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Articles, Quotes - 2010

From The Heart

July 7, 2010 Manu Leave a comment

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. – Deepak Chopra

opening up

Opening our heart means reaching outwards. Getting out of our heads, dropping down into our hearts, ‘seeing’ the heart of others, allowing love and care to flow from us, to the other. It also means being flexible and open minded. Flexible enough to bend, to understand the motive of the other, and to forgive, unconditionally.

let go

Stop constricting your heart. The heart feels at peace when open, when it gives, when it loves, when it serves and when it feels life itself. Operate from the heart, operate from the center of all that is. And forgive, one, all, self.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM my heart.

Recommendation: The Ultimate Happiness Prescription by Deepak Chopra

Quotes - 2010

Getting Even

July 6, 2010 Manu Leave a comment

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even. – Dick Armey

getting even

Do you get even? Even when we don’t do so explicitly, we often do get even, in hidden and subtle ways. How you might ask? We do it when we correct folks, we do it when we live and act as though we know it all, we do it when we ignore people purposely or when we refuse to engage with someone for one reason or another. We get even in thought, word and sometimes in deed.

getting ahead

Whenever we get even, in any fashion, we hamper our peace and happiness. Getting even affects our growth because it holds us from conquering our ego-self. It’s important time, energy and negative attention spent on the ‘other’ rather than on ‘self’.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM humble! I let others be.

Recommendation: Thoughts Become Things! by Mike Dooley

Quotes - 2010

Independence Day!

July 4, 2010 Manu Leave a comment

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. – Albert Camus

July 4th!

July 4th is the day Americans celebrate Independence Day! Here’s to everyone’s freedom! Are you freer today than you were a year ago, 10 years ago? Are you happier today than you were last year this time?

freedom

If not, what’s holding you back?

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM free.

Recommendation: Living the Science of Mind by Ernest Holmes

Articles, Quotes - 2010, Stillness

Enforcing Understanding

June 30, 2010 Manu Leave a comment

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. – Albert Einstein

force is commonplace

The quote seems pretty obvious, but how much do we use or try to use force in our own lives? Here are some ways, can you think of other ways?

How we ram stuff/ideas down our children’s throats
How we get so flustered when people don’t behave as expected. The anger or disappointment is a form of force that affects us directly.
How we force our own selves to do, like and dislike ideas and actions.
How we cry and plead with God/Universe/Life that certain things happen as we please, when we refuse to accept certain realities and keep banging our heads against inevitabilities.

understanding is like common sense

Common sense, it is said, is quite uncommon. So is the use of understanding. If we understand ourselves, what gets to us, what lights our fire and what we need to be happy, then the road to peace and equanimity is clear. We then understand what we as puny humans can do, and what we must simply allow to happen. Internal peace follows. Understanding others, is next. Peace around the world can then follow.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM humbled and I seek understanding.

Recommendation: Zen And the Art of Happiness by Chris Prentiss

Articles, Quotes - 2010

The Quality of Love…

June 24, 2010 Manu Leave a comment

When we come to the last moment of this lifetime, and we look back across it, the only thing that’s going to matter is “What was the quality of our love?” – Richard Bach

the being

Love is more in the being first than in the doing. That’s true of life itself. We can be in love and we can be love, when we have no resentments searing our soul, when we flow with the river of time admiring things and persons of beauty, goodness and truth. Having forgiven one and all, including ourselves, we make love’s residence, inside us, possible, we make our own healing possible.

the doing

Once filled with love, let’s place our attention on the other. How can the person in front of us, right now, be served, be loved and be cared for? That is the purpose of life itself, the discovery of love within us, the way it designs us and the relationships that result.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM love, on love will I focus.

Recommendation: The Bridge Across Forever: A True Love Story by Richard Bach

Articles, Quotes - 2010, Stillness

Move From Within

June 22, 2010 Manu Leave a comment

Move from within. Don’t move the way fear wants you to move. – Rumi

fear

Most of our daily living is on the surface. Living at the surface means reacting to life, we worry about silly stuff and we worry about important stuff. We worry about our looks, how we appear to others, about our weight, our financial well-being, about our jobs, about our relationships, about our kids and much else. When operating from the surface we get knocked by the winds and get swayed by the currents of life. We live in fear, mostly.

love and knowing

There’s a deeper way of living. This way is one of connection, to our inner self, to love, to knowing, to fulfillment and to contentment. The way to this kind of living is via self-knowledge, reflection, journaling, meditation and decision-making. This blog is devoted to exploring, exposing and living this way.

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM centered, I move from within.

Recommendation: Meditations from Conversations With God by Neale Donald Walsch

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Quotes - 2010, Stillness

Daily Awakening

June 21, 2010 Manu Leave a comment

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. – Gail Sheehy

daily routine?

How about an awakening a day (AWAD)? Now, that really depends on what we want to get out of each day. If we go through a day with the same mindset, each time, then we sink into a routine-ized morose of a day which can often be boring and certainly not scintillating!

a new set of eyes

Instead what we need is a new pair of eyes! Eyes that see each day as it truly is, totally unique and never repeatable. Kind of like us. Each moment is brand new, it’s the canvas we can draw on. The challenge is to not forget this beauty and opportunity that is ours to grab, each moment, of each day!

Daily Affirmation: Today I see, without assumptions that cloud my vision.

Recommendation: The awakening of Intelligence by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Namaste Now!