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Let's Re-engage with Now, while exploring the peace of connecting with All that Is.  Let's breathe in the peace of that connection and accept what we can control: ourselves and cannot control: others.  No matter where we are in life, we have made it to this point.  We are enough:  Each of Us and All of us.  The challenge of life is being kind to unkindness because my reaction is about me and yours is about you.  When we are at a point of chaos, student and teacher at one time, do I follow your lead and become your student or do I respond in kindness and become your teacher, which will disrupt my peace?  No matter which I choose,  I can reclaim myself and my peace.  Let's explore how.... Be kind whenever possible.  It is always possible.---Dalai Lama   

Love ignites a sense of peace that shows your soul. Let's meditate together to see if we fit and can trust each other enough to talk about ideas that show Love.  Let's learn together to be LOVE IN THE MOMENT.  "I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied."--- J. Cole "If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment." ---Henry David Thoreau Come join Mara to meditate and enrich the meme of Love. Let's Love in the Moment and watch that Love expand beyond us. Let's talk and listen for change, to heal, to grow together in LOVE.  You are Loved---trust me IT'S TRUE. Namaste Mara

Love ignites a sense of peace that shows your soul. Let's meditate together to see if we fit and can trust each other enough to talk about ideas that show Love.  Let's learn together to be LOVE IN THE MOMENT.  “Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.”---Leonardo da Vinci “A human being is part of a whole, called by us the ‘Universe’ —a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and feelings, as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” ---Albert Einstein Come join Mara to meditate and enrich the meme of Love. Let's Love in the Moment and watch that Love expand beyond us. Let's talk and listen for change, to heal, to grow t

Love ignites a sense of peace that shows your soul. Let's meditate together to see if we fit and can trust each other enough to talk about ideas that show Love.  Let's learn together to be LOVE IN THE MOMENT.  “True compassion does not stem from the pleasure of feeling close to one person or another, but from the conviction that other people are just like me and want not to suffer but to be happy, and from a commitment to help them overcome what causes them to suffer. I must realize that I can help them suffer less.” - The Dalai Lama, My Spiritual Journey  “Merely thinking that compassion and reason and patience are good will not be enough to develop them. We must wait for difficulties to arise and then attempt to practice them.” - The Dalai Lama, “Compassion and The Individual”  Come join Mara to meditate and enrich the meme of Love. Let's Love in the Moment and watch that Love expand beyond us. Let's talk and listen for change, to heal, to grow together in LOVE.  You are Loved---trust me IT

Love ignites a sense of peace that shows your soul. Let's meditate together to see if we fit and can trust each other enough to talk about ideas that show Love.  Let's learn together to be LOVE IN THE MOMENT.  "Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond."   Jalaluddin Rumi "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."   Dalai Lama Come join Mara to meditate and enrich the meme of Love. Let's Love in the Moment and watch that Love expand beyond us. Let's talk and listen for change, to heal, to grow together in LOVE.  You are Loved---trust me IT'S TRUE. Namaste Mara

Right now there is  a lot of hate talk, but also a lot of people still living in Love.  Love ignites a sense of peace that shows your soul. Let's meditate together to see if we fit and can trust each other enough to talk about ideas that show Love.   "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 “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”  Jalaluddin Rumi Come join Mara to meditate and enrich the meme of Love. Let's Love in the Moment and watch that Love expand beyond us. Let's talk and listen for change, to heal, to grow together in LOVE.  You are Loved---trust me IT'S TRUE. Let's learn together to Love in the Moment.  Namaste Mara

Right now there is  a lot of hate talk, but also a lot of people still living in Love.  Let's meditate together to see if we fit and can trust each other enough to talk about ideas that show Love.   “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing  and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about.”  ----Jalaluddin Rumi Come join Mara to meditate and enrich the meme of Love. Let's Love in the Moment and watch that Love expand beyond us. Let's talk and listen for change, to heal, to grow together in LOVE.  You are Loved---trust me IT'S TRUE. Let's learn together to Love in the Moment. 

Right now there is  a lot of hate talk, but also a lot of people still living in Love.  Let's meditate together to see if we fit and can trust each other enough to talk about ideas that show Love.  Come join Mara to meditate and enrich the meme of Love.  Let's Love in the Moment and watch that Love expand beyond us.  Let's talk and listen for change, to heal, to grow together in LOVE.  You are Loved---trust me IT'S TRUE. Let's learn together to Love in the Moment.  Namaste Mara

WE ARE SURROUNDED BY JUDGMENT CONDEMNING OTHERS RIGHT NOW.  LET'S JOIN OUR LOVE TOGETHER IN MEDITATION. LET'S UNITE IN OUR SIMILARITIES NOT OUR DIFFERENCES.   LET'S GROW TOGETHER IN PEACE AND IGNITE A MEME OF LOVE TO REPLACE THE CURRENT GROWING MEME OF HATE.   YOU ARE ENOUGH, SAY IT: "I AM ENOUGH;" YOU ARE LOVED, SAY IT: "I AM LOVED," YOU ARE PART OF THE SOLUTION, SAY IT: "I AM PART OF THE SOLUTION," JOIN MARA TO UNITE OUR BREATH WITH GOD'S BREATH AND TO EMPOWER THE BEST IN US AND OTHERS. BELIEVE IN LOVE.  LET'S TOGETHER DECLARE IT IS OK TO BE LOVE.  IT TAKES COURAGE AND STRENGTH  TO STAND FOR KINDNESS, BUT IT LEADS TO PEACE. NAMASTE MARA      

Join Bob and Mara to be reminded how valuable you are-ENOUGH  We seem to focus on what we are not, the goals we have not accomplished, rather than the ones we have reached. If you are feeling down, it is OK to sit down and recognize your strengths. You will be amazed how quickly God, your ever present companion will join with you in reciting your strengths if  you say I AM before each strength, whatever order you like, as long as you include I AM: I AM A GOOD FRIEND OR A GOOD FRIEND I AMI AM A GOOD MOM OR A GOOD MOM I AMI AM A GOOD DAD OR A GOOD DAD I AMI AM A HAPPY PERSON OR A HAPPY PERSON I AMI AM A GOOD WORKER OR A GOOD WORKER I AM [be sepcific]I AM A GOOD CITIZENI AM KINDI AM ENOUGH TO HAVE MADE IT THIS FARI AM ENOUGHI AM GROWING .... Amazing how this exercise can remind you of your value and Loving You is vital to You Being All You Can Be. I thought I was Somebody until SOMEBODY made clear I was NOBODY which HURT until I remembered EVERYONE IS SOMEBODY. You, me--EQUAL & ENOUGH.  Be gentle with You

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

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

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 real

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

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 WI

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 th