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Showing posts with label -2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label -2014. Show all posts

7 December 2014

11 October 2014

7 October 2014

Event highlights (2014)



Create

  • Wisdom Trove:  851 hours
  • Blog: 232 hours
  • Compass: 143 hours
  • DIY:  150 hours


Cape Town

  • Weekend away with Herds
  • Table Mountain with Russell
  • Volleyball on Camps Bay
  • Paragliding
  • Ratanga Junction
  • Bo Kaap
  • World of Birds
  • Hint Hunt


Weekend away

  • Mount Kosciuszko
  • Kangaroo Valley (x2)
  • Blue Mountains with hiking gang
  • Newnes mine and glowworms
  • Shoalhaven River
  • Barrington Tops
  • Central Coast with Chrisel (x2)


Hikes

  • Sculptured Rocks (Chrisel)
  • Royal National Park (reflections)
  • Manly Scenic walk. 
  • Royal National Park  (Burning Palms)
  • Le Perouse
  • Mermaid Pools (x2)


Spirituality

  • Geraldine celebration
  • Nic  group
  • HAI meditation evening + workshop
  • Biodanza (2x)
  • Don Miguel presentation.
  • Jilly (Eckhart)
  • 5 sessions with Louise


Social

  • Sappho Book store 
  • Opera House underwater + Extreme
  • Liz's 40 th
  • Sue 70th birthday


Wisdom Trove

  • Do quotes by topic
  • Wisdom Trove: 841 hours


6 October 2014

Spiritual Moments (2014)


Spiritual

  • The Work (Byron Katie) - work on illusions (assurance)
  • Mantra on walk, in morning


Moments

  • Love to Quanta Qualia
  • At Nick "Everything so perfect"
  • Nothing keeping me from joy …
  • Shooting stars when bless Dani
  • Watching Tracks
  • Peace after Geraldine's celebraton
  • Deep love and crying on walks 
  • Deep love to music
  • Bless Dani's relationship (birds)
  • Deep love to music. 
  • Love for fly after hike.
  • Crying to Robert Glass

7 September 2014

Priceless moments (2014)


Cape Town

  • Leaping on Table Mountain - naked + overhang
  • Playing with Matt (Boulders, dungeon)
  • Paragliding, slingshot
  • Breede River weekend


Hiking

  • Mount Kuziosko (Alpine Lakes) + leaping
  • Blue Mountain long weekend with gang
  • Barrington Tops love in forest
  • Newnes mine and glowworms
  • Shoalhaven River
  • Mermaid Pools (x2)
  • Swimming on Meet Up hikes


Chrisel

  • Sculptured Rocks hike
  • Central Coast (x2) - especially smorgasboard
  • Botanical Garden after Opera House
  • Picnic and lamb shanks
  • Babootie
  • Chicken soup
  • How to Tame Your Dragon


Dec

  • i-Phone 6, especially photography


Movies


7 August 2014

Insights (2014)

  • Everything is perfect.  Innate perfection in every single thing. 
  • Love is all that's real. All else is a lie.
  • My purpose: love and laughter, wonder and wisdom.
  • All thoughts that are not loving or peaceful are a lie.
  • I am …  It is …
  • Love it all. Hate nothing. Love what is.
  • Approval / disapproval is just someone's story (opinion.) Not worth anything as not certain of it.
  • My job is to to approve of myself, not seek approval or love externally.
  • I am breathed. I am thought.
  • Don't take anything personally. Their projections.
  • Whose business is this? Mine? Hers? Gods?
  • Conscious of psychic energy drain (energy parasites) - track energy
  • Plan ahead as much as I review past. Plan trips like military operation.
  • It's all about raising my state of consciousness. Ladder of consciousness.
  • The power of intention.  Set intention. That's all I really have control over.
  • Treat myself with the love and respect of a cherished friend.  Infinite patience and compassion.
  • No more Mr Nice Guy. Meet my own needs.

7 June 2014

Progress (2014)



Life-Trove and Compass

  • Blog: labels, priceless moments, post intro's
  • Blog: priceless moments for each year
  • Humour - in excel, really make people laugh.
  • First full year recorded in Excel
  • Using Facebook to promote my photos, blog and life.  Connect to friends.


Photography

  • Camera (Canon S110, iphone 6, Canon 70d)
  • Making photo collages into art form
  • Hiking photography becoming art.
  • Start photographing small moments of life too.


Life

  • Movie downloads + headphones
  • House maintenance
  • Life full of social and adventure (a sundae).


Health

  • Power of catnaps
  • Smoothies
  • Press ups (looking good)
  • A great circle of friends (hiking gang)

7 May 2014

Connect (2014)


Connect

  • Chrisel
  • Family (Cape Town)
  • Geraldine pass away
  • Liz (Blogstruck)
  • Thank you letters (mum, Jo)
  • Email to Matt, Sam
  • Jo farewell (My friend)
  • Liz Kindle
  • Bithday letter to Sue + blog post
  • Lydia (help with site)
  • Letter to Chrisel


Friends

  • Jilly (Eckhart), James, Craig, Chris
  • Roger (dinners, Xmas outings)
  • Andreas
  • Sue
  • The Hurds (Brandon, Warren)


Meet Up

  • Liz, Zante, Michelle, Gavin, Lauren, Srini, Elna
  • Ken (Barrington Tops)
  • Kenny, Cloris
  • Wendy & Rob
  • Jo
  • Howard
  • Hugh
  • Catty (Galapagos girl)
  • David and Yen
  • JC


Teachers

  • Nic
  • Louise
  • Deborah (erotic meditation)


More

  • Inspire Srini to sieze life
  • Jilly let off with a warning. Got her off $ 500.   
  • 2 minute talk on intimacy - Joanna wanted to cry

7 April 2014

Affirmation (2014)


Proud

  • Christina:  "You're very calming. Beautiful energy."  Share re depression and spirituality.
  • Jo "Highest EQ of anyone ever met. Should be life coach or counsellor."
  • Elna interested in me romantically.
  • Shoalhavem guy "Find conversation extremely inspiring.  So rare."
  • Gavin: "He could make a sewerage work look beautiful."
  • Matt in blog for hrs when could not sleep.
  • JC: Its always a great laugh when your around... 
  • Much energy in your pelvis.  Use it."  Deborah
  • I rarely see a photograph I might call 'art' but your groups of photographs sensitively collaged I think do work as art.  Ken
  • Site for Lydia and got domain working.
  • Chrisel: Inspired by your calmness, kindness. (Kindness most Nb quality)
  • Making girls laugh in mountains. 
  • Chrisel interested & Liz
  • Home maintenance (especially hole in toilet wall)
  • Brandon:  "You're one in twelve funny people."
  • Heather "You've changed.  Calmer."
  • Jo: "You're in tune with emotions of others. Made me calmer."
  • Liz: Your poetry brought me to to tears. 
  • Greatly inspired Srini.
  • Carrying pack at hike.


Photography

  • Shoalhaven:  Hey Graeme, these photos are fantastic. I watched them many times! Sara
  • Shoalhaven:  Wowee.. fantasticly, awesome pics!  I tried to leave a comment on your blog but it didn't take.. going to show my students your blog today.. such a great account of the adventure :-)  Ann Marie
  • Shoalhaven:  A famous hiking photographer Graeme Myburgh has some more amazing shots from the weekend.  JC
  • Liz:  I don't know if this sounds odd, but all of your photos have this very positive, uplifting feel about them.  They give a sense of hope, wonder, awe and a general sense that everything is right with the world.
  • Gavin:  Graeme has magic within his fingers like that of a god. With the click of his fingers he captures life in its purest form, with such raw emotion.
  • Ken: I rarely see a photograph I might call 'art' but your groups of photographs sensitively collaged I think do work as art. 
  • Gavin: “Graeme could make a sewerage work look beautiful.”
  • Gavin: "Never get enough of your photos. Sit on toilet, end up there for 1.5 hours.


Life Trove

  • Liz:  Since you gave us the link, I have been snooping around your blog. And all I can say is WOW!!!! It is an absolutely extraordinary piece of work.   Firstly, Your photos are beyond amazing.  I don't know if this sounds odd, but all of your photos have this very positive, uplifting feel about them.  They give a sense of hope, wonder, awe and a general sense that everything is right with the world (sorry for getting a bit deep there).  Anyway, there is definitely a gallery waiting with your name on it!  A few of my favourites are the "Torres Del Paine, Chile" with the sunlight hitting the peaks, the lion sitting so grandly and looking so majestic, the moon setting over the 12 Apostles, the sun setting behind the elephant, the sunset one with the boat in the water (you must have taken it recently)....really I could name so many more.... Your memoirs are so warm, honest and funny.  Its great reading about your family and seeing photos when you were a boy...with hair  (haha).  Your poetry brought me to to tears (particularly the one entitled 'The Child' for a couple different reasons).  I love poetry and used to write heaps as a child and in my teens but I haven't done so for ages.
  • Chrisel:  I lost myself for a couple of hours in your treasure trove...what an incredible collection of memories you have created there. You must be so proud of yourself; seriously to be so in touch with all your most valued people/experiences is very admirable. And the photos! Those South America photos are amaaaaaaazing!  Wow, you really are a master photographer and writer (I still believe that you have missed your calling and should be a writer/photographer!). Thanks also for being so complementary about my family and your time here - I showed them all the entries about them and they loved it!  
  • Sean:  Hi Graeme, a blast from the past but I was thinking about my old school friends on the weekend and looked you up. I read your blog and wow, you live life to the full. 

7 February 2014

Challenges (2014)


Relationships and lack of

  • Obsession re Chrisel (should I make move or not?)
  • Feeling unattractive, bald, greying, ageing.
  • Rejections (Mandy, Chrisel)
  • S thoughts


Dani

  • Dani (especially email re new relationship)
  • "Oversharing" in my letter to Dani


More

  • Matt, housemate - super self conscious, being judged
  • Sick and zyprexa withdrawal (by mistake)
  • Leaking ceiling - copper pipes ?

2 February 2014

Louise Kramer


Sessions with Louise
  • I heard about Louise through Nerium through Louise's relayed wisdom: "You do the best you can with where you're at." The best you can at the level of consciousness you're at.
  • Introduced me to Don Miguel Ruiz. Don't take things personally. A person perceives you through their story.  Don Miguel happened to be doing a presentation in Sydney which I went to.
  • Introduced me to Byron Katie and The Work.  Inspired my "enquiry" and "assurance."  Helped me get over Dani and hellish thoughts. Also transcend judgements of others.
  • First person I spoke to about Wisdom Trove. Gave her access. She gave me a lot of encouragement, especially about approval seeking.


Approval seeking (something I wrote, inspired by our sessions)


My need to be approved by others is my own need to be approved by myself. To seek approval is to assume I'm not whole.

In seeking approval, I pay a heavy price ...
  • I waste energy and time, the precious stuff that life is made of.
  • I'm driven to try to manipulate you and your mind.
  • I stop sharing all of myself.
  • I sacrifice my uniqueness in an attempt to fit in.
  • I pretend to be who I am not. Then when you say "I love you," I can't believe it, because I know you're loving someone that doesn't exist.
  • I put my happiness in another's keeping, making myself their hostage, and I become easy to own, control and manipulate.
  • I make everyone my judge, opening up the fear of rejection.


Approval seeking is bound to lead to failure and pain ...
  • It's impossible to control what others think.
  • It's impossible to please everyone. In fact trying to do so is the surest way to fail.
  • Even the warmest and most sincere approval can be taken away at any time for any reason.


External approval is actually worth very little ...
  • When someone says they approve of me, I can never know for sure if it's sincere or even true.
  • The approval of another is just their projection; part of their story. When someone approves of me, they're approving of their story of me; not me myself.
  • Approval can be taken away at the snap of a finger.


Letting go of the need for approval brings wonderful rewards ...
  • I am able to be me. That's true freedom.
  • My eyes are opened to my natural wealth and I start gaining my own approval and respect.
  • I become a student. I'm totally open.
  • I become tranquil and peaceful.
  • Paradoxically, the less I care about seeking approval, the more I tend to get.


I free myself of the need to seek approval from others ...
  • Life is too short to waste time waiting for other people to approve of me and how I live my life.
  • I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy.  And to be a loving space for consciousness to flow through me.  If others approve of me, that's wonderful. And if they don't approve of me, that's good too. It doesn't effect my life or happiness.
  • The only person I want approval from is me. Instead of seeking love and acceptance from others, I work on loving and accepting myself.
  • I don't want people's approval. I want people to  think the way they think. That's love. I focus far more on recognising the treasure in others than on trying to get them to recognise the merits in me.
  • I realise deeply that the source of what I seek externally is in me already. I am perfect and complete with everything I need right here, right now to be happy. My happiness depends on nothing external, including the approval of others.

7 January 2014

Non fiction books read (2014)


Spiritual awakening

  • The Mystery Experience: A revolutionary approach to spiritual awakening (Tim Freke)



The map of consciousness

  • I: Reality and Subjectivity (David R. Hawkins M.D. Ph.D.)



Enquiry and assurance

  • Question Your Thinking, Change The World: Quotations from Byron Katie (Byron Katie)
  • Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (Byron Katie )



Don Miguel Ruiz

  • The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (Don Miguel Ruiz)
  • The Fifth Agreement: A Practical Guide to Self-Mastery (Don Miguel Ruiz)




Experience curating

  • Experience Curating: How to Gain Focus, Increase Influence, and Simplify Your Life (Joel Zaslofsky)



Assertiveness

  • No More Mr. Nice Guy (Robert Glover)

3 January 2014

Highlights of 2014

7 amazing weeks in Cape Town, making wonderful friends through Meet Up and doing 30 hikes.



Priceless Moments


Less happy moments


New friends met this year


Purchases
  • Canon S110, iPhone 6



Favourite movies
  • Whiplash
  • Vikings (TV series)
  • Her
  • Tracks
  • Finding Vivien Maier
  • Interstellar
  • Gone Girl
  • Fargo (TV series)
  • 100 Foot Journey
  • Boyhood
  • True Detective (TV series)
  • Edge of Tomorrow
  • The Budapest Hotel
  • Africa (David Attenborough)


Favourite Song



2014 Index of Links

 
Time in Cape Town

7 wonderful weeks in Cape Town in April & May including ...


Hiking (26 hikes)


Walks (4 walks)


Overnight trips away


Outings


Family


Friends
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