I hate to contradict one of your favourite slogans, but “expecting a miracle” is not always helpful. Sometimes you think you need a miracle, but all you need is a little common sense. Sometimes, you are certain you need a miracle, but all you need to do is walk through your fear. I’m not trying […]
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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 Attitudes on Apr 6th, 2011
Have you ever wondered how you can diffuse a situation in the presence of another who is in a defensive mode of being weary, angry, confused, or sad? I’ve come to see, or even realised in my own experience and in observing others that the magic of touch is one. Do you remember watching movies […]
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Posted in Excerpts from Books, Quotes on Apr 6th, 2011
Assumptions make war, clarifications lead to peace. ~ if not now, when?, Chapter 03 Peace + Anger, Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
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Posted in Going Inwards, Ideas on Mar 23rd, 2011
When J says to lose idols, he did not mean to stop having or cease to have for that is beyond control; but to realize that idols are not what fulfils and is not what you truly want. What he meant was to lose the middleman, and to start here with yourself – acknowledging what […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards, Ideas on Mar 21st, 2011
In each person or situation that I come across with, there is a little piece of me in each that warrants the meet – whether a quality that I admire, or detest, or perhaps even one that I am already at peace with, it is there, unless I am totally oblivious of it. And they […]
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Posted in Excerpts from Books on Mar 18th, 2011
Seek not outside yourself. For it will fail, and you will weep each time an idol falls. Heaven cannot be found where it is not, and there can be no peace excepting there. Each idol that you worship when God calls will never answer in His place. There is no other answer you can substitute […]
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Posted in Attitudes on Mar 5th, 2011
As I recall what J has done for the world in the past, and also His presence in our lives now in the very moment we are willing to give up what was never true, I feel a much deeper sense of gratitude understanding why He has chosen such a role. This should be familiar […]
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Posted in Attitudes on Feb 26th, 2011
Once, a professor asked his students: “Why do we shout in anger? Why do people shout at each other when they are upset?” The students thought for a while before one of them said, “We shout because we lose our calm.” “But why shout when the other person is just next to you? Isn’t it […]
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Posted in Attitudes, Going Inwards on Feb 19th, 2011
Some say, it is better to be asleep so that the dream can remain real in order for the intensity of the experience to be felt; for how can everything else be felt to the extreme of it, unless it is real? This reminds me of a scene in Matrix where this fella who betrayed […]
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