Uniquely Created Divinely Inspired . . . You

JOIN MARA AND BOB TO DISCUSS THE QUESTION "DO YOU FOCUS YOUR MIND ON THOSE WHO BRING YOU DOWN OR THOSE WHO LIFT YOU UP?"  IT IS MORE LIKELY THAN NOT, PROBABLE, THAT THERE HAVE BEEN TIMES WHEN ALL OF US HAVE ALLOWED OUR MINDS TO FOCUS ON THOSE WHO PUT US DOWN, JUDGE US, TALK BADLY ABOUT US AND GENERALLY LEAVE US FEELING LESS THAN.  DURING SUCH TIMES WHEN WE BECOME OBSESSED WITH NOT BEING ENOUGH, IT IS NOT UNCOMMON TO ALSO INVEST TIME TRYING TO SHOW THE PERSON(S) "ABUSING" US THAT THEY ARE WRONG.  IN ESSENCE WE GIVE THEM OUR POSITIVE ENERGY AS A RESULT OF THEM TREATING US NEGATIVELY. THESE TIMES LEAVE LITTLE ROOM FOR POSITIVE THOUGHT---FOR HAPPINESS. INSTEAD WE ARE ACTUALLY WASTING PRECIOUS MOMENTS IN OUR LIVES FOCUSING ON NEGATIVITY AND OTHER PEOPLE WHO MISS OUR INNER BEAUTY.  WE DO THIS EVEN THOUGH WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER OTHERS.  SOMETIMES WE WILL IGNORE THOSE WHO REACH OUT TO US IN KINDNESS AS WE WORK TO GARNER THE FAVOR OF THOSE WHO ARE BEATING US DOWN. THIS BEHAVIOR PATTERN DESTROYS THE NOW AND ALL WE HAVE IS NOW.  ITS TIME TO ACCEPT EVERYONE WILL NOT LIKE US AND HOLD CLOSE---LIFT UP---THOSE WHO TREAT US KINDLY, THOSE WHO DO LIKE US.  WHEN WE FOCUS OUR MINDS ON LOVE---WE RELEASE THE CONTROL THE NON-LOVERS HAVE ON US AND FREE OUR MINDS TO SEND LOVE TO THEM RATHER THAN EMPOWERING THEIR NEGATIVITY BY FRETTING OVER THAT WE CANNOT CHANGE.  RECLAIM YOUR POWER AND BE LOVE---STARTING WITH LOVING YOU.   People inspire you or they drain you.  Pick them wisely. ---Hans F. Hansen NAMASTE BOB AND MARA

JOIN BOB AND MARA TO TALK ABOUT HOW MUCH GOD THERE IS---ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE----ALL OF US ARE LOVED BY GOD.  YET, FOR SOME REASON HUMANS SET UP GROUPS WHO ARE SUPPOSEDLY LOVED MORE THAN OTHERS, NOT BECAUSE OF THEIR NEGATIVE CONDUCT, BUT BECAUSE THEY CALL GOD A DIFFERENT NAME; BECAUSE THEY PRAY/MEDITATE IN A DIFFERENT WAY; BECAUSE OF WHOM THEY LOVE; BECAUSE OF THEIR SEX; BECAUSE THEY ARE DIFFERENT, NOT LIKE YOU OR ME OR US.  IT COULD WELL BE THIS TENDENCY TO JUDGE IS WHY ALL MAJOR RELIGIONS SAY "JUDGE NOT", EVEN THE MOST JUDGMENTAL.   WE INVITE YOU TO JOIN US ON A JOURNEY OF LOVE.  THE LESSONS ON THE JOURNEY COME WITH FORGIVENESS FOR THOSE TIMES WHEN WE FAIL AND A REMINDER GOD IS ALWAYS THERE---WE ARE NOT ALONE---WE ARE "AL-ONE." NAMASTE BOB AND MARA

JOIN MARA AND BOB TO TALK ABOUT THE HARD CHOICES WE MAKE IN UNLOVING SITUATIONS.  SOMETIMES THE BEST CHOICE IS TO ALLOW SOMEONE TO LIVE HIS/HER LIFE WITHOUT OUR OPINIONS.  HOW OFTEN DO YOU SHARE YOUR OPINIONS WITHOUT BEING ASKED?  HOW OFTEN ARE YOU LISTENING TO THE PERSON'S GOALS RATHER THAN YOUR IDEAS ABOUT WHAT THOSE GOALS SHOULD BE?  ARE YOU OPINIONS GROUNDED IN LOVE AND LOVING WORDS OR ????  DO YOU ASK YOURSELF THE MAGIC QUESTION:  WHAT WOULD LOVE DO NOW?  LETS TALK ABOUT IT AS WE GROW TOGETHER IN LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER.  Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.---ANN LANDERS  A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is---JIM MORRISON

JOIN BOB AND MARA AS THEY TALK ABOUT LOVE.  THERE IS SO MUCH DISCUSSION ABOUT THE SUPREME COURT'S DECISIONS THIS WEEK THAT EXEMPLIFY THE COMMANDMENT "LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOU LOVE YOURSELF."  SADLY SOME OF THAT DISCUSSION IS ROOTED IN "US AND THEM" THINKING THAT SEEMS GROUNDED IN A BELIEF THAT GOD SOMEHOW CREATED SOME WHO ARE OK AND SOME WHO ARE NOT--- NOT SO.  JOIN US AS WE ENTER THE DEBATE IN THE NAME OF LOVE.  IT IS TIME THE PROTESTANT WORK ETHIC AND THE RESIDUAL EFFECTS OF THAT DOCTRINE BE RELEASED AND WE RAISE OUR COMBINED CONSCIOUSNESS TO EXEMPLIFY A MEME OF LOVE.   Love the Lord with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind... and love your neighbor as yourself. ~Jesus Christ, Matt. 22:37-39 For the entire law is fulfilled in one statement: love your neighbor as yourself.  ---Galatians 5:14. God is everything or God is nothing; God does not discriminate.  Namaste--- w

COME JOIN MARA AND BOB TO TALK ABOUT THE WONDERFUL UNIQUELY CREATED BEING YOU ARE.  IN THE END YOU CAN LEAD A LIFE TRYING TO MEET OTHER PEOPLE'S EXPECTATIONS AND JUDGMENTS  OF WHO THEY THINK YOU SHOULD BE OR RELAX IN KNOWING WHO YOU ARE:  A LOVING BEING LIVING EACH DAY TO THE BEST OF YOUR ABILITY THAT DAY!    NOT PERFECT BUT ENOUGH JUST AS YOU ARE! If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. Johann von Goethe And remember, no matter where you go, there you are. Confucius At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time. Friedrich Nietzsche LET'S TOGETHER CELEBRATE YOU AND THE ACTS OF KINDNESS FROM OTHERS  THAT REMINDED YOU OF YOUR VALUE THIS WEEK---THEN  LET US RAISE THE CONSCIOUSNESS--THE MEME--OF LOVE FOR ONE ANOTHER.  YOU ARE LOVED AND ENOUGH.  YOU ARE THE PERFECT PRODUCT OF YOUR LIFE. BELIEVE IN THE WONDER OF YOU!  THE WATER COLORS IN THE SLIDE SHOW ARE FROM MARA'S BOOK UNIQUELY CREATED DIVINELY INSPIRED YOU.   NAMASTE 

JOIN MARA AND BOB TO TALK ABOUT TECHNIQUES TO KEEP YOUR PEACE OR RECLAIM IT IN THE MIDST OF CHAOS. THERE ARE TIMES IN ALL OF OUR LIVES WHEN OTHERS SPEAK NEGATIVELY ABOUT US, YET, WE HAVE THE POWER TO DECIDE HOW WE WILL MANAGE THE SITUATION. THE FIRST STEP IS TO REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE.  IF SOMEONE CALLS YOU A TREE---THAT DOES NOT MAKE YOU A TREE.  IF SOMEONE CALLS YOU A TRAIN---THAT DOES NOT MAKE YOU A TRAIN.  YOU ARE WHO YOU ARE AND ANOTHER'S ACCUSATIONS CANNOT CHANGE WHO YOU ARE UNLESS YOU GIVE THAT PERSON THE POWER TO DO IT. LIFE HAS A BRIGHT SIDE AND DARK SIDE, FOR THE WORLD OF RELATIVITY IS COMPOSED OF LIGHT AND SHADOWS.  IF YOU PERMIT YOUR THOUGHTS TO DWELL ON EVIL, YOU YOURSELF WILL BECOME UGLY.  LOOK ONLY FOR GOOD IN EVERYTHING, THAT YOU ABSORB THE QUALITY OF BEAUTY.---PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA  ALLOW ANOTHER TO BE IN HIS/HER THINKNG WITHOUT JOINING HER/HIM.  STAY TRUE TO WHO YOU ARE---TO YOU. GO INISIDE AND MEDITATE IN YOUR WAY TO REMIND YOURSELF OF YOUR VALUE, YOUR PURPOSE, YOUR CONSTANT CONNECTION WITH LOVE /GOD/ THE GREAT SPIRIT/ ALLAH/ YAHWEH/ THE GREAT I AM/ ALL THAT IS Above all, be true to yourself, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it. - Unknown The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.?~E. E. Cummings To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”?- Ralph Waldo Emerson LET US EACH RECOGNIZE OUR VALUE. JOIN US IN REMEMBERING  HOW LOVE HAS AFFECTED YOU THIS WEEK AND PASS IT ON.   

JOIN MARA AND BOB TO TALK ABOUT GIVING--SHARING--WITHOUT EXPECTATION. GIVING WITH EXPECTATIONS OF HOW THE GIFT WILL BE USED CAN CREATE RESENTMENTS WHEN THE GIFT IS USED IN OTHER WAYS. RELEASING CONTROL AND JUST GIVING WITH NO EXPECTATION OF RECOGNITION  UPLIFTS THE HEART OF BOTH THE GIVER AND THE RECEIVER.   WE ONLY HAVE WHAT WE GIVE---ISABEL ALLENDE ANOTHER QUALIFICATION OF SUCCESS IS THAT WE NOT ONLY BRING HAMONIOUS AND BENEFICIAL RESULTS TO OURSELVES, BUT ALSO SHARE THOSE BENEFITS WITH OTHERS---PARAMAHANSA YOGANANDA LOVE OTHERS AS YOU LOVE YOURSELF---JESUS THE CHRIST KINDNESS IN WORDS CREATES CONFIDENCE.  KINDNESS IN THINKING CREATES PROFOUNDNESS.  KINDNESS IN GIVING CREATES LOVE---LAO TZU      

Join Mara today in a wellness meditation.  Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.---Buddha To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.--Buddha Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. --John Muir

JOIN MARA IN HER PRAYER ROOM TO TALK ABOUT  WHEN HEROES' ACT LIKE THE VILLAINS. ITS UP TO YOU, ENOUGH PEOPLE, ONE BY ONE, CAN CHANGE THE MEME OF VIOLENCE, WAR DESTRUCTION CONSUMING OUR PLANET.  DUDLEY DORIGHT AND SIMON LEGREE HAVE BECOME ENMESHED--ITS TIME TO DEFINE WHAT WE VALUE: LOVE, KINDNESS, ACCEPTANCE, TOLERANCE.... WHAT CONDUCT DO YOU MODEL, DO YOU TOLERATE, DO YOU ACCEPT PEOPLE OR TRY TO CHANGE THEM? “Kindness should become the natural way of life,not the exception.”---BUDDHA My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.---DALAI LAMA It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.---John Steinbeck  Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.---LAO TZU SEE MORE IN ANOTHER THAN S/HE IS SHOWING. THANK YOU LOVE FOR EVERYTHING JUST THE WAY IT IS. Music selections that move us to re-membering with Love, God, Yahweh, Allah, the Great Spirit, the Mysterious Eternal All, the Divine One . . . .    

JOIN MARA IN HER PRAYER ROOM TO TALK ABOUT LIVING A LIFE OF MINDFUL ACTIONS WHEN  YOUR LIFE SEEMS OUT OF CONTROL HOW MUCH TIME DO YOU LET YOUR MIND FILL UP WITH WHAT YOU PERCEIVE OTHERS PERCEIVE AND ALLOW JUDGMENT OF YOURSELF TO DESTROY YOUR PEACE? LETS GROW TOGETHER IN LIVING LIVES WE HAVE CONTROL OVER AND NOT ALLOWING OUR PERCEPTIONS OF OTHERS JUDGMENT OF US TO CONTROL HOW WE ACT. DON'T LET ANOTHER PERSON'S MISPERCEPTION ALTER WHO YOU ARE---BE TRUE TO YOU.  WHO DON'T BECOME WHAT YOU ARE NOT IN REACTING TO HOW OTHER'S MISPERCEIVE WHO YOU ARE. THANK YOU LOVE FOR EVERYTHING JUST THE WAY IT IS. Music selections that move us to re-membering with Love, God, Yahweh, Allah, the Great Spirit, the Mysterious Eternal All, the Divine One . . . .

LET''S JUST MEDIATE/PRAY TOGETHER

JOIN MARA IN HER PRAYER ROOM TO TALK ABOUT THE ROLE OF BLAME IN INTERFERING WITH OUR HAPPINESS AND OUR LIVES. BLAME CAN EAT UP OUR PEACE AND JUSTIFY OUR LOWEST BEHAVIOR WHICH INCLUDES JUDGING OTHERS BECAUSE THEY DID US WRONG. EVEN IF THAT IS TRUE WE HAVE NO POWER OVER OTHER PEOPLE, ONLY OVER OURSELVES---SO FRETTING IS A WASTED EMOTION. INSTEAD WE NEED TO CONTROL OUR ACTIONS TO REACH FOR OUR HIGHEST SELVES, RATHER THAN LANGUISHING IN WHAT IS DONE. SO HOW DO WE LET GO? LET'S TALK ABOUT LETTING GO OF BLAME AND EMBRACING NOW, ACCEPTING RESPONSIBILITY FOR OUR ROLE AND LETTING GO OF JUSTIFYING THE FEELING OF BEING WRONGED. LETS TURN OFF THE NEGATIVE TAPES---THE SOMEBODY DONE ME WRONG SONGS. THANK YOU LOVE FOR EVERYTHING JUST THE WAY IT IS. Music selections that move us to re-membering with Love, God, Yahweh, Allah, the Great Spirit, the Mysterious Eternal All, the Divine One . . . .    

JOIN MARA IN HER PRAYER ROOM TO TALK  ABOUT THE WAY TO PEACE: CONTROLLING WHERE YOUR MIND GOES. GOD/LOVE IS IN THE PRESENT---HOW OFTEN IS YOUR MIND?  RELAX IN NOW AND KNOW PEACE. MIND CONTROL=PEACE=MIND CONTROL.  Don't let the behavior of others destroy your peace.---Dalai Lama Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be kept by understanding.---Albert Einstein For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.---Ralph Waldo Emerson  Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind. ---Gerald Jampolsky  The mind that tries to shape tomorrow beyond its capacities will find no rest.---Rumi THANK YOU LOVE/GOD FOR EVERYTHING JUST THE WAY IT IS. Music selections that move us to re-membering with Love, God, Yahweh, Allah, the Great Spirit, the Mysterious Eternal All, the Divine One . . . .

JOIN MARA IN HER PRAYER ROOM TO TALK  ABOUT THE WAY TO PEACE: CONTROLLING WHERE YOUR MIND GOES. GOD/LOVE IS IN THE PRESENT---HOW OFTEN IS YOUR MIND?  RELAX IN NOW AND KNOW PEACE. MIND CONTROL=PEACE=MIND CONTROL.  Don't let the behavior of others destroy your peace.---Dalai Lama Peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be kept by understanding.---Albert Einstein For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.---Ralph Waldo Emerson  Other people do not have to change for us to experience peace of mind. ---Gerald Jampolsky  The mind that tries to shape tomorrow beyond its capacities will find no rest.---Rumi THANK YOU LOVE/GOD FOR EVERYTHING JUST THE WAY IT IS. Music selections that move us to re-membering with Love, God, Yahweh, Allah, the Great Spirit, the Mysterious Eternal All, the Divine One . . . .

JOIN MARA IN HER PRAYER ROOM TO TALK HAPPINESS.  NO ONE CAN MAKE YOU HAPPY BUT YOU.  RELAX IN KNOWING YOU ARE ENOUGH; YOU ARE LOVED; YOU ARE SPECIAL; YOU ARE NEEDED; BE HAPPY!!   YOU ARE NEEDED; BE HAPPY!! Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. Buddha Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Buddha We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.Buddha To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. Buddha You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection. Buddha THANK YOU LOVE FOR EVERYTHING JUST THE WAY IT IS. Music selections that move us to re-membering with Love, God, Yahweh, Allah, the Great Spirit, the Mysterious Eternal All, the Divine One . . . .