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17 June 2008

Day 170

From the book KABBALAH 365 edited by Rabbi Gershon Winkler

Day 170

All beings--all of them--are interconnected one within the other, and support one another, and it is impossible for any one of them to exist without the other. Likewise, there are wondrous medicines in all of the four merka'vot (vehicles of divine manifestation)--Still Beings, Sprouting Beings, Wildlife Beings, and Talking Beings.


-Sixteenth-century Rabbi Yeshayahu ben Avraham
in Sh'lah ahl M'sechet Yoma, Perek Derech Chayyim V'tocha'chat Musar, No. 29

05 June 2008

Today is Beautiful

Today is a beautiful day.

Today, I spent a bit of time reflecting on my Grandfather's passing, thinking on him and then realized that it is one month day of crossing over and that it is the 21st yahrzeit of the passing of his youngest daughter my Aunt Terri Inez Griffin, she was the dancer.

On my computer at work I have a post it note that says:

I love you Grandaddy, I hope you are happy.
I shed some tears. Let the emotion out. And after much self talk I became full of a lot of Love and Joy. I wanted so much to give our financial advisor a hug...just cause I really wanted one...I refrained cause I did not want her thinking I'd lost my mind. However, I am sure she would have obliged me, she is very sweet and kind. But I absorbed that feeling within and hugged myself. :-)

I released it all to Spirit.

Upon returning home from work around noon I discovered that the reliable postal service delivered the book I ordered by Rabbi Gershon Winkler entitled "Magic of the Ordinary: Recovering the Shamanic in Judaism".

For well over the past year I had been contemplating purchasing this book. What took me so long, I do not know. A fellow blogger posted a YouTube video of Rabbi Gershon in which he is being interviewed and then proceeds to play the hand drum. On his drum he points out several symbols related to one of the four archangels. Lo and behold one of the angel symbols was the very symbol that came to mind when I received my second Reiki One empowerment! Needless to say I was completely blown away. For the past year I had been wondering what the symbol meant.

Not only that but his book has already answered or shall I say confirmed some other questions that had been burning.

Today is a beautiful day.

13 August 2007

Just For Today

Just for today
I will not worry.

Just for today
I will not be angry.

Just for today
I will honour my mother
my father, my teachers.

Just for today
I will do my work honestly.

Just for today
I will be kind to my neighbors
and to all living things.

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One of the most important lessons
we must learn is that all we have
is today.

I no longer have yesterday and
tomorrow is not guaranteed to me.

If I do for today than I have done
well.
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Just for today
I will be mindful of lessons learned.



16 April 2007

Musings & Self Reflections

this kabbalistic incantation...

אין עוד מילבדו
Ain Od Milvado...
There is nothing but Gd

or as I like to say ...

There is nothing but Infinite

Because I believe, for myself
that Gd has become our own little
idol which has been fashioned
from ourselves... rather than us
from Elohim.


אין עוד מילבדו

There is Nothing but the Infinite.


What struck me today is that
out of that hebrew incantation
I can see OM... AUM...in its
conclusion



OM or AUM being the Primordial
sound of the UniVerse;
the sound of creation.....

From whence we get "amein"

om...ain od milvado...om

אין עוד מילבדו


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Just my personal thoughts


אין עוד מילבדו

There is Nothing but the Infinite.