Getting Yourself into Orbit – Working With Gravity
When I worked in commercial real estate, I had a boss who once said something very wise to me. He told me that anything you do in this life is…
The Paradox of Prayer & Healing
Praying for the healing of others heals you by default. By sending out light and loving thoughts to people in your life, you actually heal yourself. It came to me in a meditation recently that since all things are of this one universal energy (some people calls it God, some people calls it a kaiser blade…) and we are this energy in human form, then you heal yourself by healing with prayer, those that have appeared in your life. It’s the director metaphor again. Each of our individual realities is the projection of our own souls. (more…)
Bits of Wisdom from My Teacher
I was on a workshop recently with my teacher, Harijiwan and in the midst of all of the discussions I was compelled to write down certain things because they resonated with such brilliance. The italics represent my commentary.
“Expectations are resentments waiting to happen.” (actually said by a woman named Carol rephrasing what Harijiwan said.) This is purely brilliant. When you expect a certain outcome and don’t get it, you’re disappointed. 99% of all our problems in relationship with others comes because we expect them to do something we want them to do and they’re not doing it. The only way out of this, other than controlling the other person or conflict, which are not desireable, is to drop your expectations and attachment to how someone or something should be. The flip side of this, and a very powerful tool for countering expectation and attachment is Acceptance.
“The energy wants you more than you want the energy. The energy (of the universe) wants you to succeed and do what you came here to do.” This is the same as the idea that “if you take one step toward God, God will take more steps toward you than there are in the sands in the hourglass of time. ” There are many versions of this that come from various religions but the basic idea is that the energy of the universe is a perfect benevolent mass that wants to come through the human to have experience and hopefully gain knowledge so that it can make a contribution. The mind is the limiting factor. We’re given a mind to master so that we can pull in the energy of the soul and project it to our highest ability. Good luck with that. (more…)
Random Thoughts…
I was going through a file drawer the other day and came across all these scraps of paper I'd written spiritual thoughts on... Here they are. At a cafe called…
Why Peace IS Possible
"We have electricity and sewage throughout most of the world because we agreed as a collective group that this was a minimum standard of living. Peace will be possible on…
ACCEPTANCE: The Way of Inner Peace
When you accept things the way that they are in this moment, good or bad, you free yourself to enjoy everything in your life. A lot of people use the…
SYNCHRONICITY: There Are No Coincidences
Coincidences are what Carl Jung termed Synchronicity. There really are no coincidences. People like to say, everything happens for a reason. I don't think everything happens for a reason, but…
Shams – The poet Rumi's Inspiration
This is an interesting poem from an Indiapost.com article entitled: Hafiz Expressed Divine Ecstasy in Poetry, about the Sufi mystical poet Shams al-Din Hafiz, mentioned by Rumi throughout his works…
THE BEST QUOTE About 'What Yoga Is' That I Have Seen
Of course, this comes from the Yogi Bhajan everyday calendar. I try to mix things up in terms of sources, quoting others to give some balance. But when you're talking…
ON REMOVING NEGATIVE ENERGY: Just "Keep Up."
It's never really about removing negative energy, but rather raising the vibration of the energy that is there. Keep adding light as it were. When you shine light on a shadow it also becomes light.