I played last night on Deep Water Bay beach. The nearly full moon cast long shadows as the waves crept ever closer to my toes. The juxtaposition of light and dark is particularly relevant as we move into 2023. As a universal year number, 7 implies developing reflective spiritual practices such as regular meditation (or gong). Going within, listening to our intuition and allowing it to guide our actions while simultaneously reaching out to help others. This leads to a life of choice, contentment and community.
As Steve Jobs said, the journey is the reward and to follow your heart and your intuition. They already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary
Dream Big
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Berthold Auerbach
What better way to wash away the memories of 2021 than with an all night puja. Those that came entered the new year cleansed, relaxed and optimistic. Astrologers and numerologists predict a year of major transformation and manifestation. So start by setting BHAGs or Big Hairy Audacious Goals. To create reality focus beyond the outcome, as if it had already happened. Gregg Bradon.
When we strike a gong, the surface of the metal vibrates creating a shimmering plasma surrounding it. So too do we when our thoughts, actions and words are coherent. As Abraham Hicks said it is not our work to make it happen. it's our work to dream and to let it happen. This is the Law of Attraction.
If your dreams don't scare you, they are not big enough. Anon. Plato said the three wishes of every man are to be healthy, to be rich by honest means and to be beautiful.
What are yours? Now multiply by infinity. Happy New Year.
Kung Hei Fat Choy
‘Kung Hei Fat Choy’Means ‘wishing you prosperity’. Prosperity is defined as an abundance of money or possessions or simply a plentiful supply of a desirable thing. Oftentimes prosperity is defined as net worth. However last year we have seen revenues fall, businesses close, and health decline all catalysing a reset in personal values..
“A fall into a ditch makes you wiser.” Chinese Proverb
This year I invite you to make my(your)self rich by making my(your) wants few. Henry David Thoreau
To realise the most precious resource we all have is time. Steve Jobs
To not just make money, make a difference. Grant Cardone
To not let making a living prevent you from making a life. John Wooden
And remember money can’t buy me love. The Beatles
With that, a prayer for the new year from Pope John XXIII
Consult not your fears, but your hopes and your dreams.
Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential.
Concern not yourself with what you tried and failed in, but what it is still possible to do.
Now is the time to put aside past and present setbacks and failures and look with confidence to the new day called tomorrow.
A clean slate
A clean slate
When things aren’t working for people the end of the world seems like a good way to wipe the slate clean. Evan Galdell Less dramatically 2020 represented not just the end of a decade but an end to habits, beliefs and paradigms. A new year, a new dawn, a new opportunity to wipe the slate clean, to start afresh leaving the past behind.
Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over. Anon except what you see in the mirror. Yes, When you first start out with something new, you're always a little uptight. Don Rickles So I invite you to begin to slow down inwardly, to take a walk in nature or linger over your coffee. To heed the advice of poets to detox and declutter our brains by daydreaming and listening to call letters from the… universe. Juan Felipe Herrera To push aside the static to really hear the music. Steve Wynn
For What you think you become, what you feel you attract, what you imagine, you can create. Buddha As Kenneth Kole said we define who we are each day with what we choose to wear. Be selective, be intentional and remember, An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful. Dalai Lama