Bless you for your anger.
For it is a sign of rising energy.
Direct not to your family, waste not on your enemy.
Transform the energy to versatility
And it will bring you prosperity.
Bless you for your sorrow
For it is a sign of vulnerability.
Share not with your family, direct not to yourself.
Transform the energy to sympathy
And it will bring you love.
Bless you for your greed
For it is a sign of great capacity.
Direct not to your family. Direct not to the world.
Transform the energy to giving.
Give as much as you wish to take,
And you will receive satisfaction.
Bless you for your jealousy
For it is a sign of empathy
Direct not to your family, direct not to your friends.
Transform the energy to admiration
And what you admire
Will become part of your life
Bless you for your fear
For it is a sign of wisdom.
Do not hold yourself in fear.
Transform the energy to flexibility
And you will be free
From what you fear.
Bless you for your search of direction
For it is a sign of aspiration.
Transform the energy to receptivity
And the direction will come to you.
Bless you for the times you see evil.
Evil is energy mishandled and it feeds on your support.
Feed not and it will self-destruct.
Shed light and it will cease to be.
Bless you for the times you feel no love.
Open your heart to life anyway
and in time you will find
love in you.
Bless you, bless you, bless you.
Bless you for what you are.
You are a sea of goodness, a sea of love.
Count your blessings every day for they are your protection
Which stands between you and what you wish not.
Count your curses and they will be a wall
Which stands between you and what you wish.
The world has all that you need
And you have the power
to attract what you wish.
Wish for health, wish for joy.
Remember you are loved.
I love you!
y.o.
"Revelations" by Yoko Ono with Cat Power from the album "Yes, I'm A Witch" available here.
Bless you
for the Rainbow Relevations
for your wisdom, talent, energy and activism.
for the love and peace you continue to show the world.
for giving us the seeds to nurture and cultivate.
Thank you for caring so much.
Remember you are loved too!
A timely revelation during a period of memory and change.
Anger is a strength. I have struggled in my life to use anger positively. Violence used to be a response within me. I learned how to put it into my work. My anger bought me prosperity. Its not just a wage. Its what you do to earn it.
My anger feeds on my sorrow that those things that happened to me when institutionalised as a disabled person still happen to other disabled people and yet carers, moms and dads brothers and sisters still object to independence. I am also sorrowful that the lessons of the community care revolution of the 80′s have not been learned during this era of independence and personalisation and no one is working hard enough to change society so that it welcomes us when we leave our prisons
A search for direction is setting in. I am very fearful about what is happening within the voluntary sector. We seem to have got into bed with well dressed devils and they are controlling which way we move to the extent that we are forgetting to listen to the people that we are here to support. The sector i work in should always be about our people, not government programmes. Maybe i should be telling people this.
I’d like to know that people are listening.
i love you and you and you and you make love happen
"Sometimes in life we make a decision, rushed or calculated, for better for worst……….. none the less we make them. Once we make them and the light that we thought would be there to greet us has dissolved into a million light particles to diffuse through space and time has left before you have a chance to manifest what you believed to be your destiny. i believed so in my dream, and still do but I find the world we are living in at the moment is so painful even though i carry heaven within my soul. I am lost even though i carry a shining light within, i shout and feel that i cannot be heard, i understand and yet i feel that i cannot reach out……… i know that i am not alone and that so many of us are the same……….. i am reaching out the first time ever, i think some times you hit a crisis in life and all starts to peel away, leaving u exposed to the very core that u are trying to protect, i ask myself why do we walk a path that light is slowly fading…….. i want to give , i want to share, i feel that i am different and yet this is a weight as the expected is that which i am not. As an artist i know that the journey is life, i look around and see in the physical world that nobody wants to know .I have been protecting myself for my whole life , forgiving all that is not right but even the righteous have a bad day and today is my awakening to a reality that i have avoided. Have you had these experiences on your pathway? Sorry to burden you but i need to know that there is still light at the end of the tunnel. Why do we have to be exposed to the negative energies that i feel are a vortex just consuming mankind of all its kindness. Please forgive me for this outburst but i feel that i know you even though we are unknow to each other…………. i hope that one day the dream i hold true to my soul is real and alive.
I am following your an acorn a day, this is helping me to keep a focus ………………. love, treasures and all beautiful things to us all………. manifestations of all that is good."
"LOVE AND LIGHT"
I hope we meet one day
kind regards
samm:)
Yoko Ono
June 20 at 3:36am
Life can be very tough. But if it isn't, you'll never learn.
When I was totally depressed about losing my husband, John, I looked at myself in the mirror and felt terrible. Because I looked all stiff with a saggy mouth. I told myself that I had to stop my mouth looking saggy. So I smiled in the mirror. Yes. That looked better. Then I kept practicing to smile in the mirror. Finally my whole body was smiling. It took a long time to be how I am now – 27 years from my husband's passing. I had to do it little by little every day to get well. I hope you will, too.
To dance through life is a conceptual act.
You let your heart dance. You let your body dance in your mind as you walk. You'll be surprised what happens.
A good one: listen to the rhythm of "dancing" in your mind when you are confronted by unpleasant people. You will find yourself being pleasant to them, and you can wash them off your mind very easily afterwards.
Be satisfied with being you, and how you communicate.
There are billions of people out there.
Some people will definitely be touched by the way you communicate, rather than way John and I did.
So believe in yourself, and communicate your thoughts exactly in the way you think.
That's the best you can give to the world.
When I was struggling to make a living, I did everything I could – from being a waitress to being a translator. I always felt that creative work I did was something sacred and I did not want to commercialize it. Maybe it is hard to have such an attitude these days. So I don't know. Just do what you can do to survive but never compromise with your artwork.
love
yoko
"Thank-you for planting the seeds, 100 acorns has been a wonderful way of being able to express my inner world, it is only the beginning of my creative soul journey. I am humbled that I could share this experience with so many other souls.I am not afraid to manifest.In LOVE & LIGHT to you YOKO and all that have been part of this illuminating journey."
Besos
samm:)x
<3
I love you Yoko. Thank you for your acorns; I will miss the joy they bring me every morning.
Yoko,
Thank you so much for sharing your acorns. You have filled my life with so many new things I want to share with others.
Bless you!
Love and Light to you Yoko.
To all you the acorn lovers,
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. You have shed light in my life. How blessed I feel!!!
Love and Light to you all!!!
LA
I’m just drinking this one in.
This is a blessing…these thoughts and ideas. You are loved as well, dear Yoko.
and you are loved back!
yoko, this is one of the most heartening things i’ve seen. thank you for constantly putting inspiration into the world. i love you.
How beautiful. Life instructions. I think I will print them out and put them in my wallet.
Yoko~
Oh how jealous I am of you and all artists out there that have something beautiful and tangable to offer, something that you have made for everyone to see and share.
My only “gift” is empathy. Tears. Yeah, I can put a sentence or two together but no one is really listening. I am stuck with emotion. I feel so much, ALL THE TIME!!
When I read about what happend with John I instantly imagined the feelings. The shock, the tragedy. The thought of Sean only being 4 breaks my heart. The thought of you going up to your apartment alone breaks my heart. The thought of you being lonely breaks my heart. I wish I could fix everything. I wish things would have been different. I am sorry, and I want you to know that I pray for you and Sean and yes, John, you are in my thought and prayers.
Contrary to John’s idea, I do imagine there is a heaven. There has to be, there is too much un-tapped good in this world. More love than you can imagine. We hear about all the bad, but there is so much Love it would blow our minds. I always reflect back to the version of Ave Maria that Bono sang with Pavarotti because it put the unbalance so eloquently… “Ave Maria, where is the justice in this world? The wicked make so much noise Mother, the righteous stay oddly still. With no wisdom all of the riches in the world leave us poor tonight. And strength is not without humility, it’s weakness an untreatable disease, and war is always the choice of chosen who will not have to fight.”
These acorns have fit right in with my life mood this summer… “what is my purpose.” Well, I still have little direction, but I believe it will come. I would love to make a positive impact on the world some way, some how.
Please keep up your work, you are an amazing person. If you ever need anything, a kind word, anything, I will be here for you. (I requested to be your myspace friend. If you want.) Love Love Love from me to you forever. Jamie (Lavinialuna)
I forgot (in my above post as Jamie) to thank all of you who regularly wrote, all who read. It made me feel a part of a beatiful little community where I felt safe and welcome. I am better for the experience. God Bless All
Blessings in return to you and all you love.
Thank you for doing this.
I’m making a wish…
AE08
Your poem is so powerful that I want to use it as part of my daughter’s nighttime ritual for bed. She is dealing with some very difficult emotions, and it will be a good prayer for her to meditate upon.
Bless you, Yoko. I honor your wisdom, for it is a gift of experience and hope in these times.
and in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make….
Sgt P
I feel rich on the inside. Wealth beyond measure, no bank can contain these riches. I will be sad when this ends, as it reminds me about what is so great about humans.
how true…
let’s all shine
Today has been a very hard journey at work, so just some minutes ago when in the train returning back home, I was counting my curses, torturing myself with more curses and curses, ….thousand curses… “coming in in all directions white shining silver curses with their nose in flames. I saw curses, curses, curses…,” then I have thought in this Yoko’s Revelations and I’ve said to myself to better start counting my blessings because I was rolling down into a bleak midwinter night where I was going to get compleately frozen, but to my dismay I haven’t been able to count any blessing.
Oh no! I have thought, I haven’t any blesssing. I’m useless! but before getting completely depressed I have thought in a conversation I had with a friend. I told her that I thought that I was a person with no personality at all, and she told me, but yes you have personality: Not having personality, that’s your personality!
The strange thing is that my friend’s reaction instead of depressing me more, it worked like a kind of relief to me. So now I have related to my friend’s point of view to resolve my problem with counting blessings and this is what I think: Well…, maybe not being able to count one’s blessings is a kind of blessing! This will be my starting point from now on!
I wish you all not to be as dumb as me and find thousand blessings to count.
Good night. Sleep tight. (Is midnight in Spain, and it’s cold)
Dear Yoko,
I have no words to express what genius and truth I believe that you have shown here.
Bless you for all of these things as well,and for inspiring us all to do these things.
P.S. you need to edit the small mistake in:
“Do not hold yourself in fear.
Transform theenerfy to flexibility”
Other than that it’s absolutley perfect!:D