Lunar is to mean Moon, as opposed to Chinese. To celebrate the Lunar New Year must mean a New Moon. Yet, is there a new Moon or even the birth of a Full Moon, but a new Moon ‘born’ visually in sight, in the context of the human mind, or more truthfully, the seeing of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘projections’
Lunar New Year (2012)
Posted in Ideas, tagged awareness, conditionings, dream, Ideas, lunar new year, new moon, new year, projections, reality, Self, selfawareness, Truth on January 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Grown-Up Christmas List
Posted in Attitudes, Music/Video, tagged compassion, forgiveness, Love, oneness, projections, reality, reflections, Truth, willingness on December 28, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
a little belated, but merry christmas to all… may this christmas list, also be yours performed by Michael Buble’
Hoping for Change
Posted in Attitudes, Being the Master, Going Inwards, tagged acceptance, conditionings, Freedom, projections, reality, reflections, Self, selfawareness, surrendering, wisdom on December 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What drives one to continuously try to change what is outside, is hope. And what stops one from trying to change what is outside, is the realisation of hopelessness. Paradoxically, in that hopelessness is hope found, save that this time, it is hope for the inner world. And in the realisation of abundance in the [...]
Neverending Needs
Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Ideas, tagged acceptance, conditionings, ego, Fear, forgiveness, Freedom, Home, honesty, Ideas, ignorance, innerchild, innertalks, integrity, mindfulness, projections, reality, reflections, Self, selfawareness, spiritualjourney, surrendering, takingresponsibility, thoughts, willingness, wisdom on December 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This whole darn world is driven by needs. When one is fulfilled, another comes to play… as if one can never be contented just being in the moment – each moment driven by one need and another and another… even when one is fulfilled and then consumed by a sense of satisfaction or a victorious [...]
Those Aren’t Fighting Words, Dear
Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Ideas, tagged acceptance, awareness, communication, compassion, ego, Fear, forgiveness, Ideas, innertalks, integrity, Love, projections, relationships, selfawareness, surrendering, takingresponsibility on November 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
*published in The New York Times, July 31, 2009* LET’S say you have what you believe to be a healthy marriage. You’re still friends and lovers after spending more than half of your lives together. The dreams you set out to achieve in your 20s — gazing into each other’s eyes in candlelit city bistros [...]
One
Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Music/Video, tagged awareness, compassion, conditionings, ego, forgiveness, Freedom, Home, honesty, Ideas, ignorance, innerchild, innertalks, integrity, Love, oneness, projections, reality, reflections, relationships, Self, selfawareness, spiritualjourney, takingresponsibility, Truth, willingness on November 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
performed by U2 (Anton Corbjin Version) Is it getting better? Or do you feel the same? Will it make it easier on you now? You got someone to blame You say One love One life When it’s one need In the night One love We get to share it Leaves you baby if you Don’t [...]
Communication as Communion
Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, tagged awareness, communication, conditionings, honesty, Ideas, integrity, mindfulness, projections, reflections, relationships, Self, selfawareness, takingresponsibility, willingness on November 10, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Often, there are articles written about the attack and defence patterns in communication and also the importance of openness in our communication with others; but seldom, about the purpose of communication. We are born with a voice, a voice uniquely our own to express verbally what is in the mind or heart to oneself, another [...]
a blessing, or a curse?
Posted in Going Inwards, Poems, Unreasonable, tagged awareness, Buddha, conditionings, death, dream, ego, Freedom, Home, Ideas, ignorance, innerchild, innertalks, inquiry, projections, reality, reflections, Self, spiritualjourney on November 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If it is true that consciousness is the domain of ego and body is part of mind and mind being ego and ego being self is what I am dissolving and non-self is what I am to realise then is it a blessing or a curse that this body is still breathing a blessing or [...]
Have you seen the inside?
Posted in Being the Master, Going Inwards, Ideas, Poems, tagged awareness, conditionings, ego, Ideas, ignorance, innerchild, innertalks, inquiry, mindfulness, projections, reflections, Self, selfawareness, spiritualjourney, takingresponsibility on November 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
*photograph taken by Joseph Malinga* Have you got to know what is within you That you so eagerly rush to get to know the other Only to find that when the other can no longer fulfil you You run away and drop the other So quickly and cruelly? Are you able to understand what is [...]
