An exercise for today:
"Search your mind for those against whom you hold what you regard as a major grievance. Some of these will be quite easy to find. Then think of the seemingly minor grievances you hold against those you like and even think you love. It will quickly become apparent that there is no one against whom you do not cherish grievances of some sort. This leaves you alone in all the universe." ACIM
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
An inside job...
We search for it in things and outer circumstances. It simply isn't there. I'm talking about happiness. We tend to think, "If I can get this or that I'll be happy;" "If I can change my outer circumstances, I'll be happy." It simply isn't true. Happiness is an inside job.
If life teaches us anything, it teaches us that everything is impermanent, transitory. That being true, once I get something, or change my outer circumstances, guess what? Things change. Since everything is transitory, it's futile to attach happiness to something outside ourselves --- either things or circumstances. We either find, create, or express happiness with what we have and where we are, or we simply will not have it. It's an inside job. It's that simple, but it's not easy.
Monday, July 15, 2013
Write it down...
As odd as it sounds, the brain is no place for serious thinking. When you have serious thinking to do, write it down.
Saturday, December 22, 2012
Keeping the darkness at bay
"It's the everyday deeds of common folk
that keep the darkness at bay.
Everyday deeds of kindness and love."
---Gandalf the Grey
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Neuroscientist describes his experience of death...
"She looked at me,
and this was with no words,
but the concepts came straight into mind:
You are love; you are cherished;
there's nothing you have to fear;
there's nothing you
can do wrong.'"
(Click this link for the story)
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