Inspiration for the day...

"You must BE the change you want to see in the world." Mahatma Gandhi

Moved!

We have finally moved and slowly settling in. And in a few days' we will be packing up again to leave for Europe! It has been very hectic to say the least.

The past few days felt like months - dealing with contractors, minor renovations, movers, daughter falling ill, unpacking, getting furniture together, packing for europe and helping the dog and cat get used to the new home (the cat is still stressed and not doing her business in her litter box!), service work, emails, students, clients, getting the mini Wesak celebration here organized and so on.....

Looking forward to a good break may just be an understatement! LOL.

It is times like these, I feel that indeed the time before Wesak is truly the most challenging! But we're keeping our heads above water and really enjoying the moments. As I sit here in my new office, I rejoice as I see my collection of crystals sitting on my window sill looking happy in the light!

Looking forward to Wesak in Vienna!

Keys

After much obstacles and challenges, we are finally getting the keys to our new home this evening. We've been very busy juggling work, being parents and packing! It feels good to go through all our stuff and 'spring clean', about half of our things are thrown away, given away or for the garage sale. Even with so much going on, I think to myself, if only the KEYS to self and God realization was this easy to attain ;-)

I must add that there were many tests in dealing with property agents (not ours, but others, our agents are true gems! we are blessed!), property sellers, bankers, lawyers etc, but I enjoyed it because we were put in the 'marketplace' so to speak, to practice what we preach. Some of the obstacles we encountered were 'first time' challenges even for our very experienced property agents. This brings me back to Mother Teresa's quote: "I know God will not give me anything that I can't handle. I just wish He wouldn't trust me so much."

I laugh as I look at the challenges as comic relief. The negative ego does try so hard to be present in mindsets creating limited lens, illusional thinking, blindspots. One such example was an agent who bombarded me with text messages - praising himself, and he even 'stalked' us, he knew which property we were looking at and where we were at. The negative ego is very bizarre.

On hindsight, these strange encounters and experiences do indeed hold the KEY to self and God realization! :-)