Each moment of the day, I decide the direction of my life |
Within our ego mind there are countless choices, yet from the broader perspective of the divine, there is only one decision to make. Most of my life I have wandered aimlessly because I refused t...
Posted by Becca on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:17:00 PST |
There are no discrete attacks. I can't love myself while judging another |
Blame makes the object of my attck the driving force of my thinking. I focus on fracture and division and thereby split my power into opposing attitudes. It's impossible to blame without also feeling ...
Posted by Becca on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:14:00 PST |
Anxiety does not improve relationsips |
Anxiously trying to please is another way of trying to change someone. It also makes me a victim. I believe that I can't accept their present attitude toward me. And I think that acceptance is the ene...
Posted by Becca on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:07:00 PST |
Disagreements cannot dimish love |
To the ego part of us, love is agreement. "IF you really love me, you would agree with my beliefs, prefer what I prefer, and support my decisions." But true love is seeing each other clearly and accep...
Posted by Becca on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:04:00 PST |
The longest strides come from standing still |
The paradox of progress is that we grow each time we realize that we can only be where we are. I can't fail to grow in happiness, wholeness, generosity, and inner strength when I am quieter mentally, ...
Posted by Becca on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:01:00 PST |
I wil give peace with my thoughts and cause no harm with my words |
We enter the awarness of many people in th course of a day. With each encounter there is a little exchange, and we leave something behind. This trail, and not our individual accomplishments, is our le...
Posted by Becca on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:58:00 PST |
I alone block my abilitly to see beauty |
Preoccupation with another person's ego blocks my vision. To see the heart of another, first I must be honest with myself about exactly what it is I am making more important than love. Second, I must ...
Posted by Becca on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:45:00 PST |
True solitude includes connection |
It makes no sense to say that in order to feel that which joins us all, we must get away form each other. To know stillness, I need not rearrange my life, merely my values. To know stillness, I ...
Posted by Becca on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:41:00 PST |
I can't have the life I want but I can be at peace with the life I have. |
A daily practice of prayer and meditation has a cumulative effect, but the effect is within the heart. Spiritual practices do not eliminate accident, mistakes, tragedies, and suffering. But a deep tur...
Posted by Becca on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:39:00 PST |
Love is the mind of God-and it is my mind also |
The ego has no home and no companion. It lives in anxiety and misunderstanding. It can't enjoy because it can't stay in the present. It can't love because it cant't see without criticizing. Surely I w...
Posted by Becca on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 02:33:00 PST |
