Moving to Colorado

[Ariel]

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Moving to Colorado

[JessicaOnPurpose]

I know you'll have a wonderful adventure Ariel. I moved to Hawaii in a similar fashion back in the mid '90s. I'm in Denver, perhaps we can have tea sometime. If you need anything just ask. Follow me back on Twitter @liveonpurpose, then I can message you there, too. Tomorrow I'll take my kids to the Celestial Seasoning factory tour in Boulder!

[binnoy]

Hey ARIAL,
I kinda have sometimes these similiar kind of experiences. In the mids of all my ascension, suddenlly at sometimes I encounter a certain amount of peace and oneness.

I still remember the first time this happened. I was completely frustuated with life and was at the church. Always whenever I used to go the church i used to carry a huge manifesto of what i wanted from GOD. However nothing ever clicked as per my prayers. I did not know what kept me moving towards the church every time i was frustuated( By the way i am a HINDU by BIRTH).

But this day was different, there was an instintive feeling that whatever i thought was right for me was not so. It only seemed so. My level of frustuation reached such a level that my mind completely stopped working and i as if fell deep within. A SILENT VOICE within me said very clearly to the statue of Mother MARY in front of me,"NOW you decide whats right for me".
As these words came out, there was a sudden feeling of lightness and oneness with everything.
I was experiencing bliss in the mids of a stormy situation of my life. My conscious mind advocated against this feeling and feared that if i kept feeling this bliss i will never work hard enough to come out of this situation.
It was at that time that the voice spoke once again. "All will be well. You are taken care of".

Everything seemed to merge into one. There were just a few trees here and there since i live in the heart of a
suburb, however their beauty was amazing. I couldnt justify why i was feeling that way but I was. I felt as if I was that pigeon on the roof and everything that I could see.

Though this was weird to my conscious mind, deep within I was experiencing bliss.I never shared this experience before this day because people would surely think i was going nuts. I had never come across any spirtual book at that time. It was just two days later that i got THE SECRET suprisingly in my hand as a gift from my aunt.

Two years after that day, my life has completely changed. Today as if I die to every past day with the past just as a story leaving no impression behind. I was motivated to form a website. My ego perhaps wanted to name it as the MIRROR OF LIFE. However the name WHISPERS FROM SILENCE kept coming in front of me until and unless I had to name it so.Almost everyday, i would try to convince myself to change its name to a relatively simpler and understandable name for my visitors.However something within kept saying it would not be proper. "Whispers from silence" is the name it is destined to be. Its as if tribute to that WHISPER. My conscious thinking and even some of my visitors cant find any logic to this name. But then perhaps where the world of rational thinking collapses, the world of love and gratitude dawns.

BINNOY
(WHISPERS FROM SILENCE)
http://binnoy.hpage.com/

[Ariel]

Jessica, that'd be great. Let's get together sometime.

Binnoy, really cool to hear about your continued insights from the whispers from silence. Sounds like you're really getting in tune there.

By the way.. my name is not a font. It's spelled Ariel, not Arial.

[binnoy]

WILL TAKE CARE, BUT ONLY FOR NEXT TIME.For Nnow its going to remain as it is . I am not going to edit the already posted ones. And by the way ARIAL also sounds cute. . Infact so cute that WINDOWS has named a font after it. You may die the popular one 'ARIAL'.

Hey by the way, I had posted a link to a very enlightening vidwo of BASHAR in my previous post.
However I guess due to the intense FORUMMING in the previous post, perhaps it went unnoticed .

NEVER MIND ARIEL, here it is for you once again if you happened to missed it.

]THE MYSTERY OF 2012 revealed finally and for the first time SENSIBLY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGzGqb-nVvE


BINNOY
http://binnoy.hpage.com/

[Roger Gietzen]

Ariel,
Maybe you're new home will be overlooking the scene in that picture . In my life, every time I encounter a period where I cannot plan or have specific expectations, it turns out to be easier to live in the moment. Its like my ego just gets stumped and I can surrender to the situation better. Sounds like you might be experiencing something similar.
Roger

[Cassie]

What a great place to move! Colorado is definitely one of the most beautiful places on Earth, and it seems like a great fit for you since you love nature and outdoorsy stuff so much. I had an uncle who worked for the search and rescue in Colorado for years and we would go visit him sometimes. Please make sure you take a trip to The Hanging Lake in Colorado, which I still think was probably the most amazing natural area I've ever seen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_Lake

I applaud you for disregarding what the world and everyone else wants you to do and instead following what YOU want to do. It's not easy, especially at first, but you'll be one of the very few people who can look back on their life and say, "I did everything I wanted to do and I don't regret any of it."

Let us know how your adventure unfolds!

[THE OPEN WAY]

Hi Ariel,

Many blessings and enjoyment in your adventure and ventures.

I,.... like you, .....chose to move out here to the San francisco Bay area in Berkeley from Ft Lauderdale Florida just 8 months ago. (IAM originally from NY) Like you, the mixed blessings of missing my family and freinds in Florida and excitement of the move as well.

I moved with little savings and no real job. Well, just barely getting by financially and loving it as the environment, geography, weather and really mostly, while it is clearly understood that wherever you go...there you are!! And it all arises as you wherever you are...... there are preferences in this relative world and we move toward them for our relative enjoyment... AND "THAT" also could not be any other way as you well know... it all JUST arises!!! So might as well enjoy the play as is, even when that AS IS is the apparant choice to move where we prefer!!

So just wanted to share that I am loving the spiritual climate here in the SF bay area as you can imagine...with all that is available and of course I do my own gatherings/satsangs and looking to do that spiritual radio show and centers etc etc....as that is what I love most and is most satisfying for me. Yes, I have a job, but like you , would love to wean into this spirituality sharings thing full time. Is my freedom, in truth, dependant on it?? Absolutely NOT!! Is it a relative joy to explore my joy?? Absolutely!!!! LOL

So, still settling in here... of course we all need money to subsist..... and yet again, all arises as is and is what it is as the joyful adventure which sometimes might appear not joyfull but is not a true hinderance as/on freedom. So, I can write much more, but it feels right to stop here. Let us keep personally in touch as to how our adventures unfold. I know you will keep us posted here as well.

I spent my life jumping form one job to another to "survive" and only recently realized doing what I love as sharing spirituality is a full time option!! And wonderfully, the attachement is not so great as to feel incomplete if things do not play out as I want..it is still the adventure that it is Well, I think I made that clear!!

I made a road trip but did not have funds to fully see ALL the trip could offer. (Actually, I did see ALL the trip could offer as it could only offer it the way it did!! LOL)...You know what I mean though. I passed by the Grand Canyon and Arizona was just extraordinarily beautiful... as was New Mexico...and again, I just love the Northern Califronia terrain .

Well, I look forward to hearing from you. My good spiritual friend from Florida, chose to move to Colorado and loves it. The spitirual climate there, is also quite good as he shares it.

Like you mentioned....who knows where this will lead. I thought I was moving to San Jose, then Santa Cruz and wound up in Berkeley .... and loving it here!!

It is fun and liberating to check out all the satsangs here too. I know you love Adyashatni etc. Check out http://www.eastbayopencircle.org and look at there semi filled schedule for this year. And as the year progresses, 3 times as many teachers will visit here. Hey...I love it!!! Just one of my joys is hearing others share what I know is true, or arises as what is true, and being with ones that love that!! (Isaac Shapiro is here now for 2 weeks.)

Well, enjoy the openess and freedom that you are, wherever and however that arises!

Let us keep in touch and share and support the wonderful things that arise, spiritually and otherwise! I feel a beautiful merging of all this awareness (stuff) in some way. it will be fun to see and be how this plays out!!

Blessings
Be Free
Cory
http://www.theopenway.org

[Ariel]

In my life, every time I encounter a period where I cannot plan or have specific expectations, it turns out to be easier to live in the moment. Its like my ego just gets stumped and I can surrender to the situation better. Sounds like you might be experiencing something similar.

You know, it's amazing... to let go and just surrender completely and utterly and allow yourself to simply just be where you are and take the next step as soon as the opportunity presents itself, and the next step and the next, life has never been so much fun, incredible, and downright functional!

It seems this idea of having to micromanage and plan our lives is really just the ego's way of trying to control things. It certainly sounds very logical, but things seem to work so much better in my experience when I give that all up. Seems like it's the case for you as well.

Please make sure you take a trip to The Hanging Lake in Colorado, which I still think was probably the most amazing natural area I've ever seen:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_Lake

Awesome thank you. Looks like the hike is relatively short in as well. Depending on our timing when we get in to Colorado, we may stop and do that hike. I'll keep it on my list. Thanks for the suggestion Cassie!

[Ariel]

Hey there Cory, your story makes me smile... particularly the part about "I thought I was going here, then here, then here!" Yeah...

Definitely keep in touch. I love hearing about your journey and how you are experiencing it. As you said, it really is a joy to hear others share about all this as well.