Tuesday, 21 June 2011

The story of a smiling little flower

Once upon a time there was a little wondering flower and a happy old man. They lived their lives without knowing about each other. Until one day, when the happy old man saw the little wondering flower. He sat next to her and just breath for a while. And then he said:

Everything has a purpose. And in its purpose, everything is perfect just as it is. If you know you are a perfect being, do you need someone else to confirm this for you? Would you rather listen to an outer voice then your own inner voice?


Be happy where you are. There's no other place, there's no other time...

And so, the happy old man left, leaving the little wondering flower with a smile in her heart :)

Love,
Ram

Tuesday, 25 January 2011

whispers...

I asked my heart
tell me about God
and it was silence

I asked God
tell me about Love
and it was spring

I asked Love
tell me about Compassion
and it was life

I asked Compassion
tell me about Happiness
and it was dance

I asked Happiness
tell me about You
and it was me

I asked You
tell me about God
and it was silence

Love,
Ram

Saturday, 22 January 2011

playfulness

first, I remember I am light

then I love
so God can flower in my heart

then I paint
so the flower can choose its colors

then the Nature comes
with a touch of fragrance
and a breeze of dance

Shall we play together? :)


Love,
Ram

Friday, 21 January 2011

nameless

desiring, I call you into manifestation.
desireless, I allow everything to be as it is.
and even your non-existence has a meaning in this now.
Together, we can become one
and yet alone, I am already One.

Love takes its own shape and follows its own path.
who I am to question it?

label love and it is already gone.
nameless, it can freely flow.

Love,
Ram

Friday, 14 January 2011

being

in stillness I find your flow
in silence I hear you music
in breathing I sense your fragrance
in love I feel your grace

in living
I receive your benediction

Love,
Ram

Thursday, 13 January 2011

thank you

thank you for not demanding
this is how I have the space to freely give

thank you for seeing me
this is how I have the space to grow

thank you for loving me
this is how I have the space to flower

thank you for not labeling me
this is how I have the space to freely be

thank you for being who you are
as this is how I have the space to be who I am

Love,
Ram

Monday, 10 January 2011

Dreams

Some dreams are like this... They end.

And you wake up.

Let's have a cup of tea, shall we?

:)

Love, 
Ram

Wednesday, 3 November 2010

Situations and self love

Let's consider a situation. As 'situations' happen all the time anyway. If I'm missing a feeling of clarity, of rightness, of flow, I'm checking these few things:

How is this self love?
How does this shows self respect?
Does it really follow my heart?
Is it appropriate to act? If yes, how?

Usually, answering these questions brings back the inner alignment. Also, it gives me clarity on how am I respecting other/s involved in the situation. And by respecting others I mean really respecting their decisions, even if those decisions doesn't match my thinking and/or feeling.

Is it always easy? Not necessarily. But hey, do you wanna be happy? Or something?

Love,
Ram

Wednesday, 27 October 2010

Let the form create itself

Listening and following the inner guidance leads to inspired actions. And inspired actions lead to inspired, meaningful life.

Do not force the form into being. Let the form create itself.

This message has been with me since a while, and I'm continuously witnessing its manifestation.

It was part of my learning to let go of control, to let go of desire, of how I want things to be. To trust. To flow. To be.

To discover that life in its wisdom is much more creative than I am by myself, when it comes to the 'how' and 'what' of things.

To breathe in the stream of life.

And I'm wondering... Is it really you who creates through being alive? Or is it Life who creates through you?

Love,
Ram


Sunday, 17 October 2010

Die in each moment

One day, almost one year ago, I was meditating in Amma's Darshan. Feeling my heart healing and opening. Feeling alive inside. In that precious moment of aliveness I asked God how can I hold it inside. He answered... Die in each moment.
(http://talesofalovingheart.blogspot.com/2009/12/and-god-said.html)

These words resonate within, now as fresh as then... Gently looking in my heart I see there are some old feelings, few old dreams, some old significant others, some old words and old deeds that it's time to let go to. I guess there's no room for old in Now, isn't it?

There is beauty, warmth and easiness in letting go with gratitude. It brings a light flavor of grace and benediction.

The heart knows there are no strings when it comes to love.

Love,
Ram

Sunday, 3 October 2010

Friday, 1 October 2010

Change starts within me!

It's becoming clearer and clearer for me that only a hurt man can hurt someone else.Only a man who was aggressed can be aggressive. Only the one who was abandoned, can abandon someone else. And the one who was rejected can reject.

As well as, once you know kindness, you can be also kind. Once you learn to openly receive, you can abundantly give. From the moment you feel understood, you can be understanding as well. And, once you let yourself touched by love, you can manifest love around you...

It is the wound in you that pushes you to hurt, as well as it is the love in you that inspires you to love.

Because, once you receive a life model, a way of being, another option for living, you can choose. And people indeed make the best choice every single moment. If only they have from where to choose. That's all.

It's up to me and you and all of us to give life models. Models of love, kindness, respect, joy, understanding, offering, communion.

Because, be the change you want to see in the world are not just words once Gandhi said. They have become a way of living.

Love,
Ram




Wednesday, 15 September 2010

Oneness

Healing my heart
is healing the humanity’s heart.

The love and light in my heart
is the love and light in God’s heart.
The love in God’s heart does not know
attachment or desire.
The love in God’s heart knows only
to give itself each moment.
In it lays the ancient wisdom of life.
All I ever need to know it is here,
in my heart.

And my heart is in the heart of God.

Love,
Ram

Tuesday, 24 August 2010

When life happens here and now

This morning I've been to park. Yes, again :)

I touched the trees and I let my hands to feel them and to tell them that I love and thank them. For they teach me to accept, to feel my roots and crown, to listen to the silence in my soul and to whisper it to other people too, travelers in my life, if they have time and willingness to stay for a while and to listen in the silence of their own soul...

I caressed with my eyes the birds on the lake and I told them too that I love and thank them. As they quietly float their way living life on the lake, teaching me every time to Be, to breathe, to smile within my heart :)

I breathed with the lake, letting myself dive into the depths of my heart, embraced by the love found here with the same velvety sensation with which water also is embracing me each time we dance together. And I thanked them, the lake, the heart and the love too, as I'm learning from them to flow and to embrace with my whole being, not only with my arms...

I rested my body on the grass, still green and soft, and I told her too that I love and thank her. I thank her that she receives me, she supports me, she teaches me to be humble and to pay attention, the same attention that made possible to notice that each blade of grass has a different shade of green...

I melted in the morning sun and I let his rays to touch my skin and to awake my each cell, then I opened my heart to breath him in there, so that I can give light and warmth around me as he also gives. And rays from my heart went towards the sun to let him know that I love and thank him, as he's teaching me to be present, to give and to love with no other purpose than living my nature, to let my inner light to shine, not because someone is seeing it, but because this is the only meaning of light...

And I closed my eyes and thanked that I am living all these even here, in a middle of a city...

Cause after all, where does heaven come from, if not from the openness to seek and find the beauty in every single thing that exists right here, right now, and to simply enjoy it?

Love,
Ram

















Cand viata se intampla aici si acum

Am fost dimineata in parc. Da, iar :)

Am atins copacii si mi-am lasat palmele sa-i simta si sa le spuna ca ii iubesc si ca le multumesc. Le multumesc ca ma invata sa accept, sa imi simt radacinile si coroana, sa-mi ascult linistea din suflet si sa o soptesc si altora, trecatori in viata mea, de au timp si bunavointa sa se opreasca pentru o vreme si sa asculte, in linistea din sufletul lor.

Am mangaiat cu privirea ratele si le-am spus si lor ca le iubesc si le multumesc. Le multumesc ca-si vad linistite de plutirea lor, de viata pe lac, ca ma invata de fiecare data sa Fiu, sa respir si sa zambesc asa, din inima :)

Am respirat cu lacul, lasandu-ma scufundata in adancimile inimii mele, imbratisata de iubirea gasita aici cu aceeasi senzatie de catifea cu care si apa ma imbratiseaza atunci cand dansam impreuna. Si le-am multumit, si lacului si inimii si iubirii, ca ma invata sa curg, sa plutesc, sa imbratisez cu toata fiinta mea, nu doar cu bratele...

Mi-am odihnit trupul pe iarba inca verde, inca moale, inca fina si i-am spus si ei ca o iubesc si-i multumesc. Ii multumesc ca ma primeste, ma sustine, ma invata smerenia si atentia fara de care n-as fi observat ca fiecare fir de iarba are alta nuanta de verde...

M-am topit in soarele de dimineata si i-am lasat razele sa-mi atinga pielea si sa-mi trezeasca fiecare celula, si mi-am deschis inima sa-l inspir acolo, sa pot darui in jur si eu, ca si el, lumina si caldura. Si raze din inima mea au pornit catre soare ca sa-i spuna ca-l iubesc si-i multumesc ca ma invata sa fiu prezenta, sa daruiesc si sa iubesc fara un scop anume, ci pentru ca asta mi-e menirea, sa-mi las lumina sa straluceasca nu pentru ca cineva o vede, ci pentru ca asta-i rostul luminii...

Si am inchis ochii si am multumit ca pot sa traiesc toate astea chiar si aici, intr-un mijloc de oras...

Pentru ca, pana la urma, de unde se naste paradisul daca nu din deschiderea de a gasi frumusetea in tot ce este chiar aici, chiar acum, si pur si simplu de a te bucura?

Din inima,
Ram

Tuesday, 17 August 2010

Message from an angel

Life is amazing!
Go out. Play and have fun.
Feel good about life. Feel good about yourself.

Help others.

Smile :)
Be gentle with yourself and kind towards people.

Learn from nature.
Respect Life in every form of it!

Love. And be free!

Love,
Ram

Wednesday, 11 August 2010

I love mornings!

I love peaceful mornings in the quiet park, with the trees and the grass and the lake and the morning fresh air and the birds and the blue-blue sky and the morning sun!

Nature has been and it still is for me the perfect master...

Everything in nature has its perfect place, so why would we think it’s different with us? Everything in nature is in harmony, so why would it be different with our life?

The only moments when the harmony is missing from nature are when mankind interferes in the nature’s natural flow…

Imagine, just for a moment, how would everything settle in your life if you’d stop interfere in its natural flow?

Love,
Ram

Thursday, 29 July 2010

in love

falling in love
I learned to alchemize
and because of it
now I'm a magician

being in love
I learned to open, accept and heal
and because of it
now I am whole

rising in love
I learned to fly
and because of this
now I am free.

Love,
Ram

Monday, 26 July 2010

The amazing simplicity of love

We master what we practice. As many others like me, I practiced since I was a little girl 'you're not allowed to...', 'it's not good to...', 'it's not proper to...', 'a little girl doesn't behave like this' and other things and 'realities' meant to complicate and to tangle the relating space between two or more people.

I grew up with masks given and borrowed from the procession of adults that was present in my childhood. I grew up learning rather to be who I am not, having a constant feeling that it doesn't work like this, that something is wrong, incongruent. Wanting to please and to 'make it work', I complicated my relationships through not having the courage to be who I was, as I was in each This moment.

All these just to eventually learn that love is really, really simple. That relating from fear and conditioning makes life twisted and complicated, while relating from love makes everything natural, flowing, smooth and simple. That, if it is allowed to freely flow, love takes new and new shapes even in the same context. That it gives space and freedom. It allows you to be, to manifest, to discover yourself, always you, always new. To learn that love opens, includes, expands.

And that, through silence, love speaks to me. So simple. And so, so beautiful...

Love,
Ram




















Uimitoarea simplitate a iubirii

Devenim maestri in ceea ce practicam. Iar eu, ca si altii ca mine, am practicat de mica 'nu e voie sa...', 'nu e bine sa...', ' nu se cade sa...', 'o fetita nu face asa ceva' si tot felul de alte lucruri si 'realitati' menite sa incurce si sa complice spatiul relationarii dintre doi sau mai multi oameni.

Am crescut cu masti date si imprumutate de la alaiul de adulti ce mi-a populat copilaria. Am crescut invatand mai degraba sa fiu cine nu sunt, cu un constant sentiment ca nu merge asa, ca ceva nu e in regula, nu e la locul lui. Vrand sa fiu 'pe plac' si 'sa fie bine', am complicat relatiile, neavand curaj sa fiu cine sunt eu asa cum eram in fiecare Acest moment.

Ca sa invat, pana la urma, ca iubirea este de fapt tare, tare simpla. Ca relationarea din frica si conditionari face viata sa devina sucita si complicata, in timp ce relationarea din iubire este naturala, curgatoare, simpla. Ca, lasata sa curga liber, iubirea ia noi si noi forme chiar si in acelasi cadru. Ca ofera spatiu si libertate. Ca permite sa fii, sa te manifesti, sa te descoperi mereu tu, mereu nou. Ca iubirea deschide, include, extinde.

Si ca, prin liniste, imi vorbeste. Atat de simplu. Si atat de frumos...

Din inima,
Ram

Saturday, 17 July 2010

Butchering through memories

Maybe you don't see us as moments, said him.

And he was right. No, I wasn't seeing the us relational episode as 'moments', but as a continuous something that grew and suddenly stopped at one moment in time, to remain suspended somewhere in my inner universe, not knowing exactly what to do or where to go further.

So, I took my imaginary axe, put on the relational butcher gloves, and tenaciously chopped everything into small pieces. Until all that was left were just some moments. Beautiful indeed, but nothing more than moments.

After all, a cake can be digested only if you chunk it down into small, delicious, juicy, one bite at a time pieces...
 

Friday, 16 July 2010

Teenager's mother - what a challenge!

I don't know how much I taught my Bia so far, but for sure I wanted her to learn to be independent. To be able to decide for herself, to be aware of what she feels, of what her body is communicating to her.

I taught her that the most important resources are the ones inside her and it's about those resources that no one can take them away from her and they can't finish either.

To let no one telling her what she isn't and what she can't do, or to accept labels coming from her teachers frustrations and limitations. To have courage telling the truth in any situation, because otherwise, through lying is like she is canceling herself and she's giving her power to the one she's lying to. 

To know that she is much more than what her colleagues, her teachers, her grandparents, her neighbors and other adults are able to see. To know that people see the world as they are, not as the world is, that we perceive in others what we can see, hear, feel in a certain moment, yet this doesn't mean that what we see, hear, feel is everything.

I'm watching her now. She's already traveling alone, she can handle in new places, she decides what she wants to do, she makes her own schedule, she recognizes the emotional manipulation of those adults who probably forgot that education means to support the child in finding out what are his/hers talents and use them.

And of course she is applying with me the same principles she learned, by the way, from me... So what if I want to spend the weekend together, out of the city, to relax, to enjoy the sun, to tell stories? She has other plans. With her friends.

Leaving me, I admit, a bit frustrated and without 'the object of my attention'. Talking to myself... Do you mean we're not going to spend these days together? Well, yes, I was thinking we are... So, now what? Take some time Ramona dear and find other meaning to these days that you wanted to spend with your daughter, which actually grown up to be a teen with her own plans...

So you think it's easy? Well, think again...

Love,
Ram


















Mama de adolescenta... ditamai provocarea!

Nu stiu cat de multe am invatat-o eu pe Bia mea pana acum, dar cu siguranta am tinut sa invete sa fie independenta. Sa decida ea pentru ea, sa fie constienta de ceea ce simte, de ce ii spune corpul ei.

Am invatat-o ca intotdeauna resursele ei cele mai importante sunt in interior si sunt acele resurse pe care nu i le poate lua nimeni si nici nu se pot termina.

Sa nu lase pe nimeni sa-i spuna ce nu e si ce nu poate, ori sa accepte etichete puse din frustrarile si limitarile doamnelor si domnilor profesori... Sa aibe curaj sa spuna adevarul in orice situatie, pentru ca altfel, mintind, se anuleaza ea pe ea si isi da puterea celui pe care il minte.

Sa stie ca ea este mai mult decat pot vedea acum colegii, profesorii, bunicii, vecinii si alti adulti care, de altfel, au propriile lor perceptii. Sa stie ca oamenii vad lumea asa cum sunt ei, ca percepem in ceilalti ceea ce noi putem vedea, auzi, simti intr-un moment dat, dar ca asta nu inseamna ca vedem, auzim, simtim tot.

Ma uit la ea acum. Calatoreste singura, se descurca in locuri noi, decide ce vrea sa faca, isi face singura programul, isi da seama de manipularile emotionale ale adultilor care au uitat probabil ca a educa inseamna a sprijini copilul sa descopere ceea ce ii place si sa si faca acel lucru.

Si bineinteles ca imi aplica si mie aceleasi principii pe care le-a invatat, de altfel, de la mine... Ce daca eu imi doresc sa petrecem weekendul impreuna in afara Bucurestiului, sa ne relaxam, sa stam la soare, sa povestim? Ea are alte planuri. Cu prietenii ei.

Lasandu-ma, recunosc, usor frustrata si fara 'obiectul muncii'. Stand de vorba eu cu mine... Adica nu petrecem impreuna? Pai eu asa ma gandisem... Bun, si acum ce? Stai Ramona draga si cauta sa dai alt sens zilelor pe care doreai sa le petreci cu copila ta, adolescenta cu planuri personale de pe-acuma...

Zici ca-i usor? Mai gandeste-te...

Din inima,
Ram