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Quotes - 2010

The Secret To Lasting Change

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The heart of change: It is only when the totality of the human mind – mind being the nervous responses, the emotions, the everything that is you – completely responds, without any fragmentation in that response, that there is a new action taking place.  – Krishnamurti

sheer will power

Do we have the will to do it? How many times do we ask ourselves and others the same question? And how many times do we all fail, repeatedly? Why is it so hard to stick to something even when we want to?

our full attention instead

Deciding something at the mind level is not enough by itself. We must involve our emotional (mind) and spiritual faculties. This is the secret to lasting change. This explains why most of our New Year resolutions fail. For the mind to be involved there must be meaning attached to the goal. For our spiritual self to be incorporated the goal must align with long term purposes including higher desires such as self-actualization. Approaching any endeavor with our full attention and our complete being is the key all successful change!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM fully present.

Recommendation: Awakening of Intelligence by Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Gita, Quotes - 2010

How To Live Without Anxiety

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4.19 He whose undertakings are free from anxious desire and fanciful thought, whose work is made pure in the fire of wisdom: he is called wise by those who see.

4.20 In whatever work he does such a man in truth has peace: he expects nothing, he relies on nothing, and ever has fullness of joy. – The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 4)

anxiety filled days

How much anxiety and stress do we tolerate daily? How much of the two are we even aware of? Once we’re aware of why we get depressed and sense the anxiety that engulfs our selves, we’re on our way… Our ‘fanciful’ thoughts about situations, about us and about others are the reason why we keep falling into the emotional thought maelstrom.

expectation is key

What do we expect from others? What do we expect from our day? What about our own selves? We make up ideas about what our life and our day should be like. Often these images get shattered because life doesn’t cooperate with our projected plans. The way to peace is to live in the moment, without any expectations of the future…

Daily Affirmation: Today I just AM, I expect nothing.

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

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Quotes - 2010

Who’s The Boss?

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 Compel your lower nature to obey your higher nature… – The Urantia Papers

the higher and the lower

The lower nature is that which frets, worries, fears, feels less than, is jealous, always wants more and never satiated.

The higher nature is that which loves, is kind, serves, is confident, has faith, is peaceful, thoughtful, deliberate, motivated, and has a higher purpose.

you’re the boss

We are and can be victims of genetics and generational, racial and national thought patterns. It can be tough to fight these built-in inertial forces. Because we are will creatures, it’s our prerogative and should be our life-goal to grow and design our life. Which is why we have a mind that’s really under our control. If such is not the case then how can we assert control? Who’s the boss?

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM my own master.

Recommendation: The Urantia Papers

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Quotes - 2010

How To Be Brilliant!

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Don’t put on airs. Conceit and pretense don’t win people’s hearts; the facade soon crumbles. Be yourself. – Daisaku Ikeda

our airs

At some level we all exhibit who we’re not. That’s tiresome. It’s like trying to follow a lie we had uttered and having to keep up with it until it subsides! Being ourselves is natural, child-like and the only way to be. It’s the sure way to true friendship and lasting relationships.

our brilliance

When we live naturally, as ourselves, we enable our inner brilliant nature to shine through. Such a nature comes from the very center of all things, it comes from the source. This nature cannot penetrate into our waking consciousness if we live a lie, at any level. Now it doesn’t mean that a habit that’s deeply ingrained in us, is us. It could well be a learnt trait which isn’t our true nature and certainly doesn’t support our well being. In the end truth does triumph, as it will through us if only we let it.

Daily Affirmation: Today I shine as myself!

Recommendation: The Urantia Papers

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Quotes - 2010

The Ego

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We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away. – Chuang Tzu

we love ourselves

We love ourselves so much that we find it hard to not cling to our opinions and points-of-view! When anyone challenges such opinions, ‘we’, are challenged. ‘How dare they’ we say, ‘let me’ provide the ‘right’ answer here. We seldom truly listen, we mainly want to tell and inform.

no permanence

Like everything around us, our own opinions change, often. Isn’t that true? So why do we feel the need to correct others and why do we feel offended when challenged? It’s because we identify so closely with our thoughts, we become our thoughts, we are our thoughts, and therein lies the problem. We think up our thoughts, we design them or accept them from others, we are not the content of our thoughts. How can we step back and recognize this truth? How can we identify with the pure awareness that’s our core?

Daily Affirmation: Today I notice my ego and its ways.

Recommendation: Zen And the Art of Happiness by Chris Prentiss

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Quotes - 2010, Stillness

Suffering Is Optional…

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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.  – Zen Proverb

emotional pain

This quote references emotional pain. The kind of pain we feel when someone rejects us, abuses us, is nasty or behaves contrary to our expectation of them. How do you handle such pain?

we choose

We choose our reaction to life events. That reaction results in how we feel internally, whether we suffer or are at peace. Imagine an orange in your mind’s eye. For some of us our mouth will start to water and we might even sense a citrine aroma. Why is that? It’s because of our past experience with an orange. It’s not reality but we can feel and sense an orange nevertheless. Similarly we react when our self-image is affected in any manner by external events. Our self-image is impacted by external events, we identify closely with this self-image, we think it’s us, all it really is a bunch of reactions and a construction of our thoughts. We are not our thoughts, we are not our self-image. We are the awareness that witnesses the self-image. As soon as we can realize that and learn to step back, see things as they are, we can start to claim our true self. That self cannot feel pain or fear unless we choose it. Stillness quickens the acquisition of this self.

Daily Affirmation: Today I see truth.

Recommendation: Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings by Thich Nhat Hanh

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Quotes - 2010

Are You a Realist?

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The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. – William Arthur Ward

pessimist or optimist?

How do you view the world? What are your first thoughts when an incident occurs? How can we balance our approach more towards the middle? How can we ‘be here now’ and see things as they are?

seeing things as they are

This quote was a great reminder for me, as I tend always to be an optimist. Such an approach is generally powerful but often keeps me from seeing things as they are! Realists work with actuals and the practical. Balance is key, it’s the ‘middle way’!

Daily Affirmation: Today I AM balanced in how I view life events.

Recommendation: Awakening of Intelligence by Jiddu Krishnamurti

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