Don’t let the Ego trick you into thinking that your desire to feel good is a selfish or self-serving thing. That only has (false) meaning if you see yourself as a separate entity/being. And that, of course, is how the Ego sees.
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Eating is an instinctual thing. You don’t need to teach a baby how to eat. That natural/infinite Intelligence within it works it out pretty quickly and does it well. But, managing its eating is a whole different thing that initially its mother does for it. Later, as it gets older, it will have learned –
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You’re familiar with this image of course. 2 things: 1. Once you see, you cannot un- see 2. It is almost impossible if not actually impossible to see both simultaneously.
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There was a time when I did not take personal rituals seriously. Yet, even and especially the great spiritual masters, the most successful and creative achievers (including the Dalai Lama, Deepak Chopra, Eckhart Tolle, Tony Robbins and Oprah Winfrey) and even those people in your own social circles who maintain a generally stable and healthy
We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time – T S Elliot Life is funny. And wonderful and frustrating and screwy and exhilarating and depressing and numbing and sweet and morbid and enchanting and terrifying…
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This day unfolds brand new This day god cleans her instrument Polishing and tuning it Clearing away every grumble of dust
This day unfolds brand new Read More »
Let Truth come from its own place Not where you think you keep it – in your head At best your intellect clumsily attempts to represent it with words
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To see all the madness the horror the heinous the waste the unwillingness the abuse the resistance the greed the vengeance the deceit the arrogance the defeat the injustice the blood-freezing abominable And to know that there is but one problem here: The failure to see that you and I belong to God
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When ugliness seeps into the paintings on my walls When anger sweeps coldness across the floor When the air is stretched to snapping by catapults of hate When so much is wrong Hope arrives with fresh barrels of soothing breezes lifting the wounded spirit into the sky of smiling graces There to see
Wherever I go The one sky is above me Shared by all life
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