MichaelO

Hey there MichaelO.  I had to think a while to figure out why your picture created a real familarity in me.  Then it came that I know someone here in Tucson that looks very much like your picture.  Interestingly enough, he too is an engineer and musician.  He was in one of my didgeridoo classes.  Anyway, thanks awesome brother of the light and arts.  I like your writing style too.  I chuckled several times.  It's good to see some other men here with some balance to their nature.  Many blessings.  Allen

Thank you for the beautiful words you have graced my page with~ dear MichaelO

Much love, Marion

Earthly Finances
Virgo Daily Horoscope
You may be feeling down-to-earth as you make reasonable assessments regarding your finances today. This could mean that your focus right now is on the more concrete aspects of your present picture and that you will leave your highly creative and speculative goals for the future at another time. Both are important aspects of your financial life, but they are different and serve you best when they are treated as such before they are combined. This is much like your life, with physical and spiritual aspects that need their own separate focuses while also becoming integrated into your personality as a whole. Today your levelheadedness makes it the right day for you to take a realistic look at your present financial picure.

Just as there is a time and place for everything, there are moods and energies that are more conducive to some pursuits than others, and moments when you need to call on what is available to you in order to face what life brings to your experience. There is a time to look at reality and finances from a material and physical perspective and a time to make grand plans and see that money is merely a representation of the energy flow through your life. Once you can combine all these aspects, you can make a sound financial plan that is realistic for today and gives you something wonderful to work toward for tomorrow and the bright future to come.

Namaste....Peace....Happiness...
Love,
Jennifer

Hello MichaelO,
A fellow Atlant(e)an, and a Monkey, too! Similar bookshelves speaks to similar minds...took a listen to AsWeDream....my ears liked, you can here my spoken word project (all rough mix at this point @ myspacemusic.com/luluaussi)
Here's a prezzie for you from beyond the Planck Barrier....or how Kudzu grows so fast.
Blessed BE,
Toni aka luluaussi

From 10/14 full moon

My hopes like shipwrecked paper boats
Are dashed upon the streams of life.

With nothing to hang on to keep afloat,
Prayer, my anchor, holds me through the
strife.

Weeping I fall prostrate at Your feet,
"I love You, O Lord, my Strength."

Your Divine comfort and grace so sweet,
Engulfs my soul in infinite length.

Your inner peace surrounds me like walls
And You, O God, are my glory within.

The broken, You love- and those who fall,
The contrite of heart, You redeem from sin.

There is nothing on earth that can give me this,
Unconditional love and Your inner peace.

Love is all there is~

Real Love: The Love We’ve All Been Looking For — Unconditional Love
We've heard songs about it, seen it in the movies, heard it talked about on Oprah by relationship experts, and read about it in thousands of self help books. But, what is unconditional love? We all want to feel loved. We think about it, hope for it, fantasize about it, go to great lengths to achieve it, and feel that our lives are incomplete without it. The lack of unconditional love is the cause of most of our anger and confusion. It is no exaggeration to say that our emotional need for unconditional love is just as great as our physical need for air and food.

It is especially unfortunate, then, that most of us have no idea what unconditional love really is, and we prove our ignorance with our horrifying divorce rate, the incidence of alcohol and drug addiction in our country, the violence in our schools, and our overflowing jails.

Our misconceptions of unconditional love began in early childhood, where we saw that when we did all the right things—when we were clean, quiet, obedient and otherwise “good”—people “loved” us. They smiled at us and spoke in gentle tones. But we also saw that when we were “bad,” all those signs of “love” instantly vanished. In short, we were taught by consistent experience that love was conditional, that we had to buy “love” from the people around us with our words and behavior.

So what’s wrong with conditional love? We see it everywhere we look, so what could be wrong with it? Imagine that every time you pay me fifty dollars, I tell you I love you. We could do that all day, but at the end of the day would you feel loved? No, because you’d know that I “loved” you only because you paid me. We simply can’t feel fulfilled by love we pay for. We can feel loved only when it is freely, unconditionally given to us. The instant we do anything at all to win the approval or respect of other people—with what we say, what we do, how we look—we are paying for the attention and affection we receive, and we can’t feel genuinely loved.

A New Definition of Love: Real Love

There’s only one kind of love that can fill us up, make us whole, and give us the happiness we all want: unconditional love or true love. It is unconditional love that we all seek, and somehow we intuitively realize that anything other than that kind of love isn’t really love at all—it’s an imitation of the real thing.

Unconditional love—true love—is so different from the kind of love most of us have known all our lives that it deserves both a name—Real Love—and definition of its own: Real Love is caring about the happiness of another person without any thought for what we might get for ourselves. It’s also Real Love when other people care about our happiness unconditionally. It is not Real Love when other people like us for doing what they want. Under those conditions we’re just paying for love again. We can be certain that we’re receiving Real Love only when we make foolish mistakes, when we fail to do what other people want, and even when we get in their way, but they don’t feel disappointed or irritated at us. That is Real Love (true unconditional love), and that love alone has the power to heal all wounds, bind people together, and create relationships quite beyond our present capacity to imagine.

What we Do Without Real Love: Imitation Love

If we don’t have enough Real Love in our lives, the resulting emptiness is unbearable. We then compulsively try to fill our emptiness with whatever feels good in the moment—money, anger, sex, alcohol, drugs, violence, power, and the conditional approval of others. Anything we use as a substitute for Real Love becomes a form of Imitation Love, and although Imitation Love feels good for a moment, it never lasts and never gives us the feeling of genuine happiness that Real Love provides.

Most people spend their entire lives trying to fill their emptiness with Imitation Love, but all they achieve is an ever-deepening frustration, punctuated by brief moments of superficial satisfaction. All the unhappiness in our lives is due to that lack of Real Love and to the frustration we experience as we desperately and hopelessly try to create happiness from a flawed foundation of Imitation Love. The beauty of Real Love is that it ALWAYS will eliminate our anger, confusion, and pain. So how do we find this universal cure?
Finding Real Love

As people learn the principles of Real Love, they almost uniformly ask how they can find and feel the real thing. They want to feel the actual power of Real Love.

Fortunately, there are so many course of actions we can take to find Real Love and experience its healing power.

~those eyes~ they're reminiscent of the knowledge and wisdom dwelling inside of you;
Beautiful! :-)

love and light to you MichaelO. Wishing you a joyful week!

namaste
Juls

Are you still there? :)

Greetings MichaelO,
"I AM" honored to BE here now meeting with you. Love in Light...