Restraint creates space, allows things to flow freely rather than cram in and overwhelm.
Restraint not only itensifies the exierience but it also prolongs it. Shifts the experience to levels we could never conceive of.
Restraint brings the awareness to the things your soul really craves, to make you painfully aware that you already have what you want, you are simply restraining yourself, for the sake of experience more intensely, more profusely, saturating your being with every last drop of it.
Restraint is the opposite of want and need.
It is simply, intuitively knowing what you already have. And the absence of fear that it may be lost, or given away or forgotten.
It is the ultimate trust, experiencing eternity, being one with everything
Friday, November 30, 2012
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Make space
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. "
Joseph Campbell
Make space.
Before anything can change, in your life, in you, in the way you see the world, you have to let go of the old, the unnecessary, the unwanted.
And sometimes we cling to the unwanted only because of fear that we will loose something.
We cling to the old because we comfortable there and it is too inconvenient to look up and see what else may be.
We cling to the unnecessary because we are not even aware of it.
They say eclipses and full moons are catalyst for change
But before you change you need to allow for some space.
Look around, kick up the old dusty boxes, look through yellow pages of the books, reminisce over the past nostalgically and allow it to dissipate.
The things we truly have are not the things that can be given or taken away or lost.
The things, the people, the experiences that truly belong to our lifetime will always be there because they have become an integral part of us.
Everything else is unnecessary and should be shed away.
So, instead of rushing into new things, want more, build expectations, look in.
Go deeper and examine where you can make some space- in your life, in your heart, in your mind.
And see how peaceful and beautiful it is to have some space, have fresh air. How liberating.
And before you reach for the next thing, before start filling up the empty space with new things, pause.
Allow that space to remain there.
There is no need to fill it up.
Rather than limiting yourself with the things you think you want or you think you need, wait.
See what life has to offer you.
See what the universe will hand you.
And explore it, graciously saying Thank You.
Joseph Campbell
Make space.
Before anything can change, in your life, in you, in the way you see the world, you have to let go of the old, the unnecessary, the unwanted.
And sometimes we cling to the unwanted only because of fear that we will loose something.
We cling to the old because we comfortable there and it is too inconvenient to look up and see what else may be.
We cling to the unnecessary because we are not even aware of it.
They say eclipses and full moons are catalyst for change
But before you change you need to allow for some space.
Look around, kick up the old dusty boxes, look through yellow pages of the books, reminisce over the past nostalgically and allow it to dissipate.
The things we truly have are not the things that can be given or taken away or lost.
The things, the people, the experiences that truly belong to our lifetime will always be there because they have become an integral part of us.
Everything else is unnecessary and should be shed away.
So, instead of rushing into new things, want more, build expectations, look in.
Go deeper and examine where you can make some space- in your life, in your heart, in your mind.
And see how peaceful and beautiful it is to have some space, have fresh air. How liberating.
And before you reach for the next thing, before start filling up the empty space with new things, pause.
Allow that space to remain there.
There is no need to fill it up.
Rather than limiting yourself with the things you think you want or you think you need, wait.
See what life has to offer you.
See what the universe will hand you.
And explore it, graciously saying Thank You.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012
Commit to yourself
How can you commit to anything before first committing to yourself?
Commit to loving yourself and respecting yourself and doing what is right by you.
Commit to a path, and make sure it is one with a heart.
Commit to your own truth and don't cheat yourself to please others.
Commit to making mistakes and learn from them rather than see them as a failure
Commit to the things you enjoy and enjoy them full- heartedly.
Commit to surround yourself with like- minded people and commit to being patient, with yourself and with others.
Commit to being honest with yourself and not pushing yourself too hard.
Commit to accepting yourself as you are and not bullying yourself for all the things you are not.
Commit to letting your emotions express themselves without suppressing them or judging yourself.
Pledge to yourself that you will do all that is beneficial to you and avoid harm. And stick to that promise.
Commit to waiting for yourself to be ready before jump into anything.
Commit to being you, without compromise.
Commit not substitute one thing for another, not to settle for less than what you think you deserve. And know that you only deserve the best.
Commit to loving yourself and respecting yourself and doing what is right by you.
Commit to a path, and make sure it is one with a heart.
Commit to your own truth and don't cheat yourself to please others.
Commit to making mistakes and learn from them rather than see them as a failure
Commit to the things you enjoy and enjoy them full- heartedly.
Commit to surround yourself with like- minded people and commit to being patient, with yourself and with others.
Commit to being honest with yourself and not pushing yourself too hard.
Commit to accepting yourself as you are and not bullying yourself for all the things you are not.
Commit to letting your emotions express themselves without suppressing them or judging yourself.
Pledge to yourself that you will do all that is beneficial to you and avoid harm. And stick to that promise.
Commit to waiting for yourself to be ready before jump into anything.
Commit to being you, without compromise.
Commit not substitute one thing for another, not to settle for less than what you think you deserve. And know that you only deserve the best.
Monday, November 26, 2012
Experience...
We very rarely allow ourselves to feel pure emotion.
It is always clouded by some sort of judgement or thought process. Always labeling, classifying, qualifying, narrating in our minds
And that prevents us from experiencing the emition fully.
And we miss the moment, we miss the experience.
There is no lesson to be learned.
Just an emotion to be felt. Allow it to rip you to the bone, tear up your whole being apart so you can put yourself back anew.
Don't judge it- I shouldn't be feeling this way or I wish I could feel this way forever.
The emotion is this extremely powerful feeling of being alive and completely present.
But we miss it.
Because we are afraid of it and want to avoid te pain, or anger or neediness inside.
Because we want to keep a fleeting moment in out hands forever and we can't.
Stop fighting with your emitions.
Release them and let them fill you to the brim.
Feel the intensity in your veins.
Feel the grandeur and humbleness of being alive.
When you feel, when you experience, when you look inside rather than shying away because of fear or shame or insecurity, that is when you are completely here and now.
That is when you experience being alive.
You cannot rationalize it, think it, explain it.
So just feel it. Without judging.
The only person judging you is you
It is always clouded by some sort of judgement or thought process. Always labeling, classifying, qualifying, narrating in our minds
And that prevents us from experiencing the emition fully.
And we miss the moment, we miss the experience.
There is no lesson to be learned.
Just an emotion to be felt. Allow it to rip you to the bone, tear up your whole being apart so you can put yourself back anew.
Don't judge it- I shouldn't be feeling this way or I wish I could feel this way forever.
The emotion is this extremely powerful feeling of being alive and completely present.
But we miss it.
Because we are afraid of it and want to avoid te pain, or anger or neediness inside.
Because we want to keep a fleeting moment in out hands forever and we can't.
Stop fighting with your emitions.
Release them and let them fill you to the brim.
Feel the intensity in your veins.
Feel the grandeur and humbleness of being alive.
When you feel, when you experience, when you look inside rather than shying away because of fear or shame or insecurity, that is when you are completely here and now.
That is when you experience being alive.
You cannot rationalize it, think it, explain it.
So just feel it. Without judging.
The only person judging you is you
Sunday, November 25, 2012
Strength
Power is not found in fighting back or attacking.
Real strength comes from accepting your own weakness while standing with your face in the wind
It takes a lot of courage to admit to yourself and to others that you are vulnerable.
Real strength comes from accepting your own weakness while standing with your face in the wind
It takes a lot of courage to admit to yourself and to others that you are vulnerable.
Friday, November 23, 2012
Opportunities
Every day you are given opportunities.
They can be important events or tiny moments that could slip by unnoticed.
Life is about what you do with these opportunities.
Do you notice them or let them pass by ?
Do you take the time to examine what you can learn from each one
Do you deal with them based on your personal history and experience or do you search for new ways to think and explore
Each moment is a chance to learn something
Each minute a chance to change and grow
If you always follow the path that you know where would you arrive?
Exactly where you started.
There is no destination
The goal is to keep growing and going deeper with no end in sight.
Take each moment and look at it closely
Whether its a happy moment or a sad occurrence it is a chance.
A chance to get out of the pattern and learn something.
And every moment is a gateway to a whole new reality. One we didn't know existed.
Take a different approach to the mundane situations today.
Take a different path....just make sure it's a path that has a heart.
The fear of the Fall
It is the fear of the fall. The fear of the pain that keeps us from walking. Most of us don't even think of running because of the fear of crashing into the wall.
How can we live without falling?
Falling from bed, falling from grace, falling on the street falling in love, falling from the tree, falling on your knees. All our lives we are falling. Yet we are so afraid of it we close ourselves in little rooms, closets afraid to go outside ,to do anything afraid that we may fall.
How empty is our life.
How empty the words
How vain the actions. Even though they were thought to be made with the noblest of intention.
It is funny.
How pointless it all is.
Because when you fall and there is no one around to feel sorry for you you just get up, dust off your pants and keep going.
Even if there is a pain in your back and a bruise on your hip. There is no one around to complain to, to demand attention. So we cannot be dramatic because there is no one to care.
So the fall is not so scary after all. But the idea of it is very frightening.
Thursday, November 22, 2012
On self-love and acceptance
Do you sometimes disappoint yourself to make others happy?
Do you desperately seek approval and affection with your behavior?
Is there a double standard there when you are willing to accept others as they are but beat yourself up that you are not as you imagine yourself to be?
Acceptance and love are tricky things with lots of grey areas...
Love we mistake for commodity, for comfort, for a shelter. And we search for it everywhere....outside ourselves.
But we forget to look at the one obvious place- within.
We think attachment is the same as love.
But love is not a bandage to cover wounds.
Love is a tremendous experience and sometimes it requires the distinction of accepting things as they are or settling down for something that is simply not being true to ourselves.
Sometimes love requires the pain of letting go.
But letting go of the object of love is not the same as the letting go of the love.
Love is energy and it cannot be lost. It changes shapes and forms but it doesn't disappear.
Sometimes in order to love yourself you have to let go of the self image you have created of yourself. and just accept yourself with all the pain, all the insecurities and fears, all the doubts and all the beautiful little things we do.
Do you desperately seek approval and affection with your behavior?
Is there a double standard there when you are willing to accept others as they are but beat yourself up that you are not as you imagine yourself to be?
Acceptance and love are tricky things with lots of grey areas...
Love we mistake for commodity, for comfort, for a shelter. And we search for it everywhere....outside ourselves.
But we forget to look at the one obvious place- within.
We think attachment is the same as love.
But love is not a bandage to cover wounds.
Love is a tremendous experience and sometimes it requires the distinction of accepting things as they are or settling down for something that is simply not being true to ourselves.
Sometimes love requires the pain of letting go.
But letting go of the object of love is not the same as the letting go of the love.
Love is energy and it cannot be lost. It changes shapes and forms but it doesn't disappear.
Sometimes in order to love yourself you have to let go of the self image you have created of yourself. and just accept yourself with all the pain, all the insecurities and fears, all the doubts and all the beautiful little things we do.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Meaning
Stop looking for meaning. Stop trying to explaing why things are happening, or how they came to be.
Stop trying to make excuses for others or blame them for the things they didn't do.
Accept that you don't know.
Stop trying to explain your own behavior.
You don't owe an explanantion to anyone.
Life is a chain of events not always full of meaning as we want them to be.
Things are the way there are. Not because you wished them this way. Or because someone else did.
Not everything is a punishment for past mistakes or a reward for how great you have been.
And most likely the explanation you find for what is or isn't happening is not even close to adequate.
It is just your perception of how things are.
It is your mind giving meaning to situations based on you limited personal history.
So why worry about it?
Cause and effect are relative. Meaning is irrelevant.
What has meaning for you makes no sense for someone else.
And the truth of the matter is that you are never aware of all the factors that come into play. You are never familiar with all the circumstances or the whole story
You only see what you can. Which is in the best case scenario a partial and relative truth.
You won't be able to solve a mathematical equation with only 2 numbers if it requires 3.
So stop torturing yourself trying to derive meaning out of things that don't have one.
Stop trying to find meaning in things that are so big that you can't grasp the meaning even if you wanted to.
Allow things to unfold without placing a value in them and judging them.
Allow things to just be.
Allow yourself to just be.
Stop thinking what you should expect or what others expect you to expect.
Become grateful for what you have and what you are.
Let the mind rest and start feeling
Stop trying to make excuses for others or blame them for the things they didn't do.
Accept that you don't know.
Stop trying to explain your own behavior.
You don't owe an explanantion to anyone.
Life is a chain of events not always full of meaning as we want them to be.
Things are the way there are. Not because you wished them this way. Or because someone else did.
Not everything is a punishment for past mistakes or a reward for how great you have been.
And most likely the explanation you find for what is or isn't happening is not even close to adequate.
It is just your perception of how things are.
It is your mind giving meaning to situations based on you limited personal history.
So why worry about it?
Cause and effect are relative. Meaning is irrelevant.
What has meaning for you makes no sense for someone else.
And the truth of the matter is that you are never aware of all the factors that come into play. You are never familiar with all the circumstances or the whole story
You only see what you can. Which is in the best case scenario a partial and relative truth.
You won't be able to solve a mathematical equation with only 2 numbers if it requires 3.
So stop torturing yourself trying to derive meaning out of things that don't have one.
Stop trying to find meaning in things that are so big that you can't grasp the meaning even if you wanted to.
Allow things to unfold without placing a value in them and judging them.
Allow things to just be.
Allow yourself to just be.
Stop thinking what you should expect or what others expect you to expect.
Become grateful for what you have and what you are.
Let the mind rest and start feeling
Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Not doing
When you stop doing you realize how much your percetption can shift just by looking deeper into yourself.
When you stop thinking you discover that everything is awareness.
By not doing you come back to yourself, here and now.
When you stop thinking you discover that everything is awareness.
By not doing you come back to yourself, here and now.
Monday, November 19, 2012
Simplicity
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage – to move in the opposite direction.”
–Albert Einstein
If you look really hard at yourself and your life it is the simple things that matter the most.
The moment shared with a loved one, a walk in the park, the time taken to find the breath.
A quiet afternoon with a good book, a mellow evening inside with the family, a plain home-cooked meal.
So simple, so beautiful
Yet we all race towards impossible dreams and instilled expectations. We chase ghosts and hide in the closet scared of our own reflections.
Full of fears and insecurities and fear we keep running, desperately trying to catch up with our unreal expectations.
But if we stopped, took a deep breath and opened our eyes to the present moment we would realize that everything we ever needed is here right now....
Wherever you are at the moment you read this, PAUSE.... Take a deep breath that fills up your whole body with life and ask yourself what is that you truly, really need at this moment? And if something is honestly lacking, then go get it.
The chances are you and your fears are the only reason why you are missing something. There is no one to blame.
Take another breath, feel the earth supporting you and stand on your own two feet.
You are all you need.
Simple.
–Albert Einstein
If you look really hard at yourself and your life it is the simple things that matter the most.
The moment shared with a loved one, a walk in the park, the time taken to find the breath.
A quiet afternoon with a good book, a mellow evening inside with the family, a plain home-cooked meal.
So simple, so beautiful
Yet we all race towards impossible dreams and instilled expectations. We chase ghosts and hide in the closet scared of our own reflections.
Full of fears and insecurities and fear we keep running, desperately trying to catch up with our unreal expectations.
But if we stopped, took a deep breath and opened our eyes to the present moment we would realize that everything we ever needed is here right now....
Wherever you are at the moment you read this, PAUSE.... Take a deep breath that fills up your whole body with life and ask yourself what is that you truly, really need at this moment? And if something is honestly lacking, then go get it.
The chances are you and your fears are the only reason why you are missing something. There is no one to blame.
Take another breath, feel the earth supporting you and stand on your own two feet.
You are all you need.
Simple.
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Accept the pain
"The wound is the place where life enters you"
Rumi
More often than not we shy away from the pain, desperately trying to bide ourselves and not feel it
But the pain is where we learn the most, especially about ourselves.
It requires going through the wounds to finally reach the peace where no pain exists.
Don't dismiss the pain as something unwanted and hurtful
Accept it, embrace it, flow with it and see where it takes you
Take a deep breath and let it wash through you, erasing all the negativity we carry in our heart.
When you open yourself to pain, you will open yourself to love.
Rumi
More often than not we shy away from the pain, desperately trying to bide ourselves and not feel it
But the pain is where we learn the most, especially about ourselves.
It requires going through the wounds to finally reach the peace where no pain exists.
Don't dismiss the pain as something unwanted and hurtful
Accept it, embrace it, flow with it and see where it takes you
Take a deep breath and let it wash through you, erasing all the negativity we carry in our heart.
When you open yourself to pain, you will open yourself to love.
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Truth
There is no such thing as honesty.
Only truth exist.
The question is are your eyes open to see it.
Is your mind open to perceive it
Is your soul open to live it.
Only truth exist.
The question is are your eyes open to see it.
Is your mind open to perceive it
Is your soul open to live it.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
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