"Take nothing for granted"

In life, we have opportunities to manifest and create our reality.  What may have once been a vision could now be that certain reality or what may have been a vision may now be a dream of sorts.  All in all, we are here to manifest and create.  

I suppose I am touching on this because of the valuable lesson I have learned most recently.  I have learned to be careful and wise to all that appears to say one thing and define itself as the OTHER.  

This has made me a bit skeptical for the future but, I am learned and I truly respect lessons, so I will take all experiences as a potential lesson that I must learn.

This brings me to my new expectations and a new learning at this stage of my life.

Every experience leads us to reflection of thought and creates in us an emotion that can serve of greater value for the future.  Regardless of what we have been through, if we have felt pain, the pain is real likened to the fact that if we have felt pleasure, the pleasure is real.

Key points:

1.    Make all relationships matter

2.   Be cordial and nice to those whom you love

3.   Never assume too much comfort with one

4.   Verbal badger to those whom we care about is never acceptable

5.   Love with careless abandon and not skepticism 

6.   Be powerful through actions stemming from abundance not scarcity

7.   Create power in synergy and not a lack of it in feeling others are a threat

8.   Be a light to all that you come into contact with

9.   Follow the powerful giving heart and be the same

10. Tolerate Zero Negativity because it depletes the soul

11. Take nothing for granted

"Personal Growth"

Excerpt from the book "SoulMates" by Thomas Moore

In the practice of friendship, we might keep this important aspect of soul in mind: its need for containment.  Our capacity to keep a secret could be important to a friend who may feel free to talk to us in a spirit of confidentiality.  It often happens, too, that what goes on among certain friends has to be PROTECTED from other friendships.  Emily Dickinson's biographer Richard Sewall notes that Emily made a separate world of her various correspondents and friends:  "the letters to Higginson say nothing about Bowles; the letters to Bowles say nothing about Higginson; the letters to Helen Hunt Jackson say nothing about either of them."

Containment in a friendship is a powerful tool.

I need more Emily's in my life!

A loose tongue could kill the sacredness of two souls.  Tammy Delores Lier