crystalfaeries

In every moment we are always holding infinite magick within our hands. What shall we (co-)create today?

Once upon a time, a young woman went to her mother and told her about her life and how things were so hard for her. She did not know how she was going to make it and wanted to give up. She was tired of fighting and struggling. It seemed as one problem was solved, a new one arose to take its place. Her mother took her to the kitchen. She filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Soon the pots came to boil. In the first she placed carrots, in the second she placed eggs, and in the last she placed some ground coffee beans. She let them sit and boil, without saying a word. In about twenty minutes she turned off the burners. She fished the carrots out and placed them in a bowl. She pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. Then she ladled the coffee out and placed it in a bowl.
Turning to her daughter, she asked, "Tell me, what do you see?"
"Carrots, eggs, and coffee.", she replied.
Her mother brought her closer and asked her to feel the carrots. She did and noted that they were soft.
The mother then asked the daughter to take an egg and break it. After pulling off the shell, she observed the hard boiled egg.
Finally, the mother asked the daughter to sip the coffee. The daughter smiled as she tasted its rich aroma.
The daughter then asked, "What does it mean, mother?"
Her mother explained that each of these objects had faced the same adversity - boiling water - each reacted differently.
The carrot went in strong, hard, and unrelenting. However, after being subjected to the boiling water, it softened and became weak.
The egg had been fragile. Its thin outer shell had protected its liquid interior, but after sitting through the boiling water, its inside became hardened.
The ground coffee beans were unique, however. After they were in the boiling water, they had changed the water.
"Which are you like?" she asked her daughter. "When adversity knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you like a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?"
Think of this: Which am i like?
Am i like the carrot that seems strong, but with pain and adversity do i wilt and become soft and lose my strength?
Am i like the egg that starts with a malleable heart, but changes with the heat? Did i have a fluid spirit, but after a death, a breakup, a financial hardship or some other trial, have i become hardened and stiff? Does my shell look the same, but on the inside am i bitter and tough with a stiff spirit and hardened heart?
Or, am i like the coffee bean? The bean actually changes the hot water, the very circumstance that brings the pain. When the water gets hot, it releases the fragrance and flavor. If you are like the bean, when things are at their worst, you get better and change the situation around you. When the hour is the darkest and trials are their greatest, do you elevate yourself to another level?
How do you handle adversity? Are you like a carrot, an egg, or a coffee bean?

i have been contemplating a recommendation from "a noted advisor":
"Think about what impact you intend to have on others when you walk into a room or participate in a conference call; how do you want to hold yourself? How do you want others to experience you?"

i had to conclude that i so very much honor the free will choice of all beings, that it is always my intent not to have any specific agenda, intent, will, or impact upon them... but simply to honor them and love them unconditionally for who they are in that moment.

Lazaris (channelled via Jach Pursel) defined "humility" as: "being willing to see others as new in each moment", in order that our past perceptions of them not limit their miraculous growth / healing / enlightenment / empowerment which they may have manifested since we last perceived them.

i have no agenda to change anything outside me, for i know that by the law of attraction, the reality i experience is always but a mirror of my own inner energies, therefore, all intent of "impact" is internal. That intent is ascension of consciousness. As i maintain equanimity and peace and joy internally, realities fall away and new ones arrive to mirror my ascension.

Further contemplation for intent upon meeting others is the simple intent to share joy, giggles, play, and to discover where there is alignment of will for cocreation in positive synergy.