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.
What shall we pray for in the New Year? What shall we intend? What shall we leave behind, let go of, release? What shall we open our hearts and minds to? In a few hours, we will, as a human race, feel the closing of one year and the opening of a […]
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Recently, I have been practicing sincerely meeting questions and declarative statements that arise in my inner dialogue with ‘I don’t know’ and Silence. How are you feeling? I don’t know. Why did you do it? I don’t know. Are you thinking about it? I don’t know. You’re in denial. Silence. Maintaining ‘I don’t know’
It helps to inquire into our thoughts, beliefs, desires, expectations, hopes and fears, longings and so on. We may have to do it many times. I know I have to. After one inquiry, you get some insight, some understanding which helps you deal with a situation you’re going through. But a time comes when another
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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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