hi--
Awake enough, indeed. I loved it. I could hear you, and I enjoyed and received so gently what you said. thanks. I will read the other blogs as well.
love you,
Bev

Rickie, dearest, you said it well. Like the Zen proverb: "Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, chop wood, carry water." Waking up and/or enlightenment is not the end point, it is ongoing -- we create and let go and create some more. How fun, how frustrating, how blessed... So glad you and Henry are in our lives. Can't celebrate enough!

When I think back to the Mantra-day in Retie !!! (Belgium) ..... it was such a powerful day ! I LOVE IT !

Now at this time at home , I enyoy the CD : "Relax into NOW " It's really beautiful ..... it touches my soul ... SUPER RELAXING ......

THANK YOU SO MUCH from the bottom of my heart !

Great and inspiring blog! Beautiful how you describe the journey you have
taken.
Inspires me again to be more aware of what I am buying and what I need. Not
only the shopping stuff but in general, even in the supermarket ...

The blog - To Buy or Not to Buy - I shall be very careful that I only get new things when they are really needed. It's very important for me! Thank you, Rickie, that you again and again inspire.

I read the "To Buy or Not to Buy" blog twice. It's a well-written, funny, honest account of your experience -- plus an invitation for ALL of us to look at how consumerism diminishes true happiness.

great blog writting!!!!! very personal and really fun to read, filled with good insight and thoughts to walk away with. i really feel like you wrote about your desires and goals in a way that a great story teller would - i got to know the characters and relate to them and learn something about myself as a result. cheers! bravo! brava! well done!

I just loved the stillness retreat. It opened my heart and communication happened from heart to heart. This kind of interaction is pure and loving.

YES-retreat (Oct 09):
I experienced the power of silence while still communicating with people:
Many things are not so important anymore and others get more important.
Feeling even more connected to the other people.
There is much more time for my communication with myself, my body and the nature around me. Time to be.

I loved it very much and I am grateful for the chance to be there.

In the retreat you gave me such a big present with the question what is our destiny or purpose of being here, and my inner voice said clearly 'to make other people happy'. it was such a relief and gift to me to be free to make other people happy and enjoy from the bottom of my heart.

The retreat was clearly one of the highlights of my life. And it is still here - right now...beautiful

I belong to a little meditation group in Namibia and we just love using your mantra's in our group every week. They are so delightful to sing along to and we feel so expanded after each session. A heartfelt THANK YOU for your beautiful sacred music.

I am listening almost every night to RELAX INTO NOW. When I get home, my head is full and I'm tired. But the CD relaxes me. And my roommate, too. It works!

I've danced my dance in which I found my desire: Freedom! Like a butterfly coming out of it's coccoon....

Without words to experience the energy that is allways present is awakening.

I was lucky enough to meet all of you! Love Mirja

Dear Rickie,
Many thanks for sending me your CD. The music was both soothing and
beautiful.
A wonderful musical expression of deep peace. May all be well with you.
Many blessings,
Adyashanti

While listening to "Relax into Now" I'm a child in my mother's arms, loved unconditionally wrapped in grace and a soft gentle embrace...Feeling peaceful and serene and know "... here in this timeless moment...whatever I do... wherever I roam...I'm always home."
Much love to you Rickie and to you Henry and Thank you so very much for this beautiful gift. XOXOjudy

To give you feedback about the YES-retreat:
* it was one of the best weeks of my life
* without words I felt so much love
* without words I was so near to Jürg and to myself
* I discoverd a lot inside me and felt and feel trust, power and the faith to change or re-begin many things
* I realized how many words I had used in my life without saying something important, just to have said something, and so
* I speak less since this week and try not to hurt with words

May be you know that I'm not a yogawoman, that means, I do not really like yoga, that means, I do not like it at all. And I was there every morning! I enjoyed the bodywork, the body itself. You know for sure that I love dancing and the hours with Frie were fantastic! So was it to have Raimund with us. And my very early morning bath in the empty pool and the last bath just before going to sleep. And the food! I'm now trying to cook some of the vegetables, the ones we loved most.

I did not know you had a new site - Wow, really looks great!

AND - Stillness in Italy was a very special experience. I did not know it has such a transforming capacity as well. It really IS a force, and I am happy I have experienced that now (real knowledge takes experience not books, you know). So, we DO live in a heaven, as long as our eyes are open!

And for the here and now, I have to admit that it takes awareness to stay connected to this Force. But with some curiosity, flexibility, tolerance...

... and some help of Hafiz, knowing that:
"love sometimes gets tired of speaking sweetly" (page 187)

Lots of love and danyavad to the two of you
sander

Yes - the YES retreat is like the space between. Sweet and powerful, healing and inspiring in every step, in every breath, in every look and in every smile you give and receive. Big laughter and joy out of the space between and the deep peaceful knowledge that we are all drops falling into the Ocean again and again and again.

Namasté
Carmen

The Yes Retreat: with the loving help of you, Rickie and Henry, became a ground-breaking experience in being in Stillness. And now I also understand what inner peace could mean. Never was so close to beginning to understand with my soul instead with my mind. And Stillness carries on thru the days now. Being with People or with myself here and now is more peaceful and less under pressure. And more honest! So deeply grateful to you and that you made this Yes Retreat happen.