Raven's Diary

by Eckhart Tolle

WHAT an amazing book! Was lent to me by my Yoga teacher and I am forever grateful that she did. Another life changing book that will open your eyes – but only if you are open enough to have them opened! I am desperately seeking a copy for myself; it is so good. I want to live my life according to these principles, like a life guide if you will. There is so much important and light bulb content that I made notes as I read and the more I read the more I wanted to read so that I could learn. A definite must in this society of ours – it will definitely make this world a better place if everyone reads this book – with open eyes and minds though and that’s the key…not many can reach that state of being!

Don’t try to force it. Practise patience.

Overview

You feel totally driven to excel today — much more so than usual — and you may want to work a double-shift on order to get everything done. You should be glad you did when you want to relax later next week.

This tiny little bundle comes with a long story! Due to the loss of our other furchildren it was incredibly difficult to come to terms with replacing them, so I was adament we were going to wait a long while. Then all of a sudden late December I had this urge to get a pup right now but it had to be a specific breed – chocolate miniature daschund. I had been searching months before just out of curiosity but now the search was greater and I found a breeder that loaded pics of the pups of a breeding pair and there she was. I contacted them immediately and that same afternoon she was paid for and we arranged to fetch her…in Upington…of all places. The very next day I went out and bought her little goodies and had her name tag made – I just knew in my heart that this all felt so right.

So on our long trek up to Upington we had a lovely adventure seeing new scenary never seen before by us both. And when we finally got to hold her it was love at second sight. She was so incredibly tiny, the smallest of her litter. And so the journey back home began. She was so good on her very first adventure. Many many hours later we arrive home at 3am in the morning and now we must introduce her to our other two very excited to see us going mad mungrals. Poor little Lola was incredibly overwhelmed and yelped like mad and I was stressing that she was getting hurt. But barely half hour later we were all sleeping on the mattress in the lounge and we are all happy and relaxing.

…is not always a good thing, I discovered. When I met that powerful woman all I saw was the power and status. What was hidden behind the drive was a very tired individual that was struggling with the same ‘how do i juggle’ questions as I had. I did eventually manage to appear to run 4 businesses at once and it was very exciting and prestiguous to tell everyone that I was but the satisfaction of losing out on the small things of life wasn’t worth it in the end. So one business due to government red tape got shut down – which was very devastating to say the least as it was the most profitable. Then I realised all my heart and soul I was giving the rest was also not worth it if I wasn’t reaping personal benefit and peace and enjoyment from them. So I slowed down. Started reading – best thing I ever did. Eliminated most elements which was causing more harm than good. So now I work on projects that are fulfilling, don’t have too many deadlines and I dictate my time. It’s proving to be a positive move although not as profitable – but I recon my health and wellbeing are of far greater worth than money could ever be.

….with or without you; I’ve discovered! No amount of wishing, praying or shouting makes time stand still for one second for you to recover. Again months fly by but only when you look back do you realise it because we’re all so caught up in the hype of life that we forget to stop and look at it speeding by – we get to reflect on it only once we hit into that perverbial brick wall!

So since the last time we lost our dearest princess Cache, suddenly. RIP my sweet angel. I needed you just as much as you needed me and my life will never be the same without you in it.  She was the opitomy of a blessing.

Business has taken a plunge and we stress constantly about it. Trying to make drastic changes now so that we can eliminate that useless stress and strain.

Our house is back on the market and is on show for the first time this coming Sunday. We’re hoping for a stressfree process. Although having had to do repairs and tidying, chucking and packing was quite a mission in amongst everything else.

So we shall see what Mistress Life has to throw at us next…