Living with Great Imagination

NEVILLE’S MOST PERPLEXING QUOTES ABOUT MANIFESTING MARRIAGE   This quote by Neville Goddard stumps a lot of people in the manifesting community: "Do not confine the state of marriage to a certain man, but a full, rich and overflowing life..." “What does this mean?” “Does that mean I can’t manifest a specific person?” “Why did he emphasize focusing on a state?” “What is a state?” "What is the state of marriage?" I’ll answer that, but first … let me share a memory I have that goes back nearly twenty years ago today.   “August 6” memory. Every summer, my Facebook feed gets plastered with anniversary posts by friends on social media. Most of those posts are photos from their weddings ten or twenty years ago. On rare occasions there will be a rogue poster who posts a celebratory divorce announcement, or sharing a funny a post about someone who demolished their wedding dress and did a photo shoot. It would be socially unacceptable...

Instead of starting this off by telling old stories or even a recent "old story," I am sharing this movie clip that pretty well sums up an aspect of myself that has gotten me into trouble ("A brief shining moment ... and then that mouth." Though it's usually by email)...  A brief shining moment, and then that mouth The thing is, I am attached to this identity. I love this about me the way I love it about this movie character. I am still growing in mindfulness and my communications but I've been thinking, what if instead of revising so much of what I slipped in an email (okay, I will just share my once in a blue moon slip up happened and I said some harsh--albeit truthful--things in an email to a private school I was frustrated with, that I did an imaginal revision scene, so in my last email I acted as if I'd not sent the earlier one and reframed it, but I still haven't changed the story about the school; my feelings haven't changed as they respon...