Keep the Season Holy

This Christmas and holiday season, you are offered a gentle reminder to spend your energy wisely. Respect yourself and your money. This means living within—or even better—below—your means, so that you do not place unnecessary burdens upon yourself or create debt.

If you find yourself feeling lonely or stressed, wanting to give gifts you can't afford, or receive gifts that are not coming your way, remind yourself, "Now is enough." When you experience any sense of lack, loss, fear, or limitation, tell yourself that now is enough.

There is no fear or limitation when you know that you are enough, that there is nothing that can be added to you that would make you more.
The only thing you have to share with anyone is your own state of being. Many people want to uplift the world, but live in such anxiety that this is what they end up sharing. We can uplift the world only to the extent that we live expansive uplifted lives.
   

Happiness as defined by the mind can lead only to unhappiness, because the mind can never be satisfied. As soon as one desire is achieved, the mind creates another.

    
This Christmas and holiday season remember that you are enough. So is every other human being, whether they know it or not.
    

Whatever You Celebrate

Keep the season Holy

A Gift Worth Giving:

 The Clear and Simple Way School.

Happiness is Contagious!

". . . researchers found that when an individual becomes happy, the network effect can be measured up to three degrees. One person's happiness triggers a chain reaction that benefits not only their friends, but their friends' friends, and their friends' friends' friends. The effect lasts for up to one year."

Gratitude

Thinking about some ideas from our lessons. One is gratitude. The other is writing, which we are often asked to do. So I decided to use the Open Classroom to (1) write, and (2) express Gratitude. I invite my classmates to write and gratitude, along with me, in the comments, on a regular, or whenever you get some time. There's always time for gratitude, isn't there? I am committing to myself to show up here with gratitude. Today I am grateful that I was given this idea. I am also grateful for the school and for each of you. Love, Kevin

Late Fragment by Raymond Carver

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.