ilovemylife: OPRAH, ECKHART TOLLE AND ME

NOW IS WHERE TO BE

Tonight, with 2 million people, I was online with Oprah's class with Eckhart Tolle using his book A New Earth ~ Awakening to Your Life's Purposes. Sort of fantastic! We began by all 2 million of us breathing in and out together. I wonder how it effected the physiology of planet Earth : )

I've been wanting to share a poem I wrote when I was in college titled In Risking, but I couldn't find it in a timely manner, so instead I share this one that follows. In the meantime, here's to LIFE! And loving being connected to the best in all of us.

...................................................................

...................................................................
Beautiful, calm.... guitarist playing the song
that Dionne Warwick sings below

Performed by overlord74 from Italy

Found, Not Lost
By Sandra Hammel

Are You Dangling? Are you holding on to life? Are you here?

Being-fully-alive is our guiding light.

Finding myself has been a journey.

And I love where the journey has led me.

Losing myself has never happened.

Thank you.

Denying parts of my self

never
seemed right to me

Although encouraged.

Being some thing other than what I am
just seems pointless to me.

But so many do it that way.

If I’m going to work hard at something,
it might as well be,
being the authentic me,

not a pretentious me.

In the end of either of those two choices, consider it

A pretentious person.
Who is she? What does she know about herself? What does she love about herself? How can she take what she knows about herself and relate it to
others?
How can she feel? How can life move through her? How can she receive life?

What does she really know? What is real to a pretentious person?

An authentic person.
Who is she? What does she know about herself? What does she love about herself? How can she take what she knows about herself and relate it to
others?
How can she feel? How can life move through her? How can she receive life?

What does she really know? What is real to an authentic person?

Which one will you be?

Betrayal of your self is the worst betrayal.

In the name of what, would anyone choose to pretend who she is?

Great pretenders are also great at denying what they feel.

Denying what you feel will kill you.

Some pretend to be authentic, but it’s still pretending

January 12, 2006
...................................................................