"The second commandment that Jesus referred to was not to love others instead of ourselves, but to love them as ourselves. Before we can love and serve others, we must love ourselves, even in our imperfection. If we don't embrace our own defects, we can't love others with their shortcomings." - Jim Warner, Aspirations of Greatness
If people would cease talking about past times and focus on the word containers that are sounded forth from the vocal chords, much peace would be found immediately. There would be no tales to carry, no gossip, no deceit. Imagine, if you will, the effect this type of silence would have upon the Human Ego, needing the voice of the Human Being, to carry its message to keep it enlivened and carry out its purpose. Imagine, if you will, what silence could do for expanding human awareness of the self. Noise, internal and external, detracts and erodes the ever-present voice of the Divine Presence, which is found in stillness. Yet, stillness is not applauded or encouraged. Talking is encouraged. Talking is awarded. One can receive banners and plaques commemorating one’s skill as a talker. What are all of these talkers creating? WE ask.~ August 5, 2002
Click here for the Higher Path website
{And while we're on this subject, I also visited this page today. For more of Mr Tolle, you might
like to click here ...}
Or possibly here - along with other excerpts including the Daily Lama & other teachers
Moving into stillness - sounds like an oxymoron, don't it
Nextime I'm online I ought to plug these words into google & see if they occur at that same Higher Path site ...
Dearest Heart of Light and Gaiety,How good it is to you see you smile and laugh for now you have found the Fountain of Joy that has lain dormant inside – suppressed and over-ridden by interpretations of misery, belief in being “less than” deserving and the myriad of patterning, now released to allow you to experience the IAM of Laughter ...
So 'dearest heart light gaiety smile laugh lain dormant interpretations misery myriad patterning' ought to do the trick ... {actually, the title of the piece posted was 'Fountain of Joy'}
Update: Hmmm ... no luck ... you can click here to read the text as long as that message stays current ...
Ah, it's dated July 10, 2002 ... so maybe a search of the HigherPath site ... ah, you can subscribe to the sessions via email ... that may explain why the Google search 'failed' ... oh what the heck, here's the text ... click :)
"Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a decision. Exercise that decision often enough and the feeling will build. It is a muscle that must be developed ..."I found it as part of a discussion at the following address. Click in the comments panel at the right hand side and scroll down to March 19, 2002
Forgive & let go by Kenneth Winston Caine and Brian Paul Kaufman
That reminds me, I did start a little compile of sites/quotes along this general theme -
Click here for the list so far ...
"As the poets and painters of centuries have tried to tell us, art is not about the expression of talent or the making of pretty things. It is about the preservation and containment of soul. When our images no longer have a home, a personal museum, we drown our sense of loss in pale substitutes, trashy magazines or formulaic movies."
- Thomas Moore Care of the Soul
Not one soul is to create any resemblance of religion or cult. Not one soul is to build one dwelling to create a church. Not one soul is to connect gain in any way to the teaching to the souls the knowledge which is theirs. Not one soul is to sully the origin of every one of us by anything but love, and giving freely with love. Any false teachers will be very quickly seen, for they will either have false pride, remuneration, or power over others. Any true teacher of the Way will never take - only give.- from The Way to the Light which I also hadn't read in yonks ...
Also 'All we want is to write a book of love for the world to understand easily ...'
"The wonder of the totality of who you are on so many levels is going to explode into your consciousness in a moment of time."
- click here for the full piece
We are all viewing what is posted here through our filters. Everyone including you and me. That's just part of being human. I must say that I'm enjoying your posts more lately. I feel this has more to do with a change in me than a change in you (though I'm sure you have changed too). You are who you are and do what you do. Then the world interprets, judges and evaluates based on a billion past prejudices, past hurts, happy memories, associations, whatever. You can't stop the judgment of others. It's just going to happen. It's all stuff from the past and as I tried to establish a week ago, the past doesn't exist. As soon as I feel an opinion come up into my awareness, I say, "hey, I have an opinion about XYZ." I may express it or I may not express it. Either way, it's just my opinion and really doesn't mean anything when we really get right down to it. The real question is how am I being, not what are my opinions. At least for me, that's what is important. Of course that too is an opinion so I'm not going to cling too tightly to that either. The way we are being doesn't need defense. It just is. Are you being the way you really want to be. If so, then enjoy! If not, then make distinctions about what is for you and then make the choices needed to change.
- Anon
This morning when you got out of bed, the very instant you opened your eyes, even before a thought entered your mind, you were free of the illusion. Yet like a computer, your mind then downloads a million bits of data into your dream consciousness. Though you actually may have awakened from another dream that seemed very real, you could consider that you might have just only changed dreams ...- Click here for more
This is not a time to hide in your usual excuse of "what can one person do?" A large number of "one persons" can accomplish a great deal. Becoming "cannon fodder" is not the solution. It is required that you become a much more subtle influence. Learn one truth now. Subtle energy is powerful and the most powerful energy is subtle. Your bible says, "In the beginning was the word" but words are thoughts spoken out loud, an inaccurate translation. In the beginning was thought! That is the subtle energy that we are asking you to employ. Simply change the focus of your thought. Do not allow yourself to dwell upon the horrors of what is planned for you, but turn your thought to what it is that you would prefer to experience.
You might think that if you let go of your ego world, you might become passive and defenseless like some kind of crash dummy, and people will take advantage of you. Or that you might wander aimlessly in the street without an agenda. If this were the case, as one contemporary Buddhist master pointed out, it would be necessary to have enlightenment wards in hospitals to take care of bruised or socially inoperative buddhas. But this is not the case. Rather than being inmate types, people who have become enlightened to any degree are builders of hospitals for other people. Their intelligence and compassion are relatively unobstructed, and they tend to become quite active and effective citizens.- Samuel Bercholz, 'Entering the Stream'
From Buddhist quote of the moment
You might also find it here :)
