The 79th verse of the Tao Te Ching, which has been especially helpful to me personally, can be called “Living Without Resentment.” We’re asked to change the way we hold resentments following a difference of opinion or an outright quarrel. Now what causes annoyance and anger after a dispute? The generic response would be a laundry list that detailed why the other person was wrong and how illogically and unreasonably they behaved…
Feeling undeserving of good things usually stems from a lack of self-esteem which may be traced back to childhood. Dysfunctional families, lack of support from teachers or guardians and lack of acceptance from peers are common culprits of poor self-esteem.
The danger of such negative childhood experiences is that children may carry their trauma thru their adult life. The trauma may have a destructive impact on their thought patterns and relationships, among other things. Because feelings of low self-worth are brought on by trauma, they may consciously or unconsciously believe that they do not deserve the good things that can come to them.
Atrazine is receiving lots of attention for turning male frogs into girls, but that’s not all the common herbicide can do. It also weakens amphibian immune systems, leaving the fragile creatures vulnerable to disease.
To love is not second nature. It is your true nature. You are nature. You are the nature you see all around you. Beloveds, you are the fruit of the vine you adore. You see a mirror of yourself everywhere. There is nothing you look at that is not yourself.
Your intuition, sometimes referred to as your inner guidance, is a mechanism of inner or instinctive knowing which neither requires, nor employs logical thought processes.
When we wake up each morning, do we give orders for the sun to pass over the sky, for the birds to start singing, for all the creatures to awake and go about their business?
There is one race on Earth, beloveds, and it is the Human Race. All the other names and denominations are superficial demarcations, rather like a red dress or brown dress or white dress or A-line or dirndl or sailor dress. A dress is a dress. A Human Being is a Human Being. Let Us better say that a Human Being is a Celestial Being. Angels on Earth are called Human Beings. Deep down, you must already know this is so.
A very big gig is about two days away, I’m trying to lay low…I don’t wanna show up in Bel Air Saturday evening feeling wiped out (not even a little) and only able to hear the ringing in my ears…didn’t go out Wednesday night (for that reason and others) and I’m hoping to stay in […]
World peace is an idea simple in principle but difficult to achieve in practice because, as individual members of our species, we have not found peace within ourselves. Societies cannot be peaceful societies until the members of the society look peacefully toward each other.
Some days the sun shines brightly, and some days the sky is hazy. Regardless of how the sun appears, the sun is shining all the time, and all the time the sun shines brightly. What the sun filters through makes a difference in how it looks to you. But filters are not the sun. They are filters.
