One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside all people. He said, 'My son, the battle is between two 'wolves' inside us all.
One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.
The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.'
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: 'Which wolf wins?'
The old Cherokee simply replied, 'The one you feed.'
Friday, September 10, 2010
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Blowing In The Wind
This poem is dedicated to Ron Markowicz. Ron lives in Las Vegas, NV where he has been fighting for his life and family for the past 2 years. His fight is what many across the U.S. suffer from and wait for repeated silence, injustice, fraudulent and unethical practices. The problem and fight is regarding Workers Compensation in our U.S. If you have an expectation or assumption that you will be protected if ever injured on the job, think again my friends!
The poem I wrote below is my personal attempt to reach the media and anyone who can help what appears to be numerous victims of the worst system we rely on. In my review of Ron's story, and others recently, Workers Compensation is acting equally as thieves. If we don't do something, we could be the next victim. Exposing insurance companies such as Crawford & Co and pursuing the Supreme Court if necessary, is the only way these type of scam artist can be stopped from taking away all you have worked hard your entire life for. Look for more blog entries coming soon on Workers Compensation issues in our country.
Blowing In the Wind
We expect promised rights for a hard working life
From the time we are old enough to read
We are taught goodness prevails for a man who works with great strife
So, how does the good man fall down, and get left blowing in the wind?
Consider a 25 year consistent worker, taxpayer and good historian
Who did as he was taught, dedicated and true American citizen
Never begging for handouts, only providing for himself with integrity and desire
Then suddenly, something fails, and he is left blowing in the wind
One day, in the food industry career that had brought him great favor
Was a simple matter of water lying on the kitchen floor
The dishwasher had leaked, and leaving an accident to happen
There came Ron into the wet floor, and away blowing in the wind
Blowing in the wind that is now what Ron Marcowicz does daily
With one fall, how one's life changes dramatically
The problem is that Ron had to learn more lessons than imagined
Now he was dealing with disability and a system of cruelty
Ron found his life disabled along with a flurry of injustice
Workers Comp fraudulent & unethical insurance acts
From Nevada's elected, Senator Reid and Congress Rep Titus
Governor and Mayor Goodman's office refuse to help, and they all have the facts!
Ron's home has already reached foreclosure due payments that lack
Workers Comp System refusing to pay and lying behind every one's back
Threatening the doctors so they deny Ron service, for they fear injustice
Add to that the back surgeon who should be pursued for malpractice
To survive, Ron has had the fight of his life
He doesn't understand why those in able positions
Have ignored his pleas for help and his well deserving rights
Why do they allow him to blow in the wind?
As a handful of supporters make phone calls and written requests
To Nevada officials, TV and News journalists and radio stations across the US
Even a journalist who covered Ron's story but fails to publish
This is overwhelming, criminal and plain right foolish
If only all these who ignorantly turn away and pull their politics
Understood that at any moment their life and expectations could sway away
Their fall could be so drastic & they will expect their insurance
Along with support by officials, but it all could go blowing in the wind
Please wake up and see what you have not done for yours
Choose to attain to that which you promised as your purpose
Don't allow a human being so close to your hands
Be left blowing in the wind!
Why do I care about this man I have never seen or met?
My purpose was found through a surprising fall
And after I worked 21 years of my life
I was afraid me & my daughter would be left blowing in the wind
But God did find angels along my path
Many times as I had to push and pull my life along
I was caught by a system that did not fail me
And all my fears went blowing in the wind
So my plea is that there will be angels that will cross Ron's path
Who will fulfill their duties to include justice and their promises at last
Reach out to a fellow American whose life and family are falling fast
Please stop the wind, before they are lost, and let them stand still
The poem I wrote below is my personal attempt to reach the media and anyone who can help what appears to be numerous victims of the worst system we rely on. In my review of Ron's story, and others recently, Workers Compensation is acting equally as thieves. If we don't do something, we could be the next victim. Exposing insurance companies such as Crawford & Co and pursuing the Supreme Court if necessary, is the only way these type of scam artist can be stopped from taking away all you have worked hard your entire life for. Look for more blog entries coming soon on Workers Compensation issues in our country.
Blowing In the Wind
We expect promised rights for a hard working life
From the time we are old enough to read
We are taught goodness prevails for a man who works with great strife
So, how does the good man fall down, and get left blowing in the wind?
Consider a 25 year consistent worker, taxpayer and good historian
Who did as he was taught, dedicated and true American citizen
Never begging for handouts, only providing for himself with integrity and desire
Then suddenly, something fails, and he is left blowing in the wind
One day, in the food industry career that had brought him great favor
Was a simple matter of water lying on the kitchen floor
The dishwasher had leaked, and leaving an accident to happen
There came Ron into the wet floor, and away blowing in the wind
Blowing in the wind that is now what Ron Marcowicz does daily
With one fall, how one's life changes dramatically
The problem is that Ron had to learn more lessons than imagined
Now he was dealing with disability and a system of cruelty
Ron found his life disabled along with a flurry of injustice
Workers Comp fraudulent & unethical insurance acts
From Nevada's elected, Senator Reid and Congress Rep Titus
Governor and Mayor Goodman's office refuse to help, and they all have the facts!
Ron's home has already reached foreclosure due payments that lack
Workers Comp System refusing to pay and lying behind every one's back
Threatening the doctors so they deny Ron service, for they fear injustice
Add to that the back surgeon who should be pursued for malpractice
To survive, Ron has had the fight of his life
He doesn't understand why those in able positions
Have ignored his pleas for help and his well deserving rights
Why do they allow him to blow in the wind?
As a handful of supporters make phone calls and written requests
To Nevada officials, TV and News journalists and radio stations across the US
Even a journalist who covered Ron's story but fails to publish
This is overwhelming, criminal and plain right foolish
If only all these who ignorantly turn away and pull their politics
Understood that at any moment their life and expectations could sway away
Their fall could be so drastic & they will expect their insurance
Along with support by officials, but it all could go blowing in the wind
Please wake up and see what you have not done for yours
Choose to attain to that which you promised as your purpose
Don't allow a human being so close to your hands
Be left blowing in the wind!
Why do I care about this man I have never seen or met?
My purpose was found through a surprising fall
And after I worked 21 years of my life
I was afraid me & my daughter would be left blowing in the wind
But God did find angels along my path
Many times as I had to push and pull my life along
I was caught by a system that did not fail me
And all my fears went blowing in the wind
So my plea is that there will be angels that will cross Ron's path
Who will fulfill their duties to include justice and their promises at last
Reach out to a fellow American whose life and family are falling fast
Please stop the wind, before they are lost, and let them stand still
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Stop Misfortune Before It Begins
Welcome Truth's Light and Make Everything Right for You
Have you ever seen rage in yourself? Generally, we don't want to see certain states within us because we've been conditioned to think of them as bad for us. We don't understand that these states are part of a world that can be changed when the light is brought to them.
What happens when we see things about ourselves that we don't want to see?
In order to avoid looking at itself, the mind will seize on the rage it has seen, and it will try to explain it. It will take the initial darkness, the negative energy, and because it seems to be so bad, the mind will make something out of it that it can deal with.
When we live from a nature that does not want to see its own self, then there's no chance that self, that nature, can ever change. When we hide from ourselves the way we feel, the only thing that we're accomplishing is the assurance that these feelings will return again... only more of them! It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: we condemn and doom ourselves by being afraid of the darkness in us.
We have one thing to do with our own states, and that is to see them as they are, to catch the part of us that's afraid of being what we've just seen, to stop trying to hide anything anymore... because we're on this earth to learn.
Negative states are created for the purpose within ourselves of being changed into something else. Everything that happens within us is all part of this beautiful process: anything that we are willing to bring into the light of ourselves will be changed by the light we bring it into.
So instead of going along with the answers that you give yourself for why you feel the way you do -- instead of excuses, rationales, justifications for your state (which are the mind's way of trying to deflect the state) -- don't hide it. Just simply see it. If you don't explain yourself to yourself, then all that's left is yourself and your awareness of it. You're not talking to yourself anymore about what you see. There's just seeing.
Don't hide anymore. There is something beautiful that doesn't have fear in it that wants to touch us. Its touch is what changes us. We cannot change ourselves. All the ways in which we excuse these dark parts are efforts on the part of the darkness to change itself, to deal with it, to get around it. Stop trying to get around a negative state. Bring the negative state into the light of your awareness, and let that awareness do what it is intended to do, which is to change it, to transform it.
-- Guy Finley
Have you ever seen rage in yourself? Generally, we don't want to see certain states within us because we've been conditioned to think of them as bad for us. We don't understand that these states are part of a world that can be changed when the light is brought to them.
What happens when we see things about ourselves that we don't want to see?
In order to avoid looking at itself, the mind will seize on the rage it has seen, and it will try to explain it. It will take the initial darkness, the negative energy, and because it seems to be so bad, the mind will make something out of it that it can deal with.
When we live from a nature that does not want to see its own self, then there's no chance that self, that nature, can ever change. When we hide from ourselves the way we feel, the only thing that we're accomplishing is the assurance that these feelings will return again... only more of them! It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: we condemn and doom ourselves by being afraid of the darkness in us.
We have one thing to do with our own states, and that is to see them as they are, to catch the part of us that's afraid of being what we've just seen, to stop trying to hide anything anymore... because we're on this earth to learn.
Negative states are created for the purpose within ourselves of being changed into something else. Everything that happens within us is all part of this beautiful process: anything that we are willing to bring into the light of ourselves will be changed by the light we bring it into.
So instead of going along with the answers that you give yourself for why you feel the way you do -- instead of excuses, rationales, justifications for your state (which are the mind's way of trying to deflect the state) -- don't hide it. Just simply see it. If you don't explain yourself to yourself, then all that's left is yourself and your awareness of it. You're not talking to yourself anymore about what you see. There's just seeing.
Don't hide anymore. There is something beautiful that doesn't have fear in it that wants to touch us. Its touch is what changes us. We cannot change ourselves. All the ways in which we excuse these dark parts are efforts on the part of the darkness to change itself, to deal with it, to get around it. Stop trying to get around a negative state. Bring the negative state into the light of your awareness, and let that awareness do what it is intended to do, which is to change it, to transform it.
-- Guy Finley
Saturday, October 24, 2009
The Learning Foundation - Free Self-Help Resource
Years before I became disabled, I was introduced by a friend to Guy Finley's books and audio material (many online free materials). For about 3-4 years on my way into/way home from work I would listen to Guy's CD's that were always remarkable lessons that gave me better insight to issues and struggles. Apparently I was meant to be directed to Guy, as I became disabled and all those CD's got pulled out again, along with about 4 books I have bought and just kept listening and reading. The great thing about Guy's nonprofit organization "The Learning Foundation" is that you can get weekly free lessons emailed to you. You can listen to Guy online via his webcast. He has been a great teacher to me and I think you might find at minimum his free weekly lessons a blessing to your life.
To find out more click on the banner below and you will be redirected to Guy Finely's world of free materials. I'm not going to tell you that he gives away his books or audio CD's....but whether you purchase material or choose to stay with free material you will be doing yourself a great favor!
To find out more click on the banner below and you will be redirected to Guy Finely's world of free materials. I'm not going to tell you that he gives away his books or audio CD's....but whether you purchase material or choose to stay with free material you will be doing yourself a great favor!
Monday, October 19, 2009
My Story About Sidi Muhammad al-Jammal
I had the pleasure on Oct 1-3 to attend a Sufi retreat in order to obtain physical healing for my illness (polyneuropathy) by a man named Sidi Muhammad al-Jammal from Jerusalem. I got to too tired on the 3rd day to get my one on one healing with Sidi. However on the 1st day he gave me the Arabic name "Sabira" for "patience, enduring" and he reached out to my hand and said "patience....that which you wish for is coming". I have attached a You Tube video of Sidi giving a meaningful story about a wasp and a bird. Also for understanding the language translation for "Allah" is God.
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Please give yourself a gift by clicking on this link. If unable to click, just copy and paste into your browser:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPwH34q_-QI&feature=related
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Disability - How to Obtain - All The Facts You Need
If you want to find out how to obtain disability benefits, from a website I have used that cost NOTHING, please refer below to the link in this blog post. This website is a wonderful resource for those of us chronically ill needing disability benefits. There is a community forum on here with other people who share in common the struggles of being very ill and at the same time trying to get what is entitled to them...Social Security Benefits! I have been a member of this site for over a year and the information loaded in this site is amazing. Not only did I get all the information I would need for an appeal, or renewal but there is step by step guide on how to get Social Security without involving an attorney. Most people think they have to rely on an attorney but if you join this site for free, you will be guaranteed a world of webinars, posted blogs and newsletters on how to do almost any aspect of obtaining/securing your social security disability. Trust me, this is why this blog was started....to help others like myself!
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Regards
Christine Messaros
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Regards
Christine Messaros
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Your Blue Sky - Tribute to Army Major Matthew W. Worrell
Tribute to Army Major Matthew W. Worrell
I never knew Matthew Worrell. However on one late day in May 2006 I was delighted at the Blue Sky. I was so inspired I wrote a poem titled Your Blue Sky. After starting the poem, I knew I had to continue packing as I was moving from an apartment to a house. The move was scheduled for Memorial Day Weekend. I put the poem I started away. However, going through newspapers
Your Blue Sky
How much do we embrace our blue sky
That beautiful feeling when we see such a view
Of a deep blue sea way up high
Providing a sense of a soul renewed
It would be so wonderful for all of us
If we could demonstrat
Learning to give as the blue sky, the hope of God's purpose
What a fulfilling
Clouds will clutter but are temporary,
If we identify with the clouds we are not awake
Do not assume that cloudy days means our blue sky is gone
For if you do, this will affect God's path for you to take
As much as we yearn for each day to be filled of the blue sky
We must not forget the necessity of clouds and storms
So many times we may not see clearly or understand
However, know that all storms will pass and blue skies again are born
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