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ANGER WITHOUT PROJECTION IS IMPOSSIBLE ~~ PROJECTION MAKES PERCEPTION. A Course In Miracles

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If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you , what you do not bring forth will destroy you. Carl Jung

"FORGIVENESS IS MY FUNCTION - PEACE OF MIND IS MY GOAL"

"CONDEMN AND YOU ARE MADE A PRISONER - FORGIVE AND YOU ARE FREED." from A Course In Miracles

My spiritual journey has been greatly based on A Course In Miracles, it is my comfort zone and it keeps calling me back. Since I am eternal effort to evolve need not be hurried, I have eternity to get it right. There are those who would prefer not to come back here, however, planet Earth is a magnificent location to continue our journey.

As an interfaith minister I volunteer as chaplain for Hospice in a local hospital. At my age I think a lot about death - not with trepidation but with joyful anticipation. It is important to learn how to die before we can learn how to live.

Soon I hope to return to following my bliss, facilitating study groups in weekly sessions on the principles of Attitudinal Healing. That pretty well sums it up.

12 Principles of Attitudinal Healing - by Gerald Jampolsky, MD - based on A Course In Miracles

The essence of our being is love.
Health is inner peace. Healing is letting go of fear.
Giving and receiving are the same.
We can let go of the past and of the future.
Now is the only time there is and each instant is for giving.
We can learn to love ourselves and others by forgiving rather than judging.
We can become love finders rather than fault finders.
We can choose and direct ourselves to be peaceful inside regardless of what is happening outside.
We are students and teachers of each other.
We can focus on the whole of life rather than the fragments.
Since love is eternal death need not be viewed as fearful.
We can always perceive ourselves and others as either extending love or giving a call for help.

So as Tiny Tim would say, "Bless us all".

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TOLERATING/EGO VS ALLOWING/HEART-SOUL

THIS BLOG HAS OVERTONES OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, HOWEVER IT IS MY PERCEPTION OF WHERE THE THOUGHTS ARISE THAT IS CRITICAL HERE. OTHERS MAY PERCEIVE THIS AS PURE SEMANTICS. IT IS WHAT I MUST DEAL WITH WHENEVER DOUBT ARISES AND I AM CHALLENGED.

Dictionary:
Tolerate - to endure
Allow - to permit

At this juncture race is a factor of birth and cannot be included here when determining personal characteristics.

It is my perception that when I observe and tolerate/endure o… Continue

Posted on April 28, 2009 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Violette Ruffley

Staying in the now moment.

Some years ago while traveling in Colorado I had my third major accident. It was 9:30 in the evening and I hit black ice, spun out and flipped over backward bumber over bumper, and dropping down some 80 feet, landing upside down on the roof. What was unique in my experience was that the entire process was in slow motion. As my headlights shone on the snow it was like being in a cocoon. I would say that under the circumstances I was in the now moment but not with intent.

I relate the above exper… Continue

Posted on April 12, 2009 at 2:59pm — 4 Comments

Violette Ruffley

A sequence of impacting events that changed everything in my life.

In 1980 while attending Alanon, where I was going to gain the secret of how to get my husband to quit drinking, I only learned it was up to him and not me. However, I gleaned the gem that I had rights. Now that was a novel idea!

1981-1983 I attended Junior College to get my science prerequisites for nursing school. In June I entered Jackson Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. In early 1983, after 32 years of marriage I received my divorce.

Not the oldest to have attended the nursing program I… Continue

Posted on April 6, 2009 at 7:39pm — 8 Comments

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At 11:32am on November 11, 2009, Mr. Mike said…

At 7:41am on November 8, 2009, Jeanne said…
I just noticed the most recent quote left by Carlos... "Today focus on being a love finder instead of a fault finder”. Though I know its from AH, it will always remind me of you.
At 2:38pm on October 29, 2009, Day said…
I would but right now I am very married! LOL... Yes we seem to run into each other a lot. I love your photos dear!
At 7:42pm on October 28, 2009, Day said…
Stopping in to say hello!

Peace,
Day
At 9:48am on October 11, 2009, kokoPedli said…
your page here reminds me of a favorite short poem:

Outwitted
He drew a circle that shut me out --
Rebel, Heretic, a thing to flout.
But Love and I had the wit to win:
We drew one larger, that took him in!
At 2:00pm on October 6, 2009, Timothy Boe said…
Hello Violette...I didn't see your invitation to become friends or I would have responded sooner. Better late than never. Thanks for inviting me.
Warm wishes...Tim
At 2:35pm on September 29, 2009, Stephan Raeder said…
Your friendship is a joy and an honour for me! The Violette Energy (Frequenzy) is one of the most powerful tools of the Shift we`re in!
Love Stephen
At 6:51am on September 22, 2009, drmike said…
Hey Violette,
I was just snooping around and got to see the vault of lovely pictures. Thanks for posting them. Have a great day.

Mike
At 6:53pm on September 21, 2009, Carlo Ami said…
Part of the beauty and strangeness of life is that we are all wired a bit differently. Iambic pentameter put me to sleep.!
At 9:51pm on September 17, 2009, Carlo Ami said…
Hi, Violette. I, too, have valued the content of ACIM. Have more enjoyed the Gary Renard and Marianne Williamson replays because the whole iambic pentameter thing just does not make my brain happy. The real guts of ACIM, I think, are found in Twyman's "Art of Spiritual Peacemaking" which was a good year-long discipline for me.
Thanks for bringing yourself to this group. I get that you have been gifted with courage.
 
 

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“Today focus on being a love finder instead of a fault finder”

Carlos Santana
11/4/2009

"The world would be transformed if all of us would practice forgiveness.
My heart tells me that."

Carlos Santana 10/13/2009

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