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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

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

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The Music Of Love

Posted in spirituality, inspirational, love, relationships, originist, self love, selflessness, truth, purity, emotional, balance, soul, feelings, purpose, self trust, higher self, marriage on Nov 5th, 2007 No Comments »

One day we wake up singing

A song to a happy tune

Without a prompt or a reason

Without music or noise

Only the excitement of seeing you

Today we are getting married

Saying Yes to each other

without further ado

Love is the trail we followed

Learned each other in safety and grew

Let our ugly find itself, showed it to you

You said, Hey that’s OK

I am still here for you

I learned me through you

You told me the truth

You speak to me, it is not only you

It is you and me, and we are two

There is strength in numbers

When the two are in truth

Someone to say to you

this works for me too

Love is not a show

or does it come with a map

Love’s design is to teach us

And build life without holes, without traps

It is a place of safety

To speak that I am still OK

Even when I don’t feel like it

Even when I am too tired to see my way

One of us is always leading

Learned partnership that way

Each day is an open conversation

Of all we can share and build, a story page by page

Nothing comes all at once

It would leave us dry and bored

Love comes in surprises

Of all we thought it could not be

Love is the surprise of our souls

When it show me, me

The more I can see of me

The more I find in you

The treasures of us as people

And adding the love in there too

Thank you for saying

when you do this it hurts me

It made me see you

and you taught me to care

As you show me how you care for you

I have learned to care for me

I find that the more I learn

I more I understand you

The greater my challenges

that eliminate the feelings of something I can not say

You opened the door of my soul

With your openness to me

You teach me to be

Without trying to be better than me

I realize there is nothing you could want

Other than to tell me the truth

I realize there is nothing I can give

Other than my purity to you

Love is invisible

Yet it is felt in its strength

It is the bond we can not see

Yet the bond of everyday

Love is not a person, a place or a thing

Love is my emotion, that I bring to each day

Love is my compass of where I go, and where I stay

Love is the open ended answer

As many questions as it presents

It is those very questions

Whose answers are fought for

And learned of

That teaches my soul

Its one main purpose

To love, honor, and live

In today, in the present

I stand before myself in completeness

As I see it in you

No fear in growing further

No lines drawn in the sand

No more saying what if….

It is here that I stand

I stand for us

The “us” we have become

The world that we built

With those that we love

The house that we fill

With our everyday of thoughts

The home that we carry

Everywhere we go

Love is not physical

You have taught me

Thank you, my love

My love’s freedom

That I have come to see

Thank you, my love

We are an “us”

And still a “you” and a “me”

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A Bottle of Hope

Posted in spirituality, inspirational, new age, love, self help, relationships, originist, self love, selflessness, helping others, truth, purity, balance, soul, feelings, self accountability, purpose, higher self, hope on Nov 2nd, 2007 No Comments »

What does it look like when we have hope

We walk faster

We talk more

We involve others

We try new things

We wear different colors

And we insist on trying until we succeed

We sing to songs

We listen to others

It is not so important that we are “right”

We need less sleep

We don’t over eat

We exercise

And we say good morning

We listen to “happy” music

We dance while we are walking

We see someone who is having a bad day and we say we are sorry

We help someone who needs it

And we accept help when we need it

Hope is the promise of our souls capacity

Hope is the reason we remember why we are alive

Hope is the person who reminds us

That Hope is always nearby

Hope reminds us that love is available

As hope is the purpose of our actions

Whatever it is that we hope for,

We are in hope when we feel promise

Promise of ourselves in our highest honor

Honor of actions and what they may mean

Hope is the rainbow after the rain

The cool drink on a hot day

The right words as you needed them

The smell of something baking while you are asleep

The bath where you actually sit in the water

The moment you walk by someone you haven’t seen in years

The check that comes in the mail you didn’t expect it

The willingness to understand if something doesn’t work out

Hope is the basis, the reason

That we have an incentive to grow on

To say I’ll try

To change directions

And to know ourselves well enough to say no when we are stretching ourselves too thin

Hope is not being scared when the check is not in the mail

Someone we thought was right for us isn’t and we understand why

And the love of self enough to know all of these things are simply a part of life

Hope is alive as we are alive

Hope is the possibilities of our hearts

Given a forum to test, push and pull the best of ourselves

And find the depth in which we can be

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

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Don’t Be True to Me, Be True to You

Posted in Uncategorized, spirituality, inspirational, new age, love, self help, relationships, originist, self love, selflessness, helping others, truth, purity on Oct 1st, 2007 1 Comment »

You tell me about yourself by what you say you do If you ask me not to tell another something, You ask that of someone else too

If I see you lie to another person You most likely lie to me too

If you wash your hands before you eat I know you wash everything else too

If you are OK with taking something that isn’t yours You will take me for what isn’t yours

If you talk about others Then you talk about me too

You see it isn’t what you confide in me Confidences need not be Open and free is truth Truth doesn’t need an introduction Or a premise or a thought

Truth just is Just was Will always be

You are not any different in front of me Than behind me, when there is truth

We ask of each other many things One thing I ask of myself

To tell you the truth So that you know I am truthful To treat you with respect, Then you know I am respectful

To clean up after myself So that you know to clean up after you To leave you feeling clair So that you know my intentions are clear

You see we learn a lot from each other As we hear, see, and take part of each other And we react to each other from that truth we see

Take part in your life So that you can take part in anothers

Your children don’t hear you as loud as they see you Your friends can see you for what you have done, rather than what you say you have done Your parents know who you are, rather than who they think you are And your heart knows your truth no matter what you try to say

Truth is here It waits for us to be it We wait for us to know it We say we are looking for it, Yet it is here, and you already know of it

So use truth instead of using excuses to evade it Let truth lead you rather than what you want to be truth No need to take non truths and make them true Stop wasting your time Stop taking away from something that is already in front of you And creating drama’s to prove your point

With truth there is no point, there is only acknowledgment Evading truth is like waiting for a train that is not coming Use the clues of your life to bring you to speaking the truth for what it is Because once you are true to you, you can be true to me

Once you start speaking with your heart I want to be in your heart too Once you start cleaning around yourself, I will clean with you Once you cook a meal with clean hands, you will feed everyone

Wash your life with truth and let truth create THE PATH There is not a path, truth is THE PATH Anything else finds a way of leaving us feeling shortchanged and hungry Truth is the breath of our souls And the soul of your breaths As you can share your heart when you feel it’s purity As your purity is the most becoming feature of any of us

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Shopping For Love

Posted in Uncategorized, inspirational, love, relationships, originist, selflessness, helping others, shopping on Sep 28th, 2007 No Comments »

What do you get when you give? What do you give to get? When you give it is a feeling of exhilaration that is addicting and self growing It is like that plant that doesn’t even need water to grow

I was walking into a store the other day And a lady was on the ground dragging herself to a bag She had fallen and she was too heavy to get up At first she seemed like she had a method so I was just going to go into the store Then I saw her dragging herself and I was wondering if that is just how she got out of her car and did her business

But then I was just curious so I went to her and asked her if she needed help. she told me that her daughter was going to come out of the store in a minute, that she is in line That she walked out of the store and was holding onto a pole to hold herself up And that she let go of the pole and she fell

So I asked her if I can get her daughter or help her up She told me we would have to find a big man to do that Then her daughter came out and when she saw her mother on the floor she ran to her and asked her what happened. She didn’t seem to expect her there

The daughter and I both managed to get her to her feet again And they were both so grateful So I was about to leave and they asked me my name Before I could tell them The relief on their faces was the very relief I felt to have helped them

It was the smallest of things, yet it was bigger than me at the same time I got tears in my eyes and I couldn’t tell them my name I was just silent and they were staring at me

It took me a minute and then I could speak my name I walked away as though someone cleansed me Like making this very small difference to people I would most likely never see again

It made everything I thought about my own life as new as it felt to fall into this family’s circle unexpectedly It reminded me how much we care about each other without thinking of it And it is when we think too much that we start playing the taking away game from ourselves

So I went to the store and didn’t find what I went there for A little later that day I was thinking about not finding what I went there for When it occurred to me that I found exactly what I went there for

That when we go to a store we are buying love of some kind to ourselves And that lady on the sidewalk was the love that day I left more fulfilled than anything I could have purchased More cleansed and appreciative of people

We forget sometimes how much emotion there is when we touch each other in this way How good it feels to share a strength we may have more than another And accept their strength when ours is not with us We build a wall that makes us think we are not in need

We are all needy and it has nothing to do with food or money It has to do with our emotions catching up to the other advances in our lives As we can balance, life looks differently and “needs” much less to fulfill it

If we step back from the wall Only then can we see it And walk around it

For more of Nadia Khalil Bradley’s writings, check out her Blog - http://www.idigyoursoul.blogspot.com

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