Good Morning!
Aianawa,
You're quite welcome. While it's not my intention to teach because to be quite honest I'm still learning! There is not a day goes by I don't learn something new. So perhaps through sharing we can all learn something at the end of the day eh?
I was speaking to a friend last night for a time and he suggested that you and I should do a pod cast and talk about the things that interest us. It's quite apparent that some of the things that interest you are things that I tend to align with as well...sans the political views...there is a natural order in the universe which brings ideas and people together to do such discussions. Politics is far from my area of interest in the long run. While being a confessed liberal in the true sense of the meaning and now an apparent kool-ade drinker? Whateverrrrr.
I have several books I've read from Neil Donald Walsh back in the day because I found his story quite fascinating. I think somewhere in my video library I also have a movie he produced on his story to write Conversations with God. I'm certain other members or guests here know his story....He hit the skids of depression and ended up jobless and homeless for quite some time until he finally snapped and started having these conversations with God. The human condition is quite extraordinary in that it's resilience is often at such moments miracle bound and awe inspiring. His story was one such inspiration of hope and often seen as divinely guided.
So perhaps in the near future you and I can get together and discuss some of our findings and share what interests us in these areas which coincides with such ideas presented within this thread?
As with such ideas a lotus is every flowering ~ The Sahasrara is described as a lotus flower with 1,000 petals of different colors ~ it is said to be the most subtle chakra in the system, relating to pure consciousness.
Water lilies are associated with rebirth and optimism as they return to waterways after the rains, even if they dried up the previous season. The water lily also symbolizes creation.
With that in mind I gift you a song for the day someone gifted me a very long time ago.