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Quotes - 2012, Stillness

How To Move To Now!

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Move away from the mental how to the spiritual now. – Guy Finley

mental how

We live constantly in our minds. We manufacture about 70,000 thoughts a day! When we’re thinking, we are not in the present moment.

spiritual now

By becoming aware of our thoughts, our breath, our body, our emotions and of what’s going on we can move into the spiritual now. It really is that simple. Takes practice of course. We must build the new muscle. We must breathe with full consciousness. We must understand the movement of thoughts. We ought to know how our emotions get triggered. And we must value being in the present!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM present!

Recommendation: The Secret of Letting Go by Guy Finley

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Quotes - 2011

How Can We Find Value In What We Do?

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The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place. – Thérèse of Lisieux

do

We focus mostly on our ‘place’ in life. I.e. what we’ve earned or achieved in life or in our jobs. In other words we underscore what we’ve done and what we’ve gathered along the way.

be

The ‘way’ we do our job, play our roles as a child, sibling, spouse or parent appears to be more important. The ‘way’ we show up as a human being, as a student, a worker and as a world citizen seems more crucial. Being must come first. Being must come from our core values and from our high ideals. Being must also come from our aspirations and hopes. Then what follows, the doing, will be of even greater value! More here: BeZenDo Revisited!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM being more than doing!

Recommendation: Art of Being by Erich Fromm

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Quotes - 2011, Stillness

How To Become Awakened!

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To undertake a genuine spiritual path is not to avoid difficulty but is to learn the art of making mistakes wakefully, to bring to them the transformative power of our heart. – Jack Kornfield

the spiritual life

How does one live a spiritual life? By invoking the ‘spirit’ of things into daily living. Everything that happens to us has a spiritual underpinning. To actively discover and to embrace that essence is to live the spiritual life.

waking up

To live such a life we must awaken to what’s happening to us. One neat way to practice this is to just become aware of our breathing, all day long. When we do that we suddenly become ‘awakened’ beings, we become witnesses to what’s going on. Try it…

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM awake to all that happens to me!

Recommendation: Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There by Sylvia Boorstein

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Quotes - 2011, Stillness

Why It’s Important To Stay Awake!

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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn. – Henry David Thoreau

awaken to

We’re consummate sleep walkers! We walk around hypnotized, dazed into submission by the lethargy of our habits. As intelligent and creative children of the Universe it’s our prerogative to take life’s rein into our hands. We can do so by becoming awake to each moment…

infinite expectation!

Thoreau was such a poet! Imagine being awake to unknown but enthralling possibilities in our daily lives! Imagine having ‘infinite expectation’ for any moment that we dwell in! Imagine expecting that the finest moment for mankind is just around the corner! Imagine also expecting the best of any individual that we meet, and addressing only the divine within them!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM of Infinite Expectation!

Recommendation: The Law of Attraction by Esther Hicks

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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

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Gita, Quotes - 2011

What’s So Cool About NOW?

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13.22 … He watches, gives blessing, bears all, feels all. He is called the Lord Supreme and the Supreme Soul.

13.23 He who knows in truth this Spirit and knows nature with its changing conditions, wherever this man may be he is no more whirled round by fate. – The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 13)

here and now

Why are we instructed to stay in the moment when possible? Because in this moment eternity meets time and space. In this very moment God and divinity are present. At this time spirit and wisdom becomes accessible. Peace and joy are at hand.

Ok, so why can’t we feel and know all this good stuff??

attention

Pure attention is required. We must look at and experience things as they are. When done with pure attention, no thoughts about the thing or experience are generated inside our head. When that happens, the eternal moment and all its goodness starts to become apparent. Practice makes perfect. It’s a muscle that slowly grows and yields amazing results! Try it!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM fully attentive.

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

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