Ignorance is bliss?....

There is an old saying that says “ Ignorance is bliss.”  
It was that way when I opened my first business.
Many asked me “What do you know about running a business?”
My only reply was, nothing really.
You walk through the fear, because none of it seems like a big deal, compared to bodily injury or death..lol  

Our ignorance can sometimes be the fuel for the dream.  

But beginning again is like dating after divorce; We know the pitfalls, the things that can go wrong, and that keeps us from beginning…  

This journey is but a dream, it is whatever we want it to be.
Our prayer to the universe today;
Give me the insight into the dream, but ignorance to the fear….
  
Here is the thought for the day  

“It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach.
Just get them to fly in formation - Dr. Rob Gilbert  
Namaste,
Marianne

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You hear the term “Renaissance man/woman” bandied about every now and then, and lately I've been wondering about it. Sometimes people who get to know me and find out I am both photographer as well as casting & dvd pro, are kind enough to suggest that I am a renaissance person. It's very gratifying thing to hear, but I always feel a little uncomfortable about it, as if the speaker had just compared me favorably with Leonardo Da Vinci or some other indisputably acknowledged super-genius. (After all, I only got a “C” in art, and my handwriting is illegible even when written left handed.)

But the more I thought about it, the more I realized that probably more people than one would suspect have earned the title of “Renaissance man” or “Renaissance woman”, and that maybe it isn't solely the province of old Italians with long beards and shiny bald heads.

The word “Renaissance” of course comes from the French for “Rebirth”, and has come to mean a very high level of artistic creation after a fallow or oppressive period.

To me, the word basically describes a very high-spirited activity of injecting life into the everyday, boring environment, such as through the arts or other channel. This seems to me to be the big secret: that this is what human beings do all the time, especially when they are being themselves.

Anybody working to create a business or any aspect of their job is an artist, to some degree, even if they are just working the late shift at Kinko's. A mother is an artist, bringing life to a family by raising the children and making a safe world for them to live in. You, right now are perhaps hoping that I did my job well and are providing you with a moment's respite from a tedious day, a day in which you are engaged in bringing order to the chaos of your existence. Even if that just means you are filing a mountain of papers from before 2000. You still are creating order, and that is what artists have done since the cave days.

Human beings aren't objects, after all. If we all didn't create space and energy in this world, it would come to a big, grinding halt. We are every one of us Renaissance folks, engaged in the daily activity of “rebirthing”, if you will, the stale and stolid world around us, so that we can have some fun.

Maybe you and I and Leonardo do have more in common than one would immediately suppose. I'll tell you one thing, he'd definitely be totally lost in a Kinkos, and you'd have to show him how to do practically everything. Who'd look like the super-genius then?

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That was beautiful….Each one of us has the Renaissance person within, some just need permission by the example of others like yourself to let them out and create!
Namaste,
Marianne

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Marianne, here you're mom! You are my hero. Fear is the greatest obstacle to people's success, I can say. I believe you.
We need to be true to ourselves and put fear aside.
We need to avoid: “What will people think about me?”, “How will this look to the public?”, Will I really succeed? If I fail, won't people look at me as a failure? Won't they start shunning me?” e.t.c.
Such are some of the things we fear as we tend towards achieving our goals, mostly when we predict a slight setback.

One doesn't need to go to school to learn business matters/handling. So those who asked you that question, what were they after? Did they want you to give up? Didn't they want you to try? So if you didn't try, how would you learn?

Teach them more Marianne.

SAIDI

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Namaste ,
..I would prefer to be an older wiser sister!!!! lol
I wondered why in life I have had so many strange and wonderful experiences, and one day I realized so others will have a mirror to look into.

If God is Faith- then the dark side is Fear…..
Fear is paralyzing, it keeps us from growth and in ignorance..
Others are always projecting their OWN fears, which is very limiting.

We cannot have Fear and Faith at the same time.. :)

Marianne

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“We cannot have Fear and Faith at the same time”

This is a very interesting observation.  I do thing you have a great point.  Faith will overcome fear if you focus attention and give weight to faith, no matter what form it may manifest itself in.   Hopefully, we will be able to instill some faith in each other, faith the each experience you have will offer knowledge and fulfillment in some respect.  The faith that I hope to impart to myself and to everyone here is that we stand to be successful in every endeavor.