Remarkable Cherif

A L O H A

to You Friend. . . Come In!

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Workers in Squares

"Whether you think you can - or you can't- you are right."

Henry Ford

Summer Lingers in Waikiki



"We always find what we are looking for."
Psychological Principle



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Did you ever want to go out into the desert and study with all the contemplative monks in their isolated cells?
To stand upon the power spots of the pyramids
and temples of Egypt?
To read ancient wisdom books at the Vatican in their original words, and to speak many languages?
How would you like to develop so much insight and behavioral prowess that you travel the world as a gifted medical intuitive?





Well, on Saturday I met remarkable young man who has done all of those things; Meet Cherif.






Cherif spoke to a small group about discovering our true desire, about acting with inner conviction, and about achieving that desire "as if you are racing there on rails."






Some of Cherif's Wisdom:




"Without self confidence you will never see the way,"
he told us.
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"The key is knowing yourself, and having such intimacy with wisdom, that you trust & understand that guidance will always be there when needed."
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"If we keep sending present energy into the past and future,
it turns into poison in our lives."
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"Gratitude is power."
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"Once you judge someone or something, you are stuck with the experiences that grow out of that judgement."
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"We too often navigate from our experiences - we need to change our minds to change our experiences.
We find just what we expect to."
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"Our emotion is the fuel
that makes our thoughts come to pass."
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"Nonresistance frees your energy."
(Don't resist - follow your desire somewhere different.)
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"Be patient - be happy."
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"Don't analyze - accept and move forward."
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"Grace cancels karma, translating you to a place
where you live on divine substance."






Yes, Cherif gave us many tools for changing our lives,
but some seemed dissappointed that it wasn't magic, instant, or something that he would do for us.


Instead he shared what he has learned so far on his remarkable spiritual journey.





Why is it that we seldom want to take the very steps that will take us where it is we say that we want to go?



I have learned that following my bliss sometimes leads (paradoxically) through unsought challenges. I have come to almost enjoy, not fear, such envelope-pushing.






Sometimes a dragon guards the treasure we desire.
Staying in our comfort zone will not get us to the prize.




Cherif has discovered some great truths and lives happily with them. What are YOUR great truths?
Do they serve or hinder you?
Just remember that the Comfort Spiral is here for you,
an oasis on the way out of exile. . .


ALOHA & Thank You for YOUR Visit Today!
Cloudia

Queen Bamboo in the Pagoda of Love

ALOHA

to YOU, Friends

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"If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love,

you must have the courage to live it."

John Irving

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,

while others judge us by what we have already done."

Longfellow

"An egotist is a person of low taste -

more interested in himself than in me."

Ambrose Bierce

We think we're supposed to be busy,

proactive, and ever alert.

It's buyer beware

your own damned fault;

Hey! Look where you are going!

Vacation's a commodity

you need to book and pay for.

We feel guilty

"just doing nothing"

though that's where the action is.

We have lost the primal knack

of living in the moment

being free without atonement

But here & now

is where the action is.

Thank you for joining us here!

Saturday I met a remarkable man, on Sunday I attended a Blogger Party here in Honolulu with Kay of Musings, Ian Lind, Burl Burlingame, and our hostess, Gigi in Hawaii (http://travelerswife.blogspot.com/2009/10/gigis-blogger-bash.html)

.....But more about all that later........Gotta run! This week I MUST buy a new computer. I haven't been able to visit all of you as much as I want - but that will all change soon! Thanks SO much for your dear visits here...

Warm ALOHA, to YOU

Our Skies, Our Flags

A L O H A

You are Welcome,

My Monday Friend

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"Everything that irritates us about others

can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

Carl Jung

"The world is divided into people who think they are right."

A. Nony Mouse

"But I am that which unseen comes and sings, sings, sings,

Which babbles in brooks and scoots in showers on the land,

Which the birds know in the woods, mornings and evenings,

And the shore-sands know, and the hissing wave, and that

banner and pennant,

Aloft there flapping and flapping."

Whitman

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I

Sing and flap

and flip be-glapped.

Like the sing-a-ding bird

in a wooley-whee tree.

I sing out my heart with a nonsense decree

trusting you to feel the beat

of love be-glopping

over you

and over me.

Warm A L O HA! Cloudia

Chapel of Nature; All Welcome

A L O H A, Friend

You are Welcome Inside

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Delicate Ladies of Nature Invite Us to Linger,

Wreathed in their best Pink Perfume. . .

“Some people are still unaware that reality contains unparalleled beauties. The fantastic and unexpected, the ever-changing and renewing is nowhere so exemplified

as in real life itself.”
Berenice Abbott

A Sky is Just a Sky . . .

(A Diamond is Just Flawless - That's all!)

“Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere.

Climb the mountain just a little bit to test it's a mountain.

From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.”
Frank Herbert

But Villain Mood May Even High-Jack the Eye!


“You will find poetry nowhere

unless you bring some of it with you.”

Joseph Joubert





Don't let it!
Refuse to board the train of recrimination
when it slides into your station.
Standing with doors open
inviting us inside.


But it only goes
to the end of the line,
never really seeing
the glories
as they skip
and sing past,
oblivious to all
"stinkin` thinkin`"
as we ought to be.

Eat the ice cream!
Cut the cake!
That we save goes mouldy
so dance like
today's the
Day
!



A L O H A
Means "Love" unconditional
to you &
to me. . . . Cloudia

Happy Birthday Oscar

A L O H A!

Welcome to the Belated Party. . .

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Happy Belated Birthday you peculiar, lovely man. . .

October 16th

"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."

All Oscar Wilde Quotes Today

It's been a long road. . .

"I have nothing to declare except my genius."

(At customs)

"Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act according with the dictates of reason."

"The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it."

"This morning I took out a comma

and this afternoon I put it back in again."

"Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing

can be taught."

"Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon."

"The well-bred contradict other people.

The wise contradict themselves."

Have an

ALOHA Saturday,

my Friends! Cloudia

Honolulu in October

A L O H A!

Welcome to the Beach at Waikiki

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Torch & Tanker in the Gloaming

“The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere;

the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling;

vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”

John Muir

Every No-Where Spot Has It's Charms When You're Roaming.

“Optimist: Person who travels on nothing

from nowhere to happiness.”
Mark Twain

Still Mourning WWI Dead.

Dated & Devoted.





“Nowhere to fall but off, Nowhere to stand but on.”
Benjamin King

My Waikiki News column is called Walking in Waikiki - but I haven't done NEARLY enough walking-about lately.

Guess It's time to tell you all about October in Honolulu. . .

You see, October is a hot month here.

No one talks about it, though kama`aina (longtime locals) quietly plan vacations for this time of year.

You might even say that it's the cruelest month.

Usually, a generous North Pacific (weather) High ushers cooling Trade Winds our way. But it can wobble and dematerialize as the globe juggles

Summer and Winter. Bully typhoon lows are brawling too near Asia, sometime shoving our laid back surfer High aside.

At such times the trades disappear, and a land/sea breeze regime marches in:

As our (is)land heats up in the day's sun, the air expands and rises, conjuring afternoon clouds.

Cooler oceanic air, thus invited, rushes ashore for a sailor's day-leave, bringing contagion of salt funk and humidity; Pressing smudgy fingers over every innocent blossom in our harbor town; Besmirching our snappy crispness with unseemly sweat.

Then as the island cools in the early evening, the air mass overhead contracts and sinks, pouring down off the mountains and carrying earthy, forest essences rushing past us on their way out to startle the creatures of the sea.

And Madame Pele, the volcano goddess

who formed these islands,

continues her work on the latest, the "Big" island of Hawaii;

There pouring lava, accompanied by haze.

Vog, we call it,

and when Kona winds prevail they bring this grey sister to wreathe our mountains and tickle our throats.

Some say that Kona winds derange human moods and tempers. Vog snears at our science, chasing us indoors with headache tiaras, there to pray at the altar of local weather acolytes, Imploring of the Trades, blessed Trades(!)

When will they return, like a wayward puppy?

Instantly to be forgiven,

and making everything PERFECT again.

But the cruelest month?

How dare I be so ungrateful for my place in paradise!

Well, childhood is the loam we each bloom from every day,

and mine well remembers flaming leaves,

the celestial voices of Canada geese like angelic carillons on high, the smell of burnt leaves, and crisp apple cider.

In short, I carry in my heart an ideal Fall season

of New York City Sundays

and New Hampshire peaks,

of cheddar at it's moment,

and the Village Halloween Parade.

Nights of whispy clouds part-veiling the huge spooky face of an orange moon; Days when anything seems possible (even epoch-ending terrorism) and the unholy pagan spectacle of "Christmas" promises respite from harsh realities

(if only for a few weeks).

So yes, cruel, very cruel: October here in Waikiki.

Just as my soul expects cool new clothes and opening nights, the sweat hogs thrust their dripping snouts into my hand

and laugh.

But I'm preparing my revenge, weeks, mere weeks away!

When mainland snows of childhood frenzy

turn from ethereal beauty to the black slush of winter despair,

Then shall I be cooling on the brow of a friendly Trade,

as all the sea sparkles compete in concert

to dazzle the happily fried brains of us beach people.

Another juice! A bubble tea! A shave ice!

And here comes Santa in a canoe!

Revenge?

Yes, I'll have mine. For even "paradise"

is perfect in it's turn-

“I have become a queer mixture of the East and the West, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere.”
Jawaharlal Nehru

A L O H A, My Friends! Cloudia

Here Be Giants

A L O H A

& Welcome!

click on photos to enlarge giantsThis is Mount Olomana on Oahu's windward side. Back in the day, Olomana was a giant whose whim & mood were the daily weather for the people who lived in his area of influence. One day a bigger giant appeared who used his weapon to slice the bully Olomana from the top of his head almost in half. Olomana instantly turned into a mountain as he fell, hence the twin peaks that seem to be rotating apart.

“There were giants in the earth in those days. . . ”
Bible

Today, Olomana is joined on our island by

a convention of giants.

An Antonov 225 is here loading up with emergency supplies for ravaged Samoa. These planes are the largest in the world!

“The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.”
Lester B. Pearson

The USS Ronald Reagan is here too with it's battle group after deployment off the Horn of Africa. 80 aircraft call the ship their home. She can distill 400,000 gallons of fresh water from the sea every day- enough for 2,000 homes! Her nuclear reactors could power a good chunk of our power grid too, I think. Today we will see her sailors all over Waikiki.



“The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants
and ethical infants.”
Omar Bradley


And the USS Missouri is being moved into Pearl Harbor's dry dock! Above you see the behemoth rounding Diamond Head the last time she moved. Read more about the move itself at this post:

http://comfortspiral.blogspot.com/2009/09/battleship.html



“When the war of the giants is over
the wars of the pygmies will begin.”
Winston Churchill


There are many kinds of giants. Some can be seen across the horizon of history, some block out the sky as they pass.








There are giants who look just like average people - until you get to know them and to understand their affects on others.






Here's to the giants, big & small!
You might even be one...

In fact, I KNOW
that many of
Y O U
are
!






A L O H A & Giant Hugs. . . Cloudia