Being Happy Being You

Lonely never . . .

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”
-Maxwell Maltz

Peace Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi

A contemporary version by the Canadian Tenors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vjla_FHNIWA

Another version
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syRlXW0DAAg

You can watch the full movie of St Francis here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG5jVcYA1aM

Brother Sun, Sister Moon song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7d-B1LZWWY

conversation of two unborn babies

...found recently on the internet:

Conversation of two children:

In the belly of a pregnant woman were two babies. The first asks the other one:

- Do you believe in life after birth?

- Certainly. Something has to be after birth. Maybe we are here mainly because we prepare for what will be later.

- It is foolishness, there is no life after birth. How should that life actually look like?

- I do not know exactly, but certainly there will be more light than here. Maybe we will run on our own feet and eat with mouth.

- That is nonsense! Running is impossible. And eating by mouth? It is totally ridiculous! The navel string feeds us. Something I say: Life after birth is excluded - the umbilical cord is already very short.

- Indeed, there certainly is something. Just maybe everything will be a little different than what we are used to have here.

- But nobody after birth has ever returned from there. Childbirth just ends life. And after all, life is nothing else than protracted distress in the darkness.

- Well, I do not know exactly how it will look like after birth, but surely we will see the mother and she will take care of us.

- Mother? Do you believe in mother? And where is she supposed to be?

- Where? All around us! In her and through her we live. Without her we would not have existed at all.

- I do not believe it! I have never seen any mother, so it is clear that there is none.

- Well, but sometimes when we are silent, you can hear her singing, or feel how she keeps stroking our world. You know, I really think that the real life awaits us only then and now we only prepare for it...

Fairy Time

THE FAIRIES VISIT

The fairies visited me
this morning
softly and gently
they flew through my window
their tiny voices
making sweet low noises
tinkling and rhyming
the way fairies do
when they are happy.

I fixed them tea
and raspberries with cream
and fed them on my favorite china.

When they were finished,
they washed all the dishes,
then flew through my window
as softly and gently
as they had come.
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 P.S. I managed to paint a picture of one of the fairies, which you can see by clicking read more. 

Watch the skies!

Perseids meteor shower, 

and the summer's brightest moon will be shining down upon us August 10

http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/08/us/irpt-august-supermoon/index.html

Wherever you are, we can look up in the sky and see the same moon. 

I've always somehow loved that fact. 

I love you !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_EX5NzqNXc

 

New Lesson coming August 8!

This is an exciting time for me--spiritually exciting--because I am getting new lessons ready to send. As I read over each lesson and make any necessary revisions, I have the chance to imbibe the energy of the angels again and again! I love reading the lessons again, as well as writing new ones. I especially like reading the lessons with pictures, on-line, with the big verdana print. I feel filled with new Truth and new Energy and Even Closer to the Angels as I read these lessons. I feel love filling and surrounding me. I feel myself becoming more fearless with each angel lesson. I am my own best student! All love to all of you for your day. And enjoy your new lessons when they arrive shining with light in your email.

OVER THERE HE MADE

This are simple words with so much depth...Can you relate?


Stephen Dobyns, poet

OVER THERE HE MADE

"Over here he made a pile of what he had had and lost.
Over there a pile of what he was owed. Then a pile of
what he possessed and a pile of what he desired. After
measuring them, he added a pile of what he deserved
and put it beside the others. Then came the pile of what
was his by rights, the pile of what he had failed to achieve,
the pile of what he had been cheated out of, the pile of
what had been stolen. His calculations took years. In the
beginning he had many gifts, different roads his life could
take, now his calculations took all his attention—what he
had, what others had, what he should have—all the oughts
and might-have-beens. It made its own pile."

About the GIFT offer

Dear Students -- I meant to send me your MAILING ADDRESS -- not your email address. The gift will arrive at your mailing address -- not your virtual address!

Gift Offer

Hi Most Lovely Students, Here is a special gift offer that is open only until August 8. Please send me your Mailing Address and I will send you a special gift. But you can't receive one unless you email me your address by August 8. Love and Surprises from your friendly teacher...(only for currently registered students, of course).

Turning mistakes into birds that can fly away, fly high...

This man is an artist who hosts a TV show in the USA. He is very positive. When you make a "mistake" with your art here, he turns it into birds! Positive uplifting angelic messages abound in life when we have ears to hear and eyes to see.

Wise Words

You all know Steve Jobs. Thanks to him, I am writing this on my MacBook laptop.

Patience

It's been a very "busy" time for me -- which just means, lots to do. I am preparing now for my flight to Europe. I am bringing my little dog Penny with me this year and that requires much preparation, since there are rules that must be followed when traveling with a pet internationally. Fortunately, it seems possible, once I make my way through all the red tape.

A Gentle Path

The angels offer a gentle path. The angels simply suggest that you show up and read your lessons, or some part of them, on a regular basis. This allows the energy to touch the truth that lives within you. The energy of the angels scrapes away the heavy coating of unfriendly habits and attitudes that clutter up your life. You are empowered to find your own questions and the answers to those questions within your private communion with God. Every answer is within you. Spiritual teachings wake up the truth within you—they do not create that truth. The truth is not inherent in anything or anyone outside you—it exists within you, or you could say, you exist within truth.

A tiny big truth

I don’t want to be who am
and that’s suffering
  ⎯ the big sticky mess 

Can you see that this is true for you? That it is true for everyone?

The hard way or the soft way

Just dropping in to say hello to everyone. I do stop by often, everyday when I can, to visit. I have been reading older posts and finding them rewarding and good reminders of the Truth within. I am so in gratitude to have this place, the open classroom, that is always here. When i am going through some difficulty, I especially like to stop by. I have been choosing a post at random from the archives, and I find it somehow answer whatever question I have and always gives me encouragement and increases understanding.

I have been experiencing for myself that I have to show up and do the work. Sometimes it is not easy for me to keep my eye on the inner work, but it is always rewarding when I do. There is so much in each lesson, I can hardly take it all in. I find when I go back and read an old lesson again, that it is always new. I always see how much I missed. It is like reading a new lesson. So thanks, Indira, thanks classmates, thanks angels. I am overflowing with gratitude today. This school was my first big step into spirituality and it has changed my life. 

I am realizing that this person I call "me" is not the center of the universe. Something ELSE is. Something called Truth or God or Energy. This Energy is directing my life. The more I get out of the way, the more the Energy can show me the Way. It is clear and simple, but not for the ego. The ego always chooses the hard way. The ego is the hard way! The heart is the soft way, the clear and simple way. My ego likes the hard way--it likes to fight and struggle, compete, and come out on top--to win. But the winning of the ego is temporary. And I am beginning to see that it is always painful. When the ego wins, what is it really sitting on top of? A garbage heap. As I have read in my lessons -- when the ego wins, I lose. 

So my recent prayer is that the ego loses. And the heart wins.

I liked the recent lesson on Money. It was very helpful in practical as well as spiritual ways.

Thank you! And here is a starry night, a universe of love, for all of you.

Words of Wisdom

Angels Calling

Good Morning Dear Students,
At least, it is morning here. The sun is shining on the green leaves outside my window. My little dog has had her first morning treat and she is happy just to be with me. I want to share with you an email I received from someone. Perhaps you will find it interesting, as I did. I like hearing about the different ways that angels are calling us. Angel are always calling us, in one way or another. It is just that we are so busy listening to the doubts and fears of our mind, that we so seldom hear the higher voices of the angels. We are so busy turning outward, towards the world, that we forget the most important turning --- turning within!

Hello Indira,

It seems the Angels are calling me!

While sorting through closets I came across a cassette tape of an Angel reading with you from May 19, 1994. Shortly after that, as I was looking in a horse book in my bookcase, a piece of paper fell out of it that had directions to your house on Maui, from when I visited you there; a bookmark on another page in bright pink that said, "Look for Angels".

To top it off, as I was looking for a tape player to listen to the tape, I opened a box and came across a framed angel print given to me by a friend.

OK, enough hints! I went online to discover that you still do this work and are now located in L.A. Not only that, you have a mini retreat close by in the near future. It is obvious that I am being called to be there.

It will be lovely to see you again.

Love and Blessings,
Janet

July 2014 Newsletter . . .

The Newsletter just went out, so be sure to read it! And please -- do share it with your friends, so that they might also benefit from The Clear and Simple Way, as you have. Thank you. And much much love and gratitude. Oh -- and here is a picture of me with 3 of your classmates when I was in Europe last autumn. That's Monika, Jutta, and her sister, Christel.