Pure Love Perspectives

I have been trying to follow my own advice and walk the walk over these past few months by making a sustained effort to truly slow down. There is so much hype about the idea but clearly it is easier said than done. The main challenges to successfully slowing down that I have so far identified through my “research” are the following: While anything is possible, anything is not ALWAYS possible and timing is an extremely important factor when contemplating change. Real change takes time because it must be fostered on many different levels under specific conditions, some of which may not be immediately under your control. If you have a young family for example, your responsibilities as a parent might require you to postpone your slow-living ambitions. (You can take advantage of this excellent opportunity to practice prevention however by starting now to strictly manage your portfolio of non-essential responsibilities.) In your effort to slow things down you may at first need to become...

My last blog was an anthem to letting go of expectations and sitting in a place of patience in order to receive ALL of the wonderful things that are in store for you regardless of the source, including information. Here are just a couple of examples of two surprising yet perfect ways in which information that I needed flowed to me since I wrote that a week or so ago. I was shopping at a local bookstore for a specific book to offer as a birthday gift. Since it is a popular title I was able to find it quickly on the shelves. Given my tendency to lose myself in a book store I was very satisfied with the efficiency of my errand thus far. The book was on the bottom shelf so I bent down to grab a copy. As I lifted it fluidly from its place on the low shelf I did a double take as there was somehow a second, and different, book sliding off the shelf at the same time. After a few startled seconds I realized that it had been “abandoned”, placed horizontally on top of the 5 or so copies ...