Michelle Sager Morris:
CLASS OF 1982
Calabasas High SchoolClass of 1982
Calabasas, CA
Michelle's Story
Michelle is from Los Angeles, California. Michelle's schools include Calabasas High School. Michelle works(ed) at Shasta County Mental Health.
Movies Michelle likes include The Road Warrior, This Is Spinal Tap, Body Heat.
One of Michelle's favorite quotes is:"Nature works in calm, quiet ways, giving us what we need instead of what we want sometimes.
- Vicki Noble
Pain is the mother of change
-Will Smith
You enable irresponsible behavior by tolerating it.
-Orson Scott Card
What barrier is there that love cannot break?
-Mahatma Gandhi
When I choose to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.
- Audre Lord
Accomplishment knows no color.
- Leontyne Price
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
-Marianne Williamson
All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.
-J. R. R. Tolkien
I looked at you, you looked at me. I smiled at you, you smiled at me.
-The Doors
(And He) placed in the depth of her heart and eye that sees
the unseen, and created in her an affection and goodness toward all things.
-The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES OF THE HUNA
IKE
The world is what you think it is.
This life of ours is a dream, our dream, a dream we share with other people, with the earth, a dream we also share with ourselves, alone. This dream of our experiences, this reality as we call it, comes from inside, comes from our thoughts, our ideas, our beliefs, our fears, our desires, our angers, and our pleasures, all the ways we think produce this experience of ours. From night comes day. From thought comes reality. If we would change this reality, says this knowledge, then we must change ourselves. It is wasted energy to change the outer world alone. To truly change the outer world we must first go within and find that place which is creating the outer world, and change that. Change that fear to hope, anger to love, change that belief in a lack, to a belief in abundance. This is ekeââ¦working within to create the outer. This is the most important idea. All the following ideas come from this first one.
KALA
There are no limits,
meaning we are all connected
separation is an illusion.
Each one of us is connected, mind and body, spirit and man, earth and man, plants and animals, clouds and sky and ocean. We are all connected together. Kala says that separation is an illusion, but that because we create a sense of separateness, in our thoughts and our feelings, to that degree there is sickness in our relationships. Kala says that there is really underneath this sense of separation, a real oneness, a connection. if we can get rid of those thoughts, feelings, and acts of separation then that oneness comes together, and as this connection is made, we become healthy again, with ourselves, with others around us, with the earth. This is kala. It is a way of creating that connection, of freeing up. There is a gesture here in the islands, which means, ââhang looseâ, which is to say, when you get uptight, you create tension. When you create tension, you create separation. So, âhang looseâ, when you relax and flow with them, you are healthier, relationships are better, and, very interestingly, when you are relaxed and flowing with things, it is easier to change them. Kala is not saying that you must accept things the way they are, it says that when you relax with them you can change them easier.
MAKIA
Energy flows where attention goes.
Whenever there is a flow of energy and attention, events are created. Wherever you direct your attention and keep it directed in that way, to an object or to an idea, then the flow of energy continues. And according to the nature of your thoughts, that is the return flow you receive. So if you are putting out, thinking out positive thoughts about the world around you, positive energy flows back. That when you are putting out and thinking out negative thoughts about the world around you, then negative energy flows back. And negative results come into your life. if you are thinking out thoughts of abundance and keeping that consistently, not just once in a while, but thinking that way, then abundance flows into your life. if you are thinking thoughts of happiness and joy, consistently, then to that degree, happiness and joy come into your life. When you focus on fear and anger, then you have fear and anger in your life. You have the ability, the wonderful skill, says this knowledge, to decide how you are going to focus your thoughts, your energy, your attention, and thereby change what is flowing back into your life. So all of these ideas, sta...Expand for more
rting from that first one, are telling you how to make these changes from within that will create the changes outside.
MANAWA
Now is the time of power.
This moment, right here. There is no power in the past. There is no power in the future. That the past has no power over you. That you are the one who has power right in this moment to change what you think, and the effects of the past fail to hold you. You donât walk forward in life with any burden of the past. You walk forward in life with thoughts and ideas about yourself, and about the past. It is those ideas, in every given moment, that determines your reality. If you have beauty in your life, the way we have beauty in these islands, then you are creating this beauty now. Says this idea that you are increasing this beauty by appreciating it now. If you stop appreciating this beauty, if you start losing your sense of beauty, then so will the world around you lose its beauty, as we have seen happens some places on this earth of ours. The more you appreciate, the more you take pleasure in the moment. The future as well, does not lie waiting in front of you to move forward and bump into it. It is created in every present moment by the seeds of thought you plant now. Sometimes we have weeds from the past, but we can pull those up and plant new seeds, and create a new future. So says this knowledge. As we go along, new seeds are planted, and if we do not like what these seeds have produced, then at any time we can pull them up and plant new seeds. So it is every moment that we have our power, and there is power in everything else too.
ALOHA
means love
pure and simple
Deeper in the word is the meaning of love, which is âto be happy with, to be happy with something or some one. This is the great discovery, this most marvelous secret of this knowledge, which was discovered by these people, that to love is to be happy with. To the degree that you are happy with yourself, with people with the world around you, you are in love, and love is being expressed. But to the degree that you are criticizing, to the degree that you are angered, not pleased with, unhappy with things and people around you, you diminish love. So love has nothing to do with pain. Love has nothing to do with hurting people or being hurt. Love is the happiness, the joy, the pleasure in any relationship. Because to love is to be happy with.
MANA
means power
divine power
The concept of mana is that there is one source of power, and that source flows through each one of us. Not only us as human beings but through the earth, through every stone, through every tree, through every cloud. Mana is the inner power that gives each thing its own creativity. Mana is the power of the waves of the sea to come up and kiss the shore. Mana is the power of the wind to carry the clouds, and blow across the lands and the oceans. Mana is the power of a stone to be strong and stable. Mana is the power of human beings to be creative, in their own unique way. Mana is that source of power within each person, within each thing in this universe. And most important comes the idea, the further idea, that the power comes from within, that there is no power outside of you that has any power over you, that all the power of your existence comes from that source through yo, that whenever we think anything has power over us, whether it is nature, another person, whatever we believe has more power over our lives than we do, then all we are doing, according to this knowledge, is diminishing our own power. Holding it back, holding it down, and in a very strange way, pretending not to have the power we really have. Mana, it is a power to do something, not a power over. It is this power within each one of us, each thing, to be itself to its utmost potential. Now, the more we allow ourselves to experience this power, to feel it, to use it, to claim it, then we have that power to make ourselves reach our highest potential.
PONO
Effectiveness is the measure of truth.
There is always another way to do anything, that we are never stuck in one way, no one truth. There is no one method, technique, one kind of medicine, one way to be happy, one person you can be happy with. There are many ways to achieve your goals, to enjoy life, to fufill it. This is pono. There is always another way. The idea continues. Plans are not sacred. Your purpose might be sacred, but the way you achieve that purpose is not. if you want to achieve a given purpose, however, you must use the means suitable to that purpose. if you want to create peace, then you must use peaceful means, or you will never get peace. From violence you will only get more violence. Until people tire of violence, and get together and use peaceful means to create peace. If you start out with peace with a love of peace in your heart, says this knowledge, you will move toward peace in your life. A very, very practical truth this one is. A practical way of living with yourself and with other people.
These are the principles of this knowledge, practiced by the kapua, this knowledge called kahuna. This knowledge that comes from these islands and others like it in the Pacific, here is wisdom. If you would share this, if you would use this, take any part of it you like and apply and use it in your own life.
Serge Kahili King".
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