Wednesday 30 June 2021

An acorn does not have to say, “I intend to become an oak tree.”
 Natural intelligence intends that every living thing 
become the highest form of itself and designs us accordingly. 
 - Marianne Williamson

Monday 28 June 2021

There’s only one step to ever take in this lifetime. 
 - Tama Kieves

Friday 25 June 2021

Both purpose and destiny allude to a place we might, with effort, someday arrive.  
We belabor ourselves with all the things we much do
 to fulfill our purpose or live our our destiny.  
Contrary to purpose, natural intelligence does not require we do anything to achieve it. 
Natural intelligence imbues us with all we need at this exact moment
 to manifest the highest form of ourselves, 
and we don’t have to figure out how to get it. 
 - Sonya Renee Taylor

Wednesday 23 June 2021

When you trust yourself, you don't have to worry 
about all of those spinning plates falling, because you'll know you've got this 
(and maybe some of the plates can go back on the shelves where they belong. 
How did we ever get fooled into thinking that spinning plates
 was what we were supposed to be doing?!) 
 - Meghan Genge

Monday 21 June 2021

Who you are at your core, just like the proton of the atom, 
is a positive energetic charge.  It’s a force of attraction...
that helps us to create, attract, and manifest what we want in life...
The electrons that circle around the nucleus are the periphery of who you are.  
The negative charge is part of the whole, but it is not part of the center...
no matter how stuck we feel, that thing that’s holding us back is not our core essence. 
No matter how strong it feels, the negative charge
 is never more powerful than the positive charge. 
 - Rajshree Patel

Friday 18 June 2021

June 18, 2021 Chautauqua


Beth's Ponderings

   My garden labyrinth saga continues.  This spring I widened the path all the way around - yes, I moved every single rock again!

   I also experimented with some container gardening, plus added some planters with flowers around the path too. 

   As, I know where the path definitely is this year, it was MUCH easer to plant the garden vegetables.  Since I now have defined sections of dirt, I was also able to plant more intensively, and, at the time of this writing, the plants are starting to poke through the ground! 

   Is the labyrinth finished, heck no, I still have more ideas to improve it, so who knows what it will look like next, but I’ll keep you posted.

Beth

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Wednesday 16 June 2021

Wholeness

If you want to get rid of obstacles...
Just do one thing, and don’t question the other options or potential problems...
Whenever we are completely committed to something in life, 
we experience wholeness...there’s more power in our wholeness 
than there is in just our positivity. 
 - Rajshree Patel

Monday 14 June 2021

Opposites

Everything – including you – is created with [a] dual nature,
 so there’s nothing to fix.  There’s nothing inside of you
 that’s not supposed to be there...
Who we are is made up of opposites. 
 - Rajshree Patel

Friday 11 June 2021

Battery

Our body-mind complex is basically
 a rechargeable battery. 
 - Rajshree Patel

Wednesday 9 June 2021

Key

Breathing is the fastest, simplest way
 to reduce stress and naturally shift
 the say you think, feel, and act.  
It’s the master key to unlocking
 the potential of your entire system. 
 - Rajshree Patel

Monday 7 June 2021

Invite

What you resist persists, and what you accept flows.  
When you invite life in instead of pushing it away, 
your life starts to work for you rather than against you.  
- Rajshree Patel

Friday 4 June 2021

June 4, 2021 Chautauqua



Beth's Ponderings

   My second year of the year-long mentorship program started with us creating a creative timeline for our lives, from birth to now.  Mine is currently 6 pages of single-spaced typewritten notes, and growing, as I remember more items to add.  At some point, I will get it more formally organized, and my hope is to illustrate it. 

   My sister, Mary, and I were quite fortunate as we were raised in a very creative family.  Actually everyone is raised creative: some are nurtured more than others, but more often, it’s a case of creative skills and talents not being labelled creative so people think they aren’t creative (ie engineers are as equally creative as artists). 

   Yet, despite being surrounded by creativity, and having my own creativity nurtured, certain forms of creativity were not encouraged.  For example, I was never really encouraged to draw or paint after preschool/elementary.  I had to choose between band and art starting in Grade 6, and band won.

   So, I always felt I was missing out - and while I knew I was “creative” and a “writer,” I was never an “artist.”  I’d borrow art books from the library, and could never figure them out (too many “rules” for my rebellious nature?). 

   Then in January 2017 I did my first ever acrylic painting.  More paintings have followed, and what I have learned (by following the rules) is that the rules don’t matter at all, because expression is way more important than being “perfect” by someone else’s standard.

   Children are true artists, in all sense of the word.  They draw, paint, write, sing, play, create, and move for the sure JOY of doing so.  Before they are taught otherwise by “well-meaning” adults, they don’t care what their creation looks like, or if anyone likes it.  They know what they want to express, and they make sure they express that to the fullest extent that they can, in any way they can as long as it is fun and easy.  

   As children, we can’t wait to grow up and become adults, yet, as adults, we wish we could be little kids again.  Well, creativity, art, music, and whatever form calls to you, is your chance to revisit childhood.

Beth

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Wednesday 2 June 2021

Breath

The breath is literally what brings life into our system. 
 The inhale is what gives us energy...
while the out-breath releases what’s no longer needed 
and detoxifies the mind and body. 
 - Rajshree Patel

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