Love me or Hate me.
Both are in my favor.
Love me and I’ll always be in your heart.
Hate me and I will always be in your mind
William Shakespeare
Mar5
Category Archives: Opinion
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.
Feb22
Beliefs – Robert Fulghum
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. Than laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
Robert Fulghum
Insightful Mr. Fulghum
Feb20
Thoughful Thursdays #52 Resistance
Steven Pressfield is one of my favorite writing idols. He writes about resistance all the time and is incredibly insightful. Resistance is something I struggle with all the time.
I will paraphrase his discussion with Rabbi Finley and resistance. Rabbi Finley said: “There is a second self inside you-an inner shadow Self. This self doesn’t care about you. It doesn’t love you. It has its own agenda, and it will kill you. It will kill you like cancer. It will kill you to achieve its agenda, which is to prevent you from actualizing your Self, from becoming who you really are. This shadow self is called, in the Kabbalistic lexicon, the yetzer hara. The yetzer hara, is what you call Resistance.”
Well said Rabbi. 100 % true.
This leads me to the Buddha. As he sat under the Bodhi tree and was confronted by Mara and his army. Mara represents denial, fear and distraction. His demons are violent and wicked. The Buddha used his noodle to figure out that Mara and his demons are nothing but a distraction to us. Mara goes out of his way to distract us from our true path, just like he did to the Buddha. Mara’s the king of thoughts and situations that create fear and resistance. The Buddha found a way to transcend his own denial of what is important and what is not. Being in denial of all there is in your life is the ultimate in resistance. The Buddha recognized this in his enlightenment.
What are your Mara’s? Is it addictions, distraction, negative patterns, denial? Is it violence in thoughts, words and deeds?
What is your yetzer hara? Is it illness, sadness, inability to focus?
The list of negatives is endless. So what is the answer? How do we recognize resistance especially if you don’t have a ton of time to meditate or devote your life to a religion?
Keep looking for those pesky negative incognito signs in your thoughts, words and actions that are holding you back. Chances are whatever you are afraid of or avoiding is resistance.
Wake up into your own awareness. Make Self Care important, a priority.
Yes you are that important.
Feb15
Brene Brown Daring Greatly
“Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.”
Feb12
Truth
Don’t depend on anyone in this world.
Even your shadow leaves you when
you’re in darkness.
beautytips4her.com
Feb6
Dr. Christiane Northrup
Thoughts are an important part of your
inner wisdom – and they are very
powerful.
A thought held long enough and
repeated often enough becomes a belief.
A belief then becomes your biology.
Dr. Christaine Northrup
Feb6
Thoughful Thursdays #51Eckhart Tolle
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“When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.”
~Eckhart Tolle
Feb5
Heal Yourself
Heal Yourself
The deepest wounds we all carry are locked in our subconscious (out of our awareness). Deep memories and subtle impressions, from unfinished experience, rooted in the past. The pain from those wounds comes to revisit, to block and paralyze us in the moment called now. We all know it comes without warning – “Why am I feeling this way, I didn’t mean to do that, I don’t know what made me say that.” Healing does not mean finding and treating every single inner scar which send it message to haunt us. It means going even deeper, past those wounds, beyond those distant memories and recording of unfinished business, to the core of our self, to the heart of our spirit, where we find the light and warmth of our own core qualities of love and peace. They are eternally present within us they are what we need to heal all our inner wounds. That’s why this kind of deep healing is called spirituality and not therapy.
Thoughtfortoday.org.us
Jan31
Thoughtful Thursdays #50
A moment of insight
Influences 1000 lifetimes.
Georgia Piazza
It occurred to me that through any type of self development we change in a deep, profound and cellular level. Even if your outside doesn’t reflect the change. In your being you know you have changed. And that is priceless.
Na mo Amitoufo
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