The World as One

To recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.  Eckhart Tolle

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens.  The sleeper must awaken.   Frank Herbert

Fear less, hope more, eat less, chew more, whine less, breathe more, talk less, say more, hate less, love more, and good things will be yours.  Swedish Proverb

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.  J.K. Rowling

We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.  Gwendolyn Brooks

Imagine there’s no countries.  It isn’t hard to do.  Nothing to kill or die for and no religion too.  Imagine all the people living life in peace.  You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.  I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will be as one.  John Lennon

The higher we rise on the scale of being, the easier it is to discern a connection even among things separated by vast distances.   Marcus Aurelius

Your Perceived Self

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As we clearly sense and name our experience, we can notice what brings it about and how we can respond to it more fully and skillfully.  Jack Kornfield

Don’t take anything personally.  Nothing others do is because of you.  What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream.  When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.  Don Miguel Ruiz

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.  Oscar Wilde

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.  Edgar Allan Poe

Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others.  Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval.  Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.  Lao Tzu

I believe I am in Hell; therefore, I am.  Arthur Rimbaud

Lack, Limitation, Judgment

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Baggage of lack and limitation
Sacrifice, giving, giving, giving
And not receiving
Suffering
Being the bridge that is supposed to insure my entry into the Promised Land

 

Judgment
Above all else – judgment
Determining what is good and what is bad
What is right and what is wrong
What is white and what is black

 

No, you cannot come with me
All of you must stay behind
The new horizon invites me
One Mind
One Power
One Universal Source
Lavish, unfailing abundance
Infinite prosperity
Unconditional love
Wisdom to see beyond appearances
Understanding and compassion
Peace
Happiness
Joy
Not Heaven
Here on Earth
Right here
Right now

 

Being in the world, but not of it
Feeling the pain, but not becoming painful
Separating the expression from the existence
Awareness
Knowledge
The ability to see what is readily apparent
If I will only be open and receptive

 

Recognizing the reality that is me
Unfettered, uninhibited, unconditional
Free