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Helping Others
Let’s focus for a moment on resistance. Withholding. If a child reaches to me in fear and I reject them, what do I gain? Nothing. So is it in my best interest to be cold? If an old person sits in hunger and I have more food than I ever need, but I won’t share…
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Life Is Spiritual
At this moment I see ego as eternal. Self is eternal. The atman is eternal. Atman = microcosm. It’s us. We are the image of the source. Universal consciousness? Consciousness is universal. Gratitude is harmony with universal consciousness. I meditate, but in the back of my mind I still think, “Oh dear, all those people…
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Nature Just Lives
All is ok? All is balanced? Oh, all balances. It is balanced unless we resist, and we resist a lot. It is balanced no matter what we do? That is true. By itself it is. But from the individual point of view, it can seem not to be. But with resistance the balance will be…
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Grateful For Change
Gratitude is an often misunderstood attitude. It is implying the “neediness” of the recipient, in many peoples minds. Gratitude is sort of an awkward english word. Gratitude really could be considered present centered love. It has countless objects, but I am not certain it really needs any object. Gratitude is a necessary state of peace…
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Do What You Know
I have made all my best friends in moments when I thought I was being the biggest jerk. Because in the moments when I was being the biggest jerk, I wasn’t trying to “control” myself. I wasn’t following any rules, only doing what I had to. Acting on my real values and not a set…
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Go With The Flow
There is what you think people are, and what you actually know of them. What you know is instinctive. It arises in moments when you aren’t immersed in thoughts of them. When a guy tells a woman, “I can’t stop thinking about you.” He’s not paying her a compliment. When a friend says they were…
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Bottom Line
What is the human bottom line? Does anyone know? Is it the same or different for each person? Same. Is that what comes out in distress when people start to cooperate? Yes. The human bottom line is humans, but actually it can go deeper. The human bottom line is life, not love, not hate, not…
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Could our understanding of consciousness and soul evolution suggest that plants and trees are repositories of ancient wisdom? How might…