When you're feeling good about yourself!

"When you`re feeling good about yourself, your outlook about life and everything around you is also good; and with a clean mind and cleansed spirit you begin to live life differently as you extinguish all impurities. People on the outside looking in, see the changes that you're not aware of and you become the energy that you project to the world." - A D. G

This message was taken from may 2007, SOUL INK Newsletter...Read the entire newsletter here... SOUL INK Newsletter May 2007

You Ever Think

About where you will be ten years from now , how much will your rent be, how much will it cost to get on a bus, how much a loaf of bread will cost. I found my my self thinking about these things all the time . Will I be able to send my child to college , will I be able to have a happy home ?. I often look through the classifieds at the monthly cost of condos & co-ops and ask my self ARE THESE PEOPLE OUT THEY RABBIT ASS MIND . I saw condo for 675k 2 bed rooms & 1 bath room , the rooms were to damn small and not big enough for a family . How can the average person afford to live in a good community and the cost of living is so high . Am I suppose to pack up and move to a poor neighborhood where the drug and crime rate is high or do I get 4 or 5 jobs to keep a roof over my head.

Prime Realstate

This is a message for women who are about to go on that sexual journey . Know and understand your body is a blessing, a gem, a gift. Most men want sex with no questions asked cause most are just not ready to take that extra step.

Let me put it more simple for, would you let a bum live in your house rent free and not contribute to the up keeping of a home? And please dont think that I am putting a dollar amount on your physical atribute, but know and undstand that you cant put a price on something that is priceless .

What you want is a man who is able to add on to your current worth. You dont want a decrease in property value .

Knowing Better Now

When we look back at the past, knowing what we know now, we often find it difficult to understand how we made the mistakes we made. This is because once we learn new information, it is nearly impossible to reenter the headspace we were in before we learned that information. And so we look back at parents who spanked their kids, for example, and wonder how they could have thought that was a good idea. Similarly, our personal pasts are full of mistakes we can't believe we made. We did things then that we would never do now, and this is precisely because we have information now that we didn't have, or weren't able to access, then.

One step at a time

"What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step." -- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Does the prospect of changing and growing seem monumental to you? Just too much to tackle?

Then consider this approach. Take a simple step of affirming your openness to experience more or something new. Or a different first step might be to let go of judgment by embracing the neutral. Begin to see the people, activities and things around you as neither good nor bad.

A journey is made of many small steps. Don’t focus on a far-off destination if you’re not clear how to get there. Build a foundation that is solid for you. We get to new places one step at a time.

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time." -- John Wanamaker

Love life and yourself

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage." -- Lao Tzu

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.

We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

"It matters not Who you love, Where you love, Why you love, When you love, Or how you love, It matters only that you love." -- John Lennon

"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?" -- Frank Scully

The Impossible Dream - Right In Front Of You

When it comes to the things we want, there always seems to be an endless list. No matter how many times we get something off that list, we add new things to replace it. In life, this drama of wanting and getting and wanting is all part of the dance. The things we want motivate us to get up and get them.

And yet, at the same time, we can torment ourselves with our wanting, especially when we want something we can't have or can't find. It is in cases like these that it might be fruitful to entertain the idea that maybe what you really want is right in front of you. Maybe you are using this desire you can't fulfill to distract you from truly engaging the blessings you already have. It may seem like that doesn't make sense, yet we do it all the time. It may be easier to see in other people than to see it in ourselves. We have all heard our friends wishing they were more this or less that, and looking at them we see clearly that they are everything they are wishing they were. We know people who have wonderful partners and yet envy you yours. We wish we could give these people a look at their situations from our perspective so that they could see that what they want really is right in front of them.

It's not too far-fetched to consider that we might be victims of the same folly. It can be scary to have what we want. We get caught up in the chase and forget to enjoy the beauty right in front of us-like a child who never wants the toy she has in her hand but always the one just out of her reach. Take a moment today to consider the many things you are holding in the palm of your hand and how you might best play with them.