Monday, February 28, 2011
Love ~
"The More Loving you Are, The
More Intelligent You Become;
"When you live from Love, Everything Changes"
Little Grandmother
More Intelligent You Become;
"When you live from Love, Everything Changes"
Little Grandmother
Sunday, February 27, 2011
self knowledge ~
Self-knowledge is the real wisdom'
(Vedanta).
(Vedanta).
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Matrix --
"I live and have available to me: a sea of solutions
I am basically LIGHT and INFORMATION -- I am malleable with focused intent
My perceptions control my reality"
excerpts from the book MATRIX ENERGETICS,
The Science and Art of Transformation by Richard Bartlett
Friday, February 25, 2011
Purpose of Life--
The purpose of our life on earth is to come and see all the distinctions and all the differences, but not to be congested by them and so to be thrown downwards. We should go on rising above them all, at the same time experiencing them all. For instance a man may say, 'I have never thought about anyone who has done me any good, and I have never considered any harm that has ever come to me from anyone; I have always had just that one idea before me and after that idea I kept going'. He may be advanced, he may be spiritual, he may be pious, and yet he has missed a great deal. But the one who has received all the good that has come to him with grateful thanks and felt it, and who has also felt the harm done to him and forgiven and pardoned it, he is the one who has seen the world and is going beyond with success.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Ponderance~
Leverage your time more by spending a little more time every day imagining and a lot less time every day doing. Do a little more imagining and a little more less doing. Until eventually most of what's happening is happening in the cool, calm, anticipatory state. Just imagine yourself into the successes, and watch what happens. Imagine a little more and act a little less.
~ Abraham
~ Abraham
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Ponderance~
We can learn to break the habit of accumulating and perpetuating old emotion by flapping our wings, metaphorically speaking, and refrain from mentally dwelling on the past, regardless of whether something happened yesterday or thirty years ago. We can learn not to keep situations or events alive in our minds, but to return our attention continuously to the pristine, timeless, present moment rather than be caught up in mental movie-making. Our very Presence then becomes our identity, rather than our thoughts and emotions.
Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now; and if the past cannot prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?”
~ Eckhart Tolle
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Inspirational Love story --
There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind.
She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She told her boyfriend, If I could only see the world, I would marry you.
One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the bandages came off, she was able to see everything, including her boyfriend.
He asked her, Now that you can ! see the world, will you marry me?
The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind. The sight of his closed eyelids shocked her. She hadn't expected that. The thought of looking at them the rest of her life led her to refuse to marry him.
Her boyfriend left her in tears and days later wrote a note to her saying:...
Take good care of your eyes, my dear, for before they were yours,"" THEY WERE MINE "!!!!!!!.
This is how the human brain often works when our status changes.
Only a very few remember what life was like before, and only a very few remember who was always by their side in the
She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She told her boyfriend, If I could only see the world, I would marry you.
One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the bandages came off, she was able to see everything, including her boyfriend.
He asked her, Now that you can ! see the world, will you marry me?
The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind. The sight of his closed eyelids shocked her. She hadn't expected that. The thought of looking at them the rest of her life led her to refuse to marry him.
Her boyfriend left her in tears and days later wrote a note to her saying:...
Take good care of your eyes, my dear, for before they were yours,"" THEY WERE MINE "!!!!!!!.
This is how the human brain often works when our status changes.
Only a very few remember what life was like before, and only a very few remember who was always by their side in the
Monday, February 21, 2011
Samsara
Samsara literally means “wandering-on.” Many people think of it as the Buddhist name for the place where we currently live. But in the early Buddhist texts, it’s the answer, not to the question, “Where are we?” but to the question, “What are we doing?” Instead of a place, it’s a process: the tendency to keep creating worlds and then moving into them. As one world falls apart, you create another one and go there. At the same time, you bump into other people who are creating their own worlds, too.
The process can sometimes be enjoyable. In fact, it would be perfectly innocuous if it didn’t entail so much suffering. The worlds we create keep caving in and killing us. Moving into a new world requires effort: not only the pains and risks of taking birth, but also the hard knocks - mental and physical - that come from going through childhood into adulthood, over and over again.”
— Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Ponderance~
“Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke
—Rainer Maria Rilke
Saturday, February 19, 2011
Ponderance~
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.
-M. Oliver
I thought I could not
go any closer to grief
without dying
I went closer,
and I did not die.
Surely God
had His hand in this
-M. Oliver
Friday, February 18, 2011
Ponderance~
If you accustom yourself to speak well of others,
you are always in paradise."
~Rumi
you are always in paradise."
~Rumi
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Mind~
February 7
No words can describe it
No example can point to it
Samsara does not make it worse
Nirvana does not make it better
It has never been born
It has never ceased
It has never been liberated
It has never been deluded
It has never existed
It has never been nonexistent
It has no limits at all
It does not fall into any kind of category.
DUDJOM RINPOCHE
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Reality check!
Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything, counts.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Ponderance~
There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
~♥~ Dalai Lama
~♥~ Dalai Lama
Monday, February 14, 2011
Happiness -
I believe that the very purpose of life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we desire contentment. In my own limited experience I have found that the more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter. It is the principal source of success in life. Since we are not solely material creatures, it is a mistake to place all our hopes for happiness on external development alone. The key is to develop inner peace.
~♥~ Dalai Lama
Sunday, February 13, 2011
Today ~
"Each today, well-lived, makes yesterday a dream of happiness and each tomorrow a vision of hope. Look, therefore, to this one day, for it and it alone is life."
Sanskrit poem
Sanskrit poem
Friday, February 11, 2011
Life Now!
"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."
Henry David Thoreau
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Ponderance~
Planning for the future is like going fishing in a dry gulch;
Nothing ever works out as you wanted, so give up all your schemes and ambitions.
If you have got to think about something—
Make it the uncertainty of the hour of your death.
Nothing ever works out as you wanted, so give up all your schemes and ambitions.
If you have got to think about something—
Make it the uncertainty of the hour of your death.
Wednesday, February 09, 2011
Yamas and Niyamas~
What are the Yamas & Niyamas?
The Yamas & Niyamas are yoga's ten ethical guidelines and comprise
the first two limbs of Yoga's eight-fold path.
They are the foundation of skillful living.
The Yamas include:
Ahimsa ~ Nonviolence
Satya ~ Truthfulness
Asteya ~ Nonstealing
Brahmacharya ~ Nonexcess
Aparigraha ~ Nonpossessiveness
And the Niyamas include:
Saucha ~ Purity
Santosha ~ Contentment
Tapas ~ Self-discipline
Svadhyaya ~ Self-study
Ponderance~
When you get to the end of all the light that you know
and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown,
faith is knowing one of two things will happen:
either you will be given something solid to stand on
or you will be taught how to fly.
~Edward Teller
and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown,
faith is knowing one of two things will happen:
either you will be given something solid to stand on
or you will be taught how to fly.
~Edward Teller
Tuesday, February 08, 2011
life and death --
The still revolutionary insight of Buddhism is that life and death are in the mind, and nowhere else. Mind is revealed as the universal basis of experience—the creator of happiness and the creator of suffering, the creator of what we call life and what we call death.
Happy Vasant Pachami!
May Goddess Saraswati,
who is fair like the jasmine-colored Moon,
and whose pure white garland is like frosty dew drops;
who is adorned in radiant white attire,
on whose beautiful arm rests the veena,
and whose throne is a white lotus;
who is surrounded and respected by the Gods, protect me.
May you fully remove my lethargy, sluggishness, and ignorance."
OM EIM SARASWATAYE SWAHA
ponderance~
Love manifests towards those whom we like as love; towards those whom we do not like as forgiveness.
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
~ Hazrat Inayat Khan
Monday, February 07, 2011
Brain power ~
The brain speaks through words; the heart in the glance of the eyes; and the soul through a radiance that charges the atmosphere, magnetizing all.
The phenomena of the radiance of the soul are apparent to the student of the human body. The body with its perfect mechanism loses power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness, when the soul departs from the body. This shows that the power, magnetism, beauty, and brightness belong to the soul.
Ponderance~
We all are pupils, and what we can do in life is to qualify ourselves to become true pupils. It is the receptivity of our heart and the passivity of our mind, it is the eagerness, the thirst and hunger after truth, it is the direction of our whole life to that Ideal from who all light and truth come, that alone can bring us truth and the knowledge of God. All knowledge of the earth is as clouds covering the sun. It is the breaking of these clouds and clearness of the sky, or in other words the purity of heart, which give the capacity for the knowledge of God.
~Sufi wisdom
~Sufi wisdom
Soul power
The heart of man is like a globe over the light of the soul. When the globe is dusty, naturally the light is dim. When it is cleaned, the light increases. In fact, the light is always the same. It is the fault of the globe when it is not clear. When this radiance shines out, it shows itself not only through the countenance and expression of a man, but even in the man's atmosphere. The soul-power, so to speak, freely projects outward, and the surroundings feel it.
Sunday, February 06, 2011
Mindfulness centre
new in Owen Sound:
www.sittingatthegate.ca
Free talk/practise this Sunday, Feb 6th.
Saturday, February 05, 2011
Reminder...
to obtain a discount fro any registration please adhere to deadlines, 4 weeks prior, to workshop dates, see details:
Friday, February 04, 2011
Breast health
see detailed info on courses and trainings:
www.mammalive.net
Thursday, February 03, 2011
Interdependence -
A wave in the sea, seen in one way, seems to have a distinct identity, an end and a beginning, a birth anda death. Seen in another way, the wave itself doesn’t really exist but is just the behavior of water, “empty” of any separate identity but “full” of water. So when you really think about the wave, you come to realize that it is something that has been made temporarily possible by wind and water, and is dependent on a set of constantly changing circumstances. You also realize that every wave is related to every other wave.
Posture for Meditation ~
If you are sitting, and your mind is not wholly in tune with your body—if you are, for instance, anxious or preoccupied with something—your body will experience physical discomfort, and difficulties will arise more easily. Whereas if your mind is in a calm, inspired state, it will influence your whole posture, and you can sit much more naturally and effortlessly. So it is very important to unite the posture of your body and the confidence that arises from your realization of the nature of your mind.
Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Radiance ~
Every soul radiates an influence which charges the atmosphere all around. The more powerful the influence the wider it spreads, forcing its way even through walls. There is no barrier of water or space which can keep that influence from spreading. The stronger the influence the longer it lasts. ... Atmosphere is a silent music. It has its effect upon the listener, exciting or peaceful, whatever it may be.
Tuesday, February 01, 2011
Light ~
The heart of man is like a globe over the light of the soul. When the globe is dusty, naturally the light is dim. When it is cleaned, the light increases. In fact, the light is always the same. It is the fault of the globe when it is not clear. When this radiance shines out, it shows itself not only through the countenance and expression of a man, but even in the man's atmosphere. The soul-power, so to speak, freely projects outward, and the surroundings feel it.
~ SUFI saying
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