Labels & Judgements

Whenever I drive past the metro station I am awed by this beautiful peace of graffiti. To me this is like contemporary art and I have witnessed the artist once working on a "piece" in the middle of the city. No flashlight activities of unreadable gang signs that are quickly sprayed onto innocent walls, but the time-consuming work of a true master. So one day I finally stopped to take some pictures and was greeted by a surprise.

I was a bit shocked to find that some other "graffiter" would soil a "canvas" that has been occupied by one of their "lot". I thought there was something like an honor among thieves policy or some kind of respect. Obviously I was mistaken.

Then I realized how often we use labels and judgements in order to categorize our world. While both sprayings could be classified as graffiti one had a higher ranking in my perspective. Who knows, if the second spray can artist at work thought of the first one as a traitor of the underground movement. Maybe it was all about marking the territory or a totally random act of thoughtlessness and/or disrespect.

But it had me thinking about how much of our life experience is created by our point of view rather than the incident itself. If I had identified myself more with the second spraying, I wouldn't have felt sorry for the beauty of the first being besmirched. I might have even felt a sense of victory over the "conformist" who seemed to have been payed for his work by the authorities. Another proof that it's actually me who creates my experiences rather than the world surrounding me.

Focusing

This morning is was listening to an Abraham workshop and they mentioned the phrase "turn the other cheek". Don't worry, this is not going to be a highly religious post - lol. But it made me wonder, since I had chewed over that phrase a lot as a child, when I used to go to church every Sunday. Why would Jesus want us to have our other ear boxed as well? I wondered. Wasn't it enough to have been beaten once? What purpose would this achieve?

When I heard the line again this morning, I had an epiphany. Maybe it was only meant metaphorically - like almost everything else he said, haha, big news - and not directing us into a passive state of mind, letting the other one treat us ill. What if it was a hint for us to change our perspective and view the situation - and the opponent - from a different angle. Focusing on the aspects we like and that would make us feel good. By law of attraction we would receive only, what we deliberately concentrate upon. Thus we might be able to love our enemies, if we find something about them, that we appreciate.

Things like that happen to me all the time. I had a strong dislike for certain dialects, but whenever I met someone reaaaallllly nice, who happened to be from that region, the queer pronunciation grew on me and I started to associate a lot of positive things when I met other people from that part of the country as well.

How fatal that Jesus seems to be mostly misunderstood by those, who claim to preach the gospel. But I won't focus on THAT! I rather practice to turn the other cheek. ;-)))))

Silly Quotes

Why cry over milk, you haven't even spilled yet?

An Immediate Response

Yesterday something very funny happened. For two or three days now I am in love with a certain color. You could call it aqua or a greenish turquoise, some might refer to it as mint. I found a skein of sockyarn that had parts of it, but it wasn't the yarn base I would prefer to knit with now. (Sorry it that's gobbledygook for you, but it's needed in order to understand the whole thing.) Since I had purchased it from an indie yarn dyer, I emailed her and asked, if she could dye the same color with a different yarn base. No response.

But when I arrived at the playground, I received a soft envelope from a woman, I never ever heard of before. In it was a giftwrapped skein of yarn. I had a suspicion who had used a proxy to send me this yarn, and it turned out to be correct, but nonetheless I was amazed. I truly believe that all our wishes are granted and answered by the universe. Some not in the way we expect, because the universe might have something in mind, that's even better for us. But still the effect of desiring a skein of yarn in the morning, trying to proactively get it, failing, and then receiving a gift that fell into my lap only three hours later. That's awesome. Thank you universe, proxy, and dear knitting friend.

Of course I won't open it before my actual birthday, but I still wanted to show a picture of the yarn that tempted me in the first place.

Namaste

"While some people might be afraid of death,

dyeing is not such a bad thing after all."

Creating and Co-Creating

A funny thing happened. On Sunday I visited with my friend in her beautiful garden. We talked about this and that and all of a sudden she complained about the outrageously high gas prices these days. Since I am reading the teachings of Abraham by Esther and Jerry Hicks at the moment, I was well aware of my emotions entering a downward spiral of feeling quite helpless about this situation. But instead of jumping on that train I said: "Well, then let's create a different situation. Did I tell you that the gas prices have dropped so much, that they're below 1.20 again?"

"Well that's not what I've heard," she said, and I thought, ok, now we're back on the stoney tracks of hard facts again. But to my utter surprise she continued: "They are even lower. And on top of that they stopped that silly ,9 cent thing, that is ever so irritating and misleading anyhow."

With delight I joined in, telling that the downward trend in gas prices would always be followed by good deals on plane tickets as well. Immediately I felt my feelings shift from unease to light-heartedness and joy. So I basked in that emotion, thankful that my friend, whom I never told anything about the Law of Attraction program, had returned my playful ball of creative daydreaming.

Although I know, that the Law of Attraction is a very powerful one if not the most powerful one in the whole universe, one thing really caught me by surprise the very next day on my way to the "playground" (which some people with limited imagination skills refer to as "the office" btw). As I drove by the gas station I noticed that the prices had dropped by more than 10 cents. I texted my friend this good news, and on the following day the prices went down again. They haven't stopped this silly .9 cent thingy yet, but we are working on it, so I guess they soon will. ;-)))).

PS: By the way, did I tell you that I won a huge price in a photo contest, my soul mate earned 200.000 $ this year, and they're coming up with cars now that wouldn't need gas at all?

Law Of Attraction

What interesting events in these past days. Amazing miracles are coming my way again. So it's hard to keep up and write everything down. But yesterday really took the biscuit. I'm afraid I need to go back a bit - as usual - in order to make myself understood. :-)

On my last but one visit to Merryland in April I bought this book about the Law Of Attraction called "Ask and It Is Given". It's a beautiful read and very insightful and empowering. I can only highly recommend it. I also watched the movie "The Secret" again, which inspired me to do another vision board for my job in particular and my life in general - since I regard myself as a whole being, so focusing on just one aspect of my very diverse life seems so limiting. One impulse to do so originated in the wish to create additional and alternative sources of income, in order to pay my travels to Merryland and to spend more time with my beloved Knittee.

During my last travel to Merryland in June I bought a knitting magazine because I fell in love with a sock pattern. I was also attracted to a scraf, that was shown in there, and assumed that the pattern was included as well. I was wrong, it was only an interview with the designer.

While I was browsing the craft magazines, the beloved Knittee was leafing through the digital art section, when he stumbled across an ad for a photo competition offering the prize of 10.000 $ cash. At first I thought, I would never win in such a contest, but then I realized how restrictive this thought was, and I immediately set it straight. I made a picture of the ad with my blackberry, and went to the site when I got back home. I already entered one picture, but I am allowed to upload even more pictures, which I will do shortly. But first I wanted to do some more research on other competitions, and I found a few that are also interesting. So I want to spread my good stuff a bit. ;-). Anyhow, this seemed to be the perfect way to open a door for the universe to grant me more income without having anyone die and leaving me a huge heritage. The latter idea is one, that I don't want to fancy in order to make any profit. I am sure you would agree.

I was very pleased that this opportunity was connected to Merryland. What a nice full circle it will be to spend the money, that will arise from that source, for the purpose of traveling back to the geographic origin.

The vision board was decorated with the picture in question, but I wanted to do more. One interviewee from the movie "The Secret" mentioned that he had created a check to be payable to himself with the amount of money he wanted to attract. So I thought I would do just the same, to set another stimulus and to beat my own drum for well-being a bit louder.

After printing out some check pictures, I logged in at a knitter's community to find the above mentioned scarf pattern, when I saw that I had two messages waiting from me. It was very funny, as the knitter-friend who had sent them was once in a business related contact with the designer in question. Not only that, but in her photo album I saw, that she had knitted the very scarf I was looking for. Law of attraction.

But not only that. The content of her mail was even more surprising, as she offered me a small job. I would be able to participate in a project that could grant me another ticket to Merryland. What a spontaneous reaction of the universe. How powerful and direct my wish was answered. How brilliant is that? Cool beans and over the top brilliant, I would say. ;-)))

Namaste

(Sock, inspired by the Merryland knitting magazine)

Dreams versus Reality

I dreamed I was in charge of dreams

And if you'd ask me what this means

I'd say that if this dream was true

Then I'm in charge of my life too