Against Angst


As much as I try not to be overwhelmed by the stuff happening in the world, our neighborhood and surroundings, I can’t help it. I don’t read the news, typically, but sometimes for research purposes I run into it. The news kills me. It’s mostly bad, and that bad hurts.
I cannot bare anymore mothers committing atrocities; and I don’t want to judge them although I hate them.
I can’t stand the war against mother nature, a war that may not be intentional, however it’s present, very palpable now.
I feel bad for celebrities being attacked by paparazzi, maybe because I love the independence and the notion of not being harassed by a lens; I can’t imagine someone spying on me 24/7, so that others can judge my actions. I like Mel Gibson, no matter what comes out of his mouth. We all have moments we regret, the thing is nobody knows.
As for my personal life, I’m okay. A little inundated with so much technology taking ahold of my time; but I can’t complain….I have health.
So, I just needed to vent. I apologize if my venting charged you up and made you fall into reality… Go back to innocence, but keep in mind one thing: everyone is guilty. We should act upon our impulses to do good, to be right, to show love, to forgive. That will make a difference everywhere.
Thank you for lending me your eyes.

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Help me achieve a goal, ayúdame a lograr una meta


I am much more than what this video shows, but it’s 3 minutes long so I didn’t explain myself too well, but I need your votes. I ask you to vote daily, many times, and spread the love. I believe dreams come true, but for this one, I need you.

For other funny videos of me, check out Isa Traverso on you tube for the Habla y Habla campaign of HBO Latino.
Thanks and blessings

VOTE FOR ME please. I need many votes to become the host of the first Bilingual TV SHOW for Oprah

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Forever Oprah


Oprah Winfrey, Barack Obama & Michelle Obama
Image via Wikipedia

Today it’s everywhere in the news, Ms. Winfrey, queen of talk shows, will no longer conduct her talk show after Sept 2011. This gives me the exact impulse I was looking for all these years: to prepare to become the NEXT OPRAH. I have two years to evolve into the princess of talk shows.

We are both Aquarians who love dogs, to make people happy and hate surprises. We both have to hold back the tears in every show, but she succeeds WAY better than I can. But, this time, The successor of Oprah will be multilingual, bi-cultural and a mother. What do you think? Is the world ready for me? I can do this. I know I can. I know I want to.
Thanks for your support.

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only a miracle… or $4,000


Ok, I’m using my own blog to see how much kindness and willingness to help I can find.
My best friend has 5 children, lives in New Orleans, doesn’t have a mother and her whole family lives in Venezuela.
She has a great Catholic community that helps her be a happy mom, but as you can imagine, she has no help other than friends.
Her biggest dream is a Bicycle that just arrived in the USA and where all her kids fit. Her youngest is a month old. I would buy it if I had the money, but since I can’t pay for it, I can try and find the money to give her the bicycle.
Here are the details:
“If only one word could be used to describe an entire way of life, as well as the object that makes that way of life possible, only the Dutch word ‘Bakfiets’ would suffice. So it’s no surprise that when you decide to Bakfiets you are leaving the stresses of your car-centric world behind you in favor of a more simplistic, liberated lifestyle that you can truly call, carefree-car free.
Base Price:
$3649.00″

So, if 2,000 people can give $2 I can buy the best Mother’s day gift ever….Be one of them…

I know it’s hard to trust someone with your money, but I give you my word, every single penny goes to that purchase; once I find the whole money needed, I will let you know and will send you the conclusion with pictures.

Please help me help her. Send a check for any amount you can. Email me for details: i@isatrava.com
GRACIAS
She will have no idea of this surprise… but she is the best mom I know, and she deserves it.

link:

http://www.defietsfabriek-usa.com/bikes/bakfiets

GIVE:


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The New Earth -quotes- Eckhart Tolle


This is not plagiarizing…. This is me doing you a favor; I wrote down my favorite quotes from one of the most enlightening books I’ve read: THE NEW EARTH – By Eckhard Tolle.
I warn you: It’s deep stuff, -life changing- deep stuff. ENJOY IT and SPREAD IT!

Driven by greed, ignorant of their connectedness to the whole, humans persist in behavior that, if continued unchecked, can only result in their own destruction.

I didn’t realize yet that thinking without awareness is the main dilemma of human existence.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.

The ultimate truth of who you are is not I Am This or I Am That, but I Am.

Ego implies unawareness. Awareness and ego cannot coexist.

A long-standing resentment is called a grievance…a strong negative emotion connected to an event in the sometimes-distant past that is being kept alive by compulsive thinking.

All religions are equally false and equally true, depending on how you use them.

When you don’t play roles, it means there is no self (ego) in what you do…you are totally focused on the situation. You become one with it…you are the most powerful, most effective, when you are completely yourself. But don’t try to be yourself. That’s another role.

Don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem.

Cleverness divides, intelligence includes.

The ego doesn’t know that your only opportunity for being at peace is now.

Peace, after all, is the end of the ego.

To create suffering without recognizing it –this is the essence of unconscious living; this is totally in the grip of the ego.

It comes as no surprise that those people who work without ego are extraordinarily successful at what they do. Anybody who is one with what he or she does is building the new earth.

Many people are truly their own worst enemy.

Alienation means you don’t feel at ease in any situation, any place, or with any person, not even with yourself. You are always trying to get ‘home’ but never feel at home.

An emotion that does harm to the body also infects the people you come into contact with and indirectly, through a process of chain reaction, countless others you never meet.
There is not good without bad, no high without low.

Ego-generated emotions are derived from the mind’s identification with external factors, which are, of course, all unstable and liable to change at any moment.

Because of the human tendency to perpetuate old emotion, almost everyone carries in his or her energy field an accumulation of old emotional pain, which I call ‘the pain-body’.

Some couples who may think they have fallen in love are actually feeling drawn to each other because their respective pain-bodies complement each other.

There is only one perpetrator of evil on the planet; human unconsciousness.

When you can’t stand the endless cycle of suffering anymore, you begin to awaken.

Someone with a heavy pain-body easily finds reasons for being upset, angry, hurt, sad, or fearful.

Pain-body and ego are close relatives.

Accepting means you allow yourself to feel whatever it is you are feeling at that moment.

Knowing yourself deeply has nothing to do with whatever ideas are floating around in your mind. Knowing yourself is to be rooted in being, instead of lost in your mind.

Acknowledging the good that is already in your life is the foundation for abundance…The fact is: whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

Knowing yourself is being yourself, and being yourself is ceasing to identify with content.

Being aware of your breathing takes attention away from thinking and creates space.

Most people are so distracted by their thoughts, so identified with the voices in their heads, they can no longer feel the aliveness with them.

Some changes may look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

Not what you do, but how you do what you do determines whether you are fulfilling your destiny.

Stress always diminishes both the quality and effectiveness of what you do under its influence.

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