Here's another one that just hit me...
Some background: I had a nice breakthrough at the workshop that in my goal-setting, habit-changing and belief-changing activities I have been pretty well aligned with Truth and Power, but realized that I could juice things up by balancing this out with a suitable measure of Love - specifically, in connecting with others to give and receive support for important goals and changes.
In particular, at the workshop, during a Q+A session, I described an anecdote of how presenting to others at Toastmasters absolutely smashed a barrier of stalling and procrastionation in my goal of setting up a daily morning/evening meditation habit. I intend to leverage this effect by making other Toastmasters speeches on positive habits or practices that I want to set up - by selling good ideas to others, I can sell to myself too.
Well, a few weeks ago I had gone to a Pet Shop Boys concert, kind of on a whim (same-day tickets, etc) because the venue was very close to my apartment and I like the band a lot. At the concert I was introduced to one of their new songs - 'Love, etc' and really enjoyed it, so I started it in regular rotation on iPod/iTunes. I've played it dozens of times and pretty much memorized the lyrics - it's rapidly become one of my favorite songs.
Just this morning the song came up in my playlist while I was getting ready and I actually listened to the meaning behind the chorus:
"You need more You need more You need more You need more You need more You need more... You need love You need love You need love"
Oh, so that's the message. Sometimes I can be dense - the universe occasionally needs to hit me over the head with obvious synchronicity before I get the message. No wonder I felt so much affinity with that song in particular... it had something to teach and reinforce.
Song lyrics are a great way to communicate with me though - my friends always laugh because I'm constantly quoting movies and songs and weaving appropriate quotes into normal conversation. (So much so that sometimes I'll say something original and they ask 'what movie is that from?', assuming that it inevitably must have been a quote from somewhere.)
Thanks, universe!
-jack
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