Positive Thoughts

 

 

 

 

Be the Change

Every day, read something inspirational. Make what you read meaningful by taking a few moments to reflect on it. Maybe even take one inspiration and write down a few thoughts on how it applies to you and the changes you can make.

 

 

 

Simplicity

 

Peace is simplicity. Simplicity is beauty. A simple exercise to
experience this is - Choose a day as your day of simplicity. Speak
little, and listen with attention. Do something incognito and nice for
a person you are close to. Eat simple and natural food. Create time
periods for not doing anything - just walk, look around, live the
moment. Have your mind open to a more profound and silent sensitivity.
Appreciate each scene and each person as they are. In the evening write
down your discoveries. Observe the state of your mind.

 

 

 

The Origin of Addictions And Overcoming Them

Today, the number of addictions and addicts is growing fast. It seems that today human beings can become addicts of almost anything: credit cards, eating, drinking, sweets, lust, smoking, relationships, television, the internet and computer games, football, earning money, spending money, power, work, arguing, war.

In some ways, this shows the presence of an inner void (emptiness) that people try to fill with external things. While a person becomes an addict to any of the above aspects, their willpower is gradually weakened. And if one does not realize what is happening or does not put a stop to it, it is possible to fall into a spiraling series of automatic and compulsive actions that gradually limits our freedom to decide what we want to do with our lives, causing a loss of self-esteem and a state of depression, anxiety and dependency.

The origin of many addictions is due to a desperate need to solve a problem or a spiritual need (which may be a lack of respect, love, peace, attention, consideration) of a materialist form.

Here are a few examples:
* In a cigarette: one looks for peace, calm and relaxation.
* In alcohol: one looks for confidence, determination and security.
* In sugar and chocolate: one looks for love, sweetness and tenderness.
* In coffee and tea: one looks for energy and inner strength.

(To be continued tomorrow....)

 

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Heal the Heel

 

Heal the Heel

T

he mythical Greek hero Achilles was thought to be immortal.  He won many great battles in the Trojan War, yet he was defeated because of his one area of vulnerability – his heel.  There had been a prophecy that Achilles would die young, and therefore his mother Thetis dipped her baby son in the river Styx in an attempt to make him immortal.  She held him by his left heel, and thus the area where she held him did not touch the water.  He was therefore killed by his opponent Paris on the battlefield, by a well-aimed arrow in his heel the only part of him that was not immortal.

It made no matter how mighty Achilles was, he was still brought down by a very small defect.  Likewise each one of us can have a weakness in the soul, our own Achilles heel that can one day become our downfall.

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Observing Nature to learn about life

A whale moves its caudal fin (tail) from left to right to propel itself forward.
A seagull flaps its wings up and down to able to fly.
Moving forward and flying through the “obstacles” in life could be accomplished if we learn that lesson from Nature: The opposites have their own timing. If we respect that timing and allow for one side of the different dichotomies in life to express themselves, we are assuring that the complementary side will arrive in a “healthy” way.

Someone could have good health and not knowing what is “bad” health; that person could enjoy his experience or not. Then, a disease could arrive which will allow that person to know what is “bad” health…. The option after that is good health again; how do we move through those moments, how stable our attitude remains will assure that the experience of moving forward to the right to then move towards the left side of life as a fish does, will be appreciated and enjoyed as the experience unfolds.

A seagull cannot chose not to flap its wings down. “I just want to flap my wings upwards,” that cannot be done for wherever there is upwards there must be downwards, wherever there is a God, there must be a Devil; wherever there is sin, there is something moral, etc.

Interestingly enough, English does not have a word, which is the exact opposite of sin. That is because that word is a religious concept.

When our minds are full of concepts, then our lives are not connected with the “reality” of Nature and the Universe, but rather some man-made invention which even though could exist, is not “real.” That is how our feelings become disassociated with life and our mind takes over.

A triangle is a man-made concept. Through that concept we could create many things, nevertheless; triangles do not exist.

Then, Christians could use that concept for example; to depict the trinity: Father, Son and Holy Ghost. Usually a triangle is used to represent this concept, which supports the concept of the existence of a triangle. A concept may be useful, but not necessarily real.

When we use these concepts to lead our lives, we will find ourselves in different predicaments, for our interest will not be in finding virtue within but to comply to a man-made law.

When we observe Nature and the works of Nature, we could run away from the workings of the conceptual mind and free ourselves from that illusion which is a driving force in our day-to-day living.

The above is not a “belief” but it could be made if there is no experience from the readers and then, merely repetition of words, that is information; a “concept” will prevail.

When life is conceptual and mind made, then all we can hope for is to gain information.

Information is not the same as to know. Knowing requires to “be, that is to experience something by not being the observer, but by becoming engaged, merged in that which is to be known. That is, by living life without prejudices, ideas, beliefs, taboos and all of that.

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