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May 8, 2018 By W. Lee Baker

A Gift for You

Would you like a gift? A gift that keeps on getting better, even without sunlight or water. Maybe you can’t guess what that could be, can you.

Maybe the best part is that you can give this to yourself. It is the gift of imagination, and each of us has the seed. Our ability as humans to call up our imagination for problem solving or just pleasure is quite a gift. Everyone is born with some, and some people have an abundance available. We humans are specially endowed with this ability.

What is it that creates our dreams, born in the night as we wander among the stars? Are nightmares just the dark side of our imagination? Remember that it is your imagination. Use it wisely.

So much of our education today ignores the wonders of the imagination. Some find it in their gift to write fabulous stories that others can enjoy. When we dive into a story or a movie, our imagination gets tickled, and we can be expanded as humans and enjoy the ride along the way.

It is not something that just awakens as if by the cosmic alarm clock inside each one of us. However it expands, it is something to be nurtured, trusted, and exercised in order to flourish. We in the developed world have much available for those who practice and develop their imagination, whether it is in the arts, or in our everyday lives when we need to find ways to deal with problems.

Imagining a desirable result and a good way to get there is the gateway to having a world we want, and pleasures that come with that. It hinges so much on imagination. In ways that most of us don’t imagine possible.

Whatever you can imagine, you can move towards your desires. Just watch out for the monkeys that lurk somewhere in that thinking box on top of your shoulders, they will try to throw a monkey wrench into your creation.

A personal gift to you: Celebrate that you are a part of the everything, the continuing creation of life. Imagine enjoying the ride.

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MEDITATIONS

If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor, then everything will become easier for you.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Everything is beautiful in its own way. Like the starry summer night, or a snow-covered winter’s day. And everybody’s beautiful in their own way. Under God’s heaven, the world’s gonna find the way. There is none so blind as he who will not see. We must not close our minds, we must let our thoughts be free. For every hour that passes by, we know the world gets a little bit older,it’s time to realize that beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.

Ray Stevens - 1939

To find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter; to be thrilled by the stars at night: to be elated over a bird’s nest or a wildflower in spring… these are some of the rewards of the simple life.

John Burroughs

When the days become longer and there is more sunshine, the grass becomes fresh and, consequently, we feel very happy. On the other hand, in autumn, one leaf falls down and another leaf falls down. The beautiful plants become as if dead and we do not feel very happy. Why? I think it is because deep down our human nature likes construction, and does not like destruction.

Dalai Lama

We return thanks to our mother, the earth, which sustains us. We return thanks to the rivers and streams, which supply us with water. We return thanks to all herbs, which furnish medicines for the cure of our diseases. We return thanks to the moon and stars, which have given to us their light when the sun was gone. We return thanks to the sun, that has looked upon the earth with a beneficent eye. Lastly, we return thanks to the Great Spirit, in whom is embodied all goodness, and who directs all things for the good of her children.

Native American

Watch nature, because it is your greatest teacher. It moves and flows and moves on again. There is an incredible beauty out there in the mountains, in the forests, to teach you it’s silence, it’s beauty, it’s humility. Stay aligned to that.

Stuart Wilde ~ 1946

For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche.

Hermann Hesse

We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again.

Rumi

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FROM W LEE BAKER

I am a testimonial to waking up from the deep sleep buried in clouds of doubt. I wandered lost until I found my way into this life, and I am ever thankful and reverent of the mistakes and losses along the way. Now I hope to offer inspiration to others who find this story.

– W Lee Baker

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