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Be Love!

Quote by Buddha:
“All that we are is the result of what we have thought.”
Very simple and to-the-point, thank you Buddha! Our minds can be our best friend or our worst enemy. It all depends on how we monitor our thoughts. If we can keep a positive attitude, an attitude of gratitude, and flowing optimistic thoughts we will be in good shape. We need to be kind to ourselves, we need to nurture ourselves, and trust our innermost desires. We need to be our own best friend, and beware of judgmental people, as well as our own inner critic causing havoc with our positive thoughts. We need to stand guard at the door of our sacred thoughts, trust our instincts and intuition, we will know the truth, we will feel it and believe it to be so.
We must stop the self-sabotage and be encouraging and affirmative in our thinking along our life path. Saying positive affirmations daily is one important practice to have as a discipline. The more we tell ourselves we are worthy, and respected, and talented, and loved, and courageous, and successful, and fearless, we shall be.
Stop the worrying and become a warrior instead. Don’t waste one more second worrying about tomorrow or yesterday. Live in the moment and know that this is all we have for sure and make the best of it. It’s just as easy to put a smile on your face as a frown, and when we are smiling there’s an actual chemical reaction that gives us the endorphins that keeps us in that optimistic mindset. On the same token if we’re frowning, miserable and negative we’re just going to continue to bring ourselves down lower and lower. 

Take the high road and look up, trust the Universe and ask for everything that you need and desire, trust that it shall be, that it is your destiny. Make sure to take time to help others, be kind, be love, and remember; what goes around comes around. To give is to receive.

Keep Smiling!


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Dream Labyrinth

Quote by Marsha Norman:
“Dreams are illustrations…
from the book your soul is writing about you.”
Oh how I love this quote! I only just discovered it a few months ago. As I flip through my little Dream Quotes book I have come across it quite a few times since then. It so resonates with my soul. I guess I’ve always known all along that my dreams are important to my life purpose and ultimate legacy. I love that I get to see glimpses of my soul book through my dreams. I am continually creating new chapters from my dreaming imagination directly through my heart and into my soul.
I wonder sometimes where these dreams come from and why in the world I would be dreaming them, but eventually I will read my soul book and all the pieces will divinely come together. 
So until then I will be patient and not worry if I can’t figure out what a dream may have meant in the moment, because I know eventually it will come to light. Obviously I need to work through some things that may even be beyond my comprehension right now. Ultimately these ideas and lessons are, and will be shaping my character throughout my remaining days. 
It’s going to be a great book to read when it comes out; when I move on to the next dimension I will definitely bring my reading glasses! Wait a minute I just realized I won’t need them anymore!


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Breathe in Life!

Quote by Margaret DeLand:

“One must desire something to be alive.”
I firmly agree with this quote otherwise what would be the purpose of living? Life needs to be exciting, with some purpose, with some dreams and deep desires to keep us alive and excited about the gift of life.
One must desire something to feel alive, not desiring to just be alive. Feeling alive and being alive are two different things. We need to have a purpose, a dream, a goal, a desire to keep getting up each morning. If life were only about the mundane tasks of day-to-day living what would be the point? There needs to be something to hope for, to be excited about, to care about and desire to accomplish to make it all worthwhile.
I have so many dreams, sometimes I get overwhelmed with all of them, but I can’t imagine how bleak my life would be without them, without any desire to persevere. One must at least try to fulfill their dreams.
I am thankful to be alive and to wake up each morning, (not necessarily early since I’m not a morning person!), but when I do wake up I look forward to my day ahead. I desire to accomplish my goals and check them off my daily list of things to do.  I check off the mundane tasks, but most importantly I attempt to accomplish my creative ideas and desires, those that get my juices flowing and cause me to keep smiling, to be optimistic in my day. I like to share the loving energy that I feel because of my desire to be alive – right back into the Universe.
Excerpt from a song I wrote: “Breathe in Peace, Breathe out Love, FEEL ALIVE, Sharing Love in this world opens your Heart.


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Ted Talk Inspiration – 30 Days Essay Writing

If you have just started to read my blogs, you will notice I have been posting one per day for the past few weeks. Here is a bit of background behind this daily practice:

7/4/18
This is a beginning, a new ritual for the next 30 Days, that I was inspired to do by a recent TED Talk I watched. This is the second day now that I’m writing these essays. It’s a good way to get in touch with my inner desires, and share this universal insight with others. I am getting my inspiration from these wonderful quotes from my special Dream Book. I have been flipping to a page of dream quotes each day for the last several years, and they have now become the perfect start to these essays.


Click on the link below to listen to this inspiring Ted Talk:

TED TALK  

Try something new for 30 days | Matt Cutts

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Beauty in Being Alone!

Quote by Pearl S. Buck:
“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up.”
I identify with this quote because I am a lover of my solitude. I savor my alone time, and I rarely if ever feel lonely, because I choose to spend quality time with me, myself, and I! I’m not saying that I’m an introvert, as a double Gemini that would be almost impossible! I do love social outings with friends, and love to communicate my ideas and curiosities about life.
But it is true unless you’re really alone you can’t renew your springs, or as I think of it, I can’t get in touch with my deepest dreams and desires if I’m distracted by the outside world. It’s in your own inner soul and deep in your heart that all the dream seed planting and marinatingoccurs.
I like this saying about being with yourself and enjoying your own company: “In many ways I prefer my own company”! If I don’t like to be with myself then I can’t imagine how anyone else would enjoy me!
Take time to be alone and plant your dream seeds so that they will sprout into seedlings of reality and continue to grow, just remember to keep watering so they never dry up!

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Dreams Realized

Quote by James Allen:
“Dreams are the seedlings of realities.”
James Allen has said many things that have touched my heart in his quotes. He was such an inspirational writer and is famous for his book from 1903: “As a Man Thinketh”. This dream quote is so perfect with its preciseness, very few words but massive meaning to me.
Almost every night I have interesting dreams, sometimes little snippets that I remember, and sometimes I don’t remember them. Sometimes they’re long and detailed dreams, and sometimes they are just little moments that I experience. These stories in my subconscious, in my dream imagination, usually contain desires and things I need to work through in my life. 

It’s like when we plant a seed in the ground, we plant dream seeds deeply in our soul, until one day we have the dream again that reminds us of that seed we planted, and suddenly we become aware of that long-lost desire. We need to nurture that desire and watch it grow from a seed into a seedling, and water it and offer it our love and attention, so that ultimately it becomes a blossoming reality in our lives.
These seedlings start from something, from a thought, from a desire, from a plan in childhood, and we need to focus on what’s important to us and not forget about these seedlings. To grow anything in a garden takes patience and nurturing and hard work but in the end there is that ultimate reward, the pride in seeing what we’ve accomplished, what we’ve become because we planted one tiny little dream seed.
I will continue to be in touch with my dreams and pick out those very special seeds and watch them become seedlings and grow into a dream realized. “For as you dream so shall you become.” is another James Allen quote that is my absolute favorite of all the time.

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Moments in Time!

Quotes by Kahlil Gibran:
“The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness; and knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.”
I am always talking about being in the “in-between”, I guess a better way to put it is living in the moment. In between yesterday and tomorrow is today, this moment which is all we really know for sure that we have. I like this quote; it really stops me in my tracks and keeps me aware of being mindful, and not getting too far ahead of myself or looking back in the wrong direction.
I do love the feeling of timelessness when I’m creating art or writing, which is the perfect experience of living in the moment. It seems our minds like to swirl about thinking about the past and the future and forgetting that now is the time that we should be focused on. 
Life is ephemeral, and it’s so important to enjoy each moment and be grateful for our lives. Writing a gratitude journal every morning is something I’ve been doing for years; it keeps me grounded, and reminds me of all the good fortune in my life. There’s always something to be grateful for even if things are not going the way you had hoped. If you stop and think about the simple daily gifts of life there’s always room for gratitude. Brightening someone’s day, laughing with a friend, doing a random act of kindness, and then the reward of seeing someone smile in gratitude! I have always said: “To Give is to Receive”.
At this exact moment in time I am looking out my window and I see a beautiful pink sky as the sun is setting here in Sedona, Arizona after a day of threatening monsoons with clouds and thunder. I like to call this time of year, “Heart Cloud Season”, since there are always so many different cloud formations every day moving at a very fast pace, sometimes causing buckets of rain and sometimes causing beautiful rainbows. I am always out there with my camera searching for rainbows and heart clouds! I shall now call it Heart Cloud and Rainbow Season, I just came up with that idea in this moment! 

This is a gift from Mother Nature and it is only momentary because the sunset will never be exactly the same again. I guess there’s a good lesson about timelessness just looking in the sky at the clouds, at a rainbow, and at a sunset! 

We must keep dreaming, enjoying every moment and always take the time to express the gratitude in each miraculous day of life we are given.

I took this photo a few years ago during monsoon season in Sedona!

Heart Cloud photo taken a few days ago in Sedona!

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Keep on Zen Dreaming!

Quote by Anais Nin:
“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”
With so many dreams of mine, it might be fun to take the advice of this quote and release them all into the Universe, and then wait and see what gifts they bring. 
I love this quote because it gives me a childlike sense of wonder in my heart and soul. Oh how I long for the innocent days of my youth, spending the day flying a kite! This was the age when we began to dream, and find out who we were, and what we loved to do, and who we wanted to become.

Sometimes I do get a little confused because I’m not sure which dream to focus on first, or how to prioritize my dreams there are so many of them. I feel fortunate having so many dreams, and hopefully with these odds one of them will come true! But for now, when I really think about it, there’s only one dream that I could actually envision, the others are just ideas in my imagination that I’m still developing and creating.
It seems over the years so many dreams come and go, but I guess the really important ones stick with you for a lifetime. Those are the ones we need to release, set free, and if they keep coming back, those are the ones we must pursue. 

I just read another quote by Friedrich Schiller that sums it all up: “Keep true to the dreams of your youth.” 

Keep on Zen Dreaming!


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"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

Quote by Jorge Luis Borges:
“Writing is nothing more than a guided dream.”
I love this quote, since the act of writing to me is similar to painting, or drawing, or creating music. When I’m doing any of those things I often feel as if I’m in another dimension, without distraction expressing myself authentically through my heart and soul. It really is my happy place, a place of solitude.
How often do we really get the time to just retreat into our soul and have the luxury of solitude to create? Sometimes it’s difficult when you’re at home with all the normal distractions of day-to-day life. In a way it’s sometimes easier when you take yourself on an excursion, away from your normal day-to-day routine, I know I find I can be more creative sometimes that way. At least it offers a different perspective, and a different environment that might pique my curiosity or creative intention. I do believe the creative soul needs solitude, and the more the better! 
When we’re in our dream state it’s the ultimate solitude, it’s just you and your soul communicating. When I’m daydreaming I feel a sensuous enjoyment in those moments of pure imagination. I rarely have the time to daydream, since I’m not the napping type, but I do try to take a few moments each morning to meditate and be quiet listening to my inner desires and dreams.
I love that place in time, when I have no idea what time it is, or how much time has passed, and especially when it results in something that I have created and am happy with. The creative flow is a beautiful place to spend time away from time!
I continue to listen to my dreams, dream my dreams, write about them, create lyrics and music, and artistically express them. I can’t imagine life without doing any of those activities. 
One of my favorite quotes by Albert Einstein is: “Imagination is more important than knowledge” it’s the perfect quote to begin writing or creating whatever you can dream or imagine!


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Pursue Your Dreams!

 Quote by Barbara Sher:

“As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.”
Yes! It’s all about getting over that fear and finding the courage to make that decision, then momentum kicks in and watch out! I’ve seen it happen in my life on a few occasions and it’s quite amazing to witness! It seems everything starts falling into place and all the things you were worried about never come to be! You feel alive and ready and free to pursue and make your dream come true! 
I will be thrilled once I make my decisions on what road to take and which dream to pursue and then I will let the magic happen!
In the meantime I just have to keep on dreaming and wait for that ping, that inner voice of knowing; all is well and watch as the path is laid in divine order in front of me. I know my dreams will come true if I have faith, courage, determination, and the resilience to overcome any obstacles that may be in my way. I don’t want to force anything, it has to feel right and then I will move forward in my pursuit. I will let the momentum move me as it has done in the past.
Today I made these beautiful heart-shaped signs with my 11 affirmations and I have placed them in my home so I can read them throughout my waking hours. 
I’m reading an excellent book right now entitled the 90-day Life by Dr. Jenn Faber, and I was inspired to make a list of all the things that I want to happen in my life, and read it for at least five minutes per day. Keeping these positive goals and affirmations flowing will quiet any self-sabotage or inner critic negativity.This daily practice has been proven to miraculously change your mindset utilizing the plasticity of our brain to rewire our thoughts. Quite fascinating reading, I’m about three-quarters of the way through, and I really enjoy her writing style, very easy and authentic. I bought the book several weeks ago when I saw her on Facebook, it was a Project Happiness interview and she was sharing her inspiring life story. The book was patiently waiting for me to pick it up when the time was right to start reading!
I shall continue to pursue my dreams and look forward to sharing them with everyone one day soon! In the meantime I hope everyone continues to pursue their dreams, let the momentum take you where you need to go, and enjoy life wide awake one ZEN Moment at a time!


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