Erin Ann BirdWoman
Thank you Birdwoman,
It was so powerful for both of us to be with all who were gathered.
thank you so much for your heartfelt presence. We look forward to seeing you on our next trip through.
My heart is on overwhelm bursting tears of love for the Virgin, and your story of choosing love over fear and the communitizing of gringos and the Mexican people because of it. Thank you so much, you too!
Abrazos and Love,
Blanca
We need to send your message of choosing Love over Fear to the world To Syria, to the Ukraine, Iraq, Yeman, and to all those who those who own guns to “protect” themselves, this world where Fear dominates. I hope one day all the people of the world will dance together rather than fight, as you chose to do with you Mexican neighbors. BRAVO!
Ruth
The wall looks beautiful,and all the neighbors workng on it prove to us all that the spirit of togethernes
and cooperation could prove to be the the ultimate solution to the world’s tragedies..
I admire you both for this thoughtful loving gft to the community.
Lola
Dear Susan and David,
What a blessing it was to read of this act of love you performed. We all do have the capacity to do this very thing in our lives and will be given opportunities to ‘ come from love rather than fear ‘.
I wept when I read your story and how it has unfolded. I believe that everything that I think an do in my world has an impact in the greater world…and so my goal is to reside in peace and extend love when ever given the opportunity.
Love, light and blessings to you my dear ones,
Jean (tompahma-woman who walks with the apples)
Wow! I am deeply touched by your beautiful story. What a difference we can make in our communities, our world, when we respond from a place of LOVE! Thank You so much for sharing this story. I love you.
Queridos de Paz y Amor, Deep thanks for anchoring this sacred image within your community. The resonance
moves outward and on outward to transform our planet into a safe home for all Beings.
We’re all gathered in this together!! Jo, in gratitude … .. ..
David and Susan, I love the courageous, inspired choice. Synchronistically, I am learning this path as I walk it too a world away. I am liking the good company on the journey. xo
So thankful to be a part of both your journey and your father’s as well, Susan.
Yeaayee for love winning out, and dying in style.
I love you two! See you soon!
Susan, thank you for touching us with your personal reflection of your dad. I love imagining him making those phone calls and writing his last emails. How poignant, beautfiul and inspiring. I send you tenderness, love and light in your loss.
Susan, Thanks for sharing the process of your dad’s passing and of your relationship with him. I’m glad that his life ended the way he wanted. I’ll never forget his interest in me as a young teacher at NSCDS. His involvement with those there helped make the school a special place, and I have fond memories of him and of each member of his family. My condolences.
Relationships evolve when conflicts resolve, and love shines through each being. Thank you David & Susan for showing us all. I look forward to seeing you soon.
Love always …
Dene
I am so grateful that all’of you were surrounded by the love, compassion and strength that each one of us has encountered in working with, and knowing both of you!
Hasta pronto!
J
Dear Susan, I am sorry to hear of this sad news. I have been thinking about you and Jessa and Shelley since Joel wrote me. I remember the gatherings and all the nice things I heard about your dad and his love for family. I always looked forward to the Christmas cards and the family pictures every year to see everyone. I know you will hold on to all the love and good memories. I send you hugs and much love. Shaida
dear susan and david. dying in style is a complex recipe, and your dad had what it takes. hope you are doing well. looking forward to see you after you return on sunday tap tap tap lulu
Susan,
Very nice reflection. I didn’t know Don real well but he certainly made an impact on me the short time we spent together buying wine and at dinner two years ago.
Be well, say “hey” to D and advise should you need help with anything in SMA.
Hi Susan & David,
What a precious time for you to be able to have that time with your Dad, Susan. So happy you had those beautiful moments and appreciations of one another and the love that was at the foundation of your relationship. A very special gift, and a beautiful modeling of appreciation and gratitude on his part. Thanks for sharing this tidbit of your time with him!
Definitely inspiring, and if I can live my life with that gratitude and appreciation daily, I know my exit from this stage of life will be graceful.
lots of love,
Shady
Dear Susan and David, Such a lovely tribute to your father. Thank you for sharing your heartfelt journey so beautifully. John and I are sending you much love for your journey.
Susan and David- so sorry for your loss. It is wonderful that you were able to spend that time with your Dad and family and say a proper goodbye. I know you will miss him very much, you valued your time with him. I’ve always enjoyed your stores of growing up and traveling with your Dad as well as the valued lessons you received from him. I’m sorry we never met, he sounded like a wonderful man to know.
I’m so very sorry for the loss of your father, Susan…but what a wonderful gift for you all to be so conscious and present to the birthing process that is death. Your father will always be near through the power of the love you shared…3 taps and he’ll be there.
Dear Susan and David
Sorry to hear your dad has passed away. My heart goes out to you and your family. Happy you had a special and loving time at the end. Tap tap tap always xx
Susan and David thanks so much for sharing this experience …my Dad has been critically ill since the 2nd week of Feburary. It is a roller coaster ….he is now in an acute nursing center trying to get strong enough to go home and spend his last days there with family. Sending you love and thanks.
Who could ask for anything more, at the end of a long life, than to die in style surrounded by a loving family?
How blessed was your Dad and the whole family to have shared this beautiful experience. As the author of Harry Potter said :death to the well organized mind is the begining of another new adventure” He leaves behind a great legacy.and his last act was the greatest of all.
Love to all, Susan, David, Jane and the grandchildren
Ruth Hayward
Beloved Susan and David, thank you for sharing the precious time you had with Susan’s father. I know that love space so well. I was honored to experience it with my mother when she passed. What a blessing you all were to each other. Love is All There Is. Tap, tap tap always and ever from Walter and Karen
Thank you dear Susan for including me in this precious experience with your father and family. What a beautiful gift you received. I so appreciate your dad’s style and the last days you had with him. You are truly blessed. I can only imagine what this might be with my mother or father. My heart is deeply touched. Three taps to you sweet friends.
What an incredible gift he has given you! I am so glad that you and David were able to share in this experience of both sadness and joy wonderfully entwined!
Dearest Susan and David,
We continue to send Love and Light to You, your Dad…
Family … and Extended Family.
The Profound Dignity, integrity and Love
We All have Witnessed
To and Through your Father’s Passing and Your Care
Is a Demonstration of Grace and Generosity of Spirit
That Touches us So Deeply and Profoundly…
And Serves Both as a Sanctuary of Spirit…
And a Living Lesson ….
That Touches Our Hearts
With an Unshakable Enduring Gentle Strength…
A Perfect, Ever-Present and Ever- Lasting Gift.
Blessings Upon Blessings to Your Father, You and Family. . Tap, Tap Tap to Us All…Now and World Without End….
So inspirational…having a good relationship with death can help us to live more fully. Thank you for sharing such a personal part of your life. Much love to you both!
Emily (from Troncones)!
I also experienced that total overwhelming open hearted and loving face presence on the four occasions I spent time with enlightened yogis at the Oneness Movement center in India. Overpowering. Yet, when most of us get back into all the stresses of daily life, it’s difficult to hold on to.
So when I first met David about 7 weeks ago I recognized him as being very connected to that love, which is a universal force regardless of what beliefs your mind tries to hold. Because of their trip to Don’s I had to wait over a month for an important appointment with him that regarded a close relationship and my physical reaction to it.
David’s face during the entire ‘healing’ was transformative. He was just as light, loving, astute, tuned in to spirit, and directed by love as the yogis had been. I get around spiritual circles in San Miguel and in Western Massachusetts and even New York City and have never run into this love since India. My symptoms waned the very next day and I won’t consider going to another healer. Thank you David for all your orientation to love and for sharing it with us.
Hello David,
Thank you for sharing this very intimate experience with us.
What a gift to everyone that Don was able to be so present in his last days to celebrate who he was to those that knew and loved him…and to himself to experience the full extent of his living in this life before leaving.
Towards the end of my mother’s life she and I agreed to ‘agree to disagree’ on many topics over which had previously been a thorn between us and had created a space of separation. This was a place of honor that I was being asked to hold myself, my thoughts, my differences so that I can truly join her from a heart space.
When I joined her to be with her for her last day…I realized what a privilege it was to be with her in this sacred time and space. To say ‘goodbye’ in a thousand different ways over the period of a thousand moments was such a gift. I talked, read, held her hand, sang and prayed and sat silent by her side. She was still alert but could not talk as she had a ventilator in her mouth. Even through she did not express herself verbally she was very expressive in her eyes and spirit. I was so blessed to have been by her side to offer any comfort to her. In her final moments she was alert and tapping her finger against the hospital bed railing.
I will always hold this experience of BEING PRESENT with my mother until the end of her life. It was measurable a very small gift to have given her after all that she had given to me over my lifetime.
Thank you for the reminder that the presence of LOVE overcomes any barriers to our joining on another.
Love and blessings in this new moon…planting prayers and dreams to blossom and grow. Seeds will have to wait as we are having a snowstorm today in the Colorado mountains.
Blessings to you and Susan and to her mom Jane in this time of loss.
Jean (tompahma-woman who walks with the apples) Owen
What a deeply loving tribute of sharing such a moving experience of Life and its eternal nature beyond the body.
Thank for such a beautiful story of love.
Blessings to you both – Susan for carrying the love forward directly from the human Source that brought you here, and to David for bearing the Light forward to us all to know this wisdom of Love and how it can be.
Thank you so much, beloveds, for sharing your love-filled experience in the heart space in Donald’s transition. What an honor to be able to be conscious in that high vibration through it all, to touch and be touched intimately in each other’s hearts! I had that blessed privilege too, with my mother when she passed, to be at one in the heart space, eternally present in love. And as you said, it doesn’t go away, we get to keep it forevermore!
Eternal love in the heart space from Walter and Karen
David, I just finished reading your touching words regarding Don Perkin’s passing in your arms and into a new place. As I read the end I felt a slight cool burst of air on my arms and a lump in my throat as your beautiful words described this very personal and heartfelt sharing of hearts and soul. Thank you so much for sharing a touching experience with Susan’s dad. He was a remarkable man and you are all the better for knowing him.
My best to you and Susan.
Any chance you you will be in Phx anytime soon. Richard and I miss you both.
Dear avid and Susan
Your touching tribute to Don brought tears to my eyes. In the photos of his last days he looks very much “alive.”. Thank you for sharing this experience with us all. As we all come closer to death, stories like this make it seem like an adventure to look forward to.
With love
Ruth ..
This sharing is so utterly honest and beautiful, David. If one of the great gifts that Don gave you was to absolutely learn to follow the promptings of your heart and not the noise in your mind, then I would say that the student has become a master at similarly teaching, modeling and gifting. As I learn evermore to make friends with death, I see you and Susan as beacons for the possibility that a surrender into grace with love leading the way is indeed possible. I am so deeply touched by this piece, and am so grateful to both of you. Much love, A
I am totally new toy your side and work,and I am very connected to something here,
I was lead to a church in Summit Nj , where Dominican Nuns worship and pray and live. I had a small miracle having there, it was a day ago,and somehow this connection is art of it , I awed my intuition to guise me and followed a stranger , a sweet holy won need Mary, tooth’s church( we connected at the A& P in New Providence, I saw the tags on her neck of the holy mother and commented and then off were were in cars to this church, and while there I felt a drawn toward a side nave and there was the same image of Guadalupe, only as a mosaic,!
Thank you for posting this, it speaks volumes!
I take from this beautiful story of non- violent communication and compassionate action, i receive the heart of it into my own mind and heart, , to seek to respond habitually from love rather than fear.I am noticing the difference. I would lime visit Miguel De Allende one day and share intuitive Touch Drawing with all of you!
I have watched a few of your You Tubes,they really grab me .
I look forward to meeting you and Susan ,and others !
In gratitude and celebrations of spring !
and the Blessed Guadalupe!
Linda H
ps Do you know the poem Kindness By Naomi Sahib Nye , and Breathing the Water by Denise Levertov
Perfect! Just what I needed today! Yesterday was a trip of “to do’s”. I felt flat, like cardboard. Today is a day of infinite journeys inside and out. I am so deepened by your sharing. The Luis Vuitton commercial visuals and music brought me even deeper into the precipice of unknowing today. Forever grateful for your intro. and timing!
I took the time when my mind was fresh to submerge myself into this story. What imagery. What grief and gratitude I felt as I rode with and as her. Truly I thank you, for sharing such a precious gem. I will be listening again and again! Great story telling! A real soul feeder.
Love,
Blanca
Oh my gosh! I have the chills, my hair is all standing on end and my heart is still opening deeper and deeper! To hear what you two do together was incredible! Major transmission coming through! Keep it up! Hearing Emmett and David so alive in conversation is a real lifter. Feel more appreciation for life and you all. Thank you for being here and opening up.
Love,
Blanca
How beautiful! I feel like you have been on my journey with me!
I feel more rooted in who I am and my truth. All the things I have garnered from outside me, I am now asking consciously and consistently “is this correct for me?” Habits are leaving, unsheathing whom I really am. I trust my wisdom far more than I ever have. The main piece I learned from my travel is “health begins with truth.” There is no hiding, stuffing or brushing it aside. Only looking, at it straight on and feeling it in its entirety in each moment as possible, it is unthinkable any other way. Thank you for your sharing and the space to share back!
Love to you, two!
Blanca
Wow, so good to be with you all in Nelson — thanks for connecting me with the ‘Team.’ Their guidance continues to be impeccable (so says this humble magnificent worm)! Domestication is vastly over-rated. Love you both,
Jonathan
As the days pass, since I was with you….I realize the freedom I now feel ! The stories I lived as I tried to fulfill my family conditioning are gone. The guilt that was my attempt to survive these patterns is gone. I am so blessed to have had this experience and so very grateful. Thank you !!!
Beautiful! Susan and David! Beautiful! And the picture too!
So many times I feel like in my buzz-“I”-ness I leave my soul out, just hanging there, waiting to be included. Sometimes I feel like it is like leaving home with that nigling feeling I forgot something but not able to place what it is. I have learned to ask myself about EVERYTHING! And wait to listen for that deep knowing which comes in a few forms, but one, my body will respond in a “yeas, no” answer. If I am out too long or into conversation too long I feel like an excited kid who in her curiosity lost sight of “mom”. I also noticed when I am feeling weak, or my voice gets really quiet, it is not a place I am to be in, or a conversation I am to speak in or about. When my energy is strong, I am in the right direction. And reading this blog and the stories again and knowing of your offering to Mexican residencers is exciting. Thank you for continually putting your great wisdom out there and sharing your amazing insights!
Love,
Blanca
Beautifully written … yes, there is a deep hunger, a longing for some more authentic connection. It is often mistaken for something OUTSIDE ourselves, but that hunger is for a homecoming, a coming home to ourselves on the INSIDE.
Susan and David,
Absolutely loved the first part of your interview! I smiled the whole time! You both looked so sparkly, clear and right on. I also sensed how comfortable and relaxed you were. I had heard some of your stories before, but to hear them side by side made quite an impact! Looking forward to Tuesday!
Much, Much Love,
Blanca
Hear, hear. Yes, thank you. I have been so drawn to stillness recently. To just sit still, in the quiet and the dark. Thank you for this sweet reminder as to why. Hallelujah.
Spot on for me, Susan and David! Thank you! I have more trust in being, open and allowing answers or just great wisdom to flow through me. i seem to feel less tension in the space and grace of not knowing. Even a calm, as if being cradled in the stream, the flow.of life. Thank you!
Dearest beloveds, we join you in blissful, vibrant thriving. Although we miss your physical presence, we share the eternal lovespace with you. All our love is all ways with you! Karen & Walter
‘When you feel yourself grasping, seeking the answer you believe you must have, STOP. Bring everything around you to a full stop. Notice in the stopping the stillness.’ Only words of gratitude to you both today for being the voices of clarity amidst the din. Only gratitude – and a soft smile for you both – in this moment.
Love, love, love it! Thank you, you two and the all. The two lines that really spoke to me were:
I am alive in the greatness of life beyond all the noise in my mind.
I am love thickened into this body.
I sometimes feel like I am in a nightmare with all that can go around in my head. This affirming is so expansive when I say it, that my head feels emptied out. Thank you!
My body feels so much happier claiming that “I am love thickened in this body.” I feel upgraded and tingly all over!
Thank you again!
4/2/2015 download after meditation
A day after my celebration of my 29th year of sobriety from drugs and alcohol…the trappings of an addictive mind…this message, rather this gift came into my awareness. Even though I still acknowledge April 1st, 1986 as a turning point in my spiritual journey, I no longer feel comfortable affirming the statement when recognizing myself as a recovering addict using the preface of ‘I Am’ Jean, alcoholic. I Am so much more than this…and no longer wish to be limited by this scar on my soul’s journey. Instead what my soul wants me to affirm is:
I Am…Magnetic harmonic realm wanderer with attraction to light and healing.
My angel, Ariel, guides me to my frequential wisdom in myself and held in crystals.
Love is all there is. I follow sound and light, harmonics to a higher octave. Waking dreamtime listening to Solara.
I Am…Lightworker, walking in trust 11/11…trusting…time traveling…entering portalsto higher level of consciousness.
I Am…responsible co-creator following the The Sacred Geometry within my Sacred Mind…the Quietness and Presence, Deep communication with Self. Awakened Pilgrim to Prime Source.
I Am
Thank you,I enjoyed all of your offerings, it especially ” what can I invent today?Maybe inventing the choice of wanting peace more than other things is a worthy goal?
I value the rest of the questions!
Questions can redirect habitual thinking that isn’t as productive like worry or doubts.
It’s the questions that lead to better choices and unlocks creativity for me, the innate curiosity.
I’m noticing that thoughts have vibrations and the “noise ‘ in my head or mind can really scramble the flow of car creative expression in disorienting ways.Just saying the words ” I am bathed in love now ” can be imp red to when take a shower too!
Hello Dear David and Susan,for you
As I read your note I realized I was home waiting for a call from my auto mechanic to see what’s wrong with my car. I am not sitting waiting, but none-the-less I do feel I have suspended my activities until I hear from them.
It’s my day off and I have so much I can do around the house…to make my next day off a better one.
Thanks for this post. Hits home for me….. waiting for love or someone to travel with or waiting for enough money to do whatever I want without financial worries…. I’m getting with it this year. Thanks so much for your great love and support. Hope to see you soon in sunny Mexico or later in Portlandia.
DK
Seeking indicates that we are incomplete, we have to be improved, we are not yet there. Contentment is the experience of who we really are and always have been. Complete. We are as the source created us, lovely (love) in every way. We have not changed, just our perception of ourselves changed and grew to limit us in our thinking. Contentment is the releasing of that perception, the release of the breath wwe have been holding, confining, the expansion of the self.
Indeed it is a receiving, an opening to experiencing our true self, our true condition. It is a moment of deep love of everything including the self.
Your words are a crystal clear bell of truth. The well of knowledge you are speaking from is so deep and pure and we are nurtured by your presence in our lives. Your reference to sacred breath is a delicious invitation not to hold back the sacred that is just waiting to pop into aliveness with every breath we take. Thank you for your commitment to evolve beyond any limitation, any shackle that’s been put upon you. YOu are an inspiration to us and we know many others. love, Susan and David
Dear David and Susan, You are so missed!!! Yet I am sensing such joy in your time with no time.
Gratefully, I am feeling so much the same. There are so many moments of joy, contentment, and actually a feeling that time does not exist? all time seems the same !!! ( this is not a mental concept, just a peace as if all is perfect and this moment is all there is??) Actually, this is a blessed space…after months of thinking my mind was failing, short term memory loss, and lessons to face. I finally feel all is perfect just as it is. Everything seems so much softer? Joining you in contentment…and joy!!! may you be blessed, and know that you are loved…and missed!! with much respect, and love..Linda
HI Linda,
Our hearts are smiling.
Thanks for missing us. We miss you too. You are a great explorer of acceptance. Your description of the mysterious vagaries of living in a human body as it continues ‘to mature’ is a great reminder to be in a state of wonder. The softness you describe is really the Living Place we can rest in. See you soon in March.
Love David and Susan
Several weeks ago Isabel and I started talking about the #1 feeling we want in out lives… and it was to simply be content. So, we have been hanging out remembering to keep being content, and have found that living in the space of contentment requires nothing more than allowing “what is” to be ok with us. Admittedly it’s easy to feel contended sitting on the bow of a small fishing boat floating through the warm waters of the Mexican riviera. It seems our job is to keep that feeling present when the storm appears and waters of our lives become rough and unpleasant. Your comment that our job is “being present to the gloriously rich presence of contentment just waiting for us to notice it”, feels right on.
We have wide smiling hearts reading ow you are dancing with contentment. What a foundation to live from and thrive within. You’re describing a way of being that promotes beautiful discovery and passion. The good news about David’s contentment on the beach is that it was so strong that it connected inside him to a whole legacy of contentment moments he had had and they all rushed together and are continuing too. It’s even happening on days and in places when there are “bumps” on the road. Because we’re riding the motorcycle, it’s fun to use the bump as a joy pulse. Love to you both, David and Susan
Hi Susan and David,
Finally replying here. Thank you for this. I was in a group that told me that “content” eventually turns to “contenscious”, and don’t I want more growth in my life? I really needed to sit with this. Because of my experience, I changed the word “content” to “sense of wellbeing”. When I am this, all is well. Thank you for your blog. The practice makes it more formal for me to deepen it more continuously. See you soon!
Love,
Mignon
Good morning, Susan and David – I opened my email this morning briefly to see if there were any inspiring Easter messages, and I found your reminder of the ongoing miracle of death and rebirth happening every nanosecond in our bodies and in our lives and in our universe. Thank you for this inspiring re-membering. Happy Easter! With Gratitude and Love, Susan
I am awed about what my body is acomplisHing even at t.he moment for sending this on. Thank you.
Would David send on the video he suggested I view. I look forward to learning more about my body and how the universal energy source keeps us all going.
With much love,
Arturo
Dear Beloveds, thank you for your inspiring wisdom! We are going forward in a new understanding, fresh and new in every moment, creating this delicious life. All our love to you from Karen & Walter
Thank you for the reminder Susan and David, that I can flip this switch at any time, and that I have the power to do so. Now, in the midst of “stuff”, if I can only remember! Ok. Yes. It is how much attention to the energy behind my intention that wil help me remember, and with practice become automatic!
Thank you again!
Love to you both,
Mignon
Interesting how life goes awry when trying to do life for one’s self without the “all-knowing friend”. Been there. Done that. So many times! Then I stopped running away, stopped the distractions.
Before I was afraid to listen, as if the all-knowing friend was going to be another authority yelling in my head my wrongness, belittling and criticizing me. Worst of all, make me dependent and then abandon me.
Glimpses of joy, gratitude, love and peace happened when I unknowingly chose the various techniques to have them in my life. The discipline was NOT, until recently. With myself, at times my partner and with my fiends weekly I am more committed to a disciplined meditation that has brought me to the point where I really want it daily and sometimes more than once a day. I do not feel a desperate grasping as much anymore.
I have come to feel safe, love, warmth in this enveloped energy and the cells in my body tingle from time to time as if I were being beamed up by Scottie on Startrek. I surrender more, to trust more, to allow more. I am in my rightful place at peace, Love, Joy and most of all Gratitude and awe for life. Yes, there are murky waters
to cross from time to time, and dwelling does no good. Time for the lifeline out of the water-more meditation. With this gradual, gentle surrendering my sense of wellbeing is being directed by my “all-knowing friend” and I can relax into The embrace.
Wow! Don’t know where all this came from. Must needed to share. At first I was going to ask you what got you here. Then this. Sounds like a “guest” blog. Thank you Susan and David for this platform to comment (more of a “share” in this case)!
That was EXACTLY what I needed to read this morning! As if it were tailor made for me and what I am going through.So simple, so powerful, so true. Thank you David, thank you Susan, you are always so inspirational in the messages that you deliver.
Love and gratitude always,
Chris.
You nailed it on this one. It rings very true to me. These are recent affirmations I’ve made:
I know I’m an individual and I also know deep down that we are all one.
I have a conscience and an ego yet realize I’m a small part of nature and the whole creation.
I know my own spirit and my connection with something much greater and because of this I take full responsibility for myself and my actions.
I’m getting to know my higher purpose and trust that I’ll be led the right way.
Thanks for your reinforcement of these for me.
DK
Hi This brings tears of recognition and recently i feel isolated and alone trying to get my life together right now.
I am artist, writer, educator master tree Steward( i go into schools and teach about the life cycle of trees) and I’ve been for a decade working in small art museum, museums and art centers, grant to grant, and am post divorce , at 66 and wanting to have sustainable income, and a healthier home area not so close to traffic, so I can keep my healthy living goals alive and bring people together in wonder and fun making intuitive art processes people of all ages , ethnicities and faiths, levels of experience, or even no experience necessary, The goal goal is to connect ourselves with ourselves more deeply , through personal expression , and connected share with one another,.
I also have felt frozen with a couple weeks of doctors trying to do more tests to determine if and have cancer or not. Its triggered a lot of fears.> I know i need people very much .Most of my family has died, many friends moved to be closer to family, MY life and friends lives, all our lives are in a huge interdependent web of connections wishing nature, are precious. I would love to speak to you directly, if you have time? Thank you for this timely article, Peace, Linda
Hi Susan and David,
Love your blogs!
Who am I when I follow my knowing?
An integrated whole, aligned, radiating being, that I naturally am strengthening regardless of all the demands and destructions (distractions) of the outside world.
Thank you for this blog, I love the penetrating question at the end! Would you please add question(s) at the end to your future blogs? They give, well, me, a formula to go deeper inside. (And hopefully other people as well.)
Love you two!
Mignon
You model to us a whole, integrated aligned radiant being.
thank you!
Your generosity is a lifeblood in our lives.
We love how you risk the familiar to grow.
I am one who is centered; not always certain, because those moments are seldom as clear as I’d like them to be. Sometimes there is a lingering doubt about the rightness of the decision, but when I review what led me to make it, I am reminded of who I am and who I need to be through the storm of difficult decsions of the heart.
Of course I second guess myself before and after, but if I weren’t doing that, I believe I would be missing the power and importance of the decision I made.
Zigy,
Thank you so much for sharing your amazing insight.
Your laser beam clarity about the nature of choosing was beautiful to read.
Your words throw dust in the light of the autopilot that runs in us until we each bring awareness to the reactive choices that drive us.
Much thanks for who you are and the growth you demonstrate.
Ha! Perfect, Susan and David (and Shayla)!
From childhood on, I watched how I was drawn to some people to deal with my own arrogance, even if I didn’t like them, I stayed friendly with them. I couldn’t figure out exactly why I was drawn to them, just an inkling. I saw and didn’t like what they did, but when they did it to me, I ran away and blamed them. Guess I was on my path.
I knew when I first met and married my spouse I had my errogance (arrogance) to deal with, by my projection onto him! I ran away sooo many times, I am surprised he has not left me! Eventually, my childhood techniques I used were being called out and stripped away one by one, only to come back with my defensiveness.
This last weeks “cosmic interruption” for me, was about my armour of all these childhood techniques that don’t work anymore being dismantled all at once. There is no armour/defense now and no way to collect all the pieces I see so clearly for the first time. And yes, I feel naked, and humble. I feel a deepening, opening and compassion of my heart I had not felt before. It is as if there is a connectedness, a bringing of wisdom and communication within myself. A feeling of what humanness is about I suppose. Will there be more later to be undone? Probably, but we’ll see. It’s not time yet. For the meanwhile, a quiet enjoyment of the magical now.
I thank you so much from the pit of my heat (heart) for the venue in which to share what happened for me. It couldn’t be a better view in which to express what I imagine to be the totality of what I was going through.
I love you both so much! And thank you again, Shayla!
Mignon
I have been feeling very vulnerable with the recent passing of my dear husband and trying not to push away that feeling as I long to swim out of the deep abyss. Blessings to both of you!
Thank you for this.As an artist in my mid seventies,
I have experienced this Cosmic interruption many many times…especially when I
SET OUT AND THINK I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THE END RESULT WILL BE,
It never turns out that way
I allow myself and the artwork to ” fall apart”
Then I begin again and even again…and the painting to comes forward while I get Out of the way.
I believe this is similar to what Shayla is describing.
Call it ego, narcissism , control, whatever
This effect has taught me to allow this to have courage & allow this phenomenon in other parts of my journey here. I recognise the trust one must allow
Far from being perfect…I recognise now and have less /no fear….
Thank you for helping me trust that more, Susan and David.
When my “dyslexia” and whom is in company and the subject at the time comes out, it is always curious. It is like truth, but from a deeper place, and a whole lot more interesting. In my last post on your blog, it came out at least twice. So, rather than gleam over it, it is time to pay more attention to what is really being said. Again, thank you for anchoring in the curiosity!
Love you both,
Mignon
Good one. Thanks you two.
I sometimes had forgotten to ask, “am I in my own timing, or someone elses?” And “am I doing this out of the goodness of my heart or am I not in the space to do…for them?”
After my recent time of forgetting I can see I felt grumbly and snarky. Since I did not question those feelings and what they were about, I carried them along with anxiety to others around me as well as myself. A heavy bag to carry and no fun! Time to question and “change”!
Thank you for being my friend.
I love you two.
Love,
Mignon
Thank you David! Short and sweet, yet powerful. For the first time ever, I will NOT be taking a time piece with me on retreat. Planning on living in ‘Spirit Time’, love it David.
Blessings, Francesca
There are things I notice in myself that are opened and deepened by your reflections for the collective that I so do appreciate. Thank you, most sincerely.
My spouse has been away this past week and I decided to seclude myself in my house. There were times when he has been away, that I over scheduled myself, not allowing for the natural movement of my own spirit. I had kept up but also sped up the “ping-pong” like ricochet rabbit or pinball machine mind, only to stay in my head and not feel the moment of grief of missing my spouse. I espounded to allow grief, but up until now, seemed to have been adverse to it by having a noisy mind. I have had glimpses of this before but not so coherently.
Right now I am really enjoying my allowing of deepening, quieting, opening. I can clearly see where I had a certain daily pattern/rythm that I liked, but had not honored it FIRST! This has created a lot of noise in my mind and body and thus the ping pong effect. I actually enjoy my rythm and I know I can allow space for shifts in the river life flow with a quieter mind.
Dear Susan and David,
I loved seeing you BOTH in front of the camera. Really cool! Fantastic example too!
When I started taking Spanish classes every day I was very nervous at first. (Schooloing was not my forte growing up.). I found after a few classes that by observing the tape pulling me back, it all of a sudden disspappeared! During these last number of months I have totally been present in class and learning fast! Something I never thought I coukd dream of!. I actually love to study! Learning, curiosity and life are so much more exciting now..
Thank you again for sharing!
Love to you both,
Mignon
Dear Susan and David,
I had the realization of a incident for years…and somehow I did not realize how this memory affected my whole life. It brought about my fear of being judged, so I began giving my power away to another who I felt was more spiritual, and knowing than I..!!! Finally, just speaking about the desire to put this memory behind me brought the full realization of what a “story” I had created, and lived !! Then, no longer in my mind, and with the desire to just love….it was suddenly GONE..!!! I am empowered in a new way, and it is beautiful to discover how this one, big fear….lived on with my life!!
The wound I place on the alter, is betrayal. The very deep wounds I have felt were from my perception of being betrayed. (husbands, friends, child…..mother.) I just had the realization of this in the last month or so. The sudden realization that “all are me” clearly showed my own betrayal of myself, as I tried to keep the peace. So, this is simply a declaration at this time…..betrayal is over. I have given it to God!!! I decided to never betray my integrity again!!
Beauty in Nature: morning fog dissipating, dew drops, frost, diamond snow, my son’s eyes, a certain song sung by a certain voice, design of all sorts that is just so, intensity of colour, patterns, textures, external grace reflecting internal harmony in people and animals, deep kindness, incredible moments of stillness beckoning the possible. Bless you both, Carinka
Dear Ones,
Thank you for reaching out to provide direction to us to deal with these difficult times. As usual you are there to help by reminding us to reach for the guiding spirit that is always there.. I bless you both for your desire to bring wholeness into the world on this consistent basis.
Love,
Arthur
Dear Ones,
Thank you for reaching out to provide direction to us to deal with these difficult times. As usual you are there to help by reminding us to reach for the guiding spirit that is always there.. I bless you both for your desire to bring wholeness into the world on this consistent basis.
Love,
Arthur
Hola Susan and David,
Thank you for this. It is an interesting time, indeed. I am finding that trusting Source, allowing for guidance and gratitude before whatever it is that comes my way, as well as gratitude for what I already have helps me stay in the present/ce and unknown. No attachment. Flow, joy, love, gratitude, compassion. It is in my presence that keeps me sane and allows me to feel the mentioned. Love your blog!
Love,
Mignon
So Truthful!
So Very Simple!
Such Sweetness… Though not easily done in THE Moment…great tools for our magical process.
On this Thanksgiving Holiday season it is So genuine to say “Thank you for this piece (especially at this time) and each other and sharing it with all of us!!!
Blessings, Ah Ho
BirdWoman
I want to be with you both. Something very directed l alive connects with me here. I already just learned why its been difficult for me to vision far into a fur sure for myself, my mind is probably been in survival mode, quite a long time. I keep expecting myself to be strong or for the sense of dread to disappear for good , but something like that returnees and my self esteem wobbles, or trust in something , wavers. then I see something beautiful like a sky a cloud , a feather, a child’s eyes , an old person wither walker bravely walking alone across the street, haltingly, and I am restored temporarily.
Thank you Susan and David!
This prayer I need. It feeds my soul so much I am wanting to read it before bed and upon rising. And when I have it memorized, Throughout the day! Sometimes the pattern had gotten so deep it had taken me hours to get out of it. Not anymore, thanks to this prayer.
Much love and Gratitudes!
Mignon
Some of the main questions I’m asking now (and it is an ongoing inquiry) are, “What can I/we do?” “What is an intelligent and effective response?” “How can I serve?” These are questions I have asked continuously throughout my life, yet now, in the current political situation especially in the US, they have taken on a new urgency.
Yup! I am not enslaved anymore. No “shoulds” or loneliness can entice me to share energy I do not have and to unkind and ungrateful energy received back. I am loving myself more and in a balanced way, moving, deciding at MY speed and when I am ready to. I can feel where my limit is energetically, and I now stop, instead of rationalizing and pushing my way through.
What used to get to my energy was feeling sorry for someone; thereby imprisoning myself with them. It would become cyclical. There would be an expectation of more help/energy needed and I would feel obligated out of guilt. NOT a pretty story. Oh, and the treatment I would get from these people! Not very kind for sure.
So, YES to loving and caring for me first! Then, “yes, you can be first after me.”
This came to my inbox with precise timing for me, thanks to all for these words of wisdom. It’s good to know that we are allied with greater movements and my thinking is aligned so well with this.
After a challenging day yesterday, I awoke this morning remembering God. So often I forget, caught up in the ridiculousness that seems be everywhere. My heart rests easier today, your words bring peace. Thank you.
I have been struggling these past days with the pain of our human condition. This arrived as a reminder – and I feel such blessed relief. There is indeed an empowerment in this consideration. Thank you.
Thanks for the stimulating post. You both know the modern mystic Andrew Harvey who was just here in Ashland, Oregon for a week of powerful presentations. Andrew has a key, I believe, with his sacred activism work. As for God, He/She is a theory to most people. Andrew used RUMI poetry to champion the power of loving God… being enraptured in our own personal relationship with the Divine. In tandem, we can follow what breaks our hearts in the world and contribute towards healing that. Sacred Activism, a way of living in any era but especially urgently needed right now!
Be-au-ti-full! Thank you Susan and David! So true for me, too. Give lovingly without strings. Allowing all to be as is. Non-attachment and especially to outcomes. (Might have learned that last one recently!)
Love you two!
Mignon
Brava Susan! By simply dissecting a word, you have disarmed it (another dis…). This stroke of insight has been very valuable to me at the very time when it was most needed. Thank you.
Dear ones,
What a lovely and timely story as ever. Today marks the 40 th day that Sacha and I are living with two new feathered friends. Two budgerigars named Buttercup (yellow) and Wasabi (green). Last night was the first night that they slept out of their cage up high above it on their spiral perch side by side, at rest and more free than before. Yesterday morning, Buttercup was the first to nibble a branch of millet which I was holding for her. This morning, Wasabi, a little more tentative in his trust, joined in. The majesty that is unfolding for me is that I too am spreading my creative wings, anchoring my desire into concrete places in my home nest where I can make things. This gives me hope and excitement and also the strong desire to find/make the time to listen to my muses. Thank you for sharing your intuitive story about soul birds. It rings true all the way to Nelson, BC. May you both be well and happy, Carina
I am wonderstruck and moved to tears by your intuitive story. You have taken me to the sacred space where I go in my deepest meditations….beyond physical space, time and personality, to where the deep whispers of my soul are heard with stunning clarity, Thank you so much for being you, and being a part of my life,
What an incredible response. Thank you for your clarion soul knowing.
Inside us you are a beacon of courage and demonstrate the ongoing willingness to become your greater self.
You are willing over and over again to go past all of your conditioned ways of being.
So you can put them on the library shelf of life but not be run by any implanted programs. Love S and D
‘….And they knew they had been found by something they had longed for.’ I found myself weeping with this story. ‘….And into each person came an onrush of impassioned hope, of unmistakable love and a vision of how to go forth in the world as a song of spirit, a creator of joy, a healer of wounds.’ Inshallah.
Thank you! As reading this gift I felt within the energy of love, light and wonderment of the miracles around us daily. Again, thank you for your gifts that radiate to many.
Hi David and Susan!
I LOVE Paul Selig’s work and just started a weekly teleseminar with him called “Freedom From Fear”. I believe releasing fear and our history is critical to becoming who we are meant to be. I often refer to an old career of mine as a past life because it is so not who I am now and I can’t even relate to who I was back then. My work right now is to surrender to what is and not attach to what has been. Thanks for this post and you thought provoking questions. Sending love.
It is so wonderful to hear from you and to know that the old dresses no longer fit. Thanks for your willingness and courage to grow beyond your old skin. in love S and D
A timely message from a vital new source, my treasured friends. I am fiercely in the present—physically and spiritually–after half a year of life threatening illness and recovery in Denver. Now open to a new paradym here or possibly the very intimate, multicultural Santa Fe.
Your messages and your example are a great blessing at this turning
This has been a year like none ever..!! A spiritual retreat, an accident, big debt, and more love, joy and gratitude than ever.!! Interesting that the love came from those I never expected to be there, and my joy with this was so great, and my gratitude so deep that I found it easy to spend the 3 months without being able to walk, a gift!!! And so it continues. I am well, and it was not expected. My intuition has been a huge part of my return to life..and it is now telling me to join this moment by meeting my family from far away. I know of them, I have dreamed of them……how do I meet them…??? May I just ask??
sincerely, and with love, Linda
Dear Susan & David, lovely invitation from your/our friends. I too speak to them, and they are so ready to help us create something different.
Thinking of you this week.. I moved to Sebastopol a couple months ago… it’s still intact but we’re watching all our neighbors lose everything. Please let me know if/when you come here next. Would love to reconnect.
Much love,
Holly
Hi Susan and David,
Thank you! It is so reassuring to hear that from our friends through you, that which we all a glimpse of but not necessarily anchor in. Thank you for being a link!
with and for Love,
Mignon
Gracias Susan & David
Estoy muy de acuerdo con todo esto que comentan
Mi apoyo es a diario orando, meditando y creando una nueva realizad de armonía y belleza desde mi corazón
Entiendo que todo es perfecto y es para bien de todos.
Somos todos los que estábamos esperando y ya estamos aquí creando una nueva realidad
Besos, bendiciones y fuerza para todos de Clemen
A lovely poem, reminding us of our single purpose of loving. And a heavenly perspective on the evolution of our planet, the evolution of life, and the evolution of US. Thank you !!!
Humbling.
With a big heart I Inhale the pain, grief, loss and fear. And exhale compassion. What you share continuously connects me at deeper levels to “the all”.
Thank you Susan and David.
Mignon
Hi Susan and David,
Yup. When I was young I thought there was something wrong with me because I didn’t think like the general public and then didn’t like those who did think like me because we were in remedial classes together at school.
Lately, I had a relative visit that I layed ground rules to. I thought I was alert to their behavior, but in reacting, found I was asleep and awoke to finding myself in a jar of fog which only lifted after they left and I wrote an email expressing myself. I assumed they would get the ground rules and could not figure out what I was reacting to until after they left. Not fun, but a challenge I imagine, well learned.
Thank you, you two. This resonated through my BE-ing.
I realize at times I have lived like this in bigger choices “I” made and I felt truly myself. And more and more now in my daily living.
In Gratitude,
Mignon
I had a confirmation yesterday of my internal guide. I was doing a difficult crossword puzzle. Although I had completed only half and would ordinarily stop and look in the back for the answer,I was propelled to continue. Slowly, after several hours the words came one after another and there I was with the completed puzzle. I stood in the awe of awareness knowing it was from my inner core that energized and helped produce this completion. I cut out the puzzle ,pasted it on the wall in front of my desk and will refer to it as a continuous reminder that my energy source is there for me.
Thank you…this is perfect. I have been thinking about integrity and what I choose as integrity…… and from what perspective I choose it !! And how others view it..!!!
I would be interested in a group…. !!
WOW ¡¡ Gracias queridos Susan & David
Han tocado mi corazón y he tomado consciencia de la sabiduría de sus amables palabras.
Mi SER de manera amable y conscientemente en la conexión con EL YO SOY respira suavemente y se conecta con la Alegría de alinearse a la Integridad de mi Alma amorosa, confiando en que se abre el Flujo Divino de Conocimiento y Abundancia.
Gracias ¡.
Sincera y amorosamente Clemen
NAMASTE ¡¡ AAAAHHHHOOOO ¡¡
Where did I get the belief that integrity has some tenets that are so universal that most people do honor them??? A part of “thou shall not steal” but more subtle??? I find myself disturbed and at a big loss to discover that a person I care for and love…..would take things from me, that are simple and that I would immediately give, if asked. I would give many things to another if needed, but for one to take and not ask… has me feeling a big loss of trust., and a big disappointment. ( Not about what was taken. but it is the thought that one would invade my privacy, and take something without asking.) I totally respect another’s belongings, and privacy…..and I would never intrude…or take anything.!! but, I guess that is not the same integrity that many live with.???? how does one deal with this…with LOVE????
Thanks for your thoughtful and heartfelt response.
We are familiar with the shock, the surprise when another person’s integrity operating system suddenly appears to be in stark contrast to our own.
We keep rediscovering an obvious truth.
None of us are constant.
Each person we know is adjusting how they live themselves based on the changes they are living into within their known world.
We are practicing staying up to date with those closest to us regarding how they are doing in their world and in their lives.
Integrity is a living condition.
Not everyone we discover has the willingness to check into themselves.
Many just react and don’t question how their own integrity is changing, not just the integrity around as you reference “stealing” but the integrity around are they even telling themselves the truth around what their circumstances are.
At this time of year the disparity between have and have not is at its greatest.
There can be a desperate sense of lack.
For us the most loving thing to do is be aware and then adjust ourselves accordingly as we engage out in the world with others who are driven by forces very different than ours.
So as to not be blindsided by the actions of others, we are required to stay present to the reality of those around us and our own and not assume anything.
A beautiful piece, coming from this man whom I know to be deeply honest with himself and with others. This kind of awareness … to know oneself and one’s truth & integrity … is what builds good relationships and connected communities, those things that we need now more than ever, to build a new world.
Thank you two for this blog!
I can only be in integrity with others as much as I am honest with myself and true to that. There are times I don’t want to look, like when I want to eat “fun stuff” rather than be responsible and care for myself. Same with exercise! I am older in body, exercise is an integral component to living more healthy.
When I am at someone elses house I try to care for it the way they do, just out of respect, but also trying on another hat. Maybe I would like to care for my place in some of the ways they do. It is a constant learning. I love the creativity too.
I can’t say “I am this way or that”, but in my awareness of my basic goodness I can.
Thanks again!
Thank you for sharing your gift with the masses, reinforcing our “knowing” as at times we may misplace that knowledge. The warmth of love you spread becomes contagious. Countless blessings. With Appreciation, Gratitude and much Love, Cynda
Susan and David, thank you so-o-o much for this treatment of fear. This is a huge topic for me right now and I am coaching people to bust through their irrational fears so that they can more fully enjoy the emotional and physical freedom that God originally blessed all of us with.
Somehow in this email I want to attach a copy of my “Living a Divinely Inspired Fearless Life”.
Yes! So Glad to read this! As a child I soaked up every one’s fear as if it were my own. It took me a long time to remember to ask myself, “is this my fear, or theirs” and “did I drag someone elses fear home with me”? I like investigating/naming the fear and also when in my environment, naming the things in the room. It’s fun being a detective!
Thank you again!
Love,
Mignon
Thank you Susan and David.
Spot on for me. Nothing like being a little curious about that fear and infusing it with love. I notice how the touch or love touch brings people and animals alive and more secure in love, including my body.
Love to you
Mignon
How excited I am for you, Susan!
Gotta love that rascal of a jackal!
I am the parent of the jackal and not the other way around. This I need always to remember.
Way to go, Susan
Love
Mignon
How brave and exciting for you and this fabulous adventure with Cora.
I am excited to not only read your book but to share with my grand daughter, who loves to read❤️
You are one incredible woman!
With Love,
Linda
As I read the opening statement, I thought wow could I do that just disconnect. I started feeling fear just thinking about it. I have been thinking about this a lot lately… what is my purpose here in this life. Thank you for sharing. Looking forward to talking with Dwight to gain further information on his journey, which I believe will help me with mine.
Felicidades queridos amigos Susan, David y Dwight ¡¡.
Estoy emocionada junto con Uds. por esteatinado cambio en su vida.
Les deseo un mágico y bello Camino de Evolución, Transformación, Renacimiento y Reinvención de su NUEVA VIDA. No son los únicos que están cambiando de Paradigma, yo estoy también transitando y descubriendo en el mismo Camino. Y quiero que sepan que todo está a nuestro favor ¡¡. Sinceramente y con cariño deseando lo mejor para todos su amiga Clementina Beas Moreno.
“La vida de un amigo, es la nuestra, como la verdadera vida de cada uno es la de todos.” George Sand
I’m so excited for you all!!! I’ve been on 3 pilgrimages: Nepal, India and Thailand plus my 4 month solo winter retreat last year – I share this to express that I LOVE pilgrimages and the opening that is created, changes too – YES indeed! ALL WELCOME. Bless you and your journey. Big hugs 😉 along with love and gratitude.
Thank you beautifuls!
For me, what had shrunk me, has now become a world of possibilities. In any present moment the question becomes ¨how can I/we make this situation different and what can I/we do to make it happen?” Life has a much better love flow!
Have a grand day and an even grander adventure!
Love,
Mignon
I used to think I needed to BE the formula. I used it as a rebellious label to say I was “nothing like those” who grew up in my home town. In high school I never wanted to be “pigeon holed”. I didn’t judge others, but I pigeon-holed myself with my formulas. I have now accepted me, including those parts.
If something went “wrong” in my life, I would find or make up a formula to live by. Then, when I didn’t want to or couldn’t do it anymore, I thought something was wrong that I could not perservere. So I would panic and look for the next piece of “solid ground” to land on (the next formula). It was constant jumping like from stone to stone and sometimes acquaintance to acquaintance trying their formulas.
For years I wondered why I was so particular and why there were some people I did not let in that were really incredible. Well, they didn’t fit in my “formulaic” lifestyle and I didn’t know how to relate to them from that space. I wasn’t “shy”, I didn’t know how to bridge. “How would that work? Will I be pulled out of my place? Then what? Too scary, so forget it.”
I had held myself, my family, spouse, children and friends hostage (not that I really can) to my prison-making ideas. Where was my discernment? My wisdom? Where was room for them?
I missed some of who they are and new emerging parts of myself, my truth and even trusting, because it didn’t fit in my own self-made box!
The formulas I had experienced now feel like the melding pot of my wisdom.
Susan, David and old friend.
I can feel as if I was there with you!
Thank you for sharing!
My pilgrimage has been a bit different and every moment is a choice to be on one. Be unreasonable!
Love you three!
Mignon
WOW! You can almost feel the wind! Thank you for sharing such wonderful photos, and bringing back sacred memories. We need to get together again to share experiences of such sacred places. We did not go to Scotland, and we went to Glastonbury Tor, Stonehenge, and became, for the first time, aware of the lay lines. Let me know when we can get together for dinner.
Love, Alicia
Hi Susan and David,
Susan, thanks for sharing your healing journey with us!
I trust the body will mend itself nicely.
I am now in Panama, living on an island in the Bocas del Toro Archipeligo.
I am with my partner Chad and enjoying lots of quiet time.
Blessings to you both,
Jean (Juanita)
Susan, I am so sorry to hear this.!! Yet, I truly understand this situation myself. When I was hurt, I felt in many ways truly blessed, and I knew on a very deep level, that I was held in God’s hands. I rejoiced in the quiet, the solitude and aloneness that surrounded me. I was forced to stop. !! I needed to stop!! I needed to let people help me for a change!!
You have just expressed very well, how it feels when this happens. Thank you!! and much love!!
What a beautiful story. Thank you for sharing. Love and blessings to both you and David. I think of you often with much love and gratitude. My journey is progressing and healing is taking place. I concur that allowing spirit to enter makes everything easier.
Love
Sandy
Hi Susan (and David),
Isn’t that interesting how we all find our own way to that soul feeding source?
And now, you get to have a solid (titanium), permanent, strong, reminder! Fabulous!
Thank you so much for your nourishing share! And happy mending/blending!
Love,
Mignon
Queridos Susan y David saludos cariñosos de Clemen ¡¡
Apreciada Susan gracias por compartirnos tu experiencia y proceso que ahora ves y comprendes es una “Bendición y Sanación para tu Alma y Ser Divino”. Bendición que te está permitiendo hacer una ALTO y contactar con tu Ser Divino amándote y dejándote amar, para poder agradecer y comunicarte desde tu corazón con la Gran Consciencia Divina.
WOW ¡ Qué gran bendición para tomar Consciencia y Evolucionar ¡¡
TODO ES PERFECTO ¡. Y cada uno de nosotros estamos de una u otra manera haciendo nuestro trabajo personal Divino para Evolucionar y apoyar al Despertar de la Consciencia y Evolución de la Humanidad. Apoyando al gran inicio del NUEVO PARADIGMA de la Humanidad que es el “Sistema Colaborativo”.
Dear Susan, you are in line with other friends who have taken falls recently so I am being extra careful these days not to follow in your footsteps.
I’m so sorry you have to go through this but as the old saying goes, ‘This too soon shall pass’. And you will be back to normal doing the good things you both know how to do. I miss seeing you and maybe some day I will get back to SMA. Best to you. Kai
You hit it right on top of the nai!!! I though something was really messing up in my own world and mind..My body is commanding a rest in the afternoons,just a short one,to recharge.You have answered in just a few strong statements what is happening now and how important to take car of ourselves in a different way !Thank you♥️
Loved this Susan and David! So very true and listening to what we feel and sense is key to our well being. Great words, thank you for sharing. Totally resonated with me.
With Love to you Both,
Dear ones,
Thank you for your heartfelt love message. I receive it
and allow it o warm my heart as I import it’s energy.
I send you both my deep love for you with the hope that this
new year will bless you and continue to bring you the energy
to transmit loving energy as you have continued to do for these past years.
Arturo
There was Magic in the kitchen today as 7 year old Sacha-Michael took over, making brownies and starting a soup and a grilled cheese. Watchful motherly eye present throughout but also, and more importantly, I was a witness to the wonder that this child embodies and shares. To his brilliance, kindness, wisdom. He was cooking and doing some form of Chi Gong as he went. He concluded that he wanted to be a healer and also a cook and to start his own business. For him, there are no barriers, only possibilities – much like the office which once existed in Nelson;) Thank you both for your powerful and poetic blessing for this day. Good medicine for me. Clearly, Sacha did not need to check his emails to “get it”, he just is. Much Love, Carina
David and Susan,
Today I registered the blog TakeWhatYouLike.org you helped me define and create in 2013. Thank you again for your inspiration and guidance, and I will share the results from Santa Fe in first quarter 2019.
With God’s guidance and grace, this will become an essential part of my service and self care–and a living legacy of my time on the planet.
Love and blessings,
Richard Holcomb
Thank you Susan for your uplifting message. I’ve already begun my preparations
for some new beginnings!
Much love to you and David, and many blessings for your new journey!?Lola
Hi you two. Timely. I just transcribed today’s blessing into my agenda – what a perfect location for this blessing (and the others): the place where I plan the use of my time….Seems like the agenda format is just one great spot for these….xo Carina
We acknowledge the two of you individually and collectively for the ongoing generation of your lives and your life. Very few people have the commitment to do so; yours is an inspiration explicitly and implicitly to others. Well done!
Dear Susan and David, So surprised to hear this news….!! But, I am wishing you both all the joy and happiness you desire..!! Good Luck on all your new adventures!! And blessings as everything moves forward. !!
I have just finished making my house into 2 apts….One for me, one for Kelley!! So we are about to start a new adventure as well, (for me, getting rid of so many things I do not use, or need!!!)
sending love, Linda
Yes, congratulations on the book. I am curious if you are keeping your property in SMA to rent or letting it go. I just got a house there to use at times and rent mostly, so the move to Nova Scotia seems quite a change. Brrr, but no doubt gorgeous in its own way. Best with your move and yes, moving is amazingly stressful I have found. Louise
Hi Susan and Cora.
I love the way “God” is explained as a simple version of love.
I think you are right, that there are wounds around the word and partly because “God” was lorded over people for generations in a negative way as a form of control.
I like your other term, as general as it may be. It sounds like it may be what Cora needs to spread her word.
Sending love to you and imagining Cora’s wings spreading with her friends.
Mignon
Hi Susan!! I think Not so Little Cora is an amazing book that really talks about love, and I think it can help people think about love for themselves, others and live itself.
With that in mind, if you change God for Love or any other word that the Source of Love inspires you, it would be ok, because what the Source needs, in any name or form, is for Cora to open the hearts of people, and with a word like God, maybe we find barriers that are not necesary
We need more people with open minds and open hearts in this world,and I think Cora can help the Soirce with that
Given how the world religions have coveted and corrupted the true meaning of the word & idea of God over the millennia, I have come to belief that religion imprisons rather than liberates. So changing the word from God to Love or Spirit or Whatever is fine with me … it’s just a word.
That’s a very profound learning you have shared with us Susan. Thank you, I’m very grateful for it, although it has been difficult for you.
The power of language is immense. I’m drawn into a contemplation on how language creates our world…In the words of Terence McKenna, “Cultures are virtual realities created by language.”
Wow, the uncertainty of life here in Mexico,(87 killed since Jan. first in San Miguel) The uncertainty of the US politics, and most of all the uncertainty of and the possibility of fascism and the prejudice I see there, are frightening. I find myself thinking that I am glad I am so old, and I don’t have lots of time left here!! But, I know…uncertainty brings openings, and hope.!! My “God” is much more personal, my beliefs and laws? more personal…and my unity with everything alive is so beautiful. The words of Christ (always true) are now to me…”see things differently, all is love , all are one” Muchas Gracias Amigos!! I hope you are well and happy !! I just thought of you last night!!! wondered as it seemed I had not heard from you!! and here you are this morning!!!
Susan and David,
Thank you! We certainly moved into the thick of muddy uncertainty here in the US!
Trusting a whole lot more in being guided and grateful for inner freedom and the last paragraph you so beautifully described.
Thank you and much love to u2
Mignon
So very beautiful David and Susan!!! I am now even MORE GRATEFUL for breath as I consider receiving it, rather than taking it.
I have been wondering if Hurricane Dorian impacted you in Nova Scotia. Hopefully all is well.
with love and blessings from Ashland 😉
France/Francesca
Thank you for this beautiful offering David and Susan. It was timely this morning and helped me, paradoxically, regain balance after a phone conversation from the world of certainty and worldly achievement. Triggers… not malign, simply reminders that knock one off-kilter.
The world of uncertainty is my world of unknowing. It is where I live to a large extent.
You remind me there are others who validate this realm and I was able to calm the jangling.
A bright gift to all of us.
Great post, reminding us of the original meaning of the word. These days, heretics are considered crazy people. A “heretical” perspective is to be scorned and ridiculed as impossibly wrong. Of course, it was once heretical to question the flat earth theory.
Humanity never advances without the leadership of heretical thinkers who are not only able to imagine the “impossible” but have the courage and stamina to withstand attacks from the mediocre who want nothing more than a continuance of their existence with as little disrupting novelty as possible, lest it wake them from their delusional slumbers into the rigorous challenges and thrilling opportunities of real life.
Boy, do I relate to this one! Heretic all my life since it fell apart on me at a young age. I was forced to question everything up to and including ethical standards and what kind of person I wanted to be.
We are taught to resent bad breaks but again, like everything else we were taught, it’s upside down. Tough experiences cause us to grow, learn, go deep inside ourselves to discover everything there is. Having taken a deeply spiritual path as a result of a tough life, I accept and embrace discovery. I really enjoy where I am and am so grateful that millions of folks are finally joining me.
It gets a little rough when your middle-aged kids call you a nut case but hey, they’re just kids!
Interesting post! Specially for women, being a heretic is life-giving: In the boomer generation, we were inculcated into being subservient, a deadening choice for many women. I discovered that nothing alive can emerge from following anyone’s path but one’s own – even if that path looks to the world like the “right one” (in my family, herbal tea was seen as “weird”) and the one chosen, as crazy. It takes guts to make a different choice. It can mean separating from people you love. Many people simply don’t have the capacity to go against caring but critical family or friends who are invested in the norm. Discovering this has gradually made me far more accepting and compassionate towards those who may need to be heretical but can’t muster it.
I should also have said that I’ve learned that choices have timelines. Some people move more slowly than others and often this is much the wiser path. I’ve made choices too quickly in my past, for everyone’s good – thinking it was like ripping off a bandaid. Um…no. I’ve worked through two years or more with clients as they considered all possible options. Timelines are our unique expression too.
“Joy to the world…” That’s the title of a popular Christmas Christian song. Another line says, “Let heaven and nature sing.” Wow, that sounds pretty joyful! It’s a portrayed beautifully by the acapella group PENTONIX on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xo64Q2ucQ8
Thanks for reminding us of this as we head into the season of pretense, when our human habit of “knowing” vs “experiencing” becomes embarrassingly obvious. Joy – the experience – cuts through all divisive hate and arrogant hypocrisy. Let’s live it!
The only issue I have, that does not feel perfectly satisfactory, is my deep desire to feel closer to God.
I feel I need a bigger commitment to use my time on this. I meditate, but not as much as I feel I would like to, or should?? ( saw a life? with Ayawaska, that seemed to be Essene, and with Jesus,) and I have never felt called to persue this until now. And now, it feels like NOW!! Just finished reading Anna the grandmother of Jesus !!
Hi David & Susan, So glad to receive the messages from your communicators. I look forward to sitting in their energy when you are again doing your public transmissions. I find them highly beneficial. Sitting in that energy frequency has a potency that boosts otherwise closed channels to open in my brain. There is nothing like the real thing. Hope to see you both again when you are ready to share once again.
Jennifer
Thank you so much for sharing. I recently had an opportunity to visit a medium…she is also a medical intuitive. Amazing experience. Thinking of both of you so much lately.
Thank you for being a part of my life….eternally grateful.
Take care
Sandy
Yes. Love is the true answer to fear. I’d like to suggest that wearing a mask when going out is also a great idea to reduce fear and possible infection. Also love by staying home..
Not waiting any more..!! Something has finally arrived??? There is a presence, a knowing now that I never truly did accept. I knew everything and everyone was sacred, but I did not include myself. ?? During my energy download, I was told “I MUST HOLD the light, BE the light, LIVE the Light.” It has taken a while to really get this. It does not take work, as I thought….IT IS !! It is what I am, if I trust and know that the Divine is here, it is what I am??? My own little piece of joy and peace?? I need nothing more. (Yesterday another incident with my license tags….after more that an hour in line, No they did not have a record of my name. re-apply, come back,) I just said “okay” and knew that it would happen when it did, and it was just another lesson in presence, and BEING. As if nothing must happen when I think, or want…?? I am just fine. !!! THANK YOU David and Susan…!!
Hello Susan and David, thank you for staying in touch. Your wisdom resounds deeply within me and I am starting to make a plan for changes I need to make to be more healthy in my life. I too lived out of country for over a year – in Costa RIca. It was a good experience overall. I have been home again for a little over a year and looking around for my next great adventure. Maybe selling my house which has become a burden and getting on the road to explore more of ths US? I’m doing research to make that happen. Right now building up my health, mental, physical and spiritual for the leap into the unknown. I am not afraid just know that ths time is not right yet. I have some important work to do before launching. Love and blessings to you both, Jean owen (tompahma-woman who walks with the apples)
I feel, as though, we are constantly evolving, within All of Life’s Experiences… I have recognized and acknowledge that I have evolved, into, and within, living My life, by, my choices, (within my means) within Integrity, itself; as I have, Eternal Faith, and Utter Trust, Within, My Soul, Source, and Spirit, Within My Gracious Loving, Caring, Compassionate and Open Heartfelt Soul…
From here, is where, True Life Within, Begins Itself Anew… The Rhealm of the unknown within All; of, what’s next, around the corner, or bend… And the ability, choices, and disposition, of our determination, within each, we encounter…
Thank you, Susan and David, for that compassionately informative presentation. I participated while David spoke and I felt the connection with and love from my spiritual guides. It was a beautiful, peaceful and soulful experience.
Site looks great, guys!
Thank you. I was wondering how I was conditioning myself, by the voice inside my head. The sounds of words. The revalation that truth is individualistic, came as a Shock when I first ‘imagined’ it. Each of us holds a truth, does that mean communally we are truth composed of all? There is no view from nowhere, so I will stand on my own shoulders. I was wondering how to respond in a most dignified way to the violence of intent in peoples words, the bricolage of their truth which I respect, with the malice of a superior conception of what is right, according to them. I resist the homogeneity of power constructed knowledge, because material quantity is so often accorded notice of superiorority. You have added some extra strength to my thought, I like this particular truth. Its a truth of love and it is clear and intention free. Thank you again for this clear place.
i had to go to a palapa in mexico to get away from “time” as others know it. after a month or so, i start to tell time by the sun, with amazing accuracy. i also learn the meaning of manana, the ultimate traditional mexican timepiece.
Thanks Wendy for your thoughts. Ten years ago I read On Mexican Time by Tony Cohan. I found the rhythm of life he depicted more natural to my own. Two months in Mexico last year allowed me to connect to my natural rhythm in a new way because I was living in a culture that flowed differently than the one I was accustomed to. Thank you for the reminder of how sometimes all we need is a new location to allow ourselves to connect with our own nature. Love, Susan
Thank you! David and Susan,
I now have a new mantra:
“Freedom is just a thought away.”
So true So true So true
Just need to remember that in every moment.
Muchisimas gracias mis amigos,
Betsy
Beautiful video, David and Susan. I’ll think of that whenever I hear that someone is “fighting” an illness.
Love and gratitude,
Walter
Wow!!! No wonder I am so full of life. Spontaneous combustion explains what happens and through experience of the process comes true or radical transformation. What a gift.
Yes a big leap of love. Can’t wait to embrace you both. Tamara
We are leaping all the way to Phoenix. See you shortly!
Can’t wait to welcome you home!
Love, Christine
So excited to see you! Our first day of driving is done. 🙂
HI you two,
Many blessings and love blasting your way from my heart to yours. I was in Phoenix for the first time this year and the sunsets are stunning. Look forward to hearing about your wondrous adventure as it unfolds.
love love love you both, Kim
Thank you Kim!!
Clarifying, because I am a doo wop hound dog: “Who Wrote the Book of Love?” 1958, by The Monotones
I’m so glad you are a doo wop hound dog! The correction is made! And to think I was born that year! 🙂 Susan
Oh ye es I’m the Great Pre etender.
Magic Touch, The Treasure of Love., Oh what a night. Goodnight My Love,
Johnny Otis on the radio.
Huggie Boy. Wolfman Jack.
Oh what a blessed time was that.
Dems were da days.
Welcome and love. Yes it is a birthright and so happy we know each other.
Heey,
I love the new mini Wisdom bites! Like on the go size nourishing.
Good Morning, Wonders of the world!!! I LOVE the message today!!!!!!
Looking forward to the next time we gather………meanwhile, I send many hugs and much LOVE!!
Lou
Dear David and Susan
Thank you for sharing this. I have lived with this poem for about 10 years. It’s one of my favorite things in the world.
I celebrate David Whyte and the beautiful, vulnerable edge that he lives on. And invites us all onto with him!
love
Shayla
Thought provoking… If only you were here and we were discussing this over a big dinner at Blue Moon…
It’s utterly delightful to see your photos again, David. Especially in the context of a conversation about Health. Thank you both for all you’re doing with this blog. It nourishes me.
Personally, when I’m trying to be really nice to one of my inner voices, I offer it a martini rather than a glass of water… Agreement is unilateral and all of them are much happier that way…
What a provocative reminder of the power of words and how we can use them for our good or manipulate them to cover our wounds. The Ghost In Our Words should be a book…or a documentary. Its such a rich field for needed exploration. Let’s talk more……
Thank you, your comment, clear and heartfelt, opens the way for evacuating more ghosts from our words.
This is great, David and Susan..
Calls me back to something i feel my way into all the time, the belief that language is expressing truth about our world and our experience, when in fact it is creating our world. and our experience.
Much love to you both
Shayla
I just LOVE this video, you two!! “Words that are too little for us to live in…” graphically realized. Brilliant!
I’m getting deeper and deeper involved with using The Work to help people break open the boxes that words and thoughts are trapping them in. It makes me happy to see you two using your massive creativity to make this powerful possibility make sense.
Bravo!
Beautifully spoken and embodied. A provocative image. I am inspired to sit with this question and see what I can break open to!
Thank you.
Oh YES. Today the world around and in me, is so much CLEARER.
The brain is seeming to accept its’ role in perception.
Magic is us! Love the laundry metaphor. Thanks.
I love this so much! Thank you for sharing this with the world!
David and Susan
This is so good! As a coach and teacher, I have been amazed, over the last five years, at how many people are no longer able to sleep well.
This is one of the most beautiful offerings I have read yet, about our collective incapacity to let go and rest in the arms of our Mother..
Thank you!
much love
Shayla
i personally enjoy those occasional times when i wake up in the middle of the night to “discuss” an issue that i have been ignoring or back burning. with no distractions and complexities, the answer is often right there for me and i can wake up in the morning and deal with it. so it would say it’s not all bad. AND the anxiety about insomnia only feeds it: celebrate the clarity of mid-night gifts!
well as i was scrolling down, reading your essay, i thought: i’ve got to forward them the verguesse talk that esalen just blasted to all their members. i scrolled a bit farther and found, delightfully, that i was one step behind you, again. (that thrills me!) loved breakfast in arizona……
David and Susan
It is a great joy to connect with what you are expressing online these days.
I feel awake and alive when I visit the realm you are occupying, with such fresh awareness.
I’m hoping that is is reaching those who have the ears to hear and move towards you.
with much love
Shayla
What if there are some questions that aren’t supposed to go away?
Who am I?
Do I like myself?
Who is most important to me?
My values may change based on new information: What is most important to me now?
What if the first answer isn’t always the right answer? AMEN!
What if part of the foundation of a rich, loving life is having some questions that stick around? See above. Add your own. Be blessed.
Those questions are the threads of really being alive. They invigorate and inform. Thank you.
Many people’s breathing gets stuck.
They may not think of it that way but on further reflection realize they hold their breath a lot or cannot take a deep satisfying deepest calm producing in-breath. Shallow breathing sets in like concrete and often stays for a lifetime. Nor can many speak out a protest or rebuttal or even an accolade.
The cause for these for many is in the way they breathe.
Thinking or reading about breathing will not change it.
Like chocolate it must be tasted.
It can not be taught but it can be learned.
Yes, our sense of what is most important is better mellowed or aged with time.
“The man who has a watch knows what time it is.
The man who has more than one watch is never sure.”
Stanley R. White.
My father.
Thank you, beloveds. So true! Serendipity is free and fluid, a delightful way to live. David, your photographs are absolutely breathtaking! – Karen
Occupying.
I am very thankful to have the two of you in my life. Hoping we can see each other soon!
As Mother Teresa loved to say, “The only real success is faithfulness.” To be faithful to this inner love is in itself the greatest success. It is of itself the possibility. No outer successes are necessary to be happy.
No words for the beauty of this piece. Peace.
Thanks you two, great message. I have been transformed by my new level and awareness of breathing just in the last few weeks. It has been life changing. Once again on the same page with seeming miles between us, yet no distance.
Sure do love dancing with you Sweeties,
Love,
Tashina
Hi David
Another piece about breathing. A shallow breath or breaths, i call Pigeon Breathing, does not supply the amount of oxygen to fuel the brain. When this occurs we automatically and unconsciously move into a fight or flight reaction that is based in safety and survival in our reptilian brain. This ancient reaction to oxygen depletion worked well in the days of the Saber tooth Tiger or when I had to take the NYC subway at rush hour. Unfortunately, most of us learned safety and survival breathing as a consequence of our childhood experience and continue that breathing patten as adults.
Well said David. Check out
http://www.breathing.com/articles/anxiety.htm
A great bit of Wisdom! Thank you both, I am breathing you both in. It reminds me of the house we shared in Mexico on Calle ‘Suspiros.’ This is a real gift. I am so proud of the work you do.
With love.
YES, YES, YES!!! Happy 2012 from all of my God Particles to all of your God Particles.
Arf, arf, lick lick!
Beautifully said and so gloriously true.
I love this post, you two!! I am sooooo pregnant with my future right now and it’s really helpful to have that metaphoric lens to view things with. There’s a move, a big turn in the road, and a whole new relationship with myself right in my face. Feels just like it did when I was pregnant for the 9th time (after 8 miscarriages) with my son and terrified that I’d lose him before he could be born…
I could change that story, couldn’t I? Thanks for the lens!!
Last night I dreamed I was a poodle, and woke myself up by licking my own face.
David and Susan;
This is great stuff! That small quiet voice that, more often than not, reminds us after the fact that we should have listened. Intuition grows by being attended to — it will dissolve from lack of attention, and then we are a captive of our ego mind, all of our conditioning, and worst of app, susceptible to ‘advice’ and opinion, and suggestion. Nobody can know what is best for us nor do our healing for us.
How do we learn to listen to “the right, true” voice? This is the learning, isn’t it?
Another route is “tracking” where we follow what the message and results are over a sustained time. I have noticed that my ‘intuition’ will announce itself through encountering repetitive patterns and experiences in both my thoughts and my outer world. For example, I will be thinking of a certain person, and the thought reoccurs. A little later, I will be led to a particular coffee shop, and minutes later, that person walks in the door, and we have a generative evolutionary conversation that stays with me for days. Oddly enough, the content of that conversation has been washing around in my mind, unfocused, and I now have the clarity that was missing. Our intuition works in many mysterious ways, always to our greater benefit. Isn’t that good news?
Thank you Jonathan. The intuitive voice we all have will show up in mysterious ways. And as you stated where our attention goes energy flows, so it’s time to listen to that valuable soul voice. Thank you for that great example. Your wisdom is a gift to us all.
I learned about my intuition in India. I was learning how to read tarot cards. I would look at them, and wait until I knew what to say. I soon learned that if I wait like this, the tarot reading would be hundred percent accurate. since then I have learned to trust my intuition. It shows up in unexpected ways, but if I obey it, it is always leads me correctly. Thus I now trust it completely, even though it may seem counter to what I “think” I should do. Where does it come from? I think it’s my higher power reaching me and helping me, guiding me, loving me.
I find intuition is a lot like mushroom hunting — the more I acknowledge each mushroom I encounter, the more show up! Its as if the ‘mushroom’ is showing itself because it is being seen. Which comes first doesn’t matter — it works. Our rational mind can have a similar dialogue with our intuition — complete with respect and deep mutual listening. Intuition thrives on this tender, nurturing care; being met with loving presence. When you take it seriously, intuition thrives and grows, but you cannot make it do ‘your’ bidding. Do your intuition a favor: buy it flowers, take it out to dinner and make love to it tonight!
“The Way Of The Samurai Is Found In Death, Be Determined And Advance”, having died 7 times to date, and going into a situation, where just the other day I was faced with my potential and possible last death, all I could say was “What A Wonderful Day To Die” !!!
Peace,
“Wally” Flavio Ghia
What a kind and beautiful introduction. Thank you, David and Susan.
Thank you for your wonderful perspective on making friends with death. Thinking about your provocative questions brought me into a feeling of freedom and ecstasy.
Susan and David,
Oh my gosh – what a great piece on living in the present! I personally had never thought of living in the present as a concept affecting BMR. This is fabulous and hopefully it is okay to share with my readers at Backdoor Survival.
Best,
Gaye
Hi Susan and David,
This is fabulous. I can get so daunted by what I think I have to do to lose weight that I don’t do much of anything. What a great way to work on not procrastinating, even if I don’t know exactly where to start. This made my day. I, too, never thought of time wharps as impacting my metabolic rate, and yet, it makes perfect sense.
Thank you.
This is beautiful David.
I love it…I hope you have posted it on facebook..
much love
Shayla
David…I just love that “Why do we over-eat? We are starving for our hearts and our spirits to come present and bring forth the change that we are longing for…” so true! I like the way you said that! Thanks. Andie
David and Susan, your words, below,
Sometimes we’re running a set of values that aren’t true to our core values. When that happens things get noisy inside and we can get lost in how we want to direct our lives. Life is living us and we can make ourselves physically sick.
speak powerfully to me and have created a profound awareness of too many important things in my life that i have not been attending to. Thank you for this expandable insight and invitation to pay attention…
love
z
Core values are the principals I choose to live by.
They are not the stories I tell myself in-order to control, manipulate and justify not being who I really am. They are not the wishes, waiting for’s and what if’s that serve the purpose of distracting me from the path of my souls journey.
They are foundation for love, integrity and connection to all things. They are the home base for the development of respect for self and the core values of others in order to develop functional interconnected relationships.
Here they are–pretty stable for the last 20 years:
1) Friends
2) Marriage relationship
3) Learning
4) Spiritual growth
5) Financial security
Thank you on this most auspicious day, for the clear love and wisdom.
“The alchemy (italicize) of a changing life is the only truth.”(Rumi)
Big Love to you both.
So happy for you both in your new way of life and living. We miss you both. Happy to have the opportunity to celebrate 12/21/12 with you both. Happy holidays to you and all the best for the year to come.
We love you guys!
Thinking of you both lots.
Love and Light
C+M+S
xo
We, your new friends in San Miguel, feel blessed that you have chosen to make our town your home. You bring a richness to our lives that is palpable and it is with open arms that we look forward to knowing you even better as time go by
Much love
Ruth
Beautiful essay! I love the idea of the heartbeat as a strange attractor. And your comment about “focusing into the space between the heartbeats and feeling his life there” reminds me of Bernstein (I think) saying that the most important part of music is the silence between the notes.
great post. irregular drumbeats create their own particular energy and direction, and can convey important messages. way to go!
Dear Susan and David,
Oh es, changes do that to our hearts. I have had major arrhythmia of my heart last summer when I traveled to Germany, 3 month of Bronchitis and both scared me so much. Now that I changed my life completely by moving from Telluride to San Anselmo my heart is fine again and I feel so healthy and fit as never before in my life. I lifted out of a deep depression by just changing my whole life. I still don’t know where I will live for the rest of my life and sometimes that unsettles me but most of the time I can relax into the Here Now knowing all I have to do is being open to where life takes me.
How is the Community living where you are?
Love, Ulli
It is sometimes easy to forget that we are all being impacted by the New Earth Frequency we are blessed to be in. How then could our hearts, the very core of who we are, not feel this? My heart also is shifting and skipping around, rather like a child after a long winter recluse, at last outside in the sun and delighted to be playing and alive! I can hear it saying, “Wow, what now?” How am I to be? All this light! Then I remember . ..all I have to do is listen, and ride the wave…You both are looking ever more radiant. Yahooooo!!
p.s. Love to you, Grace
I Love this article !
It gives us great insight to the changes that are occurring all around us.
The Heart is an amazing organ that is the center of our being. I believe
it has direct contact to our Soul and has the ability to Lift Our Spirits and Guide
us to that which fulfills our new collective Soul’s Agenda in our present space and time.
Abrazos de Luz,
Roger
Love Love pause Love Love Love pause Love Love …. Sounds good to me! Thanks for the tribute to change. pause Love, Jo
Hello David and Susan
Hope this finds you both well, enjoying the sun, and mellower existence.
So when I was 20, in college at Michigan State, a major party school I started to experience heart palpitations . Let’s see no sleep, drinking enough beer to float a boat, smoking enough pot to float the Hindenburg , I was incredulous that my heart would behave so, scared the shit out of me. I wondered if it had anything to do with my life style, ya think?
So a couple of months past and I was at home for summer break, dragging my ass around, depressed, freaked out, and my Cousin came up to me at the sink and said, ” what the hell’s wrong with you?” WTF do you think, my f@$king heart isn’t working right! To which he asked, ” well what’s the worst that could happen?” I stood slack jawed long enough that he answered his own question,” I’ll tell the worst that could happen, YOU COULD DIE, so what! you look like your dead already! ” And walked away.
I finished washing the dishes and decided I’d show him, I was going get on my bike and just end it all . A good hard ride ought to do it,. My heart was jumping all over the place, but miraculously I made home. Disappointed I got up the next day and decided to try again, still I didn’t die. Alright, I must not be riding hard enough, again and again I tried, but all that happened was my heart quite palpitating. I’ve been riding ever since and if someday I die on a ride it will be a great way/ day to leave. I know I would died a long time ago with the bike in my life. I thank my cousin for that lesson often.
And thank you both for all the great work you do!
Miss you guys
Much love,
Michael
This article would be top notch, except it ends in the word “sick.” How about rewriting the ending so it ends in the word, “healthy.”
Thanks Martin for the evolutionary feedback. We’ve added a new ending. “How about using our thoughts to evolve ourselves into greater health well being and vibrant joy.”
Yes!! Yes!!
Do we make our thoughts, do they make themselves, or do they arise in awareness, like swans that fly over a still lake with no intention of creating the reflection in the waters below? What is it that perceives these ‘thoughts and then assumes these thought forms belong to us? Is any thought ‘true?’ I have found that all my suffering is borne on the belief that a thought is true. Yet, we know that thoughts have their role in neuroplasticity, etc. Does this make them true? When we are truly at peace with what is, wellness can arise irresistibly from such clarity.
Timely reminder 😉 Hugs from C & Martin and Sacha-M
hummmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Sigh! ….breath ….oh my …and I guess you have always been “irregular”. Rememebr you have seen my heart so you already know what an “irregular” heart looks like.
Love you,
Tamara
Great set of tips, David (and Susan). Useful synopsis. I loved best the tip to “go blank”… oh how hard that is in our culture (especially as we age). And you’re right, something useful always comes after that conscious space. Thanks for sharing!!
What a tragedy to be able to see yet have no vision.
Helen Keller
Thanks for your wisdom always nice to hear what is coming through the two of you. I have to admit I am always wanting to see a beautiful pic of the two of you.. I miss your smiling hearts. Love to you both…
Tashina
Your post brings back great memories, Susan. You’ve shared a story of collaboration…thank you!
yes, Susan…It is so good to be able to ask for assistance, and to know that loving friends( and even many times just strangers) are open to be of help! I enjoyed your tale of the visa project, and I’m so happy that you were able to sigh and say “O.K., good,that’s wonderful”! I look forward to hugging you very soon…June 14!
Lola
We Are Not Hear To See Through Each Other.
We Are Hear To See Each Other Through.
The above was a saying from a close friends Quaker Grandmother. Things blooming in the Mountains, and patches of green are in Webber Canyon, need moisture. Life goes on in a Yogimbo state of mind.
Peace,
Wally
Beautiful, Susan! Thank you for your courageous vulnerability. Interesting that your Beloved, David, prompted you to ask for assistance. I teach my students to always ask assistance, and from their peers as well. Yet, I don’t even realize when I need the assistance. Thank you, Susan (and David).. This opens up my trusting heart even more. Now, honk of all the possibilities…!
So enlightening to read your story. We have just been wandered thru a similar “sharing” in our relationship and come to a realization that it’s OK to accept help when it’s offered. I love the analogy of ” assisted living”
Hola, dear Susan.
Thank you so much for recording the sweet heart-based details of the “beginning to the end” of your expedition. So beautifully written and beautifully honored.
And I’m remembering the times that you’ve assisted me in holding the support system that ensured the best outcome in my ever-evolving story.
What a joy to see it passed forward!!
XOXOJO
Susan. Lovely. Thank you. Reminds me of Jay (Perry) talking about the circle of generosity. Our receptivity completes the circle! Love you!
How very beautiful! Congratulations for navigating your challenging situation so brilliantly! I love living in assisted living! I love assisting and being assisted. It makes me feel so grateful for all the assists in my life and all the assisters, and especially for YOU beloveds!!!
Susan, what a journey it was to obtain your permanent visa. And your dear and understanding friend, Nancy, to be there for you and assist you in another live and living experience. I am so excited to see you and David this summer in San Miguel. Lots of love to you both! Kai
Hi Susan, and David. Thanks for your sharing. I love the context. It’s so very true that we are to live in assisted living with others. We sure have discovered that over the last year with our life journey through foreclosure and all that has entailed. Sure showed me how ‘alone’ I live. Working on this one each day now. Sounds like you are really enjoying Mexico. All the best, Barb and John, too.
Hola Susan and David!
Many thank yous’s for a great breakfast read this morning. Can I have this every morning? It’s the best news for a morning read!
She I read your first Assisted living post, I thought “how great!” And I felt more expansive. Now, I am also finding relationships here (SMA) in assistance AND as friends I thought I could never have. I always thought it was one or the other, but never both. I am excited to create this when I gat back to Boulder as well. Thank you for bringing this to my awareness again.
With much Gratitude,
Mignon
Thanks for this lovely story. For many years when we lived in Michigan, we had a lovely “assisted living community”. We had a ‘garage raising’ where the neighbors helped us build a 2 car garage. When our daughter had to go to the hospital for an emergency appendectomy, a friend and neighbor took our son, it was 2 AM. These lovely experiences have been less frequent in more recent years. Thanks for bringing it back to consciousness. It would be great to build this again.
And beyond the very vital community bonding, this is GREAT story-telling!! BUENISSIMO!! XOXOJO
What doesn’t kill us only makes us stronger!! How wonderful to have a platoon of friends to help out. And on the bright side – the floors are clean!! hope you are enjoying your new home
Love – Tena & Fred
Marvelous insights David! We must pay attention in any and every way we can. Russ
Touché’ David!
Beautifully spoken, your wisdom allays what has been left in me and my heart is singing! I am honored and thankful to know you, especially as a connected, creative, heartfilled, compassionate man!
I was labeled as well, held back in kindergarten and creativity was just plugged. It has taken a long time to unplug bit-by-bit the cork to allowing my creativity to flow. I am thankful I was not given drugs as well. Both “labels” have gifted me two obvious things: a keener sense of awareness of the more subtle and little things and scrambled words that come out as my soul shining it’s truth through. (Example: I had friends named Larry and Toni, but the names came out as Tarry and Lonely-absolute truths about them!)
Anyhow, thank you David and Susan for continually putting your wizdom(s) out there!
I love you both!
Mignon
David my brother,
Having been your neighbor, and observed your behavior and thought processes, I can only say that your ADD helped to form you as the wonderful and gentle soul you are.
Susan my sister,
You are the perfect compliment to David. Your voice of reason provides balance to the relationship and your youthful enthusiasm is a joy to behold.
I miss you both very much.
Beautiful deployment of Life-Loving Skills 🙂
You guys are the BEST! So happy you are settling into your delicious new home&family.
Thank you for your love and support of our dear Anya.
Was with both Anya and Paul at Wildcat—Julie and I camping at Hyatt Lake.
Thinking of you…always emanating Love and Gratitude when you are in my attention :))))))
Hallelujah *** *** *** and *** ** ** * Amen!
Perhaps the water broke in order to begin the delivery of new life. Xxxooo
Hi Susan and David,
I love your writing and the amazing photograph! Funny, I was just reading about “roots” in the “Untethered Soul”. Thank you for this entry and the next book I will read!
Much Love,
Mignon
Music is magic, and has bridged many worlds for me as well. Thanks for that beautiful story.
Russ
Dear D & S
This heartwarming story helped me to realize that I have yet to find MY instrument , with which to join the symphony of life!
Besos
J
wonderful post and photos. one of my few regrets is that i never learned to play a musical instrument, because i see the deep connection of people who play together, and the joy of people who come together to play
Loved your story and wish I had known about the concert. I am sending your link to my brother who certainly bridged worlds here in SMA with his music last winter and is returning for a longer gig this year.
Ruth
Thank you for sharing a stirring story and wonderful photos. Even though I don’t respond much, believe me, I am reading your stories and am inspired by them. Please send your healing energy to my husband Don. In addition to his Alzheimers, he just had cancer surgery on his right side face and neck. If his skin heals enough he will have radiation to give us more time. Love to you, Maria
What a perfectly lovely reminder. I so want to hear this fine band when I get up to SMA this winter. Sending love to you both.
Dear David and Susan,
With Sacha nearing 2 years now, It’s all about music. In his eyes, in our hearts, rhythms to move with and ebb and flow. I loved the story and it reminded me of something you had once told me about a music man visiting you when you where in and around Ashland (I think). The story is so inspiring that it emboldens me to move closer to learning an instrument so that I too may express and share in the delight of sound with other kindred spirits. Atuning alters alchemy. With Love and gratitude to your both, xoxo Carina
Thank you ever-present allies of healing, allies in love.
Wisdom Bits showers rays of blessings on all you reach out to touch.
I will move through this day filled with the energy of your blessing
Ruth
Those of us brought up in the North American culture of “Work ethics” need to read this, perhaps every day!
Thank you for the wisdom of sharing this.
Ruth
fabulous foto! and a much needed message for someone who came home late last night and worked til 2am. but i aspire to be a woman who loafs too much.
True words and thoughts!! We all need to be reminded of what we know in our hearts and souls to be true. We plan to take a day of sailing this weekend – put off way tto long. Miss you both.
this is the lesson one receives living in mexico. manana can make one crazy, but eventually we all succumb to the glory of saying that word from deep down inside 🙂
So true and a great reminder for both those who work outside the home as well as those who toil inside the home. Whether they are tele-workers or the stay-at-home parent in particular 🙂
Note to self: Paste David’s note on the fridge to remember to “freeze-frame” and breath once in a while, no matter what.
I think of you both often.
x
Carina from Nelson, BC
Ahh… so happy for you guys. And I didnt know that when my cat squints at me it is a sign of love!
Enjoy the new member of your family, I love the colour
Ruth
Yea! Squinty is a beautiful addition to the family.
Blessings
Welcome Squinty!! Jo and Precious (with a sincere meooow). xoxo
How beautiful! Thanks for crafting this blessing!
(BTW, this is Sue Kearney from the Heart of Business alumni forum).
Love and blessings,
Sue
Sweet…Yogi has another cousin. Can’t wait to meet that cutie pie.
love, love love…
Monty, the famous Boulder house feline, congratulates you on this wise choice…
JohnGray, says MEOW! Me,too! What a cutie. Welcome to your live little Budah! Have great fun! Much love, mutual feline lovers, Mignon and Dene and the gang.
A gardener of truth…what a glorious image!
Muchismo gracias, y bien viaje!
J
Sooo nicely sung! xoxojo
Hey Friends,
That was an awesome share, thank you. I feel the soft breeze on my face, the warm sun on my body and the sweetest ocean smells all around me. Fear is being loved here.
Loved the pic too.Sure looks like great fun!
Hey Thanks
David looks ten feel tall
Lofe
Tuth
How timely! Just came out of the doubt/fear bath into your amazing love light! Thank you, and for the love warming picture!
Love you two!
Mignon
Hello my dears –There are no coincidences! Have just come back from vacation where I repeatedly exceeded my fear boundaries and was grateful every second. Now, back sitting at my desk, your message has reminded me to keep pressing on the fear-based limits in my “everyday” life in Philly. Love you, xxxxx Ka
What a relief, and a moment of calm to read your words! Such a blessing to be reminded of the truly important things in life. There will ALWAYS be more to do …. but one day you will no longer have a chance to BE.
Thankyou for the reminder !
Ann (also from Heart of Business AC 😉
A loving hello to everyone who’s given way to fear and felt Stupid.
You are not alone! LOL Judgement of ourselves creates a sense of fear of not being accepted or possibly even rejected, or negatively judged by others of how we look, or what it is we have said, done or ???? A state of mind that is “earthbound,” (limited), and usually kept within to fester and rob of of our true nature. Thanks to Susan and David bringing “Stupid” to light allows us to understand that love of self and the innate and eternal knowing of unconditional love, sheds this dark negativity of a learned/taught “earth bound” thought. We are all unique let’s rejoice in our awakening to unconditional love and acceptance. Thanks to the both of you for bringing this into the light. Always in Light and Love, C
Perfect; thank you.
z
I love the image of a “word with big teeth.” Gorgeous.
Unabashed strength. Fierceness. There is no question here. Only warrior. Of light.
Thank you for such modeling.
Love this. I felt a warm bubble of something loving birthing in my heart as I was reading and as I write these words to you both in gratitude. What is this mysterious feeling gripping my center. It feels both painful (like a stretch that releases something that is ready to leave) and freeing. Yes, this feels deeply loving and non judging on the inside. I also feel peaceful. This wisdom prescription brings peace to my heart. Aaaaah! I do not need to have “all the answers” at “all times”. I am not responsible for all solution finding. Not holding the space for all these “have to do things” does not make me stupid or lazy. I now have a renewed permission to “be” instead of just “do”. Time for space to bring in light. Hugs to you both. C in Nelson
Yep! My thoughts, too! Trained that I “should know”. “Not knowing” was “stupid”. Yes, it keeps one down into shame. No, this N. American culture does not allow for wisdom to enter in each “not knowing” moment. Yes, it trains us to enslave ourselves getting logical answers from someone else rather than allowing of our own timing. Thank you for this. Wonderful. Much Live to you 3. Mignon
I am most alive when I venture into the unknown. There is so much to discover on our magnificant Mother Earth……that I often can’t wait to wake up and see what life has in store for me. It does get scary at times, but you can never go back….at least for long.
Thanks for venturing into such a great topic. Wandering Wayne
Thank you for continually opening doors to fresh and new reality continuously unfolding into greater and greater magnificence. We are deeply blessed!
Finally read this today. Perfect timing!
Allowing the unfolding and the
Big line for me “Give space to time”!
Thank you! As usual, magnificent work!
Oh darlings, you’ve done it again! Touched my heart with unutterable bliss! As I read every line, I think, “Yes, yes, YES! Thank you for your fiber optic cable of light transmitting a blast of love right to me! xoxoxoxo
another lively and insightful piece. ppropriately provocative xo
Good one. Very true. It takes a lot of energy to sustain a lie or deception. The hardest part of it for me is to be true to myself, and not try to talk myself into things the way they “should” be. So I’ll make the commitment to watch for this with myself
Thanks David and Susan.
many thanks for yet another nudgy nugget of awareness. xo
Thank you for articulating my heart. I am with you. Big Love.
Before enlightenment, chop food carry water; after enlightenment, chop food carry water. Juicy love to you on your transformational journey. xoxoxo
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and pictures as you explore the beautify of this country we call “Home”
Be safe, be well
Ruth
Thank you both for the unconditional love. We are so blessed to have you in our lives.
Your vibrations touch us all.
Blessings! In much love, Cynda
Sharing your viaje makes my heart sing. Mil gracias!
Thank you for sharing your journey and sacred holding of us all.
Your courage of heart , body and spirit is supported in great love.
So good to see your shining faces. My heart is with you as you continue this voyage of discovery.
Oh, so wonderful to see your pictures of Chiapas! I explored Chiapas, Oaxaca and so many amazing places in Mexico back in the early ’70s. Your pictures bring that magical time back into present-time awareness!
another thoughful, provocative post. does this mean i don’t gotta go back to work?
Namaste.
Again, thanks!
Hello Dear Friends,
i enjoy were you two point me each month. It is a treat to get your new waves of thought and inspiration, they are so creative and offer the opportunity to change my game …fun!
Tony Robbins taught 7 basic human needs. One was uncertainty and another of the 7 was certainty. This moment I am certain of my love for you two.
Love sailing on this earth ship together.
In gratitude,
Tashina
This is an invaluable piece of writing that needs to be practiced as prayer!
LY both
J
How wonderful, you two! This is my favorite picture of you. You are so sparkly, smiley and alive here. I love your sharings! How perfect! How many people really know there is a choice out there? Or they have the power? Great for you! And have fun!
Love,
Blanca
Can’t wait to see you in Colorado! Looking forward to the dates to be sure I will be here when you are!
Hola! Susan and David!
We must be riding tandem, here! Thank you for revisiting the word “ignorant”. It was used as a judgement to shame people in my family and still is by one member. Anyhow, I have been working hard to not let agendas and “shoulds” take over my healing since my fall. In this process I have had to release all the hats I have worn that defined me. In the untangling I lay vulnerable, open and allowing of the unfoldment of my heart’s truth. Up until now, the “I should know”, “I should or have to”, often took me away from my hearts’ wisdom and what is true for me. I thank you so much for this reflection. It deepens my work and frees me more! Looking forward to your declaration!
Love,
Blanca
Susanna & David
Yes indeed. I believe you are at “the heart of the matter” in clarifying true wisdom. We are so much more than our intellectual functioning, for we have a number of “centers of intelligence” within our human body and our larger energetic body. To embrace uncertainty or not knowing is to release the belief that knowing exists between the ears. To trust the non-rational in us as a source of deep understanding is to come into our wisdom. Thank you both for illuminating something so simple yet so profound.
Dene Maria Sebastiana
Ah! Love these pieces. What a beautiful job you two have done here! Please keep going! I sent this on to family who will be coming to San Miguel and friends as well. I received appreciative comments of how valuable this is for them, especially before they come. I had heard Warren in his class, but to see it again in your video, opens my heart and appreciation more for the people here. I feel like it is an invitation to be “in” and “a part of” the culture, not just “visiting”. Much Love and hank you, again!
Blanca
This video will be such a gift to anyone living in Mexico or planning to visit this wonderful country that is so different from the US. The message is simple, yet profound… and learning and using these few wonderful phrases when in Mexico will enhance not only the expat or visitors experience, but honor our Mexican neighbors as well. I will be forwarding the video to many of my friends, both in Mexico and in the states.
A great mantra or creed by which to guide my everyday thoughts and actions!
Muchismo gracias!
J
Bravo Susan and David.
I think in words, which causes me to struggle with concepts that those who think with their feelings easily embrace. Speaking for those poor schmucks like me who are constrained by this limitation, I say Thank You for wrapping the concept in words for us. With your help, I Get It.
Great job packing!!! ‘m amazed at what you did pack on the bike. Looks like a gloreous trip so far. We’ve been reflecting on all of the many wonderful meals and friendships of our Mexico adventure. David – one of the most memorable “flavors” for me were your roasted portobellas..when you have your next free moment would love your recipe.
We hope your US adventure continues to be successful and fulfilling for everyone, and that it might include Phoenix.
Our best to you and the journey- Love -Fred & Tena
WOW!!! I love your new bike…..even gave me a thrill chill. It is so wonderful seeing you…as David says, “Living life broadly, deeply……” I am looking forward to the next exciting episode of ‘The Living Adventures of Susan and David’. Thanks for including me……….Well-Meaning Wayne
Lovely to get your first posting and the pictures. You two look like you are ready for a trip to Mars with all that gear on. Missing your vibrations in San Miguel
Ruth
Hey, you two! Loved hearing from you! what an amazing adventure! My heart “sings” to your sharing. Unraveling from the spin cycle, coming to my intuitive body timing here in San Miguel. Remembering and “great-filled” with the whole being that resides in this “miraculous” body machine. Your words are profound to me as the energy penetrates my being. Thank you and more…
What a beast of a traveling machine! You too look awesome and Alive!
Have great joy and fun travels!
Love,
Blanca
Thank you for this beautiful and loving message.
I breathed in the fragrance of your words. . A true fragrance filled my senses. This inspirational message came to me in synchronicity and love. Thank you to all.
Thank you for naming the blessing that is death and our potential to embrace it in new and “unreasonable” ways. I come to you via Susan and Grace. Connected Im sure in the field that holds us all.
The every day chores, the business of wanting to accomplish to much, some times makes me forget to be aware about the beauty, the love, the compassion, the kindness and the small wonderful things that makes this a wonderful wold.
You got me back on track. Thank you for the reminder and the love. I receive it and send it back to where it came from,multiplied.
A first reading in silence brought tears throughout. I will reread and peel that sweet onion;) Thank you for the blessings.
AT the third reading, now in a whispering voice. No more tears, more understanding, more openness to receive. Process engaged:)
Gratitude.
Yes, I surrender beyond reason to be the flowing love, and be the beloved. Thank you for modeling it. May you return with ease and Grace.
How beautiful and perfect this message is! My old me went into terror of being “left behind” when my partner left on a visit. This is so comforting. Thank you!
The Source of All that Is constantly brings me messages like this at times I really need to hear them. It is great knowing I am not alone. thank you for allowing Spirit to work through you.
Dear Ones. As always, the timing of the message could not have been more perfect. I am reminded of a line from a David Whyte poem, ‘Anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.’ Amen. I deeply embrace these words and the invitation from allies seen and unseen. So much gratitude for the inspiration. Much love to you!
Beloveds, this is who you are and who we are, living in the delight of Spirit moving in and through us, Being Us! Thank you for this beautiful inspiring message.
What a beautiful message!!
I was reminded of my invisible allies just the other day while visiting a friend. We were sitting in her garden filled with large leaf, low to the ground, shrubs that moved without a hint of wind. “Ahhh, I said to my friend, the nature spirits are playful today. The gnomes sure love to run in and out from underneath those large leaves.”
We are truly blessed by our allies, indeed!
WOW! Breaking of the limited prison, and trusting the expansion to the unlimited possibilities!! Gratitude to the Allies , David, and Susan. Love you.
Oh, thank you, dears. I watch this mind alternate between courage-ing and cowering…as I “plan” for my upcoming journey to Tanzania. No-thing is clear about it. All I can “pack” is love, light and courage.
Thanks for the re-minder!
welcome home travelers. I sounds like it was a wonderful trip with many significant gatherings and contacts
Hooray
I celebrate the taste of truth and freedom you point toward.
Rise up!!
Many bows and deep smiles,
Anne
Dear beloveds, we are taking in a deep breath of LOVE and FREEDOM! Thank you for blessing our home for five spectacular days! We were delighted to be the place of culmination of your U.S. journey. Blessings upon blessings to you both! Eternal love, K&W
Thank You Both! Thank You; Thank you! There are just NO words to appropriately express how heart felt your presence Is; and how it resenaited so deeply into my Being! I heard every word and felt them even more. Bless you both for hearing the call and following with such open hearts and grace giving us all so much hope for our future. These blessings bring tears of joy, acknowledgement, knowing and motivation to BE and Bring forth! I am forever grateful I took the time that night to BE right there! Thank You Akiva! Blessings to each of you ~ Ah Ho ~ Namaste
Erin Ann BirdWoman
Thank you Birdwoman,
It was so powerful for both of us to be with all who were gathered.
thank you so much for your heartfelt presence. We look forward to seeing you on our next trip through.
POWERFUL DECLARATION BRANDED WITH FIRE IN THE HEART AND MIND. EXPANDING TO THE LIMITLESS OF CONSCIOUSNESS. THANK YOU.
I breathe this in and breathe out. And my spirit still moves, aligning, awakening sleepy parts. Beautiful! Powerful!
With much gratitude and Love,
Blanca
What a sweet and proud looking family! Muchas gracias Susan and Davis! Felize nueve anuo!
Love,
Blanca
My heart is on overwhelm bursting tears of love for the Virgin, and your story of choosing love over fear and the communitizing of gringos and the Mexican people because of it. Thank you so much, you too!
Abrazos and Love,
Blanca
We need to send your message of choosing Love over Fear to the world To Syria, to the Ukraine, Iraq, Yeman, and to all those who those who own guns to “protect” themselves, this world where Fear dominates. I hope one day all the people of the world will dance together rather than fight, as you chose to do with you Mexican neighbors. BRAVO!
Ruth
The wall looks beautiful,and all the neighbors workng on it prove to us all that the spirit of togethernes
and cooperation could prove to be the the ultimate solution to the world’s tragedies..
I admire you both for this thoughtful loving gft to the community.
Lola
Nicely done. Congratulations!
Dear Susan and David,
What a blessing it was to read of this act of love you performed. We all do have the capacity to do this very thing in our lives and will be given opportunities to ‘ come from love rather than fear ‘.
I wept when I read your story and how it has unfolded. I believe that everything that I think an do in my world has an impact in the greater world…and so my goal is to reside in peace and extend love when ever given the opportunity.
Love, light and blessings to you my dear ones,
Jean (tompahma-woman who walks with the apples)
Wow! I am deeply touched by your beautiful story. What a difference we can make in our communities, our world, when we respond from a place of LOVE! Thank You so much for sharing this story. I love you.
Queridos de Paz y Amor, Deep thanks for anchoring this sacred image within your community. The resonance
moves outward and on outward to transform our planet into a safe home for all Beings.
We’re all gathered in this together!! Jo, in gratitude … .. ..
David and Susan, I love the courageous, inspired choice. Synchronistically, I am learning this path as I walk it too a world away. I am liking the good company on the journey. xo
A wonderful example of multi-national interaction and cultural integration.
Susan and Davis,
So thankful to be a part of both your journey and your father’s as well, Susan.
Yeaayee for love winning out, and dying in style.
I love you two! See you soon!
Love and blessings,
Blanca
Dorothy clicked her heels 3 times to go back to KS. Your dad’s 3 taps may have also meant he was ready to go home
Dear Susan:
In the short period and brief moments that I shared with your dad, he struck me as a very kind, decent and caring man.
Your writing is a lovely rememberance of a life and death beautifully lived.
I am very sorry for your loss but so glad you had such a wonderful relationship with your father.
Susan, thank you for touching us with your personal reflection of your dad. I love imagining him making those phone calls and writing his last emails. How poignant, beautfiul and inspiring. I send you tenderness, love and light in your loss.
Susan, Thanks for sharing the process of your dad’s passing and of your relationship with him. I’m glad that his life ended the way he wanted. I’ll never forget his interest in me as a young teacher at NSCDS. His involvement with those there helped make the school a special place, and I have fond memories of him and of each member of his family. My condolences.
Lew Davis
Relationships evolve when conflicts resolve, and love shines through each being. Thank you David & Susan for showing us all. I look forward to seeing you soon.
Love always …
Dene
I am so grateful that all’of you were surrounded by the love, compassion and strength that each one of us has encountered in working with, and knowing both of you!
Hasta pronto!
J
Love and blessings to you and all the family, dear Susan.
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Dear Susan, I am sorry to hear of this sad news. I have been thinking about you and Jessa and Shelley since Joel wrote me. I remember the gatherings and all the nice things I heard about your dad and his love for family. I always looked forward to the Christmas cards and the family pictures every year to see everyone. I know you will hold on to all the love and good memories. I send you hugs and much love. Shaida
dear susan and david. dying in style is a complex recipe, and your dad had what it takes. hope you are doing well. looking forward to see you after you return on sunday tap tap tap lulu
Susan,
Very nice reflection. I didn’t know Don real well but he certainly made an impact on me the short time we spent together buying wine and at dinner two years ago.
Be well, say “hey” to D and advise should you need help with anything in SMA.
Looking forward to seeing you two soon.
Love,
C
Hi Susan & David,
What a precious time for you to be able to have that time with your Dad, Susan. So happy you had those beautiful moments and appreciations of one another and the love that was at the foundation of your relationship. A very special gift, and a beautiful modeling of appreciation and gratitude on his part. Thanks for sharing this tidbit of your time with him!
Definitely inspiring, and if I can live my life with that gratitude and appreciation daily, I know my exit from this stage of life will be graceful.
lots of love,
Shady
Dear Susan and David, Such a lovely tribute to your father. Thank you for sharing your heartfelt journey so beautifully. John and I are sending you much love for your journey.
Dear Susan & David
You are the gift of your fathers life. Always remember that in your Being and in your Soul.
Many Blessings to You and David during this time of letting go and reconnecting.
Susan and David- so sorry for your loss. It is wonderful that you were able to spend that time with your Dad and family and say a proper goodbye. I know you will miss him very much, you valued your time with him. I’ve always enjoyed your stores of growing up and traveling with your Dad as well as the valued lessons you received from him. I’m sorry we never met, he sounded like a wonderful man to know.
I’m so very sorry for the loss of your father, Susan…but what a wonderful gift for you all to be so conscious and present to the birthing process that is death. Your father will always be near through the power of the love you shared…3 taps and he’ll be there.
Dear Susan and David
Sorry to hear your dad has passed away. My heart goes out to you and your family. Happy you had a special and loving time at the end. Tap tap tap always xx
Few things give me as much pleasure as reading an account of a kind person, written by a kind person. The glow is infectious. Thank you.
Susan and David thanks so much for sharing this experience …my Dad has been critically ill since the 2nd week of Feburary. It is a roller coaster ….he is now in an acute nursing center trying to get strong enough to go home and spend his last days there with family. Sending you love and thanks.
Who could ask for anything more, at the end of a long life, than to die in style surrounded by a loving family?
How blessed was your Dad and the whole family to have shared this beautiful experience. As the author of Harry Potter said :death to the well organized mind is the begining of another new adventure” He leaves behind a great legacy.and his last act was the greatest of all.
Love to all, Susan, David, Jane and the grandchildren
Ruth Hayward
Beloved Susan and David, thank you for sharing the precious time you had with Susan’s father. I know that love space so well. I was honored to experience it with my mother when she passed. What a blessing you all were to each other. Love is All There Is. Tap, tap tap always and ever from Walter and Karen
Thank you dear Susan for including me in this precious experience with your father and family. What a beautiful gift you received. I so appreciate your dad’s style and the last days you had with him. You are truly blessed. I can only imagine what this might be with my mother or father. My heart is deeply touched. Three taps to you sweet friends.
XO,
Tashina
What an incredible gift he has given you! I am so glad that you and David were able to share in this experience of both sadness and joy wonderfully entwined!
Dearest Susan and David,
We continue to send Love and Light to You, your Dad…
Family … and Extended Family.
The Profound Dignity, integrity and Love
We All have Witnessed
To and Through your Father’s Passing and Your Care
Is a Demonstration of Grace and Generosity of Spirit
That Touches us So Deeply and Profoundly…
And Serves Both as a Sanctuary of Spirit…
And a Living Lesson ….
That Touches Our Hearts
With an Unshakable Enduring Gentle Strength…
A Perfect, Ever-Present and Ever- Lasting Gift.
Blessings Upon Blessings to Your Father, You and Family. . Tap, Tap Tap to Us All…Now and World Without End….
John and Cecilia
So inspirational…having a good relationship with death can help us to live more fully. Thank you for sharing such a personal part of your life. Much love to you both!
Emily (from Troncones)!
I also experienced that total overwhelming open hearted and loving face presence on the four occasions I spent time with enlightened yogis at the Oneness Movement center in India. Overpowering. Yet, when most of us get back into all the stresses of daily life, it’s difficult to hold on to.
So when I first met David about 7 weeks ago I recognized him as being very connected to that love, which is a universal force regardless of what beliefs your mind tries to hold. Because of their trip to Don’s I had to wait over a month for an important appointment with him that regarded a close relationship and my physical reaction to it.
David’s face during the entire ‘healing’ was transformative. He was just as light, loving, astute, tuned in to spirit, and directed by love as the yogis had been. I get around spiritual circles in San Miguel and in Western Massachusetts and even New York City and have never run into this love since India. My symptoms waned the very next day and I won’t consider going to another healer. Thank you David for all your orientation to love and for sharing it with us.
Beautiful story. Thank you for sharing your experience.
Love,
Hannah
Hello David,
Thank you for sharing this very intimate experience with us.
What a gift to everyone that Don was able to be so present in his last days to celebrate who he was to those that knew and loved him…and to himself to experience the full extent of his living in this life before leaving.
Towards the end of my mother’s life she and I agreed to ‘agree to disagree’ on many topics over which had previously been a thorn between us and had created a space of separation. This was a place of honor that I was being asked to hold myself, my thoughts, my differences so that I can truly join her from a heart space.
When I joined her to be with her for her last day…I realized what a privilege it was to be with her in this sacred time and space. To say ‘goodbye’ in a thousand different ways over the period of a thousand moments was such a gift. I talked, read, held her hand, sang and prayed and sat silent by her side. She was still alert but could not talk as she had a ventilator in her mouth. Even through she did not express herself verbally she was very expressive in her eyes and spirit. I was so blessed to have been by her side to offer any comfort to her. In her final moments she was alert and tapping her finger against the hospital bed railing.
I will always hold this experience of BEING PRESENT with my mother until the end of her life. It was measurable a very small gift to have given her after all that she had given to me over my lifetime.
Thank you for the reminder that the presence of LOVE overcomes any barriers to our joining on another.
Love and blessings in this new moon…planting prayers and dreams to blossom and grow. Seeds will have to wait as we are having a snowstorm today in the Colorado mountains.
Blessings to you and Susan and to her mom Jane in this time of loss.
Jean (tompahma-woman who walks with the apples) Owen
David and Susan
What a deeply loving tribute of sharing such a moving experience of Life and its eternal nature beyond the body.
Thank for such a beautiful story of love.
Blessings to you both – Susan for carrying the love forward directly from the human Source that brought you here, and to David for bearing the Light forward to us all to know this wisdom of Love and how it can be.
John T Emerson, DC
I feel at-one-ment with your gracious sharing. Much love, many blessings and a big thank you!
Love, Blanca
Thank you so much, beloveds, for sharing your love-filled experience in the heart space in Donald’s transition. What an honor to be able to be conscious in that high vibration through it all, to touch and be touched intimately in each other’s hearts! I had that blessed privilege too, with my mother when she passed, to be at one in the heart space, eternally present in love. And as you said, it doesn’t go away, we get to keep it forevermore!
Eternal love in the heart space from Walter and Karen
David, I just finished reading your touching words regarding Don Perkin’s passing in your arms and into a new place. As I read the end I felt a slight cool burst of air on my arms and a lump in my throat as your beautiful words described this very personal and heartfelt sharing of hearts and soul. Thank you so much for sharing a touching experience with Susan’s dad. He was a remarkable man and you are all the better for knowing him.
My best to you and Susan.
Any chance you you will be in Phx anytime soon. Richard and I miss you both.
Kai
Dear avid and Susan
Your touching tribute to Don brought tears to my eyes. In the photos of his last days he looks very much “alive.”. Thank you for sharing this experience with us all. As we all come closer to death, stories like this make it seem like an adventure to look forward to.
With love
Ruth ..
“Even when there seems to be great difference, there is always the common ground of the heart.”
Indeed. May it always be so. And may we always have the courage and grace to find our way there.
Thank you, David and Susan.
Much Loving,
Susan
This sharing is so utterly honest and beautiful, David. If one of the great gifts that Don gave you was to absolutely learn to follow the promptings of your heart and not the noise in your mind, then I would say that the student has become a master at similarly teaching, modeling and gifting. As I learn evermore to make friends with death, I see you and Susan as beacons for the possibility that a surrender into grace with love leading the way is indeed possible. I am so deeply touched by this piece, and am so grateful to both of you. Much love, A
David and Susan,
I am totally new toy your side and work,and I am very connected to something here,
I was lead to a church in Summit Nj , where Dominican Nuns worship and pray and live. I had a small miracle having there, it was a day ago,and somehow this connection is art of it , I awed my intuition to guise me and followed a stranger , a sweet holy won need Mary, tooth’s church( we connected at the A& P in New Providence, I saw the tags on her neck of the holy mother and commented and then off were were in cars to this church, and while there I felt a drawn toward a side nave and there was the same image of Guadalupe, only as a mosaic,!
Thank you for posting this, it speaks volumes!
I take from this beautiful story of non- violent communication and compassionate action, i receive the heart of it into my own mind and heart, , to seek to respond habitually from love rather than fear.I am noticing the difference. I would lime visit Miguel De Allende one day and share intuitive Touch Drawing with all of you!
I have watched a few of your You Tubes,they really grab me .
I look forward to meeting you and Susan ,and others !
In gratitude and celebrations of spring !
and the Blessed Guadalupe!
Linda H
ps Do you know the poem Kindness By Naomi Sahib Nye , and Breathing the Water by Denise Levertov
Dear Susan and David,
Perfect! Just what I needed today! Yesterday was a trip of “to do’s”. I felt flat, like cardboard. Today is a day of infinite journeys inside and out. I am so deepened by your sharing. The Luis Vuitton commercial visuals and music brought me even deeper into the precipice of unknowing today. Forever grateful for your intro. and timing!
Love,
Blanca
In every moment, and all we need to do is be there. Thank you for the beautiful awakening moment.
Love to you both …
Dene
A lovely story, well crafted and deeply moving … not real sure about its applicability, as it very personal.
I took the time when my mind was fresh to submerge myself into this story. What imagery. What grief and gratitude I felt as I rode with and as her. Truly I thank you, for sharing such a precious gem. I will be listening again and again! Great story telling! A real soul feeder.
Love,
Blanca
Your interview, this interactive moment in creation was simply glorious. Thank you so much, David, Susan and Dr. Miller
Great love, Jo
Oh my gosh! I have the chills, my hair is all standing on end and my heart is still opening deeper and deeper! To hear what you two do together was incredible! Major transmission coming through! Keep it up! Hearing Emmett and David so alive in conversation is a real lifter. Feel more appreciation for life and you all. Thank you for being here and opening up.
Love,
Blanca
Susan and David,
How beautiful! I feel like you have been on my journey with me!
I feel more rooted in who I am and my truth. All the things I have garnered from outside me, I am now asking consciously and consistently “is this correct for me?” Habits are leaving, unsheathing whom I really am. I trust my wisdom far more than I ever have. The main piece I learned from my travel is “health begins with truth.” There is no hiding, stuffing or brushing it aside. Only looking, at it straight on and feeling it in its entirety in each moment as possible, it is unthinkable any other way. Thank you for your sharing and the space to share back!
Love to you, two!
Blanca
Wow, so good to be with you all in Nelson — thanks for connecting me with the ‘Team.’ Their guidance continues to be impeccable (so says this humble magnificent worm)! Domestication is vastly over-rated. Love you both,
Jonathan
As the days pass, since I was with you….I realize the freedom I now feel ! The stories I lived as I tried to fulfill my family conditioning are gone. The guilt that was my attempt to survive these patterns is gone. I am so blessed to have had this experience and so very grateful. Thank you !!!
Beautiful! Susan and David! Beautiful! And the picture too!
So many times I feel like in my buzz-“I”-ness I leave my soul out, just hanging there, waiting to be included. Sometimes I feel like it is like leaving home with that nigling feeling I forgot something but not able to place what it is. I have learned to ask myself about EVERYTHING! And wait to listen for that deep knowing which comes in a few forms, but one, my body will respond in a “yeas, no” answer. If I am out too long or into conversation too long I feel like an excited kid who in her curiosity lost sight of “mom”. I also noticed when I am feeling weak, or my voice gets really quiet, it is not a place I am to be in, or a conversation I am to speak in or about. When my energy is strong, I am in the right direction. And reading this blog and the stories again and knowing of your offering to Mexican residencers is exciting. Thank you for continually putting your great wisdom out there and sharing your amazing insights!
Love,
Blanca
Beautifully written … yes, there is a deep hunger, a longing for some more authentic connection. It is often mistaken for something OUTSIDE ourselves, but that hunger is for a homecoming, a coming home to ourselves on the INSIDE.
Susan and David,
Absolutely loved the first part of your interview! I smiled the whole time! You both looked so sparkly, clear and right on. I also sensed how comfortable and relaxed you were. I had heard some of your stories before, but to hear them side by side made quite an impact! Looking forward to Tuesday!
Much, Much Love,
Blanca
Hear, hear. Yes, thank you. I have been so drawn to stillness recently. To just sit still, in the quiet and the dark. Thank you for this sweet reminder as to why. Hallelujah.
Spot on for me, Susan and David! Thank you! I have more trust in being, open and allowing answers or just great wisdom to flow through me. i seem to feel less tension in the space and grace of not knowing. Even a calm, as if being cradled in the stream, the flow.of life. Thank you!
Dearest beloveds, we join you in blissful, vibrant thriving. Although we miss your physical presence, we share the eternal lovespace with you. All our love is all ways with you! Karen & Walter
‘When you feel yourself grasping, seeking the answer you believe you must have, STOP. Bring everything around you to a full stop. Notice in the stopping the stillness.’ Only words of gratitude to you both today for being the voices of clarity amidst the din. Only gratitude – and a soft smile for you both – in this moment.
Love, love, love it! Thank you, you two and the all. The two lines that really spoke to me were:
I am alive in the greatness of life beyond all the noise in my mind.
I am love thickened into this body.
I sometimes feel like I am in a nightmare with all that can go around in my head. This affirming is so expansive when I say it, that my head feels emptied out. Thank you!
My body feels so much happier claiming that “I am love thickened in this body.” I feel upgraded and tingly all over!
Thank you again!
With much, much Love to you
Mignon
4/2/2015 download after meditation
A day after my celebration of my 29th year of sobriety from drugs and alcohol…the trappings of an addictive mind…this message, rather this gift came into my awareness. Even though I still acknowledge April 1st, 1986 as a turning point in my spiritual journey, I no longer feel comfortable affirming the statement when recognizing myself as a recovering addict using the preface of ‘I Am’ Jean, alcoholic. I Am so much more than this…and no longer wish to be limited by this scar on my soul’s journey. Instead what my soul wants me to affirm is:
I Am…Magnetic harmonic realm wanderer with attraction to light and healing.
My angel, Ariel, guides me to my frequential wisdom in myself and held in crystals.
Love is all there is. I follow sound and light, harmonics to a higher octave. Waking dreamtime listening to Solara.
I Am…Lightworker, walking in trust 11/11…trusting…time traveling…entering portalsto higher level of consciousness.
I Am…responsible co-creator following the The Sacred Geometry within my Sacred Mind…the Quietness and Presence, Deep communication with Self. Awakened Pilgrim to Prime Source.
I Am
Thank you,I enjoyed all of your offerings, it especially ” what can I invent today?Maybe inventing the choice of wanting peace more than other things is a worthy goal?
I value the rest of the questions!
Questions can redirect habitual thinking that isn’t as productive like worry or doubts.
It’s the questions that lead to better choices and unlocks creativity for me, the innate curiosity.
I’m noticing that thoughts have vibrations and the “noise ‘ in my head or mind can really scramble the flow of car creative expression in disorienting ways.Just saying the words ” I am bathed in love now ” can be imp red to when take a shower too!
Love it! Heartfelt thanks! Good awakening!.
Love to you two!
Mignon
Hello Dear David and Susan,for you
As I read your note I realized I was home waiting for a call from my auto mechanic to see what’s wrong with my car. I am not sitting waiting, but none-the-less I do feel I have suspended my activities until I hear from them.
It’s my day off and I have so much I can do around the house…to make my next day off a better one.
Thanks for our continued inspirations!
Jean Owen
Hi DearOnes! Totally beautiful expression and I’m with you in it now doing the xoxoxo dance.
Good Stuff! nice to have these reminders to be present and loving of our time and energy and make the most of it! Blessings to you… and Love…
Thanks for this post. Hits home for me….. waiting for love or someone to travel with or waiting for enough money to do whatever I want without financial worries…. I’m getting with it this year. Thanks so much for your great love and support. Hope to see you soon in sunny Mexico or later in Portlandia.
DK
Hi Susan and David, so good to feel into this, thank you <3
Hi Jackie
Your feeling intelligence is really wise.
Thanks for being in Sync with us and being part of the living evolution each of us is. Love, Susan and David
Seeking indicates that we are incomplete, we have to be improved, we are not yet there. Contentment is the experience of who we really are and always have been. Complete. We are as the source created us, lovely (love) in every way. We have not changed, just our perception of ourselves changed and grew to limit us in our thinking. Contentment is the releasing of that perception, the release of the breath wwe have been holding, confining, the expansion of the self.
Indeed it is a receiving, an opening to experiencing our true self, our true condition. It is a moment of deep love of everything including the self.
Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
Hi Judy,
Your words are a crystal clear bell of truth. The well of knowledge you are speaking from is so deep and pure and we are nurtured by your presence in our lives. Your reference to sacred breath is a delicious invitation not to hold back the sacred that is just waiting to pop into aliveness with every breath we take. Thank you for your commitment to evolve beyond any limitation, any shackle that’s been put upon you. YOu are an inspiration to us and we know many others. love, Susan and David
Dear David and Susan, You are so missed!!! Yet I am sensing such joy in your time with no time.
Gratefully, I am feeling so much the same. There are so many moments of joy, contentment, and actually a feeling that time does not exist? all time seems the same !!! ( this is not a mental concept, just a peace as if all is perfect and this moment is all there is??) Actually, this is a blessed space…after months of thinking my mind was failing, short term memory loss, and lessons to face. I finally feel all is perfect just as it is. Everything seems so much softer? Joining you in contentment…and joy!!! may you be blessed, and know that you are loved…and missed!! with much respect, and love..Linda
HI Linda,
Our hearts are smiling.
Thanks for missing us. We miss you too. You are a great explorer of acceptance. Your description of the mysterious vagaries of living in a human body as it continues ‘to mature’ is a great reminder to be in a state of wonder. The softness you describe is really the Living Place we can rest in. See you soon in March.
Love David and Susan
Several weeks ago Isabel and I started talking about the #1 feeling we want in out lives… and it was to simply be content. So, we have been hanging out remembering to keep being content, and have found that living in the space of contentment requires nothing more than allowing “what is” to be ok with us. Admittedly it’s easy to feel contended sitting on the bow of a small fishing boat floating through the warm waters of the Mexican riviera. It seems our job is to keep that feeling present when the storm appears and waters of our lives become rough and unpleasant. Your comment that our job is “being present to the gloriously rich presence of contentment just waiting for us to notice it”, feels right on.
Hi Don and Isabelle,
We have wide smiling hearts reading ow you are dancing with contentment. What a foundation to live from and thrive within. You’re describing a way of being that promotes beautiful discovery and passion. The good news about David’s contentment on the beach is that it was so strong that it connected inside him to a whole legacy of contentment moments he had had and they all rushed together and are continuing too. It’s even happening on days and in places when there are “bumps” on the road. Because we’re riding the motorcycle, it’s fun to use the bump as a joy pulse. Love to you both, David and Susan
Yes! Thank you for putting this into words…
much love
Shayla
Hi Susan and David,
Finally replying here. Thank you for this. I was in a group that told me that “content” eventually turns to “contenscious”, and don’t I want more growth in my life? I really needed to sit with this. Because of my experience, I changed the word “content” to “sense of wellbeing”. When I am this, all is well. Thank you for your blog. The practice makes it more formal for me to deepen it more continuously. See you soon!
Love,
Mignon
Relaxing into delicious contentment with you, beloveds! With eternal love, Karen & Walter
YES!!! Thanks, Dears. XOJO
Good morning, Susan and David – I opened my email this morning briefly to see if there were any inspiring Easter messages, and I found your reminder of the ongoing miracle of death and rebirth happening every nanosecond in our bodies and in our lives and in our universe. Thank you for this inspiring re-membering. Happy Easter! With Gratitude and Love, Susan
Thanks for sharing in the greater meaning of the miracle we are with us. Love Susan and David
I am awed about what my body is acomplisHing even at t.he moment for sending this on. Thank you.
Would David send on the video he suggested I view. I look forward to learning more about my body and how the universal energy source keeps us all going.
With much love,
Arturo
Yippee!, Loving it all! Thanks for the love blast broadcast!
Love to you
Mignon
Right on, Susan and David!
This was my meditation today, with words worth sharing, reflecting the new understanding.
Love to you both!
Mignon
Dear Beloveds, thank you for your inspiring wisdom! We are going forward in a new understanding, fresh and new in every moment, creating this delicious life. All our love to you from Karen & Walter
Thank you for the reminder Susan and David, that I can flip this switch at any time, and that I have the power to do so. Now, in the midst of “stuff”, if I can only remember! Ok. Yes. It is how much attention to the energy behind my intention that wil help me remember, and with practice become automatic!
Thank you again!
Love to you both,
Mignon
Deep smile in the deep knowing. Heart open. Thank you, you two! Really feeling it!.
Love,
Mignon
Yes, this feels so deeply aligned with what we were speaking of yesterday. So inspiring to be with you on Skype….
I look forward, with great heart, to exploring the ordinary miracles of being alive together.
much love
Shayla
Beloveds, I feel a tickle of joy just thinking about you! Thank you for your Wisdom Rx. Love forever and ever, Karen
Interesting how life goes awry when trying to do life for one’s self without the “all-knowing friend”. Been there. Done that. So many times! Then I stopped running away, stopped the distractions.
Before I was afraid to listen, as if the all-knowing friend was going to be another authority yelling in my head my wrongness, belittling and criticizing me. Worst of all, make me dependent and then abandon me.
Glimpses of joy, gratitude, love and peace happened when I unknowingly chose the various techniques to have them in my life. The discipline was NOT, until recently. With myself, at times my partner and with my fiends weekly I am more committed to a disciplined meditation that has brought me to the point where I really want it daily and sometimes more than once a day. I do not feel a desperate grasping as much anymore.
I have come to feel safe, love, warmth in this enveloped energy and the cells in my body tingle from time to time as if I were being beamed up by Scottie on Startrek. I surrender more, to trust more, to allow more. I am in my rightful place at peace, Love, Joy and most of all Gratitude and awe for life. Yes, there are murky waters
to cross from time to time, and dwelling does no good. Time for the lifeline out of the water-more meditation. With this gradual, gentle surrendering my sense of wellbeing is being directed by my “all-knowing friend” and I can relax into The embrace.
Wow! Don’t know where all this came from. Must needed to share. At first I was going to ask you what got you here. Then this. Sounds like a “guest” blog. Thank you Susan and David for this platform to comment (more of a “share” in this case)!
Beautiful blog
Thank you
Mignon
That was EXACTLY what I needed to read this morning! As if it were tailor made for me and what I am going through.So simple, so powerful, so true. Thank you David, thank you Susan, you are always so inspirational in the messages that you deliver.
Love and gratitude always,
Chris.
You nailed it on this one. It rings very true to me. These are recent affirmations I’ve made:
I know I’m an individual and I also know deep down that we are all one.
I have a conscience and an ego yet realize I’m a small part of nature and the whole creation.
I know my own spirit and my connection with something much greater and because of this I take full responsibility for myself and my actions.
I’m getting to know my higher purpose and trust that I’ll be led the right way.
Thanks for your reinforcement of these for me.
DK
Hi This brings tears of recognition and recently i feel isolated and alone trying to get my life together right now.
I am artist, writer, educator master tree Steward( i go into schools and teach about the life cycle of trees) and I’ve been for a decade working in small art museum, museums and art centers, grant to grant, and am post divorce , at 66 and wanting to have sustainable income, and a healthier home area not so close to traffic, so I can keep my healthy living goals alive and bring people together in wonder and fun making intuitive art processes people of all ages , ethnicities and faiths, levels of experience, or even no experience necessary, The goal goal is to connect ourselves with ourselves more deeply , through personal expression , and connected share with one another,.
I also have felt frozen with a couple weeks of doctors trying to do more tests to determine if and have cancer or not. Its triggered a lot of fears.> I know i need people very much .Most of my family has died, many friends moved to be closer to family, MY life and friends lives, all our lives are in a huge interdependent web of connections wishing nature, are precious. I would love to speak to you directly, if you have time? Thank you for this timely article, Peace, Linda
Hi Susan and David,
Love your blogs!
Who am I when I follow my knowing?
An integrated whole, aligned, radiating being, that I naturally am strengthening regardless of all the demands and destructions (distractions) of the outside world.
Thank you for this blog, I love the penetrating question at the end! Would you please add question(s) at the end to your future blogs? They give, well, me, a formula to go deeper inside. (And hopefully other people as well.)
Love you two!
Mignon
You model to us a whole, integrated aligned radiant being.
thank you!
Your generosity is a lifeblood in our lives.
We love how you risk the familiar to grow.
love
Susan and David
David and Susan,
Who am I in those moments?
I am one who is centered; not always certain, because those moments are seldom as clear as I’d like them to be. Sometimes there is a lingering doubt about the rightness of the decision, but when I review what led me to make it, I am reminded of who I am and who I need to be through the storm of difficult decsions of the heart.
Of course I second guess myself before and after, but if I weren’t doing that, I believe I would be missing the power and importance of the decision I made.
Zigy,
Thank you so much for sharing your amazing insight.
Your laser beam clarity about the nature of choosing was beautiful to read.
Your words throw dust in the light of the autopilot that runs in us until we each bring awareness to the reactive choices that drive us.
Much thanks for who you are and the growth you demonstrate.
David and Susan
Ha! Perfect, Susan and David (and Shayla)!
From childhood on, I watched how I was drawn to some people to deal with my own arrogance, even if I didn’t like them, I stayed friendly with them. I couldn’t figure out exactly why I was drawn to them, just an inkling. I saw and didn’t like what they did, but when they did it to me, I ran away and blamed them. Guess I was on my path.
I knew when I first met and married my spouse I had my errogance (arrogance) to deal with, by my projection onto him! I ran away sooo many times, I am surprised he has not left me! Eventually, my childhood techniques I used were being called out and stripped away one by one, only to come back with my defensiveness.
This last weeks “cosmic interruption” for me, was about my armour of all these childhood techniques that don’t work anymore being dismantled all at once. There is no armour/defense now and no way to collect all the pieces I see so clearly for the first time. And yes, I feel naked, and humble. I feel a deepening, opening and compassion of my heart I had not felt before. It is as if there is a connectedness, a bringing of wisdom and communication within myself. A feeling of what humanness is about I suppose. Will there be more later to be undone? Probably, but we’ll see. It’s not time yet. For the meanwhile, a quiet enjoyment of the magical now.
I thank you so much from the pit of my heat (heart) for the venue in which to share what happened for me. It couldn’t be a better view in which to express what I imagine to be the totality of what I was going through.
I love you both so much! And thank you again, Shayla!
Mignon
I have been feeling very vulnerable with the recent passing of my dear husband and trying not to push away that feeling as I long to swim out of the deep abyss. Blessings to both of you!
Thank you for this.As an artist in my mid seventies,
I have experienced this Cosmic interruption many many times…especially when I
SET OUT AND THINK I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THE END RESULT WILL BE,
It never turns out that way
I allow myself and the artwork to ” fall apart”
Then I begin again and even again…and the painting to comes forward while I get Out of the way.
I believe this is similar to what Shayla is describing.
Call it ego, narcissism , control, whatever
This effect has taught me to allow this to have courage & allow this phenomenon in other parts of my journey here. I recognise the trust one must allow
Far from being perfect…I recognise now and have less /no fear….
Thank you for helping me trust that more, Susan and David.
When my “dyslexia” and whom is in company and the subject at the time comes out, it is always curious. It is like truth, but from a deeper place, and a whole lot more interesting. In my last post on your blog, it came out at least twice. So, rather than gleam over it, it is time to pay more attention to what is really being said. Again, thank you for anchoring in the curiosity!
Love you both,
Mignon
Good one. Thanks you two.
I sometimes had forgotten to ask, “am I in my own timing, or someone elses?” And “am I doing this out of the goodness of my heart or am I not in the space to do…for them?”
After my recent time of forgetting I can see I felt grumbly and snarky. Since I did not question those feelings and what they were about, I carried them along with anxiety to others around me as well as myself. A heavy bag to carry and no fun! Time to question and “change”!
Thank you for being my friend.
I love you two.
Love,
Mignon
Thank you David! Short and sweet, yet powerful. For the first time ever, I will NOT be taking a time piece with me on retreat. Planning on living in ‘Spirit Time’, love it David.
Blessings, Francesca
Hi Susan and David,
There are things I notice in myself that are opened and deepened by your reflections for the collective that I so do appreciate. Thank you, most sincerely.
My spouse has been away this past week and I decided to seclude myself in my house. There were times when he has been away, that I over scheduled myself, not allowing for the natural movement of my own spirit. I had kept up but also sped up the “ping-pong” like ricochet rabbit or pinball machine mind, only to stay in my head and not feel the moment of grief of missing my spouse. I espounded to allow grief, but up until now, seemed to have been adverse to it by having a noisy mind. I have had glimpses of this before but not so coherently.
Right now I am really enjoying my allowing of deepening, quieting, opening. I can clearly see where I had a certain daily pattern/rythm that I liked, but had not honored it FIRST! This has created a lot of noise in my mind and body and thus the ping pong effect. I actually enjoy my rythm and I know I can allow space for shifts in the river life flow with a quieter mind.
Tthank you again!
Love,
Mignon
How did you ger access to my house to snap that photo???? LOL
Jude
Beautifully said, David.
Dear Susan and David,
I loved seeing you BOTH in front of the camera. Really cool! Fantastic example too!
When I started taking Spanish classes every day I was very nervous at first. (Schooloing was not my forte growing up.). I found after a few classes that by observing the tape pulling me back, it all of a sudden disspappeared! During these last number of months I have totally been present in class and learning fast! Something I never thought I coukd dream of!. I actually love to study! Learning, curiosity and life are so much more exciting now..
Thank you again for sharing!
Love to you both,
Mignon
Thank you for gifting your presence and opening to the learning that’s available.
Dear Susan and David,
I had the realization of a incident for years…and somehow I did not realize how this memory affected my whole life. It brought about my fear of being judged, so I began giving my power away to another who I felt was more spiritual, and knowing than I..!!! Finally, just speaking about the desire to put this memory behind me brought the full realization of what a “story” I had created, and lived !! Then, no longer in my mind, and with the desire to just love….it was suddenly GONE..!!! I am empowered in a new way, and it is beautiful to discover how this one, big fear….lived on with my life!!
What a gift to us all. Thanks for empowering you!
The wound I place on the alter, is betrayal. The very deep wounds I have felt were from my perception of being betrayed. (husbands, friends, child…..mother.) I just had the realization of this in the last month or so. The sudden realization that “all are me” clearly showed my own betrayal of myself, as I tried to keep the peace. So, this is simply a declaration at this time…..betrayal is over. I have given it to God!!! I decided to never betray my integrity again!!
Thanks for sharing this. You are light and beauty.
Thank you so much for sharing this.
And what are my wounds?
And right when I was ready to start reciting them for the eleventh hundredth time, I realized that ALL my present wounds are my own responsibility.
Such as staying with my husband, living in this house, etc. Is this why I feel so defeated?
Beauty in Nature: morning fog dissipating, dew drops, frost, diamond snow, my son’s eyes, a certain song sung by a certain voice, design of all sorts that is just so, intensity of colour, patterns, textures, external grace reflecting internal harmony in people and animals, deep kindness, incredible moments of stillness beckoning the possible. Bless you both, Carinka
Dear Ones,
Thank you for reaching out to provide direction to us to deal with these difficult times. As usual you are there to help by reminding us to reach for the guiding spirit that is always there.. I bless you both for your desire to bring wholeness into the world on this consistent basis.
Love,
Arthur
Dear Ones,
Thank you for reaching out to provide direction to us to deal with these difficult times. As usual you are there to help by reminding us to reach for the guiding spirit that is always there.. I bless you both for your desire to bring wholeness into the world on this consistent basis.
Love,
Arthur
Hola Susan and David,
Thank you for this. It is an interesting time, indeed. I am finding that trusting Source, allowing for guidance and gratitude before whatever it is that comes my way, as well as gratitude for what I already have helps me stay in the present/ce and unknown. No attachment. Flow, joy, love, gratitude, compassion. It is in my presence that keeps me sane and allows me to feel the mentioned. Love your blog!
Love,
Mignon
So Truthful!
So Very Simple!
Such Sweetness… Though not easily done in THE Moment…great tools for our magical process.
On this Thanksgiving Holiday season it is So genuine to say “Thank you for this piece (especially at this time) and each other and sharing it with all of us!!!
Blessings, Ah Ho
BirdWoman
That New You is a nice piece of work ?❤️️?
Wow! Easy to use. Simple. Beautiful! Encompasses “The All” Thank you for being a fine example of this.
Love,
Mignon
I love you two, thank you,
Marg
Very nice. Thanks you two….
I want to be with you both. Something very directed l alive connects with me here. I already just learned why its been difficult for me to vision far into a fur sure for myself, my mind is probably been in survival mode, quite a long time. I keep expecting myself to be strong or for the sense of dread to disappear for good , but something like that returnees and my self esteem wobbles, or trust in something , wavers. then I see something beautiful like a sky a cloud , a feather, a child’s eyes , an old person wither walker bravely walking alone across the street, haltingly, and I am restored temporarily.
How timely for me, your messages are always on point. Now I have a soundtrack to workout my Happiness muscles! Lots of love to both of you
looking forward to riding with you
Thank you Susan and David!
This prayer I need. It feeds my soul so much I am wanting to read it before bed and upon rising. And when I have it memorized, Throughout the day! Sometimes the pattern had gotten so deep it had taken me hours to get out of it. Not anymore, thanks to this prayer.
Much love and Gratitudes!
Mignon
Some of the main questions I’m asking now (and it is an ongoing inquiry) are, “What can I/we do?” “What is an intelligent and effective response?” “How can I serve?” These are questions I have asked continuously throughout my life, yet now, in the current political situation especially in the US, they have taken on a new urgency.
Yup! I am not enslaved anymore. No “shoulds” or loneliness can entice me to share energy I do not have and to unkind and ungrateful energy received back. I am loving myself more and in a balanced way, moving, deciding at MY speed and when I am ready to. I can feel where my limit is energetically, and I now stop, instead of rationalizing and pushing my way through.
What used to get to my energy was feeling sorry for someone; thereby imprisoning myself with them. It would become cyclical. There would be an expectation of more help/energy needed and I would feel obligated out of guilt. NOT a pretty story. Oh, and the treatment I would get from these people! Not very kind for sure.
So, YES to loving and caring for me first! Then, “yes, you can be first after me.”
Thank you Mignon. It’s great to see you demonstrating such strength and clarity of action. You’re inspiring.
This came to my inbox with precise timing for me, thanks to all for these words of wisdom. It’s good to know that we are allied with greater movements and my thinking is aligned so well with this.
After a challenging day yesterday, I awoke this morning remembering God. So often I forget, caught up in the ridiculousness that seems be everywhere. My heart rests easier today, your words bring peace. Thank you.
I have been struggling these past days with the pain of our human condition. This arrived as a reminder – and I feel such blessed relief. There is indeed an empowerment in this consideration. Thank you.
Hello beloveds, we are dancing and playing in the blissful (my typo was blessful!) field of delicious aliveness! Our deep, deep love to you.
Thanks for the stimulating post. You both know the modern mystic Andrew Harvey who was just here in Ashland, Oregon for a week of powerful presentations. Andrew has a key, I believe, with his sacred activism work. As for God, He/She is a theory to most people. Andrew used RUMI poetry to champion the power of loving God… being enraptured in our own personal relationship with the Divine. In tandem, we can follow what breaks our hearts in the world and contribute towards healing that. Sacred Activism, a way of living in any era but especially urgently needed right now!
Be-au-ti-full! Thank you Susan and David! So true for me, too. Give lovingly without strings. Allowing all to be as is. Non-attachment and especially to outcomes. (Might have learned that last one recently!)
Love you two!
Mignon
Brava Susan! By simply dissecting a word, you have disarmed it (another dis…). This stroke of insight has been very valuable to me at the very time when it was most needed. Thank you.
I have the saddest news (which you may not have heard) that my darling Joseph died on May 18th, 3 days after his 81st birthday.
Dear ones,
What a lovely and timely story as ever. Today marks the 40 th day that Sacha and I are living with two new feathered friends. Two budgerigars named Buttercup (yellow) and Wasabi (green). Last night was the first night that they slept out of their cage up high above it on their spiral perch side by side, at rest and more free than before. Yesterday morning, Buttercup was the first to nibble a branch of millet which I was holding for her. This morning, Wasabi, a little more tentative in his trust, joined in. The majesty that is unfolding for me is that I too am spreading my creative wings, anchoring my desire into concrete places in my home nest where I can make things. This gives me hope and excitement and also the strong desire to find/make the time to listen to my muses. Thank you for sharing your intuitive story about soul birds. It rings true all the way to Nelson, BC. May you both be well and happy, Carina
Blessings to you and so glad your feathered friends have joined you in your home. love S and D
I am wonderstruck and moved to tears by your intuitive story. You have taken me to the sacred space where I go in my deepest meditations….beyond physical space, time and personality, to where the deep whispers of my soul are heard with stunning clarity, Thank you so much for being you, and being a part of my life,
What an incredible response. Thank you for your clarion soul knowing.
Inside us you are a beacon of courage and demonstrate the ongoing willingness to become your greater self.
You are willing over and over again to go past all of your conditioned ways of being.
So you can put them on the library shelf of life but not be run by any implanted programs. Love S and D
‘….And they knew they had been found by something they had longed for.’ I found myself weeping with this story. ‘….And into each person came an onrush of impassioned hope, of unmistakable love and a vision of how to go forth in the world as a song of spirit, a creator of joy, a healer of wounds.’ Inshallah.
Thank you! As reading this gift I felt within the energy of love, light and wonderment of the miracles around us daily. Again, thank you for your gifts that radiate to many.
Hi David and Susan!
I LOVE Paul Selig’s work and just started a weekly teleseminar with him called “Freedom From Fear”. I believe releasing fear and our history is critical to becoming who we are meant to be. I often refer to an old career of mine as a past life because it is so not who I am now and I can’t even relate to who I was back then. My work right now is to surrender to what is and not attach to what has been. Thanks for this post and you thought provoking questions. Sending love.
It is so wonderful to hear from you and to know that the old dresses no longer fit. Thanks for your willingness and courage to grow beyond your old skin. in love S and D
A timely message from a vital new source, my treasured friends. I am fiercely in the present—physically and spiritually–after half a year of life threatening illness and recovery in Denver. Now open to a new paradym here or possibly the very intimate, multicultural Santa Fe.
Your messages and your example are a great blessing at this turning
Hi Richard,
Your friendship, love and courage are a joy to us. blessings on your new life. in love S and D
The hats of the past are off! Let’s go life!!
This has been a year like none ever..!! A spiritual retreat, an accident, big debt, and more love, joy and gratitude than ever.!! Interesting that the love came from those I never expected to be there, and my joy with this was so great, and my gratitude so deep that I found it easy to spend the 3 months without being able to walk, a gift!!! And so it continues. I am well, and it was not expected. My intuition has been a huge part of my return to life..and it is now telling me to join this moment by meeting my family from far away. I know of them, I have dreamed of them……how do I meet them…??? May I just ask??
sincerely, and with love, Linda
Dear Susan & David, lovely invitation from your/our friends. I too speak to them, and they are so ready to help us create something different.
Thinking of you this week.. I moved to Sebastopol a couple months ago… it’s still intact but we’re watching all our neighbors lose everything. Please let me know if/when you come here next. Would love to reconnect.
Much love,
Holly
Hi Susan and David,
Thank you! It is so reassuring to hear that from our friends through you, that which we all a glimpse of but not necessarily anchor in. Thank you for being a link!
with and for Love,
Mignon
Gracias Susan & David
Estoy muy de acuerdo con todo esto que comentan
Mi apoyo es a diario orando, meditando y creando una nueva realizad de armonía y belleza desde mi corazón
Entiendo que todo es perfecto y es para bien de todos.
Somos todos los que estábamos esperando y ya estamos aquí creando una nueva realidad
Besos, bendiciones y fuerza para todos de Clemen
A lovely poem, reminding us of our single purpose of loving. And a heavenly perspective on the evolution of our planet, the evolution of life, and the evolution of US. Thank you !!!
Humbling.
With a big heart I Inhale the pain, grief, loss and fear. And exhale compassion. What you share continuously connects me at deeper levels to “the all”.
Thank you Susan and David.
Mignon
Hi Susan and David,
Yup. When I was young I thought there was something wrong with me because I didn’t think like the general public and then didn’t like those who did think like me because we were in remedial classes together at school.
Lately, I had a relative visit that I layed ground rules to. I thought I was alert to their behavior, but in reacting, found I was asleep and awoke to finding myself in a jar of fog which only lifted after they left and I wrote an email expressing myself. I assumed they would get the ground rules and could not figure out what I was reacting to until after they left. Not fun, but a challenge I imagine, well learned.
Thank you, you two. This resonated through my BE-ing.
I realize at times I have lived like this in bigger choices “I” made and I felt truly myself. And more and more now in my daily living.
In Gratitude,
Mignon
I had a confirmation yesterday of my internal guide. I was doing a difficult crossword puzzle. Although I had completed only half and would ordinarily stop and look in the back for the answer,I was propelled to continue. Slowly, after several hours the words came one after another and there I was with the completed puzzle. I stood in the awe of awareness knowing it was from my inner core that energized and helped produce this completion. I cut out the puzzle ,pasted it on the wall in front of my desk and will refer to it as a continuous reminder that my energy source is there for me.
Thank you…this is perfect. I have been thinking about integrity and what I choose as integrity…… and from what perspective I choose it !! And how others view it..!!!
I would be interested in a group…. !!
WOW ¡¡ Gracias queridos Susan & David
Han tocado mi corazón y he tomado consciencia de la sabiduría de sus amables palabras.
Mi SER de manera amable y conscientemente en la conexión con EL YO SOY respira suavemente y se conecta con la Alegría de alinearse a la Integridad de mi Alma amorosa, confiando en que se abre el Flujo Divino de Conocimiento y Abundancia.
Gracias ¡.
Sincera y amorosamente Clemen
NAMASTE ¡¡ AAAAHHHHOOOO ¡¡
Where did I get the belief that integrity has some tenets that are so universal that most people do honor them??? A part of “thou shall not steal” but more subtle??? I find myself disturbed and at a big loss to discover that a person I care for and love…..would take things from me, that are simple and that I would immediately give, if asked. I would give many things to another if needed, but for one to take and not ask… has me feeling a big loss of trust., and a big disappointment. ( Not about what was taken. but it is the thought that one would invade my privacy, and take something without asking.) I totally respect another’s belongings, and privacy…..and I would never intrude…or take anything.!! but, I guess that is not the same integrity that many live with.???? how does one deal with this…with LOVE????
Thanks for your thoughtful and heartfelt response.
We are familiar with the shock, the surprise when another person’s integrity operating system suddenly appears to be in stark contrast to our own.
We keep rediscovering an obvious truth.
None of us are constant.
Each person we know is adjusting how they live themselves based on the changes they are living into within their known world.
We are practicing staying up to date with those closest to us regarding how they are doing in their world and in their lives.
Integrity is a living condition.
Not everyone we discover has the willingness to check into themselves.
Many just react and don’t question how their own integrity is changing, not just the integrity around as you reference “stealing” but the integrity around are they even telling themselves the truth around what their circumstances are.
At this time of year the disparity between have and have not is at its greatest.
There can be a desperate sense of lack.
For us the most loving thing to do is be aware and then adjust ourselves accordingly as we engage out in the world with others who are driven by forces very different than ours.
So as to not be blindsided by the actions of others, we are required to stay present to the reality of those around us and our own and not assume anything.
Blessings and love, David and Susan
A beautiful piece, coming from this man whom I know to be deeply honest with himself and with others. This kind of awareness … to know oneself and one’s truth & integrity … is what builds good relationships and connected communities, those things that we need now more than ever, to build a new world.
Thank you two for this blog!
I can only be in integrity with others as much as I am honest with myself and true to that. There are times I don’t want to look, like when I want to eat “fun stuff” rather than be responsible and care for myself. Same with exercise! I am older in body, exercise is an integral component to living more healthy.
When I am at someone elses house I try to care for it the way they do, just out of respect, but also trying on another hat. Maybe I would like to care for my place in some of the ways they do. It is a constant learning. I love the creativity too.
I can’t say “I am this way or that”, but in my awareness of my basic goodness I can.
Thanks again!
Wow! Perfect for today and all days. How true for me. Love this story.
Thank You!
Love You!
What a perfect metaphor forthe times in which we live!
Thanks for sharing this wisdom, which I will definitely spread…..
All the best,
Jude
Yes! Beautiful! Sooo true! Formally signing up in a few days!
Love you both!
Mignon
What a wonderful message to begin the year and 2018! Many of us are feeling the “thinning of the veil”! Much love to both of you!
Thank you for this living breathing grounding New Year’s message. ? Happy New Year!?
Yes! Sensing that all ready! More loosening of the “holding” allows more love to flow in with light. Thank you!
Love you two!
Mignon
Thank you for sharing your gift with the masses, reinforcing our “knowing” as at times we may misplace that knowledge. The warmth of love you spread becomes contagious. Countless blessings. With Appreciation, Gratitude and much Love, Cynda
Really great messages as always you guys 🙂
Susan and David, thank you so-o-o much for this treatment of fear. This is a huge topic for me right now and I am coaching people to bust through their irrational fears so that they can more fully enjoy the emotional and physical freedom that God originally blessed all of us with.
Somehow in this email I want to attach a copy of my “Living a Divinely Inspired Fearless Life”.
Blessings to you,
Mark
Yes! So Glad to read this! As a child I soaked up every one’s fear as if it were my own. It took me a long time to remember to ask myself, “is this my fear, or theirs” and “did I drag someone elses fear home with me”? I like investigating/naming the fear and also when in my environment, naming the things in the room. It’s fun being a detective!
Thank you again!
Love,
Mignon
Thank you Susan and David.
Spot on for me. Nothing like being a little curious about that fear and infusing it with love. I notice how the touch or love touch brings people and animals alive and more secure in love, including my body.
Love to you
Mignon
Oh my, what a LOVE ly message. Thank you!
How excited I am for you, Susan!
Gotta love that rascal of a jackal!
I am the parent of the jackal and not the other way around. This I need always to remember.
Way to go, Susan
Love
Mignon
I’m so happy and thrilled..anxiously awaiting the unveiling..♥️♥️♥️Siempre
Susan congratulations and thank you for sharing your Wisdom! Hugs to you and David.
How brave and exciting for you and this fabulous adventure with Cora.
I am excited to not only read your book but to share with my grand daughter, who loves to read❤️
You are one incredible woman!
With Love,
Linda
Congratulations, Susan. Can’t wait to see it!
So excited for you all! There in spirit while I create my own and with my beloved.
Love to you
Mignon
YES…!!! I celebrate this for you all….!!
As I read the opening statement, I thought wow could I do that just disconnect. I started feeling fear just thinking about it. I have been thinking about this a lot lately… what is my purpose here in this life. Thank you for sharing. Looking forward to talking with Dwight to gain further information on his journey, which I believe will help me with mine.
Felicidades queridos amigos Susan, David y Dwight ¡¡.
Estoy emocionada junto con Uds. por esteatinado cambio en su vida.
Les deseo un mágico y bello Camino de Evolución, Transformación, Renacimiento y Reinvención de su NUEVA VIDA. No son los únicos que están cambiando de Paradigma, yo estoy también transitando y descubriendo en el mismo Camino. Y quiero que sepan que todo está a nuestro favor ¡¡. Sinceramente y con cariño deseando lo mejor para todos su amiga Clementina Beas Moreno.
“La vida de un amigo, es la nuestra, como la verdadera vida de cada uno es la de todos.” George Sand
I’m so excited for you all!!! I’ve been on 3 pilgrimages: Nepal, India and Thailand plus my 4 month solo winter retreat last year – I share this to express that I LOVE pilgrimages and the opening that is created, changes too – YES indeed! ALL WELCOME. Bless you and your journey. Big hugs 😉 along with love and gratitude.
Have a wonderful blessed pilgrimage as I know you will. With love and admiration, Melinda
Thank you beautifuls!
For me, what had shrunk me, has now become a world of possibilities. In any present moment the question becomes ¨how can I/we make this situation different and what can I/we do to make it happen?” Life has a much better love flow!
Have a grand day and an even grander adventure!
Love,
Mignon
Hi you two,
Fabulous blog! Thanks!
I used to think I needed to BE the formula. I used it as a rebellious label to say I was “nothing like those” who grew up in my home town. In high school I never wanted to be “pigeon holed”. I didn’t judge others, but I pigeon-holed myself with my formulas. I have now accepted me, including those parts.
If something went “wrong” in my life, I would find or make up a formula to live by. Then, when I didn’t want to or couldn’t do it anymore, I thought something was wrong that I could not perservere. So I would panic and look for the next piece of “solid ground” to land on (the next formula). It was constant jumping like from stone to stone and sometimes acquaintance to acquaintance trying their formulas.
For years I wondered why I was so particular and why there were some people I did not let in that were really incredible. Well, they didn’t fit in my “formulaic” lifestyle and I didn’t know how to relate to them from that space. I wasn’t “shy”, I didn’t know how to bridge. “How would that work? Will I be pulled out of my place? Then what? Too scary, so forget it.”
I had held myself, my family, spouse, children and friends hostage (not that I really can) to my prison-making ideas. Where was my discernment? My wisdom? Where was room for them?
I missed some of who they are and new emerging parts of myself, my truth and even trusting, because it didn’t fit in my own self-made box!
The formulas I had experienced now feel like the melding pot of my wisdom.
Wow! didn’t know all of that was there!
Thank you Susan and David!
Love you!
Mignon
Dear David and Susan:
What a beautiful post! Thank you so much.
My mouth is watering. Could be the “amrita.” Could be the gorgeous loaves of bread. Are they not one and the same? 🙂
“A feeling of fullness comes,
but usually it takes some bread
to bring it.” (From Story Water by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks)
Big hugs and love.
I loved those comments.. a wonderful description of “formula”.
Very provocative!
Mucho amor…Lola
Incredible…the wholeness of your smiles reflects this amazing adventure..Peace and love to both♥️♥️♥️♥️
Susan, David and old friend.
I can feel as if I was there with you!
Thank you for sharing!
My pilgrimage has been a bit different and every moment is a choice to be on one. Be unreasonable!
Love you three!
Mignon
WOW!! You can almost feel the wind
WOW! You can almost feel the wind! Thank you for sharing such wonderful photos, and bringing back sacred memories. We need to get together again to share experiences of such sacred places. We did not go to Scotland, and we went to Glastonbury Tor, Stonehenge, and became, for the first time, aware of the lay lines. Let me know when we can get together for dinner.
Love, Alicia
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A grace-ful article Susan! Continue your healing dear friend,??,and we look forward to a February visit
Hi Susan and David,
Susan, thanks for sharing your healing journey with us!
I trust the body will mend itself nicely.
I am now in Panama, living on an island in the Bocas del Toro Archipeligo.
I am with my partner Chad and enjoying lots of quiet time.
Blessings to you both,
Jean (Juanita)
Susan, I am so sorry to hear this.!! Yet, I truly understand this situation myself. When I was hurt, I felt in many ways truly blessed, and I knew on a very deep level, that I was held in God’s hands. I rejoiced in the quiet, the solitude and aloneness that surrounded me. I was forced to stop. !! I needed to stop!! I needed to let people help me for a change!!
You have just expressed very well, how it feels when this happens. Thank you!! and much love!!
What a beautiful story. Thank you for sharing. Love and blessings to both you and David. I think of you often with much love and gratitude. My journey is progressing and healing is taking place. I concur that allowing spirit to enter makes everything easier.
Love
Sandy
Hi Susan (and David),
Isn’t that interesting how we all find our own way to that soul feeding source?
And now, you get to have a solid (titanium), permanent, strong, reminder! Fabulous!
Thank you so much for your nourishing share! And happy mending/blending!
Love,
Mignon
SUSAN,
Wonderful to hear and to sense the deep, swirling upsurge of divine healing energy you are experiencing and sharing;
really fine….
Love,
ANNE
Queridos Susan y David saludos cariñosos de Clemen ¡¡
Apreciada Susan gracias por compartirnos tu experiencia y proceso que ahora ves y comprendes es una “Bendición y Sanación para tu Alma y Ser Divino”. Bendición que te está permitiendo hacer una ALTO y contactar con tu Ser Divino amándote y dejándote amar, para poder agradecer y comunicarte desde tu corazón con la Gran Consciencia Divina.
WOW ¡ Qué gran bendición para tomar Consciencia y Evolucionar ¡¡
TODO ES PERFECTO ¡. Y cada uno de nosotros estamos de una u otra manera haciendo nuestro trabajo personal Divino para Evolucionar y apoyar al Despertar de la Consciencia y Evolución de la Humanidad. Apoyando al gran inicio del NUEVO PARADIGMA de la Humanidad que es el “Sistema Colaborativo”.
¡¡ TODOS SOMOS UNO ¡¡.
Les envío bendiciones, luz, fuerza y amor.
Sinceramente Clemen
Dear Susan, you are in line with other friends who have taken falls recently so I am being extra careful these days not to follow in your footsteps.
I’m so sorry you have to go through this but as the old saying goes, ‘This too soon shall pass’. And you will be back to normal doing the good things you both know how to do. I miss seeing you and maybe some day I will get back to SMA. Best to you. Kai
You hit it right on top of the nai!!! I though something was really messing up in my own world and mind..My body is commanding a rest in the afternoons,just a short one,to recharge.You have answered in just a few strong statements what is happening now and how important to take car of ourselves in a different way !Thank you♥️
Loved this Susan and David! So very true and listening to what we feel and sense is key to our well being. Great words, thank you for sharing. Totally resonated with me.
With Love to you Both,
Right on! Love it! Love the illustration and pic of you Susan! Sending to all my friends!
Keep on, keep on!
Love to you and David,
Mignon
Beautiful! Thanks Susan and David!
This is a perfect time to be reminded in the midst of building our nest!
Much Love!
Mignon
Dear ones,
Thank you for your heartfelt love message. I receive it
and allow it o warm my heart as I import it’s energy.
I send you both my deep love for you with the hope that this
new year will bless you and continue to bring you the energy
to transmit loving energy as you have continued to do for these past years.
Arturo
So beautiful and perfect for me at this time as I look forward to self-renewal in the new year. Much love to you! Carol
Thank you! ???Happy New Year!
Dear David and Susan:
There was Magic in the kitchen today as 7 year old Sacha-Michael took over, making brownies and starting a soup and a grilled cheese. Watchful motherly eye present throughout but also, and more importantly, I was a witness to the wonder that this child embodies and shares. To his brilliance, kindness, wisdom. He was cooking and doing some form of Chi Gong as he went. He concluded that he wanted to be a healer and also a cook and to start his own business. For him, there are no barriers, only possibilities – much like the office which once existed in Nelson;) Thank you both for your powerful and poetic blessing for this day. Good medicine for me. Clearly, Sacha did not need to check his emails to “get it”, he just is. Much Love, Carina
David and Susan,
Today I registered the blog TakeWhatYouLike.org you helped me define and create in 2013. Thank you again for your inspiration and guidance, and I will share the results from Santa Fe in first quarter 2019.
With God’s guidance and grace, this will become an essential part of my service and self care–and a living legacy of my time on the planet.
Love and blessings,
Richard Holcomb
Thank you Susan for your uplifting message. I’ve already begun my preparations
for some new beginnings!
Much love to you and David, and many blessings for your new journey!?Lola
Just what I needed today!
Blessings, Carol
So grateful for these messages – thank you!
“You are not broken.” Indeed! Thank you for this reminder.
Gracias Susan y David
BENDICIONES PARA UDS. NUEVO AÑO 2019 !!
Los ama Clemen
Hi you two. Timely. I just transcribed today’s blessing into my agenda – what a perfect location for this blessing (and the others): the place where I plan the use of my time….Seems like the agenda format is just one great spot for these….xo Carina
We acknowledge the two of you individually and collectively for the ongoing generation of your lives and your life. Very few people have the commitment to do so; yours is an inspiration explicitly and implicitly to others. Well done!
Dear Susan:
Congratulations for making a dream come true for yourself!
And to both of you, welcome back to Canada.
Sending good vibes,
Carina in Nelson
How exciting! So happy for you both!!! Happy settling in!
Love,
Mignon
Congratulations Susan on your book and much love and blessings to you and David on your new journey!
Dear Susan and David, So surprised to hear this news….!! But, I am wishing you both all the joy and happiness you desire..!! Good Luck on all your new adventures!! And blessings as everything moves forward. !!
I have just finished making my house into 2 apts….One for me, one for Kelley!! So we are about to start a new adventure as well, (for me, getting rid of so many things I do not use, or need!!!)
sending love, Linda
Yes, congratulations on the book. I am curious if you are keeping your property in SMA to rent or letting it go. I just got a house there to use at times and rent mostly, so the move to Nova Scotia seems quite a change. Brrr, but no doubt gorgeous in its own way. Best with your move and yes, moving is amazingly stressful I have found. Louise
Hi Susan and Cora.
I love the way “God” is explained as a simple version of love.
I think you are right, that there are wounds around the word and partly because “God” was lorded over people for generations in a negative way as a form of control.
I like your other term, as general as it may be. It sounds like it may be what Cora needs to spread her word.
Sending love to you and imagining Cora’s wings spreading with her friends.
Mignon
Hi Susan!! I think Not so Little Cora is an amazing book that really talks about love, and I think it can help people think about love for themselves, others and live itself.
With that in mind, if you change God for Love or any other word that the Source of Love inspires you, it would be ok, because what the Source needs, in any name or form, is for Cora to open the hearts of people, and with a word like God, maybe we find barriers that are not necesary
We need more people with open minds and open hearts in this world,and I think Cora can help the Soirce with that
Thank you again for writing it
Tais
Given how the world religions have coveted and corrupted the true meaning of the word & idea of God over the millennia, I have come to belief that religion imprisons rather than liberates. So changing the word from God to Love or Spirit or Whatever is fine with me … it’s just a word.
That’s a very profound learning you have shared with us Susan. Thank you, I’m very grateful for it, although it has been difficult for you.
The power of language is immense. I’m drawn into a contemplation on how language creates our world…In the words of Terence McKenna, “Cultures are virtual realities created by language.”
Wow, the uncertainty of life here in Mexico,(87 killed since Jan. first in San Miguel) The uncertainty of the US politics, and most of all the uncertainty of and the possibility of fascism and the prejudice I see there, are frightening. I find myself thinking that I am glad I am so old, and I don’t have lots of time left here!! But, I know…uncertainty brings openings, and hope.!! My “God” is much more personal, my beliefs and laws? more personal…and my unity with everything alive is so beautiful. The words of Christ (always true) are now to me…”see things differently, all is love , all are one” Muchas Gracias Amigos!! I hope you are well and happy !! I just thought of you last night!!! wondered as it seemed I had not heard from you!! and here you are this morning!!!
Susan and David,
Thank you! We certainly moved into the thick of muddy uncertainty here in the US!
Trusting a whole lot more in being guided and grateful for inner freedom and the last paragraph you so beautifully described.
Thank you and much love to u2
Mignon
So very beautiful David and Susan!!! I am now even MORE GRATEFUL for breath as I consider receiving it, rather than taking it.
I have been wondering if Hurricane Dorian impacted you in Nova Scotia. Hopefully all is well.
with love and blessings from Ashland 😉
France/Francesca
Thank you for this beautiful offering David and Susan. It was timely this morning and helped me, paradoxically, regain balance after a phone conversation from the world of certainty and worldly achievement. Triggers… not malign, simply reminders that knock one off-kilter.
The world of uncertainty is my world of unknowing. It is where I live to a large extent.
You remind me there are others who validate this realm and I was able to calm the jangling.
A bright gift to all of us.
Great post, reminding us of the original meaning of the word. These days, heretics are considered crazy people. A “heretical” perspective is to be scorned and ridiculed as impossibly wrong. Of course, it was once heretical to question the flat earth theory.
Humanity never advances without the leadership of heretical thinkers who are not only able to imagine the “impossible” but have the courage and stamina to withstand attacks from the mediocre who want nothing more than a continuance of their existence with as little disrupting novelty as possible, lest it wake them from their delusional slumbers into the rigorous challenges and thrilling opportunities of real life.
Boy, do I relate to this one! Heretic all my life since it fell apart on me at a young age. I was forced to question everything up to and including ethical standards and what kind of person I wanted to be.
We are taught to resent bad breaks but again, like everything else we were taught, it’s upside down. Tough experiences cause us to grow, learn, go deep inside ourselves to discover everything there is. Having taken a deeply spiritual path as a result of a tough life, I accept and embrace discovery. I really enjoy where I am and am so grateful that millions of folks are finally joining me.
It gets a little rough when your middle-aged kids call you a nut case but hey, they’re just kids!
Interesting post! Specially for women, being a heretic is life-giving: In the boomer generation, we were inculcated into being subservient, a deadening choice for many women. I discovered that nothing alive can emerge from following anyone’s path but one’s own – even if that path looks to the world like the “right one” (in my family, herbal tea was seen as “weird”) and the one chosen, as crazy. It takes guts to make a different choice. It can mean separating from people you love. Many people simply don’t have the capacity to go against caring but critical family or friends who are invested in the norm. Discovering this has gradually made me far more accepting and compassionate towards those who may need to be heretical but can’t muster it.
I should also have said that I’ve learned that choices have timelines. Some people move more slowly than others and often this is much the wiser path. I’ve made choices too quickly in my past, for everyone’s good – thinking it was like ripping off a bandaid. Um…no. I’ve worked through two years or more with clients as they considered all possible options. Timelines are our unique expression too.
“Joy to the world…” That’s the title of a popular Christmas Christian song. Another line says, “Let heaven and nature sing.” Wow, that sounds pretty joyful! It’s a portrayed beautifully by the acapella group PENTONIX on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Xo64Q2ucQ8
Thanks for reminding us of this as we head into the season of pretense, when our human habit of “knowing” vs “experiencing” becomes embarrassingly obvious. Joy – the experience – cuts through all divisive hate and arrogant hypocrisy. Let’s live it!
The only issue I have, that does not feel perfectly satisfactory, is my deep desire to feel closer to God.
I feel I need a bigger commitment to use my time on this. I meditate, but not as much as I feel I would like to, or should?? ( saw a life? with Ayawaska, that seemed to be Essene, and with Jesus,) and I have never felt called to persue this until now. And now, it feels like NOW!! Just finished reading Anna the grandmother of Jesus !!
Hi David & Susan, So glad to receive the messages from your communicators. I look forward to sitting in their energy when you are again doing your public transmissions. I find them highly beneficial. Sitting in that energy frequency has a potency that boosts otherwise closed channels to open in my brain. There is nothing like the real thing. Hope to see you both again when you are ready to share once again.
Jennifer
Right on!
Thank you Susan and David and all of you other Angelic Beings!
Love, gratitude and faith,
Mignon
Thank you David and Susan for your continuing support and wisdom. I do value it. Blessings.
Once again your words from the Angelic Beings radiate through the mass consciousness. I am held in love and filled with wonder.
My words seem inadequate for the countless blessings received.
Holding intention, as with each breath, I send you and masses, brightness of love-light.
Cynthia
Thank you so much for sharing. I recently had an opportunity to visit a medium…she is also a medical intuitive. Amazing experience. Thinking of both of you so much lately.
Thank you for being a part of my life….eternally grateful.
Take care
Sandy
Yes. Love is the true answer to fear. I’d like to suggest that wearing a mask when going out is also a great idea to reduce fear and possible infection. Also love by staying home..
Not waiting any more..!! Something has finally arrived??? There is a presence, a knowing now that I never truly did accept. I knew everything and everyone was sacred, but I did not include myself. ?? During my energy download, I was told “I MUST HOLD the light, BE the light, LIVE the Light.” It has taken a while to really get this. It does not take work, as I thought….IT IS !! It is what I am, if I trust and know that the Divine is here, it is what I am??? My own little piece of joy and peace?? I need nothing more. (Yesterday another incident with my license tags….after more that an hour in line, No they did not have a record of my name. re-apply, come back,) I just said “okay” and knew that it would happen when it did, and it was just another lesson in presence, and BEING. As if nothing must happen when I think, or want…?? I am just fine. !!! THANK YOU David and Susan…!!
Hello Susan and David, thank you for staying in touch. Your wisdom resounds deeply within me and I am starting to make a plan for changes I need to make to be more healthy in my life. I too lived out of country for over a year – in Costa RIca. It was a good experience overall. I have been home again for a little over a year and looking around for my next great adventure. Maybe selling my house which has become a burden and getting on the road to explore more of ths US? I’m doing research to make that happen. Right now building up my health, mental, physical and spiritual for the leap into the unknown. I am not afraid just know that ths time is not right yet. I have some important work to do before launching. Love and blessings to you both, Jean owen (tompahma-woman who walks with the apples)
These were great reminders to what is true. Love and miss you both!! Hoping you two are enjoying your new place and life!
I feel, as though, we are constantly evolving, within All of Life’s Experiences… I have recognized and acknowledge that I have evolved, into, and within, living My life, by, my choices, (within my means) within Integrity, itself; as I have, Eternal Faith, and Utter Trust, Within, My Soul, Source, and Spirit, Within My Gracious Loving, Caring, Compassionate and Open Heartfelt Soul…
From here, is where, True Life Within, Begins Itself Anew… The Rhealm of the unknown within All; of, what’s next, around the corner, or bend… And the ability, choices, and disposition, of our determination, within each, we encounter…
Thank you, Susan and David, for that compassionately informative presentation. I participated while David spoke and I felt the connection with and love from my spiritual guides. It was a beautiful, peaceful and soulful experience.
Much love, Karen