Being honest with yourself is not to judge yourself. But neither is it about making excuses for yourself. Neither of these is useful. Being honest with yourself is simply acknowledging the thoughts you think, the feelings you feel, the beliefs you belief. Not trying to justify, defend, blame, explain or correct. The very act of […]
Editing the recordings of your past Read More »
We don’t think we do but we live on the hard edge of our human being in crusted shells that we carry around with our encrusted ideas, beliefs and opinions Yours, sooner or later, colliding with mine neither one prepared to yield until we realise that it is not about yielding Rather it is
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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
I want to be miserable Read More »
Learn to meet the world peacefully, just as it is, Not as you insist it is. Paradoxically, this is how change happens. Last night, in our Mindfulness circle, there were a number of fresh insights. I say ‘fresh’ because these are insights that build on previous insights that people have had. Let me recount a
Peace. Unconditionally. Read More »
Have you noticed… Most of our imagination is engaged in… lamenting something of the past wishing that something of the past was still here dreading something in the future…? In comparison, only a very small part of our imagination is directed into imagining an amazing future. The first happens so effortlessly, so automatically because we
The evil spell of the Wicked Witch Read More »
It was riveting. It felt so real, visceral, vivid…all the people and places in the dream felt very real…my emotions in it certainly felt real, right there in my body…my thoughts were just as they happen in walking life (I’ll explain later why I call it ‘walking’ life)…In fact, when I awoke, I wanted to
Last night I had a dream Read More »
All tensions are false Right – Wrong Good – Bad Worthy-Unworthy Purposeful-Aimless Don’t buy into them
At first the outrage “What’s the matter with him! He always does this to me!”
A not so typical ending Read More »
There’s always another way of looking at something. It doesn’t matter what it is, there’s always another way, whether more useful or less useful, or equally useful. How you look at something affects your experience of it, for better or for worse. So it’s to your benefit to look at things in a way that
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Most social media aims to provoke a reaction rather than start a conversation. Consequently, we’re conditioned to, within seconds, make a decision about whether we agree with what we’re seeing/hearing/reading or not. Less often do we stop to really give it thoughtful consideration. Even when we do, it’s just a superficial brush over. Yet, when
Does Love require reasons? Read More »