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My 21st week inside.

8/16/2020

Justification

“ Perhaps you notice how the denial is so often the preface to the justification.”

Christopher Hitchens

There are many who want to justify what and how they feel about things. There are many who want me to feel as they do.
I am grateful that I can choose to make my own choices.

I am knowing I will get through week 21 of isolation.

“If you can't understand it without an explanation,
you can't understand it with an explanation.”

Haruki Murakami

Pray for peace,
stay in the moment and wear a mask!
be safe, healthy and happy.
In joy,
Dino

dino@dinocalabrese.com / www.joyousdino.com -(408) 348-4472

My 20th week inside.

8/3/2020

LOVE

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
Rumi

A week of emotional changes.
So much to process.
Now my heart is full and
I choose to continue spreading the
word of love.
I love life and I love you!

I am knowing I will get through week 20 of isolation.

“Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a
sunless garden when the flowers are dead.”
Oscar Wilde

Pray for peace,
stay in the moment and wear a mask!
be safe, healthy and happy.
In joy,
Dino

dino@dinocalabrese.com / www.joyousdino.com -(408) 348-4472

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My 19th week inside.

7/26/2020

Empathy

“ Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.”
Anonymous

Though it was an emotional week,
I realized how grateful I am to
have so many wonderful friends in my life.
Caring, thoughtful and loving.

I am knowing I will get through this 19th week of isolation

"We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.”
Carl Rogers

Pray for peace,
stay in the moment and wear a mask!
be safe, healthy and happy.
In joy,
Dino

dino@dinocalabrese.com / www.joyousdino.com -(408) 348-4472

My 18th week inside.

7/19/2020

Does anyone ever listen?

“ The victim who is able to articulate the situation of the victim
has ceased to be a victim:
he or she has become a threat.”
James Baldwin

Another week of hearing reports and
observing that no one is listening.
Is it possible to hear each other and work together?
After all we live in the UNITED STATES.
I say this with love.
I am knowing I will get through this 18th week of isolation

“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.”
Pema Chodron

Pray for peace,
stay in the moment and wear a mask!
be safe, healthy and happy.
In joy,
Dino

dino@dinocalabrese.com / www.joyousdino.com
(408) 348-4472

My 17th week inside.

7/13/2020

Common Sense

It is not common sense to assert that those who have achieved success have done so because they are lucky or that they have never failed. In fact, just the opposite is true in that failure has been and still is one of the best teachers in life.
Catherine Pulsifer

Once again this past week has been an eye opener.
As the Pandemic continues to surge, many are confusing
taking precautions with living in fear.
You are not living in fear when you are using
common sense.
I agree with love and am listening to Science!

I am knowing I will get through this 17th week of isolation

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein

Pray for peace,
stay in the moment and wear a mask!
be safe, healthy and happy.
In joy,
Dino

dino@dinocalabrese.com / www.joyousdino.com
(408) 348-4472

My 16th week inside

7/7/2020

Bewilderment

“If we dare to dream, we must dare to wake up. When we come to rub our eyes wide open and face up to realness, we can clear our vision and curb a whirlwind of bewilderment that might break our mind apart, once fantasy wrangles with reality and our awareness denies the true colors of facts. ("Behind the frosted glass”)”

Erik Pevernagie

I am a day late in presenting my feelings of the last week.
Needed more time to think about my feelings.
It was a very bewildering week.
I heard a doctor in Texas describe it the best,
“ we are tackling two disasters at this time the Pandemic and Stupidity.”

I agree with love and am listening to Science!
I am knowing I will get through this 16th week of isolation

Pray for peace,
stay in the moment and wear a mask!
be safe, healthy and happy.
In joy,
Dino

dino@dinocalabrese.com / www.joyousdino.com
(408) 348-4472

Happy 4th of July !

7/3/2020

“The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not “the thinker.” The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated. You then begin to realize that there is a vast realm of intelligence beyond thought, that thought is only a tiny aspect of that intelligence. You also realize that all the things that truly matter – beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace – arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.”
Eckart Tolle

My Message of the Month

Spiritual Freedom

Freedom, generally, is having the ability to act or change without constraint. Something is "free" if it can change easily and is not constrained in its present state. ... A person has the freedom to do things that will not, in theory or in practice, be prevented by other forces.
Freedom - Wikipedia

Welcome the month of July !
A time of summer parties, meeting new people and celebrating our independence. How wonderful to live in the land of the free and the home of the brave. A time to come together, honor what we do have as well each other. June had been so intense for everyone on the planet. The continuous rising of the Pandemic followed by useless killings and the protesting for racial fairness. Back and forth debating between our Politicians, health officials and the fight for equality, not to mention the lack of employment. How does one remain true to themselves while supporting others in their quest for change. So much to digest in one month that I am sure almost everyone is ready to celebrate the holiday of Independence.
This 4th of July will be a different kind of event. Instead of partying and fellowship there will be distance and masks.
Along with hot dogs, hamburgers and potato salad will be
hand washing and sanitizer. Laughter and fun might just be done at home watching the television and listening to the Star Spangle Banner over the radio.
There will definitely be a sigh of relief and hopefully a time to appreciate what good health is to have and what a great country we live in. Although at times many forget how lucky we are to live in a country that is about freedom.
For freedom is not just about being able to wake up in the morning and obtaining the things that you desire monetarily or choosing how you want to worship your God.
it is also about being able to embrace who you need to be and allowing yourself to choose your destiny. Within each of us is the gift of Spiritual freedom. This Gift is given to us in the non physical world and remains with us through our adventures into the physical. It can allow us success, happiness, even love. It may bring turmoil, disaster or lack of, depending on how we focus and what we attract to it. It is a gift given to everyone whether you are young, old, rich, poor, healthy or not.
This gift is what you learn from your time and experiences while on your journey here in the physical. It enhances your life when you live in gratitude for what you have and where you are in the moment.
It teaches you to love the best parts of you and allows the best in others. It brings you abundance and shows you the wealth in each living creature. Instead of judging others you see their beauty by the colors that encircle them, not the color of their skin.
This freedom is what comes from your heart and not the words of others. Trust in yourself and you attract trust from the Universe. Stay in the intention of love and you will attract the same in what you desire to have. Be free to be who you are without worrying, for worrying does not make things better, it just becomes an interference. Thoughts to your path are like cars on the road. It takes longer to get to the end of the street when there are road blocks. The world right now is a place of relocation and change. I have noticed and felt energy of fear, complication, anger and separation. People are confused, which is the natural order of change.
Change introduces the unknown, and the unknown brings on all different emotions. You are responsible for any and all reactions that you encounter. Remember who you are and what allows you to have your joy. Stay focused on that and deal with what comes your way in the moment. Complete your day knowing that you did what works best for you. If you embrace your Spiritual Freedom, you will find your garden at the end of the forest.
This is a time to be patient with yourself and with others.
Allow those around you to answer to changes the way that works best for them. Do not judge them for how their reacting to things, they may be living in grief, denial or even pain. However they react it belongs to them not you.
May you and your family enjoy all the freedom that is given to you.
Happy Independence day !
Please stay safe and wear a mask.
In joy
Dino

“Once there is a distance between you and your thought process, a new freedom is born. With this freedom, a new perception arises.”

Sadhguru

Gratitude , Prayers and Love to all who serve our Country !

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My 15th week inside.

6/27/2020

Change!

“Be the change that you wish to
see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi

It has not been all good news,
but I am starting to see a change in the world

I create my own reality.

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

I am knowing I will get through this 15th week of isolation

Pray for peace,
stay in the moment and wear a mask!
be safe, healthy and happy.
In joy,
Dino

dino@dinocalabrese.com / www.joyousdino.com
(408) 348-4472

My 14th week of isolation.

6/21/2020

“ We may have all come on different ships,
but we’re in the same boat now.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

This past week was kind of a comedy of errors.
Can we just get on the same page people!

Prayers to the protesters that have planted the seeds for their future.

“I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot:
together we can do great things.”
Mother Teresa

I am knowing I will get through this 14th week of isolation

Pray for peace,
stay in the moment and wear a mask!
be safe, healthy and happy.
In joy,
Dino

dino@dinocalabrese.com / www.joyousdino.com
(408) 348-4472

Happy Father's Day!

6/21/2020

Love you Pop!

A father is neither an
anchor to hold us back,
nor a sail to take us there,
but a guiding light whose
love shows us the way.

Happy Fathers Day !
in joy,
Dino

dino@dinocalabrese.com / www.joyousdino.com
(408) 348-4472