Dear Ones,
Since we are featuring cleanses this month, we wanted to share this wonderful piece of information we just received through email with all of you.
Sanivan
Showing posts with label Uplifting Reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Uplifting Reading. Show all posts
Tipi Etiquette...
* If the door is open, a friend may enter the tipi directly. But if it is closed, he should announce his presence and wait for the owner to invite him to come in.
* A male enters to the right and waits for the host to invite him to sit to the left of the owner at the rear. Be hospitable.
* Always assume your guest is tired, cold, and hungry.
* Always give your guest the place of honor in the lodge and at the feast, and serve him in reasonable ways.
* Invited guests are expected to bring their own bowls and spoons.
* Never sit while your guests stand.
The Cherokee Legend - How very true it is…
we found this lovely passage to be very inspiring and what better time to honor the protectors and the journey of manhood, then on Father's Day ~ Saniye and Ivan
Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth's rite of Passage?
His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He cannot cry out for help to anyone.
Once he survives the night, he is a MAN. He cannot tell the other boys of this experience, because each lad must come into manhood on his own.
The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be all around him. Maybe even some human might do him harm. The wind blew the grass and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be the only way he could become a man! Finally, after a horrific night the sun appeared and he removed his blindfold.
It was then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump next to him. He had been at watch the entire night, protecting his son from harm.
We, too, are never alone. Even when we don't know it, God is watching over us, sitting on the stump beside us. When trouble comes, all we have to do is reach out to Him.
If you liked this story, pass it on. If not, you took off your blindfold before dawn.
Moral of the story: Just because you can't see God, doesn't mean He is not there, "For we walk by faith, not by sight."
Do you know the legend of the Cherokee Indian youth's rite of Passage?
His father takes him into the forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is required to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He cannot cry out for help to anyone.
Once he survives the night, he is a MAN. He cannot tell the other boys of this experience, because each lad must come into manhood on his own.
The boy is naturally terrified. He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be all around him. Maybe even some human might do him harm. The wind blew the grass and earth, and shook his stump, but he sat stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be the only way he could become a man! Finally, after a horrific night the sun appeared and he removed his blindfold.
It was then that he discovered his father sitting on the stump next to him. He had been at watch the entire night, protecting his son from harm.
We, too, are never alone. Even when we don't know it, God is watching over us, sitting on the stump beside us. When trouble comes, all we have to do is reach out to Him.
If you liked this story, pass it on. If not, you took off your blindfold before dawn.
Moral of the story: Just because you can't see God, doesn't mean He is not there, "For we walk by faith, not by sight."
Something we should all remember
This is a wonderful message and I hope you share the sentiment after reading. ~ Saniye
A 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with his hair fashionably combed and shaved perfectly, even though he is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today. His wife of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, he smiled sweetly when told his room was ready.
As he maneuvered his walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of his tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on his window. I love it,' he stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy. Mr. Jones, you haven't seen the room; just wait.' 'That doesn't have anything to do with it,' he replied. Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time.
Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged .. it's how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it. 'It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do. Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open, I'll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I've stored away. Just for this time in my life.
Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw from what you've put in. So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories! Thank you for your part in filling my Memory Bank. I am still depositing.
'Remember the five simple rules to be happy:
Free your heart from hatred.
Free your mind from worries.
Live simply.
Give more.
Expect less.
A 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with his hair fashionably combed and shaved perfectly, even though he is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today. His wife of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary. After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, he smiled sweetly when told his room was ready.
As he maneuvered his walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of his tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on his window. I love it,' he stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy. Mr. Jones, you haven't seen the room; just wait.' 'That doesn't have anything to do with it,' he replied. Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time.
Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged .. it's how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it. 'It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do. Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open, I'll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I've stored away. Just for this time in my life.
Old age is like a bank account. You withdraw from what you've put in. So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories! Thank you for your part in filling my Memory Bank. I am still depositing.
'Remember the five simple rules to be happy:
Free your heart from hatred.
Free your mind from worries.
Live simply.
Give more.
Expect less.
Solara's Surf Update for March, 2010
This feels so true for me and I am happy to share it with you.
~ Saniye
This has been a time of deep stillness. This gives us the much needed opportunity to integrate the massive transformations that we have experienced so far this year. These transformations require us to make major recalibrations to our internal being and outer environment. This intense and thorough recalibration process has now begun. We have to repattern and reposition almost everything.
Many of us are still experiencing a series of Null Zones. Each time that this happens, not only is there a deep shattering, but something old leaves us. These are all expired elements that are ready to depart. So the Null Zones are actually serving a great purpose in helping us become more true and infinitely freer.
At this time, we may feel like our entire being is dissolving. We may feel so wide open and vulnerable that it feels like we don't have any skin to cover ourselves with. Numerous old roles and old personas are being stripped off of us. This is because we can't use these to define who we are anymore. Part of the process of emerging as a True One is this very necessary stripping off of our old roles and old personas.
While it's not necessarily very comfortable to feel so dissolved and raw, it's vitally important that we don't grab onto who we thought we were to make a temporary (and false) skin. We need to stay dissolved, stripped, raw, and wide open while our new skins are forming.
We are setting free many old elements of the past by taking them to a new level. We can transform our stuck old patterns by unpinning ourselves from our old selves. We can change our way of doing things simply by doing them as a True One.
We also have to be careful to avoid too much interaction with others, especially with those who want things from us, or who don't have clean or integrous energy. Too much outside input is not helpful at this time. Also, we have to be careful not to get lost in the search for information; instead just simply be....
It's natural at times to feel a deep sadness; this is because so much of the old and expired is dying away. There is even a dissolving of some of our Wildest Dreams and previously held beliefs about our New Lives. But no matter what, we shouldn't try to stop or slow down our dissolving process or try to hold onto any expired elements of the past. Simply, let them go. Releasing them creates empty space for the New and True to enter.
Once we do this, we can suddenly feel the New and this fills us with a burst of fresh energy and excitement. It's helpful at this time for us to do things that we have never done before. We don't need to wait for our New Life to arrive; we can start living in the somewhat shattered shards of our old lives as if we are already in our New Lives.
Be gentle with yourself at all times. Honor your Trueness. And especially, don't hold yourself back from LOVING and BEING LOVED. An abundance of LOVE is all around us, even when we feel empty and alone.
EVER EMBRACING YOU IN PURE HEART LOVE,
SOLARA
The NVISIBLE * 11:11
The NVISIBLE is a vast, transformational website where the Invisible is made visible. May we emerge as True Ones and walk upon the Path of Love. http://www.nvisible.com/
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