Comments for totga http://totga.wordpress.com The One That Got Away Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:50:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Dance of Arrogance by Ray R http://totga.wordpress.com/2006/12/01/dance-of-arrogance/#comment-217 Ray R Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:50:39 +0000 http://totga.wordpress.com/2006/12/01/dance-of-arrogance/#comment-217 Please credit this photo which happens to be mine. Please email me and I will telly the name to credit it to. I am honored that you are using it, but it is a published photo in a national photography magazine and I need to make sure that I am able to retain the copyright. Thank you so much. Please credit this photo which happens to be mine. Please email me and I will telly the name to credit it to. I am honored that you are using it, but it is a published photo in a national photography magazine and I need to make sure that I am able to retain the copyright. Thank you so much.

]]> Comment on Focus by Proselytization http://totga.wordpress.com/2006/12/29/focus/#comment-216 Proselytization Wed, 18 Jun 2008 18:59:37 +0000 http://totga.wordpress.com/2006/12/29/focus/#comment-216 Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation :) Anyway ... nice blog to visit. cheers, Proselytization . Somehow i missed the point. Probably lost in translation :) Anyway … nice blog to visit.

cheers, Proselytization
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]]> Comment on Oh Boy. Pavlina on “Lighworkers”. by Stephen http://totga.wordpress.com/2006/11/13/oh-boy-pavlina-on-lighworkers/#comment-215 Stephen Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:55:58 +0000 http://totga.wordpress.com/2006/11/13/oh-boy-pavlina-on-lighworkers/#comment-215 Thank-you Steve! Although I have known for a few years that I am a lw, I still get bogged down by earthly matters. I REALLY needed to hear most everything you said and you articulate it SO well. I sometimes find myself at a loss for words when trying to describe such things. I have joined the forum (smart people) and I shall be a regular. P.S. Don't ya just love Marianne? Did she ever get her church straightened out in southfield? Thank-you Steve!

Although I have known for a few years that I am a lw,
I still get bogged down by earthly matters. I REALLY needed to hear most everything you said and you articulate it SO well. I sometimes find myself at a loss for words when trying to describe such things. I have joined the forum (smart people) and I shall be a regular.

P.S. Don’t ya just love Marianne? Did she ever get her church straightened out in southfield?

]]> Comment on Oh Boy. Pavlina on “Lighworkers”. by Divine Enigma http://totga.wordpress.com/2006/11/13/oh-boy-pavlina-on-lighworkers/#comment-95 Divine Enigma Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:21:12 +0000 http://totga.wordpress.com/2006/11/13/oh-boy-pavlina-on-lighworkers/#comment-95 I felt as though Steve was speaking to me directly. He describes exactly the place I am in right now. I never heard the term "light-worker" before but it is a very accurate way to describe people on the path of higher conscious awareness. I am a soul that has experienced a shift in consciousness. It happened in 1998, very suddenly, I was describing to a friend how I had the feeling that God was talking to me and telling me to wake up and get right. As soon as the words left my mouth, "God has been talking to me..", I instantly felt a sensation consume my entire body. A peace that I never felt before. I cried uncontrollably. And for the next several months afterwards, if I mentioned God aloud, I would cry. It was the most emotional time of my life. I felt an overwhelming urge to help others in any way possible. Being an only child, my selfishness was almost built in to my personality, helping others was not my forte. At the time I wanted to pursue a career in fashion. But after the epiphany I concluded that working in the fashion industry would lead me to a superficial world and that it would not fit with my new found spirituality. Jump to almost ten years later, the present. I have been spinning my wheels all this time and going no where. It has been very difficult for me to live a life of purpose and pay the bills at the same time. I know that I've been letting fear hold me back and that my true path and nature is that of a light worker. To read an article that explains something that I feel that I have never been able to put into words is amazing. This is my first time on this blog but it will not be my last. I felt as though Steve was speaking to me directly. He describes exactly the place I am in right now. I never heard the term “light-worker” before but it is a very accurate way to describe people on the path of higher conscious awareness.
I am a soul that has experienced a shift in consciousness. It happened in 1998, very suddenly, I was describing to a friend how I had the feeling that God was talking to me and telling me to wake up and get right. As soon as the words left my mouth, “God has been talking to me..”, I instantly felt a sensation consume my entire body. A peace that I never felt before. I cried uncontrollably. And for the next several months afterwards, if I mentioned God aloud, I would cry. It was the most emotional time of my life. I felt an overwhelming urge to help others in any way possible. Being an only child, my selfishness was almost built in to my personality, helping others was not my forte. At the time I wanted to pursue a career in fashion. But after the epiphany I concluded that working in the fashion industry would lead me to a superficial world and that it would not fit with my new found spirituality.
Jump to almost ten years later, the present. I have been spinning my wheels all this time and going no where. It has been very difficult for me to live a life of purpose and pay the bills at the same time. I know that I’ve been letting fear hold me back and that my true path and nature is that of a light worker. To read an article that explains something that I feel that I have never been able to put into words is amazing. This is my first time on this blog but it will not be my last.

]]> Comment on Focus by chrisfiore5 http://totga.wordpress.com/2006/12/29/focus/#comment-12 chrisfiore5 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 20:26:17 +0000 http://totga.wordpress.com/2006/12/29/focus/#comment-12 just a random hit, totga... hope you have a great new year. peace. just a random hit, totga… hope you have a great new year. peace.

]]> Comment on Oh Boy. Pavlina on “Lighworkers”. by Lee http://totga.wordpress.com/2006/11/13/oh-boy-pavlina-on-lighworkers/#comment-7 Lee Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:06:07 +0000 http://totga.wordpress.com/2006/11/13/oh-boy-pavlina-on-lighworkers/#comment-7 Brilliant - just what I needed to know, just at the time I was ready to know it. Thanks, L : ) Brilliant – just what I needed to know, just at the time I was ready to know it.
Thanks,
L : )

]]> Comment on Oh Boy. Pavlina on “Lighworkers”. by thnkrnwrtr http://totga.wordpress.com/2006/11/13/oh-boy-pavlina-on-lighworkers/#comment-6 thnkrnwrtr Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:03:41 +0000 http://totga.wordpress.com/2006/11/13/oh-boy-pavlina-on-lighworkers/#comment-6 'Lightworking' is not the name for that feeling. The "Lightworker Syndrome" is in reference to real, live people who are Lightworkers - here to make a difference in this world, who are stuck in moving forward by fear of success. Check out these websites if you want to learn more about Lightworkers: http://lightworker.com http://planetlightworker.com Take care ‘Lightworking’ is not the name for that feeling.
The “Lightworker Syndrome” is in reference to real, live people who are Lightworkers – here to make a difference in this world, who are stuck in moving forward by fear of success.

Check out these websites if you want to learn more about Lightworkers:

http://lightworker.com
http://planetlightworker.com

Take care

]]> Comment on Oh Boy. Pavlina on “Lighworkers”. by James Valentine http://totga.wordpress.com/2006/11/13/oh-boy-pavlina-on-lighworkers/#comment-5 James Valentine Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:02:17 +0000 http://totga.wordpress.com/2006/11/13/oh-boy-pavlina-on-lighworkers/#comment-5 Exactly. That's just what I thought when I read it. I believe in God, but up until now, I thought he wanted me to deny myself in every way! What he _really_ wants is for me to "shine as a light in the world". So I'm going to do just that. No more lightworking for me! (Didn't even know there was a name for that feeling...) Cheers! J. Exactly. That’s just what I thought when I read it. I believe in God, but up until now, I thought he wanted me to deny myself in every way! What he _really_ wants is for me to “shine as a light in the world”. So I’m going to do just that. No more lightworking for me! (Didn’t even know there was a name for that feeling…)

Cheers!
J.

]]> Comment on Time, decay, sacredness by storiesofgrace http://totga.wordpress.com/2006/11/07/time-decay-sacredness/#comment-2 storiesofgrace Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:25:46 +0000 http://totga.wordpress.com/2006/11/07/time-decay-sacredness/#comment-2 This reminds me of a passage in Moby Dick. Early on Ishmael is looking at Queequeg and comes to a realization: "Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face -- at least to my taste -- his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul. Through all his unearthly tatooings, I thought I saw the traces of a simple honest heart; and in his large, deep eyes, fiery black and bold, there seemed tokens of a spirit that would dare a thousand devils." It reminds me of another story as well. Jesus heals the blind man, but the man says he sees people as "trees, walking." Then Jesus touches him again and he sees clearly. Some have speculated that the trees are a symbol of the spiritual decay of mankind, the brokeness of the relationship between man and God. God sees the beauty in us. He sees our potential and works to bring that potential to light. He is that caretaker. He has that certain angle and certain lens. This reminds me of a passage in Moby Dick. Early on Ishmael is looking at Queequeg and comes to a realization:

“Savage though he was, and hideously marred about the face — at least to my taste — his countenance yet had a something in it which was by no means disagreeable. You cannot hide the soul. Through all his unearthly tatooings, I thought I saw the traces of a simple honest heart; and in his large, deep eyes, fiery black and bold, there seemed tokens of a spirit that would dare a thousand devils.”

It reminds me of another story as well. Jesus heals the blind man, but the man says he sees people as “trees, walking.” Then Jesus touches him again and he sees clearly. Some have speculated that the trees are a symbol of the spiritual decay of mankind, the brokeness of the relationship between man and God.

God sees the beauty in us. He sees our potential and works to bring that potential to light. He is that caretaker. He has that certain angle and certain lens.

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