Title: positive ripples

Gender: Female

Age: 48

Sun Sign: Aquarius

Chinese Sign: Metal Rat

Location: Rhode Island

I am 46, husband is 51. We are loving, genuine, honest, positive, adventurous, fun-loving, happy couple looking for kindred souls like ourselves to connect with on all levels.

We have many & varied interests including Family/friends, making as many positive ripples as we can thru teaching/giving/sharing, catamaran sailing/racing, hiking, kayaking, canoing, long term cruising aboard 55ft cutter, camping, diving/PADI dive instructor, skiing, cycling, live music, ballroom/latin/dirty dancing, theater/acting, tantra, eastern philosophy, boat-building, vintage motorcycles, Marine ecology, environment, positive psychology, intimacy/core/energy healing, youth education,  the list goes on… love to live life smiling and laughing! We are planning long term adventure in next 2 years to Caribbean, south pacific, NZ & AUS great barrier reef to name a few…. We listen to blues, dance, drum & bass, folk and traditional, jazz, latin, new age, metal, reggae, rock. My favorite bands and artists are many and varied. I am also a musician and writer.

Our favorite food is sushi which we make ourselves.  Our favorite places to be is on the water or in the mountains.

My favorite possession is my spirit….

A TANTRA MASTER SPEAKING TO HER STUDENT

“If you love, you will know that everything begins and everything ends, and there is a time for beginning and there is a time for ending, and there is no wound in it. One is not wounded, one simply knows the season is over. One is not in despair, one simply understands, and one thanks the other: “You gave me so many beautiful gifts. You gave me new visions of life, you opened a few windows I might never have opened on my own. Now the time has come that we separate and our ways part.” Not in anger, not in rage, not with a grudge, not with any complaint, but with tremendous gratitude, with great love, with thankfulness in the heart. If you know how to love, you will know how to separate.”

I believe in GIFTS… but connection/deep love and friendship can evolve and last for a life time and can happen with many people… not just one.

ABOUT COURAGE… (some excerpts from COURAGE… the joy of living dangerously by OSHO)… some thoughts that resonate within me…

The word courage comes from the latin root cor, which means heart, so courageous means to live with the heart. The way of the heart is the way of courage. It is to live in insecurity; it is to live in love, and trust; it is to move in the unknown. It is leaving the past and allowing the future to be. Courage is to move on dangerous paths. Life is dangerous, and only cowards can avoid the danger– but then, they are already dead. A person who is alive, really alive, vitally alive, will always move into the unknown. There is danger there, but he will take the risk. The heart is always ready to the risk, the heart is a gambler. The head is a businessman. The head always calculates–it is cunning. The heart is noncalculating.

What is your mind? it is all that you have known. It is the past, the dead, that which has gone. Mind is nothing but the accumulated past, the memory. Heart is the future; heart is always the hope, heart is always somewhere in the future. head thinks about the past and heart dreams about the future.

To accept the challenge of the unknown in spite of all fears…is courage. The fears are there, but if you go on accepting the challenge again and again, slowly those fears disappear. The experience of the joy that is the unknown brings, the great ecstasy that starts happening with the unknown, makes you strong enough, gives you a certain integrity, makes your intelligence sharp. for the first time you start feeling that life is not just a boredom but an adventure. Then slowly slowly fears disappear; then you are always seeking and search for some adventure.

But basically courage is risking the known for the unknown, the familiar for the unfamiliar, the comfortable for the uncomfortable, arduous pilgrimage to some unknown destination. One never knows whether one will be able to make it or not. It is gambling, but only the gamblers know what life is.

OUR DEEPEST FEAR…

by Marianne Williamson from A Return To Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”

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