With regards to friends or family members (or anyone else) violating your “ground-rules”, remember that what you resist tends to persist. This seems to be especially true for others’ behaviors … Thus, any attempts to change another’s mind-set are destined for failure, and will actually encourage them to entrench those same choices in even more […]
“You never lose by Loving. You always lose by holding back.” ~ Barbara de Angelis . “Take away Love and our Earth is a tomb.” ~ Robert Browning . “Regarding Love, our task today is courageous recklessness.” ~ inspired by Kaj Munk
“People use drugs, both legal and illegal, because their lives are either intolerably painful or overbearingly dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and don’t know their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, honored, and occasional, […]
The only person’s life you can ever truly improve is your own. Striving to change others is destined for failure, while choosing to lovingly shift your own responses to their behaviors is destined to bring Peace … You cannot help others to help themselves without radically loving him, and judging their ‘improvement’ or ‘progress’ in any way […]
Some folks complain that roses have thorns; others are thankful that life’s thorns have roses* … I, in the other Heart, follow the “narrow path”; I SEE the two as one … … the prick of the thorn giving their petals a deeper magnificence; the courage of that embrace carrying me past the pain. LOVE […]
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The next best time is now.” ~ Chinese Proverb Just because we should have have woken up to Community-building along time ago, doesn’t mean we can’t start rebuilding our Communities today. Today is the day … Go get to it. “No kind action ever […]
Left as it is, this quote quietly hints at the way to a Great Truth … And yet by changing just one word — by simply changing “breath” into “deed”, it illuminates that Way fully … and allows us to return Home.
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will […]
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