The Anne Report, Our Beginning Doesn’t Necessarily Determine Our Ending, reminds us that people can achieve greatness even if they started with few advantages. The Main article, From There to Supreme Okayness, shows how Anne found peace, after years of searching. The Healthy Living article, We’re Moving and DIY Cleaning Recipes, provides two DIY cleaning recipes. The Anne Talk, Do You Have an Inner Pauper?, tells you how to silence your prosperity party pooper. The Featured Product This Month highlights Anne's second book, EZosophy: The Art and Wisdom of EZ or At Least EZier Living. Click to read What is EZosophy? Click to join Abundance Affirmations. Click for Shareables From Anne.

The EZ Mantra: "Everything can be EZ or at least EZier." -- Anne Sermons Gillis

Living EZosophy, April 9, 2019
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  The Anne Report

Our Beginning Doesn’t Necessarily Determine Our Ending

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It’s been a long week, and Saturday morning was exactly what I needed. Vidya Vasanth, a lovely young Indian woman and third generation Theosophist, gave a talk on J. Krishnamurti. Vidya met him in 1985, when he was giving his final talks. She was only five years old. Even at such a young age, she knew that she had met a great man. She continued to read his books as she grew up.

He passed away in 1986. Krishnamurti is considered one of the greatest thinkers and religious teachers of all times. His mother died when he was ten and he was left to be raised by his father. His father and his teachers thought he was dull and had little intellectual capacity. Krishnamurti was a sickly child.

He was recognized by a Theosophist as a superior being and subsequently taken in, along with his brother, by the society. He was adopted by Annie Besant, the president of the society. He was given good food, exercise, medical care, and later, the chance of a college education. He attended Cambridge and said, “Why do I have to study this? It is not good for me.” He left college but went on to become one of the greatest thinkers of all times.

This story is repeated throughout our history, whether it be about Albert Einstein or Helen Keller. These people were at one point marginalized and considered as less than. Each had a gift. Einstein was a scientific revolutionary. Keller became a prolific writer, a political activist, and traveled extensively. While we may not personally aspire to be an inventor or an activist, nor do we want to be a world figure, it is inspiring to realize that there’s a little of Krishnamurti, Einstein, or Keller in us. We might not appear to others as unique, qualified, or ingenious, but we are unique, qualified, and ingenious.

What a great take away. Going through tough times does not guarantee that we will arrive at the top of our game, but it also doesn’t guarantee we will be stuck at the bottom of the barrel! Life provides a hand up when we allow our abilities to outshine our fears. That’s it for the Anne Report, and always remember that “Everything can be EZ or at least EZier.”

  Main Article

From There to Supreme Okayness

Have you ever felt desperate for something? You may not be able to identify what you want but desperation demands you do something for relief. It pushes for freedom from fear or anxiety, yet every step you take to rectify this unknown despair is sabotaged. This describes how I felt when I was in my late twenties.

With despair in hand, I began my grail search. It was a cross between the dark night of the soul and, I suppose, anything is possible. I was certain of the pain and cavalier about the possibility of change. I had breakthroughs but there was always a character defect to heal, amends to make, or a new and upcoming technique to master, in hopes it would bring enlightenment. I meditated, but since that didn’t work the way I thought it should, I meditated more. I read my Bible, studied philosophy, tried pyramid power, practiced positive thinking, lit candles, prayed, and forgave everything and everybody. There was a fire burning in me that I couldn’t put out. I had been bad, I had been exceedingly good, and each endless path or activity ended in a panicked state. Finally, in an act of hopelessness, I turned it, whatever it was, over. As far as I know, there was nothing to turn it over to, but I did it anyway. “I don’t know what to do. I’ve tried everything suggested by those who know. Here, it’s yours. Whoever, whatever you might be, take it. I can’t handle this any more.”

I didn’t know what I was doing, but, in retrospect, I was letting go of an ego dominated mind. I surrendered to the unknown. It was a risk I had to take, because I was spiritually bereft. There was no road to take that didn’t shake me to the core, and I was exhausted.

This letting go was the bravest thing I had ever done. I was hanging from a rope, and, while it didn’t make sense to let go, my heart just took the leap. Maybe I would fall into a meaningless universe, but even falling seemed better than grasping. I didn’t sprout wings, nor did I land on solid ground; I entered a place that required nothing. It was freedom. I could soar and rest in the stillness. I was home – comfortable in my mind, comfortable in my body, comfortable in my heart. I was no longer a menace to myself.

This surrender awakened the always present, instantaneous identification with Self. Some call it Self-Realization. While some who hold court with the Self, experience permanent identification, this was not the case for me. I flipped back and forth between this expanded awareness and a contracted state. The light came on, and a great bliss flowed through. I was satisfied; fulfilled. I was at peace. The light went off and I felt like a dweeb. My life’s work became integrating the two.

When I was in my dweeb state, I wanted to get back to peace ASAP. I was back to a how-to scenario. Surprisingly, I found that the very techniques that led to a dead end before now seemed to work. Meditation, contemplative prayer, forgiveness, gratitude, and affirmative words created soul resurrections. When a dog is wild, a leash might contain him or her, but once the dog is trained, s/he can be let off the leash and still obey its master.

I’ve been off leash many times. There are the times when I am not controlled by my egoic mind. Off leash is when we no longer need to learn or practice. We don’t have to use the correct verbiage or get the lesson because we are already where we want to be. When we’ve crossed the river, it is no longer necessary to build a bridge.

I have been a spiritual teacher of sorts all my life. Sometimes I’m a coach, sometimes I’m a minister, sometimes a wife, a mother, a grandmother, or an author. I’ve spent hours holding the hand of people who are standing in the dark. I can stand with them because I’ve been there before and know that the dark is okay, especially when someone holds your hand.

I have only one mission now. The mission is so simple, given the prayers, the techniques, all the training I’ve had, and the search that took me around the inner and outer world. That mission is to let people know that they are okay and that everything is okay. I call this knowing the Supreme Okayness.

The Supreme Okayness is a noun and a verb. It is a state of being and a state of doing, and, while our rational minds twists simplicity a thousand ways, the Supreme Okayness laughs, holds our hands, and reminds us that we are okay. It communicates that the complicated scenarios of the egoic mind are alluring displays of fear and that we can count on the Supreme Okayness to light our way. The path is not straight and narrow; it is accommodating, compassionate, and wise, and to know this is to be free, and, naturally, when we are free, everything is EZier and EZier.

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  Featured Product This Month

At last, the reprint of EZosophy: The Art of EZ or at Least EZier Living, is out. If you've been wanting an EZier life, this book provides a clear path toward EZ.

EZosophy:The Art and Wisdom of EZ or At Least EZier Living is a simple philosophy that radically changes lives. It is a book for the spiritually-based reader who no longer values the ego driven struggle of contemporary life.

EZosophy will help readers:

• Give up Hard Attacks. Hardaholic no more.
• Drop the drama.
• Make your life EZier. Ease is not indolence. Rather, ease is the art of accomplishment without struggle.
• Learn to identify ego driven suffering (EDS).

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  Shareables From Anne

The World's Best Weight Loss Secret

Thought Freedom

40 Days to Abundance

EZosophy Vows

Vows of Seriousness

Anne's Conscious Carols

  What is EZosophy?

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  Healthy Living

We’re Moving and DIY Cleaning Recipes

We are moving, at least that is our intention. After weeks of manual labor, the photographer came Friday to take pictures. It’s a new day in picture taking. A drone took aerial videos of the inside and outside of the house, and it flew above the tree line to show all our trees and the area we live in.

The photography team was a married couple. Kelly took the still photos and David operated the drone. Kelly bought her husband a drone for Christmas and the toy turned into a profit-making career. Kelly and I started talking and we turned out to be soul sisters. We talked cosmology, psychology, spirituality, and philosophy. I sold her two books and we hugged when we parted. We felt like old friends. This part of moving is the good part of moving. Our meeting was serendipity.

Back to healthy living. The most difficult part of moving is moving. We never hear anyone say “Yippee, I can't wait to pack and get my home ready for the market.” The past few weeks we have been cleaning and repairing our home. I've washed loads of rags and rewashed them many times. I ran out of stainless-steel cleaner, the bottle that came with my refrigerator, so I decided to make some. I also ran out of glass cleaner. I looked up some recipes on the Internet and was pleased to find two easy, inexpensive-to-make recipes. If you haven’t traded in your toxic, fragranced-laced cleaning supplies for environmentally, human, and pet friendly products, consider these. I like them better than the store-bought cleaners.

The air inside of the typical American home is five times more toxic than the outside air. That’s why we need more outside time, but since we spend so much time inside our homes, it’s important to use the healthiest products we can find.

Miracle Glass Cleaner

This mixture is magic. It’s easy to make and it is the most effective glass cleaner I have ever used. I can’t say enough good about it. No streaking. Wow.

• 1 ½ cups water
• 2 Tablespoons white vinegar
• 2 Tablespoons rubbing alcohol
• 1 Tablespoon cornstarch

Mix in a spray bottle. Shake the bottle for every spray, to keep the cornstarch mixed evenly, and spray on mirrors or glass. Wipe off with clean towel. I enjoyed the using the Miracle Glass Cleaner, but when my hands went numb, I passed the job over to Jim. He’s been a trooper. He’s replaced boards, painted, and hauled off all kinds of pass-alongs.

Stainless Steel Cleaner

• 1/2 White vinegar
• 1/2 Water
• Olive oil as needed

Mix water and vinegar. Pour into a spray bottle. Spray on appliance and wipe clean with a clean cloth. Apply olive oil to surface and wipe off, moving the cloth with the grain. Voila: clean again. The oil will protect the stainless steel from fingerprints for a while, but, as with all cleaning, it will have to be repeated.

If you have any healthy living tips for the newsletter, send them to me at anne@annegillis.com.

  Anne Talk

Do You Have an Inner Pauper?

Today's Anne Talk, Do You Have an Inner Pauper?, shows you how to silence your prosperity party pooper. Time: 3:01

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  Anne's Schedule

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Easter Sunday, April 21, 2019
11:00 AM Service: "New Beginnings"
Unity of Brazosport
507 S. Brooks St. (Hwy 36), Brazoria, TX

Sunday, May 19, 2019
11:00 AM Service: "Belonging"
Tapestry Unitarian Universalist Church
5400 Fellowship Lane
(Just off Klein Church Road)
Spring, TX 77379

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