The small self believes pain is forever and happiness is fleeting. That is a choice, not a reality.
It’s personal….
It’s personal It’s not personal Committed / Invested Distant / Apathetic
Avian Samadhi….
The winter was brutally cold. Weeks on end below zero degrees Fahrenheit, with wind chill minus 20 to 30. Even when the sun came out, it was bitter cold and dangerous to go outside. Our acre garden spent the winter covered in snow. No hellebores blooming through February for us. A couple of years ago we began feeding the birds …
When we have….
When we have forgotten ourselves, our inner voice of “righteousness” is in fact the voice that is the most destructive to us.
Insulting….
Insulting Valuing / appreciating Being honest / assessing Obsequious
Becoming Human….
Are you a sinner? No. Is your proxy a sinner? Yes. Being truly normal is being truly human. We are made in God’s image, and we should act it. Stop thinking of God as a selfish being. We believe that, since we are made in God’s image and we are selfish, then God is, too. But to act as God …
We hate ourselves….
We hate ourselves; we see ourselves as bad. Codependency happens when we are drawn to people in whose presence we get to feel bad, small, and unworthy. We believe those people must be “good”, so we can be “good” only as long as, and as far as, they accept us. What we call “love” is the feeling of having an …
Dirty….
Dirty Clean Connected to the world Aloof and isolated
Guest Blog by Johannes Wagner: Three Weeks at Rohini’s….
I knew many things about Rohini’s house long before I arrived – voices, faces, stories, certain parts of rooms. To be honest, I expected it to be more austere or in another way strictly ruled, which very nicely displayed a misunderstanding of mine. As it turned out, the only disappointing thing was seeing how small I had made myself internally. …
We become what….
We become what we fight against.