A Little Boy At A Big Piano Wishing to encourage her young son’s progress on the piano, a mother took her boy to a Paderewski concert. After they were seated, the mother spotted a friend in the audience and walked down the aisle to greet her. Seizing the opportunity to explore the wonders of the […]
Happiness exists always. It is your natural state. Anything else you feel is an interruption, a distraction, interference, static on the line. Let it sink in once and for all that you are meant for happiness.
Today will be full of choices. Even though you may not be aware of it, even though you think you are just walking through your normal paces, you will be making choices every moment.
Even in the healthiest of relationships, opportunities abound to find fault, criticize or “tweak” the other person no matter whether we are talking about a mate, a child or a friend. Most of us were raised in an environment where rather than focusing on the positive, we were taught to zoom in and dwell on the negative. Breaking that habitual way of thinking is a matter of conditioning our minds to refocus and learn to love with abandon, without any requirements, without any rules and without any limitations.
In the 20th verse of the Tao Te Ching, you’re encouraged to experience your life free of worldly striving. Lao-tzu advises you to slow down your incessant demands for more, and to relax your efforts to fill up every moment in anticipation of being somewhere else. You’re invited to experience life in a way that can be summarized in the title of Ram Dass’s book Be Here Now.
It’s easy to take our feelings for granted and to assume that the people we care about know how we feel about them. But while those we love are often quite cognizant of our feelings, saying “I love you” is a gift we should give to our loved ones whenever we can.
Tension comes from a pull between what you know can be and that which does not seem to be. It is like you are the rope being pulled in a tug of war, and so sometimes you feel fraught. The threads of you seem to fray. Being pulled in two directions at once, you have choices to make.
Thirst and Suffering in Modern Western Society By G. Apollo MacKenna PREFACE – October 2006 How many times have you heard, “everything happens for a reason”? It’s normally understood to mean that some outcome, usually positive, explains why something negative occurred prior to it, a very comforting idea when faced with an otherwise inexplicable tragedy. […]
True self-love unlocks the power to love others.
We have all heard it countless times before: “To experience true love, we first must love ourselves,” or some such variation. However it is stated, the importance of self-love is vital to becoming a healthy, whole human being. We are all children of the universe, created out of love. We accept and love other people, animals, nature . . . all that comes from the same source we do. We too, then, are worthy of our own love. To honor oneself with caring and acceptance is to honor the universe that created us.
Imagine yourself again in the middle of the ocean, but this time there’s no boat, no island, and no one to help you. You’re drowning out there all by yourself. You’re exhausted and terrified. Suddenly, a man grabs you from behind and drags you under the water. Completely overwhelmed by fear and anger, you struggle wildly to get free, but no matter what you do, your head remains underwater.
