Sunday, February 15, 2009

Celebrating The Gardens of Pearl Fryar!


I say run don't walk to your local movie rental store and pick up the charming documentary film, 'A Man named Pearl'. Pearl Fryar is the son of sharecropper who turned a life of hardship into a literal garden of delight and put the small town of Bishopville, South Carolina on the map. He is a model of what is possible when you give your life to God, overlook the ignorance or prejudice of others, see the beauty in what others throw away , believe that obstacles are in your path for good reasons, and give your all to what you love.

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

Circulate the most abundant, magnetic currency - LOVE!!




When you circulate your LOVE in the world, when you are focused on what you have to give in a moment to moment sort of way, you will always be in the flow of abundance. Giving is receiving. When you are not receiving, ask yourself, 'where could I be giving more? To whom could I give? How could I invest in my dreams? How could I serve?' Sometimes the receiving channel is blocked because we have not been giving enough to ourselves. We give and give to the world -- but are skimpy in giving to ourselves. How could you be taking better care of yourself? How could you nurture yourself more? Spa, anyone? Yoga?

When you are focused on 'getting' or 'having', you are in contraction and probably, in a state of fear. When you are focused on what you have 'to give', you are focused on the state of abundance you are. Giving always connects you to receiving - to give is to receive -- and it is so much more fun than waiting around, tapping your toe, waiting 'to get'. The universe responds to loving, generous hearts. When you are in the flow of giving, you will always receive abundantly.

The Hindu Goddess Lakshmi, pictured here, is a beautiful example of ever-flowing abundance. Surrounded by gifts and delicious pleasures, gold coins spilling from her hands onto and into the lotus flower on which she is seated, she is the symbol of true prosperity and abundance. She has more than enough in her hands and around her, and is in a state of relaxed, open, contented beingness. That's abundance. Feeling abundant as you are -- and responding to every opportunity to give lovingly, generously, abundantly.