The Anne Report brings you up to date on Anne’s latest activities. The Main Article, Thou Shall Not Do, shows how not doing is sometimes more important than doing. In the Anne Talk, Words Are Limits, reminds us that there are unlimited limits, and we can always choose which limits we’ll choose. Click to see Anne’s Art. The Dr. Money Talk, A Short Trip to the Essence of Abundance and Prosperity, presents a quick visualization exercise for abundance. Click to see the Quotes. The Featured Product This Month highlights Anne’s fifth book, The Living Book. Click to learn about EZosophy. Click to learn about Anne’s Abundance Affirmations. Click for Shareables From Anne. Click to learn about Anne’s Schedule. Click to Schedule Anne. Click to learn about Anne’s Services.

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

Living EZosophy, July 21, 2020
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The Anne Report

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This past weekend I attended the Theosophical Society convention and a birthday party online. COVID life has forced life online. Though it is preferable to meet in person, there are advantages to online events. Next weekend I plan to attend the International Theosophical Conference that was to be in Brazil but will now be virtual. It is a bit tricky to arrange an international conference with all the time zones, but I would not have attended the conference in person, had it been in Brazil. As the serenity prayer says, “Let me accept the things I cannot change.”

I have been working on acceptance especially since our last visit to our new home. It is under construction in an area called Summer’s Corner, SC, outside Summerville. We bought the house after only seeing the plans. I was excited that we had a wall full of windows in our den. My enthusiasm was quelled when I saw the windows look right into the wall of another house, let us say eight feet, and their air conditioner. My friend tells me I will find a creative way to get around this. Hum. I thought of building a green wall, but I am thinking the plants will die if the AC is pushing hot air on them. Thinking cap on.

We still have the ongoing Thursday prayer time for my healing. It is Thursdays at 1:30 – 1:45 CST Thursdays. If you have few moments during that time to send healing light to me, I will be so thankful.

Thomas, one of my grandsons, told me about getting dirt in his eye and how long it took to get it out. I asked him what happened and he gestured that his hand had dirt on it and that he put his hand on his eye. “I dirted my eye.” Who knew that dirt could be used as a verb? All this meant was that he rubbed his eye with a dirty hand. And that’s it for the Anne Report.

  Main Article

Thou Shall Not Do

I wrote the piece below on Nov. 17, 2004. I recently read it and found humor and irreverence. Reverence is often misplaced in our culture and humor often points out our errors. Since 2004, I grew up some, or maybe I grew down.

These days it seems like I am on a shit theme, given last week’s article. As a spiritual person, I like to keep my wording clean, though not because I think curse words are bad. Used sparingly and wisely, they create emphasis and occasionally a necessary shock value, but I am afraid people will think less of me when I use them. Even my Word checker warned me that my readers might find the word “shit” offensive. So now I am risking my good reputation and sharing more shit. My metaphors get sillier as you read and, if you are a serious spiritual seeker, this article may not be for you. Personally, I am sincere, but not serious, and sometimes I roll with the ridiculous. About these cuss words, I seem to want to use them more when I’m around dogma. Don’t get me started on dogma or jingoism.

But before I share, I have a confession. I am a people pleaser. No doubt about it. And I suspect this character flaw will stay around. However, this does not mean I cannot say “No” or give an honest opinion. Fortunately, my condition has some advantages. I like to keep the peace and to help people with alternative views to get along. Isn’t there is always a silver lining?

Given all the qualifiers, here is my 2004 tongue and cheek take on life:

I think we are here to discover who we are and then to rest in that blissful knowledge. From the starting point of Self, we naturally create a non-efforting lifestyle that provides safety, joy, peace, and adventure. To think that will, at some undetermined time, uproot our souls and deliver us into a place of status and meaning, is the logical conclusion of the ego. Luckily, we grow weary from the doing drama because of depression, illness, or mental fatigue. We give up trying to make it happen, even though we do not even know what “it” is. This act of surrender allows that presence of being to take its rightful place. When the mind gets out of the way, God steps in. God, God, God. Not the God of our fathers, not the warring God who sanctions countless acts of violence, in the name of peace. Not the God that favors one religion over the other, one people over the other, or even who favors, of all things, a football team. Get real. No, not that God, but the God of living presence. The presence that pushes aloneness out the door and bestows the soul with a sense of completeness. Only when that God comes in, that Goddess, that Being, can our doing mean anything at all.

Doing, as a cure for meaning, has miserably failed me time and time again. The dance of life flip-flops in an irregular sort of fashion, something like a bowel movement. Just when I think I am regular, I step into a holding pattern and I forget who I am. I become an ego, frozen in a contemplative pattern of bull shit. It is not until I notice the stench in life’s events that I realize I need a mental laxative. I think I need to re-lax but the universe sends ex-lax. Ex-lax is the unexpected, seemingly dramatic, end to life as I want it to be. It’s the end of resistance. It is as if life proclaims, “No More! We will have no more of this bull shit.” Then the relationship ends, the illness takes over, or whatever comes along… here is a radical turn over, or turn away from, my emotional demands and I emerge like a scared rabbit in a tiger’s body. Eventually my mind ex-laxes into a new pattern. The bull shit comes out and I reclaim my spiritual heritage. Strange plan. Whether I am kicked in the butt or held by the hand, my soul always provides a space for getting out of the fire and out of the frying pan. Amen.

The above is silly, yet silliness is sacred. We cannot survive on a steady diet of silliness, yet a diet of somberness is distasteful. Adults tend to suffer from terminal seriousness, and that attitude leads to a hard life. The little ditty above tells one simple truth. We can let go and become who we are, through the sacredness or the silliness of life. Though we try to change our lives though endless, meaningless doing, it is in the letting go or undoing that the miracle overcomes us. There is doing in life. I fill up the gas tank in my car. I wash dishes. I pay bills. Maintenance is required. But a tank full of gas, clean dishes, and paid bills are not answers to our spiritual dilemma. We must take action on the physical plane, but we do not progress on the spiritual path until we stop using the mind to plan our escape. Doing is not required for self-discovery, because we are already that which we seek. We do not have to do anything to be who we are, and when we discover that truth, life becomes EZier and EZier.

  Anne Talk

Words Are Limits

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In The Anne Talk, Words Are Limits, Anne reminds us that there are unlimited limits, and we can always choose which limits we’ll choose. Time: 4:26

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A Short Trip to the Essence of Abundance and Prosperity

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The Dr. Money Talk, A Short Trip to the Essence of Abundance and Prosperity, presents a quick visualization exercise for abundance. 7:40

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