Day 7 – Total Balance Is Natural Balance

I have resisted much of that calling until now. Yet, the pull was always there. All I needed do, I have learned, was to listen to my heart and follow its lead. Writing now helps me to help others if I can speak the truth with authenticity.

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The second source of inspiration is what I learned from Buddhist practices. Yes, I learned to meditate and seek peace and calm within myself. It is the path that Siddhartha discovered more than 2,600 years ago when he became the “Awakened One.”

I too want to awake from the illusion of this life and see things clearly again. With aspirations to becoming a bodhisattva, I think I can find the way.

Oprah Winfrey and Deepak Chopra are sources of inspiration for a better me and a better you ! 

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Thirdly, By acting with joyful effort, I believe I can help people smile while understanding we are all in this life together. Spirituality need not be a somber thing that our forefathers passed onto us from dark churches where stiff icons proclaimed the negative aspect of religion. I want no more of the “Thou Shalt Nots” and the fire and brimstone sermons that talked of hell and demons.

Give me love. Give me love with a great big smile wrapped up in a bow that would make Jesus, Mohammad and Moses laugh out loud!

I know it is the way to heaven, just as I know that being childlike is the only way I could get passage through those pearly gates. Get St. Peter to laugh his head off and not notice how a sinner like me could ever get an invite back to Paradise.