What is True Love?

I was asked by a couple of readers if I could expand on the difference between the fantasy or the dream of love that I mentioned in my recent post named “What is True Love?” and romanticism.

Being a romantic, caring, playful goofball, I have a different view of life and could go on and on about romantic love. Being a Piscean, I think this is especially true since we tend to have romantic visions swimming in our heads at most times.

So yes, I believe in romance between two partners that continues for years into their relationship with kisses that last for hours, deep sighs when you look into your beloved eyes that breathes loves essence throughout your entire being, allowing you to literally tingle from the bottom of your toes to the top of your head, settling gently in your heart. You find an extra skip in your step and appreciate with fondness little things like notes on the mirror.  But just because you are romantic it does not mean that your feet are not planted on the ground.

Does this sound like an opportunity for an oxymoron to you? Well, it’s not and let me tell you why. The above is a romantic’s view of love. It is however not deluded with the fantasy of love.

The fantasy of love never has bad times, lost jobs, bad days and or “Honey, I am tired. ” The fantasy never has an accident, does not get sick, and has no farts, vomiting, or going to the bathroom and leaving the seat up. It never sweats, has to do laundry or chores, and the car never breaks down.

The romantic in love has all the above, but when their partner comes in from working in the yard in the summer, they find the sweat and stench of their armpits, somehow appealing. They look at holding the head of their partner when they are praying to the porcelain goddess as a loving act of kindness and not a chore, they chuckle when the other farts, cheer them up when they are having a bad day and laugh their ass off at themselves when they fall into the toilet at 3 am because the seat is up. When driving together on a deserted road and the car breaks down, they view it as an opportunity to explore or slow down in life instead of an inconvenience. They find anything they do with their partner to be play, even their taxes.

If after hearing this you want to reach out and slap me, then you need to find the romance darling. Let me leave you with this:

•  If you have found that kind of love with someone, cherish the time you have together. Share romance with your beloved everyday and you will both live a more enriched life together
• If you are still searching for that special someone, love yourself and know the difference between the dream/fantasy and romance. You will attract the love you seek

I smile as I recall a partner from a long time past where we shared romantic love such as described above.  So yeah, it can happen!

Wishing you a day filled with Love,

LeeZa Donatella
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Stairway to Heaven

Below is my interpretation of this amazing song:

There’s a lady who's sure, all that glitters is gold and she's buying a stairway to heaven.

If she thinks she can purchase the stairway to get to heaven, a place, then perhaps her thoughts are mis-given and she's living in the external world, 'cause you know sometimes words have two meanings.

Yes, there are two paths you can go by, but in the long run, there's still time to change the road you're on. Yes, many roads lead to the same destination, it's just that some roads are bumpier than others. 

There's a sign on the wall but she wants to be sure, so she looks into her heart and she knows. If she opens her heart and finds en-joy-ment in her experiences, then she'll ascend that stairway to her higher self, connecting and inviting love, peace, joy and compassion into her physical body, thus experiencing heaven on earth.

So I say to you, do what truly makes you joyous: sing, laugh, have fun and be playful. If you do you will not have far on that stairway to find heaven. Led Zeplin tribute

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Have a day filled with Love as you ascend that stairway,

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Does time really exist or is it man-made?

Does time exist or is it man-made? Wow, if that is not a million dollar question I do not know what is. 

Have you ever asked yourself why during certain experiences time seems to move faster or slower? Let me give ask you a couple of questions to demonstrate the point.

Have you ever had an experience that you enjoyed so much that you lost track of time? Have you ever been in a life-threatening situation where it seemed that everything moved in slow motion?  
You find yourself internally saying, wow, where did the time go or I remember every detail of that situation!

On the contrasting side, have you ever not enjoyed something, for example a mandatory class in a subject you disliked, or an event that your partner wanted you to attend with them that did not interest you?  You feel obligated to stay and your mind tends to think about this or that, past and future perhaps filled with contrasting emotions, to do lists, etc. and the class or event feels as if it will never end as you look down at your watch only to discover that it is mere minute later then the last time you looked?  When it is finally over you think, gee I thought that would never end.

One of my favorite quotes comes from Albert Einstein: “When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity.”  I was drawn to this quote at a very young age but was not sure why.  As I aged I believe that I was so attracted to this quote because it made me question time and its relevance to my reality and the universe.

So the question is does time really exist or is it man-made?

Is time something humans created as a means of control and management of their environment? We do know that dating back thousands of years, humans measured lunar cycles for practical reasons like knowing when to plant or harvest crops. Later, we know that with technology advancement there was the continual quantification of time into days, hours, seconds, and so on as a means of controlling the masses. You do need to know when you have to get to work don’t you? 

Perhaps time is really non-existent. Perhaps there is no past and no future, just the present and that all forms of the reality we create exist now in the present. It may sound strange but it is not just an opinion I hold, but seems to be an ever increasing theory. 

Perhaps we have glimpses of the understanding of the true nature and reality of time as non-existent when we fully enjoy an experience, since we are not aware of any passage of time. And perhaps when we do not do what brings us “en-joy-ment” we allow ourselves to be distracted in past and possible future that we are stuck in the two-by-two box container we create for ourselves.

Food for thought. 
A further thought is does everything happen in a linear order or does is it happening simultaneously. I will leave you with that to chew for a while and will link to exploring the simultaneous occurrence theory in a future post.
I would, however love to here what you think!

Have a day filled with Love,

LeeZa Donatella
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Lighten Up to Ascend

Update added August 20, 2013

THE BOOK ABOUT SPIRITUAL GROWTH IS COMING IN SEPTEMBER.

I have been told it is a cross between the Celestine Prophecy and 50 shades of Gray

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“Hey, man that is heavy” may show my age, but it is what I commonly heard when I would provide a deep analytical explanation for whatever  I examined, utilizing my left brain analytical mind.  
There is nothing wrong with analyzing things, but to live your life in continual analysis, is just too ”heavy” for me these days.

Look at it this way. Imagine that your body is a balloon that can only be inflated so much.  I am sure you have all blown up balloons for a birthday party. Fill one with your breath, the CO2 we exhale, and it expands but does not rise.  Release some of the CO2 and replace it with helium and it starts to ascend. That is because helium is lighter than CO2.
Today, when I catch myself dissecting and over investigating an experience or I feel the heaviness of life in general, I have to tell myself, LeeZa, stop over analyzing everything, get out of your head and lighten up! Life is only an agreed upon experience.  And with these words the heaviness falls away, making room for my lighter substance, my divine spirit to fill cavities that were previously filled with the heaviness of what I was scrutinizing and carrying around. I hope some of you are saying aha to a simple analogy with a big meaning.

 

Next time you are feeling heavy, think of your balloon. If you want to ascend, then lighten up man!

Wishing you a day filled with Love,

LeeZa Donatella

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How do I Console

Someone you love has passed or you know someone who has lost someone. This is something we all experience in our lifetime, whether it be our parents, friends, spouses, or perhaps children. The initial shock, numbness, the pain that sometimes envelopes the core of your being, extended grief can be unbearable. This is a delicate topic and difficult for me to discuss. You give me a broken anything else and I am there to help, but for the most part in the past I have tended to shy away from people I know who have experienced loss, not because I am uncomfortable with death and dying, but have been uncomfortable with knowing a way to console when they are hurting in such a manner.  

I would watch my mother provide words like "time heals all wounds" or "they are in heaven watching over you", " it takes two years to get over someone’s passing" to people after someone they loved left the Earth in physical form. None of these words ever resonated with me and I think perhaps did more harm than good when she said them. Mom stopped saying that to people after my father died, as I believed she felt that it no longer resonated as her truth.  

As a more universal believer in life and consciousness, where life is a continuous cycle and there are agreements, is it better to say “this is the agreement that your souls made collectively for the experience before you came?”, or that there is a parallel universe where you are experiencing an extended lifetime together? How about life is an Illusion or a game? Perhaps I would get a little laugh if I explained that it is just a dream and we are like Neo in athe Matrix. All joking aside,  I am at a loss  for thosepearls of wisdom for consolation.  

Regardless of whether your beliefs include a religion that teaches of heaven and hell, only 1 lifetime, God and self as separate OR life as the fluffy dream experience, OR life on a planet seeded by aliens, words are of little consolation to someone who is grieving. 

The conclusion I have come up with was so simple and required a change in a belief I was holding. Perhaps the best way is to just be there for them, to listen, hold their hand and not say anything. Sometimes your presence and not words is all that’s needed to console. This holds true for any sort of loss.

So now I am present and I just shut up!

Have a day filled with Love,

LeeZa Donatella
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The People V. the State of Illusion

It never ceases to amaze me how just when you are asking a question that the universe brings the answer to you.  I do not usually write film reviews on this blog post, but there was a film premier that I recently attended for the People V. the State of Illusion.

This film is loosely in the same genre as movies like “What the Bleep Do We Know” and “Down the Rabbit Hole”, but different, refreshing and transformational.

It so touched me that I asked the film maker Austin Vickers’, if I could write a review.  I am not sure Austin would have agreed if he had read some past brutally honest critiques I have written for others work product in a prior career, but if you know me you know that I will if nothing else, I WILL tell you exactly what I am thinking. Below is my honest assessment of the film.

There are no famous actors in this film, no multimillion dollar special effects, no pyrotechnics and no cute animation. And yet this film kept the interest of the viewing audience glued to their seats.  Why is that you ask? Well let me tell you what I found so appealing.

It is as if this movie that brings together science and a story was created for those seeking answers to universal questions about our own existence, where we are going and what we perceive on a combined cellular and spiritual level. This movie made me think. It helped me see my reality in a new way. It helped me answers questions that I had which in turn allowed me process and release old beliefs and patterns that I was still holding on a cellular level. I will not get into the specific beliefs or patterns, but I will explain that for me just seeing the movie caused a shift and I felt parts of my left and right side of my body tingle as I released.

I was fortunate to be able to get a copy of the movie and have watched the extended scientific interviews and viewed the film several times and glean something new with each viewing.

I am sharing my thoughts with you today in the chance that this movie can help do the same for other viewers as well.

Have a day filled with Love,

LeeZa Donatella
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No Soup for You!

When I worked in New York City, on cold and snotty winter days, there was this little stand that sold the most incredible soup. There was a line of people freezing their butts off that winded around the block, just to partake in this incredible soup, as if somehow it would transform them, at least for the afternoon.   They portrayed something like this soup place in an episode of Seinfeld, and, as yes, you had better know exactly what you wanted when you got to the front of the this well oiled assembly line.

I would never say that the guy doling out the soup was the soup Nazi, but, if you were not ready with your selection and money in hand, he would give you the back of his hand, wave to the next person and not go back to you. And, he would not let you cut back into the line. You actually had to go to the back of the line or somehow give your money to someone out of his eye sight to get your soup, but most would not help you because if they got caught, then they would not get their soup either.

I am reminded of this story today as I share with you these thoughts: 

Think about the times during your life when you felt that you’ve waited and waited to receive something that would transform you, only to realize that you were not ready when your time in line had come. And now you feel as if you are at the back of the line once again. You may even be saying when is it my turn?  Perhaps you are trying to cut ahead in the line or piggyback on someone toward the front of the line, Sorry but there is NO shortcut to spiritual growth and transformation!  You have to do the work.

The time is coming soon when all is to be revealed. Your divine self is putting the right people in your path to help you. Know that and let the transformation begin. Then eat the soup baby, it is delicious!

Wishing you a day filled with Love,

LeeZa Donatella

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