Instead of 1 comment and 1 like you now have 2 to contend with because I added one. Play on words gone haywire!

Two to too.

Great inspiring post, thank you.

First Circle (Live) Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - It's For You

Pat Metheny - Are you going with me (Original version)

Minuano (Six Eight)

I can't stop myself... George Duke - Love Can Be So Cold (Video) How About You Someday

Said by some to be the most beautiful song ever written. Lyle Mays / Pat Metheny - September Fifteenth

The topics covered in this talk touch central issues for me, and I suspect many others as well. Deserving to exist? Well, I've got the punched ticket in hand, so obviously I must... but let me check with the guy with the clip board just to make sure.... no wonder I can appreciate the absurd humor of trying to argue with creation. Okay, so I AM has spoken and not only can I 'just' live, but rather live abundantly! Deliciously! With great joy! Now what? Well, come and see, Feel into it. Through awareness of my definitions and meaning I can choose a plodding existence or a richly rewarding one. Which will it be? At any given moment the gift awaits its unwrapping.

Anticipation without expectation and insistence. Meanwhile, the kid in me shouts out.... "I can't wait!"

My excitement is no less diminished.

Perfectly expressed! I resonate with this.

Wow, such an interesting perspective. I would define a lot of that as unknown or unexpressed aspects rather than denial, but the definition is flexible. I know what you mean by the full circle moments and have witnessed many. The unfoldment in the timing is a huge factor.... don't want to pry that petal out of the bud before its own time. For me, I would say denial would entail a judgement put upon something rather than having it be neutral. We do get to assign meanings - positive or negative but that which is in denial hasn't had a full viewing yet. I think we're discussing the same idea more or less but I'd love to hear more thoughts on this. Big Love

Never have I seen the universe respond so quickly as when I asked "How may I be of service?" The opportunities overflowed in such a manner as to extend through all time. Evidently I live a life of service even when I didn't think I was. That job I thought was to earn money to pay my rent? Nah, it was for the usefulness provided and for all the lives that were touched. That random conversation that wasn't so random after all? No, it was for the far reaching consequences that one could hardly imagine. That small pile of sunflower seeds I left out for the squirrel that resulted in me finding a shrine like offering of stacked twigs as an offering to me in appreciation... The usefulness of the part to the whole and the whole to the part in a dance of gratitude that reaches far from the physical level alone. Now, excuse me as I have a pot of dark roast coffee to make with saigon cinnamon and cardamom added just because.

The talented Mr. Duke has played a wide range of musical styles from Jazz to rock to fusion to funk to R&B to Brazilian and more. I am hard pressed to pick a favorite or two of mine from his catalogue of hundreds of songs but please allow me to offer up a couple just for the fun of it. This one I include for it's slick production and recording quality as well as it being a cool tune... Somebody's Body Also this one from his second solo album. Love George Duke always surrounds himself with excellent musicians and has left an extensive legacy of musical delights in his wake. I love him and just about everything he has done. Okay, one more.... GEORGE DUKE- ancient source "Not everyone will understand, only those who know the Ancient Source"

Have you heard George Duke? GEORGE DUKE- illusions

Awesome. I felt that. We are connected, yet connection implies separation as if there were parts to link up together. There is and there isn't at the same time. Paradox fun time. The mystery of the One and the Many is a wonderful truth.

My Friday was not the same. You Tube seemed glitchy so I figured there might be an issue getting the video out. Happy to see it appear the next day Has it already been 100? Wow!

This is another great transmission. The role denial plays is well stated here in a simple understandable way. Denial holds much in darkness that yearns for the light of day.

I like delicious. It's much more than the physical sense of taste.