You move totally away
from reality
when you believe that there is
a legitimate reason
to suffer.
Byron Katie – Loving What Is
Mar15
Monthly Archives: March 2014
Mar15
The Power of the Dog by Rudyard Kipling
The Power of the Dog
There is sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and women to fill our day;
And when we are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we always arrange for more?
Brothers and Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your heart to a dog to tear.
Buy a pup and your money will buy
Love unflinching that cannot lie–
Perfect passion and worship fed
By a kick in the ribs or a pat on the head.
Nevertheless it is hardly fair
To risk your heart for a dog to tear.
When the fourteen years which Nature permits
Are closing in asthma, or tumour, or fits,
And the vet’s unspoken prescription runs
To lethal chambers or loaded guns,
Then you will find–it’s your own affair–
But … you’ve given your heart to a dog to tear.
When the body that lived at your single will,
With its whimper of welcome, is stilled (how still!).
When the spirit that answered your every mood
Is gone–wherever it goes–for good,
You will discover how much you care,
And will give your heart to a dog to tear.
We’ve sorrow enough in the natural way,
When it comes to burying Christian clay.
Our loves are not given, but only lent,
At compound interest of cent per cent.
Though it is not always the case, I believe,
That the longer we’ve kept ’em, the more do we grieve:
For, when debts are payable, right or wrong,
A short-time loan is as bad as a long–
So why in–Heaven (before we are there)
Should we give our hearts to a dog to tear?
Mar14
Life
Life is risky and dirty and unforgiving sometimes.
It’s OK
It is also stable, bright and tolerant.
g.piazza
Mar13
Thoughtful Thursdays #54 Questions
I like questions.
Questions are an important part of relationships both with yourself and with others.
Here are some of my favorite questions.
What is in your heart?
What do you feel?
What makes you happy?
What makes you sad?
Would you want a super power? If so, what would it be?
What makes you really angry?
Are you willing to be talk about your feelings?
Are you willing to change one thing that you are unhappy with?
Do you love deeply?
Do you express that feeling of deep love in some way?
Do you believe that things work out for the best?
Or do you believe you must push for what you want?
If you had no limitations, what are some of the things you would try?
What are you afraid of?
If you knew a statement was incorrect would you add some input or keep your mouth shut?
Is there something you need to let go of?
What do you resist?
What age do you feel?
What is your favorite academic subject?
How judgmental are you?
Do you accept others as they are?
Which values are important to you? E.g. kindness, truthfulness, etc.
I could go on but this is enough to get you thinking and perhaps asking others.
Have fun learning because that’s what life is about. Learning how the minds, bodies and spirits work.
The more you know about yourself the more you know about others, which makes for a happier and more content life.
Ask tons of questions because they are the starting point of change in a positive direction.
Mar12
Moments – Dr, Wayne Dyer
Every moment of our existence
holds an infinite number
of possibilities.
Dr. Wayne Dyer
Mar11
Truth
The truth hurts,
The truth heals.
I read that somewhere and it brought to mind how I would much rather be hurt by the truth than hurt by a lie.
When you know the truth you can move on. Lies only keep an untruth alive and the truth comes out anyway.
Please tell me the truth. I can handle it.
Mar10
Zig Ziglar – Self Image
If you don’t like who you are or where you are,
don’t worry about it because you are not stuck either
with who you are or where you are.
You can Grow.
You can Change.
You can be more than you are.
Zig Ziglar
Mar8
Fill In the Blank
I would __________________
if I had the chance.
From James Mottram/astig FM photo
This should be fun. Try to keep it clean.
Mar8
The Superpowers We Wish We Had
We all want to change certain things in our current lifestyle, and most of them are connected to the outer world.
Some want a better job, a bigger income, to start their own business, to have great relationships, to exercise more. Others seek more fun, better social skills, material stuff or else.
And if we start working on getting these things, we will eventually understand that the changes we need to make are inside of us. Because our bad habits prevent us from moving forward, the lack of certain qualities doesn’t let us achieve our goals and our own limitations are what stops us from living the life we are meant to.
For that matter we need to build some super qualities. They are like superpowers because we are not born with them and very few have them.
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Mar6
Thoughful Thursdays #53 Unconditional Love
I regularly read “positivethoughtsforyou.com and today Mr. Stephen Levine wrote about unconditional love. Here’s an excerpt:
“When we say love we usually mean some emotion, some deep feeling for an object or person, that momentarily allows us to open to another. But in such emotional love, self-protection is never very far away. Still there is “business” to the relationship: clouds of jealousy, possessiveness, guilt, intentional and unintentional manipulation, separateness, and the shadow of all previous “loves” darkens the light of oneness.
But what I mean by love is not an emotion, it is a state of being. True love has no object. Many speak of their unconditional love for another. Unconditional love is the experience of being; there is no “I” and “other,” and anyone or anything it touches is experienced in love. You cannot unconditionally love someone. You can only be unconditional love. It is not a dualistic emotion. It is a sense of oneness with all that is. The experience of love arises when we surrender our separateness into the universal. It is a feeling of unity. You don’t love another, you are another. There is no fear because there is no separation”.
My understanding of this is if we feel love on an emotional level there are conditions, desires, expectations. With conditions, desires and expectations there is the risk of squeezing the life out of relationships.
When we have unconditional love it is not a feeling but a state of mind of openness and accepting everything as it is. No conditions no desires no expectations create unlimited possibilities in relationships.
That works for me.
How about you?
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