My Life is My Message
Hola mis amigas,
In this guided journal you will be exploring the essence of the messages you send to the world as you live your life. We cannot tell others how to live their lives, the best we can do is be a role model, and influence those around us by our actions and deeds. What messages are you sending out to the universe, to your community, to your friends and family? YES, your LIFE is your MESSAGE...be sure you are sending the messages that you want received.
Feel free to post any of the poems and promts on your own blogs, especially if you feel you had an inspired response, just please give credit and honor my copyright.
Gracias,
Con un pan y cafecito,
Seguimos ADELANTE!!!
Zulmara
One
Singing,
loving, dancing, creating
These
are the actions
defining my Life,
signifying
who I am
my
reason
my
message
my
purpose
for
through my life one
can
discern
who
I am meant to be
and
what I am meant to accomplish
My
Life IS my message
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What
message defines your life?
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Two
The knowledge base necessary
For solving
The problems of the day
For dealing with
The issues to be resolved
For deciphering
The concerns to be addressed
Are the integrative interpersonal
Wisdoms we have divined from
Our ancestors—
past, present, and future
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What
wisdom have you divined from your ancestors?
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Three
Just a speck
In the universe
Wondering where I fit in
Questioning where I go from
here
Hoping it all comes together
Knowing that the coming
is dependent on me
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Where
do you fit in?
How
is it all coming
together
for you?
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Four
How do I develop the
perspective to know and
understand you—
within your own perspective?
First a dose of awareness-
Of self and other
Next a smidgen of
understanding-
Of self and other
Finally a dollop of knowledge
Of self and other
Taken together
Do these allow me
to know and understand you
within my own perspective?
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Whose
perspective do you use, when you choose to understand?
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Five
An act which transforms
Is a transformative act
Perspectives provide the
impetus
For which the transformative
act
Can be the catalyst
Enthusiasm provides the
foundation
Upon which the transformative
act
Can be achieved
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What
transformative act have you engaged in lately?
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Six
What I do is right
Even if the rest of the world
doesn’t agree with me
What I think is valuable
Even if the rest of the world
snickers
What I believe is honorable
Even if you
don’t agree with me
What I dream is just
Especially if it supports me
in the
Pursuit of my purpose
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What
purpose are you pursuing?
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Seven
How can we live the
difference we want to see?
How can we be the change we
should be?
How can the changes we want
to see
be embedded in the very
fabric of our lives?
By living a life that truly
unites
Our soul and our spirit
With our purpose
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How
have you united
your
soul and you spirit,
with
your purpose?
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Eight
The transitions from here to
there
Are the critical encounters
which matter
As we put our narrative in
action
To start living the life we
were meant to
LIVE
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How
have you put
your
narrative into action?
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Nine
The essence
of narrative
Although abhorrent
from one perspective
Can be fundamental
from another
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What
is the essence of the narrative you are living, dancing, singing, and
drawing?
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Ten
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It’s what resonates
It’s what allows authenticity
It’s what sets souls free
It’s what enables spirits to
soar
It’s what makes you REAL
It is your Message
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WHAT
is your message?
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Eleven
The ideal truth is found
somewhere
Between reality and
perception
The ideal lie is found
somewhere
Between perception and
reality
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What
is your ideal truth?
Ideal
lie?
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Twelve
The Essence of Fear
Fear to speak
Fear to be
Fear to see
Fear to know
Fear to do
Fear to understand
Fear to Voice
the essence of me
Fear—the essence of our divided
lives
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What
is the essence
of
your fear?
How
do you overcome it?
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Thirteen
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A changing world
A knowing journey
A new agenda
The last best hope
The chronicles of pride
Are all a part of
The legends of the elders
that
Call us to be the very
Essence of who we are
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What
have the elders
chosen
for you?
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Fourteen
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It is a contradiction
In the way we live
In the way we see
In the way we learn
In the way we teach
In the way we love
When our goals are not
Equated with our actions
When our words
Are not aligned with
Our deeds
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What
is your major contradiction that you will
only
admit to yourself?
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Fifteen
Actions contribute to
the habit of
Knowing which way
to go
When the Knowing
is not clear to us
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What
actions help you
to
understand which
path
to take?
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Sixteen
It is not a rule
It is not a procedure
It is not a principle
It is not a catchall
It is not an answer
It is a way of being
A process
A journey
A discovery
It is being true to the
Truth within you
© Zulmara
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Are
you being true to
your
inner diva?
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Seventeen
The search for truth
Is a process of seeking
The essential element
Needed for growth to occur
© Zulmara
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What
is your essential element for truth, for growth?
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Eighteen
Importance accompanies
vagueness-
Precision accompanies
ability-
Practicality accompanies
courage-
Intelligence accompanies
knowledge-
Reflection accompanies
knowing-
Decision accompanies respect
OR DO THEY?
© Zulmara
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Thoughts??
Ideas??
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Nineteen
Strategic insubordination
Respectful disobedience
Planned rebelliousness
Are ways to both resist and
accept
The status quo
While staying within our own
world
Living our own dreams
Writing our own lives
© Zulmara
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How
do you resist
while
accepting?
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Twenty
A hope for our community
Today is that we can move
Forward to new levels,
New ideals
New dreams
New passions
A hope for our lives
Today is for us to march
Forward to new challenges
New imaginings
New visions
New possibilities
© Zulmara
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What
is your hope for
your
community?
for
your life?
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Twenty-One
What are the
Implications for us as
community
Who care and
Want to make a difference
When we can’t see eye to eye?
© Zulmara
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How
do we unite
inspite
of our differences?
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Twenty-Two
To learn the answers
To these questions
It is often necessary
To start at the end
And go back to the beginning
Reliving backward as a way
Of living forward
© Zulmara
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Where
do you start
to
unravel the answers?
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Twenty-Three
A sticky question is
One which sticks with you
No matter what the answer
© Zulmara
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What
is your stickiest question?
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Twenty-Four
Freedom must come from
within—
Within the margins of our
Development
Within the margins of our
Lives
Within the margins of our
Experiences
Within the margins of our
Way of being
knowing, understanding
Within the margins
Of the path
Which defines our purpose
© Zulmara
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Where
does your freedom
come
from?
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Twenty-Five
Can we fail at reflection?
Can we fail at knowing?
Can we fail at being?
Can we fail at observing?
Can we fail at protecting?
Can we fail at being
ourselves?
Can we FAIL?
© Zulmara
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How
do you define failure
for
yourself?
for
others?
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Twenty-Six
Applying what we feel
to what we need to know
to what we want to experience
to how we want to relate
to one another-
Is how we are able to
Connect to one another across
time, space and energy
© Zulmara
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How
do you make the connections that are
important
to you?
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Twenty-Seven
It does not take much time
For us to embrace
the dawning of a new life
For it is in the dawn of our
lives
that we decide what to
embrace
as the journey continues.
It does not take much effort
For us to understand
the setting of the dawn
For it is in the dusk of our
lives
that we decide
what shall be
as the journey continues
© Zulmara
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How
do you embrace the dawn and the dusk of your life?
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Twenty-Eight
It is in the discovery of the
path
That we find fun for the ego
It is in the mission of the
work
That we find meaning for the
soul
It is in the vision of the
journey
that we find succor for the
spirit
© Zulmara
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What
defines your fun,
meaning,
and succor?
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Twenty-Nine
You
saw something in me
I
never saw in myself
I
saw something in you
You
thought was not there
Like
the dawn of a new day
We
were able
to
believe in each other
As
we believe in the
Moon
and the stars
© Zulmara
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Who
believes in you more
than
you believe in yourself?
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Thirty
The
history of you
begins
in the hearts of them
The
account
The
record
The
narration
The
chronicle
The
story
The
memoir
Are
all part of a past
That
writes the present
And
dictates the future
© Zulmara
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What
part of your past is writing your present and dictating your future?
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Thirty-One
Get involved in the story
Of your life
To make
the ordinary, extraordinary
the unique, distinct
the applied, vital
the exploratory, responsive
© Zulmara
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How
are you involved in
the
story of your life?
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