The voice within is what I honour. It’s what I’m married to. This life doesn’t belong to me. The voice says, “Brush your teeth.” Okay. I don’t know what for, I just move on through. It says, “Walk.” Okay. I just keep moving. Someone says, “Will you come do The Work with us?” Okay. I’m […]
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Posted in Excerpts from Books, Quotes on Apr 12th, 2011
A tear can be ego and anger can be compassion. Anger can be ego and tears can be compassion. It depends on where it arises from. ~ if not now, when?, Chapter 03 Peace + Anger, Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
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Posted in Excerpts from Books on Apr 11th, 2011
As long as the ego runs your life, most of your thoughts, emotions, and actions arise from desire and fear. In relationships you then either want or fear something from the other person. What you want from them may be pleasure or material gain, recognition, praise or attention, or a strengthening of your sense of […]
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Posted in Attitudes on Apr 9th, 2011
The illusion attempts to create an illusion making an illusionary illusion to make you illusionarily think that there is a closest matter you hold in the heart – memories, a person, a thing – ANYTHING – to prevent reality. It is as if, you are right at the door, and the next step forward is IT – where […]
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Posted in Excerpts from Books on Apr 8th, 2011
There are no coincidences or accidents as the Cosmos merely acts to meet your choices based on your fear needs or love choices. There are no physical or emotional accidents unless there is a fear need. Every act or incident that is perceived by you as negative should be construed as an attempt by the […]
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The mind is pretty immature in itself, always wanting to lure its head towards anything to fulfil itself, forgetting that what it has right here, right now is perfect. It is always contacting something outside of itself through a thought, when believed to be real and thus as if permission is granted, goes forth scheming, […]
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Posted in Going Inwards, Ideas on Apr 5th, 2011
Do we really know people whom we think we know? Without our ideas or concepts of who they are, are they still who they are? Yet, whatever they portray to be, are they truly that? Yesterday I was having a conversation with a loved one who revealed that he feels a certain attraction towards this […]
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Posted in Ideas, Poems on Apr 4th, 2011
I thought this I thought that because I assumed I concluded. I need to be sure else I cannot function so I first observe I collect evidence and then I conclude an I-dea born and act on it. That becomes “I” hard, immovable stapled to the ground the post erected. Until… Wisdom visits. In awareness. […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards on Mar 28th, 2011
Peace is the closest word, if not the chosen word to the un-wavered state of non-movement and stillness. It is not really a feeling though it feels like it, so it would be wise not to conclude that when there are triggers, peace is gone or that there is no peace. Peace is not something […]
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Almost every ego contains at least an element of what we might call “victim identity”. Some people have such a strong victim of themselves that it becomes the central core of their ego. Resentment and grievances form an essential part of their sense of self. Even if your grievances are completely “justified,” you have constructed […]
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