Some of the commentaries from Lunar Letter #134

While in the past I have posted many of the comments I receive, I haven’t done so recently.  As the result of my most recent Lunar Letter and a message indicating a change in the way I will be sharing my thoughts, I have received several wonderful comments and messages.

Please not I am only using initials for those who wrote the comments since I didn’t ask for permission to publish as I typically do.  Also, I ran the Spanish commentaries through Google Translate which does a pretty good job of translating but is not perfect.  Regardless, I believe the point in each message gets across.

I share them here to thank all who take the time to express what they feel, and also thank those who simply read and reflect on what I write.

Each and every one of you are important to me!

Thanks for reading me,

Rob

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Thank you so much for always sharing your great thoughts with me. They inspire the mind and refresh the soul…besos

NN

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Graciasssss .. best words to begin imposibleee day .. thank you ..

YR

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Hi Rob , first thank you for giving me the opportunity to subscribe to keep getting your wonderful messages. Personally they enrich my life, and those of my peers and friends as well as to motivate me to be better about myself with my family and friends.

Your posts are really great to keep fighting in this country at this time through a delicate crisis and always hoping that God will guide our politicians and so open your eyes and do not let it destroy motivation.

Thanks again and good friend here always you have a friend and hopefully soon I will have the opportunity to participate in your seminars or other courses that are as enriching both on technical and human terms.

“ONLY WHEN HUMANS IS HONEST AND TRANSPARENT AND LEAVES AND ENVY SELFISHNESS ASIDE WHEN WE SEE IS A COUNTRY THAT IS ALL WE CAN TRANSFORM AND LIVE IN PEACE AND LOVE”

GREETINGS,

JD

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Dear Brother Rob :

A great pleasure to greet you and you in my life for a change as always comes a note from you to my email at the right time! While we take this opportunity to reiterarte I am with you and support you, being aware to stop, observe and take action always being aware .

You are part of a myriad of extraordinary teachers who have come into my life to make me understand and wake from dream and illusion that we are separate from each other and that “we are what we do” and if this is what we take as the truth , then when we do nothing, who are we?

Thank you for your perseverance and dedication , always giving and receiving in the soul the fruits of your action!

A big hug for you maestro,

Your Brother

JLQ

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Thanks Rob for your frequent and wise messages, what I do with your posts is to reflect on them and it helps me to improve as a person, another thing I do is to forward them to a group of people who want to help and emphasize to them it is important to read your posts. Of course is always cite you to respect your intellectual property.

Many Greetings to nurture you and yours this Easter with much health and wisdom

HL

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GOOD AND BLESSED DAY TO YOU AND YOURS. TO ROB THIS LUNAR LETTER IS GREAT FOR REFLECTION… IT MADE ME REMEMBER THINGS AND IN PARTICULAR HAPPINESS WITH WHO ARE NO LONGER MY SIDE AND OTHERS WHO ARE PHYSICALLY FAR BUT ALWAYS NEAR TO MY FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS …

I believe that the time continues, not as we perceive here in third dimension but in a more subtle way, sometimes in dreams can be with our loved ones who are no longer present and sometimes gives us solutions and the serenity to see things differently …

As you say you can create our own eternity with the actions we have at this time, if we are correct, if we love and share, if we are honest that will be our legacy , and we aspire to leave alone because we have fulfilled in the eternal present …

Thanks your assertiveness in each of your comments and thoughts … it ‘s a beautiful work that you play with this beautiful message changed my day in a positive way …

MAY GOD ALWAYS BLESS YOU …

I THINK THAT ON THE OTHER SIDE WE CONTINUE LEARNING AND ACHIEVING. FOR SOME REASON WE ARE CHILDREN OF THE CREATOR AND MADE IN HIS IMAGE AND LIKENESS

JC

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Thanks Rob for the message,

I usually read your very good and enriching publications.

Thank you for taking your time to try to help others.

regards

AC

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Incredible . I have not read all your mail yet it is authentic and special. When I get home tonight I will read it better.

Have a nice day

JLR

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Hi Rob, for me your messages are gift of God and I appreciate them greatly. You can not imagine how useful are to me. While perhaps you are right that I have not done anything in retribution, you never know the world turns. I have given you very good publicity. Greetings

LCC

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Rob please don’t ever stop writing to me, you have no idea how positively your messages have influenced my life…

GOD BLESS YOU !

PP

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Good Morning Rob ,

Affectionately and respectfully I want to tell you something. When we finish this wonderful journey we call life , we pass to a more wonderful trip and eternal is called ETERNAL LIFE. For those who believe in God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit , and we believe in eternal life we are anxious for the time comes to pass from this mortal and material life to a Beautiful and wonderful Spiritual Life that our Lord Jesus Christ has given us. Happy Days and Happy Easter .

RDR

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Thanks for your endless Lunar Letters. They always have a really valuable message and I identify with .

I mention that next Friday , it will be 11 months since I moved to your homeland , the United States, and since I arrived, I have been constantly blessed. It is a great country and I have adapted very well thanks to good training that my parents gave me .

Everything’s going well and God willing, will soon make reality one of my biggest dreams in this blessed land .

Thanks for all your emails and hope that the new subscription allows me to keep receiving your writing .

Infinite blessings and best wishes .

JPM

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Hi Rob!

I’m so glad you speak to me!
Hahaha ….. We all want to be loved ! I’m fascinated by your sentence:

“Those we love are never a thought away.”

I’m suscribed!

Thanks ……

GL

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Hey partner ,

How are you? Your family?

Here I am just surfing life and each day is more beautiful.

Count me in on your new e mail service.

A big hug for you,

JR

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Friend Rob : Thanks for your posts which are so beautiful, with a positive messages to encourage us in life. Excuse me for not answering your posts , but I do read them. I just subscribed because I do want to keep in touch with you. A big hug .

your friend

LC

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Hi rob I’m fine. Often I read your thoughts and sometimes I share them at work and with other people also forwarding them to my daughters and friends. Thanks for thinking about me during these days of Easter have a great time a big hug,

ARQ

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Thank you Rob for keeping me posted . And yes I would love to keep getting your messages so I subscribed . They are always a place for reflection with oneself. A thousand apologies for not interacting with you as before.

In my opinion I think it is the dynamics of what we are living in the country. Where we are trying to support in some way or another, I did not have time personally, planned to invest. Do not know if it is good or bad just follow my heart , something you’ve taught us and time will tell . ..

Pray for the best for this beautiful and great country …

From everything you sent in this email is a note that I love and that is to :

“We realize that though we are only one in the world, we are the world to someone. ”

Thank you Rob for everything, a hug and we will keep in touch…

NV

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It is always a pleasure to hear from you and I enjoy your messages. I use them to reinforce what I use in my leadership programs.

Hope all is well with you .

GP

Comentario sobre LL #133

Excelente Rob,

El mensaje tiene claramente identificada una propuesta de economía para el país. Me gustaría saber que ha sido presentada a la colectividad y al estado de forma pública para lograr encaminar a Venezuela a un futuro mejor.

Mil gracias.

Roland Contreras

What we give, we receive…

What we give, we receive…

That is so Right Rob… Then…Never doubt to give. Though it’s not always return as we wish…

Like what David get from his Boss…But we must remember that Diamond will be Diamond, wherever they are….

They will shine though they are in the dirty black mud… 

Never stop giving….It will return in the right time and in the right place…

Tri Martini

Great, uplifting and pointed vignettes…

​I really appreciate these Lunar Letters. They are great, uplifting and pointed vignettes that very often hit points for me that need focus. They go well with Buddhism practice of being in the moment, all things are transient, having compassion, etc.
Thank you for your time and effort in creating and sending them!
Ellen Roots

Beautiful Lunar Letter…

Rob,
I want to thank you for the most Beautiful Lunar Letter.  I’ve sent this to all my Friends and Relatives.
Joyce Quintanilla
Denver, Colorado

We are all heroes…

You remind me to always appreciate for all unsung heroes in my life…
My parents, my teachers, the street sweepers, the vendors, the garbage men
And many more…
They are all unsung heroes…
I am proud to be a teacher, one of the unsung heroes
I am proud to my students when they pass their exams with their flying colours
I am proud to be a part of the solutions of education in Indonesia, my beloved country…
We are all heroes
When we conquer our own ego, our selfish and egocentric
Once again I must confess, Rob….
You are right!!
Terimakasih
Love this,
Tri Martini  Red heart

Lunar Letter: Cope with Hope

Great Lunar Letter …. Thank you Rob … I was just saying to someone the other day … that teenagers today need to be encouraged more to dream … have a dream … and hold onto their dream … whilst taking inspired steps towards it … because when there is no dream, no hope or belief … they look for other things to do or to hold onto …. Our country has the highest rate of suicide in the world and I think this could be reduced if kids were only encouraged more by their parents to dream and then given the guidance to live their dreams .. far easier to say No to other stuff when you have hope and belief in something else.

Georgina Laros
South Africa

Really amazing!!!

De: Tri Martini
Asunto: RE: Lunar Letter: Three at a Time

Wow!! It was the first word I said after reading this article…
Really amazing!!! I think I must take a blank paper now and start to list my
tasks then choose the three first priority to be done the following day…
Thank you very very much for this meaningful article for me… Really love
this, Rob…~mtri

Excellent for focusing only on what is most important

De: Georgina Laros
Asunto: Re: Lunar Letter: Three at a Time
Hi Rob

Use this rule of three all the time in my life … and have to say it is
excellent for focusing only on what is most important at the time and also
gives one that feeling of accomplishment … even if only the one most
important things was completed for the day.

Thanks for the reminder.

A New Beginning

De: Georgina Laros
Enviado el: Friday, May 06, 2011 3:23 PM
Asunto: Re: Lunar Letter: A New Beginning

Thank you Rob … enjoyed reading as always

Georgie

This LL really means a lot to me…

De: Tri Martini
Enviado el: Friday, April 22, 2011 7:03 PM
Asunto: Lunar Letter: A New Beginning

“To keep moving forward it is necessary to learn and grow. Even the best
road can become difficult to follow if we do not renew and improve.”

I think, I need to start with a ‘new thought’ and to ‘adjust’ my desire to
be able to continue my unfinished chapter then accomplish my story in my
book of life with ‘Happy ending’….

I do hope that the stone in front of me can be my bridge to keep moving
forward and grow…and I will do everything possible to create the tale I
want.
I am sure I can…

Thank you very very much for supporting and motivating me as always…

This LL really means a lot to me… Indeed…

Love this, Rob…:)

Lunar Letter: A New Beginning

Judith Muller Thankyou for insights! Very neat way of dealing effectively with life! One day at a time! Neatly packaged, past stored and sealed, the future nice and new and a new beginning everyday! Love it!

Bonnie Jean Forsyth-Combs Thanks Rob. Great note!

Brenda Steinkamp Rob….as always…..thank you. You inspire me. Bless you my friend.

Praful Jain Rob… Ur just wonderful …!! Thank you… !!!

Joell Iannopollo Anthony Rob a wonderful reminder on how to change things simply and effectively! Thank you for the tag~Namaste~

Deroza Van der Ross TodaY is My neW beginning!! 🙂
PowerfuL!

Apocalypto Reborn Powerful and wonderful…

Adelina Stoichkova Santis ‎:-)))) Thank you again….I will do so and change my stile of writing

Zarina Ammarah Hajat awesome beautiful love this..note..thanks for sharing..

Arnita D. Doggett ‎~ ♥ Thank you ♥ Rob ♥ Always Inspiring ♥ ~

Titah Bhabu Thanks for the tag Rob. YOur writings are beautiful and very very inspiring. I’m gonna be expecting more of your wonderful thoughts…:)

Svetlana Petrova Indeed a very interesting and inspiring article.

Nena Nesovic Thank You Rob 🙂 ..helps 🙂 ♥

Erika Kóródi Great writing, as always. Inspiring as always, and very useful. Thank you Rob! Have a blessed day! 🙂

Emil Koval MUCHO GRACIAS, ROB. NAMASTE!

Tri Martini I really want to continue the chapter of my book of life with a better story..to create a good tale I want…though I know..it’s not as easy as turn our hands…but today must be my New Beginning to achieve what I have aspired and desired…I’m sure I can make it…Many many thanks for supporting, motivating and keep fanning desire…I must open a new page in my book of life…Really love this, dear Rob…♥

Mira Pesut God bless you Rob,, your writings is so beautiful and inspiring,, thank you from the heart..♥

Maria Eduarda Freitas Great writing!Interesting article….very interesting… Thanks for tagged me…life & love for all and hug for you 😉

Naeem Seagal Naeem Rob wonderful beautiful written love this one ,,,,A new beginning is something we need once in awhile,
To make fresh start and wear a broad smile.
To forgive and forget is not quite the same,
As starting again with a mundane new name.,,,,,
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Happiness does not depend on never facing sadness or sorrow…

De: Tri Martini
Enviado el: domingo, 20 de marzo de 2011 04:01 a.m.
Asunto: RE: Lunar Letter: A Beginning and an End

Thank you very much for the letter from the lunar… always agree for what u
said that time is relative and everything has beginning and end. Nothing
last forever…only real life after life will be eternally. No beginning  or
end. This really awaken me from my dream..strengthen me to dare all the
problems I have. I’m sure there’s a beautiful and happy ending waiting for
me someday…:)

You always remind me, that the past is my distant memory, the future is my
unfulfilled promise and today is my gift…Perhaps, I need to do harder than
I did to fulfill my unfinished dream…And with the help from The almighty I
can accomplish all my dream..Amen..:)

I shared your quote in my wall yesterday:

“Happiness does not depend on never facing sadness or sorrow, rather on
accepting them with courage and understanding so we make take advantage of
each moment in this spectacular journey we call life.”

How should I say ‘thanks’ to you, dear Rob???… You always sow the seeds
and water them in my garden and keep fanning my desire as well…

I never forget what you said…that I have something  instead of have
nothing… I must be grateful to The Almighty for it…
Once again, thank you sooooooo much for this meaningful letter…I really
really love it…

Very moving, very wise and very authentic

De: Jay Forte
Enviado el: viernes, 18 de marzo de 2011 08:19 p.m.
Asunto: Re: Lunar Letter: A Beginning and an End

Love it. Very moving, very wise and very authentic. Thank you for sharing
this. I pulled a couple of “life wisdom” quotes from it that I added to my
pages of inspiration – will use them (and give credit!). Thanks for
reminding me to be present – today – right now – this instant.

Gracias…

It seems to be right for me

De: Marcos Levy
Enviado el: viernes, 18 de marzo de 2011 07:21 p.m.
Asunto: Re: Lunar Letter: A Beginning and an End

I like this one my friend, It seems to be right for me, thanks it makes me
realize the true life values.

Hugs & Blessings

We all have dreams and desires

De: Tri Martini
Enviado el: sábado, 19 de febrero de 2011 04:41 a.m.
Asunto: RE: Lunar Letter: Action to Thought

Many many thanks for this lunar letter, Rob…
As you know, the lunar always shines in my dark night.
You’re 100% right that “we all have dreams and desires”
Dreams that must be achieved by an action..

Thank u, gracias, obrigada…terimakasih…

This very meaningful letter always inspires, motivates, and enlightens me

De: Tri Martini
Enviado el: sábado, 22 de enero de 2011 10:27 a.m.
Asunto: Lunar Letter: It’s not What, Rather Why

Many thanks for this Lunar Letter…

This very meaningful letter always inspires, motivates, and enlightens me in
every gray hours that often hit me…
And when read this, I feel that ‘this is that I want and I need’… You’re
absolutely right!!! I must cut my objective into smaller pieces to better
determine how to achieve it…
Then I sigh… and also realize that (may be) to get what I want is more
elusive and requires more thought…I understand that there isn’t a magic
answer which works for everyone…

Thank you very very very much for always burning and fanning my fire and
desire…

~ mtri

This one really struck me

De: Ellen Roots
Enviado el: domingo, 26 de diciembre de 2010 07:25 p.m.
Asunto: This one really struck me.

I often save your lunar letters for a time when I get to read them. This one really struck me. I attend a Buddhist meditation group every week and this authenticity is something that we strive for in our lives.

Ellen

Thanks for this great inspiration

De: Estelle Noad
Enviado el: martes, 24 de agosto de 2010 12:51 p.m.
Asunto: Re: Lunar Letter: Flow

Hi Rob,

Thanks for this great inspiration. I really agree 100% . You know, I was so down and this was really uplifting. Great work!!!!

Greetings from me in RSA.

Lunar Letter / Un Rebote Reventado

Aunque todos tenemos la capacidad de rebotar de los desafíos más difíciles en la vida, a veces este rebote se revienta por circunstancias fuera de nuestro control. La vida es como el rebote de una pelota, a veces estamos arriba y a veces estamos abajo. Lo más importante no es donde estemos en un momento determinado sino nuestra capacidad de rebotar por lo menos una vez más.

Nuestra capacidad de rebotar es el resultado de nuestra experiencia, preparación, perseverancia y actitud. Entre más dificultad hayamos enfrentado y superado, más fácil será rebotar y seguir adelante. Aún así, a veces hay acontecimientos en la vida que revientan nuestra capacidad de rebotar y crear nuevos caminos.

Los que me conocen o han estado conmigo en algún evento saben que utilizo el ejemplo del rebote de una pelota para ilustrar y explicar mis ideas. Recientemente conseguí la pelota “perfecta.” Era una pelota de fútbol tradicional de blanco y negro. Estaba feliz con mi compra y emocionado para utilizarla. El día antes de un evento la llené de aire. Al día siguiente se había reventado.

Mi primera reacción fue dársela a mis perros Sneaky y Rascal como juguete. Lamenté la situación y pensé en el dinero que había “botado para un rebote reventado.” Antes de darle la pelota a mis “chamos,” le saqué el aire y justo antes de dársela se me ocurrió una idea. En algún momento u otro todos hemos estado “reventados” por una circunstancia o acontecimiento. En los desafíos más difíciles parece que no hay solución, ni salida.

La tripa dentro del balón no se encontraba rota, sino deformada cuando el cuero del balón se venció debido a la presión del aire. Después de haberle sacado el aire, observé el hueco que quedaba en el balón. Se me ocurrió que este hueco es exactamente lo que sentimos cuando tenemos nuestro rebote reventado. Perforé unos agujeros alrededor del hueco grande y con una trenza reparé el hueco. Luego llené el balón de aire y como si fuera magia, ¡recuperó su rebote!

Encontramos situaciones parecidas a mi experiencia con la pelota cuando pasamos por un desafío desagradable. Primero “reventamos” y nuestro ser parece deformarse en una explosión de emociones. Luego queda un hueco que deja un vacío que no nos permite rebotar inmediatamente de la situación. Con el tiempo y frecuentemente con la ayuda de amigos u otras personas podemos remendar poco a poco el hueco que haya quedado después del acontecimiento. Aún así, todavía falta “aire” para poder inflar nuestro “balón” y regresar definitivamente de la parte más baja del rebote.

Es imprescindible tomar el tiempo necesario para recuperarnos de un Rebote Reventado. Podemos buscar el apoyo de personas que nos ayuden a reparar el hueco que queda después de un cataclismo emocional. Para subir y seguir adelante es fundamental encontrar y mantener una excelente actitud positiva que nos de un impulso para remendar definitivamente el vacío creado.

Después de haber reparado e inflado nuestra capacidad de rebotar nunca estaremos iguales. La cicatriz de lo que haya pasado quedará siempre como un recordatorio de lo acontecido. A su vez, podemos utilizar esta misma experiencia para fortalecernos y saber que siempre tenemos la capacidad de rebotar por lo menos una vez más de cualquier dificultad porque es el Rebote lo que nos Lleva al Tope.

∞ Rob McBride ∞
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