The Hundredth Monkey

The Japanese monkey, Macaca fuscata, had been observed in the wild for a period of over 30 years.

In 1952, on the island of Koshima, scientists were providing monkeys with sweet potatoes dropped in the sand. The monkeys liked the taste of the raw sweet potatoes, but they found the dirt unpleasant.

An 18-month-old female named Imo found she could solve the problem by washing the potatoes in a nearby stream. She taught this trick to her mother. Her playmates also learned this new way and they taught their mothers too.

This cultural innovation was gradually picked up by various monkeys before the eyes of the scientists.

Between 1952 and 1958 all the young monkeys learned to wash the sandy sweet potatoes to make them more palatable.

Only the adults who imitated their children learned this social improvement. Other adults kept eating the dirty sweet potatoes.

Then something startling took place. In the autumn of 1958, a certain number of Koshima monkeys were washing sweet potatoes 鈥� the exact number is not known.

Let us suppose that when the sun rose one morning there were 99 monkeys on Koshima Island who had learned to wash their sweet potatoes.

Let鈥檚 further suppose that later that morning, the hundredth monkey learned to wash potatoes.

THEN IT HAPPENED!

By that evening almost everyone in the tribe was washing sweet potatoes before eating them.

The added energy of this hundredth monkey somehow created an ideological breakthrough!

But notice.

A most surprising thing observed by these scientists was that the habit of washing sweet potatoes then jumped over the sea 鈥�

Colonies of monkeys on other islands and the mainland troop of monkeys at Takasakiyama began washing their sweet potatoes.

Thus, when a certain critical number achieves an awareness, this new awareness may be communicated from mind to mind.

Although the exact number may vary, this Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon means that when only a limited number of people know of a new way, it may remain the conscious property of these people.

But there is a point at which if only one more person tunes-in to a new awareness, a field is strengthened so that this awareness is picked up by almost everyone!

~ by Ken Keyes, jr.

鈥淢y Law鈥�

Written by Tieme Ranapiri
and translated from Maori by Kere Graham.

The sun may be clouded, yet ever the sun
Will sweep on its course till the cycle is run.
When into chaos the system is hurled
Again shall the builder reshape a new world.

Your path may be clouded, uncertain your goal;
Move on 鈥� for your orbit is fixed to your soul.
And though it may lead into darkness of night
The torch of the builder shall give it new light.

You were. You will be! Know this while you are:
Your spirit has travelled both long and afar.
It came from the source, to the source it returns -
The spark which was lighted eternally burns.

It slept in a jewel. It leapt in a wave.
It roamed in the forest. It rose from the grave.
It took on strange garbs for long eons of years
And now in the soul of yourself it appears.

From body to body your spirit speeds on.
It seeks a new form when the old one has gone.
And the form that it finds is the fabric you wrought
On the loom of the mind from the fibre of thought.

As dew is drawn upwards, in rain to descend,
Your thoughts drift away and in destiny blend.
You cannot escape them, for petty or great,
Or evil or noble, they fashion your fate.

Somewhere on some planet, sometime and somehow
Your life will reflect your thoughts of your now.
My law is unerring, no blood can atone -
The structure you built you will live in 鈥� alone.

From cycle to cycle, through time and through space
Your lives with your longings will ever keep pace.
And all that you ask for, and all you desire
Must come at your bidding, as flame out of fire.

Once listen to that voice and all tumult is done -
Your life is the life of the Infinite One
In the hurrying race you are conscious of pause
With love for the purpose, and love for the cause.

You are your own devil, you are your own God
You fashioned the paths your footsteps have trod.
And no one can save you from error or sin
Until you have harked to the spirit within.

Walking, Leaping and Michael Jordan

You might have seen on my Facebook page a few weeks ago that I had a serious injury on my way to Orlando to speak at the SuccessNet.org conference. That was the culminating tipping point that followed a huge push of energy to continue running my business as usual, but then also to move my home, attend two other conferences (CA and AZ) while focusing on my physical wellness as a priority in a new way. And my body said 鈥榮top鈥� 鈥� literally.

I knew it the minute it happened 鈥� my back twisted the wrong way with loading my luggage in the car. By the time I got to Orlando seven hours later, I needed a wheelchair assist to make my way to the hotel.

That night, I couldn鈥檛 sit, stand, stretch, lay down, walk or sleep. It was one of the longest nights I鈥檝e ever had, with about two hours of sleep 鈥� and not the one I like to have before getting in front of a lot of people to teach innovative concepts in business. I was really afraid that I wouldn鈥檛 recover since the pain was so intense with even the slightest movement.

Thanks to my amazing physician, and the help of everyone at the conference (both physically and energetically), I was able to not only make it through my presentation but had a great time doing it.

My greatest joy in that moment was when I saw entrepreneurs giving each other meaningful intuitive messages about business to each other as a result of the techniques I had just taught鈥� for some, it was life-changing to both receive their messages and to be able to give them to their partner. It was amazing to see energy in action to help them know how to create success with a fresh perspective.

Originally, my intention had been to stay in Florida for nearly a week, but I quickly realized that was not in the best interest of my health. I cut my visit short to the earliest possible flight and returned home within 72 hours.

It was a harrowing trip; however, the strangers I met along the way became my reminders of the divine light in people. They didn鈥檛 know what I was up against鈥� only that I was clearly in pain and physically compromised, and so, they lifted my luggage, got me through security and scooped me up in a wheelchair when I was too exhausted to do anything but lean against an airport wall.

Although I rarely share my personal difficulties with you, I am compelled to share this with you for two reasons.

Before I get to them, you should know that within 48 hours of being home, I was able to walk and work at about 80% normal. Within the first ten days after my injury, people couldn鈥檛 tell that there was any problem with my back. And within two weeks, I was doing full workouts in the gym again. It has been a fast and amazing recovery for which I鈥檓 deeply grateful.

So, here are the two reasons that I share my story with you now:

1. I believe that I quantum-leaped my healing process. There are energy tools and resources that are available to us any time we want to use them to create dramatic results quickly when we know what they are and what to do with them. And I will be teaching these proven tools, and personally guiding a small group of people to successfully use them, during my new Create Your Quantum Leap program starting January 10.

I am deeply committed, and it is my life purpose, to teach the ways of inner illumination, connection to what matters and how to access the power of clarity. It is something that pulls me forward every day 鈥� it鈥檚 something that chooses me to be its ambassador and I am its servant.

It鈥檚 my honor to help people connect the dots to their success, both inner and outer, through using the gifts of spirit. The form of how I am doing it is evolving, so this may be the last time I teach the program. To be honest, I鈥檓 not yet sure what will come after this program and I can鈥檛 tell you how many times I鈥檝e heard people ask after the fact whether I鈥檓 going to repeat a program (most of the time, I don鈥檛 as I am on to the next thing); so, if you鈥檙e interested, now is the time to participate.

2. I just watched a Michael Jordan video. In it, he apologizes for making it look easy. He reminds you of his failures, his pain, and his commitment to daily habits to forge his legend that we see today.

And it occurred to me that people have said to me many times (especially recently) that they wish their life could be like mine, that they could do what I do, and that their life be as easy as mine. It isn鈥檛 easy for me to hear that because they know not what they ask.

I鈥檓 here to tell you that it鈥檚 not what happens to me, but how I handle it that matters because it鈥檚 as easy as I make it. I can fight what 鈥榠s鈥� and resist what鈥檚 happening or I can learn from it and flow through it as simply as possible. It鈥檚 my choice. And the same goes for you.

After doing what I do for nearly 14 years now, being an innovator and a pioneer on the lonely leading-edge of energy work, conscious business and teaching people how to shine their light brighter, I need to tell you that it isn鈥檛 always easy. It might look that way but it鈥檚 because you are seeing the end of the story, the outcome of the way I choose to face it (vs. the occurrence or the gory details). And there鈥檚 a reason for that, which I鈥檒l get to in a minute鈥�

Anyway, since last year at this time, I have chosen to quantum leap my results. It鈥檚 been an amazing year of change, discovery and opportunity 鈥� and it has had its shadows too. Quantum leaping means looking at that which is likely to be uncomfortable so one can reclaim the power hidden in it and release the psychic weight that holds one back. It can feel daunting, to say the least. And I know now how to navigate that journey faster and easier because I鈥檝e walked it (no pun intended!). It鈥檚 what I now desire to share with others who are ready to Quantum Leap their lives and businesses.

In any case, I may not tell you all that鈥檚 happening with me, but it鈥檚 not because I don鈥檛 want you to know鈥� it鈥檚 actually because I choose my focus to be on you in our work together.

So, if I have made it look too easy, or if I haven鈥檛 told you the hard parts of my journey because I believed it was more important to share with you the diamonds of the distilled teachings that I have mined along the way, I ask for your grace.

If you didn鈥檛 believe that I鈥檓 a real person living a real life and having to do the all-too-familiar daily dance of chores, self-care and prioritizing choices, I hope this message has changed that.

And if you didn鈥檛 know that failure, pain and big challenges are among the blessings I am most grateful for as my best teachers, I trust that you can know that now. (And I invite you to consider your best teachers up until now too.)

The Warrior’s Prayer

I am what I am.
In having faith in the beauty within me, I develop trust.
In softness I have strength.
In silence I walk with the gods.
In peace I understand myself and the world.
In conflict I walk away.
In detachment I am free.
In respecting all living things, I respect myself.
In dedication I honor the courage within me.
In eternity I have compassion for the nature of all things.
In love I unconditionally accept the evolution of others.
In freedom I have power.
In my individuality, I express the God-Force within me.
In service I give of what I have become.
I am what I am:
Eternal, immortal, universal, and infinite.
And so be it.

~Stuart Wilde

Courageous Dreaming

We are what we think.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
鈥擝uddha

鈥淲hether we realize it or not, we are all dreaming the world into being. What we are engaging in is not the sleeping act we are so familiar with, but rather a type of dreaming we do with our eyes open. When we are unaware that we share the power to co-create reality with the universe itself, that power slips away from us, causing our dream to become a nightmare. We begin to feel we are the victims of an unknown and frightening creation that we are unable to influence, and events seem to control and trap us. The only way to end this dreadful reality is to awaken to the fact that it too is a dream鈥攁nd then recognize our ability to write a better story, one that the universe will work with us to manifest.

The nature of the cosmos is such that whatever vision you have about yourself and the world will become a reality. As soon as you awaken to the power you have, you begin to flex the muscles of your courage. Then you can dream bravely: letting go of your limiting beliefs and pushing past your fears. You can start to come up with a truly original dream that germinates in your soul and bears fruit in your life.

Courageous dreaming allows you to create from the source, the quantum soup of the universe where everything exists in a latent or potential state. Physicists understand that in the quantum world nothing is 鈥渞eal鈥� until it is observed. The distinct packets of energy known as 鈥渜uanta鈥� (which consist of particles of matter as well as light) are neither 鈥渉ere鈥� nor 鈥渢here鈥�; in a sense, they are everywhere in space/time until you or I decide to take note of them. When we do so, we tease them out of the web of infinite possibilities and collapse them into an event in time and space. These energy quanta like to link up with each other once they have selected a particular form of manifestation. As soon as they manifest, reality becomes fixed: Our reality is 鈥渉ere鈥� instead of possibly everywhere.

But quantum events do not occur in the laboratory only. They also happen inside our brain, on this page, and everywhere around us. Even if they are separated by million miles, or by days or weeks, these quanta of energy remain intimately linked; consequently, if you interact with one, you affect the entire system that this energy is part of. When you access any part of the dream, the great matrix of creation, you can change reality and alter the entire dream, and its effects will ripple to the past and influence the future.

Modern physics is describing what ancient wisdom keepers of the Americas have long known. These shamans, known as 鈥渢he Earthkeepers鈥�, say that we are dreaming the world into being through the very act of witnessing it. Scientists believe that we are only able to do this in the very small subatomic world. Shamans understand that we also dream the larger world that we experience with our senses.

Like the Australian Aborigines, the Earthkeepers live in an environment where the dreamtime has not been pushed into the domain of sleep like it has for the rest of us. They know that all of creation arises from, and returns to, this creative matrix. The dreamtime infuses all matter and energy, connecting every creature, every rock, every star, and every ray of light or bit of cosmic dust. The power to dream, then, is the power to participate in creation itself. Dreaming reality is not only an ability but a duty, one all humans must perform with grace so that our grandchildren will inherit a world where they can live in peace and abundance.

We have actually already gone into extraordinary detail to dream our universe into being. Immediately after the big bang, 99.99 percent of all matter and antimatter in the cosmos went onto annihilate each other. The stars and galaxies that we see around us today are all that remained, a minute portion of what once was. Had the ratio of matter to space in the universe changed by even one-billionth of a percent, the laws of physics that permit life to emerge would not have been possible. The big bang had to be so perfectly orchestrated and calculated that it produced only one part of matter in 10 to the 50th power of stardust. This is divided by 10 followed by 50 zeroes, no more and no less. That this occurred purely by chance is possible only if we contemplate the existence of a very large number of universes in the cosmos, where an improbable event such as the creation of our own universe would have been plausible!

What is even more baffling is the fine-tuning of the parameters of the universe that occurred on the surface of the earth, which has maintained a perfect temperature balance between the freezing and boiling points of water for more than a billion years. The unlikeliness of these ratios that permit life to appear suggests the presence of an intelligent force, not a creator or a god but a universe power, which the Earthkeepers call 鈥渢he dreamtime鈥� or 鈥渋nfinity鈥�.

The Earthkeepers I have studied with in the Andes and the Amazon believe that we can only access the power of this force by raising our level of consciousness. When we do, we become aware that we are like a drop of water in a vast, divine ocean, distinct yet immersed in something much larger than ourselves. It is only when we experience our connection to infinity that we are able to dream powerfully. In fact, it is our sense of separation from infinity that traps us in a nightmare in the first place. If this sounds like circular thinking, you are right. Which came first, the nightmare or the sense of separation from infinity? The answer is that they occur simultaneously.

To end the nightmare鈥攖o reclaim your power of dreaming reality and craft something better鈥攜ou need more than the recognition of how this process works. You need to have visceral understanding of your dreaming power and experience it in every cell of your body. The intellectual comprehension of your ability to create reality mimics but then forestalls the kind of dreaming you are capable of. If you do not get beyond mere intellectual comprehension of this concept, you will end up lowering the bar and creating a far less glorious and beautiful experience of the world than what you are capable of crafting. With a visceral understanding of your power to dream, you realize that you can share this experience of infinity right here, right now, and stop feeling dissociated and disconnected.

It takes courage to taste infinity. According to Greek mythology, the gods swiftly punished any mortal who dared to ascend Mount Olympus and taste divine power. Yet they ultimately rewarded those who had the courage to step into their realm, such as Hercules and Psyche. Similarly, in Judeo-Christian lore, as soon as Adam and Eve disobeyed God and ate of the fruit of knowledge of good and evil, making human beings more like God, He threw them out of the Garden of Eden, 鈥渓est [humankind] put forth [their] hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever鈥� (Gen. 3:22). But despite this original sin of humanity, all men and women are promised a chance to dwell in heaven at the end of time.

Once you experience dreaming, you realize that everything in your life is unfolding with perfect synchronicity. Events may not be working out the way you would like them to, but within the greater scheme of things, they are happening in superlative harmony. For example, you miss the train to work on the day that terrorists strike the World Trade Center (which actually happened to a student of mine). Or your child tells you that he has been accepted to the college of his choice the same week you get the promotion you have been hoping for. If the universe seems to be conspiring against you, on the other hand, then you need to change the dream.

With courageous dreaming, you discover that your problems are no longer overwhelming you or defining your life. While the difficulties you face feel very real, you always have the choice to create a heroic account about your relationship to them instead of a disempowering saga of suffering. You will recognize that you can stop being a victim, trying to fix the world all on your own, or feeling vindictive toward those who harmed you. You will see that your life is exactly as it should be right now, and you will be able to let go of all the stories that keep you feeling trapped and unhappy and venting in your therapist鈥檚 office. You will begin to practice dreaming the world into being, and everything will change.

The Earthkeepers believe that the world is real, but only because we have dreamed it into being. But dreaming requires an act of courage, for when we lack it, we have to settle for the world that is being created by our culture or by our genes鈥攚e feel we have to settle for the nightmare. To dream courageously, we must be willing to use our hearts. Otherwise, our dreams will stall at the level of thinking, planning, and worrying too much. Then our dream will turn into a nightmare or mere fantasy, trapping us or drifting away while we wonder, What happened?

I remember one of my early trips to the Amazon. I was then a young anthropologist investigating the healing practices of the shamans of the rain forest, and I had decided to use myself as a subject. I explained to the jungle medicine man that as a child I had fled my country of birth because of a communist revolution. I had seen bloodshed in the streets and been terrified by gunfire in the night. Since then I had suffered from recurring nightmares in which armed men would force their way into my home and take away my loved ones. At the time I was in my late 20s, yet I had been unable to enter into a lasting relationship for fear that I would lose the person I loved, just like my nightmare.

During one healing ceremony, the shaman explained to me that like everyone, I can either have what I want or the reasons why I cannot. 鈥淵ou are too enamored of your story鈥�, the old man said. 鈥淯ntil you dare to dream a different dream, all you will have is the nightmare鈥�.

That evening I learned how I could craft a different story for myself, one in which I had been tempered by adversity and my experiences had taught me to have compassion for others who were suffering. The first step to dream my new dream was to create a new story in which I was not playing the part of the victim. I then realized that not only was I dreaming my life, but I was also dreaming the entire cosmos into being, just as it was doing with me.

Although the mind resists it, the fact is that like me, you have a choice between having the life you want or the reasons why you cannot. You can luxuriate in joy and peace, or you can continually be burdened by that big black bag full of all the sorrowful incidents and accidents that happened to you in your childhood or last relationship. You can endure your wounds or you can enjoy your glory. You can live the life of a victim, burdened by the traumas of your past, or you can live the life of a hero, but you cannot do both. If you want to feel empowered, you need to make a conscious decision to create a sacred dream and practice courage.

Courageous dreaming happens at a state of perception that the Earthkeepers refer to as the level of hummingbird. The hummingbird is an archetype for the heroic voyager鈥攋ust like it, you will inevitably take some wrong turns. However, each time you return to the recognition that you are dreaming your reality, you will deepen your understanding of the journey and feel more committed to it. You will be able to embrace the ever-shifting landscape around you with equanimity and a sense of humor and you will even experience grace.鈥�

Excerpt from Alberto Villoldo鈥檚 book 鈥淐ourageous Dreaming鈥�

Carrot, Egg or Coffee Bean?

A young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling鈥� it seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose. Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to a boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil; without saying a word.

In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl. Turning to her daughter, she asked, 鈥淭ell me what you see鈥︹�� 鈥淐arrots, eggs, and coffee,鈥� she replied. Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft. The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg. Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma. The daughter then asked, 鈥淲hat does it mean, mother?鈥�

Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity: boiling water. Each reacted differently. The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak. The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened. The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.

鈥淲hich are you?鈥� she asked her daughter. 鈥淲hen adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?鈥�

Now ask yourself: Which am I?

Am I the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity do I wilt and become soft and lose my strength?

Am I the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did I have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship, job loss or some other trial, have I become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside am I bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart?

Or am I like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you. When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest, do you elevate yourself to another level?

How do you handle adversity? Are you a carrot, and egg or a coffee bean?

Chaos and Consciousness

鈥淔or Teresa of Avila, Divine chaos was God鈥檚 way of creating an upheaval in order to break through patterns of denial that held a person emotionally or mentally captive. Or Divine chaos brought about necessary endings to ways of living that ceased to serve the well being of humanity. Whether the task you are attending to is personal or professional, it is essential that you put conscious thought into it, that you do it with as much awareness as you can, given the reality that none of us can be that aware each day. But realistically, the point being driven home by Teresa as well as other great mystics is that when you become too accustomed at what you are doing 鈥� too bored or too familiar 鈥� you retreat into unconsciousness. You no longer have to push yourself toward consciousness. You reach a place where you let habit and familiarity do all the work for you 鈥� and that is a danger zone, a serious danger zone and a prime set up for an encounter with chaos. Why would that be?

After all these years of teaching, some things still baffle and challenge me again and again, among them is, 鈥淲hat exactly is this business of consciousness about that we are in if not to become conscious?鈥� When anything becomes habit, in particular your life, what becomes of the challenge of becoming conscious? How is that task supposed to be accomplished? Of what are you supposed to become conscious? (Please don鈥檛 tell me your wounded history). Ideally, our task is to become conscious of how we direct the power of our spirit into acts of creation during the course of our life. More or less, that sums it up. An illuminated soul is one who is on to the game, who really understands what Buddha meant by seeing clearly through the world of physical illusion and not being controlled by that world. Jesus would say, 鈥淏e in the world but not of the world.鈥� Same truth, different words. What we are meant to become conscious of is how well we live in accordance to these high cosmic truths while in physical form.

When are you melting too much into the world of illusion, for example? Do you know? Can you recognize when that sensation of melting is happening to you? Are you able to say to yourself, 鈥淐areful, I am now losing my power in this conversation because I am becoming frightened?鈥� And then, equally if not more important, are you able to detach from that conversation and potential fear once you spot it? If not, you become captured by the illusion, by a fear that you should have been conscious enough to protect yourself from as this is what your inner work is all about: learning to discern what is truth from illusion 鈥� at all times, in all places. That test never stops, it never goes away. The moment you think you have conquered a part of yourself is the moment you are tested, like the addict who announces he has won his war with alcohol, only to discover that his hubris is his downfall. Consciousness is hard work and when we slip, which we all do, the net that catches us when we fall is chaos itself.

The common thread in every experience of Divine chaos is one of truth; specifically, a person has fallen out of alignment with his or her core truths. Divine chaos is a course corrector, a way of bringing down the systems that distraction built in order that they can be replaced with systems or structures designed with conscious thought. That鈥檚 the ideal, of course, and ideals are rarely achieved 鈥� thus, we are visited by Divine chaos again and again. It is not easy, this business of becoming a conscious human being, but what鈥檚 your other option?鈥�

It’s Not The Size That Matters

It鈥檚 not the big issues that make up the balance of your vibrational offering. It鈥檚 the little issues. It鈥檚 how you feel when you are driving in traffic. It鈥檚 how you feel every time you open that drawer and it鈥檚 a mess and you can鈥檛 find anything in it. It鈥檚 how you feel about the day to day experiences that you are having. It鈥檚 how you feel about the people you are working with and the personality conflicts or alignments that you have. In other words, the things that are rolling across your mind on a pretty steady basis they set the tone of your vibrational frequency and so you just gotta ask yourself, 鈥淚s my frequency anywhere near the frequency of who I really am?鈥� 鈥淚s my chronic frequency anywhere near the vibrational reality that鈥檚 in the process of becoming?鈥�

We want you to know this vibrational reality that we are talking about it鈥檚 not something to just discard as non-reality. It is the preface to all that you call really reality. Real reality. Real life reality is always prefaced by a vibrational reality. There is nothing that you see or know, none of this knock on wood stuff, none of this stuff that you are translating vibrationally through your eyes and ears and nose and mouth and fingertips. Nothing that is the reality that you call reality is anything more than extended vibrational reality. This is where it all starts and this is where 99.99% of it becomes before you see it. This reality is valid, it鈥檚 vivid, it鈥檚 real and it鈥檚 worth turning your undivided attention toward.

What is True Happiness?

Poem By Masaru Emoto

Is it possible for only you to be happy?
Is it possible for only your family to be happy?
Is it possible for only your country to be happy?

No, No, it is not.

Because I like to believe that 鈥渉appiness鈥� which in Japanese is said 鈥淪hiawase鈥� ?

This four character phrase describes water that is calm and at peace in all four directions.

If they are surrounded by happy, water, trees, and flowers will be full of life, clothe themselves in green and give forth fresh clean air for us to breathe. And there are withered trees, leaves, and petals are the creators in turn of rich loams.

A world is created that allows all living things to exist in harmony.

So only when all are 鈥渉appy鈥� surrounded by calm and peaceful water, can we know real happiness, I believe. But then how can this happiness be achieved?

How about asking that number which is said to be a composer of this universe?

Indeed, the cosmos begins with 鈥�1″?鈥�

And 鈥�1″? is yourself and myself.

Let us each be happy first to do that.

Love Thyself.