Bible
Can We Learn Something In This?
As many of you know, I am student of the state of being. I will sit with a giant oak and learn how it lives it's purpose without crazy mind wandering on how to do. It doesn't struggle with the meaning of life, or if it is doing enough, or any of the busy nonsense that I get caught up in. So, as a student, I ask, can we learn something from this passage: …
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mindfullness
Seeker vs Finder
“When someone is seeking," said Siddhartha, "it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. Seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free…
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Right Things
Contentment - My Theory
I had a lengthy discussion yesterday with one of my daughters. She is currently struggling. She is frequently struggling. She sort of sobs and says, "last year you told me that I am not content." We went on to discuss why. I believe Rachel Hollis says something like, I can find immense gratitude for where I am at while also working towards the next thing…
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Love
For Today: Be
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. BY ROBERT HERRICK Reduce distractions : you cannot stop and gather the rosebuds with your nose stuck in your phone. Duh. We get tired of hearing it. We get tired of telling ourselves this. But then we get the itch and the twitch and we for…
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Wholeness
Taking a Break?
"Taking a Break" by Ian Livesey is licensed under CC PDM 1.0 Are you considering taking a break? Are you currently on break? I took a break. And I learned a lesson. I can't take a break from certain things. I can change focus or change the activity, but I can't take a break. I took a break from my diet and my brain heard that I was taking a…
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Sacrifice
Awoke
In The Bowl of Light , Hank Wesselman writes that the negative polarity of compassion is zeal. "'Unfortunately, no amount of zeal will bring spiritual seekers into connection with what they conceive of as God. In their zealous attempts to worship God or inflict their concept of God on others, they are blind to the fact that their personal creator and…
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