joyous living

Let’s Travel

Paul and I are taking off for a road trip. This time we’re doing it differently.

We’re taking Aggie, our dog, and making a lot of stops along the way. We’re on an adventure, not just a trip. We’ve planned it so there are lots of places to walk: parks, beaches and woodlands. We’ll visit historic sites and stay at all sorts of places: country inns, motels and a cottage we’ve rented for a couple days. As I do my work with the Teachers, I understand how important getting outside really is. I understand how important varying my point of view is. I recently purchased my first smartphone with good quality cameras so that I could record some of the sights that inspire me. I plan to share these with you when I can. I know you have other things to do than watch one more video, but I’d like to include some of the Teachers inspirational words at the same time. Maybe this will get YOU going, too.

Perhaps when you travel you will take some words of the Teachers along with you, either snippets from this blog or from the books, and use them to uplift your experience even further. Now there’s a thought to ponder: getting even more excited about your experiences! The Teachers let us know that we can amplify or ‘magnify’ everything we do. We just completed a book about that: Magnitude: Varying Our Degree of Learning. The essence of it is to understand more about life, more about who we are, and to mine for deeper understanding. The book does most of the mining for us, initially, and then we can work more deeply on our own. You could say it takes us on a mining adventure and then leaves us happily exploring a bit more. But we’re not really on our own. They are always there, helping and answering questions along the way.

My road trip is just that … a chance to look around me and see even more, if I have the eyes to see, as the Teachers say. So I will go out and look. It’s just that simple. We’ll load up the car but leave plenty of room for adventure. – Deborah

Enough for All Time

By Deborah Arndt Leave a Comment

“Each day when you awaken, something wonderful is happening. Are you looking for it?”

From the Teachers: “Dear Ones: This morning we write you and wish you all well. As Deborah sits here writing for us there is much beauty to look out upon. What about for you? Do you have what you need about and around you? What are you searching for? Each day when you awaken something wonderful is happening. Are you looking for it? Are you assuming that worry and concern have come your way and will be around for a while? We want to ask you to stop and draw a breath and see what else might be out there for you. Life is passing by and what are you doing about it?

You fashion life just as you do everything else. You take the clay given you and make something more. What do you think about that? In this very day, you are offered heaps of clay, mountains of it in fact. What will you do? Deborah is looking out on snow mounds on the water and imagines how she might walk on them, and how they might take her somewhere else. Now we speak of clay and how these mountains are like so much clay piled up for her, for you to play with. There is so much of it.

Imagine the Rockies. Now there is a lot of clay if you want to think of them that way. There is enough clay to keep you going. What we mean is that if you were to imagine them as the clay we and ‘All that is’ have provided for you, and you can shape your experience like so much clay, then we have given you the Rockies worth of clay to be getting on with. Can you understand that?

Now you sit there and worry in this day… will there be enough, will there be happiness, enough money, enough time, enough good times, enough… enough… enough. Well, ENOUGH, is what WE say. Enough with worrying about such things Why not try trusting? Now there is an idea for you. Why not just believe that there will BE enough? You could work on that for this day and give yourself a lifetime of joy, a lifetime of enough. The kind that unfolds happily and joyfully each day. What does that mean? It is like money in the bank, a never ending supply. What do you think life is made of anyway? It is the stuff of the universe, you are part of it, and it never ends and it is all around you and inside you and in between the cells of you, supporting all that you are and ‘All that is.’ Now do you think there is enough of that to go around? Of course there is. How could it be otherwise?

Don’t let niggling worries peck away at your happiness until you have a hole-y experience. Fill in each speck of your life, the whole and full texture of your life with something more. Thicken and expand it, until the ‘warps and woofs’ of your life are supportable for all you experience and all you think you must endure. You will bounce back like the softest of mattresses and again find your stance. You will laugh as you fall into your soft mattresses, the softness that surrounds every little thing that loves you and adores you.

Now take away that thought today from this blog and ask yourself what comforts you most: knowing that you have this soft loving enduring mattress to fall back upon my friend, or that you have thin hopes, thin experiences and barely ‘enough’ to get by? Which do you prefer? What is the difference? Only in your thinking … the application of your thought to make things so. We will want to keep talking about this with you for we are so intensely concerned for you. That means we bring great focus to bear upon these things to get to you through loving communication … which is really the best kind. Nothing can be imposed upon you, but that you allow it. So we approach softly with love and consideration for you. And we hope you’re willing to listen and learn. You see, that is our approach. Do use this blog as a portal for us to connect with YOU. That is our intention. Have a blessed day in all that you do and think. Bring good things toward you and watch what happens.” Your Teachers.

“Nothing can be imposed upon you, but that you allow it. So we approach softly with love and consideration for you. And we hope you’re willing to listen and learn. You see, that is our approach.”

Celebrating This Moment

By Deborah Arndt

I am so pleased to bring words to inspire you. This blog is a great way to offer fresh encouragement and learning on a regular basis. It’s my goal to publish messages regularly. I encourage you to check back often to see what’s new.

Sometimes I will add “notes from the field” as I move through my own experiences and wish to share them with you, as inspiration or perhaps just as a laugh to reflect our common humanity. Remember that we are in this together, and I am learning along with you. All our experiences matter. And some are just too special not to share. I hope you feel that way, too. Your comments are welcome.

The prime focus of this blog is to bring messages to you, and to expand your learning experiences. For this reason, most posts will be from the Teachers. You will be able to distinguish posts by the Teachers and posts of mine in that I will add a picture of me to my posts. For theirs, I will let their words be front and center, as they are so wonderful! Also, each of their posts will conclude with, ‘Your Teachers.’ In this way, you will know they are writing to you, and it is their voice coming through, not mine. I hope this is of help and benefit to you. -Deborah

Greetings from the Other Side of the Universe!

By Deborah Arndt

“When you are on a precipice or at the eve of a decision, what should you do? “

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This post is as an introduction, and an invitation to you to engage with this philosophy. What is the philosophy? Well, it is simple and beautiful. It is a self-help guide. It is new age. What more can I say? It is easy to read and engaging on every level. It’s hard to stop reading, because this philosophy or teaching seems to “get us” and understand what we are going through. There can be some fascinating discoveries along the way. You just have to experience it and see if it “speaks” to you. Often the discoveries along the way open you to new understandings and your life can begin to take on a new shape, a new direction, in fact, become transformed. I work in concert with the teachers, writing down the philosophy and publishing the works. I teach, too, and add stories about my own experiences. These powerful and inspiring teachings or ‘philosophy’ flow through me so that I may communicate them to you. As an adult learning specialist, I love to add ideas and suggestions to deepen the reader’s experience. I am only too happy to make this journey with you, and be of service. Now about the teachers. I have come to know them well and you will, too, as you read what they have to say. They have been teaching for millennia, and you will surely want to know more and more as you connect with this philosophy. I am so very grateful to teach in concert with them.” –Deborah Arndt

An introductory post from the teachers:

“When you are on the precipice or eve of a decision, what should you do? We want to encourage you to go to such places, figuratively speaking, and make changes, even dramatic ones in your life. When you feel an assault of things unwanted coming into your life, then that is a good indicator that you need to make a change. But what change? That is where you use our methods that we describe in our books and ‘simple, beautiful philosophy.’ We would not leave you without the means to make these changes, since that is what we are all about.

A new beginning

morgentau-1014175__180 Now, you may view something as a precipice, and we may say, ‘It’s a new beginning.’ What’s the difference? We can SEE where you are headed, yet you perhaps only bring fear to the table. Now what good will that do you? When you bring fear to anything, you are not open to the good stuff. How can you be? Think about it. You see a sort of darkness or void ahead of you, which we say cannot exist in the universe. Any absence of life or goodness is anathema and simply does not exist.

There is good in any situation

Did you know there is good in any situation? We are not telling you to ‘look for it,’ as so many before us have said that to you in your lives, and we know you have heard that too much. But we will challenge you to look at it differently—like a crazy quilt you are looking at rather than a single uniform pattern. You might see something in that quilt that delights you. Yes, in the sense you are looking for something, but you are also expecting to find something and finding pleasure in it. Do you understand the difference? [Read more…] about Greetings from the Other Side of the Universe!