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An online marketplace for selling and buying all things handmade!

It's like shopping at the artists market, but from your own home. I discovered the website just in time for Christmas and along with my trip to Blue Banana Market in Toronto, have managed to get almost everyone on my list home made gifts.


Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others.

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. The Question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We don't have to travel far away to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to leave our city or even our neighborhood to enjoy the eyes of a beautiful child. Even the air we breathe can be a source of joy.

We can smile, breathe, walk, and eat our meals in a way that allows us to be in touch with the abundance of happiness that is available. We are very good at preparing to live, but not very good at living. We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work very hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive at the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment. ... Thich Nhat Hanh


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Monday, January 09, 2006

Shadow Thoughts

In our session past we spent some time discussing the dynamics behind self-awareness; uncovering the unconscious part of ourselves; the repressed, denied and undeveloped. However, most of our discussion evolved around that which is undeveloped or the light aspect of our being; namely for me my precognitive dreams and intuitive nature.

This led me later to contemplate on responsibility. Responsibility for what happens in our lives.

In this humanly existence we have all had many hardships. Many arduous experiences. From the ego-self position it appears as though it is of the negligence of another. It is 'their' fault. In light of this, taking complete responsibility for what happens in our lives can be a daunting task but it is essential, is it not? For it is through this that we are able to grow from our experiences.

Evolving from blame to responsibility is absolutely necessary in self-awareness and will change what happens next in our life. What goes on within will always be reflected to what happens on the 'outside'.

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