A NEW LEASE

Wow! It is already 4:PM. Six members of our old gang came up and took us to lunch. We had a great lunch! We had great conversation and the restaurant was well above average. Jamie and I are going to visit that place again. It was only five minutes from our new home.

It was wonderful to reconnect with people and hear about those that were not present. It is also a little sad as we miss everybody. Then as one of the folks mentioned, everything is changing; many people are moving, some are in decline from age related health concerns and yes some are even dieing. At almost 84 I am perhaps the oldest of the group but none of us are youngsters.

Of course I had to have a nap upon returning home and that is why it is so late.

Now that I got a new lease of life I can look forward to all kinds of excitement. Just exploring the area around where I live will be an adventure. I wonder how many great restaurants are within a stone throw of our residence.

Of course my greatest passion is raising my consciousness to the point where I can only perceive the love that is endowed in everybody and everything and sharing that knowledge to help others to do the same.

I know I have a lot of company because the internet is full of information on the awakening. There are many teachers out there and we need them all. There is someone for everybody. We hold the truth inside us and we can recognize it by our feelings if a teaching fits us or not. When it is right for us we often have an 'aha' experience as if we are being reminded of something we already know. We need to learn to trust our intuition.

Most of us have been programmed to think with our brain/mind. It is a fine organ. It is excellent for solving some problems. It is not much use in understanding the purpose of life. It is good at unraveling 'doing' but falls on its face at understanding 'being'.

We can learn to think with our heart/mind. It takes practice. I am just learning. When the majority of our thoughts are loving we will begin to understand. It is difficult for folks to accept that their thoughts create their perception. I have been paying great attention to this phenomena in myself and I have no doubt about it. I can make an emerging situation pleasant or unpleasant merely because of my judgement.

I know that choosing the most loving interpretation of any event can be life changing. We think and evaluate and judge way too much. When we are doing this we are misusing our brain/mind, it is for solving problems of physical time and space it is incapable of judgement.

Judgement is actually foreign to both the brain/mind and heart/mind. Judgement is a product of ego. We created the ego to protect our fragile bodies in an an alien environment. Ego is not negative or positive but it is used negatively by the brain/mind whenever a nuance of fear is introduced. There is no limit to the destruction the ego can create in the presence of fear.

We are learning to trust our intuition. We can only do this by not inviting fear into our lives. Fear can be very subtle, it can distort the conclusions of our brain/mind and corrupt our intuition. The brain/mind can be very attracted to fear and that is scary, but love is such a powerful force for our heart/mind that it will takeover the major function of guiding our lives when we concentrate on having only loving thoughts.

It is almost 5PM I must get on to other things.

Thanks again for your positive energy that gives me this new lease on life!

Love and Peace, Gregg