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.
Image by Sander Weeteling I am thankful in all the ways I can be thankful and for all the things that I can be thankful for which is everything. I allow my mind to soar beyond its familiar fields and unseen barriers and reach unknown places and spaces and do undone things and be un-been […]
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I spent the last three days feeling like tumbleweed trapped in a blizzard of a head cold. I didn’t feel capable of steering myself purposefully and powerfully in any particular direction. To be honest, I felt quite impotent, unable to focus on anything but the cold and congestion I was feeling in my entire body
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I like asking questions to keep learning. People with big egos might not want to look unsure. Heston Bluementhal Note: If you haven’t read my previous post relating to this one, you might want to get the context here. Like I said, children are naturally and effortlessly curious. By asking innumerable questions, they are only
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In all affairs, it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. Bertrand Russell I made the decision today that I would think a new thought. Why? Because staying in the energy field of the same thoughts means stagnation. A new thought
If it’s hard it may be NORMAL, but that’s never NATURAL I like to make a distinction between what I consider *normal* and what I consider *natural*. To me *normal* is a human calibrated value or bandwidth within which it is expected and assumed most people fall. Some of the vast range of human
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You know, I could get worked up or at least more than mildly irritated when I hear people put off their happiness until one or other condition they’ve set is fulfilled. I could, but I don’t because I don’t believe in putting off my happiness. I don’t believe in waiting for certain conditions to be
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I was having afternoon tea (well actually it was coffee, a long espresso, to be exact) with 4 year-old Molly and her mother, Susan (not their ‘real’ names). Molly was colouring while talking to me in between my conversation with her mum. “So, you’re going to have a sleepover at Daddy’s, are you?” I
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Image from Here We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. Joseph Campbell Letting go. It’s something that we hear so frequently and because it’s two words
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Reaching a point where I was unbearably unhappy Realizing that my unhappiness was having an undesirable effect on others Realizing that I had a choice – that my life could be different Seeing other people having a much better time than I was Realizing that it was my thinking, my beliefs, my attitude, my judgments
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Namaste – the Greatness of God within me greets and honours the Greatness of God within you (Image from here) It is the day after Nelson Madiba Mandela’s memorial service at the Football National Stadium in Johannesburg. I watched it all on TV last night. I did not want to miss a moment.
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