photo of the day

Paya Bay's famous hummingbirds. What expressive little eyes they have!

Photo: Williams Perera of worldphotographystudio.com

glimpses of bliss

The bar and lounge on Bliss Beach are coming very soon! Here's a glimpse.

appreciation and gratitude vs. attachment

There is a difference between feeling gratitude and appreciation for something, and feeling attachment to something. Appreciation and gratitude are states of pure love, while attachment contains fear - fear of losing or not having what you are attached to. When it comes to something you want in your life, appreciation and gratitude attracts, and attachment pushes away. If you are feeling afraid that you will not get what you want, or losing what you have, then you have attachment.

To remove the attachment, keep shifting yourself into a state of appreciation and gratitude, until you can feel that the fear has gone.

- lessons from The Secret

remember to breathe

You know you are living life in a huge way when the phrase "Remember to breathe" starts to totally make sense to you.

asteroid discoveries 1980-2010

Make sure and watch the last 60 seconds of this video. Amazing!
Hat tip: huffingtonpost.com

quote of the day

The purpose of our journey on this precious Earth is now to align our personalities with our souls. It is to create harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for Life. It is to grow spiritually. This is our new evolutionary pathway. The old pathway - pursuing the ability to manipulate and control - no longer works. It now produces only violence and destruction.

- Gary Zukav

tranquility

A guest fishes at the boat dock. Paya Bay Resort, Roatan, Honduras.

quote of the day

When you love, whatever you do is because you want to do it. It becomes a pleasure, it's like a game, and you have fun with it. When you love, you don't expect something to happen; whatever happens is okay, and hardly anything disappoints you.

- Don Miguel Ruiz

photo of the day

Foxy and Lucky strike a pose on the "blue road" which runs along the edge of the Wetlands Reserve toward the boat dock. This road is not "paved" in the traditional sense, it just has a layer of gravel on it that has this blue tint. The gravel is quarried locally on the island. Paya Bay Resort, Roatan, Honduras.

roatan's spiny-tailed iguana

A juvenile Spiny-Tailed Iguana (Ctenosaura oedirhina) warms ups on a rock on Paya Bay property. Stesha Pasachnik with the University of Tennessee-Knoxville is currently in Roatan studying this endangered species; creating awareness about how special it is; and finding ways to protect it. Paya Bay Resort is cooperating with Ms. Pasachnik efforts. Our large property with its massive sections of rocky terrain is a natural refuge for these unique creatures. We want to understand everything we could possibly do to help protect it.

One of Ms. Pasachnik first steps is putting out posters like the one above to help create awareness.

I had previously written about these critically endangered animals here, here, and here.

be happy now

You must be happy now to bring happiness into your life through the law of attraction. It's a simple formula. Happiness attracts happiness. Yet people use so many excuses as to why they can't be happy. They use excuses of debt, excuses of health, excuses of relationships, and excuses of all sorts of things as to why they can't use this simple formula. But the formula is the law.

No matter what the excuse, unless you begin to feel happy despite it, you cannot attract happiness. The law of attraction is saying to you, "Be happy now, and as long as you keep doing that, I will give you unlimited happiness."

- lessons from The Secret

"we have to give it up"

"Nothing is as destructive to people, animals and the entire planet as factory farming," he says, as he rattles off one number after the next. He is even familiar with German figures: "Twenty-one thousand animals die to feed an average American. Ninety-nine percent of those animals are mass-produced. In Germany, the number is 98." Then he shrugs his shoulders and says, quietly, almost matter-of-factly: "There's no good way to feed 6 billion people with 50 billion animals. So we have to give it up."

- Spiegel Online