At Café Gratitude, we recognize that with each thought we think, with each action we take - with every belief, comment, and attitude we enact - we create our experience of reality. How many of you have given yourself names – names like lazy, shy, or chubby? Although we don’t often speak these names out loud, many of us have attached these kind of names to ourselves as though there is no separation – you are that.
There are plenty of miracles happening every day, and I would love to share some ways that you can keep in the flow of knowing!
Here are some amazing miracles that have happened this month:
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“With whom in my life am I more committed to being right then being kind?”
Being right and being love can’t occupy the same space. I am considering that my insistence on being right is an addiction, and like any addiction, being right creates an alternative reality, an alternative to love. Wars are fought, families are destroyed, opportunities are squandered, friends are abandoned – all in the name of being right. Being right is a mainstay of the ego’s machinery. The Dalai Lama, whose religion is kindness, has lots of evidence for being right about the Chinese atrocities, but he doesn’t fall for the ego’s trickery. Being right and enlightenment are incompatible. His commitments are not sidetracked by the intoxication of righteousness. In “being right” I trade Divine Love for self-righteousness. Being right only creates positions. Someone’s on the attack, someone’s defending and justifying. When a relationship is caught in the bardo of attack-and-defend, the only way out is for either party to surrender, to relinquish their position, to be more invested in workability then divisiveness.
Chaya Ryvka is a raw food Chef, and most well known as a gourmet raw food Pastry Chef. Chaya Ryvka’s five star desserts have attracted students from around the globe, and brought her to cater events like the wedding cakes for Angela Stokes and Matt Monarch's RAW union wedding festival. Chaya-Ryvka’s extensive raw food training includes many years spent as Master Raw Food Chef Elaina Love’s personal assistant, and working for years as a pastry chef, and bakery supervisor for Cafe Gratitude. She is now the director of The Living Vision where she does raw dessert catering, cleansing and kitchen consultation, and private and group classes. Scroll down to find out about the Holiday Dessert Classes she will be teaching at Cafe Gratitude this December!
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For those of you who arn't extraordinarily familiar with our experiment in unconditional love, check out the following videos and interviews to learn a bit more...
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Now that winter has finally come to the Bay, I thought a nice hot, raw soup might go down smooth. Enjoy!
Café Gratitude’s new menu hits our stores today, and what better way to close up shop than to bring back some of our favorite items from times past. Here’s a rundown of the changes:
Some of my favorite raw entrees are back on the menu – ‘I am Terrific’ Pad Thai sports a complex palate of basil, mint, and scallions over a bed of crunchy noodles and greens in a creamy almond thai sauce. This dish is easily my favorite special of all time, and one I won’t soon forget. ‘I am Giving’ Kale Salad also returns, and with a bold ginger tanini dressing that definitely outdoes its predecessor.
Since announcing the upcoming sale/closure of our 8 Northern California Restaurants, we have received an outpouring of love and gratitude from the community that we have had the honor of serving for the last 8 years. Customers, current & former employees, customers who have moved across the world, vendors, friends, family, and loved ones have all been sharing their gratitude on facebook, twitter, article comments, and more.
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Cinnamon Dough