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Ready, Set, Love

Posted in spirituality, self help, love, relationships, originist, self love, helping others, truth, purity, emotional, balance, soul, feelings, self accountability, higher self, self growth, compassion on Oct 15th, 2008 No Comments »

The first rule of love is

Not to forget is exists

We try so hard to find it

We over look it and then laugh later about how it was there all the time

The second rule of love

Is to enjoy it

Love doesn’t get you down

It guides you

Love tells you who you are

When you choose someone to love

There is always always something in them that is in you

Or you couldn’t see it in them

So when you meet people and you are attracted to them

Know it is the similarities that you both have that you could see

And you can only love another as much as you love yourself

And you can only allow another to love you as much as you love you

So if your love doesn’t go too deep

Then don’t expect a relationship to

We expect so much from love

When we don’t know what to ask of it

As though it should know for us

And then lead us to bliss

Love is as active as you are

As slow as you are

As honest as you are

As forthright as you are

Love is always here

Available and ready

Until you tell it what to do,

Where to go

Who to share you with

So the next time you find yourself

All excited and happy

Don’t wait for love to tell you what to do

It is waiting for you

To steer it and bring you to who you are

Love is so simple that it scares me to realize

How little we know of it after all of this time

I still wait for it to notice me

But really it was just how little we know of ourselves

To notice it’s waiting at the gate!

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What A Spoon Can Tell You

Posted in Uncategorized, spirituality, inspirational, self help, love, relationships, originist, selflessness, truth, purity, soul, self accountability, higher self, marriage, self knowledge, honesty, self growth on Nov 12th, 2007 No Comments »

When you walk past the sink, and it is clean

Are you the person who drops the spoon in

Or are you the one that walks by and cleans it

Do you only wash it if someone else is there

or do you leave it for someone else to take on your work

Are we really getting away with anything when we try not to do something

We try so hard to get out of this, get out of that

It is the truth as it is

You either do or you don’t

Some wait until the sink is full

And others wash and dry as they go

Some keep the Oh I have to do this, to do that, before I can relax

When cleaning up as you go along

Cleans up your mind as you think along, speak to another, or even watch a program on TV

That spoon really tells its own story

Do you hold onto your stuff

Do you let it go

Do you take things on right off

Or do you wait until you have piled up so much stuff inside

And you keep waiting for the day to clean it all up at once

Do you just eat your best everyday

Or are you the one who will diet tomorrow and eat everything in sight today?

Are you a planner or does everything all of a sudden happen to you?

Each of these types of people, they are all of us

Trying to say one thing when we are another is our biggest bluff

And the blaming of others, for who we are, has also been the bigger bluff

Once you clean up as you go along

You are just telling yourself the truth as you live your life

and those who threw it in and walk right by it

Are the pilers of everything else

They will not tell you first off what they actually mean

And they will only come clean when they are caught

And maybe not even then

Start washing the spoon in the clean sink

And you will find, you start finishing all the little things that start to take on weight much sooner

When you walk by, stop yourself and remind yourself it is your job too

No using others for you

and you will stop running from tasks and either decide to do them or not

Honesty isn’t so far away

It is as simple as a dirty spoon, you either clean it or you don’t

Love isn’t so far away

You either share it or you don’t

Truth is always around

And Purity is the cleanliness of your soul

Clean the spoon, Clear your mind, and go on to the next thing

Clutter is man made, not a natural part of us

Clean purifies as you cleanse

Cleansing is the weightlessness of our days, our thoughts, and how we are with others

Anything else is the delaying of our self love, until we finish all our tasks that we walk by

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The Space Between You and You

Posted in spirituality, inspirational, self help, new age, love, relationships, originist, self judgement, self love, purity, balance, feelings, self accountability, purpose, self trust on Oct 22nd, 2007 No Comments »

Believe in yourself

And don’t allow yourself not to

Speak your truth

And don’t allow yourself to judge you

Wear what you love

And don’t allow yourself to take away the joy of it

Say you can when you think you can’t

Do what you say you would never be able to

And try foods that aren’t “you”

Go to a movie alone

And buy yourself some popcorn

Treat yourself to a walk

Listen to music that isn’t music you would normally listen to

And you will start seeing that you can adapt

That you can take in and enjoy what is new

That you too can be new

We think our job is to stay who we are

Be who we are

Act like who we are

And whoever said how, what or who we are means?

We are who we think we are, that is who

We are the person who can try things, leave things that aren’t right for us

And build things from simple thoughts in our heads

Believing in ourselves starts with the thoughts of our hearts being acknowledged

And then acted on

And then expanding out of our comfort zone

We are meant to be a little uncomfortable at times,

otherwise we have no stresses to move us along

And we are meant to not be too uncomfortable for then we know what is not right for us

We always know what we believe,

yet we need to trust what we know

and then we can see

That belief is not a trick or for someone else,

Belief is available

And once you believe one thing,

It is so much easier to find other things to believe in

It is the growth of your soul, one step at a time

One moment to another

One decision to do so at a time

How silly it is to say no

When the fight inside wants to say yes

Let the walls of very hard years of keeping them there

know they are on notice

Put your heart on notice

That you will be taking on the walls

and walking around them

We don’t have to wait for a good day

To say we are going to try anything

Today is a moment that you can look in the eye

And say in this moment I want to do something about what I have been thinking

And just see what happens

Believing in yourself doesn’t come easy

Nor cheap at times,

But believing in yourself does bring on an inner glow

One that stands over you, guides you,

When you start to give up or forget why you are trying

Believing in yourself

Leaves the excuses behind

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Nevermind Why, Simply Do What Is Right

Posted in self help, self love, helping others, truth, soul, feelings, self accountability on Oct 15th, 2007 No Comments »

To purchase your copy of the newly released book, “Origins of Truth” by Nadia Khalil Bradley, please visit her website at http://www.originsoftruth.com

It doesn’t take explanation to do what is right

To do what makes things better

To say what needs to be said

Either side of the coin

When things are tough, tell the truth

When things are not, tell the truth

There is no sense in creating stories to make things seem more exciting

The excitement is in how much you love it, telling it that way

And giving someone else a chance to live it with you too

We always think everything has to be bigger, better or worth hearing

That we have to have a punchline or a reason for saying something

It is so much simpler than that

Tell the truth from your heart

And your heart will do the rest

When there is a moment where telling the truth

Is something you do not want to do

It has nothing to do with the other person at all

Ask yourself, why is it that you feel like you can not?

Why is your safety an issue?

Is your self esteem unable to accommodate truth?

Is lying something you want to carry around?

Do you want to create distance between you and the other person?

Do you not have respect for yourself enough to simply speak and grow on?

Do you prefer the dramas of lying that cause you to not trust others?

Most who do not tell the truth

Think others are lying

Are the ones who accuse others of doing things, being things they are not

Do not like to discuss details

Nor do they enjoy the fruits of self accountability

They are the ones who fear their positions

Their posts in life

That their charminess will wear out

That their cover will be blown

That maybe they are a fraud altogether

They will claim to have everything under control,

As if they had to

They will tell you how great they are

As if you needed to hear that

When someone speaks with their heart

they even allow for those who don’t

Time to speak, and hear themselves talk

Simply because they already believe they will speak from the heart

And when they find out that is not what is happening

They start feeling used, without words or actions yet

As time passes and you are in a relationship

You start to realize that the other person doesn’t pay attention to you the way you do to them

That when THEY are happy you are OK, when THEY are NOT, you are in Trouble

The balance shifts to their moods and the one with heart accommodating the one who speaks in exaggerations of truth and you are left realizing that maybe you have chosen a person who lives in the illusions of their truth and it all is not so real

Getting to know another person is for these reasons alone

Is this a person you can depend on

Does this person bring you peace and joy

Warmth or comfort

Or are you more fractured with them and more whole without them

A job, a friend, a partner, a spouse

All the souls who find their way to us

Teach us who we are by what we do not accept from them

They Hone us into speaking up

Fighting for our own souls

Making our way without questions as to what is right or wrong,

however, what we are RIPE enough to learn

We can only learn what we are ready for

And others may serve as a catalyst for such learning’s

Or there may be a soul we are meant to share much more of ourselves with and life with

We try to make everything “forever”

yet there is no time

There is a bigger picture

And some things are meant to teach us for a moment

And others are meant to carry us for a lifetime

Accept life for the challenges it gives you

And you will see that life will always have a challenge for you

It will always always remain and be

Your level of understanding

And your willingness to learn that will carry you

Once you can see that

The turmoil’s of what to do, how to be, what to say, and what not to say are already answered

Our energy proceeds us

And we speak without speaking words

Trust in the bigger picture of our purpose can carry you through the moments of indecision

Clairty of your purpose

Knowledge of your soul

Understanding that you are not meant to be everywhere at once

Gives you the basis and understanding that you WANT to be where you at least choose to be

And the places you choose to be will allow you to experience them whole

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Blueprint for Life

Posted in spirituality, inspirational, self help, new age, love, relationships, originist, helping others, truth, purity, politics, balance, debt on Oct 8th, 2007 1 Comment »

What we need:

We need a political party that represents both the poor and the rich

We need credit cards that are not designed to keep you in debt

We need mortgages that are simple and clear and no fine print

I am thinking no fine print on the credit cards either

We need less pressure to have more work in a day

And more pressure to balance time to work, sleep, eat, and sit with your family

We need more pressures to complete tasks without so many steps

Be able to have a doctor to go to

Buy all the food that we need

Go to a Library to read

We need more pressure to build our neighborhoods,

Know our neighbors

Say Hello with nothing more to say

We need moments to catch up and rejuvenate

Leaders that we can depend on

Jobs we can grow in

Homes we can keep forever if we want to

We need streets that we all keep clean

Area’s our children can play in without fear within the parent or the child

Homes that aren’t behind iron gates

We need water we can drink

Streets without litter

People not living on streets

Care for those who can not care for themselves

We need to stop the blame

That someone who isn’t ahead does not deserve time or a chance to gain ground

That people who need help are not to be walked by

That people who can help don’t believe it is a choice

We need the love inside of us to not accept what is not working in our lives

We need to hear politics that makes actual sense, without explanation

Without fine print

Without loyalty to any party

However loyalty to US, people

People are a party

People are a race

People are of religion

People need food

People need homes

People need learning institutions

People need each other

People need love

There is no soul on Earth more important than another

When we can come to the thoughts that anyone is here by mistake or isn’t worthy of what People need or want

Then we have lost already

There is no Them, since everyone is a them to someone

There is only an US, since we all share this same place called Earth

It includes US, Animals and Nature

And everything else is only a reflection of our needs, wants and desires

When you look around and find something to complain about

Look around again and find something you can do

That is balance

Pick up trash that you see when you can

Smile to another and remind them WE are here, there is not really a me and a you

Remember that there is no way anyone can do this alone

There is no way any leadership can work without people, nor can people find order without some kind of leadership

We each have a job to do,

We have a job to live and experience and grow

Yet we spend so much time trying not to change, to keep everything the same

Yet nothing is really meant to stay the same

It is meant to evolve and allow itself to find greater growths in each day

Most of our frustrations come when we feel we haven’t done enough

Or we have done too much and no one notices

It is simply important that you notice

You see, if you notice, it can only be shared

And all the sharing of what you see, can only be felt

And feeling drives our actions

And ignites another

Anything can happen

As love finds a way to propel

That is how it is when you are thinking something

And then one day see it on TV,

Or hear another speaking about it

We are one

We hear it, we say it, and we can now learn how to be it

Everything has a blueprint and we are the blueprint of life

Life is the answer to why we are here

Living is how we do it

Awareness is how we know what to do

And love is the fuel of it all

Love is our true leadership

Love is our stem

And Love is our search

Keep loving and you have already begun the movement

The movement of living life as you can dream it

And dream it as your life gives you answers

And answers keep you thriving for more

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A Glimpse of Self Love

Posted in Uncategorized, inspirational, self help, new age, love, anger management, relationships, originist, self judgement, self love on Sep 23rd, 2007 No Comments »

Are you scared to love me? Does it show that I am scared to love you? Maybe it is because I don’t know how to love me either?

I have been trying to figure out how to love myself for many years now I still am not sure what that looks like to say, I love me, I love you too

When I don’t love me the most I get scared that you won’t love me either When I love me the most I know you will be with me forever

I use to think of loving myself as selfish Then I use to think it was all in my ego to do that Then I realized when I was happy inside, selfish and ego weren’t an issue That I just wanted to spend time with you because I love you Again when I was happy

And then I wake up and I am not so sure how I feel And I take it out on you Accusing you of things that were OK the day before I found out when I am not happy, you will not be happy with me either As I try to take it out on you so I don’t have to face me

How do I love me? So that I can love you I was sitting on the floor one morning On my way to an important meeting And across from me was a mirror

I took a quick glance only to see myself sitting on the floor tying my shoe When I looked up, I didn’t see me, I saw a person, sitting on the floor, tying their shoe It was a weird moment, however I realized I WAS a person I stared at myself from a distance I realized I looked like the people I see, not the person I know

I started talking to myself I told myself, You have a big meeting today, I wish you well

When I said that I started to cry It felt so good to care about me Like the words of a dear friend I continued talking

As I cried, I said, I am going to take care of you my friend I am your friend I see you wake up everyday, rush to get ready, Yet I realized I never really see you at all

I am sorry I never looked I judge you so harshly And you are just making a way for yourself, What ever that is

I promise to do right by you From this moment forward I will understand when you don’t think you have done well that you have done your best And I also promise not to hurt you more with the words in my head that take away from me I will remind myself that you did your best and maybe it was not meant to be for you

I also promise that when things are going great to let you enjoy those moments for what they are A part of life that keeps you motivated to do the rest of it And I will remind myself that every purpose has a challenge and every challenge has a purpose And that we are a team, My Heart, My Soul and My Mind

I will do right by you, I will not let myself forget that you care and that I care As my Heart and Soul spoke to my Mind I realized still that I am one, yet at times there feels like there are two of me One that loves and one that is harder on me than anyone I know

I sat on that floor and saw myself new that day I got up and left feeling like I have a partner within myself That I can be whole and awake to my actions That I can do right by myself

And with that, that I understand what it means to do right by others too They ARE me and I AM them Just as I have the voice in my head that either cheers me on or stops me in my tracks Joining myself with myself, Gives me the path to join myself with you I can love you more when I know what it feels like to love me more

Love can only propel once it knows that it is there

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I Want To Be Mad At You…Would You Do Something!

Posted in Uncategorized, spirituality, inspirational, self help, new age, love, self help on Sep 7th, 2007 No Comments »

You know when you are mad about something, and you can’t get yourself to talk about it? And then you are asked if something is wrong, and you want it to go away so you say nothing? And then it doesn’t go away, and it affects your mood, from being asked what do you want to eat to where do you want to go? It becomes the big white elephant in the room and then there is no longer any room to walk around it?

You start to realize it is something you must face, and you don’t know how to say it? That you feel vulnerable and you don’t want to fight with the other person or get them mad or feel like a fool? And you feel like you handling it alone would be best

As time still goes on, you are not any happier, you didn’t handle it, and you are now waiting for the other person to do something, so that you could simply blow up at them?

And pretend that that is why you are mad in the first place?

And then you feel even worse inside because that is not what you were mad at in the first place

And the other person feels horrible, since it probably didn’t make sense, your anger matching his or her action

With all the negative feelings you were feeling beforehand, waiting for a reason to explode, did it really make anything better? Did you really handle it by yourself? Or did you single handily turn your initial hurt and anger into a war for not being understood, when it was you who assumed you could deal with it and you couldn’t?

If you followed this so far, what would happen if you simply said, from the beginning: You know I feel bad when I am upset, but I am. I want to share it with you because I don’t want to feel bad about other things and then take this out on you. It is not fair to you, or to me.

Everytime this one thing happens, I feel like it is taking away from us and that you don’t see that, and it makes me feel vulnerable. I care about you so much that when I feel this way, I use to hold it in, but I am taking the chance and telling you so that I don’t hurt us.

You will find that the other person listens and they listen with love and understanding What is not understood, is trying to live as though no one can see you when they can And having to fight about things that teach you the reason why fighting does not make sense

There is not a human on Earth who wants to feel bad, not loved or cheated by their friends, family, CO workers or boyfriends, girlfriends, husbands or wives. I never met a child who remembered why they were angered at, but I met many who remember the humiliation of being screamed at or hit

Take the time to ask yourself, what would you respond to, and do it that way Take the time to think about the other person, rather than what you want out of them Ask yourself if you are setting them up to do something wrong, and then scream at them for it

The patience that you need, others need too You are not the only one and neither are they We are all one, look at it that way One person, One need, One home, One family We are most whole when we feel closest to One We are most whole when we are not feeling desperate and alone, fragmented and scared

Speaking in the moment, of the moment, is the peace of our souls It may not feel like it on the way there, but you have to push yourself to it to find it, to feel it Peace doesn’t come without a claim to it’s understanding Love is not known until you can see the affects of the lacks of love Truth only has meaning when we have seen, lived in, and got hurt when it is not around

Speak in the moment and you won’t have to create a moment or plan anything Truth has a way of surfacing above all else Next time you feel yourself unspoken when you need to speak, try something new Speak from your heart Speak with love Speak with the knowing of how you want to be spoken to The relief is unspeakable The love ever compounding and understood

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The Trail of A Happy Thought

Posted in spirituality, inspirational, self help, new age, love, self help on Sep 3rd, 2007 No Comments »

You wake up from a great dream you can not even remember Yet you are happy from it as though you did remember You were smiling when you woke up and that is really all that mattered

You decide very quickly what to wear for work Without even thinking, you didn’t put much time or thought into it and you felt free and confident no matter what you put on

You run through the kitchen to get to the door and you realize that you forgot to put the coffee on, and think, I don’t need coffee today, I am already awake

You are driving to work, and someone cuts you off before you get to the freeway, and you think, that is too bad they are having a bad day

You get to work, and you are walking to your desk, and you pass several coworkers by, and they are complaining about the previous days happenings, and you say Good Morning and you keep going

You are lighter on your feet, freer in your mind and just plain happy about something and you don’t even know what

It really shows us that anything can make us happy as long as we feel it and it energizes us in ways we couldn’t even notice

And it teaches us that you can make a day happy with heart and love if we just think it, and it barely matters what it is we choose

Our mind is waiting for us to use it and put its strongest use forward

Just as easily as pushing the “wrong” button there is a “right” button too

How funny that we fight to have a choice in so many places of our lives and this is a choice given to us and we forget it is even there

Start with something you love and remind yourself that love can happen everywhere else

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