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Feeling Bad Does Not Mean You Are Bad

1/25/2021

 
Have you noticed how conditioned we are to trust our feelings
whenever we feel bad about ourself? 

When we feel guilt or shame we’re programmed to trust those feelings.
We believe that feeling bad about ourself is justified because we are bad.
After all, we wouldn’t feel bad if we weren’t actually bad, right?

We don’t realize that the feeling bad, the shame and guilt,
is not the actual Truth but is a kind of lie detector pointing us back to Truth.

When we feel bad about ourself it’s as if Truth is saying,

“Your understanding is way off base. You are believing a lie.
You feel bad not because you’ve understood who you are
but because you’ve misunderstood who you are.
Feeling bad about yourself is always my loving feedback

inviting you, coaxing you, to please go deeper 
than any thought or feeling. You are so much more -
so     much     more.”
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​The Divine Child

by the spiritual teacher Mooji
 
We are divine beings in a state of recovery,
re-discovering our divinity,
winning back ourselves from states of delusion. 

However, the mind is very much a key player
in the drama called life, because without it,
the consciousness cannot experience
the necessary friction for transcendence to occur.
And transcendence is the whole purpose of the game.

It is a kingly game when seen
with eyes of understanding.
If you stay stuck in personhood, life will kick your ass.

But if you are open to Truth, then you are continuously
expanding into greater and greater seeing.
Finally, you will exclaim,
‘I love this stepping out of the shadow of myself
into the bright light of my Self.’

If my words are true,
it is you who make them true.
They come alive inside you
because you listen inside your heart and accept them. 

Not just the words, but what they point to
somehow recognizes itself,
and the stagnant, the suppressed,
vanishes in the light of this real seeing.

The serpent-mind loses its tongue
in the presence of the real Self.
You are the Self.
​

Joy - Sensing Beyond Our Senses

6/22/2020

 
​Joy is so much deeper than the appearance of things.

Things sometimes look messy.
And sound and smell messy.
And may even feel messy -

yet ...

when we're open 
we can sense Joy 
underneath and in
all that seems so messy.  
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When we're not resisting anything ...
when we're open to everything
joy, love, clarity
are there.

Resistance Doesn't Just Happen - We Make It Happen

5/25/2020

 
This week two people emailed me about insights they are having about resistance
and in a nutshell here is what they are now discovering:

Resistance is not something that’s just happening – it’s something I’m doing – or not doing.
Judgment of anything or anyone is resistance.
I’m beginning to see I have a choice to either judge - resist whatever’s happening or not.
When I do resist what’s happening it doesn’t feel good.
I feel tight - closed off to love and peace.
And when I’m not resisting there’s an open feeling  … it feels so good.


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Deep thanks to all you fellow explorers.
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Without resistance,
Peace and Love
are revealed.

Stopping The Inner Busyness Is Huge

3/20/2020

 
The other day I got an email from a friend who believes she may have the coronavirus.
She is fully at peace with what is happening and, with her permission,
​here is part of what she wrote:

Last night, I listened to an interesting perspective on what's happening, spiritually.
That the world is being forced to stop.  Stop all the busyness and looking outward.  
Many schools and institutions are closing, businesses coming to a trickle or stopping altogether.  
Countries quarantined. We are being forced to stay home and face ourselves. 
This feels huge. 
Who are we when we are not constantly in motion?


Time to turn within and go a little deeper.   
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The stopping of so much of the external busyness
is a kind of invitation to go deeper to the stopping of the internal busyness. 
When we're not in constant motion 'up in our head'
who are we really? 

There Are No Victims Here

1/26/2020

 









The belief in victim-hood creates such a powerless and wretched state.

We believe we're always at the mercy of something – the weather, the horoscope,  
our past, a family member, our health, a friend, life, God, certain thoughts or feelings. 

We're then blown about and nothing seems reliable or trustworthy.  Fear, restlessness and dissatisfaction then hound us.

But what if all of that is completely false? 

What if we're not a victim of anything? 

What if nothing real actually stands in the way of our discovering our sense of well being – now, in this moment?

This is the most wonderful discovery we can make! 

​This discovery changes everything. 


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The Amazing Power of Observation

12/13/2019

 
For decades I had a ‘monkey mind on steroids’ –
thoughts were constantly running, often repetitive 
and largely negative and guilt producing.
It was not a very enjoyable way to live, to say the least.

And even after the initial glimpse of Wholeness
that monkey mind on steroids kept going.  
The negative and repetitive nature of my thinking
did not slow down one bit for quite a while.

But even though all of that kept running – a few things did change.

I began to be aware of the running thoughts and
I began to be aware of my sense of Self when my attention was closed in on thoughts
and, most significantly, I began to be aware of my sense of Self
when my attention was open to simply observing the thoughts.

This was absolutely amazing!

Nothing had changed but everything had changed.

Awareness of thoughts running through rather than having attention hooked into them…
Awareness of the false sense of Self when attention is hooked into them …
And awareness of the true sense of Self when we are simply observing thoughts.


​We are The Sky:

The Sky observes clouds without confusing itself to be what it is observing 
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Gratitude Now - Rather Than When

11/30/2019

 
In the midst of chores can there be gratitude – or only when chores are done?

Just the other morning while hanging up my pants
there was full Gratitude as I watched my hand placing the pants on a hook.

There was nothing else in that moment but that.

Although there was a lot scheduled for that day
without projection of what still 'needs' to be done
there was no missing what is Now.

Gratitude now
as we take a step,
wash a dish,
chop the onions …
nothing else but this.

During this busy season,
may each of us know this Gratitude
more and more deeply
as we are fully present to and enjoy whatever we are now doing.

A Grateful Heart Sees Beauty and Feels Joy Now
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    It is all very simple. Instead of seeing things imagined, learn to see them as they are. When you can see everything as it is, you will also see yourself as you are. It is like cleansing a mirror. The same mirror that shows you the world as it is, will also show you your own face."
      Sri Nisargadatta     Maharaj

      Einstein said,
    "No problem can be solved 
      from the same
       level of consciousness
           that created it."
      
     

     
    To see new solutions
       we must see differently.
                             
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