Happy New Year 2013

I wish you

throughout the coming year!!!

Positive Thoughts

Peace Quote

Life's Ups and Downs

All my life I have felt like, while my sister's life is on a Merry-Go-Round, mine is on a great big old Roller Coaster. All the wild ups and downs that I have experienced, wow. Wome have been so awesome and exciting, then of course they were followed by the fast trip down to bummed out. Mostly these involved men, the wild excitement of love followed by the pain of the end of the relationships. Finally I just quit taking the chances, just quit going out with guys. Oh, I still have lots of men friends, but they are just that... friends, not love relationships. Life is good.

Lately it seems like my life is something of a yo-yo and maybe I need to go hang out at yoyoplay.com for yoyos,lol. One of my friends might, just might, be becoming more. He said he doesn't want a relationship and I said good, I don't either. We have been just friends. And I have 'more than friendly' feelings starting to raise their heads... sigh. Twice now when he was drunk, no he doesn't get that way all the time, but when he did, he talked about me becoming his ol' lady. Biker talk for girlfriend. The first time, when he was sober he claimed to not remember, the second time he said he had just been joking, just having fun. So each time the ups, then the downs of the yo-yo. Today he was sober when he told me he's getting tired of being on his own, something about when we get older we start to want companionship. I am trying not to read something into this than there really is, but I can't help but think "maybe, just maybe". He's not "perfect", not quite everything I want, everything I had on "my list", yet I like him a lot. I feel safer with him than I do with most men, more comfortable, and I trust him more than I have trusted anyone in a very long time. Somehow, even though he isn't all I had in mind, something about this just feels really right.

Oneness in Action

Below you will find an email I received today and thought a lot of people would benefit by reading.

Dear Team Mates,

 

We are now fully in fall season. I’m wishing all of you a Happy and Marvelous Thanksgiving Day! Why not using this special day to make a list of all your blessings……read your list regularly, focus on it everyday, it is the best way to have them produce more blessings!

 

Humanity’s Team World Wide, is announcing that Sunday, October 24th they will celebrate the First Global Oneness Day. Although UNO did not yet confirm this declaration, we want to start to Celebrate! We know that around the world there is 50,000 peoples that want to join us…they have already signed our petition! We won’t stop there!….We are still adding names with a goal of 100,000 signatures!……If you did not sign yet, please sign it now, and ask your friends and family to do the same. …..we want to demonstrate that Humanity is willing to focus on similarities instead of differences!

 

For this first Global Oneness Day, let us all do a little good for someone else…Bring a plate to someone living alone……pay the coffee for the  person following you at your Tim Horton car service, keep the door open for a young mother struggling with her stroller, smile to a perfect stranger, compliment a colleague……the list could be very long….. Just a little gesture could make a huge difference! With 2500 Humanity’s Team Mates in Canada we could make life just a little bit better and make a difference to someone’s life. 

 

If you have more suggestions for this Celebration feel free to write! We will share it with all members! We could also post your pictures of how you did Celebrate on our website!

For more info go to: http://www.global-oneness-day.org/

Or to: http://humanitysteam.org/whattodoOct24G1Day

 

 

I’m wishing you an outstanding Celebration!   WE ARE ALL ONE

 

Namaste,

Francine Corbeil   francine@humanitysteamcanada.com

 

www.humanitysteamcanada.com

Unlikely Friends

I tried to embed a video here but it didn't work. Mom said there must be something wrong woof the html stuff cuz I did it right. So all I can do is give you a path to follow over to the website where the video is. It is well worth the short trip there... AFTER you finish here. Bark!!

Watch this movie about an elephant and a dog. Then come back and tell me why people can't be more like animals, accepting and loving of others even though they are different.


Here is the path fur you to follow:
On Elephant Sanctuary, Unlikely Friends.



To HAVE peace, you first have to BE peace. Carry Peace in your heart!!
~Reba Jane Rottenweiler~

Unique Play Mates

Day 29



"I Come in Peace."


Stuart Brown describes Norbert Rosing ' s striking images of a wild polar bear coming upon tethered sled dogs in the wilds of Canada ' s Hudson Bay

The photographer was sure that he was going to se e the end of his dogs when the polar bear wandered in.

The Polar Bear returned every night that week to play with the dogs.

May you always have love to share,
Health to spare, and friends that care.

Arf, Arf, Arf!!!

Day 27

Now that yur laughin' I bet you don't want to go out and hurt someone. So that's proof that cartoons contribute to
WORLD PEACE!

Have a happy day!

Whoof!!

Light Mail

Day 24

Daily Inspiration: Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it. ~J.T. Fields

Today’s Affirmation: I let my love warm the hearts of all I meet.

Today's Contemplation: Often we think of love as something we can give to some while withholding from others; love is who we are we either give it freely or withhold it from all. My relationship with my barber is no less loving than my relationship with my spouse, it is far less intimate and far less personal however it is no less loving or compassionate.

Light Mail is put out by Rev. Dale Jukes of the Okanagan Centre For Spiritual Living.

Light Mail

Day 23

Daily Inspiration: Simple kindness to one's self and all that lives is the most powerful transformational force of all. ~David R. Hawkins

Today’s Affirmation: I love myself and treat myself gently.

Today's Contemplation: Gentleness, and kindness, starts with how we treat ourselves and springs from patience. I recognize always that all my dreams will not unfold in a day and the real gift I give to me is to be alert to their unfolding in this moment.

Light Mail is put out by Rev. Dale Jukes of the Okanagan Centre For Spiritual Living.

Hooman Whoofs

Day 22

Forgiveness:

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

-- Henry Ward Beecher --


Gratitude:

There is not a more pleasing exercise of the mind than gratitude. It is accompanied with such an inward satisfaction that the duty is sufficiently rewarded by the performance.

-- Joseph Addison --


Love:

Love has no desire but to fulfill itself. To melt and be like a running brook that sings its melody to the night. To wake at dawn with a winged heart and give thanks for another day of loving.

-- Kahlil Gibran --


Peace:

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease;
Fold the whole earth in peace.

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes --

Whoof for Peace

Day 21

Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.

-- Robert Fulghum --


There is one armor that the world of men and women, as a world, has never yet put on. The churches have long bungled with its fastenings, but the world has gone unfended, and few have been those in whose hands the mystical sword of the spirit has shone with daily use. This armor, waiting to be worn, is the armor of brotherhood and sacrifice, the world of unselfishness, a conquering sword, with the power, where used, to unite the world in love. And there are none who may not put it on.

-- M.A. DeWolfe Howe --

Day 20 of NoBloPoMo

Day 20

Gratitude:

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, "thank you," that would suffice.

-- Meister Eckhart --


Forgiveness:

"We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate --- thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising."

-- Maya Angelou --


Love:

Hate is not conquered by hate: hate is conquered by love. This is a law eternal.

-- Buddha --


Peace:

They have not wanted Peace at all; they have wanted to be spared war - as though the absence of war was the same as peace.

-- Dorothy Thompson --

3 Special Quotes

Day 19

Gratitude:

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude.

-- Denis Waitley --

Forgiveness:

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

-- Joan Lunden--

Peace:

"If we want to reap the harvest of peace and justice in the future, we will have to sow seeds of nonviolence, here and now, in the present."

-- Mairead Corrigan Maguire --

Forgiveness for Peace #2

Day 18

If we really want to love, we must learn how to forgive.

-- Mother Teresa --

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

-- Mark Twain --

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

-- Marianne Williamson --

Forgiveness for Peace

Day 17

I've heard Mom saying that forgiveness is necessary to the path to peace and love, so I decided to give you some good forgiveness quotes today. If Peace is your goal, then Forgiveness is one of the steps to that goal.

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.

-- Robert Muller --

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

-- Catherine Ponder --


"Forgiveness offers the possibility of two types of peace: peace of mind -- the potential healing of old emotional wounds, and peace with others -- the possibility of new, more gratifying relationships in the future."

-- Kenneth I. Pargament & Mark S. Rye --

More Peace Fur You!!

Day 16

Whoof!! A walk in the park today makes me feel much more peaceful inside. I was all full of energy and it just kept bubbling out all over the place. Now I got rid of some of that energy so I can lay on the floor by Mom's chair and rest instead of bouncing all over the place. I feel so peaceful.

Here are some more peace quotes fur you. Maybe they are having an effect on this ol' dog... arf, arf, arf.

“Peace is its own reward.”

-- Mahatma Gandhi --



“Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it”

-- Unknown --



Look what I found and got Mom to help me get it fur showing to you. It was in an ad on one of the "Peace Quotes" sites I was visiting. It's a Peace Watch!!! I like that, WOOF!!

Watch Fur Peace

I sure would like to give one of these to my Mom 'Bean, arf. She would so love to have one cuz she believes "its' Time Fur Peace". The peace sign is even done in crystals and Mom likes sparkly stuff.

Peace to all of you!!

Whoof for Peace

Day 15

It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

-- Mahatma Gandhi --


Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love; this is the eternal rule.

-- Buddha --


There never was a good war or a bad peace.

-- Benjamin Franklin --

Another 3 quote for Peace

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

-- Thomas Jefferson --


Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.

-- Indian Proverb --


Non-violence leads to the highest ethics,which is the goal of all evolution.Until we stop harming all other living beings , we are still savages.

-- Thomas A. Edison --

More Peace Quotes

Day 13

"Wheresoever the sun shines, the wind blows, there is an ear to hear, and a mind to conceive, there let the precepts of life be made known, let the maxims of truth be honored and obeyed, let there be music, and let there be Peace".

-- Dave Johnston, guitar player --

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself; nothing, but the triumph of principles.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson --


Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.

-- J. Martin Kohe --