one of my favorite poets...

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

“I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
graveyard.”

http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/3702-what-matters-most-is-how-well-you-walk-through-the-fire

What does your vision tell you?

Your vision will become clear only when you look inside your heart; who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakens. -C.G.Jung

One of my favroite poets

The world stands out on either side
no wider than the heart is wide.
—Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

3 of your classmates in France

Good News!

One Heart

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours. Mary Schmich

Dancing to freedom!

The youtube link below a good one, which I just found when I was researching Gabrielle Roth (Feb. 4, 1941-Oct. 22, 2012) on the internet, because of a quote I posted on Nov. 29, 2014, which someone just sent me the rest of. Here is the past classroom post.  http://youropenclassroom.blogspot.com/2014/11/spiritual-shamanism.html

I've been thinking we often sit too much in my seminars and have been contemplating ways we can move more. Shamanic Dancing sounds like a wonderful way! I do more and more use Qigong and Yoga, but the idea of dancing is so free and easy and anyone can do it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cYYzcTzm6Y

Someone just sent me the rest of the quote I posted previously, which I like very much, so here is the whole quote now: (Her email to me is what prompted me to begin researching Gabrielle Roth--who has an interesting story)

"In many shamanic societies, if you came to a shaman or medicine person complaining of being disheartened, dispirited, or depressed, they would ask one of four questions:

1. When did you stop dancing?
2. When did you stop singing?
3. When did you stop being enchanted by stories?
4. When did you stop finding comfort in the sweet territory of silence?

Where we have stopped dancing, singing, being enchanted by stories, or finding comfort in silence is where we have experienced the loss of soul. Dancing, singing, storytelling, and silence are the four universal healing salves." -The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Healer, Teacher and Visionary

Angels

"We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. 

We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

June Monthly Message 2015: Beautiful Results

Dearest Companions on the Way,

I invite you to my website to read the new monthly message I just published for June. Much love to you all. May you live forever in the eternal present moment.

Beautiful Results:
http://www.theclearandsimpleway.com/monthlymessages.htm

For Monika, the crystal healer

 

(and Christel, Jutta, and Petra, Monika's students of crystal healing)

Be as free as Butterflies alive in the present moment

Wise Words

Albert Einstein said, “A human being is part of the whole, called by us Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal decisions and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.”

***
The love and blessings of angels surround you now and always.

Inner Transformation

Reading your lessons helps you wake up. Reading your lessons is a way to commune with a consciousness that is greater than the mind. The words of the angels are so subtle and soft, the ego begins to feel safe—safe to dissolve, let go, and surrender into peace. The deepest transformation takes place so simply and quietly, the mind does not even realize it has happened!

 

Somewhere

Somewhere in the music
Somewhere in the song
lies the key to life itself
so far as I can know now
it has to do with love.

Love is Magic, Love is God
Love is Music, Love is Purity
Love is Light, Love is Music
Music is Love, Music is Light
Light is Love, Love is Light
God is Love, Love is God
Music is God, God is Music

You and I are God, God is Love
We are Music, Beauty is Peace
Peace is Love, Love is Peace
We are God's Love and Light
Somewhere in the Music
We live forever.

The Ride

Put the ego in the back seat
sit high and free
with love in the seat beside you
breathing as one
in perfect harmony
carefree
and continue
moment to moment
in love
you'll see things
as never before
you'll see things
you've never seen before
you'll see things
you never knew existed
the ride will be short
yet it'll last forever.

Remember?

Remember the feeling as a child,
When you woke up
And morning smiled…..?
It’s time you felt like that again.

-Taj Mahal

Martin's Daughter, Oberwilerkurse, Switzerland

Lemons

I like seeing the cheery yellow lemons each time I come into the open classroom. Reminds me of that saying -- if you are given lemons, then make lemonade!!! Thanks for the reminder, dear teacher. Love, Kevin

Saying hello

I just wanted to stop by and write a few words, though I haven't much to say. Mostly I am doing a great deal of self-observation. I see myself and others in new ways. I can feel something happening deep inside me, that I haven't even got words for. I have for some time felt quiet and introspective, so I haven't even been writing here lately, though I am always stopping by to read and inhale all the great energy I feel here. The lessons are great. They touch me deep inside and actually are effective. Thank you once again.

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The Clear and Simple Way Newsletter May 2015

Have you read the newest Newsletter? If you didn't receive yours in your email box, let me know, and I will make sure you do! Here is a picture of the Arroyo in Pasadena where I often walk. As you can see, the flowers are out and so is the green.