A few phrases worth considering.....

Be kind.  It costs nothing and it can change the world.

Forgive yourself and others.  I have come to believe that forgiveness is essential to health, and peace cannot exist without it.

All is as it should be.  It may not be to your liking, but it is as it should be.

The Seven Be's

The Seven Be's for a healthy, happy, peaceful life:

Be grateful.

Be kind.

Be helpful.

Be loving.

Be forgiving.

Be peaceful.

Be joyful.

You may want to choose to practice a different one each day of the week until they become so much a part of you that you are always grateful, kind, helpful, loving, forgiving, peaceful and joyful.

Wishing you all the blessings your mind and heart can hold and Peace, Joy, and Love, always.

Zizi

Copyright:  2020

Resolution: Be Kind

Dear Reader,

At long last, I was prepared to send out a new letter.  What a surprise to see that what I had typed at the end of 2018 was still in draft form and had never been published.  As the reminder to be kind is always relevant,  here is the last letter of 2018:

As one year ends and another is about to begin, let your New Year's resolution be to "Be Kind," in all ways and at all times.

Simple resolution --- only two words and yet, remembering and living those two words can transform our relationships with one another and with all living things, including this blessed Earth which provides us with all that we need.

Be kind, especially to the children who are so often defenceless in the midst of us.  If we will save the children, we will save the world.  Be kind.

Be kind to yourself.  You are all beloved children of God, worthy and deserving of all the good in the world. 

May the coming year bring to you all that you most desire and all the blessings that your mind and heart can hold.

Peace.  Joy.  Love.

Zizi

copyright 2018

World Peace Day

September 21, 2018

Today is World Peace Day, and I would like to share a few thoughts about peace:

There will be peace in the world when there is peace within us.

There will be peace in the world when there is peace between us and others.

There will be peace in the world when more people love peace than hate war.

May all of you experience the beautiful words of Mother Teresa's poem, "Peace."

"May today there be peace within you.
  May you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
  May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.
  May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you.
  May you be content knowing you are a child of God.
  Let this Presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance, praise, and
  love.
  It is there for each and every one of you."

Wishing you all the blessings your mind and heart can hold and, most of all, Peace.

Zizi

World Prayer Day

Thursday, September 13, is World Prayer Day.  Please add your prayers for a peaceful planet to those of so many others who will be offering prayers tomorrow.

Please pray also for the gentling of winds and calming of storms that are so prevalent in the weather at this time.  So many people are affected in life-threatening ways. 

Thank you for doing all that you can to care for yourselves and others.  The blessings that you send out will return to you in your own hour of need.

Peace, always.

Zizi

Just a few thoughts.....

Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Just a few thoughts......

Negative emotions arise from the ego, not Spirit.  Once in awhile, it's a good idea to check who is running our show.  Ego is there to serve us, not to become our master.

We come together by Divine design.  Everyone in our lives is there for us to learn and grow in some way.  What we do with the endless opportunities is up to us.

Everything happens for the good of the soul, and we draw to ourselves all that we need for enlightenment.  This is the only reason we are here on the 'school' planet Earth, to learn and grow in love, compassion, forgiveness, kindness.....in short, to become enlightened and to share the Light.

It is never too early and it is never too late to make wise decisions from the heart.

Be kind.......especially to yourselves.....as well as to others.

Wishing you the blessing of peace that comes from a kind and understanding heart.

Love,

Zizi

copyright 2018

Everything that is, began with God.

Monday, January 29, 2018

Everything that is, began with God.  Everything that is, is a part of God.  In every cell and atom of creation, there is God in the center of it.  There is no place, person, or thing where God is not.

When we understand this, accept this, and live this, love and kindness will rule the world and there will no longer be a need for man-made laws;  we will be living God's laws.

Wishing you love, peace, joy, and a deeply grateful heart.

Zizi


Copyright 2018

Everyone gets a turn.

January 20, 2018

Everyone gets a turn at being happy, and everyone gets a turn at grieving.  Everyone gets a turn at feeling healthy, and everyone gets a turn at feeling ill.  Everyone gets a turn at feeling successful and everyone gets a turn at feeling they are not.

Everyone gets a turn because this is how we learn.  Every situation in life that confronts us is the perfect opportunity to learn and grow from that particular situation.  When hurtful situations occur, we can ask ourselves, "What is the lesson to be learned at this time?"   We quiet ourselves, trust our intuition, change a habit if that is what is needed, let go of what is harmful to us, and go forward from there.

It is easier to learn from others' experiences what is acceptable and what is not.  Easier to follow the words of the Masters, the mystics, the words of the recognized Wise Ones who have gone before us, those whose mission and whose lives were dedicated to helping all of mankind to work toward the Light.  There are always many among us who do this work quietly for the good of all.  They will cross your path at the perfect time for you.  Everything happens in its own perfect time. 

Choose a right and honorable path to growth and enlightenment.  You will be happier, healthier, and blessed beyond believing.  Everything that comes to pass is a blessing.....some are more heavily disguised than others, but everything that comes to pass is a blessing......and everyone gets a turn.

Wishing you all the blessings your mind and heart can hold, and peace, joy, and love.

Zizi

Copyright 2018

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Everything serves a purpose.

Wednesday, January 10, 2018

Everything serves a purpose.  If there were no darkness, there would be no yearning for the light.

Zizi

Happy New Year!

January 1, 2018

Happy New Year! 

In this New Year, let us resolve to be more kind.  Be kind to yourself.  Be kind to family and friends.  Be especially kind to children, as growing up is no easy task.  Be kind to the earth and every living thing.  Be kind to all people and to all things.

Be kind and gentle with yourself.  We are all in the process of 'learning and growing,' mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.  Practice random acts of kindness toward yourself as well as others.  Accept yourself, love yourself, forgive yourself, and you will more easily be able to accept others, love others, forgive others. 

Be grateful for everything you have been, everything you are, and everything you hope to be.  Be grateful for all that you see, hear, touch, taste, and feel.  Let every breath, every step, every beat of your heart be a "Thank You, God." Be grateful for every cell and atom of yourself and all creation.

In this New Year, let us resolve to be more kind and more grateful, thereby enriching our own lives and the lives of all those we touch.  By our example, we can begin a wave of kindness and gratitude that has the possibility of circling the planet, nourishing and enriching all of us and every living thing.

Wishing you all the blessings your minds and hearts can hold.  Peace.  Joy.  Love, always.

Zizi

Spiritual beings.

September 28, 2017

We are all spiritual beings, energy beings, living in an energy field.  All that we think, speak, and do influences the energy field within ourselves, our homes, our places of business or recreation, and the energy field surrounding the planet,  flowing into and throughout the Universe.  For better or worse, the energy contained in every thought, word, action and reaction has the power to change everything, bit by bit, a ripple effect into eternity.

It is in our own best interests to be mindful of the choices we make in our thoughts, words, and actions.  Destinies change as choices change.

Wishing you every-increasing moments of deep peace and mindfulness, from which your best choices will emerge, easily and effortlessly.

May you always live in peace, joy, and love.

Zizi

copyright 2017

Thoughts to remember....

Sunday, August 20, 2017

Thoughts to remember.....

Whatever we fight, we fuel;

 whatever we resist, persists;

because whatever we focus on, grows.

May you be truly blessed and filled with compassionate grace, peace, joy, and love, always.

Zizi

Copyright 2017

Six words.

Six words; three short phrases, any one of which, when practiced regularly, could dramatically change your life.

Six words:  Be grateful.  Resist Nothing.  Be kind.

Be grateful to the Spirit within which gives us breath and life, now and eternally.  Each of us who is breathing has endless blessings for which to be grateful.  Our miraculous, wonderfully-designed bodies go about their daily business requiring very little direction from us.  Perhaps that is why we have a tendency to take them for granted.  Take a moment, bless and thank your body for the heart that beats, the lungs that breath, the blood that flows to feed even the tiniest capillaries, eyes and ears, nose, and mouth, hands and feet, arms and legs, each doing its job to the best of its ability whether we pay attention to it or not.

Be grateful for a mind that can think and make decisions.  Be grateful for family and friends, food and home, furniture and transportation.  Be grateful for birds and animals, plants and trees, sky and clouds, and Divine Mother Earth that feeds us, clothes us, and provides the materials that shelter us.  Be grateful for everything you can think of, for everything you have, for everything that you can see, hear, smell, sense and touch.  Be grateful; gratitude is the magnet that draws to us ever more things for which to be grateful.

Resist nothing.  To resist nothing is to understand that whatever is happening is as it should be for the evolution of each of us individually and collectively, and for the evolution of the planet.  When we can accept that all is as it should be, and the only way it can be because it is all the end result of all choices made, then we can calmly work to change ourselves for the better.  We can choose to be a positive influence within our family and circle of friends, in the workplace, and wherever else we go.  To resist nothing is to accept that all that is is for our learning and growing spiritually, that we may be a candle in the darkness, and a source of comfort.  To resist nothing is to calmly accept what is and go about our own business, doing the best we can, being the best we can, and helping whenever and wherever we can.

Be kind.  Be kind to yourself, to others, to all life, and to Divine Mother Earth.  Everything that is, is alive and has its own consciousness, and everything is in need of kindness.  Being kind can change your world and the world of all those whose lives you touch.  Kindness saves lives, literally and figuratively.  We can save ourselves, others, and our beloved planet by simply being kind.

Wishing you all the blessings your mind and heart can hold.....and peace, joy, and love, always.

Zizi

Copyright 2017

Eckhardt Tolle has a very beautiful CD titled, "Resist Nothing" that explains this concept so much better than I can.  This CD and Eckhardt Tolle's other CDs and books are available at Amazon.  The Sounds True website also carries his many books and CDs.

Prayers for leaders.

March 20, 2017

There has always been a need for prayers for the leaders of nations throughout the world, regardless of whether we agree with them.  Like each of us, they are doing the best they can with who and what they are, along with their perceptions of what is best.  Prayers for their wisdom and understanding is the positive approach; criticism of their every act helps no one, including ourselves.  When each of us, in our own way and in our own time, works for the betterment of all, the entire planet benefits and enlightenment advances.

The following prayer has helped me during these trying times and perhaps may help you, too.

"We send peace, joy, love, light, wisdom and understanding to the President of the United States, heads of governments around the world, and all humanity, and we are deeply grateful to God for healing us all."

Do the best you can; be the best you can be, and trust that all is working out for the highest good of each of us and all of us.

Wishing you all the blessings you wish for.....and peace, joy, and love, always.

Zizi

Copyright 2017

Festival of Lights

February 1, 2017

Tomorrow, February 2, is the ancient Christian festival of Candlemas, the Festival of Lights, when traditionally people turned their faces to the light of the New Year.

I would like to share the following from The Saint John Retreat Center, White Eagle Lodge Newsflash for February 2, 2017:

"We will be joining together at noon (your local time) all over the world.  We are thousands strong.  If you are able to hold the light of the Christ Star for 15 minutes...or if your life only permits a few seconds - the Light still streams out most powerfully; this is how positive change is effected in this Age...global all-enfolding love.

'We will be using the following words, but as always, follow your heart, it is the love there which is the catalyst!

'We quiet the outer mind and open our hearts to the blessing of the Christ Star.  It is a perfect Star of the Christ love, gentle yet irresistible in its power.

'We link with all others who are taking part in this attunement and as a great company we hold in the heart of the Star all the people of Syria, Iraq and Yemen.  We see all refugees and all who are suffering in the light of the Star.  We especially hold all children within the enfolding, protecting love of Divine Mother.

'We also hold in the Star all in the international community who have the power to make a difference... We see all hearts and minds touched and inspired by the Star and the angels of the Christ Star circle.  We see the Star of love and peace TRIUMPHANT...."

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When we reach out in prayer for others, the prayer is also for ourselves as we are all connected and we are all affected by everything around us.  Follow your heart.  Light a candle, send out a prayer to all humanity that we may all live in freedom, in safety, and at peace.  We can do these things any day of the year and be a light in the darkness.

With love and gratitude for all you do to further the Light.

Zizi

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It is what it is.

January 30, 2017

It is what it is.  And all is as it should be for the evolution of the species, for all of us individually, and for all of us collectively.  It is what it is, and in it's very is-ness lie the seeds of change.

If there were no darkness, there would be no yearning, no searching for the Light.  Accepting all that is, is the first step in changing all that you wish to change.  The very act of fighting attracts more fighting;  hate attracts hate; love attracts love, gratitude attracts more things for which to be grateful; peace attracts peace.  Whatever fills our minds fills our lives and, like endless ripples on a stream, spills out into not only our lives, but the lives of all those we know and the lives of those they know and, in time, circles the planet and affects all lives, for better or for worse.  We are all connected and we are all affected.

There will be love, kindness, compassion, understanding and peace when each of us fills our own lives with those qualities that bring Light into the world.  Gandhi said, "Be the change you wish to see," and Marianne Williamson, "Don't fight the world you see; build the world you want to see."

Each of us is responsible, and each will be held accountable, for all that we send out in thought, word, and action into the atmosphere and into the collective consciousness.  If each of us will simply live with loving kindness in our minds and hearts, we will begin to see the changes we want to see, and the planet will heal.

Live your best life.  Live with peace, joy, and love in your minds and hearts and you will have the love and gratitude of all others who seek to do the same.  May you always be filled with love and light, and may you always have an understanding heart.

It is what it is.  Accept that and become the change you wish to see in the world.

My love and gratitude to all,

Zizi

copyright 2017

Some favorite quotes for the New Year

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

All my best wishes for a wonderful New Year filled with all the blessings that your minds and hearts can hold.
I'd like to share some of my favorite quotes, all of which continue to touch my heart when I read them and think about them.

"With our thoughts, we make the world."  Buddha

"When people show you who they are, believe them the first time."  Maya Angelou

"What is most important is to discover peace, and to share it with others."  Thich Nhat Hahn

"Great minds discuss ideas.  Average minds discuss events.  Small minds discuss people."  Eleanor Roosevelt

The Prayer of Socrates:  "Grant to me that I may be made beautiful in my soul within, and that all external possessions be in harmony with my inner self."

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere." Agnes Repplier

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."  Emerson

"As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth."   Buddha

Let us remember that for every angry and violent action that we see, read, or hear about, there are thousands, if not millions of others who go about their daily lives in peace, doing the best they can; being kind to themselves, their families and friends; doing their part to help those in need; praying for peace.  In living ordinary lives in love and peace, we are transformed into the extraordinary and become the light of the world.

Be the mountain unshaken by the wind.  Regardless of what others are doing, be your best self; live your best life; be a light.....and the darkness disappears.

Peace, joy, and love, always, to you and to all.

Zizi

copyright 2017

All connected, all affected.

Monday, October 10, 2016

It's almost two months since my last entry.  Every so often in my life I go through a phase of re-evaluation of my life and my beliefs, and I question all that I think I know.  The more I learn, the more I understand how very little I know, and there are times when all I know is that I know nothing.

For now, one thing I believe is that we are all connected and we are all affected by all that is happening to all of us, individually and collectively, along with all animal and plant life, and the planet itself.  So long as there is violence perpetrated and perpetuated on the planet, the planet itself will be violent and respond with earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, and erupting volcanoes.  All of life vibrates and the energies, good and evil, collect, feed upon themselves, and manifest .  All of life breathes as one.  We cannot live without the oxygen that trees exhale, and trees cannot live without the carbon dioxide that we exhale.  We are interdependent; we are all connected and we are all affected by everything that happens on the planet.  All of life breathes as one.

We serve all humanity when we live an honorable, peaceful life, and we help to hold the balance of the planet.  We do this for ourselves, our children, and in honor of our ancestors.

Be grateful for all that you see, all that you hear, all that you learn, and all that you have.  Be grateful for your life and live it to the best of your ability.  Give yourself the most beautiful gift of a life well lived.

Peace, joy, and love, always.

Zizi

Copyright 2016

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We each make a difference.

Monday, August 15, 2016

These beautiful words from White Eagle's book, "The Quiet Mind," tell us how each of us can make a difference, each of us plays a role in the collective life of the planet.

"The Greatest Service"

'"One soul can help the whole world.  You say, "I want to do some work.  Use me, here I am!" but, my child, you don't need to come to us to offer yourself.  The service is here beside you and waiting in your own heart every day.  The greatest service that anyone can give is continually to think aright --- continually to send forth love, to forgive."

Wishing you the blessing of knowing in your heart, that you can make a difference simply by being alive, loving, and forgiving.

Peace, joy, and love, always.

Zizi

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A Prayer for America

Tuesday, July 19, 2016


"A Prayer for America" was written by Stephan Dinan, founder of The Shift Network, and released on July 4th of this year.

A Prayer for America

On this day dedicated to independence,
I pray that we release our celebration of violence,
And remember that we are made of nobler virtues.
May we recognize our high and holy purpose,
Which cannot be advanced through bloodshed,
Or fulfilled by hate, greed or fear.
E Pluribus Unum is more than a motto;
It is a mission that
Can only be served by daring to love
All of humanity with a tender embrace,
Whispering the words that you, too, are welcome.
May we own our strength without the need to dominate.
May we claim our power without the need to polarize.
May we know that we were ultimately created
For peace to reign in this beautiful world.
Our character was forged in history's fires,
Which required some tempering and toughening
To defend the cause of liberty.
We can honor the warrior path we have walked,
Yet is is not our true destination;
Rather, it is to finally end the long torment of war,
And arrive at a new beginning:
Our human family reunited,
Our precious planet preserved,
With the grace of God blessing all.
Let us lead the way, America,
With peace in our hearts, on our lips and in our hands.
Let us bring that new dawn together.
                                            Stephan Dinan

The Shift Network.com is a huge treasure of information on many, many subjects featuring leaders in their fields, such as Caroline Myss, Dr. Norman Shealy, David Crow, Marianne Williamson, Deepak Chopra, and the list goes on and on.  It is wonderful, and hopeful, to know that so many are working so diligently to help enlighten us all.

The 'shift' in The Shift Network pertains to a shift in consciousness, which happens when we come to a higher understanding of our own health, peace, forgiveness, etc.  If you have not visited the website before, I think you will find at least one presentation that touches your heart and very possibly, more.

Stephan Dinan's new book, "Sacred America, Sacred World" was released on July 4, 2016 and is available on Amazon, at Barnes & Noble, and at The Shift Network.com

Wishing you the blessing of the realization that peace, like happiness, is an inside job and one that we all need to embrace and practice.  There will be peace in our world when there are more of us who love peace, than there are those who hate war.

Love,

Zizi

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