Come Fly With Me

 

Today I want you to fly with me as I share with you a fable called Jonathan Livingston Seagull – A Story, in novella form. You may have read it, so it’ll be a refresher for you. Chances are however that you are not aware of the Part Four that was rediscovered in 2014. And if you’ve never read the story- you’re in for a real treat.

By the Way – The book was made into a movie with a soundtrack by Neil Diamond. The music is good, but I don’t recommend the movie. There’s only so much you can do with a cast of seagulls.

Anyway, over the years, this novel became a classic and it is often considered one of the best inspirational or motivational books ever written. The author, Richard Bach, wrote 20 other books, is a former fighter pilot, a gypsy barnstormer, an airplane mechanic, and a seaplane flier.

Interestingly, this book was not written as one complete novel initially; Bach wrote it as a series of short stories which were published in a magazine called “Flying” in the latter half of the 1960s. Richard claimed that he was divinely directed to write it. Once he put it into book form Bach struggled to get it published because it was so ahead of its time. Eventually it became one of the best-selling books ever after it was finally printed in 1970. And then, as I mentioned earlier, the lost Part Four of Jonathan Livingston Seagull was added a half century after the original instalments were penned. Bach reported that a near-death experience inspired him to finish that fourth part. He dedicated the book to “the real Jonathan Seagull, who lives within us all”.

I first ran across the book way back in my early 20’s and then it found its way to me again a few months ago. It’s about a very special seagull. A story for someone who yearns to fly. It’s a story for those of us who realize that our true freedom is to love and to choose to live every day of our lives as we best can.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull is named after John H. Livingston. He was a friend of Richard’s, a Waco Aircraft Company test pilot who died of a heart attack in 1974 at age 76 just after test flying an acrobatic home-built Pitts Special. By the way, in case you are interested, Jonathan, or Jon for short, means “YHWH has given” in Hebrew.

Now, to be honest I should tell you that I have sort of a love-hate relationship with seagulls. They’re loud, greedy, invasive, polluting, and aggressive. They eat anything that moves and a lot of things that don’t. My wife and I live in Port Stanley where you will find lots of them. On the beach, soaring over the lake in the breeze, fighting over a dead fish on the sand, or trying to steal some of the French fries that I just purchased for my grand-kids.

I recall the one and only camping trip that my wife and I took together. She is not a camper. We were on our way up to the near north and were standing on the deck of the Chi-Cheemaun ferry, having left Tobermory on our way to Manitoulin Island. It was a gusty day, and there were seagulls soaring up ahead at the front of the ferry near the smokestack. We were looking up at them and admiring what must’ve been a very joyful experience for them when several of them just let the crap fly. Seagull poop. It splattered on our clothes, our faces, our hair. I spent pretty well the remainder of our ferry ride in one of the washrooms trying to get the foul faeces off my sweater.

Good old seagulls.

Seagulls aren’t mentioned in the traditional sacred texts: Bible, Quran, Talmud, The Vedas and Upanishads. But some consider Jonathan Livingston Seagull to be a sacred narrative, a gospel all on its own.

So, here’s a question that some have asked: “Is Jonathan Livingston Seagull about Jesus?”

Well, the story is replete with allegorical references to the biblical story of Jesus Christ. Allegory being a story within a story. A story that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning. Jonathan the seagull is ridiculed, punished, and banished for his gospel of truth, which is to believe in one’s own greatness. Jesus too was ridiculed and punished at the end of his life. But they both overcame death and returned to the earthly plane to teach others.

Eric Butterworth was one of the leading spokespersons on “practical mysticism.” He is considered a legend and spiritual icon in the Unity movement. He said this in his lecture called Dare to Dream:

“One of the things that has been very hopeful and enlightening in the last few years, was the little fiction story of Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Totally impractical story. Editors didn’t know what to do with it. They didn’t know whether it was a child’s story, a fantasy, or what. Defying everyone, it became one of the all-time best sellers.

You may recall in this story, Jonathan Livingston Seagull has a talk with Maynard Gull, who was the gull with the broken wing, who is symbolic of the pitiful state that so many people are in- with habits of self limitation, and physical afflictions, and race prejudice, and social injustice, and poverty, and so forth, living lives that go on without hope.”

Eric goes on to say: “Jonathan said to Maynard Gull, “You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.” Maynard said, “Are you saying that I can fly?” He’d been walking, dragging this wing around with him for a long time. Jonathan said, “I say you are free,” and Maynard Gull rose himself to the highest stature, raised his wings and flapped them, and he flew away, and he was totally healed. “

The helpless gull dropped his helplessness and rose and flew. Sounds a bit like healings performed by Jesus, does it not?

World renowned contemporary abstract artist and writer Gheorghe Virtosu said this about the book:

“The one book which has always stayed with me since early childhood is Richard Bach’s A Seagull Called Jonathan Livingston. This is a short story which talks about overcoming limits and getting to be the best version of yourself. The seagull Jonathan Livingston is an individual who gets set apart in a class of his own by his exceptional ability to fly fast and high. Even when his kind turns their back to him, he perseveres in following his true calling, and in doing so, he breaks the bonds of ignorance and fear and makes it his mission in life to guide others in finding their way to freedom. It is an impactful story on soul-searching and self-discovery, while always staying true to oneself, under all circumstances.”

So, let’s go deeper into this fascinating allegory, this story of Jonathan Livingston Seagull.

In PART 1 we learn that Jonathan Livingston is a young gull who is quite different from the other birds in his Flock. His fellow seagulls only care about food and eating and are suspicious of him because he loves flying and wants to fly faster and higher. Loves practising airborne acrobatics and testing the limits of his speed and form. Even his parents are dismayed that Jonathan spends whole days, all alone, experimenting with flight.

After a failed dive, Jonathan nearly gives up on his dream, but he rises to the challenge. He triumphs by giving up his fear of failure! He achieves terminal velocity in his dive and wild with joy he realises the reason for life! To lift himself out of ignorance, to find himself as a creature of excellence and intelligence and skill. To be free.

Excited about this new discovery, Jonathan returns to his flock eager to share what he learned with the members, but they declare him an Outcast for breaking their rules. He is shamed for his reckless irresponsibility and for violating the dignity and tradition of the Gull Family. He is cast out of gull society and banished to a solitary life.

Many years pass, and Jonathan has aged, having lived a fine, long, but solitary life while learning to perfect his flying. One evening he is flanked in flight by two gleaming gulls who invite him to ascend with them to a higher plane of existence. And he does so.

In PART 2 we are told that Jonathan believes that he is now in heaven. He finds that his outer form has changed. His new body glows brilliant white and flies more surely and easily, though it still does have some limits. He is met by a group of other gulls who communicate with him telepathically.

They think as he does, that the most important thing in living is to reach out and touch perfection in that which they most love to do; and that is to fly.

Jonathan then trains with an instructor named Sullivan Gull, who admires Jonathan’s abilities, and tells Jonathan he is the best pupil he’s ever had, that he is a gull in a million, having learned so much at one time on earth that, like most other gulls, he did not have to go through a thousand lifetimes to reach his present state of perfection.

In his conversations with Chiang, the Elder Gull of this new Flock, Jonathan learns that his true nature lives everywhere at once across space and time and that there are ways to transcend even the physical limits of his body. Eventually, Jonathan masters instantaneous teleportation, becoming Chiang’s special pupil. Before Chiang eventually leaves for another world, Jonathan learns from him that true heaven consists of being aware of oneself as infinite.

As Jonathan learns more and more, he cannot stop thinking about the world he left behind on earth—he longs to return and teach other gulls the truths he has learned in this new realm.

So, Jonathan comes back to earth and approaches a recently outcast gull from his own Flock named Fletcher Lynd Seagull. Admiring Fletcher’s flight, Jonathan offers to take Fletcher on as a pupil on the condition that he forgives the Flock and that one day they will both return to this Flock and share with it the things they have learned together. Fletcher agrees, and the two begin flying lessons.

In PART 3 we learn that after about three months, Jonathan has amassed a small group of six special pupils [Disciples], outcasts all, whom he trains in flight techniques and mental exercises to help them break the chains of their bodies.

He also teaches them about their true spiritual nature and how they can reconnect with the flock. The students are confused at first but slowly begin to understand what he is talking about. When one gull with a bad wing manages to fly after speaking to Jonathan, rumors begin to spread that Jon is divine.

One day, Jonathan tells his students that the time has come to return to their Flock and share their knowledge. His students are doubtful but agree nonetheless to follow him back to their old shore. Not unexpectedly, the Flock shuns Jonathan and his pupils as they demonstrate their feats of flight, but slowly, some curious gulls begin approaching Jonathan and his group, asking to learn to become better fliers.  

Soon hundreds and hundreds of gulls gather every day to listen to Jonathan’s messages. Messages about the glory of freedom and about the rituals, superstitions, and limitations that stand in the way of true freedom. Jonathan is rumored to be the Son of the Great Gull himself, though Jonathan frequently laments the fact that the others cannot simply see him – as one of them.

After Fletcher crashes into a cliff and has a near-death experience, the other gulls begin to hail Fletcher, too, as a Divine gull. Jonathan tells Fletcher that it is time for him to ascend, and leaves Fletcher behind to continue his legacy. Fletcher, distraught but determined to carry on Jonathan’s teachings, assumes his new role as instructor of Jonathan’s pupils.

In the rediscovered PART 4 we read about Fletcher and his new Flock of pupils, [who like St. Paul of the New Testament] travel up and down the coastline on their missionary journeys, spreading their messages to new Flocks. As more and more gulls take up Jonathan’s message, a golden age of flight and innovation commences. Fletcher becomes an icon in his own right.

As Jonathan’s adherents grow in numbers, they begin ignoring his original teachings and focus on idealising and idolising Jonathan and his original pupils. As these first students pass on, their graves become shrines where devotees, in ritual, drop pebbles on their tombs. Groups of gulls gather weekly, on Tuesdays rather than Sundays, to obsessively recount the miracles of Jonathan’s making, and after a few centuries, hardly any flying is done any more. Jonathan’s teachings are only discussed in the abstract. Sound familiar?

Some gulls, however, begin to resist the rituals and sermons, the ceremonies and rites. They practice better flying and end up circling back to Jonathan’s original desire for his Flock. That of expanding the self through pushing one’s physical limitations in flight and becoming the best possible version of oneself. One of the disenchanted, a young gull called Anthony Seagull, feels he is surrounded by hypocrisy and empty ritual, and seeks to end his life by dive-bombing out of the sky. On the way down to the water, though, he is approached by a gleaming gull who compliments him on his style and form. When Anthony asks the gull his name, the gull introduces himself as “Jon.”  And so, ends the story.

Richard Bach, the author, was asked about the one insight that he would want to give his readers. He said this:

“I think the source of our sorrow and the source of our joy are intimately entwined. Our sorrow is that we have forgotten who we are, we have forgotten we are one with that source of all life–absolutely indestructible, perfect, joyful. The source of our joy is when we remember that. So, if I could say one word, in the deepest sense, without any explanation, to myself, I would say “remember.”

So, say to yourself: Anytime I need a reminder of my spiritual strength and capacities, I recall the seagull and I remember that I am one with that source of all life. And that I too soar on the wings of divinity.

Keep manifesting only good things 🙂 
Tony

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Your Very Best Quote of the Week -Vol. 14

 

Each Saturday [or thereabouts] I share with you a really good quote. Now, the weekly quote may be one that I enjoy the most or perhaps one that is quite controversial, or unusual, or thought-provoking.

You may agree with it. Or not.
Either way, please let me know what you think.

February 26, 2022
“None of us is is getting out of here alive,
So please stop treating yourself like an afterthought.
Eat the delicious food.
Walk in the sunshine.
Jump in the ocean.
Say the truth that you are carrying in your heart
Like a hidden treasure.
Be silly.
Be kind.
Be weird.
There is no time for anything else.”
Richard Gere 

February 19, 2022
“For even as the drop circulates through clouds
And plants and the cells of human beings,
Bringing the blessing of life to many forms,
It will reunite one day with its Source,
The great ocean of love that creates and sustains the wholeness of life.”
Joan Borysenko

February 12, 2022
“Truly, if human beings only knew
Of how many miracles they performed every day,
Just by being here,
Nothing else in our lives would ever again overwhelm us,
Frighten us,
Or seem impossible.”
Mike Dooley

February 5, 2022
“Things may happen around you,
And things may happen to you,
But the only things that matter are the things that happen in you”
Eric Butterworth

January 29, 2022
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,
And many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.
Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things
Cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth
All one’s lifetime.”
Mark Twain

January 22, 2022
“If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.”
Emily Dickenson

January 15, 2022
“If you want to change the fruits,
You will first have to change the roots.
If you want to change the visible,
You must first change the invisible.”
T. Harv Eker

January 8, 2022
“We are born of a Divine Intelligence that expresses as the entire Universe.
An Intelligence that’s responsive, caring, and in love with us.
We’re here to live lives of beauty and meaning,
And to those ends we have but to think and the elements bow;
To speak and our words summon legions;
To physically move and the stars of our lives are rearranged.”
Mike Dooley

January 1, 2022
“Often when you think you’re at the end of something,
You’re at the beginning of something else.”
Mr. [Fred] Rogers

December 25, 2021
“Kindness is like snow.
It beautifies everything it covers.”
Kahlil Gibran

December 18, 2021
“You are given the gifts of the gods,
You create your reality according to your beliefs.
Yours is the creative energy that makes your world.
There are no limitations to the self except those you believe in.”
Seth

December 11, 2021
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion
Against injustice and lying and greed.
If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.”
William Faulkner

December 4, 2021
“Since we’ve destroyed ourselves and the world through senseless hatred,
Then surely we can restore ourselves and the world through senseless love.”
Rav Kook

November 27, 2021
“You have power over your mind – not outside events.
Realize this, and you will find strength.”
Marcus Aurelius

November 20, 2021
“There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer.
No disease that love will not heal.
No door that enough love will not open.”
Emmet Fox

Keep manifesting good things 🙂
Tony

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13 Affirmations of a Prosperous Spirit

 

Dr. Joe Vitale wrote “The Awakened Millionaire – A Manifesto”

In that neat book he shared with us his 13 affirmations

For achieving spiritual and financial success.

They are declarations for you – the spiritual entrepreneur

I’ve adapted them for you so that you can use them to help you achieve

Total abundance!

Here goes:

I affirm that as a divine embodiment of prosperity

1. I am driven first by my passion, purpose, and mission.
2. I use money as a soulful tool to make a positive impact.
3. I am persistently empowered, believing in myself absolutely.
4. I am committed to growing, improving, reinventing, and always discovering.
5. I am unshakably bold, taking calculated risks, and not hesitating.
6. I am guided by the soulful resonance of my intuition.
7. I know wealth is everything that I have, not just money.
8. I hold a deep gratitude for all that I have and achieve.
9. I am permanently connected to Universal abundance.
10. I am generous, ethical, and focused on the good of others.
11. I champion the spirit of win–win–win for all concerned.
12. I soulfully share my entrepreneurial gifts.
13. I lead by example as the catalyst for transformation in others.

I see the face of the Divine in everyone I meet, and I take baby steps in the direction of my dreams, every day!

This or something even better still.

For my highest good and the highest good of everyone around me.

And so it is.

Thank you, divine intelligence. 

Keep manifesting only good things 🙂 
Tony

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23 Declarations for the Spiritual Entrepreneur

 

T. Harv Ecker is the author of Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

[Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth]

In that neat book he shares with us his declarations [like affirmations]

For achieving spiritual and financial success.

They are declarations for you – the spiritual entrepreneur

I’ve adapted them for you so that you can use them to help you achieve

Inner World growth for your Outer World success.

Here goes:

Placing my hand on my heart I state the following declarations:

  1. My inner world creates my outer world.
  2. What I learned about money isn’t necessarily true. I choose to adopt new ways of thinking that support my happiness and success.
  3. What I modelled around money was their way. I choose my way
  4. I release my non-supportive money experiences from the past and create a new and rich future for myself.
  5. I observe my thoughts and entertain only those that empower me.
  6. I create the exact level of my financial success.
  7. My goal is to become a millionaire and more.
  8. I commit to being rich.
  9. I focus on opportunities over obstacles.
  10. I think big! I choose to help thousands and thousands of people.
  11. I get ready, I fire, and I aim. [3 simple steps to success]
  12. I promote my value to others with passion and enthusiasm.
  13. I admire, bless and love rich people, and I am one too.
  14. I am an excellent receiver. I am open and willing to receive massive amounts of money into my life.
  15. I model and associate with rich and successful people who can do it, and so can I.
  16. I choose to get paid for my results.
  17. I am bigger than my problems and I can handle any problems.
  18. I always think “both”: spirituality and prosperity.
  19. I focus on building my net worth.
  20. I am an excellent money manager.
  21. My money works hard for me and makes me more and more money.
  22. I am committed to constantly learning and growing.
  23. I act in spite of fear, doubt, worry, inconvenience, discomfort or mood [6 blocks to action].

Touching my head I say: “I have a millionaire mind!”

This or something better still.

For my highest good and the highest good of everyone around me [the highest and best for all concerned].

And so it is.

Thank you, divine intelligence. 

Keep manifesting only good things 🙂 
Tony

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You Are An Artist

 

Yes, you are an artist!

As Don Miguel Ruiz Jr. [2021 New Thought Walden Award honouree and author of The Mastery of Self and 4 other spiritual books] says:

“…I am an artist, and the canvas for my work of art is my life.

The instruments I’m going to use to create that work of art are my body, my mind, my intent, and my will.

I can create the most perfect nightmare or the most harmonious dream – and to be honest, it usually fluctuates between the two.

I am the artist of my life because only I get to perceive life from my own unique point of view.

That is the same for all of us.”

Yes, you and me!

So, here is a prayer for you

It is adapted from Julia Cameron’s An Artist’s Prayer.

Hope you like it and apply it to your daily living

Oh, great Spirit.

I want to be of greater service to you and to my fellow humans.

I offer myself to you as an instrument.

I open myself to your creativity in my life.

I surrender to you my old ideas and I welcome your new and more expansive ideas.

I trust that you will lead me, and I trust that it is safe to follow you.

I know that you created me, and that creativity is your nature, as it is mine.

I ask you to unfold my life according to your plan, not my low self-worth.

Help me to believe that it is not too late to be healed.

That I am not too small or too flawed to be made whole by you and through others.

Help me to love others, to nurture their unfolding, to encourage their growth,

and to understand their fears.

Help me to know that I am not alone and that I am loved and lovable.

Help me to create a life of love, joy, wonder and absolute delight.

You create every day.

Creativity is your nature.

Your life is a work of art.

Keep manifesting only good things  
Tony 🙂

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I Am Letting Go

 

What do you have to release?

There are so many less than positive issues in your life that you need to get rid of.

Here’s a sampling:

Repeat after me

I am letting go, releasing and replacing

  • Self-defeating and pre-conceived notions,
  • Negative patterns of behaviour
  • Stinkin Thinkin
  • Self-destructive paradigms, mind sets, memes, and superstitions.
  • Hardwired attitudes
  • Limiting beliefs
  • Oppressive thoughts
  • Self-imposed limitations
  • False assumptions
  • Reflexive emotional reactions
  • Unconscious habits
  • Automatic, subconscious, unhelpful and detrimental conditioning
  • Poor genetic programming
  • Habitual compulsions
  • Scarcity thoughts
  • Addictions
  • Implanted familial and cultural influences, labels, and compartmentalisations
  • Runaway dogma
  • Self directed abuse
  • Ego comparisons
  • Mindless loops of self-doubt

Once you release them, you need to replace them.

With what?

Positive affirmations and unlimited beliefs!

You can find a variety of them in my previous blogs

About Manifesting Abundance

And Mission, Vision, Goals and Purpose.

Keep manifesting only good things  
Tony 🙂

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Your Very Best Quote of the Week -Vol. 13

 

Each Saturday I share with you a really good quote. Now, the weekly quote may be one that I enjoy the most or perhaps one that is quite controversial, or unusual, or thought-provoking.

You may agree with it. Or not.
Either way, please let me know what you think.

November 6, 2021
“My mission in life is not merely to survive,
But to thrive.
And to do so with some passion, some compassion,
Some humor, and some style.”
Maya Angelou

October 30, 2021
“If you wish to understand the Universe
Think of energy, frequency, and vibration.”
Nikola Tesla

October 23, 2021
“The meaning of life is to find your gift.
The purpose of life is to give it away.”
Pablo Picasso

October 16, 2021
“You are a wave on the ocean of Divinity,
So go out and make waves.”
Neale Donald Walsch

October 9, 2021
“There are no accidents or coincidences in this world.
Nothing is by chance.
Everything you’re experiencing
Is a direct manifestation of where you’re focusing
Your energy, attention, and consciousness.
The more you can relax into this deep love and stillness,
The easier it becomes to manifest your dreams.”
🌷Jafree Ozwald

October 2, 2021
“Courage doesn’t always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
At the end of the day saying
‘I will try again tomorrow.’”
Mary Anne Radmacher

September 25, 2021
“You’re picky about the car you drive.
You’re picky about what you wear.
You’re picky about what you put in your mouth.
We want you to be pickier about what you think.”
Esther Hicks (Abraham and Jerry)

September 18, 2021
“Sometimes just getting up and carrying on
Is brave and magnificent”
The Horse

September 11, 2021
“Allow that you are at this moment not in the wrong place in your life.
Consider the possibility that there have been no errors in the game.
Just consider it.
Consider that there’s not an error,
And everything that’s come down on your plate is the way it is,
And here we are.”
Ram Dass

September 4, 2021
“As we express our gratitude,
We must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words,
But to live by them.”
John F. Kennedy

August 28, 2021
“Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity:
It must be produced and discharged and used up
In order to exist at all.”
William Faulkner

August 21, 2021
“Everything exists for joy.
There is not one other reason for life than joy.
We’ve got nothing to prove to anyone,
Because nobody other than All-That-Is is watching.
In other words, we’re not trying to get brownie points from some other galaxy.
We’re not trying to get someplace else.
We’re not trying to get it done, because there is no ending—we cannot get it done.
Everything exists for the purpose of joy in the moment.”
Abraham Hicks

August 14, 2021
“The greatest illusion
Is that life should be perfect”
The Mole

August 7, 2021
” Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement.
Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.”
Helen Keller

Keep manifesting good things 🙂
Tony

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Your 8 I AM Affirmations

 

Here are 8 Special Affirmations I use every day. I have adapted them from a book by Canfield and Andrews.

Pick your options, choose the best, or make up your own.

I AM eagerly waking up every day feeling vibrant, passionate, and excited about living my purpose, enjoying everything around me, and leading a fulfilling, fun-filled, happy, and productive life

I AM spending joyful times with my wife/partner/husband and amazing group of friends, relatives and acquaintances as we engage in creative, healthy, educational, entertaining, and pleasurable activities together

I AM being recognized in my livelihood/at work/ in my business for the great results I achieve

I AM regularly assisting/supporting/motivating/teaching/inspiring/empowering/enriching/healing, encouraging/helping/guiding/instructing: clients/listeners/readers/students/mentees/viewers/members/customers/subscribers

I AM leaving the doctor’s/health practitioner’s office feeling thrilled and happy about my excellent health, positive vital signs, perfect weight, and great test results which are much better than expected for someone of my age and body type

I AM incredibly pleased with the great role model that I have become for my family, friends, associates, acquaintances, and extended community, and I regularly receive accolades for this

I AM taking action today and every day to be even more financially secure, healthy, loved and loving, now and in the future

I AM bright eyed, clear headed and bushy tailed

     I totally love, accept and forgive myself.

     This or something better still

     For my highest good and that of everyone around me

     And so it is!

     Thank you Source.

Keep manifesting only good things 🙂 

Tony

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A Taoist Parable

 

During a time of great drought, a Taoist master was asked by members of a village if he could help bring rain to their dry fields. They confessed trying many other approaches before reaching out to him, but with no success.

The master agreed to come and asked for a small hut with a garden that he could tend. For three days, he tended the garden, performing no special rituals or asking anything further from the villagers. On the fourth day, rain began to fall on the parched earth.

When asked how he had achieved such a miracle, the master answered that he was not responsible for the rain. However, he explained, when he came to the village, he had sensed disharmony within himself. Each day, as he tended the garden, he returned a little more to himself. When he returned to balance, the rain came naturally.

Apparently, this was one of psychologist Carl Jung’s favorite stories, told to him by Richard Wilhelm, translator of the Chinese divination text, I Ching: Book of Changes.

The Taoist master did not cause the rain to fall. But the “synchronicity” of events made it appear so. Synchronicity could be understood as coincidences threaded together by meaning. And the meaning in this case was that an outer event mirrored the inner balance achieved by the master.

Have you ever wondered about the coincidences in your life? The “synchronicity” of events? Could it be The Law of Attraction? Are your thoughts creating things? People, events and circumstances?

I think so 🙂

Keep manifesting only good things 🙂 
Tony


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A Mission and Life Purpose

 

I recently updated and expanded my Mission and Life Purpose. You can read it below. You can even use it to develop or revise your own. 

IT IS MY MISSION AND LIFE PURPOSE:

This time ‘round

To have fun and to be happy

To experience joy and savour the succulent sweetness of life

To row my boat gently down the stream

To float in the direction of my dreams

To drift with the current of the Divine

To love and to live – freely, fully, and completely

To transform myself and become a better person

To create consciously, and live purposefully, courageously and deliberately

To be a good husband, father, and grandfather

To follow my EGS [Emotional Guidance Systsem], paying attention to my feelings and listening to my intuition

To be a dedicated student and patient teacher of spiritual values

To act as a guide and channel/conduit for healing, joy, compassion, peace and abundance

To be an expression and example of forgiveness, gratitude, love, beauty, and truth.

To be a servant of the Divine, inspiring, influencing, empowering and motivating people, and enriching their lives

To help make the world a better place for everyone and everything, with the help of angels, spirit guides and beings of light

To help others heighten their self-awareness, awaken their inner strengths and then apply them towards their personal transformation

To be independent of the good opinion of others and free from the need for approval

To be so much more than what I see when I look in the mirror

To fulfil my role as a vessel of Universal energy

To live my life from the heart, implementing WWAMD [What Would the Ascended Masters Do?]

To be patient, kind, calm, easygoing, relaxed, flexible, and accepting

Keep manifesting only good things 🙂 
Tony

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