How Do YOU Define Success?

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends. To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

How do YOU know when YOU have “made it?” How do YOU define success?

May you all experience the manifestation of your personal vision of success…follow YOUR self-designed (and God-approved) Blueprint for Life…not the one envisioned or assigned by your parents, wife, husband, children, teachers, or friends; however well-meaning the intentions that others proscribe to you, they are not YOUR INTENTIONS. ONLY YOUR SELF-CREATED & SELF-EXECUTED INTENTIONS WILL MANIFEST YOUR DREAMS AND PERSONAL VISION OF SUCCESS. EMBRACE YOUR VISION – SET YOUR INTENTION – AFFIRM IT EVERY DAY – BELIEVE – FOLLOW IT THROUGH – YOU WILL ACHIEVE IT – YOU ALREADY HAVE, IN THE REALM OF PURE POTENTIALITY – YOU JUST NEED TO TRANSLATE IT TO THE PHYSICAL REALM, TO THE VIBRATIONAL FREQUENCY WHICH YOU ARE PRESENTLY TUNED IN.

Love, Light, Laughter & Healing Vibrations to all … Lisa <3

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What Do We Desire

What Do We Desire?

I believe within our human nature there are certain innate desires universal to all human beings on our planet, regardless of culture, race, ethnicity, economic class or religion. We all desire to feel happiness through connection to another human being, to feel we belong, we are loved, we matter to someone. We desire to be free from pain and suffering, or to at least lessen the perception/feeling of suffering when pain is present. Lastly, I believe we inherently desire some sort of spiritual (not necessarily religious) connection, whether this desire be conscious or unconscious. In our pursuit of this higher consciousness, we seek to connect with our inner being, or higher power, that transcends all physical and mental realms, that embodies all that is, was and ever will be. An all-knowing intangible entity that connects us all to ourselves, each other, our non-self/higher power/God and the Universe. That which embodies our ultimate purpose in this life and beyond, that embodies the Yin and Yang, the Alpha and Omega, the totality.

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The Pleasure Principle

We all experience “down time”, or moments of sadness in life.  No-one can be happy 100% of the time.  Even the Dalai Lama feels sad once in a while.  Sadness itself does not cause suffering, nor does the experience of pain, be it physical or emotional, cause suffering.  Rather it is our ATTACHMENT to temporary or transitory feeling states, experienced as positive or negative emotions, that causes suffering.  Remember the only constant in life is change…nothing lasts forever. Pleasure and Pain come and go as brief bursts of energy, flashing pulsations of light vibrating across transitory moments, temporary feeling states that remind us we are human.  Both experiences are necessary to the human condition, not so much polar opposites, as polar extremes, incremental variations in degree traveling along the same continuum. When there is less pain, there is more pleasure and vice versa.  If you are feeling “down,” remember it is just a pitstop along the pleasure circuit, soon to be a memory, a reference point by which you may recognize tomorrow’s joy when it becomes the present moment. May your days of Love, Light & Laughter outnumber your days of pain, darkness and tears.
Rejoice in your Humanity!  Rejoice in being Alive!  If you are not feeling pain nor are you feeling pleasure…you are no longer among the living.  In other words, keep it moving!  The cycle of life is one of perpetual motion!  Roll with it!  Don’t get stuck on yesterday’s news, all that matters is NOW!  BAM!  And NOW! … BAM! … and NOW …
© Lisa Pearlman 2/13/12

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Let Love Shine

LET LOVE SHINE!

Act from the heart … Think with the mind. Speak only after thinking it through and evaluating its potential impact – Say it with heart! Remember, words can HURT or HEAL! So ideally your mind’s initial thoughts should always be tempered or softened by the heart; let LOVE shine thru in all your words and actions ♥
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© Lisa Pearlman 1/11/11 (except photo courtesy of Internet, unknown source)

We ALL are shining stars that twinkle brightly, illuminating and warming our collective heart while spreading light throughout the universe. WE ARE the ones we have been waiting for! Together, we can heal our planet, using our light to cast out darkness, softening the edges and smoothing out bumps, transforming pockets of hate into vast vessels of LOVE. NAMASTÉ
© Lisa Pearlman 2/11/12

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My So-Called Life

Live Today like it is all you have…yesterday is gone, tomorrow is only a word to denote a Today that may never come.  NOW is the moment each of us must zoom in on, to achieve total awareness, to be fully awake in the present.  If you stay in the NOW, every moment is a unique gift that you open and appreciate…if you cling tightly to any one gift, or examine it too intently, you will be holding onto the past, an empty box, while a steady stream of unique gifts pass you by, just out of reach.  ©Lisa Pearlman
(Above photo courtesy of Internet, unknown source)

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