Documenting Eruditions
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 […]
Posted in Attitudes, Excerpts from Books, Going Inwards on Apr 10th, 2011
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 […]
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 […]
Posted in Excerpts from Books, Going Inwards on Mar 25th, 2011
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Do you realise that when you have finally come to the point of extreme frustrations and being fed-up of living a life which is not true to you, and you start doing what you are moved, there is some sort of freedom accompanying? Though in many instances, there may be objections from loved ones or […]
Posted in Going Inwards on Mar 4th, 2011
vulnerability a place shunt by many only the bold has ventured and found grace as its end is there a need to protect defencelessness or even a need to run away from it perhaps, that is where you belong the birth of who you are Embracing Vulnerability
Posted in Attitudes, Being the Master, Going Inwards on Mar 3rd, 2011
It is very interesting how the mind works, hanging on not only on anything outside, as in a person out there, or a material out there, but also a state, or a personality experienced when I am asleep to what is lurking at the background. There was this instance, or a period of time, where […]