Wanting happiness and knowing how to be happy are two different things. I want to play the guitar like Eric Clapton. I don’t know how to. But if I want it enough, I’ll learn how. It may take me a lifetime and I will probably need lots of help. Happiness is no different. If we […]
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Too often, we get sucked down a spiral of unhelpful, dis-empowering thoughts just like I did last night. And we get so consumed by it. And as we do, we feel more and more angry and outraged because, while we may not notice it, we’re feeling that our world, which we’d got to a nice
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When you can set aside every judgement, every grievance, every attachment, every resistance, every thread of story (even the finest), when you can set aside all of this, no matter how remote or fleeting or trivial you may consider them to be, when you actually do this, then and only then do you know Love.
We pine and pant for magic When all around us Miracles lay as unremarkably naked and unnoticed as Air and leaf litter Chirping baby currawongs
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If you’re very attentive The wind may call you today To come out and be its playmate So it can scatter your hair here and there
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Here’s a little question for you. What’s the one thing that would most help you handle your fears, anxiety, sense of powerlessness, helplessness, despair, depression or whatever it is that troubles you so terribly? Is it Trying your best to avoid it Hoping you never again experience it Knowing (as in feeling in the very
I love many quotes of Rumi’s. I love reading him. So much love and tenderness in his writing. So much imagery that serve as open and wide doorways to our heart where Truth waits for us. One of my many favorites of Rumi’s quotes is this one (although I’ve since been reminded that this is
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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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