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 we observe ourselves as we go through our day, we’ll notice that there’s an underlying restlessness that we carry with us all the time or that seems to carry us all the time. When we’re doing something, we’ll be thinking of something else – something else that we should be doing or want to […]
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In our failure to see perfection with our spiritual eyes, we have allowed our physical eyes to dictate degrees of greatness and goodness by which we judge all people and all things. Mediocrity. What is it? It involves a willingness to accept that greatness/god does not choose to or cannot express itself as
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When you’re experiencing discomfort, anger, impatience or anything unpleasant as you engage in conversation with someone or with yourself, remind yourself that your Ego has taken control of your mind. For the Ego, drama is the adrenaline boost it needs to remind itself that it is ‘alive’ and ‘relevant’ and ‘still in charge’. When there
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Forever is composed of nows Emily Dickenson It is wonderful to recognize the fact that each moment is a moment of infinite potential, that in this moment, right here and right now, anything is possible. Image by Lucy Lopez when you find yourself feeling a little flat or discontented or when you feel guilt
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When you are guilty, it is not your sins you hate but yourself – Anthony de Mello Sometimes we think that some of our past choices, behaviours and decisions are unforgivable. And because we identify with them, we can neither bring ourselves to forgive ourselves for them nor can we hold any hope of others forgiving
Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act – Howard Zinn The words ‘I AM’ are the basis of all self-fulfilling prophecies. When we say or think or feel, ‘I am sick’, ‘I am not good at this’, ‘I am an optimist’, ‘I am a loser’, ‘I am addicted
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it – William James The scene of my explaining my reasoning keeps coming back to me. What
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You can either place your intention in the field/consciousness of the Ego/conditioned mind (which for most of us happens by default) or you can place it in the field/consciousness of Infinite Intelligence, which is the field of Love. When it is placed in the field/consciousness of the conditioned mind, our progress is one
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You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger – Buddha When we feel angry, it feels unpleasant, doesn’t it? If we are unable to be present to the anger and instead get sucked into its vibrational field, it feels most unpleasant. It feels unpleasant because the vibration of
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For many of us, fearful thoughts, thoughts of unworthiness, doubt and disease, morbid as this may seem, also provide a measure of entertainment, a certain amount of morbid thrill. Neurologically, such thoughts raise our brainwave frequencies from a general low-mid level beta range to high level beta where our attention can narrow down to
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