Life is so intelligently organized and self-organizing that it is only the habit of un-awareness that causes us to think and behave as if we could improve on its design, or ignore or resist it! Yet, when we yield to it – the experience of enlightenment – living becomes effortless. We’ve got out ot the way and allowed Life to live us! Magnificently. Joyously. Limitlessly.
If a baby thought about how hard it would be to crawl or to stand or walk, it would probably never attempt to do any of these. But babies don’t ‘think’ like we do. And that is why they accomplish what the adult mind would consider staggering feats if that mind actually stopped to think […]
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Photo by Danu 1. You are amazing 2. You can be anything you want, do anything you want, have anything you want. But focus mainly on BEING – in your heart and in your mind Photo by Masae at Wikimedia 3. You are meant to enjoy life 4. Life is entirely for you 5. Life
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The story of Christmas is an enthralling one especially when you hear it for the first time and especially if that first time was when you were a child. Most of us would have heard the Christmas story when we were very little children, perhaps even infants. And so, for years since, that story, while
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The Human condition, Our Two Realities, Suffering, Struggle and our Hidden Wholeness Buddha said: Life is suffering. Yes, human life, the human condition, is characterized by suffering. But, the Buddha did not just leave us with this first Nobel Truth. He went on to espouse three other Noble Truths: 2. That suffering has its causes
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Some of our thoughts have such a strong impact on us because we have either SUPPRESSED or REINFORCED them. Think about it. It is estimated that we have between thirty to sixty thousand thoughts a day, (mostly repetitive). Why is it that most of them don’t bother us? Why is it that just some, perhaps one
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It really boils down to this: We are not happy because life is not the way we want it to be. But why is that? Why is it that we are not happy with the way life is? There are two reasons for this. Firstly, we have forgotten that WE ARE LIFE. That, LIFE IS
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The academic and spiritual teacher, Ram Das, who was a disciple of Maharaji Neem Karoli Baba, said that whenever he had a question that he could not answer, he understood that he was in a state of consciousness that could not provide the answer. He understood that he would have to move to a state
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There is only Love and you and I are it. Love is Life is God is Truth is Infinite Intelligence is the Source Field or Quantum Field is the Dao. The name may vary but the reality is the same. Love is the only and ultimate reality. Some of us will spend a lifetime recognizing
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It’s an astounding realization to have – that the thoughts we think are about other thoughts or images or stories that we have collected in our brain and body. When I have the thought, ‘You are a selfish, manipulative beast’, that thought is literally about an image, an idea, a story of someone that
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Jon Kabat-Zinn, the person reputed for making Mindfulness Meditation accessible to conventional Medicine, talks about the certifiable insanity of human beings. It is characterized by our compulsive need to be doing, doing, doing, the flip side of which is our inability or unwillingness to be present to who and what we truly are. Or to
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