Sunday 15, June 2008

The power of silence

"Growth takes place in a person by working at a deep inner level in a sustained atmosphere of silence."

-- Dr. Ira Progoff

How can we hear our wise voice of intuition if we are always thinking, talking and distracted by outer events?

If we take time daily to experience physical stillness and to direct our attention inside, we can begin to find the peace, love, will and wisdom that exist as our essence.

"Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others... And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude."

-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"In the sweet territory of silence we touch the mystery. It’s the place of reflection and contemplation, and it’s the place where we can connect with the deep knowing, to the deep wisdom way."

-- Angeles Arrien

Wednesday 18, June 2008

You are bigger than you think

"He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment."

-- Meister Eckhart

We are the ocean -- vast, deep, powerful and rich. Nourishing and nurturing. Dive down into the dark stillness of being. Sense the rising and falling of surface thoughts and emotions, sometimes gentle, sometimes violent. Always shifting. Always in motion. Draw back and watch the waves of your life at play. Know you are the unfathomable depths -- surface agitations can’t disturb you. Know that you are bigger than the little things that aggravate you.

"The bird of paradise alights only on the hand that does not grasp."

-- John Berry

"It’s best not to get too excited or too depressed by the ups and downs of life."

-- Dalai Lama

Friday 20, June 2008

Love life and yourself

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage."

-- Lao Tzu

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.

We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

"It matters not Who you love, Where you love, Why you love, When you love, Or how you love, It matters only that you love."

-- John Lennon

"Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?"

-- Frank Scully

Friday 20, June 2008

Human evolution is not really the change of one’s physical form from an apelike appearance to the form it has today.

Human evolution is really a shift from where one derives one’s pleasure, starting from the body then the mind and eventually the spirit. And when you end up deriving your pleasure directly from Spirit, you will never experience pain again.

Saturday 21, June 2008


Just because one has the physical appearance of a human being does not mean one is human. In order to be entitled to call oneself Human, one must possess the qualities of Understanding, Love and Compassion. Also, Peace must be an essential part of one’s nature. If one does not possess these qualities, one is really a machine and not human at all.

Saturday 22, June 2008


Do you love yourself?

"At the heart of personality is the need to feel a sense of being lovable without having to qualify for that acceptance."

-- Dr. Paul Tournier

How do you see yourself as unlovable?

Take a few minutes to write down why you perceive yourself to be unlovable. Look at the list and see if you can identify where those characterizations originated. Can you pinpoint old messages from parents, teachers, and friends that led you to negative conclusions about yourself? Are those messages valid today?

The beliefs we adopt as children usually don't hold when we view them objectively as adults. Can you let them go? Can you begin to see yourself as a unique expression of life, a genuine gift to the world?

"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."

-- Buddha

"Limitless like the ocean are your excellent qualities."

-- Dalai Lama

Monday, June 23, 2008

The past does not really exist. This means that the future does not really exist. This is because you cannot have a future without a past, just like you cannot have an inside without an outside. But YOU exist. YOU KNOW this to be TRUE and furthermore this is the only fact that YOU really know. So if YOU exist, YOU must exist NOW and not in the future or the past.

To exist in the dimension of NOW, without a future or past, means that you are Eternal. On the other hand, what does exist in the past and the future are your acquired personalities, which are processes running in your mind and are not eternal. And, if you believe you are these personalities, then you may unknowingly believe that you may not continue.