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08/04/2018

Maybe it’s time for a re-think?

28/04/2017

"Whatever you resist you become. If you resist anger, you are always angry. If you resist sadness, you are always sad. If you resist suffering, you are always suffering. If you resist confusion, you are always confused. We think that we resist certain states because they are there, but actually they are there because we resist them."

~ Adyashanti

My Secret Is Silence
http://bit.ly/1WArz2a

16/02/2017

Which way is the world going to turn out? That's easy; we get to choose every day.

30/01/2017

“Follow your bliss ... If you do follow your bliss, you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. When you can see that, you begin to meet people who are in your field of bliss, and they open doors to you. I say, follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.” — Joseph Campbell

07/01/2017

HOW TO HAVE AN ABUNDANT 2017

What is abundance? Is it about having more money, more fame, more recognition, more 'stuff' than you really need? Is it about acquiring unnecessary personal wealth, amassing piles of stuff for yourself and your inner circle of privileged friends?

No, no, no. It is the raging fire in your heart! It is the inexplicable joy rumbling in your belly! It is the heart-breaking gratitude you feel upon waking, having been given another day to explore this crazy, beautiful, gossamer-like world, however much money is in your bank account, however many certificates they put up on your wall!

It is the overwhelming bliss of giving without expectation, loving without need, opening up to adventures you never thought possible, feeling the fear yet taking the leap in spite of the words of warning from the ones who call themselves 'normal'. It is the crazy plunge into the unknown, the rush of life you feel on the in-breath, the profound rest you feel on the out-breath, the excitement at knowing that nothing that is real can be lost, and nothing that is lost was really yours to begin with. It is feeling deeply alive, connected, and at Home, no matter what the circumstances, however hard the challenges, however impossible the odds.

You can have all the earthly riches imaginable, you can be at the very top of the world's ladder of success, and yet if you are not in tune with this universal abundance, not in sync with the preciousness of existence, not in touch with who you really are, not in love with the simple feeling of being alive, you are in the deepest poverty.

It is not worldly wealth that raises us out of poverty, but awakening to our vastness. It is not more money that we need in the end, but more Love, that universal Love that holds all beings in all worlds in its infinite embrace. Yes, money helps. It increases worldly comforts. And yes, there is nothing wrong with working to make more money. Behind the desire for more money may just be the desire to increase the prosperity of the whole world, to uplift everyone and everything in abundance. But if we are talking about true happiness, we must look beyond the visible, and into the eyes of the Beloved.

Let 2017 be the year you giggled more, laughed more, wept more, fell to your knees more in gratitude and in silliness and saw the preciousness in the passing of things. When you become like the little children you will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, and the Kingdom is already here, friends, disguised as an ordinary year, an ordinary day, an ordinary moment, waiting for your eyes to open wide to its abundant treasures.

- Jeff Foster

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28/12/2016

In this article, I propose that all the problems we are experiencing personally and globally have been created by our assumptions. And why any solution we create while still operating from our assumptions, only exacerbates our problems.
Einstein said that; "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
I explore how our intuition gives us access to our creativity, imagination and inventiveness. And how it can serve each of us to create lasting and transformational solutions to our personal and global problems. - Darren Eden

http://academyofgreatness.co.uk/can-intuition-save-the-world/

Can intuition solve the serious problems the world faces, such as; global warming, war, the refugee crisis, the increasing divide between the rich and poor.

20/12/2016

Later edit: I’ve re-thought this in light of what Brene Brown has to say about people doing the best they can. But the post has some merit still.

"Blind compassion is rooted in the belief that we are all doing the best we can. When we are driven by blind compassion, we cut everyone far too much slack, making excuses for others' behavior and making nice situations that require a forceful "no", an unmistakable voicing of displeasure, or a firm setting and maintaining of boundaries. These things can, and often should be done out of love, but blind compassion keeps love too meek, sentenced to wearing a kind face. Blind compassion is kindness rooted in fear, and not just fear of confrontation, but also fear of not coming across as a good or spiritual person.
When we are engaged in blind compassion we rarely show anger, for we not only believe that compassion has to be gentle, we are also frightened of upsetting anyone, especially to the point of their confronting us. This is reinforced by our judgment about anger, especially in its more fiery forms, as something less spiritual; something that shouldn't be there if we were being truly loving. Blind compassion reduces us to harmony junkies, entrapping us in unrelentingly positive expression.
With blind compassion we don't know how to - or won't learn how to - say "no" with any real power, avoiding confrontation at all costs and, as a result, enabling unhealthy patterns to continue. Our "yes" is then anemic and impotent, devoid of impact it could have if we were also able to access a clear, strong "no" that emanated from our core.
When we mute our essential voice, our openness is reduced to a permissive gap, an undiscerning embrace, a poorly boundaries receptivity, all of which indicate a lack of compassion for ourselves (in that we don't adequately protect ourselves). Blind compassion confuses anger with aggression, forcefulness with violence, judgment with condemnation, caring with exaggerated tolerance, and more tolerance with spiritual correctness."
- Robert Augustus Masters, Spiritual Bypassing

(thanks Justin Luria for sharing this)

15/12/2016

from A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals

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Sung by Gene Wilder in Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

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06/11/2016

“Your pain, your sorrow, your doubts, your longings, your fearful thoughts: they are not mistakes, and they are not asking to be ‘healed.’ They are asking to be held. Here, now, lightly, in the loving, healing arms of present awareness . . .”

There is so much pressure on us these days to “feel good.” But it’s exactly our attempts to feel good that can make us feel so bad! Conceiving of happiness as a destination rather than the all-embracing, non-dual present awareness that we are, we go to war with our unhappiness and feel shame around it. We split ourselves in two and feel far away from Home. I know—I spent much of my life suicidally depressed. These days I love myself exactly as I am; I see the beauty in my imperfections, and I want to share the secrets of self-love with you.

In my new book, The Way of Rest, through prose and poetry I invite you—and this sounds like a paradox at first—to stop trying to be happy, stop trying to awaken or even “heal,” and instead courageously embrace yourself exactly as you are, including your present unhappiness—your painful feelings, your strange thoughts and longings, even your fear and exhaustion. See them all as perfectly placed pieces of you rather than mistakes or aberrations or signs of your failure.

Today, try this:

If you feel sad or afraid, or feel a tension in your body, just for a moment stop trying to “let go.” Forget about “raising your vibration” too! Instead, simply be with the discomfort. Get curious about it. Soften around it. Breathe into it. Give it space, room, some time. Forget about understanding, “releasing,” or “fixing” it today and just allow it to be here for as long as it needs to be here. Let it stay if it wants to stay. Let it go if it wants to go! Let it come back if it wants to come back. Treat it like a welcome guest in the vast Rest Home of your being, a beloved child that truly belongs.

If you’re tired of the fight, exhausted from the struggle, fed up with trying to “fit in,” I invite you to discover a deeper kind of healing: The Way of Rest. - Jeff Foster

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Way-Rest-Finding-Courage-Everything-ebook/dp/B01M0RXP26/ref=sr_1_1_twi_kin_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1478221258&sr=8-1&keywords=the+way+of+rest

The Way of Rest gathers nearly 200 of Jeff Foster’s most inspiring essays, poems, and reflections on restoring and reviving ourselves when we feel exhausted or defeated. Drawing from his personal journey—including his own struggles with illness and depression—Jeff invites us to ...