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I started out with nothing and I still have most of it. Michael Davis- Philosopher

INTRODUCTION TO SHORT SLEEVES INSIGHTS THE BOOK

Where this book began and where it ends is hard to put in words.

The thoughts throughout the book are recorded in linear time,

but they describe a world that is void of our perception of time.

I use the term “All There Is” frequently in the book in order to define our source. It is the connecting phrase that unites the concept of oneness in spirit that makes all of us the same, yet

diverse, in physical form. It is the force of energy that expands

and grows as we realize who we really are.

We are all here to become grander versions of the spirit that is

eternally connected to All There Is. All the people who gave

me the inspiration to write this book knew that and shared that

knowledge freely. The message is simple: we are all connected

to an eternal stream of consciousness that is waiting for us to

remember that truth. Once the light goes on, our physical life

takes on another dimension. We begin to use our intuition and

feelings to make choices that affect the quality of our daily experiences.
 
We accept and forgive rather than
fight and kill.

We reduce anger and judgment down to a four-letter word:

LOVE,
and we
fill our thoughts with it.

The energy of our source
vibrates in joy and peace, and abundance becomes the rule,not

the exception.


The power to connect to this other world is within all of us.

Our thoughts create our experiences and we express our

beliefs and become what we think.

Reading the words of the great sages in this book will awaken

another aspect of your consciousness and I believe you will

remember that we all are spirits having a human experience and

we do it by living an ordinary life in a non-ordinary way.


AUTHOR'S NOTE FROM SHORT SLEEVES INSIGHTS

This book contains essays that were written in 2007 and posted to my

daily blog (http://halmanogue.blogspot.com/). I write in the morning,

usually beginning before sunrise, in my home office. I have no idea

what I am going to write about each day. I begin with a prayer of

thanks and ask for inspiration from my source. I check my e-mails and

my friend’s blog to see what treats they have on their sites. I briefly

read the news, eat a breakfast snack and drink a glass of water.

Then I start to write a poem—usually three or four lines that I will use

when I work on my poetry collection for the year.


I have been studying various subjects over the last twenty years and

have a wonderful collection of books that surround me in my office.

Each morning I pick one of them and begin reading. Within fifteen

minutes or so, I have material for my blog. Some distant sage or

teacher or writer is there with me in my office, offering words of wisdom.

I follow my emotions and begin writing. The essays write themselves.

I punch the keys to spell the words, but the essence of thought is

already there. It unites with the rest of the collection and each one is

fi lled with love from a distant time and place.


This collection expresses the love of life and the glory of living it.

Although it was written in 2007, it is not restricted by this time/

space world. All of the thoughts are universal and exist in the

consciousness of everyone. The message of unity within me rings out

through the pages. The thoughts creating my reality are confirmed in

every language, religion, and time period. I co-create my world and

choose how to experience it. I express those experiences in my words

and actions and I become what I believe.


I have divided the book into eleven sections. There is an ancient

symbol before each section that refl ects a thought. These symbols

come from the Viking era and were used as an oracle to direct the

choices made in physical life. The eleven runes chosen from the

twenty-five available are positive signs of well-being. This book is all

about the power we have within us to create and experience a world of

peace, love, abundance, joy and unity.

I appreciate your interest and love.

H.T.M.

Franklin, Tennessee


SHORT SLEEVES INSIGHTS DEDICATION

Dedication

To my parents Peggy and Ham


Each Other


In Gratitude

We Become

The Giver

And

The Receiver


In Love

We Become

The Gift


In Beauty

We Become

Diverse


In Truth

We Become

Whole


In Light

We Become

One


In Life

We Become

Each Other


Hal Manogue
 From the 2008 Collection of

Short Sleeves A Book for Friends

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Copyright .................................................................................2

Special Thanks .........................................................................4

Contents ...................................................................................5

Author’s Note ...........................................................................10

Hal’s Facts ................................................................................12

Moment of Thanks ...................................................................14

Introduction ..............................................................................15

A Note about the Editor ...........................................................17

I’ve Had Secrets! ......................................................................19

Opening ...................................................................................21

1. All Streams Start Somewhere! .........................................22

2. A Sense of Matter .............................................................24

3. Stressed Out? ....................................................................26

4. A Thousand Years Forgotten ............................................28

5. A Word about Nothing ......................................................30

6. Being is What?..................................................................32

7. I am Living Art .................................................................34

8. Birds Don’t Resemble Eggs ..............................................37

9. I Found it by Myself ..........................................................39

10. The Truth Is ..............................................................................41

11. Good Morning .................................................................44

12. Here’s to a New Level of Thinking ................................45

13. Twilight ...........................................................................47

The Self....................................................................................49

1. A Heart Full Of Honey .....................................................50

2. A Loftier Race? ................................................................52

3. Am I a Bird or a Worm? ...................................................54

4. A Puddle of Illusions ........................................................56

5. A Spotless Mind ...............................................................58

6. Green and Blue Make Turquoise ......................................60

7. The Snake-Catcher and the Frozen Snake ........................62

8. How Am I Marking Time? ...............................................65

9. I’ve Got To Stop Killing Myself! ......................................67

10. I am a Protoplasmal Primordial Atomic Globule! ..........69

11. Mirror, Mirror, Is That Me That I See?...........................71

12. Look at Me. I’m the Bee, Butterfl y, Brook, and Breeze .73

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Movement ................................................................................

1. An Ocean Sits Within Me .................................................76

2. Judge Me Not! ...................................................................78

3. As I Learn, I Change .........................................................80

4. Are You Ready to Make a Leap? ......................................82

5. Embraceable Me ................................................................84

6. Everything is Signifi cant ...................................................86

7. Exit and Enter Gracefully .................................................88

8. Get on the Elephant ...........................................................90

9. Earth Rocks .......................................................................92

10. Gnats against the Wind ...................................................94

11. Yea, I Am In Awe! ...........................................................96

12. Time to Pop the Lid off the Box ......................................98

Growth ....................................................................................101

1. A Cinder of Unity ..............................................................102

2. A Flowering Universe .......................................................104

3. A Seed of Change ..............................................................106

4. A Smile, a Kiss and a Heart Filled with Gratitude ...........108

5. A Stage of Fools ................................................................110

6. Circles on Water ............................................................... 112

7. From My World to Yours ................................................. 114

8. Gaps of Silence ................................................................ 116

9. Girl in Love ...................................................................... 118

10. How’s my Garden Grow? ............................................... 120

11. Trust Would Settle Every Problem Now ........................ 122

12. Okay, I Accept Myself! .................................................. 124

Gateway .................................................................................. 127

1. A Flowing Silence ............................................................ 128

2. Theory of What? .............................................................. 131

3. Am I Dreaming Or What? ............................................... 133

4. Break Time ....................................................................... 135

5. Day Dream Believer ......................................................... 137

6. Death by Design? ............................................................. 139

7. Fuel for Thought ............................................................... 141

8. Hide And Seek Anyone? .................................................. 143

9. I make Footprints! ............................................................ 145

10. I’m a Little Square .......................................................... 147

11. Unformed or Cooked? .................................................... 151

12. Where Are My Keys? ..................................................... 153

13. Which Road Is It? ........................................................... 155

Breakthrough ........................................................................ 157

1. You’re Welcome ............................................................... 158

2. A Struggle-free Reality .................................................... 160

3. Comparisons are Odious .................................................. 162

4. Enlighten What? .............................................................. 164

5. My Trash is Less Trashy! ................................................. 166

6. Here’s To Self-Being ........................................................ 168

7. Here’s to the End .............................................................. 170

8. Infi nite Play Anyone? ....................................................... 172

9. The Sheltered Life! ........................................................... 173

10. Outrageous? It Doesn’t Matter! ...................................... 175

11. I Dare to Be Myself! ....................................................... 176

12. New Ideas? Or Forgotten Ones? ....................................178

13. Nothing Happened and I Want to Report It! ..................179

14. What Will it Take To Change? .......................................181

15. Which Way is the Door? ................................................ 183

Flow ........................................................................................ 185

1. A Cling-less Creature ....................................................... 186

2. A Form of Formlessness .................................................. 188

3. An Island or a Continent? ................................................ 190

4. Does a Pebble Ever Die? .................................................. 192

5. Every Now of It ................................................................ 194

6. History Smiles ................................................................. 196

7. Got A Match? ................................................................... 198

8. House Made of Dawn ...................................................... 200

9. Just Let the Creativity Flow ............................................. 202

10. We Belong To Each Other .............................................. 204

11. Who is Living Life? ....................................................... 206

12. Silence ............................................................................ 207

Joy ........................................................................................... 209

1. Am I Really Full of BS? .................................................. 210

2. Am I Having Fun Yet? ..................................................... 212

3. A Pack Rat of Love .......................................................... 214

4. A Sneerless World............................................................ 216

5. A Sweat Shop or Magic Shop? ........................................ 218

6. Boogie to the Bop! ........................................................... 220

7. Come Easy, Go Easy ........................................................ 222

8. Convulsive Respiration .................................................... 224

9. Did You Hear the One… .................................................. 226

10. Glowing in Light ............................................................ 228

11. Harmony of Thoughts .................................................... 230

12. I’m Framed in Space ...................................................... 232

Harvest ................................................................................... 235

1. A Vessel of Freedom ........................................................ 236

2. To be a Tree! .................................................................... 238

3. My Ego Shakes And Wiggles .......................................... 240

4. The Mouse and the Cheese .............................................. 242

5. Forever and Ever .............................................................. 244

6. From My Heart and Eyes ................................................. 246

7. My Offering Is Peace. What’s Yours?.............................. 248

8. Good Manners Anyone? .................................................. 250

9. Hope Has Feathers ........................................................... 252

10. Fields Of Buttercups ...................................................... 254

11. Love Diet ........................................................................ 256

12. With Each Breath ........................................................... 258

Journey ................................................................................... 261

1. A Choice of Consciousness .............................................. 262

2. A Creature of the Now ..................................................... 264

3. A Dried up Puddle of Problems ....................................... 265

4. A Puff in My Sky ............................................................ 267

5. I Am the Future ............................................................... 269

6. A Sage or Ordinary Man ................................................. 271

7. A World of Snores ............................................................ 272

8. Double Vision? How about Quadruple Vision? ............... 274

9. Faster than the Speed of Light ......................................... 276

10. What is Real? ................................................................. 278

11. The Tooth Fairy and Santa ............................................. 280

12. The River of Time .......................................................... 282

Wholeness ............................................................................... 285

1. A Child in a Week ............................................................ 286

2. A Little Soul Searching? .................................................. 288

3. Am I Forgetting Something? ........................................... 290

4. Am I Young Enough? ...................................................... 292

5. An Eruption of Emotions ................................................. 295

6. An Untangled Web ............................................................297

7. Body Intelligence ..............................................................299

8. Bridge of Love ..................................................................302

9. Champagne Anyone? ........................................................305

10. I Will Meet You There ....................................................307

11. How Sweet the Lilt ..........................................................309

12. Shadow Clings to Form ...................................................311

One More Thought ..............................................................315

Acknowledgments ...............................................................318

Contact Page ........................................................................320

About the Author.................................................................321


 
 
 
 
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