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The most fabulous Larry Gelbart wrote the classic Tootsie with some extremely talented help from his friends. The script that emerged directed by the inimitable Sydney Pollack showcases the best of the best, where everyone shines. Every time I get notes from people about my work I remember Bill Murray in these moments from this film that I saw when I was a kid, and I absolutely smile. "I wish I had a theater that was only open when it rains." "What happened?" Enjoy.

Bring love to your fear and watch the beauty of the universe unfold. When Love and Fearlessness meet you have the opportunity to bare witness to the revolution of your heart. The timeless intersection between these two allows as Socrates said for "the outer and inner man to be as one" striking your unique and perfect note. Setting right the world and its illusions. In this space of pure love in the absence of fear is the vibrational signature of our human destiny where our perfect tone vibrates in harmony with our being and the entire universe rejoices animating the universal heavenly symphony, this sound of our celestial DNA to move as Wordsworth said "in one society" in service to our deepest most authentic self we understand and embody the wholeness pattern of the universe. This note makes manifest the destiny of your existence enabling you to be in concert with society as a whole. As these individual notes join together the stirrings of our collective heart beco...

Even after all this time The sun never says to the earth,  “You owe Me.” Look what happens with A love like that, It lights the Whole Sky. ~Hafez ~ From: The Gift ~ Read more about Hafez here. Get out there and shine for no reason!

“It’s a new dawn. It’s a new day and I am feeling good.” For me, there is a soundtrack ever playing along to my life, I cherish the way it serves my soul and lightens my mood and feeds whatever is calling to be brought forward. In these days after my most favorite holiday, it can be a great opportunity to recenter ourselves. It is absolutely a new day for each of us to rocket into the spirit of our ancestors and get into the birth of a new nation… A nation where every child is fed — Where we take responsibility for what is ours to own; Where we express the same interest in a murder trial that we do in voting for our representatives; Where we go out of our way to be kind to someone we have never been kind to before; Where we remember we are human and as such make all the mistakes that we tend to point out and make fun of in others. This just might be the day where everything changes and you experience the most magnificent version of yourself. I hope so. Life offers up so many ...

The deepest most intense form of living and loving is listening to your intuition.  Staying open in this field of possibility allows us to be used by universal purpose. A way of being A listening at the deepest level Balance and Harmony Love and Light The way To bare witness To the truth We all come to opening up to our still small inner voice that is always aware of the most loving interaction. Intuition is the never ending waves and vibrations of divine inspiration. Always broadcasting. Tuning in keeps you connected to the moments of your life. Intuition is the built in network the dynamic matrix, web, universe, whatever you like to call it. I have a lot to say about intuition because when I ignored it I was ripped in two and when I embraced intuition it saved my life. Intuition is built into the fabric of our being at a cellular level. When we listen to our intuition we have the heavens at our command and when we forget it’s hit or miss whether w...

"If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming." - Goethe, 1749-1832 Life has a way of becoming what we are thinking. People act to our expectations. In essence what we expect we get. Make a shift into pure possibility. Expect love. Expect grace. Expect peace. Let's expect more from our partners, friends and loved ones. Let's expect more from ourselves. Let's remember to think with love and use our words and actions to demonstrate possibility in ourselves and for each other. LOVE LAND TIP #129 Melanie Lutz is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles and has worked with many of the top names in the entertainment business. She is committed to a practice of loving thought in every situation and circumstance. Read more: http://blog.beliefnet.com/flightofthesoul/#ixzz1eSoba5sX

Take that next step toward your full expression and total destiny! Walk through your fear. Tell the truth. Make the call. Open up to what you know you need to do. Stand up for what you need to stand up to. Rise into everything that awaits. From West Indies Poet Audre Lord – “When I use my strength in the service of my vision, it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.” GO ! Lots of smiles and hugs.

Whatever is occurring in your life. Release the chronic thought. Take a step back and change your perception. Open your heart. Think with love. Take a deep breath, kick back your shoulders and drill deeper into the center of your being. Take another look. LOVE LAND TIP #224 Check out Melanie Lutz's LOVE LAND ideas to open your heart with love. Read more : http://blog.beliefnet.com/flightofthesoul/2011/10/be-willing-to-see-it-differently.html#ixzz1c0NExvJi

"You Don't Ask You Don't Get" This is such a treat and so much a part of the magic of Youtube... the closing moments of the TV Show Baryshnikov on Broadway - with Liza Minnelli from 1980 uploaded with German subtitles. Wow. Using the spectacular finale number from the ever fabulous A Chorus Line the lesson "ask and ye shall receive" is punctuated with grace and elegance. Be a Singular Sensation! Today and everyday.

There is no secret, getting a daily practice of meditation in place will keep you in conscious contact to the deepest stillness of your being creating the ability to return to your center with greater and greater ease as you move through your day, avoiding the pitfalls of triggers and stress. Meditation is the answer to your peace of mind and well being as you open to deeper presence in your work, life and relationships. In this practice of connecting to yourself you prepare your body, mind and soul for the experience and presence of your life. There is no other way around it. No cheat to this process of slowing down, opening up and expanding the space between your thoughts. Get in a daily routine. Create the moments in the fullness of yourself downloading whatever files, upgrades, information that needs to be integrated to your system. In short. Meditate, meditate, meditate. This is the most rebellious and radical approach to taming your ego and getting detached from your t...

In a twist of Apple fate I got an email that I AM A GREAT MAN was to be in the Apple store the day that Steve Jobs passed away. The universe never ceases to amaze me. With all the work that I have created and sent into the world. It is an honor to have my first piece to enter into the Apple universe to be this tiny collection of works inspired by my brother's tireless pursuit of doing the right thing for his family. The picture on the cover is that of his son. My nephew. The sweetest, cutest, strongest, smartest brightest young man on the planet who will be celebrating his 4th birthday this coming weekend. It is even more curious that this work was written by me. It emerged after I wrote I AM A MAGNIFICENT WOMAN and you do have to let whatever needs to flow flow. I am honored to have birthed these I AM works. Many people have purchased I AM A GREAT MAN and found its words to be beautiful and inspiring. It is a wonderful reminder that we are all here on the planet to help each ot...

Extraordinary creativity, soul full delights and everything that following your bliss means. This delicious insight into the mind of master chef Ferran Adria El Bulli – Cooking in Progress gives you the insiders look as the process of endless invention under the mad and beautiful eye of this one of a kind chef artist at work. “When they finish the meal the more bewilderment the better” flows from the mind of the master as he reviews the laboratory of concoctions making there way into being. It all represents priceless insights into what it takes to become the world’s best in the full blaze of inspiration utilizing a singular vision and the majesty of confidence. I love the beauty of the expression through food. It is quite simply art. The Spanish Mr. Adrià referred to as “the leading inspiration for avant-garde cuisine worldwide, alternately referred to as a mad scientist or Salvador Dali of the kitchen” is a delight of intensity as he works at what New York Times called “t...

Never the spirit was born; the spirit shall cease to be never; Never was time it was not; End and Beginning are dreams! Birthless and deathless and changeless remaineth the spirit for ever; Death hath not touched it at all, dead though the house of it seems! – Bhagavad-Gita Or Song Celestial  LOVE. Read more: http://blog.beliefnet.com/flightofthesoul/#ixzz1bONuydHs

This photography exhibit captures the eye and exposes hidden messages like great satire revealing more and more truth. The Beauty Culture continues at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City. BEAUTY CULT URE provides a seminal examination of photography’s role in capturing and defining notions of modern female beauty and how these images profoundly influence our lives in both celebratory and disturbing ways.

I t mattered not if others understood The deepening of his experience grew To the point he knew The ache was not meant to go away It was a part of his essence It was the ache of the mature open heart Living with the hurts of the instant Working beyond the threshold of gravity Allowing the natural expression of love to flow through him Fully at play Free from any confinement S tretching across time and space So Far Away His beloved felt all of it Sitting on the shore of the lake On which they had spent so much time together She spoke into his dearest heart The part he had gifted her Even though she said “No” to his offer to join him “What I am living Here is very tough for my soul… nothing nice to share and too much negativity… so, I don’t think about it. I don’t think about it. I don’t think about it… but I have to accept this part of me too. This part of me that doesn’t think it deserves a life of its own That doesn’t deserve anything So, here I am” Like the...

I saw this quote in an office of a Social Worker who day in and day out faces those, who are at the end of their financial line, at the end of their hope in working to provide for their families, at the end of their faith that a different possibility was available to them, meeting each story and person with a smile in her heart.   Everyone can be great Because everyone can serve You don’t have to have a degree to serve You don’t have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve You only need a heart full of grace A soul generated by love. Words by Martin Luther King Jr. on a faded piece of copy paper hanging blue thumbtacked to the office cubicle wall permeate the day in and day out efforts that unfold as these Angels work within the boundaries of a system pushed to its limits stretching where they can and living in a practice of humanity where everyone is treated with respect. Where the difficulties of circumstance continue to grow but who never stop believing a kind word, a ...

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One hundred years later - Can we do any less?   "what I choose to see I will behold" ACIM   Gitanjali -- (song offerings)     The translations below are by Rabindranath Tagore from the original Bengali shared here to provide inspiration, to set the stage for the blossoming of a new era of love and light.  This site exists to expand ideas and to offer seeds of thought as we continue to stand in the truth  of our most authentic self. As October goes and we integrate our partners with Love this site will undergo a transformation.  We look forward to continuing to be a space of inspiration and faith in a time where both are necessary to see clearly with vision and heart sight for the work ahead. Please enjoy these selections. Lots of Love, Melanie Mind Without Fear Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high; Where knowledge is free; Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls; Where words come out f...