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Namaste Sweetie,

Happy Hump Day!

Today, I celebrate the enjoyment of enjoying JOY!

I am IN JOY!

:  )

Joy is always with us

It is an integral part of our essence

Regardless of circumstances

Joy always remains

I don't go looking for joy outside myself

I just have to stop and look within

And there it is

Waiting for me to recognize it

The best way to recognize joy is by being grateful

Being thankful for all our blessings

That is where we start in finding our joy

I hope something I've posted

Will Brighten Your Day

And Nourish Your Soul

AND

Resonate with the JOY that resides within YOU

I wish you a most JOYFUL Day!

Man! The other day we were all

Feeling Mary and Jumping for Joy

Until they got mad and left

: )

Just joking - Silly joke I heard years ago

Let us continue to promote

Peace and Love

and continue to build

The more Beautiful World

Our Hearts know is Possible

Peace and Love,

AOM

~*~

I invite you to join me now in this short Metta Prayer

Radiating the energy of peace and love out to all living beings

Take a few deep breaths to clear your mind

And focus on the here and now

This present moment

Now

Breathe in

Filling your being with peace and love

As you begin each line, breathe out slowly

Breathing these thoughts into the world

Reading, thinking, and feeling the words with peace and love

Sending them from your heart

Giving the energy to yourself and to all living beings

Breathe in and repeat the process for each line

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~*~

         

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“I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don't want to get to the end, or to tomorrow, even, and realize that my life is a collection of meetings and pop cans and errands and receipts and dirty dishes. I want to eat cold tangerines and sing out loud in the car with the windows open and wear pink shoes and stay up all night laughing and paint my walls the exact color of the sky right now. I want to sleep hard on clean white sheets and throw parties and eat ripe tomatoes and read books so good they make me jump up and down, and I want my everyday to make God belly laugh, glad that he gave life to someone who loves the gift.”

~Shauna Niequist 

(Cold Tangerines: Celebrating the Extraordinary Nature of Everyday Life)

~*~

“It’s important that what thoughts you are feeding into your mind because your thoughts create your belief and experiences. You have positive thoughts and you have negative ones too. Nurture your mind with positive thoughts: kindness, empathy, compassion, peace, love, joy, humility, generosity, etc. The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts, the more you can attract great things into your life.”

~Roy T. Bennett

(The Light in the Heart)

~*~

“Our lives are mere flashes of light in an infinitely empty universe. In 12 years of education the most important lesson I have learned is that what we see as “normal” living is truly a travesty of our potential. In a society so governed by superficiality, appearances, and petty economics, dreams are more real than anything - anything in the “real world”. Refuse normalcy. Beauty is everywhere, love is endless, and joy bleeds from our everyday existence. Embrace it. I love all of you, all my friends, family, and community. I am ceaselessly grateful from the bottom of my heart for everyone. The only thing I can ask of you is to stay free of materialism. Remember that every day contains a universe of potential; exhaust it. Live and love so immensely that when death comes there is nothing left for him to take. Wealth is love, music, sports, learning, family and freedom. Above all, stay gold.”

~Dominic Owen Mallary

~*~

“I don't think of all the misery, 

but of the beauty that still remains.”

~Anne Frank

(The Diary of a Young Girl)

MUSIC: "The Bell" by Mike Oldfield

GLORIOUS JOY!!!!!

Music brings me such great Joy

Such Ecstasy, Such Bliss

There are times when I am listening to music

That I feel my heart will burst through my chest with Joy
Tears of joy roll down my face as I gasp in bliss

~*~

This song is reminiscent in form to Ravel's Bolero

This amazing song builds and builds to Glorious Moments

By the end I am overflowing with effervescent joy

Mike Oldfield

"The Bell"

Live from Edinburgh

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/1gQpu_Ciyug

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“When you are joyful, 

when you say yes to life and have fun 

and project positivity all around you, 

you become a sun in the center of every constellation, 

and people want to be near you.” 

~Shannon L. Alder

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Soulful Eyes

Namaste Sweetie,

Happy Tuesday!

I'm so glad you are here

I really appreciate you staying with me

As I take time to develop this blog

The focus of this blog

Is more about Meditations and Music

I hope you had a chance to check out soma fm------>

It is a great Internet radio

See Monday's posts for more info

Or click the link on the sidebar ------->

~*~

If you use Windows

There is a very simple yet powerful audio player that I really like

It is called

WINYL (link)

Winyl: A Beautifully Simple Yet Powerful 

Digital Audio Player for Windows

Winyl is a free digital audio player and music library application for organizing and playing audio on Windows. It offers great new ways to organize and enjoy all your music. Listen to music and radio (including soma fm), rate your favorite tracks, create playlists, browse song lyrics, tag music, all of this is very simple in Winyl. It uses the least system resources, it starts and works very fast. It's the best choice for a laptop or netbook. Winyl is very easy to use, it has intuitive and powerful user interface.

 Just install and try it out. Winyl is absolutely free.
Visit the website here: Link

~*~

I feel like today's posts are more developed than yesterday's

I hope something I've posted

Will Brighten Your Day

And Nourish Your Soul

I wish you a most peaceful day

Let us continue to promote

Peace and Love

and continue to build

The more Beautiful World

Our Hearts know is Possible

Peace and Love,

AOM

~*~

I invite you to join me now in this short Metta Prayer

Radiating the energy of peace and love out to all living beings

Take a few deep breaths to clear your mind

And focus on the here and now

This present moment

Now

Breathe in

Filling your being with peace and love

As you begin each line, breathe out slowly

Breathing these thoughts into the world

Reading, thinking, and feeling the words with peace and love

Sending them from your heart

Giving the energy to yourself and to all living beings

Breathe in and repeat the process for each line

AOM TV: "Beautiful" by Alan Watts

"Every one of us is an aperture 

through which the whole cosmos looks out... 

Only the game we're playing is not to know this."

Alan Watts 

"See the Beauty in Everyone"

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/Il30lFERf9A

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by Vern Dufford

Thanks to our Friend for sending us this beautiful art

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“People are like stained-glass windows. 

They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, 

but when the darkness sets in, 

their true beauty is revealed 

only if there is a light from within.”

~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

~*~

“You are one thing only. 

You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. 

You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, 

and within you dwells 

the infinite wisdom of the ages 

and the sacred creative force of All that is, 

will be and ever was.”

~Anthon St. Maarten

(Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny)

~*~

“They will hate you if you are beautiful. They will hate you if you are successful. They will hate you if you are right. They will hate you if you are popular. They will hate you when you get attention. They will hate you when people in their life like you. They will hate you if you worship a different version of their God. They will hate you if you are spiritual. They will hate you if you have courage. They will hate you if you have an opinion. They will hate you when people support you. They will hate you when they see you happy. Heck, they will hate you while they post prayers and religious quotes on Pinterest and Facebook. They just hate. However, remember this: They hate you because you represent something they feel they don’t have. It really isn’t about you. It is about the hatred they have for themselves. So smile today because there is something you are doing right that has a lot of people thinking about you.”

~Shannon L. Alder

~*~

“No one woke up one morning out of the blue and just outright, fully loved themselves. It takes active effort. It takes active presence. You must learn to be more self-aware. You need to find things to be grateful for about yourself. You need to practice that love. Start small, but do it every day. Write it down if it helps. Keep growing the list of self-appreciation and love. Learn to look into the mirror and love the person looking back at you. Find that self-acceptance. Accept yourself not in perfection, but in love. Love the fallible and frail human you are. Develop self-love. If you want to have a successful and happy life you need to learn to become your own friend. You must foster and nurture the relationship you have with yourself. Out of all the people in your life, the one you will be with the longest is yourself. I can't stress enough how important it is to learn to love yourself. Practice it every day.”

~Akiroq Brost

MUSIC: "On The Beach" by Nick & Samantha

Soothingly Chill

If you are ever looking for some super soothing chill music

I highly recommend checking out

The Cafe del Mar Compilations

Nick & Samantha

"On The Beach"

from Café del Mar XX

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/mWr8dBlXrxE

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We each possess a spirit child

Who yearns to play and run wild

Allow your inner-child to flow free

To find him

Go to the nearest forest and climb a tree

There you will find him behind that effervescent smile

That’s been hidden deep within you all the while

~AOM

~*~

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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Stare into this gif
Breathe in the calm
Breathe out a smile

R - E - L - A - X

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Namaste, Sweetie!

I'm going to work a little more 

on developing this version of AOM this week

My main focus here is Meditations and Music

Today is a bit weak

But I hope to get stronger as the week progresses

Today, I'd like to tell you about a

Fantastic free Internet radio site

It is called

soma fm

You can click the link on the sidebar------->

To visit the site

They have over 30 channels

Various Musical Genres

Commercial Free Radio

No DJs - Just Music

Direct Link: https://somafm.com/

You can listen through your web browser any time 24/7/365

You can also get the Soma FM App for your devices

My favorite stations (so far) are

Space Station Soma

LUSH

Groove Salad

Black Rock FM

Deep Space One

The Trip

and

Earwaves

I'll share others as I get to know them

They really have a great set up with great music
They also show the songs that are playing and have played
Which is great when you want to explore the music more

Check 'em out!

I wish you a beautiful day, my Friend

Let us continue to promote

Peace and Love

and continue to build

The more Beautiful World

Our Hearts know is Possible

Peace and Love,

AOM

~*~

I invite you to join me now in this short Metta Prayer

Radiating the energy of peace and love out to all living beings

Take a few deep breaths to clear your mind

And focus on the here and now

This present moment

Now

Breathe in

Filling your being with peace and love

As you begin each line, breathe out slowly

Breathing these thoughts into the world

Reading, thinking, and feeling the words with peace and love

Sending them from your heart

Giving the energy to yourself and to all living beings

Breathe in and repeat the process for each line

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I'm playing around with a new idea. I'd like to share things I think about. I don't know if my thoughts are good or right, correct or true - just thoughts from my stream of consciousness. So I think of these thoughts as marbles that roll around inside my head. : ) I know! I know! I've lost most of them - but there's still a few left. So please don't expect brilliance here in this section. I share them because so much of what I think never gets shared because I always want to make sure they are perfectly well thought out. So here it goes.

So! For today. I've been working on a short little piece that attempts to expose a major - if not THE major problem in the United States - It is how divided we are as a nation and how much hatred and anger there is here among ourselves. In fact, it is so bad that all our enemies have to do is wait us out, and we will destroy ourselves. 

So here's my little diddy. I'd like for you to critique it. Is it ready for prime time or does it still need work? If it needs work, what should I change? 

Here is the short story:

Russia’s Vladimir Putin, China’s Xi Jinping, and N. Korea’s Kim Jong-un were sitting in a bar when Putin said, "I tell joke." 

"Two Americans were sitting at a bar.

The first American said, 

"I believe in tax cuts for the wealthy."

The other American said, 

"I believe in tax spending to help the needy." 

Both Americans jumped up, whipped out their guns, shot and killed each other."

Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong-un laughed and laughed and laughed.

With his infamous wry grin, Putin leaned over to Kim Jong-un and said,"Kim, save your nukes. The Americans are destroying themselves better than we could ever do. They hate each other more than they hate us. All we have to do is sit back and watch them self-destruct. America’s ruin won't cost us a ruble, a yuan, a won, or one red dime."

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by Vern Dufford

Thanks to our Friend for sending us this beautiful art

I love this painting. It expresses a wonderful spiritual moment.

~*~

"Just watch babies. They’re in a constant state of love. How could they possibly be so joyful? Because they’re in harmony with the source. Some call that source God or soul or spirit or consciousness. They have no resistance to being joyful - unlike adults. You didn’t come forth into this world to suffer, to be anxious, fearful or depressed. Remember, your thoughts, not your world, cause you stress. And you can change your thoughts."

~Wayne Dyer

~*~

“[Think] of an experience from your childhood. Something you remember clearly, something you can see, feel, maybe even smell, as if you were really there. After all you really were there at the time, weren't you? How else could you remember it? But here is the bombshell: you weren't there. Not a single atom that is in your body today was there when that event took place. Every bit of you has been replaced many times over (which is why you eat, of course). You are not even the same shape as you were then. The point is that you are like a cloud: something that persists over long periods, while simultaneously being in flux. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made. If that does not make the hair stand up on the back of your neck, read it again until it does, because it is important.”

~Steve Grand

(Creation: Life and How to Make It)

MUSIC: "I Believe in You" by Lumininius

Beautifully Soothing

"I Believe in You" 

by Lumininius

from Cafe Del Mar

YouTube Direct Link: https://youtu.be/Da5EQGm0Mwo

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MONDAY! Let's GO!