It happened: Alexander was coming towards India. He met Diogenes on the way. Diogenes was a rare Being – if Diogenes had met Lao Tzu, they both would have sat and laughed and laughed and laughed. They are of the same quality.

Alexander was passing. He heard that Diogenes was just nearby so he went to see him. Even Alexander was impressed by the man, even Alexander felt puny before him. Diogenes was a naked fakir, he had nothing, but his being was such – so magnetic, so powerful – that Alexander was impressed, very impressed. In fact it is said that he was never impressed again by any other man.

He asked the secret of it: ”How have you become so powerful, not having anything? And I am a world conqueror, I have almost won the whole world. Just a little more is left; soon I will finish. And you – a naked man, having nothing – what is the secret of your happiness?”

Diogenes is reported to have said, ”I renounced hope. That is the secret. And I tell you, you also renounce hope; otherwise you will always suffer.”

Alexander said, ”I will come to you to learn the secret, but not now. I am on the way – half the world, more than half the world I have won, but there is a remaining part. I have to become a world conqueror, then I will come.”

Diogenes said, ”Nobody has ever been a world conqueror. Something or other always remains to be done. The dream is never complete and the desire is never fulfilled. If you really understand me, and if you really see that I am happy without bothering about winning the whole world, then you can also be happy without it.”

Logically, intellectually, Alexander understood it. But he said, ”I will come later. This is not the right time for me.”

One of the questions I often get from clients is “As I shift into my true self, how do I attract people who mirror the new me?”

It’s an interesting issue that got me thinking about my relationships and business. As I began to align with my authentic self, my life transformed. Many of my unhealthy and codependent relationships fell away, but some still remained. Why was that? Was it preventing me from creating space for the right people? How could I clear that out to attract bigger & better?

The answer is that attraction is a 2 phase process:

Phase 1: Remove The Obstacles

There are 2 Principals that inform where we are before we can work on attracting new people:

1. We attract people who mirror where we are.
   Whether it was in my business or relationships, everyone who came into my life mirrored and confirmed where I was in my journey and my beliefs about myself. I had to shift my perception of myself in order to move through this. 

2. We accept the love we think we deserve.
   Ugh. This one was big. Even though I was getting healthier, I didn’t think I deserved any better. I was in a cycle of thinking that drama-filled love and flaky clients was all I truly deserved. A strong self-love practice helped me to cultivate better self-esteem.

As you begin to see yourself more clearly, you can get rid of old baggage and create space for new people to come in.

Read about Phase 2 here... (alignedholistics.com)

God said:

For those whose lives seem like a string of heartbreaks, one after the other, so unkind, so heartbreaking, you know by now, darlings, that heartbreak is something you conclude. You’ve heard about heartache. You’ve read poems about it, and you’ve experienced this reputed heartbreak time after time. It is your experience. I don’t doubt that for one minute. I’ve wiped your tears. I’ve held My hand over your heart.
 
Your heart was hurt. It seemed to break in two. You expressed your disappointment as heartbreak. Does not all heartbreak come down to disappointment, and you call your own disappointment as a foul play made against you? Whatever the heartbreak, it seems to you that someone did it, or nature did it, or God did it, and it was wrong. You conclude it was wrong, even when it may well have been inevitable. You lost a bet, beloveds. The bet you made you were certain was a sure thing. You convinced yourself that life would stay frozen in place because you wanted it to. You, disappointed as you have been, time after time, called the shots.
 
You are the one who names an occurrence or lack of occurrence as uncalled for, unfair, outrageous, cruel, demeaning, impossible to have occurred and you decided that you have been left in the lurch, in some kind of lurch.  
 

But what exactly is consciousness, where does it come from and can it be scientifically proven? Dr. Stuart Hameroff, MD, is Professor Emeritus at the Departments of Anesthesiology and Psychology and the Director of the Center of Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona and much of his research over the past few decades has been in the field of quantum mechanics, dedicated to studying consciousness.

According to Dr. Hameroff, in a near-death experience, when the heart stops beating, the blood stops flowing, and the microtubules lose their quantum state, the quantum information in the microtubules isn’t destroyed. It’s distributed to the universe at large, and if the patient is revived, the quantum information can go back to the microtubules. In this event, the patient says they had something like a near-death experience, i.e. they saw white light or a tunnel or floated out of their body. In the event that the patient is not revived, “it’s possible that the quantum information can can exist outside the body, perhaps indefinitely, as a soul,” he said.

Full article: http://expandedconsciousness.com/2014/05/12/scientist-shows-what-happens-to-soul-after-death-video/

Are you afraid to be really, truly happy for fear you will jinx yourself? Do you feel if you are too happy something bad will happen? Let us look at that belief for a moment.

Happiness is a state of alignment and beingness. It is being fully satisfied with the Now moment and feeling appreciation for that state. If you understand that you draw what you hold, how could you attract anything less than more of the same?

What likely has happened is before you understood the power of consistent focus, you experienced happiness, and then unconsciously created something else. Or, you have been taught that happiness, at best, is fleeting. Wherever it came from, you have simply adopted a belief system that says not to get too happy because if you do you will pay for it. Do you see how that is giving your power away and settling for so much less than your full potential?

Dear Ones, do not cap yourselves in anything! Understand that belief systems are true because you make them be so. Change those thoughts! What about the idea that happiness leads to more happiness, which leads to more happiness, which leads to complete and total bliss? As a conscious co-creator you get to choose, and choose, and choose again. ~Archangel Gabriel

http://trinityesoterics.com/2014/05/12/daily-message-monday-may-12-2014/

You will often make decisions for yourself and not know if they are the right ones. Feel into your heart. A ‘right decision’ will put an end to the turmoil within and carry with it a sense of peace. It is The Universe agreeing with you. ~ Creator 

http://thecreatorwritings.wordpress.com/2014/05/12/the-right-decision/