I think earth is just a school and life is the teacher.
I think our relationships are our subjects, offering us material through which we can discover ourselves.
I believe that each sunset serves to remind us that a line is drawn on the past and each new sunrise depicts a brand new start.
I believe that animals are angels to remind us just to love.
And nature is our garden, our sweet paradise.
Babies serve to remind us to hold onto our naturalness and innocence.
And children's laughter heralds us to not take life too seriously and live for the day.
I think thoughts are like missiles actioned by what we say.
I believe prayers should be our medicine that heal our every pain.
I believe that rainbows help us believe in miracles and restore faith to our jaded hearts.
Flowers are pure happiness and cloud bursts are refreshing tears.
Old age is a reminder to never take life for granted and to appreciate the youth we've still got.
And what if death were our graduation?
I was just thinking....
We have so many beautiful reminders in all our experiences every day.
The smell of the earth after it has rained, the sunshine after a dull day, the sigh of the ocean reminding us to breathe, the view from a mountain top instilling gratitude.
Every thing we experience is just a huge lesson. Every nuance, every chance encounter, every smile and every tear.
What a rich and wonderful world!
Wishing you a week of finding magic in the tiniest of pleasures from a dew drop to a moonbeam.
Breathe, taste, feel, experience life.
with all my love and joy
Nicolette
Monday 28 January 2013
Sunday 20 January 2013
Be a Nobody
Be a nobody!
Have you ever conceived that possible? Are you consumed with trying to be a somebody? Are you trying to improve yourself? Are you comparing yourself to the successes of others? To be a somebody, what are the stakes? Do you perceive that you're not good enough just as you are?
If you believe that you're not good enough you are going to spend your entire life covering up and faking it. You are going to try and impress others with a suedo plastic makeover. You will never live in the moment. You will never be free. You will be consumed with covering your tracks and remembering the lies you told, so as not to be found out. You will always be remembering what you said and did in the past, so you can remain one step ahead and you will obsess about the uncertainty of your future.
Observe somebodies. They are so public. They have no privacy. Every detail of their lives is splashed everywhere for all to see. They can never be natural or honest or simple or free. They are so consumed with impressing others and keeping up their fake images. They lead sad hollow lives because they don't even get to take their next breath in private. They lack simplicity. They lack naturalness.
I remember back to a time when I shook hands with a princess. The memory still haunts me. Her hand was ice cold and lifeless. There was no life energy flowing through her body. Her eyes too were vacant as though the lights had gone out. It was as though she was a rigid, brittle exterior, but was completely hollow on the inside. The physical body was there, but there was nobody at home. There was no soul. I shudder as I bring back that recollection.
Somebodies lead sad empty shallow lives. On the outside it looks like their lives are exciting and happening. Why do so many famous actors and actresses who seem to have it all end up in drug rehab or taking their own lives?
They lack soul.
All you need to be is simple and natural. In your most authentic state when you are completely surrendering to being, and by that I mean you are not trying to force life, you're not trying to take the lead, you're not trying to impress or be somebody else; then you are free.
When we become nothing we just allow our soul essence to permeate our aura. When we do nothing and don't try and become anything, we allow our spirit self to infuse us from within. When we are nothing, our ego disappears and we are pure soul energy. We are like God. In that nothingness, God is everything.
When we're a nobody we have nothing to hide. We are honest and open. We have no fake standards to uphold. We have nothing to prove. We have nothing to be except our authentic selves and that is spirit. All our circuits are connected to the Divine within us. When we diminish ourselves and drop our pride, our vanity and our desire to gain power; we become infused with God's strength, with God's power. When we just let go and surrender ourselves to God within, each and everyone of us is suddenly everything. We are alive because the creator/the whole of creation is flowing through our veins.
What power we enjoy in the stillness and the nothingness.
Be a nobody.
You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Everything that could be lost you've surrendered to and that is ego. You lose the ego but you find your soul.
Have a fantastic week
love
Nicolette
Have you ever conceived that possible? Are you consumed with trying to be a somebody? Are you trying to improve yourself? Are you comparing yourself to the successes of others? To be a somebody, what are the stakes? Do you perceive that you're not good enough just as you are?
If you believe that you're not good enough you are going to spend your entire life covering up and faking it. You are going to try and impress others with a suedo plastic makeover. You will never live in the moment. You will never be free. You will be consumed with covering your tracks and remembering the lies you told, so as not to be found out. You will always be remembering what you said and did in the past, so you can remain one step ahead and you will obsess about the uncertainty of your future.
Observe somebodies. They are so public. They have no privacy. Every detail of their lives is splashed everywhere for all to see. They can never be natural or honest or simple or free. They are so consumed with impressing others and keeping up their fake images. They lead sad hollow lives because they don't even get to take their next breath in private. They lack simplicity. They lack naturalness.
I remember back to a time when I shook hands with a princess. The memory still haunts me. Her hand was ice cold and lifeless. There was no life energy flowing through her body. Her eyes too were vacant as though the lights had gone out. It was as though she was a rigid, brittle exterior, but was completely hollow on the inside. The physical body was there, but there was nobody at home. There was no soul. I shudder as I bring back that recollection.
Somebodies lead sad empty shallow lives. On the outside it looks like their lives are exciting and happening. Why do so many famous actors and actresses who seem to have it all end up in drug rehab or taking their own lives?
They lack soul.
All you need to be is simple and natural. In your most authentic state when you are completely surrendering to being, and by that I mean you are not trying to force life, you're not trying to take the lead, you're not trying to impress or be somebody else; then you are free.
When we become nothing we just allow our soul essence to permeate our aura. When we do nothing and don't try and become anything, we allow our spirit self to infuse us from within. When we are nothing, our ego disappears and we are pure soul energy. We are like God. In that nothingness, God is everything.
When we're a nobody we have nothing to hide. We are honest and open. We have no fake standards to uphold. We have nothing to prove. We have nothing to be except our authentic selves and that is spirit. All our circuits are connected to the Divine within us. When we diminish ourselves and drop our pride, our vanity and our desire to gain power; we become infused with God's strength, with God's power. When we just let go and surrender ourselves to God within, each and everyone of us is suddenly everything. We are alive because the creator/the whole of creation is flowing through our veins.
What power we enjoy in the stillness and the nothingness.
Be a nobody.
You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. Everything that could be lost you've surrendered to and that is ego. You lose the ego but you find your soul.
Have a fantastic week
love
Nicolette
Tuesday 15 January 2013
The Small guy and the Christmas Tree
I cracked up laughing this morning when Nicole shared her story about her two year old son, Oliver.
Here goes...
We've just had Christmas, right?
So Oliver's Gogo, Nicole's Mom, had the pleasure of putting up their Christmas tree with her beautiful little grandson. I can only imagine the excitement as the little guy experienced the shimmery tinsel and the magic of the Christmas lights for the very first time, well probably the first time of being conscious.
Nicole related that she took Oliver with her to fetch her sister from the airport and there in the middle of the terminal buildings was an enormous Christmas tree.
Oliver piped up: "Big Christmas tree, Mama. Gogo made it."
Apparently wherever they saw Christmas trees for the duration of the holidays Oliver delighted in the fact that his grandmother had created them all.
This simple and innocent message from the little guy had me thinking.
Isn't that just how we as adults relate to life? We have an experience and then we relate all future experiences to what we already have experienced and know. Our pasts act as a template by which we match and compare our futures.
We perceive and assume stuff and then it becomes the code by which we live. We are so easily influenced by our assumptions and perceptions which then become our conditioned responses which in turn become our culture which our ego informs us is cast in stone.
I thought back to a time when my sons were small and remember how when either of my boys had a temperature my mom-in-law would go into a state of panic because her daughter had landed up in a coma as a result of a high temperature. I remember too how scared my mother had made me of allowing my children to eat peanuts because she had witnessed a youngster dying because he had inhaled a single peanut and it had lodged in his lung.
I could go on and on with examples of how we create beliefs based upon our experiences, but what I think I am trying to say is this:
We need to stay open to life as it unfolds in the present without second guessing its every move. We need to sway to the rhythm of life's dance and be flexible to change tempo as life leads us. Yes, we did the tango yesterday, but let's embrace the Cha Cha of today and let's not try to guess what dance we'll do tomorrow. Let's be willing to just dance.
If we want to keep growing and evolving we need to open ourselves to unconditioned change. If we have to measure and match every new experience to something in our pasts we will continue to produce the same outcome and never learn anything new.
It's funny how as the human race we resist being open to new experiences with unknown outcomes, but that is the very catalyst for our growth. We like the safety of repeat experiences with expected outcomes because we feel unthreatened and safe, yet it is when life hurls us into a new dance and we have no resistance to it that we get to taste life. We risk feeling something unknown and new as opposed to serving up the same old hash.
So Oliver's little story challenged me to observe my thinking and catch myself when I assume to take the lead with life.
This week I am going to place myself in life's arms and follow her lead. And I'm as excited as a new born baby because I don't know whether I'll be tasting crepes or sushi but tasting I will be.
Have an awesome week ahead
love
Nicolette
Here goes...
We've just had Christmas, right?
So Oliver's Gogo, Nicole's Mom, had the pleasure of putting up their Christmas tree with her beautiful little grandson. I can only imagine the excitement as the little guy experienced the shimmery tinsel and the magic of the Christmas lights for the very first time, well probably the first time of being conscious.
Nicole related that she took Oliver with her to fetch her sister from the airport and there in the middle of the terminal buildings was an enormous Christmas tree.
Oliver piped up: "Big Christmas tree, Mama. Gogo made it."
Apparently wherever they saw Christmas trees for the duration of the holidays Oliver delighted in the fact that his grandmother had created them all.
This simple and innocent message from the little guy had me thinking.
Isn't that just how we as adults relate to life? We have an experience and then we relate all future experiences to what we already have experienced and know. Our pasts act as a template by which we match and compare our futures.
We perceive and assume stuff and then it becomes the code by which we live. We are so easily influenced by our assumptions and perceptions which then become our conditioned responses which in turn become our culture which our ego informs us is cast in stone.
I thought back to a time when my sons were small and remember how when either of my boys had a temperature my mom-in-law would go into a state of panic because her daughter had landed up in a coma as a result of a high temperature. I remember too how scared my mother had made me of allowing my children to eat peanuts because she had witnessed a youngster dying because he had inhaled a single peanut and it had lodged in his lung.
I could go on and on with examples of how we create beliefs based upon our experiences, but what I think I am trying to say is this:
We need to stay open to life as it unfolds in the present without second guessing its every move. We need to sway to the rhythm of life's dance and be flexible to change tempo as life leads us. Yes, we did the tango yesterday, but let's embrace the Cha Cha of today and let's not try to guess what dance we'll do tomorrow. Let's be willing to just dance.
If we want to keep growing and evolving we need to open ourselves to unconditioned change. If we have to measure and match every new experience to something in our pasts we will continue to produce the same outcome and never learn anything new.
It's funny how as the human race we resist being open to new experiences with unknown outcomes, but that is the very catalyst for our growth. We like the safety of repeat experiences with expected outcomes because we feel unthreatened and safe, yet it is when life hurls us into a new dance and we have no resistance to it that we get to taste life. We risk feeling something unknown and new as opposed to serving up the same old hash.
So Oliver's little story challenged me to observe my thinking and catch myself when I assume to take the lead with life.
This week I am going to place myself in life's arms and follow her lead. And I'm as excited as a new born baby because I don't know whether I'll be tasting crepes or sushi but tasting I will be.
Have an awesome week ahead
love
Nicolette
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