Can we have peace without forgiveness? How does this question affect you? Does the answer seem obvious to you? Or does it throw you into some internal conflict? Is there some part of you that believes that there are some things or people that must never be forgiven? That to forgive such things or people […]
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Making our personal awakening a PRIORITY is how we authentically make world peace our PRIORITY. The world does not awaken without our awakening. We are the world, the unified whole, so that there cannot be world peace without personal peace. Taking action toward creating peaceful communities seems hollow and counterproductive if we approach it from
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There are about 7.5 billion people in the world right now, each one of us living according to our priorities. Here are a couple of things I’ve said about priorities: One thing that we might learn as we travel along our individual lane in life is that it doesn’t help to compare what we’re doing
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Image from Birmingham Museums Trust How can it be even remotely possible for world peace when we hold personal grievance and unforgiving? Friends, we fool ourselves if we think that we can have a peaceful world if we refuse to give up the personal grievances we hold in our minds. If, in other words,
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Caged children Sometimes, actually often, I’d rather not know. I’d rather immerse myself in all the good, uplifting, caring, serving things that I do. I don’t want to get upset about things I have no control over. So, I’d rather not know. I have only so much time, resources. I cannot take on all the
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There is a timeless presence that is forever aware. It is not confined to the space between your ears or within your skin. It has always been there, aware of all that your senses perceive, all the thoughts that drift through your mind, aware of all the stories, emotions/sensations that you mind-body experiences. This
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There is a false assumption that action that springs from a peaceful, loving, accepting mind is soft, ineffective and weak. That powerful action can only arise from a mind that is fuelled by the energy of anger or injustice. Nothing could be further from the truth. The mind that is at peace is a
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Is it possible that the purpose of story is to help us feel alive, something that we could naturally, spontaneously and effortlessly do as a child but which we quickly got conditioned/storied out of? To connect us with that which we naturally are – joyous, peaceful, limitless, free – alive? But there’s a catch. Story demands
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Generally, unpleasant events cut us off from life and pleasant ones reconnect us with life. I say ‘generally’ because, paradoxically, intensely painful experiences can produce the opposite effects. Image from PxHere For instance, when you are so consumed with rage or hopelessness or fear or helplessness such that you’re almost completely cut off from life, suffocating
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