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Quotes - 2011, Stillness

How We Can Grow…

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Religious perplexities are inevitable; there can be no growth without psychic conflict and spiritual agitation. – The Urantia Papers

perplexities

Life itself is perplexing. Relationships are full of conflicts. How would life be if it were perfect? Imagine Christmas or another holiday, every single day for the rest of our lives…..!!!!!!!!

Not only would it be intolerable, it wouldn’t allow for much growth.

growth

Growth occurs when we face challenges, when we don’t know the step forward and when we struggle to figure life out. Growth flourishes when we’re stuck and when we plead for answers and relief, when we ask thoughtful questions and don’t excoriate self. In almost all cases, what’s occurring right now is just the perfect medicine for our growth into the perfection of eternity. Let’s not despair, it’s all working out just fine, there’s always light at the end of the tunnel!

Daily Affirmation: Today I grow, no matter what!

Recommendation: The Urantia Papers

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Quotes - 2011, Stillness

If Not Now… Then When?

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If not now… then when?

what?

What should we spend our time on? If we don’t answer that question actively, we’ll go the way of our bodily inclinations. We might end up eating something or watch a meaningless TV program. If we don’t illuminate Now via the torchlight of our ‘Life Purpose’ we might just squander the power of the current moment…

just do it

If we already know what’s important to us and we also know that we shouldn’t be resting our mind or body, then the next steps can be clear…

Taking one step fuels the next, there’s magic in movement and in action. Interestingly, a still mind can be useful in helping us be active in other aspects of life. Life is like that. Apparently contradictory, a never-ending maze that satisfies when engaged and an endless adventure-filled odyssey…

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM action personified! 

Recommendation: Do It! Let’s Get Off Our Buts by Peter McWilliams

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Quotes - 2011

Who Is This Person?

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We worry about what children will be tomorrow. Yet, we forget he is something today. – Stacia Tauscher

child?

Kahlil Gibran in ‘The Prophet’:

They come through you but not from you,
And though they are with you yet they belong not to you…

How do we view and interact with ‘children’ daily? Do we act as though we know stuff? Do we behave like the child is not his own soul? How does this attitude translate into the rest of our adult interaction?

today

Today the child is also a child of the Divine. Today we still need to learn and grow a lot more. Today everyone else we meet is also God’s child. Today is more important than any other day. Life happens today. Yesterday’s gone and tomorrow shall never be, because it’s all ‘today’. Let’s find rest in the eternal peace that is ‘Now’. All is well.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM.

Recommendation: The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran

The ProphetKindle Wireless Reading Device, Wi-Fi, 6

Gita, Quotes - 2011

What Is Yoga?

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13.24 Some by the Yoga of meditation, and by the grace of the Spirit, see the Spirit in themselves; some by the Yoga of the vision of Truth; and others by the Yoga of work.

13.25 And yet there are others who do not know, but they hear from others and adore. They also cross beyond death, because of their devotion to words of Truth. – The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 13)

yoga (union)

Union with God, the ultimate reality is Yoga. This union can be effected via different mechanisms according to The Gita.

There’s the Yoga of Meditation which is all about meditating on the divine to attain transcendence. Then there’s the Yoga of Knowledge, which is focused on using the intellect to discover Truth. Next is ‘Karma Yoga’ the Yoga of Work where adherents are advised to devote all action and motive to God and thus find salvation. And finally there’s ‘Bhakti Yoga’, the Yoga of Love, in which through the vehicle of love for God and love for all, one can achieve the goal of the ages…

believers

According to The Gita the easiest way to reach successfully beyond death is to just believe. Belief in a transcendent reality and truth is all that’s needed. The Urantia Book states the same thing, even an inkling of belief or faith in the life beyond is enough to qualify a human to be reborn in the after-life. Such a view might be contrary to some religions but is accepted widely by many.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM a believer!

Recommendation: The Bhagavad Gita (Penguin Classics) by Juan Mascaro

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Quotes - 2011, Stillness

Why Is It So Hard?

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Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change. – Andrew Cohen

seeking…

We’re seekers. We seek after peace, contentment, enlightenment, something deeper, ‘the way’, escape, we can call it what we will… We’re all seeking something that’s beyond where and what we are… Perhaps that’s by design?

To get beyond where we are, change is required. Change of mind, of attitude and of perception.

change is hard

There’s something called the ‘ego’, that comes in the way of our efforts to change. We think we don’t need to change. We think others need to change. We think we’re already making enough of the changes necessary. The ego convinces us that it’s better to be safe and certain than to take risky action. We comply and therefore we change not because we venture not. All this while, because we don’t change, we suffer, people around us suffer and the world loses on the potentiality of another eternal soul!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM fearless!

Recommendation: Change Anything by Kerry Patterson

Change Anything: The New Science of Personal SuccessKindle Wireless Reading Device, Wi-Fi, 6

Quotes - 2011, Stillness

What It Takes To Be Cool…

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Try to be like the turtle; at ease in your own shell. – Bill Copeland

like a turtle

‘Slow and easy wins the race’, not only that but such a turtle doesn’t quite care what others think of him. He’s going to take it easy, be determined, plow along at his own pace and not care a bit about what others think about his life or his body. He’s cool.

how?

For us to be like turtles we have to first be convinced about our own value. Where does such high self-esteem come from? It might have come from our parents, it might come from our friends, from our work and certainly from our accomplishments. For those who believe in God it can be simpler. As a child of God, a universally unique and creative off-spring of the ‘One’, we can find solace in the fact that we’re loved and cared for more than we can ever imagine. Once we accept this fact in faith, we can use prayer, reminders and affirmations to drill it into our psyche! Hello cool Turtle!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM cool-skinned!

Recommendation: Be Yourself, Everyone Else is Already Taken…
by Mike Robbins

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Quotes - 2011, Stillness

Who’s The Ideal Life Partner?

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If you are going to fall in love, try to make your relationship one that generates great spiritual creativity, one that is mutually enriching. – Daisaku Ikeda

life partner

A partner for life, means just that. We all have access to a physical and/or virtual ‘life’ partner. We’re lovingly looked after by God our parent. Love is the very basis for all reality and why we all exist. In this current separation from spiritual reality, for very good reasons, we suffer from loneliness, but there’s a way out…

spiritual connection

We must make connection with Spirit. This can be done directly via stillness practices and can be enhanced via a wholesome relationship with a spouse or partner. This connection, such a relationship, is our way beyond our current struggles and lack of the big picture. Life can be wholesome, satisfying and thrilling, we just need to turn our perspective inward and ask that Reality get involved! It will…

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM in love with my partner!

Recommendation: The Center Within by Fred Harris

The Center Within: Lessons from Heart of the Urantia RevelationKindle Wireless Reading Device, Wi-Fi, 6