JOIN BOB AND MARA TO DISCUSS "YOU TIME."  Time you celebrate the things that make You happy, that cause you to pause at peace.  It is during such times you re-connect with all that is, with God, with Allah, with Yahweh, with the Great Spirit, and become ONE with THE GREAT I AM.

Many people allow their  lives to get caught up in doing things and DENY themseleves time :  

to just stop and smell the roses,to lift your head up and feel the breeze,to send prayers into the wind,to meditate/pray,to breathe and join one's breath with God's breath

If you convince yourself you are too busy to do any of these things you are trapped in an illusion, maya, that ignores your immediate, constant, connection with all that is.  It takes a minute to reconnect that's it.  Although the joy of being connected may be addictive and you may want to relax in the presence of the GREAT I AM for longer periods in special places: churches, mosques, synagogues, your prayer room, any spot you recognize as glistening with the energy of God . . .; why deny yourself the pleasure of spontaneous moments of peace and pleasure by stopping even if for a second to reconnect and be-come one with God, known by many names?

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

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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 . . . .