The Anne Report brings you up to date on Anne’s latest activities. The Main article, Slowing Down to Go Further, reminds us that going slower often helps us go further, faster. Click to see Anne’s Quotes. Click for Shareables From Anne. The Featured Product This Month highlights Anne’s 5 Books. Click to learn about EZosophy. In today’s Anne Talk, EZ Anne Sings EZosophy Songs, Anne sings some of her songs from her second book, EZosophy: The Art and Wisdom of Easy or at Least Easier Living. Click to see Anne’s Art. In today’s Dr. Money Talk, What We Think About, We Bring About, Dr. Money shares her experience of how she manifested her new home. Click to learn about Anne’s Abundance Affirmations. Click to learn about Anne’s Schedule. Click to Schedule Anne. Click to learn about Anne’s Services.

The 8 Word Miracle Mantra: “Everything can be EZ or at least EZier.” Anne Sermons Gillis

Living EZosophy, February 25, 2019
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I’ve had a cold. I was talking to my husband, Jim, on the phone and I coughed. “I’m sorry to cough in your face.” He replied: “Stop that. You’re going to give me a computer virus.” He’s clever.

Today we went to our spiritual center, and as we were seated, a lady flew across the room and hugged us. I love you guys so much. Tears sprang into my eyes as I thought, “It takes years to develop that kind of bond. We have so many friends at this center.” Then I thought of my grandchildren and how they cry when we leave. I’ll just focus on that. My husband has lived in Texas since he was 15, and now, 58 years later, he is moving from fond and familiar territory.

Ironically, one of my Unity friends from The Woodlands is moving to the area this week. I will see her when we travel back to S. C. next week. We’ll hitch up our RV and leave it in S. C. so we will have one less thing to move later. We will also spend several months living in our RV until our new home is completed.

  Main Article

Slowing Down to Go Further

There are words within that vie for our attention. They are not the creepy words that pull us down. They are words that spring from our source. They are wise and even humorous at times, but today’s climate allots little space to our inner wisdom. We are distracted by multiple inputs. I recently read an interview of an 80+ year old woman. She talked about her father. “When he had a problem, he would go sit by a pine tree for a long while.” How refreshing. There was no Internet then, but there was an inner-net. We may need a ruler when we plan to cut a 5-inch piece of wood, but when we face the complex world of modern society, pulling us away from ourselves, we need more.

We have wised up enough to know we need time with ourselves: alone time. Imagine what happens to our relationships when we give them no attention. We grow apart from our friends and partners. And, if we don’t have any “me time,” we grow separate from our true selves. We can be alone many hours of the day, but that doesn’t mean we are in touch with our essence. Being on Facebook, working, and accomplishing tasks are okay, but they are not quality alone time, and too often they are just busy time. We view time that has no plan as idle time, so we busy ourselves. We structure our time to protect us from imagined harm. We need to bounce ourselves off of something to be seen or to experience our existence. We live in a culture that advocates busyness as a virtue. “Staying busy?”

About twelve years ago I went to the Amazon Jungle. I looked forward to the quiet. I would be deep in nature. Did you know that there’s no base camp for tourists on any adventure without gas-powered generators? They run several times a day. Gas generators are noisy. It was not the silent retreat I imagined. “Okay; it will be fine. I can deal with the noise. I’m not attached to silence. I know the bird sighting expedition will be relaxing.” There was a rare bird that only appeared at a certain time of day in a particular area. Turns out we had to run at top speed to reach that darn bird. My thoughts: “Here I am in the Amazon Rainforest, with a native guide, and I am sprinting breathlessly though the jungle. This isn’t right.” I don’t remember if we saw the bird or not, but I remember hurrying.

In 2008 I spent more than a month in India. I traveled the country, climbed a mountain, and, for the first time in my life, lost track of the days. The cities were bright and noisy, and the ashrams carried a wonderful silence in the air, but I had to put up with a lot to get to that silence. I stayed in one hotel in Southern India that had no screens. I awakened with a polka-dotted, insect bitten face. I slept on a concrete floor on a semi-wet, thin sleeping pad and inadequate cover, near the foot of the Ganga River (the Ganges River), and it was freezing. I bathed from a bucket of cold water in frigid weather. The Ganga River, the part at the foot of the Himalayas, is frigid, but, of course, I didn’t want to miss the night bath that occurred on an auspicious day. Shake it up, baby. And I was shaking.

There’s much to be said for adventures. I felt good that, at 60 years old, I could climb a mountain and sleep on a concrete floor. I am happy to have crossed some of my wildest dreams off my bucket list. And, BTW, what did we do before that movie to describe the things we wanted to do? I went to the Amazon Jungle, traveled twice to India, saw the Taj Mahal, studied Spanish in Spanish speaking countries, and much more. But over the years, I learned a great lesson: There’s no place like home. Travel is amazing. It allows us to see past our culture and into the lives on others, but if I wanted peace and quiet, the best place was at home. That’s where I can close the door and find my haven. Even when I had a mountain top experience, I needed my home spot to ground me, and, to be frank, some of my most profound moments occur at home. When I realized that enlightenment was at my doorstep, not halfway around the world, I stopped traveling for enlightenment and started traveling for fun. This afforded a freedom, an ease, that could not occur if I continued to search for myself over the next mountaintop. We can only be who we are, where we are, not who we will be when we get somewhere else.

I’ve been sick for several days and spent much of the time in bed. There’s been very little agenda other than to deal with a cantankerous washing machine and a toilet overflow. But even with a couple of blips, it amazes me how slowly the day goes by. When I’m in my accomplishment mode, the days breeze by, but, for now, they creep along, quietly, step by step. It’s like having a pine tree in my bedroom. It’s a place to let my mind roam through the secrets of the universe.

There’s a wonderful book, Acres of Diamonds, that describes a man’s journey to find diamonds. He sells his farm and travels the world, only to die broke and deeply disappointed. The man who bought his farm came across something shining in the earth: a diamond. He discovered that his farm was filled acres of diamonds.

Sometimes our wealth is near, but when we continually look for greener pastures, we overlook what is before us. Is our wealth too near? Are we looking for love in all the wrong places? We wait until our lives settle down before we leap into the inner world, but our lives never settle down. We have to go to the place within, that is settled, to find our diamonds. And even though the journey is simple, and we must navigate a complicated series of habits to reach our inner treasure, there is no other voyage to consider. And once we make our move, everything becomes EZier and EZier.

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The World’s Best Weight Loss Secret

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  Featured Product This Month

The Living Book  -  Words Make a Difference
Standing In The Dark  -  EZosophy
Offbeat Prayers for the Modern Mystic

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  Anne Talk

EZ Anne Sings EZosophy Songs

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In today’s Anne Talk, EZ Anne Sings EZosophy Songs, Anne sings some of her songs from her second book, EZosophy: The Art and Wisdom of Easy or at Least Easier Living. Time: 5:41

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  Dr. Money Talk

What We Think About, We Bring About

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In today’s Dr. Money Talk, What We Think About, We Bring About. Dr. Money shares her experience of how she manifested her new home. 6:33

  Abundance Affirmations

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This group is a place to post uplifting affirmations and thoughts about prosperity and abundant living. Let’s create a right relationship with money so that we feel comfortable about money. Let’s use money as it’s meant to be used, and not as a way to accumulate power or to fill a void. We don’t need money to buy more stuff. We need it to create a world that works for everyone. We want to cast off old beliefs of lack and reclaim our natural state of abundance. Anne, AKA Dr. Money, posts a nightly goodnight video for the prosperity team, and everyone who watches those videos becomes a part of the prosperity team.

You too can join the Prosperity Team by watching Anne’s Dr. Money channel.

  Anne’s Schedule

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Saturday, April 4, 2020
“EZosophy: Resolving Life’s Great Sufferings” at 10:00 AM
The Theosophical Society
1525 Heights Blvd.
Houston, TX 77008

Sunday, April 12, 2020
“Happy Easter” at 11:00 AM
Unity of Brazosport
507 S. Brooks St. (Hwy. 36)
Brazoria, TX

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