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Excerpt from The  Mastery of Love, by don Miguel Ruiz.

"There is an old story from India about the God, Brahma, who was all alone.  Nothing existed but Brahma, and he was completely bored.  Brahma decided to play a game, but there was no one to play the game with.  So he created a beautiful goddess, Maya, just for the purpose of having fun.  Once Maya existed and Brahma told her the purpose of her existence, she said, "Okay, let's play the most wonderful game, but you have to do as I tell you to do."  Brahma agreed, and following Maya's instructions, he created the whole universe.  Brahma created the sun and the stars, the moon and the planets.  Then he created life on earth; the animals, the oceans, the atmosphere, everything.

Maya said, "How beautiful is this world of illusion you created.  Now I want you to create a kind of animal that is so intelligent and aware that is can appreciate your creation."  Finally Brahma created humans, and after he finished the creation, he asked Maya when the game was going to start.

"We will start right now," she said.  She took Brahma and cut him into thousands of teeny, tiny pieces.  She put a piece inside every human and said, "Now the game begins!  I am going to make you forget what you are and you are going to try to find yourself!"  Maya created the Dream, and still, even today, Brahma is trying to remember who he is.  Brahma is there inside you, and Maya is stopping you from remembering what you are.

When you awake from the Dream, you become Brahma again, and reclaim your divinity.  Then, if Brahma inside you says, "Okay, I'm awake, what about the rest of me?"  you know the trick of Maya and can share the truth with others who are going to wake up, too.  Two people who are sober in the party can have more fun.  Three people who are sober is even better.  Begin with you and others will start to change, until the whole Dream, the whole party, is sober."

It's the second time I've read Ever Atom at the school and I'm happy to say that the kids enjoy it ... they call it Atom Bubble and the Bubble book.  I'm still a little shy reading it out loud, but I think I'll get over that with practice.  It's my "group speaking" anxiety, and I've spoken in front of 150 parents, so I guess reading my book in front of a room full of kids should be easy, right?  :)

I also had time to write a story for a little boy that was leaving the school; a personal story for him with pictures and a little 'good message'.  I called it Cash Giant (maybe someday I'll submit it to my publisher) and it was also read to a classroom yesterday.  The idea is to write a story for each of the kids in the school, plus for my own.  I like to write, feels natural, and I think it's a very cool gift idea for the kids - they are great kids and how neat and inspiring to be the star of your own book!  Not particularly cookie-cutter either, but a personalized story.  Who knows what effect it could have on their lives?  Good, amazing, I hope.

Much Love ... ♥