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an even greater emphasis on China & India.
Namaste.
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FTA Core Values
Openness of Heart
Service is the Highest Calling
Receive What is Given
Assume the suffering of All Sentient Beings
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Fred
Tibbitts Inspirational Words for 2009
Let It
Be Your Year to Shine
For the Benefit of All Sentient Beings
by Fred Tibbitts, Jr.
2009 has at
last arrived around the world. Most of us are hoping for change. Change
for the good. The President Elect of the United States has proclaimed “…At
This Defining Moment in American History…Change Has Come to America”. And
changed all we are; no matter our identity or whereabouts on planet Earth.
Gandhi said
“Be the change you seek”. But is it that simple? For most of us, our
desire for change is recognition that our lives are less than perfect; that
we feel driven to be connected with a better solution for our unhappiness
and perceived lack of satisfaction with our lives.
Many feel
lost. “Where are the great leaders of the past?” they ask, who arose to
lead us from the depths of despair, giving us hope that the future would
soon be better for everyone. They cry out “Is there not someone who will
show us the way?”
The truth is
that we all have the potential to be great leaders. Be the leader you
seek. Our intuitive self, the home of our connection with the Energy of the
Universe and all that is Real and Unreal, knows the way forward. We need
only ask and our path appears at our feet, bathed beyond our imagination in
the White Light that beckons us to begin our journey.
At every
turn, events and others would have us believe that we are at the mercy of
our future; that we are not in control of our destiny. Those who would
discourage us to be the leader we seek, do so because they, themselves are
lost and do not recognize their Amazing Grace within. Events unfold without
warning, suggesting that our fate is sealed, that we are defenseless to make
a difference or save our souls or more importantly, the souls of others.
But those
who have become One with their intuitive self and have learned to trust in
it know differently: We can see the way forward and we can be the great
leader we seek. We must have the unwavering conviction to look forward and
not be distracted by events and those who would seek to discourage us with
seemingly irrefutable logic. We must go against the wind, fire and rain
that assault us without conscience.
We must
never surrender our confidence that we will prevail, despite whatever our
analytic mind would argue or suggest we accept as reality. For our reality,
now and forever more is directly connected to the strength of our belief in
ourselves to be our solution and our hope for the future. Never surrender
your dreams. Never give-up and your future will be what you make of it: Not
what events or others would impose upon you.
Which brings
us to the motivation we must embrace to be the future we seek. Great
leaders are not focused on being great: They are focused on showing others
the way to a better place, never at the expense of any individual or group.
They exist to be a beacon in the night; the White Light that bathes our path
forward to that place where our dreams and altruistic ambitions await, as a
shelter for all from the storm.
If our
genuine intention is service to others, not ourselves, with unwavering
confidence that we can and must make a difference for the benefit of All
Sentient Beings, it will be so. We must be our future, but for the benefit
of all humanity. It is a perfect Universe: We need only understand how it
is organized and that we have the ability to be the future we seek, but for
the benefit of All Sentient Beings, not merely ourselves.
The beauty
of life is service to others. Let 2009 be the year that we all become great
leaders and embark upon our path to that place which is our hope for a
better world for us all and that we constantly rededicate the merit of our
actions to the beauty of accomplishing these intentions without recognition
or glory for ourselves. Let us all be the Angel we seek.
An FTA Guided Hospitality Meditation
Hospitality is about
service and in particular Service Excellence: Service to
others. Service is truly the highest calling. It is not what we do
for ourselves, but what we do for others that is the measure of our worth to
humanity and ourselves.
May we suggest you take but five minutes from your busy schedule to
meditate on these five thoughts as a valued member of the Global
Hospitality Community:
Everything and everyone is connected: We are ONE: We are not separate from
one another; so live your lives with an open heart without qualification and
treat everyone as though they were your closest family at all times. Honor
and respect all others.
Service
is the Highest Calling: Serve the least of humanity with compassion and
reverence as though you were in the presence of royalty: For in fact, the
least of us are the closest to the energy and “White Light” of the universe.
Act based
on what is the right thing to do: Not what appears to be most to your
immediate advantage.
Practice
relieving the suffering of all others (all Sentient Beings) by wishing that
you can suffer for them.
And
finally, try not to fill your day chasing after all that you can take:
Instead, receive what is given.
Namaste.
Fred and
Joy in Love
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