Found this as a comment on YouTube ~ Beautiful ~ Enjoy each sacred moment

100 Reasons To Stay Alive ❤️❤️❤️

1. to make your parents proud
2. to conquer your fears
3. to see your family again
4. to see your favourite artist live
5. to listen to music again
6. to experience a new culture
7. to make new friends
8. to inspire
9. to have your own children
10. to adopt your own pet
11. to make yourself proud
12. to meet your idols
13. to laugh until you cry
14. to feel tears of happiness
15. to eat your favourite food
16. to see your siblings grow
17. to pass school
18. to get tattoo
19. to smile until your cheeks hurt
20. to meet your internet friends
21. to find someone who loves you like you deserve
22. to eat ice cream on a hot day
23. to drink hot chocolate on a cold day
24. to see untouched snow in the morning
25. to see a sunset that sets the sky on fire
26. to see stars light up the sky
27. to read a book that changes your life
28. to see the flowers in the spring
29. to see the leaves change from green to brown
30. to travel abroad
31. to learn a new language
32. to learn to draw
33. to tell others your story in the hopes of helping them
34. Puppy kisses.
35. Baby kisses (the open mouthed kind when they smack their lips on your cheek).
36. Swear words and the release you feel when you say them.
37. Trampolines.
38. Ice cream.
39. Stargazing.
40. Cloud watching.
41. Taking a shower and then sleeping in clean sheets.
42. Receiving thoughtful gifts.
43. “I saw this and thought of you."
44. The feeling you get when someone you love says, “I love you."
45. The relief you feel after crying.
46. Sunshine.
47. The feeling you get when someone is listening to you/giving you their full attention.
48. Your future wedding.
49. Your favourite candy bar.
50. New clothes.
51. Witty puns.
52. Really good bread.
53. Holding your child in your arms for the first time.
54. Completing a milestone (aka going to college, graduating college, getting married, getting your dream job.)
55. The kind of dreams where you wake up and can’t stop smiling.
56. The smell before and after it rains.
57. The sound of rain against a rooftop.
58. The feeling you get when you’re dancing.
59. The person (or people) that mean the most to you. Stay alive for them.
60. Trying out new recipes.
61. The feeling you get when your favourite song comes on the radio.
62. The rush you get when you step onto a stage.
63. You have to share your voice and talents and knowledge with the world because they are so valuable.
64. Breakfast in bed.
65. Getting a middle seat in the movie theatre.
66. Breakfast for dinner (because it’s so much better at night than in the morning).
67. feeling of being loved
68. Forgiveness.
69. Water balloon fights.
70. New books by your favourite authors.
71. Fireflies.
72. Birthdays.
73. Realising that someone loves you.
74. Spending the day with someone you love.
75. Spending the whole day in bed.
76. Eating a whole pint of your favourite ice cream.
77. Floating in water on your back and just staring up at the sky.
78. First dates (even the bad ones make for funny stories.)
79. Bonfires and s'mores.
80. Relationships where you love someone but aren’t in love with them.
81. Coming home to someone you love.
82. The colour of autumn leaves when they change. Summer.
83. Singing songs at the top of your lungs with your friends.
84. Cuddling.
85. Being wrapped up in a warm bed.
86. Someone’s skin against yours.
87. Holding hands.
88. The kind of hugs when you can feel a weight being lifted off your shoulders. The kind of hug where your breath syncs with the other person’s, and you feel like the only two people in the world.
89. Singing off key with your best friends.
90. Road trips.
91. Spontaneous adventures.
92. The feeling of sand beneath your toes.
93. The feeling when the first ocean wave rolls up and envelops your toes and ankles and knees.
94. Thunderstorms.
95. Your first (or hundredth) trip to Disneyland.
96. The taste of your favourite food.
97. The child-like feeling you get on Christmas morning.
98. The day when everything finally goes your way.
99. Compliments and praise.
100. to look on this moment in 10 years time and realise you did it.

PS: there are so many beautiful things to live. so live, and live, and live.

Yes, it's copied.

By Ruth King

At this momentous time in our nation’s history, “equanimity” probably does not describe what most of us are striving for right now. On the contrary, many of us are striving for justice, for healing—some of us, for survival. Is the peace and balance of meditation taking us in the wrong direction?

Not in my understanding. In my experience, equanimity has great power—especially at times like these.

When I reflect on the power of equanimity, I think of those times when we see beyond judgment and self-interest and realize that we are choosing instead of reacting; those times when the pain of injustice is held in our hearts, while the mind is still, steady, and clear; those times when we make small choices that show great care and influence social balance. This is the power of equanimity.

We might begin to understand this power using nature as a metaphor. For example, equanimity can feel internally like a great mountain, with the mind solid and stable, undisturbed by the changing seasons. Or it can be like the ocean, with the mind vast, deep, and immeasurable, undisturbed by whatever swims, floats, or is housed in its waters. Equanimity can be like a strong fire — roaring, engulfing, and transmuting, undisturbed by whatever is thrown into it. Or like immense space — open, allowing, and receiving, undisturbed by the objects that arise and pass away.

As we walk through the coming week, we may want to call on the strength of these elemental inner resources for balance and equipoise. For example, there are times when we will need to stand our ground, strong like a mountain, and observe what emerges, or we may need to add a spark of fiery truth to a situation. Other times, we may need to open and allow more space around the tightness of our worries, or let go and be held by an ocean of love.

In all of these forms, equanimity is awareness so spacious that whatever arises in our mind and heart, whether agreeable or disagreeable, is small and incidental compared to awareness itself. In other words, when we are equanimous, nothing is left out of heart’s view.

Equanimity enables us to know the energetic movements of mind without reactivity. It is an experience of grounded presence in the midst of extremes, when the mind is steady and responsive, and when we can say to ourselves, “This moment is like this, and it doesn’t have to be different right now. I can allow what is here and offer what is needed.”

Imagine the power of this inner resource as we engage with the messy world in which we live.

And yet, equanimity is not something we can force. It’s an experience we come to recognize and nurture through mindfulness practice. Fortunately, even outside of formal meditation, you can orient the heart toward that experience simply by bringing to mind intentions of equanimity. I will give several examples here. My invitation to you is to find two or three that resonate with you, and try them at different times in your day. As you say them to yourself, take time to relax and linger in the goodwill motivating these phrases:

May I bear witness to things just as they are.

May I remain peaceful and let go of fixation.

May I offer care without hesitation, knowing I may be met with gratitude, anger, or resistance.

May I offer care, knowing I don’t control the course of life, suffering, or death.

May I find the inner resources to genuinely contribute where needed.

May I see my limits with compassion, just as I see the limits of others.

I care about the pain of others, yet I cannot control it.

I care for all beings, but my way is not the only way. All beings have their own journey, and I have mine.

May I be free from preference and prejudice.

May I see the world with quiet eyes.

Ruth King is the Founder of Mindful of Race Institute, LLC, and is a celebrated author, educator, and meditation teacher. Formally an organizational development consultant to Intel and Levi Strauss. King now teaches the Mindful of Race Training Program to leaders, teams, and organizations, weaving mindfulness-based principles with an exploration of our racial conditioning, its impact, and our potential. She has an M.A. in Clinical Psychology and is the author of Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism From The Inside Out.

Source: https://www.tenpercent.com/meditationweeklyblog/the-power-of-equanimity

I want to express my gratitude to all of the members of the City of Shamballa. Thank you for the past 13 years of contributions. Eternal gratitude. You are all amazing and I love you all.

Love and Light, 

Chris

"Trust in the many invisible arms that hold each one of you, that carry and comfort you, and know that not ever do you walk alone, for we are All One, and we are with you always, in all ways. And may all that your heart and soul desire and require to manifest a fulfilling life for you – one that is in perfect alignment with the higher plan of your soul and that of Mother Earth – manifest under grace, in perfect, harmonious and miraculous ways. And may this manifest through the abundant sources through which Mother/Father God provide. May all always be well in your world."

~ The Ascended Masters

From the website http://www.SubtleAnatomy.com

There exists 3 levels of Consciousness (Buddhic, Atmic, Monadic) that bridge the Individual with the Collective Whole.

A description of them is at the link below.

http://www.subtleanatomy.com/Buddhic%20body.htm ~ Divine Love/Unity (The Baptism Initiation is the first experience of the Buddhic Plane, see Gene Key 22.)

As One reaches the Buddhic plane of Consciousness, Oneness is Experienced 

"As a being, standing in the sun, suffused with its light, and pouring it forth, would feel no difference between ray and ray, but would pour forth along one as readily and easily as along another, so does one on the buddhic plane feel brotherhood (or sisterhood) and pours themself into any one who needs their help. One sees all beings as themself, and feels that all one has is another's as much as one's: in many cases, more another's than one's, because their need is greater, their strength being less."

~ Arthur E. Powell

http://www.subtleanatomy.com/Atmic%20body.htm ~ Divine Wisdom/Mind/Christ Consciousness

http://www.subtleanatomy.com/Monadic%20body.htm ~ Divine Will/Oversoul

Also a description of Major Chakras and minor Chakras: http://www.subtleanatomy.com/Chakras.htm

These Chakra areas are where you might feel Light Activations...

I AM Life being lived, I go with the flow, I stay in the moment and filter my thoughts and feelings through my heart as I commit to loving action in service to others, I AM worthy, I give and receive love as the moment presents itself, I AM gratitude for all blessings, I accept all challenges as opportunities to grow, I send impersonal love to all beings recognizing all deserve love, I AM love in alignment with free will, I detach from outcomes and know God's Will is done. I AM an instrument of God's Will. A cup of love that flows over.

I bow to the Love and Light in all of you. We are All One. 

The eight Buddhist practices in the Noble Eightfold Path are:

1. Right View: our actions have consequences, death is not the end, and our actions and beliefs have consequences after death. The Buddha followed and taught a successful path out of this world and the other world (heaven and underworld/hell). Later on, right view came to explicitly include karma and rebirth, and the importance of the Four Noble Truths, when "insight" became central to Buddhist soteriology.
2. Right Resolve or Intention: the giving up of home and adopting the life of a religious mendicant in order to follow the path; this concept aims at peaceful renunciation, into an environment of non-sensuality, non-ill-will (to loving kindness), away from cruelty (to compassion).^[25] Such an environment aids contemplation of impermanence, suffering, and non-Self.^[25]
3. Right Speech: no lying, no rude speech, no telling one person what another says about him to cause discord or harm their relationship.^[26]
4. Right Conduct or Action: no killing or injuring, no taking what is not given, no sexual misconduct, no material desires.
5. Right Livelihood: no trading in weapons, living beings, meat, liquor, and poisons.
6. Right Effort: preventing the arising of unwholesome states, and generating wholesome states, the bojjhagā (Seven Factors of Awakening). This includes indriya-samvara, "guarding the sense-doors", restraint of the sense faculties.^[27][25]
7. Right Mindfulness (sati; Satipatthana; Sampajañña): a quality that guards or watches over the mind;^[28] the stronger it becomes, the weaker unwholesome states of mind become, weakening their power "to take over and dominate thought, word and deed."^{[29][note 2]} In the vipassana movement, sati is interpreted as "bare attention": never be absent minded, being conscious of what one is doing; this encourages the awareness of the impermanence of body, feeling and mind, as well as to experience the five aggregates (skandhas), the five hindrances, the four True Realities and seven factors of awakening.^[25]
8. Right samadhi (passaddhi; ekaggata; sampasadana): practicing four stages of dhyāna ("meditation"), which includes samadhi proper in the second stage, and reinforces the development of the bojjhagā, culminating into upekkha (equanimity) and mindfulness.^[31] In the Theravada tradition and the vipassana movement, this is interpreted as ekaggata, concentration or one-pointedness of the mind, and supplemented with vipassana meditation, which aims at insight.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Eightfold_Path

Be universal Love. You are the river. You flow. Free will exists here and will always exist here as this is the nature of this density. Not everyone is ready to accept your love. These are the barriers, the rocks. The water simply flows where it is accepted. The love flows where it is accepted. The water flows around the rocks, the barriers people create. But what happens when rocks are near the river? They are carved slowly by the water. So just keep flowing your love. Being near your love will break the barriers in due time. Continue to flow your love like the water and you make a difference for the whole planet.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.

O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Amen.

Follow the middle way and there you will find enlightenment. Be universal love--radiating towards no one object or person in particular but, like the sun, shining on everything in its path.

- Buddha

Remember this quote as we help everyone get through the virus pandemic. Love to all beings. Namaste. 

Self-love is not so much the thought we hold about ourselves, although self-love can flow from our positive thoughts and be restricted by our painful ones. Self-love is not just about appreciating our positive qualities or liking ourselves, though these things can grow out of self-love.

Rather, it is a state of being. It is the inner experience of deep, profound safety, well-being, peace, acceptance, faith and a certainty that all is in order. It is the feeling of basking in golden sunlight on a perfect day, where the experience of the present moment supersedes all thought.

It is the feeling of faith that we are all right even in the midst of crisis. It is the experience of being completely present with other people, seeing, hearing and accepting who they are without judging or wondering if we are being judged. When we have self-love, we automatically become less self-absorbed. We have confidence, joy and a radiance that ripples out to the world around us. We are full and have much to share with others. We have a calm, even center that doesn’t get buffeted by the ups and downs of life. The experience of unconditional love and self-love are the same.


Yet this is not the whole story in cultivating our inner power of love. It is not necessary to pamper and indulge ourselves to have self-love. We don’t need to take ourselves to lunch, send ourselves a birthday card and talk to our inner child to practice self-love. We may find value in doing these things, but they will not guarantee the result of self-love.

Self-love happens in any moment that we surrender to the gift of the present. It can happen when we stop thinking about whether or not we are good enough, whether we are loved and accepted by others or how we have been wronged. It happens when we simply stop to enjoy a fragrant summer breeze feeling content and one with something greater than our “self” (small “s”).

Self-love happens when we forget our own needs, pain and imperfections long enough to truly see another person through eyes of acceptance and compassion. Self-love happens in moments of peace when we remember to put aside our own personal struggle and invite a Higher Power to intervene.

After enough of these peaceful moments of “self” forgetfulness, we suddenly discover that when we do think about ourselves we feel the same acceptance and well-being that we felt in other contexts. We find that we have come to like ourselves.

In other words, in coming to love ourselves, there is a certain amount of work we can do. Yes, it can help to state our self-loving affirmations out loud, and there is a place for loving our “inner child” or cultivating a relationship with our “self” as though we were relating to another person. And, yet, there comes a point when we need to simply get over our “self.”

You are the only one who can truly discern when “self” work is helpful, and when it becomes yet another distraction from your “Self.”

gestogod.com/blog/development-self-confidence/positive-attitude/

The majority of us lead quiet, unheralded lives as we pass through this world. There will most likely be no ticker-tape parades for us, no monuments created in our honor. But that does not lessen our possible impact, for there are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have a potential to turn a life around. It's overwhelming to consider the continuous opportunities there are to make our love felt.

Leo Buscaglia

Whatever our hands touch - We leave fingerprints! On walls, on furniture On doorknobs, dishes, books. There's no escape. As we touch we leave our identity.

Wherever I go today Help me leave heart prints! Heart prints of compassion Of understanding and love.

Heart prints of kindness And genuine concern. May my heart touch a lonely neighbor Or a runaway daughter Or an anxious mother Or perhaps an aged grandfather.

Send me out today To leave heart prints. And if someone should say, "I felt your touch," May they also sense the love that is deep within my heart.

Author Unknown

It is better to light candles
than to curse the darkness.
It is better to plant seeds
than to accuse the earth.
The world needs all of our power
and love and energy,
and each of us has something that we can give.
The trick is to find it and use it,
to find it and give it away.
So there will always be more.
We can be lights for each other,
and through each other's illumination
we will see the way.
Each of us is a seed,
a silent promise,
and it is always spring.

Merle Shain

http://www.inspirationpeak.com/cgi-bin/poetry.cgi?record=138

This is a story maybe even a channeling, not sure. A friend of mine, a soul mate, activates my chakras all the time. One day when he activated heart chakra, this story  came into my consciousness so fast, like a flooding of information and I had to grab a pencil and my pad quickly to write it all down. I titled it:

                                                 "A New Light, A New Way To Experience Love"

He told me, He is The One.... He is the future.... He is The One who will foretell of a Great Event.

He is The One who will lay down the path to which we will All Become One.  He is The One who will shine His Light on All Humanity, for he as foretold this Event before, a very long time ago.  He is the One to show his Light come forth His Hand to wash over the Earth, in Beauty, Truth and the Way.  On Bringer of the Dawn, a New Light, A New Way for Mankind to Experience Love!

Hi!

This post will go through a list of actions which you can do to make yourself a much more healthy, aware, relaxed, easy-going, loving person.

Step one: Take a short walk to a quiet area, probably surrounded by nature. If you are not near a natural area, or it is not a nice day -- maybe just stay in your living room, or a quiet room somewhere in your house.

Step two: Sit down and relax, to steady your breathing. Maybe practice deep steady breaths, or alternate nostril breathing, to clear out your lungs.

Step three: Do a short yoga exercise, a example is salute to the sun;

Repeat this exercise until you feel relaxed, but not tiered.

Step four: Fill your chakras with energy, generally using Reiki, or another form of energy sharing; like Ethereal Crystals.

(You may want to call your spiritual guides/angels/archangels, to help with your healings.)

Step five: Ground, to relieve yourself of all negative energies.

Step six: Meditate for 10 - 15 minutes. I suggest a simple Chakra meditation, or Zen meditation, practiced in Zen Buddhism.

If you feel stiff between any of these steps, do a few stretches. Like stretching your spine or spinning your arms gentle around in their sockets.

Do this exercise daily, and make sure you have plenty of fresh air around you, so maybe if you are inside, open a window?

 Love & light,

Solomon Azulay.

Namaste.

We are being honored with the energies of the Great Divine Director in the Clarion Temple of Oneness on Monday, June 17^th, 2013.  He will be sharing energies about the unification of Light within the planet since the Wesak Full Moon in May 2013.

The Great Divine Director is the Manu of the Seventh Root Race, a member of the Karmic Board, and very recently on the command post of the Unified Whole with Master Thoth and Master Albert Einstein.  He was the teacher of Lord Maitreya, the Maha Chohan-Allah Gobi, Saint Germain and Master Kuthumi.  He also assisted Master Lady Nada with her ascension 2,700 years ago.

He has assisted many lifestreams in their pathway of ascension and continues to do so this day.  He oversees many activities of the Spiritual Hierarchy and especially the pathway of Oneness of the Unified Whole.  The power of his light is amazing but his love and guidance is even more miraculous.  We are deeply honored to share his essence within the Clarion Temple of Oneness.

The Great Divine Director shares a special message:

Blessings fellow initiates; it is my pleasure to speak in this moment.  And what a beautiful moment it is as the world is changing into more joy and acceptance than we ever thought possible.

The Light of the Christed energies are enfolding within each of you so brilliantly and we are happy to be able to assist you even further.  I must share with you that our time is just beginning; and we so look forward to the moment when we all look at you through our physical eyes and share our essences within one another. 

I have seen great changes occurring within the earth and there are many more to come.  We must find a way so as individuals can realize the potential that lies within themselves and not the old remnants of the soul’s history that gets in the way of a magnificent experience.  We are at a very powerful time within the six-month period of 2013.  Changes have occurred around the world and will continue to do so.  As each of you grow deeper within yourself, you will find the courage and stamina to expand those energies outside of yourself to help the newly awakened individuals to understand more about themselves.

My role presently is quite different than it has been previously.  I am still on the Karmic Board but individuals that choose to raise their vibrations out of the third dimensional thought forms can fully accept their higher essence and the karmic pathway can be almost erased of what it was before.  Oh, souls like yourself always want to know why something happened a certain way and what they did whether it was a positive or less-than desirable experience.  That is not always the case and now that the Unified Whole has been fully accessed, we can put these elements into wholeness so that they do not hold down your emotions or thoughts.  That way of living is moving out of existence.  But it is up to each individual and how deeply they can access their higher self on a continual basis.  At first, this can be difficult but learn to access the higher vibrational essence will be the direct result of all karma being removed and released through the Unified Whole.  Within this wholeness, we cannot be the parts that we were previously as they do not fit the entire spectrum of understanding.  When an individual accepts this as the true essence, that is when they will let go of the old aspects that are not fitting their present consciousness.  You see, your higher consciousness is catching up to the physical consciousness and it takes time for this to occur.  Without accessing your Higher Knowledge, it cannot be done.  Just asking for it to be is not the answer or thinking that all your work is done in your dream state.  It has to enfold within the physical part of your existence so that you can meld them together to become the enlightened being that you desire.

Presently these tasks at hand are much easier to handle and you have the availability to create the changes necessary within you.  The energies are higher but that can also be a detriment to some individuals if they are not ready to accept the higher consciousness within the physical body.  This is why you have what you call “Ascension Symptoms”.  The physical body is trying to accept the higher knowledge and molecules of light but when the lower ego is intact, it cannot happen.  There becomes a battle within all aspects of the four-body system to see which one is going to win.  Surrender, my dear ones; it is the only way that you can get through this process of learning to De-Ascend into your physical body.  This means changes will result but the desired outcome will arrive much sooner than you think.  The physical mind wants the control but yet the higher mind just wants to integrate and not take over as the lower mind thinks.

I know it sounds easy, right?  No, it is just the opposite and each of us understands that in order to be in Oneness all old molds must be broken to accept the new design of the Self that is about to be integrated.  But, you are all doing this in your own way.  Tools of the Light are essential to assist in this process and downgrading the information from your Higher Self each day when you awake either from your sleep time or meditative state.  It is all trying to integrate within you so time to sleep, relax, and rejuvenate is absolutely necessary.  It is a continual process and allowing the state of Oneness to be within you first must happen before it can be accepted within Gaia and her existence.  This is why there is so much strife and change happening in all parts of the world.  The ones that rise up to the occasion and understand that there is a higher meaning and purpose to what is happening will see great changes occur.  It is important to realize that your Higher Self and I AM Presence is protecting you at all times as long as you connect with them.  In fact, it is the only way to arise to the occasion of the changes that are occurring.

We stand in the middle of this year and see many arriving into a state of conditioning that is beyond their wildest dreams.  Love is abounding but until you allow it to happen internally and surrender to the process instead of trying to fight it, then you will not experience it fully.  As you do, that will expand out of you and you will see the mirrors of light shining brightly around you.  Each breath that you take of the NEW YOU will go through the ethers of the lands to assist others to do the same.

This is true ONENESS and you will see it occurring in your lives.  We are at the very beginning of a transitional planet and thank you for standing tall amongst the ones that are true to the Light.

I AM the Great Divine Director at your service.

The Great Divine Director will speak through Rev. Christine Meleriessee in the Clarion Temple of Oneness on Monday, June 17^th, 2013, 5 PM Pacific, 12 GMT.  You may join this call by registering at Walking Terra Christa, http://walkingterrachrista.com/tele-calls/.

©2013 Walking Terra Christa Academy of New Earth Mastery, http://walkingterrachrista.com, Rev. Christine Meleriessee & Mike Hayden, 5^th Dimensional Mastery ~  All Rights Reserved.