In simplicity, there is complexity; yet when complexity is seen, simplicity is restored. ~ GG ~
Posts Tagged ‘takingresponsibility’
Complex Simplicity Vs Simple Complexity
Posted in Being the Master, Going Inwards, Ideas, Quotes, tagged awakening, awareness, conditionings, Freedom, Ideas, ignorance, innerchild, inquiry, integrity, projections, Self, selfawareness, spiritualjourney, takingresponsibility, thoughts, Truth, willingness, wisdom on January 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Perception vs Reality
Posted in Attitudes, Being the Master, Going Inwards, Ideas, tagged acceptance, appreciation, awakening, awareness, conditionings, ego, forgiveness, Freedom, Home, Ideas, ignorance, Love, mindfulness, reality, Self, selfawareness, spiritualjourney, takingresponsibility, thoughts, Truth, wisdom on January 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Perception makes experience. It has been said, “A miracle is a shift of perception”; and many ask, “what then is reality?” Reality is not what has happened, but your response or your reaction to what is happening or has happened and that makes it your experience. For example, when you perceive ignorance in another, what [...]
An additional ingredient
Posted in Attitudes, Being the Master, Going Inwards, tagged awareness, conditionings, Fear, Home, Ideas, ignorance, inquiry, mindfulness, reality, Self, selfawareness, spiritualjourney, takingresponsibility, willingness, wisdom on January 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Being mindful or aware, is not enough… People ask me how is it that even when they are mindful or aware, the old patterns keep recurring as if now wondering does mindfulness really work, or perhaps a more wise question is ~ is it enough? The additional ingredient to add to the recipe is inquisitiveness. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
