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Quotes - 2012

What Is True Responsibility?

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With great responsibility, comes great power. The more you accept of the first – for your happiness, unhappiness, and all else – the more you are given of the latter. – The Universe

responsibility

The word ‘responsibility’ pretty much defines what we’re to do! We are to respond to life’s situations knowing fully well that we author and authorize our own happiness. We decide how we feel and react to any circumstance.

power

Real power is when we know how to be happy, truly happy, through our own choosing. It’s up to us. Let’s be the change we seek in others!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM powerful!

Recommendation: Choose Them Wisely: Thoughts Become Things!
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Quotes - 2012

What’s The Ego?

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The ego lives by comparisons. It cannot survive without judgment. – A Course in Miracles (ACIM)

ego

It’s that part of us that makes life possible. It’s the practical aspect of self that allows us to make decisions daily. Its job is to preserve the self and it does so in a very mechanical and selfish manner. The ego compares and judges constantly. It does that to preserve self in relation to others. For the ego more is always better and being right is always preferable.

transcending ego

Knowing who the real master is, is to know how to transcend the ego. When we reflect or step back we’re allowing more than the ego to operate. Acknowledging that there’s a greater mind than ours, that greater things are afoot and that a master designer rules the foundational realms, is to know how to transcend the ego.

We decide, we choose our thoughts and therefore are we masters of our self and our ego!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM my own master.

Recommendation: A Course in Miracles by Dr. Helen Schucman

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Quotes - 2012

Are You Religious?

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The religious man is he who does not belong to any religion, to any nation, to any race, who is inwardly completely alone, in a state of not-knowing, and for him the blessing of the sacred comes into being. – Krishnamurti

one definition

Krishnamurti defines the religious person here. In his view, it seems to me, a person ought to be his own, not swayed by any factor, condition or knowledge. And in that pure state of silence and being, then, is experienced the ‘sacredness’ which is self-evident and may be termed as a ‘religious experience’.

true religion

What’s our definition of being religious? What are the important qualities one seeks to attain as a religious person? Why is religion important? What is true religion?

Daily Affirmation: Today I embody true religion!

Recommendation: The Awakening of Intelligence by Krishnamurti

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Quotes - 2012

What Questions Must I Ask?

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What do I intend to do about that? – Neale Donald Walsch

questions!

Neale calls them the 3 persistent questions and the 4 fundamental questions of life, reproduced below! We started with persistent question #1 here: What Is It That? Fundamental question #4 is presented above.

what next?

This has been a journey in self-enquiry. It’s a journey that can never end because our selves are deeper than we can imagine. We’re a fragment of the divine creator of it all. We have the ability to co-create with God and it’s up to us what perspective we adopt while on this journey. An adventurous and hopeful perspective will serve us well, because All Is Well and it’s never been otherwise. Rejoice and be happy!

THE THREE PERSISTENT QUESTIONS

1. How is it possible that 6.9 billion people can all claim to want the same thing (peace, security, opportunity, prosperity, happiness, and love) and be singularly unable to get it?

2. Is it possible that there is something we do not fully understand about life, the understanding of which would change everything?

3. Is it possible that there is something we do not fully understand about ourselves, about our own life and its purpose, the understanding of which would shift our reality and alter our experience for the better, forever?

THE FOUR FUNDAMENTAL QUESTIONS OF LIFE

1. Who am I?

2. Where am I?

3. Why am I where I am?

4. What do I intend to do about that?

Daily Affirmation: Today I ask … what’s next for me?

Recommendation: The Storm Before the Calm by Neale Donald Walsch

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Quotes - 2012, Stillness

How To Make Contact With Reality

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Only when the mind is wholly silent, completely inactive, not projecting, when it is not seeking and is utterly still – only then that which is eternal and timeless comes into being.  – Krishnamurti

the thought machine

The mind wants to think, often repeatedly, about the same things. Even when we think we’ve had an original idea, when we trace it back, we realize it was a conditioned response based on what we already know or what we’ve already experienced. Here’s an example: Someone says ‘Look at that beautiful flower’. What do we think? We start thinking about the flower. We compare it to other flowers we’ve seen in the past or we judge its beauty. We don’t actually look at the flower and experience its profound beauty. We manufacture thoughts about the flower and about related topics, never really allowing self to just be and witness the miracle that is that flower…

finding stillness

Who manufactures thought? We do! Why is that often a problem? Because by incessantly creating thoughts we pre-occupy our minds and rarely allow clarity to emerge. It’s like constant ripples on a beautiful lake that don’t allow the lake-bed ever to be seen, or the perfect blue sky ever to be reflected! The trick (with practice) is to just be, see things, emotions, people and events for what they are. When we create thoughts about the experience we miss the real thing. It’s like reading about the aroma of a freshly-baked cake and not actually experiencing it first-hand!

Daily Affirmation: Today I simply am!

Recommendation: The Awakening of Intelligence by Krishnamurti

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Quotes - 2012

The 3rd Fundamental Question Of Life

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Why am I where I am? – Neale Donald Walsch

questions!

Neale calls them the 3 persistent questions and the 4 fundamental questions of life! We started with persistent question #1 here: What Is It That? Fundamental question #3 is presented above.

why am I here?

Next we ought to explore why we’re ‘here’! Why are we:

  • Where we live?
  • In the relationship we’re in?
  • In this vocation or job?
  • In this country?
  • On this planet?
  • Here??

Questions, the right questions lead us to the next step. When we ask questions God answers! Try it!

Daily Affirmation: Today I am questioning why I’m here!

Recommendation: The Storm Before the Calm by Neale Donald Walsch

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Quotes - 2011

Serious?

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You will learn that you increase your burdens and decrease the likelihood of success by taking yourself too seriously. – The Truth Book

how?

How do we show up daily? Do we think we’re important? What expression do we wear on our faces? How is our walk? Do we talk as though we already know? What attitude do we exude?

childlike

“How come candles need wax?” I’m sitting right next to my son who’s doing his homework and that’s what he just asked me Smile! Kids are curious, they’re gung-ho, they’re mostly happy-go-lucky, they hardly take themselves seriously, they’re the only guide we need in life! Let’s be childlike and pursue everything with abandon!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM gung-ho!

Recommendation: The Urantia Papers

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