Well, I’ve joined the computer age and am engaging in this new way to communicate. I wanted to do it because we are all doing so many wonderful things and having such powerful insights that I wanted to allow them all to connect.

Check this out, this was sent to me by Anton Troy in the Thursday night acting class:

The process of spiritual development is an expansion, and this expansion is brought about by the widening of the outlook. The outlook depends upon the attitude of mind. If a mind is focused to thinking of small things, then this process of widening the outlook will not be completed. … Spiritual progress is the lifting of the consciousness in order that the consciousness may expand to perfection. Therefore it is a continual work of trying to look into a wider sphere. By this attitude a person, without learning to be spiritual, will naturally become spiritual; his outlook on life will become different. Little things that people take to heart will seem to him of little importance; things that people become confused with will become clear to him; things that matter so much to everyone will not matter to him. Many things that frighten and horrify people will not have the same effect upon him; disappointments and failures will not take away his hope and courage. His thought, speech and action, as his outlook becomes wide, so everything he says or does will be different. What we call nobleness, that natural nobleness which belongs to the soul, will blossom.

~~~ “Sangatha I, Ta’lim”, by Hazrat Inayat Khan (unpublished)

Yes, this is really powerful stuff. We all need to look at the bigger picture, that is why acting is so great because it shows us what it is like to live through the eyes of another and therefore discover more about who we are. Now in looking at who we are, we may find things we do not like, and many use that as an excuse to not look in the first place. It is not an excuse because we all are responsible for our past our present and our future. We have the power to do the work, but there are blocks, there is fear and there is our conditioning. A client said to me today in regards to acting: “It’s uncomfortable, but I like it” The discomfort is to be expected, acting is a metaphor for life, the struggles, the joys, the peaks and valleys – but it sure beats the hell out of ________ yeah that’s a flatline.

With the dynamic act of self-searching, spiritual and creative work one of my friends said that “along with the nightmares, you get the Goodies”

I like that.