During the Transformation Team course we were asked to go within and come up with our life purpose and/or intentions. As I worked on my personal profile for the community portal, I noticed there was not enough space for me to list all of my intentions so I have created this forum topic to do so.
If YOU would like to share Life Purpose/Intentions with the Team, please feel free to list them here!
Much love and many blessings,
Penny :-)
Penny's Intentions/Daily Affirmations and Daily Prayer:
My inner wisdom grows stronger and clearer every day in every way
I am a clear channel of light and love
I focus on my wants and desires, not the things I do not want
I am well guided day and night
I hereby release any previous distrust of my own judgement and decisions
I now trust my higher self to guide me well
I open mind and heart and now perceive all higher guidance that I receive
I release former fears, regrets, and guilt and send them away
I am calm and I am still
I am protected from negativity and unwanted energy
God-Light fills my heart and life
Everything I am and do is through God
Daily Prayer
Lord,
Please send Your angels to my family and me today,
to help keep our minds and hearts centered in love.
Help us to live from Your perspective of love,
and to know our oneness with all of life.
Amen.
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I couldn't find any better words to put it that this:-
To transform the world,
we must begin with ourselves;
and what is important in beginning
with ourselves is the intention.
The intention must be to understand ourselves,
not to leave it to others to transform themselves ...
This is our responsibility, yours and mine;
because, however small may be the world we live in,
if we can bring about a radically different
point of view in our daily existence,
then perhaps we shall affect
the world at large.
J Krishnamurti
"Self Knowledge"
from "The First and Last Freedom"
with love and light
Marian
http://www.thestillpoint.co.uk
http://www.marianmills.blog.co.uk
As always you bring a wonderful counterpoint. Whatever shaft of light you emanate from my dear, it must be insanely beautiful, as you are.
8-D
...and polish, and tweak, and refocus. It's the only area where I can see a good purpose for a little narcissism. This is spiritual bodybuilding. A few months back I'd written a short essay called MY MANIFESTO, which is on my website, and I used a portion of it as my response to the query above. Here is the excerpt (which I've further tweaked):
It is my intent to be always authentic and fully present. I will
honor the Source behind all life and all phenomena. That source may be
called God, Wakan, Allah or a thousand other names. It is beyond names
and beyond human comprehension. And I will take full responsibility for
my life and everything in it, and will teach others to do the same by my example.
When I fail, I will learn, remember, forgive myself, and try again.
I will endeavor to continually grow in love, knowledge and wisdom, and
I will share the fruits of my journey and my work. I will teach as well as learn.
I will always work to impart and inspire knowledge, balance, healing and beauty.
I will work to facilitate spiritual awareness, both mine and that of those I come in
contact with. I will seek guidance, learn from all, continually grow in gratitude and joy.
I will face fear. I will turn from violence. I will seek spiritual
guidance but I will also use reason and logic in making decisions and
planning my actions.
I wish for prosperity and security, but will not seek them if it
means to sacrifice the good of another. I will seek resources to create
situations in which everyone benefits. I will seek resources to teach
and to spread peace. I will remain simple. I will not be bought.
In everything I do, I will seek areas of commonality to agree on
before proceeding to areas of disagreement. I will not push what I
believe on anyone, but will seek to live so that people want to learn
what I have that they don’t. And I will give it freely.
I keep a copy of this stuck on my refrigerator, and another in my briefcase.
8-D
As Steve Martin said in The Jerk (besides saying, "the phone books are here! the phone books are here!") "Hey mom! I found out what my special purpose is!" Wonderful comment everyone! I feel like I am at 31(billion) flavors. So much delicious commentary to devour, digest and grow from. I hear this ice cream wont give you a stomach ache if you eat too much. Just a quick note of appreciation for everything everyone brings to this potluck.
Chris
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Perfect quote, Marian ~ thanks so much for sharing it with us!
Love & light,
Penny :-)
Really beautiful, Dave ~ thanks so much for sharing your intentions with us!
Love & light,
Penny :-)
I don't see it as a surrendering - my little caveman ego does though. I see it as a wide open gateway to being liberated to more fully participate in the One Self, something my insane ego has never been able to deliver. I still take the reigns back from "Light" from time to time, but I always return to that liberation and providence by handing the reigns back over again and going for the guaranteed ride of exhilarating appreciation of the Divine.
Chris
Thank you for starting this beautiful thread, Penny. I love your intentions and fully support you in living them to the fullest. For many years my deepest life intention has been:
I will do my best to choose what's best for all.
A more poetic way of saying the same thing is:
I give all that I am into the service of all that is.
I have many other intentions, yet they are all born of the above wish to be in service to all of us. Thanks for caring, and you have a beautiful day!
With sacred love and gratitude flowing,
Fred
I really like the way you said that, Chris! I do see it as a surrender, and that's something that was difficult for me at one time. I don't know if it's a guy thing - I don't really think so, but plenty of men do certainly have a hard time with it. It's a little like I've always heard drowning is like: once you quit fighting it, it's peaceful.
Yeah, my insane ego has never really delivered the goods, either. That's its dirty little secret, the one thing it hopes you never find out about it. It wants you to believe that it alone is self-sufficient.
8-D
"My ego" always makes me think of either the caveman reference or the little boy who gets mad at his friends and says, "I'm taking my ball and going home!!" while failing to realize that the friends he would leave behind as he proudly marches home are a fundamental part of his real home. This seems to capture the heart and soul of the id/ego - constantly proposing concepts meant to reinforce the idea of an autonomous existence.
Chris
Poor old ego seems to be getting a bit of a bashing.
What we resist persists and what we embrace transforms - so breathing a little sacred love to our egos might help in our transformation.......
with love and light
Marian
http://www.thestillpoint.co.uk
http://www.marianmills.blog.co.uk
That sure resonates with me Marian! Reminds me of the Disney movie "The Black Hole" where the captain says "We are going in, through and beyond!" I would imagine we can safely gauge our success by monitoring our level of joy and well being, and what's really cool about breathing sacred love is you just can't find a wrong place to breath it towards. The reason I mention those indicators is because my brother got hoplessly caught up in the black hole (of his ego) and could not find an escape - he finally, at age 40, put a bullet in his brain to ease the pain. I then was very tempted by the whole painful event to follow him (normal reaction), but alas, I do so hate guns (and it would hurt my ears, right?) and I'm too big a chicken for that kind of forced clarity. Anyway, what comes more natural to some, comes by a practiced discipline for others, so I find joy achieved through the practice of pro-active appreciation to be a real lifesaver for me.
What think ye?
Chris
"My ego" always makes me think of either the caveman reference or the little boy who gets mad at his friends...
There's a healthy ego, I think, that knows it's exactly what and where it should be - not in charge of everything around it but actively being and becoming along with it. Ego is at its best when it's assertive, not aggressive. We're trained to see every interaction as a challenge, which causes a kind of ego-infection. Then what we need is sort of a spiritual neti pot. I see driving as a metaphor for life on so many levels, and it's great ego-training. You can see the ones who regard every move as a challenge, even if it's not on their conscious level. Being willing to let others pass you just so you can drive slow is as unhealthy as wanting to pass everyone. Both are assertions of ego that can be hazardous. Being willing to be passed, to tuck into a stable pocket, as well as knowing when to swing into the fast lane because of an understanding of the flow and the wave aspects of traffic (life) - this engages the ego in its proper exercise, making judgments and choices, taking nothing personally, and (here's where the metaphor breaks down) keeping the emotions out of it.
8-D
what's really cool about breathing sacred love is you just can't find a wrong place to breath it towards
Ain't it the truth? Both this knowledge and the technique of ho'oponopono absolutely blow me away with their universality. I was talking about driving; you can definitely do it there. It works with strangers. It works with lovers, enemies, trees, rocks and animals. Yesterday while hiking I saw a large western diamondback - incredibly, the first wild rattlesnake I have ever seen in California! I was curious and unafraid and snapped several photos, but last night I found myself creeped out by out-of-nowhere visions of being surrounded by the gorgeous beasties. So I breathed sacred love with the snakes for a while, and they kindly let me walk from their midst.
...my brother got hoplessly caught up in the black hole (of his ego) and could not find an escape...
I lost my mom to suicide back in '78. After thirty years, I still miss her. I don't know how many times I've been tempted to let go, give in, and see what's down that road. But I can't do it, either. I realize some fundamental part of me has chosen life in all its pain and its glorious dawning, and there's no turning back. I knew it was behind me when the most serious crisis of my life didn't cause me to think of suicide, but survival. It was then I knew I was going to be just fine.
8-D
Hey Dave!
Sounds like you had a Don Juan/Carlos C. type experience with nature. Who needs a movie house when we have all this! Love hearing your heightened experiential knowledge you bring to us all. Got enough of the ignorant mundane already here in the states, as you are well aware of. Love the trek we are journeying together with like minds.
Sorry to hear about your mom. I remember how much I came apart just hearing my mom sound so weak in the hospital when we almost lost her. She is fine now, as if nothing had happened, but there is a primal trigger there that we are unaware of until it gets triggered. I am now a bit amused about my brother because I strongly suspect that he either had the experience of, "what the hell was I worried about!", or the experience of going into another body to get some work done he neglected to finish while in the body of "my brother". In any case, I went from resenting him for copping out, to honoring his resolve and bravery. He planned the thing down to the very last detail. After getting all of his earthly affairs in complete order, he even had the courtesy to call in his own suicide to the police station about 3 minutes away so that no one would stumble upon his body in the park. He was and, I imagine, still is one of the most considerate beings I ever had the pleasure of meeting. He just couldn't stand the way he saw people treating each other, and this is back in 93/94, before these full spectrum dominance / joint vision 2020 assholes really got their mojo workin'.
Chris
Chris