“Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”
“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
Traveler's wisdoms from over 900 years ago...
Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor from 161 to 180 AD.
That you can behold, you can become....
LLS
Richard Powell
Coming Nov 11- Another round of THE ABUNDANT 8 - IGNITING YOUR LIVING INTENTIONS
Art by Dale Terbush

​“Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one that can literally save their lives.” – Tony Robbins
"The fearlessness of the great spiritual teachers like Moses, Jesus, Saint Theresa, Buddha, and Bodhidharma was the fearlessness of the spiritual warrior. Different from stoicism, naïveté, or arrogance, this fearlessness is selfless, generous, and compassionate. Fearlessness is not a matter of ignoring fear, but of really acknowledging it and being empowered by it."
- John Daido Loori Roshi, "Between Two Mountains"
Peace be still.
LLS
Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
Coming Nov 11- Another round of THE ABUNDANT 8 - IGNITING YOUR LIVING INTENTIONS

There the sky is filled with music:
There it rains nectar:
There the harp-strings jingle, and there
the drums beat.
What a secret splendor is there, in the mansion of the sky!
There no mention is made of the rising
and setting of the sun.
In the ocean of manifestation, which is the light of love,
day and night are felt to be one.
Joy for ever, no sorrow, no struggle!
There I have seen joy filled to the brim,
perfection of joy;
No place for error is there.
Kabir says: "There I have witnessed the sport of One Bliss!"
--Kabir
May you witness the One Bliss...
LLS
Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
Coming Nov 11- Another round of THE ABUNDANT 8 - IGNITING YOUR LIVING INTENTIONS
Art by Nicholas Roerich

"You observe the action of life in much the same way as you observe a stream of water flowing down a mountainside. You just sit there and watch it. You don't try to grab the last bit of water that went by.
It's the same as watching the ocean. You don't try to grab the last wave and cement it so that you'll always have it. You just watch the waves come in and go out, come in and go out.
There is no boredom in watching the ocean because your ego is not involved in what the waves do or don't do.
You are observing."
-John-Roger
Observation..the key to letting go.
To observe, without adding drama or mental worry or more stress, just to be the watcher is liberating.
It's the key to freedom.
May you observe the miracle of life today.
LLS
Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
Coming Nov 11- Another round of THE ABUNDANT 8 - IGNITING YOUR LIVING INTENTIONS

“When you make the two into one, and when you make the inner like the outer and the outer like the inner, and the upper like the lower... then you will enter the kingdom.” -- Jesus from the Gospel of St Thomas (Nag Hammadi Codex)
"As above, so below; as below, so above; as within, so without; as without, so within", "Correspondence", the second of The Seven Principles of Hermes Trismegistus
Inside is the source and the action....
Essence into Form.
The blessings already are.
May you enter the Kingdom today.
LLS
Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
Coming Nov 11- Another round of THE ABUNDANT 8 - IGNITING YOUR LIVING INTENTIONS
Painting by Dale Terbush

"We are in charge of what we say to ourselves.
We can say that our lives are full of health, wealth, and happiness; abundance, prosperity, and riches; loving, caring, and sharing; and the joy of touching to others with that fullness. That story is closer to the truth of who you are and will manifest for you because, as you think in your heart, you will become."
-John-Roger
Your words create your world.
May your world be wonderful.
LLS
Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
Coming Nov 11- Another round of THE ABUNDANT 8 - IGNITING YOUR LIVING INTENTIONS
Art by Dale Terbush

"What I look for, in fact, is an immobile movement, something that would be the equivalent of what we call the eloquence of silence--or what Saint John of the Cross called, I believe, soundless music." - Miro
My Beloved is the mountains,
The solitary wooded valleys,
The strange islands,
The roaring torrents,
The whisper of the amorous gales;
The tranquil night
At the approaches of the dawn,
The silent music,
The murmuring solitude,
The supper which revives, and enkindles love.
~ St John of the Cross
May you ride the soundless music back to the Source, to your Peace and unconditional Loving.
LLS,
Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
Coming Nov 11- Another round of THE ABUNDANT 8 - IGNITING YOUR LIVING INTENTIONS
Painting by Frederic Church

"You are all you will ever be. You are divine. You are perfection. All you have to do is awaken to that and then know it."
- John-Roger
Forgiveness, clarity, understanding, reframing...the path to awakening and then the knowing is a Master's path. When you hear that the blessings already are, part of that is that you already are divine...the key is awareness.
May you have a day of awakening and being more aware that you are loved, that grace surrounds you.
LLS
Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
Coming Nov 11- Another round of THE ABUNDANT 8 - IGNITING YOUR LIVING INTENTIONS
Painting by Jules Victor Gennison

"This is a path of great noise and great silence. A path of great serenity and great trouble. A path of total fulfillment and complete emptiness. How can it be these things?
That is where God resides - in all of this."
-John-Roger, DSS
If God resides in all of it then there is nothing to judge.
Focus on where you want to go and let go of the other.
Be kind to yourself.
Look for the good and do your best with the rest.
Peace be still.
LLS
Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
Coming Nov 11- Another round of THE ABUNDANT 8 - IGNITING YOUR LIVING INTENTIONS
Painting by Albert Beirstadt

"What you hope, you will eventually believe. What you believe you will eventually know. What you know, you will eventually create. What you create, you will eventually experience. What you experience, you will eventually express. What you express, you will eventually become. This is the formula for all of life."
-Neal Donald Walsch
Hopes and dreams are the stuff life is made of.
Hope peace and prosperity.
Dream beauty and grace.
LLS
Richard Powell
Essence-into-form.com
Coming Nov 11- Another round of THE ABUNDANT 8 - IGNITING YOUR LIVING INTENTIONS
Art by Albert Bierstadt