- Eckhart Tolle
Spend some time in your present today. Be with yourself. Be with your Source.
Showing posts with label Spirituality. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spirituality. Show all posts
Sunday, March 6, 2011
Being Mindful
"You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present."
- Eckhart Tolle
Spend some time in your present today. Be with yourself. Be with your Source.
Great Titles by Eckhart Tolle
- Eckhart Tolle
Spend some time in your present today. Be with yourself. Be with your Source.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Building from the End
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it."
- Charles Swindoll
This is my mantra today. I'm having a little bit of trouble with my 90% of the deal.
But I know that when I'm in bed for the night, and I look back on this day that I'm about to embark on right now, I won't remember specific things that happened throughout the day. Some, yes, but mostly not.
What I'll take with me was the overall tone that my day took on. And the overall tone of my day will be determined by how I'm reacting, and the feelings and thoughts that I nurture throughout it.
I will move through my day nurturing good thoughts and blessing everyone around me. I will share the best part of me because that's the part I want to remember when I contemplate my day, later.
There's something to be said for beginning a new day by contemplating how you want to feel about your day at the end of the day.
Close your eyes and imagine you're in bed for the night. How do you want to feel?
I imagine being tired and near sleep as soon as I lay down. It's been a fantastic and productive day for me, and I'm rightfully tired. I drift off to sleep sending blessings out to all my loved ones, smiling happily to myself.
Now, off I go to shape my day into whatever will make me feel like that later. I will hold my tongue, and just go where the Spirit moves me.
Great Titles by Charles Swindoll
- Charles Swindoll
This is my mantra today. I'm having a little bit of trouble with my 90% of the deal.
But I know that when I'm in bed for the night, and I look back on this day that I'm about to embark on right now, I won't remember specific things that happened throughout the day. Some, yes, but mostly not.
What I'll take with me was the overall tone that my day took on. And the overall tone of my day will be determined by how I'm reacting, and the feelings and thoughts that I nurture throughout it.
I will move through my day nurturing good thoughts and blessing everyone around me. I will share the best part of me because that's the part I want to remember when I contemplate my day, later.
There's something to be said for beginning a new day by contemplating how you want to feel about your day at the end of the day.
Close your eyes and imagine you're in bed for the night. How do you want to feel?
I imagine being tired and near sleep as soon as I lay down. It's been a fantastic and productive day for me, and I'm rightfully tired. I drift off to sleep sending blessings out to all my loved ones, smiling happily to myself.
Now, off I go to shape my day into whatever will make me feel like that later. I will hold my tongue, and just go where the Spirit moves me.
Thursday, January 6, 2011
To Create, Not Change What's Wrong
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.
– Simone Weil
This reminds me of Mother Teresa who declined to join a march against war stating that if they organized a march FOR PEACE, she'd be there.
We cannot make "bad" things stop or go away. We CAN, however, make "good" things start or come closer.
This is a Universe of inclusion. That means that all things are included. If you're focused upon it, it will expand.
So, don't go out your door determined to STOP WAR. Go out your door intending to bring peace.
Don't try to STOP DISEASE. Instead, bring health.
Our life here is about creation. We are creators. It's what we do.
Now, knowing this, I want you to try to create "stop," or "don't," or "no." You can't do it. You simply cannot create those things. What you will create is whatever subject comes after those words.
You will never create "stop hurting me" but you CAN create "love me."
The next time you feel like something's just not going the way you want it to, stop and consider what you want to create. Not what IS or what shouldn't be or what you wish wasn't.... What do you WANT.
And then, for me at least (because I'm ALL about the higher power working through you), I ask for help from God.
God, please help me bring ____ into my life for the highest good of All. Help me be this change and create joy and peace with it. Thank you for all the wonderful blessings in my life. I am eternally grateful and in love with it all. Amen.
Don't ever pray; God, please make this stop. God please take this away. God please change what's wrong.
God wants to know what's RIGHT and what's GOOD and where your GRATITUDE is. Whatever you're praying is assumed to be all those things.
Don't tell God his creations are wrong or unworthy or hated. Just pour your blessings upon what is RIGHT and WONDERFUL, even if you can't see it all right now.
Great Titles by Simone Weil
– Simone Weil
This reminds me of Mother Teresa who declined to join a march against war stating that if they organized a march FOR PEACE, she'd be there.
We cannot make "bad" things stop or go away. We CAN, however, make "good" things start or come closer.
This is a Universe of inclusion. That means that all things are included. If you're focused upon it, it will expand.
So, don't go out your door determined to STOP WAR. Go out your door intending to bring peace.
Don't try to STOP DISEASE. Instead, bring health.
Our life here is about creation. We are creators. It's what we do.
Now, knowing this, I want you to try to create "stop," or "don't," or "no." You can't do it. You simply cannot create those things. What you will create is whatever subject comes after those words.
You will never create "stop hurting me" but you CAN create "love me."
The next time you feel like something's just not going the way you want it to, stop and consider what you want to create. Not what IS or what shouldn't be or what you wish wasn't.... What do you WANT.
And then, for me at least (because I'm ALL about the higher power working through you), I ask for help from God.
God, please help me bring ____ into my life for the highest good of All. Help me be this change and create joy and peace with it. Thank you for all the wonderful blessings in my life. I am eternally grateful and in love with it all. Amen.
Don't ever pray; God, please make this stop. God please take this away. God please change what's wrong.
God wants to know what's RIGHT and what's GOOD and where your GRATITUDE is. Whatever you're praying is assumed to be all those things.
Don't tell God his creations are wrong or unworthy or hated. Just pour your blessings upon what is RIGHT and WONDERFUL, even if you can't see it all right now.
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| Waiting for God |
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| Simone Weil: An Anthology |
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| Gravity and Grace |
Monday, December 20, 2010
Sweet Remembrances
Sow good services: sweet remembrances will grow from them.
– Madame de Stael
Kindness is the best service we can provide for others. No matter what is happening around you, you always have a choice to react with your ego or to react with kindness.
Rarely are we remembered as we are. More often we are remembered by our deeds.
Commit good deeds and kind services and you will be remembered for them.
People WANT to think good thoughts and feel good about you. By acting from your true self, you give them plenty of evidence to associate with you.
But here's the Magick~ You will also remember your own kindness and that will bring you to think good thoughts and feel good things about YOURSELF.
One simple kindness can touch many.
Great Titles by Madame de Stael
– Madame de Stael
Kindness is the best service we can provide for others. No matter what is happening around you, you always have a choice to react with your ego or to react with kindness.
Rarely are we remembered as we are. More often we are remembered by our deeds.
Commit good deeds and kind services and you will be remembered for them.
People WANT to think good thoughts and feel good about you. By acting from your true self, you give them plenty of evidence to associate with you.
But here's the Magick~ You will also remember your own kindness and that will bring you to think good thoughts and feel good things about YOURSELF.
One simple kindness can touch many.
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| FREE ON KINDLE!! Ten Years' Exile: Memoirs of that Interesting Period of the Baroness De Steal-Holstein |
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| Madame de Stael: The First Modern Woman |
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| Madame De Stael |
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Can't Force Growth
Those who don’t
Want to change,
Let them sleep.
– Rumi
I have always found it irritating when people preach at me. I'm not talking about discussing religion or beliefs because THAT is one of my favorite things to do.
What I'm talking about is when someone believes that MY beliefs are "wrong" and that's it's their job to save me or convert me or convince me or whatever. And because of this opinion of mine, I try to mind my own business regarding other people and their level of consciousness.
Personal and Spiritual growth happen from within. People rarely grow on accident. Sometimes people just snap out of the illusion suddenly, and for no reason, or rather not for reasons of painful circumstances. But that's a pretty rare thing. Usually a person experiences an epiphany because they were seeking one.
You'll never convince someone to awaken.
Isn't is beautiful how you can be conscious of the illusion, even if someone else isn't?
And yet, as we sit here in our highest state of consciousness, feeling at one with the All, there are still others among us who think US asleep. Seeking can only be done for ones Self, so seek for yourself, and let those in slumber be.
Besides, demonstrations of conscious oneness have the power to awaken the sleeping. So by allowing those who don't want to change, to sleep, and by living in our own oneness, we have a greater chance of awakening them than if we try to awaken them with our words.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Great Titles by Rumi
Want to change,
Let them sleep.
– Rumi
I have always found it irritating when people preach at me. I'm not talking about discussing religion or beliefs because THAT is one of my favorite things to do.
What I'm talking about is when someone believes that MY beliefs are "wrong" and that's it's their job to save me or convert me or convince me or whatever. And because of this opinion of mine, I try to mind my own business regarding other people and their level of consciousness.
Personal and Spiritual growth happen from within. People rarely grow on accident. Sometimes people just snap out of the illusion suddenly, and for no reason, or rather not for reasons of painful circumstances. But that's a pretty rare thing. Usually a person experiences an epiphany because they were seeking one.
You'll never convince someone to awaken.
Isn't is beautiful how you can be conscious of the illusion, even if someone else isn't?
And yet, as we sit here in our highest state of consciousness, feeling at one with the All, there are still others among us who think US asleep. Seeking can only be done for ones Self, so seek for yourself, and let those in slumber be.
Besides, demonstrations of conscious oneness have the power to awaken the sleeping. So by allowing those who don't want to change, to sleep, and by living in our own oneness, we have a greater chance of awakening them than if we try to awaken them with our words.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
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| A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings |
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| The Illuminated Rumi |
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| Rumi: The Book of Love Poems of Ecstasy and Longing |
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Space for God
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
– Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Practicing the art of quieting my mind and being completely present in the moment has become one of my favorite things to do. The space that fills the "empty spaces" takes on almost a solid quality. The spaces in between become of substance and alive.
That solid, substantial, alive emptiness is God.
Maybe I'm crazy, but that's how I feel when I sit and become completely present with It. And all things manifest come from the emptiness, right? I mean, all THINGS began as NoTHINGS didn't they?
And scientists say that proportionately speaking, the distance between the atoms in our bodies is comparable to the distance between the stars and galaxies. So I've come to think of God and the consciousness that exists in the spaces in between. The intelligence responsible for pulling the pieces into an ordered form that I recognize, and holding it there.
A sock is a sock because the atoms and particles are all pulled together in THAT specific pattern and are held there, in suspended animation so that I may observe a sock with my sensory perceptions.
What is it in the space that tells the pieces where to go and stay?
But the funny thing is, the deeper into things scientists go; The tinier the particle, the more space they find inside.
So this has become my understanding of God. God is in all things to the deepest extent, and yet all things are IN God at the very same time. And I've formed this conclusion by sitting in complete silence and observing and occasionally contemplating the space in between.
And if at the root of my nature, my consciousness, my soul, I too am that space, that pulsing, aware, divine space, then I have much more control than I can realize.
I believe the true purpose of all things is to bring me closer to realizing. To compel me to contemplate the Space until I Am.
Seems logical to me that once that point is reached, things lose their purpose and meaning beyond pleasure and happiness. Once you've suffered enough to go into the Space, you realize that, only that could be the purpose.
Great Titles by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
– Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
Practicing the art of quieting my mind and being completely present in the moment has become one of my favorite things to do. The space that fills the "empty spaces" takes on almost a solid quality. The spaces in between become of substance and alive.
That solid, substantial, alive emptiness is God.
Maybe I'm crazy, but that's how I feel when I sit and become completely present with It. And all things manifest come from the emptiness, right? I mean, all THINGS began as NoTHINGS didn't they?
And scientists say that proportionately speaking, the distance between the atoms in our bodies is comparable to the distance between the stars and galaxies. So I've come to think of God and the consciousness that exists in the spaces in between. The intelligence responsible for pulling the pieces into an ordered form that I recognize, and holding it there.
A sock is a sock because the atoms and particles are all pulled together in THAT specific pattern and are held there, in suspended animation so that I may observe a sock with my sensory perceptions.
What is it in the space that tells the pieces where to go and stay?
But the funny thing is, the deeper into things scientists go; The tinier the particle, the more space they find inside.
So this has become my understanding of God. God is in all things to the deepest extent, and yet all things are IN God at the very same time. And I've formed this conclusion by sitting in complete silence and observing and occasionally contemplating the space in between.
And if at the root of my nature, my consciousness, my soul, I too am that space, that pulsing, aware, divine space, then I have much more control than I can realize.
I believe the true purpose of all things is to bring me closer to realizing. To compel me to contemplate the Space until I Am.
Seems logical to me that once that point is reached, things lose their purpose and meaning beyond pleasure and happiness. Once you've suffered enough to go into the Space, you realize that, only that could be the purpose.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Good to the Last Drop
We were all given the same amount of spirit. None more, none less. The difference between individuals is allowing the Spirit to have more of you.
– Bear Heart
The Spirit of God, Source, The Universe... It fills us all. We are all made of It and we all live in It.
How in tuned you are to It is completely up to you. You will see what you wish to see and feel what you wish to feel.
If what you are wishing to see and feel is a divine presence of goodness in your life, leading you unerringly in the direction you long to be going... then that is what you will see and feel.
But
You cannot just invite the Spirit into your life to direct it and be done. Calling Spirit into your life is a constant thing. The more you think of your Higher Self in all that you do, the more you will automatically include Spirit into your everyday doings.
And the more Spirit is included in your everyday doings, the more your everyday doings will bring you peace and joy.
You are like a human cup. Fill yourself with Spirit every day and let Spirit fill your life.
Great Titles by Bear Heart & Other Native Americans
– Bear Heart
The Spirit of God, Source, The Universe... It fills us all. We are all made of It and we all live in It.
How in tuned you are to It is completely up to you. You will see what you wish to see and feel what you wish to feel.
If what you are wishing to see and feel is a divine presence of goodness in your life, leading you unerringly in the direction you long to be going... then that is what you will see and feel.
But
You cannot just invite the Spirit into your life to direct it and be done. Calling Spirit into your life is a constant thing. The more you think of your Higher Self in all that you do, the more you will automatically include Spirit into your everyday doings.
And the more Spirit is included in your everyday doings, the more your everyday doings will bring you peace and joy.
You are like a human cup. Fill yourself with Spirit every day and let Spirit fill your life.
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