More protests in many cities across the usa this weekend against the war in Iraq. 

Someone forwarded this to me today... very right on for the moment.

YOUR LIFE IS GOING TO CHANGE

Your life is going to change when you have the trust to express and act on your heart's desire, even if it doesn't make much sense at the time;
WHEN YOU TAKE RISKS to explore new possibilities,
when you jump and go beyond the illusion of your limitations,
and breathe fresh air;
when you feel insecure but you do it anyway
because you want to feel the passion of being alive.

Your life changes when you come home to your soul,
BECOME LOVING and accept
that you are a wonderful mixture of apparent contradictions -
powerful and vulnerable, unsure and inspired,
wild and gentle, ordinary and exceptional,
occasionally sad and mad, but also a Buddha in the making,
that you do your best, and yes, sometimes you really screw things up!
That you are loveable anyway
and that you really do make a difference to the people around you.

Your life forever changes and expands
when you discover and cherish the inner jewel of your awareness,
the central intelligence of your being;
when, with the honest loving support of friends, you BECOME AWARE of
your feelings, attitudes and your needs, and why you act the way you do, and learn from all the blind-spots that they see but you don't.

Your life changes when you learn how to BECOME FRIENDS
and appreciate the amazing uniqueness of all the different people in your life, when you realize that you are indeed a child of the universe, master of your life, and co-creator of this world... that there is much to
celebrate.

Life changes when you discover that whatever the problem,
love is always the answer.
(This includes LOVE OF SELF)