Joyful-Fearless-Loving-Alive

Last Saturday evening, Mark and I took the girls to the "Cultural Heritage Day/International Festival" on the square in Medina. Marko went down to stay with Grandma because he had already been up there and did not want to go again. Anyway, it was well done with numerous booths representing different countries with different foods, clothing,music, and activities.
My friend, Roz had her business represented there. Here business is called Karma essence.
I bought a Life Path Bracelet from her....which is pictured above. There were a lot of different sayings on the bracelets.....but I liked this one the best:
Outside: Joyful Fearless Loving Alive
Inside: Live as if now is all there is

It is a good reminder for me to live more loving and to be present.
Here is a link to her website in case you want to get one.
click on life path bracelet to link to the item: Life Path Bracelet
or click on Karma Essence to go to her store front: Karma Essence

I hope you enjoy the words below. They came from Gary Zukav ( I am a big Zukav fan) in my email today. It was a perfect message for me today.
Have a great day!!!
Namaste,
Michele

ps I choose love!!!

Love and Fear

The many different parts of your personality can be grouped into two generic categories: love and fear. In the fear category are those parts of your personality that are angry, jealous, vengeful, frightened, that feel superior or inferior, that need to please or feel entitled, among others. They are also the parts that cannot stop thinking judgmental thoughts, or thoughts of another who will complete or save them, or over-eating, drinking, watching pornography, shopping, gambling, etc. In other words, all of your obsessions, compulsions, and addictions are experiences of frightened parts of your personality. In the love category are the parts of your personality that are patient, caring, grateful, generous, etc.

The spiritual path requires you to challenge and heal the frightened parts of your personality and cultivate and strengthen the loving parts of your personality. When you challenge a frightened part of your personality again and again, it begins to lose its power over you. Eventually its power over you disintegrates. This is how to create authentic power. It is very easy to understand, but it requires practice to do and the more you practice, the more mastery you develop in your life. In other words, you are less and less in the control of frightened parts of your personality which means, for example, that you do not re-act (act again as you have habitually acted in the past) in anger when you are angry, or withdraw emotionally when you are jealous.

The choice between love and fear is the eternal choice, the never-ending demand, the longest running show on Broadway. We make that decision with each intention that we make our own, and with it bring into our experience wonderful-feeling constructive consequences (love) or painful destructive consequences (fear). Everyone chooses love instead of fear when she is not frightened. This is not redundant. Fear obscures love and when a frightened part of your personality is active, its thoughts and intentions become magnetically attractive.