People don’t want to hear
the truth
because
they don’t want their
illusions destroyed.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Mar15
Category Archives: Change
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.
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?
Mar4
No Problem
No Problem
Solutions are never necessary because there are no problems, only our perception makes it seem so, and only our minds make our perceptions seem real. If there is a problem it is our perception. That is hard to see in a world that celebrates and rewards the finding and solving of ‘the problem’. When you decide that you will no longer perceive the problem, you will see only the facts or a situation. Facts are just facts and any and every situation can always be improved, unless it is in the past, then it’s just a memory, and memories are never a problem, are they? If you can cancel from the patterns of your perceptions, the very idea of ‘problem’ then you will not only be a positive thinker and positive proactive actor, you will be a leader.
Thoughtfortoday.org.uk
Mar2
Rejection
Once you feel you are avoided by someone
Never disturb them again.
beautytips4you.com
People can be really strange sometimes. In my experience most of the time people are wrapped up in their own thoughts and lives. It’s OK, give them their space and move forward in your own life. Refuse to be treated poorly. Sometimes you can care deeply about others but keep your distance.
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