Penelope Josefine Cathmont-Prynn

RIP Poul Bo Christensen

2011-05-16T18:55:00.006+02:00

I was just told that my uncle Poul died Thursday- he was 64!
I would like to thank him both for showing me "how not to" live, and for being one of the people who taught me the importance of kindness, generosity and spirituality. Sadly, he never came to encompass any of the above, and lived a highly materialistic and superficial life until he keeled over with a hardened heart.

I send my condolences to the people who will miss you and thank you for the drawings- onkel Poul.

Wishing you a nice send off this Thursday at 13.30 PM (Rigshospitalet)

Penny

Great show of the 90s: American Gothic Series trailer

2011-03-09T20:35:00.001+01:00

Remember Lucas Buck with a B.
I used to love this show... Even bought the original manuscript from one of the episodes years later....
Gary Cole was superb- it was a perfect match.

Wyrd ard

2011-03-08T01:14:00.000+01:00

Tangerine Dream Logos Live from 1982- another 80's great

2011-03-06T18:03:00.006+01:00

Chesney Hawks and Nik Kershaw- the good old days

2011-03-05T14:29:00.005+01:00

Aw remember Chesney Hawks. Going down memory lane with a lot of 80's and 90's stuff - this was a great hit for him in 91 I think.... Love the the lyrics, so here they are :O)

Here's the guy who wrote the lyrics... Nik Kershaw.. I remember playing his hit Wouldn't it be good over and over again on my tape recorder in order to learn the lyrics.. Yeah the good old days when you had all the time in the world and men had hair.....

Quote of the day

2011-02-27T22:34:00.001+01:00

Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

Mark Twain

Great Depeche Mode song.... I guess you don't have to hurry love--- I'm waiting :O)

2010-09-06T19:28:00.005+02:00

Song: It's No Good (1997)

:::::::::::Lyrics:::::::::::::

Im going to take my time
I have all the time in the world
To make you mine
It is written in the stars above
The gods decree
Youll be right here by my side
Right next to me
You can run but you cannot hide
Dont say you want me
Dont say you need me
Dont say you love me
Its understood
Dont say youre happy
Out there without me
I know you cant be cause its no good
Ill be fine
Ill be waiting patiently
Till you see the signs
And come running to my open arms
When will you realize
Do we have to wait till our worlds collide
Open up your eyes
You cant turn back the tide
Dont say you want me
Dont say you need me
Dont say you love me
Its understood
Dont say youre happy
Out there without me
I know you cant be cause its no good
Im going to take my time
I have all the time in the world
To make you mine
It is written in the stars above
Dont say you want me
Dont say you need me
Dont say you love me
Its understood
Dont say youre happy
Out there without me
I know you cant be cause its no good

Mail from Walsch

2010-08-26T17:54:00.001+02:00

On this day of your life, Penelope Josefine [or you], I believe God [fill in] wants you to know... that giving up is not the answer.
Neither is giving in. Stand your ground.
There is a way of doing that without having to be
combative. There is a way of hanging on to your true self,
and demonstrating it, without resorting to aggression.
But giving up and giving in is not the way.
Simply and quietly claiming your right to be You
is the way.
You know exactly why you received this message today.

Love, Your Friend....
Neale

The psychology and behaviour of our cats- nailed here ;O)

2010-08-22T08:54:00.004+02:00

Biggest obstacle for self improvement

2010-08-15T14:16:00.001+02:00

Cute one from Tony Robbins

2010-08-11T13:24:00.004+02:00

Question: Do you know why angels fly?

Answer: Because they take themselves lightly....

Awwww bless him.

Why I applaud Pamela Anderson :O)

2010-08-08T12:27:00.006+02:00

This is a woman who loves animals and cares to the extent that she will do almost anything in order to change people's awareness.... I love that... All power to her ;O)

Now that's what I call a result

2010-08-07T14:30:00.000+02:00

One of my all-time favourite men JC :O)

2010-08-06T09:00:00.009+02:00

The Power Of Gratitude

2010-08-05T14:56:00.003+02:00

Discover The Power Of Gratitude To Unleash
Unlimited Abundance And Happiness In Your Life

Developing an attitude of sincere gratitude
for your current blessings unleashes the power
for receiving many more. Every Day Give Thanks.

Consciously utilizing The Power Of Gratitude is an extremely important aspect of attracting to yourself the Abundance and Happiness that you desire and deserve in your life.

First, let's explore how sincere gratefulness works from a strictly scientific perspective and how, through our individual choice to develop a consistent habit of expressing heartfelt gratitude enacts the unwavering power of Universal Law to draw more to be grateful for.

As we've discovered in the Law of Vibration , everything within our universe broken down into it's purest form is a vibrating mass of atoms and subatomic particles. (Energy) Through the Law of Attraction , the energy (vibrations) that you resonate and project based on your thoughts, feelings, and emotions determines your "vibrational frequency" which broadcasts that frequency, attracts to it energy or vibrational frequencies that harmonize or resonate with it which determines the events, situations, and circumstances that you attract and eventually see manifest into your life.

What does that have to do with the Power Of Gratitude?

Absolutely Everything!

When you are in a sincere state of gratitude your energy (vibrational resonance) is one of acceptance and harmony. You resonate and as a result project a much higher vibrational frequency which is exactly what attracts to you the events, conditions, and circumstances that you desire.

To provide more clarity on the resonance created and projected by gratitude consider the following analogy...

Think of yourself as a giant magnet. Whatever you are feeling, whether it be love, fear, anger, happiness, anger, joy, gratitude, resistance etc. you are in essence creating a magnetic force that attracts and draws to you events, conditions and circumstances which are in direct correlation to what you are feeling. Fear of something creates a magnetic force that will attract more of what you fear. Expressing Gratitude for any situation projects a magnetic force that draws to you more of what you are expressing gratitude for.

In other words gratitude puts you in a harmonious vibrational resonance which attracts additional energies

At any time that you are NOT expressing gratitude for an outcome you are in essence resisting the outcome which places your focus on NOT WANTING that outcome. When this happens what are your thoughts and emotions fixated on? What you DON"T want, correct? That focus of NOT wanting creates a "magnetic force" which only serves to draw to you more of that which you are NOT WANTING or resisting.

Let's look at the difference between expressing gratitude and resistance in your day to day life...

When you experience an outcome that you find displeasing and you choose to fight or resist whatever is happening in your life at any given moment you are actually creating resistance, which puts you in a disharmonious vibration, or a lower vibrational frequency, and we all know what begins to happen then, don't we? You resonate with and begin to attract the dis-harmonious events, conditions and circumstances into your life that you are resisting. As mentioned above, you are drawing to you or attracting through your "magnetic force" the polar opposite of what you have a desire to experience.

Resistance is placing focus on what you would rather NOT have happening which is in essence creating and projecting a magnetic force which is drawing to you what it is that you are placing your predominant focus on (resisting) or DON"T have a desire to experience. This focus can only draw more of that which you are focusing on.

Gratitude on the other hand is an acceptance of things just the way they are which correlates with acceptance which in turn resonates and projects a much different resonance of energy creating a magnetic force that is conducive to attracting the "desired" outcome.

A common question that comes up is......

"How in the world can I be in a state of gratitude when everything seems to be going wrong? Let's dig down a bit deeper, analyze this a little further and you'll have a crystal clear understanding of what is actually happening.

First of all it's important to recognize the importance of accepting responsibility for whatever is going on in your life. As we've covered in The Power Of Thoughts , the events, conditions and circumstances that you're currently experiencing are manifestations based on thoughts and emotions that you've chosen at some point in the past. It's due to those thoughts and emotions which represent the seeds, that you are experiencing whatever outcome you currently are. Remember, you are the one that thinks your thoughts. Your thoughts do not think you. In the same way, the emotions experienced serve as a gauge and are a reflection of the quality of thoughts that you are thinking.

Since your current outcomes are based on what you have thought and felt at some point in the past and those outcomes are now being experienced in your life, guess who created them? YOU did!! Although that may not make you feel any better about them just yet, consider this...

Since it is you that is responsible for attracting and creating "undesirable outcomes, then isn't it also possible to change the thoughts and emotions responsible for creating them which will produce the desired result? Absolutely!!

Simply recognizing the fact that you brought them into your life in and of itself provides you with an understanding of your creative power which in and of itself should instill a sense of gratitude that you've been provided the choice as to what you will create for your life.

Although prior to understanding how this process works you were in essence "unconsciously creating", now you can begin to "consciously create" more to express gratitude for.

Once you fully grasp and understand that your current experiences here and now are merely guideposts showing you that you are either on the right path of creating your desired outcomes or that you need to make some adjustments in your thought processes that created them, you will become empowered to express heartfelt gratitude for whatever is currently happening in your life recognizing the fact that YOU created it.

Sure...you could get mad at yourself and choose to be upset but what energy are you resonating through that choice? NOT the kind that will attract desired outcomes for sure.

Your perception of something going wrong is only your perception, that is all. A misguided perception based on false beliefs and a lack of understanding that EVERYTHING unfolds in your life perfectly just as you choose and instruct.

In the bigger scheme of things, Nothing EVER goes "wrong." It is only based on a lack of deeper understanding concerning the process of creation that you "perceive" something as going wrong. The process of creation NEVER wavers. It is, has been and always will be perfect, precise and unfailing 100% of the time.

It is only wrong thought and wrong perceptions that are responsible for igniting emotions that attract creations that show up in your life in the form of events, conditions and circumstances that you perceive as "going wrong."

It's important to recognize and express gratitude for the fact that EVERYTHING in your life is a miracle, a creation that YOU created.

Creation, regardless of how you might perceive it is ALWAYS 100% of the time a miracle. Learn to recognize that fact and express gratitude for EVERY miracle in your life and you will begin to see the life changing power that gratitude holds in creating MUCH more to be grateful for.

Those miracles (creations) which show up that aren't in harmony with your intended or desired outcomes are merely signs that YOU need to make adjustments within yourself. When you fully grasp and internalize this truth you'll learn to express gratitude for the sign that you mis-created it and that you have been provided with the evidence that will enable you to change the thoughts, emotions and perceptions which brought it into your life.

Your perceptions regarding any event, condition or circumstance are only based on a memory of something in the past that is stored in your subconscious mind and can be consciously changed if you discover that it is not in harmony with what you have a desire to accomplish.

For example, let's look at two people with totally different perceptions regarding the same situation, and see first hand what an attitude of gratitude is, and isn't.

This analogy will validate the old saying that "There's a silver lining in EVERY cloud." That's MUCH more true than most understand.

Let's say that you wake up on a Saturday morning after a good nights rest. You've worked hard all week and you're really looking forward to getting outside and playing in a golf tournament that you had entered, and enjoying your weekend of R&R. You're feeling pretty good about the day ahead of you. You make your coffee and head for the window to open the blinds. You get them opened up and look out the window. ARGGHHHHHH, it's raining outside!

Next, your self talk kicks in and it goes something like this. "Oh man, my whole day is ruined. I was planning on doing this and that and now I can't. Why do things always have to happen like that? Another weekend shot! I can't ever get a break!"

Obviously your perception is that everything went wrong and your whole weekend is ruined. Based on your thought pattern and perception, your right, it is. Unless you are able to change that perception, you'll allow yourself to have a less than desirable weekend. In fact, by remaining in this state, you will literally attract additional events, conditions, and circumstances to you that will make Certain that you have a less than desirable weekend!

This is a classic case of resistance, or ungratefulness. No silver lining here right?

Now let's take a look at the neighbor down the street who always seems to have things going his way. Let's imagine it's the same scenario. He has worked all week and made plans to play in the same golf tournament that you were entered in.

He walks to the window, opens the shades and sees exactly the same situation that you did when you opened them except, although he initially has a little disappointment because he can't go to the golf tournament he was planning on, he decides that there is nothing he can do to change the situation and begins his habitual thought process and self talk which goes something like this...

"Boy I sure was looking forward to that golf tournament. Oh well, I've got a few things that need to get done around here today anyway. That means I don't have to water the grass for a few days and that will sure save a little on my water bill. It's been a few weeks since it rained and we sure needed it."

Although the person in the second example was a little disappointed initially, a conscious decision was made that wouldn't allow it to ruin the entire weekend and shifted the focus to something more positive and productive.

This is a classic case of remaining in gratitude, regardless. No resistance, no allowing undesired emotions to ignite and the end result is a harmonious vibration.

Do you see what I mean about perception? Same situation, different people, different perception, different outcome.

Although that's a "physical" example, it conveys from that perspective how varying perceptions can create completely opposite experiences.

When you have developed a crystal clear understanding that all things work for the greater good no matter how seemingly bad things may appear, it becomes much easier to stay in a state of gratitude.

When you are able to fully develop that awareness, (and with a little practice, you will) not only is it an extremely freeing experience, but you are setting your self up for a much greater flow of Abundance and Happiness being attracted and coming into your life...EVERY area of your life! When the Universe sees that you are grateful for what you have, it will send you more.

This is exactly how Universal Laws operate. The universe doesn't perceive anything as good or bad, it only sends outcomes to you based on your vibrational resonance, and your attitude concerning any given thing is exactly what determines that vibrational resonance.

God, Universal Consciousness, Super-Conscious Mind or whatever you perceive Source to be, loves each person unconditionally exactly the same and only delivers to each precisely what we are asking for, based on our individually chosen vibrational output. If that output resonates anger, fear, doubt, worry etc. the vibrational resonance that you're projecting communicates and the universe perceives that you are asking for outcomes based on that output, and that is exactly what you'll receive!

As spiritual text states it..."As you sow, so shall you reap."

On the other hand, by learning to consciously control the emotions that determine that output, and developing the ability to remain in a state of Gratitude regardless of what the situation may temporarily consist of, your vibrational output or magnetically attractive force is conducive to attracting outcomes that are in vibrational resonance with Gratitude and you can only attract to you the events, conditions and circumstances that are in alignment with Gratitude. Positive and Desired Outcomes!

We can't possibly control everything that is going on around us in the world but we can most certainly control ourselves and how we perceive what's going on.

The unwavering systems (Universal Laws) have been put into place, and you only need to learn to operate in harmony with them, which will allow you to attract the Abundance and Happiness that you desire.

Developing an attitude of gratitude is one of the most important things that you can do for attracting and manifesting the things that you desire into your life. In fact, if you have a desire to consistently attract desired outcomes, it's essential that you do!

"The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings." — Eric Hoffer

Action Steps To Develop Your Attitude Of Gratitude

Ok, now that you have a feel for the importance of expressing gratitude in your day to day outcomes, regardless of what they are, let's explore a few ways to develop an attitude of gratitude that will positively effect what you see manifest in your life everyday.

By focusing on and compiling a list of the things that you are grateful for in your life actually accomplishes a few extremely effective things at the same time.

#1 It allows you to bring into your conscious awareness the good things that are happening in your life on a day to day basis, and with repetition, will take your focus off of what you perceive as the negative aspects of any situation.

It's purpose is to put you more into a mindset of finding that you really do have good, positive things happening to you in all areas of your life, and shifts the focus off of what you perceive to be negative.

In essence it is a conscious choice to focus on gratitude rather than choosing what the mass majority does which is "unconsciously" allowing their thoughts, emotions and focus to run wild all the while believing that their a victim of circumstance rather than a creator of circumstance.

It's no secret that life can deal what "appears" and is often "perceived" to be a bad hand sometimes, but if you will look hard for it, you can find the good in any situation. Sometimes the answer isn't readily available, but just the knowing that all things happen for the greater good, is enough to keep you from falling into resistance, and keep it from getting worse.

#2 By shifting the focus off of only the negative aspect of a situation, you are able to see more clearly the positive things that can come out of this situation, which in turn puts you into more of a vibrational state that will attract the things that you desire.

#3 While you are doing this procedure, it is automatically rewriting the negative script that through repetition, you have allowed to be written in your subconscious and replacing it with positive and productive scripting that will deliver to you, more positive and productive outcomes.

Technique #1 : The Mental Gratitude List

By developing the discipline to practice this technique every day, you will find that it becomes easier and easier to do, and the results, meaning the attraction of more to express gratitude for, will be dramatic.

There are actually several ways that you can do gratitude exercises. Personally I find what works best for me is to mentally go over my list of things to be grateful for as I meditate . The reason this is such an effective method is because during meditation, your brain wave activity is lowered dramatically into an alpha state, which allows the affirmations to penetrate deeper into the subconscious portion of your mind, and has a quicker, deeper, and longer lasting effect with less effort.

If your not into the meditation thing, you can also go over a mental list as you do the things that relax you, such as working in the garden, walking in the park, going fishing, or whatever relaxation activities that you do.

It's not nearly as important precisely how you do your gratitude exercises as it is that you make certain to do them.

You'll find that doing your gratitude work consistently delivers results more quickly, and is much more effective if you can do it while you are in a more relaxed state of mind.

If you are at a place where you are totally unable to quite your mind and anxious most of the time, you may find the next method to be more effective, initially.

Technique #2 : The Written Out Gratitude List

This method is equally as effective and actually accomplishes the same end result as the first technique.

Just take out a piece of paper and make a hand written list of the things that you can think of that you are grateful for. Think deeply about each area of your life and begin to write in detail the good things that come to your mind as you write.

Don't fight it or strain attempting to come up with things, just "allow" them to flow.

Depending on your particular situation, you may find that it's hard to come up with things to be grateful for initially, so dig deep and things will begin to flow. Make sure though that you are finding and writing things that you are sincerely grateful for. If the emotion isn't there, the result won't be either.

To give an example, let's say that your working on a relationship issue. You and your significant other have been at odds for some time and you are feeling really hurt and angry over the situation. Although your state of mind is telling you how angry you are, think about the good that you saw in this person that attracted you to them initially. Begin to write down what comes to mind and more will follow. Write in as much detail as you are able regarding each item on your list. If it is hard initially, that's OK, just do the best you can. It will become easier and easier the more you practice at it.

Utilize this technique in whatever area of your life you are working on, regardless if it's money, health, relationships, or all three. It is extremely powerful and with practice and persistence you will begin to see circumstances begin to change almost magically.

Make a commitment to yourself that you will do this at least once per day and stick to that commitment. It doesn't have to take a long time. Even 5 minutes is better than not at all. Put into it the time that you can spare, but make sure you do it every day.

You'll be pleased with the results.

There are a few quotes that come to mind with regard to gratitude and the power that it has.

One is...

"When you are grateful fear disappears and abundance appears" -Anthony Robbins

Another is...

When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change." - Wayne Dyer

And an even more powerful one that provides VERY specific instruction with regard to gratitude is...

"Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus." -The Bible-Phil 4:6-7 NKJV

Ok...just one more and I'll stop...I PROMISE!!

"Develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation." -Brian Tracy

The bottom line is that gratitude plays an extremely important role in beginning to consciously and intentionally create desired outcomes in your life...EXTREMELY important!!

It's my hope that you'll think about this and choose gratitude for yourself. It will make ALL the difference.

I would encourage you to develop your understanding with regard to the importance of gratitude and how from a "deeper perspective" it does serve to mold and shape a far more pleasing quality of life.

http://www.abundance-and-happiness.com/gratitude.html

Row row row your boat :O)

2010-08-02T17:58:00.004+02:00

Got myself a rowing machine from Reebok and loving it :O)

Here's my incantation:

"As I row this wonderful machine, my body is healthier, slimmer and stronger by the minute"

Energetic awesome man- that Anthony Robbins ;O)

2010-08-02T13:46:00.005+02:00

Looking forward to the next chapter :O)

2010-06-22T22:00:00.003+02:00

Quote of the day :O)

2010-06-08T14:41:00.006+02:00

Never mix business with pleasure, unless your pleasure is the business.

P. J. Cathmont-Prynn

Cute shortfilm called Terrible Kisses

2010-01-21T20:28:00.004+01:00

Cool quote from a cool lady :O)

2010-01-04T20:31:00.000+01:00

A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want.

Madonna

Happy New Year folks :O)

2009-12-31T13:09:00.002+01:00

Prime essentials from Christian D. Larson

2009-08-11T10:41:00.000+02:00

To formulate rules in detail that will apply to each individual case is neither possible nor necessary. All have not the same present needs nor the same previous training; but there are certain general principles that apply to all, and these, if followed according to the individual viewpoint, will produce the results desired. If the proper beginning is made, the subsequent results will not only be greater and be realized in less time, but much useless experience and delay will be avoided. These principles, or prime essentials, are as follows:

1. Learn to be still.
When you undertake to live an ideal life and seek to promote your advancement in every direction, you will find that much cannot be gained until your entire being is placed in a proper condition for growth; the reason being that the ideal is ever advancing toward higher ideals, and you must improve yourself before you can better your life. It has been found that all laws of growth require order, harmony and stillness for proper action; therefore, to live peacefully, think peacefully, act peacefully and speak peacefully are important essentials. This will not only put the entire being into proper condition for growth, but will also conserve energy, and when you begin to live the larger life you will want to use properly all your forces; neither misusing or wasting anything.

To acquire stillness never "try hard," but simply exercise general self control in everything you do. Never be anxious about results, and they will come with less effort, and in less time. Whenever you have a moment to spare relax the whole person, mind and body; just let everything fall into the easiest position possible. Make no effort to relax, simply let go. So long as you try to relax you will not succeed. While in this relaxed condition be quiet; do not move a muscle; breathe deeply but gently, and think only of peace and stillness. Before you go to sleep at night relax your entire system, and fall asleep with peace in your mind; bathe your mind and body, so to speak, in the crystal sea of the beautiful calm. These methods alone will work wonders in a few weeks.

While you are at work hold yourself from anxious hurry or disturbed action; work in the attitude of poise and you will accomplish much more in the same given time and you will be a far better workman. Train yourself to come into the realization of perfect peace by gently holding a deep strong desire for peace and by ordering all your actions to harmonize with the peaceful goal in view. The result will be "the peace that passeth understanding," and for this alone your gratitude will be both boundless and endless.

2. Rejoice and be glad.
Cheerfulness is not only a good medicine, but it is food for mind and body. The cheerful life will fill every atom with new life, and it is to the faculties of the mind what sunshine is to the flowers and trees. To be happy always is one of the greatest things that man can do, and there are few things that are more profitable in every sense of that term. No matter what comes, be glad; and live in the conviction that all things are working together for good to you. As your conviction is so is your faith; and as your faith is so it shall be unto you. When you live in the conviction that all things are working together for good you will cause all things to work together for good, and you will understand the reason why when you begin to apply the real science of ideal living. No matter how dark the cloud, look for the silver lining; it is there, and when you always look at the bright side of things you develop brightness in yourself.

This brightness will strengthen all your faculties so that you can easily overcome what obstacles may be in your way, and thus gain the victory desired. Direct your attention constantly to the bright side of things; refuse absolutely to consider any other side. At first this may not be possible in the absolute sense, but perseverance never fails to win. However, do not try hard; gently direct your attention to the bright side and know that you can. Ere long it will be second nature for you to live on the sunny side. The value of this attainment is very great; first, because joyousness will increase life, power, energy and force; this we all know from personal experience, and we wish to have all the life and power that we can possibly secure; second, because the happiest soul never worries, which is great gain. Worry has crippled thousands of fine minds and brought millions to an early grave. We simply cannot afford to worry and must never do so under any condition whatever.

If we have that habit we can remove it at once by the proper antidote, which is joyousness. After you have trained yourself to look only for the bright and the best, the bright and the best will come to you, because you will be using your powers to bring those very things to pass; therefore, rejoice and be glad every moment. Let your heart and your soul sing at all times. When you do not feel the joyous music within, produce it with your own imagination, and ere long it will come of itself with greater and greater abundance; your soul will want to sing because it feels music, and there are few joys that equal the joy that comes when music is felt in the soul. There are so many things that are sweet and beautiful in life that when we once find the key to harmony we shall always rejoice. In the meantime, be happy for the good you have found, and through that very attitude you will develop the power to attract better things than you ever had before. This personal existence is brimful of good things and happy souls will find them all.

3. Love everybody and be kind.
If you wish your path to be strewn with roses, just be kind. Give your best to the world, and the best will come to you without fail; if it does not come today, never mind; just go on being kind and refuse to consider disappointments. Never hold in mind those things that you do not wish to retain; you thus cause those things to pass away. This "shall also pass away" is true of everything that is not pleasant; but unpleasant things will not pass away so long as we hold them in thought. That which you let go from your mind will pass away from you entirely. Train yourself to be kindness in a permanent state of mind, because you cannot afford to criticize, condemn or be angry at any time.

We know that anger not only disturbs the mind, but also destroys the cells of the body, and no one can be angry without losing a great deal of life and energy. To find fault never pays; it simply brings enmity, discord and criticisms; besides, the faults we constantly see in others will develop in ourselves. The critical mind is destructive and the critical attitude is weakening to the entire system; therefore, no one can be his best who permits himself to think or talk about the flaws of life. Be good and kind to everybody; it is one of the royal paths to happiness and peace. When anyone does wrong, do not condemn; help him out; help him find the better way. "Cast your bread upon the waters;" it will surely return; sometimes more quickly than you expect it. Therefore, give abundantly of all that is best in your life, and nothing is better than kindness and love. When you begin to live an ideal life you will desire more and more to live the largest life possible, and to accomplish this you must learn to be much to everybody.

Your purpose must be to be useful in the largest and truest sense of that term; and nothing can promote this purpose so thoroughly and so extensively as universal kindness. This does not imply, however, that you are to permit yourself to be imposed upon or unjustly used by the unscrupulous. It is our duty, as well as our privilege to demand the right at all times, and to demand justice for everybody and from everybody, but this should be done in kindness, with the antagonistic attitude eliminated. The love that loves everybody is not the love that seeks to gain personal possession of some object of affection. We refer to that larger kindness that excludes no one from our whole-souled good wishes. This form of love is the greatest power in the world, and the one who loves the most in this larger, truer sense will accomplish the most. The reason why is found in the fact that a great love invariably brings out all that is large, great and extraordinary in human nature. To state that the one who takes the greatest interest in the welfare of the world does the most to promote his own interests may seem to be a contradiction of terms; but it is true, and it proves conclusively that the one who gives his best to the world will invariably receive the best in return.

Never permit yourself to say that you cannot love every creature that lives; say that you do love everything that lives, and mean it. What you say you are doing that you will find yourself doing. This greater love illumines the mind, gives new life to every fiber in your being, removes almost every burden and eases the whole path of existence. Love removes entirely all anger, hatred, revenge, ill will, and similar states, a matter of great importance, for no one can live an ideal life while such states of mind remain. To have a sweet temper and loving disposition and a kind heart is worth more than tons of gold. We are all finding this to be true, and we realize fully that the person who loves everybody with that larger loving kindness has taken a long step upward into that life that is real life. This is not mere sentiment, but the expression of an exact scientific fact. A strong, continuous love will bring all good to any one who lives and acts as he inwardly feels.

4. Have faith in abundance.
Have faith in God; have faith in man; have faith in yourself; have faith in faith. Believe in everything, and you relate yourself to the best that is in everything. We all know the value of self-confidence, but faith is infinitely deeper, larger and higher. Self-confidence helps us to believe in ourselves, as we are at present, and thus helps us to make a better use of the talents we now possess; but faith elevates the mind into the consciousness of our larger and superior possibilities, and thus increases perpetually the power, the capacity and the efficiency of the talents we now possess. Faith brings out the best that is within us and puts that best to work now. He who follows faith may frequently go out upon the seeming void, but he always finds the solid rock, The reason is that faith has superior vision and goes instinctively to the very thing we desire to find. Faith does not expect things to come of themselves.

Faith never stands and waits; it does things; but while at work believes that the goal will be reached and the undertaking accomplished. The person who works in the attitude of faith can never fail; because through faith he draws upon the inexhaustible. The person who works in the attitude of doubt can never be at his best. Through the feeling of doubt he lowers his own ability; he holds back his best power and employs but a portion of his capacity; but the one who works in faith will press on to the very limit of his present capacity and then go on further still, because the more faith he has the more fully he realizes that there is no limit to his capacity, that the seeming void that lies before is positively solid rock all the way and he may safely proceed. Whatever you do believe that you can succeed in; do not for a moment permit yourself to doubt; know that the Infinite is your source, that you live in the universal and have the boundless upon which to draw for supply. If people or things do not come up to your ideal never mind; give them time; continue to have faith in their better selves; they will also scale the heights.

Expect them all to do their best, and most of them will do so now; the others will soon follow, if you live in the faith that they will. The unbounded faith of one soul can elevate the lives of thousands. This is a statement that is just as true as it is great, and we should constantly give it the highest place in mind. The man who has faith in the whole race is an inspiration to everybody. Many a person has risen rapidly in the scale because some one had faith in him. Faith is the greatest elevating power that we know in the world. Faith can convert any failure into success and can promote the advancement of everybody, no matter what the circumstances may be. Have faith in yourself and you will advance as you never advanced before. Have faith in others and they will inevitably follow. Have faith in the Infinite and the Supreme Power will always be with you. This power will see you through, whatever your goal may be. Therefore, if you would enter the new life, the better life, the ideal life, and inspire others to do the same, have faith in abundance.

5. Pray without ceasing.
The true prayer is the whole-souled desire for the larger, the higher and the better while the mind is stayed upon the Most High; and to pray without ceasing is to constantly live in that lofty desire. The forces of mind and body always follow our desires; therefore, if we would use our powers in building up a larger life we must have high desires and true desires. Turn your desires upward and keep them there; desire the greater things only; never desire anything less.

Those powers within you will cause you to become as true, as great and as perfect as your heart has prayed that you might become. To cause our desires, thoughts and states of consciousness to rise to the very highest states of being, we should employ the silence daily; that is, we should enter into the absolute stillness of the secret life of the soul. Through the silence we shall find the secret of secrets, the path to that inner world from which everything proceeds. To begin, be alone and comfortably seated. Or, you may enter the silence in association with someone that is in perfect harmony with yourself. Relax mind and body; close your eyes and be perfectly quiet; turn your attention upon the inner life of the soul and gently hold your mind upon the thoughts of stillness and peace.

Affirm with deep, quiet feeling,

"Peace is mine."

"I am resting in the stillness of the spirit."

"I have entered the beautiful calm."

"I am one with the Infinite."

“I am in the kingdom of the great within."

“I am in the secret places of the Most High,"

and similar states.

While you make these statements feel that you are peaceful and still and that you are now in that inner world where all is quiet and serene. When you feel this deep, sublime stillness you can use other affirmations according to your present needs. You may affirm that you are well and strong and happy and harmonious, and that you have full possession of all those qualities that you know have existence in real life. To feel the perfect peace of the soul, however, is the first essential. After that is attained your consciousness will deepen and you will enter the great within to a greater and greater degree.

While the mind is in this interior state of being every thought you think will be a power, and every desire you express will modify or change everything in your life according to the nature of that desire and in proportion to its depth and unity with the Supreme. For this reason you should train yourself to think only right thoughts and create only the truest desires while you are in the silent state. That which you think or do while in the silence will have a greater effect upon your life than that which you may attempt while on the surface of outer consciousness.

Therefore, everything that is important should be taken into the silence and through the silence to the Infinite. This corresponds perfectly with the statement

"Take it to the Lord in prayer."

The real purpose of the silence is to enable the mind to enter the inner life and not only recreate all thought according to the higher truth, but to enter into a more perfect touch with the divine source of things. The silence should be entered every day for ten, twenty or thirty minutes. This is a daily practice of extreme value.

Though you may not have any real results at first, simply continue; you will reach your goal. When you begin to become conscious of your interior life and begin to live more or less in touch with the world beautiful that is within you, you will find that you can live in this high, peaceful state the greater part of the time and thus be in the silence almost constantly. This is not only a most desirable attainment, but it is the one great attainment toward which every soul should work.

When a person can live in these higher realms always and constantly, and desire the realization of the highest and the best that he knows, the prayer without ceasing, the true spiritual prayer is being fulfilled. Such a prayer will be answered eternally. Every day will bring us something that we truly wished for, and every moment will be supplied with all that is necessary to make the present full and complete.

6. Think the truth.
When we learn to think the truth we have actually come to the "parting of the ways." Here we find where the old leaves off and the new begins. In this state the wrong disappears and the right is discerned and realized in an ever-increasing manner. The foundation of all truth is expressed in the basic statement "MAN IS A SPIRITUAL BEING CREATED IN THE IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF GOD". Being created in the image of God man is now divine and in possession of all the divine attributes. Each individual is now in possession of infinite wisdom, infinite power, infinite love, eternal life, perfect peace, everlasting joy, universal truth, universal freedom, universal good, divine wholeness, spotless virtue, boundless supply.

True, these attributes exist principally in the potential state, that is, they are possibilities waiting in the within for unfoldment, development and expression; nevertheless, they do exist in every soul and to a degree that is limitless. Therefore, every soul does actually possess those attributes, and to speak the truth we must recognize their existence and even now claim their possession. To think the truth you must think that you are divine in your true being, and that you possess these attributes, because this is the truth. You are divine in your true being, because you are created in the image of God, and you do possess the divine attributes just mentioned because that which is divine must necessarily possess the attributes of the divine.

To think contrary to this would be wrong thought, and from wrong thought comes all the wrong in the world. The average person does think contrary to this thought; therefore, he is almost constantly in bondage to sin, sickness or trouble of some kind. Divine wholeness, that is, perfect health of body and mind is yours now, always was and always will be; therefore it would be wrong for you to say, "I am sick." Your real being is never sick, never will be, because it is divine and you are the real being; you are not the body; you possess a body, and that body may be indisposed, if you create wrong thought, but that body is not you. You are a spiritual being created in the image of God, therefore you are always well.

When sickness appears on the surface, that is, in the body, know that it is on the surface only; that sickness is not in you; you are real being, and in real being perfect health reigns absolutely and eternally. The sickness that sometimes appears in the body is the result of a recognition of untruth, either expressed in wrong thinking or wrong living. Right thought, that is, that thought that invariably follows the recognition of absolute truth, would not produce sickness; and no person could become sick that is always filled and protected with the power of right thought. When the light reigns supremely, darkness cannot enter. Wrong thought comes from a false conception of yourself, and false conceptions will continue to form in mind so long as you are ignorant of the truth.

When you know the truth, that you are the image of God, perfect in your own true being, you will think this truth and all your thought will; consequently, only right conditions can exist in your life, and all will henceforth be well with you. When you see yourself as you are in your true being, that you are even now strong and well, in full possession of peace, love, power, wisdom, freedom and all the good that is in God, you will think of yourself accordingly and such thought is right thought. The result will be right conditions in mind and body. From center to circumference your entire being will be well and perfect, as it always was and ever will be in the truth.

To think the absolute truth at first seems a contradiction of known facts, because we are so used to judging from appearances, but when we find that appearances are simply the result of thought, that right thought produces good appearances, and wrong thought produces adverse appearances, and learn that true being is the image of God, we shall no longer see contradiction in thinking absolute truth. When we think the truth about ourselves we shall always think the truth about others; we shall, therefore, not think of them as they appear on the surface but as they are in the perfection of real spiritual being. We shall overlook, forgive and forget the wrong appearance, knowing that it is but a temporary effect of wrong thought, and we shall proceed to inspire everyone to change that appearance by thinking right thought, the thought of truth.

7. Live in the spirit.
To express this statement in its simplest terms, we would say that to live in the spirit is to live in the upper story of mind and thought, or to live on the good side, the bright side and the true side of everything. To the beginner this is sufficient, because this simple change in living must come before the higher spiritual consciousness can be realized; but the change though simple at first will completely revolutionize life. Ere long, however, the consciousness of the true side and the better side will become so clear that to live in the spirit will mean infinitely more than to simply dwell in the upper story of mind, and when this larger experience comes we shall know from our own illumined understanding what it means to live in the spirit. When we begin to think the truth all kinds of illusions and false beliefs will gradually vanish, and we shall not only understand that we are spiritual beings, but we shall feel that we are all that divine life can be.

We shall positively know that we are eternal souls living in a spiritual world now, expressing ourselves in a physical world, and we shall realize that we are actually created in the image and likeness of the Infinite, united with the Infinite and living in the life of Infinite being. Through the fuller realization of truth we will learn that the spiritual is not some vague, far away something that saints alone can know, but that spirit is the essence of all things, the very life of all things visible and invisible, and that spirit is in itself absolutely good and perfect. We will realize that there is but one substance from which all things proceed and that substance is the expression of spirit; we will see that there is but one life, the spiritual life, and that there is but one law, the eternal coming forth in a greater and greater measure of life.

We will find that spirit is the basis of all things, the soul of all things, and that therefore all things are in reality very good and very beautiful. We will find through the spirit that evil is but a temporary condition produced by man's understanding of the goodness and the completeness of real being and that to so live that we realize the absolute goodness and the perfect harmony of the whole universe is to live in the spirit. When we realize this we are on the true side of all things and we feel that we are. When we are in harmony with all things we are in harmony with the Infinite and can feel His presence always; and we also find that to "dwell in the secret places of the Most High" is to realize that we are in that great sea of life, the great spiritual sea, the universal state of being, the world of divine existence. While we are in this upper state, that is, in the spirit, we are away from the false, and actually in the true. We are in the spirit, and from the light of the spirit we can see clearly the truth concerning everything.

From this place we may ascend to other and greater heights and enter into the ever-increasing realms of life where existence becomes fairer and higher, too beautiful for tongue to ever describe. What is held in store for the soul that lives in the spirit, eternity alone can reveal, but that the life that is lived in the spirit is the only true life thousands have learned, both in this age and in ages gone by. To the beginner, however, the first essential is to get away from material life, that is, the common, the gross, the superficial, the ordinary, the perverted and the wrong; then to go up higher, to enter the world of light and live in the more beautiful realms of sublime existence. To live in the spirit, live in the highest and most perfect state now, and do not for a moment come down.

At first this state will simply be a life that is finer, larger and more harmonious, where things move more smoothly and where the value of life seems to constantly increase; but ere long living in the spirit will mean far more than merely a pleasing state of existence, and the further we advance the more this wonderful life will be, until we begin to understand the great soul who declared: "Eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man what God has prepared for them that love Him."

In this connection we must bear in mind that it is not necessary to reach the supreme heights in spiritual life before we can live in the spirit. We can live in the spirit no matter where we may be in the scale of life, because the spiritual life has just as many degrees as there are human souls. Live in the realization that this universe has soul, that this soul is divine, and that you live and move and have your being in that great soul. Realize this as fully as your present state of development will permit, and you have begun to live in the spirit.

The realization of the divinity of the soul side of all things will reveal to your mind the great truth that all things are perfect in their real state of being, and that the real of everything lives in a universe of spirit, a universe that is everywhere within us all and about us all. However, before we begin we must be convinced of the great truth that the spiritual life is not mere sentiment nor a mere feeling of mind and soul. The spiritual life is the real life, the foundation of all life, the essence of all life, the soul of all life, and every true statement concerning the spiritual life is an exact scientific fact readily demonstrated by anyone who will apply the principle. And happy is the soul that does apply this principle, for such a soul will find life in the spirit, not only to be real, but to be infinitely more perfect, more wonderful and more beautiful than anyone has ever dreamed.

Excerpts from The Ideal Made Real (1912) by Christian D. Larson

2009-08-11T10:07:00.006+02:00

I JUST LOVE THIS MAN AND HIS TAKE ON HOW TO REALIZE YOUR FULL POTENTIAL :)

The true attitude is the attitude of positive conviction; that is, to live in the strong conviction that whatever we see before us in the ideal will positively be realized, sooner or later, if we only move forward, and we can make it sooner if we will move forward steadily, surely and rapidly during every moment of the great eternal now. To move forward steadily during the great eternal now is to realize now as much of the ideal as we care to appropriate now; no waiting therefore is necessary. To begin to move forward is to begin to make real the ideal, and we will realize in the now as much of the ideal as is necessary to make the now full and complete.

To move forward steadily during the great eternal now is to eternally become more than you are; and to become more than you are is to make yourself more and more like your ideal; and here is the great secret, because the principle is that you will realize your ideal when you become exactly like your ideal, and that you will realize as much of your ideal now as you develop in yourself now. The majority, however, feel that they can never become as perfect as their ideal; others, however, think that they can, and that they will sometime, but that it will require ages, and they dwell constantly upon the unpleasant belief that they may in the meantime have to pass through years and years of ordinary and undesirable experience; but they are mistaken, and besides, are retarding their own progress every moment by entertaining such thoughts.

The time of waiting may seem long during such moments as come when the mind is down, but so long as the mind is on the heights the waiting time disappears, and the pleasure of pursuit comes to take its place. In this connection we should remember that the more frequently we permit the mind to fall down into fears and doubts the longer we shall have to wait for the realization of the ideal; and the more we live in the upper story of life the sooner we shall reach the goal in view. There are many who give up temporarily all efforts toward reaching their ideals, thinking it is impossible and that nothing is gained by trying, but such minds should realize that they are simply making their future progress more difficult by retarding their present progress. Such minds should realize the great fact that every ideal can be made real, because nothing is impossible.

If all the time and all the energy that is wasted in longing and longing, yearning and yearning were employed in scientific, practical self development, the average person would in a short time become as perfect as his ideal. He would thus realize his ideal, because we attract from the without what corresponds exactly to what is active in our own within. When we attain the ideal and the beautiful in our own natures, we shall meet the ideal and the beautiful wherever we may go in the world, and we will find the same things in the real that we dreamed of in the ideal.

When we see an ideal we usually begin to long for it and hope that something remarkable may happen so as to bring it into our possession, and we thus continue to long and yearn and wait with periods of despondency intervening. We simply use up time and energy to no avail. When we see an ideal the proper course to pursue is to begin at once to develop that ideal in our own nature. We should never stop to wait and see whether it is coming true or not, and we should never stop to figure how much time it may require to reach our goal. The secret is, begin now to be like your ideals, and at the proper time that ideal will be made real.

The very moment you begin to rebuild yourself in the exact likeness of your ideal you will begin to realize your ideal, because we invariably gain possession of that of which we become conscious; and to begin to develop the ideal in ourselves is to begin to become conscious of the ideal. To give thought to time is to stop and measure time in consciousness, and every stop in consciousness means retarded progress. Real progress is eternal; it is a forward movement that is continuous now, and in the realization of such a progress no thought is ever given to time.

To live in the life of eternal progress is to gain ground every moment. It means the perpetual increase of everything that has value, greatness and worth, and the mind that lives in such a life cannot possibly be discouraged or dissatisfied. Such a mind will not only live in the perpetual increase of everything that heart can wish for, but will also realize perpetually the greatest joy of all joys, the joy of going on. The discouraged mind is the mind that lives in the emptiness of life, but there can be no emptiness in that life that lives in the perpetual increase of all that is good and beautiful and ideal.

Good luck and Godspeed to you all...

Congrats dad your GT40 has become a part of car history :)

2009-05-11T11:29:00.012+02:00

Lot 511: 1968-69 Ford GT40 Competition Coupe

Sale Of Collectors' Motor Cars and Automobilia, Bonhams & Butterfields (18th August 2006)
[View all lots in this auction]Picture yourself easing open the long wrap-over driver's door of this wonderfully patinated Ford GT40. Just 40-inches high, of course, this classical 200mph legend barely comes up to your chest. Gaze down into its broad yet snugly tailored cockpit, and savor its wonderful period 1960s look. Relatively few GT40s today retain the original-style perforated driver-cooling upholstery. This one does. Relatively few GT40s today retain the original-style thin-rimmed leather-bound steering wheel. This one does. Ease open the famous clamshell rear body clip, and study this GT40's muscular Ford V8 engine. Relatively few GT40s today have featured Gurney-Weslake cylinder heads for the greater part of their lives. Yet this one has. Within context, what we are offering here is a wonderful GT40 for the discerning enthusiast - one with the patina of long preservation, coupled with the history of having been a genuine enthusiast's car throughout its long life.

British Ford racing privateer Terry Drury from Rainham, Essex had been running another GT40 (chassis 1005) during 1967 when he began 1073's story. He pulled together sufficient finance during the winter of 1967-68 to purchase from Ford's chosen manufacturers, JW Automotive Engineering Limited of Slough, Buckinghamshire, a brand-new but bare GT40 monocoque chassis, plus sufficient other components to complete assembly himself to racing standards.

He fitted a tail body section which had been taken from a Paul Hawkins mould Hawkeye being the colourful Australian racing driver and GT40 campaigner who famously drove for all manner of factory teams, including both Ferrari (in the P4s) and Porsche (for whom he had won the legendary Sicilian Targa Florio road race) in addition to Gulf-JW Ford themselves (for whom he would win the Monza 1,000Kms classic).

According to Ford GT40 authority Ronnie Spain, Terry Drury installed as new a standard Ford 289 cubic inch V8 engine and ZF gearbox, but the contemporary race report in Autospor't weekly covering its debut event the British BOAC 500 World Championship round on April 7, 1968 describes it as follows:

Chassis no 1073 (was) in a peculiar orangey-gold colour, for Terry Drury/Keith Holland; this one had Weslake heads and Tecalemit-Jackson fuel injection. The bronze-liveried car then qualified on the centre position of the ninth row in the 3-2-3 starting grid, with a lap time of 1 minute 43.2 seconds. In the second hour of the race Keith Holland brought the car into the pits to report a rough-running engine and Drury took over, only to return a couple of laps later for a plug change. Eventually after no fewer than 91 laps racing against the works Gulf-JWA GT40s, Porsche 907s, Ferrari 275LMs and Lola-Chevrolet T70GTs, Drury/Holland were forced to retire their private entry 1073 as the engine lost oil pressure.

The car was then taken to Italy for the superfast Monza 1,000 Kilometres in Milan's royal park on April 25. While the Gulf-JW �works� car of Hawkins/David Hobbs won outright, the Terry Drury/Terry Sanger 1073 now running on 48IDA twin-choke downdraught Weber carburettors in place of the troublesome T-J fuel injection system - again had a troubled race, this time with detached brake ducts and other ancillaries shaking loose at maximum speed around the punishingly bumpy Pista de Alta Velocita speedbowl section of the combined road-and-track circuit. They were not alone for Jo Siffert's brand-new second-placed works Porsche 908 also had a gearbox cooling duct wind itself round a half-shaft and rip oil pipes off its gearbox! Journalist Paddy McNally reported: Drury, after his early stop, had been going like a bomb until he got blinded by dirt at Lesmo and lost the GT40, spinning and riding the crash barrier. The two English enthusiasts then repaired and rebuilt1073 and trailed it far to the south down the leg of Italy and by ferryboat across the Straits of Messina to Sicily for the Targa Florio. The repaired and replacement body panels were sprayed overall white by a Sicilian painter, who charged Terry Drury the princely sum of £10 for his services. The rugged 44-mile Piccolo Madonie circuit won in the end, however, 1073 retiring after five of the scheduled ten laps.

The ADAC 1,000 Kilometres classic at the Nurburgring, Germany, followed, on May 19 with Drury and Terry Sanger again sharing the wheel of 1073. For the first time they finished, 34th overall, after completing 37 laps of the awe-inspiring 14.2-mile Nordschleife circuit. A really high-speed challenge then followed one week later, with the Spa 1,000 Kilometres classic in Belgium on May 26.

Friday practice ended with 1073 having lapped the long and dauntingly fast circuit in 4 minutes 0.4 seconds, and when the race began that Sunday under torrential rain Terry Drury put in a spectacular opening lap, completing it in 10th place overall, but after 12 laps the car's clutch failed and Terry Sanger did not get to drive at all.

Terry Drury then sold the car in June that year to Ron Fry, an English west country garage owner who had a long record of success in minor club events with the best available motor cars, including a Ferrari GTO, Ferrari 275LM, and an older Ford GT40 chassis 1017. He had then bought this lighter, more highly specified 1968 GT40 as his next big bazooka with which to overwhelm the club-racing fields. He made his winning debut in the ex-Drury car now resprayed red - at Castle Combe aerodrome circuit on July 13, 1968, and on August 4 took a second place at Thruxton. He won at Silverstone on August 25, and again on August 31 but then overturned the car at Brands Hatch during the Guards Trophy meeting of September 1-2.

Ron Fry began to rebuild 1073 around a new chassis that he had purchased from JW Automotive before being persuaded by his family to retire from further competition. Ford GT40 authority Ronnie Spain, relates how, Stripped and scrapped, the original chassis was sold off for £75 to Karl Davis of Bristol (15 March 1969), who still appears to have it and hopes it might someday be possible to rebuild it. More recently, in fact, that damaged tub has been sold on into other hands. Meantime the replacement chassis which Ron Fry had just purchased, together with his complete package of components, panels etc, was sold by him to enthusiastic British club racer Dennis Leech in Exeter, as a kit of parts. On February 9, 1969, all of this material was sold to existing GT40 owner Bryan Prynn in Oxfordshire.
Bryan Prynn then reassembled the car using a body clip bought from Paul Hawkins for £225 and all the chromed suspension parts from his other GT40, 1006. This re-emergent 1073 was sprayed orange and black, and featured wide alloy wheels and widened tail body section to accommodate them. It was registered for road use B 133, and on February 22, 1970, it was sold to Glynis Childs in Much Wenlock, Shropshire, for whom the car was driven in sprints and hill-climbs by Michael Wright 1970-71.

It was then stored until 1979, when it was acquired by Martin Johnson in Newton-le-Willows, who used it very rarely. On April 13, 1982, it was sold to American Ford GT collector George Stauffer via Ronnie Spain in Wisconsin. A two-year restoration was then undertaken, supervised by Jeff Sime.

In 1983 the car was part-exchanged in mid-restoration with Nick Soprano of White Plains, New York who took delivery upon completion of the restoration early in 1984. Old 1073 had been repainted in its current red livery and from Mr Soprano it passed subsequently to Peter Kaus�s fabulous Rosso Bianco Collection, situated in Aschaffenburg, Germany. Upon recent inspection the car is reported to have been run and driven a modest distance but the brakes will need attention.

The car has been very little used in Rosso Bianco's tenure, and is offered here in beautifully aged condition reflecting quite accurately the very best of customer Ford GT40 allure for the private owner/drivers of the later 1960s; with the extra cachet of its Gurney-Weslake-headed 289 cubic inch Ford V8 engine, and its continuous identity, historical association with daring deeds on the World Championship tour Brands Hatch, Monza, Nurburgring, Spa-Francorchamps, and the mighty Targa Florio.

With the emergence of so many appropriate events and races from the Tour Auto and Goodwood Revival in Europe, to the Monterey Historics here in the USA GT40s are the all encompassing road/track 1960s V8 racer to have.
Lot Details
Auction Sale Of Collectors' Motor Cars and Automobilia
Bonhams & Butterfields, Quail Lodge, Carmel, California

Type Car
Lot Number 511
Estimate $700000-$900000
Outcome NOT SOLD
Hammer Price -
Hammer Price (inc premium) -
Year 1968
Condition rating
Registration number
Mileage -
Chassis number GT40P/1073
Engine number
Engine capacity (cc)
Engine - cylinders
Number of doors

And you are also mentioned in the book GT 40: An Individual History and Race Record by Ronnie Spain

Past, Present, Future

2009-04-18T12:01:00.010+02:00

This Wednesday I encountered an example of the importance of living in the present.

I was at a course with different professionals from the field of self-improvement.

At this event I noticed one major difference between myself and a psychologist.

There was a matter we did not agree upon.
I let go instantly by stating my truth and accepting our differences of opinion, enabling me to move on to the really important subject- being fully present at the course.

The psychologist on the other hand spent the whole day analyzing the past situation and turned it into a conflict.
This stopped her from getting the full extent of the methods taught there.

I guess the major difference between a NLP person and a psychlogist can be summed up by this example...

The past is gone and the future is still out there...So we basically only have the present...and what we focus on in the present is ultimately our choice.

So ask yourself this question: Where would you like to place your focus?

Funny guy.......That Alec Baldwin : )

2009-02-20T17:34:00.002+01:00

Happy Valentines day ................

2009-02-14T12:56:00.002+01:00

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

Just a thought : )

2009-02-13T16:05:00.013+01:00

What do I know for sure?

Well I know that I do not really wish to be around people who cannot say anything nice about others or cannot acknowledge the things others do for them!

And why is that so?

Because this is their state of mind and evolution.
They just see the water glass half empty and tend to be very petty and critical toward their surroundings.

Ultimately it is because they cannot see their own positives or do nice things for themselves (Our outerworld is a reflection of our inner - How we treat others indicate how we treat ourselves).

Now why would you desire to be around people who bring themselves and others down?

Send them love or a kind thought because if anyone needs it, it would be them.

Remember what you give to the world comes back to you, good or bad.

Just a thought ; )

Two of my favourite people together : )

2009-02-07T15:20:00.003+01:00

Indigo spindigo whatever

2009-02-05T12:23:00.015+01:00

Usually I don't really concern myself with labels or people's spiritual evolvement as it is really none of my business.

It is just that sometimes things are so obvious that you cannot ignore them ; )

The world needs to appreciate indigo people more as they are the ones who will show you kindness, care about world issues on a profound level, and make you feel uplifted in their company.

And aren't there enough people doing the contrary on this planet already?

So next time you meet an indigo or a crystal person don't attack them or be afraid of the "something extra" that you sense in them as they are the real deal.

Given the chance they can actually teach you something and make you aspire to evolve.

I took the vow with Deepak Chopra and friends. Will you?

2009-02-01T14:43:00.008+01:00

I take the vow of non-violence in my thoughts, my speech and my actions...

Brad Renfro - Shortfilm Meter Man from 2000

2009-01-16T20:01:00.002+01:00

Roger Bourdeau (director)
Brad Renfro (actor)

Roger Bourdeau (writer)
Brad Renfro (writer)

Brad Renfro - What will eventually happen to his legacy?

2009-01-07T20:09:00.049+01:00

Descriptions such as; hauntingly sad eyes, genuine and wise beyond his years, and Hollywood bad boy linger on the internet when defining Brad Renfro.
Nevertheless more importantly Renfro was a very gifted artist who effortlessly tapped into his natural uniqueness as a performer, creating special moments for us on screen, as well as moving us with his music.

I believe that when we eventually go beyond gossiping about his personal tragedies, we will be able to acknowledge the truth – that you cannot separate the addict from the artist.
It was all neatly packaged into one soul - creating a gorgeous, talented, and devastatingly flawed character.

Hopefully one day Brad Renfro will foremost be remembered for his fine accomplishments as an artist and not only for his seemingly tragic life and untimely demise.

Renfro’s solid body of work and his evident talent demands this respect and courtesy.

Maybe his short life can be a message to us all - reminding us that we should not squander our talents nor waste our time sweating the small stuff while we are here. Brad knew that, "Don't sweat nothing petty and don't pet nothing sweaty" : ).

P.S.
If you have the time please do listen to Brad’s cousin Jesse’s band 10 Years. They are really great and their music should be heard by as many people as possible.

Oh and yes it is Brad in their original video made for the song Wasteland (2004).

Viewable below:

Discography:

Into The Halfmoon
Killing All That Holds You
The Autumn Effect
Division

Great exit speech from Hillary Clinton......But is the path really cleared for women now?

2008-10-16T18:11:00.005+02:00

Smart guy..... That Alec Baldwin

2008-09-22T01:39:00.005+02:00

If you want to make a great change in your life and feel healthy

2008-08-07T17:00:00.003+02:00

Watch more videos at PETA.org

www.planting-seeds.com

2008-08-05T23:38:00.003+02:00

Support a great movement : )

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

2008-08-05T23:24:00.003+02:00

I Am Penelope, and I Am a
Check Out All the Celebrity 'Veggie Testimonials' at PETA.org

Heck what other people do......Not really my concern.....

2008-01-05T18:11:00.000+01:00

My new years resolution is NOT to judge or concern myself with other people's behaviour or evolutionary stage. As Martinus said "All is surely well". By gaining wisdom we are taught to practise discernment, which encourages our evolution and progress for our Highest good. This is the only authentic power we have - our perception. Nothing or nobody can stand in the way of our bliss and vice versa :) Full steam ahead in 2008........

Namaste
Penelope Josefine

HAPPY NEW YEAR/ GODT NYTÅR

2007-12-30T18:57:00.000+01:00

Janice Dickinson Twelve Days of Christmas

2007-12-22T12:12:00.001+01:00

Merry Christmas All : )

Nephew - Igen og igen og

2007-12-17T23:03:00.001+01:00

Not really being too productive writing wise.....

2007-11-28T00:59:00.001+01:00

When I created this blog it was to improve my "writing in english" skills, share info, and break out of my (crab) shell.

Well...The fact is that not much writing has been displayed up till now as I'm so busy with my studies, radio show, NLP practice, and musical ventures.

OKAY now I have one more thing to work on : )

Could it be, yes it could, something's coming, something good.

2007-11-21T23:28:00.001+01:00

Something has happened to me during these last months......

My love for nature and animals has never been an issue but at times my personal suffering made it difficult for me to feel genuine love and compassion for other people.

I have been willing to (bit by bit) let go of my personal story in order to be present in the now and free from negative attachments.

"Who would you be without your story?" has become my daily mantra.

Suffering comes when we believe our negative thoughts to be the only truth and react in accordance to them. Every time a disempowering thought arises, ask if it is really true?

My current passion:

Every Tuesday I talk to all kinds of people....

My reward is tenfolded as I feel my love reciprocated on every radioshow.

I am so grateful for the opportunity to make a difference.

I think this is our highest purpose....

Namaste
Penelope Josefine

I just love these universal principles

2007-10-29T23:50:00.003+01:00

The Seven Basic Principles Of Huna

The Principles which The Hawaiian Huna (secret knowledge) is based on are:

1. IKE - our ideas create our reality (the world is as you think it is).
2. KALA - there are no limits.
3. MAKIA - energy flows where attention goes.
4. MANAWA - now is the moment of power.
5. ALOHA - to love is to be happy with (someone or something).
6. MANA - all power comes from within.
7. PONO - effectiveness is the measure of truth
(there is always another way to do things).

The Three Selves (or Four)

Assumptions used in Huna is that human behaviour and experience can be explained and changed through the interaction of three (sometimes four) selves, aspects or functions:

1. The High Self (Kane, Aumakua), inspires.
2. The Conscious Self (Lono) imagines.
3. The Subconscious Self (Ku) remembers.
4. The Core Self (Kanaloa) wills.

The Four Levels of Reality

Further assumptions coming from the kupua tradition divides all experience into four levels or frameworks of beliefs about reality which can be summarized as follows:

1. Everything is objective (Scientific reality).
2. Everything is subjective (Psychic reality).
3. Everything is symbolic (Shamanic reality).
4. Everything is holistic (Mystical reality).

The kupua (Hawaiian shaman) learns to move in and out of these realities in order to change experience more effectively.

Thought of the day: I have let go

2007-10-17T20:54:00.000+02:00

Everything and everybody which/who do not support the magnificence of my higher being, I lovingly and easily let go of.
I am safe to move on with love and support.
I set myself and it/them free to seek and merge with its/our highest intention.

Namaste
Penelope Josefine Cathmont-Prynn

I was inspired

2007-10-06T21:36:00.000+02:00

Masculine without feminine is merely human doing as opposed to the authentic state of human being.
P.J. Cathmont-Prynn

Old wine on new bottles ; )

2007-10-01T19:06:00.002+02:00

My audio poem The first breath is now downloadable.
Get chanting sweeties...... They are now on Reverbnation...

The Prynn family history......

2007-09-14T15:04:00.002+02:00

Maybe something like this? (the motto is missing and the chevron should be red, otherwise close!!!!!).

The name of this ancient family the Cornish branch is stated to originated from Resprynn, in the parish of Lanhydrock near Bodmin. The Family name has been spelt many ways Prynn, Pryn, Prynne, Res Prynne, Rex Prynn. There were branches of the family in Cornwall, Devonshire, Herefordshire, Wiltshire, Worcestershire and Gloucestershire, all bearing the same arms a chevron gules between three boars heads sable with motto Fides praestantior auro (Loyalty before gold). The name seems to be the most ancient family name which occurs in English history being the only one mentioned in 'The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'.
Believed to be decendents of that Puritan ancester William Prynne whose life and death occupy a prominent place in seventeenth century history. The nineteenth century saw George Rundle Prynne Grandson of William Prynn of Newlyn East take Holy Orders and author of that well known hymn 'Jesu Meek and gentle' it is thought it was after his fathers death he revived the old spelling of Prynne.

Source: Ref George Rundle Prynne's Biography by A Clifton Kelway

Tweety my new love

2007-09-11T13:23:00.000+02:00

I have just adopted an orangutan and she is divine ; )

I saw a documentary about a danish woman who started the largest orangutan refuge in Borneo.

I was amazed by her courage and determination as she is fighting pochers, deforestation, and daily threats from the natives.

On top she struggles to keep the refuge afloat financially.

You can help her cause by adopting an orangutan or by purchasing a piece of the rainforest.

www.createrainforest.org
www.orangutang.dk
www.savetheorangutan.org

Otherwise the orangutan will be extinct in 15 years and that would be the end of a wonderful creature.

Awesome Listeners.........I Salute you.......

2007-09-07T20:35:00.001+02:00

Tuesday was my first 2 hour non-scripted radio show and I simply loved it ; )
Usually I would either have played music and introduced the artists or I would have pre-recorded the show as I did with the radio of Theosophical Society.

I'm on from 2 - 4 pm every Tuesday and I will be talking to people from all walks of life.

I just want to thank all the inspirering and interesting people who called us on my debut and made me feel very welcome and relaxed.

Namaste

One of my all time favourite poems

2007-08-28T20:01:00.000+02:00

The Cookie Thief
by Valerie Cox

A woman was waiting at an airport one night,
With several long hours before her flight.
She hunted for a book in the airport shop.
Bought a bag of cookies and found a place to drop.

She was engrossed in her book but happened to see,
That the man sitting beside her, as bold as could be.
Grabbed a cookie or two from the bag in between,
Which she tried to ignore to avoid a scene.

So she munched the cookies and watched the clock,
As the gutsy cookie thief diminished her stock.
She was getting more irritated as the minutes ticked by,
Thinking, "If I wasn't so nice, I would blacken his eye."

With each cookie she took, he took one too,
When only one was left, she wondered what he would do.
With a smile on his face, and a nervous laugh,
He took the last cookie and broke it in half.

He offered her half, as he ate the other,
She snatched it from him and thought... oooh, brother.
This guy has some nerve and he's also rude,
Why he didn't even show any gratitude!

She had never known when she had been so galled,
And sighed with relief when her flight was called.
She gathered her belongings and headed to the gate,
Refusing to look back at the thieving ingrate.

She boarded the plane, and sank in her seat,
Then she sought her book, which was almost complete.
As she reached in her baggage, she gasped with surprise,
There was her bag of cookies, in front of her eyes.

If mine are here, she moaned in despair,
The others were his, and he tried to share.
Too late to apologize, she realized with grief,
That she was the rude one, the ingrate, the thief.

How many times in our lives,
have we absolutely known
that something was a certain way,
only to discover later that
what we believed to be true ... was not?

Whose gift is it in the end?

2007-08-26T23:09:00.000+02:00

If you send or give a person a gift (be it kind words, love or harsh words) and they don't respond to it or want to receive it..... Whose gift is it then?

Buddha talked about this, in a more eloquent way I'm sure, and I find it to be a good way of describing how to place yourself at the cause of your life as opposed to the effect. Which gift would you like to give yourself?

Martinus...........

2007-08-21T15:50:00.000+02:00

It's incredible to think that we in Denmark had this beautiful being Martinus amongst us for 90 years (1890-1981). He wrote about 9000 papers and is regarded as a world redeemer. I look a this man with so much compassion as it must have been a challenge for him to incarnate in what he called his monkey suit and for him to live in a society where the killing principle still ruled and rules. But yet it's all in order with a higher plan eventhough we still need the ability to see compassion in everything. Because as he would say "All is surely well".

Lyset i betydningen viden
og videnskab er stærkt
tiltagende, men varmen,
næstekærligheden skorter
det endnu meget på, og
kærlighed kan ikke læres
på universiteter og
læreanstalter. Den læres
kun i livets egen skole
gennem skæbnedannelse
fra liv til liv.

Martinus

Still here, there, and everywhere ; )

2007-08-19T11:14:00.000+02:00

Its raining... men, frogs, cats, and dogs?

2007-08-15T13:57:00.000+02:00

Go figure on my day off it's raining like crazy and my basement has flooded.

I'm practising the non-attachment state like mad.... It's just stuff.

I think I'll just sit in my reading chair and listen to radio Atlanta's Bluescast and get into my blues state.

I need to finish my Joseph Campbell book anyway.

Come what may. I'm ready, Goddess of Rain.

The First Breath- repost from 2007

2007-08-06T20:28:00.006+02:00

I have touched the white wolf,
in dreams she licked my hand
I yearned for mergence with her,
in knowing she was I.
The shaman entered every fiber,
a whispering chant of ages.
I welcomed him so willingly,
hungry wisdom that travelled.
I entered states of eternity, receiving the gift of breath.
I had at long last become,
in silence the witness.

Audio trance version http://www.reverbnation.com/Ticklemepink or http://www.reverbnation.com/Cathmont

The Cheating Mistress

2007-08-05T01:34:00.001+02:00

Now I've done it... I have become the cheating mistress of two wonderful states Arizona and New Mexico.
I feel like I could burst of happiness and energy. I now truly believe that I will be the change I wish to see in the world.
Come what may... I'm ready : ) Let love be the energy
Namaste

One Of My Favourites:

Our Deepest Fear
By Marianne Williamson
From Return To Love: Reflections On The Principles of A Course In Miracles.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Sweet love of my united states/ Arizona

2007-08-02T23:16:00.002+02:00

I have fallen in love with a whole state...
Not just a good nor a great state.
But a fabulously sensual and drastically trance-forming state.
By no other name given, than Arizona.
I entered with a chip on my shoulder.
Rotten as the state of Denmark in Shakespeare's mind's eye.
Only to leave Sky Harbor reborn from the ashes of fiery turmoil.
As the mythical Phoenix.
Away I flew from my new love state.
While I entered the united state of me.

Audio version http://www.reverbnation.com/ticklemepink