April 30, 2006 We are Staying Awake to our intentions, sensibilities and curiosities while attending our experiences at hand. Your Subscription Management — Commentaries — click a topic The Heart’s Lure Circle to Inspire I bring together fun-loving, thoughtfully curious and dynamically creative people! That’s the possibility I bring to clients’ businesses. ~ DM I think with intuition. The basis of true thinking is intuition. Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells a man his purpose in life. One never goes wrong following his feelings. I don’t mean emotions, I mean feelings, for feelings and intuition are one. ~ Albert Einstein (b 1879) To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony. ~ William Henry Channing (b 1810), American writer, philosopher Cosmology One of the three philosophies in metaphysics is cosmology: The study of the origin and evolution of Universe, especially with such of its characteristics as space, time, causality, and choice. My Coaching Page Focused Excellence author, publisher, & originator of this ezine, Staying Awake. DavidMoorhead.com 1+ 214 341 5599 Email Staying Awake When daily activities and business matters become a bit troublesome, listen for signals inviting a warm and nurturing refuge into the area of your chest. A certain quiet breath is the only authentic repose. ~ DM No one need wait for anyone else to adopt a humane and enlightened course of action. Men generally hesitate to make a beginning if they feel that the objective cannot be achieved in its entirety. It is precisely this attitude of mind that is the greatest obstacle to progress — an obstacle that each man, if he only wills it, can clear away, and so influence others. To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man. ~ Mahandas K. Gandhi (b 1869), Hindu Prophet, Indian philosopher, primary political activist for total nonviolent withdrawal of British colonialism in the 20th Century If all the people of today were really educated and knew the history of the world since the beginning of time, there would be no [armed conflicts], there would be no capital punishment — there would be much less evil from America's favorite sins of hate, hypocrisy and intolerance. ~ David Llewelyn Wark Griffith (D.W. Griffith) (b 1875), American film director, known for directing The Birth of a Nation The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. ~ Albert Einstein (b 1879), German-born theoretical physicist, authored general theory of relativity, assisted special theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and cosmology, Physics Nobel Prize 1921 Quote from an online resource These church steeples, everywhere pointing upward, ignoring despair and lifting hope, these lofty city spires, or simple chapels in the hills — they rise at every step from the earth toward the sky; in every village of every nation they challenge doubt and invite weary hearts to consolation. Is it all a vain delusion? Is there nothing beyond life but death, and nothing beyond death but decay? We cannot know. But as long as man suffers, these steeples will remain. ~ William James Durant (b 1885), American philosopher, historian, writer, General Non-fiction Pulitzer Prize 1968 One report reveals more collegiates taking theological courses with no intention of entering ministry. The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them. ~ Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) (b 1903), British author and journalist Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next. ~ Jonas Edward Salk (b 1914), American physician, researcher, best known as inventor of the first polio vaccine I am a feminist because I feel endangered, psychically and physically, by this society and because I believe that the women's movement is saying that we have come to an edge of history when men — insofar as they are embodiments of the patriarchal idea — have become dangerous to children and other living things, themselves included. .... It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful. ~ Adrienne Rich (b 1929), American feminist, poet, teacher, and writer © 2004-2006 All rights in all media reserved. You may quote my words as long as you attribute my name. Staying Awake content may be forwarded in full without special permission for nonprofit purposes only, provided full attribution and copyright notice are given. Thank You. Staying Awake Archive and publication dates. My email database will not be given away, borrowed nor sold. This ezine is distributed by our friends at EZezine.com Our constant curiosity is key to watching what’s being created. ~ DM

Greetings All,

Since the last edition of Staying Awake, I’ve been noticing what I gawk at — funny thing, that. I’ve been one of the best at gawking all my life, and didn’t even know it. Now, I gawk because I know I’m gawking. I gawk at being able to gawk! Just how good is that?!

So, what do you love to gawk at? Have you given a moment lately to notice? Pretend right now that whatever you love to gawk at is the intuitive signal, a luring expression within your heart.

What absolutely fascinates you? Is it probable you were fascinated by the same thing(s) when you were a kiddo?

What fascinates you so much that you can’t help but perform it well?
What sets you apart as exceptional?
What has your best friend observed that’s exceptional about you and told you, too?

Do you overlook your stronger capabilities because no one else in your circles of friends and associates mention theirs?

Is there a possibility you can’t hide what you do best?

Just how daring will you become to tell the truth about your sensibilities, and the passions your senses reveal?

The Heart’s Lure

Let’s reconsider the heart’s lure deeper than a poetic trio of words. Many Staying Awake readers know my fascination for the energies swirling around and inside the physical heart, all of which communicate the intuitive experience within the physical body. The heart’s lures within many citizenries are becoming predictably stunning: I think, in some yet knowable universal way, Earthlings are rediscovering what lures, what doesn’t, and what hasn’t. Here’s a personal experience of remembering the not so surprising lure of my heart.

When I was an early teen, some people told me that I thought too much. I may have believed at the time that I had to respect most everything they said; perhaps I assumed they possessed a magical merit I didn’t have; or maybe they were sending a message that sounded like ‘you need to change or we won’t be your friends.’ I became quiet with my deepest thoughts, disappointedly so, thinking we weren’t going to be friends if they didn’t understand me.

Still other teenage friends sensed easily what I was about because likely they were searchers, too. Answers were effortlessly talked about without having to ask the questions.

So, for more reasons than can be put in here, I delved intensely into playing the lures of Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms, later got my degree in piano performance, and hooked up with concert vocalists. Now that I’m pondering all those years of travel and concertizing, I’m not sure I spoke much of great import, but paid greatest attention to the energetic flows of feelings between the stage and the audience. I do remember ‘rolling with the punches with a smile,’ which eventually produces a consummate stage professional who’s able to perform live with little attention to audiences’ coughs and sneezes and wheezes.

Now that artistic performance has taken a backseat to other incomes, what do you think has surfaced? You got it! Asking questions, more questions, still deeper questions, and writing some answers in an ezine. You can imagine the rediscovery of my heart’s lure!

It seems the heart’s lure can direct our passions, or maybe they’re one in the same. Answering the simplest questions, taking time to remember or journaling intuitive nudges are important, because this decade cascades recycled hallucinations implying human hearts have nothing whatsoever to do with our brains. Umph!

Circle to Inspire

These are not the days to push the snooze button and roll over, presuming someone else will take care of these present day international freakups. Wake up calls have been intuited by more Earthlings than you might imagine. Already in place are pockets of awake compassionate humans who circle to inspire safety nets of awareness around us; they see beyond geopolitics of the day to the beauty and nearly imaginable inner awakenings of human consciousness.

You see, most Earthlings’ sensibilities have been blanketed by subjugation to near suffocation. Literally, many of us have awakened to the light after snoozing in comfy beds under quilts of allusions, delusions, illusions, insinuations, fantasies, and superstitions elegantly woven by masculine dominated experiments financed by the religiously savvy. We should not be surprised, well, maybe gawk for a few days, but intend curiosity about histories’ repeats. The reruns we’re watching are old government and religious games played for thousands of years right in front of our noses by teams of mendacious moneychangers.

And, the teams know we’re watching them and they know we know what to expect of them. Little is left to the imagination except the entertainment on one hand by their clownish antics and double-speak, and annoyed on the other that peace isn’t extant.

However, it is entirely possible the next few years will manifest the cosmological ‘love and light’ some of us have been anticipating for decades. We realize now such global awakening has become similar to approaching light at the end of a convulsing birth canal.

Instead of juggernaut corporate talking heads asking, ‘Will our choice employees continue climbing the corporate ladder advancing our agenda for extreme profits?’ they could be asking, ‘How can we and our employees aid advancements for protection of the natural evolution of Earth’s species?’ Now there’s a radical Socratic query!

We Earthlings wish to get out from under the quilted spell, a matrix, a kind of nocuous cage without walls; gender oppressions and racism exist like walk-around monoliths in the middle of the bedroom. We want to remodel our lives in peaceful existence for a collective compassionate psyche for all global sisters and brothers!

As I continue a quasi-knack for connecting dots of dis/information, the steps below are presented as food for thought. The ideas may help you stay awake to your body’s intuitive feedback to each wave of information.

Read, read some more, read still more, adding materials that embrace judgements, opinions, or evaluations with which you may disagree

Practice focusing on your physical heart (or on the area of your chest), asking it questions; consider relying only on your brain for comprehension likened to sleeping with the covers over you

Trust moments of intuitive “Surprise!” nudges felt below the neck line, lest we neglect nanosecond collaborations rising from the physical heart to the brain, and back again

Practice staying awake for answers as fragile sensations of warmth or relaxation (for yes), or fragile sensations of disgust or heaviness (for no), either in the area of your chest

Talk with someone who’s as awake and as openly curious as you, who is able and willingly helpful to stimulate affinities you may discover for geopolitics, any science, history, language, theology — you take your pick. Remember there’s always the handy philosophy. Did I say philosophy?

If there’s one thing that outlives a civilization longer than its art, architecture, poetry or music, it is its philosophy, the nature of which has been clearly downgraded particularly in households of U.S. residents.

Those who circle to inspire through spoken words and encourage empathy for all Earth’s beings may likely be the ones whose wisdom signals Planet Earth’s suspected echo to human indifference. Next time, let’s talk about the habitat of being human.