After meditating each morning, sometimes I have the impulse to get a pencil and a piece of paper and try to express in a few words the kind of energy that I connected to during the practice. This is one example of what comes out of my writing.

 

Life is expressing itself
through this humble piece of consciousness
becoming aware of the great being
releasing chains of thoughts and feelings
that no longer represent who I really am.

Life comes through me
Life expresses God
God is life through me expressed.

I am dust from the stars
Awareness is the gateway to I am
I live in joy. I live in love. I live in peace.

Awakening to the light
is my true and only act of life.

I am.

To me, ART is the expression of creativity.
Creativity is the process of creation.
I create (and re-create) my reality every day.
Therefore, I should find ART at every moment of my life.
Well, what if I don't? Maybe because I'm not aware of my artistic endeavours, maybe I'm creating unconsciously, maybe I'm not using my creativity to its full potential. But I believe that, even if I'm not aware of it, my ART flows from me everytime, it surrounds me and joins other people's ART everywhere. Isn't our collective ART the very  (re)creation of our reality?

(image source: http://www.stumbleupon.com/demo/#url=http://www.art-mind-soul.com/003-Yin-Yang.enlarge.html)

Wealth is not a feeling, it is an impression that lies outside my being. So I cannot feel wealthy, but I can have the impression that I spared enough to remain stable and comfortable in life - something that makes me think that I am wealthy. These are the kinds of fake impressions that are torn into powder the moment after I think I hold them. I believe the reason for that is because they are impressions, just that. Being wealthy is not something to be desired, nor to be achieved, but it can be a collateral consequence of taking the right path in life.

"Two roads diverged in a wood - and I
I took the one less traveled by"  (Robert Frost)

Taking the road less traveled makes me feel wealthy, not because I desire it, but it just happens. My wealth comes from not going with the masses, but rather choosing a way that only a few are able to perceive. Like being here at gaia, for instance.

I am dust from the stars.
Awareness is the gateway to I am.
I live in joy. I live with love. I live in peace.
I am.

I started reading "Seeds of Transformation" (Maggie Erotokritou, 2007). It's wonderful! It contains 52 seeds, to be read one each week. The first seed is about Harmony. It made me raise a few questions about how harmonious my life is. Can I keep my life in Harmony? Difficult.  How can I stay in harmony when someone shouts at me at the traffic? It seems that our society is everything but harmonious! Relationships are based on power rather than love, especially here at the US. It seems that the energy of the 3rd chakra rules the world. My working environment is that of international politics, in which power is the underlying concept of any subject or conversation. It's all about acquiring power, showing power, comparing power. A totally different world from the "empowerment" concept of awakening to harmony and love. How can I keep my integrity and harmony in such an environment? I was thinking whether I should consider changing my life completely, abandoning my career and lifestyle, so that I could be in a better position to accept transformation through love, to elevate my energy to that of the 4th chakra... but I also feel that renouncing the world is not the solution, which leads me to confusion and frustration. Hmmm. but I'll be patient, this is just the beginning, the first seed only!

Nowhere. I do not feel safe anywhere in the world.  I tend to compensate this lack of security by seeking financial stability, long-term carreer planning, long-lasting relationship, social acceptance, good health...  but deep inside me I know these are all masks that can hardly cover the fear of being alone, of running out of money, of being rejected by friends and colleagues, of becoming ill, of losing a loved one, of dying ultimately.
By holding to all these fake masks of security, my life became a lie, to myself and to others, and that makes it even more insecure.
There is no safe heaven on Earth. The only way to feel safe is to be one with myself, to realize my full potential, to *be* rather than *have*, to anchor my life in my own deep sense of communion with the universe. But oh my, that's difficult! Everytime I try it - and believe me, I've been trying all my life - I am challenged by a strong dark force that throws me down in a second and shows me my inner imbalances, my own monsters, my confused mind and my contradictions. How I am unsustainable and variable! If only I could keep on track and follow my inner guide! But I'll keep on trying, is there an option after all?

I am serving a higher purpose that I am not aware of as yet. Whenever it is possible to remember, I devote each thought, deed or word to such higher purpose, and I have faith that by doing so I'll become little by little closer to awareness of who I am and what I am serving in this existence.

This image is perhaps the one that best describes my moment in life. I am aware of the beautiful reality that awaits me, but I somehow resist to open my wings and fly to it. Instead, I prefer to be safe and seated, watching, contemplating. Not that contemplation is not good, indeed it is, but I start to feel that there is something else left for me out there, and I need to put together my will and go after it.
This reflection is precisely what is in the picture, isn't it? As nothing happens out of the blue, this feeling of demanding something else from life, and at the same time realizing that such demand depends on my own initiative, arrives precisely when I got to know gaia.com and its multiple possibilites. I do hope that soon I'll be at ease and fully engaged with many processes and people here, as a means of becoming an active participant of life itself.

Meenakshi, thank you for your welcoming words. I follow your advice and joined The Power of Light. Let's vibrate together. 

Centria, thank you for your nice words too. I came to Washington DC two months ago, for work. I will be here for the next three years. I work as a diplomat, so it's part of my job to move around from time to time. I'd be interested to know if there are people from DC and around at gaia.com, or how I can find them, because I am in sort of need of *similar vibrations*, which I do not find at my workplace.

I am cultivating love, self-confidence and awareness. For love is all that is, so I'd  better not stay out of it. Self-confidence is a tool to help me realize my presence and my role in the world today. And awareness is the condition to work, develop, help, care and love.

Similar vibrations, of course! It works like a radio frequency: I send out my own vibrational waves and get back the others', some match, some don't. But I may often be drawn to negative vibrations as well, as if I needed some kind of bad energy to work out old egoistic patterns.