Real Shift News
For the week of May 14- May 21, 2012
Nothing Like a Good Read!
Sometimes we come across a recipe, place to visit or even a good book that resonated with us to the very depths of our soul that we HAVE to share it with all. This by no means that the receiver of this information will have the same reaction. Those who are sharing this information are in hopes that the person does receive the same joy. It is with this joy and enthusiasm that I speak of the book I recently read called: The Shack. In fact, once I read the first couple of pages, I could not put it down until I was finished.
Definitely what one would call a real page turner, at least for me. I hope you are intrigued and pick up the book for yourself or visit this site for more: The Shack |
About Relationship and Unity
As it says in the information I copied from The Dialogues below, I am not here to evangelize but to share in Unity and Relationship. It is because I have found such joy and union with others who have completed A Course of Love that I call out to you for Relationship. In this course you will come to know your True Self and discover the “Knowing” that you have always had within you. I invite you to join us in A Course of Love teleconference joining others who will be reading, learning then knowing together in Unity. Following is from The Dialogues, the third book you will be reading in this Course:
“This need not overly concern you as it will not affect you as it did those of the past. You are living in the time of Christ, a time when no intermediaries are needed or required. You are not called to become an intermediary trying to bridge the knowing of the separated self and the Self of union. What you are called to do is to share in union with others whose awareness is expanding. You have been told and told again that you are not alone, and this has been among the biggest hurdles for many of you to overcome because your state of aloneness is all you have known. This perceived state is synonymous with the personal self, with the idea of individuality, with separate thoughts, and with the idea that no one will ever be able to truly know you. Join with others who are experiencing the expanding awareness of the time of Christ, and you will begin to see the evidence that things are different now. Join with others who are coming to know through the state of unity, and the evidence to the contrary will be overwhelming. You will begin to truly understand that you are not alone and separate, and that even the coming to know of the state of unity is a shared coming to know, a coming to know in relationship. Just as you were taught that you could not learn on your own, you are now being told by one who knows that you also do not come to the knowing of the state of unity alone. Why then would you think that you could come to full expression of what you have come to know without sharing in relationship? Partial expression, yes. But that partial expression will bear the mark of your perspective, and that is why partial truth is never the whole truth, and why the whole truth is the only truth. Sharing in relationship is what the state of unity is all about. It is what it is. We come now to the second part of what we are exploring together here, the idea that what you come to know may literally not be shamble with those who remain in a separate state except through the sharing of who you are and who you know others to be. All this means is that while you may feel unable to share or express all that comes to you from unity, and while you may feel unable to share or express the authority and truth you know it represents, you will, by living according to what you know to be the truth, form the very relationships and union that will allow the truth to be shared. The relationship or union precedes the sharing of what can only be given and received in relationship. This is why you were told specifically not to evangelize or attempt to convince. These are actions of the separated self attempting to fulfill intermediary functions. Relationship, or union, is what negates the need for such intermediary functions. By being who you are, and seeing others as who they truly are, you create the relationship in which sharing can occur. Without relationship there is no willingness and no union. Without relationship, you behave as a separated self attempting to communicate union from the state of separation. This does not work. Join with your brother and sister in Christ and sharing becomes effortless and joyful and effective. Cause and effect become one. Means and end the same”.
Art is for EVERYONE !
Up until we are the ages of 7-10, we all believe we are artists. The only thing that has changed over the years is that some of us start believing what others in judgement tell us about our artistic ability. Some of us can overcome those judgements along with “You have no future as an Artist” and other sayings along that line. As a working artist since 1972, I had to work through my own barriers of thinking that I was not good enough. It has been a long wonderful life as an artist and I have no regrets even though here and there over the years, I still have received judgements about my artistic abilities. We will not go there because I am here to tell you that along with my cultured ability to create, I also have the ability to bring creativity out in others, even if it has been buried for years.
In my private classes or group classes, you will learn how to graph your canvas and sketch in pencil first the areas to be painted in acrylics. The time flies by as you loose yourself in creativity which is comparable to meditation or prayer. So if you want to find yourself by loosing yourself, call me about a class. I can work around your schedule and you can choose your subject matter. Patricia Tate 602-568-7892
Below is a photo of a Sunflower and a painting in progress by one of my students.
A Course of Love
