Ponder Away
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I recently began listening to the band Mumford and Sons in October. I am now in love with their homespun sound and their BRILLIANT lyric-writing!...
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“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears,...”
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Noble Truths
The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
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“We’re all just walking each other home.
― Ram Dass” -
Can we take a second to say THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts, to all of you, for making our first couple of weeks...
TED Talks is becoming a fast favorite for these amazing presentations from an array of speakers. They open my eyes to a growing field that pulls from a number of disciplines. I can’t help but feel that the emergence of such work, no matter how scientific, is really to help us transition in matters of the heart.
Life and tapping into universal consciousness are much simpler than we make them out to be. I get the sense that too often people are afraid to go inwards and explore these concepts because they feel they are incapable of handling what they may find and what may be released when delving into emotions.
Why do we feel so inept? Why do we interpret introspection as selfishness and open discussion about spirituality and religion as taboo? True that a spiritual journey can be overwhelming with all the knowledge and literature surrounding metaphysics and spirituality, and sometimes we end up with more questions than answers in seeking out guidance from external sources. Yet the more I read, the more I explore, the more I question…the more I notice essential themes and I come back to the feeling that if I had just trusted my intuition, I would have had the answers all along.
This isn’t to say that we shouldn’t seek out mentors, read books, pray, meditate, or further our spiritual practices in whatever ways meet the needs of our higher selves, but that we should come to trust what our hearts tell us. The answers to our questions are individual to what we each need to become more aligned with our life purpose, and if we open ourselves to the answers I think they present themselves to us. There is no need to rationalize or doubt our intuition, because sometimes what you feel does not deserve to be limited by words. We contain the essence we seek, and our intuition tells us so.
“Be patient towards all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.”
- Rainer Maria Rilke
The Jersey Shore
Check out the numbers that provide a backdrop to the militarization of the border and criminalization of immigrants. The proposed ideas for leveling the playing field are right on track. Our economy and society need this reform.
“These alarming numbers put into sharp relief the failure of the U.S. government’s ‘enforcement-only’ approach to illegal immigration. It’s time to re-evaluate why the government’s efforts have failed. It’s time to abandon the idea that we can simply enforce our way out of a broken system.”
“Developing and deepening our awareness of what we are doing as we consider our actions, undertake them, and are affected by them is our most powerful tool in developing our skills as effective consumers. With an increased sense of our consumption, we affect not only ourselves but the whole nexus of consumption throughout an increasingly interrelated global economy. This is the first step toward increased economic freedom on our planet.”
- Daniel Barbezat
“The Costs of Mass Deportation” from the Center for American Progress
43% of all the military spending on Earth is by the USA, yet only 5% of the world’s population is located in the U.S.
I’m just saying, just because we haven’t lived in an alternative society, haven’t yet accessed the universal knowledge available to us to make it possible, and are slowly awakening one by one, doesn’t mean change isn’t possible. We can take the evolution of humanity into our own hands.
The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.
The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the world’s ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting the passions.
The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.
The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.
- Atisha (11th century Tibetan Buddhist master)
