HJ: Relationships are only as deep and nourishing as the people that enter into them.  Like anything in life, as within, so without.  Improving the quality of your relationships is all about YOU showing up more fully and authentically, grounded in self love — as you cannot give what you do not have.  Relationships can also serve a dual purpose as an amazing tool for self growth as the level of intimacy and vulnerability we experience can offer us a unique space/container for growth that can be hard to find in the world.

- Truth

4 Ways to Have More Affectionate, Loving Relationships

By Elizabeth Stone | Tiny Buddha | Why Men Leave

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“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” –

The will to live is not driven by some external force, it has always been within. Before you arrived, you made the decision to make as much as you could of your Earth-plane existence and, with that Divine Spark firmly in place, began your journey. ~ Creator

“There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturity, because when there is a maturity there is a conclusion and cessation. That’s the end. That’s when the coffin is closed. You might be deteriorating physically in the long process of aging, but your personal process of daily discovery is ongoing. You continue to learn more and more about yourself everyday.” – Bruce Lee

The process of emotional evolution and self-discovery is one that should last our entire lives. If we are the same person that we were 10 years ago, emotionally, it would be safe to say that we have become stagnant emotionally, consciously, and spiritually. When we really sit and think about it, the task of progressing as a person is really our only task while we are here on this earth.

Julian Websdale, Contributor
Waking Times

Many people are feeling confused and uncertain about the state of our world. As we look at the nature of the various societal structures around us and how they function today, we quickly realize that instability is a term that can so easily describe them. Whether it be the natural flow of where they are headed or the population induced direction due to unrest, our economic, governmental, political, environmental and healthcare models, etc., are clearly in a state of decline and transition as the population begins to wake up to the true nature of each structure.

This awakening is being driven by a shift in Consciousness, cosmic factors such as cosmic rays and solar activity, and by a soul decision each one of us is making out of a greater realization that we have outgrown our current experience that we are co-creating here on earth. This can be seen and felt by how little sense the world seems to make these days and by feeling the need to change it. That change is coming from within and is tough for many of us to ignore.

It’s a blistering 30 degrees outside, Michael is walking down the street in shorts and a T-shirt. Many drive past, curiously looking at him. But one family turns the car around. With that little decision, everyone’s life is turned upside down.

It’s the inspiring story behind the movie The Blind Side. Not only is Michael Oher’s life transformed into an NFL star and Superbowl champ, but the entire Tuohy family is blessed beyond anything imaginable.

Our culture is captured by the epic, grandiose, and monumental. “Go hard or go home” is the mantra for success. We stand in awe of Goliath and pay no attention to young David.

Indeed we forget that little decisions have profound effects. As stones took down a giant, here are 40 little decisions we can make today to deeply enrich our lives:

1. To keep up with yourself, not with the Joneses.

2. Letting compassion speak louder than criticism.

3. Saying “Oh well!” more than “What if?”

4. Keeping an eye out for serendipity.

5. Listening to intuition, not just logic.

If you think of your worries and problems as quicksand, the more you struggle and push against them, the more you will become stuck. You simply cannot create change by pushing against what you do not want because it only engages you further into what you do not want.

Even if someone came along to save you from the quicksand, if you were struggling and resisting, it would be very difficult for them to pull you out. If you surrendered, and put your focus point on a place that was far more in line with where you wanted to be, the assistance would be able to move you to a new, much comfortable space quite quickly.

Do you ask for help and then continue to resist? Why not try asking for help and then surrendering to it, knowing it will always take you somewhere more desirable? Struggle and resistance can never get you where you wish to go, Dear Ones. Surrender and flow allows your helpers, your guides, your highest self, the masters, the universe to assist you, the fastest, most efficient way possible. ~Archangel Gabriel

Source: www.drugpolicy.org | Original Post Date: November 5, 2014 –

When historians look back at the movement to end the war on drugs, they might very well point to the 2014 election as the moment when it all got real.

With marijuana legalization measures passing in Oregon, Alaska and Washington, D.C., and with groundbreaking criminal justice reforms passing in California and New Jersey, there’s no longer any denying that drug policy reform is a mainstream — and quite urgent — political demand.

These wins will boost efforts already underway in states such as California, Massachusetts, Maine, Nevada and Arizona to end marijuana prohibition in 2016, as well as efforts in Congress and around the country to scale back the disastrous policies of mass incarceration.

And speaking of 2016, yesterday’s results now mean that Presidential candidates and other prominent candidates for public office will have no choice but to take positions on these issues...