One Reason Why...

”One reason why it is so important to find our real selves

is that no one can hurt us. 

No one knows who we are. 

Others can see the outside but not the inside, 

the real self. 

We must be individual to make our souls strong. 

Your soul can make mine stronger, 

mine can make yours stronger.”

~Rodney Collin

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When We Finally See Ourselves...

Sir John Edward Millais

When we finally see ourselves with all our flaws

we have an opportunity to shake off the feelings of judgment, 

and accompanying attempts to buffer. 

That feeling that one must be oh so perfect 

is such a stumbling block to awakening.

When one accepts oneself finally, 

there is the possibility of seeing the beauty in our struggles, 

the strength behind our features, 

and all the help we are continuously gifted from the gods.

~J

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I Am Currently Focusing...

I am currently focusing some of my first line work 

on non-expression of negative emotions about others. 

I notice my machine seems to get some sort of energy kick 

from complaining about the weaknesses of others. 

It is something I really desire to transform.

I’m observing that the desire is a wonderful place to start. 

And that what enables me to keep my Soul 

in front of this weakness in my machine is to exercise my Soul. 

More time in presence. More time in meditation. 

More beautiful impressions. 

More time in the stillness of nature. 

More hydrogens.

This gives my Being the strength to say “get behind me machine!” 

And at the same time, 

not waste energy blaming myself.

~E

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He is a Wise Man ...

"He is a wise man 

who does not grieve for the things which he has not, 

but rejoices for those which he has."

~ Epictetus

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Piglet Noticed...

"Piglet noticed 

that even though he had a Very Small Heart, 

it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude."

~ A.A. Milne

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Make Your Ego Porous...

Rembrandt

"Make your ego porous.

Will is of little importance,

complaining is nothing, fame is nothing.

Openness, patience, receptivity,

solitude is everything."

~Rainer Maria Rilke

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I Don't Want to Get Stuck...

I don't want to get stuck - 

and not see the gargoyles as I grow and grow. 

My machine can be quite clever. 

So a few days ago I started to be honest

and observe those parts of me that sometimes take the lead. 

Features, etc., my role in my life, 

what mechanical tendencies in me take the lead. 

I cannot say they are gone, 

that would not be honest. 

But it has helped me to observe and not get comfortable to date.

And love the ingredient that lets them all Be - 

Machine and Soul.

~S

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Observe ...

Observe and move on.

~S

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I Have Verified the Power of Our School...

I have verified the power of our school

and the growth of our students has given me so much. 

I verify this in my recent struggles in my personal life. 

I am speaking about what has lifted me 

out of the mechanicalness of my play right now.

There were times I could not take a moment

as my consciousness was so full

of what was needed from me in the state of nearly constant motion. 

I felt myself drifting and sinking and remembered 

another time in my life that was similar 

and I did take a break from the school 

and luckily embers were still in the fire burning 

and I did return.

This time I did not leave the school 

and the work renewed my spirit 

by accessing my higher emotional center, 

for even brief moments 

was a lifeline to the work.

~M

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We Can Only Learn...

“We can only learn to know ourselves

and do what we can - 

namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.”

~Teresa of Avila 

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The Logical Mind Has to Bend...

The logical mind has to bend, 

to give way to the higher voice developing in us. 

This is a subtle and mysterious process, 

demanding great acceptance, 

and continuous renewal of efforts to self-remember. 

I am so grateful to be in a school 

where this is a continuously renewable possibility, 

and where I can be given, 

through each student, 

new glimpses of the complex prism of this mystery.

~J

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Between the Spaces of Words ...

Ganesh Bhat

Between the spaces of words 

that are the crumbs of nourishment, 

There rushes this exquisite presence 

we rest on like a giant wave.

~C

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