FORGIVE

Feels like I am letting everything I love down. Feels like my goals have been further than their finish line commands.
Feels like my eyes are filled with disappointment when I look into the mirror. Feel as if I ‘ve let my very own soul down.
That’s how I’d be feeling at all times if I didn’t have many of my well taught Teen Insight tools.
There is this insight gadget I use to let go of this unwanted emotion. I forgive myself for judging myself for…. (whatever I have judged myself for doing) and I do my best to let it go.
I come to a place of acceptance of the past and let it go, learn from it and move on. I use this gizmo almost as much as I tie my shoelaces. No matter how diminutive or colossal the judgements are, I still use the, I forgive myself for judging myself for_______,
tool.
As a master of this tool and many other insight tools, I believe our heart centered teachings will be passed on to the children. The only difference is that it will be assisted in Swahili.
I am looking forward to seeing the countenance of children who are just like me, but from a different society. How will this world be touched when the transformation and growth of a loving child takes place? That is the climax of the journey, the moment that is every moment. It happens everyday and every moment. I daydream of Tanzania but I must live each second that brings me closer to the voyage, I must live that second fully. Our teachings will expand the heart of the Matumaimi and only the highest good of all knows how this will transform humanity into a lifting experience.

LINDA HERRERA

Love is happening as you read this line.

Last night I went to bed with my heart aching.

                     I connected with the emotion and felt the need to be of instant service. 

I asked the highest good to allow me to serve.

I cuddled into bed with my warm hand over my chest.

The next day my eyes were exposed to 5:00AM

 There was no sun but this morning I saw it shinning in the dark.

I got to school extra early.

I asked for the light before going to theater class.

I asked to live in the present moment.

The whole day passed by and every second I enjoyed.

I didn't visit a dog shelter, or a convalescent home. 

I gave my girlfriend my loving and my classmates my support.

I sat at the doctor's office waiting to be called.

And a vision of Tanzania pierced through my mind.

The point is that no matter where I am, I am love.

I am love sitting in this desk and it spreads throughout the world.

LINDA HERRERA 

Service

I have a world map above my bed and I put blue thumb tacks in all the places I want to go and red for all the places I have been. There is a high concentration of tacks in Europe, but for a couple of years, there has been one blue tack right over the word Africa . It’s one of least specific destinations I had planned. Somewhere in the back of my head I knew I would want to go Africa . So part of the reason I want to go Tanzania is because I will get to travel. And that means a lot to me because I haven’t done a whole lot and what I have done has been unforgettable. The opportunity to go with Teen Insight Leadership, the people I have spent my Insight Seminars with and be of service means even more.

Service is one of those things that’s kind of a paradox to me. While I do it to benefit someone else; I almost always get something out of it even if it’s just being in a better mood. I really saw the value of being of service after Leadership this past summer. I assisted a Teen Insight I in December, which I don’t know if I would have done if I hadn’t done Leadership. What I learned is to accept the present moment. Which kind of covers a lot for me to say the least. Being of service is probably the best way I could spend my time, most of the time, and it feels good.

So far I have really enjoyed the planning and fundraising. I feel like everyone is really focused and there is also a lot of enthusiasm. The seminar feels like has already started for me and I find that there are more and more opportunities, in my life, for me use the skills I learned this past summer.

-Angela Parkes

"When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it." - Paulo Coelho

The intention to be of service in Tanzania is being spread like butter on bread.

The world is supporting us and so is the universe.

Loving and peace are transcending throughout this world, I can feel it.

I myself have experienced some unfelt emotions as Teen Leadership II has begun. 

The economic downfall that the physical world is walking through is just a transition and it will pass. I've came across some classmates of the world that gave me feedback and told me that I was deranged in the head for trying to come up with $4,500 just to go to Africa.

For a moment I thought, "OMG they are right. I could be saving for a car, inverting my energy on school and family and romances." I was not the only one who faced the choice of choosing. 

My buddy Elliot Goldstein, who is also going to Tanzania, had some doubts. Elliot shared and said, 

"Although I always knew that going to Tanzania was something that I wanted to do, I almost decided not to go because of the all the costs involved in such an intricate trip. However, I knew that the intention of such powerful people would not be foiled by trivialities. I am so proud of the accomplishments that we have made so far in the effort to orchestrate this trip."

Mr. Goldstein here is right. The power of our loving intention

is free to dissipate the useless trifles into the light, for the highest good of all. 

The point of this blog, was to put out there what TEEN INSIGHT LEADERSHIP II is asking for.

We are courageously active towards achieving out intention in TANZANIA. 

I personally am living on the edge, asking, giving and receiving. 

The strength and power we have is lovingly taking place right now.

LINDA HERRERA 

Loving is like mathemaics

Loving is like mathematics.

That is one of the ways I like to look at loving. A division problem can be solved very differently in Australia than it is solved here in the U.S.A. However, the quotient is at all times the same.
Loving takes place all around the world.
We may speak a different language, interpret things in a whole different way, disagree, whatever you can think of as different, but love is a global similarity.
I hope you are aware that Teen Insight Leadership is headed to Moshi, Tanzania in Africa this summer.
Of course you are, that is why you are here right?

I watched the Tanzania video and I can promise myself one thing. The loving the Matumaini children give, will lodge permanently in my heart. Service to me is lovingly giving out my assistance to others and believe that when I am no longer physically there, they will use the tools given at their best. It is great to help someone, but it is more powerful to assist and trust that the service given will last a lifetime.
I love the thought and comfort in knowing that I will have the opportunity to share my self growth with people around the world. I love the work insight does. It's like bringing a new dimension into the world. My experience with Insight has been like walking into heaven and in return I get to walk around with heaven everywhere I go, even better I give a piece of heaven with my love.
This is what I personally want to offer to the Matumaini tribe.
I want to offer them the awareness I received and fly back into Los Angeles and know that I myself left a piece of love planted in Moshi.
This type of service can be given all over the nine continents. No matter what we speak, believe, wear, think or live, loving is perpetually present in us



Linda Herrera

Welcome!

Thank you for coming to our blog.  We look forward to having you visit us here.  The Leadership Grads will be journaling their experience of creating the trip and while we are on the trip.

LL

Kelley